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#whether or not i think the ep was good or bad all depends on the future direction of the manga/what happens next imo; but i will say that

absolutebl · 3 months

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These Weeks in BL - This Is Very Late, Or Right on Time depending on where you sit on the temporal debate team

Sorry I got distracted by work. In my defense: I was paid.

Organized, in each category, with ones I'm enjoying most at the top.

March 2024 Wk 1 & 2

Ongoing Series - Thai

Cherry Magic (Sat YouTube grey) ep 12 fin - Unfortunately, there was singing. But what can we do?

A soft charming warm hug of a show about crushes and mind reading and self worth, with no-fuss execution from a consummate team and an OG lead pair proving why they remain eternal and deserve to grow up. Look, here’s the thing, Cherry Magic is a great Thai BL in its own right not comparing it to any other iteration. But even when I do compare (and I've seen all the Cherries and read the manga) it still stands. This is a great show, a solid adaptation, and a pleasing take on the original yaoi. I personally like it better than the Japanese live action, but I think that’s because I just really like Thai BL and I LOVE TayNew. I doubted them for this and I shouldn’t have. They did a great job, as did the sides. I will say all the kissing was both present and better than any other iteration. As it should be. Definitely one for the rewatch rotation. 9/10

Deep Night (Thurs iQiyi) ep 1 of 8 (10?) - Damn it, I love it. And I don't want to. It’s more classic BL than I thought it would be, and far less Only Friends or Playboyy. (Thank fuck.) We got a big cast and a lot of tropes going down out the gate, including SMITTEN popular hot guy versus nerd with secret identity. (Incidentally, Khem did drop into rude / informal when arguing with his Aunt and defending his ma. Bratty boy.) The leads have good chemistry (First always does), and everyone is very pretty. The main boy reminds me of J-Min's role (and look) in Love Class 2. I am entertained. (And faintly wonder why this isn't a MosBank vehicle.)

To Be Continued (Thai C3 Thailand grey) eps 1-3 of 8- High school sweethearts who had a bad break up reunite a decade later when both of them have full time jobs (celebrity & doctor). Dr Ji is a familiar face (hi Dream it's been a LONG time) and everyone is way too old for high school, but I guess I prefer this to child actors?

I'm enjoying it, actually, the cast may be older but they're solid as a result and the chemistry is on point for a pulp. Whether our celebrity is on the DL or cheating or something else remains to be seen but he sure is smitten. The way he LOOKS at Ji = hawt.

Frankly? Celebrity/doctor is a good pairing and this is a solid Thai BL. I hope we have a nice angsty reason for the break-up and we're not in another Promise situation. I like the sides too. Carry on, little show, I'm disposed to be pleased with you.

City of Stars (Fri iQIYI) eps 5-6 of 12 - I am enjoying it, actually. It’s incredibly silly. But I don’t really mind. STOP SINGING.

1000 Years Old eps 3-4 of 12 - I love that these kids basically adopted a vampire pet. And one of them accidentally got a vampire boyfriend. This suddenly turned from a PNR into a family drama about domestic gays opening a food stall and I'm not mad about it. Nothing makes sense and I don't care because... rainbow umbrella!

A Secretly Love (Thai WeTV grey) eps 1 of 10 - I don’t love it. I make no bones about the fact that a pining uke rarely works for me, especially if he’s younger (cute supportive besties not withstanding), the power dynamic isn’t good. I always like Kimmon, he’s a stiff actor but v pretty. (I shallow af.) Still it’s time he started acting his age… literally. Having to watch ads again as well… for this? Ooof. I'm not sure I'm strong enough.

Ongoing Series - Not Thai

Perfect Propose (Japan Fri Gaga) ep 6 fin - It was very cute. I liked that there was uke instigated kisses. However I have some reservations on this one, much as I enjoyed it.

Adapted from Mayo Tsurakame’s manga, production team included Tadaaki Horai (My Love Mix-Up!) and Takeshi Miyamoto (Old Fashion Cupcake). Essentially Perfect Propose was about finding hope in a person when all other hope is gone. This show focuses on apathy, and perforce is somewhat apathetic and un-engaging especially as the pacing was off (and with only 6 episodes? now) However, this is countered by great visuals, good archetypes, and a clean story of childhood sweethearts reuniting after loosing their way in life. I landed on 8/10 mostly for a demanding younger seme and some great kisses.

Unknown (Taiwan Tues Youku YouTube) eps 2-3 of 11 - Oh it’s great. I love it. I’m still worried by how gritty and "Taiwanese short-esk" it feels, but wow does this hit all my favorite taboo tropes and buttons. I also adore the little found fam, they the cutest gay older bros ever. The younger one who wants so bad to grow up and take care of the older one and pushes himself because into self sacrifice that’s the only model of love he has. ARGH. BOYS. Why so much pain, just smooch already! Sheesh. It's on YouTube for some of us, here's the schedule.

AntiReset (Taiwan Fri Viki/Gaga) eps 6-7 of 10 - They remain questionably cute, and that is probably going to be my ultimate review of this show. Awe cameo! (Hi babies, hope the ghosts are leaving you alone.) The irony does not escape me that the person in the relationship with the most emotional acumen is, in fact, the robot and not the human. I'm sure that's meant to be deep.

Love is Better the Second Time Around AKA Koi wo Suru nara Nidome ga Joto (Japan Gaga) ep 1 of 6 - A tortured second chance romance featuring a reported and a successful celebrity(?) academic. The kid actors look nothing like their adult counterparts, but they do look much younger. So, okay. Ah the utter embarrassment of first love. Oh I like it a lot, so very messy Japanese emo. Sigh. Here we go again.

Although I Love You and You AKA Sukiyanen Kedo Do Yaro ka (Japan Thurs Gaga) eps 8-9 of 10 - They are a cute couple. They both trying so hard and so confused and awkward and polite in trying to understand each other but TERRIBLE at communication.

My Strawberry Film (Japan Thurs Gaga) eps 3-4 of 8 - I don’t know how I feel about this. But I do know it’s not my thing because it’s not BL. I’ll finish it because it’s short but… meh.

It's done, ready to binge, but I have no time

What Did You Eat Yesterday Season 2 AKA Kinou Nani Tabeta? Season 2 (Japan Gaga) 10 eps - will binge when I have any spare time. 2024 is crazy busy for me so far.

The Servant and the Young Master (Vietnam YouTube) - I will try when I have a window of time.

Began Beginning (Myanmar YouTube) - A Burmese BL? @heretherebedork vouched for it, so I will watch eventually.

It's airing but...

Dead Friend Forever (Thai iQIYI) - finished it's run and I won't be watching it. It's horror with BL elements and the ending, well, let's just say that's a "no thank you" from me.

Ossans Love Season 2 (Japan Gaga) - 5 years later, will anything have changed? This is Japan so… no. I'm not watching this. I dislike this franchise.

Time the series (Tue Gaga/YT) 10 eps - dropped it at ep 4.

Takumi-kun (2023) movie version AKA Takumi-kun Series 6: Nagai Nagai Monogatari no Hajimari no Asa released on FOD 3/5/2024. The original project was a 6 ep series. Having seen all the previous iterations and read the (terrible) yaoi I admit to being intrigued. If anyone finds eng subbed please let me know with a link in comments or in a DM? For those intersted in this show, probably the world's first true BL franchise I chat all about it here.

Gossip

James Supamongkon has withdrawn from the series Love Upon A Time and the NetJames pair is no more. Net Siraphop will continue with the historical BL project alongside a new partner. Can I interest you in Tod Techit... almost as pretty, legs for days...

The Complete Chronology of the Assault Case Against GMMTV Actor Win Pawin

I'm merely directing your attention to these articles, I do not wish for discussion of this content on this blog. Please don't ask for further info, I don't know the answer, follow the link that's why it's there.

Next Week Looks Like This:

Still Coming

3/21 Two Worlds (Thai IQIYI) 10 eps - announced here. One of those "he's dead Jim so time travel" thingames staring MaxNat. I'm over them but Asia flipping loves this trope and I do adore MaxNat. Phupha (Gun) and Khram (Nat) love each other but Phupha is murdered. Then Khram is pulled to a parallel world where, 12 years ago, Khram and Tai (Max) were in love. However, Khram was killed by Thai’s dad. Now Tai finds alter-Khram apparently alive. But then there is ALSO an alter-Phupha (played by Gun Thanawat who is Khom the repressed butler bodyguard from Unforgotten Night).

Upcoming BLs for 2024 are listed here. This list is not kept updated, so please leave a comment if you know something new or RP with additions.

THIS WEEK’S BEST MOMENTS

How flipping adorable is this vampire with his big gay umbrella? SUCH A DORK and we got more vampire dorks coming.

Thailand has found its vampire line and it's awkward and geeky and quite cheerful. 'Bout what we expected, to be fair. It's a good look for them.

And vampires.

In other news...

That's your random moment of thirst, Lim Jimin shirtless AKA my Just B bias (I mean, I could talk about how good his extensions are and how I love a husky voice in Kpop but really, just LOOK at him). I'm very very very shallow, remember? Full vid is here.

Why am I mentioning Lim Jimin (aside from the obvious)? If Just B doesn't break soon, I could some of them transitioning to BL. Jimin in particular would be a win for us, obvs.

Also, can we talk about Bain (my bias wrecker) KILLING it on Build Up? I had no idea he was that good. Anygay, this has been your Kpop end note.

Seriously tho, is ANYONE else watching Build-Up?

(Last week - well, 2 weeks ago)

Streaming services are listed how I'm (usually watching) which is with a USA based IP

The tag bragade: @doorajar

If ya wanna be tagged each week leave a comment and I will. Easy peesy.

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Hazbin Hotel: The Contract of Blood Ep. 3

*Hey guys, we're back with another episode! This is published on March 6, 2024. If you guys like this episode, don't be afraid to vote and comment! That would be greatly appreciated! Have a blessed day. Warning: vulgar language and an intense make-out scene. Enjoy!*

Episode Three: In The House of Lust

Angel flutters his eyes open, hearing sniffling. He sits up from his bed in the middle of the night, scooting off the bed. He peeks out of his room and looks both ways of the hallway. He keeps himself warm by pulling his bathrobe over his shoulders, preventing his shivering. As he walks down, he follows the sound of mumbling words. The words become clear once he steps closer to the room.

“No, don’t hurt him. Get the fuck away from him--”

Angel blinks in surprise to realize that those words were coming from Husk. He knocks on the door. “Husk?”

There is no answer, causing Angel to frown when he hears Husk’s sniffles. He turns the knob to test whether it’s locked or not, but to his surprise, it is unlocked. He opens the door, leaning his way into the room before watching Husk breathing heavily in his sleep.

“Angel, please, wake up.”

Angel arches a brow at hearing his name and tilts his head in confusion. He steps towards the bed to sit on the edge, moving one of his hands into Husk’s.

“Husk,” Angel calls softly, hoping to wake Husk up.

Husk groans, his ears twitch.

“Angel--” Husk opens one of his tired eyelids, noticing Angel sitting next to him. “The fuck?”

“You were talking in your sleep,” Angel points out, drawing his hand away from Husk’s.

Husk sits up, rubbing his face. “I didn’t say anything stupid, did I?”

Angel notices tears gushing out of the bartender’s eyes. “Well...that depends on what you think.”

Husk wipes his tears away. “Damn.”

“You must have had a horrible dream if it causes you to cry in your sleep.”

“It’s nothing,” Husk denies, wiping his nose after he sniffles.

Angel frowns and bumps his shoulder into Husk’s softly. “Hey, you know it’s okay to open up about things, right? I open up things about myself to you all the time--”

“I know. I know. But this...this is different.”

“How is it different?” Angel asks.

Husk glances up at Angel, noticing that the bruises and scratches were still there since he came into the hotel a few hours ago. He frowns and looks away.

“It doesn’t matter.”

Angel places a hand on top of Husk’s. “Did you have a bad dream about me?”

“What? No--”

“You said my name in your sleep,” Angel interrupts before Husk can lie about it.

Husk bites his bottom lips and scoots closer to Angel. “Yeah. But it’s nothing. I know that things won’t change soon. I just...wish I can kill that fucker for you.”

Angel smiles softly at Husk. “I know. But I promise you that I’ll be okay. I just got to do better and maybe it’s best if no one from the hotel comes to the studio. I know you all have the urge to protect me, but I’ll be fine. I promise.”

Husk frowns and sighs. “I don’t know if we can stay out of the studio.”

“I know. But...I don’t want to get in anymore trouble is all,” Angel says. “By the end of the day, I’ll still come over to my favorite bartender.”

Husk huffs up a laugh. “And you get to talk about the shitty things you have to put up with at work?”

“Yep.”

“Have a few drinks?”

“Oh yeah.”

Husk and Angel exchange loving stares.

Angel moves off the bed. “Well, I’m glad you’re feeling better, Husky. Good night--”

Husk reaches for one of Angel’s four hands, stopping him from moving. “Please stay with me.”

They both widen their eyes at Husk’s request.

“I mean, er--”

Angel softly grins at Husk. “Of course, Husky.”

“Wha--?”

Angel lays back down on the bed next to Husk. “Nothing sexual, right?” He smirks after asking.

Husk blushes and shakes his head. “Uh, no.”

“That’s what I thought,” Angel says with a snicker.

Husk plops down next to Angel. “This means nothing between us.”

“Uh-huh, just drinkin’ buddies, right?” Angel teases Husk.

“Yeah, definitely. You know, get some drinks, talkin’ shit, sleepin’ on the bed together--oh shit.”

Angel snorts. “Ha!”

“Yeah, I walked right into that one.”

“You always walked right into my jokes every time,” Angel replies with a flirty smirk.

“Let’s just get to sleep,” Husk says while turning over, his back on Angel.

Angel scoots closer to Husk, wrapping him up with his four arms and laying his head on top of Husk’s furry head.

Husk widens his eyes in shock. “What the fuck are you doing?”

“Being the big spoon.”

