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onlyswan · 2 years

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summary: in which you and jungkook splurge on in the seom.

> fluff, suggestive ? / wc: 2.6k

> warnings: mention of recording a sex tape oop

note: look . . . i don’t know how my drabbles end up the way that they do i also question the stream of my thoughts constantly. anyway the mobile gaming continues 🫡 this game got me hooked i needed to write while i’m in the zone. + feedback is always appreciated <3

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“wow, you’re so rich.” you comment absentmindedly, watching jungkook’s tattooed hand making multiple in-app purchases of gold and gems.

“babe, babe,” you panic and slap his hand away from clicking the largest amount of gems for the third time. “i think thirty-seven thousand gems are more than enough for now!”

he makes a noise of disagreement from behind you, his body vibrating against your back. his arms circle around your waist again, using both words and touch as his ways of persuasion. “did you see the top one? they’re in like level 600! let me buy more so we’re set for until level 300 or something.”

you sigh in defeat, letting him hold the ipad propped up against your thighs again. “well, i guess the money just circles back to your bank account.”

“i know right?” he giggles in delight. “ohhh, i’ll buy the tany pass so we can get the butter costumes.”

sparkling gold coins replace your irises like they do in the cartoons. the said costumes are too adorable and you want to see them wear the matching outfits in the island. moreover, your boyfriend knows how much you loved his long purple hair.

“does it come with all seven?” you ask curiously as jungkook lifts up the ipad to level with his head for umpteenth time, using the face id to confirm the $8 dollar purchase. the purchase successful! notification flashes on the screen, and you can’t hide the stupid smile forming on your face.

“i’m not sure? let’s see.” he hums, tapping each member on the screen to check their available items.

“oh wait! i need to complete the tier first. hold on.” he exists the tab to go back to the event, purchasing the keys to unlock all the prizes without having to collect anymore. he claims them one by one. “oh, so there’s only jin-hyung, jimin-hyung, taehyung-hyung, and me.”

“but i wanted everyone- oh my god, you guys are so cute.” you hold down the squeal in your throat, zooming in on the characters wearing their butter outfits. “his rainbow hair is really pretty. i saw they released the butter funko pops too? looks great as everything.”

he nods with a chuckle, watching jimin walk around the island. “he’s the only one who can pull that off.”

“well now i wanna see you try it.” blonde jungkook was also very pretty- the evidence of your honesty being the three weeks you only referred to him as barbie.

“barbie, i miss your face. what time are you coming home?”

“hey barbie, what you cooking for dinner?”

“that’s not how lasik surgery works, barbie!”

“good morning, pretty barbie. i’m not sure but i think i . . . burned the coffee maker?”

the name rhymes with baby, your term of endearment for each other. you know what? it’s basically the same word, so he got used to it right away. if he hears someone saying it in public, he will most probably still react to it. obviously, you stopped using the name when he dyed his hair another color.

so if he tries the sprayed on pastel colors on his blonde hair? you get the living, breathing barbie doll of your childhood and teenage dreams.

“we can try for fun when i want to bleach my hair again.”

jungkook is an angel who always lets you indulge in the desires of your heart.

“hmm, soon then. your natural hair is very pretty and healthy right now. i hope it grows out the way you want it to this time.” your hand reaches back to caress his head. his hair is as smooth as silk as it glides across your palm, freshly dried from the shower not even two hours ago.

you remove your hand to entertain yourself with the game again, dragging the members to the army bomb to make them dance to their songs.

“oh! they’re playing still with you?” you exclaim in pleasant surprise, laughing at his character dancing cutely to his precious song. the other members have the biggest smiles on their faces dancing along too. jungkook watches the scene with you in pure amusement.

“ah, the game has captured the group’s dynamics very well. they got all the inside jokes and nicknames researched and written down.” he shares his review before the sight of namjoon and seokjin crying while eating mint chocolate ice cream makes him burst with laughter.

“see? they are this dramatic over this in real life! i can attest to this!” he makes them do it again to point it out, the speech bubble that says i’m brushing my teeth right now sounding awfully familiar.

“you and taehyung are my favorite.” you drag him over to taehyung to show the two of them holding hands and moving side-to-side like two little kids who won prizes at the fair. “so cute!”

you wish you had a penny for every time you say the word cute today.

