#PLS HE WOULD GENUINELY LOVE THAT

[deathfavor]

@shackld said: "Earl! Uh, happy birthday!" Nobody would blame her at feeling a little uneasy at being around the man, he didn't exactly seem to like her all that much and well, Chief can't say she blames him but the whole 'bomb' situation did wonders for her opinion of him as well. Still, there was a part of her that wanted to gain his trust so… baby steps. "Zoya told me, but I didn't really know what to get you so-" She's quick to step into the room, having lingered awkwardly in the doorway, and slide the envelope towards him. "It's a card, it's got a dog on it." She didn't know why that was important to mention. "And also… a gift card to this lousy fast food place, um. I don't know, it's good - maybe you can take Horo." (i stand by that shes scared of him idec)

happy birthday earl

When the Chief approaches, Happy birthday is the last thing that even the ever-cunning fox expects. Mostly because HE certainly hasn't informed her of the day, but he doesn't think about it that much either. At least, not until Horo or Zoya or any of the other Legion members make it abundantly clear that he won't just be working on his birthday like he intends. Every year he tries, every year he fails. Still. Chief is unexpected even when it comes to today.

" ... Thank you, Chief. " It takes him a moment to thank her properly; he is nothing if not polite on matters like this. " Zoya told you? Now I know how everyone seems to keep finding out. " So that was where the leak in his personal information was. Even if it was only the day. Though, he can practically imagine her rolling her eyes and remarking that C'mon Earl, you need to loosen up! What's one day of celebration? because that WAS so very her.

He lifts a hand calmly. " Nothing is neces- " Still, before he can actually dismiss it, the chief has already produced an envelope and placed it on the desk. Its so...absurdly ordinary that he almost chuckles. Almost. Something like birthday cards even with all the violence and chaos. He ensures she isn't touching it before he reaches out to grasp the envelope and open it to see the card. Amusement gleams in his eyes at her apparent need to inform him of the fact it has a dog on it. " Symbolic? " He asks, though there's a hint of teasing in his voice rather than just the usual grim tone. Whether she catches it or not is of little matter he supposes. " It's a very nice dog. " Might as well humor it. A dog gifted to a fox, how funny. " I appreciate it, Chief. "

Earl glances at the gift card that slides out, grasping it between gloved fingers. Her discomfort is evident, but that's the lowest thing on his priorities. For all the tough, ruthless, and cunning energy that Earl gives off ( and indeed, is ), the mention of Horo immediately has his focus an interest. He always has a soft spot for her. No matter where they are or what has happened, he is always her big brother first and foremost.

" Can Horo come out to a lunch? " Earl asks, dark eyes focusing on the Chief with active interest now. That would be nice, a way to spend time and check on his little sister. " Thank you, again. This is more than I expected. "

#shackld #honestly being scared of him is valid #he is so serious all the time #that and he rarely uses brute force #he is Scheming more often than not #always on edge #buT LET HORO GO OUT FOR LUNCH CHIEF #PLS HE WOULD GENUINELY LOVE THAT #᛭ — [IC] raven wings guiding the wolves [EARL] #᛭ — [VERSE: SURVIVAL] doomsday is the color of fox fur [EARL]

[daily-hanamura]

Hanamura Yosuke's first appearance vs last

#p4 #p4g #persona 4 dancing all night #p4d #persona 4 #persona 4 golden #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #HAPPY LAST DAY OF THE YEAR AS A GIFT PLS TAKE THIS COMPARISON #guys our boy has grown up so much hes changed so much hes!!! #hes gone from this lonesome kid struggling to find his place in inaba and in the world #hes putting up facades to be liked and going along with whatever people wanted because he thought it would make him accepted #hes forming relationships based on superficiality because he cant connect genuinely with them since he wasnt being honest #half of inaba treats him like an outcast because of Junes and the ones that want to connect with him cant because he doesnt know how #and now here he is!!! hes the morale leader of the team!!! hes the second banana to bancho's first banana!! #hes the team wrangler he gets them together he gets them going!!! #hes loved and hes accepted and they rib on him but they also respect him so much!!! they follow his lead wordlessly!! HES TRUSTED!! #LOOK. AT. HIM. LOOK AT OUR BOY!!!!!

