“wait a minute. wait a minute, Doc. ah... are you telling me that you built a time machine...out of a DeLorean?”

Hi, soooo I'm currently studying phisiotherapy AND at the same time I'm sucker for good cuddling and soft scenes AND I have hate love relationship with scars (visually I think they can be attractive but in a lot of other aspects they just suck). Anyway so u know how scar tissue is a bit** to work with and can cause a lot of problems like numbness in scared area, decrease in range of movement, phantom pains etc. What I'm trying to say is Neil needs A LOT of therapy sessions which should contain some salves manual work with scars and maybe needle therapy which is just prettier way to say sticking hundreds of tiny needles right thru scared tissue which most definitely will hurt BUT what if during all of this they only will learn more about themselves and will have excuse to spend long hours together away from prying eyes and most importantly being soft, clingy, touch starved wholesome dumbasses with one shared braincell?

Sorry for long, boring and probably unnecessary not so much question or message as just my thought vomit I just wanted to share.

Have a great day🫡😅🧡

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BORING AND UNNECESSARY I LOVE IT

omg thank you for bringing your expertise into this, I absolutely wrote the “long hours being touch starved wholesome dumbasses” bit into my notebook lmao. Yeah! This is good!! I’m SUCH a sucker for soft moments like this I’m right there with you. I was bouncing ideas with @paradoxolotl on it and I love the idea of Day being very methodical, he might know some of this stuff already and then he goes out of his way to learn everything he needs to know to make sure Abram can still be taken care of when he won’t let anyone else touch him. Still talking him through everything. Andrew would be as careful as we all know he can be, he never takes for granted the trust Abram has when he allows Andrew to give him more painful massages/therapy, and after, Andrew’s touch softens and neither of them ever mention that he’d already finished the actual exercise/massage a few long minutes ago… idk anything about physiotherapy so I bet there’s lots of great art/story fodder here that I’m just unaware of so if you have any specific ideas I’d love to hear them 👀👀 but here’s what I did draw, hopefully it’s not too completely incorrect 😅

(Shout out to @anon-lemon for making me realize I needed to draw Andrew with his hair down 💕)

Anyway thank you for the ask, together we can make this both incredibly angsty AND incredibly fluffy 😌🥰

Hello Luta☺,

Hope you are doing alright.💙

I've been gathering my thoughts to ask you this question for a whole week now, but I didn't know how to phrase my question (or maybe it more of request, I don't know).

The name of k-drama I'm wathing is "The devils judge" and lead character Kang Yohan is giving me strong dominant vibes, but I'm not sure if he is coded as Dom in this k-drama(because there no explicit scenes ore words that will show it) the way he behaves with people reminds me of some staff you was explaining in KinnPorche reviews and answers to some questions.

Also the way he treats Kim Gaon(second lead character)it's just 😳😳😳 to me. Like I was watching first few episode and I'm like "really👀👀?"

Example(spoiler if you will consider to watch this series): https://at.tumblr.com/chachamaru-chan/babyimhome-you-live-alone-right-the-devil-judge/qhup712a92rm

And this one literary drives me crazy why are SLAMING SOMEBODY against EVERY surface like that?

https://at.tumblr.com/thedeviljudges/spicyvampire-you-are-in-his-dms-im-currently/sqtosozrs3cy

And teaser photos are 🤯🤯🤯🤯

https://at.tumblr.com/chachamaru-chan/686111705776930816/oamhbk95je9y

I read that some people on this site draw parallels between VegasPete or KinnPorche and this couple... but the difference is that it's not a BL , but the PINNING IS THERE... and they interaction is heavily queer coded, like there is NO heterosexual explanation to their behaviour 🤭

What I'm trying to say is maybe if you're interested and would like to watch this series, I will love to and be really happy to hear your opinion on interaction between Kang Yohan and Kim Gaon. And your opinion on Kang Yohan in general.

I see people compere Kang Yohan and Kim Gaon to VegasPete or KinnPorche, so I will be really interested in your opinion on this too. Like are Yohan's and Gaon's relationships kinky as some posts on this site clime.

Sorry for the rumbling and I hope it makes any sense. 😅

P.S. If I crossed the line and made you uncomfortable in any way, please ignore this ask/request, as it wasn't my intentions.

P.S.2 If you will be interested to watch or review this k-drama please check that there aren't some staff that can make you uncomfortable or trigger you as some episodes contain references to SA.

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/823045

Anna💙💙💙

Hey Anna!!!!

I am good, hope you are doing well as well.

