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amelikos · 14 days

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Some character notes and episode notes for HZ047, writing them down for future reference.

The ep starts with Liko, Roy and Dot going to Cercle Town. Dot is tired (she isn't used to walking after all and easily gets exhausted) and complains, Roy tells her that she needs to build stamina but she retorts that her battles are about cleverness and using her head, not stamina. (It's fun seeing her complain and be open like that with her friends, and I think she'll be a bit more used to walking by the end of the arc)

As they reach the town, Dot films the bug Pokemon she gets to see (and she seems excited about seeing them and knows about Kaede being specialized in bug types so she assumes they feel at home there). Nyarote notices Liko seems lost in her thoughts, and Dot does too. She asks Liko if she is nervous (small moment I really liked since it shows that their dynamics is a two-way street and it's not just Liko paying attention to Dot and her feelings, Dot does too. It made me think of how Dot noticed Liko was pushing herself back in HZ027 and asked her about it when they were alone together, really like these kinds of moments). Liko admits she is, and Roy tries to reassure her by saying that she battled Rayquaza so she'll be fine (Roy is the type to approach things more positively). Liko is still worrying though, because that'll be the first time she'll use Terastal in a battle and she's never done it before, so she doesn't know how it's going to go... (it's like being nervous before an exam, and I like how this was portrayed and how Liko is still shown overthinking and being nervous and that this trait of hers doesn't magically disappear, she just learns to work around it better)

They head to town and decided to have some snacks first before heading to the gym (Hogator followed a food trail, and Nyarote looked out for him and alerted Liko by using her yoyo). Dot seems excited about the food. She is taking pictures of it and pays attention to how it tastes like, acknowledges that she's never had anything like it before.. (her food options are widening day by day, and it's good and important that she is looking forward to food now, after having trouble with it for so long, and that she is enjoying it with her friends) There were fun moments with the Pokemon too. Terapagos asking for more cake (and Liko giving everything she had to him, she barely ate it), Kaiden and Hogator beefing and Hogator quickly finishing his food before Kaiden could steal it (we really need to see more of Kaiden), and Kuwassu sharing his cake with Kanuchan who was about to cry because she finished hers cake and still wanted more (it's cute how he looks out for her ever since she joined the team).

Murdock eventually joins the kids since he is working part time at the shop to earn money for the ship repairs. The Pokemon are happy to see Iwanko again too. Murdock compliments Dot on her new outfit and she gets embarassed about it (she still can't take compliments well), and reveals Mollie is the one who picked it (it's nice how Mollie really looks out for Liko and Dot and takes care of things like that, especially because she picked an outfit that fits Dot's preferences in terms of clothes). Lots of casual Dot and Murdock interactions in this ep, which were good. During the first year, I felt like Murdock was a bit hesitant to approach her sometimes, like he was afraid of pushing her away if he was too overbearing, but now they talk casually and there is no awkwardness anymore. Anyway, Murdock explains to the kids that he is working part time with Kaede, and that the shop is busy every day. He seems happy about doing what he likes, and the kids notice he seems to be having fun too.

Afterwards, Liko and the others hear a commotion and decide to check what's happening. Sango is at the shop and complains to the owner about the limited sweets being sold out and demands that she makes another one for her. Dot points out that she is a textbook whiny customer ww Liko and Roy look at each other and decide to step in to tell her that she is bothering the employees. Sango wonders who is interrupting her and recognizes Liko and Roy. They recognize her too and seem on guard, but Liko decides to pretend she doesn't know who she is, so she addresses her as Sandwich (she is being polite about it too). They ask her why she is here, so she says she came for the limited sweets. Roy was about to tell her that they were delicious but Liko stops him from doing so. This interaction was kind of nice, because I feel like they could easily be friends if they weren't enemies... Sango was surprised to see them (she didn't expect to see them there so she wasn't following them or anything) and easily tells them that she came for the sweets.

Murdock can tell Sango is from the Explorers and wonders if she is there to watch Liko.. he decides to step in and tells her they don't have the sweets she wants. Meanwhile, Kaede introduces herself (and Murdock says she is the owner of the shop and the Gym Leader), and knew Liko would be coming (so the Gym Leaders seem to know about the students taking the Terastal course). She suggests getting started but Sango interrupts them. She is still pissed and wants to battle too and let loose. Kaede tells her she can't battle both of them, so Sango says that she'll battle Liko and Kaede can battle whoever wins. Murdock tells her to calm down, but Sango tells him to shut up (and even calls him an old man ww girl has no respect). Really liked Sango's VA in this scene (Ootani Ikue usually voice characters more on the cute side, like magical girl mascots or even Pikachu, so it's interesting seeing her take on an antagonist character like Sango, it's a different range than the one I'm used to). Liko actually accepts Sango's challenge (which I liked because in a way, she is accepting Sango's angry feelings and is willing to confront her and "hear" her). Liko asks Kaede if she can use Terastal during the battle because she's never used it before so she wanted to try it at least once. Sango is offended that Liko considered her as a training dummy (I liked that she pointed it out because it was a bit insensitive of Liko to say that in front of Sango), but she is willing to take her on anyway. Kaede tells Liko that practice is important, but practice is different from a real battle. She eventually decides that Sango and Liko will be having a baking contest and she'll have them make cakes.

At Kaede's shop, both Liko and Sango are ready to start the contest. Dot wonders if Liko knows how to make a cake, and Murdock tells her that he taught her before so she should be fine (which is cute, because that means Liko probably asked Murdock to show her before, or maybe he suggested they bake together when they were still on the Brave Asagi). Liko is nervous because it's her first time making a cake by herself, but she wants to do her best with Nyarote. Meanwhile, Sango seems confused by the kitchen tools and isn't sure what to do with them... Liko and Nyarote make a matcha cake (Nyarote's favorite flavor), while Roy and the others watch over them and support them. On the other hand, Sango completely failed her cake and she is frustrated about it and blames Onigohri for not helping her. She freezes everything, and Kaede ends up scolding her (but she doesn't raise her voice, she is intimidating even without doing that). Kaede explains to Sango that sweets are like bug Pokemon and hold lots of power despite being small and that it takes great care to make them delicious. She tells her to come again another day. Sango seemed a bit overwhelmed by her and decides to leave.

I thought this scene was rather sad for Sango, and I really hope they'll explain later on what's the deal with her. Kaede had a right to scold her, but Sango being alone with no one supporting her and not knowing about kitchen tools raises some questions for me. I feel like she has a difficult time with authority figures in general and doesn't know how to ask for help? This was a situation where Sango needed help and guidance since she didn't know how to bake at all (and still tried anyway). I wonder what kind of environment Sango grew up in, because I feel like maybe people around her gave up on her because of her personality? She doesn't like sharing things, and we're taught from a young age to share things with others because that's a nice thing to do (like, kids sharing toys to play with each other etc). I really hope we get to see more of Liko and Sango interacting later on.

Anyway, Kaede tells Liko she will administer her basics test. She also encourages Liko and Nyarote to try her cake and Liko is pleased that it turned out delicious. Kaede praises Liko and explains to Liko that she should put her heart in anything she does, and makes her realize that she put her all in the contest without worrying about practicing first. Liko realizes she was overthinking things and is eager to start the battle, so they all go to the battlefield.

The battle itself was alright. I liked Murdock commenting on what happens (it shows his knowledge, and he has interesting insight to share). Basically, Liko had to be careful about getting too close or too far from her opponent because Kaede had strategies in both cases. Liko eventually focuses on the battle (by taking a deep breath.. I always like when she does that to compose herself) and uses Magical Leaf as a distraction and smokescreen to find the perfect timing to use Terastal (her Terastal phrase is "shine in full bloom"). Kaede gets into the battle and eventually uses Terastal as well (which turns her Normal Type Himeguma into Bug Type, which is super effective against Grass) and wins the battle. Liko apologizes to Nyarote for losing even though she tried her best. Liko passes her Basics Test despite losing the battle. Winning or losing doesn't matter in Terastal Course battles (this isn't a Gym battle, this is a Terastal course battle). Kaede wanted to see if Liko could put her heart in the battle and if she could be in sync with her partner. She was supposed to stop the battle after Liko used Terastal but couldn't help but want to enjoy the battle a bit more and go all out. She sends Liko a stamp confirming that she passed her basics test and encourages Liko to enjoy the here and now going forward.

The use of Gym Leaders so far is interesting and so is the fact that they have duties outside the Gym battles. I think it adds to the region and makes the Gym Leaders more invested as characters and give them more depth? The school offering courses like the Terastal one and working together with Gym Leaders and guiding trainers even if they aren't strictly into competition is good. It bothered me when they were just around to hand out badges and the competitive aspect, so I like that they get invested in all kinds of trainers (like Colza spontaneously deciding to test Roy back in HZ010 because he wanted to see if he had what it took to chase Rayquaza and wanted to encourage him was great, just like how Kabu trained both Liko and Roy because he wanted to push them further). I also like that winning battles isn't everything for this course (just like Kabu said) and that what matters is the experience and what the kids learn from it. It shows they still have room for growth, which is good.

Anyway, the last scene is with the kids camping at night. Roy goes on about Nyarote's battle and Terastal, even Dot admits that it was exciting. Liko thanks Nyarote (and Nyarote was staying by Terapagos' side while the latter was sleeping, which is cute, especially since she avoided Terapagos a lot before when she was jealous). Liko also hopes she'll be able to use Terastal better (I'm not sure how Terastal works exactly, or if it's possible to fail at using it for some reason, like not being in sync with your Pokemon?), while Roy gets fired up for his basics test (which will be against Colza, and I think he'll probably win the battle this time).

#hz047 #character notes #episode notes

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sroloc--elbisivni · 2 years

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💙 but specifically can I hear more about the bandom AU because that sounds REALLY COOL

god the bandom au.

so this is from six months ago in a transformers server. the following conversation included @magicalspacedragon, @the-lunar-system, cat, and @gelpenss among others and took over the channel and our brains for the next three days. it has its own dedicated thread. there's a google doc with memes. actual publication of anything is going to have to wait until i write the fandom primer to go with the band primer that already exists which i will attempt to summarize here. both of those things are written as in-universe documents compiled by a fan.

please understand that this au was brainstormed by people who know, collectively, maybe 3 things about the wreckers trilogy and maybe 4 things about how music works. NOTHING about how the music industry works. this is not meant to be plausible it is meant to be fun HERE WE GO

LINEUP for what is theoretically a rock band but really plays whatever they want: Impactor: lead vocals and second guitar. front man. worked shitty construction jobs with megatron back in the day. they both got blacklisted from a lot of places for unionizing. impactor spiraled for a bit and got into drugs and got into rehab and started clawing his way back into a stable life and was selling his old motorcycle for spare cash to this dude named Springer when they started talking music together and then started jamming together and Impactor never actually finished selling him the bike. he's in his 40s and does all the vamping between songs and one of his jokes is that he did it backwards, you're supposed to have the drug problem after you get famous, not before. He writes a lot of lyrics.

Springer: drums. he's crazy good at music theory in an intuitive way, he's one of those people who can pick up an instrument and be playing it ten minutes later and also harmonize by ear, but his first and only love is drums. also backing vocals. he has a mullet and a relationship (working? platonic? romantic? who can say) with Something Unbearably Pretentious, this folk-punk duo (Rod and Arcee) that predates their music days. one of his dads is a convicted serial killer and the other is a lawyer who doesn't usually do contract law but DID come along when they first signed with a major studio and made the company lawyer cry, as a favor. he also writes a lot of lyrics. if their touring schedules don't overlap he moonlights as the drummer for the backing band of Verity Carlo, girl rocker. he's a friendly guy.

Whirl: lead guitar, technically, but he plays whatever the hell he wants, including but not limited to saxophone, theremin, and otomatone. they've got albums where liner notes for half the songs are just 'we bet Whirl he couldn't play this and lost.' this is actually how whirl got involved, Impactor started writing music while jamming with Springer and asked Whirl who he knew from group therapy to start covering some parts. Whirl is actually a registered composer with ASCAP under a different name. he lives with tailgate and cyclonus and his dream is to write a piece that shows up on cyclonus's classical station without ever telling cyclonus what he's doing. tailgate has no idea what whirl does for a living. Whirl has some major facial burn scarring so he always wears a helmet with an LED screen on stage and tells people he's the bastard child of daft and punk. he does a lot of instrumental writing but not many lyrics but the lyrics he does write are devastating. i swear this is a summary. we came up with so much shit.