[crybaby-bkg]

I love mythology so much and it’s taking everything in me to not write a full fledge fic about a Cupid and Psyche au omfg

justttttt Cupid Bakugou who is just so, so fucking beautiful. he’s always been recorded by other mortals for being akin to sunlight himself—all golden hues and sharp angles and high cheekbones and massive wings. wings that span as wide as an entire village, that sparkle when the light hits them, loud when they beat to send him soaring into the skies above. but his mouth? his attitude?

everyone always wonders why he was never the god of war, instead. but he’s damn good at his job, with his arrows propped up on his back, swift with discharging them into another stupid mortal who’s fallen for the local towns idiot. but hey, they’re in love, and it’s his job to enforce that love go over well.

and then he sees you—the most beautiful mortal, that you’re even compared to the gods, to his mother. he wants you so bad, if not to treasure and keep you against his side as he travels over the oceans cold waters, than to keep you safe from the vile men who want you as their partner and the disgusting women who envy you for having it all.

omg and the part where he takes you to stay in his palace and asks you not to ever look at his face???? it’s killing him, to wear that mask to your nightly dinners, to be able to look at the soft curve of your mouth when you frown and ask him to reveal himself. to be able to look at how you stare back at him, eyes pretty and furious, frustrated and mad, wanting to go back on the conditions you agreed upon because having to sit across from him without seeing him is absolute torture. I am. vibrating.

#I’m so sad bc I’ve been having so many ideas without having the energy to actually write them #I know it’s bc this past semester was hard on top of other things #but I really just wanna get back into the groove of things #but yes omg I LOVEEEE mythology #I’m taking a mythology class next semester and I’m genuinely so excited for it!!!! #would not be surprised if I started an entire mythology series on ao3 after that class LOL #I’ve written war god bkg before and I loved it #omg it pissed me off so bad when ppl were like “war god bkg is so cliche 🙄’ #girl eat my dick HOW ABOUT THAT #I also kinda love psyche bkg too ngl #I sat here for like an hour tryna figure out which one he could be lmfao #bc him as psyche where he’s SO beautiful and is so pissy about not being able to see you UGH he’d be such a brat and I’d love it #also if you haven’t read the story of Cupid n psyche pls do it’s so good #I’m sorry I’m talking so much I just really love mythology #—new treat in the streets! 🍫 #bakugou treats! 🍬

[southstand]

i’m not being funny when i tell people who say sonny’s ‘too soft’ to be captain and that he’s half the player without kane and that other players deserve the captaincy more than him to get the fuck out of my club and the fanbase like honestly fuck off

#genuinely fuck you man is this how you treat an all time pl legend who’s had 400 appearances for our club #and who’s scored more than 100 goals and regularly gets 15/20 g+a a season #we’re so beyond lucky he didn’t fuck off to real or pool when he had the chance #like genuinely you only really appreciate what you have when it’s gone this lot were crying about sonny being gone for the asian cup #chatting wistfully like ‘oh sonny would’ve buried that’ #now he’s had a few shite games you want to pull the plug wallahi you don’t deserve him or his loyalty #it’s a two way street man he’s given us EVERYTHING you could at least do with a bit of respect #it boils my blood when ppl say he’s half the player without harold fuck off man #if the roles were reversed and sonny had gone to b/yern then guarantee he would be having a similar season to him lmfao #this lot doesn’t deserve the love and commitment sonny has shown to spurs again and again #and fuck off abt him being too soft to be captain and abt giving it to romero genuinely #you lot will only ever praise cuti when he has good performances while the rest are shite #and suddenly he’s proper captain material??? the guy you lot were calling a hothead??? #wallah if cuti heard all this he’d clock you one genuinely

[benetnvsch]

maybe you could draw kunikida with flowers in her hair if you wanted maybe sorry fjdjsh

I am so perfectly normal about this idea (<-lies and deception)-

#AAAAA #sticks prompt in my mouth and runs away #u do not understand how much this prompt means to me- #also she/her Kunikida SO REAL #*flops Kunikida around like a wet towel (affectionately)* #this was def not her idea but she goes along with it bc it makes the other happy - #Kyouka def helps with the flowers #and I feel like maybaps Junichiro ? helps braid them into her hair?? bc he feel like he'd know hair stuff lmao #this is solely bc he has hair clips LMFAO #Kenji feels like he'd know how to help too - #man I wonna draw them all together just putting pretty things into Kunikida's hair KSJHSKJHSK #I have too many emotions about this character pls #Kunikida doppo #bsd #bungou stray dogs #kite draws #kite watches bsd #also didn’t draw the flesh colored vest bc it reminded me too much of Tevin and I couldn’t keep me shit together to color it AKSHSH /pos #I mean that in the best way genuinely - I love that silly beige color i just would have been laughing to myself at 3 am coloring which - #not ideal (get it??? badum tsss)

