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death2normalcy · 2 years

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This post is part of a series I’m going to call ‘Why I Love Stray Kids’. Each post is going to be dedicated to a different member and is just going to be ramblings of things I love about them, because I just really love making lists and sometimes, I get bored.

Previous Posts: I.N. | Seungmin | Felix | Han

This post is about Hwang Hyunjin!

Songs I Personally Love Him In:

District 9; Venom; Muddy Water; Rock; Hoodie Season; Levanter; Little Star; Wow; Red Lights; The Tortoise and the Hare

Music Videos I Love Him In:

My Pace; Awkward Silence; Red Lights; Astronaut; Double Knot; Miroh; Back Door; Mixtape: Oh; Venom; Maniac

10 Random Things I Love:

He is, hands down, the funniest member of this group, and I stand by that. He is constantly making me laugh, whether he means to or not.

His art. Just, the fact that he shares it, shows everyone his progress. I’m not sure when he started doing it (although, I believe it was mentioned that he was in the group when he started, so not too long ago), or when he started sharing it, but I love that he does. I have always had a soft spot for artists. The fact that, even while training as hard as they do, and the fact that he was going to school, he was learning how to draw and paint? I love that. Which segues into...

How hardworking he is. How he was told early on he didn’t have to do much because he was the visual and he wasn’t having any of that and worked so damn hard and it shows. He’s so skilled at what he does, and even though I’ve only been a Stay for a couple months, I’m proud of him.

The fact that he’s a drama queen. Look, if you are reading this, and you’ve seen my page at all, or followed me for some time (which I doubt, but nonetheless), you know I have a soft spot for drama queens. I love them. It’s usually fictional characters, but the thought still stands. So, the minute I found out that Hyunjin was one, I knew he was going to be a fave.

The fact that it’s been stated at least once, but maybe more than that, that he doesn’t really like physical contact, but we know this isn’t true because there are a ton of clips of him cuddling up to or hugging one of the other members.

The fact that he has a big heart. I would argue it isn’t really shown as much as say, Felix, but it’s still very obvious. (Arguably, all the boys have big hearts) There are lots of moments in his vlives (I haven’t watched them yet, but I’ve seen clips), or moments on stage where he is very kind and open and I love it.

How much he laughs. I’d argue he is the one who laughs at things the most in the group and it’s adorable. I love that he finds so many things funny, I bet he’s that one friend who you laugh with until you are crying and can’t breathe, because everything can be funny when you hang out.

I know he’s part of the ‘Baboracha’ group in Stray Kids, but it seems like he’s actually pretty smart? Like, he’s one of those people who has dumb moments a lot, but overall, they are lowkey smart. I mean, isn’t he taking university classes to major in English? Hasn’t he recommended a couple books to people in the past? It’s not shown a lot, in my opinion, just from what I’ve seen, but I feel like Hyunjin is probably a lot smarter than he’s given credit for.

I’m a big fan of his slow/lazy rap. I’ve mentioned it before, like it in the song ‘Muddy Water’, that first verse he does. I think he’s talented at all of it, but there’s something I just really love about the lazy rap. And to add on to this one, because I don’t want to go above 10 points, but his dancing. it’s very loose and, I don’t know, it’s hard for me to explain.

This one is also hard to explain, but there is something about Hyunjin I find very relatable, which is saying a lot considering how stunning he is and how he is an idol and everything. Like I said, I can’t explain it. I think he’s the kind of person I’d love to be friends with.

Let Me Be Superficial For A Moment: This one was also tricky, because I know what the easy answers are, what most of the fans would go with. But I’m going to go with another answer that kind of cheats, and the same one as Jisung, and say his laughing face.

*If you are the owner of this gif and you want me to remove it, just let me know, and I will.

Two Dynamics Of His That I’m Fond Of: Changbin and Jeongin. These are so hard, why do all the boys have to have such great friendships??

#Hwang Hyunjin #Hyunjin #Stray Kids #skz #skz thoughts #This one was also easy for the most part #i'm very fond of hyunjin #i'm fond of all of them but still #also #jeongin and han were tied for the dynamics #but the one i chose just slightly beat out the other

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sysig · 5 months

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Two big softies(?) (Patreon)

