#THANK YOU FOR READING MY AGENDA…

[pitconfirm]

Hello it is me, francis, wondering 2 things (making up my own ask game ahahah):

- what was your lancepill moment? Like moment you fell for Lance… never to recover…

- can u elaborate on Alex/lance??? I have recently been shown intriguing material and saw your tags a while ago… you have thoughts👁️?

Hiiiii francis 🫶

first of all, my lancepill moment... definitely 2020. i was kind of aware of him before that and followed him on socials but I only properly got into f1 in 2020. I got into it through the lockdown streams and when they got back to racing I was bewitched by his pink suit and silly aura. but the point of no return was watching his Monza podium... LIFE CHANGING.

And oh boy.... alex/lance... strollbon. where do i even begin. for the past couple weeks, Ann and i have been having absolutely derranged convos about them... our beloved rarepair. my thoughts are below the cut in case this gets too long:

I have too many thoughts to possibly mention them all but I think the core energy of this ship is that... lance is a spoiled princess who needs to be treated right, and alex is a nice guy who could TREAT HIM RIGHT... as can be seen by the iconic umbrella moment:

As the genius @lil-shiro said... lance has reverse daddy issues, in that his dad has always been able to give him exactly what he needs, so he expects the same kindness and dependability from his partner... i think alex could give him that.

they both have a similar sort of energy of hating media duties, being very nice but also having a bitchy side... i think they'd mesh very well together. as you can see here, their combined sassy energy… unstoppable.

also we know that lance has extreme cat energy, and who on the grid is good with cats? alex albon of course.

and another very very important element of strollbon is of course georgeture. the concept of george's best friend being in a relationship with his enemy... groundbreaking. traumatising. perfect. the potential drama here is so delicious… I may have to write it.

of course the utterly devastating moment of George realising alex and lance are together... maybe he sees a notification from lance on alex's phone, maybe he catches them in the act... either way, he passes out. and then wakes up. and then passes out again. his life is ruined and he'll have to learn to balance his hatred for lance with his desire to be a supportive friend to alex (and eventually, reluctantly, admit that lance isn't that bad).

TLDR, lance is a princess and alex should spoil him. I hope my ramble made sense 😅 but if you have any other questions im always happy to answer 🙏

#THANK YOU FOR READING MY AGENDA… #mwah mwah 🫶 #asks #strollbon

[peachesarts]

i just think they should wear cute summer outfits and go on little summer dates together that's all

#imodna #Imogen temult #laudna #critical role #critical role fanart #cr3 #bells hells #i really love them and i miss them when are you girls gonna KISS #also welcome to my very tall/very short imodna agenda thank you #i tried to emulate their colour palettes but as modern-ish outfits so it kind of reads the same as their in game og outfits #also goth gf x cowboy gf really is the moment

[kyouka-supremacy]

Thoughts on akutagawa being drawn with no highlights in his eyes, hair, coat, or on rashomon,,,like everything is drawn pure black? I like when he's drawn a little bit like not-human--contrasts real well with Atsushi's dilemma of being a tiger, personally thinking. Also like when he's drawn like a void. Little bit like the cryptid creachur he is. I think you wrote something about it in the tags on panels in his introduction in the Manga. I like to think other characters also see him the way we see him so his void ass scares the fuck out of others too. Man's skeevin and tweakin even in his design

I'm OBSESSED with Akutagawa's design. Look at him. This is what he looks like on a white background:

And this is what he looks like on a black background:

It's BRILLIANT. He literally disappears in the black. He's the ultimate monster. In his appearance, he embodies what above all is most scary for the human psyche: the darkness, the unknown. The way Harukawa took advantage of the the art rule of never using pure black by breaking it in the most clever way! No light gets reflected on him, because his form absorbs everything– is absolute darkness. Visually, his figure itself is Rashomon eating everything it encounters, and it's genius.

He is so nightmare coded. I love his big, inscrutable eyes that look like two voids, two black holes. I love how oftentimes you can't tell where Rashomon ends and where he starts, I love how sick and unhealthy he looks. I love how he looks scruffy like an abandoned dog. I love how young he looks– way younger than he is. It gives the impression of a ghost, someone who was killed before growing up and is now stuck with his young appearance no matter how many centuries pass.

I adore everything about these chapter 33 pages. The way he initially appears as just a single black shape, hardly resembling a human. His crunched, unnatural stance. The staggering. The way you can feel with your senses the thick and sticky blood. The top picture is the left page of the manga, so just imagine the visual impact of turning the page to be hit with an almost full-black page- it's meant to impress, it's meant to shake. The way he's one with the darkness: no textures on him, only white making out his outlines. The way you can't tell where his coat ends. His left arm hanging numb, limp, lifeless, inhuman. The spurts of blood on his face. His smile, how you won't notice it at first and how that makes it all the more disquieting; its juxtaposition with the violence that surrounds him and that he is the cause of. The way he covers his face, the impressions of hiding and looming. His face being split, which only adds to the horror elements. Akutagawa's character design as a whole is an ode to the gothic and grotesque.

And then this. Hello??????????????? The progression from how Akutagawa used to be to the last time we saw him alive is astonishing. It's upsetting. It really makes me wanna cry from a technical execution standpoint alone (imagine from a plot related standpoint). All the black is now replaced with predominant white, everywhere. His shirt is white and candid and pure, emphasizing contrast with the splash of blood in a way that almost results sickening. The blood on him is his this time. His face looks rounder, and healthier, and he overall looks more mature. His smile is sincere and genuine, it's light, it's affectionate. This scene is the culmination of Akutagawa's character both visually and thematically: the monster, Akutagawa, too, can be good, and arguably had good within him since the very start. Does it really matter if he lives after this? His character already developed to be the best version of himself‚ and this panel here is the proof.

Further readings: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

#Sorry I blacked out and now it's been three hours #Don't kill me over the last line akdbfjksndjeks I love Akutagawa I swear #No wait I think I got it: Me 🤝 Atsushi → bullying Akutagawa as love language #ryūnosuke akutagawa #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd ch 04 #bsd ch 33 #bsd ch 88 #Me: I will NOT compare chapter 88 panel Akutagawa to an angel. That is NOT something I'm willing to do. #bsd analysis #people asks me stuff #Thank you for the ask!!! #Actually someone reblogged a post from me with a very clever addition about Akutagawa's physical appearance #I haven't gotten around to reblogging it yet because I wanted to take a good read to it but it was very clever!! #I'll try to reblog it as soon as possible #I also love how half the time his coat will just look like a gown. I adore it. #I love his heels. He does have a very feminine figure‚ in a way– especially in how thin / feeble he looks. #It's real fuel for my transmasc Akutagawa agenda #Back to Anon's words– I only have a very very vague memory of writing tags about this it must have been from a very old post?