“oh, that looks familiar but i can’t remember where we did that anymore.”

he suddenly grabs your hand and places it on top of his head.

you look back at him confusion. “yes, baby?”

“play with my hair while i buy more outfits and decos please.”

his soft voice makes flowers bloom in your chest. how endearing is your boyfriend?

“of course, baby.” you resume stroking his hair, occasionally twisting the strands in your fingers and raking your nails on his scalp.

he shifts around to lean more comfortably on the pillows, one arm holding you by the waist and the other holding the ipad. you allow yourself to completely relax between his thighs, his body enclosing you into a cocoon of warmth and affection. if you only you could stay in this position for the rest of your life, you would.

but the hand playing with his pair pauses when he starts messing around with the game again, replacing the free items he got with the other designs that cost the most diamonds. the tent, the dining area, the luggage, the camp fire, the cocktail bar, the sun beds, the umbrellas, the hammocks.

huh, you haven’t quite gotten used to it yet.

it is pleasing to watch- having the luxury to choose and being able to buy the one that you want. you both know it’s just a silly little game, but the satisfaction that comes with decorating the island can be addicting. apparently, you and jungkook have a knack for finding entertainment in the silliest things, which further strengthens your bond. you firmly believe you were childhood friends in another life.

meanwhile, he moves on to opening ten lucky boxes at a time.

“booster. booster. booster.” he mumbles while tapping on the screen. “hah! i got suga-hyung a top. and shades. booster. booster. a windmill? streetlamp. booster. shorts. no way- the car from daechwita? ice cream truck . . . light it up like dynamite~”

you swear, there is a kid trapped inside your boyfriend’s big body. if he was to be prohibited from speaking or moving for twenty four hours, he wouldn’t be able to follow the rules even if his life depended on it. perhaps that is why there is always the need to protect him despite knowing the fact that he is way stronger than you- he is such a kind and free spirit. a rare gem. your one in seven billion. you want to protect him from mosquitoes and storms and shipwrecks and exposed wires and slippery floors and sharp edges and treadmills (it flung him off that one time two years ago) and any other form of bad energy in the universe. atleast, you’re trying to.

after opening about thirty? forty? boxes, he dresses up the remaining members. however, “can i make them naked? oh. i can pay for it. i’ll make namjoon-hyung naked- shirtless. oh-ho-ho! sexy with the hair as blue as the ocean.”

your laughter is louder than the ipad’s speakers blasting the game’s original soundtrack, your boyfriend’s hilarious live gaming commentary exactly being your style of humor.

to be honest, if only you weren’t in a healthy relationship, you’d think he was in love with namjoon.

after displaying the decos he bought, jungkook decides to make a club.

“you really posted on your ig story.” you chortle in disbelief, scrolling through the seemingly endless amount of requests. “this is so fun. hold on-”

“everyone’s on level 100 and 200. how are they so fast?!” he cries out at the three digits beside the nicknames of the users. “we need to catch up to them after this.”

“they’re all sending you flowers. and fruit baskets? pearl necklace. these literally cost gems.” you curl up between his thighs from laughing so hard, your grip on the ipad loosening until it slips down next to jungkook. “my stomach hurts. i can’t breathe.”

his wide frame also shakes in mirth, but he securely wraps his arms around you to prevent you from falling off the bed. for the record, it is a king-sized bed. for some reason, however, the two of you always end up being tangled together on the one edge or the other. (most of the time it’s actually you subtly moving closer and closer until he pays attention and cuddles you)

“okay! let’s start accepting requests.” he announces while manhandling you back into your previous position. you grunt at the pressure pressing against your stomach, holding onto his forearm to push it away lightly out of reflex.

you’re literally on the bed, why does he feel the need to carry you all the time?

once you’re settled down once again, you start accepting requests to join the club together. you take turns in picking random users based on the nicknames that catch your attention, and it is peaceful for a while until you’re looking for the one final member and-

“jeon jungkook’s future wife . . . that doesn’t sound right.” you read the nickname out loud, tilting your head to the side with a click of your tongue.

