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#ALSO GG TO ME I FINALLY POSTED ART HERE
the-deadlock-south · 2 years
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solradguy · 6 months
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In a fascinating turn of events, we've (lore server) recently discovered that the GUILTY GEAR XX SLASH Absolute GUILTY GEAR chronicle DVD (PS2 XX Slash preorder bonus) and Guilty Gear Fragment (Judgment preorder bonus UMD movie) have both been ripped and are somehow in a playable state. Fragment needs converted into something else though as the UMD can only be played with a very specific emulator at the moment.
We're also trying to move the GG wiki off Fandom but that's hit some snags. More on that in the future (hopefully...)
I've also been working on a translation of the Guilty Gear article from Character Designer Issue 1. 2003 (thanks Kat). It's the source of the early male Baiken concept art. Lots of text, slow going.
No work's been done on LtA recently—still about 700 words left in C1P2.
Found some rarer Daisuke GG works in the archives that I'm going to clean and post over the next few days. I already posted one of them today.
Outrage is almost fully smoothed out and ready for primer and then paint. I might actually get it done before the 1 year anniversary of me starting this project gets here (sometime in early January, need to look it up).
Still playing Final Fantasy IV. Just completed the cave with the dark crystal in it. This honestly for real might end up being my favorite FF game.
I think that's everything major that's been going on recently. Busy and tired. So, so, tired...
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cherrycolaberry · 2 months
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A (not so) little intro to me :33
My name is diva but you can call me cherry!
I go by she/her/they/them either is fine.
I'm 18 turning 19 on October 5th (05 baby).
I'm a artist (it's kinda my only personality trait, not really but really yk) I don't think I'll be posting my art on here but if anyone's interested, my artstagram is _cherrycolaberry_ where I'm not very active bc artblock is kicking my ass :/ I post xikers/&team fanart sometimes, tho it's mostly ocs.
BIG kpop girlie. Been a popper since 2016, my ults are: skz (predebut if that matters) txt (same as skz) xikers 🥰 &team (the current loml I'm not kidding I'm obsessed) ateez, gidle (I don't stan many ggs but their my favorite) bnd (myung jaehyun the only man for me)
And for groups I stan/listen to: itzy, exo, bts, enhypen, le sserafim, pwon 😍, m.o.n.t (stan mont, fuck fm) ab6ix, zb1, the boyz, vixx, the rose, day6, k.a.r.d (I love them with my whole soul) riize, nct (mostly dream and wayv) 8turn, victon (do hanse IS the standard) xdinary heros <3. Dkb (love them) ace. Erm that was long but I took this straight from my yt search history, and I didn't include all of it :)
Non kpop artists i listen to: keshi (i need keshi girlies like rn) mitski (the loml) ashnikko (she's so fine I could scream 🤧) laufey (tho only recently) dean, dpr lan 🥴, Melanie martinez, Olivia rodrigo, actually i take what I said earlier back my entire personality is keshi, you can point a gun to my head and say 'sing a song beginning to end' and you bet your behind it's gonna be keshi!
Anywoo i have other hobbies some include: crocheting, sewing, sculpting, reading fanfics and webtoon (if your a lune and have read the webtoon or webnovel hmu) and like everything else under the sun.
I'm always down for friends/moots so don't be shy (I say that like I'm not) also again any lunes who's watched &audition plz hmu I have to scream abt that show (especially gaku)
I'll just be doing silly things on here since I still don't know how tum works :)
That's all finally 🙌
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prt-razorfuck · 7 months
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Hey y'all, this post is about yugioh. If that ain't your thing, scroll on by. Just wanted to talk about a favorite card of mine. Post begins below the cut.
Gate Guardian! One of the weirdest monsters from the original (at least in the US) series, if only for how utterly *terrible* it is to summon. Now, I haven't paid much (any) attention to anything past the 4th anime, so maybe it's gotten easier to summon.
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Here I've got the full card and a brightened up close up of the art. I've always loved the design of Gate Guardian, as it reminded me of mechazords from power rangers with hoe the three component monsters combined.
However, the fact is that GG should've been at least a normal fusion monster, or a ritual monster. As it is, GG is useless without getting all three of his pieces on the field, and most duels I've *personally* been in with another person have never lasted long enough to bring him out fully, so I have to rate GG as a 6/10 monster whose individual pieces are better than his final form (at least in terms of ease of summoning).
He's also got a mouth on his crotch, which leads me to wonder if- uh, nevermind. Not going into vore today.
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spinaroos-47 · 2 years
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How do you design the outfits for people (like your GG ocs and young Darius/Eberwold and stuff) They're all so pretty!!
Thank you! I was actually thinking of one day making a post about how i make up witchy outfits! This ask isnt going to be that but Im glad to answer my process!
In short, its a lot of observation, references and extrapolating from there
And here's the long version:
For younger Darius and Eber i mostly did small changes to these outfits i did when they were even younger, around 17, with some changes + adding some flare of their current outfits as well
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And in turn, for Darius' outfit i took inspiration from the photo in reaching out where he's booing Alador + the boots he used in TTBK.
Eber was mostly improvised, kept the main aspects of his current outfit (and the hollow mind one too), the raggedy bits, shorts/skirts, no sleeves, little boots, wrist things, and implemented them in different ways
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And also on these i started adding details they have now, like the wrist bands on Eber and a cape + white gloves for Darius
(plus i had been sketching some ideas for casual outfits for current Darius and those have been inspired by the outfits I have for a non toh oc of mine because they kinda fit Darius' vibe and he also has a bit of diamond shape motif like Darius. That's where the sash thing comes from)
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(titty window was a suggestion from a friend)
Another important thing i keep doing on a lot of characters is that a common shape for the neck of the shirts is V that Hunter, Lilith and many other characters have. Its all over the place when you stop to look for it. And other really common thing is that theres a lot of long shirts that have a belt or waitsband, extremely common
I did answer a bit of how I designed Cain and Salem's outfits here but in short, it was a lot of referencing both Hunter's outfits, concept art for coven scouts/Hunter (i actually found more concept art for coven scouts but haven't took the time to really absorb them) and also the hollow mind portraits.
Something I haven't shown a lot here yet is that Ive designed casual outfits for all my main four GGs (sorry Alexander and William, you're too hard for me to design stuff for now :'3) which was really helpful on figuring out on what feels like Boiling Isles' fashion. Might do a post about my process on that + the uniforms of my other GGs and their physical appearances
(fun fact, Cain has a lot of stuff that I drew on older versions of Hunter, including the scar across the eye)
So yeah, lots of observation, references and a healthy dose of extrapolation and improvising. And taking vibes from other places helps too. I think even some stuff from my old Hunter aus have seeped into some of these designs too, like the Hunter Whispers outfit, looks pretty similar to the 17 year old Darius outfit i did so it was probably an unconscious reference (which also, remembering again, i did also base on the shape of his hollow mind shirt. See, i keep remembering things that are or could have been inspirations for these things fjsndnd)
But its also a thing you have to get some practice going on before it feels right and turns into something easy to do
I myself have struggled a lot with Darius' outfit on his early 20s, this is actually the fourth attempt or so. Here's the previous attempt, from before i decided to make him younger than Cain + his outfit at 17 because i also found it while looking for the other photo and i don't think i posted that drawing before
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His hair was a challenge to decide. But im happy with the final result!
Here you go, a bit of the process i go through!
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gregethgeist · 2 months
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Hey Ho 2
Decided to do a new introduction because the old one is really outdated.
Hey, I’m Gregeth Geist or Gregeth or Greg, really doesn’t matter. I’m a computer programmer, game designer, sprite artist, and video game composer. I’m a Deltarune fan creator, you may know me from the popular Roaring Titans fan song, I also have worked on a few other things outside of that with more to come. Outside of that I am also an original game creator, working on an original indie RPG game focused around multiversal travel, I share quite a bit about it here.
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Some of my interests outside of game development are anime, music, nature, and art, just to name a few.
Some games I really like are Undertale/Deltarune, Omori, Final Fantasy (mainly IX), Nier: Automata, and Metal Gear Rising. There are more, but those are the more prominent ones.
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Some of my favorite anime/manga are Jujutsu Kaisen (my all time favorite), One Piece, Solo Leveling, Hunter x Hunter, and Attack on Titan, but I’ve seen a lot more that I like.
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Mahito is my favorite character, hate me all you want.
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I'm in my Omori phase right now, so if you would like to talk about Omori, my dm's are open.
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Some more personal stuff, I use he/they pronouns, he/him is fine too, but I’m non-binary so it really doesn’t matter. I am somewhat mentally ill and I have bad anger issues so don’t piss me off and we're good. I can be an asshole at times and am a bit unhinged, but I really only show that side to close friends.
Other than that, I’m a pretty chill guy who likes to make friends and I have pretty diverse interests. I’ll probably mainly use this for shitposting and posting about my game and other projects. Anyways, I think that’s all, see ya.
-GG
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guzsdaily · 5 months
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Someone who's writing a journal
Day 31 - Dec 6th, 12.023
One month doing these daily journals, with just one day being posted outside the daily time frame, I have to say that I'm somewhat surprised that I was able to do it. Yes, not all of them were long or really thought of, some I have to admit that I'm not so proud of and could have more attention to them, but to be honest, I think it reflects the day they're written somehow. Yesterday I annotated a lot of ideas that I have for this journal, some philosophical thoughts and believes that kinda drive who I am and/or want to be, and simply things to talk about. And today's topic is in this category.
If you read any of the past entries and became curios and/or just looked at any of my other social media, you probably saw that I created some type of brand/identity for me here on the internet. Things like the phrase "someone who's trying to improve" or the symbols in my profile pictures, and even my nickname/username "Guz013". And maybe you asked yourself, "what's all of this?", so well, why not talk about it today?
Why create a brand?
If you are one of the zero people who aren't close to me and read the Day 2 entry, you probably already noticed that I like brands. That's something which I developed around the past recent years, even more after the pandemic, because I started to like and learn about design, primarily logo design. There is something special to me in having a name and more importantly, a logo, which represents a creation of yours, even more when said design is able to express the creation. For me, creating logos is a type of art and hobby that I like in general. Yes, a lot of them are minimalistic and somewhat follow the recent trend of oversimplifying everything, which in most cases ends up being a bad idea, however there's also some challenge and art in trying to make a simplistic logo look good and unique, and to be honest, I just like that style y'know?
Is all of this maybe a "capitalism thing" or whatever political view you want to put into it? I don't know, and I don't care to be honest. Personally, I just like the idea of people looking at a logo or name and instantly recognizing what or who it's representing, even better when it's represents a good thing.
What are those symbols?
If you saw my work somewhere, and primarily my profile pictures, you saw at least one of these symbols:
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And I will already get this out of the way, they aren't meant to be any preexisting symbol or language typography. All of them were created using a custom alphabet/typing system that I created, and no, I will not place how to "decode" them, because: one, it is very simple to do; two, it would get the fun out of it.
These symbols represent different aspects of my life: me as a creator and person; my art and drawings; my codes and interest in software; my likeness of graphics and design; and my love for listening, and hopefully one day creating, music. They represent my personality and who I am as a person in this internet, and primarily, who I am as a creator.
All of them also have my main symbol:
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Which represents the 013 in my brand.
Who is "Guz013"?
Like everyone else, I had a lot of usernames as time passed, some notable were: "Gu_BRASIL", because I wanted to create a channel called "GG Brasil" with a friend which also had a name starting with a "G"; Gu013, because "Gu" is a common nickname for my name ("Gustavo") here in Brazil; and finally, "Guz013". And I'm going to be honest with you, the history of this nickname is nothing special, even more when knowing that I created it when I was around 14 to 16.
The "013" came when I was around 14, because 13 ended up being my "luck number". Why my luck number? Because it is the number which everyone associate with bad luck, and like every teenager, I want[ed] to be different. But because just "13" is kinda lame, I added a zero, and "013" became my luck number, and also, part of my username/brand. To be honest with you, I don't like it that much, but it comes handy when creating usernames in platforms with unique ones. And "Guz" is again just a common nickname for "Gustavo", normally spelled "Gus" with a "s", but I didn't know and to be honest, "z" is a prettier letter. ;')
Yee, it isn't the best origin, but welcome to names on the internet, most of them don't have a good origin history, even the big ones.
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And that's it for today. To be honest, seeing now, it feels somewhat egocentric having a whole entry just to explain my brand image, but whatever, it probably will be handy if anyone ask about them one day. It is surprising and kinda scary to know that it already passed an entire month doing this, and I didn't notice. Just seeing this list below is strange, never thought that I could handle this type of consistency in my life. Even more knowing how much I ended up procrastinating today lol.
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Hopefully tomorrow will be better. And remember, never stop trying.
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Today's artists & creative things
Musicians: Scatolove I recommended this Brazilian couple in my first ever post here, so why not recommend again? I love their songs, so go give a listen to them.
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Copyright (c) 2023-present Gustavo "Guz" L. de Mello <[email protected]>
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License
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zumpietoo · 1 year
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Snorty Dummmbbb....
As is the rest of the GG....
Note, I’ve removed the ask, because it’s a mite leaky, but Snorty assumes soooo much bullshit here (that wasn’t even remotely hinted at), I think I can safely post...(plus get ready for the notes! Bit of a cat fight breaks out)
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Ummm.....no, Snorty, at no point did Cole remotely say that----nor was that remotely implied. Also, I do love how you continue to not even remotely grasp what show you’re watching here.....and instead use that outdated, faux writer argument of plot v. character driven. Dude, the show has always been about plot.....TBH, most TeeVee is. And it’s finnnneee.....
Again, no.
Errrmm....also, no.
Errrmm.....again, no.
Plus, Snorty what “the fans” (i.e. the GG) wants is Jizzy and that, again, isn’t happening. I will say, it sounds like y’all kinda are starting to realice that??? FINALLY?????
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Plenty of time for both, berrypee! Especially considering most final seasons, when planned, are shorter to wrap shit up, precisely.....The Flash, for example.
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Umm, neither, Izzy???? Plus, OFC, by “self correct” you mean “give the GG what it wants”?
TBF, this next person is a troll (and will upset them all shortly), buuuutt.....while it isn’t Barfie, there also isn’t gonna be any Jizzy....
