#don't listen to me

[robanilla-arts]

woah guys look it's me but evil

#evil art style challenge #robanilla-arts #my art #i love them your honor #killer sans #eye strain #take him away from me #i am actually SO proud of the evil one but...... i keep looking at the “normal” one and....... #im trying to be nice to myself but he looks so fucked up to me 😭😭 #his hands- his shoes- his arms his freaking ribs are all AGH #don't listen to me #thats not blood thats his soul. btw. if you even care /j

[gremlins-hotel]

so, to all of us that are infected with the hetalia disease: do you ever think about how several early cities in human history - the likely start of nationkind as we see the formation of the first city-states and broader cultural identities - were ruled/presided over by female deities? and does that ever make you wonder if several of the first personifications were more than likely female as a reflection?

#callsign gremlin checking in #i am perhaps crazy and hungry and silly #don't listen to me #i'm trying to study and my brain is not normal

[cletusthurstonbeauregard]

sometimes I see this pic as Luz choking Amity and Amity smiling and blushing over it.

#lumity #luz x amity #luz noceda #amity blight #the owl house #don't listen to me

[novi-val]

#don't listen to me #joker out #bojan cvjeticanin #kris gustin #ash speaks #memes

[epickiya722]

Given how similar Togachaco and Bakudeku are... I fear for what could happen to Toga now.

#like... no no no #don't listen to me #just kiya's thoughts #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #togachaco #togachako #bakudeku #bnha 391 #bnha spoilers #bnha manga spoilers #toga himiko

[macabremoons]

make ur mythological creatures based off of real cultures they said. IT'LL BE EASIER THEY SAID. IT'LL BE REALLL FUCKING EASY THEY SAID. EASY MY ASS

#lb: daycycle #it is actually easier #don't listen to me

[warp8]

¤¸¸.•´¯`•¸¸.•..>>   🎀  𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 O𝒯𝒫 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈  🎀   >>..•.¸¸•`¯´•.¸¸¤

#i've connected the dots #don't listen to me #listen to the episode score #spoilers #star trek picard #battlestar galactica #Beverly Crusher #Jean-Luc Picard #otp tag #p/c #a/r

[pjberribear]

I was working on some video projects recently!! About to be done with the first image, the others will take FOREVER. Hopefully I have a lot of motivation to continue them! <3

#wally darling #welcome home wally #welcome home arg #welcome home puppet show #welcome home website #art #don't listen to me #amanda the adventurer #Spotify

[smoking-old-toby]

person A (me): writes the coolest most fantastic hobbit headcannons

person B (you): writes fics based on them

person A: gives person B their love and devotion until their dying day

#me and who #don't listen to me #bagginshield #the hobbit #smoking old toby #i don't actually think mine are the best i just desparately wish i could write fics based on all my headcannons but I can't

[samsamsart]

Dumb Headcanon, Furfur is the reason Hiccups exist. He didn't make them on purpose it was 100% an accident. But now evertime he makes a mistake the other Demons call it his "Hiccups" and anytime he's around a human who has them he just says "im Sorry"

#good omens furfur #good omens #go headcanons #don't listen to me

[des-fangirl]

i think Moist could be the one to invent the the rtern bisexuality in discworld

#dont listen to me #im talking my thoughts it can be stupud but I HAVE A POINT RIGHT #RIGHT #he already invented paper money & marks why noot #he's bi after all and and Adora is too she'll help him- #in what #in #inventing.... bisexuality... #DON'T LISTEN TO ME #des-shitpost #discworld #moist von lipwig #im srry

[bladedamus]

that last post makes good some really good points but on a less serious note that person was just completely off in their characterization of Laios as "guy who is weird about women fighting game characters"

Like, Laios is absolutely a pervert but his sexual proclivities are kink-based rather than focused on sexy ladies with big boobs. Dude is a furry who wants to know the pleasures of being wrapped up in vines and had a life-changing experience milking a minotaur. A succubus once took on the form of his close friend in the form of a hairy beast.