[femme-malewife]

I came up with the absolute worst idea for a cactiflower fic

#so we all know what Hanahaki is right. #The unrequited love disease where the person in love coughs up flower petals- if the person returns their love #the hanahaki goes away #if not then the person dies or gets surgery to remove it (which can lead to memory loss of that person or never feeling love again...whatev #So Basil would have hanahaki. Flower disease for the flower boy. #He mentions in the game that a cactus reminds him of Kel #Do you see where I'm going with this #Oh sure! At first it would be the flower of the cactus- (a mini one ofc) but like. #I had a thought. what would it feel like if I had him cough up the actual cactus.... #pls god this would genuinely be the WORST thing ive EVER written but like #its one of those things where you know its bad. You know its awful. You know you would cringe in empathy. #but its so agonizingly. Tantalizingly. Deliciously awful. #that you just gotta do it #i m- #omori fandom talk me out of this sht

[autistic-katara]

genuine question how do u stop someone from offing themself?

#suicide cw #fr tho im genuinely scared that asp soon im going to wake up to the news that he’s killed himself nd i need to prevent that #bro if ur reading this (not saying ur name but if u know me irl and use he/him assume ur him u probably are) srsly i love u(/p) ur situatio #sucks and i would kill for u please whatever u do just try nd live until u can escape from her #we can rent a house when we’re adults together or something #u can cut her out of ur life u can transition u can find a therapist who won’t be like that u can get through it #i can’t if u die tho #idk if this is cringe or not but it’s 3am and i’m 2 seconds away from my 2nd mental breakdown of the night so yk #don’t kys pls :( #ryan shut the fuck up

[etcnnante]

risotto tomonui going for $50 ……….. none of these resellers are seeing heaven

#█ ▌ 𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙩. / ooc. #( I WANT HIM SOOOOOO BAD SOMEONE PLS COMISSION ME SO I CAN HAVE HIM AAAAUUUVGGHHHH ) #( he is genuinely soooo so so cute . i’m obsessed w how cute he looks …. ) #( risotto would love how cute he looks as a tomonui (but he’d never admit it))

[doodlebloo]

Do you guys ever think about how (as far as we know) c!Tubbo arguably made the right choice by deciding to never open up to c!Ranboo... Because c!Ranboo (when Enderwalking) retains all his memories and works alongside c!Dream anyway. So although c!Tubbo doesn't know it, his paranoia is actually keeping him safe, because the less info c!Ranboo knows the less he has the ability to tell c!Dream... Not that c!Ranboo necessarily would, but it sucks that like... c!Tubbo probably beats himself up for not wanting to share anything with his sweet and loyal husband, not even knowing that sharing the wrong stray detail about c!Tommy could have caused something disastrous. Like c!Tubbo was right to be a closed book and that shit hurts to think about!!!