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Errrmmm.....again, BAV (and Ragey for the quad!) triangle.....and Jabi continues, buuuutt.....
berrypee, Cole is not now and never was a Douchie Comics fan....he’s fully stated as much. Yes, he likes comics....not Douchie. And he said almost NONE of that....(and you’re twisting what he did say).
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Ummm....the writers run with the showrunner’s lead, dumbass---plus most shows kinda end badly/have shitty final seasons and everybody goes on to find new jobs. And I say this while agreeing the writers ARE, largely, total hacks. 
Oh Snorty.....also by that YOU mean “no longer wants Slizzy’s slut ass”...
Troling Barfie troll....
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You sure did project a whole lot of your wish list here, huh, dude? And continued to not grasp ANYTHING he meant...also love how we’re back to “it’s high art”, now
Annnddd....TROLL!!
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Oppss! Finally hit a poke!
And no, troll....
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berrypee isn’t wrong, but we will leave the 50s. And her tragic tone is fucking hilarious.....
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OML.....the trolling!!! And, honestly, I think we can all be sure it will be exactly like that. Plus I hate VD, too, but it’s a much moar likely endgame. With sidepiece Slizzy....
However, I do agree about Jizzy....
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Ooohh.....Izzy’s a fast one, huh?? However, you aren’t getting Jizzy endgame.
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I agree, Izzy.....but you generally seem pretty obsessive about it all to me!
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Oh good lord, kettle-bullshit....just shut your sad noobie trap.
Troll!
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Oh good lord, Snorty.....LIED TO????? Such dramaaaaa.....also, again, both you and Izzy are noobie socks....plus I dislike the supernatural shit (as we all know, cuz cop out, etc), buuuuttt....I remain, again, convinced we’re not done yet AND it’s obvious they wanted to dink around a bit. 
I find this sudden, snotty purism also hilarious. PLUS.....LBR, if it translated to Jizzy 2, electric boogaloo, and while you were convinced it would, you LOVED it
You even insisted shit that happened thusly that vaguely hinted of Jizzy meant you “won”.....
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Ummm...no? He didn’t.....I think he said it wasn’t enough eps to do everything they wanted to, if memory serves....but not even sure that happened. 
Errmmm.....no, he didn’t. AND, originally? He didn’t want the mystery shit, he wanted a beat for beat of his nu Douchie comics....
Oh good lord, again with the “our fanfic is the awesomest”....dude....the entire issue has never, EVER been “out of ideas”, it’s been that they don’t know how ro execute shit...let alone finish it. 
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They seriously JUST figured out they say lots of shit that means nothing? Again....noobie socks confirmed! Also....again, “BETRAYAL”?? And “a trap”????? 
Dudes, just don’t watch. FIFY
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stevensavage · 2 years
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Steve's Update 10/16/2022
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com, Steve's Tumblr, and Pillowfort.  Find out more at my newsletter, and all my social media at my linktr.ee)
"Think Agile, Write Better": Waiting on prereaders right now.  At this rate, I hope to edit it over November and maybe take advantage of a few extra days off around Thanksgiving.  There's still time to pre-read (moreso if my other pre-readers are taking their time).  It might go a little longer, unfortunately.
The Way With Worlds series: Disaster response is in progress!  This one surprises me, and is going to be a nice, broad book on things to think of - including reader sensitivity.  I've also started updating the book covers, so look for the new visuals on my History and Calendar books!
The Seventh Sanctum rewrite: Looking like this might be November - I might have a trip.  Fortunately, I launched another site and used it to practice.
Future Work:
Fiction/RPG - Still considering an Avenoth RPG, but if I do it'd start sometime later next year.
Blog Compendium - I'll probably start this once I get through some of the other work (so December, January).  It's really something to do in big chunks of time, so I might actually do it over a break - let's face it, I mean "Christmas."
Creativity and Advice - No major projects right now.
"Other Stuff" - I am looking at some art/writing projects under my other pen names (this isn't the only one).
Finally, giveaways!
I've got a giveaway of my first Way With Worlds book right here - along with a wild amount of other stuff.  https://books.bookfunnel.com/goldenchildpromotionspublishing999999/v1apudmu26
Grab a copy of "A Bridge to the Quiet Planet" and other books at this giveaway - https://claims.prolificworks.com/gg/CJ9spSKW2wOlPd64ISor
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terrainofheartfelt · 2 years
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Just remembered your mysterious HIMYM/GG au 👀
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ohhhhhh, you. bless you for holding me accountable for my au nonsense, S, I love you.
Alright then, by popular demand, and by popular I mean at least one (1) person asked for it:
The Gossip Girl HIMYM AU that I will never write
this is....this is SO long, but you know who I am, and I am not brief. and since the tags are still goofy I'm just warning you now. and putting the meat of the post under the cut.
For starters, there’s the building of the core 5, the friends who’ve known each other forever. Now, you may think the obvious choice for the lead, Ted, a professional grade-a sap who gets his heart put through the ringer before he meets the titular Mother would be Daniel Humphrey Professional Yearner, BUT the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to do this:
Blair Waldorf as Ted. And Dan as Tracy, The One Blair finally meets on a Hamptons train platform.
And nobody dies or gets divorced, because...
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Oh, and obviously everybody’s gay.
Here me out under the cut:
Blair and Vanessa Abrams were roommates at…I’ve thought NYU, but I also thought it would be interesting just to have them meet at Yale (plus like, Dan is at NYU, so). They clash at first, for obvious reasons, but after a battle at the Parents Weekend event, they bond over their fraught relationship with their parents, and then become best friends after getting caught in a snowstorm trying to drive back to the city on Thanksgiving Break. (Yale would obvi make the road trip make more sense). Nate meets the both of them in their freshman hall, and he and Vanessa fall hard for each other during orientation week and have been together ever since. Making the central Marshall/Lily relationship Natessa, which I think works the best, they would carry that same goofy energy, while also being Blair’s self-assigned emotional guardians. Vanessa has that mom-friend “I am the sole possessor of the brain cell” energy Lily has, plus the artistic passions and struggling to realize them, even at the cost of her relationship. And Nate has the shucksy-doodles bi-coded lovable goofball himboness of Marshall Eriksen, who’s internal conflict is often about balancing the practical and idealistic – but Nate’s has more to do with grappling with his family’s expectations, and Marshall’s is more about his own.
A Natessa plot of them getting engaged, then calling the first wedding off because Vanessa gets a fellowship far away sounds like a conflict that would be very in line with their characters, as would the fallout of not only Nate taking time to forgive Vanessa, but Blair would as well. That bit in the s2 xmas episode of “But you never apologized to me! You left me too.” – I could see that. Blairnessa bffs rights.
After graduation, V scrapes together a living as a contractual production assistant, her filmmaker dreams inching to the side for the service of the cash. Okay, I toyed with the idea of lawyer!Nate, but you know what I like better? Taking a page from both Lily Aldrin’s book AND our discourse about different career paths for Natie and making him: a schoolteacher. A softhearted himbo of a kindergarten teacher. He’s very good at it. When he and Vanessa get engaged he is also going for his masters in education (bc he loves teaching, but he wants to affect change at a higher level by being an administrator someday). (Nate would also “rescue” a goat after a farmer brought one to show-and-tell to his class.)
Blair trades her art history degrees for paying her dues at her mom’s atelier. Somewhere along the way, they pick up their group’s lovable ne’er-do-well, Carter Baizen. He, like Blair, is another disaster bisexual, but he, unlike Blair, is more of a scapegrace about it (but definitely not to Barney Stinson levels, because this is my au and I do what I want). (Have Blair and Carter ever hooked up? I think never knowing/always being vague about it would be a funny gag). Nate & Carter would also absolutely have that chaotic goober vaguely homoerotic best friendship that Marshall & Ted & Barney have.
And HERE. Here is why I wanted to have Ted!Blair, for the potential offered by our Robin character: Serena. A significant will-they-won’t-they romance arc for Blairena. They lock eyes across a crowded room, Carter urges his best friend Blair to introduce herself, cue the year of flirtation and back and forth.
(And honestly, Blair being so very Extra™ and telling Serena “I think I’m falling in love with you” on the first date seems on-brand for our girl)
Lots of Robin & Serena line up: privileged yet screwed up family background, effortlessly gorgeous, ambitious, it’s absolutely plausible that Serena could have been a teen pop sensation in Canada, on the record for not wanting to settle down too soon or be a mom, the last which ultimately leads to Blairena breaking up, because what they want out of life is too different. But it’s impossible for them to imagine life without each other, so after the dust of the breakup settles, they stay friends. They would also be dumb enough to make a “if we’re still single when we’re 40” marriage pact. They break up after their anniversary dinner, when a waiter brings a diamond ring-garnished glass of champagne to the wrong table and Serena says, “No, no, no, B, you cannot do this to me, no! No, no, no!” prompting a discussion about their conflicting goals for the future. It’s also a week before Vanessa and Nate’s wedding, so they keep it quiet until the couple is on their honeymoon to tell Carter.
[Robin also has a remarkably similar plot to Serena with her baby sibling and her issues with saying “I love you,” which is another surprising parallel.]
I would also like to present as evidence, your honor:
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If by this point, you’re wondering if I’ve given any thought to the Furniture Question, yes, it’s this: chip wiskers was Blair’s first bf that she was on-and-off with in college, and Nate and Vanessa thought he was The Worst, and made Blair into a worse person. Because aside from being a total douche, he also cheated every time Blair’s back was turned. They reconnect for a sec in their late 20s, and Vanessa schemes to break them up because chip absolutely fails her Front Porch Test. Chuck = Karen
While Blair is reeling from The Breakup, Carter convinces her to come out with him on St. Patrick’s Day, and they end up at some ridiculous nightclub. Also there? Dan Humphrey, having been dragged out of the house by his little sister Jenny. They don’t meet, but Blair swipes the umbrella he left at coat check when she leaves and it starts raining. She keeps it for a couple years.
The burn between Serena and Carter is low and slow, because Serena was Blair’s for so long, but they are oddly compatible, and eventually they fall into bed together, and Blair is furious when she finds out, nearly causing the friend group to fall apart, but it doesn’t. Serena and Carter both, of course, catch feelings, but they stay in denial for a long time.
Meanwhile, Blair meets Louis, and they start pretty serious, but rocky, and one day, in an effort to end a fight, Louis proposes, and Blair says yes. Then gang thinks they’re moving too fast, but Blair, being Blair, digs her heels in, even when Louis bitchy little sister’s (Beatrice’s) wedding falls through and Louis and Blair decide to take over her wedding, which is, to put it lightly, the antithesis of what Blair Waldorf’s wedding should be. Louis (ever jealous) and Blair clash over Serena being invited to the wedding, and in an effort to even the score, Blair invites Louis’ ex, Estee, to the wedding too. Estee shoots her shot, and she and Louis run off together before the wedding, leaving Blair at the altar.
And I can so see Serena giving Blair a speech similar to the one Robin gives Ted, “You’re just disappearing into someone else’s house, someone else’s life, and that isn’t the happy ending that you deserve.”
Blair moves on, and throws herself into her design work, but it keeps leading nowhere, leading to another Vanessa life lecture: “Fashion is killing you, Blair. And it’s killing us to watch it killing you.” Louis, wrought with self-flagellating guilt, orchestrates an adjunct professorship in art history for Blair at Columbia, and after Vanessa’s prompting and the rest of the gang’s encouragement, she takes it.
She’s so nervous and tense her first day of teaching that she refuses to take questions from the class during her first lecture, and accidentally teaches the first 20 mins of ENG-405. In that class? Dan Humphrey.
Speaking of, a few brief “How Your Father Met Me” things before we continue:
The night Nate and Vanessa get engaged is Dan’s birthday, he and Jenny and a few friends are meeting at a bar in Brooklyn. Dan’s partner is running late, but when Dan gets a phone call from them, it’s the news that they’ve been in an accident.
He holes himself up after that loss, until Jenny has enough of it, and pesters him into going to a club with her on St. Patrick’s Day. While there, they run into an old acquaintance of his from Steinhardt, Paul, who’s teaching orchestra. Dan insists that he donate his old cello to Paul’s school, and invites him over. Paul mistakes it as an invitation to hookup (The Naked Man!) but he and Dan end up having a good conversation.
“Even if it sounds crazy, what is it you want to do with your life?” / “I want to be a novelist.” / “Okay. Then everything you do from here on out is in service of that.”
Dan applies to grad school at Columbia for creative writing, and also plays guitar part-time in his sister’s band, playing weddings, bar-mitzvahs, etc. etc.
When Jenny gets a fashion design opportunity in London, she bequeaths the band unto Dan, and leaves an empty room in the loft, meaning that Dan goes to Columbia also in need of a roommate.
He sits next to a guy named Elliot in his class ENG-405, who just moved to the city and is looking for a place.
OMG in this scene Tracy makes a joke about serial killers…and…Joe Goldberg lololololol
“Just promise me there won’t be any naked people in the living room.” / “Don’t worry. I am on permanent hiatus in the love department. I know it sounds a little old fashioned, but I think you only get just one. And, I got mine already.”
Aaaaand we’re back!
So Blair is hitting her stride as an art history prof, and one day she runs into this cute guy in the hall, Elliot, who’s a PhD candidate with a focus on Contemporary Literature. He was in the English class she accidentally taught on her first day of work. She really likes him, he’s cute, intellectually stimulating, but he calls it off because of school’s policy for protecting students, even though they're the same age, are in different departments, and have the same amount of degrees. Blair even goes over to his place to talk to him about it “Blair Waldorf in Brooklyn? Are you lost?” / “It isn’t Brooklyn I’m here for.”
She tries to plead her case, but keeps getting sidelined by stuff of Elliot’s that she swears is proof of their compatibility—a poster of Godard, a vinyl of In Rainbows, a copy of Rosemary’s Baby (“don’t tell anyone, but it’s my Valentine’s movie”), a sweatshirt that says “What Would Dorothy Parker Do?” (“it was a christmas gift from my friend Vanessa, I had no idea more than one existed!”)—only for him to say “That’s my roommate’s actually.”