“That ain’t a sexual kink, is it?”

“No, it’s a cuddle position that is not sexual at all. Totally platonic.”

“Platonic, right.”

Angel hugs Husk like a teddy bear. “Night, Husky.”

“Night,” Husk responds, purring at the warmness of the hug. He widens his eyes in shock that he was purring in Angel’s hold. It takes only a second before he relaxes, falling asleep in Angel’s hold and purring some more.

~.~

Bzzzzzz

Angel groans tiredly to hear the vibration from his pocket. He lifts up his tired eyes, noticing him spooning Husk from behind. Husk seems so relax in his hold that he’s afraid of moving in fear of waking up Husk.

He uses one of his two right hands to take his phone out of his bathrobe pocket and look to find Valentino’s name on it. A soft groan escapes his lips. He slowly removes his hold from Husk, careful to not wake him up. He walks out of the room and answers the call.

“Hello?”

Husk opens his eyes, hearing Angel’s soft voice. He listens to the conversation, sitting up. He watches Angel’s silhouette on the doorway, watching his shadow trembling.

“Val, it’s too early in the morning to do this shoot.”

Husk carefully moves off of the bed, tiptoeing to the door.

“Whatcha got planned later on?”

Husk peeks out of the bedroom, watching Angel hugging himself while on the phone with Valentino.

“Okay...I’ll be there,” Angel says with a groan. “Yeah...I--I l-love you too.”

“Good boy,” Husk hears Valentino say at the other end of the line.

Angel hangs up, breathing shakily.

“You don’t have to go,” Husk utters, nearly causing Angel to jump in surprise.

“Oh, uh, sorry, Husky. Duty calls.”

“He’s gonna kill you, Angel.”

“I’ll be fine. It’s going to be fine.”

“Don’t you fucking lie to me and say that it’s going to be fine. You just came home with injuries twice in the row. What makes you think he won’t hurt you for the third time?”

“Husk--”

“Please...stay here. With me. With everyone else in the hotel. If Val comes, we’ll protect you from him. We’ll kill that bastard for you,” Husk begs. “Just...stay with us.”

Angel frowns, his eyes welling up with tears. His limbs are shaking, but Husk sees a red chain wrapped around Angel’s neck. “I wish things were that easy.” He walks passed Husk, as if he’s being pulled out of the hotel by the chain wrapped around his neck.

Husk breathes heavily, reaching his claw hand out to him, but withdraws. His red feather eyebrows narrow.

“Fuck,” Husk curses to himself.

“Fuck,” an innocent voice repeats.

Husk whirls around to find Bella standing behind him. With clenched teeth, he shushes her. “Don’t say that.”

“But everyone else says it--”

“It doesn’t give you the right to repeat it,” Husk scolds her quietly. “What are you doing up?”

“I heard you and Angel,” Bella answers innocently. “Is Angel going to be okay?”

Husk frowns and looks at the empty hallway ahead of them. He takes in a deep breath and exhales. “Yeah, he’ll be fine. Just go back to bed. I have to have a private conversation with someone else.”

“Oh, okay,” Bella replies while going back to her room to sleep in.

Husk, with a look of determination, walks to find Charlie’s room. He knocks on the door to Charlie’s room, hearing quiet footsteps.

The door creaks open slightly, revealing Vaggie peeking out.

“Oh, Husk, it’s just you,” Vaggie greets, opening the door halfway and leaning against it. “Need something?”

“I need to talk to Charlie,” Husk requests.

Charlie peeks over, her blonde hair messy with pajamas. She yawns. “You want to speak to me?”

“Yes...alone.”

Vaggie arches a brow in suspicion. “Why?”

“It’s okay, Vaggie. Go back to sleep. I’ll be back,” Charlie reassures her girlfriend.

Vaggie seems hesitant for a moment until she nods. “Okay, babe. Love you.”

“Love you too,” Charlie calls while Vaggie walks back to the master bed. She steps out of the bedroom, shutting the door behind her to give her and Husk more privacy. “Is there a problem with the hotel?”

“No. I mean, there is a problem,” Husk utters, walking away from her bedroom.

She follows after him. “What’s going on?”

“I’m worried about Angel.”

She frowns. “I am too.”

“Do you know anything about breaking someone’s contract?” he asks her.

She furrows her brow. “No. But I think Dad knows more about it than I do. He’s the ruler of Hell after all.”

“Do you think you could ask him?”

“Yeah, sure. Of course. But why does it have to private?”

“I just didn’t want to draw attention to the rest of the residents.”

“Oh, Husk, don’t worry about it. We’re all concerned for Angel and his safety. Where is he?”

“He’s already at work.”

“At this hour?!” Charlie gasps in shock.

“Yeah,” he answers with a frown.

Charlie slams her fist on her open palm. “Then I’ll give Dad a call.”

“Thank you, Charlie.”

She nods in understanding. Before Husk walks away, she adds, “I’ve seen the way Val treated him. I didn’t mean to make it worse by being there. I wish I can take him out then.”

“What stopped you?”

“Angel.”

Husk scoffs. “Figures.”

“Don’t blame him. He’s contracted to defend Val if he’s attack in his studio,” Charlie responds softly.

He nods. “I know how that is.”

She places both hands on his shoulders to comfort him. “Don’t worry, we’ll find a way to get Angel out of the contract. Maybe you too.”

He shakes his head. “I’m more worried about Angel than about me.”

She withdraws her hands off of him. “Okay. I’ll call around to see what we can do.”

“Thank you, Charlie.”

“No problem.”

~.~

The phone rings while the mysterious shadow is surrounded by duckies. An evil cackle echoes in the dark room.

“Behold, the cutest thing you’ll ever see,” a man responds as it reveals to be a blond short man with a bright smile. “Rubber ducky that moves all by itself! And it can swim through the lakes of fire! How about that?!”

There is no one in the meeting room present as he realizes his phone is ringing.

“Oh shit,” he curses in response, stumbling over the hill of duckies to get to his phone. He sees Charlie’s name with a gasp. “Oh, shit, it’s Charlie. Wait, what do I say? Hold on, I got this.” He answers the phone with a plastered smile. “Heeeeey bitch~!”

“Hey, Dad,” Charlie responds from the other line, pacing around her room while Vaggie is sitting on her bed to watch. “Can I ask you something that you know about maybe?”

“Oh, yeah, anything you want, I’ll provide. Except for sex. That would be weird,” Lucifer, Charlie’s dad, responds with a cringe look on his face.

“What? Ew, Dad, no. Look, do you happen to know how to get someone out of a contract with the overlord?” Charlie asks nervously.

“Uhh, eesh, yeah, that’s on the whole different playing field, kid. It’s complicated. Like it depends on what kind of contract it’s under. All contracts from the overlords has to tie in one of the seven rings of hell. You know, like pride, lust, greed, gluttony, wrath, sloth, and envy. Depending on which ring the contract is tied to, there are different ways of breaking them. Why?”

“Well, my friend, Angel, has been abused all the time by the overlord, Valentino.”

“Oh yeah, that guy’s a creep.”

“He tried to hire me one time.”

“Ew, what a pervert. You didn’t--”

“No, I didn’t, Dad.”

“Good. You could go for so much better than working at Porn Studios.”

“Also, my friend, Husk, he’s tied to Alastor.”

“Alastor?!” Lucifer exclaimed in shock. “That bastard!”

“Do you think there’s a way to break both of their chains?”

“Well, I’m not sure about Husk...but I believe that since Angel is working under Valentino, his contract would fall under the Lust ring. Which is something someone else knows about. Someone that we haven’t seen in seven years--”

Charlie gasps excitedly. “Really?! We’re going to see him?!”

“Sounds like it! I’ll call to arrange the meeting with Uncle Ozzie and we’ll go on the family roadtrip!” Lucifer responds. “You can bring your girlfriend and your friends along for the fun field trip!”

“And our daughter?!” Charlie chirps.

“Wait, since when did you have a daughter?!” Lucifer screams.

Charlie chuckles nervously. “Vaggie and I kind of adopted her off the streets. You should go meet your granddaughter.”

“Holy shit! I’m on my way now!” Lucifer replies while he hangs up on the phone. He marches around the office while singing, “My daughter has a daughter! Take that anxiety!” He doesn’t hesitate to pack for the road trip while making an important phone call.

~.~

Husk is cleaning up the bar with a sad sigh. He is in his own world until Charlie pops up behind the counter.

“HUSK!”

“AAH!” Husk shouts, stumbling back. He sighs in annoyance. “What the fuck? The day is just gettin’ starting.”

“Good news! There’s a way to help Angel.”

“Oh shit, really?”

“Yepperoo! I just called Dad and he says that he’s going to call up for an important meeting with the ruler of Lust, Uncle Ozzie.”

“Wait, what? What does that have to do with Angel’s contract--?”

“Angel works at Porn Studios, which makes his contract fall under the Lust category. Uncle Ozzie will know a way to get Angel out of the contract.”

Husk widens his smile. “That’s the best news I heard all day.”

“Hell yeah!” Charlie cheers. “We’re gonna help Angel! We’re gonna help Angel! I told the whole hotel about it!”

“Wait what?”

“C’mon, the others want to help. Vaggie and Bella are certainly on board with it. Oh, Cherri and Nifty are totally on board with helping him as long as Cherri gets to blow stuff up and Nifty gets to stab people that are our enemies. Nora seems like she rather come with us than stay here. And Alastor--”

“You told Alastor too?!” Husk gasps in shock.

“Yes, she did,” Alastor replies, appearing randomly beside Husk.

Husk yelps and stumbles away from Alastor.

Alastor tilts his head, cracking his neck while looking at him darkly with a stretched grin. “And you know what I say about this little adventure.”

Husk backs away from Alastor.

Alastor suddenly stands upright with a bright static voice. “I say that it’s a grand idea of taking a little break from running a hotel and have ourselves a grand ole time, involving helping friends out of contracts that were completely none of my business!”

“There you go, Al! That’s the spirit!” Charlie responds with her fists pumped up. “I’m gonna go start packing!!!” She runs off to start on packing, leaving Husk alone with Alastor.

Alastor chuckles. “You get scared so easily.”

Husk huffs, not sure how to respond to that without coming off brash. “Uh, with all due respect, but why are you coming along?”

“I’m mostly there to support Charlie and keep my eye on you to make sure you don’t use our shared powers to tear shit up,” Alastor responds with a snarl at Husk.

Husk groans. “Look, I don’t even know how I can even control those...things.”

“Just don’t have a powerful emotion and you should be fine.”

“Fine? What if someone is hurting Angel again?”

“Well, you’re going to have to stay the fuck out of it,” Alastor says, his tone of frustration.

Husk stops his questioning and seals his lips. He sighs and nods. “I understand.”

~.~

“Babe, calm down,” Vaggie soothes her energize girlfriend, who’s packing up not only her suitcase by Bella’s. Bella watches Charlie rushing to pack things up from her bed.

“I think we should let her get excited,” Bella suggests innocently.

Vaggie giggles. “Honey, you don’t know her like I do. If she gets carried away, she’ll drive herself crazy--”

“Huh?” Charlie responds, her pupils small and craze.

Vaggie and Bella exchange glances.

“See?” Vaggie points out with a soft smile.

Bella tilts her head. “Who exactly are we meeting?”

“Your other adopted family members! Particularly, your grandpa and your great uncle!” Charlie responds excitedly.

“Slow down, Charlie,” Vaggie responds. “She’s barely processing the fact that we’ve adopted her.”

“It’s fine,” Bella reassures Vaggie. “I like getting to know my “adopted” family if that makes any sense.”

“Of course!” Charlie responds.

It’s sudden that Nora enters the room.

“Geez, what’s the commotion?” Nora asks with a groan.

“Sorry to wake you up, Nora,” Charlie replies. “We are closing down the hotel until further notice and go on this big family roadtrip!”

Nora blinks in surprise. “Oh. Well, I hope you guys have fun.”

Before Nora walks away, Bella utters, “Uh, you can come with us if you want to. It’d be nice if I’m not the only child coming along the trip.”

“Yeah, that’s a good idea,” Charlie responds and looks at Nora. “What do you say?”

Nora takes a moment to ponder about it before she shrugs and says, “Sure. Let me go pack up my stuff from my place.”

“Yay!” Charlie cheers excitedly.

Nora walks away, leaving Bella with her new moms.

~.~

Husk hasn’t packed at all since he didn’t think he need to. He’s got overall straps and jeans and that’s all he needs. Who needs shirts when he’s got fur?

Alastor didn’t pack either. His red suit should be satisfactory unless someone plans on messing it up.

Nifty didn’t care to pack, more concern about chasing after the bug with her knife.

While they wait for Charlie and Vaggie to show up with Bella and loads of suitcases, the wall is blown off by the door again.

“Guess who’s back, bitches?!” Cherri announces, walking through the hole she created.

“I’m starting to think that you like blowing up that spot on purpose,” Alastor says with a sneer.

“I like to make dramatic entrances,” Cherri responds with a wink from her one eye. “Where’s Angel?”

“At work,” Husk says sadly.

“Already? Usually he has more time,” Cherri responds. “Ugh, I can’t stand it. Glad Charlie called me to ask for help.”

“Hey gang!” Charlie chirps as Bella and Vaggie follow her downstairs. “We’re ready to go.”

They hear the car honking. Alastor opens the front doors of the hotel to find Lucifer in a minivan with the painted ducky on it.

“What up?!” Lucifer shouts to the group, trying to avoid eye-contact with Alastor.

“Ugh, he’s back,” Alastor groans irritably.

Lucifer turns the car off and marches up the steps. “Now where’s that granddaughter I’m told so much about?”

Charlie leads Bella to Lucifer. “Uh, Dad. This is Bella. Bella, this is your grandpa.”

Lucifer’s eyes sparkle at the sight of Bella. “AWWW! She’s so cute! No wonder you both picked her off the streets!” He picks Bella up and twirls around with her in his hands. “I got a granddaughter!”

Alastor sighs. “What the hell is with the minivan?”

