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writingabouteverything · 3 years

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The Perfect White Flower--and Other Nonexistent Things

a/n YALL THIS IS PROBABLY DUMB BUT I HAD THIS IDEA ABOUT A HARRY STYLES X READER FIC THATS BASED ON THE PLOT OF JANE THE VIRGIN AND I WANTED TO WRITE IT SO BADLY I MADE THIS ACCOUNT

disclaimer--wont follow the show exactly

Pairing: Harry Styles x latina! reader (a key factor of the show revolves around the lead being latina, and im latina and honestly love writing for us but anyone can still read and understand/hopefully enjoy and the fic doesn’t involve any physical descriptions:))

Series Summary: Y/n l/n has had the world figured out since she was a child. She won’t be a writer because it’s risky, she’ll just focus on school and becoming a teacher. She’s never been a child, because her mother had her at sixteen and hasn’t aged a single year since. That’s part of the reason the promise she made to her grandmother means so much to her--if she doesn’t have sex before marriage, her child will never have to grow up as quickly as she did. And Harry Styles is at the top of the world--his music has never been more successful, he has a lovely girlfriend, and he’s never been more in demand. He has everything in the world...except a child, and through a series of unbelievable events--y/n might be his only chance to have one. Ever.

Chapter One Summary: Who knew getting a pap smear on two hours of sleep and three cups of coffee was as bad as having unprotected sex?

There’s something dangerous about taking public transportation in LA. And no, I don’t mean it in the ‘there are bad people in the world’ type of way. I mean it in the ‘I live in one of the casual influencer, celebrity, tourist hubs of the world and each time I step onto the bus I find myself mesmerized by all the stories I see in them’ way. Kind of pathetic, I know, but sometimes a child with blonde pig tails or a woman streaming on instagram live will catch my eye and the urge to pull out my lap top and start something I’ll never finish.

I know that writing isn’t some kind of disease. But I can’t let myself fall in love with it the way I want to. There’s nothing wrong with writing a short story or two, but trying to write a novel? That’s impractical. It will distract me from school, from the four year plan I’m almost done with.

Sighing, I brave taking at my surroundings. I deserve this today, after the anonymous, rude costumer at the hotel today, I need positivity. No one is particularly inspiring. The bus stops and I watch out the window. At first the crowd is ordinary, and then i see them...paparazzi. Flashing cameras from all angles, grown men violating all rules of personal space. It never sits right with me, but I guess it’s just part of living in LA. The bus starts moving again. When it stops again, I see even more paparazzis, but their cameras aren’t flashing. Good for whoever escaped that.

The bus door opens and I snap my attention back to my computer screen. I rub my eyes as I stare at my word document. How is there more that needs to be edited? This professor is the harshest grader I’ve ever had, and my friend, Gisa, is kind for giving me even more notes. But I’m exhausted. Two tests and an essay due before 12:00. And it’s...11:38. Great--I have to upload it the second I’m at my doctor’s office and have WiFi again.

I spend some time highlighting and rewording sentences, and once I’m done I reward myself with more people watching because I deserve it and I can’t fall asleep here. I’m kind of invested in the girl live streaming her bus ride...maybe she’ll say her instagram handle.

But when I look up, she’s not on the bus anymore. Almost no one is. An elderly couple is sitting towards the back. A woman with a toddler sit two rows in front of me...and there’s now a man directly across from me. I blink for a moment, imagining a story for someone who’s face I can’t quite see beneath such dark sun glasses. His dark waves and strong jaw do most of the imagining for me--he deserves a mystery, a dramatic one with a happy ending and just enough romance to keep the people interested. A good romance, too--not too sappy. Enemies to lovers, maybe. A mysterious stranger that’s not really a stranger because something about him is just...familiar.

He turns his head and I drop my gaze immediately. There’s no doubt he caught that, but I still pretend to edit the title of my essay. “You’ve been typing stubbornly since I first got on the bus.” There’s an accent--of course he’s english. But it’s more than that, I’ve heard that voice before. I’ve been...soothed by it. And--oh my god, I’m sitting across from Harry Styles.

Okay, don’t freak out. Don’t freak him out. He’s probably on here to escape the the whole ‘oh my god, you’re Harry Styles!’ thing.

“What are you writing?” Harry Styles just spoke to me. I greeted my one direction poster every single day in middle school, and Harry Styles just spoke to me. Okay--relax, breathe--it’s only weird if you make it weird.