Blair leaves The Loft without laying eyes on Dan, but she thinks she might have glimpsed his foot, and out of sheer awkwardness, she leaves so quickly that she forgets her umbrella, unwittingly giving it back to Dan.
Elliot said that he had “a bit of a roommate complex” on their first date, which really means that he was ass backwards crushing on Dan Humphrey, his roommate that he met on his first day of classes at Columbia. (though he doesn’t really realize it until after he breaks things off with Blair, and kisses Dan when Dan tries to comfort him – “how could she not love you?...the way you fall asleep doing the crossword…” conking out while trying to solve the nyt crossword sounds like Pure Dan tbh).
Elliot’s romantic turmoil doesn’t last too long, because as he’s figuring out life as a bi guy, he meets, *drumroll* Serena’s little brother, Eric!
While Blair is doing this, Serena and Carter try dating, and implode after a few months. They’re just…not ready for each other, no matter how much love there actually is. They try to move on, see other people, and for a while make a pretty good show that they are actually over each other.
In the meantime, Vanessa and Nate start trying for kids (though arguably one could say they already have three) she accomplishes a few doc projects, he gets a job at a big-time prep school, and Blair throws herself into academia, gets herself published, and gets tapped to put together her first exhibition. It’s a major project, so it takes a fair amount of time to put together. And while it’s happening…so many backslides!
Serena and Carter hookup, cheating on their partners. Carter shoots his shot, saying that he wants to be with her, and breaks up with his girlfriend, Beth, to be with Serena. But Serena can’t bring herself to do the same, staying with…uh…let’s say Colin.
Vanessa gets pregnant, and Serena thinks she does too after her hookup with Carter, but she finds out that she’ll actually never have kids. She acts like she doesn’t care, but however she planned her life, she still needs to grieve, and Blair is there for her even though she doesn’t know the whole story. When Serena finally tells her, it’s after she and Colin break up, over the fact that Serena doesn’t want kids. Blair has a backslide of her own, telling Serena “I love you,” which will be the last time she says it to anyone (in that context) until Dan.
Blairena breakup (without ever really getting back together), Vanessa and Nate have a baby (named…maybe Arlo? If we’re following the name after the grandfather pattern of Lily & Marshall), and Carter is…Carter.
He’s being his usual scapegrace self, and spends a night playing a game with Vanessa and Blair about how he can collect people’s numbers with increasingly ridiculous parameters. The girls eventually get bored, and con him into running an errand for them by hitting the drugstore and picking up take-out. His chosen “target” at the drugstore turns out to be *drumroll* Dan. and I can totally see Dan looking this guy over and thinking “oh, he’s so sad :/” and the “I think you were in love and then you messed it up,” and them having a deep conversation out on a bus bench and Dan telling him to stop screwing around and go get the girl. That night, and that conversation is when Carter starts to plan how he’ll propose to Serena. He wasn’t ready for her then, but he is now, and he knows that Serena is ready for him, too.
(Dan, at this point, is seeing somebody--let's make it Olivia, bc why not?-- but when Carter asks, “Are you two gonna go the distance?” Dan answers, “I don’t know. I still think I haven’t met the right person yet.”)
(Carter delivering that “this woman has a hold on my heart” speech…yeah…)
Blair’s career is on the rise, but on the night her exhibition opens, when Serena offers to go as her date, Blair delivers her to Carter instead, deciding to let Serena go. She had a feeling she knew what was going to happen next, but during cocktails in the gallery, Carter sends a text to the group: “Serena and I are engaged!”
She’ll only let herself say that she’s happy for them, but inside, Blair is—conflicted, and (okay this scene was the beginning upon which this entire cursed idea came from so) Vanessa finally gets Blair to admit to it. It’s the “Admitting it would make you the most awful person in this room, so I’m going to give you an out. Sometimes, I wish I wasn’t a mom. Sometimes I want to pack a bag in the middle of the night, leave, and never come back.” The confession is enough to get Blair to say, “Serena shouldn’t be with Carter, she should be with me.”
Blair and Vanessa talk. And V loves her life, it’s just that she doesn’t feel like she ever got a chance to do the work that she set out to do. She wanted to be a filmmaker, remember? But all she does is gig after gig, only surviving, and a baby on top of that? It never lets up.
Vanessa convinces Blair to let Serena and Carter book a wedding band, and then she talks to Nate. Nothing’s solved really, but both women feel better having the truth out there.
While Serena and Carter plan their wedding, deal with Serena’s difficult mother Lily, and try to out-cute each other, Vanessa starts putting herself out there with her work, and she writes a grant proposal for a documentary that gets accepted. The only thing is, it requires her to live a year in Barcelona. She freaks, thinking that she shouldn’t take it, but Nate, who’s been feeling cornered by his own job, stuck in the same politics of NYC prep schools, which is like the van der bilt pipeline 2.0, encourages her to take it. (He’ll just be the malewife, taking care of the baby, learning to make paella, and watching Spanish The Price Is Right, and he LOVES that idea).
At the same time, Blair’s work and publications get her a job offer at the Getty in LA (or MOMA in San Fran? Or maybe just straight up Paris? idk), and she decides to take it, because she’s not sure she can hang around once Serena is married to Carter.
Speaking of job offers, Nate gets one, to be a principal at his dream school (to bring in another sitcom, think Jess Day’s job in New Girl), but it’s time sensitive, and he accepts, even though he and V already planned on moving their little family to Spain. There’s a biblical level fight, but Vanessa caves, only for Nate to insist that No, we’re moving to Spain.
Serena and Carter decide to get married in the Hamptons, in the "backyard" of Serena's grandmother's summer home (it's more like a fancy rich person garden, we all know this). It’s a big whole damn weekend, after which Vanessa & Nate & Arlo and Blair will be leaving New York – or will she?
The band Carter and Serena originally booked falls through, bails a week before the wedding, but luckily, the BOTB’s husband used to live with the guitarist of one of the best wedding bands in the tristate area. They just had brunch with him, and his gig for the coming weekend just fell through! Wedding saved!
Before the move to Spain, Nate and the baby go visit his mom down in Newport, leaving Vanessa on her own. She hangs around Blair, which is how she discovers Blair is moving.
Blair takes a car service up to Amagansett, but Vanessa refuses on principle, and takes the train instead, and ends up sitting across the aisle from a nice guy, who—when she gets riled up from yet another passive act of aggression by Anne, her mother-in-law—asks if she’s okay and listens to her rant. And that’s how Vanessa meets Dan.
Dan shares the cookies that his sister sent him in a care package, and after dissing Anne Archibald they pivot to discussing French cinema and Jean-Luc Godard and the genius of Sergei Eisenstein.
Despite having made a new friend, Dan has some interpersonal drama of his own. When Elliot fell in love with a man over the bridge and moved out, Dan looked for a new roommate, and who should find him but Georgina Sparks. She’d not needed a place, but was interested in his band, and Dan being the guileless lil duckling that he is, invited her in, and she promptly took over. Now, she was trying to shove Dan out, likely in retaliation for not hooking up with her. Righteously incensed, he tells Vanessa all about it when he finds out, and she offers up her own brand of personal justice: steal the bitch’s van. So Dan does.
Georgina Sparks is a total firestarter, and spends the evening of the rehearsal dinner trying to stir up shit between all the friends. She is ultimately unsuccessful.
While carrying out his own variation on Abrams Justice, Dan comes across some knucklehead walking on the side of the road hauling luggage and a baby. Nate & Arlo took the Jitney up, which then broke down, and Nate foolhardily decided “I can walk that far.” He couldn’t. But Dan offers him a lift, freaks him out because Vanessa told Dan all about her husband, but they become fast friends. “Your wife is cool.” / “The coolest.” Dan vents about total fire starter Georgina, and Nate offers up advice about standing up for himself and fighting for what he thinks is right: a lesson he recently learned in standing up to his mother about his life choices.
At the inn, Nate and Vanessa are reunited, but Dan’s head of steam wears off. “There’s no defeating the devil,” he says. And then there’s a commotion on the patio outside, and Georgina storms in, shrieking about how “the maid of honor just punched me in the face” (Georgie had broken the bottle of 95 Dom Blair had brought for a rehearsal toast with the gang, and Blair responded accordingly). Dan laughs, unable to help himself, and Georgie throws a fit and quits the band “I’m going back to the new Guns n’ Roses!” Dan asks the bartender to send a glass of champagne to the maid of honor, and that’s the first drink he ever buys his future wife.
Riding the high of finally having the toxic Georgina out of his life, he leaves the inn to go to his girlfriend’s family’s Hamptons house. While there, Olivia springs a marriage proposal on him, and Dan realizes: he’s been holding himself back, being with someone safe, which means he doesn’t have to face moving on from what he’s lost, or risk being hurt so deeply again. But he realizes he’s ready to move on, he’s ready for it to be real again. So he says no.
He goes back to the inn, and the night clerk says “You’re in luck, father of the bride never checked in.” (because WVDW is and always will be a piece of shit!!!). Dan doesn’t feel that lucky, but he takes the key (he just needs one) and heads to his room alone. Even though he knows he did the right thing, ending it, he still feels—well, shitty. So he grabs his acoustic and heads out to the balcony, and plays his go-to song for when he wants to make himself feel better: “Moon River,” not knowing that the biggest Breakfast at Tiffany’s fan in the whole world is on the other side of the balcony wall, listening.
The day of the wedding Carter and Serena each have their own crises of confidence. Lily Rhodes (who’s been married four times) really rocks her daughter’s boat, but Eric & Vanessa calm her down. The big crisis though, is when she freaks, and decides the Blair is the person she should be marrying, but here’s the thing, Blair doesn’t feel that way anymore. Blair has really let Serena go, and she is trying to see her best friend’s married and happy together, damnit, even if she has to hold the shotgun herself, this wedding is happening.
And Serena says. “Fine, you’re right, we can’t run away together. So I guess I’ll just have to run away alone!” She makes a mad dash down the halls of her grandma’s old Hamptons mansion, out into the garden where they’re setting up the reception, and runs smack into the band’s guitarist. And that’s how Serena meets Dan (oddly not that different from their first meeting in canon).
“To be honest I’m not sure if I can go through with getting married.” / “Oh. Wow.” / “That’s it? You’re not gonna try to talk me out of it?” / “Okay, during that fall, you did kind of get to second base with me and we’ll always share that, but – I don’t really know you.”
He doesn’t try to talk her out of it, but gives her some solid advice to take three deep breaths. She does, and when she opens her eyes, there’s Carter. And everything is fine again.
After a long crazy road, Serena and Carter finally get married (Eric walks her down the aisle), and then, there’s the reception.
A few dances and a few glasses of champagne in, Carter finally recognizes the frontman of his wedding band. “Guitar-guy! Hey, remember when you told me to stop messing around and get the girl? Check it: I got her! What about you: you still dating that girl?” Dan shakes his head, and then Carter is hit with a piphony. Thee-piphony.
He tries to convince Blair to let him set her up with the guitarist, but she’s moving tomorrow, remember? And she has a train to catch.
Said train, of course, is delayed. So she waits on a bench, sheltered from the rain, reading Colette for the hundredth time, patience thinning by the minute. And then, a flash of color catches her eye, it’s an umbrella, and underneath it, the guitarist.
It’s a stupid idea. She’s moving away in the morning. But she can’t shake it, this feeling that she’s only ever let things pass through her fingers, that she used to want to live like a film heroine. But heroines ultimately don’t just let the story happen to them, they act.
So she walks up, taps the guitarist on his (really nice) shoulder, and speaks. They talk, they banter, they flirt, and it feels…right.
“You’re Elliot’s ex-roommate, right?” / “Yeah. And you’re the professor. I took one of your classes.” / “Really? Which one?” / “ENG-405.” / “English? I never taught – oh no.” / “Oh, yeah.”
“Wait. This is my umbrella. You totally stole my umbrella, Humphrey.”
“What are you talking about? I bought this.”
“Mmm-mm. This is mine. That’s my monogram on the handle. See?”
“So you stole and defaced my umbrella?”
“It’s mine.”
“Nuh-uh. I have proof. Sure it was ten years ago that I bought this, but I hoard all my receipts. Though…I did lose it for a little while there. I went to this club –”
“On St. Patrick’s Day.”
“On St. Patrick’s Day.”
“And you left it there.”
“And I left it there.”
“And you never thought you'd see it again.”
“And I never thought I’d see it again. Funny how sometimes you just…find things.”
It’s both the most cinematic and most real Blair’s life has ever felt, and there’s only one thing to say. “Hi.”
“Hi.”
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Commentary ~ Little Red Little Green Episode 18, “Fruits & Found Family”
Link to original post in Chinese, posted 2021/05/23. Link to official English translation.
(Disclaimer / Notes + Commentary under the cut!) (TW: possible eating disorder)
Disclaimer / Notes:
While the posts by Little Red Little Green (LRLG) are among my most favourite candies, I’d like to remind everyone that they are fake rumours, and should be read and enjoyed as such. ie, all CPN below!
The English translation linked above is the only one authorised by the Fake Rumour House; therefore, please treat all content below as a very casual, very *unofficial* convo between fellow turtle friends! ❤️💛💚
With Chinese being a highly region-specific language, my reactions to it is necessarily filtered through my background, which is, admittedly, somewhat removed from Gg’s, Dd’s and LRLG’s. However, it is not uncommon for even c-turtles (and several times, LRLG themselves) to be lost with what they read / heard due to regional differences ~ which reflects the reality of communicating in the Sinosphere. In fact, the regionality of the dialects used by different “characters” in LRLG’s dialogues is among the most critical elements that make these posts so authentic-sounding, and so difficult to replicate. A fun activity of following LRLG is to watch c-turtles patch their regional knowledge together, from local slangs to food choices, to make sense of what’s going on. 