“It’s for our family roadtrip!” Lucifer points at the van excitedly.

“Isn’t that too small for us?” Cherri asks.

“Aw, don’t worry about it,” Lucifer says while waving it off.

“I can make it bigger,” Alastor brags.

“Oh, you’re comin’ with us?” Lucifer grumbles while looking at Alastor.

“Of course, I am. My pet seems to have an obsession with protecting his sweet, sweet Angel,” Alastor answers.

Husk rolls his eyes Alastor’s response.

“Speaking of Angel, where is he? The meeting revolves around him, right? He’s got to show up,” Lucifer responds.

“Wait, what?” Vaggie utters in shock.

“Oh yeah, Uncle Ozzie says that he needs to see Angel Dust when it comes to talking about his contract with Valentino,” Lucifer informs the group.

“But he’s at work right now,” Charlie gasps in shock.

Lucifer clenches his teeth. “We gotta leave now since the meeting is tonight and it takes a few hours to get to the Lust Ring.”

Husk starts to back into the shadows, sneaking out of the hotel without Alastor knowing.

“Well, do you think you can move the meeting to later?” Vaggie asks.

“It’s at midnight. Is that good for him?” Lucifer questions the group.

“Shit, he doesn’t come back till midnight from work,” Cherri says with a gasp.

Lucifer clenches his teeth. “That’s going to be a problem.”

Alastor looks around for Husk. “Wait, where the hell is Husk?”

Everyone looks around for Husk.

“He just bolted into the city,” Nora’s voice chirps behind Lucifer.

Everyone glances at Nora, who is drinking from her juice box.

“Which direction is he heading?” Cherri questions Nora.

“I don’t know, I just walked past him,” Nora answers with a shrug.

“He better have a good reason for leaving his spot,” Alastor growls darkly.

~.~

Angel finally has a lunch break. He groans in pain while sitting in his dresser room. Hearing creaking noises from the ceiling, he jumps from a sudden crash through the ceiling into his room. He blinks in surprise and sees Husk laying on the floor with a groan in pain.

“Ouch,” Husk groans in pain.

“Husk, what the fuck are you doing here?” Angel whispers to Husk harshly, helping him up on his feet. “If Val sees you, he’s gonna fucking kill both of us.”

“I know. I know. But listen to me. There’s a way to get you out of that contract.”

“W-What?”

“Charlie made some calls and manage to get us a meeting with the ruler of the Lust ring. He’ll help you find a way to break your contract.”

Angel blinks in shock. “You guys shouldn’t have to do that--”

“Do you want to keep being treated like shit here?” Husk asks Angel, giving him a pleading look.

Angel frowns and shakes his head. “No. But--”

“No buts,” Husk responds. “You said that as long as you are contracted to Val, you are going to be putting up with this kind of shit. It’s getting to the point where he’s actually hurting you. He’s going to kill you either he finds us here together or not.”

Angel trembles in fear. “You got to go, Husk. He’s going to be--”

“Come with me,” Husk begs, holding out his hand for Angel to take.

“But Husk--”

“Please,” Husk utters, extending his hand. “Do you want to continue to be treated like shit and have to force yourself to love someone you don’t love?”

Angel widens his eyes in shock. “You heard--”

“You were right outside of my room,” Husk responds, as if it’s obvious. “So, what’s gonna be?”

Angel bites his lips. He looks at his phone on top of his dresser and picks it up. He shifts a glance at Husk, frowning at him. Then, he surprises Husk by shoving his phone into the dresser drawer and taking his hand.”

“Please, get me out of this shit-hole,” Angel replies, his limbs trembling from the recent scars.

Husk nods his head, carrying Angel in a bridal style. “Hang tight then.” He jumps off through the hole on the ceiling.

Angel hangs on around Husk’s neck with his top set of arms while his bottom set of arms holds tight around his waist.

Husk looks down to check on Angel, noticing him trembling from the cold.

Angel holds Husk tighter in fear that he will fall off.

“It’s okay,” Husk says softly as if he’s reading Angel’s mind. “I got you. I won’t drop you, I promise.”

Angel looks up at Husk, who glances ahead. Then Angel shifts his gaze down at the ground.

“Holy shit. I never knew the city looks so small from up here.”

Husk snorts. “Yeah.”

Angel relaxes in Husk’s hold. “Bet you fly like this often, huh, feathers~?”

“Only when I’m in a mood to,” he says with a shrug.

“So, this meeting with the ruler of Lust...it’s supposed to help me with my situation?”

“Yeah. But they’re leaving now, so we have to hurry and catch up to them.”

Angel holds onto Husk and notices how close they were to get to the van in front of the hotel with Charlie closing down the hotel.

“He’s finally back with Angel!” Cherri notices as Husk lands on his feet, still carrying Angel in his arms.

Alastor glares at Husk while the others jump in excitement that Angel is coming along with them.

“Did you get off of work early?” Bella asks happily.

“Well, I thought I need a bit of a break from the set,” Angel answers Bella while Husk sets him down on his feet.

“Wait, will Val hurt you if you--?”

“He’ll hurt me regardless whether I was there or not,” Angel replies, interrupting Vaggie.

“Well, we’re gonna get you out of that contract,” Charlie chirps in determination. “That way Val will never hurt you again.”

“And we’re going to take a family roadtrip to the Lust Ring to meet with the ruler of the Lust ring himself,” Lucifer adds while showing his minivan. “By going on this cool ride! Let’s go!”

He snaps his fingers, opening the back of the van. Cherri hops in first while Nifty follows after her with snickers. Charlie picks Bella up and walks into the van with Vaggie and Nora behind them. Husk and Angel climbs into the back of the van, letting Lucifer shut the doors.

“Calling shotgun?” Lucifer teases Alastor.

“I rather call a driver seat, but since you’re the ruler, I suppose I let you drive.”

Lucifer scoffs while holding up the keys. “Oh, I’m glad you’re so humble.”

“Fuck you,” Alastor snarls.

~.~

“Are we there yet?” Nifty groans thirty minutes after departing from the hotel.

“We just left the city,” Vaggie answers with a deadpan stare at the cyclops maid.

“Forgive, Nifty,” Alastor replies, waving his hand like it isn’t a big deal from the passenger side. “She hates it when people are going slow.”

“I’m not going slow,” Lucifer objects, driving the van.

Alastor shifts his yellow eyes and notices that Lucifer is only going fifteen miles an hour. “Really? Your speedometer says otherwise.”

“It’s been a while since I used this van. I don’t want to burn up the gas by speeding up,” Lucifer argues.

“I can’t believe you drive like a grandma,” Cherri snorts.

“Dad, you could’ve used any other cars. You have like fifteen of them,” Charlie says with a groan.

“I know. I know, but this vehicle feels more family-roadtripy,” Lucifer responds with a shrug.

“That word is non-existent,” Alastor argues. It’s sudden that he feels a kick at the back of the chair. He whirls around to find Nora leaning back in her seat next to Bella, with both of the girls sharing earplugs to listen to music. He turns back around, feeling small kicks on his back. Alastor’s eye starts to twitch.

“Are we there yet?” Nifty asks with an impatient groan.

“No,” Lucifer answers.

“Are we there yet?” Nifty inquires impatiently again.

“No,” Lucifer responds again.

“Are we there yet?” Nifty questions again.

“No, we’re not even halfway across the desert,” Lucifer responds angrily.

“How long does it usually take to get to the Lust Ring?” Bella asks out of curiosity.

“Usually,” Alastor answers for Lucifer. “It takes about seven hours at a normal speed. But going so slow, it’ll take us twelve hours to get there.”

“Hey, our meeting is in twelve hours. Who knew we'll get there just in time?” Lucifer sasses Alastor.

Alastor gives Lucifer a deadpan stare.

“I need to use the bathroom,” Nifty complains.

“Ugh, c’mon,” Vaggie groans.

“Why didn’t you go before we leave?” Lucifer questions Nifty.

“Because I didn’t need to go then,” Nifty answers.

While everyone is arguing amongst themselves making a stop, Husk looks out of the window to see that they aren’t going to go any faster. Angel notices and massages Husk’s back. Husk starts to relax a bit while purring.

“Better?” Angel whispers to Husk.

“As long as Nifty isn’t looking to punish ‘bad’ boys, I think it’s better,” Husk says with a sigh.

Angel chuckles when he notices Husk kneading on the window sill with his claws. “But you aren’t a bad boy, are you?”

“Really? You’re going to ruin the mood.”

“I’m just saying. You’ve been a good boy~”

“Okay, I’m not relaxed anymore.”

Angel giggles. “I’m giving you hard time, Husky.”

Husk relaxes again, purring and kneading. He isn’t aware that he is scratching on the window sill.

“Husk, for God’s sake, will you stop scratching on the window sill--?” Lucifer curses until he realizes that Angel is giving him a back massage. “Oh, uh, nevermind.”

Alastor leans to the side to whisper to the blond. “They’re in a secret relationship.”

“Why secret?” Lucifer asks.

Alastor shrugs. “Frankly, everyone knows they’re on a date except for them.”

“I don’t follow,” Lucifer utters.

“I often wonder why you’re a ruler of Hell,” Alastor insults.

“Oh, fuck off,” Lucifer growls.

“DAD!” Charlie scolds while covering Bella’s ear that didn’t have a earplug in.

“Ugh! It’s been almost an hour and I haven’t blown shit up!” Cherri curses.

“Just roll down the window and get some fresh air,” Vaggie argues.

“Ya know, that’s a great idea!” Cherri chirps while rolling down the window and throw a bomb out into the desert near them.

“Are you fucking kiddin’ me?!” Vaggie barks at Cherri.

“Drive faster, old man!” Alastor barks.

“I don’t want to burn up the gas--”

“Oh, fuck it!” Alastor moves over and sits on Lucifer’s lap, pressing down the gas. The tires squeaks, creating smoke from the engine. It only boosts them forward by an inch.

“See?” Lucifer responds. “Now get your ass off of me!”

Alastor groans and moves off of Lucifer. The explosion blows up, nearly rocking the car side to side.

Husk sighs in discouragement.

“I still need to use the bathroom,” Nifty chirps.

~.~

Ten hours goes by as Husk is asleep at the window sill with Angel sleeping on him, holding him in his four arms like a cat. Nora and Bella fall asleep listening to their music and cuddling each other unknowingly while both Charlie and Vaggie snuggle the kids and each other. Cherri snores the loudest of the group, which keeps both the men up at the front.

Lucifer is still awake and driving, but appears like he can fall asleep. Alastor is still awake and alert, cradling sleeping Nifty in his arms.

“Say, why don’t we get some music in here?” Alastor responds, trying to find a radio. “What the hell? There’s no radio.”

“Because I’ve never installed it,” Lucifer brings up. “Radio is for old people.”

“Says the old man with a van that can’t drive faster than fifteen miles,” Alastor points out.

“Whatever, man. Stick and stones but words can’t hurt,” Lucifer responds.

“I can make them hurt,” Alastor replies with a darker tone.

“Oh, gettin’ horny for me?” Lucifer teases. “Usually when people get close to the Lust Ring, they tend to get horny.”

Alastor widens his eyes and then narrows his brows. “Fuck you.”

“Only if you want to--”

“I’m going to end your fucking life,” Alastor growls, his face growing darker.

Lucifer notices a city ahead of them with a gasp. “Hey, I think we’re here.”

“Finally,” Alastor groans. He takes out his microphone and announces. “Wake up and smell the roses because we’re finally here at the Lust Ring.”

The gang flutters their eyes open when hearing Alastor announcing their arrival to the Lust Ring. Charlie immediately covers Bella’s eyes when she notices people having sex in their rooms out in the open.

“In today’s weather, there will be storm and thirty-five percent chance of cum rain,” Alastor announces.

“There’s no such thing as cum rain,” Lucifer brings up. “It’s just regular raindrops. But those raindrops do get sticky and make people horny.” He says the last line with a small smirk at Alastor.

Alastor gives him a deadpan stare and announces, “Nevermind. There’s a thirty-five percent of horny rain. Make sure you bring umbrellas if you don’t want to fuck each other within five minutes.”

Charlie groans tiredly, still covering Bella’s eyes and ear.

“I give it a minute to work,” Lucifer interrupts.

“Would you butt out my announcements?” Alastor growls.

Lucifer parks the minivan on the curb of available parking spot. “Alright, everyone. Ozzie’s isn’t far off. We can walk from here.”

“Finally, we can stretch our legs,” Angel groans, yawning.

The back doors open as Alastor exits the passenger side with Nifty cradled in his arms.

Lucifer exits the driver side and watch everyone getting out from the backside, having their umbrellas up for extra protection except for Cherri.

The gang walks through the rainy streets of the Lust Ring.

Cherri tries to taste the rain to find it’s sticking on her skin.

Angel smirks to watch people having sex everywhere while shielding both him and Husk from the sticky rain. “Huh, this seems my kind of ring.”

Husk rolls his eyes playfully. “I bet it would be.”

“Let’s all focus on what’s ahead,” Alastor responds with a groan, focusing on straight ahead.

Charlie shields Bella’s eyes and ears by picking her up and placing her face against Charlie’s shoulder while Vaggie uses the umbrella to shield Charlie, Bella, and Nora.

Nora looks around casually at people having sex as if she’s used to seeing it.

“This is not freaking you out?” Vaggie asks Nora.

“My parents fuck each other all the time,” Nora says with a casual tone, earning surprise glances from the rest of the gang.

“Your parents sound badass,” Cherri responds with a bright grin.

“Eh, that’s all that saves their marriage,” Nora replies, not noticing Husk observing her the way she talks about it. Husk frowns at Nora.

Angel loops his arms around Husk’s and notices a sex shop they’re walking by. “If we have time, I would like to have a look at the sex toys. I bet they’re better than what Valentino has.”

“Oh yeah, Oz sells the best sex toys around,” Lucifer responds with a smirk.

“Maybe you can save the information for later when it’s not in front of the kids,” Vaggie informs while showing the kids.

