〘 Tao x Reader, Ertegun x Reader | Ending Spoilers in Taos Section ! | ~.5K words 〙
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💿 ✦ TAO !!
╰ You get bragging rights if you ever get to date this man
╰ Like seriously, this man hates working with people, the fact you managed to get him to date you should go down in history
╰ Tao is not a very romantic guy honestly
╰ He’s not an emotional guy in general lmao
╰ He doesn’t like displaying affection in public
╰ He’s also not very touchy-feely
╰ He’ll let you hug and kiss him, but only in private and not for long periods of time
╰ He’s very blunt, so he’ll tell you immediately if he likes something you’re doing or if he hates it
╰ He actually had a hard time writing a romance song back when it was very popular.
╰ In the end, it ended up being very generic lyric-wise.
╰ But when you got together, he managed to write a perfect love song.
╰ He ended up saving it and only releasing it once romance songs got popular again lmao
╰ Once he went into hiding, he waited some time before contacting you
╰ He gave you the choice to go with him or stay since he knew it’d be hard for you to leave
╰ He had no attachments to the city other than his technical sister and you, on the other hand, you had set a life in the city
╰ He’d understand if you decided to stay, sad because he wouldn’t be able to be with you anymore, but understanding
╰ If you went with him he’d be very grateful. He knows it was a difficult decision but he’s happy he can spend the rest of his life with you.
💿 ✦ ERTEGUN !!
╰ omg, how could you get together with this man?
╰ I’m not talking in the “this was a challenge cuz he’s not an emotional/people person” way like Tao, I’m talking in the “how do you stand this man and how can you deal with him” way
╰ He boasts about you all the time lmao
╰ Doesn’t matter how famous you are. You could even be just a normal person with a normal job, and he’ll still boast about you like you’re more famous than him
╰ He’s rather oblivious however
╰ You’ll need to be direct with him and not dance around the problem
╰ If you feel uncomfortable with all his boasting, tell him. He will not get any hints.
╰ He’ll stop doing whatever you find uncomfortable after you tell him
╰ He’s very affectionate
╰ His main love language is giving gifts and physical affection
╰ He likes words of endearment
╰ Watch out what you say tho, you might end up (somehow) boasting his ego
╰ He’s had many partners, so he has experience unlike Tao
╰ If you’re a musician, he’d love to do a duet/collab with you
╰ Even if it’s not your job, if you have any experience with music, he’ll want to do something with you
╰ He likes having someone that will hear him vent, even when it’s stuff that he knows is dumb
╰ He’s not the smartest, to be honest, so the smart decision will probably end up being done by you
╰ Unless he can’t get hold of you, which then he’ll try and “solve it like y/n would”
╰ In the end, he’s a sweet guy, maybe a little full of himself, but still sweet
OTHER ROLES: Norman (The Promised Neverland), Carole Stanley (Carole & Tuesday), Endorsi Jahad (Tower of God)
MINA SOHMA (Momiji's Daughter) - Emily Neves
OTHER ROLES: Eri (My Hero Academia), Kanade "Angel" Tachibana (Angel Beats)
MICHI MANABE (Kakeru's Daughter) - Erica Mendez
OTHER ROLES: Gon Freeces (Hunter x Hunter), Emma (The Promised Neverland), Retsuko (Aggretsuko), Tsubaki Sawabe (Your Lie in April), Raphtalia (The Rising of the Shield Hero)
RIO MOSCA (Hanajima's Son) - Caitlin Glass
I could only upload 10 images max, damn
OTHER ROLES: Machi Kuragi (Fruits Basket), Damian Desmond (Spy x Family), Winry Rockbell (Fullmetal Alchemist), Mina Ashido (My Hero Academia), Haruhi Fujioka (Ouran High School Host Club)
Thought it would be funny since Caitlin would probably also direct this series (she directed the 2019 dub), plus she does a good young boy voice that is unrecognizable.
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Synopsis
The story revolves around the two girls Carole Stanley and Tuesday Simmons, both raised from different circumstances which makes them seem worlds apart but their love for music brings them together to resonate and bond like no others. We watch their growth as musicians in Alba City, a fictional place set on Mars, as they rise to new heights both in recognition and understanding their love for music and one and other.
Characters
Carole Stanley and Tuesday Simmons are the main characters.
Gus Goldman and Roddy are the supporting cast.
There's a long extended reach of characters but the ones to mention would be Angela Carpenter, Dahlia Carpenter, Tao, Valerie Simmons, Spencer Simmons, Kyle and Ertegun.