“well, i do like that they’re brave.” with a shrug, you accept their request and open the door for them to enter the club.

jungkook snickers behind you, obviously loving how his ego is being spoon-fed at the moment.

you sit up to accusingly look at him with hooded eyes. “all the flowers and gifts and proposals. you’re enjoying this, aren’t you?”

“maybeee.” he offers you a playful beam. “but it’s our game. i’m doing this for us! we can get lots of hearts from the club!”

we- they don’t even know i exist. but he still makes you smile anyway. your lovely jungkook, who is always too good to you.

spontaneously deciding that you want to splurge on lucky boxes to make the countless purchases of gems worth it, you soon find yourself unable to stop. oh, you understand him better now.

“it’s fun, isn’t it?” he smiles at the childlike look of relishment on your face. you tap and tap and tap, collecting prizes like a panicked thief picking up gold coins forming a long trail, except that unlike the thief, you are overjoyed.

“keep buying until we get six of the cars.” he instructs you, clicking the cart that takes you to the lucky box again. he plans for each of them to be designated to the members who have a driving license. perhaps it’s unnecessary, sure- but he wants to prolong your small joys as much as he can.

“kay, since it’s your money.” you answer gleefully. you free yourself from the hesitation of spending gems since you can’t get a refund for them anyway.

you end up with six daechwita cars and three dynamite ice cream trucks. jungkook parks them all beside each other, like a team huddling together before a basketball game. he also buys taehyung’s hansung costume from the kdrama he starred in called hwarang, later on claiming that taehyung looks like he has been the immortal guardian of the island since the day the dry land was created on planet earth.

his words exactly. not yours. your boyfriend’s imagination tends to wander around like a free bird soaring through the sky for the first time in its life.

after chatting with the club members for a bit, he decides to pick up your level from 31. the motivation kicks in like a race horse when he realizes that your account is top 30 out of 30 in the club.

on the spur of the moment, he begins worshipping the boosters he was previously irritated at for constantly popping out of the boxes instead of the costumes and decos that he wanted.

you have never loved the word DOPE! more in your life.

“my favorite boosters are the whale, the double top, and the axe.”

“the whale is the best one for sure. it’s a lifesaver.” you mention cheerfully as you mix the two whales that wipe out the entire puzzle, mimicking a black hole that swallows everything that dares to come near it.

“oh my god, it’s so fucking satisfying to watch.”

jungkook grabs the opportunity as soon as he sees it. with a mischievous grin he declares, “title of our sex tape.”

yup, you should have foreseen this right when the words came out of your mouth.

you sit back up to look at him with a disapproving look. “you just had to do it, didn’t you?”

he pouts sadly, but his bunny smile promptly lights up his face again upon hearing your follow-up statement.

“like i’m sure we can come up with a better title than that!”

the familiar notification sound rings from the ipad, and you both peer down at the pop-up that appeared on the top of the screen.

it’s from cats&soup— another game you play together almost everyday.

Cats are missing you!

jungkook goes for it again without a single beat of thought or hesitation.

“title of our sex tape!”

the displeased expression on your face turns sourer. “you gotta try harder than that, babe.”

“that is not a good title. we have a beyond satisfactory sex life.” he whines, the joke he cracked backfiring on him.

“well then get back to me when you think of a good one. we need to feed our cats for now.” you exit in the seom to tend to the other game for the meantime. does my face look like that i’ll become a king will have to stay in level 80 (the bottom of the rank list) for now.

but then the gears in his head immediately starts turning after being given the challenge, and a new found motivation drives him to, in fact, try harder this time around.

he clears his throat, alternately looking at your face and your fast fingers upgrading the cats’ facilities. just waiting for the right timing to bring it up.

is this ever a right timing to talk about this type of stuff? oh, fuck this. ask the million-dollar question already.

he swallows thickly in anticipation. “uhm, so i was just thinking. if you approve my title, will we record one for real?”

you shrug without looking at him, focused on collecting money from the food your cats cooked. “sure. why not?”

jungkook’s doe eyes sparkle with doubled, tripled- no, quadrupled adoration for the sweet creature sitting between his legs.

“you are the love of my life.” he utters breathlessly.

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nicohischierz · 1 year

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always and forever: luke hughes

tani speaks: i don’t actually know if i like this but here is a luke fic based on the relationship between haley and nathan from one tree hiil

you’d been best friends with jack since the family moved to michigan. you spent your weekends babysitting luke and your weekdays following jack to the rink for practice. you were basically part of the hughes family, except you weren’t athletically able.