Perceptor: keytar! Springer brought in Perceptor, who's a classically trained pianist. Brainstorm's their producer because he produced the band's first EP because he was already married to perceptor and was willing to work for takeout Perceptor is a brian may 'phd and also a rockstar' type--he got his degree and was working and then lost his eye in a lab accident and needed to do something else for a bit during rehab and whoops now he's in a band. he wears a bedazzled eye patch on stage. he doesn't really write songs, which, thank god, he can be the impartial judge when the other three are having artistic differences, but he has MANY opinions on sound levels and mixing. he's the one controlling any on-stage looping. he also sometimes links sound effects into his keytar to react during shows.

Kup: manager, and album bassist! Springer's foster dad for a bit after both his bio dads got arrested, was a roadie back in the day for some other groups so he has more connections than a phone bank. he can't keep up with performing, though, which is why they have a series of touring bassists for a while and eventually

Drift: bass. VERY RARELY vocals. he used to be Kpop artist Deadlock until he had some escalating joints/blood pressure problems that led to him fainting onstage, his label cutting ties, him having a mental breakdown and getting on a plane going anywhere, and ending up on Rod and Arcee's couch for six months after they ran into him at an airport getting back from their own tour and going 'dude you look like you need some fries'. (this is also how rod befriended springer back in the day). Springer was bemoaning to them how their latest touring bassist had to drop out the week before they had to leave and Rod and Arcee went 'hey funny story.' Drift jokes that the first time he met them he couldn't tell Springer and Impactor apart. They had no idea who he was and he had no idea who they were but he could play bass and one tour later they'd hit it off and he joined them permanently, especially because they are happy for him to do Zero social media or public persona work.

this wasn't supposed to get this long. i'm amazed i kept it this short. there are so many more details i could put here. i will close with a fun snippet written the very first day of this au. they’re making like, road videos for social media and springer keeps challenging people to dance-offs and he challenges drift, the new tour bassist who seems like he’ll be sticking around because he meshes well and they could really use a long term bass and Drift busts out a routine so impressive that Springer is staring at him and the video ends with him tackling drift going ‘WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT'

#talky talk #ask game #ask meme #becauseforoncethisisme #wreckers bandom au #is this transformers

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blocksruinedme · 1 year

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Team Rancher (Solidaritek) for the ship ask meme, please?

Do I ship it? WHAT A COMPLICATED QUESTION.

I did, with all my heart and north of 50k words. In an ideal world, in my ideal world, I would still be shipping it. I can't explain how much I want to be okay with Ranchers. I feel like I got dumped by someone I was good friends with before we dated, who really wants to be friends again, but it hurts too much to think about them. (Has that happened recently in my life, yes, lol.) I hope someday we can be friends again, but I'm not good at getting over things.

I've been sitting on a "what's your brutally honest opinion of [ship]" ask since... the doc was last modified march 17. okay. It's a simple chronology

I watched Double Life, was not obsessed with mcyt, checked to see if people were writing it and was pleased. I wasn't even regularly watching their POVS.

I watched 3L and got sucked in hard by Flower Husbands. I started writing a bit multiverse series, and I needed Scott and Jimmy to talk about Jimmy/Tango having happened (they don't remember their pasts while in the life games), so I needed to play that out, and oops I was obsessed. (then smalletho happened in the same way with those people)

The crossover started, tango put those fucking hearts over the reunion scene (no one made him do that), I was possessed by tango/jimmy/fwhip and wrote and published my absolute most popular fic, it was real work to get through "oh i'll never get that many kudos again". (chart below to show you how damn popular it is compared to fic where i'm not actively sad about them). then i started publishing the sequel, and quickly went from "i'll never do a wip" to 'well just this once"

Jimmy built Tango the ranch and i got possessed again and wrote a long fic about it

i said "if that's all ever get, that's fine, this gave me so much to work with". and that would have been fine for a month long crossover, but i think it was 50 more days, every day wishing and hoping that today there would be something, that tango's ep would include the ranch, shit like that

And my heart turned bitter, guys.

This is my first unscripted/whatever fandom. The phrase "content creator" was not part of my life before. Maybe an actor sucked, but they didn't write the words they spoke, they were selling me a character completely distinct from them, it wasn't just that actor doing it all. Maybe a showrunner sucked, but so many people put their hearts and souls into their series.

But this? I don't know how to deal with this, I don't know how to separate annoyance with a creator from a character, not when they say all the same things and make the same weird noises and are, y'know, pretty much the same cause it's not like Tango's out there doing heavy roleplay. I just have no experience, and I can not express strongly enough how frustrated I am with myself that I'm so worked up over it. I was briefly annoyed with Scott about something around the same time (it's stupid, i'm not going to talk about it) and I worked SO HARD to not let it be a thing, i made myself watch scott content i knew made me happy, i was not going to let myself have an issue with scott, as we all know he's everywhere - and flower husbands will always be my first ship.

If I didn't have a god damned wip in tango pov I might be over this now. I would have been able to try and not think about it - I have ranchers pretty well filtered, but did you know filters don't catch text in an ask? They don't! But I thought about the wip every day, as it seemed harder and harder to imagine every writing tango pov, and it spiraled. It was very bad! I know I am allowed to drop a wip, but it doesn't line up with how I want to be conducting my affairs.

But then @that-tall-queer-bassist interrupted one of my wailing session to say they'd finish it. I have it all outlined, I had I think the first page written, and crucially i wrote the final conversation, the end of this damn series.

So now Limited Life is over, I don't watch much HC and it's sounds like Tango's just working on decked out all the time, so I can maybe get some space. I watched some 3rd Life last night and was doing find with Tango being around. Maybe I can CHILL OUT and someday I can go back to my Double Life wips, I know exactly what that Tango did and nothing can surprise me.

I would like to be chill again. I would like it so bad. I would like to un filter content on tumblr, and finish "Swinging Soulmates" which i think is actually fantastic, and put my ranchers fanart back in the frame. I'd like to do the main part of the larpers au and not just the side fics. (Though i wrote tango being around and being jimmy's bf in the smalletho morning after larper fic, i was very proud of myself.) Maybe after the wip is done, and I can exist neutrally. I don't know why the series is so popular, fwhip/tango had one more interaction ever (and fwhip wanting to trap him in a hole forever....) I guess it's fix it? I wish it felt like fix it for meeeeee

Ship It

What made you ship it? They were so dumb and sweet and they vibed together so well. So much chaos going on, but hey were 200% loyal and ready to do whatever the hell the other one wanted. I love that. Also, uh, Jimmy.

What are your favorite things about the ship? I want to explore most dynamics with Jimmy, right, I keep writing brand new ships and stuff? And Tango gave me opportunities other people don't, because, for better or worse, there's no one else like tango.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? idk i'm a mess

Don’t Ship It

Why don’t you ship it? Because it hurts my heart

What would have made you like it? No crossover, or different crossover, or... just different stuff on the cc level

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it? Yeah man it's a beautiful ship. It's so fun, they're so fun, I was really pleased with what I could easily do with the sexual dynamics, i loved them so much

My kudos over time. (if anyone wants to make their own i can make a spreadsheet template and share my tricks and tips

Below the cut is what i had sitting in my drafts in march for brutally honest opinion.

My brutally honest opinion of Ranchers?

Double Life was great. I somehow didn’t get into them until I was writing a multiverse-whatever flower husbands fic and needed to fill in the blanks of “scott and jimmy are talking about DL and obviously they fucked” and i incepted myself into it. I loved it, I wrote a lot, loved art, commissioned art, etc.

Right now we’re on a little bit of a break. This ship, and specifically the crossover, is what got me publishing, not just writing, when I was possessed day one. “MY EX STOLE MY SOULMATE” is still my most popular fic by far, and the unfinished sequel is in second place. After jimmy’s second crossover ep, i got into a fic i loved very much, “love respect joy and ranchin’”. i put so much work and love into it, i got a fwhimmy consult and a grian consult. I said after that ep that if that was all we got, i’d be okay, cause i’d gotten so much out of it via fic. But then the length of time of “not getting any more” was too long, I spent too long wishing and hoping, and my feelings went sour

#enh #not gonna tag this anything besides my own stuff #i guess you can reblog it if it's to say “this is similar to my experience”#answering asks #me

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kexing · 2 years

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I swear to god, you have me *this* close to starting to watch Enchanté, when I initially wasn't interested at all 🙈

You've been very sweetly enthusiastic about it pretty much since day 1 and all those gif sets are killing me. I already can't with them and all of their constant staring at each other's lips with barely concealed longing and from what I'm seeing it's only getting more intense, somebody save them???

Everything about this screams mutual pining slow burn and I am so, so weak for that.

I am somehow somewhat obsessed with that almost-kiss and in particular with their flustered reactions - being very visibly snapped out of it, rapid blinking, trying to get their breathing under control - with the awkwardness of it and with the fact that, somehow, it doesn't diminish the tension between them at all. Like, what I've seen is very, very limited, but I get the sense that their chemistry is really, really good.

I may also be slightly in love with chaotic!akk as much as with he-with-the-openly-yearning-gaze!akk.

And that pouty!akk post is a work of art 🙏🏼❤

alksksksskaajdjsjdjjs then my mission is *this* close from being completed 🤣🤣🤣

i totally understand! i myself wasn’t particularly excited for a new show just yet when bad buddy finished airing but i’m so glad i started enchanté because it’s been a pleasant surprise all along! it’s a lovely little show! i really think it’s worth trying to watch it!!

thank you! i love supporting this fandom, it’s become one of my favorite hobbies 🤣

“somebody save them???” YES PLEASE. these boys are so in love it makes them incredibly dumb, like love literally fries their braincells. they can’t function properly when it comes to each other. they need help!!!!!

YES!!! i think we all thought at first that it’d be one sided pining, mostly from akk, but oh boy, we were so not ready for the mutual pining!! for all the reciprocated feelings and staring and flirting and KISSING jesus christ. we’re left on the floor every week akdkskkd

god YES that almost kiss literally HITS!!! the whole game of kiss or not kiss, dare or not, AKK WAS SWEATING BUCKETS, they were so on the edge, dying to just jump but too afraid to do it aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

THEY DRIVE ME INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!

force and book (akktheo) have been friends for 15 years and it absolutely shows on screen!!! it’s funny because i felt that during ep 1 and i didn’t know about their irl friendship at the time. there’s just something about their chemistry that screams familiarity. they genuinely feel like friends who have known each other their entire lives because they really have. they’ve ruined all other on screen friendships for me because nobody feels quite as right as them now 🤣🤣🤣

and they manage the romantic chemistry just as well!!! it’s delightful and insane at the same time lmao

i’ve watched bts videos and they’re both very dedicated to their characters, force did tons of homework and like? this obsession that we all have with akk? isn’t gratuitous, it’s the result of force’s absolute dedication and also forcebook’s genuine adoration for each other.

oh!! we’re all in love with all versions of akk so you’re not alone!!! chaotic akk is so fun. like, he’s such a dynamic character, so entertaining. there isn’t a single area in which he truly lacks. he carries the angst and the fluff and the comedy very very very well 🥰🥰🥰

the pouty akk post is my favorite post 🥺🥺🥺 i’m so glad you like it!!!! thank you for telling me your thoughts!!! makes me really happy because i adore this show, flaws and all, it’s mine now. gmm cannot have it 🤣🤣🤣

have a lovely weekend! ❤️💙

#usodeshou #mj got mail!#favorite

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haircoveredwriter · 3 years

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Some thoughts after watching 11x06 "On the Inside". I'll put it beneath a break because there's more than I thought to my mindless rambling.

Okay so they're going with a straight horror movie intro but skipping the usual 'we're having such a good time out here in the woods...wait, something it out here too'

Both LR and KC do a really good terrified for their lives

Also have to say Virgil really seems to have stepped up since we met him because dude can actually take out walkers now. Good job, sir. Never stop learning.

