as much as i actually ended up enjoying the whole ppv you know what my favorite part was lmao
im just glad he was there. i would love for kip to have like an actual match, even a tag match, on a ppv instead of these rather meaningless battle royals, but also hes clearly having fun in there and making the most of it. like man i cant even be mad i smiled through the entire thing and just enjoyed it. even tho i knew he was going to lose but like. seeing that character work no matter how minimal and just him enjoying his job was just
fuck man i just enjoy watching him so much 💜💜
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I was just re-reading to Prune a Grapevine and I had a question, how did Laslow and Xander meet? Odin teased it a little bit, but did he set them up or did they meet by chance because Odin knew Leo?
hi anon ive been so excited to answer this. i quite genuinely almost wrote a fic about their meeting in this universe so read more time
so first of all, a note: odin accrediting himself to their relationship does not mean laslow does LOL i imagine laslow probably rolls his eyes intensely whenever odin says that (even if there's a mild amount of truth to it)
also to answer your questions, no and no--but the second one is closer haha.
so setting the scene! laslow's in his early 20's, he moved to nohr for his career. he has a job dancing with a company, and he was actually very lucky to have landed the position he got. he's sort of paranoid about losing it.
xander (or rather, at this time it's garon--anya corp--just remembered i named their company that LOL) is a sponsor of the theater they work in, and of the dance company in general. a perk of sponsorship is watching a dress rehearsal, and you can probably imagine how this leads to their meeting.
but! it's a little more than that. obviously the cast knows that they'll have a sponsor watching them that day, but they're also told by the director they need to be nice to this guy. he's giving us money and we want him to keep doing that. so laslow has slightly more incentive to talk to xander, strictly because he thinks if he can show they get along, he'll have more job security, LMAO
a little more background knowledge, here's why odin is relevant. odin and leo, yes, are already friends!! odin doesn't live in nohr yet, though. laslow doesn't know leo, but he does know that odin has a Very Rich Nohrian Pal named Leo Anya. but that's the extent of it, laslow doesn't even know what leo looks like.
back to the dress rehearsal! during the intermission, i imagine laslow's getting a drink or something, he does end up running into xander. and they make some really simple small talk, xander probably makes a comment that he noticed laslow as one of the background dancers (xander certainly already found laslow striking, but i fully believe xander flirts only by stating recognizable facts in an entirely non-flirtatious way djfkdfjs), but that's about it.
laslow, though, is desperate to make a chance for himself. he's like 22 and wants to keep his job. he has been thinking about, all this time, how he knows of a different nohrian anya who is very rich, and he's been wondering if they're related. and he thinks he can give it a shot asking, because it might prompt some more conversation anyway
SO laslow asks xander if he has a little brother named leo. clearly xander does, so he says yes, and laslow kind of frantically explains that he knows a friend of his. odin. who xander recognizes from when odin has visited. and then odin serves as a pretty genuine icebreaker between the two of them, and they chat until laslow has to go.
they don't start dating until later, though. usually what i imagine happening is xander comes and sees the show again when it's in actual production, and laslow says hi to him afterwards. and this stays a trend for a little bit, until xander asks him to dinner and laslow accepts--a little less worried about his job and a little more wanting to be wooed by the pretty man, haha. and then history!
part of the reason i didnt write this as a fic is because there's actually more stuff that happens after they get together, but i've been debating if i want to include it. and then there's possibly even more after that, but i haven't committed to it being in this universe or not. but i'd want that to be part of the fic too, but then lord above it would start getting long. largely, it goes into how the falling out with garon ended up happening. but the actual falling out would be after siegbert and soleil are not only born, but like, five or six years old. so. that'd be long.
but!!! that's how xander and laslow happened in the grapevine-verse :D thank you for asking this has been rattling around in my brain for like. ever. dfkdjsfkdj <3
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Before we get mad at each other (though I guess go for it if you're gonna) I think like. There should be some awareness about shipping posts versus general fandom posts. Sometimes when people post about a ship, they'll focus everything about their ship - sometimes for fun, sometimes they seriously think everything is about their ship, sometimes they're just looking at the media through a shipping angle For That Post and not actually all the time. Meanwhile there's general posts, which will not be either caring about a ship (or any ship) or actively pointing out that a given story is not mainly about the ship/romance but some other themes/aspects. Either because they're looking at the media through a different angle or a more general overall one or just not into shipping or any number of reasons.
And sometimes there's a tendency for some of the shippers to get mad at general posts as "ignoring their ship existing" meanwhile there's a tendency for some of the general posters to get mad at shipping posts for "making everything about the ship" when its not. And... I think a decent portion of the time? General posters don't actually want to destroy your ships - they're not some rival shipper trying to invalidate ur interpretation of a given ship. They just aren't focused on the shipping angle or Your Specific angle and that is FINE. Also a decent portion of the time? I don't think shippers genuinely don't see the other Value in a story beyond the romance - they aren't invalidating your general overall interpretation of some piece of media. They just are happening to focus on the shipping aspect in some post of theirs or for fun. I don't think, at least some of the time, people focused on one or the other are actually at odds. They're just posting about different things and Because you ran into each other's posts, you happened to think someone was contradicting someone else and arguing.
