#but obviously there IS good content here

[zeekar]

Look at him... My little guy...

#ao shin #league of legends #squid game reference #fire emoji #🔥 #fashion #drip #fire #I always feel so weird using this app #It's like snapchat #feels like everywhere i go something is trying to sell me something #but obviously there IS good content here #among all the reactionary activism and mindless conflict for views and likes #teamfight tactics #tft #little legends #tacticians

[reasonsforhope]

Heads up/warning that I'm going to start posting articles related to the Israel-Palestine War

I've worked really, really hard to keep my blog about positive news only, and that's going to continue - these posts will be only about good news related to the war.

Of which there really, really isn't much, so I don't know that there will be a lot of posts, but I will be posting articles about humanitarian aid reaching those who need it and actions that will prevent more lives from being taken.

I know that, no matter my position on the war, this is something that would be very controversial and make a lot of people upset, so I wanted to be explicit about my position on this - and my posting policy, which is not the same thing. I also wanted to give people a heads up because I know the war in general is really, really triggering for a lot of people right now, for a lot of different reasons. I'll be tagging all relevant posts, so if screening those out is something that you need to do, you can.

I have worked very hard to make this blog a space with only good news because I know how much it can matter to have just one place, if nowhere else, that you can count on to not give you emotional whiplash with horrible news. To know you have one place you can go where you are guaranteed not to see bad news that will send you into a tailspin. That's why I've had a policy of not including signal boosts or PSAs about tragedies, no matter what they are, on this blog. (I do post about some of that stuff, including the Israel-Palestine War, on my main blog, though. I consider this blog to be me trying to run a public service, basically, and so have specific policies for myself around that, including my editorial and fact-checking standards.)

I'm going to be honest, I was really, really hoping the war would end after a couple of weeks, which has historically not been uncommon for wars with/involving Israel.

But that's clearly not happening, and I can't keep not acknowledging what's happening on here, so, this post.

With that, I imagine people probably want to know my actual stance on the war, since that's what I'll be posting in accordance with.

So, here's the official stance of this blog:

Every time a civilian is killed, it is a tragedy; Every time a child is killed, it is a tragedy, no matter their nationality. I condemn all antisemitism and all Islamophobia.

I support all calls for a ceasefire, as well as demands that Israel immediately stop its repeated bombing of hospitals, ambulances, shelters (including UN shelters), and refugee camps.

There is no situation in which the repeated and/or intentional bombing of hospitals is justified.

There is no situation in which the repeated and/or intentional bombing of shelters or refugee camps is justified.

There is no situation in which the repeated and/or intentional bombing of ambulances is justified.

There is no situation in which the killing of children is justified. Yet more children have now been killed in Gaza than in all global conflict zones combined in each year since 2019.

There is no situation in which cutting off an entire country and/or territory's supply of food and water is justified.

Yes, this applies to every group involved in the war, including countries supplying either side, and any countries or non-state organizations who may yet join the fighting.

The initial Hamas attack on Israel was a tragedy. The continued Israeli bombardment and invasion of Palestine is also a tragedy.

Most of the things I post will be about aid reaching Palestinians or news about tangible, confirmed progress toward a ceasefire. I probably will not be posting good news posts about aid reaching Israel, unless it's explicitly and only humanitarian and/or barring drastic unforeseen changes in circumstance. This is because as of yesterday, November 7, the Palestinian death toll is over 10,000 to Israel's roughly 1,400 (only about 200 of whom have been killed in the past month, starting on October 8, aka outside of the initial attack by Hamas). At least 3,195 children have died in Gaza, 33 in the West Bank, and 29 in Israel.

The Palestinian death toll is nearly 8 times the Israeli death toll. The number of children killed is 110 times higher in Palestine than Israel. (Source for death toll here, ratios via calculator.) Every single one of those deaths is a tragedy - and there have been far, far too many tragedies this past month.

(On a related note, Israel stands very, very little chance of actually eliminating Hamas with this war. The US has attempted this same strategy and failed many times: the US failed to eliminate the communist/North Korean regime in the Korean War, which is technically still ongoing 70 years later; failed to eliminate the Viet Cong in the Vietnam War; failed to eliminate numerous groups of Iraqi insurgents in the Iraq War, which triggered Iraq's civil war; and failed to eliminate the Taliban in the Afghanistan War, even though that war lasted for literally 20 years. Afghanistan is once again under total Taliban control.)