#Doodles #Handplates #UT #Fellplates #Gaster #Flowey #Flowey is still my favourite UT character so honestly a lot of this was just self-indulgent doodles lol #But then - as always - it did turn into Thinking A Lot about [thing] lol #Starting with the classic tho! Flowey friendly-like coiled around whoever he's talking to ♪ It's too fun hehe #I love Flowey getting just a liiiiittle too close and personal to a discomfort degree ♫ He's just being friendly! It's a hug! A snuggle!#He's your best friend so you don't mind right? :) Why would Fellplates!Gaster mind ♪#He's always posed to stage right when I draw him haha - I'm still fond of the one Gravity Falls/Undertale crossover piece I made with him #Anyhow lol - yet more fluffy wings! It's just fun if they're expressive I want real feathers lol #Gaster's face completely neutral but his wings all puffed up and freaked out hehe #Flowey would definitely be able to tell if those are when he chose to wrap around!#If they were just the decorative version he'd fall right off from his own weight pulling them loose lol #Absolutely thinking of the one of Gaster screaming while being vine-wrapped by Flowey haha - he's totally innocent here! ♥#And then a little idea of how each of them react to humans - UkaGaster talks a lot about his general positive feelings for humans #And Fell!Flowey is.....well I have my own thoughts about how he might react to humans now that he's been...himself for a while #There have been Fallen Humans in the time between being locked in the Underground and [now] even in Underfell hasn't there?#I guess none of them would've made it as far as meeting up with Gaster - bit of a dark thought heh - but Flowey would know #Is it selfish? To wish for humans or to keep them a secret from the rest of the Underground? What might happen?#It's interesting to think about! If there were humans then surely Gaster must be aware of the Souls?#But even if not - even if this could be before all that - Flowey would still know about human Determination to an extent - being what he is #It wouldn't turn out well for anyone :) That's what makes it interesting ♪

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gunsatthaphan · 8 months

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but anyway let's talk about my favorite part of the ep (and maybe the whole series) real quick because the way Ray acknowledges that Sand never stopped caring for him? he knows how much he hurt him and that he can't help it, he acknowledges that being with him takes patience, that he needs help and him saying and yet you're still here while Sand is not actually sitting across from him to witness his biggest turning point and to hear all the things he deserves to hear breaks me so much but like in the best way because man what a scene. jfc.

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batsplat · 25 days

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Jerez 2005 | Misano 2019: Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez celebrate victory on enemy soil amid booing from the spectators

#rosquez #//#4693 #sg15 #2005 jerez #2019 misano #not enough discussion of them being the same age here imo. both 26 years old both assholes both leaning tf into it #'but here we are. the italian national anthem as we've heard so many times' narrator: we did not hear the italian national anthem this time #deep deep regret that valentino never had a popular enough rival to make this a more regular occurrence #he immediately goes full ham with it. all the greatest 'you're being booed' hits while still on the bike. from the finger to the sky #to the clapping to the hand on hip to the wave. sarcastic thumbs up. just keeps going. i'm sorry but this man was born to be booed. come on #the fourth wall break i think about u often...#it's when they're walking to the podium and sete's clutching at his arm so vale's taking the piss. so were the commentators lmao #and i'm obvs very fond of marc's frenetic finger pointing. buddy fully lost his mind for a moment there #i can't make gifsets but if anyone else can :) all i have to offer is atrocious quality screenshots. i do quite like the last two though

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lucy-ghoul · 25 days

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why are you, as an adult in 2024, still hung up on reylo. why are you still mocking the shippers. why do you believe yourself to be superior only because you dislike a stupid ship from a fucking space fairytale. girl (gnc) get a grip

#it's ridiculous. this ship is... stupidly cliché. like if you know fandoms at all #you could easily guess why people would be into it. hello?? have you tried to watch tfa without your hate-on-kyle-ron goggles?#did you watch their scenes together? you don't have to like something to recognize the hints #hell. at the time i didn't really like jonerys but i realized they were going to be a thing when i read agot in 2011 #like folks. it's been nearly TEN LONG YEARS. let it go. LET IT FUCKING GOOOO #and for the lucy/cooper shippers out there who think reylos are (again) delusional when they compare the two ships:#no. *you* are being delusional only because you think reylo is unsexy and uncool (which is your right to think btw. obv)#if you can't see why someone would like both of these pairings for similar reasons... idk what to say honestly #people compared it to hannigram... honestly. again i see why they would appeal to anyone who's into both ships #i really do. but... unpopular opinion (since i'm more of a clannibal fan than i could ever be of reylo):#they are more similar to reylo than will/hannibal. there i said it #i'm not talking about the writing (admittedly the quality of it was questionable). i'm talking about tropes #never mind that imo the ghoul is more akin to vader than kylo but whatever #hannibal is an unapologetic kind of villain. he's not gonna have a redemption arc and that's okay #cooper is an antivillain who used to be a good man and became a disfigured cruel bastard. a parody of himself #lucy is him. him before the bombs dropped before he discovered the person he trusted the most wanted to commit genocide #nice. moral. polite. infused with the Good Old American Values™. he's basically her dark side #all of this is very hannigram/clannibal. i'm not denying it at all #but what'll likely happen is that lucy's actions will have a positive influence on the ghoul and remind him of what it means to be a man #and that's way more reylo-like. sorry.#beauty&thebeast/villain with some hidden good in him+morally righteous heroine/enemies to lovers etc.#i mean. hello??..... having said that. i'm not so much of a reylo shipper anymore and tbh never was. i really liked it at the time #but i was never fond of the st era. my fav characters are vader and leia and revan from the old eu. just saying #*and* it's also not impossible lucy gets darker with the ghoul as her traveling companion. in fact i wouldn't dislike it at all #if done well i mean #but i would still like for people to be intellectually honest and less puerile. god knows i have my notps #but i really don't give a fuck about the shippers. good for them i guess? i have better taste lmao but that's heavily subjective #val rambles in the tags #val speaks #txt