Mmm, The Devil's Judge. I've got the book, I just need to read it. So little time, so little time.

Kang Yohan is a Dom Daddy, yes ma'am he is. Which means he can out Dom other Doms. This man ugh.. Not to mention the actor that plays this character. Umph. In all honesty, this is probably the Dom that I most relate to. Not completely bad but not good either, all that matters to him are those that he is close to. He has rigid rules. He wants them to be happy though and will not hesitate to exchange his life for theirs.

People really compare. I could kind of see Vegas cause it's that, I don't give a shit about anyone but those I truly care about type vibe. Those he truly cares about are a short list. Has it been that longs since I watched it that I'm not seeing it.

You did not make me uncomfortable in any way. I appreciate the concern though. I also really really appreciate the trigger warning. You've obviously have been following me long enough or dug deep enough to know I can be triggered. It means the world to me that you would give me a heads up. Truly, Thank You. 💜💜💜

Hi Kym! Hope you're well. I just saw a gif set of Bobby from 216 and wondered if you've noticed any costuming similarities in pre 110 Bobby and Eddie, in terms of colours or other things?

Cookie!!! I'm so sorry its taken me so long to get round to answering this ask - My excuse is that I was mid way through costume plotting all seasons and wanted to get that done before I answered you so I had a better handle on both Bobby and Eddies costumes! I haven't got close to finishing the costume plot yet, but I do have enough information to be able to answer your ask now!!!

The short of it is that there aren't really hat many similarities between pre 110 Bobby and Eddie, especially when it comes to colour theory - this is in part due to the lack of non uniform costumes we see Bobby in in season 1 - he only has 8 across all 10 episodes, one of those is a dressing gown and then !!!

Eddie and Athena are the ones who match up colour wise (very heavily - its actually a little scary how heavily they match up), while Bobby shares much more colour connection with Buck (especially S3 and 4 Buck!).

The only costumes of Bobbys that I could acceptably compare to Eddies are the two he wears in 108 - Karmas a Bitch;

with the ones Eddie wears in 301 and 312;

But there is not really a connection between the scenes we see those costumes appear in beyond the concept of being able to give children opportunities - Bobbys Blood gives young babies a chance to actually have a life while Eddie is concerned with helping Christopher be able to experience the same things as his peers! it a bit tenuous and I'm not sure I'd be entirely comfortable drawing the comparison to be honest. I am very much in the colour ways of Eddie and Athena matching - I should really write a post on that because the whole concept of using the military colours for the two of them and how that has chanced and can be tracked in parallel with each other is actually very interesting!

as a little aside - when I was looking for these images a different connection did occur to me and its a bit interesting! does this shirt - which is cut short to look more like a trucker jacket remind you of anyone else's jackets??

because the colour and cut of this ^^^ is reminding me of this vvv Buck Jacket (especially if we took the weird Texas filter off the Eddie scene!!) but also the cut is similar to Eddies jacket and that overall look is more or less the same for Eddie - same colour jeans, a tee under a trucker style jacket (there is of course the difference between the fit of the jackets but that is very deliberate as the ill fitting one from 5x14 is designed to make Eddie look like he's lost weight and is ill - which it achieves to perfection!)!

All that is very interesting to me - not only because it further connects the st. Christophers necklace and the will reveal, but also because of the context of those two scenes.

those two scenes are connected not only by Christopher and Charlie (both children he's saved from oppressive situations), but also by Eddies PTSD. Connecting a the silver star scene - the aftermath of Eddie rescuing his team and Eddie struggling with the reality of being the only one left alive - 'I pulled them out, but I didn't save them' is actually really powerful. How does Buck connect into all of this I hear you ask - well this is where I'm especially 👀👀👀 over the choice the writers made to have Eddie make Buck Christophers defacto parent - via the will. Because Shannon is present in the flashback scene - but notably absent from being around the Diaz's - she is separated and in the kitchen - and not stepping into support Eddie - Buck in the 5x13 scene however is - he is right there with Eddie - being what Eddie needs - Eddie had to find his own way through his PTSD in the 3x15 flashback, but this time - he isn't alone. This is why the choice of colours and the cut of the 3 jackets is so interesting - they all three interconnect - showing how Eddie was alone, but now he's not - hence the splitting of the colour and style from 3x15 into two in 5x13!!

I've gone a bit off topic, but thats nothing new for me 😂

Not if I come for you first 👀 12, 17, 45, 49, 50

I did deserve this one.