Like if me and a classroom read Hamlet a teacher might ask us to all pick a theme and do literary analysis to argue the theme we picked. I might pick something about women and ophelia, someone else might pick grief, someone else might pick revenge, and that doesn't mean we have to believe the other people are wrong. Just that we specifically are focusing on something else. If I post about sailor moon and my friend posts about Pokémon, that doesn't mean I think people shouldn't post about Pokémon it just means I'm having fun posting about sailor moon. If I post about ships in Person of Interest that doesn't mean I think the show is a romance or that I don't deeply love the bigger sci fi story being told, it just means I am having fun writing fanfiction and its what I want to discuss. If I saw someone only focusing on the themes of poi I would also get it, because I enjoyed those aspects of the show even though I'm not the best at discussing them myself. Etc. People can be discussing other aspects they feel like without opposing the aspects you focus on. (That said, yes, sometimes people are arguing and trying to pick fights, and trying to tell others to focus on what They Want and not other aspects, in which case well the above sure doesn't apply. But like to a degree, I think people just posting in their own interests spheres does not automatically mean they oppose other interests or interpretations or don't understand/appreciate them).
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𝐇𝐄𝐘, 𝐈𝐓’𝐒 𝐌𝐄 . . .
or piwon pining thoughts/texts
warnings na genre fluff word count eight hundred excluding texts
note hiii everybody!! sorry i disappeared for a bit but ive been busy with uni TT i got an 85 on my recent assignment tho so everybody cheer… anyway ive been obsessed with piwon lately hence this post but fear not i have an enha version coming soon
keeho
confident but humble. he doesn’t have any expectations for your relationship but hopes that you’ll eventually catch on to his borderline obnoxious flirting, and better yet, reciprocate. if you do happen to return his feelings, he doesn’t waste any time in asking you out properly, because why wait? his friends say he laughs too loud around you for you to not know about his feelings, but he swears that they’re just being dramatic… he’s so normal and chill about you, really, that joke about the refrigerator or something was just funny!
taeyang
an absolute menace. you end up assuming that he hates you with how he stares you down whenever you enter his vicinity and with how he exchanges hushed whispers with his friends from across the room, silenced only when he turns his head far away enough to steal glances at you. eventually, once he asks for your number under the guise of it apparently being weird that you were the only two between your mutual friend groups to not have exchanged numbers, he plays into this idea, hoping he can pull off some sort of enemies to lovers trope, because it always works in books, right? in truth, he’s just a little bit apprehensive about the vulnerability that comes with liking someone, and tries to preserve his pride with thinly veiled insults that upon second glance quickly fall apart. can you melt his icy cold heart? (the answer is yes.)
jiung
likes you from the very beginning, but is a strong believer in the idea that lovers should be friends first, so he tries his best to establish a genuine relationship with you before he even begins to think about making any moves. he shows strong initiative even throughout your friendship–whether it’s invitations to meet up for lunch, to see that movie you’ve been eagerly waiting the release of, or even paying for your coffee every single time, he’s quick to assure you and dispels any worries you might have about repaying him with a wave of his hand and a bright smile–your company is enough, he says, and if you end up falling for him (who wouldn’t?) he, of course, eagerly awaits the day he can take you for an actual date, but enjoys every moment he spends with you until then just as much.
intak
by far the most shameless with his affection. he can’t help it–you have him hopelessly whipped from the very beginning and he’s terrible at hiding it anyway, so why not lean into it? the first to jump up from his seat when you mention being thirsty–water or juice? and the first to compliment you regardless of the circumstances of your meeting, even on those days you can’t manage anything but a sweater pulled hastily over your shoulders and a messy updo. it’s impossible not to feel flattered around him, and he’s honestly not even actively trying to flatter you, he’s just being wholly honest. if you ever want to shut him up, just compliment him back–hopefully you have a stretcher on hand!
shota
the cutest ever. you catch him staring at you more than a few times before he eventually works up the nerve to approach you, and initially you’re intimidated–but the moment he opens his mouth you know that he’s harmless, and obscenely adorable to beat. he’s not the greatest at expressing himself with words, so he makes sure to show that he likes you by sending you things that remind him of you–songs from an artist he likes, those little figures you collect he sees in the window of a store on the way to work, a rainbow in the sky after a rainy morning. sometimes he provides some commentary, or a cute emoticon, and other times he says nothing, sending only a simple picture and hoping that you can feel even just some of the many emotions that rush through him at the thought of you and have his heart fluttering in his chest when you eventually reply.
jongseob
the sweetest of angels. he doesn’t crush often, but when he does, he crushes hard, so he doesn’t want to mess it up. though he’s rather reserved on the flirting front, he makes sure to send good morning and good night texts every day, without fail, on top of the seemingly random yet innocuous questions he asks throughout the day–what did you eat for lunch? how was work? any thoughts on this new album that just came out? part of it is in hopes that eventually you’ll fall for him as he did you, but he does also take genuine interest in you as a person and wants to know everything about you there is to know if you’ll just give him the chance. flirt with him at all and you’ll very quickly have him turning into a giggling, indecipherably stammering mess.
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