[presdestigatto]

I doubt Charles and Max ever could be friends. Both are too competitive and I feel like Max would stop being too nice to Charles once things doesn’t go his way. I know everyone believes it’s Charles who would hate Max again if they start to fight for Championship again but for me it’s Max, he already showed annoyance toward Charles in those moments.

Hey anon! Thanks for sending something in, but damn, prickly topic. I have some time on my hands now so I’m going to go extra in depth with my thoughts on this

It’s quite difficult to speculate on the future state of their relationship, because we’re dealing with a lot of hypotheticals and we quite literally only know what they decide to show us, publicly. For all we know, they could secretly be besties who text every night. Though, I do agree with you (or what you implied) that they aren’t friends on a personal level right now. Honestly, I think they don’t have much in common beyond racing, if you look at their friends and their passions outside of motorsport. But then again, racing is and has always been a huge part of who they are, it is pretty much the core of who they are right now, and as drivers, Max&Charles are very similar. So outside of racing I don’t think they interact much, but within racing I see their relationship as two people who vibrate on the same wavelength. And that produces, yk, the Maxsplaining and Leclerifying.

As for whether there will be hatred between them if they have a tense title fight, I tend towards not at all, or not to a level that destroys their relationship as friendly colleagues. First, the stakes going into 2024 are simply not equal. If this were Charles and Max fighting for their first title, and only one of them could get it, I would place my bets on a Lestappen downfall. I do agree with you that both of them are crazily competitive, but Max has already won… trice. I’m not saying that this means he doesn’t want to win anymore, but he quite literally doesn’t have much to prove left. He’s just had the most dominant season in the history of the sport, the next step up would be like a complete win whitewash and I’d actually quit watching f1 forever if that happens. I don’t feel that Max is the sort of driver who’s aiming to break records for WDCs held, and I’m basing this off his comments about retirement and being bored at the front this season. From what I’ve seen, Max is a racing nerd. To him, the thrills are just as important as the accolades and that’s significant because he’s already collected a bucketload of accolades. And so I don’t think a 3 time WDC Max would resent Charles for giving him a close title fight. I also feel that from his comments in interviews about acknowledging that “everyone can be stopped”, his ego isn’t as large as some people make it out to be. But I also can’t really think of any recent instances of Max showing irritation towards Charles apart from on the radio in Vegas 23, and the overall race proved that Max does enjoy Charles taking the challenge to him. It’s probably because I don’t follow Max too closely, so feel free to update me haha.

As for whether Max would U-turn on his love-peace-Charles agenda if Charles presented a real title fight to him, ignoring my somewhat shallow Max knowledge, I’d point to Bahrain 2022 as an example that Max isn’t that insecure. It was the first race of the season, the Red Bulls DNFed, Charles won, but they were still all smiles and Max even took the initiative to come up to Charles to chat (on live tv). This ties back to the point above, that the stakes for Max aren’t as high anymore so we see less Mad Max. I’d also add that Max has been very consistent in showing that he sincerely admires Charles’ skill as a driver, I’d go as far as to say that Max respects Charles the most in the current grid. I’m pretty sure you can pick any year from 2018-2023 and Max has done at least one interview in which he praises Charles’ talent. And this brings me to what Max said in 2018 predicting that he and Charles will be “like Hamilton and Vettel, fighting for titles in the future”, which aptly illustrates how Max&Charles are, in my opinion, the most prepared to have a tense title fight without developing personal grudges. People like calling them the reverse Brocedes, I can certainly see it. Circling back to the very first point about them not being friends, they have always been rivals first. They’ve had over a decade of experience going into races and championships and seeing the other as “Max/Charles, who I have to beat”. They’re competitors with a healthy amount of hard-earned respect for each other, and I do believe them when they say that they’ve matured beyond petty rivalries. That is basically the tl;dr of this very long thing.

I don’t see why Charles, who is going into 2024 with the awareness that he’ll have to beat Max to win the WDC, would become resentful of Max in the process. Likewise, I don’t think Max, who has already proven himself, would be mad that his childhood rival who he rates very highly, beat him to a title. I think it’s important that they aren’t friends, as you said, because then there are no expectations or trust to betray and their professional relationship can be maintained.

The only scenarios I see happening where they fall out because of the title fight are if 1) either one of them decides to drive dirty and the FIA turns a blind eye (haha.) 2) they magically regress into their 15 year old selves and Charles shoves Max into the marina in Abu Dhabi in Val D’Argenton 2.0

#lestappen #…i wrote a lot. if you read everything thanks!! #all in all we literally don’t know what will happen we’re all just speculating for fun #we don’t know them and are just analysing what they’ve given us 🤷🏻‍♀️ #we will only know for certain when ferrari gets their shit together and becomes a competent team #either way my enjoyment of lestappen is secondary to my charles leclerc wdc agenda #asks

[vero-niche]

a fellow english major, really happy to see someone who's proud of their degree <3

you know that "no love, no matter how brief, is wasted" line? i think the same applies for knowledge too - no matter how useless it may seem, knowledge acquired is never in vain.

#honestly like. idk what your age is but when i was attending uni i kept getting told that i shouldve gone for IT. because the future #- and the money - is there. #now look at the IT companies. the whole thing is crumbling #not to mention the arrogance. that IT degree didnt make you immune to the same old scam tactics did it. how are your nfts doing btw #honestly i never really expected it myself that a humanities degree would prove useful in a daily life type of way #like. sure i knew it wasnt useless but still. its entirely different to experience it in real time yknow #and the whole new wave ''it isnt that deep'' trend is honestly pretty dangerous bc there usually IS something deeper. #a narrative an agenda a propaganda etc.... or simply just capitalist greed #so its needed to read between the lines and see what the point/intention really is #- and thats what literary and other art analysis is making you do! it makes you stop and think #this is all not even mentioning all the political historical and cultural stuff we learned about all the anglo-saxon countries #which all prove to be pretty useful in light of recent events...... #so yeah. anyway. dont listen to all those who say its useless (and theres a lot of those even among the ones who chose this major too) #its clearly not. but even if it were it wouldnt matter ehat they think #(i do wish tho that i couldve attended it already on the right meds bc i feel like i forgot A Lot bc of my mental state at the time #but oh well. what can you do) #thank you for the ask it was really nice of you 💞💞💞 #ask #anon

[letapollojusticesayfuck]

smile for the camera (and keep your fingers crossed) Chapter 2: Interrogations, Interviews, and Impromptu Not-A-Dates

So instead of the food trucks, he’d bought a sandwich and a soda from the convenience store (and maybe a magazine too, shut up, he needs the physical proof that yes, he had in fact kissed Klavier Gavin). He’d also bought a pair of nondescript sunglasses and a baseball hat, in the hopes that he’d have a good enough disguise to head back to the office without being recognized. What Apollo Justice had failed to account for, however, was the fact that unlike in the movies, paparazzi aren’t stupid.