12. Are there any tropes you used to dislike but have grown on you?

I'm going to answer this fic/fandom specific, although if I'm being honest, this question is really drawing a blank for me? I'm not someone who actively thinks about the tropes I'm looking at unless people are discussing them and then I realize "oh, yeah, I hate/love that one!" I spend very very little time on TV tropes and usually only to confirm that something is a trope in the first place. I think since starting reading LU, maybe... Umm, maybe I guess like. TV tropes calls it contrived stupidity tropes? I tolerate a lot more dumbassery in LU content than I would usually in things I read.

Sorry, that one's not much of a question for me! It's just not something I read into much.

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

You activated my trap card and the answer is Guardian Wars more of what Nova did in A Blink of an Eye but with the others, I have the plans for it and I will make it happen somehow someday it will occur. It's probably not underappreciated in the slightest but I WILL HAVE IT.

Let's put a cut here shall we?

45. What’s something you’ve improved on since you started writing fic?

Uh. Ha. Hahahaha. Are you sure you don't want to know what I've regressed on, because that list is much longer.

I guess description? Cause I'm always working on description and it haunts me forever and ever? I guess that counts close enough. The thing is I've loudly and publicly announced on multiple occasions that I use fic as an excuse to not write my highest quality stuff. Some of it may even be considered my lowest quality of effort, based on a relative current standard. I don't have to try and make this neat and readable for an editor so I can bring it to an agent and query, so I actively do not do that, and arguably, brag about that fact.

Take time to be an idiot and throw away your carefully cultivated skills for fun!

49. What are you currently working on? Share a few lines if you’re up for it!

If anyone did not know what I was working on by now I would be a bit concerned, but since that much is obvious and I've even been reading it aloud for the lucky few, let's skip well past this current chapter and tug at some heartstrings, shall we? I am nothing if not horrifically consistent in my inconsistency of writing coherent and connected scenes to actually complete a chapter.

From a future chapter of Beneath the Skin:

Goddess Farore, let me help them now. He brandished the sword- Their sword- skyward, a beacon of silver and gold in the midst of the tumult around him, and forced his magic into the narrow crevices of tempered steel and stained glass. One. Nothing. Two. A whisper of a gentle voice, a prickle in his brain. Three. Pulling, yanking claws digging into the ball of pure magic in his chest. Four.

He's having a good time.

50. Answer any question of your choice, or talk about anything you want to talk about!

Did you know that I write literally anything and everything to and with music. I have so much music. I have songs for every character-- Not playlists, I can't keep up with that and my brain doesn't work quite that way-- and thoughts on everything under the sun that connect to each and every detail.

Truthfully, music helps me with emotions-- both the categorization and comprehension of them, and I often use them to try to assist in communicating when I can. If I have song lyrics in my discord status, for example, it probably means something! So I think my deal with needing so much music helps me with connecting and processing emotionally for my various characters and scenes. That said, I don't usually need a specific song to start writing a specific scene, or start writing a specific character POV. It can help a bit, but I'm usually pretty content to just roll through my playlist, on shuffle of course!

The boys tend to have a fair bit of Of Monsters and Men in their inspirations, likely due to the folk influences in the songs, as well as the storytelling woven into OMAM lyrics. Personally, I stick often with Bastille. 14/21 songs on my Breaking B flat music list (this one does have a specific playlist set for it for some in story purposes, I can still write with whatever) are Bastille songs. I also throw a lot of Coldplay around! We love Chris Martin in this house.

Ok, I'm gonna cut it off here but I'm always happy to talk about more music if anyone ever is interested. This is like my favorite thing and it's never on ask lists which is sad.

For the fanfic asks!! 🤡🌞👀

hiii taylor thank you! Ask game here!

🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?

Here's an exchange from This Is Normal, Right? aka thee shaving fic.

"Dean, I don't know why you told me I needed to shave if you were going to turn around and tell me you didn't trust me to do it cleanly," he snapped back. The conversation was going further down the drain with each passing second. "I was trying to offer to do it for you!" Dean yelled. He flopped backwards to face the ceiling. There wasn't any normal way to offer to shave your best friend’s face, let alone when he’s the man you've been having weird feelings towards. This one was clearly the wrong way though.

This one makes me laugh because jesus christ Dean you are a wreck. The other exchange is the last two lines of Laughter in a Corn Maze, because it's so adorable that it makes me giggle.

🌞 Do you have a preferred time of day to write?