#don't listen to me #dungeon meshi #vox #spoilers

[stoopid-turtle]

My Turtle Origin Story

Hi. I'm a rando on the internet. I make stuff up for fun and giggles. Nothing I say is real. Everything is fake. I'm fake. I bet you're fake. Fakity fake-fake.

Here's the intro post for this whole thing.

That being said, I got into The Untamed after reading MDZS last year. I'd never watched a c-drama before, though my wife and I have watched some k-dramas and j-dramas before. I was fascinated by a BL adaption in a country where gay relationships are censored.

I'm a nerd at heart, so I wanted to learn more about just...what this was about. How did this get made? Was it just for $$$? Did the people behind it take it seriously or was it a big joke? A cash-grab on a wildly popular web-novel? How was it received? How on earth was it discussed when the main relationship is a gay romance?

So I started watching the behind the scenes footage (bts) and interviews. And reading a bunch. And watching more. And reading more. Basically, I immersed myself into the swamp trying to figure this whole thing out.

My big fear going in was that there'd be a bunch of no-homo stuff in the bts. That nobody took it seriously. That the male actors were icked out by the minimal amount of subtext they did.

So I found it refreshing from the start to see that wasn't the vibe behind the scenes. Honestly, it reminded me a lot like the vibe with Xena. Back in the 1990s, an explicit lesbian couple just wasn't a thing on TV. The network wouldn't allow it.

So the show got as close as they possibly could with what ended up being referred to as "subtext". Xena went way further than The Untamed (Xena and Gabrielle are canon soulmates who have multiple kisses and swear a life commitment to each other). But behind the scenes was a cast and crew who genuinely wanted to show as much of the romance as possible. Who wanted to push the envelope as far as they could go. After a couple seasons, with the actresses' chemistry, they knew it was an epic love story, and they treated it as such.

Were there jokes? Yeah. The actresses had a running joke of flubbing a scene by saying "Now come here for a cuddle". There's a fantastic outtake of Lucy Lawless jokingly going in for a kiss at the end of a scene. But it wasn't a mocking atmosphere. It was sincerely felt and experienced, and it meant a lot to little gay me to see that in Xena. It felt similar to see the same spirit in the Untamed background. Much like Xena (the show) included an episode where she commissions Sappho to write a love poem for Gabrielle, The Untamed snuck in little hints with chickens and historical gay erotica. They took it as far as they feasibly could without the two male leads actually physically interacting much. (I'm putting aside the whole mess where they tried to make WQ a love interest)

There was an immediate difference between Xena and the Untamed behind the scenes, though. The actresses in Xena were close friends. They attended each other's wedding. Had great chemistry. But nobody ever thought they were a real couple, for various reasons. There is 0 chance they are or were ever a couple. Even with all the gay jokes behind the scenes, it's obvious.

As soon as I started looking up TU bts, Youtube started recommending this mysterious bjyx stuff to me.

"Aha!" I thought. "Is this what they call 'fanservice'?"

(I'm sorry. I know I'm not funny)

Okay, so I've been in fandom before with fictional characters. I've always been aware of real-person fiction and had mixed feelings about it. I've also known that some bands do gay fanservice and that BL live-action stuff often comes with fanservice. I'd never really seen it, though.

Still, what I could see in the videos wasn't THAT fanservice-y. A lot of bickering. Singing. Fighting. Lewd jokes. Making faces at each other. Completely nonsensical conversations. Not a lot of, like, handholding or kissing stuff like I'd expect from fanservice.

At the same time, the videos seemed to make wild leaps sometimes in showing that these two - GG and DD - were a thing. Much like the Xena actresses joked with each other about their characters being a couple, GG and DD and others joked about WWX and LWJ being a couple. Sometimes the videos seemed to conflate moments like that--clear jokes--with actual coupleness.