“Oh come on, it’s just a casual conversation,” Angel responds with a hand wave. “I’m sure the kids know something about sex.”

“It’s Hell after all. I’m sure kids know more dirty things than most people in the living realm,” Lucifer adds.

“What’s sex?” Bella asks innocently, causing awkward silence among the group.

“It’s where two people get together and, you know, fuck,” Nora explains casually. “That’s how babies are born.”

Vaggie gives Nora a withering glare. “You don’t have to put it that way.”

“Well, it’s more than just people getting together,” Lucifer replies. “It’s suppose to be a beautiful thing that the pure angels create for purity sake for a husband and a wife. And we fucked it up.”

“Can we talk about anything else other than talking about sex?” Alastor groans irritably. “That would be lovely.”

“Just trying to explain it to a kid,” Lucifer responds with his arms crossed. “Look, there’s Ozzie’s ahead. I wouldn’t bring the kids in though since it’s mostly for adults.”

“Don’t worry, we’ll stay out here with them,” Charlie volunteers while staying outside with the kids and Vaggie.

“You know what, I’ll stay out here with the girls,” Alastor volunteers while cradling Nifty.

“Well, looks like the rest of you are with me,” Lucifer says as he leads the Cherri, Husk, and Angel to the club.

The bouncer notices them approaching and stops them. “Can’t come in unless you got a date.”

Lucifer leans over to Cherri to whisper, “Wanna be my date?”

“Ew, no,” Cherri utters.

Lucifer looks at Angel and Husk sticking together with a slow smirk coming up on his face. “Why don’t you gentlemen go in first since you’re on a ‘date’?”

Angel and Husk blush and glance at each other.

“You comin’ in or not?” the bouncer orders Husk and Angel.

“Uh s-sure, we’re comin’ in,” Angel says, holding onto Husk’s arm.

With a deep breath, Husk walks with Angel through the club before anyone come to the club.

Lucifer waves over the incoming crowd coming into the club for Angel to see. “WE’LL MEET YOU OUTSIDE OF OZZIE’S OFFICE!!! JUST GET OZZIE’S ATTENTION BY PRETENDING TO MAKE-OUT! AND REALLY GET INTO IT!!!”

“WAIT, WHAT?!” Husk and Angel shouts simultaneously.

“BEST OF LUCK!!!” Lucifer yells, whistling wildly.

Angel and Husk exchange awkward glance.

“Did he say to make-out?” Angel asks nervously.

“Pretend to make-out,” Husk responds.

Angel smirks at Husk. “And I’m not even dressed for our date. Cover for me, won’t you?”

“Uh--” Husk immediately sees Angel undressing himself from his bathrobe. He expands his umbrella to cover Angel’s nakedness so that people wouldn’t get a peek at Angel from behind. Angel whips out a gold dress, putting it on as quick as he can. Husk looks away while Angel applies golden eyeshadow and blushes. He puts on a gold lipstick and puts mascara on, making his eyelashes fuller like a woman.

“Mind zipping up for me, Husky?”

Husk glances to see Angel in his gold silk dress, wearing a pearl necklace along with a black collar. His chest fluff puffs up in the gold dress. The dress goes down below his knees, making it flow a bit. His golden eyeshadow matches his dress, golden lipstick glimmers in the light. Husk’s face goes red at the sight of Angel.

“W-What?” Husk questions, caught off guard by Angel’s appearance.

“Zip up my dress, silly,” Angel says while turning his back for Husk to zip up. Husk holds the umbrella with his inner forearm, zipping up Angel’s dress.

Angel whips out a black suit jacket and white buttoned-up shirt out from his chest fluff, giving to Husk to put it on.

Husk, understanding the assignment, gives Angel the umbrella to help cover himself from onlookers behind them. He takes the overall straps off of his shoulders and puts on his white buttoned up shirt, letting his wings fitting through the holes cut for him.

“I bought it for you since you don’t have much jackets and shirts,” Angel responds with a smile.

“Yeah, don’t wear much except for pants,” Husk replies while buttoning up his shirt.

“Oh, I almost forgot something,” Angel says while getting the red tie out of his chest fluff. “Here you go.”

Husk puts on the overall straps over his shoulders again once he buttoned up his white shirt, putting on the jacket and tie as the final product.

However he struggles to put the tie on.

“Damn it,” Husk growls impatiently.

“Here, let me help you, Husky~” Angel lifts Husk up against the wall.

Husk can’t believe how close Angel is, his mind running different miles. His face gets more beet red the closer Angel’s face inch towards him. Though, he looks down to see Angel helping tying his tie just right.

Angel let Husk down, closing the umbrella for both of them. He notices Husk’s face redder than a red skies of Hell. “What do you think I was going to do?”

“I-I--I don’t know,” Husk stutters, his crotch going hard for a moment.

Angel looks ahead to see the club ahead. “We’re here.”

Husk gulps while holding Angel’s hand.

~.~

The music thumps on the walls of the club as Husk and Angel enters the club. Husk feels light-headed from the sudden aroma in the room. He looks to find couple making out with each other on the tables.

“Let’s sit over here,” Angel points at the empty table.

Husk doesn’t pay attention, smelling the lavender scented aroma that’s driving him crazy. He nods carelessly as they both sit at the empty table.

Husk looks at Angel outshining the lights of the room by his golden dress. He doesn’t pay attention to his surroundings or the waiter coming to the table to take their orders. Hell, he can’t hear the words Angel says except,

“Is there anything you want, Husky?” Angel asks Husk casually.

“Huh? You,” Husk blurts out.

Angel widens his eyes in shock. Then he smirks. “I mean for food, silly.”

“Shit, uh, salmon, please?” Husk requests.

“We’ll get those orders for you,” the waiter responds and walks off.

Angel notices Husk holding his head. “What’s going on with ya? You’re not usually like this.”

“The scent in the room is fucking with my head,” Husk responds, breathing heavily from the heat in his room without being aware of being hard more.

Angel notices Husk’s hard-on and smirks. “You need help down there, Husky?”

“Huh?”

“You’re going hard.”

He looks down and covers his crotch. “Don’t you even think about it.”

“Hey, at least I asked,” Angel responds with a smirk. “Are you sure you don’t want to make-out right now?”

“Not until this Oz guy shows up,” Husk responds. “Where the hell is he?”

The room goes dark, leaving Angel’s gold dress to glimmer in the blue lights. The blue smoke appears on the stage before them. The jester imp with robotic limbs hidden under the fun clothes appears on stage. His white face with a red round nose and blush cheeks glistens in the pure white light on stage. His clown hat covers his broken horns while holding the microphone.

“Ladies and gentleman,” he announces. “I see some sexy faces around here tonight!”

The platforms with the poles hangs down while the strippers were on it.

Angel widens his eyes in shock and amazement while the clown imp announces.

“Welcome, welcome to Ozzie’s! Here you can play your sick fucked up fantasies!” the clown responds. “My name is Fizzarolli. Some of you may know me as that clown in Loo-Loo Land or those sex bots at the Porn Studios in the Pride Ring!”

“Huh, I always wondered what those robot servants were modeled after,” Angel mutters to himself.

Husk isn’t listening, trying to search for Ozzie.

“Asmodeus, the King of Lust, is in the midst of getting ready. But while we wait for Ozzie, mind if I tell ya a few jokes? Remember the extermination that happens four months ago? I know that it ain’t got no affect on us since we’re hellborn, but can you believe it, the king and his daughter of hell fought the fucking angels just to save a hotel to help sinners! The joke isn’t even on the hotel or the king and princess themselves. It’s more on the angels thinking that they can actually defeat Lucifer and his daughter! And Adam--that first dick of all dicks--got fucking stab by the petite maid!”

The demon imps laugh at the joke of the extermination except for Angel and Husk.

“The hotel is a fucking waste of time!” one of the audience calls out.

Fizzarolli shakes his head. “Now, now, I respect Little Charlie’s--I mean, the princess’ work. I don’t think trying to redeem sinners is possible, buuut you know, anything is possible down here. Speaking of possibilities, let’s give it up for Asmodeus! GIVE HIM SOME LOVE!!!”

The audience cheers as the smoke appears, a song beginning while a giant burly muscular blue diamon appear, his hair flames with two other faces. He has two giant feather sticking up, one red and one white. He takes off his shirt, to show off his muscles. Then he sings,

“Let’s begin now.

Oh, you come here to party!

Oh, you come here to get fuckin’!

Let me tell ya, you’ve come to the right place.”

He starts to dance in the music, sweeping the room with blue smoke that now makes Husk’s headache worse. Angel coughs from the smoke as this King of Lust named Ozzie continues to sing.

“If ya like blowjobs.

If ya like makin’ out.

If ya like to have sex.

Then you’ve come to the right place!”

Angel widens his smile more. “Holy fuck! This is insane!”

Ozzie sings, shaking his hips in a sexy manner.

“In the House of Lust,

You can find all of the pleasures in the world.

In the House of Lust,

You don’t have to worry about public appropriation!

Just give each other some love, mhm!

Go on now!”

Angel blinks in surprise. “Wait, is that a cue to make-out now?”

Husk rubs his soothing headache. “Wait, what?”

“Lucifer says to make-out to get Ozzie’s attention,” Angel points out while Ozzie is dancing on the pole pointing at those demons who were getting into sex.

“Fuck,” Husk utters in shock. “How do we go about this? Uh, do I kiss first or do we just take our clothes off right away? Ooh, I don’t like the thought of that--”

Angel smirks at Husk. “You’re talking as if you’ve never done this.”

“Yeah, because I’m a fucking virgin,” Husk blurts out to Angel.

Angel looks in shock. “Wait, really?”

“Yeah!”

Angel smirks. “Guess we’re going to have to fix that whenever you’re ready.”

Ozzie continues to sing.

“They say love is in the air,

But it’s getting too heated in here,

Just for romantic lovers to fall in love.

So, let’s say this again!”

Ozzie points to a female demon imp giving a male imp a blowjob under the table.

“If ya like blow-jobs!”

Ozzie points to a male demon imp making out with a transman demon imp.

“If ya like makin’ out!”

Ozzie points out the couple under the table, moaning loudly for the patrons to hear around them.

“If ya like havin’ a mind-blowing sex,

You’ve come to the right place!”

Ozzie sings the chorus, almost ending the song.

“In the House of Lust,

You can find all of the pleasures in the world.

In the House of Lust,

You don’t have to worry about public appropriation!

Just give each other some love, mhm!

Go on now!”

Husk breaths heavily while Angel tugs at his suit jacket. “S-So how do we go on about this--?”

“Trust me,” Angel whispers into Husk’s face, kissing his lips.

Husk gasps in shock, not sure what to do.

Angel breaks away. “You’re so inexperience with kissing.”

“I never had anyone kiss me--”

“Hmm, maybe I can fix that just for tonight,” Angel whispers while kissing his lips again.

Once Angel breaks away, Husk gains his breath.

“Wait, wait, this doesn’t mean anything between us, right?”

“Unless you want it to mean something between us,” Angel whispers into his ears.

“Shit,” Husk utters as Angel kisses him. Husk is so inexperience that he doesn’t know how to kiss someone’s lips.

Angel parts his lips. “Do this, Husky.” He demonstrates his pucker lips to kiss back with his lips.

Husk nods in understanding, letting Angel crash his lips into his again.

He flutters his eyes close, feeling Angel’s four hands roaming around his body. Surprisingly, Angel isn’t taking the opportunity to try to get into his pants, which he is mostly relieved of. Though, with this scent going into his brain, he is also surprised that he didn’t mind if Angel did try to unbuckle his jeans and do a blowjob. Shit, what is going on with him?

He feels Angel’s tongue trying to get into his mouth. His lips close at first, but he opens them, letting Angel gain access to his mouth. This means nothing. This should mean nothing between them. Just drinking buddies, on a ‘date’, making out to get some higher-up demon’s attention. That means nothing by the end of the day, right?

Husk and Angel separate from each other, gaining their breaths back.

“You’re doing good,” Angel whispers to him, his lips teasingly close to Husk’s. “Now kiss me like you mean it, baby.”

Angel kisses Husk’s lips, now passionately. Husk kisses back, grabbing the back of Angel’s head with his one hand while his other hand grabs Angel’s hip. Angel’s four hands now roam around Husk’s body greedily, with one of them feeling his hard-on and squeezing it.

Husk gasps and moans in surprise, his brain too fucked up to care. They fall onto the floor, knocking over their chairs.

“Fuck me,” Husk responds, too high from the aroma in the room.

Angel widens his eyes in surprise. This gives Angel the perfect time to make love to Husk if Angel wasn’t change after the extermination. But when Husk complains about the scent hurting his head earlier, he isn’t sure if he should.

A soft smirk comes up on his lips and leans forward. “Later, Husky~”

Angel starts to kiss Husk’s face, kissing his neck and sucking on it softly.

Husk moans and feels Angel’s hand going into his pants just to rub it up and down. Husk moans louder, gaining attention from both Ozzie and Fizz.

He stares up at the ceiling, watching all the colorful patterns up there before Ozzie and Fizz came into the view.

“Yeah! There you go!” Ozzie encourages.

Angel sits straight up in shock.

“Don’t let us stop you. Keep it going!” Ozzie responds happily.

“Actually, um, we need your help,” Angel utters. “It’s about my contract with Val.”

Ozzie arches a brow. “Wait a minute, are you Angel Dust?”

Angel nods.

Ozzie glances at Fizz. “Babe, take them to my office. I’m sure Lucifer is waiting there already. I’ll meet you up there.”

“Alright, babe,” Fizz replies while helping Angel get Husk up on his feet.

As Ozzie continues to entertain his guests, Fizz hurries both Angel and Husk out of the room. Finally the scent goes away.

To Be Continued...