There’s a kind of curt curiosity to his question. He could have been ruder, considering how blatantly I was staring at him. “I um...an essay.” I’m temped to turn the screen so that he can see I’m telling the truth. Though he wasn’t hostile, a part of me is paranoid that he thinks I am writing about him. It’s a fair assumption, for all he knows I’m drafting a tweet about who I saw on the bus this morning or preparing to send something in to some gossip girl-esque blog. “It’s due today at noon and normally I’m way more on top of things, but I had this last minute doctor’s appointment rescheduling because my usual doctor is out of town and--” I cut myself off before I can tell Harry Styles that I’m ovulating and that if I don’t go to my OBGYN now, I have to wait an entire month and I’ve already been off birth control longer than I’d like. I might not have actual sex in my near future, but my cramps have been extra terrible. “An essay, I just finished an essay.”

He nods once. Maybe he feels bad for so thoroughly startling me into such a rambling, because the corner of his mouth tilts upwards. A soft smile adds even more grace to his features, I focus on the dimple that appears in his cheek. “An aggravating essay, I take it, considering the death glares you’ve been giving your laptop screen.”

I smile at his polite humor. “It’s for the harshest grader on campus. She took three points off of my first essay freshman year because I spaced my bibliography wrong.”

He cringes in sympathy. “Good luck.”

“Thanks,” I hum, proud of myself for not letting him know that I know who he is. The bus stops, I can see my doctor’s office behind a few paparazzi. “This is my stop.”

Harry nods once, ducking his head slightly. A tiny part of me feels sympathy for him; from what I’ve gathered, he genuinely loves his fans and the relationship they have, but it must be draining to never have a moment of privacy. Especially when it’s people who care more about selling your picture than your mental health.

I linger on the bus’s step, watching the men with large cameras look around. “Excuse me, are you guys looking for Harry Styles?” Most of the men disregard me, but one looks at me. “I know he’s near here because I’m a really big fan and my friend just texted that she saw him.” This gets me the attention I wanted. “He’s at Northfield--a cafe like three blocks down. I just know that if she got a picture with Harry in like a magazine or something she’d totally lose it--in a good way, and she’s been having a bad time so if you see her can you try to make it happen? Knowing her she’ll be at his side, she’s blonde, shortish hair.”

The men seem skeptical, but I guess they realize that this is the best lead they have. I think the fact that I gave a reason to justify selling Harry out for no reason helped. They disperse together, heading at least three blocks away from Harry. I don’t know if I’ve actually helped him, but I hope I have.

“Essay girl.” I freeze, half cringing. Did he hear that? That’s embarrassing. I consider darting away, but decide that would just make me cringe more. So I turn on my heels. “You...you forgot your phone.”

He just saved my life. “Thank you.” I take my phone from his outstretched hand, ignoring the slight thrill that runs through me when our fingers brush. “You’re my hero--the last thing I needed today was to run all over the city searching for my phone.” I finish the awkward admission with a partial laugh.

“Least I could do,” he mumbles, “especially considering what you just did.”

...He did see that. “Oh um--it was nothing, I just kind of made a connection and assumed the only reason you’d be on a public bus is because you were trying to avoid some things, and you make really great music and a lot of people happy, so you deserve that break.” Why does it feel like I’ve been talking forever? “Anyways, thanks for the whole phone thing, and I hope I got them off your tail.”

My joke seems to somewhat land. His lips part, like he’s planning on saying something else. A timer on my phone interrupts him. I instinctually look down--great, the alarm on my phone warning me that I’m only ten minutes away from being late. “I’m late.” I turn towards the bus’s exit. “I gotta go, but thanks again, and I hope you have a good day.”

I disappear after that, still not sure that that whole thing wasn’t some kind of hallucination. Did I just meet Harry Styles? He...he gave me my phone. Harry Styles has touched my phone. I can’t wait to tell Gisa, she’ll lose it.

I’m still thinking about Harry Styles when I finally reach my OBGYN’s office. When I get there, things are a lot more hectic than I thought they’d be. Many people crowd the waiting area and the receptionist’s desk is clearly understaffed. Two young girls are trying to address multiple upset pregnant women and take phone calls at the same time, all while practically buried in a sea pf paperwork. Wow, I didn’t realize that transferring was such chaos. One of the girls waves me over and barely checks my name before shoving a form towards me. I fill out as quickly as possible.

I upload my essay quickly after checking in. Who knows, maybe Harry Styles’s blessing will get me an A? A third person in scrubs emerges from the back after a moment and ushers me into a room. I tell myself to focus on going over the facts I need for the test I have to take in a little over an hour. Or to focus on the fact that I just met Harry Styles. But instead, I feel my heavy eyelids fall shut.

I don’t know how long I sleep, but I know that I wake up during the middle of a doctor’s sentence, “...I know I’m not your usual, so I just want to make sure you’re comfortable.”

