#also only peasants use dark mode >:/ /J

[shivermewhiskerz]

My partner sent a screenshot of my status to me and went “babe WHY”

So I said “because I ✨💕can💕✨”

#gremlin rambles #also only peasants use dark mode >:/ /J #caps tw #discord

[peaches-of-1]

Day 8 | Sugar Plum

Hahahahaha. Out of order. Late post? Anyways, I’ll be posting the rest of the prompts in the next three days!

Black! / Actor!Reader x Namjoon

We (Ice) Dance

You had gotten the chance to travel to Korea for the Agwe Company of Once on This Island. You played Asaka and loved it so much when you were recognized on the street. Sometimes fans would ask you to sing and were so happy when you asked “English or Korean?”. They wanted you to sound like the original recording, so they usually said English. You were happy to oblige.

Today was opening night, and there were some big names coming to this show. It was hard not to let the attention get to your head, but it was hard when you had done 10 different shows and interviews this week to help promote for the big night. Yeongja was there waiting for you to greet you and tell you how excited she was to see you on stage.

When you and the actress that played Ti Moune had gone on Hello Conselor, you two had gotten to perform part of “Mama Will Provide” and looking back the editors were so dramatic. She loved it, though and said how your demeanor had instantly changed. You were more on the shy spectrum of things, but when the music began you were a Goddess. Capital G. Asaka, Mother of the Earth.

You were put into your hair and makeup and costume. It wasn’t your full regalia yet. Still, you got into costume and did your vocal warm ups. Part of your heart wanted to peak into the audience, but knew it was better not to since you’d be there later in your full table cloth dress. It was more fashioned like a lavish hanbok because of location.

Asaka’s dress was green and floral and quite flowy and fun. Erzulie’s was more regal and flowing. Her hair was even done up more lavishly by the end of the show with a crown framing her beautiful face. Your personal fave was Papa Ge who was black with red accents for blood. She carried dual swords for most of the show while Agwe was covered in head to toe in blue. He also had on a traditional hat but it was made to look like it was a fishing net while his clothing glittered like scales.

When it came time for your solo, you were excited and snuck into the audience and sat posed next to a familiar face. Your brain was in actress mode, so you didn’t take time to figure out who it was. Then the music began.

“You’ve never been away from the sea, child. You’re gonna need a helping hand. A fish has got to learn to swim on LAAAAND!!!”

A few of the nearby forms jumped at the outburst since they hadn’t know or had completely forgotten you were there. It was honestly your favorite part of getting to be in the audience during this part.

You went for it. If it was too much, you’d be getting notes afterwards to hold back some. You didn’t stray too far from how you had practiced it because that would cause problems the show did not need. It was one of your best performances of that song probably because it was finally done in front of a full audience. Just the way you felt and the looks of awe from the crowd felt great.

The rest of the show went on while you spent most of it backstage until the end of the show. You carried the tiny dark skinned lead to the arms of a tree made out of Story Tellers. Then you said your ending lines. Your second favorite part was dancing in the audience during “We Tell the Story” because you often grabbed someone to dance with.

This time, it was a celebrity. The cutest most handsomest idol to ever grace the planet, Kim Namjoon. You almost didn’t do it because you were a bit shy, but your inner YOLO came out and you grabbed his hands to pull him out of his seat. He resisted a bit until Jimin and J-Hope pushed him out of his seat and cheered him on.

You pulled him onstage. Just about everyone had grabbed someone from the audience and made them a part of this last part and had them sit around the upturned boat for the little mixed girl to do her Throwback to the beginning.

“There is an island where rivers run deep... Where the sea sparkling in the sun earns it the name “Jewel of the Antilles”... An island where the poorest of peasants labor... And the wealthiest of Grands Hommes play. And on this island, we tell the story!”

Then everyone softly said, “We tell the story~” while helping their audience member up and letting them go back to their seats.

Wow, you were about to cry during curtain call. You were happy. Everything had gone great! So much pride welled up in your chest as you waved to the audience and bowed with the other deities. Papa Ge hugged you, her makeup covered stubble scratching your cheek.

It was time for the meet and greet, so everyone rushed into the hallway to meet some special fans and take pictures. There had been a vote of whether or not to do this part in costume, and you were so glad that it was. You tried so hard not to fangirl when your favorite idols approached to shake your hand. Then the boys of BTS approached you and the rest of the gods.

“Hello again.” Namjoon said and laughed.

“Hello.” You laughed, and the two of you bowed to each other.

He smiled, “You did really good out there tonight. I really wasn’t expecting you to choose me again to interact with.”

You tilted your head, “Again?”

“You stood next to me for uh, ‘Mama Will Provide’. Hoseok and Jin jumped out of their skins. Your voice is so powerful!”