Well. Whoops! Didn't mean to take so long to post this chapter, but...here we are, more than a whole year later. Hopefully the chapter's interesting enough to make up for it?

In all seriousness, thank you so much to everyone who's read, commented, and reminded me that there are people out there waiting for the continuation of the story. Somehow I thought I'd already posted the start of this chapter?? Maybe I just thought about doing it so much that I thought it had happened already.

But anyway...I'm going to make sure the gap between this chapter and the next is significantly shorter--you guys deserve to not have to wait for annual fic updates, lmao

As ever, huge thanks to @cubedmango for providing some incredible spot art! And for understanding the "oops, what do you mean i didn't post that?" moment I went through like two weeks ago.

#lucy's thoughts #my writing #klapollo #klavier gavin #apollo justice #klapollo fanfic #ace attorney #ace attorney fanfic #me: yeah the part i left off on was right after the ramen date right? #me actually checking the fic: WAIT FUCK #thanks for the patience though #it's been a busy year and my brain has been all over the place #i think ive mentioned before but i always intend to finish all my wip fics #even the ones i never finished from when i was 12 years old on ff.net lmao #should i give up on those ones? yes! but something in my mind just goes 'what if?' #next on the agenda: the jukebox musical fic's final chapter #and writing the next half of the next chapter of this fic #and so on so forth #ANYWAY hi people who read all the tags #how soon is too soon to reread a book after you finish it #for example: if a book youve been waiting almost a year for just came out today and you read all of it already #should you wait until tomorrow to reread it? #should you reread the whole series again? #these are my questions i guess #ANYWAY ENJOY THE FIC

[feiquacker]

Counting Freckles (on ao3)

Summery: Ava counting Bea's frekles with a tiny hint of hurt

"What are you doing?" Bea whispers when she notices Ava's lips move. Not that she has a reason to be staring at them in the first place.

"Counting your freckles" Ava breathes out - reaching over to grab Bea's chin and steady her face "Stop moving you'll make me lose count." she mutters eyes not leaving her cheeks. 

"That's ridiculous." Bea smiles shaking her head - a beat - she bites her lip only to fail and ask "What number are you on?" eyes searching for Ava's while trying so hard not to get lost in them. 

"Thirty seven... Thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty.... Forty-two." she stops - letting her thumb linger a little too long over Bea's chin before she reaches out and gently touches a spot on Bea's left cheek, "This one is my favorite." she whispers. 

"Why?" Bea finds herself asking - she never thought about what her favorite freckle was - hell she hates the fact she had freckles. Her mother would always say they looked like disgusting moles grown all across her face adding to the ugliness. 

"It looks like a little heart." Ava answers - sending yet another shiver down Bea's spine because how can a human being be so cute?? 

"Oke" she manages to squeak out - hoping that Ava can't tell how hot Beatrice's face flushes and how nothing can make her look away from Ava’s eyes.

"What's your favorite?" Ava asks - MOVING CLOSER. Sorry ma'am but have you ever heard of peRSoNaL sPaCe??

"Uh." she finds herself stumbling over her words - searching for anything to light up in her stupid useless brain "I don't have one." she mutters. Breaking the eye contact. 

Damn this is embarrassing. Why is Ava’s pure existence making her _shy_??

"Why not?" and Bea's chin lifts. A gentle thumb hesitantly brushing across her cheek. And for a short moment Beatrice could swear to the gods above that Ava bit down on her lip and made her voice lower.

Is god really pulling all his strings to test her - going lengths even Lucifer wouldn't?? 

Maybe being god's toughest soldier came with greater consequences than she thought she would have to face.

"I never really liked them." she rasps out. Oh, yes Beatrice. Make it weird now. That's what you tell your best friend who is also the most beautiful person in the world and also the person that is single-handedly changing your entire life.

"But they are beautiful Bea." AND AVA SHIFT EVEN CLOSER. OH MY GOD. WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME? WHY HAVE YOU MADE ME THIS WAY? 

If Beatrice manages to get into heaven despite all the sinning she has down and is quite literally doing right now she will kick that fucker so hard off the face of the earth - for making her suffer and suffer with every given day.

Who gave him the right to just spawn this angelic being and call it a day as if he didn't just create Beatrice's downfall in form of a beautiful, breathtaking brilliant human-being? 

"You are beautiful. Why can't you see that?" Ava asks, grabbing Bea's hand and drawing little circles around her knuckles.

"I-" she really didn't want to make this about herself. She wasn't ready to say all of those things running on repeat in her head out loud. Not to Ava. Not to the sweetest, most beautiful and quite frankly the strongest person alive. Or - resurrected. Same thing.

"How can I - when being blessed with your existence?" she asks and Ava looks up from their intertwined hands, eyes a little wide - continuing to play around with Bea's fingers.

There's silence and for a short second, she thinks she fucked up. She thinks she jinxed it and failed. She can already feel the regret crawl up her throat and the guilt and shame that will follow before she falls asleep. There is no running for the truth. She can try to deny it, but it never helps in the long run. Only makes things worse. 

"Then you probably haven't seen yourself." Ava smiles and Bea can breathe again - filling her lungs with fresh air because maybe she didn't destroy their relationship entirely 

"I know for a fact that angles exist but if I didn't - then you might be the closest thing to an angel someone could imagine. Including your cute as fuck freckles." she murmurs looking down at their intertwined hands again.

And there's silence. Beatrice doesn't really know what to do or say. "Language." is everything that comes out. But there's a smile on her face and she doesn't really mean it

Is she supposed to say thank you? Ava clearly doesn't know what she was talking about. If she knew Bea deep down, she would probably leave and not even turn back. But would she? It's Ava. The equivalent of a golden retriever. 

Ava doesn't seem like she has something to say either - focused on their hands and fiddling around with them - tracing over the scars on Bea's fingers and counting the freckles on them.

"I can feel you thinking you know." she says after some time - jolting Bea out of her thoughts.

"Hm?"

"Stop thinking." Ava repeats and Beatrice doesn't know what to answer so she turns to lay on her back staring at the ceiling - letting her hand stay in Ava’s. It is soothing - she likes that.

"I know you don't believe me." Ava starts "And I know you can't just throw away years of emotional repression. And I know I can't take the voices in your head and make them stop." she says and sHuFFles cLosEr until her head in laying on Beatrice's shOuLdeR "But I will repeat it every single day until you believe me."

Beatrice stays quiet - thankful that the tear that drops is on the other side of her face.

"You are beautiful Beatrice. And you are strong and elegant and perfect just the way you are. I know you deprive yourself of any kind of affection or love but you are worthy of love and affection without having a reason. I know that. You showed me." and she reaches over to turn Bea's face - to make her look at her "Let me love you when you can't love yourself." gentle fingers brush over cheek, and then cradle her head, curling around her neck as their foreheads press together. 