“Hm...Yeah, yeah I’m comfortable.” She nods once, her wide eyes slightly red. “But I do have a class today in like an hour, so I was wondering if this was going to take longer because of the office’s move?”

“Oh, no,” she shakes her head. “Just because Dr. Rodriguez gave us no notice before deciding that she no longer wanted to work here...or in the country. Or even live in the US, despite the fact that we just signed a lease on a place together...” Tears well in the stranger’s eyes, pity settles in my stomach.

“That sounds incredibly complicated, I didn’t mean to rush you.”

She blinks twice, her expression blanking as she fights against the pain of what’s clearly a terrible break up. “No, no--you have every right. Today is your day and if..honestly, if you’re strong enough to go to a class after this, and do what you’re about to do by yourself, then I’m strong enough to get through today.”

Um...didn’t realize a pap smear counted as something that needs moral support, but I’ll chalk it up to her heightened emotions. “Thanks.”

She snaps on her medical gloves. “No, thank you for your patience. Now lay down.”

I do as told, preparing for a sensation I haven’t often experienced. A moment passes and I know she’s started. She’s moving away from me much faster than expected. Oh--I guess pap smears are a lot shorter than I expected.

“That’s it?”

“Yep,” she hums, pulling her gloves off. “Now just take it easy, and hydrate.”

Weird...but that’s like general doctor advice. “Thanks!”

I’ve never wanted to keep a secret from Gisa, but sometimes I really regret telling her I met Harry Styles. It’s been almost a month and I find my mind wandering back to the moment in which our fingers brushed more than I should. Sometimes I let myself wonder what he might have said if my phone hadn’t rang. I was probably just imagining the way his lips parted, but my ind refuses to let it go.

“...You know it’s kind of sad, I read an interview in which he spoke about the fact that he has some genetic condition that makes it hard to have kids. He has so many godchildren, and I feel like he’d make such a great father.”

I try to keep up with Gisa’s words, but the dull ache in my head makes it feel so far away. “Yeah...he seemed really patient.”

Gisa nods, turning to face me. “You alright, you’re looking kinda green?”

“Yeah...” I reach for my canvas bag. “I think I just...I probably just need some water.”

My hand grazes the metal of my water bottle and then the corners of my vision blur into blackness. I sway, Gisa’s hand is on my shoulder...and then it all goes black.

I sit uncomfortably on the hospital’s cot. Gisa is a traitor for telling my mom that I fainted. I knew she’d just drag me here--hispanic mothers, they either believe they can cure you with vic’s vapor rub or they want you in the ER. No in between.

“I know you didn’t want another test, but you’ve been throwing up in the morning for days and now you’re fainting.”

“Fainted,” I correct, “it happened once.”

“C’mon, mija, it’s just one doctor’s appointment.”

Speaking of, an ER nurse returns. “Fainting and nausea spells explained,” he says, glancing at his clipboard, “you’re pregnant.”

My mom and I can’t help but exchange a look before bursting into laughter. Pregnant. If I’m pregnant then the second coming is here. “That’s impossible, I’m a virgin.”

He glances at my mom, “maybe we should have this conversation in private.”

“No, what you say in front of me you can say in front of my mom.”

My mom raises an eyebrow. “Y/n, did you and that guy from your english class--”

“No! No, we did not. I am a virgin and there’s no way I’m pregnant.” I glare at the nurse.

He then ushers me to a bathroom so that I can provide a urine sample. After I’m finished, he shows me a pregnancy test strip. “Pink means pregnant.” I bite my tongue as he tests the strip in my sample. He pulls it out and it’s...it’s bright pink.

“I’m calling my doctor, because this has to be a mistake. It has to be like a hormonal thing.”

“Exactly, pregnancy hormones.”

I glare even harder, calling the doctor that I saw last week. “Hello, Dr. Ash? I was wondering if I could get a consultation because I’m in the ER and some crazy doctor is trying to tell me I’m pregnant.”

Silence on the line for a long second. “...I actually cleared my calendar for you.”

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deiliamedlini · 2 years

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Aggressively WIP Wednesday 😁

Okay, so I actually think I need help. Maybe an opinion if you have a minute! I was working on a minific and even did a WIP Wed of this almost a year ago hahaha (oops talk about neglect) but I’m now rewriting what I had of it and I just don’t know if it’s coming out okay or if it’s too hard to read/follow, or too boring. Ugh. I haven’t been this confused about the beginning of a WIP in a long time, so I’m turning to my favorite creative day of the week for help.

In terms of the plot, Zelda met a group of friends in Hyrule Warriors, which is an MMORPG (online multiplayer game). Shocker, it’s the Champions. So she befriends Link the most because of course she would. But the way it’s written is sometimes like game chats, so like I said, idk if it’s in dire need of reworking or anything.