The last thing we need is another 20 year war. The last thing we need is more civilian deaths. Bombing civilian settlements, as well as hospitals, shelters, and refugee camps are war crimes under international law, meaning that both Israel and Hamas have committed war crimes.

It's time for the war crimes to stop.

Humanitarian aid reaching civilians is good news, and I will be posting accordingly.

Ceasefire now.

#also heads up that I'm turning off anon on here because well it seems prudent #I'm not actually going to litigate technicalities numbers or international politics with anyone #I don't plan to talk much more about this aside from the aforementioned posts #including probably not answering any asks #because I really am trying to keep my content based only on good news #any asks that are trolling or threatening or supporting the deaths of any civilians on either side or are obviously in bad faith #will be deleted immediately #which has always been my blog policy btw so that's not anything new #I do actually get a certain number of troll and insulting asks/replies and I just delete them #also I reserve the right to turn off asks altogether but hopefully there won't be any need for that #mostly those happen whenever I have a new anti Trump post #gaza #save gaza #palestinians #isreal #free palestine #gazaunderattack #israel palestine war #international politics #cw child death #tw war #tw war crimes #tw child death #tw bombing #ceasefire #ceasefire now

[front-facing-pokemon]

#something is very obviously different about these two compared to my normal images on this blog. i acknowledge this #also the sv model is Really good. and since they always stare straight at the camera anyway… and no one pays attention to the background… #and the only high-quality phantump model i could find was so horribly shiny that its eyes were just white voids #in my defense‚ phantump always just stare straight at you in game #the lighting is different‚ yeah. that's probably the dead giveaway. beyond the background. but like. i'm the only being on the planet who #really likes phantump anyway. i feel like it's a generally forgettable pokémon to most folks #phantump #HELLO this one is a weird one. i have some explaining to do. so when i did this one i didn't know how to edit models really at all #and when i got the models for these‚ the xy models were super shiny. shiny to the point that it made their eyes fuckin invisible #and i decided that since you could barely tell it was phantump‚ i needed a different way to get these images #i remembered that in the SV dlc‚ every time you find a wild phantump‚ it just fucking. stares. at you. and i was like. aha #i kinda remembered because of the test stream that i did. tumblr user alligayytorr (am i getting the right amount of Ys) said #“haha i am getting a sneak peek” when i zoomed the camera in on a phantump. and i remembered that. and i was like. i can utilize this #and ended up using just an in-game screenshot of SV in replacement of the regular content. later on‚ after that #once we got into gen 7 and it became less and less reliable to find models‚ i had to learn how to edit them manually to remove the shine #i am a software dev. not a 3d modeler. this ended up coming down to editing the code of the models directly (which i ended up writing a #script to automate). now‚ today‚ january 22nd (the day of me writing these tags and updating this post)‚ i remembered this post was in the #queue and was not normal. so i went back‚ ran the script on the phantump and trevenant models‚ and unshinified them #then edited these two posts to be normal. i have left the original pictures i took under the cut for reference and as bonuses #because i really enjoy phantump. so that's why those images are there‚ and that's why these tags are here #just for posterity's sake‚ the folks who come here mostly for my commentary‚ i've left the ORIGINAL tags of the post when i initially #made it with the SV pictures up at the top (i wanted to rearrange them‚ but tumblr makes that Very difficult‚ so i left them as-is) #so if these tags are confusing to read i Apologize. but i hope now that you're at the bottom you understand what happened #i'm gonna go edit the trevenant post now

[watatsumiis]

I don't know who needs to hear this right now but I figured I'd say it anyways - please don't let the numbers on your posts hold you hostage. Keep writing, write what you enjoy and what you have fun with, regardless of whether or not it gets notes.

It's easy to fall into the trap of obsessing over note and follower counts but it's just... not really worth it. The fact you're creating things and putting them out there is genuinely incredible and they make an impression on whoever reads them - though even if nobody reads it, the simple fact of the matter is that you made something from nothing and you were brave enough to post it, that's awesome!

Every piece of writing you do is helping to refine and improve your skills, so please don't stop just because you're bummed out seeing others get big amounts of notes.

