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chirpsythismorning · 1 year

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Noah saying, "I don't think Mike likes Will back" doesn’t equate to him not knowing about byler being endgame, and here's why.

Noah and a majority of the main cast have been given a rough idea of how the show will end, broadly in terms of the entire story, but also more specifically in terms of their personal character arcs.

Actors are out here acting. This is nothing new.

Any of the the main cast insisting they have no idea how the show ends at all, are lying. This is because their safest bet is playing dumb.

There's nothing safe about them revealing they know how the show ends, least of all to an audience that is dying for any spoiler they can get their hands on. It just puts them in a position to have to think very carefully about everything they say, which is something they already have to do regardless.

It's a lot easier to just say you don't know, because then you can give vague answers or even just flat out lie and get away with it, as opposed to saying you know and then having everyone take whatever you say as gospel since you admitted to knowing what's coming.

David is pretty much the only actor who goes around explicitly saying that he knows how the show ends, which is something he's been doing consistently since s2 premiered back in November of 2017.

Something David has also mentioned on a few occasions since then, is how much input the Duffer's let him put into his character. He's literally praised them for having a collaborative process, because it allows him to play Hopper more authentically.

And so yes, I do think it's safe to assume that the Duffer's extend this approach to their other cast-members as well, at least among the main cast-members. I do not at all think this is some exclusive treatment only David gets, because this seems like more just something the Duffer's do out of respect to the actors. How else can they expect them to portray their character accurately if they don't know what they're going through or what their motives are or what's right for them going forward?

We obviously won't know all the details about who knew what at what times or how long they've known certain things, until they themselves come out and reveal after the fact, if they even do it at all.

Still, I do think that when it comes to byler actually happening, it's going to be very satisfying for fans who saw it coming.

This is because we're dealing with something the Duffer's are predicting a good portion of the ga will be bitter about, with the main argument at the forefront being that Mike and Will came out of nowhere.

And so, how do you think they're going to combat that?

With the literal proof.

They have David, who has been used happily as their main scapegoat through the years, whose words are literal proof that things were planned for quite some time. We have him saying all the way back in 2017 that there are easter eggs in the first season which we won't understand until the end, how it's beautiful and surprising and it will explain why certain characters acted certain ways...

Not only that, but there's just no way people are going to be able to use the whole 'it came out of nowhere' argument (at least without looking like idiots), because we'll have the Duffer's themselves out here confirming shit like blue meets yellow in the west and other theories that were entirely intentional (as we predicted).

And because of this, I think I can guess roughly how things will go moving forward and it's honestly already panning out in some ways I expected.

Because while season 4 ends in a way that seems to be leading towards Mike and El ending up together from the perspective of the ga, there are numerous details in the subtext and just outright in the literal text that's trying to tell us this is not actually the case.

And so now the Duffers and everyone who knows are in this limbo of tricking their audience in plain sight, hoping to keep this act going for as long as they can, and that's obviously not easy to do.

What I think makes it most difficult is that they want to surprise fans, but they also want them to be satisfied and happy with the ending.

And that is why the whole Milkvan straight bait is indeed very near its end.

If they want ST to live on as a cult classic with rewatch value, they can't keep this straight bait going on into the last season.

They'll want Mike and El to definitively give off platonic elmike for s5, with byler being endgame and Willel being wonder twins.

This is why Mike and El's dynamic HAS to blatant in a way that will come across as platonic to the ga in s5. And the shift needs to be immediate, otherwise byler will not be satisfying.

I feel like a lot of bylers already predict this, which is why a lot of us assume that the milkvan breakup with happen (or be acknowledged as having already happened) as early as 5x01 or 5x02.

Honestly, I do think that Will's painting being plastered on merch recently was one of the big moments which is representative of a shift we're already seeing start to happen. We're going to continue to see milkvan be promoted as elmike, while byler is being promoted in a way that is, well byler.

What I think is most noteworthy in terms of how they're approaching this conflict going forward, is how the actors themselves have talked about it when asked.

For example, there was one Con specifically that I remember Noah attended right around when Vol 2 dropped, where he mentioned byler at least 3 times. Two times when asked and one other time unprompted.

And no one ever talks about this, but full serious you guys, it was dead silent at that con whenever he mentioned byler. There were maybe a few hoots and claps, with Noah literally looking kind of worried. It was obvious he noticed the silence the first time it got brought up, and so he felt the need to mention it a second time when asked about what he shipped and then AGAIN, with a note of defensiveness in his voice:

"Byler is just, at it's peak right now, okay, so definitely ship that--"

And while in the background, all you hear is maybe 2 bylers supporting him, otherwise, it's mostly crickets...

Let's try to remember that while Byler is a lot bigger now undoubtedly, unless you're active online, most of the ga does not see it coming. And so byler is by no means fan-service. If anything it's show-runner service.