And. 

She wants to believe her - so so hard - she would do anything to make herself believe what Ava just said. But crying in front of the halo bearer isn't another burden she wants to throw at Ava. 

Shuffling to get out of Ava's grasp she finds herself getting pulled further into her best friend's embrace. 

A silent plea hangs unsaid in the air when Ava wraps her hand around Bea's wrist and waits a second for a response. 

There is none except Beatrice's tears building up - watering her view - the familiar feeling of eyes burning and a snivel making its way to her throat. 

"Bea..." is all Ava says before she gently coaches Bea's head to her chest - pulling her into an embrace - enveloping herself around Beatrice. 

For some reason it feels nothing like the books taught her it would feel like. 

Their limbs fall into place like fitting puzzle pieces and Bea hides her head right under Ava’s chin, just in time for the halo-bearer to not see the tears slide down her cheeks. 

Her cheeks burn and for a few moments she just wants the earth to open up and swallow her alive. 

It's too much. And she needs air - and she needs something cold to hold onto, like a sink or a table. 

But for the first time in her life she feels safe. And she doesn't want to let go - gripping onto the pullover Ava is wearing. Breathing in the all too familiar vanilla perfume Ava practically bathes in. It grounds her - the hand in her hair calming her even more. 

"I am so sorry." she hears Ava whisper, and a cold hand rests on the small of her back, giving her a much-needed point to focus on. 

She is the one who should apologise, for smearing snot all over Ava's pullover, and for overreacting, and for crying on her and for so many other reasons that Ava will deny the need of an apology before it has even exited her mouth. 

"For your pain." she whispers, but Beatrice can only mutter a wet "Hhm." 

The hand that was playing with her hair now sliding down to bury itself in Bea's scalp and gently scratch. 

...And it feels safe. She feels safe. Doesn't resist the little kiss on her hair, doesn't try to leave again. There are hands touching her and she doesn't flinch away. 

It's overwhelming, too many hands, too soft, too much warmth. But it also feels like what she imagines being embraced by an angel would feel like. 

"You are holding me like a baby right now." she mumbles around the snot in her nose. Tucking her head further under Ava's chin because a little Ava-hair tickles her neck. 

"You deserve to be held like a baby." Ava whispers, drawing a little star on the small of Beatrice's back.  

There is silence again. Beatrice nearly thinks Ava is asleep. And she wants to get up and clean up, dry the scratchy tears off her face and maybe also off Ava's neck. But she fears Ava won't want to hold her again and somehow it seems like the worst thing that could ever happen. 

As selfish as it is, Beatrice can deal with the guilt some other day. 

"Ava," her best friend just hums "Thank you." she murmurs. 

A beat.

"Bea-" there is something in her voice that makes Bea's stomach twist. In a good way of course, not a medically concerning one "Anytime." 

And she doesn't know what to say. Settles on following Ava's calming breaths. 

"I didn't get to count all your freckles." Ava huffs softly, Beatrice can only chuckle wetly against the warm skin her cheek is pressed into, "You can count them tomorrow, Darling." it slips. Before she can panic, Ava makes a little happy noise that is so goddamn cUtE Beatrice could melt through the floor and it still wouldn't be enough. 

"Comfy?" 

Beatrice just nods, "Good night BooBoo." 

The tears are slowly drying, still there but barely. She snivels. God this shouldn't feel so good should it? 

"Good night Ava." 

There's a little grumble, "Call me Darling." 

And Beatrice sighs, a little smile forming on her face as she whispers "Good night Darling."

As if Ava's little content squeak isn't enough to end her, she also drops a little kiss on Beatrice's head and Beatrice hopes so hard that God isn't watching right now. Or that it's so dark He misses the blush creep up her neck.

Fingers curling around the side of her neck and the palm flattening on the small of her back she grips onto the silky pullover Ava is wearing. Soft snores and vanilla perfume lulling her to sleep.

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Everyone else: hope u had fun reading! :D

Beta read by @shy-forceghost and @oneandonlyollie . I love u very much thank you. Have this as a present :D

#Broski Freedle and Ollie I love you thanks for beta reading <333 #sister beatrice #ava silva #Sister Beatrice/Ava Silva #Set in Switzerland #warrior nun #warrior nun saved #Set during season 2 #hurt!bea agenda #hurt!bea server #hurt bea #my writing #writing #one shot

[dribs-and-drabbles]

My thoughts on the GMMTV 2023 line-up (from what I can remember and from some dms I shouted to @grapejuicegay last night)

I am SO EXCITED for both projects with Perth. I absolutely love him and Double Savage with Ohm looks incredible (I've been longing for Ohm in something dark) as does Dangerous Romance (how long have we been waiting for Chimon to lead?!). With DS, part of me wonders if they're not biological brothers (it's the use of 'blood brothers'...but I'm probably wrong 🤷🏽‍♀️)

Hidden Agenda looks cute...but quite similar to their last project. I'm a huge fan of Joong but not so much of Dunk. I wish they would have paired Joong with someone else (like Perth I guess! Or maybe Sing -> he's another I want to see lead) and in something meatier. But this one has Aou and Boom as a seemingly established couple 👏🏼

Although an office romance, and with Force and Book whom I think go well together, I'm lukewarm over A Boss and A Babe (especially the title). I'm not a fan of boss/employee relationships. Having said that, I do appreciate that Book's character did address the inappropriateness of that in the trailer.

The way I SCREAMED with Milk and Love in 23.5 (and honestly, I love obscure titles like this). And I doubly love that they subverted the stereotypes a little, having Milk as the shy pursuer and Love as the popular confident one. A+ I'll be vibrating till I see this. Oh and it was the only trailer I watched twice. I think that says a lot.

I think Cooking Crush will be cute. It's nice to see Off and Gun together again, hopefully they will be even more comfortable with each other, and Neo is back to his typical typecast it seems. But I'm happy to see Marc getting a few roles this year. I wonder if the 'twist' is that Off's character is already a brilliant chef...but we'll have to wait and see.

It's nice to see Ohm (shirtless) and Joong in Wednesday Club but I'm not so interested in the storyline. Sorry fellas. Also it's kind of funny that Ohm plays a middle child in two series, this and Double Savage 😄 (at least I think that's what he said in the interview after DS).

Oh it's wonderful to see Jimmy again. I hope he pulls out yet another different character. I felt he did so well with Puen being so different from his performance as Wai, so I'm looking forward to seeing him - and Sea - in Last Twilight. I hope they handle the blindness well...but it's Aof directing...so I want to trust it.

My live reaction to Only Friends: "Wait....Force, Book, First, Khaotung, Marc, AND Neo all in one show?! And they're all fu*king each other?! 😂 YES PLEASE!" Says it all really. And: "JOJO!"