I’d say this fic will be rated M. And the online assholes in this fic are 100% real, but reworded so you can’t find the OG tweets despite it still making me bitter to this day because a few of us were bombarded on Twitter for answering a survey asking what we wanted added, and we asked for an option for female characters to a class. Nope; not me being bitter.

This WIP is 4000+ words because honestly, I’m in panic mode about it for some reason, so have a chunk of content from it today lol

The Elysian Fields were lush and green; wisps of wafting clouds scattering across the grassy flower patches. Zelda looked around, admiring the beauty. It was one of her favorite activities: running around and just looking at everything. The sights, the sounds. It was all crafted to perfection.

She watched her robe billow in the breeze, even while she stood completely still, the leaves moving, the water rippling. Bugs and birds flew. Fireflies of amber darted around.

Idling, she yawned. It was peaceful. Who could really blame her?

Perhaps her one complaint was the ridiculous outfit she was wearing. While it looked stunning, emblazoned with gems and strapless, a long train and a short front, lace sleeves that blew around her, even a deep dipped neckline that plunged halfway down her chest, it was highly impractical.

How was anyone, even a magic user like herself, meant to fight monsters in such a stupid ensemble?

Her knight was late, and Zelda was getting impatient. Soon, she’d trek off on her own. For a while, she played with her water magic, letting her specialty rain down an epic display all for herself.

She had to loot some sapphires off the blue poe spirits. It was the only thing she needed to enchant her long staff. And if that stupid knight didn’t get here soon…

WildKnightOut2: hey srry I’m late. Fuzzball needed to be fed the soft food

WildKnightOut2: Gods forbid I give him hard food. Spoiled brat

xPrincessZx: No problem. I’m in Elysian Fields.

xPrincessZx: PS-Duchess never gives me a hard time with her food

WildKnightOut2: I already know you have a perfect cat no need to rub it in

A Hylian warrior ran up to her and bowed, floppy green hat plopping around, clipping through his green tunic and chainmail. His blue and silver Hylian Shield sparkled from his back, hiding some of the rare weapons he carried.

Zelda sat back in her computer chair and chuckled at the screen. Wild always bowed to her, ever since they first met while playing Hyrule Warriors.

She’d been minding her own business at a merchant in Castle Town when his little Hylian had run straight up to her and bowed. Though it was cute because of her character name, she didn’t understand until a message pinged in the bottom left of her screen.

(PM): WildKnightOut2: Hey Princess

(PM): xPrincessZx: Hello?

(PM): WildKnightOut2: Jst wondering if u have a spare flower crown from yesterday’s festival. Missed it. Will pay

Zelda pulled up her inventory, forgetting she was still wearing her flower crown from the Flower Fest. It must have been what tipped him off. In fact, she had four spares.

(PM): zPrincessZx: Yeah, I do. Come to the chest and I’ll trade.

(PM): WildKnightOut2: Thx

She’d never done a trade with anyone who wasn’t in her guild, so she’d felt nervous running to grab it.

(PM): WildKnightOut2: How much u want?

(PM): xPrincessZx: Actually, I’ll give it to you free if you’re willing to help me with a quest? Or 10k.

WildKnightOut2 would like to join your party.

She accepted and watched his character appear in the corner of her screen.

WildKnightOut2: That’s a rip off, btw. Crowns are with 15k at least. Don’t undersell

xPrincessZx: Thanks. I didn’t realize. I’m still kind of new.

WildKnightOut2: Howd u get out here then?

xPrincessZx: I had a run from a friend in my guild.

WildKnightOut2: Got room for a warrior in there?

Of course, that was months ago. Now, she expected such a gesture. He was the one in the guild she’d clicked with the most. Though there were four others who made up the marvelous group, The Champions, Zelda found the most in common with Wild.

Though… she didn’t know his real name. She didn’t know any of their real names. Not their voices, or their faces. All she had was a character, and that character’s appearance.

To her, Wild was a short, blonde, muscular, handsome knight in shining armor (literally at times), with brilliant blue eyes and a ridiculous elf-like costume. Not that her costume was much better. And gods, that plunge dress was what he had to use to visualize her.

Zelda looked down at her real clothes: pajama bottoms that she’d thrown on the second she’d gotten home from work, and the mis-matched brown cardigan she’d worn all day that was too comfortable to take off. The thick glasses on her face were hardly a match for the glass orbs that floated around her character. Though she’d made hers as close to her real self as she could, she felt her character beat her by leaps and bounds.

It was easy with Wild. He was a Hylian. The others?

RockRoast12345 was a rock-like goron warrior with a Warhammer who packed a serious punch as the guild’s tank. He soaked up all as much damage as he could, and Rock’s build was strategically planned to redirect all that damage right back to enemies. He was perfection, aggroing all the enemies to him, shielding the group so they could do their own damage.