After sundown, regardless of what time of year it is. In winter I can start writing at like 5pm without issue, and summer it's easiest if I wait until 10pm. My favorite days of the week to write are Saturday and Sunday, and that shows on my spotify daylist.

👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!

Oh my god Taylor I love you for this. I am not back from my writing break yet but I love talking about the fics I'm writing. I put a clip of one fic here that I'm excited for, but one that I'm looking forward to being done and posting even more is my sutober day 3: Inspired fic.

I have no idea how complete it actually is, but as of right now (aka October 23rd) there are four different poems in it. The first one was an unfinished piece I wrote before a family cat died back in October that I edited slightly to make work for the fic, and in doing so it made me realize that it being unfinished was actually how to finish it and titled it Unfinished Finality. The second poem currently titled Thing in my Soul has been unfinished since July and I'm still foaming at the mouth over it not being done but don't know how to finish it and intentionally left it unfinished in the fic. The third poem is specifically a destiel poem titled Pollution was unfinished until I was writing this fic, and is used as the major plot point in the story. The fourth poem is titled Lazarus Arise and I think you can guess what it's about. I'd been wanting to write a 4x01 poem for months and it turns out all I needed to do was start writing a "short fic that would only use one poem that was already mostly done". The spoiler I will give you on this poem is that it makes Cas laugh, and that's all that matters in life actually.

Once the fic is posted, I'll definitely post Lazarus Arise on here separately. I might post Pollution and the unedited version of Unfinished Finality too. My brain is slowly starting to rotate fics again because of this ask which is good 👀

I just realized I didn't say anything about the fic besides the poetry, so very quick. It's completely Cas POV and that's always something exciting for me to write. He is absolutely doing things in this fic that he should not be doing <3 Dean draws and writes poetry in his cute little diary (journal) as a coping mechanism and Cas reads it (he should not be doing this).

Also I'm excited about an destiel omegaverse outline that I have fully done, so if anyone wants to hear about that I can talk about that too.

thank you so much ;^; i'm proud of myself too and i do hope to pass this last one too, otherwise it's a september matter lmao

i will make you accept compliments in a way or another 🤺 i'm sure i'm not the only one here, so it's an undefined number of people against you >:3 (also thanks for liking that awful pun, cyno got the better of me)

i think that, in a modern setting like your au, xiao would be one of those average tattooed people, they have their good bunch of drawings and writings but still got plenty of untouched skin, so the possibilities for tattooes are almost endless! but yeah arms and chest and back tattooes >>>>>>>>>> neck too ngl they're hot 👀

with scara is more of a "annoying x annoyed" trope (if it actually exists, otherwise i just invented it), but nonetheless even if he has good reflex one way or another he want flick my forehead unless he wants me to pinch his cheeks like a baby in exchange (or to offer me dinner)

anyway, just finished re-reading the piece cuz i needed the gut twisting feeling to sink just the right way and MAN HOW COULD YOU QwQ THE DESPAIR THE ANGER THE LONELINESS THE PAIN THE EVERYTHING GAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH T-T kazuha the only one trying to cope in a decent way BUT TOMO QwQ

you're an amazing and cruel writer holly TvT

— ❄️

you can be proud!! and it’ll work out, i’m sure of it!! <3

too bad that i’m the sole authority on this blog and democracy means nothing to me /j; it’s not that i dislike receiving compliments, hell one of my receiving love languages is words of affirmation, i just don’t believe any of them are true and people are just being nice, bless their hearts i think i can go toe to toe with cyno on puns, albedo loves it

yeah i agree (again, i have my ideas that i will throw at people eventually, one of them is ofc angsty heheh just a smidge though) there’s still plenty of soft skin for me to touch doodle on; maybe i do have to write his second part next, i have some tasty ideas (i’m shooting myself in the foot with this bc how could anyone compare?? ㅠㅠ)

anyway speaking about neck tattoos, scara… every trope is valid as a trope even if it’s just made up but i think the “annoying (bc they care) x annoyed (but they actually care so much)” trope has been floating around; also let me tell you, scara already wants to buy you dinner, you’re just giving him excuses jshsh

HOW COULD YOU has got to be my favourite reaction to get on any kind of angst piece, it’s just funny; especially bc i can guarantee you that i was whining in my best friend’s chat about how none of the scenes are painful enough… oops (it happens every time)

xiao’s part is by far my favourite though, sorry blatant favouritism, but i had this very vivid scene in my mind for it + my two beta readers were yelling in the entire comment section which was very encouraging (also i hope we all caught that jade symbolises harmony, virtue and eternity, what a detail~ /lh); kazuha definitely copes the best but i think xiao is getting there, childe and aether on the other hand…

thank you, being a cruel writer means so much to me ^^ at least when it comes to angst what’s comfort?