This means Noah had literally no obligation that day to go all out with referring to byler in a positive hopeful light, nor does he still. And yet he did and he hasn't slowed down much since.

His approach makes sense. Because his character has been revealed in canon to be in love with the other, he can freely say he ships it and even take the opportunity to hype it up in an attempt to open peoples minds to it, who might not have considered it before. And he can also do this because in canon, Will assumes Mike doesn't love him back, so Noah can just co-opt Will & the ga's assumption that Mike doesn't feel the same, and get away with it, without anyone whose close-minded giving it a second glance as evidence.

If they wanted to avoid queer-bait and get people to not look at byler that way, they had the chance to. A majority of the ga didn't read byler romantically and so they could've just kept things casual by not bringing it up, nor humoring it at all.

The byler tag didn't even hit 30k followers until AFTER vol. 2 dropped! Most people were oblivious (including bylers).

Undoubtedly, Noah in particular around that time, was a big part of why people started to look deeper on their own and it's how a lot of people ended up here, now with 277k of us.

Like seriously, listen to me ya'll, Noah would NOT put himself in a position to broadcast his support for byler like this and the Duffers would probably be begging him not to, knowing he would be subject to a lot of criticism in doing so, if byler was not in fact where the story was going. Point blank, period.

His tweet "vol 2 got me shipping byler over everything' has to have been the most obvious stunt of all. He was not saying that to be quirky or to appease a few thousand people, he was saying it to wake up the hundreds of thousands that might be open to it, and who just need a push to see what's right in front of them.

Then we have Millie's approach. Her approach for a long time has been to say stuff that she thinks the audience wants to hear, that being anything pro-milkvan. And up until Vol 1, she was still mostly on board with referring to it in a super positive light.

She also insisted during s4's run that she has no clue how the show will end (lies, Millie is a good actress pls give her more credit), and this also explains why she's tended to feel somewhat comfortable lying about milkvan positively...

Though as Vol. 2 neared and ever since, a shift has started to happen, where in interviews Millie is getting a lot more into depth and real about El's personal arc. She mentioned right before Vol 2 dropped that El was insecure in her fight with Mike at the start of the season because she thought he only considered her a superhero and didn't see her as more than that.... Then more recently she has doubled down saying that she is her own superhero, having been shaped a little too much by the men in her life.

SHE IS OUT HERE SAYING WHAT WE'VE BEEN SAYING FOR MONTHS (SOME YEARS)! SHE KNOWS HER CHARACTER BETTER THAN ANYONE!

Honestly, even though I understand they are trying to trick people into thinking they're clueless and so I guess I'm happy for them that they've succeeded in that, I can't help but admit I feel a little disappointed upon hearing some bylers say that they are convinced Millie doesn't know, but that Finn does and even Noah does, but that she's entirely in the dark about it and that they're okay with this I guess?

First of all, why would anyone be okay with that? Why would we be okay with Millie not having insight into where her character is going. What, do you guys think they're just going to pull up on her at the last minute like, "yeah sorry we didn't tell you sooner, but this is where your character is going to end up. anyways back to byler!...."

I don't care, it would seriously be fucked up to keep her in the dark about this because El IS important to the story and Millie, just like everyone else, deserves that closure so that she can understand her character better and therefore perform to the best of her ability. She also deserves a say somewhat in where she feels her character should go, just like David has said the Duffer's afford them.

Now lastly, when it comes to Finn, I think most assume at least he is aware of byler, and I do agree he knows, so let's start there.

Again, we don't know when they found out and so for now I don't feel like going too far into guessing the exact point and so I won't. However, I do think that Finn also as of late has had an approach that manages to somehow be very different from both Noah and Millie's, and for reasons that also make a lot of sense.

Because Finn's character is assumed to not return Will's feelings, he has to be more careful than all of them. This is arguably why he goes to the least cons out of everyone (most recently everyone attended a con in person, with Millie present over zoom even, but no Finn or Noah... seems very intentional at this point).

Why I think they need to be more strict with Finn in particular is because he's in the exact opposite situation as Noah.

His character is assumed to not return Wll's feelings, and so he can't go very far with what he reveals. What we've got up to this point is actually quite revealing enough as it is, which is why that's all we're getting for now.

What I find interesting is that Finn's approach is quite similar to David's. I know Noah is known for spoiling things, but arguably Finn is just as bad, he's just a lot more sneaky about it. He has a harder time lying, which is why I think he actually looks uncomfortable when asked milkvan questions. Not necessarily because he doesn't ship it like lots of bylers assume, but because he's having to dance around and lie outright and he probably feels bad.