Okay, with that all said *phew* ... onto the commentary! “p. X” refers to the panel number in the official English translation (there are 7 total in the Twitter post). 
p1. “Fairy”
Likely referring to the similarity between Gg’s current role for 玉骨遥 (The Longest Promise) and LWJ. Dd was praising Gg for being “fairy-like”; Chinese “fairies” (仙) have a certain style especially in visual media, similar to ... LWJ’s ~ otherworldly, white robes that billow in the wind, peaceful to the point of distant, scholarly, delicate. In between the lines, Gg likely said he was simply playing LWJ (hence, the ”act another me” in the translation), which Dd protested... and said Gg was simply playing himself. Whether that means DD IS NOT LWJ!!!!! 😡😡😡 or something else, we’ll know what we get to watch the show!
p1-p2. “Heat”
Yes about the Chang’e 嫦娥 reference!! Despite Houyi 后羿 shooting down 9/10 suns and saving the day, his wife is, indeed, more famous (and therefore the star, the more powerful one), because she’s frequently featured in Mid-Autumn festival art, along with her pet rabbit 玉兔 (”Jade Rabbit”),:
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(Chang’e with her bunny, traditional Chinese painting. Source.)
Below is Gg’s rendition of Chang’e / Jade Bunny pair ~ Chang’e being the superman in the drawing while Jade Bunny is crouching on the planet!! 
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Guess of the missing convo from Gg’s side: Gg had wanted to bring something to Hengdian (where the filming of The Longest Promise was taking place) to cool himself down, and Dd had said it wasn’t necessarily. Hence Dd’s “My bad my bad” and the promise to send that something to Gg.
The loveliest line in this segment for me—and for many c-turtles— is the one about white hair. Turning grey a common, but very old-fashioned way of expressing worry and poor Dd, who hasn’t even turned 24, is claiming he was turning white because he got so worried every time Gg complained about the heat (Aww). 
Turning grey with worry isn’t limited to romantic situations — it may happen to doting parents with wayward children, for example, or to ancient patriots over their crumbling kingdom. However, it’s also one of the more (very!) dramatic ways to communicate tragic love in Chinese fiction before Western influence allows “love”, as a term / word / character, to be used explicitly in writing romance. 
Here’s a little example, a little diversion that may be of interest. Those who are familiar with the Wuxia classic Return of the Condor Heroes 神雕俠侶 by Jin Yong 金庸, whether it’s the book or its numerous visual adaptations, may remember how the hero, Yang Guo 楊過, went white at his temples overnight after his Shifu and lover, Xiao Long Nv (小龍女), didn’t show up at the cliff at the end of his 16-year wait for her.  
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Set photo from a TV adaption of Return of the Condor Heroes, 1995. Turtles may find the actress playing the perenially white-wearing, calm-to-the point-of-aloof Xiao Long Nv, Carmen Li 李若彤, familiar ~ she also played Lan Yi in The Untamed. 
The 16-year wait, the invitation to Carmen to play Lan Zhan’s ancestor (when the two shared similarities in aesthetics and personality), were two of the three references from Return of the Condor Heroes I picked up from The Untamed (the last one was more specific—WWX mentioned Yang Guo’s master 獨孤求敗). This tribute is unconfirmed, but MXTX did say before that Jin Yong’s works were her inspiration. I also read a (small) discussion on whether LWJ’s hair carried a few pieces of white in the final episode, or if the lighter strands in it were a trick of the sunlight. (Here’s a screenshot of the approximate place to look!!) 
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While I lean towards the latter (the sunlight), turning white with worry, with love, is a tradition in Chinese storytelling. Here’s a little something I’ve noticed too, on this note ~ both in the actual interviews and in these fake rumours, Dd’s word choices, the way he conveys emotions are sometimes surprisingly traditional. It can be because of his background (which would require a study of how Luo Yang people and Koreans talk); it can be because the traditional way of talking allows for fewer words to be said, fewer things to have to be explicitly explained (example: LWJ), but the effect is that Dd has supplied the most romantic lines in LRLG’s posts because of that ~ romantic because it harks back to the rhythm, the themes of old poetry, of ancient stories that, as were true everywhere in the world, were about love. 
Okay, back to the rumour (and hoping Dd won’t look like Bad Wig Yang Guo in a few more summers!) ....
The line after the one about white hair ... the way I understand the original Chinese sentence is “Heat is The Reason”: ie, anything Dd wants Gg to do and Gg disagrees, Gg would use heat as The Reason (R) to not do it. This anything may be eating, for example, which also has a strong possibility as conventional Chinese wisdom says that heat causes people to lose appetite. Dd’s worry would therefore be: Gg refusing to eat because he claims it’s too hot to do so.
“Corny joke” ~ the Chinese for this is, literally, “cold 冷 joke 笑話”, which becomes a pun as the gzry (team members)’s joke was about the (cold) winter and black hair. So... Dd threw a corny joke to combat a corny joke :D .
p3. “Apple”
The first half I also had to rely on c-turtles to help me interpret what it meant! Regional dialects aside, LRLG has captured dls’s very quick wit, the way his ideas freely hop from one concept to the next and this hopping carries traditional + popular cultural references that I know only a fraction of, not being a local after all. 
I’ve read an additional interpretation of this segment: “big fruit” 大果兒 (as in dls: “Those are all big fruits, all big fruits”) is a Northern Chinese, traditional slang for women—dls might have connected that with the previous line in the convo about being Guowang, as explained in the translation, and “big and juicy” + “touch to feel” being suggestive phrases. Then, given the rare usage of the big fruit = women slang, dls expressed surprise that Dd understood what he meant, went on to say he expected Gg to know it (implying Gg could’ve taught Dd the meaning) ... 
Which led to the entertaining part of this segment. Dd was like “You guys (= Gg + dls) talked?” Dls appeared to have thought of the scenario customarily inviting this question (scenario: someone on the verge of catching their spouse cheating) and began playacting that scenario, started to stammer ... as if he had just been got caught trying to chat up someone’s spouse  ~  ”I-I-I....how to say it ...”. Dd caught on dls’s playacting and went along, continued with the “accusation”: “You’re stammering”. Dls then noted that Dd’s accusation was scary and Dd smiled, ending the playact ~ so, ah, readers, never mess with Dd’s spouse!! Dd gets scary!! 
(BTW: ”nijia na kouzi” 你家那口子 was explained in the translation for a reason ~ It’s a warm, friendly term for a dear friend’s spouse. 😊)
p4. Lychees
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Lychees. Has everyone tried them? It’s important not to over-eat them though...
In which the “Feeding Gg” saga continues! This segment is one of those that are wonderful for fic writers who wish to capture Gg and Dd in words. Gg, like many brought up in traditional families, has trouble saying “no” outright, which is often considered rude. As such, he resorted to delay tactics, something he had also done with the fried noodles in The Makeup Room BTS. 
In the BTS, his delay tactics had been to argue that Dd hadn’t eaten his box of noodles and therefore, he couldn’t start (~2:35 mark)—as proper manners indeed dictated. In this dialogue, his delay tactics was to say he’d eat the lychees later, that the lychees would make him too full for the proper meal (rice). 
A cute thing about this convo is that rather than pouting and grumbling his only being LWJ’s replacement (as he had hilariously done in the BTS), Dd had, apparently over the last three years, become an expert on countering such delay tactics. He peeled the lychees, which not only removed a major obstacle for eating, but also set a timer as peeled lychees get dry quickly (and Gg, despite being a picky eater, didn’t seem to like to waste food). He said the fruit could make appetiser. He got the help of their team members, who assured Gg that two lychees would be all right.
Gg’s response to the assurance... takes a little time to explain. 
The original Chinese line for “Great, great, you’re so awesome” was 絕了絕了你們絕了。 “絕了”, a popular phrase used by Chinese netizens, was repeated three times.
絕, literally, means the extreme, the absolute, the end. 絕了 means pretty much the same ~ a thing that is 絕了 is standing en pointe at the edge of the cliff that is The Absolute End of a spectrum. It is the Ultimate. It can't be surpassed. It’s unbeatable. 
絕了 is usually used in a positive sense, as in the English translation, with the positive being implied. If I say the LWJ photo above is 絕了, for example, I don’t need to specify that the extreme in 絕 stands on the good end. It’s understood given the audience of this post are mostly turtles (HELLO *waves*). We’re all heart-eyes here. We agree, without saying, that this photo is The Top, The Pinnacle; it can’t be better. 絕了 is higher praise than Excellent; it’s so good that there are no adjectives for it. Its own presence defines How Good It Is. 
But 絕了 doesn’t have to be positive. If my audience is Su She ... he’s likely to take the same “This LWJ photo is 絕了” to mean the Mariana Trench kind of Absolute—the bottom of the bottom, the Unbeatable, Adjective-Defying Worst. 
絕了 allows for that understanding too.
In this scenario, I interpret Gg’s 絕了 as taking the meaning of both extremes (which make it a fantastic phrase choice!): that Gg thought Dd and the team members were being both the Absolute Best (for thinking of Gg, caring for him) AND the Absolute Worst (for going against his wish to not eat!) Gg’s 絕了 also signals defeat; if Dd and his team members were The Absolute ... Whatever, then poor Gg had no choice but to yield to their wishes. I can already imagine his “I can’t believe I lose this way” Look (see: every rock-paper-scissors he lost, which was ... pretty much all of them), mixed with, perhaps, a healthy amount of bunny tooth warning (how dare Dd et al banded up against him)...
Those bunny teeth had to be taken care of, right? And so Dd went on to say lychees being good omen that ensure things would go smoothly for the eater... targeting Gg’s being a, as c-turtles call it, 小迷信 (literally, “Little Superstitious”, a young + adorable + superstitious person). Dd said that to help Gg justify the choice to eat, to make Gg feel better about his defeat. 
(Of note: I had actually never heard of lychees being associated with good luck before, and a quick search online also didn’t yield any result. This could be a relatively rare association Google failed to catch ... or something Dd made up on the fly to make Gg happy.) 
(Lychees have, however, been associated with romance. If Emperor’s Smile 天子笑 was The Love Drink in The Untamed, then what is Concubine’s Smile 妃子笑? Answer: it’s the RL name of a type of lychees, lychees being the fruit very much adored by Yang Yuhuan 楊玉環, the consort of the Emperor Xuanzong (685-762 BCE) of the Tang Dynasty and one of the four most beautiful woman in Chinese history. Since lychees had only been grown in southern China, the emperor had had the fruit couriered, in express mode involving many horses, to the palace up north to please his favourite wife. Lychees had become a symbol of love from that historical tale.)
Did Gg get Dd’s message then, the love and care packaged in those peeled, sweet fruit awaiting his bite? Yes, but not without a little more fight! “Eat eat eat, (I’ll eat) until you go bankrupt” is a literal translation of his final line. Tonally, I can see the following as being an alternative translation: 
“Fine fine fine. I’ll eat, it’s not like I can bankrupt you by eating anyway!”
If it sounded a little sulky, that’s because it did ... a little sulky AND fiery. As expected from our favourite Chongqing Big Pepper 😂😂😂 (Poor Gg).
Dd smiled at that, needless to say. He won!!! He got Gg to eat!! The world shall rejoice!! 
p5. “Showtime”
There’s a show coming up for Dd (the YH concert maybe?), and Gg offered suggestions. 
The sweet point of this segment is about half-way down the conversation, in the piece of paper 📄 Gg gave to Dd (after “This is for you.”). Dd took the paper, noted the many words on it, and started saying 我把我整個靈魂, translated as “I bring my entire soul”.
c-Turtles have, based on these words, hypothesised that Dd was about to read out a quote that Gg had written on the paper, with the list of items Gg thought Dd should take, before Gg stopped him with a call of his name (“WYB”). The quote was included on the translation (”I give you my entire soul...only, a little good, love you.”) I have also talked about the same quote, in more detail, here.
I’m equally stumped on the final line of this segment. (Sorry!!)
p6. “Found Family”
It’s a heartwarming segment. While LRLG had previously noted that the TTXS bros had communicated with Gg, this segment made clear that they care for him like they do for Dd ~ as family.
* dls mailed Gg a lot of fruit for sharing with the film crew. “Family member needs to be impressive” is a rough translation, but this line does defy simple translation because 排面 a highly cultural concept that has much to do with the equally complex, Chinese concept of face (which this article explains... somewhat adequately). The message to take home is that dls cared enough about Gg that he wanted to make sure Gg wouldn’t lose face in front of the film crew; that, by having enough gifts (fruits) for everyone, Gg wouldn’t be viewed as cheap or inadequate or stingy, or whatever adjective that wouldn’t befit his top idol status. Because dls saw Gg as a member of his family. 
* The prescription from hg had been mentioned in a previous LRLG rumour. 方子 is a Chinese medicine prescription, which, unlike Western formulations, is individualised both to the discomfort / ailment and to the “body constitution” of the person who'll take it, the latter deciding the kind of ailments the person is susceptible to, and which ingredients are expected to be more effective. Chinese medicine also places a strong emphasises on long-term conditioning, whether it’s for recovery from a certain condition or for general good health. A good 方子 is therefore a far more complex and personal thing than, say, a scribble of “paracetamol” / “acetaminophen” on a piece of paper. :D
* fg’s gift for Gg (xx) is something for the waist. A brace support, maybe? For example?
My favourite line in this segment is when hg asked what will Gg and Dd do when they reach hg’s age. Given that the last two items (the prescription and xx) were health-related, I interpreted it as hg worrying about Gg and Dd’s health when they grow old... with all the health problems they already have. It’s the kind of thing a worried parent say to their children ~ my mom has said the same thing to me as well. 😢
p6. “The Cat Paw”
Not quite sure what’s happening here ... not sure what the cat paw is. (Sorry!!) But that é in the translation is Dd’s signature laugh (collection here), which is written as 鵝 (”Goose”) in Chinese 😂.
p7. “The Cat Toy”
Dd appeared to be shopping for a cat’s toy (something that can “hook the cat” in the translation, such that the cat can entertain itself and not rely on human companionship as much). Gg had already bought the toy though and sounded quite proud of it, told Dd to return the toy. The implied cat was, of course, Nut (堅果 Jianguo)... which had been repeatedly referred to in LRLG’s posts as Gg’s daughter.
p7. “Cool vs Cute”
Gg is often viewed as cute, and Dd as cool. Did Dd dislike Gg taking cute pictures for public consumption? Were they scheming an exchange of image? :D
And that’s it for this issue! Ooh, this took unexpectedly long ... I apologise for the ridiculous delay between the original post and this commentary! 
(I wrote half of it, then RL struck and I forgot about it.) (I’m hopeless.) (I need a 方子 for poor memory!!)