This site is, in the end, still a social media, and is subject to the wild whims of tumblr algorithms, fandom, and the people who view the content. Creating things is always worth it, regardless of whether or not you post it, or how many notes you may get. Your content holds value no matter what, and you shouldn't stop doing what you love simply because it's not getting the attention you hoped <3

#woag idk where all that came from but uhh #yepyepyep #free to rb if you like #obviously this doesnt go for when posting here or making content is affecting your mental health n such (look after yourself first etc etc) #general barks #positivity #writing encouragement #the fact that theres just so many people out there making stuff astounds me in the best possible way #like theres a whole ass person behind every account making this amazing incredible content #and ?? some of them think their content is bad?? like um no?? its good?? its all good?? you MADE something?? thats incredible!! #anyways if youre looking for a sign to write something super self indulgent and/or silly this is it

[jingsyuans]

Would u still love me if I confessed my greatest sin

#it’s writing on the character ai site (looks down in shame) BUT I HAVE REASONS (SpongeBob holding hands up) #my opinion over AI is that it should be used as a tool and reference. using it outside of that is where problems of many colors arise #the issue is that ai has expanded to this point that even using it as a reference and for good intentions is feeding into the machine and #allowing it to grow bigger as it takes in all your responses and uses it to refine it’s algorithm #that’s my understanding of it anyway so obviously for that reason u should not write with ai #here is my defense: mental illness #I’m in this horrible spot and I don’t know how I dropped in here but it’s not great and the only thing I rly look forward to and can focus #on is my writing and fictional fantasy. but I just can’t write it by myself at this point #the other half of the issue is strictly being in this headspace where all the content I want to consume is my fictional characters x ME #as a child #and there is a very very limited window of that content which I’ve thoroughly consumed #so. I’ve been feeling guilty because I’ve been using the ai bot as my comfort machine the last few days #it’s rly the only thing that’s worked #and it has been slowly kicking my inspiration back and I’ve been thinking of fresh ideas and writing things (on my own) again #which is why I feel Bad but I also have to admit it’s helping me #ai sucks at the end of the day and I’m Sorry But I Am Not Gods Strongest Soldier #rambles

[ozlices]

oh yeah i took a curious peak at the yttd manga like. idk. a week ago. i only read the first couple chapters, but. it's... so different. & somehow MORE GRAPHIC???????? i skimmed to see how they handled mishima & somehow it's more traumatizing than the game. wtf.

#mine #is there like. a good site to actually catch up & keep up w it btw cause our usual manga site is behind #yttd #yttd manga #yttd spoilers #i am. VERY curious which route it will go on but it's gonna be a long ass while before it gets to that point #but. like. since it is somewhat different storywise i assume it's an au??? or just not canon???? #idk i dont rly know anything i just knew it existed & i took a curious gander & was traumatized. #& i did it in call w friends & they were like 'hm. maybe. u should not be reading that rn' & i was like. '. u right.' #I DIDNT EXPECT IT TO FUCK W ME THAT MUCH BC I PLAYED THE GAME & IT WAS OBVIOUSLY /A LOT/ #BUT I WAS FINE FOR THE MOST PART CONSIDERING THE THEMES & CONTENT BUT MAN #they rly said 'no no. no how the games did it w the graphic description wasn't enough. they gotta SEE him melt here'. #NO WE DIDNT NEED TO SEE THAT ACTUALLY THE DESCRIPTION LEFT ENOUGH TO THE MENTALLY ILL IMAGINATION TY

[nyxi-pixie]

its actually so funny that straight people went oh will byers gaygayhomosexualgay and like. assigned him personality based on that😭 like oh hed like x music or x movie bc gay ppl

but its actually mike who likes x music or x movies bc gay people. like. weve all seen the official spotify playlists. and strangerwriters post on mikes fav films. his taste in things is like mine 'oh its gay?? i want it right NEOWWW'

#wills taste in things is cool #like obviously his taste in music is still fruity but thats bc all good music from the 80s was made by fruit salads #but mike is out here w his fav song being like #smalltown boy #and his fav movies being stand by me and the outsiders💀💀💀 #hes so funny #mike being the heavily closeted and internalised homophobia but also omg give me all the gay content that has ever been made representation #THAT WE NEED. #byler

[ashmp3]

wish we could just merge two blogs on here bc deleting them is always so bittersweet but must be done circle of life and all. I want to delete my main one and be annoying on here but i feel like if i start writing shiet i did on there but HERE? Yeah u guys are here for jeonghan not for my journal entries and i hate feeling like i’m annoying everyone grrrrkrjrjrje now i actually want to delete everything tbh. But where will i talk how much i want to spend money on sylvanian bunnies where will i call jeonghan čoko zeka beba . Anyway at the end of the day… We will all die girlbloggers or not that’s my final verdict