“i promise, honey, i can feel your pain; and maybe i enjoy it just a little bit, does that make me insane?” me when someone says my angst hurt; sorry i have this song stuck in my head and i just kinda fits here hshsh

My Rating:  2/5 ⭐ Genre(s): romance, contemporary Published: February 23rd 2021 by Elena Armas Content Warnings: sexism Quick Reaction: 👀🩹🤏😮🙄

Description:

Catalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows—including her ex and his fiancée—will be there and eager to meet him. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. New York to Spain is no short flight and her raucous family won’t be easy to fool. Enter Aaron Blackford—her tall, handsome, condescending colleague—who surprisingly offers to step in. She’d rather refuse; never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling, and insufferable man. But Catalina is desperate, and as the wedding draws nearer, Aaron looks like her best option. And she begins to realize he might not be as terrible in the real world as he is at the office.

My Thoughts:  ** OUTLIER ALERT! ** ♡ 2 stars. Hi. It's me, I'm the problem it's me. Let me start out with saying, I AM SO MAD AND FRUSTRATED at every booktok and just anyone who told me to read this book. Tiktok and instagram lied to me. They lied so BADLY TO ME. But I should be used to this by now when I don't tend to like a lot of the hyped up books. The Love Hypothesis being a grand exception to this rule since I ate that book up. Moving along. Here is what I was promised: work place romance enemies to lovers tension and slow burn banter and cuteness book boyfriend material addition Please, tell me where any of this was because I seem to have read a completely different book from the majority. This was in no way enemies to lovers and I wish I knew this going in. Maybe I would have had a different reading experience but we will never know now. This is pining and oblivious at best. From page one, we are able to tell he is super into her and she just doesn't get it. Not only does she not get it but she is MEAN. Like she is rude as heck and for absolutely no reason. Okay, no, I take that back. They didn't have the best first interaction but at what point do you LET. IT. GO. Lina is by far one of the least likeable protagonist I have read. She is rude as I said above, unprofessional, childish and whiny. Being stuck in her pov was not a fun experience and half of this book could have been trimmed down if we cut out some of her whine. I should have dnfed this at the first chapter, which read awkward and almost uncomfortable. I didn't get any chemistry whatsoever and where was my build up. Where was the tension! There were a few cute moments I will give the book this. The soccer scene was kind of cute. I actually really enjoyed her family and would have LOVED to read the book from her sister's prospective. I found her sister more compelling and interesting. Heck, even her cousin would have made for a more entertaining book. Let's get to this supposed book boyfriend material. Again, where is this and what am I missing. Lina thinks they are enemies and loathe each other so this man knowing everything about her is downright creepy. It reads stalkerish and it is not AWWW worthy. How she realizes wow he was just always around listening to what I had to say! Just no. Absolutely not. He touches her multiple times when she still thinks they hate each other without consent. Red flags all over the place here. It takes nearly 50% of the book to get them to the wedding and for Lina to accept his offer. I was internally screaming the entire time. Things improved some I admit when they got to Spain and the family entered the picture. As I said, I enjoyed the family and their dynamics were saving some of the chapters for me. The actual romance was eh at best for me. I didn't get the chemistry or the vibes I wanted. This was being compared to The Hating Game and just no. It's not in the same category at all and maybe this is what I expected too much of and why I was let down so badly. However, I DID enjoy the epilogue and started to see a little bit of a spark FINALLY. It just came way too late and still not the best pay off for the whole length of the rest of the book. As for the writing, I didn't mind it but being in Lina's pov was a no from me. I would have preferred it being in any other pov. It was a bit too bloated and so much of this could have been cut down and there is no way it needed to be this long. If this had been a thriller, it might have been more interesting to me. But I guess if the stalker angle was leaned into, it would have become more like You. It would have added some spice, though. All in all, this is one of my least favorite romances I have ever read and I am so upset by it. I read so many thrillers last month, I wanted something fun and swoon worthy to read to like cleanse myself. Instead I have knocked myself into a reading slump and it took everything I had to want to read and finish this. Don't be like me, if you're not enjoying this book just dnf it. It doesn't get better. For those who love this book and see this differently, I am so happy for you! I am so glad you enjoyed it and I really wish I could have. But this is another in the section of hype has let me down category.