So I kinda dismissed them at first. I mean, it's part of fandom. Some people get into it. Not for me.

But I was still interested in the actors. I wondered how they got the roles. What they thought of them. What they thought about the gay elements.

So, again, reading and whatnot.

It's impossible to read about this stuff without coming across bjyx and turtles. That's where most of the background is discussed in English, honestly. So I read that. Usually kinda putting aside whatever they were trying to imply. Just trying to figure out more about the political situation. The vibe of the actors.

But as I watched and read, these bjyx candies

just

kept

coming.

Some easily dismissed. Some kinda compelling if you squint. Some that required some thought.

I watched a bunch of DD's other stuff (I guess my bias is for him? I adored DD from the start). Took note of his, um, clear lack of interest in women. I mean, yeah, as an idol, I'm sure he didn't want to cause a scandal by acting too familiar. But he seemed even more standoffish than that warranted. It was often commented on by...well, everybody around him.

And then I hit a bts scene that left me gawking. I said I wouldn't link the bts, so I'll just describe this scene. I've only come across it twice in two different bts compilations with slightly different translations, but the gist is the same.

GG and DD are in Cloud Recesses clothes. They're on a brightly lit green screen stage. The camera is shaky and the sound isn't super-great. (I've watched this so many times, I don't even need to look at the video to write down the interaction. I have it memorized)

DD: So flirty. (The translator notes that he's using northern slang here and I think that it came across differently to GG than he intended)

GG: *sarcastic thumbs up as if to say, "Um, rude, but ok"*

DD: You don't like it? *a moment* So beautiful. (the translator notes that this literally means "fairy-like")

GG: *a little swoon. then he stops* No, this word doesn't fit.

DD: Why doesn't it fit?

GG: It just doesn't fit WWX.

DD: I'm not talking about WWX. I'm talking about XZ.

GG: *shy smile with adorable nose crinkle*

DD: So beautiful.

Okay, I was floored. There went my whole, "joking about the role" ambiguity. DD was just straight-up flirting and GG was just straight-up accepting and enjoying it.

That kinda rearranged my brain.

Okay, so they were flirting with each other. But fanservice, right? Maybe the bts were staged?

So I read some more about the context of the releases and the boys' reactions to some of those releases. And I read more about what CP fanservice typically entails (shared endorsements, overt physical interaction, an abrupt ending when promo was done).

None of these matched up with what I was watching.

But still.

Like, seriously?

A huge TV hit based on a BL series, and the main leads are actually dating? That's...that's a story. That's the plot for a book. It's not something that really happens. Come on, now.

Then I came across the other candy that left me gawking. Old cow eats young grass.

I'm not gonna link. If you know, you know.

That's not even fanservice. That's just a couple bickering with each other.

Once I turned that corner, looking at the array of candies...even with the ones I don't take seriously, it just became...well, there's this thing about preponderance of evidence at a certain point. It doesn't mean any one candy is absolutely true. But it definitely indicates a more general truth. BJYXSZD

This is all fiction, though, and I'm a stoopid turtle.

Onward to the next post: Consuming Candies Pt 1: DD and GG are le Gay

#bjyx #yizhan #clowning around #i'm so long-winded #don't listen to me #i yammer on abt Xena of all things

[goggles-mcgee]

I'm bisexual.

Which means every panic I have is a bi-panic

#bisexual #bi humor #don't listen to me #I'm half asleep because i took a little nap

[frc-ambaradan]

"No one should be alone on Christmas".

What about people who WANT to be left alone? 😐

#i'm a bit salty these holidays #forgive me ^^' #don't listen to me #i just wish you the greatest of time! #just ignore me okay? #:) #christmas #holidays

[ursulanoodles]

I feel like Shane is one of those people that says, "mm bye" when he ends a phone call. Not "bye", or even "goodbye". It's "mm bye".

#don't listen to me #I'm insane #sdv shane #stardew valley shane #i'm done #headcanon? #lmao