“i need your help,” luke’s voice startled you slightly.

you were surprised to find luke hughes in your university library but if he needed your help and willingly came inside the building then it was serious. you finished the sentence you were working on before turning to the boy.

“what do you need help with lukie?” you asked. luke groaned at the nickname before pulling his laptop out “i need help with my stats class, it’s kicking my ass,” he explained.

so that evening you and luke sat in the library conquering his stats assignment. you also taught him what he didn’t know and rewarded him with a hot chocolate.

that one evening turned into luke continuously asking for your help in different classes. for the handful of classes you did share with luke, the young boy decided to sit right next to you.

now you had been tutoring luke for two months and you only had one strict rule. be on time. you had cancelled plans to hang out with steve and ports for this session and now that luke was late you were going to ask them if you join.

seconds before you left your house, luke came barrelling in, he had a mcdonalds bag in his hand. “sorry i’m late, there was a long line at mcdonalds,” he explained holding the bag.

you rolled your eyes and took him up to your room. “i thought hockey players had a strict diet?” you asked, popping a fry in your mouth. luke nodded, his cheeks filled “it’s cheat day,” he explained, a smile on his face.

luke had bought two happy meals, claiming they were the best. once he was done with his food he grabbed the toys from your boxes and handed one to you to open.

“oh sweet a furby,” he mumbled. luke decided that the two furbys would be your children and that the two of you had to take turns taking care of each of them.

“we’re having a party at the hockey this saturday, if you want to come,” luke invited. he was lying on his stomach on your bed as you sat at your desk. you shrugged your shoulder “i’ll think about it,” you replied.

you did end up going to the party and luke was ecstatic. as soon as he saw you, he was by your side and never left. eventually, you just asked him to dance with you and he downed his beer before allowing you to take charge.

luke towered over you as you danced with him. your bodies were pressed up against each other, his hands on your waist as yours wrapped around his neck. you weren’t sure who initiated it first but seconds later his lips were on yours.

the kisses between the two of you continued until you reached luke’s room in the other hockey house. you spent the night in luke’s room your fingers tangled in his hair as he left marks down your body.

when the two of you woke up, there was no awkward tension. it actually felt right to wake up in each others arms. and so after that you and luke would sneak around his friends to go on dates.

the thought of it did feel a little weird at first, considering jack was your best friend, but in the end you loved luke and jack didn’t have a say in who you could be with.

you and luke managed to keep your relationship hidden from both your families during playoffs. however, quinn did speculate something was going on between the two of you.

his suspicions were confirmed when he saw you and luke cuddled up on a hammock one morning at the lake house. you were laying on luke’s chest your two furbys on your stomach as luke wrapped his arms around you.

“i love you y/n. always and forever,” luke whispered in your ear.

“you’re my forever, luke warren hughes,” you responded.

jack was still oblivious. he was oblivious to the whispering between the two of you or the jokes made from the umich boys. jack was just happy he could see his best friend again.

“woah is that a tattoo?” dylan asked. the boy was pointing at your left shoulder blade where two numbers were visible. the second was slightly covered by your bikini top but it was clear the first number was a four.

you blushed before turning around, trying to hide the tattoo from the boys. however, you backed up into luke. the boy smirking as he looked down at you. luke got a good look at your tattoo and couldn’t help but feel smug staring at his number on your body.

“wait, you have a tattoo?” jack asked. your best friend was talking to his other best friend, trevor, so he got up and made his way over to you. “can i see, can i see?” he pleaded like a child.

you shook your head, your back was still pressed up against luke’s front. “luke can you tell me what it is please,” jack asked his younger brother. luke also shook his head, his eyes filled with panic.

it was almost the end of summer now. you and luke enjoyed the sneaking around the lake house but now as he was headed to new jersey and you were headed to long island, luke couldn’t wait to spend more time with you without worrying about getting caught.

but you didn’t get to that part as jack walked past your room as you were talking to luke whilst putting a shirt on. this gave him the perfect view of your 43 tattoo.