His most common approach though is that he likes to make jokes and say things that could be looked at from multiple perspectives, where it could be looked at now as milkvan evidence, while simultaneously being looked at from the future as byler evidence. Him saying 'I think everyone knows how Mike feels about Eleven' was him quite literally gaslighting the audience just like Mike did with El in s4:

'I care for you so much" "I say it" "You know how I feel about you--"

But do we? Do we really? Or does the audience THINK they know, and so Finn can get away with saying something cryptic and vague like that? When really, in the future, everyone will be laughing looking back because to Finn and all the cast, it was actually abundantly obvious Mike's feelings for El were platonic and his feelings for Will were romantic.

Same for his response when asked if El and Mike would be together and happy in season 5. He dances around it, doesn't deny it, but also doesn't confirm it. Instead of just being like yes they will (which is what we're being led to assume is inevitable at the end of s4, and so he has no reason to dance around it), he starts by deflecting, talking broadly in terms of the stories overall ending, only to say he hopes they find happiness... Again his answer fits with the ga's assumptions now, but it also fits with the surprise of byler in the end as well.

Also important to note that Finn and Noah are the ones to repost about the show most out of everyone from the main cast. A LOT. In fact, they were the only main cast-members (besides Brett LOL) out of everyone to repost about the episode title name for 5x01 being released on ST day...

And it's because THIS is their character's big revelation going into the final season and they had a say in it going this direction. Even if it's what the Duffer's wanted all along, they still gave them and everyone to an extent, a say in things. And now that it's all slowly happening, they are front and center standing by that decision, because they insisted they could do it and wanted to.

I can't say for certain that things will just be smooth sailing from here on out though, by no means is everything just going to shift completely.

There is still undoubtedly this element of the Duffer's and everyone wanting to have the pleasure of tricking the audience. In an industry where everything that happens is usually expected and predictable and therefore rarely exciting, and with an audience that is always figuring stuff out before their supposed to through leaks and stuff, byler is something they have finally been able to successfully trick most of the audience to think will never happen. And that is fucking impressive when considering the heaps of evidence.

And yet still, they don't want to be yet another show that is considered to have a bad ending.

So, going forward, I think things will continue the way that they are, but we'll slowly see them be more comfortable in this element of acknowledging endgame in a way that will be easy to look back on positively when everything is all said and done.

Because if byler is endgame, IF they want people to look back and go oh Oh OH during all those moments where they misread things, but now they can see the other side of it, there needs to be more of an approach that gives Byler equal playing field and allows the ga to actually start to appreciate it and even want it and root for it. Which means buh bye predictability and heteronormativity and hello surprises and gayness (but also be open ended about it so the homophobes will stay tuned until the last second).

#stranger things #byler #rambles #stranger things 5 #st5 headcanon #even though i think it's weird so many bylers are convinced everyone in the cast is clueless #i don't blame yall #that's what they want everyone to think #and they're mostly succeeding #i'm not going to go too hard in messing up their approach here #bc this is how they want it to go down #believe what you want #regardless i would hope that considering the hate that is going to follow #they're going to feel obligated to state the obvious and admit that bylers were right #either they'll be honest about everything and lay it all out there #or they'll be vague and tell people to look into it themselves #idk if they're going to go the cryptic approach #but i seriously doubt it seeing as they're the type to hold a master class explaining their thought process #and also literally give out entire white boards revealing the entire inspiration of their series #so like... i know bylers are stressed and tired and annoyed being called delusional #but trust me i think it will be worth it in the end #you will be vindicated and validated

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nyaagolor · 11 months

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Paldean League Worldbuilding

aka how Geeta is reshaping the poke-economy and making herself the most hated woman ever in the process

I generally try to keep any sort of real world analogues out of my HCs for Pokemon bc I think it's more of a utopian society and doesn't need to operate on the same logic of economics or politics as irl, but swsh and sv seem more grounded in our reality so I've been thinking about them (especially sv) a LOT. Decided I would just dump all my musings and HCs about the paldean league here if only to organize it all. Also disclaimer that I am not an economist and will never pretend to be so it’s more than likely this system would never work irl but it’s pokemon so it’s fine

The Galarian and Paldean Leagues always struck me as relatively recent, at least in terms of their current operation, and mostly spearheaded by a super ambitious head of operations who restructured the entire place as soon as they got there. I'll talk about Galar in another post, but atm Paldea has my brain in a chokehold so this is all about them

My main HC about the Paldean League is that up until extremely recently (20 years ago give or take I'm not doing specific timelines here) the Paldean League was extremely corrupt and poorly run. When the Paldean empire collapsed, the League was formed as a way to try and maintain the status quo and keep power in the hands of those who previously held it. It was, and continued to be for the next few centuries, an oligarchy. No one in the system was elected, and those in lower positions had to be personally selected and approved by their superiors. There were no checks and balances, so the people at the top could and did maintain power indefinitely. By the time we reached 20~ years before the main story, the structure was as follows:

Chairman: The leader of the entire thing. Has absolute power over everyone else in the system. Does all the boring stuff Top Champion: A battler and figurehead for the public. The "face" of the League, but generally not in charge of anything and has no political power. Their battle with up and coming trainers determines whether they get champion rank ^ If ur thinking this is similar to the Galar League, you'd be correct. They were based off the same model for a while Elite Four: Originally called the Council of Four, they act as a council that makes decisions along with the Chairman and test trainers' worthiness. Typically in charge of a handful of gym leaders Gym Leaders: Local political leaders that operate under the Council of Four and ensure things don't get too rowdy on the town level. In charge of testing trainers, protecting the town from wild threats, keeping up appearances, and union busting (they mostly did that last one) Everyone else: Salary workers. They have not yet unionized

The system, ultimately, was corrupt as hell. There was no job security, and the hierarchical nature of the league ensured you had to suck up to and do the dirty work for your boss if you wanted to get paid at all. Unions? Idk her. Corruption and embezzlement was the name of the game, and Paldea was basically flat broke because of it, with infrastructure decades behind neighboring regions and a bevvy of shitty trainers. The champion, unlike other regions, was not decided by who unseated the current champion. It didn't matter how good someone was, they had to be selected by the chairman to be Top Champion, and the Chairman would only select someone who would work with them without question. Paldea was basically the laughingstock of the world because of their complete and utter incompetence in any and all battle tournaments and lack of advancements in literally every sector. Then shit hit the fan and we moved onto the system we see in-game

I'm not sure what the event was (a recession, investigative journalism, doesn't really matter) but the newfound understanding of just HOW corrupt the league was and the resulting scandal made the Chairman resign and shook the very foundation of the League. Luckily or unluckily, a young upstart politician named Geeta was quick to fill that void, and through a few political loopholes and charisma, she managed to secure herself as Chairwoman. She had long since hated the current Paldean system, thinking that it held her beloved region back from greatness. She had always been gunning for higher and higher positions, a dark horse of Paldean politics with undetermined motives, extreme intelligence, and frightening levels of ambition. The Chairman had always had their eye on her, personally keeping her in check, but when they were gone Geeta immediately seized the opportunity to grab as much power as physically possible. Getting the position made her effectively untouchable, and that was the ultimate goal, because her plan for Paldea was about to make her the single most hated woman in the region's history

Geeta, upon gaining a position where they legally could not get rid of her, decided to fire every single person in the upper echelons of the league. Every gym leader, elite four, and the top champion were all fired, and she withdrew Paldea from every battling tournament and public appearance until she could workshop the league into something servicable. It was the boldest move since the dissolving of the Paldean Monarchy and it did NOT make her any friends

Though her ultimate goal was to reform the entire Paldean league, her early changes were only possible because of the old system. She could and did reform the system to her liking without consequence only because of the old hierarchy system already in place. Her ability to hand select her coworkers and fire people indiscriminately was one of the greatest abuses of power Paldea had ever seen, whether for noble reasons or not, and the people she fired tried to smear her as much as they could. Though these radical steps were necessary to undo and reshape the corruption hellscape the League had become, it wasn't exactly a good look for the new chairwoman (not that she cared)

Geeta also combined the top champion position and chairwoman position, which was so shockingly unpopular and suspicious-looking that she effectively cemented her godawful reputation. She saw the top champion as an unnecessary expense and decided to take on the responsibilities herself so she could funnel the top champion salary into public projects. This is part of the reason why she’s so Bad at being champion: she’s doing it to save the league money and only needs to the absolute bare minimum. Most of her job for the first decade was analyzing the current hierarchy, finding trainers to fill positions, and trying to figure out how to fix things so that would be sustainable after she left and wouldn't fall back into old corruption. She took on a job in the academy schoolboard to keep an eye out for younger trainers, put as much money into research and economic opportunities as possible, then got to work shaping the League to her vision

Her main vision for the league was to make as many parts of the system economically self-sustaining as possible, which was vital for her gym leader choices. She picked people who had *enough* skill in battling, but who all had other careers that would generate interest in and revenue for the gym. Paldea didn't have the pure battling talent yet to make a name for itself on any kind of world stage so Geeta was completely unconcerned about the actual battling skill of her picks as long as they were good enough and making cash. In terms of gym challenges, she mandated that they had to be free or extremely cheap and somehow tied to the town itself-- the giant contraptions of other regions were NOT in the budget. She wanted the gym system to be a celebration of the towns they were in and to inspire people to visit in the same way Galar's stadiums did, all in the hopes that gyms wouldn't need money from the league itself