I was happy to finally see Nanon in something...but I'm not sure what to make of The Jungle. I may not watch this one tbh. Actually, if it were the case that the women are getting revenge on these players by getting them all angsty and rejected then maaaaaybe I'd be on board. I want power women 💪🏼

I've already mentioned a little about the Cherry Magic reproduction - I think they should wait for a couple more years. It's too close to Japan releasing the movie. Plus I agree with the majority of others -> Tay and New aren't the right casting for this.

Midnight Museum looks intriguing...I like a bit of paranormal, and I don't know Tor Thanapob so it will be interesting to see what he's like...and I really like Ploy from The Eclipse so I'm excited to see her...but I can't get a sense of the plot from that trailer.

And as for Our Skyy 2...I think these screenshots speak for themselves really:

But in all seriousness, I think these will be cute to go back to...or at least some of them - ATOTS, Bad Buddy, Vice Versa, The Eclipse...even Star in my Mind - but it feels strange getting a special episode for some series that haven't even aired yet - My School President, Never Let Me Go, and A Boss and A Babe. The latter being included in Our Skyy makes me think the ABAAB series will come out early in 2023 and then OS2 will come out later...but who can say.

And as for those I haven't mentioned...I'm not really interested, so I'll not waste your time.

The things I'm sad we didn't get include:

Neo as a lead in something serious

AJ in a lead role finally (I think he would be GREAT with Ploy in a het if he didn't want to do ql)

Joong given something serious/heavy

Sing in something meaty, angsty, soul-destroying

Drake to be given something more prominent

More women. Just MOAR

and my very favourite wish...for the actor who played Pran's dad, A Passin, to be in a ql with someone of a similar age (or younger, I'm not fussy...not really)...I mean, the man has to get his tattoos on display somehow 🤷🏽‍♀️ I could see him as a school teacher or librarian, subverting the school setting by focusing on the adults for once...

#gmmtv 2023 #alright. I think I'm done #thanks if you read it all #just my jumbled ramblings on what's on offer next year from gmmtv #thai drama #thai bl #thai gl #thai ql #double savage #dangerous romance #hidden agenda #a boss and a babe #23.5 #cooking crush #wednesday club #last twilight #only friends #the jungle #cherry magic #midnight museum #our skyy 2

[sidesteppostinghours]

uh oh besties, i committed a little too hard to the bit and its not a bit anymore

#this is directed to my blaze x retiree committee agenda #thinking about blaze constantly trying to convince others (and himself) that he Is a hero and that he Does want to help people #yes he knows that the people he works for arent squeaky clean #nor does he always agree that theyre doing the right thing #but he wants to and doesnt that count for something???? #thinking about how that reflects on caine(theyre a terrible villain but they Are a villain. he has to be. theres nothing else he can be). #thinking about how how that reflects on ortega(its not an act it Cant be. maybe if they try hard enough it can be real) #thinking about how that reflects on chen(wasnt that him just a few years ago? didnt he put that much faith in the system? didnt he believe- #-he was well and truly doing the right thing in the best way they could?) #blaze is a hero that forces them to question who they are and why theyre doing what theyre doing #thank you for reading my “please blaze ro malin please” essay #pulp speaks #ship: the retiree committee

[blakeshaw-oracle]

I already asked someone this buuuuuut, what’re your thoughts on au where Finney and Robin get kidnapped together? I love it personally for how much drama and concept play it presents

ESPECIALLY if Robin and Finney are already dating/have a crush on each other when kidnapped, and Al gets jealous of someone else getting to hug and touch HIS special boy and having eyes for HIS good boy 👀

The obvious answer for the above jealousy would be to kill Robin, but perhaps threatening Robin makes Finney behave or smth lol

Yes, I saw that ask!! I loved it lmao--

Once again this got nsft/w so 'Keep Reading' my dudes!!

Also, CW: This one contains a little bit of stockholm syndrome and/or mind-break in it so if that's not your cup of tea, look away now! (:

Wordcount (Idk I felt like I should include it this time): 1,308

Okay, so my take on it is that if they're already dating before the kidnapping, Al can never get Finney alone and that's why he ends up grabbing the two boys at the same time. (Stay with me here!)

When it all goes down, of course Robin is the one that fights the hardest. Al figured that the boy was the stronger of the two, so he had lured Robin in first to be dealt with easier. Finney, on the other hand, is frozen in fear for a second but soon snaps out of it and tries his hardest to get Al off of his best friend. His boyfriend. Robin would do the same for him. This, of course, doesn't work and they both end up getting knocked out and shoved into the back of Al's van anyway.

Only when Al finally has the boys down in his basement does he realize that they're not just best friends like he had previously assumed. Even in his half delirious state, Robin is yelling and kicking, doing his best to keep The Grabber away from Finney. Al knows that (especially in this state) Robin can't really do too much damage, so he ignores his "tantrum" for now. I like to imagine that the scene when Al reaches out and touches Finney's hair still happens but now Robin is there trying to get in between them to block Finney off with his body.

Robin probably says something along the lines of, "If you even think about touching Finney, I'm going to rip your fucking throat out, old man." Al only chuckles at this. He knows that Finney already belongs to him; what is this snot-nosed brat going to do?

He's angry at his own oversight when one day as he's bringing down two matching trays of scrambled eggs and lemon-lime soda, the Arellano boy is right behind the door waiting with a broken tile piece in one hand. All is not lost, however. That's also the day the man figures out the best way to get what he wants out of his darling Finney.

Finney is weak. Weaker than Robin, at least. Both physically and mentally weaker. Easier to manipulate. Al knows just how to handle this.

As soon as Al is able to regain his footing and restrain Robin in his arms, a slash in his right forearm mirroring the one Finney had given him on the first day, he thinks of the perfect strategy. Use Finney's biggest weakness against him. At that moment, Al takes out the pocketknife that he'd been concealing in the back pocket of his pants and holds it up against Robin's neck. He's staring directly at Finney as he does so.

Finney's chocolate brown eyes are already brimming with tears threatening to pour down his cheeks. Within mere seconds he's begging The Grabber to let his friend go. He's sorry, Robin didn't mean it. They'll be good, he promises!

"Good, huh? You want to be a good boy for me, now?"

When Finney doesn't respond right away, Al starts to dig the blade into Robin's throat, causing a shallow cut to form. At Robin's hiss of pain, Finney's resolve crumbles. He can't just let this man hurt Robin!

"Yes! Please, mister! I-", he doesn't want to say the words, they make him feel gross, but the panicked look in Robin's eyes only spur him into finishing, "I'll be a good boy, please let him go! Please!"