It helped that Rutella Zoran IV was one of the most skilled clerics in the game. A red Zora—and clearly not what she looked like in real life—who curiously wielded a spear rather than a staff, she’d joined the guild when the NPC healers were so useless that they had to succumb and call for a new member. Her healing skills were maxed out, and her attention to stats was something that Zelda could never understand. She kept Rock at max health while he took the damage.

And TheBestYouveNeverMet was a blue rito. A bird. She highly doubted she was talking to a real anamorphic bird. He was a ranger with a bow, dealing attacks from the back of the group with her, ranged combat as their mutual specialty.

Finally, a Gerudo Paladin, their guild leader named ThunderstruckQueen, rounded out the group. Zelda was jealous of the purchase-only red hairstyle the Gerudo had for her character. She had a sword and shield, but her body flickered with elemental lightening magic. Paladins were the hardest class to play as because of their varying styles, but ThunderstruckQueen was unstoppable.

And together, they formed The Champions.

Most of the time, they played as a group. One of Zelda’s favorite memories had been when they’d first brought TheBest in, and he hadn’t gotten on with Wild right off the bat. She’d saved several screenshots of their chaos.

(PM): WildKnightOut2: should I aggro a group over so he has to fight them for us?

(PM): xPrincessZx: No! Don’t do that! I’ll get sent over to deal with them!

(PM): xPrincessZx: HEY! I SEE YOU ON THE MAP!

(PM): xPrincessZx: WILD GET BACK TO THE GROUP

On the mini-map, she’d seen a hoard of red coming at them and rolled her eyes before joining TheBest to kill them with area attacks. It was the easiest way that they got themselves killed in this game: self-sabotage.

Some days, they didn’t play together. Other times, only two of them were on. But on weekends, they all came together in an unstoppable force.

After a week of lesson plans, and cleaning the classrooms, and sneezing students, and emails asking for an extension on a paper that wasn’t even due yet, she relished the escape the weekend provided. Granted, she still had to grade about a hundred tests, but that was a problem for Sunday or even Monday. Tonight was Friday, and on Fridays, Wild was always on.

When it was just the two of them, they worked seamlessly.

WildKnightOut2: Okay, I’m ready. Fuzz is asleep on my foot

xPrincessZx: Aww! I wish I knew where Dutchess was

WildKnightOut2: go find her

The loading screen for the Haunted Wasteland came up, and she sighed. He’d already warped them.

“Dutch?” Zelda called, spinning around in her chair.

On cue, a fluffy, dainty white cat sauntered out from the other room with all the swagger of a true royal, head even tilted up slightly. Paws reached out in a big stretch, mouth widening in a yawn. She glanced once at Zelda, then promptly ignored her so she could sit on the back of the couch and stare out the window at traffic.

“Good chat,” Zelda muttered, turning back around to wait for the map to load.

Despite not knowing their faces or voices, she did know almost everything else about her guild members, from their families, to their jobs, and even their hobbies. She and Wild bonded over their cats almost immediately. His, a fat orange cat with an attitude towards anyone who wasn’t Wild, and who needed exercise, according to the vet. Wild had told her of a time he’d tried to leash Fuzz for a walk, but it had been a mewling mess. And she knew when Fuzz was nearby crawling over Wild’s keys, because his character would be sent running off a cliff as a long stream of senseless letters and symbols were sent to the party chat.

When her screen loaded, Wild was dancing, waiting for her.

She chuckled, especially when he ran circles around her, creating a swirl in the fog that had her smiling wider.

WildKnightOut2: ur internet sucks. Where exactly we going princess?

xPrincessZx: I need to farm for new armor out in the Haunted Wasteland’s sand dunes. Do you need to do anything?

WildKnightOut2: I need to help u farm in the haunted wasteland sand dunes. What do you need?

xPrincessZx: 10 Sapphires

WildKnightOut2: damn ok I have 2 u can have so u only need 8

xPrincessZx: You sure?

WildKnightOut2 would like to trade. Zelda pushed a piece of hair from her face and tried to hide her wide grin at his enthusiasm, as if he could see her.

xPrincessZx: Thanks. How’d that party go last night?

WildKnightOut2: Sucked

xPrincessZx: Cool details. Thanks

WildKnightOut2: If ud been there, ud have hated it

xPrincessZx: Why?

WildKnightOut2: Bunch of self-absorbed idiots. Like TheBest is

xPrincessZx: Lol. He’s not that bad.