More of Leah walking around amoungst a group of people and having no real reason to be there or contribute anything to the scene. 🙄

Damn, Hondo! Stop pulling at Frost's nails! I can't rip half mine off at work without feeling like Hershel when Rick chopped his leg. Fingers and toes always make thigs worse.

Chokeholds are illegal, Daryl. Someone needs to have him watch his own earlier seasons.

The conversation beneath the conversation between Daryl and Frost is spot on and super interesting.

Daryl's like 'look...I'm going to have to chop your finger off but it's for a good reason. Gonna save your life and who knows, maybe one of these weirdos has a Govenor closet somewhere and they'll let you take it home with you.'

Plus him taking off the vest was WAY more entralling than it needed to be, but I'm a woman with eyes so don't judge me. 👀😍(Enthralling? yup, that's what we'll go with)

It's a definite sign Daryl's not all team Reapers because he's basically taking off/hiding who he really is to fit in with his crazy ex-girlfriend's new posse.

Though my science schooling is giving how little blood there is from the amputation the side eye. Guess Frost just willed his blood some place else.

Am I crazy or is the music playing while Daryl torutres Frost the same that was playing in 10x07 while Carol tortured the Whisperer? Coincedence??🤔

Evil Monopoly man seems like he enjoys playing games with his people.

If Connie looking in the mirror is not me everyday I wake-up😏

GUYS! There were medical scissors in the medicine cabinet. You know what this means??? Queen Beth is gonna rise from the dead and save Vonnie all while less half a brain. LOL.

whoever belongs to that eye in the hole needs to get checked for jaundice.

Ofc the pencil breaks when Connie TRULY needs it. Fate really has it in for her, screwing her over with one of her most trusted friends.

These Reapers have no idea do they about how to sneak up on a building without being seen. Maybe they need it to be night before their powers activate. Funny Leah is in charge when she's the least believable one there.

Daryl pretending to be a cat hiding behind a plant with that mailbox...no one can see you my friend. You're good.

Carver and Leah remind me of the evil version of Caryl and Daryl.

They obviously have something going on and/or had a thing in Daryl's abscence. All those "Always" remarks sound an awful lot like The Princess Bride's "As you wish".

Yup, Carver is uber jealous of Daryl. Leaver is setting sail ya'll.🚢

Carol strolling in to find Kelly stuck in the mud with her casual "need some help" is perfection. I actually lol'd.

AT is also SUCH and underrated and underutilized actress on this show, I need more Kelly on my screen because she needs to be protected like the sweet cinnamon role she is.

WTH is with this episode, they really out here trying to start a bunch of new ships or something? I'm down for Vonnie.

He's so into you, Connie. Who else is gonna keep talking to you knowing you can't hear them but needing to vocalize how much more important they see you to themselves.

Oh, come on...he's said her name in this ep more times than anyone has in the last season. He's trying to rival Daryl for saying Carol's name in s10.

So in case you're keeping track...we now have Vonnie and Leaver riding the crazy shipping seas.📃

Great... more posturing about who cares about Leah more.🤮 Carver you aren't getting it; Daryl's been phoning it in since Day 1, he's not a threat just wait it out and he'll audios up out of here to go find his fire queen back home.

Leah's even telling Daryl "stop pissing of my secret boyfriend okay?"

Note to everyone: a dancing phone line is the sign to run to the basement and not a sign of an overeager squirrel running across the line for his acorns.

So the jaundice family watched The Ring too many times and think this is how all the cool kids act in horror flicks. All they keep saying is 'hungry'; Connie, Virgil, someone get them a Mars bar and it'll be done.

A+ fight put up by Virgil. He's been taking some classes during the lockdowns to better himself.

The Reapers are HORRIBLE military folk. How do ya'll not see Maggie & co leaving when you have people on the perimeter for the sole purpose of finding runners?! Do not hire them. 1 star on Yelp.

Yup I'm all over Vonnie. That "together" stuff was by far the shippiest thing we've seen all season.

And their reunion hug through the walll .... guuurl.

walker guts trick again: the express version

why do I feel like they could do a mini spin off of just a little war going on between the walkers and those jaundice mo-fos? Then one of the walkers falls for a crawler girl but her family thinks he's from the wrong side of the yellow house and don't like how he thinks he's better because he's taller than all of them.

Kelly found Connie! So happy this storyline ended with the 2 people the arc was truly about; the 2 sisters finding each otherafter years of the show hating siblings.

Now can we finish with Carol's self-hatred stuff and let her heal? We know Daryl is gonna be finished with his "gotta save 'em all" issues soon so it would be fantastic if they could finally be on the same baggage free playing field. Just a thought Kang.

Overall I thought it was a good episode. Only a few things I would nitpick ie. limited Carol, cheesy music during some of the haunted house bits, and the reapers need to go back to basic training and learn some stuff and thangs.

Ofc the spoilers beforehand were blown way out of proportion though I'm not surprised. I didn't go in expecting to see what was foretold and thankfully the spirit Gods prevailed again in defeating the overreaction we go through EVERY episode.

#Caryl #twd #twd spoilers #s11x06 #episode thoughts #Vonnie is rising #Leaver is rising #I find it hilarious how every single obstacle individual supposedly in the way of Caryl is suddenly being removed #shoved into an entanglement with someone else #I see you Angela #well done

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OK, on to Bad Buddy Ep 4, Part 2, and this part was short, so this one is going to be a lot shorter than the last one, I promise.

First, due diligence: Spoilers – including, possibly, for later episodes. If you haven’t finished watching the show and don’t want to be spoiled, drive through and come back later.

We immediately pick up where we left off at the end of Part 1 and OPEN ON Pran’s face falling as he sees Ink and Pat together in the coffee shop. I am immediately catapulted back to the rooftop reveal in Ep 2, when Pran had to deal with the fact that he (apparently) was NOT who his stalker secret admirer Pat wanted - and this extended to the fact that Pran’s a guy, since Pat had just assumed that he was going to be meeting a girl, so this was yet another way in which Pat would never, ever want Pran. So, now we have the first drop in the misery puddle that Pat’s faux-straightboyness will be drowning Pran in for the next episode and a half. (There’ll be plenty of other types of misery to go around after that, but for now, here we are.) Pat, istg, I’m going to scoop out your lungs with a spoon before you can finally manage to get your shit together, because I cannot deal with Pran crying any better than YOU can deal with Pran crying. While I’m having bad flashbacks to the rooftop, Pran is having his own miserable flashback to high school, when he was getting a milk tea, saw Pat headed for the music room, and decided to buy a second milk tea, only to discover Ink in the music room with Pat, right in the middle of pinching each other’s (non-existent) double chins while joking about where to go get something to eat together after school. Pran’s face does pretty much the same thing here that it will do in three and a half years when he discovers Pat and Ink together at the coffee shop, and he gives the secondary backup Band hobbits his two milk teas before skulking off. Back in present day, he’s clearly made the decision that we will NOT be doing this again, before skulking off. At least he saved the cost of two coffees this time. We cut into the coffee shop to find out what’s up with Pat and Ink, where she’s reminding him of his promise to do … something or other for her if she keeps his and Pran’s secret that they know each other. Pat clearly remembers that he’s supposed to do a thing with Pran, so now what’s he going to do?

Cut to the bus stop. Korn and Mo are talking to their prof like they’re actual civilized human beings with some kind of home training, discussing further construction plans, so clearly they CAN act like something other than demonic gremlins, they just choose not to, on the regular. Pran and Wai show up. Everyone maintains their composure like they talk to each other every day without someone getting punched in the face. Korn explains that Professor Pichai wanted to check on their progress, so I guess it’s a good thing Pran tricked you guys into making any progress instead of blowing off work to go to concerts, huh? Korn actually … looks a tiny bit worried, here. I almost can hear him thinking, “Please don’t tell my professor what a dumb asshole I usually am.” This is why – if you can’t stop being a demonic gremlin simply because you shouldn’t be awful to people - you need to think about the possible consequences of your actions, like the guys who you constantly try to beat up possibly meeting someone who’s responsible for your academic career, you jackass. Because Architecture actually has some manners (and they probably want to start chipping away at this guy’s main impression of them as assholes who go around brawling at bus stops), Pran offers the final design for the professor’s inspection, and Wai offers to walk through it with him. This leaves Korn and Mo standing around with Pran, who asks them, “Where’s your friend?” Going three minutes without being a jerk is clearly Korn’s limit, or maybe it’s because the professor’s attention isn’t directly on him so he’s off the leash again, but he wants to know if Pran’s blind? His friend’s right here, and he points to Mo. Mo says, I’m his friend, also that guy over there, and points to Chang. OK, now that we’ve established you guys are friends and not just some random roving group of thugs, Pran heaves a sigh (much like me), and explains very clearly, as you need to do with 5-year-olds, that he means Pat. Pat, who apparently has decided that he’ll blow off Pran without any warning, and now Korn is offering some story about how Pat’s family called and he had some kind of family stuff he had to attend to. I … can’t figure out if Korn is making this up on his own, or if Pat lied to Korn about what he was doing. At any rate, Engineering decides they’ve done enough being polite, responsible human beings with their professor for the day, and they ditch him to go get something to eat, so I guess they can’t be that worried about his impression of them. Pran looks sort of lost. Yeah, I know, baby. I also am sorry that your man is an unreliable jerk who can’t even be bothered to warn you he’s not going to show up.

WE, at least, are going to find out what Pat is up to, as we cut to a photo shoot in the park, with Pat turning on his charm for Ink’s camera. This is not what he expected when Ink asked if he was free. This is probably not what any of us expected when Ink asked if he was free. Nevertheless, Ink appears to be shooting a friend’s clothing line, and she’s pretty professional about it, despite the fact that when Pat’s got something in his hair and she smooths it out, he looks at her the same way Pran looked at Pat over his guitar last ep, and he’s thisclose to her face while he’s doing it. Ink. Honey. His gaydar is for shit. You’re going to have to tell him you’re a lesbian. Possibly in words of one syllable. On second thought, never mind. You won’t need to tell him anything when I shank him for making Pran cry. Anyway, Ink is oblivious to Pat’s longing gaze, or maybe she is kindly ignoring it, and then suddenly Pa shows up! She’s bringing Pat his contacts, which he forgot, and he makes his exit to go put them in, leaving Pa to ooh and aah over Ink and her camera equipment and how professional she is. OK, girl. Sure. Let’s say you’re impressed by her professionalism. Anyway, Ink encourages Pa to enroll in communication arts and takes the chance to get her in front of the camera as a way to start teaching her this stuff. OK, girl. Sure. Let’s say you’re teaching her how to take pictures. ANYWAY.

At this point, we cut back to the bus stop, where Engineering has returned from lunch? dinner? some random meal that university guys eat at every hour to fill their gaping maws? Because I do remember how guys that age eat. At any rate, they’re actually managing to work with Architecture, and no one’s been killed with a power saw yet. Of particular note, Korn is up on a ladder, installing some light fixtures, while Wai is being annoying directing, and they're half-heartedly arguing back and forth, but there’s not a lot of heat to it. It definitely hasn’t reached the stage of Pat and Pran’s adorable bickering, but it’s probably not bad exposure therapy to help Wai get over whatever kind of PTSD response he has to Engineering at this point (I’m only halfway joking about that – I think it might explain some things, but it’s an idea I need to rummage around with some more). Meanwhile, oh shit, Pran is also going to find out what Pat is up to, and he’s going to find out in one of the worst ways possible, by seeing a promo Ink has posted online for the clothing line with a picture of Pat and the message “Thanks to this hot guy from Engineering!” BUSTED. And listen, I had to watch this particular 40 seconds twice, once to get the full effect of Pran’s angry face >:( and once to go back and pay attention to Wai and Korn STILL bickering in the background, particularly as Korn calls Wai “fussy,” and it is … almost adorable. From here, we cut to Architecture rugby practice, because don’t forget the big game is coming up, and once again, the coach is assuring them that they are AT WAR. Pran is faced off against Safe as the coach tells them that the person in front of them is their enemy, an asshole who does shit to you … and at this point, I can’t help contrasting this with Pat and Korn, who spent their whole time during this build-up at Engineering’s practice gossiping and giggling with each other. Pran, however, is FOCUSED. On this guy in front of him. Who is his enemy. Who is an asshole. Who does shit to him. Who is suddenly Pat, and not Safe, and who winks at him with a shit-eating grin, and who Pran jumps out of nowhere, trying to tackle him before they’re actually supposed to move. Only, Safe scampers out of the way and Pran ends up on the ground on his face, while everyone stands around him and wants to know WHAT IS THE MATTER with him. He says he’s fine, and everyone else wanders back to practice. Spoiler alert: HE IS NOT FINE. And scene.