Hearing those words come out of his love's mouth makes Al's grip loosen and allows the other boy in his arms to dart away. Instead of cowering somewhere, however, Robin only runs to Finney's side. He's quick to usher the smaller boy behind him, holding a hand up to his own neck to stop the slow trickle of blood. Al can see how Finney grips at the back of Robin's shirt. It makes his blood boil. That should be him. Only he's worthy enough to protect HIS precious boy.

Without another word, Al leaves shortly after. He'll have to see just how good of a boy Finney is willing to be to protect his little "boyfriend".

This single encounter only spurs on more and more incidents. After a while, Al is able to get Finney to do just about anything for him if it means that he won't harm Robin. Robin, of course, absolutely hates every second of it. It's too bad. He knows that Al is the only one in control here; all the boy can do is sit back and watch.

Robin is forced to watch as this disgusting old man touches Finney in every way that no one other than him is supposed to. He watches at first as The Grabber makes Finney sit in his lap. This then turns into Finney being made to straddle the man's lap and kiss him. The kissing turns into Al grabbing onto Finney's hips and making him grind down against his thighs or even the obvious erection beneath his pants.

At first, it's obvious that Finney hates it. The poor boy even cries for the first handful of times, struggles against The Grabber's hold, only to settle down once Robin's life gets threatened in a little too much detail. Al tells Finney to be good and do as he's told OR ELSE. The boy doesn't want to know what that means so he continues to comply.

Then, the constant humping and kissing turns into more. Al is demanding more more more from Finney every time he comes down and it makes Robin sick. He hates that he can't do anything about it. He needs to find a way to save Finney from this sick fuck. (Unbeknownst to Finney, Al also threatens Robin with the rather graphic harm that would befall him should he try to interfere with their "little game", as the man calls it.)

After a while, Finney is calling The Grabber "Al" and Robin is fucking livid. Finney doesn't even try to pretend like he hates the man's touch anymore. As the man barges in and banishes Robin to sit in the corner of the cold concrete basement, Finney practically skips right over to him. Al's arms immediately wrap around Finney's waist as he leans down to give the boy a long kiss. Robin's stomach churns in disgust.

Robin is forced then to watch as The Grabber pushes Finney down onto the dirty mattress bolted to the floor. He gropes and kisses Finney, Robin's boyfriend, wherever the hell he wants. Al's hands wander all over Finney's body, his mouth pressed into the crook of the young boy's slender neck. Finney is already moaning; Robin tries his best to block it out. That's not his Finney. Finney would never let someone like that touch him in such a way. Finney would never ACT like this.

But still, the night continues as it always does. Al strips Finney of his clothes, calling him his good boy all the while. Robin can tell that the words only make Finney feel embarrassed, happy even. Not utterly distraught and confused like they did in the beginning. Finney has started smiling at the man recently. The boy smiles as Al kisses him, smiles as the man's large fingers play with his nipples and stroke over his tiny cock. Finney smiles and whines when Al preps him with whatever lube he brought this time and then smiles even more as the man fucks him.

What the hell did this disgusting fucking pervert do to Robin's best friend? WHY is Finney just letting Al do all these things to him? When did the light vanish from his eyes?

Robin can do nothing but hold back tears as he watches and watches and watches the only person he's ever loved moan and writhe underneath a killer.

- εϊз

#Ask Response #Thanks for the Ask bestie #Crazed Ramblings #AU Agenda #NSFW/T #Blakeshaw #Alfinn #Magicspace #Lmao I hate to admit that it took me all day to answer this bc I kept getting distracted #Damn this bitch is long #Uh I never meant to write this much #Oops #Long post #I hope you guys like it though #I wrote this instead of working on my fic #Also not Beta read at all #I literally wrote this all in one go and hit post #I guess I write drabbles for AU ideas now #Is that gonna be my niche? #Proship #Profic

[brother-emperors]

hi! i cannot say i have read too much about brutus beyond the ancient sources, so i was wondering what your opinion is on him and specifically in relation to cassius? i saw your take about how cassius is often used to make brutus "look better," which i definitely have picked up on and is clear in the texts, although i was wondering if you have any posts you could direct me to, or could recommend anything in general that expands upon this idea? its really interesting, and i had not considered it very much before since i enjoyed the dynamic as it is presented

YES!! YES!!!!! this is what I live for, oh man because

and I love untangling them from each other.

so as far as modern reception for Cassius goes, a lot of the opinion on him comes from three places: Shakespeare (and by extension, Plutarch, although Shakespeare does subvert popular characterizations of Cassius in JC) and Dante (or more accurately, a fuck ton of really complex renaissance scholarship around the republic/empire, including and largely focusing on, but not limited to: Dante’s placement of Brutus and Cassius in hell). To absolve Brutus of Cassius makes for interesting themes, but it kills the nuance of the fact that these men knew each other from childhood, and Cassius had effectively married into the house Junia. Shakespeare has Brutus see Caesar’s ghost, when the ancient source that records Caesar’s ghost has the ghost appear to Cassius. Ancient sources were pretty hostile to him as well, and even as close to his life as Augustan era writers, there was a tendency to sanitize Brutus at the expense of Cassius. It was acceptable to tolerate the memory of Brutus, but to do so, you had to push all of Brutus' harsher traits off to Cassius.

a lot of that contradicts aspects of Cassius as a person from the glimpses of him we can catch in those sources. In Plutarch's Life of Brutus, he laughs and jokes, his exchanges with Cicero are covered in affection while Cicero's own opinions of Brutus vary, and Messalla Corvinus was the one who stubbornly kept the memory of Cassius alive, despite his own closeness to Octavian's circle of friends. Titinius killed himself on Cassius death, calling himself a companion in Cassius' fate (valerius maximus 9.9.2).

Which isn't to say that he's without flaw, he is, along with literally every political figure out of ancient Rome, but instead it’s about that the fraction of information we have of him gets whittled down further to reinforce an image of Brutus that's unfaithful to his historical person, so both Brutus and Cassius suffer for it.

And I don’t have anything particularly against how popular tradition portrays them, or how a lot of people tend to enjoy their dynamic, since it’s less about them historically and more about

(M.L. Clarke)

but specifically untangling Cassius from Brutus compels me because it feels lonely that so much of him gets lost to Brutus, and also I crave variety in their portrayals. I also have an insatiable curiosity and so far haven’t hit a wall with this topic.

Alright! Enough of me, I’m getting off track, let me give you some texts that I think about daily from people who are significantly more qualified to say things than I am! This is going to get long, but I’m going to do my best to stay on the topic, so under a cut:

also so sorry for the visually inconsistent citations, I was using the beta post editor but apparently it cuts you off at 10 images so I switched back to the regular post editor and gave up using the small text, but I could not figure out how to un-small text the rest without going into the html and oh boy was that a nightmare, so all the texts are also cited in the bibliography in order of appearance!