#angel dust #charlie morningstar #hazbin hotel husk #huskerdust #hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel: the contract of blood #nifty hazbin hotel #vaggie hazbin hotel #cherri hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel lucifer

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OKAY I finished Love Like the Galaxy today so here are my live reaccs to eps 28-42 (originally posted on Bluesky). Putting them under a cut because they run long!!!

oh man this scene!!! I've seen the same kind of scene play out so often with all the apologising done by the fml and none by the mml…but in this one she tells him her attitude towards him will depend on HIS future actions, and then HE GIVES HER A SNACK our boy is Doing the Work I am proud of him

and now: he will quietly support and encourage her while she seeks to deal with her social enemies in her own way??? I LOVE IT SO MUCH ?? exquisite

we get a look at poor Wang Ling's family and this really could be Overbearing Asian Mothers: The Historical Drama

I can sympathise with NN and Murder General because if I too had someone share a forehead kiss with me I would not be able to sleep all night either

deeply thrilled that NN now gets to do the Dramatic Swooping In To Save Someone - and oh look she's got a maternal figure who's actually kind and loving to her now :')

Oh my, I love how every time he tries to tell her not to get involved in something bc of deep waters, she makes the point that she really needs to do the thing, and he LISTENS. Every time he says "this is for your own good" she claps back with why it's better for her to know & be involved.

This is the platonic ideal of cdramas for me

I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to find Consort Yue to be awesome or intolerable but she's leaning intolerable for me with this public haranguing of all her children (and some of other people's). Glad NN bagged the Empress as her etiquette mentor

Well I didn't expect the money counterfeiting subplot to peak so early but that's terrific, I can do without coinage plots lol

Truly puzzled as to what the show means by all this imperial family drama. The parents seem just as toxic as NN's parents but we're supposed to think it's okay because a) their children had every advantage and some of them still wound up rotten at heart? and b) the town children aren't just committing crimes against family - they're crimes against the empire? I'm afraid the parallels ring a bit hollow to me because I truly think the Emperor and Consort Yue are also terrible parents

Interestingly, Murder General says the Emperor will not treat the counterfeiting as harshly as the law provides "because of fairness". We saw Bad Mum also using "fairness" as an excuse to deny NN things that would benefit her as compared to her cousin. Again, wondering what the parallels are saying.

Bad mum is now having sad violins because NN is finally learning that being a parent is hard…but she's learning from the Empress lol the only thing I have to say to that is SUFFER, MA'AM

NN is now reassuring the Empress that parents who patiently teach rather than criticise their children are the best, & she's been commending the crown Prince for being gentle & compassionate rather than a cold politician, so I'm beginning to wonder if there's a muted critique of the imperial family

This Tiger Tally thing is totally going to be stolen within the next two episodes isn't it

Thanks a lot murder general

ooohh she lied to him and he's big mad about it

"here are all the reasons why your actions have made things worse for me and the people you care about" maybe you should have told her those things first, GENIUS

AHAHAHAHAHAHA now she's saying that exact thing herself I LOVE THIS SHOW

annnnnd the Tiger Tally is gone and it's time for Murder General, Boy Detective! to save the - wait, what is Niao Niao doing here

*ancient Chinese man falls in love with woman for independent spirit and quick wits, horrified when she insists upon using them*

did she,,,did she forge the Tiger Tally lol

Murder general realises he needs to let NN do all the things he fell in love with her for. Congrats Niao Niao you've levelled up and unlocked Tragic And Highly Disturbing Family Reunion

wheeee NN says being filial is only possible if the parents earn it by conducting themselves well if I was murder general I would also be kissing her at this point

pov: you're sitting at your betrothal feast and someone comes in with a message from your absent beloved: "whatever happens next, don't be flustered. shout and scream however you feel is appropriate" the hEcK Zisheng

one of the things that absolutely staggers me about Smug Scholar is that HE doesn't want to get married, least of all to NN, he just wants to make sure nobody else can marry her either

ahhh first Qiqi and Bad Mum are defending her now - and then the Empress turns up? I'm sure murder general had something to do with the Empress, but I love that he's now helping NN solve problems in her own way

all the elders are squabbling and our leads are just chilling affectionately in the background it's hilarious

I mean after they stole the spotlight at Snacks' betrothal feast it's probably fair

Oh no NN is now the Empress' adopted perfect daughter who gets all the attention…and Fifth Princess is NOT happy. More parallels!

"tonight, I'll teach you how to recognise acupoints" is that what they're calling it these days

Murder general is highly trained in the Romance Novel Cover Clinch school of self defence

"from now on, my Gate of Life will be yours" V U L N E R A B I L I T Y

NN is a darling who is determined to protect her Empress' favourite son but girlfriend,,, you do realise you can't babysit this disaster couple through ruling an entire empire don't you

ahahahahaha he's doing the "what am I going to do if you get hurt" thing and she's not having a bar of it

this show just speedrunning all my least favourite tropes with a heroine who Won't Be Flim Flammed and it's BEAUTIFUL

it is time for murder general to go a little unhinged, as a treat drinking tea while listening to the shrieks of his enemies, as you do

I am loving so much, so very much, about this show…but I'm finding the humiliation of the antagonists to be a little too thorough and mean-spirited to enjoy, even tho I can see how it is intended to fit in with the themes of fighting for yourself.

Where does the line between justice and vindictiveness lie, especially in a social setting with injustice hard-baked in? One of the principles of justice (at least in the west) is that it must be proportionate to the crime. But the humiliation dealt out in this show often feels excessive to me.

ep38: every single last one of these people is absolutely bonkers insane, except the Empress

I laughed way harder than I should. I love that NN told two different people to shut up in the emperor's presence. I love that NN has this moment of piercing identification with murder general when she sees him being beaten the way she was. I think the emperor is rubbish, & I think the show knows it

He promises NN that he won't ever lie to her and I have every expectation that this promise will be broken, just like every other cdrama hero breaks that promise

except that I also trust NN to make sure he doesn't get away with it, which is what makes this drama so MUCH fun

murder mystery break!!!! there's all sorts of interesting thematic stuff going on here about communal/family responsibility to educate and socialise children, as well as the difference in appropriate behaviour in the private vs public spheres. But it's fun that our leads are doing it together.

I could not ask for a better Exasperated Watson to NN's Sherlock Holmes than Smug Scholar, whom she now diagnoses with Extreme Sour Grapes in two seconds flat

NN telling the murderer that murder general will naturally let him go in return for NN's safe return…she sure is a tricky one

Of course she had a knife, she's not an IDIOT, Zisheng

Emperor: out of consideration of your family's reduced circumstances I will not be executing you for your part in the cataclysm that left murder general an orphan

murder general: truly epic side eye

all of them are definitely dead

I love murder general because he can turn anything as simple as buying sweets for his fiancée into a production of SPARTACUS

Our girl is dressed as a boy, sneaking around the army camp looking for murder general. Murder General's personal army of beefy warriors is sneaking around the camp trying not to catch Niao Niao while dropping loud hints about where to find his tent. Cdramas, man.

"from now on, you can leave the needlework to me" ling buyi is officially the man of my dreams

well, just as the military expedition around eps 11-12 signalled the end of the first act, so this new expedition feels like it signals the start of the final act. NN and her murder puppy have reached such a situation of love and trust that I can feel the pin approaching the balloon.

he's about to catch peng kun and find out some things, isn't he??? murder party revenge WHEN

#love like the galaxy #lltg #ling buyi #cheng shaoshang #cdrama #asian drama

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I think whether you’re supportive or not regarding how Chloe ended up in Revolution depends on whether you think having a support system is something that should be earned.

I mean, that might be one aspect of it?

There's a LOT of baggage regarding the end of S5, and not just the finalé. Smack dab in the middle of *Monarch having all the miraculous and that being very serious* and *There are senti-people and they matter* plots, they shoehorn in a ridiculous mean-girl plot that breaks even the very broad suspension of disbelief that the show is given being a superhero kids show.

More than anything it all comes off as forced and performative. 'We have to wrap this up and so we are, but we're not actually building on anything we're just plopping it into place, and spending a LONG TIME on it.'

It has a very different feel than even previous mean girl eps from previous seasons. Before they were comedic. Chhloé is being ridiculous, and she gets some kind of minor comeuppance, and folks laugh, and it works. This time, it's just... awkward. Everything feels mean spirited, not just Chloé's behavior, but the entire framing of the episodes. We don't get Chloé all messy on the street after turning down Kim harshly. We don't get her being chased by a giant hair dryer after being a jerk to Nate. We don't get her zooming around Paris in a flying car zapping people into bananas.

We just get this spiral down into a bad ending and all people do is stand around and say 'Well, you know we tried one thing that that one thing didn't work, so I guess there's nothing we can do' like, this is the worst magical girl/hero protagonist ensemble ever if you take that at face value. It's just so very strange.

All this just to say, by the end, if you're happy with the way Chloé's story wrapped up in Revolution, I don't think it has to do with support structures, I think it has to do with spite. I think it has to do with projecting some person in your life onto Chloé and getting vicarious, unhealthy, revenge.

There's no scenario where anyone actually seeking justice, positivity, or a basic common good can look at an outcome that involves protracted psychological abuse of a child and think 'That is what should have happened.'

#ask #Chloé Bourgeois #S5 Revolution #Child abuse is never okay

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i can’t tell you how much i usually hate these ignoring, distancing plots in shows and how much i absolutely adore everything about these 2 episodes of the eighth sense. like im not having a good time, and it’s fantastic.

bc the thing is, in all of this, i can’t see the right way to go, i can’t find the person to blame, i can’t find the way to make it better. I can’t single out a single moment or a thing someone did and say “this is why everything went wrong”. it’s just this coming together and rise and swell of things happening and people feeling things that has us ending up here and it feels beautifully and horribly organic bc we can’t find that point where it all went wrong. was it on that rooftop? was it at the beach? was it when they first met? was it when his brother died? was it when he was born into this family? there is no single point. it’s all of them and it’s none of them. there is truly nothing and no one to blame. and there are bad characters in the show, people you can hate, eunji and taehyung, but neither of them are to blame for any of the bad stuff that happens in the show. you’re not waiting for them to be taken down bc that doesn’t solve anything. instead, it’s just two people hurting, and not knowing how to make it better.

bc you take jaewon, and after what he says at the end of ep 8, you want to hate him, you want to be so angry at him for what he says, for how he acts, how dismissive and hurtful he is, and yet you’ve been made to understand 100% why, and not just in a “i get it but that wasn’t the right thing to do” way, in a “that was horrible and yet i know he doesn’t see any other way to handle this” way. like you don’t see this as a misstep, or a step to far, bc you know for him, in his state of mind, it is completely justified, it’s necessary. bc it not only punishes the person he blames for all of this, himself, but he sees it as a way to protect jihyun. and not even in a cliche “bad things happen when people around me, the people I love always get hurt” kinda way, but more so in that he sees that he is a scared, messy, struggling person that doesn’t know how to handle himself, and doesn’t want to inflict that on anyone, let alone the person he cares about. so what’s worse, a quick, swift blow that hurts but cuts everything off cleanly, or this prolonged relationship where he inevitably continues to weigh jihyun down with the weight of his trauma, and take it out on him. what’s the point of having a place of refuge when you ruin it more and more every time you depend on it, until it eventually can’t offer you comfort. it’s a lesser of two evils, jaewon’s choice is obvious to him.

but then you take jihyun. and we talk about masks and fronts but we never once question whether jihyun wears a mask bc he appears so sweet and innocent and naive, what can this boy possibly be putting up a front for. but i see it, this almost fake it till you make it confidence front that yes is becoming more natural. but my god just think about what he’s gone through for a second. think about it. left home for the first time in his life, moved to an unfamiliar and intimidating city with only one other person he knows, started a new job, started university, tried to build relationships, met a man that intrigues him, and perused him only to be kissed and then ignored, then maybe establish something tentative, only to then see him spiral, go on a trip where he shared his trauma, you have an intimate night together only to almost die, and then be not only ignored, but plain and simple rejected and pushed away. like… you can say all you want about jihyun growing as a person and having more courage, but no amount of growth for however many months this has been going on for can prepare you for that. for the mixed messages on steroids. for the back and forth, not knowing. to give yourself to someone like that and go through something traumatic and then be abandoned by that person. we get it, bc we see all of jaewon’s story. but apart from what jaewon shared at the beach, jihyun doesn’t know any more than that. he doesn’t know about therapy, about how his father acts towards him, about the extent of his trauma and how it manifests and affects his mental health, and how he is struggling every single day. and you can’t expect him to know the depths of that no matter how empathetic and connected he is, how much he cares about jaewon, he can’t be superhuman. and so you get why he pushes and fights for jaewon. like… he is in love. it’s clear. he’s fallen in love with him. he is this wide-eyed, open kid that fell in love with a senior. and jaewon has just messed with his head, he’s never been clear, and you can’t expect jihyun to just get past that bc he knows something is up with jaewon. he can’t know the full story, but even if he did, that can’t be a reason or a justification to be treated the way jaewon treats him. bc we’re all about jaewon putting himself first and doing what he wants and respecting himself like that, but jihyun deserves that too. and it’s such a fine line to tread when you know someone is going through something, bc again you understand why, but you’re still the one being treated that way. like we talk about jaewon’s trauma, but here jihyun was part of it, he went through that traumatic experience. he’s the one that nearly lost his life. and yes, he appears to handle it well, and no matter to what extent that’s true or not, you can’t not look at jaewon struggling and understand it and then not look at jihyun with that same understanding. it’s not about comparing trauma and pain and deciding who is suffering more, it’s seeing that there are two people in this, and they’ve both been affected, so we should give them the same level of understanding.