#it’s just there i have people that post similar things i did like little snippets of their lives and all that and i love them all and i love #that kind of content but i don’t want them following me here bc ik i will annoy them and clog their dashboard #on other hand i post k-pop here so obviously ppl follow me for that and if i start posting my pics ppl will be like fuck no #so ? deleting both? killing myself? not caring? good options all of them

[danothan]

#i’ve been doing rly good lately. in a way that i didn’t know was possible #i’m sm more reasonably productive these days #like i have a relatively stable routine now and my memory is better than it’s been in years #i’ve even been finding myself remembering things without having to check my to-do list. it’s almost irrelevant atp #compared to the January Horrors when i considered getting checked for a concussion bc of how hazy and broken my brain felt #and ​i’m consistently paying my bills and i’m driving more often now #idk i don’t even feel great or super happy these days i just feel. content #and obviously i still need therapy for all that shit that happened earlier this year #bc i still can’t believe that happened and then immediately my therapist had to end things with me 💀 #but idk. it doesn’t feel all that urgent anymore #nothing feels URGENT it all just feels reasonably doable #oh! and my friend is flying over to see me in a couple days so even more good news :DDD #i think the lesson here for me is that i need to give myself more credit if for no other reason than survival #danbles

[discoblocks]

I really liked the dynamic between all the college age kids in the new stranger things season, so I decided to go looking for fanfic about it and was ABRUPTLY reminded how little gen content gets made in most other fandoms holy shit. like I get it these two can’t stop getting distracted by the other’s scent, can we talk about maybe their feelings about the scary monsters perhaps. yknow. the driving force of the plot

#obv I’ve been in fandoms before that are low on gen content #but I always have WAY more fun in ones that have lots of gen #and I’ve been kicking around with dsmp for a while now which is obviously very gen focused #that I just like straight up FORGOT that it is not like this everywhere #immediately reminded how good I have it over here with this extremely popular fandom with countless fics that are #for the most part majority gen content #love it here guys keep it up

[bijoumikhawal]

"Hath not an augment eyes?" Julian asked. "Or would you prefer it as it is in the original?"

Worf looked away first. "I have never liked that play."

"I have come to find it edifying, in some ways."

#cipher talk #ds9 #Another random snippet I had pop into my head and don't know what to do with #Unironically I love that monologue! It's iconic! There's a reason the sentiment of 'if you cut us do we not bleed' is so popular in speech #And it's actually very interesting to think about the whole 'original klingon' thing here- what is the equivalent to Jews in their version #Of MoV? Do Klingons simply have Jews as a recognized cultural entity? #(Yes there's Worf but technically Worf does not canonically seem to be a practicing Jew- though the fact that the Klingon gods are dead #Does lead to interesting lines of inquiry about syncretism) #Something something joke about there being a Chabad house on Qo'noS before Earth even made first contact #I'm certain there is good fic out there digging into the intersection through Worf that I'd like #Also wanted to have the line translated but there is no translation of MoV into Klingon and the machine translations are obviously trash #I think about Julian asking him 'do you think I don't deserve to wear this uniform?' a lot #Often bc I think a valid reading of Augmentation in ds9 is a criticism of 90s military culture around queer men alongside the obvious #And that line is one of the key points in that reading for me #I need more Jewish Julian content #Especially the stuff that engages with uncomfortable implications in the Federation

[merevide]

how it feels to post a sad music link and get over 2 likes

#+​2 likes and we’re basically a group therapy session like cmon now #anyways. sorry i’ve been gone the whole fucking day basically #i nearly came so close to live-blogging my entire random emotional break and i was like. wow. i kinda gotta get it together #idk why i’m saying sorry like people rely on my blog content to live but yknow #i still have not fully gotten it together obviously i can’t do that in one afternoon but watching youtube. was fun. #ANYWAY. who cares. I HAVE SPOTIFY LINKS that’s what matters #srsly though i might take a longer break soonish with my parents pushing college stuff at me all at once + having to start classes soon + #making sure i don’t actually have a huge visible breakdown so yeah ig we’ll see. but i also like having fun here. i’m talking to the void hi #again idk why i’m. announcing that like people rely on my dumb posts to live their lives. idfk #did this accidentally turn into a vent post shit now i actually gotta post good music links #my text #🩻 <- i like this emoji

[white-cat-of-doom]