ON CASSIUS AND SHAKESPEARE this is going to be real quick, so I'll do it first

has cassius been misinterpreted?, david klein

M.L. Clarke, The Noblest Roman: Marcus Brutus And His Reputation

CASSIUS, THE MAN, NOT THE MYTH OR LEGEND, AND HISTORY

Cassius and Brutus: The Memory of the Liberators, E. Rawson

servilia and her family, susan treggiari

alternative memoirs: tales from the ‘other side’ of the civil war, kathryn welch (PLEASE, THIS ONE IS ONE OF THE BEST ONES ON THE ENTIRE SUBJECT OF CASSIUS' RECEPTION I CAN'T RECOMMEND IT ENOUGH)

ON DECONSTRUCTING BRUTUS' REPUTATION

a comparatives post I made, another comparatives post I made on the exact same topic

M.L. Clarke, The Noblest Roman: Marcus Brutus and His Reputation

senatorial wealth and roman politics, israel shatzman

ON ABSOLVING BRUTUS FROM CASSIUS AND HOSTILITY FROM ANCIENT SOURCES

Shakespeare’s Cassius: A Critical Re Appraisal, Dean Anthony Alexander

Empire and Memory, Alain M Gowing

Brutus, the Noble Conspirator, Kathryn Tempest

ALTERNATIVE TAKES ON THE “SEDUCTION” OF BRUTUS

has cassius been misinterpreted, david klein

brutus the noble conspirator, kathryn tempest

conspiracy narratives in roman history, victoria e pagan

Shakespeare’s Cassius: A Critical Re Appraisal, Dean Anthony Alexander

(for fun: this video)

CASSIUS, ANTONY, AND THE EAST aka Antony And The Ordering Of Names

Cassius and Brutus: The Memory of the Liberators, E. Rawson

(for a more in depth discussion regarding slavery, Cassius and Antony in the East (43-40 BCE), Fabian E Udoh)

The Bibliography

-Has Cassius Been Misinterpreted?, David Klein -M.L. Clarke, The Noblest Roman: Marcus Brutus And His Reputation -Cassius and Brutus, In Memory Of The Liberators, E. Rawson -Servilia and Her Family, Susan Treggiari -Alternative Memoirs: Tales From The 'Other Side,' of the Civil War, Kathryn Welch -Senatorial Wealth and Roman Politics, Israel Shatzman -Shakespeare’s Cassius: A Critical Re Appraisal, Dean Anthony Alexander -Empire and Memory, Alain M Gowing -Brutus, the Noble Conspirator, Kathryn Tempest   -Cassius and Antony in the East (43-40 BCE), Fabian E Udoh

Bonus Round! Media that has Interesting Dynamics at play

-The City War, Sam Starbuck -HBO Rome -Cléopatre La Dernière Reine D'Egypte (listen, I can justify this one, I swear) -RSC's 2012 and 2017 JC Production -Takarazuka Revue's Rome At Dawn -The 1908 Julius Caesar short film -The Destiny of Rome...."documentary," but just the Brutus and Cassius moments

an EXTRA bonus round, the brutus, cassius, and homoeroticism text I wrote that has some more recommendations in it, including the title for that Voltaire text where Brutus doesn’t even show up for the assassination and Cassius plays the main character and it gets delightfully homoerotic in parts

I have most of these things as pdfs, so if anything here is hard to find, let me know off anon!

#babble tag #rec tag #ask tag #long post #thank you for giving me the opportunity to yell about my cassius apologist agenda 💖 #hopefully i stayed on track enough to answer your inquiry and that there's something here you'll enjoy reading!! #(my real agenda is the un shakepsearification of brutus. i like him when he's messy and kind of mean lmao) #(like tragic and angsty brutus is fun and all but i want the guy who stabs caesar twice) #(i write all of these tags in confession to the fact that I used to uwu-ify brutus and did a complete 180 on it msherhsdhGH)

[orcelito]

Ykno it's interesting seeing ppl being like "how is Akechi/Joker winning..." literally most of our fandom is like. Insane lmao. Just bc you haven't seen it doesn't mean it isn't influential for polls

#speculation nation #and tumblr akeshu nation looks Normal when you compare it to twitter akeshu nation #really that's the thing. we're quiet in comparison to our twitter counterparts. but we still exist #in other news my screenshot additions seem to have genuinely had an impact in that poll & that's fun #makes me feel Powerful... but tbh it was mostly the getting it to other goroboys that really swayed it #thank U andi for spreading the akeshu agenda #we probably arent gonna win against homura and madoka lmao but getting to round 3 would be enough of an accomplishment itself #i never see persona getting far in any of these polls. so i wanna see it for once!!! #my real ship im rooting for tho is narusasu. i think they have a genuine chance to beat this #(secret fun fact if youve read this far. i was actually the one to submit the narusasu description hfkshf) #(i was just shy so i stayed anonymous) #(yes i submitted an akeshu one no it didnt make it in the post. that's ok tho) #anyways tumblr polls r fun. i love rooting for competitors in competitions that ultimately mean Nothing #just for the fun of it! that's what matters

[emomanswhore]

Firstly I'm still not over you're Simon says fic, seriously that fic (and that man) lives rent free in my mind, and also no Simon is NOT a moanable name 😭😭😭😭 atleast thats what I thought, but now I think it's so hot 😵😵😵😵

Also I saw this tik tok this morning and it literally just reminded me of your fic 😵😵😵 I am a whore him.

omg istg you stress me the fuck out whenever you say simon isn’t a moanable name AGEFGJJFJ 🚬🚬🛌🛌 I LITERALLY HAVE PEOPLE WHO SAID IT IS A MOANABLE NAME !! and after i send this ask, i promise you i will show you people think he’s got a sexy name 🤨

but im glad SS was living in your pretty lil head hehee AND i managed to turn your controversial statement around ??? maannn im feeling so powerful rn 💪 i am going to continue this brain rot in your mind and NEVER get you to forget, that simon is in fact a moanable name. n that edit ughhgjn 🧎🏽‍♀️you’re making the original feelings i had while writing SS come back. i miss him so much… now i just want that big mean man in my life, like play simon says with this kitty kat frfr

#letters to lorelei.📮(๑•́ ₃ •̀๑) #THANK YOU AGAIN FOR READING BABY <333 #im gonna chose to ignore you fighting me on the moanable name agenda #cuz i WILL make you think otherwise #but you’re my sweetiepie so i will forgive you this once hehe

[grandprix-ao3]

your speciality is big [redacted] pierre and making me explore ships I'd never even considered before 😌

BIG [REDACTED] PIERRE is this who we are…. Yes. i’ve done it to charles too. and oscar piastri. live laugh love gaudy big [redacted] porn on ao3

and getting people into ships is my #1 agenda this is how i get content. i will drag everyone kicking and screaming to the dark side (loscar) with the power of thousands and thousands of words of fic

thing

#ask #i do have agendas thank you for noticing #the red parts seemed to be my most convibcing endeavor #everyone loves secret omega #read the red parts #or don’t idk #READ DRUGSTORE PERFUME

[todayisafridaynight]

I was the one who's struggling to going through y6 but the realization I had when I realized you're my fav MineDai author a while back made my brain blue screen heuwje

Honestly thank you for the good food in both mediums ‼️‼️

OHH YOU'VE ALSO READ MY MINEDAI FICS??? mortifying BUT i'm so glad you enjoy my stuff hi ^^ !!