and that’s something jaewon has to see. that his self-preservation is selfish. that his destructive behavior doesn’t just affect jihyun, instead it feels pointed and directed, bc every way jaewon hurts himself hurts jihyun. and it comes bc jihyun was so much of what was good about jaewon’s life for a second, so attacking that is his only form of self-sabotage. he can’t mess up his relationship with his friends or parents bc they were broken in the first place, and he can’t sabotage his future bc it’s already been ruined the moment he didn’t pursue his photography major. him nearly getting kicked out of school affected him so little not just bc he wanted that punishment, but bc even that punishment meant so little to him. all these things are established and they already contribute to his suffering. removing jihyun from his life is the only active thing he can do to make himself feel worse, and he can veil it in an act of protection, and even feel like he’s doing the right thing, but that deceives them both into believing this is done from a good place, when no good can actually come of it. in trying to protect jihyun, you hurt him more. in trying to hurt yourself, you hurt him too. and when someone is in a headspace like jaewon is, you look for that thing that’ll break through. bc he is so distant, he’s trying to remove himself from reality, and jihyun needs to act as this person that can anchor him to it. when you’re trying to isolate and separate yourself, sometimes seeing that you still affect things, that there’s a persons that exists that is affected and hurt by your actions, and no matter how you try to cut yourself off, you cannot stop that, separating yourself still hurts them, maybe that’s a thing that can get through. but that’s something that depends on jaewon. ultimately, he’s the only one that can get himself out of this place, and that’s what makes it so hard, that no matter how much jihyun cares and how much he fights for him, nothing can come of that effort is jaewon doesn’t meet him there. and it’d be so easy for jihyun to give in, to take the hurt, but over the course of this show we’ve seen the strength jihyun has developed, which has only seemed to increase more so after the accident, call it a renewed vigor for life or something. he has the strength that jaewon doesn’t, to not let his pain consume him. and in a beautiful full-circle moment, it’s because of jaewon, bc when they first spoke he sparked in jihyun a want to be stronger, to be more than the country mouse, and he’s done it. and it’s that courage that means he can fight for jaewon, even in the face of rejection. he trusts himself and that he knows jaewon, the real jaewon, to see past words that are intended to hurt them both, and go after the person that’s still inside jaewon somewhere. no, he can’t do it for him, and no them being together is not some magical cure for jaewon, but it’s what can put him on a path of caring for himself again, and sometimes that has to start with caring about someone else (and suddenly I’m reminded of my beautiful man 2 and how kiyoi tries to break hira out of his worthless mindset by making him care about him, and how ultimately that can’t be enough, and that hira has to take those first steps of seeing his self worth by himself). what jihyun can do by fighting is again act as that tether to reality and try to be this representation of the good jaewon can be and do. bc look at jihyun, look at how confident and strong he has become, and look at how he got there, bc you saw that country mouse and gave him the time of day and helped him grow and gave him new experiences. you jaewon, you. and that shift in mindset, from jihyun representing hurt and the accident and the trauma of his brother and everything he can’t do, to being that light and refuge and everything he can do is again something that might breaks through. and the fact it has such narrative strength and satisfaction makes me hopeful that that’s what we might actually get.

#I did a rant #I’ve done a lot of rants actually they’re all just sitting in my notes bc they all got a little too much #my thoughts are a literal mess and I am still struggling to put them in all the right words #mostly bc the way jaewon is behaving and not to be too overinvolved is very reminiscent of *me*#and so watching him shut down and remove himself knowing it’s something i do is hard and frustrating #and I did a whole rant about it but I realised I need to separate myself from the character to be able to talk about it #so yeah #I really wanted to bring up jihyun tho #bc he presents as so strong in these two eps but you cannot argue against what he’s been through and the effect that would have on anyone #and try to see it from a perspective where we don’t know what jaewon is going through and just see his actions and realise how much he has #messed with jihyun again not at all on purpose but that 1000 to nothing jihyun went through from the trip to the accident and it’s aftermath #that’s a fucking lot #and it’s interesting that we talk so much about people putting themselves first and not putting up with shit #like I think of simon from young royals and how we celebrate him saying no to being willhelms secret as an act of self-respect #but bc we understand and empathise so much with what jaewon is going through it’s hard to make yourself even consider jihyun #but when you do see it from his side you realise it’s a lot for him too #and that you wouldn’t hate him or misunderstand him if he was mad at jaewon #and with *spoliers* is there only so much he can take of jaewon’s self sabotage hurting him until even he and his developed strength and #confidence is broken by it #he can only keep fighting for jaewon for so long and idk if it’s gonna be a case of jaewon coming round too little too late #but I just hope this isn’t easy which sounds mean I don’t want either of them to suffer more #but this isn’t a kiss and get back together and all is good #I think jaewon needs to see the bad he’s caused #bc it’s only by owning up to that that he can ground himself in the moment and see that he’s part of this world and can’t separate himself #from it and jihyun also needs to realise that no matter his headspace jaewon does want space and when someone is self sabotaging you still #have to listen and respect what they’re saying distance means distance and as much as you want to fight against it you can’t be responsible #for making it work #agh I need to stop rambling bc it’s so messy and complex and I just absolutely ADORE the level to which this situation has so many emotional #moving parts and how ultimately blameless they both are and how it makes it so much harder to see a way out it’s fantastic #the eighth sense

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all-thestories-aretrue · 2 years

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Just read your post about the stunning lack of Caleb/Nott/Yeza content out there and I get you friend!!! I am so wild about the whole dynamic going on between them. I'm on ep 62 right now and I am losing my mind over Beau asking Caleb if he's in love with Nott... Caleb standing quietly outside Nott's bedroom door... The longing, the complex feelings between the three of them... Idk where this was going I just!!! Am so glad I'm not alone with these feelings.

One of us! One of us! Yessss!!! I wish I had something eloquent to say about them but most of it is just incoherant screaming.

I went FERAL over that scene between Beau and Caleb. I think if she had asked if Caleb loved Nott it would have been an entirely different story. I still think he was just denying it though just a little bit. He loves her in all the ways its hard to be just in love with her, you know?

And Caleb standing outside her door. It still hurts my heart. I think about that at least 10 times a day. What was going through his mind? How exactly is he feeling? There are so many moments around all of that I would LOVE to talk to you about!!!

I still cannot believe that the entire fandom slept on them??? And Caleb and Nott in general??? It is mind boggling to me. They are individually and together some of the most interesting characters and dynamic in the nein imo. Im biased but hey. But there is so much POTENTIAL. The longing. The changing relationships and displacement. The healing and trauma. The co-dependency. Nott needing Caleb to change her back. Caleb relying on Nott early on.

And Yeza. Oh Yeza. The sweet halfling who is head over heels for Nott no matter form or her name. I can't with him!!! And I so wish we would get to see a conversation between him and Nott about Caleb and how everything is different. I don't think Nott would ever do that but it's nice to dream. But he has to know how close they are. And how does he feel about it? Is he jealous of Caleb? Does he feel bad for him? Is he understanding? I have questions!!!! In the end, I think he would do anything to make her happy, including inviting Caleb into their lives in whatever capacity she wanted.

Also ngl, I will sort of die on the hill that Nott's feelings toward Caleb are definitely changing, leaning more toward romance and the like than they were at the beginning of the campaign. I definitely won't spoil you. But like c'mon. And i have no idea how much what people said in the replies to that post actually happened, etc. But I hope Sam and Liam didn't drastically change anything about the story they wanted to tell because of people's reactions.

I also don't think its a coincidence that Nott's feelings are evolving as she rescues Yeza and reunites with him and Luc. I think Caleb and Yeza are beginning to represent much more to her than just her loves. They represent different ways of life, different values, different personalities. They have facets of her in both of them, and I think she's putting pressure on herself to choose. Neither Yeza nor Caleb seem too concerned about that or maybe aware of it? I just think there's meaning behind her shifting feelings and the fact she is being faced with this choice (as she sees it) now. Whether intentional on the part of Sam, no idea, and frankly, i don't really care lol.

But please always feel free to come scream at me about these two!! I'm always willing to listen!!! And I love hearing others thoughts about them!!!!

To sort of maybe hopefully quell this void in the fandom, I highly recommend you read this fic my lovely friend @gelatinouscute wrote for me. (If the link doesn't work, I can definitely message it to you). But it's very good!!!!

#critical role #cr2 #widobrave #mighty nein #the brenattos #caleb widogast #nott the brave #still dont have a tag for asks #but i meant what i said #im always interested in hearing others takes on them and whatnot #theres not enough nott and caleb and yeza content in this world #and it was not addressed in game enough #my first rare pair or ship or obsession or whatever #i have so much empathy for you who have rare pairs on the regular #this is NOT fun #also you didnt ask for an essay but you got one sorry

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booasaur · 11 months

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Kristi's fiancee was originally supposed to be a man but Chloe was like, nope, Kristi's gonna have a woman fiancee. The show showed Kristi and Kenny's story in season 1 to make us root for them. I think whether Kristi's fiancee(e) was a man or woman, it was always going to end the same with Kristi and Kenny being the slow burn couple.

Ooo I have a theory! Remember when Kenny was telling Father K about how his dad wandered out of the house? And then Mama Liu got mad at her husband for doing that because he 'knows better' and then Kenny told her, "Mom, he has dementia. He's not trying to fucking piss you off."

I could potentially see Kristi opening a door or window when high and Kristi getting mad at her for it. But Mari isn't opening the door to piss her off, she's an addict. She needs help.

Oh, that's interesting, that it came from her. And it's a cool change, I'm always in favor of going away from the "default", as it were, but I think you still need to be mindful of what the changes represent.

Sadly too often, the new character's just there be a plot device, so then it kind of sucks that sometimes, for example, the only lesbian or Black character is there to be be an obstacle for someone else's romance. And it's not like they have to be the winner or whatever in every love triangle, but they should have their own agency and motivations. And you know, a well-written character should have their background reflected in them. It doesn't have to be in huge ways or all bad things or all good things, it's simply a fact of life that we go through different things. Like in San Junipero, a pretty famous recent example where the writer decided to switch to f/f, it wasn't simply a m/f romance now with two women, their sexualities were key parts of their stories.

Though, it's also important that Kenny's Asian and there still aren't many male Asian romantic leads. Heh, it always gets messy when different kinds of rep get pitched against each other (The 100 and Supergirl war flashbacks) but I guess I just want thoughtfulness in how it's done, either way. Nobody should be just a plot device, even the whitest straightest character! And indeed, a character who only appears in the second season to be killed is a bit hmm.

Having said that, it's been a few eps since you sent this in, and since then, I don't really know that Kristi/Kenny HAVE been framed as this inevitable love story, but I don't know if anyone on this show will even get that. Both because it's a horror and anyone can die, but you notice how it tends to go up and down on characterization from one week to the next, depending on what's needed. The calmest, most rational person will be an idiot and then vice versa, it could be that Kristi's totally focused on Mari right now, and then next season realizing she's in love with Kenny or whatever.

Sorry I waited so long to answer that we couldn't really discuss your theory about how Mari's addiction might affect things, but in last night's ep, that almost happened! She was close to opening a window!

Now, though, I wonder what'll happen. If she, Julie, and Randall are all being affected by this new thing, feels like next ep, the season finale, will be to rescue them. Julie's a main so I'd expect her to survive, but Mari and Randall are far more up in the air. :x

#replies #femslash related stuff #sent on 20230527 #Anonymous #5 #from epix #kristi x marielle #from spoilers #from 2x09 #I've seen people theorize that the mole theory isn't off entirely #just that it's not donna or boyd #people were thinking it might be randall but I think that's out now #they're fixated on tilly the older lady #but I'm also curious about the bus driver #that ain't no nursery rhyme -_-#it'd be funny if after all this donna IS the mole lol

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With only a few eps left, what do you want to see from Tim and Lucy's relationship?

Hello, Anon! Either there are a lot of you dropping into my inbox, or there's one very inquisitive human out there. Either way, thanks for the message!

My answer depends on whether we're facing the final season of the show. I know that there's been a lot of debate in the fandom regarding length of actor contract, but those have been severed before, and can be severed again.

Abbott Elementary (also on ABC) has Season 3 announced. Every other ABC show (besides one airing its known "finale season") is currently listed without status.

If we are in the final season of the show, I'd love a proposal, quite honestly. I feel like Tim and Lucy don't need to work on anyone else's timeline. So, if they want to get engaged, more power to 'em.

If we have time, then I'd simply love to see them grow together. I know that some people complain that they're not all over each other at every minute of the day. But, I don't think that's Tim and Lucy.

Yes, Lucy is very comfortable in her sexuality. But she's more like Tim when it comes to separating that out—romance and work.

Even with Chris, she wasn't touching him at the Station while in uniform. With Emmett, she barely acknowledged him when she was on the clock.

Would it be cute to see them cuddling? Sure. Adorable to see them with Kojo together, reunited? Absolutely! More kisses? Sure!

They're really good on-screen kissers (yes, there are bad ones... yes, I know this personally... yes, I took the hottest shower of my life when I got home from set that day). So, I'd totally welcome more kisses if the actors were comfortable with it.

But I'm not that... expectant. So long as neither of them dies, breaks up with the other, or spontaneously transitions to a different dimension, I'm pretty good.

I hope that answers your question! Thanks for the inquiry. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and Tuesday's new episode!

#Chenford #Lucy Chen #Tim Bradford #Melissa O'Neil #Eric Winter #The Rookie

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aprillikesthings · 4 months

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moar rewatch

s1! ep2 and 3!

Bow's voice actor's work here is so good lolol

Nice work establishing that only Adora can do the transformation thing with the magic sword

Man someone on youtube has to have done one of those therapist deep-dives on their relationship. So much of their interactions are just painfully accurate for the way a kid reacts to an abusive parent--that combination of fear and resentment and still wishing you could make them happy, just once.

My family didn't have a golden child vs. scapegoat thing going on, though. I wonder if this is based on the writers' own experiences or if one of them read about that dynamic or had a therapist consulted or what

oof too real 😬

anyway Free Palestine

even cartoons know that murdering civilians and/or destroying their homes makes you the bad guy

There's some parallels here with kids who grew up in conservative/evangelical families realizing their family's politics and faith weren't based around Jesus at all but were based around bigotry and small-minded cruelty and knowing they have to leave, and knowing ND Stevenson's background I assume it's intentional

"You've known these people for, what, a couple of hours? and you're going to throw everything away for them?"