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bourbon-ontherocks · 3 years
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any fanfic recs of dean being a dick to beth and rio stepping in?
Hey anon!
I'm so sorry it took me so long to get back at you...
I’m tempted to say that basically every GG fanfic features  Dean being a dick to Beth, and stepping into Beth’s life is literally Rio’s hobby, so the whole Good Girls tag on AO3 is probably a good entry point. However, here is a little selection.
This post benefited from a huge load of help from the amazing @sdktrs12 aka the people's librarian. Mwah!   😘😘😘
the wedding date by civillove @blainesebastian 28k, complete AU where Beth is a guest at Dean’s second wedding and it goes as bad as you’d think
The Sacred Art of Kissing by brokensatellites @emilykolburn 3k, complete A post 2.03 fic where Rio makes a dramatic entrance as Dean tries to negociate his way back into the house
Forest for the Trees by Anijade @anijade 161k, WIP since 2021 A post S2 finale, post Boland divorce saga where Dean is still his whining annoying self and Rio is Rio
Good Sport by fireinsideforfun 12k, complete Dean is a dick with co-parenting and Rio speaks his mind. Oh, and Beth gets to sleep <3
You Should Probably Leave by peachraindrops @peachraindrops 7k, complete 2.09 canon-divergent where Rio actually kicks Dean’s ass for taking the children instead of the Brio breakup
love (where it wasn't supposed to be) by vuccijl  @lilliloves 5k, complete Rio confronts Dean about cheating in general and Beth in particular. Slight roosters fight vibes which is always enjoyable.
Shared History by brokensatellites @emilykolburn 113k, complete A season 1 re-tell with additional Beth-Rio backstory leading to Rio knowing about Dean’s history of bullshit and his patience has limits
Someone Like You by sunshine83 45k, WIP since 2019 A post 1.05 pancake lie canon-divergent fic where Beth and Rio are horny fools until Rio finds out about the cancer lie
a messy situation by freedomatsea 119k, complete A S2-divergent series where Beth and Rio try to make it work while navigating crime and Dean... deansies
Burn You by HermioneGranger1960  @medievaldarling ​ (OMG this is literally me discovering these are the same person!!! <3) 1k, complete A post 2.01 one-shot where Dean pins his infidelity on Beth and Rio gives him a little talk
Do Not Collect $200 by linzackles @mrslackles 242k, complete Rio calls Dean out on his actions (and Beth clearly doesn’t appreciate the ingerence)
Losing game by Niham87 174k, WIP since 2020 Dean is literally the worst, so... (mind the tags, lots of cw)
Filing her nails while they’re dragging the lake by s_t_c_s @sothischickshe 26k, WIP since 2021 Beth pays Rio to provide evidence of Dean’s cheating so she can file for divorce, so technically that would fit the definition
Say your prayers, you’ll need every single one by blameitonmyjuice 5k, WIP since 2019 Established Brio, Dean loses it and kidnaps Beth
blanket me by softbrio @softbrio 2k, complete Dean’s physically abusive to Beth and Rio is shockingly not a fan of it
Ultimately, I feel weird putting it on this post, but there’s also some dick!Dean bashing here:
A part of it brought to you by yours truly 151k, complete
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i-growl-growl-growl · 4 years
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mobile masterlist attempt post
Not all reactions/talks/scenarios/imagines and other requests have been added to this post. As the blog is updated, so shall this post.
                                            Reactions Masterlist
                        Stray Kids Reactions
A girl group has a similar name and the same concepts and songs as them
                      Topp Dogg Reactions
being trapped in an elevator with their crush (B-Joo, A-Tom, Xero)
their partner asks them to go on an art heist with them  (Sangdo, Xero, B-Joo, Hansol)
Their partner brakes their leg on a date before they go on tour  (Xero, Sangdo, P-Goon, Nakta and B-Joo)
                          Astro Reactions
they find out you have a special talent they never knew about
you being insecure about your chubby cheeks
you want to go ballroom dancing with them
                    seventeen reactions
Their s/o proposing to THEM (S.Coups-Woozi) maknae line to be uploaded
Their s/o can’t get up the morning after
Their s/o has a catlike personality
Their s/o is a little
                          Ikon Reactions
Falling in love with the new anti-social female member (B.I, Bobby, Jinhwan, Donghyuk)
What kind of Yanderes iKon would be
Someone tries to take advantage of their s/o (Jinhwan, Donghyuk, Bobby, B.I)
                         ATEEZ reactions
their darling asks them to impregnate them (yeosang)(hongjoong)(seonghwa)(mingi)(jongho)(yunho)(san)(wooyoung) Yandere
types of yanderes (Yeosang)(Seonghwa)(Hongjoong)(Yunho)(San)(Mingi)(Wooyoung)(Jongho)     scenario+description
                             Bts reactions
Their hybrid doesn’t want to wear their leash outside Hybrid
Recieving a handmade gift from their s/o
                        Monsta X Reactions
their s/o makes them a handmade gift
Hi…I’m new around here, can anyone show me around? Kina
what type of Yandere Monsta X would be *not a reaction*
                             Got7 reactions
seeing/being shown their child’s self-harm scars/seeing scars
their partner has an asthma attack
catching you dancing to stellar’s vibrato
their partner cant chose a dress for their date
their Idol partner does the gwiyomi song on a variety show
their partner said “yes” to a little boys proposal
a 5 year old asks their partner to marry them
a girl group debuts with the same songs as them
you surprise them while they’re practicing/working
seeing someone they like walking towards them but the person faints
being stuck in an elevator with a foreigner (feat. exo)
their partner brings home a dog and gives it their bed but they don’t tell them
their partner is afraid to travel by plane
being in the middle of an earthquake
waking up in an alleyway and not remembering anything
finding a poisonous snake in their bed
being told they were the heir to the throne of an alien planet
confessing to the person they like but being rejected
recognizing you at a fan meet because you’ve been to so many of them
how they’d want to be comforted
seeing your self-harm scars
you hug another boy but they don’t know it’s your brother
finding out you can play an instrument
secretly watching you sing “Dear Future Husband”
seeing someone with scars and finding out they’re from clumsiness
                      Nct Reactions
(YANDERE) finding out their s/o cheated on them as a revenge (Taeyong & Yuta) 42
(VAMPIRE) smelling blood that leads them to their soulmate (Jaehyun)(Kun)(RenJun)
(YANDERE) you have been in a relationship before (NCT Dream)
(YANDERE) They found out your taking a birth control pill (Taeyong, Jaehyun, Lucas, Jeno)
(HYBRID) they are wild but get caught and stay in a adoption center until they are adopted
(YANDERE) you’re horny and ask them to impregnate you (Taeil-Jeno)
(TSUNDERE) You tell him that he’s your ideal type (Jaemin only) 33
(YANDERE) you want to meet your family in a different country (Taeil-Ten)
(YANDERE) their s/o caves in to them (dreamies)
(suicide) the boys see that their lover commited suicide (Taeil-WinWin)
finding out that their s/o is infertile (Taeil-YangYang)
(YANDERE) waking up to their darling looking at them and caressing their cheek (OT21)
(YANDERE) their s/o with curly hair isn’t keen on her curly hair and wants to straighten it OT21
(YANDERE) their s/o falls for his fellow member who is also yandere OT21
(YANDERE) When their s/o need a lot of personal space (edition 1)(edition 2)
When his partner helps him during pregnancy (Yuta) (Ten)
(YANDERE) you finally falling in love with them after they had kidnapped you OT21
(YANDERE) (remaining members)(Taeil, Yuta-RenJun) seeing their s/o for the first time (WayV Version)
types of Yandere  OT21 (not a reaction)
what yandere nct would want for their birthdays OT21 🌼
how yandere!nct would prefer to be called? OT21 (not a reaction)
What they’d like to call their darling OT21 (not a reaction)
(YANDERE—- Yuta only) s/o selfharms because he hurts their friends
(YANDERE/slightly NSFW- legal line) their s/o wants to dominate
(YANDERE) s/o fakes their death to escape OT21
(YANDERE) Their s/o tries to escape from them 0T21
(Renjun) (Jisung) (Jeno)Finding Santa delivering their presents (Chenle) (Jaemin)
Exo/NCT announcing to their partner that they’re pregnant (Luhan, Baekhyun, Yuta, Ten)
Their band mistaking his twin for them and taking him on stage instead (Taeyong, Jaehyun, Johnny, Mark)
Arguing with their partner over their parents finding about about their relationship (Taeil, Yuta, Taeyong, mark, WinWin)
Meeting their lost lost identical twins (Taeyong, Jaehyun, Johnny, Mark)
Their partner cuddles with a giant teddy bear that helps them sleep (Taeyong, Jaehyun, Ten, WinWin)
(MAFIA) s/o tells them their drink was spiked
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                                                       Anime
            Haikyuu
yandere kageyama (headcanon)
(scenario) Different Courts (yandere Hinata Shoyo)
(scenario) Bloodied Blazer (yandere Oikawa tooru)
yandere hinata (headcanon)
(reaction) his feelings aren’t returned Yandere Kuroo
yandere Nishinoya (headcanon)
yandere Iwazumi (headcanon)
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                                  Scenarios/imagines/ETC.
(scenario) arranged marriage (Yandere Taeyong)
(ask) How does he not shatter his s/o’s entire skeleton during punishments Yandere Taeyong 🔪
(imagine/scenario) argument (Yandere Kun)
(ask) wouldn’t want to make him angry (Yandere Taeyong)
(ask) s/o with withdrawal symptoms misses dosses, who uses that against them (Yandere NCT)
(ask) How would yandere taeyong act like with a very submissive s/o (Yandere Taeyong)
(ask) what punishments would they give his s/o? (Yandere Taeyong + Yandere Yuta)
(scenario) You Will (monster/yandere Seonghwa)
?Headcannon? jaeyong poly yandere (yandere Jaehyun, Yandere Taeyong) 🍋
(scenario) when the victim wakes up at his place for the first time (Yandere Ten)
(imagine) a boy in a yellow hoodie catches your attention in highschool (TXT Hueningkai) fluff
(ask) What would make him act romantic towards the s/o (Yandere Taeyong)
(ask) Difference between domyan-yandere-subyan WinWin (yandere nct)
Sub!Yandere Taeyong (yandere nct)
(scenario ) you are in a gg and will go solo for the first time and JYP asks for Chan to help you with your songs (Bang Chan) fluff
(scenario) he finds out that his girlfriend is pregnant and about to run away (Mafia Kyungsoo) fluff+angst
(ask) what if their darling suddenly get pregnant one day (yandere nct)
(ask) How would he act around his lover (yandere wonho)
(ask) kind kind of yandere is he (yandere Shownu)
(imagine) Luhan as a yandere’s victim (victim Luhan)
(fanfic) My Strong Rebel (Yesang x Seonghwa)
(imagine) making small cookies saying “ go out with me”, but you eat them without looking baker!doyoung
(ask) I better stay home with taeyongie, right? (Yandere Taeyong)
(scenario) taeyong regretting kidnapping his s/o and apologizing (Yandere-ish)
Love Never-ending (NCT member (unrevealed) x Reader)
Journey to retrieve the Akarnek: Intro (Kris) discontinued
(scenario) Stress In The Night (Chanyeol x Reader)
(scenario) The Beast within the Dark Forest  (Minhyuk x Reader)
(scenario) A Run for Forbidden Love (Baekhyun (wang Eun) x Reader)
(scenario) Suho is in Baby Space and only the reader can calm them down (Baby Space/ Little Space)
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                                          Most to least
WayV MTL to date a fan
Nct mtl to accept and stay with a significant other who doesn’t want any kids
Monsta X MTL to kidnap their crush Yandere
Wayv mtl to date someone whose height is 4’11
TXT mtl to date a girl who is into wrestling
WAYV Mtl to date someone as short as 155cm
Yandere!Monsta X MTL to not allow their to visit their own family (Yandere)
WayV mtl to date a 2001 liner
NCT Yandere if their s/o managed to escape, who’d enjoy the thrill of the chase (yandere)
TXT mtl to date someone who is insecure but is working hard to be more confident
NCT MTL where each member place on the sadistic spectrum (yandere version)
TXT mtl date a tsundere
Monsta X mtl happy to have a s/o who likes to sit on his lap
NCT Mtl get a choker/collar to their s/o (yandere)
NCT Yandere MTL to don’t like a dirt mouth as s/o (yandere)
NCT mtL to enjoy having a bratty s/o (Yandere)
Ikon MLT to Take you with them everywhere instead of keeping you locked in their house (Yandere)
NCT Yandere (wayv, 127 and U) mtl to give a sexual punishment (Yandere)
NCT Yandere MtL to love their darling to have childish personality (Yandere)
NCT MtL to have a loud/playful partner
EXO MtL to liking their s/o having a daddy kink 
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                                             Snaps/Texts
(text) their sibling wanting them to be picked up after a date gone wrong (Doyoung, Taeyong, Johnny, Yuta, and Lucas) older brother
(text) when you ask them for money (Taeil, Johnny, Taeyong, Yuta, Mark) older brother
(text?) how everyday тeхтѕ are wιтн vernon (Seventeen)
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                                  drama series requests
             The Untamed
They see their hybrid is injured/attacked and want to heal them
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             Love by Chance
Love Over Pain (scenario)
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                                     moodboards
wooyoung blue (water) GIF moodboard
Date in the City w/ Suga GIF moodboard
Boyfriend Xero GIF moodboard
ToppDogg Forever GIF moodboard
Happy Birthday Yano GIF moodboard
“Sweets” Xero GIF moodboard
“he smells of gingerbread” (Bjoo) GIF moodboard
White Winter w/ Bjoo GIF moodboard
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                                               MafiaTalks
18 I don’t know u at all and I’m not sure I can be with you anymore Mafia Taeyong
17 it’s been what 3 weeks?? I’m tired, I can’t do this anymore Mafia Mark & Haechan (NCT) 🌹
16 we should go on a trip, a trip to a isolated beach would be really good to us Mafia Doyoung (NCT)
15 Yuta, STOP! We can’t keep meting like this, I have a fiancé! Mafia Yuta (NCT)
14  I really think fighting the guys chasing us Is safer than riding a motorcycle with you Mafia Mark (NCT)
13 I’m not changing Jae! This dress isn’t too sexy, don’t you wanna show off a beauty like me? Mafia Jaehyun (NCT)
12 Why won’t you let me join your gang? Mafia Lucas (NCT)
11 I’m sorry for been a brat with you earlier…what if you leave just one man to watch me? Mafia Doyoung (NCT)
10. okay you’ve caught me but how can I even escape here.. It’s like a maze. Mafia Mark & Haechan (NCT) 🌹
9. YUTA LET ME OUT! Mafia Yuta (NCT)
8. since this is a arranged marriage, I don’t expect you loving me Mafia Johnny (NCT)
7. are you seriously trying to convince me the you are a professional hit man? Mafia Jaehyun (NCT)