“y/n, why do you have quinn’s number on your shoulder?” he asked walking into your room. jack ignored his younger brother’s presence. he was more focused on the fact that his older brother was dating his friend.

luke bit his lip to stop laughing which in turn caused you to throw a t-shirt at him. jack just stared at the two of you confused at the interaction in front of him. sure jack knew you were helping luke pass some of his classes but he didn’t know the two of you were close.

“jack, the number isn’t for quinn ...” you started slowly.

it took a second for jack to put the pieces together before he jumped off your bed “what the fuck!” he exclaimed.

#luke hughes imagine #nicohischierz writes

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eywaseclipse · 3 months

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Oh also! First ikran I’ve seen from frontiers that looks exactly how I pictured for my oc Tani So cool. Beautiful and stunning. Wow. Found her on Pinterest 💚🙏

#mine #avatar edits #avatar explore page #new avatar blog #avatar for you #avatar fics #avatar the way of water #avatar 2009 #new writer #avatar asks #avatar Ikrans #stunning #avatar blog #frontiers of Pandora

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strange-destinations · 7 months

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you have games?? 👀

hi! yeah, i just made and released Antigone Will Take The Stairs Today, which is what the previous anon may have been referring to. I have a number of short scrappy TTRPGs up on my itch.io too.

I also wrote Over The Moon, a short surreal text adventure, for a fandom exchange last year (it's based on a 1996 text parser adventure game, knowledge of it isn't remotely necessary). I've done a few text-based adventure games over the years, usually for fandom-related things - DILEMMA, based on the video game Oxenfree, and Witness Available for the TANIS podcast - but those are older works, so I can't guarantee they'll hold up to my current level of writing quality. Oh, I also wrote LitaQuest in an 8-hour daze (Game of Rassilon podcast) for the same fandom exchange as Over The Moon, as a last-minute gift for a friend. That one was even more rushed than Antigone, though.

Antigone Will Take The Stairs Today is the first actual non-text-based video game I've put together since high school, and the only one I've managed to finish, and honestly I really enjoyed the experience. So it's not impossible that you might see more games like it in future! The reception to it has been just lovely, which is very encouraging.

#my games #my art #gamedev things

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anastablack · 1 year

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This is the episode where one gun leaded to numerous cases from the past, including those of John McGarrett, Tani and Danny.

I rewatched this moment three times and here Danny just mentioned that there was also his case and Steve, just by looking at the file, immediately was like "Oh, you are talking about that one grocery store." And then Danny started telling this story, but his body was directed towards Tani and Jerry. So he obviously was talking to them - those one who haven't heard of it.

I just love the fact that Steve at once recognized that grocery store, because he remembers everything about Danny. He probably pulled out of Danny all the details about this case. And that's why he was not surprised, listening to this story again.

Maybe I'm overthinking, but I found this detail pretty sweet.

#mcdanno #h50 #steve mcgarrett #hawaii five 0 #danny williams #h50 9x20

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star-sparkler · 3 months

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HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY TANY

oh you can put gifs in asks now how wild is that!!!!

THANK YOU NOVAAAAA <33333 WAAAAH MY BOOOOYYY!!! Also wow tumblr technology has come so far...this sounds sarcastic but I mean it genuinely hfdkfjg

#I miss you buddy I hope you've been well!! <3 #flourescentnova

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yakuzacanons · 3 months

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Whoever tani anon is I stan with you 🫂🫂🫂 okay but tani with an s/o that matches his teasing energy

TANI STANS RISE UP, in this house we love Tani. Yes, you may sweetie, Tani time mine beloved.

If he has an S/O that matches his playful energy, Tanimura just keeps raising the bar. He'll never go so far as to pull any prank that's malicious or messy but he's very much a "Oh, yea?" type of guy. He WILL get you back.

Knowing he can fully be himself around you is very comforting and it bleeds into every aspect of his life. His coworkers might even catch him smiling on the job. Imagine that.

Lots of playful tag between the two of you. If he's planting a little kiss on your cheek before running off after getting a call from work and you give him one right back, he's going to start chasing after you. Says "Cm'here!" a lot.

Tickle. Fights. That's it. Send tweet.

Has a lot of "No, YOU!" energy. Also a lot of "I love you MORE" energy. Your friends and coworkers can't decide if you guys are charmingly adorable or sickeningly sweet. Probably both.