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charlesemersonwinchesteriii · 11 months

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Rosaria Champagne, “Law of the (Nameless) Father: Mary Shelley’s Mathilda and the Incest Taboo” // Star Trek: Deep Space 9, 2x22 “The Wire”

#incest tw #RENT LOWERING GUNSHOT POST #''I never met anyone who relished a good interrogation as much as you did.''#and then we proceed to hear a story about how Garak preferred to stare at someone for four hours straight rather than interrogate them #and THEN we proceed to watch him try to interrogate someone and not be able to do it even when he literally doesn't even have to doanything #because the anti-changeling machine basically does it for him and he still can't even watch it happen #hm. hmmmmmmmmmm #''We're both getting sentimental in our old age.''#Fathers love to tell you you enjoyed it actually. and also you're basically a fellow adult really.#it's their favorite thing in the whole world #Starky's Original Posts #Star Trek: Deep Space 9 #watch these tags look stupid after I watch Broken Link or something. whatever I'm basking in them for now.#not sorry for posting this due to the fact that I wanted to do so. however I am sorry you had to see it.#god I looked up TDIC script for this and I cannot do it anymore #NO NEED TO PRETEND. YOU'RE FOND OF MILA. AREN'T YOU? YOU DON'T WANT HER HURT DO YOU?#SICKO TELEVISION SHOW I CAN'T WAIT FOR ALL OF CARDASSIA TO GET EXPLODED BY ONE TRILLION BOMBS #GOODBYE

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sb-essebi · 7 months

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"I was surprised you'd stick up for Astarion"

Shadowheart. GIRL. He's biting me every night. You sleep right next to us. I'm bending my goody-two-shoes paladin ass over backwards to get him to like me. Do you not have eyes? You tought I'd sell him out to a monster hunter??? Girl. Girl, I figured out what your hand wound does. It's selective blindness. Shar, goddess of darkness, makes perfect sense, girl, Shadowheart, listen-

#sari plays bg3 #this woman! I swear!!!#driving me mad #I kind of hate that I've grown so fond of her??#like. shar worship? BAD! and she can be unkind and uncaring and also ruthless. BUT. she also ends up liking doing good #and she CAN be cautious and patient and measured when she puts in the effort #and gale? he's not without sins. obviously. he's also very in the 'I regret that it didn't work' stage still rather than 'I regret doing #that' stage. which. I do get honestly? and he LOVES power. and he keeps spinning every story in a way he never admits he does love power #but he's SO nice. I love the way he talks. he's so intense about magic. so sweet about mystra. he's insane about his cat.#he locked himself in his tower moping for a year. it's implied that said tower was MEGA cluttered with artefacts before that.#how can you not love him at least a little bit? right?#I love how complex the characters are in this game #like even astarion- am I insane about him? yes. absolutely. I talk to him just to look at his face. I stare at his hands when he talks. BUT #he can be an asshole. just AWFUL. but I'm getting to know him so much and honestly who wouldn't be like that after what he's been through..#I'm 20 hours into the game and already I can't wait for future playthroughs where I spend more time with different characters #karlach and halsin are so fun! wyll is such a disaster! lae'zel is such a bitch! I love all of them.

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datastate · 13 days

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#i'm so used to the pairings i'm fond of having minimal interaction (caoughs up blood. safamaple... lurien/aster...)#that i forget what it's like to see them with. actual interactions... ahhh it's so sweet. they're so sweet. who allowed this #literally what if i held your hands and with it held your heart. what if i told you i'd love you no matter what you may have done #what if all that mattered was a future you never once let yourself conceptualize before this... too afraid of its fragility #what then. when your hands are now filled with affection toward another; no longer burdened by the curse of harm. what then.#(&. i will say: kai literally considers ''future planner'' to be a special ability worth admiration. you are UNWELL sir!)#GRAHHH & their little teasing back/forths are always so natural... kazumi gets exasperated but it's still so. fond #i'm devastated. kazumi laughs so much around him; kai smiles the most with him... i. augh. i cannot describe the pains they put me through #jestersvaguely #yttdposting

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bitegore · 15 days

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no one on here would be particularly interested in reading poetry i've written, right?