6. aren’t you excited?! This is our first mission as officially mafia members! Mafia Lucas (NCT)
5. I know nothing about my father’s business please let me go! Mafia Mark & Haechan (NCT) 🌹
4. tell your men to stop following me every damn place I go! Mafia Doyoung (NCT)
3. Care to explain me WHY THE HELL THESE MEN ARE CHASING US?! Mafia Johnny (NCT)
2. what exactly makes you want to involve yourself with this mess?! Mafia Jaehyun (NCT)
1. Are you the one assigned to train me? Mafia Mark (NCT)
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                                          VampireTalks
I don’t want you to suck my blood or anything just so I can stay with you “forever” Vampire Taeyong (NCT)💐
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                                        YandereTalks
YandereTalks 1-80 (79 NCT, 1 Monsta X)
80 Why are you still keeping me here? Yandere Kun (NCT) 🐝
79 I’m going to a friend’s party, you wanna come? Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🥓
78 seriously? yuta is taken too… haechan…? Yandere Haechan (NCT) 🌼
77 Why are you hanging out with other girls when you have me right here? Yandere Jisung (NCT) 🌸
76 no one talks to yandere yuta… maybe I should… Yandere Yuta (NCT) 🌼
75 Its a been a year since we started dating dont you think it’s ok if you let me go for a walk? Yandere Yuta (NCT) 😎
74 I made some cookies for you while you were gone Yandere YangYang (NCT) 🤯
73 you’re so cute, I love you so much Yandere Jisung (NCT) 🍡
72 they came over when you were gone, but I didn’t know they would come Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
71 I’m sorry for making you mad, just please talk to me!! Yandere Jisung (NCT) 🌸
70 With all these punishments, I’m feeling useless Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
69 don’t put me in the basement, it’s dark and scary down there!!! Yandere Mark (NCT)
68 I’m really mad at you… Yandere Kun (NCT)
67 i don’t want to lose you just because of my sexuality…. Yandere WinWin (NCT)
66 wonder if I need to go to doctor to check if I’m pregnant Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
65 mark told me he likes me! What should I do? Yandere Mark (NCT) 🐾
64 can we go shopping I need some stuff like panties Yandere Ten (NCT)
63 you don’t satisfy my needs sexually Yandere Ten (NCT)
62 Everytime your partner is jealous over nothing it leads to “jealous sex” which disgusts me Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
61 Would you mind walking me home tonight? Yandere RenJun (NCT) 🔮
60 I want to leave this fucking house please! Yandere Jaehyun (NCT) 😪
59 can we cuddle? I’m so tired Yandere Jaemin (NCT)
58 I’ll sit in the corner til you understand what a cute ball of sunshine you lost Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
57 why do you keep following me everywhere?! leave me alone! Yandere Mark (NCT) 🍉
56 there is a guy spying on me Yandere Chenle (NCT) ♠️
55 I love kisses and cuddles with youuuuuu Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
54 Where would you want to touch me if you were free? Yandere Jungwoo (NCT) ~wings
53 I’m scared here in the dark locked up Yandere Taeil (NCT)
52 I’ll try and hang out with you more often Yandere Jisung (NCT) 🌸
51 I’m sorry that I’ll never live up to your expectations of me Yandere RenJun (NCT)
50 would you mind having threeway with us and another woman? Yandere Ten (NCT)
49 what would you do if your family didn’t approve your s/o? Yandere Ten (NCT)
48 could you pretty please go with me to take my dog to the park? Yandere Yuta (NCT) ✨
47 I’m an independent person and you are not my dad Yandere Jaemin (NCT) ☘
46 can i pretty please meet up with my friends? I really miss them Yandere Haechan (NCT)
45 I’m cold *shivers* Would you mind if I borrowed your sweater? Yandere Jeno (NCT)
44 can I go out with some of my friends please? It’s 1 of their birthdays Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
43 I’ve been pregnant without telling you for 3 months Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
42 I’m pregnant with your baby Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
41 i love girls.. i hope that doesn’t change anything Yandere WinWin (NCT)
40 I’m sorry for trying to run away Yandere Jaemin (NCT) 🐏
39 can I spend the night with you please? Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌙
38 I can’t tell if I want you to watch movies & cuddle me or pin me against the wall & kiss Yandere Jaehyun (NCT)
37 I can’t accept your confession Yandere Jaemin (NCT)
36 kisses are enough reward though I’d also like some cuddles Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
35 Can I go to the mall with my guy friends? Yandere Jisung (NCT) 🌸
34 I’m yours and you’re mine right? Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
33 I’ll be visiting my family in Europe Yandere WinWin (NCT) 🐰
32 I think I fell for you Yandere Jaemin (NCT)
31 I won’t take the handcuffs off Yandere Jungwoo (NCT) ~wings
30 I got A on my last exam and I’m straight A student now Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
29 am I allowed out to buy ingredients to cook for you? Yandere Ten (NCT) 🐺
28 can I go to the gym with my friends? Yandere Jisung (NCT) 🌸
27 can I sit on your lap? I’ve been good Yandere ten (NCT)
26 I have exam time right now…Any idea how to relieve some stress? Yandere Johnny (NCT) 🥀
25 don’t touch me or come near me.. I’m getting sick Yandere Jaemin (NCT) anon♡
24 Would you let me violate your body? Yandere Ten (NCT)
23 I saw you with some girl yesterday. why you love hurting me? Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
22 can y-you please let me out… I’ve been in here for the last 4 days Yandere Mark (NCT) ⚡
21 a girl likes you…it makes me jealous because you’re supposed to be m i n e Yandere Jaemin (NCT)
20 I didn’t mean to stare… You really are an incredible dancer Yandere Ten (NCT)
19 Don’t worry, You’ll like what I’ll do to you Yandere Jungwoo (NCT) ~wings
1 You can smash my phone anytime Yandere Jaemin (NCT)
2 Can I go out with friends? Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
3 … I love you… Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼  need to find and relink
4 I did nothing wrong, I’m just shy Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
5 kiss and cuddles Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
6 What if you fall out of love Yandere Jaemin (NCT)
7 Can you hold me Yandere Lucas (NCT)
8 Can I start a garden Yandere Jeno (NCT)
9 You deserve your punishment Yandere Jungwoo (NCT) ~Wings
10 I’m sorry Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
11 Yuta… I’m in love with someone else Yandere Yuta (NCT) 🐰
12 My guy friend told me to leave you Yandere Ten (NCT)
13 why must you act as if I’m so much younger than you Yandere Jisung (NCT)
14 What if Yandere Jaemin wants to share me Yandere Haechan (NCT)
15 wouldn’t it be bothersome if I get pregnant and give birth? Yandere Jaehyun (NCT)
16 I know you want to sleep but I’ve prepared your favorite breakfast Yandere Hyungwon (Monsta X)
17 Can we talk? Yandere Jaemin (NCT) 🐏
18 it’s ok to treat me like a baby sometimes Yandere Jisung (NCT) 🌸
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80 somehow enjoying anything without you feels wrong Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
79 I will not give in to you! Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🤡
78 Oh no, he’s gonna be so mad! Yandere Jisung (NCT) 🌸
77 Can we watch memes? Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🥓
76 if you really do love me then why do you leave to see other girls? Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
75 Would you take me to a movie theater? Yandere Kun (NCT) 🐝
74 you can literally have anyone in the world, why specifically me? Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🤡
73 I love my work and if you can’t accept it, I will break up with you Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
72 I just stumbled and accidentally hit the kitchen counter when I went to the kitchen Yandere Johnny (NCT) 🐻
71 Would you maybe, perhaps, like to go out sometime..? Yandere Yuta (NCT)
70 i wanna do things to u + with u Yandere Yuta (NCT) 🧸
69 I’m not bad at pick-up lines Yandere Johnny (NCT) 🥓
68 that long hair in Wakey Wakey looks so good on you! Yandere Johnny (NCT)🥓
67 If you wanted to walk with me you should just asked Yandere XiaoJun (NCT)🦇
66 I have plans tonight Yandere XiaoJun (NCT)
65 Let’s talk later when we’re both calmer Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🔪
64 I wanted to ask you what you actually meant with keeping me innocent Yandere Jaehyun (NCT)
63 Yandere Chenle, but you’re allowed to call me Birdie Yandere Chenle (NCT) 🌸
62 I just want to be able to hug and cuddle you more Yandere Mark (NCT) ☂️
61 can we please sit on the roof or on the balcony when it gets dark? Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
60 I think we need to end this, this relationship Yandere Wonho (Monsta X)
59 You are the yee to my haw Yandere Johnny (NCT) 🥓
58 people might find you intimidating but i’m more intrigued by you than anything else Yandere Johnny (NCT) 💌
57 your love for me is not stupid, cutie, i’m touched that you love me. Yandere WinWin (NCT)
56 why you are allowed to fuck other girls? If you don’t stop, I will go and do the same Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
55 can you please be more gentle with me…? I have lots of bruises and they hurt Yandere Mark (NCT)
54 I just watched a horror movie and now I’m scared Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
53 why did some girl stop me on my way to class to tell me she’s your soulmate? Yandere Lucas (NCT)
52 I come here a lot inbetween classes. Is your school around here too? Yandere RenJun (NCT) -Mayleigh
51 it would be fine for me to just have one night stand or quick fuck with someone, right? Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
50 are you leaving…? to some girl again…? will you at least come home tonight…? Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
49 i’ve been so lonely lately. nobody’s talking to me, but i only need you right? Yandere Jaehyun (NCT)
48 no one is talking to you why is that? Yandere Lucas (NCT) ��
47 I can defend myself. I’m not that weak Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
46 my brother said that you are a bad influence for me so I can’t spend my time with you anymore Yandere Kun (NCT)
45 Do you want to maybe.. be mine for tonight? I could have lots of fun with you Yandere Jungwoo (NCT) -3am
44 Uhhh.. hey babe… do you need something?? …………?Victim Jeno? (NCT) 🍡
43 you are the reason i’m still hanging on. i love you Yandere Kun (NCT) ✈️
42 Why do you keep me locked inside the house while you go out? Yandere Hendery (NCT) 🤡
41 I will do what you ask, it is anything in particular you would want from me? Yandere Kun (NCT) 🐝
40 i wanted to tell you that i think you’re stunning Yandere Yuta (NCT) 💸
39 I can contact my friends so they can come and help me clean, but I’ll need my phone back Yandere Kun (NCT) 🐝
38 we can cuddle and play video games Yandere Jisung (NCT) 🌸
37 Jisungie-ah~ you’re so cute~ do you want noona to eat ice cream with me? Yandere Jisung (NCT) 🥓
36 I’m so sorry, taeyong… you’re love of my life too Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
35 please let me go outside, I’ll do anything you want please Yandere Jaehyun (NCT) 😪
34 w-what are you gonna do to me? Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
33 Call you Mr. Cool? I can do that Yandere Chenle (NCT) 🌸
32 there’s no point in trying to hide when I can literally see you standing behind that tree Yandere XiaoJun (NCT) 🦇
31 How am I supposed to tutor you if you just stare off into space? Yandere XiaoJun (NCT)
30 you seemed lonely so I wanted to talk to you, but um… Why is everyone ignoring you? Yandere XiaoJun (NCT) 🐌
29 I’d show you affection much more if you weren’t so distant Yandere Mark (NCT) ☂️
28 I would rather become infertile than bear your child Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
27 I’m sorry I acted up like that.. It’s just that I need to get out of here Yandere Kun (NCT) 🦄
26 Sorry I drugged your drink last night, but it was for your own good Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🔪
25 I’ll endure any punishment you give me, just d-don’t leave me Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
24 If you don’t let me go, I will find the way to escape and then I will go to police Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
23 It’s my parents soon and I was wondering if I could go see them? Yandere Johnny (NCT) 👼
22 my grandmother is the only relative i have… until she gets better, let me look after her Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
21 I’m leaving, and I’m calling the cops on you if you ever come closer to me Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
20 I’m scared that your going to leave me will you ever leave me? Yandere Ten (NCT)
19 I don’t know why but lately I’ve been craving you so bad Yandere Yuta (NCT)
18 If you don’t want to take me shopping, I’ll just ask someone else to do it Yandere WinWin (NCT)
17 i don’t really want a soulmate… love is just stupid…. Yandere WinWin (NCT)
16 i’ve noticed that not many people come to talk to you, so i’ll keep you company Yandere Johnny (NCT) 💌
15 let’s study together! I have this assignment and none of my friends are available Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
14 Can i please have female lover or sex partner aside from you Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🤤
13 if you’re so Dom, what’s the reason behind the song Whiplash Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
12 I can beat these perverts’ useless ass in a second Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🥓
11 I think I’m ready to sleep in bed with you Yandere Ten (NCT) 🐺
10 I’ve noticed that you come this cafe a lot too. Yandere RenJun (NCT)-Mayleigh
9 *lowkey wants to get many hickeys from yandere!taeyong* Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
8 If you can say the right words and beg the right way, I’ll let you out Yandere Jungwoo (NCT) ~wings
7 I’ll die starving and you will lose your favourite darling! Yandere Jaehyun (NCT) 🌼
6 Jaehyun, baby, daddy please I just wanna go outside please! Yandere Jaehyun (NCT) 😪
5 I get so scared whenever I have to go home this late Yandere RenJun (NCT) 🔮
4 please let me out of the house! It’s been 2 months! Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
3 he is just a friend! Why can’t I see him? Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
2 I thought you would understand Yandere Mark (NCT) 🐾
1 taeyong-ah! can I talk to haechan-ie a bit? he seems nice and wouldn’t hurt me… Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
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80 I was hiding in a parking lot after escaping from his house Yandere Yuta (NCT)
79 I didn’t know how much longer I can go on with this punishment Yandere Mark (NCT)🍓
78 I really really like you Yandere Jisung (NCT)🚀
77 I’m so tired of sitting inside you can hold my hand while we go outside Yandere Kun (NCT)🐧
76 *looks at the stanger* would you like to keep my number sir? Yandere Jeno (NCT)