WildKnightOut2: if u say so

WildKnightOut2: How was sowr

WildKnightOut2: Work*

Zelda autoran towards the path, only stopping her typing when she needed to slightly turn to stay on target.

xPrincessZx: Same old. Someone stayed after class to talk about their favorite tv show because they heard I watched too

WildKnightOut2: What show?

xPrincessZx: Moonlight Howl

WildKnightOut2: Nice. Good show

Though she was about to compliment his taste in television, she spotted a blue poe in the corner of her screen and pinged it. They both ran, a team of NPCs following close behind.

They headed into the Wasteland looking for blue poes that had rare drops for sapphires. She and Wild took out a few groups before they started to struggle. Neither could play and talk at the same time fast enough to warn the other that something was happening, and they both ended up at the shrine of resurrection more times than they cared to admit.

xPrincessZx: Did you like last week’s episode? Amara and Castor were getting it on

WildKnightOut2: Pfff well now I know what kind of movies you watch

xPrincessZx: Calling me out like that ;)

Zelda sat back and took a deep breath, pressing her palm anxiously into her forehead as she crashed into a poe, thankful for the distraction and the need to fight, not type. Her heart raced whenever she tried to flirt with Wild, but he had to think she was insane.

WildKnightOut2: Damn and here I thought I’d be left wondering

xPrincessZx: All you ever have to do is ask

She hadn’t even realized that her character was standing in the middle of the sand dunes, surrounded by skeletons raising up from the dead in the night. It was only when the screen flashed red from damage that she even looked off the chat.

“Shit,” she muttered, casting a shield so she could heal.

Wild’s character ran over, taking out the enemies outside her little bubble.

WildKnightOut2: Distracted, Princess?

xPrincessZx: Was just thinking about you a little too much

ThunderstruckQueen: What am I interrupting?

ThunderstruckQueen: I WISH this game had backchat

ThunderstruckQueen: I need to know

ThunderstruckQueen: As our illustrious leader, I demand to know what I interrupted because damn you two, can we not leave you alone for a few seconds? You’re in the guild chat! Go to PMs if you want to get freaky

Zelda rolled her chair away from her desk, running across the room, her head in her hands, face flushed, and downright burning. She needed to be moving, to let the nerves go through her body, her muscles, her very blood. As if she wasn’t already anxious enough.

Slowly making her way back to the computer, she saw Wild was just as silent.

Swallowing her pride, she sat back down.

xPrincessZx: To be fair, I thought we were in party chat

WildKnightOut2: Same

ThunderstruckQueen: You’re both so cute. Please hook up irl

ThunderstruckQueen: That’s… not what I meant

ThunderstruckQueen: but also… not a bad idea

(PM) WildKnightOut2: Save me

(PM) xPrincessZx: You’re the knight, I’m the princess. I’ll totally play my damsel card in this situation, and only in this situation. You get us out of this

WildKightOut2: You know, I think my cat is calling me. I have to go. Play tomorrow bye

(PM) WildKnightOut2: Love you, Princess, but chivalry is dead

(PM) xPrincessZx: You’re the actual worst

WildKnightOut2 has logged off.

Rolling out of bed Saturday was a challenge all its own.

Relying almost entirely on coffee, bagels, and the love of Duchess to keep her awake, she began her day with her laptop on her dining table, grading a pile of papers that she needed done by Monday.

Until Duchess threw herself on top of the keyboard, demanding attention.

Zelda scratched behind fluffy ears. “You could at least help me, Dutch.”

But met with the yellow glare of her entitled cat, Duchess simply sprawled out more, tapping keystrokes across the screen. Zelda watched the line grow as ufiw became ufiwfiwheffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff.

“Dutch, move. Let me minimize this at least.”

Duchess was attentive, but stubborn. Immobile.

Rolling her eyes once more, seeing the next page of comments open up with more letters, Zelda pulled out her phone and relented to head scratches for her best friend while she looked through a forum for Hyrule Warriors.

IDK I NEED TO COUNT LOL New Notifications.

Following the red, she lazily scrolled through her messages, noticing all but one was a reply to a comment she’d made. Her forum name was different from her character, a bad habit of hers from her youth: twenty screennames, one password for each. So, she logged in as TwilightPrincessOfHyrule.

Hyrule Warriors Team: New Update Includes Armor Options

TwilightPrincessofHyrule: More ridiculous outfits for women? Give me some armor. I get that I’m a mage, but a mage wants to live too! I want to kick ass and look good doing it!