#if im going to be writing poetry i might as well post it so i'm posting it to dreamwidth #but like you guys don't care right. it's not like something anyone gives a damn about right #note: i dislike poetry. i do not consider my poetry any better than most other poetry i've read which is to say i think it sounds bad and #stupid. however many people keep telling me it is actually 'good' and not complete garbage at all. odd but whatever #and i *am* archiving them on dreamwidth because god knows im not saving them for any personal use #i have to do this for a class for the record. i don't typically write poetry nor do i like to #the last poems i've published were done when i was still in high school if memory serves #sorry about the earlier tone of this post i woke up at 6am with a headache. you understand. this was sort of an interest check #i am just (again) not fond of poetry and not any more fond of my own than like. the other greats. keats and stuff. all the same to me #so i cannot by any means gauge these things myself

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wingfooted · 21 days

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Absolutely adored the Draenei heritage quest and think it's probably the best one we've gotten, but my favorite part of all by far was seeing these two again. I love how they brought back so many different characters connected to the Draenei from across the entire history of the game, especially as someone who has been playing my Draenei since BC, but these two are so special to me and seeing them again, still together after all this time made me giddy.

#World of Warcraft #Draenei #Asric #Jadaar #Asric/Jadaar #they are the ORIGINAL shippable silly guys #the last thing I expected when I started the questline was for these two to show up #the whole thing was so wonderful and emotional for someone who is super invested in the draenei #but also I loved and shipped these two a lot when I was young and just...ahhhh I'm happy ^_______^#if u told 16 year old me that in the year of our lord 2024 Jadaar would pull strings to get Asric into a special draenei ceremony #I simply would not have been able to handle it lol #such a little tiny thing and silly dialogue #but that's basically what these two have always been and I think that is kind of part of what makes WoW so charming #that they have these little small goofy things #and that all these years later they still remember them #there's so many things wrong with the game and the industry #but SOMETIMES...I still just really am fond of it...unbearably so #ADFSGHFJGKL JUST NOTICED SOMEONE ELSE MADE ALMOST THIS EXACT POST JUST BEFORE I DID 😹😹😹😹😹😹😹#I'm gonna leave it up for my own posterity tho :P #I admit this post would've been made yesterday but I forgot to screenshot the dialogue #so I power leveled a new draenei to 50 so I could get the dialogue to post lmaooooo #that's my main in the pic tho >_>

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ravencromwell · 4 months

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Finally decided to indulge in the Siuan/Moiraine meta I've been wanting to write for ages now, musing on the differences in psychology ensuing from their significantly different arcs within the book and show and why Siuan's actions at season 2's apex are entirely in psychological sync with her show portrayal, even if they swerve wildly from the books.

Let's start with some Siuan back-story context. In the books, Tear was undeniably an unfriendly city for those with the One Power. But that translated, in practical terms, to Aes Sedai keeping their stays there brief, and girls who could touch The Source being quickly bustled off to the Tower. There were no Aes Sedai advisers, as in other kingdoms etc., but neither was there the virulent hostility of the show.

Siuan left Tear quickly in the books—the first day she was discovered to have the Power, but only because a sister was traveling through and didn't wish to delay returning to The Tower for such pesky things as sentimental goodbyes. Was that harsh? Absolutely. But the world of the books is exceedingly harsh in some respects, giving girls little to no choice about becoming Sisters, should they be discovered harboring abilities. (Much of Nynaeve's back-story involved hiding her powers precisely because she didn't fancy being ripped from The Two Rivers.)

Siuan faces a much different harshness in the show. The show doesn't do a great job explaining this, but The Dragon's Fang, which is etched onto Siuan's door before her house is unceremoniously torched, is a sign of immense contempt for Dark Friends. Within show Tear, a wary mistrust of Aes Sedai has curdled into something much more dangerous. All use of The Power is suspect, because if men's half was tainted, there's nothing to say women won't go suddenly mad, too.

It's worth remembering as well here that book Siuan was roughly fifteen when she went to The Tower. Now, I'm totally blind, and audio description doesn't give me an age for tiny show-Siuan, but if she's anywhere near puberty, I'll eat my metaphorical hat. And instead of being shepherded to The Tower, she had to flee for her life.

In her family's only means of support, I might ad. Book Siuan was by no means well-to-do, but she was firmly in the middling ranks of the working poor. Show Siuan's family are on the fucking destitution brink y'all. And she took her father's livelihood. Dying destitute ain’t fuckin pretty.