#i need Ranboo to explain cRanboo so bad. #one of the only things i care about anymore. pls just tell me why a version of cRanboo with all his memories WHICH BTW #HIS MEMORIES WOULD INCLUDE THE DISC FINALE. Why that version of cRanboo would willingly help cDream. #Even IF cDream went ''oh i wasnt really gonna kill Tubbo it was staged also its good that New Lmanberg was exploded by me'' #and even IF cRanboo wasnt told why the prison tnt needed to be set off & therefore didnt know hed be hurting cTommy #how could he work with someone who he knows has hurt cTubbo like that. If he genuinely cared. #and i think about that a LOT a lot bc like. We see all these glimpses of cRanboo just... not listening to what cTubbo is saying. #the warning about cWilbur in ho16 is a good example but also just about history and Lmanberg in general... cRanboo sort of gives off the #vibe that he thinks he knows better than cTubbo does. That he thinks he knows what cTubbo needs and what's best for him #but also that he like... idk i just have thought about it a lot and worryingly i think he could become similar to c!Technoblade eventually. #Not in the ''violence is the only universal language'' way but in the way of like ''as soon as someone doesnt agree w my ideals and feels #differently than I do they have lost my respect and protection until they Prove themself and Earn it back'' type deal. not NOW i dont think #cRanboo is like that NOW but... Everyone always says ''cRanboo grow a backbone'' but he DID... While enderwalking. #ew!Ranboo is him with a backbone and apparently the him with a backbone does not care if he hurts his loved ones. #like cRanboo is part of the problem of people brushing aside cTubbo's grief and pain like it doesnt matter. cRanboo helping cDream has the #same energy as cJack trying to kill cTommy. this sort of ''he'll get over it'' mentality about cTubbo that assumes that just because he HAS #in the past been able to ''bounce back'' from indescribable loss that means things dont bother him or he can do it easily #so like. i do believe cRanboo isnt unsalvageable. i think the parts of him WE see are very much just misguided and not intentionally #hurtful. but sometimes i think abt Ranboo saying he was gonna make it so no one could be an apologist for cRanboo and I think like #what Memory does ew!Ranboo regaun that suddenly makes it fine for him to hurt his loved ones? for ''Dream Is The Reason'' to completely #disappear for him? is cDream offering him something he cant refuse or god forbid does ew!Ranboo just AGREE with him? #that to me is like. Once i know that i can be at peace. thats like one of the only things I'll be genuinely upset if it isnt explained #bc when i tell you it has been haunting me for like a year. #ok sorry for the rant and sorry boobers if i messed up some lore details lol #doodle.txt

[yuukimiyas]

hi sweet peas!! ᜊ꒰ ᜊ ´ ˘꒱ ੭♡ just wanted to pop in & wish you all a very happy sat & wknd!! <33 i’m not 100% back here yet but just know i miss you all lots & lots!! ໒꒰ྀི ∩´﹏`∩ ꒱ྀིა & im forever sending love & light to you ALL!! <33

#ᕱ⑅ᕱ.* journals! #hiii i know i have SO SO MUCH to catch up w on here!!! ૮꒰ྀི ´∩∩` ꒱ྀིა im sorry !! life has been…insane lately :< #but i miss you & i just want you to know that ilyasm !!! i’ll give a few cheeky lil updates!! :3 #i got a…boyfie!!! like a real one!!! ໒꒰ྀི∩˃ ᵕ ˂∩꒱ྀི১ & he loves jjk & started psycho-pass bc of ME!!! & we have a v similar taste in music!! #& movies!! & he GENUINELY wanted to listen to my fave band?? & he likes them a lot!! he made a playlist w my name ໒꒰ྀིஇ﹏இ`꒱ྀི১ #but i’ve been spending lots of time w him bc his job has him traveling kinda far for a few wks :< #but you guys would LOVE HIM!! i talk ab my lil internet bbys ALL THE TIME to him!! :3 hehee okie NO MORE GUSHIN !! ૮꒰ྀི ∩៸៸៸∩ ‎꒱ྀིა #im hoping to be back so so soon!! <33 PLS DON’T FORGET AB MEEEE !!!! MWAH MWAH MWAH!!!

[arolesbianism]

Yet another beautiful day to have the Maxwel tag blocked (can't see half of the posts in the Wendy tags)