The gyms would maintain a similar system as before, with each town and gym operating like a smaller independent organization. Most day to day operations and decisions like numbers of workers and salaries would be handled by the gyms themselves, but with all details publicly available so interventions could take place if things got fishy. All revenue generated by the gym would stay within the town-- it would be used to pay salaries, do upkeep, etc, and anything left over could be used to make renovations / add more stuff to gym challenges / support local businesses. If the revenue generated wasn't enough to cover upkeep and salary, the league would fill in the rest

The reason the gym buildings Look Like That is because the old league funneled most of the money into the pockets of the higher-ups and very little was allocated for building gyms. Geeta kept the design bc it's cheap, Paldea is broke, and the uniformity of the gyms allows trainers to find it more easily. it's also convenient if there's a turnover of the position-- no need to build a new gym! It's mostly an administrative office anyway, only there for paperwork and to house office staff, and Geeta is under the (correct) impression that most gym leaders prefer having stages at their favorite places instead of a specific building. Only two gym leaders have strong negative opinions about the building itself: Grusha, who can't have an outdoor reception area because of the snow and hates sitting in the lobby all the time, and Brassius, who thinks it's ugly as shit (he's right) and wants to paint a mural on it

The gym system is actually run much better than it was before-- it's still hitting its stride at the time of the game but is shaping up into a system that will work long after Geeta retires. The gym leaders also like how things are run quite a bit-- they just hate Geeta as a person (but that's smth I plan on exploring in another post)

The Elite Four is something Geeta admittedly hasn't put much thought into: her main focus was on redoing the administrative side of the league and ensuring the gyms were generating enough money to function + helping the towns they were in. The Elite Four, in her mind, were an afterthought, especially since she stripped them of their political power and distributed that power amongst regular office staff. She uncoupled politics from battling in the upper spheres of the league, allowing for more concentrated and specialized attention to issues so the Elite Four could just battle

In the new league, the Elite Four isn't a council of politicians, just people who test the strength of trainers looking to be champion-- every current Elite Four member is an employee in another sector working the job for a bonus (except for Poppy-- her parents are accountants and she ended up in the position as a joke that went a liiiiittle too far). In the future, the Elite Four and Top Champion might be dedicated battlers rather than a side hustle, but Paldea doesn't have the talent nor money for that at the moment

In terms of economics, Geeta decided to set an inflation-adjusted salary rate for each position that was viewable by the public and that couldn't be changed without a public vote in the hopes this would limit corruption. She also redid the League Points system— it used to be how employees were paid, but now it’s mostly for trainers, allowing the league to subsidize common trainer goods and make things easier to buy (all employees are paid with regular money). Paldea doesn’t have designated trainer routes like other regions and cash is far easier to mug than digital currency, so trainers are encouraged to use LP as a precaution so they don’t get robbed while in the Paldean wilds. However because the LP system isn’t very popular and NOT secure, Geeta is debating phasing it out

In the new system, gyms operate mostly on their own, so the central administrative stuff (aka everything that happens in the league building by the academy as well as E4 salaries and whatnot) gets their money from returns on investments— mostly from Tera Orbs. Fees from defeating trainers also helps, but Geeta made sure not to tie it to anyone’s salaries so that they wouldn’t thrash trainers for money, as encouraging them is the whole point of the challenge. Side note about Tera Orbs: once the league got the patent, Geeta didn’t think twice about the professors, being far too busy with Everything Else to think about her old business partner. Not keeping an eye on them is one of her greatest regrets

In terms of future plans, Geeta has already implemented checks and balances on every position but her own. When she’s confident in how the League is progressing and is sure the system won’t fall back into corruption, she plans on turning her own position to an elected one. Geeta isn’t stupid, she knows that everyone hates her and will lose her position as soon as she puts proper checks and balances on it, so she’s waiting until she’s confident in the League’s system to let the rest of the league get rid of her. By that point, she hopes that the League will be organized, financially stable, and balanced enough so that it can run smoothly long after she’s gone. Also, the league is likely to enter back into international batting conferences by the end of the decade, since there’s a LOT of up and coming battling talent that can make Paldea proud (and hopefully bring enough positive attention and money back to the region so they can actually make the league profitable)

To me Paldea’s league always felt like it was in a transition period, building itself from the ground up again. We happen to see it right at the middle, just before it’s really up to a properly functioning and self-sustaining entity. I don’t really have a closer for this but if u read all the way here I’m very flattered and apologize for being a lil delusional about this :)

#geeta #pokemon sv #paldea league #I feel genuinely delusional typing this out but it's fine #also just an fyi this is a geeta defense zone. I love that woman #i’m making another post with hcs about her specifically later #mod vex

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abigail · 5 months

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besties. 🫣 I am a tiiiiny bit tipsy and I asked my partner if they would learn a song on guitar for me to sing along to and they said yeah of course and that they like my singing and idk.. I've wanted to and thought about doing music since i was a kid tbh but always thought i was no good and maybe I'm not buy hey. i have a loving partner who will learn to play a song on guitar for me so i can sing along and idk.. thats so nice.. even if I'm no good that's fine.. i have someone who loves me and supports me :-)

#it took me 1000 years to type this maybe im more tipsy than i thought lol #sorry if typos/doesnt make sense. had various booze lol #anyway now to pick a song lol #i feel like my vocals would be ok to cover ethel or lana MAYBE… but maybe i am delusional lmao #why am I ending every sentence with lol or lmao as if it’s a full stop someone hit me with a brick #a

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yioh · 7 months

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some of my fave ships over the last few years !!!