Next on PART 3: Pran spots Pat and Ink at the bar after practice and continues to NOT BE FINE. Oh, baby. He’s going to be a complete dumbass for a while yet.

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Aidan Bissett Wants You to Know It’s Okay to Be Alone [Q&A]

Photo: Brooke James

Aidan Bissett’s sunny and effortless disposition contrasts the chaotic ode to classic rock that is his latest track “Dumped.” The introspective and cathartic nature of his latest offering speaks to age-old feelings of heartbreak while doubling as an optimistic reminder that cloudy days cannot last forever.

Releasing soft-spoken tracks followed by headbanging, classic-rock inspired hits, this young artist’s music truly feels alive, shifting and evolving from one release to the next. With a soulful dedication to “music first, lyrics second,” Bissett is steadily creating his own lane defined by a relentless drive for experimentation. We had the chance to talk to Bissett about his creative approach, his latest single, “Dumped,” and plenty more.

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Ones to Watch: So, tell me the story behind “Dumped?”

Aidan Bissett: Wow, that’s a good question. I wish when I wrote it, it came from like, I had just been dumped… Well, okay, I had sort of been dumped. I don’t know how to explain that, but let’s just say I was in a relationship, taking time off, in a sense. When we were writing it, it was me, my friends, Ryan and Sean, and we were writing in a zoom session for like three hours. It was not a good song, and none of the three of us wanted to say it was a bad song. So, we were like, “OK, we are going to go take a break for a little.”

Then I pulled my guitar off the wall and started messing around, because when I get bored, especially in sessions, I like to try and take my mind off things. I’ll play random chords and sing random lyrics, like ad-lib over them just for fun. So, I started playing like three chords that are all throughout “Dumped,” singing this hook line that—it’s going to sound really weird—“I’m taking dumps all the time.” The guy I was producing it with was like, “OK, gross,” but that actually could be really cool… what if we change it to “I’m getting dumped all the time.” And I was like, “Woah.” That’s kind of how it started and we were on a roll and wrote the whole song in two hours.

And the song does mean a lot to me, because I have actually been dumped, multiple times. It sucks, it’s not a fun feeling, so every time I listen to it, it is kind of an “f you” type of song. Like, “yeah, I got dumped but I’m better off on my own anyway.” I always like that feeling better than wallowing in sadness. So, for anyone who does listen to it, I hope that it helps bring you out of the mourn and into a new light.

In the music video, you are seen reading an “Idiot's Guide To Love.” What was the last book you read?

I do love reading, I’ve always liked reading. I have not, in the past year, read a ton of books, which sucks because I actually do like reading. Well, okay, my senior year of high school I read like 13 books but a lot of them were for school. But they were still good books! I’m in the middle of reading Dune, which is very good so far. So, hopefully, I can finish that before the movie comes out. But yeah, I do like reading… when I have the time to sit down with my ADHD mind.

“Dumped” is a noted sonic transition for you. Can you tell me about how you approach your genre-spanning sound?

I don’t really like putting myself in one genre. I’m in a certain lane in the sense I do indie-pop, I do alternative, but I don't want to do straight pop. I feel like it's such a box, and it’s so limiting. I just love exploring different sounds, so even from the start, I put out “Different,” and then the second song was “Worst Girls Of All Time,” which was a completely different sound than the indie-pop wave that “Different” is. So, me putting out stuff like this after “Communication” is me exploring new sounds. To be honest, the things I like to hear always change, the bands that I’m listening to are always changing, and I take a lot of inspiration from a lot of different bands. I just love trying new things. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but it just keeps me on my toes instead of just doing the same formula over and over again.

What are you listening to right now?

That’s a good question, it’s kind of all over the place. There’s this one girl, Remi Wolf, who I’ve been non-stop listening to… I have been listening to her for a minute. When she put out her first EP, I loved it. But now, she’s putting out these new tracks and Solomonophonic, her producer, he’s just incredible and her voice is incredible. They are doing so many things that just aren’t normal in this time of music; it’s just so her own lane. I find that really inspiring in the sense that she’s carving her own path and not following in the line of others.

I feel like I’m always listening to Wallows no matter what. I always have them ready to go. COIN. Role Model’s rolling out new stuff so I’m excited for that, he’s kind of taking a change in his own discography. [The] sounds that he is doing are definitely a lot different from his earlier stuff. This guy, binki. He’s actually opening for Role Model on this tour. Oh my gosh! His music’s insane, so cool. It’s got so many sounds going on, similar to Remi Wolf, there’s so much going on, you’re like ‘wow.. I’ve never heard something like this before.’

For those who don’t know, you write, record and produce your music all by yourself. Can you walk me through your creative process?

Yeah, I’m very musically-driven. Everyone has their own thing, I feel like a lot of artists, like the Olivia Rodrigo types, are lyrically-driven. I’m definitely music first, lyrics second. So, when I sit down to write something I try and get something I latch onto. I’m like, “Oh, this sounds cool. Lyrics could sound cool over this.” Anytime I go into a session or I’m recording by myself, I try to lay down some form of music, and then I’ll freestyle lyrics or freestyle melodies over the top, or pick a melody I like and throw lyrics over that melody. Whether that’s a hook or a verse, that kind of just depends on how I’m feeling. It’s definitely a bit unconventional compared to other artists. I feel like artists are a bit more put together when it comes to writing music just because I’ve only been doing it for like a year-and-a-half. But I have my own process, and it works. Every time I write something I learn something new. I’m excited to see, even a year from now, what my process will be… and even if it's completely different or efficient, who knows?

Tell me about the influence of music in your childhood and the decision for you to be a musician at a young age - you started playing electric guitar very young - what was your household like? Musical family?

My dad wanted the kids in our family, I have two other siblings, to play an instrument for two years during our young adult life. He wanted us to play piano before we got to pick, so we had two years of piano and then we had to pick an instrument. So, my sister went and played two years of piano and didn’t really stick with it afterward. Then, it was my turn and I was like, “Well, I don’t really want to play piano, can I play guitar?” And since I was the only one who asked, who expressed interest in a different instrument, he was like, “Sure.” I started in second grade and I’ve stuck with it the entire time. I took lessons for years, and that’s how I kind of got into the classic rock scene. My dad was a huge classic rock fan so he showed me all greats… and that was all I listened to for years. It definitely had a large impact on what I did. I would even play in little recitals, and I always played classic rock songs like AC/DC or Guns N’ Roses.

It wasn’t necessarily a musical household, like my dad isn’t musical, my mom isn’t musical. The reason he wanted us to play an instrument is because his mom made him play an instrument as a kid, so he was like, “You guys get to do that, too.” But it is true, one of us ended up using it.

What do you want people to take away from “Dumped?”

It’s an amp-up song. I want them to feel energized, to be happy with yourself. Getting hurt in relationships happens all the time, but it's okay to get hurt in a relationship. It’s kind of how you bounce back, and I want this song to be like a bounce back. Like, you hear it and, “Oh! This is me bouncing back! I don’t need to sit and cry anymore, because that’s not fun.” Sitting and crying is okay, everyone’s done it, but there’s a point that you reach, in that break-up phase, when the crying needs to stop and you need to go out and live and be the person that you are, independently. So, I would hope that it inspires you to be your independent, wonderful self again.

Is there anything else you would like to say about your music, or in general, that you want to take the chance now to say?

Well, I’m sitting on a lot of songs. So, I’m excited to get all the rest out, and again, everything is so diverse. All the music is so diverse, I just feel like each song is its own thing, which I really enjoy. I feel that’s really unique to my own music, where you’re getting something new every time. I’m moving to LA. That’s the other thing. So, if anyone sees me in LA, please stop me and say hello!

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The Freedom of Expression, radio version - Ep.56, Oct 2016 - Jumping on the Halloween bandwagon, Futon maker-turned-fashion maker.

Kaoru starts by talking about the Instagram campaign, saying that practically every photo they uploaded has recieved more than 50 likes, so he's in a posistion where he has to send a sticker to each one. He encourages listeners to keep sending in photos if they want to recieve a sticker. Kaoru is looking at the Instagram page as he speaks, and he mentions that there are a lot of people wearing the yukata that he designed. He supposes they wore it on purpose for this campaign, but he stresses that there is no need to wear that yukata just because he designed it. Wear whatever you like! There are even people who sent in pics of very elaborate nail art. Although many of the fans attending the lives were wearing simple Dir band tshirst, Joe says that some of them did remake them by cutting them in different ways to make them more original.

Kaoru starts his first news topic next, stating that he chose this story because its currently Halloween season. This is the topic of completely unrelated products jumping on the Halloween bandwagon. Packs of eggs, nattō, even ramen are being included in Halloween campaigns run by supermarkets and convenience stores. The article Kaoru found shows a pack of eggs featuring a jack'o'lantern design on the packaging. He can understand sweets and snacks getting in on the Halloween theme, because they are part of the tradition, especially in America, but nattō etc seems a bit odd. Joe sad he also saw cartons of apple juice featuring Halloween pumpkin decorations, which he finds a bit puzzling. Is it pumpkin flavoured apple juice? He adds that its probably a result of producers wanting to sell as much as possible in light of the fact that Japanese tend to be easily swayed by limited seasonal products. He asks Kaoru whether he buys these kinds of limit seasonal items and Kaoru says he used to buy them, but these days he doesn't bother. Joe says he often does fall for these products. He always travels to this studio in Tennōzu by train, and when he passes through Shinagawa station he sees tonnes of 'limited time only' offers in the stores there. As he loves sweet food, he tends to end up buying a lot of stuff. He does realise, however, that the same store will be selling the same stuff as 'limited', even weeks later. It never ends. This is what makes him think that Japanese are helpless against 'limited' sales.

Kaoru says he thinks no one keeps this kind seasonal packaging anyway. He wonders whether people would be interested in limited releases of CDs with Halloween themed cover jackets. Joe thinks there may just be some positive people out there who want to buy this stuff and savour the packaging.

Kaoru comments on how Halloween celebrations seem to get more and more energetic with each passing year. Joe agrees, and says the streets in places like Shibuya are a sight to be seen at Halloween. He asks Kaoru if he celebrates. Kaoru laughs at this suggestion, and confirms that he does not.

Joe remembers Halloween from the time he used to live in America. He recalls kids trick or treating, and seeing spectacular Halloween parades in the streets. Kaoru says that when Dir were touring the states a few years ago, they were actually there at Halloween, but he hardley noticed anything about it. There were one or two people dressed in costume walking the streets, but that was about it. It was different from what he imagined, although he does admit, it could have just been a result of the location they were staying.

They then go back to point about areas like Shibuya and Roppongi going crazy at Halloween. Joe says he actually dressed up, and walked the streets in costume in Roppongi 2 years ago. He was invited to a Halloween party there by a foreign friend of his, and won a load of Halloween goods while he was there, so he put them on, and subsequently went home in them. He fit right in while he was still in Roppongi, but after getting off the train at Yoyogi and nearing his house, he didn't feel so great being dressed up.

Kaoru comes to the conclusion that jumping on the Halloween bandwagon doesn't do any harm, although he personally would still not buy a Halloween themed pack of eggs. Joe says things like this could be a catalyst for people to find out more about the cultures and traditions of other countries.