Siuan is not a stupid kid, and she clearly adores the shit out of her papa. The first thing that little girl did the millisecond she got any privileges? Wrote to her papa.

And more than likely, Berden never wrote back. It wouldn't take her long to figure out what'd happened. Moiraine is at great pains to tell Alana Jenny was not "her" support dog, and we laugh it off as oh, look at Moiraine being all adorably prim. Which in one sense, it totally is. But I'd almost guarantee you there's a deeper layer there: it wasn't "hers"; it was "theirs" because once Siuan found out her beloved papa was dead, they both needed something to cuddle.

This may seem like somewhat of a digression, but I'm maundering on because in the books yes, Dark Friends are evil. But they're evil because they caused a terrible cataclysm many thousands of years ago that killed lots of people, and they wanna do it again. There's no personal skin in the game for our beloved ladies, except they get thrust into the job through a convergence of some very complicated circumstances—I'd recommend any show-only watchers read "New Spring" because while I love almost all the changes the show has made ferociously, the way Siuan and Moiraine undertake the search is vastly more plausible as presented by Jordan there.

For Siuan in the show, by contrast, Dark Friend has _very personal ramifications. Dark Friends caused the corrosive mistrust that got her papa _killed! And Moiraine, better than _anyone, knows how that broke her.

And she _knows full well she could be deposed simply for having a relationship with Moiraine. The sensible thing to keep all the awful people from committing terrible crimes that will reverberate down the centuries to impact a little girl just as she was impacted would be to keep both their noses clean. And yet, she loves Moiraine so much that she'll take that risk to maintain not only an alliance about Rand, but a romantic relationship which could, realistically, be discovered much more easily.

And now, Moiraine, the woman who parroted back her beloved father's words of farewell about how Siuan was as clever as a pike and strong as the tides seemingly willfully lied; seemingly became a _Dark _Friend. Even her admonition that Lanfear is "too strong" must bring up so many awful questions: just how long have they been working together for her to know that? Because from Siuan's perspective, what it looks like is Lanfear coming in, guns blazing, to save her accomplice, Moiraine.

When Siuan says that there are rules and they have to abide by them, it's reflecting profoundly deep fears—not only about what Rand could do, but the kind of hatred toward those with The Power it could foster. For twenty years, she's put those fears aside. And now it appears that her going against Tower Law has lost her Moiraine to the Forsaken, and made terrible outcomes nigh on inevitable. And people are really confused about why she looks beaten?

Hell, from her perspective, forget Lanfear's entrance. The very fact Moiraine seemingly lied to her and is now talking about love must seem such a cruel mockery: laughing at Siuan's weakness; just as, perhaps, she was laughing at her with that parting comment in The Tower: an Amyrlin Seat still so swayed by what her papa told her so many years ago. (Yeah, we know it was as close as she could come to an I love you, but how the hell is Siuan supposed to know that, given everything?) This was not willful emotional abuse on someone she knew to be acting in good faith, but a reaction to the person she loved enough to risk the fucking Amyrlin Seat for becoming a monster!

Do I wish they'd picked _any other direction for their relationship? Yes, yes I damn well do. There was plenty to play with for angst factor by having the coup go down as it does in the books: Moiraine not being there to save her when all Siuan wanted was more time together, for one thing. Moiraine needlessly obfuscating in front of Siuan and the other Sisters in S1, when Leandrin already knew! about the Two Rivers folk. Thinking she was being canny, when all she did was get herself pointlessly exiled so she couldn't protect Siuan? Quite enough of an angst sandwich, thanks ever so, without this new development. But! if they were going to include this, Siuan reacted precisely as I would expect her to, given the context I've outlined above, not in some madly ooc fashion worthy of the tags descending into emotional abuse discourse.

#Siuan Sanche #Moiraine Damodred #I kept hoping this Siuan is terribly abusive discourse would die down but I keep seeing it crop up and it's driving me utterly batshit #Wheel of Time #siuanraine #Moiraine x Siuan #Siuan x Moiraine #fishwives #(posting all this with the obvious caveat that if Rafe uses this to pull some massive bullshit whereby he brought out the queerness some #of us could see in fucking New Spring. because I am absolutely a fan for that long. even if RJ rest his soul tried to brush it off as #'pillow friends that faded out'only to get fucking cold feet and put them in their heterosexual weirdass nonrelationships with Gareth and #Thom (and look. I am really fond of show Thom; he still has no business getting up close and personal with Moiraine #unless she and Siuan decide on polyamory; Gareth was such an utter nonentity and isn't in the show I really have nothing to say. with legit #apologies to any Gareth fans subjected to my salty tags b/c I'm sure they exist and your tastes are also valid)#well. if Rafe. as an openly queer creator pulls a queer bait and switch I will lose my shit so spectacularly they'll hear my screaming #during shooting. but moral ambiguity. in and of itself. is not a bad thing! portrayals of how her early childhood trauma complicate her #dynamic with Moiraine when Moiraine lied! to her which she should have known better than to do #feel very inevitable after that intro we got in S1 is all I'm saying