#rat rambles #starve posting #maxwell posters have lost any semblance of tolerance from me ages ago Ive yet to meet a maxwell fan who's just like a normal person #and to clarify I actually do like maxwel as I am the number one just some asshole whos in too deep enjoyer #but dear god are ppl just absolutely incapable of being normal abt this man and everyone around him #and even beyond that ppl just do not get this man like please he is indeed interesting but not because of some 'retconed redemption' #like pls we can live in a world where he is not an irridemable monster and is in fact just some guy while also still being a flawed person #like the fact that he is so deeply flawed in ways that he never actually properly adressed and challenged is the interesting thing to me #like look at me. he went through horrible shit he didnt deserve. that didnt inherently make him a better or worse person #it just made him a more miserable person #and he didnt escape because of some change of heart or character development #and afterwards he teamed up with wilson because of necessity #I do think on some level he genuinely cares abt the other survivors and he does have genuine regret for how things turned out #but again those things dont inherently mean he moved past the flaws that got him here it just means he has the ability to recognize that #shit sucks and that he wish none of it happened #its why encore is one of my favorite animations from a character perspective because it shows some juicy charlie and maxwell stuff #mainly it shows both that charlie has not forgiven his ass and is manipulating him and that maxwell is still susceptible to it #which isnt a sigh of them rolling back development it's just a sign that maxwell is easy to manipulate with the right cards #which adds up considering his past and his present very well in my opinion #this is a man whos historically always ran away from his problems and is always on the hunt for a sense of control #and charlie tapped into both that and his ever present guilt #its in fact very unsurprising and not out of place for him to fall for that sort of manipulation #and it also makes for a great set up for the inevitable betrayal from charlie as maxwell is hit by the harsh reality of his situation #and that whole situation would lead to some yummy tasty parallels when charlie inevitably gets betrayed herself (I hope) #the ways charlie and maxwel are so similar yet so different facinates me deeply I love how much charlie doesnt realize shes kinda fucked #I want her to be betrayed so hard and left in the dust with no ground to stand on I want the rug pulled out from under her feet #her composition comes from her confidence in the necessity of her actions and the moral superiority she feels over maxwell #so having her sense of superiority be revoked would make for a super fascinating dynamic as she tries to justify the situation in her head #I wanna see her siral and then maybe change her pronouns idk

[ryuuseini]

God I wanna... Say Something regarding fatphobia in media and the terms ppl use in describing characters who gain weight over time ("letting go" like bro shut the fuck up???) and how like, there's also nuance to the discussion (like, a character who starts out on the heavier side choosing to lose weight shouldn't be demonized either - as PLENTY of people want to lose weight for various reasons, and while you can point to a decent amount of it stemming from our fatphobic society, a lot of it is also just personal desire at the end of the day - but I also understand that if your ONLY fat character loses weight at the end and the other characters don't change either, then that's not good) but idk, I'm a little too tired to properly articulate what's going on in my mind? But I just... wish this was more of a discussion

#fatphobia #like - this is coming from someone who is overweight and is very visibly so #and yeah i do wanna lose weight simply because i dont like the way it distributes on me #but theres also the pressure of my mom who thinks its just wrong of me to be this weight and im like ??? pls stop #but I know for ME its more a personal desire #but i think my biggest issue is that like. bc we're at a state of representation where the bare minimum is never met #we're pushing for a monolithic representation of a far more diverse group #which. yes. i get it. ppl shouldnt be reduced to 'hi im fat bc i love food' and that be all rep #like no i 100% agree with that like a character shouldnt be striped down to solely be about being what marginalized group they are #but humans are so fucking nuanced that like. i DO want to see a character who does have a vibe of 'i like food!!' but have OTHER traits #like you have the skinny anime boy who has a million of other traits and cannot solely be defined by 'loves food' #but you also see them literally DROOLING over food and ordering a shit ton of food and somehow eating it all and like #and like the fact that here im specifically talking about Luke Yugioh Sevens who i would ACTUALLY describe as a kid who has like #ZERO awareness of the world outside of himself but does have a strong sense of self worth and genuinely wants to be great #but is very much aware he has to EARN that and doesnt want to be handed it... makes you wonder why marginalized identities dont have nuance #like??? pls just... make ppl human. humans are messy. thats what MAKES us human #this kinda got away from me but yk what i mean im tired lol

[the-heaminator]

hbggg wanna write America and Australia asking old ppl (Scotland and prussia, china maybe) about the first high explosives which ends in them making fulminating gold and silver in scotlands garage, they get out the aqua reigis it's a fucking blast (ba dum tss).

But I don't have the chemistry knowledge

#Rather I do have the chemistry knowledge I just dont know how to convey it without sounding like a paper #pls send help I hate having science brainrot #The heam speaks #For context culminating silver is incredibly reactive. If you touch it with a lighted splint even if its wet it'll just fukin detonate on #Jack would love watching Gilbert and Alisdair argue about how to make fulminating silver and Alfred would be taking notes bc he wants #Imagine your uncle and some other crusty dude yelling at each other about how not to handle high explosives. Then it detonated #Everyone knows mercury fulminate they probably wouldn't go through that #WAIT THOSE 4 WOULD HAVE A SCIENCE CHANNEL #Alfred would go on 2 hour long explanations about astrophysics #And with Gilbert and alisdair they could easily talk for hours on shitty video quality about machines and their mechanisms and their histor #Gilbert and alisdair would have a whole series “What not to do with chemistry” basically making a lot of explosives #And things of questionable legal standing. Like carbon tetra chloride because we know alisdair doesn't throw shit out and probably has some #Organo-phosphates and other highly dangerous chemicals and compounds banned in the 60s to 90s in his shed #Alfred just casually talks about nuclear reactions. #Jack and guest appearances of zee would be examining animal and human biology in a sory of crack head way that people love. #He has a pretty large base of people who watch his videos. Short and quick forward but genuinely educational #While people like me are going to watch Alfred go on for hours about isotopes and allo tropes and isomers fission fusion the whole lot. #Alisdair and Gilbert's velideos constantly toe the line of legality. There is a lot if swearing and questionable health and safety