:( and to Catra, this just feels like a betrayal. There's a meta post somewhere way back in my tags that was like, from Catra's POV, Adora knew how shitty Shadow Weaver treated Catra and that wasn't enough to rebel and leave, but knowing Glimmer and Bow for a handful of hours was, and how much that had to hurt like hell, considering Catra put up with Shadow Weaver's abuse for so long in part to protect Adora and in part because it meant her and Adora were still together

Ugh this is why I love this show, Catra's actions are sometimes just awful but they make sense given what we know about her life, and right now she's just panicking and trying to hide it

And meanwhile Bow and Glimmer are like "actually we've decided we trust you :) can you be fancy sword lady again thanks!"

Like of course Adora is going to pick Bow and Glimmer and not Catra in that moment!!

"Is that....Adora?" "It's She-ra!"

Yeah that's not gonna be the source of weird "who the fuck even AM I" feelings later ha ha ha amiright

Also along with all the other weirdness of suddenly being bigger/different outfit etc, like, She-Ra is not only WAY stronger, but also knows how to fight in that body and with that sword. Like having muscle memory you didn't know you had. That's gotta be WEIRD. (I mean, there's also memories that clearly aren't hers, too)

Poor bb is scared, mad, and kinda turned on (shhhh I can headcanon whatever I want)

I called Yellow Diamond a clod, right to her face!!

("You made that joke the first time you saw this ep April" It's just a good joke okay!!)

OKAY EPISODE OVER

EP 3

Glimmer: everyone hates Horde soldiers but I think people will love you as She-Ra YOU JUST HAVE TO BE SHE-RA HA HA IT'LL BE FINE

Adora, internally: I'm only valuable/acceptable/lovable as long as I can be She-Ra, a person who isn't entirely me and that I don't know how to control and feel extremely weird about, got it

LOL I FORGOT HOW THEY GOT SWIFT WIND

whether the sword's edges are sharp or not is entirely dependent on whether someone needs it to be or not pffft

ouch

lol this would be such a wild cosplay to do

(a quick image google says the original is far more popular for cosplay; only a couple of people have done this version)

"Adora's gone, she's defected. And I'm starting to think she had the right idea!"

...okay how tempted do we think Catra actually was to just fucking leave.

Once again: intentional parallels to high-control religious groups

But the reference to Lord Hordak specifically also has shades of "Just wait until your father finds out what you did!" which is, uh, a little uncomfortably close to home ngl

DEEP SIGH

boy do I hate how familiar this is

I used to get so scared it would make my stomach hurt, and I'd shake the same way Catra does here, which sometimes made him angrier

jesus christ

okay how much of my love of Catra as a character is bc I can empathize with her in moments like this one (I was never as openly rebellious or back-talking as she is though; any disagreement got me screamed at)

I mean on the other hand Hordak is like "bitch, I know you've been doing this whole Golden Child/Scapegoat bullshit, so if your Golden Child fucked off and the Scapegoat is all you've got left then congrats that's on you, dumbass."

Catra thought she was gonna be murdered and instead she got a promotion

OKAY BUT ahahah oh god

IF Hordak had actually punished Catra or even threatened her in any way, I feel like Catra would, in fact, have left. There would be nothing left for her in the Horde, right? So why not leave?

But Hordak didn't promote Catra because he personally believes in her abilities, he did it to piss off Shadow Weaver. Then again maybe he knows that promoting Catra means she'll stay loyal.

Because it works, doesn't it. Oof. Catra wants to prove herself, dammit; and she's been given a shot at doing it, so she's staying.

Aaaugh.

OKAY that's 3 episodes out of 52. I think I'm done for today. No guarantees, though. Also there's no way I can do this for every single episode. >_<

#april rewatches spop

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Dfunk anon (off anon now bc who givea a fuck) from earlier love uuu thank you for validating my takes <3

Yeah obviously i dont mean the if you love roman dni shit seriosuly lol. Thags gow it is with this show today we hate em tomorrow we love em again, they contain multitudes. Its the awful people show, we were doomed from the start what else did we expect et cetera

One thing that did shock me was shiv's pregnancy reveal to tom, do you have any thoughts on what the fate of tomshiv might be? Ifl at this point shes too far gone sges gonna do everyhing in ger power to "win" and if she doesnt at least shell bring everyone down with her.. ita gonna get ugly methinks. Anyway i understand if you gotta go to sleep i should too its been real gn

YOOO DRUNK ANON REVEAL !! hello and thank u for the asks they were a joy truly. no bad takes in sight!

and yeaaaah the tomshiv moment this ep really really Got me — personally found it like 10000x more affecting than the screaming match last episode. one of my fav tomshiv convos ever maybe? like just so devastating bc they just fundamentally do not understand each other the way they want to be understood. but as for ur question yeah i can’t really see them ending up in a happy marriage to say the least! i do think there will be attempts at reconciliation probably from tom’s end — once it really sinks in that she wasn’t lying about the baby, i think he’ll try to talk to her. i mean, from his perspective, shiv came up to him to try to sweettalk her way back into his life after their blowup last night not bc she actually meant her apology but bc she wanted an in at ATN on election night, and she used the one thing tom has explicitly wanted more than anything else in their relationship — a baby — against him as a manipulation tactic to try and reel him in. like, his response to her was genuine and hurt; it wasn’t an attack so much as a deeply sad “you’re…. seriously going to do this to me? this is what we’re doing?” and of course shiv is horrified and furious he doesn’t believe her (understandably so, i know i would be too), and everything goes downhill from there. i think yeah, it’ll probably get ugly, but just in general i’d be a little surprised if the ending were like insanely bleak. the show cares too much about its characters for that, which is a good thing — they won’t receive unrealistically horrible endings to hammer in The Satire, because yes succession is a satire, but it’s also a character and relationship study. they’ve never sacrificed that for satire before (except for greg but who gives a fuck its greg) so i don’t think they will now. i don’t think there will be a happy ending but i do think it’ll be open ended enough that some form of reconciliation or at least like peace (as in even if they’re not together i think there will be a sense of self-assurance, in a way, that there isn’t right now) will be visible somewhere off in the distance. whether or not the characters will actually ever reach it is anyone’s guess, but i don’t think succession will revel in their misery in a Boom Haha Satire Fuck Em way. i don’t think it’ll be a hopeful ending by any means, but i do think it’ll be an ending that holds room for some distant hope, rather than snuffing it out entirely (cough veep cough cough)

sorry that was much more of a general / thematic answer than specifically tomshiv related but tbh as of rn i have no fucking clue how the show is going to end — it just feels like there’s too much left, like there’s so much more i want to see. i’ve gotten a lot of asks along the lines of like “you’re so good at predicting things! any predictions for the ending?” (which, first of all, thank u <3) but my ‘predictions’ are really more about following the latest narrative threads than anything else. like, ask me again next week LMAO bc it’ll all depend on what happens in the coming ep. i have a broader sense thematically on the tone i think the show will try to strike but as for details im totally lost — it feels too far away! how can it end so soon there’s so much left! but ya know. we shall see >:)

#sorry for lowkey hijacking this ask to answer OTHER asks in my inbox. o would copy paste to those asks but i am lazy and on mobile so it #would b hard #is this comprehensible? dunno. brain mush. post #succession #succession spoilers #succession speculation #asks #loversneverlose #long post #casey shut the fuck up about shiv roy #. kinda

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Randomly reading tumblr articles, I stumbled upon a link to an old interview with Voltron’s EPs. This part of the interview stood out to me, as I’ve been supporting the same interpretation of why Zarkon and Honerva became corrupt.

Interviewer: Do you think that, had Zarkon not been infected by the poisoned Quintessence, he may have remained “good?” Or do you think his obsession with Quintessence was already too great and it would’ve only been a matter of time before he became truly evil?

Dos Santos: I personally think that he had very ideological differences with the way Alfor saw things, even without the Quintessence coming into play. I think they came from very opposite ends of societal places.

Montgomery: Different cultures.

Dos Santos: But, they found common ground, and they worked together, so I think there’s a good chance that they could’ve worked together. Maybe there would’ve been ups and downs.

Montgomery: They didn’t see eye to eye, but nothing quite on the level that this has taken had he not encountered that Quintessence. Had they never discovered Voltron, even if they had resorted to war, it would’ve been a much smaller fallout. Something bad would’ve happened in their galaxy, but he wouldn’t have this world denomination that he’s been going on because of his obsession.

Dos Santos: I think Quintessence, if anything, it sort of grabs on to the worst of us and accentuates those elements. Like anything, it corrupts.

Montgomery: Anything at all, even, whether it’s good or evil. Medicine in large doses can kill you. So that’s really what Quintessence is. It’s not innately good or innately bad. It’s a power source, and if you misuse it, it can be very disastrous.

Dos Santos: I think that was the point also that Alfor was trying to get across. He was saying, “Guys, look, you’ve got to covet this stuff extremely cautiously,” in mind that there’s a balance with all of it.

Their commentaries go hand in hand with something Shiro’s clone said in S6: “Zarkon fell prey to his own evil instincts. The quintessence field didn’t create them, it revealed them.”

I’ve written two metas about Zarkon and Honerva’s madness arcs in detail, starting exactly from this premise - the blame is not shifted solely on quintessence, but on their own initial flaws.

The way I like to see it is like this: imagine a slider on a scale from white to black. In between there are lots of grays, which we all have, to a darker or lighter degree. Quintessence will take that slider and radically shift it in one or the other direction, depending what gray zone you’re in. Allura would be the positive example: she tipped the scale towards the bright side - when saving all realities, she transformed the quintessence "from a destructive force to a life-giving force."

Neither Honerva nor Zarkon were devoid of their past selves, even after becoming so vile. Their old selves were still there, their consciousnesses buried deep inside, and my metas explore their gradual transitions towards loss/recovery of their own personas, also taking into account the role of the dark entity within their journeys.

Lance says this nicely at the end of the show: “And had Princess Allura not seen that there was still good left in Honerva, we most likely would not be sitting here today. She grew to understand that there is good in everyone.”

Kid: “Even Emperor Zarkon?”

Lance: “Yes, even Emperor Zarkon.”

#voltron #voltron meta #vld meta #quintessence commentary #jesseblue writes #zarkon #honerva

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sepyana · 11 months

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JJBA Stardust Crusaders Ep. 25-29 Thoughts

Aka I ramble on about the N'Doul episodes and some manga differences.

Ep 25 is the start of the second half of SDC. I have been a bit slow so far so I've decided to pick up speed. It's gonna take me 2 months to finish the anime otherwise. I've watched episodes 25 to 33 but I have some extra things to say today, I'm gonna split the post in two.

First of all, the opening. It starts off all mysteries but then the rest of the song is like the first one. It even has Star Platinum's ORA ORA's in it. My favourite part is the start and the sequence with the white lines in it.

Ep. 25-26 (N'Doul)

There is a dog. The dog has a stand, The Fool. To be fair, he is a really anthropomorphized dog, way smarter than the actual thing. They kind of have to do this if he is gonna be part of the team with a stand and all. (Jotaro smiling while Iggy is biting Polnareff's face off was pretty funny. Mr. Emotionless over here thinks this is hilarious.)

It's honestly a crime that N'doul shows up for only two episodes. His design, abilities and personality is sick as hell to me. My fave DIO goon, maybe? Most of the time stands are way more interesting then the goon using 'em. Basic bitch pick, I know. Sometimes things are popular for though.

^ Kakyoin being a piece of shit here was pretty funny. They were arguing so much that N'Doul could sense them. Good work guys.

Episode goes from 1 to 11 real quick when N'Doul slashes Kakyoin's eyes. And he passes out from the shock. Kakyoin getting hurt to show how dangerous the new threat happens a lot, but it seems actually serious this time. I don't think Araki is bold enough to make him lose his eyes for real, but It'd be really interesting development if he did. I'm just saying.

Advol says "No, that's wrong" He says the thing! Guys!!! He also gets his neck cut too ig lol. I'm sure he'll be fine.

Jotaro uses the secret Joestar technique of running the fuck away (to divert attention away from the people he cares about). Classic. He makes sure to grab Iggy on the way.

^ Jokes aside, I thought Jotaro throwing Iggy to not get hit by Geb was really smart. It makes so much sense but I couldn't think of it at all.

I know Iggy is just a dog, he didn't ask for this yada yada I don't care, if the bastard didn't wanna get thrown at 20 mph he shouldn't look so goddamn puntable. Every time I look at him I am filled with rage. I want to kick him like football.

Okay but for real, Iggy is gonna be a hard sell for me. I don't like small dogs but I dislike fart jokes even more, which he unfortunately delivers in spades. I know part 3 has a lot of piss shit and fart jokes in it but Iggy isn't helping!!

Okay the stand-off between Jotaro and N'Doul was excellent. The animation, the soundtrack and the sound design worked really well. And then Star Platinum going HUUUUAAAHHHH

If you didn't think Dio wasn't building a cult before, you'll surely do now. Even Jotaro comments on it. Cults give people a purpose and answers, so...

I do feel a lil bit bad for him. Dio finds the most isolated and depressed people to use them, letting them depend on him. As much as I've been trying to avoid them I get recommended jojos when I search for clips. N'Doul's line "I do not fear death. Just as long as [Dio] doesn't abandon and murder me himself." in one of the games puts it plainly.

It's hard to wrap your head around Dio being charismatic but when you hear his interactions with them it becomes obvious. He acts like he cares for them, whether that's genuine or on is up in the air. Considering everything in Phantom Blood, how much it took for Dio to finally respect Jonathan, I'm inclined to say no? He was definitely meant to be a pure evil Disney villain type of character there. SDC might shake things up, who knows.

Overall, these episodes are great. They have a lil bit of everything I like. Part 1 doesn't feel boring compared to part 2, unlike some other two parters. Not to mention the music picks.

Now, onto something I wanna talk about. I was sort of going thru the manga pages for the last few episodes and,

This line of Jotaro is given to Advol in the anime. And he is less stressed about it. (I know characters get major injuries only to be fine the next episode but like, Kakyoin losing his eyes is a big development. He doesn't show for the next 13 episodes after this.)