Tasai joins them next and introduces some news about how the long-estblished futon maker 'Nishikawa' has started making fashion. They have teamed up with Uniqlo designer Takizawa Naoki for the project. Tasai thinks the clothes produced look amazing and really wants listeners to have a look online for them. He explains that before the Age of Civil War in Japan (1467-1615), there were no futons. People just slept on folded up kimonos. The business 'Nishikawa' has been operating since just after that time period, for 450 years, but realised that in this age they need to challenge themselves if they are going to continue to stay in business, hence this move into fashion. Tasai repeats his plea for listeners to check out these items and explains that the selling price is much less than the materials are actually worth. He asks Kaoru and Joe what they think after seeing photos of some of the pieces. Joe says its an important thing for Japanese traditional customs be adapted like this to widen their scope. Tasai explains that animal print, like leopard print or wild cat print, has traditionally been revered in Japan as a form of respect towards an animal's power, and people have worn it wishing to become as strong. The same principle applies to warriors traditional helmets, which were designed to be symbolic of powerful animals. Tasai himself also learned this info about animal print in Japanese culture after reading this news. Kaoru says he is interested to see how fashion evolves from now on. Joe asks Kaoru whether he would consider collaborating with this futon business. Kaoru says he's not sure about that, but if he buys any items, Joe should copy him and buy the same thing (This is a joke about the time Joe arrived at the studio accidentally wearing the same outfit as Kaoru). Joe says if Kaoru wore a wild cat print outfit, he would be cheap and wear underwear with the same print (*I think*) - lots of laughing at this.

To finish, Kaoru plugs his upcoming tours, including the date at his home town again, which is at the venue Amashin Archaic Hall in Amagasaki city. He also announces plans for a two day date during the Mode of Kisou tour which will consist of male only on day one, and female only on day two. Joe and Tasai say they both want to attend, but care will have to be taken to ensure Hiranabe doesn't turn up at the female only live. They had best not tell him about it. Joe suggests telling him to go on a business trip or a trip to Atami etc on that day.

Songs - Dir en grey/24ko cylinder, Björk/Pluto, Dir en grey/Kūkoku ni kyōon.

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If Q were to use his mind control ability on Chuuya, would Arahabaki end up taking control over Chuuya’s body?

1) You watch Jujutsu Kaisen too?! Ep. 12 actually inspired my ask about Q and Chuuya. (Spoiler) Mahito trying and failing to distort Yuji’s soul due to Sukuna’s intervention made me wonder what would happen if someone were to use mind control on a host. Mind control is such a powerful, borderline OP ability. Thus, I’m interested in the ways it could backfire. Q’s Dogra Magra didn’t seem to work on Lovecraft, possibly because the latter isn’t human. Would a being like Arahabaki be immune as well?

2) I briefly discussed this with kaikaikaitan and twinkujiko, so I hope you don’t mind me repeating bits of our interaction, but both Sukuna from JJK and Dark Shadow from My Hero Academia seem to be more sentient than Arahabaki. Sukuna has his own agenda and enjoys tormenting his vessel (kaikaikaitan and I agreed it’d be worse to host Sukuna than Arahabaki). If Shinsou were to use his brainwashing quirk on Tokoyami during the day, then Dark Shadow might try to snap the latter out of it.

3) If it’s nighttime or if they’re in a dark place, then Dark Shadow would probably take over. True, we don’t know that much about Arahabaki, but as Kaikaikaitan pointed out, it just seems to exist as a form of raw power. At least in the English translation of BSD, everyone refers to Arahabaki as an “it” and Chuuya claimed “that thing doesn’t have any kind of personality or even have a mind of its own.” Thus, does Arahabaki have the mental capacity to snap Chuuya out of Q’s grasp?

4) Or with its host’s psyche “offline,” would it run rampant and burn everything and everyone in the vicinity? If the latter’s the case, then I think Q would regret casting Dogra Magra onto Chuuya.

Hullo!! HELL YEAH I WATCH JJK! I’m a bit behind on the recent eps though :p but damn it’s such a fun show.

I finally have the braincells to put my two cents in!! Warning, it is very long. TL;DR, I don’t think Arahabaki would end up taking control of Chuuya if he got mind-controlled. Here’s why.

I figure I’d start by laying out what we do know about Arahabaki, Chuuya, and Dogra Magra, mainly because there’s not much we have that’s concrete, and then I’ll go into what I’m extrapolating off of those. So, what do we know?

Arahabaki was “sealed” inside of Chuuya.

Arahabaki is a god of war and destruction.

When Arahabaki manifested (as seen by Rimbaud in the Suribachi City incident), it caused an explosion and a crater.

The only way Arahabaki manifests through Chuuya that’s been shown is Corruption.

Chuuya thinks Arahabaki lacks a mind/personality, and the way characters talk about Arahabaki never mentions any intelligence.

Arahabaki is immensely powerful.

Q’s ability, once activated by hurting them and then mutilating their doll, manifests as hallucinations of being attacked.

What am I assuming?

In fact, it seems to require concentration to even let Arahabaki out in the form of Corruption.

But does this mean Arahabaki is behind the wheel? I’d honestly say no. And for why, I’m comparing Chuuya’s situation to the following:

Aight, what similar situations are there across anime?

Yuuji/Sukuna from JJK

Naruto/Kurama and Gaara/Shukaku from Naruto

Tokoyami/Dark Shadow from MHA

Regarding all three examples, the sealed monster is sentient and sapient. They’re capable of speech with dreams, desires, and feelings like a person. To what level depends on the example, as Dark Shadow seems to be less intelligent than Tokoyami but Sukuna, Kurama, and Shukaku all have hundreds of years of memories and experiences to draw on.

But I think Arahabaki is different. They’re portrayed more like a force of nature, like a cataclysm, more of a destructive force than a being with wants and needs. I’m referencing the way they manifested in Suribachi city here, as a maelstrom of energy rather than a being. They had a shape, an outline, but the effect it had was one of massive destruction rather than anything controlled.

Because that’s another difference between these three examples and Arahabaki. Arahabaki is not controlled, entirely incapable of delicate work. Chuuya himself doesn’t think Arahabaki has a personality, and he has to live with it inside of him.

So, let’s say Q’s got Chuuya under Dogra Magra. Chuuya is seeing hallucinations. It’s my opinion that Arahabaki would actually be seeing what Chuuya sees. Depending on the threat level, Chuuya may even enter Corruption of his own free will. But it’s clear that when Arahabaki takes over in Corruption, he can see through Chuuya’s eyes. In fact, when Arahabaki takes over, everything they see becomes a threat.

Because of this, it may even worsen the hallucinations and psychosis that Q causes with their ability.

But if Chuuya doesn’t enter Corruption, I honestly think he’d just see the hallucinations that occur. The main difference between Chuuya and the other examples above is that the beings inside of them are actively fighting for control, while Chuuya needs to consciously let Arahabaki out.

Would Dogra Magra force Chuuya into Corruption? No, I also don’t think so. Dogra Magra doesn’t seem to shut off the thinking parts of the brain. Going off of my limited psych knowledge, it’s almost like it jerks the limbic symptom into full throttle and messes around with the visual and auditory cortex to start hallucinations and put its victims into fight or flight. But victims still have their logical reasoning--Atsushi’s hallucination still allowed him to think and react with some forward thinking.

Corruption, on the other hand, does shut off the thinking parts of Chuuya’s brain. So I don’t think Dogra Magra could force that to happen.

Anyway, my sincerest apologies for taking so damn long to finish this. I hope this was helpful/entertaining to read! Have a great day :D

#jujutsu kaisen #chuuya nakahara #corruption #aurie ability analysis #for the tainted sorrow #arahabaki #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #q #dogra magra #jjk spoilers

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This isn’t really an ask but I wanted to share something I was thinking about with you guys who show your sincere love/admiration for BTS in all you post —

Watching the past BTS Run episodes and the behind videos makes me feel a certain way not only because we get to see the boys relax and have fun (even if they get frustrated a bit haha *looking at HS and JM*), but also because I wonder how often they got to play around and do these kinds of things during the age most people do? I’d say teens and early-20s is the age when we do silly things like play mini games with friends, go to amusement parks for the first time, take a stab at cooking — and yet they were working their hardest and truly shedding blood, sweat, and tears during that time (thinking about JK makes me incredibly soft because he really started young). This show really just allows them to have fun. And it’s frustrating to see that others called the show terrible and said it was something the boys were forced to do and didn’t truly enjoy (the article saying otherwise was a blessing).

Watching “special guests” also be on the show I think highlights this feeling (of them enjoying doing these kinds of things) even more! You can see the excited ness and almost shy manners when they have others on (the voice acting, T1, and recent cooking ep come to mind). I’m looking forward to future episodes! Are there any things/games/themes you’d like to see the boys do on a BTS Run episode?

(Ah, sorry, I guess there is an ask — only if you two wish to answer it!)(Catch me listening to Young Forever now in my feels 😭)

I’ve been sitting on this ask forever and I’m really sorry for that! Especially since it’s such a good one, so thank you so much for sending it in. Maybe that’s why it took me so long, since I kind of wanted to think about it a little and offer something (hopefully) good as response.

RUN certainly offers them a bit of time in their schedules to just be silly together, play mini games and other things they normally wouldn’t really be able to do in their own time, like the zombie game episode or try a flower class. In one of the episodes of Break the Silence Yoongi spoke about how things that are mundane for us are special to them since they don’t get to do them without putting thought into how to pull it off; Seokjin spoke about how while his friends said that he’ll never have to worry about rent, he argued that while that may be true, they will never have to worry about something as trivial as walking down the street, or in one of the Bring the Soul (if I remember currently) episodes where Seokjin was apologetic about wanting to visit the zoo in Berlin since it meant that he had to take so many people with him since they were abroad, though it’s less of an issue while they’re in Korea it seems.

It’s curious how different that experience is for the members though, I mean, just look at their vacation in 2019 and how different it went for Namjoon and Jimin. While Jimin was quickly discovered and followed in Paris and Russia, Namjoon toured through Europe in a way that while ARMY from the respective countries knew about it, they kept it so low key everyone else had no idea until Namjoon posted about it himself. On the other hand, except for their finishing trip, we have no idea what Yoongi did during their vacation, or Hobi besides his CNS collab.

But, generally, it’s rather clear that none of the members would be able to just show up at Everland (an amusement park in Korea, the place where they filmed the America’s Got Talent performance of Dynamite) and have a good time without immediately being spotted, or having to heavily rely on disguises (and likely still worry about it not being enough and what would happen if they were discovered, therefore defeating the entire point of going to a place like that in the first place).

There are two sides to every medal. While yes they had and continue to have to give up on certain things, experiences and freedoms that seem so normal to the average person, something we don’t even have to think about much or can just do whenever we want (like going to the cinema at peak hours or go to McDonald’s (even one of the TXT members couldn’t do that without pictures being secretly taken of him and posted on sns and TXT isn’t nearly as famous as BTS)), they also gain a lot in terms of money but also experiences no one but them will have in such a way. They get to live their dream of being artists, of giving giant concerts all across the globe, of sharing their music with millions of people and bringing us happiness and comfort when we need it most.

More below the cut:

In one of the episodes of Bring the Soul Tae spoke about how they had the opportunities to go higher quicker, but they refused, wanted to do things their own way in their own time. It isn’t like they’ve lost control of their lives, like they wouldn’t be able to do things if they truly wanted—after all in the Bring the Soul episode where Seokjin went to the Zoo, Hobi could also walk around in the area close to the arena where they performed largely without being bothered (which might be due to his heavy disguise and security, but you get the point)—but there are limitations, and in a way, it really is a shame, but at the end of the day, many of these things are ones they’ll still be able to do whenever their fame will calm down, or fade away one day in the future. Cinemas and flower classes and amusement parks won’t just disappear, and they are certainly things you can still do once you’re thirty or forty years old, or even older than that.

But, going back to RUN, the show certainly offers them the opportunity to not have to wait until their fame passes, gives them a chance to experience and try things while also sharing that with us, work and pleasure at once. Though it’s clear that perhaps filming episodes isn’t always at the top of their priorities and I can imagine there are things they’d sometimes rather do—I mean episodes that we’ve seen being filmed in hotel rooms between concerts where I’m sure they’d rather spend the day relaxing, though they likely still prefer filming RUN over giving yet another boring and mindless interview in English, since let’s be honest, those aren’t…great, usually.