#i wanted to add nanago but i couldn’t find any romantic official art LOL it’s all in our collective delusion #but do not underestimate my love for nanami gojo i am more delusional then ever abt them rn with the newest episode #mitsukou is the latest edition i literally started the manga yesterday lol and they’re SOOOOOO POOKIEEEEE my lil kids .. so adorable … i #wanna scrunch them up #and arkco. don’t make me start talking i WILL NOT shut up #i read my physical of vol 11 yesterday THE ARKCO VOLUME … drove me insane .. so much to say #arkco are the main couple of wha for me they are literally the foundation of everything and i love the way they grow together so much #they are giving future power couple …#also arkco and mitsukou are so whimsical in terms of vibes and that’s my FAVE #kaebedo ofc they are my brand i tjink lol but rather then canon kaebedo i love canon kaebedo the most #*i love fanon kaebedo more #just go on pinterest and type kaebedo there’s SO much creativity it always inspires me #id love a kaebedo inspired story or something there’s just so much to unpack and their aesthetics are so pleasing together #once again so whimsical if done right #oh and guiping my beloved tragic old women yuri #their cutscene is probably my all time fave in genshin along with shenhe’s cutscene #i have a feeling they’re gonna make a return too….. i will tune back into genshin again when they do #literally only playing genshin for liyue and partly mondstadt rn lol #AND NALUUUUUUUUU my iconic first ever ship in my WHOLE life #the fact that they still make as emotional as when i was 13 years old is insane #so well written. the most beautiful romance i’ve ever read . i DREAM of having a love like theirs :(#idek how to describe how they make me feel they just make my heart swell with love #the definition of made for eaxhother #SOUL MATES #and mitsuki aya 💞💞💞💞💞💞 the coolest and stylish girlies but they’re also so so cute i love watching their little love blossom through their #passion and love for the arts and music and then navigating life and school together #my favourite romance manga atm for SUREEEE #i eat up the art so bad #FEEL FREE TO TALK TO ME ABT ANY OF THESE MANGA … OR UR FAVE MANGA #i love manga … romance … games ….

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parkercore-69 · 20 days

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when the unhealthy homoromantic friendship got yu that bad your therapist had to treat your separation like a bereavement and is teaching you coping mechanisms for grief

#dawgs dont get into situationships with your closest friend you’ve ever had it dont end well #LMAO #i have to laugh otherwise i might completely break down #LMFAO #(im afraid i’ll never find someone who will love me unconditionally because im too much to handle)#HAHA WHAT PARKER’S GETTING EMOTIONAL ON MAIN??#(im afraid that i’m not only unlovable but also that i will inevitably ruin any relationship i form)#WHAT THE FUUUUCKKK #THIS IS SO CRINGE #(i’m completely delusional and the more i keep repressing this shit the further i regress into my head)#WOOOAH GET A GRIP DUDE????#(i can’t cope with this type of stuff)#parker spews his troubles connecting emotionally and romantically and platonically and just generically with people #sorry guys i am cringe feel free to ignore this

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8rujaa · 20 days

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do you ever feel like you’re in love but you haven’t met them yet?

#like i miss my future lover type shit #idk i can’t explain it but if You Know You Know #i’ve been really happy recently so not in a ‘i want a relationship’ way #but more of a ‘im going to become my best self for you so i can love u correctly once we meet’#damn typing it out now it sounds super delusional…. LMAO #i just feel like i’m generating love in general. i love everything so much. i feel like when u have the shroom afterglow minus the shrooms #i’ve been feeling like that since my adhd meds. everything feels enjoyable now even doing laundry!!!!!#brain vomit

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doux-amer · 1 year

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I watched The Menu and loved it because it featured every single thing I hate about the food world and the arts in general. It’s brilliant because it's multilayered and multi-pronged in its satire and reducing it to just ONE aspect of its criticism (“rich people suck”) is too simplistic; even if you took away their richness, each character from the customers to Slowik and Elsa on the opposite side stands for a certain type of person who interacts with food and I hate every single one of them. :))))))

Also, it's hilarious because 2022 had The Bear and The Menu and people who work in the food industry/service industry or are have some connection to it talked about how they got stressed out by one and felt catharsis through the other. Both of them let them feel seen, but one was feeling seen in a bad way and the other one was in a good way even if you liked both fkasjflksajf.