Since twitter is dumb and has that character limit I wanted to dump this here before disappearing into the void again

So there’s this scene in this kdrama I watched awhile ago (crash landing on you, it’s really good and one of the few instances I actually liked and rooted for the het couple, please watch it it’s actually really good) where seri is running from ri jeong hyeok and while she’s being held up as he’s about to arrest her and he ends up miscalculating and stepping on a land mine, seri goes “it’s a shame, if it wasn’t for our situation, I’d say you’re totally my type” to him before running off

I think of that scene and picture eimiko dkfkdwwkefwefwk

Best way I can describe it: (also might be modern au?)

Ei is a hardened military general of Inazuma who only became colder and distant after the death of her twin sister. One day she’s patrolling the military zones and finds Miko stuck in a tree and while she’s super confused, realized where she is and tries to play things off as if nothing is wrong and hopefully tries to trick the general that she landed in the restricted zones of Inazuma so that she could slip away from being arrested by (whichever commission is in charge, I haven’t played through the whole archon quest yet). After Ei catches Miko (as soon as Miko “elegantly”, but not really, descends from the tree), they discuss matters of her being on territory she shouldn’t be in. Miko realizes the situation, something something something, and she tries running off while Ei chases after her. Miko’s legs are caught in a slow moving and calm river, hands up, as Ei is holding a gun to her and tells her to calmly cooperate. It’s just the procedure of being in Inazuma as an outsider, after all. Anyone who was an outsider on restricted lands was to report to the Commission (still don’t know which one, maybe the Kanjou commission?).

Anyway, since this is getting long..

Basically, Miko is stuck in place because Ei tells her not to move due to some land mines in the area (cause she doesn’t want her to get hurt in the end 😔) but Miko notices that Ei made a mistake and steps on one herself. When she notices this, she uses this opportunity to escape from the general not without saying something along the lines of “ah what a shame, not that we’d see each other again but if there were any last words I’d like to say to you, it’s that you’re definitely my type” and Miko would say this with a wink while Ei is just standing there, face red and confused why the pink haired woman is making jokes in a situation like this

Anyway, this was my stream of consciousness. I doubt I could ever get to drawing/writing this, but maybe if a kind soul out there were to see this and feel inspired, please let me know of what you make of this bc I would definitely be L👀KING

Roll it eight times! Two for each of the boys, maybe? 👀 🎲

— @amys-cringe-cabinet 💙

*snatches this up and runs with it*

!!!! thank you for sending an ask!! I’m apologizing in advance for the responses that may or may not be incoherent-

I’ll be going alphabetically by canonical names!! please don't feel like you have to read all of this, it’s basically all me just gushing, and I just now noticed how concerningly long some of these responses are on my part... oops ^^;

For Marik, I rolled…

6 ~ i s there a song or piece of music that reminds you of your f/o?

i could answer this in like fifty different ways; I associate Marik with obscure indie songs from early 2010s, i associate him with angsty as all heck punk songs, i associate him with preppy pop songs. I think he’s been through so much already that I want to associate him with upbeat songs because I think he deserves it, but it’s because of how much he’s been through that I’ll always draw back to slow tempo tunes. I think Marik would enjoy a lot of different genres once he gets the chance to focus on something that isn’t killing the Pharaoh; he’s spent more than half his life below ground, away from society and pop culture and media altogether. I genuinely believe he might even listen to static for fun just because he’s able to. I have a few different songs that actually remind me of him (and a whole playlist) but I swear they change on a day to day basis. I think the one I associate Marik the most (as of right now) would be Muddy Knees by Days N Daze (partially because i’m projecting). But along with that, Abbey by Mitski reminds me of him, Welcome Home by Radical Face, 12 Feet Deep by The Front Bottoms- I could go on. if anyone is curious, I have a public playlist for him on spotify!! it’s under his full name, posted by the account destinyboard!! (yes i name most of my accounts after bakura’s cards. i have no explanation)

5 ~ what’s your ideal date with your f/o? 

(this could admittedly apply to any of my f/os!!)