“Oh, really?” Your smile was so large and your cheeks hurt. “I mean, it happens because people sometimes forget I’m right behind them once the show starts up again. I hope I didn’t scare them too badly.”

“They were more impressed than scared.”

“Oh my god, you were amazing!” It was J-Hope. “I jumped a bit when you sang behind us, but it’s all good. You were so good.”

“Thank you.” You bowed. “I’m glad you guys enjoyed the show.”

“Can we get a picture?” the human sunshine asked.

“Of course! Do you want all the gods and all the boys or?”

That’s what they wanted, so all the gods took a moment to pose with Bangtan Boys while Ti Moune took the picture. Namjoon said he wanted a pic of you and him afterwards. You two took a quick selca and then he said he was going to try to come see the show again.

You bit your lip, “I would love that. You were a great partner to dance with.”

“I should go, but uh, here. In case you ever wanna talk more.” RM handed you a card with his number on it. “Or whatever. I’d like to get to know you.”

“Hyung, I’m hungry!” Taehyung called. “Stop talking to the pretty girl and let’s get some fried chicken. I want chicken, hyung!”

Both of your smiled at him, and Namjoon replied, “I should go. Nice meeting you, (Y/N).”

You two bowed to each other once more. Then he left. Did that really happen? You didn’t have time to wonder as you had more people to meet. Idols, former idols, their children, actors for stage and screen. Then it was makeup and costume taken off and then home to get some rest before repeating it all again tomorrow. Everything seemed to be happening so fast, but time slowed down when you looked at the card.

That really did happen. You danced with Kim Namjoon, leader of the world famous BTS. More importantly, he enjoyed it.You. Your face got warm thinking about how kind he was to you. The way he asked for a picture of just you and him before he left. Had he wanted to stay?

Before going to bed, you would either text him or not. God, what would you even text him? Hi, I’m Asaka, you’re way out of my league but how about some coffee anyways? No. Should you use your real name? He did know it after all. He had used it when saying goodbye. Simplify. You had to simplify it but be straightforward. Ok. You had it.

He wanted to take you to an ice show of the Nutcracker even though he tried to backtrack, saying you probably didn’t want to see a show after performing in one for so long. It was your only day off, and he was Namjoon. Of course you said yes.

The show was fantastic, and you could both understand the performance since it was wordless for the most part. Every once in a while, he would lean over and ask if you liked it. You did. You really did even after seeing it several times throughout your lifetime.

Honestly, spending the day with him wasn’t exactly your plan. Just a hope, but then he said he wanted to take you somewhere special. Namjoon asked if it was ok to hold my hand.

“Ah, no. I can’t. They’ll--”

I grabbed his pinky with mine, “Is this ok?”

He nodded and blushed, pulling up his Koya blue scarf with his other hand, probably trying to hide the blush that rose above his white face mask. You were too busy smiling too largely yourself to pay attention to his warming cheeks.

“Is it hard not having as much privacy as you want?” I asked as we stood next to each other on a bus.

He nodded, “I try to keep my head down in public. It’s easier to get through the day if people don’t approach. Still, I know they do it out of love most of the time, so I’m thankful that they want to see me.”

After walking a few blocks away from the bus station, he asked your shoe size and got you a pair of ice skates. They slipped on easily and went well with your pink skirt that was dotted with pearls. You had dressed softer today than usual because you wanted to be cute for him, you wanted him to like you so badly.

Also, you weren’t too great at this whole ice skating business, so you clung to the side until Namjoon held his hands out to you. Right. He was good at this.

“You can hold them until you feel comfortable doing it on your own. Take your time. We have all day.” He said and then smiled, his eyes getting small do to the push of his cheeks.

His cheeks that you had dreamed of kissing but knew you probably never would unless this date went super well. With a nod, you moved like a sloth to hold both his hands. The idol was able to skate backwards and matched your slow and cautious forward speed. Although you wanted to look at him, you kept your eyes on your feet.

A soft chuckle came from Namjoon’s mouth, “You’re doing really good, Y/N. Are you having fun?”

“Y-yeah, just never got to do this much recently.” You replied and felt your body relax into his guidance.

Once your legs got into the rhythm, he still didn’t let go and so you let yourself sneak a peek at his face that had eyes that were trained on you and you alone. It was different on stage when you were playing a literal goddess. At that time, you weren’t just yourself like now. Y/N was not as bold or as confident as Mother Earth and nowhere near as loved or praised...until now. In Namjoon’s hands, you felt more powerful than Asaka.

Was Erzulie somewhere near?

“You’re a natural at this.” The deep voice spoke in English raised by hip hop, but the words sounded strange.

That’s when you realized he was no longer in front of you, but holding a hand beside you. At this sudden realization, you let out a small noise of surprise that made the idol laugh and call you cute in Korean. He thought you were cute. Ah!