#i don't particularly want to look at what people say about the menu #because i feel like i'm going to be benafflecksmoking.jpg about it the way i did when i saw some stuff about the bear #there are several things going on and if you just think it's about one thing you're wrong and i don't want to talk to you #like yeah rich people suck but the class and privilege satire got muddied because this is not a case of one good guy #who's a champion of service workers vs. all these rich snobs who make everything suck #but that's the point!#and it's not entirely about wealth because you can't look at someone like tyler for instance and think that's the point #and i assume people think tyler is the stand-in for obsessive foodies #when in reality all of the diners are different types of foodies all of whom are despicable and who are in fact bloodsuckers #although the way that slowik judges some of them is so binary and narrow and he's conflating everyone's sins to the same degree #and slowik is a hypocrite and a delusional egoistic bitter man but he's also not the only one perpetuating the abuse #he is culpable in contributing to the destruction of his own soul and life as well as his passion and the industry #and there are people like elsa who enable that and the way she does her job is just...EVERYONE SUCKS! THEY ALL SUCK!#the only person who's right is margot/erin for a lot of reasons #she is the only one who understood the assignment #the only one who didn't belong there yes...but as someone who's a service worker herself #she understood the fundamental basics of what a dining experience is #what providing that means and what someone is supposed to receive #and acknowledging what goes into it (her acknowledgment of the sous chef as the person who puts in the work #knowing there is a person whereas tyler couldn't give a damn)#what food is there for at the end of the day #even if someone else had gone into that room none of them were capable of coming to that conclusion #anyway i hate the culture around fine dining and i hate foodies :))))#every time i see a fellow millennial say they're a foodie or write that they love food on their ig/dating app profile/twitter bio/whatever #i roll my eyes so hard and it's HATE on sight!!!!!!!#you and everyone else in 2023 buddy!#and you can love food and i know if you love food versus....that #the bear and the menu are great in different ways and i appreciate and like them for different reasons #and i was SO interested in seeing which would stress me out. for me it was the bear (even though i enjoyed it) and the menu was fun #without any stress while the opposite was true for some people who HATED the menu (loved it but felt understood/seen/reminded of stuff)

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blog--witch · 10 months

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Do you ever see the cover of a published novel and think like. Is this bfu fanfiction.

#watcher #tell me this doesn’t look like Shane and Ryan. it HAS to be intentional #the height difference the denim jacket the baseball cap #I know I’m just being delusional but I can’t stop looking at this lol I had to get it out of my brain #they’re not actually ghost hunters I read the description #but the general vibes feel. adjacent #im looking at this author like 👁️👁️ I know what you are #this author is always published books that sound like exactly the type of fanfiction I want so I’m like oh cool I’ll read it I guess #but. im sorry. but the writing is so bad 🫢#like some things should stay on ao3 😔

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deus-ex-mona · 1 year

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I M FREAKING OUT OVER THESE TWO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#didn’t know whether to type blue tomoda’s first line as ‘i was doing my work anyway’ or sth bc it feels kinda incomplete but wHO CARES—#ALL THAT MATTERS IS THAT THEY!!!!! ARE!!!!!! LIVING!!!! TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#I’M JUST TAKING THIS W AND RUNNING WITH IT SO FAST AND SO HARD YOU CAN’T STOP ME (<-delusional)#REST OF THE VID BE DAMNED THE!!!!!!! THEM!!!!!!! AUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #blue coded masumi

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peach-cream-enmu-archive · 2 years

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Heavy noncon

Being in public, just going about your day in a crowded place and being airdropped something. Opening it up to see it’s someone’s vid of them jacking off. You delete it, absolutely disgusted. You try to continue on when you’re sent another. They’re fucking a toy before pulling it off and coming, and it so much it more of a shock than being sent it. You delete it again. You really need to figure out why your phone accepts and opens any airdrop material with your permission.

The next, them jacking off again, but this time it’s just them coming, but they cum on a photo. The next thing is a picture of the photo all covered and gross. You look at the photo and it’s…you. You delete it and start to panic, looking around the crowd but no one seems suspicious. Then you get one single photo. A pic of you, right now where you stand, looking terrified.

You run, making your way to the first bathroom you could find. You’re alone and you think you’re safe. Someone opens the door and you think it’s someone else coming to use it. But you hear the door lock and you cower in the stall. You pray they’ll just leave. But they’re pushing open stall doors, and you hear it moving closer.