While going to a sit down restaurant or a concert or something does sound nice, I… don’t do too well in public spaces ^^; my ideal of a relationship is literally just being able to sit in silence and still feel comfortable, like I’m not letting things simmer in awkwardness. Therefore, I think my ideal date would just be us staying at home and finding things to do. Put something into the oven for dinner, play chess while we wait. Later on try to see who can get the farthest in a game of Minesweeper, bake cookies, maybe even do each other’s nails because of course Marik would learn how to do them, somewhere down the line. I’m a sucker for doing mundane things because I’d be doing mundane things with him, and being able to do anything with him makes me more of a hopeless romantic. Just being able to sit down and watch a movie with any of them makes me hopeless at the thought. I’ve recently been watching old Disney movies with Marik specifically, because I think it processed somewhere in my mind that he never got to watch them when he was younger. And he never got a chance to do a lot of things that I did in my childhood. There’s so many experiences and core memories that he didn’t really get to have since his role as a tomb keeper was more pressing. I want to find a way to make up for this (if there even is a way), so movies and these ordinary activities can try and fill the gap for now!! I think Marik’s favorite Disney movie we’ve watched so far has been Lady and the Tramp; usually him and yb will make snarky comments over how cheesy the story lines are, but he seemed more or less engaged in the story this time around. He kept making comments about the art and songs, smiled like a doof at the spaghetti scene, etc etc. Maybe it’s partially because it was late at night this time around, but it was really nice to see him so enamored in the story. I think he deserves it.

i just went completely off topic but—!!!! anyway yeah that’s. what goes through my brain. movie nights….. <33

For Ryou, I rolled…

10 ~ would you and your f/o ever dress up in a couples costume for Halloween or other events? what would you dress up as?

I used to look at questions like this and shrug. I’m not big on costumes, and I haven’t consumed too much media where characters are in iconic duos or pairs. Most of them are really obscure, and “dressing” up as them doesn’t exactly work, since they usually have every day clothing as their main or well known outfits. I did do some thinking on it a while back, and I think I came up with something after a bit. I think a big thing me and Ryou share in common is a love for the occult or traditionally “spooky” things, and although it isn’t as obvious on this blog that I have a love for horror movies (*glances at the stack of dvds in the corner of my room*), I believe that’s another thing we have in common! So if we were to do a “couples costume” for Halloween, I’m pretty sure we’d go in matching Ghostface costumes!!! It's as close to a duo as I could think of, since in all of the Scream movies (minus Scream 3) there were two killers. I could also, technically, try and convince him to let us go as Tommy Ross and Carrie White (ryou in a tux...... *falls over*).

14 ~ what’s one of the sweetest things your f/o has ever done for you?

existed /hj

It's not really one thing he's done, it's a thing he keeps doing and has made into a habit. Sometimes I get really carried away with things like writing debate cases and speeches, since they're responsibilities I feel like I need to constantly be working on or practicing. It's led to me staying up at somewhat unhealthy times and getting stressed over things that really don't need to be stressed over. I think I broke out in hives for three days straight because of it (apparently stress hives are a thing??? odd). Whenever it's late and I'm still working on these things, Ryou simply just walks over to wherever I'm sitting, watches, and eventually recommends that I should get to bed, because he knows how much harder everything seems to me when I'm tired. I guess the others do this too, but there's just a certain way to how he does it, always in a gentle matter. The way he phrases it, and how he waits until I'm at an okay place to stop working, makes me feel better in some weird way. He knows that I care a lot about these things, and even though he sees that it can get me really worked up, he still waits until an appropriate time to recommend I stop and work on it later. I just think it's really nice how he knows me and my habits, and how he tries his best to work around them with me. While it might be only a few words that he says to try and persuade me to get some rest, he almost always gets me to put down everything on the first try. (plus, he knows that I know the sooner he gets me to bed the sooner I can snuggle him into oblivion. his way of convincing is very effective. how dare he.)

For Bakura, I rolled…

18 ~ is there a height difference between you and your f/o? 

!!! yes!! it’s not a very big one though, only about five inches. I’m 5’4 and he’s 5’9 (and if we’re dragging tkb into this, he’s only 5’6). I don’t really think that height means all that much to me though. I don’t really expect him to be able to pick me up (I don’t think Ryou’s body has that ability-), and I could still glomp him even if he was shorter!! Though I suppose a plus of it is that whenever we’re just sitting on the couch or whatever, just sitting next to each other or holding each other or whatever other insanely out of character thing he does when we just hang out in silence, I get reminded that I’m really not as (metaphorically) big as I think I am. While I do have a decent amount of responsibilities and things I need to uphold (school…. bleh), I think I need to remember sometimes that I can’t always be on top of things 24/7, and that I can take a break sometimes. It’s nice to feel that there’s someone else who can take care of you, or hold you when you feel tired enough. It’s definitely something that comforts me at random times when I think about it enough <3

also i could totally topple him over if i tried hard enough AND getting to be held by him is really nice so yeah the (small) height difference is pretty cool in my opinion

4 ~ what’s your favourite outfit your f/o has ever worn? 

kicking my legs in the air and screaming into a pillow like a hopeless romantic brb

Bakura only has like… four different outfits throughout all of the series, two of which aren’t even that different from each other. While Battle City will always have my heart over everything in the series, my favorite (canonical) outfit yb has ever worn has got to be his outfit in Millennium World!! Like?? It’s the only outfit he has that actually attempts to bring across his edginess. How could I not love it??? Also some of the panels he has while wearing it make me skfjfkfnfkfn *falls over*

it’s also really fun to steal it occasionally, but don’t tell him I said that.