When it comes to guests on RUN, be it in form of people like the T1 members or instructors like the tennis players or the auntie teaching them how to make kimchi, it’s always so funny to me to see how humble they are about their own fame, how they get all shy as though they are meeting someone exceedingly famous instead of them being the most famous people in any room they enter. Looking at how they speak of their goals and achievements, it’s easy to see though that they’ve carefully worked on not allowing their fame to get to their heads, to remain grounded and as connected to reality as possible despite being them and how different their lives are from those of normal people. I mean, how many of us can say they were mobbed while trying to buy an iPad?

It's also so beautiful and remarkable to me how people who have met them spoke about them, like Isaac the florist who spoke about how interested they all were in the flowers and truly participated and listened, that they were extremely friendly, kind and polite, and if that doesn’t sound like Bangtan, I don’t know what does. I think this is also one of the reasons why they managed to get to where they are now, why they are so strong as a group, why they still enjoy spending time together, still manage to get even closer and deepen their friendships even after a decade has passed—they’ve remained human despite everything they’ve gone through, despite the heights they keep on reaching, despite all the awards and achievements, the number ones and sold out tours.

Tae said the following about V and his relation to Kim Taehyung in Break the Silence: Persona (the movie):

I think V can show parts of Kim Taehyung and parts of V, but Kim Taehyung can’t show V. Kim Taehyung is Kim Taehyung. Kim Taehyung is someone who’s still filled with a lot of curiosity and he’s inquisitive about a lot of things. There are so many things he wants to do. Also I think there’s so many things he is curious about.

This is the important stuff, and while I don’t have such quotes for the other members, I’m sure it’s true for them as well. Even after all this time Tae is still curious about the world, still has things he’d like to do, he’s still himself even while he stands on stage as V, hasn’t lost himself to the stage persona and the fame. We know Namjoon had a whole crisis about where RM ends and Kim Namjoon begins, and if they really are two separate things, if Namjoon even still exists or if RM has taken over his personality. I’m sure all of them had their respective moment of trying to determine who they are as people, who they are as artists, and who they want to be when they look in the mirror, how to not lose the person below the persona. We’ve also had Jungkook question his worth outside of being a BTS member, something I’m sure all of them also experienced in one way or another since it seems like such an inevitable question to ask yourself after you’ve been part of a group for so long, and yet despite it all, they all still want to stay together as BTS for as long as they can, despite mixtapes and thoughts of wanting to at least be able/confident enough to lead a concert on their own (Jungkook BE Weverse interview).

RUN gives them a chance to be them, to have fun, to be silly, to not have to constantly be on guard, to have fun in an environment where they can feel safe and are surrounded by people who have been with them for a long time and have their best interest in mind as well. There was a whole Weverse Magazine article about it, which I also wrote a post about. And yet there are people who want to take this away from them because they don’t like it while disregarding what BTS themselves want. I won’t call them ARMY since most of them are solos/akgae/mantis, and those are anything but ARMY, they’re not even fans of the one member they claim to stan, are merely caricatures of “fans” who want to “save” them, or rather take control of their lives so BTS would act exactly how they want them to. It’s obsessive and wrong, and it crosses every line and boundary of what it means to be anyone’s fan. As fans it isn’t our job to decide what is and isn’t good for their careers. We don’t know anything about the industry, while they’ve been in it since 2010, and we know nothing about their contracts or what happens behind the scenes.

As long as they are happy and have fun, who are we to question it? I don’t know about you but Bangtan have looked nothing but happy and like they were having a good time in the last couple of episodes, even when they were frustrated because they couldn’t pass a game. After all learning tennis properly and over a longer period of time was their own idea, not anyone else’s, but that’s something those people don’t want to hear anything about or will just twist somehow to fit their narrative. It truly is a shame, but also, it’s their loss if they’d rather make themselves miserable than spend forty minutes laughing along with Bangtan as they’re trying to play the harmonica or trying to cook something with less than stellar cooking skills.

As for something I’d want to see them do on RUN, that’s tricky since there’s so much they’ve already done, but something that comes to mind would be even something as silly as sitting them down and having them try to recreate all the members, or one they chose at random, in The Sims 4. It could be hilarious, and we could see how differently they’d tackle something like it. Or have them decorate a house in Sims, which would be especially interesting with our resident lighting fixtures enthusiast Yoongi. Or maybe something to do with painting, like them attending a class or just attempting to draw the same object or person. (A2: maybe given them a wall and spray cans and have them do graffiti or a mural, or have them do each other’s hair and makeup (taking it serious, of course) for a photoshoot or something like that) Or maybe a Bangtan book club where they’d discuss the same book since it would be so interesting to see what different things each of the members would find in a book and their opinions etc.

The possibilities are endless and just like you I can’t wait to see what the future episodes of RUN will have, and especially the tennis match we’ll see in next week’s episode.

#answered ask #answered ask by admin 1 #BTS #RUN BTS #bangtan sonyeondan #discussion #Namjoon #Seokjin #Yoongi #Hoseok #Taehyung

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“Conventional Weapons” and the Rocky Road to “Danger Days”

In 2009, My Chemical Romance was buzzing with activity. The band performed several shows and festivals (including Summer Sonic in Japan), Gerard and Mikey Way attended San Diego Comic Con, and The Umbrella Academy was named one of Amazon’s top comics of 2009. Ray Toro held a Whopper eating contest on the official MCR website (no joke), while a certain comic series written by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon was announced in August. And at a show at the Roxy in Los Angeles, MCR performed three new songs from their upcoming album.

But while their next album seemed easily slated for an early 2010 release, MCR was about to hit a series of hurdles that would leave them with a scrapped album, a lost drummer, and a totally new outlook on where their music was headed.

On July 31st, 2009, MCR performed a set at the Roxy that included three new songs–“Kiss The Ring,” “The Drugs,” and “Death Before Disco.” Gerard was enthusiastic about the new tracks, even telling Rolling Stone that “Death Before Disco” was “the greatest song we’ve ever written.” Videos of the tracks soon appeared online, where fans eagerly devoured what they thought would be the follow-up to 2006’s The Black Parade.

As the days and weeks went on, the media blitz kicked into high-gear. While Ray Toro posted short studio clips on MCR’s website, the band gave several interviews where they gushed about producer Brendan O'Brien, discussed their new stripped-down style, and claimed that this would be their best record yet. In an interview with MTV, Gerard described the still-untitled album as a “true love letter to rock and roll,” adding:

“There’s something about being an American rock-and-roll band that we’ve kind of grown into and we’re very proud of. And I think that’s what we’re celebrating with this record. There’s no agenda, there’s no mission; it’s just about rock and roll.”

Meanwhile, Gerard Way and close friend Shaun Simon had another surprise in store: a comic series called "Killjoys.” Dark Horse Comics announced the release at San Diego Comic Con. Jeremy Atkins, the Dark Horse Director of Public Relations, described “Killjoys” as “a psychedelic rock-and-roll road trip adventure geared toward both fans of The Umbrella Academy and My Chemical Romance.” But not much else was said about the comic, as MCR’s upcoming album had become Gerard’s top priority.

As the album drew closer to completion, MCR gave fans more glimpses of what lay in store. They shared the titles of various tracks, including “Still Alive,” “Trans Am,” “Hail To The King,” “Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back," “L.A. Heavy,” "The Only Hope For Me Is You,” and “Black Dragon Fighting Society.” They cited a variety of influences, including Queen, Judas Priest, Bruce Springsteen, The Killers, and Blade Runner. By all accounts, this was going to be MCR’s defining album.

In December, MCR previewed seven tracks for SPIN magazine. A month later, in January of 2010, the album–which was still untitled–was rumored to be released on March 30th. As they continued to rework the songs, they realized that the stripped-down sound wasn’t working. As NME reported in January:

Things turned around with a song called “Trans Am,” now renamed "Bullet Proof Heart,” the likely first single. And perversely, they did it by returning to fiction. Broadly, it’s about a boy in New Jersey, dressed in a Judas Priest T-shirt, called Johnny. And a girl called Jenny who might be his girlfriend, but who also (honk the pop fact sirens!) might also be the missing girl from “Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine” by The Killers.

But in the same interview, Gerard restated that the album would give "the purest, best version of the band you could ever hope for.” And in early February, MCR finally started to wrap up production, telling Big Cheese that the album would probably be released in spring or summer.

“Killjoys” also looked promising–back in January, Scott Allie had reported in a blog post that Shaun Simon and Becky Cloonan were ready to get started. Once Gerard wrapped up the album and finished working on the Umbrella Academy movie screenplay, it seemed like he’d be ready to dive in.

But February was also when the band publicly stumbled for the first time.

Before the Big Cheese interview, MCR had abruptly cancelled their appearance at the Soundwave festival in Australia. In a blog post on MCR’s website, Frank claimed that Gerard was having voice problems (he jokingly implied that it was due to coffee and cigarettes) and required treatment to make a full recovery.

Fans were disappointed, but most understood that it couldn’t be helped. But a month later, the fandom received another shock: MCR’s drummer Bob Bryar had departed the band. In another blog post, Frank told fans:

As of 4 weeks ago, My Chemical Romance and Bob Bryar parted ways. This was a painful decision for all of us to make and was not taken lightly. We wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors and expect you all to do the same. We also wanted to give you all a quick heads up on how the record is progressing. We have been writing some very powerful new songs so this week the four of us entered the studio once again, and what has been ending up on tape each night is some of the most exciting and honest work we have ever created.

The fandom was stunned. Clearly, MCR had been experiencing some behind-the-scenes turmoil, suggesting that the process wasn’t going as smoothly as fans had thought. While it wasn’t known at the time, they also parted ways with producer Brendan O'Brien, who had been hired specifically to channel their raw, back-to-basics sound. Where would MCR go from here? And when would fans hear the latest album–which was apparently undergoing rewrites once again?

It wasn’t until late 2010 that fans would finally learn what had happened to this unreleased album.

This moment, says frontman Gerard Way, looking back on what went wrong, “was the hardest part”. Guitarist Ray Toro was “home dealing with some family things”, leaving Way, his bassist brother Mikey, and guitarist Frank Iero alone in the mixing studio. “The sinking feeling was really starting to become loud that it wasn’t right - that the record wasn’t finished, I couldn’t even put them in a track order … "Thinking about it now, it’s kind of upsetting, because I just felt so lost,” Gerard says.

This was discussed in an interview with Herald Sun, where they talked about the process of starting again after the departure of their drummer and producer. Speaking to Music Radar, Ray Toro talked about the struggles the band had with original producer Brendan O'Brien, admitting that it hadn’t gone as well as they once thought:

“He was really trying; he did the best he could with us. He knew things weren’t clicking, and he’d try to rally us. I remember he said, ‘Hey, on some songs, I’d love to hear you do what you did on The Black Parade.’ Because there wasn’t any of the harmonized guitar parts or the stacking that I usually do. He was trying to get us to make one record, and we wanted to make something totally different.

Musically, we wanted to go back to our basement. But just because we wanted to do something different didn’t make it easy. In many ways, we felt as though we were holding ourselves back creatively. We were going through the motions. Some of the songs were good, but we weren’t happy with all of them.”

Needing a break, Gerard took a vacation to the desert that surrounded Los Angeles. There, as he told Terminal 5, he realized “I had started the band after 9/11 when I hated art. Black Parade had been about hiding and punishment. I couldn’t tell the truth so I’d talk about cancer instead. I had to put on a mask to show people who I really was. But now it was time to own it. To be who I was before this band started. And I had something in my back pocket: this song, ‘Na Na Na.’”

Reunited with producer Rob Cavallo, who had worked on The Black Parade, the band kicked things off with “Na Na Na.” Gerard and Shaun Simon’s comic “Killjoys,” once a separate side project that had nothing to do with the band, suddenly became the concept that they formed the album around. Fueled by fresh creative energy, the band wrote and re-wrote tracks, came up with concepts and characters like Dr. Death Defying, and shredded the limitations that had confined them. At one point, Gerard turned to his brother Mikey and said “Danger Days, here we come again!”

Not everything from the previous record was scrapped. “Trans Am” became “Bulletproof Heart”; “Death Before Disco” became “Party Poison.” A few new versions of old tracks appeared on the record, as well as the Mad Gear and Missile Kid EP that came later. But MCR’s fourth album had gone from a rock and roll record that deliberately avoided ambitious storylines, to a vividly realized concept album that invited fans into the world of post-apocalyptic California. In many ways, it was the opposite of what they had originally planned. And it seemed to be exactly what they had been looking for.