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sollucets · 1 year

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I kinda want to ask you to write all touch prompts for akk and aye but because that is unreasonable and way too greedy, how about 26, 27 and maybe 33? thank you so so much! And congratulations on your followers!!!!

you know, i'd write them all too if i had the fuckin Time [sobs] thank you very much nonny

26 (kissing the top of their head) + 27 (pulling them closer) + 33 (tasting their smile) from this list for my lil event; right around 1k of height difference & nickname shenanigans and talking around another bigger issue!!!! set in the summer after ourskyy, rated t for 'tall'

💜

“Hand me that plate, Shortstop.”

Akk does, but not without making sure to splash Aye with the water running off of it. “We’ve been over this." They have, although it's been a while since Aye had first tried it in the tent. "That’s your name.”

With a little yelp, Aye snatches the plate from his hand and sets to drying it with slightly more force than strictly necessary. The water drops stand out against the gray material of his t-shirt. “Why can’t we switch?”

“Do you not have eyes?” Akk takes another bowl out of Aye’s mom’s sink and starts washing it with a little grin. “Grow a bit taller and we can talk.”

He expects Aye to fire back with a water attack of his own, or an insult, so when neither comes he turns to look at his boyfriend in faint surprise. Aye is giving the plate an undeservedly contemplative look, lips pursed. It’s very cute. Akk splashes him again.

“Akk,” snaps Aye, his nose going all scrunched the way it does when he’s actually annoyed.

“Aye,” Akk answers, grin reaching all the way up to his eyes.

Aye stares for a long second, then softens all at once, mouth curving up in turn. He still elbows Akk in retribution before picking up his next dish, though. “So if I was taller than you, we could switch? I could be your Bigfoot.”

“If you were taller than me, I would’ve come up with a different nickname in the first place.”

“But I wouldn’t have,” Aye says decisively. “You’d have been Shortstop to me.”

Akk shoots him a sidelong look, dubious. “It's annoying, so yes, probably. In a hypothetical parallel universe where you’re taller. Why are you suddenly so obsessed with this? Don’t you call me enough things already?”

“Do you not like it, darling?” asks Aye, all coy and playful, and it devolves from there. He doesn’t bring up the height thing again that day.

But apparently he didn’t actually forget, because in the time following that initial conversation Aye starts taking every possible opportunity to be taller than Akk.

It starts small, like Aye insisting Akk sit on the ground while he’s on the couch so he can reach his hair to dry it, calling him Shortstop in a tone of such overdone honeyed affection that all he can do is laugh. Or like Aye crawling into Akk’s lap so he has a height advantage when they kiss, and Akk making sure he doesn't get a chance to use any nickname at all.

Then it escalates, as things frequently do with them. Aye sits on top of the couch backrest at Akk’s house instead of on it, buys a pair of shoes with these ridiculous heel boosts, sits on Akk's desk while Akk writes his admission essays. At one point, very memorably, he gets on a table at a party they’d attended with Kan and refuses to come down until Akk has to drag him.

Akk doesn’t mind as much as he’s pretending he does, which is something he’s found works for them with these things. It makes Aye happy to see him annoyed, so if he gets what he wants and the behavior isn’t actually that annoying, it’s a win for both of them. And it is funny, honestly, and frequently ends with Aye hanging off of him somehow.

Still, though, after nearly two months of their summer together being intermittently marked by Aye’s new favorite running joke, something starts to nibble at the corner of Akk’s mind. It’s late summer now, and they’re running up closer to the thing they’ve barely managed to talk about: Aye’s impending departure, and his own entry into a northern university. And— well. He can’t manage that, but he might be able to manage this.

So the next time Aye makes a point of standing two stairs up in his own home to talk to Akk, he turns and looks up at him and asks, point-blank, “Does it bother you that I’m taller?”

Aye blinks once, twice, then laughs a little. After a second, he seems to realize that Akk is honestly asking and tilts his head with an expression of mild bemusement. “No, baby. I like it, you give great hugs and have great legs. Why?”

Akk makes a sputtering noise and tries not to get derailed thinking about Aye’s feelings about his legs, which he did already know about for— various reasons. Instead, he pointedly jerks his chin at Aye, noticeably needing to tilt his head up to do so.

“I'm just messing with you,” Aye says, reaching a hand out with a little smile. “I thought you knew.”