Until you see shoes right in front of the stall. Your heart stops, the stall door is locked, you can hear it creak as the push on it slowly. They pull away and it’s deathly silent for a while. Before the door is kicked open. You scream in fear as it slams against the wall. You don’t have time to think about what to do when you’re grabbed roughly and taken to the floor.

You don’t recognize them, and as you wrestle and try your hardest to fight back but they straddle your chest. They grip your hair so tight it hurts and keep your head in place while impatiently undoing their belt and shoving down their pants. They roughly press the leaking tip to your lips but you keep them shut tight. They slap you but you still keep them closed. They pinch your nose, cutting off your air and you hold out as long as you can but you have to stop, opening your mouth and gasping for air.

His cock enters your mouth quickly and it’s worse than you thought it would be. It’s slimy and smells and tastes so bad. He pulls your hair again and says “bite me and I’ll make this so much worse”. He starts thrusting into your mouth, eyes fluttering shut as he moans. He’s looking at you and has been this whole time, and he bites his knuckle with an awful smile as he tries to keep quiet.

Each spurt of precum tastes more vile than the last, and soon his hips are speeding up. You struggle and thrash but with his hold on you you achieve nothing, and he cums in your mouth and down your throat. The groan he lets out is the kind that makes girls weak, but your even more terrified. He doesn’t release you, staying in your mouth and making you have to swallow it. Then he leans back, adjusts his hips, and your eyes widen.

He’s pissing in your mouth. You choke, your throat closing up to try and stop it. There’s so much that you have to swallow to breathe. He pulls out as his stream dies down, covering and soaking your shirt and chest. You start crying, choking on your sobs when he moves down your body. He pushes your shirt up, and shoves your bra up before fighting you to get your shorts off. He gets them off even to spread your legs and pats his cock against your lips.

You jolt. He’s let go of your hair now and you look away and close your eyes tight. You’re not ready but he goes anyway, spitting on your cunt once before spreading it. He felt big in your mouth but he feels enormous as he pushes into you. Again he moans, but now he’s shaking, looking down at you and he looks crazy. “I’ve been waiting so long to do this.” Your eyes widen, what did he mean? You don’t know him.

He starts thrusting and it’s too much. He’s too big, tip kissing your cervix without even bottoming out. He keeps pushing against it like he doesn’t know why he can’t go further. You cry out each time and he finally gets the message, pulling back and fucking you with less force. He’s leaning down, biting and sucking marks into your chest, belly, shoulders, and neck. Your hands push at his chest, trying to keep him off but all he does is lean back and take his shirt off.

You don’t want to touch him. You don’t want to but as he comes back down and tries to kiss you you push against him on reflex. He just takes your hands and holds them above your head with one hand, and he intertwines his fingers with yours, sandwiching your other hand between the two. His chest touching yours hurts, he feels like he trying to lay all his weight on you and stop your breathing.

His other hand comes up and holds your face and he kisses you. Again you try to keep your mouth shut but he gives a forceful thrust that has you crying out. He lets his tongue drop into your mouth and it assaults yours, pushing and licking as he groans against your lips. You respond enough to make him let go of your face, closing your lips around his tongue and sucking, licking it, moaning for him.

His hand travels down to touch your chest, circling your nipple with a barely there trembling touch and you tense in anticipation. His hands are big, and he’s rough with them, it hurts as he gropes your chest. His thrust slow though he pushes deep each time. He lowers his head, taking your breast in his mouth. He bites gently, lapping at your nipple with his tongue, circling around it, flicking it. Sucking it, letting a groan rumble through to you.

He readjusts his body and his next thrust hits something inside you. You moan, he thrown back and back arching. He chuckles, thrusting at and abusing that spot. You don’t want it to feel good, you don’t want to cum, you don’t want it.

His pace grows uneven and his breath heavy. He leans down again, looking in your eyes before your squeeze shut as you cum. You want to cry but have no time, as he immediately speeds up. Then he stills, hips twitching into yours. You feel his cum flood you and you feel like you’ll be sick.

He stays inside you for a while, catching his breath and letting his cum sit in you. He pulls out with a shaky exhale you hear through his nose. You lay there, dazed from your orgasm and your heavy feeling head from your tears, and think that’s the end of it. That he’ll leave you here, and you can collect what little is left of your self and go home. But he pulls your panties and shorts back up, lifting you up and holding you in his lap as he wiggles them back up and fasten them.

You feel his cum ooze from your cunt and settle in your panties. He cradles your head in his shoulder as you sob. You don’t have the energy to push him away. He begins shushing you and your blood runs cold.

“It’s alright. You’re ok. I’m gonna take you home.”

#I’ve never written the forced stalker nonspecific type #it’s always been soft noncon or soft dubcon #i don’t know how I feel about my writing in this one #I’m more accustomed to writing love sick delusional stalkers and creeps #cream afab #toasted sugar cream #oops was supposed to post this last night

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