For Melvin, I rolled…

2 ~ do you remember the first time you met your f/o? what was it like?

I’ve apparently been watching ygo since I was like. six. But I obviously did not remember too much of it!! So I might’ve already watched some of the episodes including Melv and they’ve been just completely buried in my brain, ORRR this summer was the first time I’ve ever “met” him!! Even then, I don’t really remember all that much, since I watched everything up to season four within like. A week. That’s me blowing things out of proportion but I still kinda just rushed through episodes!! I do remember not caring much for Marik in general when he was introduced to the show; I pretty much believed he’d just be another run of the mill villain that didn’t have a too intriguing reason for being one. It wasn’t until the Rishid and Jounouchi duel that I actually started caring at all for the character as a whole (still haven’t recovered from any of the flashback sequences). I think when the whole reveal scene happened, I don’t think I really reacted at all?? I mean I was obviously intrigued, but at the same time I’d downed all of season two within a few days of finishing season one, so I hadn’t even processed whether or not ym was a spirit like the other two or just some guy. I do, however, remember being low key annoyed with his character. like sir… please…. Take a chill pill. Does not help that I was watching the 4kids dub, so most of his “serious” lines were instantly thrown off by the voice effects.

However, I did eventually give him another chance while reading the manga. I think that gave me a chance to look at him with a different perspective; I could take my time and easily call back to certain parts of the story to see how he acts, the way he phrases things, how he interacts with specific characters, etc., and I did some thinking (as I always do). I sat down for a bit, and reread some scenes, and ranted to my friend about certain points that caught my eye, just to try and fix the kinks and knots in my thinking. I started seeing ym as more than some cheesy and over the top antagonist, and more for what he really was. And I guess that counts as some sort of first encounter. While I’m still kinda shaky on my feelings with him, and trying to find my footing with how exactly I see him, we’re taking it one step at a time and it’s been really nice so far. I hope that, eventually, I’ll be more confident in that :)!!!

15 ~ what’s your favourite memory you’ve made with your f/o so far?

so many of these just blur into the rest of my day; I day dream enough that I don’t remember too many specific ones. But I do remember one, back when I first started trying to connect with him. He was much more closed off than he is as of now; he kinda got thrown back into existence after being ultimately destroyed for a considerable amount of time, I don’t think I blame him for not wanting to talk too often. Usually, whenever I did try to spend time with him, it was a lot of just him observing things I was doing, or me trying to fill the silence by talking about random things. One day he eventually responded, but seemed more confused than anything. He asked me why I was even trying to get to know him, why I was even trying to be near him in the first place. I’ve seen the things he’s done, the way he’s acted and how he’s treated people. Why do I want to get near that? I still don’t have a hold on exactly why, but I took a moment to answer him. I told him it’s because I know he’s more than what he’s made up of, that he’s been through the same things as Marik had, that I wanted to understand him better because some of his actions never clicked for me. They didn’t line up in certain places, or he seemed so peculiar in how he handled things. While he was the manifestation of the frustration and upset and hate Marik had, stuck underground and tied to some destiny he didn’t even want, Melvin himself came into existence as a safety net for him, in some way. I told him it’s because I think he’s capable of exuding and expressing things that aren’t just what he was made from, that I know he’s completely different from Marik in many ways and maybe that’s why I want to know him, he’s someone completely different and so confusing and I want to get to know every part of that confusion. That I want to help him experience things he might never have gotten to experience and make him see that he is his own person, separate of Marik. He just scoffed at me, and told me in this tone that I still swear was affectionate that I must’ve really been hopeless.

That was the same day we decided to start referring to him as Melvin, I think. We had already been switching between Malik, Mariku, etc., and even though it’s a ygotas reference, Melvin was different enough from Marik that we settled on it for his name. Even though it’s origins are, admittedly, cheesy, I think it works pretty well for him :)