^ Too tired to change the lines.

Also, in the anime, It is Advol who holds Kakyoin. (Polnareff holding Joseph isn't in either.) Instead, Jotaro hangs with one hand while the other is casually in his pocket. Which is absolutely hilarious. And shows how anime and manga to treats his character.

I know people arguing over manga and anime Jotaro is -a whole thing- I would hear stuff about it while Stone Ocean anime was still releasing. I will think about this a lot more if I actually read the whole thing. Just talking about these two episodes here.

In the anime, Jotaro needs to look cool all the time always. I assume what they were going for was to make him more stoic so that when his cool guy persona (and it is a persona) starts slipping it has more impact. But the changes made seem kind of random. They changed some stuff in this episode but they have kept the Anubis one largely the same. He is not as agitated there but he is still on the back foot.

He is losing control in this episode. The only reason they made it out alive was because The Fool just happened to be able to fly, he was basically fucked before then. Him looking panicked at Kakyoin losing his eyes also makes sense. He can't do anything about the situation, so naturally, his stoic demeanor starts to dissipate for a while. Kakyoin and Advol has put him on a timer.

I don't think the difference between manga and anime Jotaro is that big but it is notable. I dunno. I would prefer Jotaro breaking the cool mask too much rather than basically never.

Another tidbit is, Star Platinum smiles in the manga way more. And I'm gonna be honest I prefer the anime in this. It goes back to the "Having it less makes the times where it does show up more impactful." thing. So, it can definitely be done in a good way.

Ep. 27 (Oingo Boingo Brothers)

One thing I found strange is how the English dub and sub treats the brothers' names. They normally call themselves.Oingo Boingo Brothers. The English sub calls them Zenyatta Monetta Brothers. The dub straight up doesn't mention their name at all.

Weirdly enough, the the other subs do call them Oingo Boingo Brothers. Is it a cultural thing, or a copyright one? I don't know.

I don't have much to say about this episode. So I'm gonna take the opportunity to talk about Kakyoin instead :D

^ This is from the next episode but there isn't much I can use.

I mentioned before how I thought it would be interesting to blind him. You never see legally blind characters in action stuff, unless they have an ability that let's them sense the environment. Like Toph or N'Doul himself. It's a pain to fight blind, it turns out.

Kakyoin should have a way to see, through the humanoid stand Green Heirophant (unless him being blinded makes Heirophant blind also). Like, It would have been really draining. Summoning the stand is a lot but also the chronic pain from his injury, but he could do it. He could use the eyes for battle situations, or Joseph could have SPW bring him technology that could help him in some way. I'm not gonna call this a missed opportunity, I can see why didn't go with that.

I'm guessing Araki wanted to shrink the cast for a while, like with Advol's "death". 5 man band casts are nice but it can be hard to work with 5 people all the time. Cast is divided again with Polnareff-Jotaro and Advol-Joseph. I went in to check when Kakyoin shows up again (grazing thru the manga) and he is not in the show for 13 episodes, excluding 2 scenes. That's more than quarter of the whole runtime. Advol was away for 9 episodes, and he was suppose to be dead.

I'm a bit conflicted on this, shrinking the cast builds relationships between the characters more in depth and it allows for new and interesting storylines. But at the same time, that's a lot of episodes. I just really like both Advol and Kakyoin, man.

Ep. 28-29 (Anubis)

FINALLY Some swordfighting scenes.

Polnareff goes off on his own, again. He comes across a stand user and gets almost killed, again. Yet he keeps going off on his own anyway. Never change king.

Anubis' shtick is that it's a stand with no user, that gets more powerful the more you fight it. It's like Nasus but way cooler. Not that that's a high bar to pass, anything is cooler than farming stacks for 20 minutes. I don't know where Anubis getting stronger with time comes from, since Nasus also has this It's probably part of the mythology. I know absolutely nothing about that though.

Anubis themselves is also a fun villain. Funny man with funny voice. Their design is the opposite of unique but it works for me. I like that him possessing the kid gives him lipstick.

Going back to Polnareff, I think people forget how powerful he is sometimes. When it comes to power and speed, only one stronger than Chariot in the group is Star Platinum. And Star Platinum is op as hell.

Jotaro vs Anubis drives that point even further, Jotaro is not even sure he can win against Polnareff with Anubis' speed added to the equation. The whole fight is just Jotaro sweating bullets thinking "Shit shit shit shit sh

When he does finally win, he says "What were you saying? You were gonna tear me into shreds?" while Star Platinum puts his hand like this. Just. I love it.

^ Compilation of Jotaro faces for this episode.

Overall, Anubis episodes were pretty nice. I think the Alessi epsiodes do a better job building Jotaro and Polnareff's dynamic though.

#sepya watches jjba #↪ posts

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Heroes Death Derby

Well, we have eight eps left and it’s clear that most of our characters will drop like flies. So, here is my odds-of post on our future corpsicles...

The Chancellor, the two Jail Psychos and his Guard (with the awesome name of 13 Doom) - 100%

They are bad guys, they are 100% dead, the only question is who will do them in. I really hope their deaths are vvvv gruesome and that WXS finally achieves his dream of taking out the Chancellor. If I had my druthers, I’d love to have BCF to take out two jail psychos before his own inevitable demise but I will settle for any kind of murderation for those two.

Marquis Fang Ying Kan - 100%

Man is a rapist, a murderer of WXS’ father and has long conversations with skeletons. His brain is half rot and half rabid weasels. He’s 100% a goner. I’d love for Lei Chun to be the one to do him in, second runner-up to be SMZ because that would be a truly epic fight (and they in-canon mention that if those two fought, the outcome would not be clear) but I think it will be WXS.

Su Meng Zhen - 100%

Much as it pains me, the man has enough death flags on him to be a one-man parade. He’s been coughing blood and collapsing the entire drama, he’s already lived past the age the doctors thought he would and he needs peace and quiet but all he gets is shock and heartbreak. The only question I have is whether he will die like La Traviata, dramatically collapsing while beautifully spitting out blood or in battle. Whatever happens, please please don’t let him be killed by Bai Chou Fei or Lei Chun because I won’t be able to take it.

Bai Chou Fei - 100%

If I were a betting person, I’d bet he’s the one whose ashes WXS has in his saddlebag in the prologue. The moment he got tortured into evil and became the sexiest murder zombie to walk the earth, he signed his death warrant. I’d give even odds to him being slain in battle with WXS (for that extra gut-wrenching factor - what finally broke him was the believed loss of WXS, to now be killed by actually alive WXS after he irrevocably went evil because of that loss is in line with a drama from the man who directed GMP) or killing himself after achieving a brief moment of clarity and realizing what he’s done.

Di Fei Jing - 75%

You know he’s gonna take on the person who he thinks assaulted his sister and die. Gorgeous secondary characters in evil sect don’t have long lives. But there is a small chance he can be left to run the sect as the sole sane person in it.

Lei Chun - 70%

She went full on evil so normally I’d say she’s a goner except I think she has a decent chance to survive because living a long life all alone, after all the people who loved her have been killed and she can blame herself for that is in a way the most brutal punishment. Side note - sure sure SMZ killed her Dad but it was an accident; she should have taken a leaf from Li Qin’s character in The Wolf. That woman had to cope with the fact that her OTP killed her Dad, and deliberately at that, and quite reasonably went “well, but he’s hot! And he’s willing to compensate for my loss of relative by helping me make new ones!” What a waste to have SMZ at your beck and call and do nothing with the man!

Wen Rou - 60%

She’s sweet, she’s loving, she’s functional and she’s WXS’ last light in a dark world. I don’t fancy her survival odds. Not to mention that WXS in the prologue doesn’t really look like a man with a loved and loving wife at home. But it all depends on how truly old-school Heroes is. If it was an 00s drama, I’d say she’s definitely dead. As is, not the best odds for living but here is hoping.

Lei Mei - 50%

She can live or she can die taking a knife for BCF or similar. She clearly loves him (and if he still had his sanity, it actually could have been a really good eventual couple. BCF needs to discover it’s better to be loved devotedly than love unrequitedly.) She has morally-ambiguous girl dying for a main written all over her. But maybe not - maybe she will finally be like Sul Hwa in Chuno, who took the freedom and life lessons Dae Gil offered her and despite loving him, went on to a new life after his death.

Wang Xiao Shi - 5%

He’s in the prologue, miserable but alive. 5% only because this is totally the kind of narrative you can see him walking off and an arrow hitting his throat in the last two minutes.

Yang Wu Xie - 5%

He’s gonna go mourn on SMZ’s grave like Hachiko.

Anyway, two weeks and we will see how good I am at predictions :P

#cdrama #heroes

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never-was-has-been · 1 year

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Time Travel [image from Daily Beast]

Time travel has been a fascination with me and I'd guess millions of other people. There are a number of films and TV shows that have enjoyed a popularity for many years. I've really enjoyed the films & TV shows because of one reason, that I'm certain I share with the rest of the millions of Time Machine fans. However...One wise thought dawned on me a few years ago: Time travel could cause more problems than it fixes. Why? In every film and/or TV series, the characters go back in time to fix something or destroy something, depending whether they are "good or bad" people. My conclusion is this one certainty: You can't change ONE thing in the past, without causing a "ripple effect" that changes what the future (your former "present") will be. If you only change ONE thing, and not EVERYTHING, then you get that ripple of changes that mess up the time you're from. It's impossible to change everything. That is the single biggest risk that Time travel reveals. Some examples of films/TV series going back in the past: "Back To The Future trilogy" Marty McFly & Doc Brown go into the past to change Marty's parent's lot in life. It works. However, BTTF II Doc & Marty mess up in the future with a sports almanac that old man Biff discovers and steals the Delorean to change the future 1985 and become a Billionaire Oligarch-Mobster. BTTFIII requires jumping that timeline and destroying the almanac. "11.22.63" (Stephen King made for TV series - now on Hulu) Al Templeton tell his friend Jake Epping that a backroom closet in his diner, is a portal to October 1960. Al tells Jake that he went through it and tried to stop President Kennedy's assassination...but Al failed. Al thinks that Jake (a school teacher) is smart enough to do it and be successful. Jake goes through the portal and begins the quest. ~spoiler alert~ Eventually he gets all the way to the end and stops LHO from shooting JFK. When Jake finally comes back through the portal to his time in 2011, he finds the diner destroyed, everyone in that city is homeless & hungry and the world has turned upside down.. That's not the end of the film or the story. I recommend 11.22.63 highly. There are more examples that show the truth about Time travel being not worth the effort or worse...creating MORE problems that need to be fixed. Here's 3 more that demonstrate the same frustration: *A Sound Of Thunder* film *Timeless* 2016 NBC TV series (now on Hulu) - 2 seasons + 2 hour finale film *The Time Machine* film

I'm certain there are many more examples, ie the "Future Man" series.

#Time Travel doesn't solve problems #The future isn't written yet (AFAWK)

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Good to have you back, Smoak! I'm sorry you're life got hectic and I hope everything is better now. I've posted this on a few sites already, but I found it interesting how in an article Ben described Young Aleks' reaction to creating the Fold. He said it wasn't intentional and he was messing with power he didn't understand, but along with horror, he also felt a sense of awe when he first beheld it. I think that was clear with the way Aleks looked intrigued, but then caught himself like "WTF?"

That is interesting, I also think it's understandable. Despite not intending to he has created this world changing thing, life for those who live in that area is changed hugely post fold. I think its natural that Aleks is intrigued by what he has created and the possibilities that come with it. At the same time I do think he has some kind of fear towards what he's created and its something that also haunts him. But Aleks will use anything he can to advantage the grisha so I think he very quickly begins calculating whether this is something he can use as a tool to help the grisha. There's no denying that its the fold that makes the grisha useful to the king. The Lantsovs go from hunting the grisha to depending on them to survive, without the grisha's powers to cross the fold, they can't get the supplies they need to live. However the grisha are still being used by the king and Aleks isn't content with that so he is still trying to find a way for the grisha to live free.

One thing that in my opinion is the best part of Ben's performance as Aleks is his microexpressions. He can just tell you so much about the character and what they are feeling through these expressions. And I think the scene where he creates the fold is a great example of this. Sorry for the bad gif quality here but this is the moment right before the fold's creation:

You see so many different emotions pass over his face. At first you can see him looking confident and superior at bringing the king's men to their knees, there's also a hint of anger there as he looks down at them. I think at first he thought that the merzost was working as he had intended and that the men were submitting to his will and were under his control. In those first few seconds he believes he's in control. But then you see his expression change as he feels the power slipping from his control. At first he looks worried and confused. Like he can feel something is happening but doesn't know what. Then that turns to pure fear and horror, it also kind of looks like he is in pain. That's when it all just explodes from him and the fold is created.

This gif is where Aleks is looking at the fold right after Baghra asks him what he has done. Again there are various emotions we see from him as he takes in what he has made. At first it looks like he is trying to figure out the answer to Baghra's question, trying to figure out what exactly he has done. Then you see the awe and intrigue come over his face as he says 'I made something.' As I said above I do think he begins to calculate how he can use the fold and how useful it could be. But then once again we see that fear and horror come back. It's possible that he is remembering the grisha and King's men turning into the Volcra. We as the audience didn't see that but Aleks and Baghra would have. Also whilst it was a second for us from the transition of Aleks creating the fold to him carrying Baghra through the forest we have to remember that for the character he just carried her through half the fold. We also know from ep 2 that the Volcra are drawn to Aleks like he is a beacon so he was likely pursued by them as he carried his mother through the fold which was likely a harrowing experience. It's like he instantly goes from 'Whoa look what I made' to 'Oh dear god what have I made?' in an instance. He's got many conflicting emotions towards the fold I think. He sees it as a powerful tool that he may be able to use as a shield for the grisha, but he also fears its power and I think he fears a little that he was capable of it and what else he may be capable of.

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