“You’re more cute.” You said louder than you were intending since the words weren’t supposed to leave your mouth in the first place.

It caused a pause in his icy glide that made you stop and then you felt your body falling from the unexpected halt. You let out a yelp as you pulled him down on top of you since hands were still intertwined in support. Wait, on top of you?

Opening your eyes, Namjoon’s brown ones peered right back and his very boopable nose was barely a frosted breath away.

“Are you ok?” He asked in Korean before repeating himself in English.

“I’m ok.” You said in his mother tongue.

Nervous yet covered faces glanced away before actually getting up and desicind to look for a café after returning the rented skates and securing boots onto their proper feet. Your kind date helped to lace up your shoes as your body was starting to feel your many falls.

Inside, the newly opened BigHit Café was decorated for the holidays. There was Kwanzaa and Hanukkah themed foods and drinks as well. It warmed your heart when he said that the boys wanted at least three for every holiday because they wanted all their fans to be represented.

You got a Kwanzaa Cupcake which was red velvet, chocolate, and green vanilla all at once with a red frosting top. There were different colored frostings, but you wanted red. You also got Matcha Eggnog since Namjoon got it too and you liked the flavor of matcha. Joon also got peppermint cake.

It was free for the two of you since he was an employee and basically the boss of this whole building. Not to mention, the food was delicious. You couldn’t help but ask if Jin had any hand in this. He did not. Instead, it was one of the TXT boys who had baking expertise while the BTS hyung was best at cooking actual meals.

“When are you leaving Korea?” Namjoon asked, wiping frosting off of his mouth.

“We’re headed to Japan tomorrow morning. Our company is touring Asia until we run out of money, but we have to go everywhere at least once.” You said in reply, wanting to give him hope that you’ll be back but in all honesty… “I want to come back to Korea someday, but I don’t think I’ll be able to if it’s not part of my job.”

He furrowed his brows and then gave you a gentle smile, “We’ll just have to make today last, then, won’t we, sugar plum?”

“Sugar plum?”

“Ah, I meant to call you a fairy but my mind switched the phrases.” The cutest idol felt his cheeks as they warmed. “I’m sorry.”

You assured him it was ok before heading back into the cold weather. The two of you just walked and talked, telling stories about your times on stage and having a good old time getting to know each other. It was obvious he liked you, a lot. You liked him too, a lot. Still, you had to be cool with each other because neither of you wanted a dating scandal to occur before you two were actually dating.

He took you to an amusement part where most of the rides were closed due to weather, but held you close during a less extreme roller coaster that was indoors.

“I’ll take you to Lotte World next time, especially if you come during the summer.” He promised you.

“I would love that.”

“I love you.” Namjoon closed his eyes and tried to move past his confession but not really saying anything.

Asaka’s spirit took over and you pulled him underneath the nearest tree covered in mistletoe before getting on your tip toes to kiss him through his mask. The tall idol wasn’t content with that, pulling his mask down and asking for another kiss.

You happily obliged.

“I love you too.”

#BTS #Bangtan #Kim Namjoon #Namjoon x Reader #Reader x Namjoon #RM #Reader x RM #RM x Reader #Black!Reader #Female!Reader #Actor!Reader #Actress!Reader #Once on This Island #12 Prompts of Christmas #We (Ice) Dance #Day 8 #Technically

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

Hey, your rant about the food issueTM is very valid. Was just curious to hear your thoughts on this: considering D spent the majority of S.2 looking for shelter and food for her people, doesn't it seem like lazy writing that neither her, nor J or the very smart people who advise her thought of this? I get the writers are trying to pit S and D against each other (maybe to showcase that S would be a better ruler?) but it just seems like lazy writing. Do you think there's another explanation?

Hey! Thanks for the question; I got a bit long and rambling so i’m going to put my response under a read more. 

Yeah, it really is interesting that S2 D had gonethrough this and yet she doesn’t even seem to care about food problems in s8. Ithink d&d’s writing has never been that great to begin with – and there’s definitelya marked decline in quality after they passed the events of the published books.imo they’re ignoring “pre dothraki sea D” and going for dark!d now bc they’re onthe last season and they have to get to it, but unlike grrm, they really didn’tlay the groundwork that he does for her character to come to the ‘dragons plantno trees’ and ‘fire and blood’ decision. (meereenese blot goes into this farbetter than I could & is grrm approved).