I posted 2,327 times in 2022

827 posts created (36%)

1,500 posts reblogged (64%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@the-cat-at-the-theatre-door

@munku-collar

@white-cat-of-doom

@sillybub

@cassandra-has-moonlit-eyes

I tagged 2,321 of my posts in 2022

#cats the musical - 2,288 posts

#cats musical - 2,287 posts

#cats us tour 6 - 356 posts

#jellylorum - 262 posts

#victoria - 260 posts

#demeter - 253 posts

#bombalurina - 247 posts

#cats rccl cast 12 - 244 posts

#cats uk tour 2022 - 232 posts

#cats international tour 2022 - 230 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#part of me wants to change my avatar to one of these pieces but i cannot bring myself to take away the 2019 rumple i have had for two years

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Today is the day! The Il Sistina production of CATS opens tonight (07 December 2022) in Rome!

Below are some more specific character photos, outside of larger group photos.

Jacopo Pelliccia as Gatto Giò (Bustopher Jones, a separate character in this production).

Photos taken by Gianluca Sarago.

Gaia Soprano as Cassandra.

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133 notes - Posted December 7, 2022

#4

Everyone generally knows what the Rumpus Cat looks like in traditional productions, right? A bit silly, with funky hair and red eyes.

Meanwhile in Japan, the modern Rumpus Cat looks like this:

The hero we never knew we needed.

(Fukuoka 2021, January 2022; Kenshin Mori as Rumpus Cat, Miki Okudaira as Jellylorum, Eiko Kataoka as Rumpleteazer, Yuki Takahashi as Old Deuteronomy, Taijun Kanemoto as Munkustrap, and Yurie Sato as Bombalurina. Almost fully hidden is Haruaki Tamai as Mungojerrie.)

141 notes - Posted February 21, 2022

#3

Rehearsals have started for the production of CATS at Teatro Sistina in Italy, starting 07 December 2022, an officially licensed non-replica from RUG.

The designs are interesting in that they have reference sheets for both the makeup and costume.

See the full post

149 notes - Posted November 9, 2022

#2

The promotional pictures for the UK/International Tour 2022 have been posted!

See the full post

181 notes - Posted May 31, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I never uploaded these pictures last year, so I figured now would be a fun time to celebrate Pride Month again. Who better than with my favourite cast of Cats in Vienna?

See the full post

192 notes - Posted June 1, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#It has been a good year for me and CATS #I luckily got to see the last cast three times and the current cast (only) once #An interesting breakdown here #I would have thought I created more posts but 36% is much higher than the 3% last year! #Plus I reblogged from myself a fair amount which lessens those numbers compared to making a new post altogether #Jellylorum being the top character tag is actually a bit surprising to me #But good for me for pulling that off #Poor Jenny was in enough posts #I had completely forgotten about that top post but that is fun to see #Aside from myself being in the top 5 (I would not thought I counted towards that) the reblogged blogs the list is not surprising at all #And that longest tag! It did not take long after for me to overhaul (as much as you can overhaul on mobile) my appearance to change my icon #To one of the beautiful art pieces of my OC Freya that Jemi created and I would not have it any other way now #Thank you again Jemi for creating those #You are too kind and immensely talented and that is why you were obviously going to be my most reblogged blog #Apologies to anyone who gets tagged and would rather not for a post like this #I guess the main point to all of this is to say thank you to everyone who interacts with this blog and to anyone who makes content #Enjoy your passions and interests and maybe someone else will love it alongside you but at the very least you are making it for yourself #Let me see if I can overtake my reblogged posts with my created posts next year #I think I am well on my way #I hope I offered everyone some fun posts and up to date information on the musical as the (official) unofficial source for everything CATS #(that last one is more a joke but at this point how much of one is the question?) #Rambling over #Thanks for everything everyone #Who knows maybe I will actually have something important to say next year

[letsfluxshitup]

I am a little obsessed with people who say they hate the new lore and how it’s all bad and in the same sentence say they haven’t watched anything since like. dream was put in prison or smth like that. like it is kind of funny. To me .