#majima megaphone moment #yakuza #ryu ga gotoku #yakuza headcanons #yakuza imagines #ryu ga gotoku headcanons #ryu ga gotoku imagines #masayoshi tanimura

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stormblessed95 · 1 year

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To add on to the opinion on 'fanservice' you shared (I totally agree with the points made btw):

Not just when it's about fanservice but this narrative of 'BTS don't have autonomy' is such a toxic and reoccuring argument in this fandom, with so many different topics

It's used by mantis and solo stans to defend their opinions bc then they can argue that they're only doing it for BTS, as if they're not grown men and have not shown time and time again that they have a lot of influence in hybe (recently with the story about nj arguing against the n*f*t plans)

I also think it plays into said mantis' saviour complex, like they have to protect the tanies bc they can't protect themselves and they're trapped in sl*ve contracts eventhough it's wellknown that this is not true

Do they really think jm is too scared to ask for a solo debut and they have to demand it for him? Do they really think taejin couldn't argue for more lines if they thought they were treated unequally? Do they really think jin couldn't have starred in dramas if he had really wanted to? "Oh, but they don't know that they deserve more! They're just too humble!" what a terrible way to show you think your fave is a doormat without any autonomy, self-confidence and self-worth

All the mantis who hated on proof and jitb, criticising hybe for choices we later found out were 100% made by the tanies

How did BTS feel when they saw manti hashtags hating on the choices they themselves made? And mantis don't even care, they just want to fight hybe on everything, with no regard to BTS's feelings and opinions

I feel like this kind of derailed but I hope I got some of my points across alslsks

Is the company perfect? No, I wouldn't even say its great. Have they made mistakes? Yes. Are the members without any choice or autonomy in what they do? Not even close. Lol another example, JK going would they REALLY scold me? You know how much WORK I've put in over the years at that company? Lmfao I'll go live AND drink whenever I want, I'm Jungkook

https://twitter.com/JlNSONYEONDAN/status/1621529079160930305?t=KhisY_C9f66alwIG5PJjcg&s=19

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taniushka12 · 3 months

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Watching twin peaks for dinner and yeah no wonder it's so famous this shit is whimsical

#I love you dale cooper #tani's personal shit #also everytime they're in the dinner I'm like *pointing* just like the one in alwake 😀#(the oh deer dinner is a 1:1 copy of the one in twinpeaks btw if you didn't know)

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wispstalk · 3 months

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9 people you'd like to get to know better

tagged by @dirty-bosmer thanks sug it's a slow day at work

3 ships: oh idk i'm in one fandom sooo. i have been thinking about crabigail's dalliances. and whatever tanis and relmyna have going on. oh wait wait Carmy/Sydney/Marcus from the bear.

First ship: i don't even know i don't often get invested in shipping. i do remember reading the His Dark Materials trilogy in middle school and just being DEVASTATED over will and lyra </3

Last song: Machine Guns and Peacock Feathers - Ulver

Last film: Poor Things!! highly recommend but don't judge it by the first twenty minutes.

Currently reading: The Wolf in the Whale - Jordanna Max Brodsky. thanks to the anon who rec'd it... i am enjoying it so far

Currently craving: listen i got a costco membership recently which means I can finally shop somewhere that sells pimento cheese dip in vats. which is great because i'm not fuckin around. it's january and my #1 priority is shoving cheese and carbs in my face every waking second. i did eat a vegetable today tho everybody clap

tagging back some recent mutuals i haven't gotten to know as much. no pressure to fill this out. also hiiii @devil-of-dagoth @morgiah @babyblueetbaemonster @kagrenacs @aanthirin @thescrolls-haveforetold @bthungthumz @banjotea @madam-whim

#hello i'm talkative on here if u don't like being tagged in stuff just lmk #tag games

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crtter · 1 year

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Hello, you've piqued my interest. Can we hear about Iyami's themes?

Oh man!!! I could talk about him all day! OK so! I’ll try to talk about some of the things that make his characterization so interesting to me! This is probably going to be long and all over the place so I’m going to put it under a readmore.