During this time, Frank snapped in-studio photos that he sold on MCR’s official website, offering one-of-a-kind peeks into the recording process. In March, Mikey Way stated in a blog post that “One day you will wake up, and nothing will ever be the same again, but it’ll feel like an old friend.” He was talking about upcoming changes to the MCR website, but in a way that statement reflected the band’s process at the time–they had completely reinvented themselves, and yet there was still a certain familiarity in the old tracks they had revamped.

The band completed the album with fresh energy, offering sporadic updates in the coming months. Fans waited with some skepticism to see what MCR had in store. And finally, one day in early September, MCR’s website disappeared and was replaced with a mysterious transmitter. The Danger Days era had begun.

But was the scrapped album hidden away, never to be heard again? Not quite.

In 2012, in a blog post on MCR’s website, Frank talked about the feelings of depression that he had faced after The Black Parade. He felt like MCR had done it all, leaving them with nothing left to accomplish. In November 2008, Gerard called him up to talk about the band. As new ideas took shape, they prepared to start recording the album that would eventually be scrapped after months of work.

Frank pointed out that while the band had limited themselves during the recording of this album, the songs weren’t inherently bad–in fact, some of them were among his favorites that the band had produced. As time passed, he developed a greater appreciation for the tracks. And when the band met up and listened to those songs, they decided to release a selection of tracks to the public–two tracks a month for the next five months, for a total of ten.

After all this time, the album finally had a title: Conventional Weapons. Tracks included “Kiss The Ring,” “The World Is Ugly,” “Surrender The Night,” and the fan-favorite “The Light Behind Your Eyes.” Listening to the tracks, it was clear that MCR had aimed for a rock album with a pure American sound–no ambitious concepts or storylines, just a set of killer tracks. Whether they succeeded is up to the listener to decide, but they provided some insight into what came before Danger Days.

Due to its unconventional release, and the fact that the album was a series of random tracks and not a finished product, Conventional Weapons is not considered an “official” MCR album. But while Danger Days was the final album, Conventional Weapons was the final release before MCR broke up in 2013. Since the split, the release of CW has caused many fans to wonder–will My Chemical Romance’s fifth (and unreleased) album ever be shared in a similar fashion? Or will it be locked away forever, like the other CW tracks that were never released?

Only time will tell. But for now, Conventional Weapons serves as an intriguing part of MCR’s history–a time when the band set out to make one type of album, and ended up making the complete opposite.

(Picture credits: 1 2 3. Other in-studio photos by Frank Iero.)

[Originally published 07.09.2017]

#my chemical romance #mcr #gerard way #mikey way #ray toro #frank iero #conventional weapons #articles #music #behind the scenes #na na na #bulletproof heart #party poison (song)#killjoyhistory #reuploads

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Snufkin, moomin, muddler, and joxter dealing hcs with love at first glance (neutral s/o gender wise) ? How they go about confessing their feelings ?? Sorry if this too many characters

I am just a fool, and I'm still only on ep. 21 of 90s Moominvalley, so I'll only be doing Snufkin and Moomin whoops. Maybe one day I'll finish the series... one day...I tried to make both of them have similar lengths, but honestly, I got really into Snufkin's... I might have to write a fic with this as a base.

Snufkin

Ooooooooooh boy

Snufkin is not the kind of man to fall hard and fast, he's more of a softly over a long period of time sort of guy

But when he saw you committing illegal acts out and about, doing something he was just about to do he got a little infatuated

You're new to Moominvalley, which would explain why he's never seen you before

So as any sane person with a bit of a crush would do, he begins following you around

Watching you and watching what you do

He falls in love from afar long before he even approaches you

When Moomin invites you over for tea without telling Snufkin and he waltzes in, ready to tell Moomin about the vigilante justice he committed last night and you're there, he freezes

Moomin introduces the two of you, utterly unaware of Snufkin's one-sided affections towards you

Snufkin tips his hat and offers you a hand, covering the blush that adorns his cheeks

You just smile and shake his hand before Snufkin has to excuse himself by saying something about fishing and practically running out the door

The next time Snufkin actually talks to you you're the one to approach him

You find him playing his harmonica on a secluded hill on the outskirts of Moominvalley and decide to sit down next to him and start up a conversation

The two of you get on like a house fire, quickly shifting the conversation from his music to what you've been doing around Moominvalley

You match his theatrics quite well, throwing every one of his quips back at him

Eventually, the fact that Snufkin packs up and leaves every winter comes up, but you don't seem upset at all. You understand his need for space and solitude, and happily tell him that you wouldn't mind waiting all winter to see him again

That gets this man's heart GOING

You understand how personal his winter journeys are to him, and admit to having the same need for solitude every now and again

Snufkin finds himself becoming unable to become tired of your presence, but maybe that's because you always seem to move on once he's met his daily social limit

Finally, winter rolls around.

You're not there to bid him farewell with the rest of the Moomin family, and he can't help but feel a twinge of pain in his chest

He leaves, walking to the edge of Moominvalley, where he sees you, standing, bundled up, and cheeks flushed because of the cold weather. (cue actual writing bc I'm way too into this)

"Hello, (y/n)," he greets, slowly coming to a halt in front of you.

"Hello, Snufkin." You smile. "...I wanted to see you off, but I'm truly at a loss at what to say. I got your letter."

"Ah..." Snufkin had hoped you wouldn't find it until after he was gone.

"Well," he says. "If you're willing to wait, I'd love to spend more time with you in the spring. If you'll let me."

You smile. "I would love to spend more time with you. Try not to feel you too lonely when you're out there on your own."

At this, Snufkin smiles back. "I will certainly try."

Moomin

Moomin, unlike Snufkin, is a big softie and shows it

You come to stay in the moomin house while you get situated into Moominvalley, and Moomin get a little feeling in his chest the first time he sees you

You're just so polite and kind! What's not to like?

Because you're staying in the moomin house, Moomin his ample time to get to know you, and you him

You meet all his friends, including Snufkin, who, while a little weird, seems to like you enough for Moomin to be overjoyed

Moomin brings you little gifts, too. Just things he thought were pretty or would look beautiful in your new house

He's a little sad to see you leave the moomin house and move into your own, but he knows you're happy with a place of your own

And that also means that he can stop by whenever, and the two of you can have some privacy from the prying eyes of Little My

He shows up regularly to tell you about whatever he has on his mind, show you one of his many trinkets, or to just seek a little quiet time away from his family, which everyone needs every once in a while

Moomin is just... entirely smitten, and he's not good at hiding it

But that's okay, because what's there not to love about Moomin?

Nothing. That's the answer.

Moomin is lovely, and spending time with him is amazing

It’s just so wholesome and warm and soft... uggg my hearttt

The two of you are stuck in a mutual pining situation for quite some time, to the point where the two of you enter a relationship without either of you noticing

You only notice on an autumn afternoon

You had just woken up from one of your afternoon naps, cuddled together for warmth from the chill fall air

Moomin is soft and warm, and frankly smells like roses, and you've never been happier

Moomin is awake too and gently places a kiss on your hand, which makes you grin and press your face into his chest to hide your blush

And then you realize that you're probably in love with Moomin, and he's in love with you

Which is funny, because Moomin seems to realize the same thing at that moment too, so he stutters out your name

He tells you how he's felt deeply for you ever since you came to Moomin valley, and how happy you make him

He looks so cute, twirling his tail around nervously and not meeting your eyes, so you grab his cheeks and tell him that you care deeply for him too, and you'd be happy to properly start a relationship with him

Moomin is so happy he tackles you to the floor, knocking you off of the couch and the warm blankets you were bundled in

You never properly tell anyone that you're in a relationship, but it's not hard to tell

The moomin family loves you already so like, you don't even have to worry about that

Snufkin makes fun of Moomin by telling you about all the times Moomin has gushed about you to him, which makes Moomin scream because that was supposed to be private, Snufkin!!

Very sweet, very warm, very good

#Moomin Valley #moominvalley x reader #moomin x reader #moomin valey snufkin #snufkin x reader #moomin valley moomin troll #gender netural reader #reader insert #x reader #male reader #my writing #moomintroll #moomin #snufkin

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storiesforallfandoms · 4 years

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a great team ~ yungblud

word count: 1730

request?: yes!

“could u maybe write a dom/yungblud fic?? maybe he meets a writer working for his record label (she could be writing someones biography or smth) and they hit it off and then maaaybe flashfoward to them being together??”

(i made her a songwriter i hope that’s okay!)

description: in which a famous songwriter is paired up with a famous alt. rock musician and they find out that they’re a great team, in more ways than one

pairing: yungblud x female!reader

warnings: swearing mainly

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You checked the time again as you tapped your fingers against the steering wheel. You were late for the meeting you had with the new artist you were supposed to be working with because you left your house later than you meant and got stuck in traffic. You didn’t even know who you were supposed to be working with because your agency hadn’t told you who it was yet, so you couldn’t even contact the person to tell them you’d be late!

You sighed heavily as your car moved about another inch. You looked at the time once again, willing the traffic to let up so you could make it before the artist just left.

The one upside to being stuck in traffic was that you were having some good ideas for songs. The downside was that because you didn’t know who the person you were supposed to be working with was, you had no idea if the song would be the right genre for the artist. Regardless, every time your car came to a stop you wrote some more lyrics down. By the time you finally got through the traffic you had a whole song written.

You were humming a possible beat to yourself as you raced through the hall till you got to the studio you were book in for the day.

“I am so sorry, traffic was absolutely awful and I got stuck,” you explained the moment you pushed the door open.

The person waiting for you was a younger looking guy with a messy mop of black hair, wearing an oversized hoodie and a pair of skinny jeans. He looked up at you and smiled.

“It’s cool! I figured that’s what it was. I’m not long here myself,” he responded. He stood and held his hand out to you. “I’m Dom, professionally known as Yungblud.”

“Oh! Yeah, I know you. I love your latest EP, it’s like the most played thing on my phone right now.” You realized his hand was still extended to you. “Oh! Right! I’m (Y/N).”

“Nice to meet you, (Y/N),” Dom said.

“So,” you said as you both sat down together, “why do you need a songwriter? I thought you wrote your own stuff.”

“I do,” Dom responded. “But my label is pushing for my next album like now, so they called in some help. Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful for the help, but I hate being rushed. Making music is a process that can’t be rushed.”

“Trust me, I understand. I’ve had my fair share of singers essentially being forced to work with me because they’re under some sort of time limit to get an album done. Record labels just don’t get it because all they do is slap their name on the thing and release it to the world.” You shrugged. “On the positive side of all of this, while I was stuck in traffic I managed to write a song if you wanna check it out.”

“Like a completed song?” You nodded your head and laughed at Dom’s bewildered expression. “Yes! Let me see it!”

You passed Dom your phone. You watched him read through the lyrics in silence, waiting anxiously for his reaction.

He started nodding his head and humming to himself before singing a couple of the lyrics. The melody he came up with was definitely much better than what you were humming.

“It’s amazing!” he finally said. “That’s perfect! I have to make a note of this melody in my head before we continue. We’ll work on the instrumentals later. I only need like four more songs and then the album is ready to go.”

“Let’s get to work then!”

You two were sat there for hours on end. It was easy bouncing ideas off of one another and banging out three more songs together. It was as if you both had the same mind when it came to songs and lyrics, and even melodies as you were eventually coming up with the instrumental ideas for the songs and both your ideas were the exact same.

Before you knew it, you had the album written. All that was left to do was figure out the instrumentals and the vocals.

“Well, that was a breeze,” Dom commented. “We make a pretty great team, huh?”

“Honestly, you’re the best musician I’ve worked with,” you told him. “Most people I work with, especially on such a strict deadline, are so hard to write with. They want the album to be perfect since it’s so close to being released that they refuse some of the stuff I write because it’s ‘not their style’ and ‘too simple’. I wonder why they kept me around for so long. Realistically, you could’ve told me to leave at any time if you weren’t enjoying my company.”

“That’s awful,” Dom said. “I don’t understand how people can turn down help when they obviously need it. It’s hard enough to write one song by yourself, let alone having to do multiple in one session. Even if the lyric didn’t sound like something they’d sing, that’s why they’re there, to make it sound like their style.”