“I do,” says Akk, and lets Aye take his hand and pull him one step up the stairs. It doesn’t equalize their heights; Aye’s still just a little taller like this. “But... it’s been going on a long time.”

“Yeah, I guess it has,” says Aye a little thoughtfully. “I just like seeing—”

“—My angry face. I know.”

Aye outright giggles at that, gently intertwining his fingers with Akk’s. “If you know, then why are you worrying about it?”

Akk can feel his resolve failing already. He sighs.

“I guess,” says Aye thoughtfully after a moment, “I do also like it when we… switch.” He wiggles his eyebrows and continues talking over Akk’s incoherent noise in response. “So it’s fun for me, to try and turn the little nickname thing on its head. Not that you’re cooperating.”

“You wouldn’t like it if I cooperated,” Akk says, half-sure, and tries mostly unsuccessfully to glare up at Aye.

“Oh, but I do,” Aye says, tugging him even closer by their twined hands and putting his other one on the back of Akk’s neck, pushing his head down enough to press a kiss to the top of it. “Just not right away. I like getting you to admit things."

There's an odd-- hesitation there, a long moment of silence. Akk looks back up, their faces close enough to kiss properly now, and sees Aye looking away from him, eyes big and preoccupied.

“What?” Akk prompts, and when he doesn’t get an answer, adds, “Bigfoot?”

Aye’s gaze snaps back to him, suddenly focused and intent and sparkling, and he grins. “Yeah,” he says, slowly like he’s savoring the confirmation, “That’s nice.”

Akk leans up a little further and kisses that smile, gently and then less so when the fingers on the back of his neck tighten and pull him closer. He leans into it with a sigh and tries not to think about other things Aye might like him to admit, and instead thinks about how — it is nice, sometimes, to be the smaller one.

#the eclipse #akkayan #my fic tag #arbitrary milestone prompts #re: the Something Else looming over their heads in this one: i am setting up for another prompt. i'm not gonna leave that unaddressed #(not like os2 fuckin did >>)#i'm fond of this haha #i think this is my first real attempt to get comfy with akkaye's os2 dynamic in writing #i write them teasing in oowu don't get me wrong. but mine are definitely a bit softer than canon #so.... i tried it out here #what is it like in an established relationship with a person whose primary love language is annoying?#what happens when so much of your communication habits are built on one person Dragging the truth out of the other one?#by waiting or by demanding but Still.#in any case. aye insecurity anons ........ your time will come no worries #all this born from me getting 'kiss on top of the head' as a prompt and the only thing i immediately thought #was that it HAD to be aye kissing the top of akk's head lmao #also on that note. [holds out ficlet] my akkaye switch agenda! here it is! it's hardly an agenda since it's very firmly canon but you know

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bumblingbabooshka · 1 year

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Guy who always puts on sunscreen when he can, reciting all the risks that sun exposure could pose to an individual Vs. Girl who says “I am Vulcan, I do not require sunscreen” much to the aforementioned guy’s dismay.

#guy who sleeps in fancy robes vs girl who sleeps in essentially a long t-shirt #Tuvok is SUCH a 'hey hey hey where are you going?? come here. sunscreen.' parent #I have fond memories of my mother wrangling me to stay still and then telling me to wait five minutes before I go into the water so the #sunscreen could soak into my skin.#Tuvok can't wrangle T'Pel but he can appeal to her doctor brain and keep reciting all the risks until she reconsiders #(this leads to a 'can you get my back?' moment...win for the both of them)#bea art tag #Tuvok/T'Pel #st voyager #st voyager art #T'Pel #Tuvok #T'Pel puts on sunscreen when she's on Vulcan but like on Earth she's like I'm VULCAN the little EARTH sun is nothing v_v #and Tuvok's in the background like adun'a please put on sunscreen or at least a hat - a hat?? T'Pel??

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crehador · 6 months

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parting thoughts on ragna crimson (first cour)

i think it was... the first episode? that i didn't really vibe with. felt like a decent enough fantasy, but unremarkable in just about every way

THEN A WEIRD GUY APPEAR

iirc it wasn't until the second week that we really met crimson, which is kind of a shame because imo the show doesn't really start to come together until then. i like ragna well enough, but it's really the combination of the two of them that compels me

always love a duo where they have the same goal, but drastically different personalities/values/modes of operation/etc

always extra love a duo that's like "team up with me, a dragon, to kill all dragons then once we've achieved our goal you'll kill me too"