75 I missed the train, I don’t know what to do Yandere Seonghwa (ATEEZ)
74 I can give you my number and tutor you if you want Yandere Jeno (NCT) 🦑
73 I haven’t eaten today… I’m so hungry Yandere Jisung (NCT)🌸
72 you’re obviously not in charge anymore Yandere Taeyong (NCT)🔪
71 please.. Don’t raise my punishment.15 is too much already Yandere Johnny (NCT)🐻
70 You ruined my friends birthday party Yandere Minhyuk (Monsta X)
69 Their study buddy talks with a friend Yandere Yuta & Yandere WinWin (NCT/WayV)🤠
68 wont hesitate to punch you if i need to. So just fucking let me go! Yandere Jisung (SKZ) ♠️
67 please not handcuffs or b-b-blindfold… I don’t wanna be alone Yandere Jisung (NCT) 🌸
66 I cant believe you think I should be ok with you cheating on me! Yandere Yuta (NCT)
65 Can I go visit my friends? It’s my birthday Yandere WinWin (NCT/WayV)
64 I’m home alone and I’m terrified of the dark Yandere Haechan (NCT)🎤
63 what do you want for your birthday? Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🍦
62 i’ve heard rumors speculating that you’ve been sleeping around with other women Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
61 you make me want to do things to you. Would you like that? SUB!Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
60 I know I’m not allowed to go outside but can I please? I miss my friends! Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
59 I tried to untie myself but the ropes were too strong. “Hello?!” I yelled Yandere WooJin (Stray Kids)
58 please! mark me more, go out with me, please, something… I’m yours only Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
57 One of my friends told me that you threatened him yesterday Yandere Wonho (Monsta X)
56 pleaseee you never let me outside.. just for once and it’s only in the garden Yandere Kun (NCT) 🐧
55 We can always order if you want Yandere YangYang (NCT) 🥓
54 relationships like.. with love and all.. that doesn’t interest me Yandere Chenle (NCT) 🥓
53 I never wanted to make you jealous. I just wanted to surprise you Yandere Chanyeol (EXO) 🐃
52 this possessive attitude has to stop! Yandere XiaoJun (NCT) 🎼
51 Taeyong wishes he could be like yuta!!!!!! Yandere Yuta (NCT) 🧸
50 when will you show me to your family? i showed you to mine Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
49 cutie you are as cute as I am. You can’t deny that SUB!Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
48 What would I have to do to get your love and affection back? Yandere Jaemin (NCT)
47 I’m leaving. I already got a restraining order, so leave me alone Yandere Ten (NCT)
46 You look so hot when you glare at others Yandere Ju-ne (IKON)
45 I’m older than you. It’ll do you well if you found a girl your age Yandere Mark (NCT)
44 I got A on my last exam and I’m straight A student now! Yandere Taeyong (NCT)🌼 old post that was never linked
43 Last night was a mistake. We shouldn’t have– I think we shouldn’t see each other anymore Yandere WinWin (NCT)
42 Hello, how was your today strange man? Yandere WooJin (Stray Kids)
41 GET OFF ME, TAEYONG! when will you accept that I don’t like you! Stay away from me! Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌠
40 you can’t kiss me,I don’t want you to get flu Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
39 I dont really like you in that way. But we can still be friends Yandere Jisung (Stray Kids) ♠️
38 I’m really sorry that I lied. But please, don’t punish me again Yandere Johnny (NCT) 🐻
37 if you want me to stop being mad at you you’ll get on your knees and beg for it SUB!Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
36 I broke up with you already two years ago, leave me alone! Yandere Kihyun (Monsta X)
35 can I kiss you… and would you please give me my colar back? Yandere Hyungwon (Monsta X)
34 what kind of p-punishment is it this time? Yandere Jisung (NCT) 🌸
33 I could overpower them, I guess that’s why they need chains and mind games Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
32 it’s really uncomfortable for me to wear collar at all times, could you please remove it Yandere Ten (NCT) 🤤
31 I have a fear of any physical contact from male i just want some space for myself Yandere Ten (NCT)
30 ya don’t have to act all aggressive for me to see you as my protector Yandere Lucas (NCT) 🦑
29 yandere!yuta is so rude to my master! he isn’t such a man whore Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
28 Not only did you ruin dinner but you made my friend uncomfortable! Yandere XiaoJun (NCT) 🎼
27 I’m gonna go out w/ my friends its one of my best friends bachelorette party SUB!Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 👒
26 you are gonna leave me with no water? Yandere Doyoung (NCT) 🔫
25 I’m sorry for being a brat earlier.. I’ll do anything to make up for it Yandere Mark (NCT) 🍓
24 Okay I’m not gonna cook but.. why would I try to kill you? Yandere YangYang (NCT) 🥓
23 get it you want to show me of as yours but are all those hickeys really necessary? Yandere DK (IKON)
22 You never seem to respond to my texts or calls anymore… Do you not like me anymore? Yandere Jaemin (NCT)
21 you’re so cute begging for my attention, what a cutie SUB!yandere Taeyong (NCT)
20 thank you for making me a better person Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
19 Oh well my parents are calling me so I..uhhh…I gotta go but maybe I’ll see you later Yandere Haechan (NCT) 🌑
18 you don’t sleep with other girls like taeyong, right? Yandere Yuta (NCT) 🧸
17 I know what I did was bad, and I wasn’t thinking because I was mad Yandere Jisung (NCT) 🌸
16 I didn’t mean to make you worry… The bruise is not that bad. Yandere Johnny (NCT) 🐻
15 I-im sorry Kun, I shouldn’t have kissed you, if you want to punish me I will understand Yandere Kun (NCT) 🐝
14 what if in the end, I don’t fall in love for you? Yandere Lucas (NCT)
13 I’m not your fucking slave! I want to leave!… I’m leaving! Yandere Yuta (NCT)
12 I’m scared of the storm, could you talk to me about something the you love to distract me Yandere Taeyong (NCT)
11 I willingly left my family and friends for you and you’re not sure about my feelings? Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
10 what the fuck is this is room Wonho?! Yandere Wonho (Monsta X)
9 I don’t know why you forced me to move in! I have my own house Yandere Bobby (IKON) 🐃
8 if you are actually dating that girl, I’m fine with backing off Yandere Lucas (NCT)🦑
7 I don’t want to have kids Yandere Yuta (NCT)
6 A friend of mine came into town and we are going to have dinner together Yandere XiaoJun (NCT) 🎼
5 can you please just let go of me so I can take a bath without you? Yandere Jungwoo (NCT)
4 I think you completely broke me Yandere Taeyong (NCT) 🌼
3 I’m so sorry babe, but I broke your phone dropping in the water Yandere Doyoung (NCT) 🔫
2 would you let me cook for you tonight? Yandere YangYang (NCT) 🥓
1 where have all of your friends gone?… Are we alone? Yandere Haechan (NCT)
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12 I’ll have to punish you for looking at me like that Yandere Taeyong (NCT)🔪
11 what’s that room on the 2nd floor?and why did I hear voices coming from the basement Yandere Kun (NCT/WayV)🐧
10 I know that you’re mad at me at failing my exam Yandere Kun (NCT/WayV)🦚
9 get OFF ME! You can’t throw me and NOT expect me to get hurt Yandere WinWin (NCT/WayV)🦑🔮
8 could you hook me up with RenJun Yandere haechan (NCT)💞
7 HELP ANYONE PLEASE, Haechan why are you doing this WHY Yandere Haechan (NCT)🌑
6 Talking to a friend, forgetting about studying Yandere Yuta & Yandere WinWin (NCT/WayV)🤠
5 We can study at mine, it’s not to far from here anyways Yandere Jeno (NCT)🦑
4 I’ll take the punishment like a good s/o Yandere Jisung (NCT)🌸
3 I-I promise I didn’t go anywhere Yandere Kino (Pentagon) 😼
2 choose something for yourseeeelf, it’s yoooour birthday, not miiiine Yandere Taeyong (NCT)🌼
1 Do you like shrimp or steak more? I am making you dinner Yandere Jay (IKON)
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The GG & Li-Ning & Xianjiang Cotton Situation
I was asked to give my opinion. This is also for other bxgs who may have the same sentiment. You don’t have to agree with me but i hope you respect whatever it is I choose to share here. This is my blog and my space. I maintain this out of my pure enjoyment of the fandom and all the good it has given me. So let me address some of the points.
Li-Ning boasts their use of XinJiang Cotton
My simple answer here is, of course they will. This is not something new. Li-Ning is a celebrated olympic medal winning gymnast. A billionaire. You don’t get to that place in CHN w/out supporting the government’s agenda. In this case, that there is no injustice and persecution going on in Xinjiang. This brand, boasting about China made cotton, in their terms, shows patriotism and support for their country. This brand’s literal goal at first was to provide a local brand for Chinese athletes to wear in the Olympics. This is also not the first time that Li-Ning had been called out along w/ other international brands due to questionable ethical practices.
I find it very hard to believe that the timing of GG’s massive Li-Ning ad campaign, coinciding as it has with these Western brand boycotts, was a coincidence.
Let’s get this out of the way. Whether the boycott happened or not, Li-Ning is guaranteed an insane amount of sales because they hired Xiao Zhan. This is the same man who always sells out products in seconds. Who took KXZ to 200% growth and so on. I can talk about stats all day but this massive campaign for him is a no brainer. GG is expensive and a guaranteed success. Any brand who hires him will be stupid to not launch an all out campaign across all cities. Li-Ning knows what they are doing by hiring him. For years, they have been trying to appeal to Gen Z. Especially now that youth in CHN are more and more into the “guochao” (国潮) - National trend. Integrating traditional chinese culture and fashion w/ domestic brands. This ties in with the whole movement of erasing the connotation that made in china is of inferior quality. GG was a good choice. He appeals to the younger generation (19-25) and the working class ( 26 and up ) who buys goods. I would imagine even GG’s team did their research and knows this trend is going on too. This will not be the last you will see of this type of endorsement from him or Web. The rumors on this collaboration was going around as early as, March 15 I think? I was literally asking another bxg if GG’s ad will be pushed back a day or two because of what was happening. or what will this all implies. He was always gonna come out and endorse this brand boycott or not.
I am not removing the possibility that these local brands have a hand in the boycott. It’s a very valid concern. or that, it was a convenient perfect storm for them. A perfect storm of EU, US & CAN sanctioning CHN. The sudden attack on brands’ statements against Xinjiang cotton from a year ago. The whole agenda of controlling the people’s view on what is happening. All of these are connected. sure. There are many things behind the scenes that we will not know but we can make an educated guess of. Li-Ning is not the only domestic brand that had a positive push because of this.
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On 3/25 Li-Ning’s stock closed with a high of 10.74% , plus an added 9% on the 26th when GG was announced as ambassador. The same thing happened with Anta and others.
I find it very hard to stomach seeing Li-Ning ads on my dash, regardless of GG’s presence in them. Without condemning him for taking this endorsement deal, and without judging what he is or is not personally aware
I will just be addressing GG’s alleged part in all this. I say that cause we don’t live in his brain and won’t know what he’s thinking. You can all try and project your values on him but he is a whole person of his own. I have hopefully given some view on why GG accepted to endorse this brand in the previous point. GG has spent most if not all, of his life in China. He has repeatedly said that he was brought up traditionally. Tho his father was very encouraging in him participating in the arts and widening his knowledge. He had Foreign professors at CBTU. He is part of the generation that knows what’s going on outside by using the internet. He’s smart. I would guess that he is aware of the country he is living in vs what it’s like outside of it. But at the end of the day, his loyalty will always be with his country. I hate to break it to you all but he will continue to live and thrive as an Actor even without international support. Tho it is great that he is a source of National Pride with how people outside of China love him.
Now, about his support for Xianjiang Cotton. I wanna start by showing this:
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It’s a post from People’s Daily wb which boasts all the c-ent top stars that voiced their support of XJ cotton. The sense is, hey people look at your idols supporting the cause. Look at their Patriotism. What do you think will happen if GG was not on this list? Knowing that he is a top star in CHN. Knowing he was just in hot waters post 22*? Knowing that he is actively being endorsed in CCTV which is a National Channel. Are we still surprised that he posted that support? I was just honestly waiting for him to post if anything. I talked before about how C-ent celebrities are expected ( and actually it’s in their law ) to be more morally upright than the lay people. This is prime example of that.
Another one is this from CCTV Wb. I’m including this for you all to have an understanding of how this whole thing is being played out in CHN. This is the type of online narrative that is going around and I would think GG is seeing. The sentiment is,
“No matter what hardships, ups and downs and blows go through in our country, her people will always come from all directions and stand up to speak justice and do just things.”
It’s also showing all the hot searches that is related in support of XJ cotton and defending CHN’s innocence.
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Also this video that was heavily circulated showing mechanized picking of cotton vs the allegations of manual.
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This is the kind of narrative that is going around, as expected. I don’t really fault GG or condemn him for doing what is best for him. What is the best for an individual does not always mean it’s the best for all. In talks like this, I always try and put myself in their position. I mean, who the hell are these people trying to attack my country? the country that has provided for me. I wanna say I understand where they are coming from but understanding does not mean agreeing. I see these A LOT. ALOT ON WEIBO. The China vs. Everyone story. It’s the notion of, they are attacking us and we must protect the country. Also keep in mind that news is heavily regulated.
You know what type of news the CCP would love for them to get a hold of? The rising attacks on Asians in the US. Oh boy they would fuckin love that! Making America the big/bad asian-hating boogeyman in the eyes of their people yet again.
Okay, now we’re down to the final part of this. Why do I share the promo pics for Li-Ning. Where do i draw the line.