[jennycalendar]

i was gonna type up a longer post but i think a lot of season three is just gonna sit weird with me because i don’t get buffy and angel. i feel like buffy being okay with being with angel would make sense if i felt sold on them in season two, but so much of what was happening there was just unflinching misery and questionable communication skills, and while they had moments, they weren’t moments enough for me personally. so i’m looking at buffy taking him back in season three and i’m like. you have to just really enjoy buffy and angel together, and you also have to not care about giles and jenny even half as much as buffy and angel, for any of this to land in a way that feels even remotely okay. and obviously i am not the target demographic.

#meta #and i think some of it is also. #giles and jenny would not have gotten back together had angel died and jenny lived. #and i do not love that when placed next to buffy and angel getting together again. #the fact that giles is at a place where he is able to express sympathy for buffy and angel breaking up. #obvs buffy doesn't need to be there -- she's a teenager! -- but it breaks my heart that giles and jenny will never get that kinda space #they are the tragic love of the early seasons! #made even more tragic by the fact that the narrative thinks they are erasable. #i genuinely don't understand how anything else could be half as tragically compelling as THAT. as what is going on THERE. #this love that is so enduring and persistent that even the weird stilted writing does not stop these two people from wanting each other #they are quite literally clawing at their established narrative roles #for JUST ONE SECOND TOGETHER #like HHGHHG. what the FUCK #(biased biased subjective biased post pls do not take this as an Actual Take this is a Celia Opinion)

[jemmo]

I’ve always loved reality TV and I don’t tend to judge people based on what’s shown on reality television because it’s a stressful environment, with lots of editing and often production interference into interpersonal drama. That said, I do like discussing what I see as well (I just don’t see it as a be all end all of someone’s personality). I’ve seen some hate for Seonwoo on other social media platforms and it’s making me sad! I do think he’s frustrating, but tbh I’m enjoying watching him as a reality-TV lover lol. I don’t particularly think he’s malicious or manipulative, I think he’s mostly just very insecure and so deep in his people pleasing ways it’s hard for him to snap out of it even if that’s what would be best. If he does like Sungho I do want him to go for it! I’m rooting for the roommates, but on a dating show anyone is fair game. That said, I think based on what he’s says on the show he’s still figuring himself out. He says he only started coming out a week before filming, which means he spent 30+ years hiding a big part of himself. Korea is obviously a homophobic country and he probably struggled a lot with his identity. He said he feels uncomfortable watching queer movies, which could be for a lot of reasons but could also be more evidence of his insecurity. I don’t think he’s a bad person, but I think he probably grew up with a big fear that people finding out about his sexuality would make them not like him, and he really wants to be liked and that seems to carry over to the way he’s approaching romantic relationships. I’m not sure he’s intentionally leading people on in a mean way as much as he’s just like desperate to please people and to not have anyone dislike him and he’s afraid if he straight up rejects someone they will dislike him. It’s endlessly frustrating as a viewer but as a person I kinda just want to give him a hug lol.

thank you so much for this anon it’s literally like you read into the crevices of my mind. when i started watching this show with my mom and sisters (yes it’s a whole family affair now) and they turned against seonwoo quickly, this is the narrative i also gave them as a counter to their arguments. and i do largely agree with it, and agree that it explains to some extent his behaviour on the show. fundamentally, he is a people pleaser. i thought that from the moment he walked in, that smiley disposition and how chatty he was, how easily he could interact and tease people, it just all fed in to that typical image of a ‘nice guy’. but then he also has his gayness, which clashes with his need to please people and have them like him bc he’s in a society where the prevailing opinion is still that gayness is not a norm, so him being gay stops him from pleasing people, stops people from liking him, which would only exacerbate his behaviour bc he feels like he has to cover or make up for that part of himself by being that much more nice and likeable. and even now he’s on a show where that isn’t a problem, he can’t get out of this headspace he’s been in the majority of his life where being himself and those inner, core things about him, his real thoughts and feelings, are unlikeable, so it only makes sense that he needs time to adjust after coming out, and we’re seeing him right at the start of that journey so of course he still has a ways to go.