Rrlpztsndb: doesn’t work like that

Bang70219: Most people in war were male and all warriors were male irl so what does it matter. It’s not like the armor is realistic anyway since it wasn’t real

ZantIsKING: This is why girls shouldn’t even be playing games like this. Of course you’d focus on the clothes

TwilightPrincessofHyrule: You know you all sound sexist, right? We want female characters and the POINT of the last few updates has been inclusivity. Why can’t a female character wear decent armor in your opinion? Because you want to see her tits? Fuck off

ZantIsKING: Video games are meant for men because eyou fucking feminists can’t ever be happy with shit. Get over yourself, and get of this community little girl. let the men play

HyruleWarriorsModTeam: @TwilightPrincessOfHyrule, we know you want more female character armor options and while I don't have anything further to add on the subject please know that the comments above yours are not welcome in my community. Hyrule Warriors is for everyone.

ZantIsKING: This message was reported and removed by the moderators for violating the harassment policy. Learn more here

HeroOfTime✔️: @ZantIsKING sick fuck, back off

Zelda gasped as she checked and rechecked the name. HeroOfTime was one of her favorite streamers for Hyrule Warriors, and he was here, in this discussion, on her side.

Known as the lone wolf of gaming, he was never in a guild, and rarely played with real players on his team, opting to command the NPCs around him in ways that dealt serious damage. A warrior with a ranger specialization, golden armor, a wild cross helmet that was almost his signature, he was probably up there as one of the best players she’d ever seen. When he did drop into PVP modes, he slaughtered everyone around him. It was incredible to watch.

And, though he didn’t talk often, when he did, he was funny.

And cute.

Blonde hair that was often a bit wild and messy, piercing blue eyes that stared into the screen just right that the light was constantly complimenting him, usually in a Hyrule Warriors sweatshirt, thick glasses that looked similar to hers. Gods, she would admit that sometimes, she forgot to watch his character when his face was in the corner of the screen.

But no, she would play it cool. This conversation was no time to fangirl at him.

TwilightPrincessofHyrule: It is sick isn’t it? this is what I still have to deal with every time I say anything on these forums. Last time I did a survey where adding more female characters in PVP was an option, and I was still harassed for it

HeroOfTime✔️: @TwilightPrincessOfHyrule that’s so uncalled for. Ur right. There should be more female characters in PVP. Why did u limit them @HyruleWarriorsModTeam? I remember that survey and I voted the same. Anyone want to come at me too?

Voldgoga: Yeah yeah Sexism blah blah blah. What you call Feminism we call logic. No one wants to play as a female bokoblin or general damn it.

QueenMidna: Lol typical aggressive male. Do you even know who you’re talking to right now?

Voldgoga: Yeah sure. You don’t have to drag your freaking gender into a male monster war. When Tecmo took over you’re getting your ego pumped up even more with female lead and the men are being pushed aside just for the sake of inclusion even though it’s stupid for the plot. Not everyone has to be female to make sure you’re satisfied.

QueenMidna: Keep typing I legit love this aggression

HeroOfTime✔️: When did I start playing Hyrule Warriors: Civil War? TwilightPrincess just wanted new armor. Anyone who is trying to invalidate an OPINION is a fucking moron

Voldgoga: You’re the one invalidating opinions @HeroOfTime, so who’s the moron? You’re a fucking feminist too

HeroOfTime✔️: Damn right I am. Me, @QueenMidna and the @TwilightPrincessOf Hyrule will destroy you all in PVP because asshats with no class like you who attack people with your fucked up logic are shit players overcompensating for everything they’re lacking. Bring me diversity you cowards

HeroOfTime✔️: Or better yet @Voldgoga @ZantIsKING @Rrlpztsndb @Bang70219 come fight on stream.

Trello Vello: @HeroOfTime They weren't even being offensive??? Lol they were making a point that bokoblins had no females among their ranks, cuz uhhh there are none. Lol.

Chaos Bringer: @HeroOfTime @Midna @TwilightPrincessOfHyrule calling people disgraceful and sexist while being disgraceful and sexist lmaooooooo

Voldgoga: @TwilightPrincessOfHyrule Feminist! You aint kicking nobodys ass! You’re probably the last one on the scoreboard. What do you want them to do ? Make a female bokoblin Army ?

Jabu’sMom: You can never make a feminist happy 😂

Voldgoga: Yep. bokoblins are male. Half the monsters don’t have a gender. There are female options for every class, Lana the lead of the freaking campaign. And still there are not enough women so let’s make bokoblins female.

TwilightPrincessofHyrule: Legit I never said anything about bokoblins. Do I think there are females? Fuck yes. Did I ask to play as one? No. I asked for more practical looking armor and you all talked yourself into some fucking sexist rant about bokoblins. You’re all fucking nuts

HeroOfTime✔️: @TwilightPrincessofHyrule, don’t even waste your energy on them anymore. I reported them all for harassment. You should too. Nice talking to you all. You’re going to have chat blocked for a while

That little checkmark beside his name was practically as good as saying he was on the developer’s team themselves. Not many players were from verified accounts, so if the Hero had something to say about them, he was going to be listened to.