Iyami’s name means gaudy, disagreeable and he sure is both of these things! Fujio Akatsuka reportedly based him as a character in two sources: Tony Tani, a Japanese vaudevillian who dressed in a very flashy way, spoke in a mock-fancy way and loved dropping random words in English in his speech and… in Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp character! (A character who was also based on vaudeville performers. Iyami’s an entertainer through and through!)

Such a combination made Iyami a very contradictory character. He’s a fashion victim, extremely vain and overdressed in most occasions, liking to follow European fashion to a T. He speaks how he assumes is how rich, sophisticated people speak, and he even goes by his own personal pronoun: the English word me (the French word moi in the English translations of Osomatsu-kun / Osomatsu-san.)

He’s also usually living in poverty, having to resort to tricks and scams to survive. Osomatsu-kun ran according to a “Looney Tunes continuity, which is to say, the characters stay the same but the setting and their relations might change. In the vast majority of stories, though, he’s shown as a not-very-successful con man.

In the story we’re first properly introduced to him he’s an old college friend of the sextuplets’ dad, Matsuzō, and he overstays his welcome something fierce in their house, being completely clueless to the fact everyone wants him to leave. This aspect of his personality has remained consistent throughout all of his characterizations: Iyami is a character who’s awfully oblivious of and doesn’t think much of disregarding Japanese societal norms. As a result, most consider Iyami absolutely unpleasant to be around. Usually, his only friend is Chibita, a street kid he has no blood relation to who he basically raises on his own (although he doesn’t consider himself his father.) One can argue their relationship mirrors the Tramp’s relationship with the kid from the eponymous Charlie Chaplin’s film The Kid.

This very extreme duality aspect of Iyami is seen in other ways sometimes: he seems to be extremely self-assured and self-absorbed but some stories suggest he’s actually deeply self-conscious, usually about his poverty and appearance (which seems to mostly revolve around his overbite). Whenever he has a chance to fully reinvent himself, he usually lunges for it. Despite his unpleasantness as well, he’s also very charismatic, being able to charm just about anyone into complying with his tricks. His overconfidence usually ruins everything before he has a chance to make a run for it with the money, though. And -the duality aspect of his that caught my attention the most- despite the harsh life he lives, Iyami is always upbeat and full of hope for the future.

Here’s some “self-portraits” Iyami drew of himself once. As you can see, this guy looks nothing like him.

This charisma of his made it to the real world. Iyami’s famous pose and catchphrase, the sheeh, became a real life “meme” in the 60s which was repeated everywhere in Japan. Godzilla himself struck it in one of the movies and the Beatles were convinced to strike it when visiting Japan!

Iyami also became a breakout character in the Osomatsu-kun manga, overshadowing the main characters. Osomatsu-san, the 2015 reboot of Osomatsu-kun runs with it, making Iyami yearn for his meta fame of yesteryear and try as much as he can to “become the main character again”, which won’t happen because he’s awfully antiquated by current anime character standards.

Another thing that’s extremely interesting about Iyami in my opinion, which is also his claim to fame besides the sheeh is what I dub “the France thing”. Iyami insists he “is just returning from France” as a way to brag or protest whichever way he’s being currently treated. He repeats this so much it’s an incredibly well-known catchphrase of his, and the way he refers to France (in an inappropriately respectful way, by adding the honorific ō in front of the word) and was previously completely unheard of, is now super well known and used as a joke to this day in Japan.

While it would make sense for Iyami to just randomly claim he’s been to somewhere far away and “exotic” to sound fancy, some stories have suggested that… it’s not quite just that. It seems to be a real coping mechanism for him. Whether it’s for the hardships of his life or something else is unclear. He seems to have truly convinced himself he has been to a highly idealized France and it’s the place where he truly belongs. He even writes Japanese characters in mock cursive and tries to eat using chopsticks as western cutlery.

There’s even a story in which his lies about France are contested by a character who has actually been there and he gets so distraught he starts speaking without his “accent” for the first and only time in the entire 30-odd year run of the manga.

One could argue his fixation on “going to France” is what keeps his optimistic and going through life despite everything. There’s nothing really supporting that, but I personally believe that, at least part of him thinks it’s a place where he’d be more accepted. Where his natural flamboyance wouldn’t be seen as unpleasant and disruptive but celebrated instead. But of course, this one’s just me, heh.

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