having said that, I don’t think he is completely innocent, which is not anything against him bc this is still a game, even putting aside the show even just the love triangle or dating itself is somewhat of a game. when you go out on dates or interact with people with the goal to form a relationship, people generally arent always themselves, be it wanting to be their best version or not wanting to give away all of themselves until a deeper connection forms. there’s many ways to go about forming a relationship and I don’t think relationships inherently have more merit just bc both parties were entirely themselves from day one. it’s all to say I don’t inherently dislike seonwoo bc he isn’t being 100% honest, and if anything him not behaving this way would be more dishonest if this is just part of who he is. but I do believe that he is aware of his behaviour, aware of how he’s trying to control and lead certain relationships, bc there is intent there. thinking off the top of my head, when he slid the mission card for junsung to read about picking dates, knowing he was going on a date with sungho and junsung missed out, there was intent behind that to be smug, at least that’s how I saw it. or when, after a talk with hyungjin where hyungjin said he didn’t like his personality, he kept going to feed him, there’s intent behind that to mend that relationship and gain back some favour bc he doesn’t want someone to dislike him. and right there you have an example of him just doing something that I saw as bad intent and something that I saw as good intent, which is to say I don’t think he is malicious or bad as a person, but that he does undeniably display some of those behaviours sometimes. there is only so far you can take reasons and explanations for behaviours until everything is written off, which is why for me with seonwoo I have this threshold almost, of what I can see is this complex he has manifesting, and what despite all that has ill intent.

and just like you said anon, it’s all to say that this is me taking the bare bones of a person and what is presented of them in a show and creating my idea of that person that i see when I watch it. that’s what people do, and I can’t help but get annoyed when people try to criticise having and developing an opinion of someone on tv like you’re supposed to just be totally separate to and subjective of everything you watch. yes, I might handle things with more care and understanding and nuance when it’s reality tv bc the bare bones of these people are real, but just as you expand and form canon around characters, I do that with these people too, and if I have enough mental understanding to know that the idea of someone I have in my head is different from who that person actually is, bc that is someone I can never and will never know fully, then just like… leave me to have my fun pls. bc it is all fun. I have never one said and would outright reject the idea that seonwoo is not fantastic tv, and the season would not be able to carry these storylines without him. you can hate the villain for what they do to the heroes, and for all their bad qualities, but still love what they bring to the story, and even revel in those bad qualities bc they are so fun to watch. when im yelling at seonwoo to stop being a gossip or holding onto sungho or leading on yonghee, im having the best time. and when he takes someone to the side for a private conversation, I can’t lie, I have the biggest evil grin on my face thinking yes what mess do we have in store this time. seonwoo is just that person, you want to hate him, you want to comfort him, and you just can’t look away while he creates chaos.

#in this house we love having nuanced opinions of people #and we also stan being able to just say ugh I hate that guy ugh he’s so annoying agh pls stop without having to preface it with this every #time like I don’t need to explain that nuance every time I speak about him and don’t expect other people to #but yeah he’s messy i can’t stand him I adore him it’s a lot #really he just isn’t for me like whatever kind of person he is it’s just not the type I would gravitate towards bc it is so messy #and that nicety never feeling genuine does get under my skin #but god I do wish the best for him #and more than anything whether he changes or not I just hope he’s happy with whatever he is and what he’s doing #that’s all I really want #bc if you’re gonna be some type of way at least be happy doing it #his man 2

[tsukidrama]

watching succession by day, playing the last of us by night. it is the ultimate daddy issues media juxtaposition!

#'by day' pls i watch 1 episode when i have time. point still stands #logan roy is one of the most horrible most triggering fictional characters to me he is genuinely so evil #he and my dad would ahve be best friends for life #i hate that mother fucker. but i love shiv's husband and fuckin. greg. #tsuki speaks