(like vanoe but with dragons. i think. my memories of vnc are actually very hazy)

and always extra extra love when ayu gets to just do his thing, playing guys who are girls who are guys who are etc etc etc

it's certainly not the best of the season, and still overall fairly unremarkable imo, but also not really bad in any way. if there's one thing i find lackluster i guess it's that i feel like they don't lean enough into this... pseudo-past life thing that ragna has going on (with the powers and presumably memories of his 'older self' passed down to him)

like ragna is still more or less his 'normal' self in terms of personality, which is fine, he's got a fun enough personality, but if he had some like... old man tendencies mixed in there, or if we saw more of his memories with crimson maybe? i don't know, just feels like something more could have been done with that fusion of past and present (or rather future and present)

looking forward to the second cour but at the same time... hoping this series won't be too long lol

#crab watches #ragna crimson #parting thoughts #i feel like... this isn't really a criticism but #much like vnc i feel like the main draw for me here is the Final battle #where it goes from ragna and crimson to ragna vs crimson #so it feels like the type of series that really shouldn't be dragged out for too long #unless each of the fights are going to be genuinely exceptional (which they're... not)#(like they're not bad. they're fine. but it's no snv)#anyway i guess it's just. the appeal of this kind of set-up (to me) is seeing these fools work together #possibly get attached #and have a very dramatic/emotional/well-choreographed final fight #toxic doomed yaoi and all that #but ragna and crimson don't really seem to be going in that direction like there's no fondness there lmao #which i actually like!! it's a bit unexpected and makes their dynamic fun in a refreshing way #they're working together but fully committed to fucking hating each other (or at best Not Caring about each other) and i love that for them #but it's just like. well if there's not going to be some intense character/relationship development #then the enjoyment of the series hinges all on the fights which are okay but not Spectacular #so... basically i'm still interested for now but don't think that interest would last for more than like 18 volumes max #and seeing as the manga is already 13 volumes and still counting... well we'll see

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sysig · 8 months

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Fond of you and your artworks :)

Aw, thank you! 💕

#Doodles #DDoodles #Compliments are always appreciated :D #Fond is such a soft word to my mind haha ♪ Gentle! I like it #I'm glad!#I actually double-glad - since I like to answer these with DDoodles it was good motivation haha #I must confess it's been almost exactly two months since I've even plugged in my tablet :0 #I just haven't been drawing digitally! Like at all! So I was admittedly a bit nervous to start Requestober this year #I was worried I'd be too out of practice or something would go wrong 3X #And in a way it kinda did - both my laptop and tablet are nearing the end of their lives #They still work! But they're struggling #And they only really work in a specific configuration which - in the two months I've been away - I had forgotten #I remember it now luckily so if anything it's good that I got it out of the way now haha #Hopefully it'll be enough to get them both through Requestober this year the poor things haha #Other than that though - no ♥ Drawing feels just as it always does #I feel very fortunate in that way hehe #Feeling just a bit hopeful and optimistic hehe >:3c #Also you like my ''JOE'' shirt in full colour? Surprise! It's been a rainbow this whole time! Lol

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spilledmilkfkdies · 1 year

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So know that we know Duman's and Gantlos's love language, all that's left is Anagan and Ogron. I especially can't wait for Ogron's since he probably isn't the type to show genuine love to someone that easily. So I can't wait to see how he shows affection to the other wizards (especially to Gantlos if you know what I mean :) )

Oh I know exactly what you mean.

WELL, if you can't wait any longer than I already made you I'm so sorry, I suppose we'll just start with Ogron:

I think you're onto something with him not being the type to show genuine love easily, I can see that for him. I'd maybe even add that the way he expresses love is more him tolerating the way others express their love, if I dare- Like he kinda adjusts to accommodate them? Cutely absorbs love language. Does this somewhat fall under acts of service? I don't know, where else would I put it pls-

But the way he'd like to receive love is really quite simple. I think he wants attention. Undivided attention. Quality time, final answer.

Now ANAGAN, my love, my pal, my morally ambiguous golden retriever- If we're here anyway, right- I think he's an affection/gift giver mix. He's very casually affectionate as well, hugs and holds his friends, throws an arm around someone if they're in arm-throwing range. In terms of gifts I'd say flowers are his specialty, or just a general "This made me think of you <3" *hands you a rock*. Could be a regular rock he found while out on a jog. Could be a very expensive one that's probably not his. But it sure is yours now.

And not to be LAZY or anything (because 2 of them already have a form of this one), but I'm putting him in the quality time appreciator box as well. I think everyone but Gantlos being in it is very funny. And it fits. I think it makes sense.

#really all i'm doing is dancing around the fact that none of them #like none of the wizards #have a singular solid love language #maybe they all adjust to each other a little bit #or MAYBE #i'm confusing myself at this point #more likely than you think #i've grown more fond of anagan #the anagan i turned him into #maybe but still #winx club #winx headcanons #winx villains #wizards of the black circle #winx ogron #winx gantlos #winx anagan #answered ask #FINALLY huh

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