Since they’ve already been relying on this kh*leesibadass kween persona more than the meat of what makes her book counterpart agreat character for a while now and most of what she wants in the show she getsor she takes in the manner of a conqueror, and all her weaknesses come through when it comes to the actual ruling part of it, so I’m assuming it’s the same logicfor food for her army; the first option didn’t work so she either just didn’tthink about it deeply or she just assumes that since Jon bent the knee, thenortherners are going to take care of her giant army bc after all, she’s theirqueen now. (honestly I think j & d were too busy fucking l.ol)

She’s always been kinda short sighted imo, like I haveto side-eye a person who’d leave her recently jilted mercenary lover in chargeof a city that still has tons of problems; I can’t just believe that meereen istotes fine now bc she roasted some boats and killed the sons of the harpy, butthen no one really seems to give a fuck about Essos soooo.

With the advisors, she doesn’t really listen to them, like you’d think she would with that heartto heart with varys but she’s kind erratic, and loses her temper when tyrion’sinitial advice failed. Despite Varys and Tyrion being totally on her team,they’re still relatively new to the team. It’s not totally surprising that ifd&d are taking her on a darker route, they’d kill off Barristan, someoneshe trusted and would listen to. before she even set foot on Westeros.I’m assuming the reach food was their first and only option, dany was relying on it feed her giant army but her temper got the better of her and she turned it all to dust. I would say they probably thought they had a lot more time than they did and they’d be able to scrounge it all up from somewhere since they have no idea that they basically handed the NK a wmd that he used to breach the wall, drastically reducing the time they had to prepare.I also do think they’re all just primarily focused on the war and the war alone bc Jon’s primary goal is to stop the NK but if that was their logic, it’s bad, because wars can take time, even against ice zombies and your soldiers need to eat. Anyway again, Jon is probably first and foremost concerned with getting her army and dragons to winterfell bc he just wants to end the NK threat. Unless he’s playing some long game, which, Idek because he definitely acts like a stupidhead who is borderline obsessed with her already when’s talking about her with other people “iTs tReAsOn” but when he’s with her emilia’s pouring dany’s heart out and kit is stuck in permanent hide the pain Harold mode. I’ve seen how he looks when he’s in love and I’m sorry but that’s just not it.On the other hand, the fact that they didn’t seem to think about the food or anything might just be bad writing as well tbh.  They’re definitely trying to show that Sansa is more of a ruler and long term planner than D (bc I think this season is definitely going to be contrasting Cersei, Sansa and D a lot), but I don’t think its lazy writing bc while D-stans tend to insist that it’s not important, Northern Independence is a major theme of these books, a lot of these people believe in that cause and their king only to have their trust in him seemingly betrayed and, The Starklings, the Northerners, they have every right to be suspicious of new people that marches in with a gigantic army. Hell, D gets off on scaring a bunch of wary peasants as soon as she enters Winterfell just because they weren’t instantly like “MHYSA MHYSA MHYSA  MY KWEEN”; they weren’t even looking at her with disgust, spitting at her, protesting her arrival. They were just staring at her and her giant army. (yeah she’s happy to see her children or whatever, but smug as hell that they invoke fear in ordinary people) which speaks volumes to her attitude. She demands respect, she doesn’t want to earn it. And this episode has tons of call backs to the first episode of the show, and the last time some ruler marched in with their host, all subsequent events led to a lot of tragedy for the North and for the Starks.The food issue is being hammered in and it’s being hammered in intentionally. “The dragons only ate 13?? Sheep and some other cattle or something, and that amount means ‘tHe dRaGoNs ArEn’T eAtInG’” but they wouldn’t put in the effort to mention a number unless they’re drawing your attention to how much of a toll feeding those iguanas (’what do dragons eat anyway? whatever they want’) is gonna take on the limited food supply. (they’re gonna end up hunting something and by something I absolutely mean people, drogon already has a taste for human flesh). 

Most likely, D’s own carelessness is boiling down to the darker route they’re planning on taking her down. If they weren’t deliberately making her look bad or setting some more conflict (not just between her and Sansa), Bran wouldn’t have chosen the time when Sam’s opinion of D was at its lowest to have him tell Jon the truth about his parentage.Of course, I wouldn’t put it past them to completely ignore everything they’ve established and just make her the uwu hero again and throw the starklings at her feet for forgiveness or even turn the starklings into villains™ but I don’t think they would do that bc in the end, D and her iguanas are not the most powerful weapon against the Night King. Bran is. 

#anti daenerys #dark!dany #anti jonerys #Sansa Stark #anti-daenerys #anti-jon snow #(sorta but I dunno). #(i'm giving j the benefit of the doubt bc it'll be #interesting to see what happens from this point onwards with the parent reveal. #he's been explicitly established as aegon vi which is moronic but at the same time #definitely hints to him having young griff condensed into his character. #and if she's gonna be telling anyone abt those bedtime stories vis told her about the ways in which they'd probs sadistically kill #the kingslayer(TM) in that fucking tone lOL. #WELL THEN. #sorry it took me a couple of days to answer this i wanted to make sure i covered my bases and not go too much off tangent. #thettasigma #replies #GoT for ts #Got spoilers