#snap chats #i love makin stuff for em.. they make my brain happy #also hi :) hope Y6 is A Game for you #ik a lot of people squint at it. i am one of those people #its not a terrible game it's just reaaaally mid imo and the plot's not saving it #but w/e we can talk bout that when you finish it i hope you're able to find more joy out of it than the typical player ! #O BTW I SAY MORTIFYING CAUSE IM REALLY INSECURE ABOUT MY WRITING ☠️☠️ #'snap why post then' because i have an agenda and i want to Not be an insecure baby about my writing #i do love writing when i get the ball rolling because with writing i feel like i can better explore why i love these charcters #i can only do so much with comics and all and sometimes comics just cant fully convey what im trying to say #but UGH minedai... i love writing them the most No Shit but i just do #their dynamic is so fun and interesting and i dont really see it portrayed in a way that tickles me #not saying how other people do it is bad or wrong obvi its just that there are aspects of it i dont see touched on too much #it makes me really happy when people say they like my writing because of that tho #cause i truly dont expect people to- sometimes i feel like i portray them wrong or just not in a way people like #so yeah im glad you like my fics ! def gives me motivation to keep writing :) #but yeah sorry for the prattle- again thank you for reading ^^ #i hope to have more minedai stuff done. i just gotta think of stuff first.. #too busy being ill over my cringe and writing fics for that- which i have a new one ready i just have to look it over again

[deus-ex-mona]

MAKE A HOLIDAY: Epilogue

well... this marks the end of the fruity thtottle adventure~?

previous part (chapter 7)

MEGU: Okay, here’s a skip! Skipping YUI, it’s now RIO’s turn!

YUI: Oi, hold it! I was just about to throw four cards down!

DAI: Huuh~? Does a rule that allows you to put a few cards down at the same time even exist in this card game?

YUI: It does! Wait, huh? Maybe it’s a local rule? Either way, aren’t you being way too cruel by skipping my turn?!

DAI: Idiooot. Games are more fun when we’re merciless to each other.

RIO: Reverse.

DAI: Whaaat?! But it’s my turn!

RIO: But it’s more fun when we’re merciless to each other, right?

YUI: Nice one, RIO! It’s my turn again… Wait, I can’t put any cards down… I’ll pass.

MEGU: Yup, yuuup! I’m putting a card down~.

MEGU: …Y’know, doesn’t it feel like it’s been a really long time since we last did something like this~?

YUI: Right? I can’t remember when the last time we had time off in the evenings was.

DAI: The choreography of my dance solo needs to be checked later, so I’ll leave the checking to you, IV.

MEGU: Ah, that sounds nice. I wanna do it too! Can I, IV?

IV: Of course.

RIO: IV, you said that you wanted to spend some time with everyone, but… are you really fine with spending it like this?

IV: Yeah, this is perfect.

RIO: That’s good, then. Though, I have something to check with you regarding the live…

DAI: Same here. I’ve drawn rough sketches of the costumes for our next live.

IV: You work really fast, don’t you? Let me see them later, okay?

YUI: Come to think of it, I wanted to try writing lyrics, so I’ve written some down.

MEGU: Ehh. I reallyyy wanna see them!

YUI: Not now! I’m not done with them yet.

IV: How interesting. As for the song… what do you think about co-writing it with RIO?

RIO: That’s not a bad idea.

MEGU: Ehh, that sounds niceee. I wanna do something like that tooooo!

DAI: But you’re already in charge of the choreography.

MEGU: But I wanna try something new toooooo! Ah, how ‘bout this! I wannaaaa do an MC corner or something!

YUI: Lemme join in on that kinda thing too, yeah?

IV: Then, let’s talk about the live once this game ends, okay?

MEGU: Somehow, this kinda reminds me of when we were fooling around in IV’s hospital ward.

DAI: You’re talking about the times when all of us would visit him to check in, yeah?

YUI: But those were less of check ins, and more of visits to play around, right?

DAI: You’re the only one who thinks that way, though?

MEGU: Exaaactly, you’re the one who aaalways brought in a microphone to sing.

MEGU: What a turn-off.

YUI: Huuh?! But you’re the one who was always yelling in the ward?!

DAI: You guys were the ones who always got us scolded each and every time, weren’t you?

RIO: Well, you all were going against the visitor rules of the hospital…

MEGU: But there’s no doubt in my mind that I was visiting him because I was worried about him.

IV: Haha, you didn’t seem to be worried, though.

RIO: In the end, regardless of the scolding we received, we ended up fooling around again immediately after, right?

YUI: Nothing can stop us when we’re all together, yeah?

DAI: What’s with that? How lame.

YUI: Oi!

IV: (They haven’t changed a bit from how they were back then…)

MEGU: I don’t wanna get scolded anymore, so please don’t get hospitalised again, okay~?

IV: Got it.

Every time all of them laughed together, IV found himself thinking that, as long as he was together with those members, they would be able to create history in the future…

That thought still had not changed a bit. Therefore, he could not afford to stop yet.

#the ftiv ft. iv ivent #fedora translations4 #just honeypre things #man i spent like 10 min trying to piece together the last sentence h e l p ಥ‿ಥ #i'm gonna queue the masterpost for a few hours later to avoid spam lmaoooo #well that marks the end of the text-based fruity thlottle4 content for now? see y'alls again for the rio event!!! #i'm planning to speedrun the event story in the first 3-4 days (so that i can focus on kazuki's birthday instead lmaoo) #rio and iv pls have mercy on my soul ಥ‿ಥ pls don't speak in funny phrases like this event ok #though speaking of fruity thlottle4... go ahead and use my tls for ft4 for anything and whatever if you want~? #spread the fruity thlottle4 agenda!!!! (and make more dai content while y'all are at it-) #and hey if you're still reading the tags... thank you very much for following the tl (if you did)!!!! #feel free to lmk if you see any mistakes though okay~? the fruits like to speak in funny phrases sometimes so things may get lost in tling! #(special thanks to my vbs playlist for keeping me mildly sane throughout the tling of this chapter lmfaooooooo) #FML I FORGOT THAT I HAD 2 DIFFERENT POSSIBLE TL LINES FOR ONE OF DAI'S LINES YOU GUYS DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING OK (ʘ‿ʘ)