#like I’ve never watched N ope but I read the synopsis and it looks like there’s too much death for me to like it but I’m not out here like #like ‘’n ope is horrible bc there’s too much death in it and I hate it. no I have not seen it ❤️’’ #like there’s nuance you’re gonna miss like summaries are good but they’re summaries they’re not the actual content #anyways putting thst in the tags for peer review LABFKSBFKENFKEG #venting #I guess #I don’t really care thst much but it’s kind of makes me ??????? #flux posts #to be fair I don’t really like the ending either I feel like they didn’t Need to make it lead into season2 but it’s whatever #75% of my fics are mortal enemies quack and tech hanging out and being friends so clearly idc abt canon thst much but! #people r allowed to be upset obviously but it feels kind of silly when they clearly also don’t care bc they haven’t kept up at all

[10piecechickenmcnugget]

all the fiancés are genderfluid btw

why? cause I said so

#they told me themselves #sapnap comes from the nether and has no concept of gender #Karl is an interdimensional being and also has no concept of gender #and quackity just gives off those vibes #and they’re all bisexual so it’s all good #karl jacobs #c!karl jacobs #sapnap #c!sapnap #quackity #c!quackity #karlnapity #dsmp #dream smp #mcyt #genderfluid #if someone stumbles across my post because of the lgbtq tag and doesn’t want to see it I’m tired of being nice jsyk #that’s what blocking tags is for <3 and why I make sure to actually properly tag my posts #people keep seeing my content about karl and going on rants about all of the dream shit going on both online and irl and I am tired of it #obviously what’s going on serious but I am literally just shitposting over here leave me be I’m not even talking about Dream #I have made like 1 dream post ever and it was that one about the sapnap bee farm video #sorry for the tag rant enjoy my silly little headcanons

[hiruzensux]

concept: Hiruzen giving Enma subtle misinformation about human culture to further his own Horny Agenda™️

(like i'm sure when they first met he already spoke the language and had a decent understanding of the more basic stuff; i don't know how different the culture of wherever it is he lives actually even is to begin with (i haven't given it much thought at all tbh) so it could all be pretty familiar to him... but regardless of how broad the overlap between the two cultures is, if he doesn't have much actual experience in the human realm, then it's totally believable from his end for certain stuff to be slightly or totally different)

this has some EXCELLENT potential re: pranks or practical jokes, but where my mind immediately went with this is misdirections of lustful intent

ex.:

Hiruzen: "ok this next one is called 'french kissing', and it's a human gesture of friendship and mutual respect"

Enma, interrupting him: "i do not respect you"

Hiruzen, internally, trying not to cry: alright yeah i totally deserved that

(Hiruzen maybe has a special advantage in this particular subgenre (claims in the format "[insert sexy activity] is a Normal Friend Thing"), bc if Enma's skeptical, Hiruzen can just be like "no, really! watch, i can prove it — hey Kagami—")

see also: how it's standard protocol amongst humans for comrades-in-arms to sleep spooning ("that's what the 'in-arms' part is from"), or the time-honored human tradition of Underwear Sparring, and of course the Post-Spar Massage

his success is limited though bc Enma just isn't very gullible

however, alternatively... maybe Enma isn't buying (ex.) mutual masturbation as a conventional team-building exercise... but if it happens that he's into it anyway, all he has to do is play along, and then he gets what he wants without having to admit any embarrassing feelings 👍

(honestly though, if he did succeed in a more substantial deception, i think Hiruzen would likely end up feeling too bad to continue with it very long before confessing anyways... so i'm not sure how far this would actually get either of them)

returning to that first example... in that case, if Enma believed him, then when Enma DID finally kiss him (frenchly), it would be an EXTRA meaningful first kiss scenario, since it would mean Hiruzen had finally earned his respect... ohh... that's kind of sweet...

...except Hiruzen would DEFINITELY have to tearfully confess his lie then, in which case Enma would probably be like "oh yeah well. good bc i lied just now too. about respecting you" (the potency of this comeback slightly diminished by the implicit admission that he just wanted to kiss him)

i don't know if Hiruzen ever got to visit Enma's realm, but i hope so, so that Enma gets his turn to use this same mechanic in revenge! idk if he'd go for it or not since it seems less his style... but if he DID, he'd probably be much meaner about it and go straight for that full public humiliation potential that Hiruzen mercifully left mostly alone

#hiruzen x enma #monkey king enma #sarutobi hiruzen #hiruzen sarutobi #warning for (idk a good shorthand for this but) manipulation that's treated lightly here bc fiction. but that obviously would be not ok IRL #no one gets seriously hurt in my envisioning of this specific scenario (though they could've) #( #hopefully everyone reading already understands how consent works and how this compromises that so i wont go into that #just want to label the contents so people can decide whether or not it's smth they want to read #) #my post