You shrugged. “Some people are afraid of being called out for having a ghostwriter, too. I’ve worked with a couple artists who said they’d consider my ideas and then didn’t use them at all so they didn’t have to put my name in the writing credits. It’s all about appearance, you know. If you’re found out to have a song writer help you they accuse you of ghostwriting. It’s hard in the industry to be a songwriter alone and not a singer-songwriter.”

Dom shook his head. “That’s not right. Most people need a professional songwriter to help them out.”

You chuckled. “Yeah, tell me about it.”

There was a prolonged silence between the two of you. You weren’t sure what else to say or do. You both technically had the studio booked for another hour, but there wasn’t much that could be done right now without a producer or any musicians present. A couple of the songs written were meant to be collabs with other singers, so those couldn’t be done until Dom reached out to those artists.

“So,” Dom started after a moment, “you said I can tell you to leave at anytime. I know we technically have another hour before our session is up, but would you be opposed to being kept a bit over our time?”

You raised an eyebrow, confused by his question. “What do you mean?”

“Like...I dunno, would you wanna grab something to eat or something?”

You couldn’t help but smile at the question. “Yeah, I would love that.”

~~~~~~

A few months later, you were sat at home watching a late night talk show in which Dom was performing and being interviewed. His performance, which was of the song you had written that day in traffic, had just ended and you were waiting for the show to start back up after the commercials.

When it finally did, there was Dom, sat next to the interviewer and smiling widely.

“Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen we are sat down now with Yungblud!” the host announced. The crowd cheered in excitement and Dom was beaming at them all. “So, this new album, it comes out in about a week. What can fans expect from the album?”

“It’s a sort of different album as far as what fans usually get from me. It’s still my usual style but it’s sort of different subject matters on each song than what I usually sing about.”

“And I heard that you actually had a songwriter brought in to help you write some of the songs.”

Dom nodded proudly, unashamed to admit it. “I did, yeah! Her name is (Y/N). She’s honestly the best songwriter in the game if you ask me. We got together and I’d say in 2 hours flat we had songs written, melodies figured out and we had sent out samples to artists we wanted featured on the album. That’s the fastest I’ve ever gotten anything done.”

The audience applauded and you couldn’t help but smile at, even though no one could see you.

“On the topic of this songwriter,” the interviewer continued, “there have been some reports that the two of you may or may not be dating. There’s been pictures of the two of you together getting very cozy.”

The smile on Dom’s face only got wider. He looked up at the interviewer and shrugged before responding, “I guess the cat’s out of the bag. Yeah, we are dating. We have been since that day in the studio, actually. We thought we made a great team songwriting wise, let’s see if we make a great team dating wise. And so here we are.”

The crowed cheered excitedly. You felt as if a massive weight had been lifted off your shoulders. Keeping this relationship a secret, even if for a couple of months, had been the toughest thing for you. You just wanted to tell everyone that you two were together. To post all the cute pictures you had saved on your phone, to not be afraid of being caught by fans or paparazzi. To just be a happy couple in public no matter what.

Now, it was out there for the world to know, and you couldn’t feel happier about it.

The interview continued until the host thanked Dom for coming onto the show and plugging his album one last time before going to commercial. Nearly seconds later, you phone was ringing. You looked down to see that it was Dom trying to facetime you. His face was still beaming with pride when you answered his call.

“Did you see it, babe?” he asked. He sounded so excited, like a kid in a candy store.

“I saw it,” you confirmed. “How do you feel, baby?”

“I feel so free!” he declared. “I’m so glad to publicly call you mine.”

You couldn’t help but giggle. “I’m glad to publicly call you mine, too. Finish up your press tour for your album soon and come back to me, I miss you.”

“I miss you, too, love,” he told you. “I’ll be back soon, I promise.”

He kissed his camera and you giggled again, kissing yours back. Yeah, you both definitely made a great team.

I’m sorry if this sucked :/

#yungblud #yungblud imagine #yungblud x reader #dominic harrison #dominic Harrison imagine #dominic Harrison x reader #imagine #request #one shot #imagine request #leave a request

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amiwritesthings · 3 years

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Fic Writer Questions

thanks to @venhedish for the tag, this actually got me thinking on a few things lmao

1 ) How many works do you have on AO3?

currently 17, will probably add no 18 tonight. there’s also a bunch only published on ff.net (from when i wasn’t on AO3 yet) and yet another motherload of self-indulgent shit rotting on my hard drive.

2 ) What’s your total AO3 word count?

80781 words, about 60k of that from this year alone. i took a major break from writing 2010ish and really just got back into it during quarantine last year.

3 ) How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

7 on AO3. Supernatural, The Last Ship, Walker 2021, Men’s Hockey RPF, TVD, Graceland, Chicago Fire. for purposes of saving myself the embarrassment, we’ll limit this answer to just the AO3 stuff. 😂

4 ) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

ooooh boy, maybe a little embarrassment after all.

A Trip to the South (TVD)

hey lookie, my incest glorifying days did not actually start with SPN lol. Salvatore brothers feeding together, blood sharing and enjoying it. I blame this being at the top solely on the fact that it’s been up since 2013 because it’s really nothing special.

when i dream (I’m doing you all night) (SPN)

Collection of (mostly smutty) deanjohn Tumblr prompts, i can blame most of those on other people lmao

Holding on (until it’s over) (Graceland)

Episode Tag to 1x10, Johnny/Briggs because even then i was obsessed with manny montana and i refuse to apologize for it.

11:59 (Men’s Hockey RPF)

Sean Avery/Henrik Lundqvist Hooker!AU, and yeah that’s pretty much it.

even whiskey can’t do (what you do when you kiss me that way)

OG Stanford Era deanjohn first time smut, my first foray into SPN fics.

5 ) Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

YES, i try to respond to all comments. sometimes RL gets in the way but as a rule i try to always respond. i love getting comments so i feel like appreciating the time the commenter took to bring me this joy. ♥️

6) What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

boy, this is a hard one. I’m not all that good with writing angst but i guess if I had to pick something i’d say don’t give up now (there’s already so much at stake), mostly because of the character’s frame of mind in general and the impending threat of invading a foreign country to overthrow a dictator the next day while being mentally wrecked.

7 ) Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

i’m not against it but i’ve never actually done it.

8 ) Have you ever received hate on a fic?

not that I recall. but i guess it wouldn’t be the worst thing, i struggle way more with getting no feedback at all.

9 ) Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

do i? DO I? yeah, i do. usually the kind the story requires which can range from soft to awkward to plain filthy. also whatever kind the kinky anons drop in my inbox, i’m trying to keep an open mind.

10 ) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i’m aware of. I don’t really operate in the super popular corners of the fandoms i’m in so i don’t think anyone feels the need to. it’d be pretty obvious to all the 10-20 people who are into that shit anyway lol

11 ) Have you ever had a fic translated?

again, not really running in the popular corners of fandom (rare pairs ftw) so imma say no. I could probably translate them myself but writing in my first language is fuckin awkward so no thank you.

12 ) Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, I’m a pretty solitary writer. I do love to come play in other writer’s ‘verses though if they don’t mind. i have written a few things in @vintagedean ‘s married!vibes for example (thanks for letting me play, dude!)

13 ) What’s your all-time favorite ship?

jeez, i don’t know. i’ve never really stuck with just one fandom, i’m a notorious multi-fandom multi-shipper. i’m the kind of person who watches eps of 4 different shows in one day and yells at the tv about all of them.

14 ) What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

we make a long way from easy lovin‘ look good, baby. i was honestly so invested in this project but then they completely torpedoed this pairing in canon in the worst possible way and i kinda lost the drive to keep writing. i have posted it to my graveyard collection of unfinished stuff for now but i don’t think i will finish it, sadly.

15 ) What are your writing strengths?

creating emotions, hitting you in the feels, or so I’ve been told. i like to think that (given that English is not my first language) just reaching the kind of level i’m at now can be considered a strength.

16 ) What are your writing weaknesses?

run-on sentences, endless run-on sentences. they serve a purpose SOMETIMES but mostly it’s just me and my rambly writing style. and repetition. i have actually started searching my writing docs for specific phrases while editing to catch most of them and rephrase. not being able to include just a bit of angst without it turning into an existential crisis for the character and me. and the worst thing I keep doing that i’m not able to stop is writing shit out of order. i start with the beginning, then some idea for the middle pops up, then I write the end and then I have to somehow weave it all together, it’s so inconvenient and annoying.

17 ) What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

i speak a few languages (or you know, at least can understand/write/read them) so as long as i’m sure that it’s correct and it fits the story, I’m all for it!! language kink ftw.

18 ) What was the first fandom you wrote for?

it was either music or hockey rpf, i’m not even sure anymore at this point, that was like 20 years ago. nothing that ever got published anywhere lol

19 ) What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

my name engraved on your heart, hands down. that is my beloved, my baby, the project nearest and dearest to my heart. i can actually read this and enjoy it without nitpicking my own writing at every turn and i’m just so happy with the overall vibe of it. it’s like a niche in a niche of a fandom thing though, so i get that it doesn’t resonate as strongly with others as it does with me but it is my favorite of favorites.

honorable mention to the house don’t fall (when the bones are good), though, because it’s what got me back into writing and it was my biggest (published) project and that fix-it needed to be written.

i think all my fellow fic writer mutuals have already been tagged in this, so i'm not gonna add y'all again but feel free to steal if this strikes your fancy.

#tag games #writing

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kirklloyd13 · 3 years

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So as Life and the pursuit of survival amongst a world that has little loyalty to its predecessors I continue to trudge my own path of artistry and finalize some projects I’ve been working on for way too long but as you get older the days fly by quicker , you move wayyyyy slower and the responsibilities one has to just people in his life ,it tends to slow down the finalization of new creations which in my case are all being done in a new realm of creativity . One being writing and I’ve decided to release a book of Ramblings( poems and such ) prior to the book I’m working on and we will see how quick this happens because I have very little money to invest in anything other than survival. But let’s just say I’m getting these things closer to a finish than ever before and I also have studio time booked to record songs for my new “solow” release . After each of these are done I’m going to tour behind the release and more to come on that . As for buzzoven , new recordings are still being hashed out and to give any definitive timeframe or full testimony of how it will shape up would be premature. An old good friend is coming to town to jam and he may pick up bass duties for the EP to come but just not sure . Thinking of releasing a 2 song teaser on cassette and digital only . DOC Music Patreon and YouTube channel will be up soon with more details on a limited Patreon supporter only cassette releases that will include all buzzoven , Sewer Puppet , k.lloyd and Rev. Dirtkicker past releases as well as a 4 Track series that is already in the works as well. So if you hear anything other than Kirk , k.lloyd is busy working and seemingly moving in a positive direction , ITs AL fucking lies , gossip and the work of people like the Buckeye thieves Club. Naysayers that tear down others instead of helping their fellow musicians and people who are creating to survive. People that think it cool to cause complete strife and destruction in a mans life and premeditate trying to damage a persons credibility through creating lies AND taking advantage of sick disabled people are not cool and have no place in my world at all. Anyway I hope to have this circulated throughout all social media and as my life draws nearer to an end I am hoping to reconcile with many of my brothers of whom I met through music and a love of music and performing live shows . Those of you that I’m speaking of know who you are . If I need to make a fucking list I will but if you know me and you have ever shared a stage , rode in a van , slept in house alll huddled in one room, spoke with me beyond just hello please email me at : [email protected]

If you are still owed merch that you ordered and paid for from either the buzzoven merch store on big cartel or me personally on Facebook or any other social media and did not receive your order I’m doing the last calls on all of that in the next couple months , but for that email : [email protected]. Put ; Bigcartel Order Not received order#_________. In the subject line. Chances are we have what you ordered we just need to confirm your current address and all the items you ordered and as I have the money for shipping I ship what I can in the best manner possible. If your email starts off with a bunch of shit slinging/negative comments plan to wait another year . I want everyone to realize I know that I fucked up with managing the store and orders and I’m doing my best to fill each and every order. Thanks for reading.

Reverend Dirtkicker- “ exorcist folk tunes” out soon on DOC Music & Mayhem.

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