To me it’s simple. It had GG in it. I was waiting for this to come out, and tbh, would you all even know about this brand’s practices if the boycott didn’t happen? No. This is a bjyx blog where i share things about them. That includes ad, dramas, pictures and videos. I understand if people don’t feel comfortable w/ Li-Ning ads and others, so just don’t like those posts. Did I buy anything from the collection? No. Did I buy multiple copies Web’s single Youth in Times ( like i do with his other singles )? No. That’s where I draw the line in this. I know we’re all gonna be put on a tight spot again once Faith Makes Great comes out. Once I saw that leaked pic, Ooohhh! I just know. Also if BAH adds some propaganda about CHN’s war on drugs. I am just waiting. I am ready. I know what my values are. I will not allow other people to dictate who I am. I know what type of content I’m only gonna be sharing.
I see this very forceful air of asking bxgs to take a stand on this ( always bxg, never the other side. always us of course even if we are the minority) and it really puts me off. I read someone say that they will not say anything because they don’t owe strangers on the internet an explanation. Which is true. I have separate spaces that I share my views on world/local issues. Accounts that show my actual name and around people I know in real life. That’s what I choose to do for myself. I started this blog for myself and i still find it very bizarre that people follow this account. I am not some sort of KOL, let’s get that straight. This is just a blog where I talk about things if i want to and SCREAM about GG and Web too much. I will probably not answer any follow up questions on this cause i feel like I have addressed a good chunk of it.
Just know that whatever I post on here in support of GG and his projects does not equate to my entire political/moral stand regarding this event or any. It’s really good that we have conversations like this cause it’s an important one.
Whew! That was a long post! 😅
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Genetics of Lucille Tracy
I’ve wanted to do a post about this for a while and I’m bored during my music lesson so here it is. I’ve always seen a variety of ideas of what Lucille Tracy looked like so I thought I’d use science to show what she most likely looked like.
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This is a Punnett Square: people use if with genetics to see what their children will most likely look like. Here’s one for my parents: My mum has brown hair which is a dominant gene which means it’s more powerful than other hair colours so it’s represented by a big “B”. My dad has red hair with is THE MOST recessive hair colour gene you can have to it’s represented by a little “r”. 100% of genes my parents can make are “Br” which means all their children will have brown hair (as it’s dominant) but will carry the red hair gene which means they could pass it on to their own children (as it’s recessive).
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Now, onto the Tracy’s: We can assume Jeff has brown hair as Asher mistakes Scott for him in SOS Part 1 and we’ll start with an example where Lucille also has brown hair but with Jeff and Lucy having one red and blond recessive gene each making their genes look like this: 
Jeff = Br (brown, red)
Lucy = Bb (brown, blond) (little “b” means blond as it is also recessive to brown but dominant over red). 
If we were to put that into a Punnett Square it would look like this:
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This set of genes doesn’t work as while Jeff and Lucy could have brunette and blond children (good for Scott, Virgil, Gorgon and Alan) but they couldn’t have ginger children (poor John…). So we scrap that one and try again.
PS. Though, blond and red are both represented by little letters, blond is more dominant than red so “br” means a blond child with a recessive red gene.
Changing Lucille’s genes again, we’ll try giving her red hair as I’ve seen a bit of fan art with her with ginger hair so now their genes look like:
Jeff = Bb (brown, blond)
Lucille = rr (red, red)
(Lucille has to have 2 red recessive genes because if you have red hair you can ONLY have red hair genes a they’re so recessive and other hair colour gene would take over which means Jeff has the blond genes now).
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They now have a 50% chance of having blond children and brunette children but still no red (John’s giving me the right run around) so it’s back to the drawing board again.
I’m now trying Lucille with blond hair and I’m making both Jeff and Lucille’s recessive gene red as the ONLY way red hair would show up in a child of theirs is if they could make the genes “rr” which – as Jeff has brown hair – could only show up in his recessive genes and has to be Lucille’s recessive gene as if it was her dominant gene as Lucy have red hair and no blond hair would show up in their gene pairs. So, now the setup is this:
Jeff = Br (brown, red)
Lucille = br (blond, red)
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And finally, we have success! Jeff’s brunette genes mean they have a 50% chance of having a child with brown hair (also means Scott and Virgil may have either a blond or red recessive gene to possibly have a blond or ginger child), a 25% chance of a blond child (and Gordon and Alan DEFINITELY have a red recessive to maybe have a red-haired child) and 25% of having a red-haired child (100% red genes for John, not shocking).
(This also suggests that Lucille and Jeff’s parents have to have the red-haired gene too so they could have red hair or a recessive red gene).
We can also work this out for eye colour as well. Brown eyes are the most dominant eye colour, then it’s blue and green is the most recessive. Jeff definitely has blue eyes (kind of grey, but I’d still call them blue) so if blue is his dominant gene and we have the same issue with green eyes that we had with red hair (need “gg” to make green eyes making Jeff’s recessive gene green) we have to assume Lucille has either green eyes (which she can’t have as then none of their children would have brown eyes) or her recessive gene is green and dominant one is brown making a Punnett Square that looks like this:
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So, 50% of Jeff and Lucille’s children have brown eyes (with the possibility of a green-eyed or blue-eyed kid maybe), 25% have blue eyes (with a green-eyed recessive gene) and 25% will have green eyes.
So now we know, Lucille Tracy must have blond hair and brown eyes, Jeff Tracy has brown hair and blue eyes and both of them have the recessive genes for red hair and green eyes. And, as a bonus point, John’s eye colour and hair colour has each had a 25% chance of coming out in him as has Alan’s hair and eye colour meaning Alan and John’s genetics have the exact same level of rarity, which I thought was quite interesting.
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As a bonus, I thought I’d also take a look at what each of the boys genes would look with Kayo’s as I know a lot of people ship her with them (I ship her with John and I know at least @gumnut-logic​ ships her with Virgil). Kayo’s eyes are green so here genes would be “gg” and working under the likelihood of both her parents having dark hair (as most Asian people do) her hair genes would most likely be “BB” so here’s what their children would look like:
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For her hair, you could change out Kayo’s second recessive gene for any other hair colour which would give her a 25% chance of a blond or ginger child with Scott and Virgil (depending on their recessive gene) or 25% change of a blond child or 50% chance of a ginger child if she had a baby with John (I personally like the idea of her having a ginger kid with John so I give her a recessive red gene).
This took me actually forever so I’m going to @ a bunch of Thunderbirds accounts so people see it because if they don’t I may cry:
@eos-in-orbit​ @ak47stylegirl​ @gumnut-logic​ @sonatanotwo​ @soniabigcheese​ @flyboytracy​ @godsliltippy​ @gordoncoopertracy​ @galentaliel​ @1bluesilvertracy​ @willow-salix​
Can’t think of any more to tag, already concerned I’m going to look needy by doing this...
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Final round-up of fan fic asks
I've gotten a few more interesting responses to the fan fic discussion so I'm going to round them all up here. This will be my final post on the topic until/unless there's a dramatic new development, or a particularly notable response I want to highlight. Thanks to everyone who brought their thoughts and experiences to the topic. I hope everyone at least feels heard.
The biggest piece of advice that I would like to offer is for everyone to focus on what they love rather than what they hate. If we all did that, the world would be a better place. Alongside that, I'd like to remind everyone to please support authors whose work you like. It's so important. Give them a kudos, give them a nice comment, recommend their work to others. You never know what kind of grief and harassment they are dealing with to bring you these great stories, and our support means a lot.
This is in reference to previous posts here and here.
Anonymous asked:
With regard to fandom and fan fic issue, my years of experience being part of very large fandoms has led me to believe that big accounts are v important in facilitating and enforcing the general consensus of the whole fandom. Unless there will be big accs who'll remind everyone of being respectful & just not being a dick over other's preferences, nothing will change.
This is also the reason why I think certain solo fandoms have adapted weird and twisted narratives as their general fandom story because no big acc has tried to police them & and say hey pls be rational. Whether we like it or not, in a place where how far voices, ideas, tweets, posts get heard is based on the number of followers you have, big accs will have the power and influence in creating/curating/shifting the narratives.
So, if you want to know why your/our fandom thinks like this in general, look at what big accs are tweeting/posting, look at what ideas & values they follow, look at their preferences or how strongly they react to certain situations. it's taxing and toxic for big accs given the nature of social media these days, but it's also the reality of system, the more followers/audience you have, the more influence you will have.
So to anyone reading this I hope we all practice more restraint and reflection before we post anything. Remember that words, no matter what medium you write it in, will always carry weight.
So true. It is easy - even for myself who spends a fair chunk of time answering people's asks - to forget that people can sometimes be impressionable and what we say can influence people whether that's our intent or not. I get used to thinking of myself as a regular guy just doing my own thing when sometimes my thoughts and words go well beyond where I initially posted them.
I think it's important for us to be careful what we say, and it's equally important to be careful what we take from what other people say. Especially when it comes to big claims. Always get a second, third, fourth opinion and don't be afraid to ask for clarification if something doesn't sit right or sounds confusing.
It's also important to reflect on how our words and actions might affect other people's experience of fandom, and err on the side of 'live and let live' wherever possible. It's great to have our own preferences and to champion them, but we should try to do so in a way that leaves space for other people and perspectives.
The more unique perspectives and the more friendly, open dialog there is, the healthier the community will be as a whole.
There's nothing wrong with encouraging and guiding growth in the particular areas we are interested in, as long as it doesn't step on, oppress or attack those who are peacefully enjoying something different.
Anonymous 2 asked: bjyx fans attacking gdgdbaby for including zsww/lsfy dynamics in an event named bjyx then turning right around and attacking the zsww/lsfy event organizer for excluding bjyx? god, can you hear my facepalm and sigh of resignation and incredulity from over there? im genuinely not surprised that they're trying to drive an entire part of the fandom out by disgusting them (and me) with these immature tactics. i believe what im about to say next will sound quite bait-y and i respect your decision 1/?
should you choose not to post this. but i do know that it is not only me, in fact there are many out there, that is of this opinion. we just dont talk about it on twitter to avoid the potential mess it will bring lol. okay, here goes nothing. (do note that im talking about the majority here, not every single person is like this) so bjyx fans tend to be cishet females whereas zsww/lsfy fans are more diverse in terms of age and gender, and most of them are part of the queer community too 2/?
i would like to clarify that most of these zsww/lsfy fans are not dynamic exclusive (in the sense that they are friendly and interact with all ggdd fans) they just prefer to "identify" themselves as zsww/lsfy fans (on twitter specifically) just to form a distinction from bjyx fans who mostly are dynamic exclusive (as in; they do not consume non-bjyx content, and straightup refuse to interact with non-bjyx fans, often blocking them). as a result, id say that the zsww/lsfy communiy is way more 3/?
mature and respectful (after all, they're mostly queer people talking about a queer ship) whereas many problems in this fandom, such as the homophobia, adamantly insisting on "drawing lines" between dynamics, stem from the bjyx exclusive fans, comprised of cishet females who "may not know better". so, it is of no surprise to me that they're resorting to these immature tactics of calling gg unsavory names, and organizing retaliatory events with controversial topics in an attempt to "purify". 4/4
I trust that you have arrived at that theory through your own experience and observation. I haven't personally spent much time immersed in this stuff so I can't claim to have any real insight or expertise. If you say that's your experience of it, then at the very least that's how you've seen things up to this point.
I just want to say that I think we should always be careful about making assumptions about people's age, gender/gender identity, etc.
There are plenty of good reasons to avoid doing that; because those assumptions could be very wrong, because those assumptions are often laced with ageism, sexism, etc., because those assumptions - even when correct - might not be an accurate basis for the conclusions we draw.
But the primary reason I recommend avoiding those type of assumptions is because anything that enables us to clump a group of people together in our minds like that will tend to make them easier to demonize and dehumanize. They are no longer individuals who are each responsible for their own unique perspectives, they are now 'the X group' who is known for 'A B C series of easily attackable ideas or behaviors'.
If we attribute undesirable traits and behaviors to a group of people we feel opposed to in some way, that makes us feel more righteous and justified in behaving unfairly toward them, dismissing their humanity and warring with them. It's just risky behavior to engage in, even when it's well-intentioned.
There might actually be some truth to what you're saying. It could very well be that most of these people are young, inexperienced, heteronormative, etc. but if that's the case then we should try to use those traits to better understand and empathize rather than to better dismiss and discredit.
Just my two cents on that.
It can be really frustrating dealing with what feels like other people attacking us, trying to oppress us, etc. - especially when there are more of them than there are of us. In my experience the best solutions to that sort of problem are generally the ones that focus on what we are doing and want to do rather than what they are doing that we don't want them to do.
As I am always preaching, we can't control what other people say, do or think. The only thing we have any control over is what we say, do and think (and how we respond to what they say, do and think).
I have found in my experience that the moment I step out of a conflict mindset and instead step into a problem-solving mindset, everything starts to come together. I feel better, my outlook is more positive, I can begin to see solutions and allies rather than problems and enemies, and most of all, I become more focused on what I am doing than what others are doing.
So I would recommend everyone who is invested in resolving these conflicts focus on that. "How can we best showcase and encourage the types of stories we enjoy?" instead of "How can we stop these other people from doing things we dislike?"
Anonymous 3 asked:
Hello again! It’s anon #3 from the fanfic post. I really do appreciate reading your thoughts on various issues like this, so thank you for always taking time to write in depth. As for supporting without going to war, the simplest way has always been to just show appreciation for the creators, hype them up. Kudos are the easiest way on ao3 but comments in addition are great. This goes for all content—art, fics, vids..etc. Creators love to see and read how people react to their content. Sharing is also great, fic recs are very helpful, just be cautious with art and reposting though. Hope this helps a bit!
Thanks so much, Anon. I think this is excellent advice. And it's true that appreciation is great, but helping to expand the audience is also great. Recommending stories, pointing people to the pages/websites of artists we like (as opposed to reposting), sharing our own ideas and approaches, encouraging people to try new things... all of this helps build healthier communities.
And here's another one: WRITE! DRAW! CREATE!
I urge anyone with creative interests or talents to bring their voices to the community because we all can benefit from hearing from you.
Thanks again everyone for sharing your thoughts on this issue. I hope that over time we can all work in positive ways to improve the situation.
I think this subject has been well-covered now so I'm going to retire it for the time being. If anyone still feels they want to discuss it further please feel free to message me privately. Thanks.
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