Happy birthday to the one and only: Angela Carpenter, I remember hating her when I started watching Carole and Tuesday, I mean she was selfish, mean, spoiled and always telling Carole and Tuesday that she was better than them and that is why I hate her, but when they start to introduce her life and we get to see the real Angela, the Angela that is not hiding from the mask that she is always wearing as a model and as an artist, the human being called Angela, the one with flaws, the reason why I started to like her, because she reminds me of Marylin Monroe and how society puts pressure on women when they are artists and how they have to pretend that they are perfect when all the time that they are hiding their emotions, they are lonley and with suicidal thoughts, she save me and that is why she is one of my favorite waifus and also she has the best songs in the whole anime and I also dance with her songs, she is a real star and when I say that I mean she shines everyday helping others and making others happy and making them feel special and love, she is willing to sacrifice her happiness for others happiness, she is not perfect and that's okay, she's just like everybody else and that is why she is so relatable, she is so strong that she surpass all the obstacles life put in her life and I'm glad I watch Carole and Tuesday and that anime introduce me one of my favorite waifus in the world and I aspire to be like her in the future.
Why the Politics of Carole and Tuesday are Important to the Narrative and Themes
“Media shouldn’t get political” is a phrase that’s being thrown around more and more now-a-days. People are saying media should not try to convince a person to take a certain political stance. Now to be frank this is blatantly bad take often coming from people who don’t understand that good art has themes it tries to address, but one might look at Carole and Tuesday and provide a simple counter argument to my statement: “Carole and Tuesday does have a theme, but that theme is the conflict between genuine music and artificial AI music which it focuses on in the first season but then in the second season it throws all this out the window to ‘get political’ and focus on immigration policies.” So basically the argument is that media does have themes, but the politics gets in the way of those themes. Okay, sure, now let me explain to you why that’s total bullshit and, at least for Carole and Tuesday’s case, the politics actually interwoven into the theme as opposed to it. And for the record, what are the themes of Carole and Tuesday? The people who are saying this shit about media “getting political” (conservatives) actually have more in common with this “political” show than they realize!
Just so we’re all on the same page the thesis of Carole and Tuesday’s earlier episodes is that music created artificially by AI in this future lacks a “soul”. Carole and Tuesday as a band making music on their own infuse this soul back into the industry and they’re remarkable success is an indication that humans want this kind of music. Also, several characters we know to be wise protagonists come right out and say this, like the singer Desmond.
The thesis of the second season is that the anti-immigration policies of presidential candidate Valerie Simmons as well as the media censorship policies enacted to protect these anti-immigration policies are both wrong. Honestly when key characters the audience knows to be good people start getting arrested and deported by “MICE” there isn’t much complicated analysis to be done is there?
So how are these two sides of the show connected? If we look at them from the lens of modern day politics, one of them is a conservative thought (gee wasn’t music better back in my day), and the other is a progressive thought (gee wouldn’t it be cool if stopped racially profiling immigrants). However, these are both connected by the concept of “motherhood” that defines the last song in the show and the “7 minute miracle”. Even mothers as horrible as Tuesday’s and Angela’s are given redemption and eventually seen as good in the end despite what they did (need I remind you Angela’s mother mentions beating her earlier in the show).
This concept applied to the first half of the show makes a lot of sense: motherhood is an obvious symbol of connecting to the past. Your mother is quite literally the farthest in the past any person can go. They are also your family and provide warmth for you in the same way the human-created songs provide warmth and soul.
To look at the second half lets look at when Tuesday initially brings up this idea to Carole: She describes Earth as Mother Earth. Remember, these are not just any immigrants, they’re immigrants from Earth. Earth is the original home of humanity, and so this title of “Mother Earth” makes a lot of sense. Earth is our origin. With that being said, the anti-immigration policies can be viewed as cutting off Mars from its origin and doesn’t that sound super familiar to the first half’s message about music? So in a weird way, being pro-immigration in Carole and Tuesday is thematically a conservative idea.
Censorship also factors into that conservation Carole and Tuesday had. They said “you are born free”. What this implies is that we can obtain freedom by connecting to our roots. The new age of technology is actually stripping away our freedoms by taking away tasks that were previously human such as driving, delivering packages and of course composing and singing songs. Technology is also used multiple times for surveillance and stalking. Oddly enough the only technology that is posed in a good light is social media like Instagram, whatever YouTube equivalent Carole and Tuesday’s first performance was uploaded to, and whatever they used to stream the “7 minute miracle” to the world. I think all these technology are seen as good because they let people express themselves.
So, yeah, turns out Carole and Tuesday has pretty conservative libertarian show despite themes despite what you might think from the latter half. Of course I still think the pro-immigration message is a very very good thing. You see, the only fault is that the show thinks pro-immigration is good because that’s what we did “back in the day”. That’s obviously not true for modern politics and in fact that reasoning often lead to anti-immigration politics.
Whether you agree or disagree with Carole and Tuesday’s politics, what I hopefully proved here today is that those politics are incredibly important to the theme of the show and not some kind of tacked on message. And, you know, that’s often the case for these shows that “get political”.