One New Message

Zelda checked her inbox curiously, expecting to see Voldgoga continuing their rant, but to her surprise, it was HeroOfTime✔️.

HeroOfTime✔️: Hope that didn’t bother u. I didn’t mean to step into ur fight, but when I saw what Zant said, I couldn’t help myself

TwilightPrincessOfHyrule: No worries! I’m glad you did. Your name alone prob scared some people out of the convo, and your reporting def worked

HeroOfTime✔️: U know me?

TwilightPrincessOfHyrule: Doesn’t everyone?

HeroOfTime✔️: Lol idk. I know who I am, so I have a biased answer

TwilightPrincessOfHyrule: I guess that’s true! I’ll speak for everyone else then, and say yes, yes we all do

HeroOfTime✔️: Damn Princess, ur a poet

HeroOfTime✔️: Srry to cut this short but I gotta stream soon, so I g2g. But good talking to u

TwilightPrincessOfHyrule: Yeah, you too! Thanks again, and have a good stream!

She checked her clock. He didn’t usually stream at this time, but she’d get the alert on her phone whenever it started. For now, she set it down and rested her head on her arms, staring at Duchess’s sleeping form, debating moving her off the keyboard or not.

Goddess, she wished she had Wild’s number, or even a way to talk to him outside the game. She wanted to tell him who she’d just spoken to. He watched Hero’s streams too, though she wasn’t sure if he had quite the same fascination with him that she did.

Checking the clock again—and seeing that only one minute had gone by—she figured he’d probably be at work anyway. Despite not knowing her guild’s names or voices, she did know them. Wild was a rock-climbing instructor and in his free time, he was a free solo climber up some mountains. When she’d looked the sport up, she’d been horrified to see that he basically climbed mountains without a harness or ropes, and a fall could kill him. She’d asked if he was good at it, or just did it for fun, and his answer had been an ambiguous “yes” which left her nervously chuckling.

Just as she told him stories about her students, he told her about his. His company sent him to different places for work both indoor and outdoor training, but his favorite students to reminisce about were the ones who screamed at him, or the adults with crushes. And her favorite tales usually ended with them flirting themselves:

WildKnightOut2: Goddess, she kept feeling my arms with her husband right there. And you could just tell he was enjoying the show too.

TheBestYouveNeverMet: Looking at you? Gross

xPrincessZx: Did you report them or anything?

WildKnightOut2: Nah. I can usually tell the harmless ones from the creepy ones. I’ll tell them to stop, but these two were just so in love with me the whole day. I was almost flattered

xPrincessZx: So all it takes is complimenting your arms to win you over?

WildKnightOut2: Give it a shot and I’ll let you know if it works

xPrincessZx: Oh damn you handsome knight. Carry me away in your big strong arms

There had been a long pause.

WildKnightOut2: Yeah, it works

TheBestYouveNeverMet: I stand corrected. Y’all are both gross

“Come on, Dutch,” Zelda cooed, picking her gorgeous queen off the laptop. “I have to work so I can play later, okay?”

Duchess sprawled out in Zelda’s arms, whining and mewling until Zelda set her back down, and she sauntered away towards her cat tower where she could rein over the room in peace.

Tapping her pen against a sticky note anxiously, Zelda couldn’t stop thinking about her slight crushes on these two characters. And they really were just characters, weren’t they? Wild was a man she’d never met in a guild full of friends she didn’t know talking through a chat that was only on while they were out killing moblins. And worse, HeroOfTime was just a hopeless teenager’s kind of crush on a famous actor. He was cute, funny, talented. But she didn’t know him either. But… she supposed that meant that she did technically know Wild.

She knew about his family: he didn’t live near them, but he kept in contact with his grandparents, his father, and his little sister. She knew his job and his hobbies. She knew how to make him laugh. She knew all about his cat.

“Nope,” Zelda muttered, throwing the pen aside and moving the laptop off the table to her couch, setting up the portable lap tray and her mouse so she could just log on to check. Never would any work get done now, so it wasn’t even worth trying to trick herself into being focused.

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would you mind doing a description of each member of nct dream? you don’t have to cuz that’s lowkey a lot BUT i figured i’d ask since i’m trying to write something and get their personalities right. i really admire your work!! have a nice day, babes!!!

yes, of course, lovebug 💕 I’ll be rewording the analyses from the asks about my ideal type and adding to them, so it might be a bit familiar! I could’ve written more, but I had to stop because I reached max length for each paragraph 😅 I hope these are helpful to you, and thank you so much for liking my work, honey bee!!! 💛 best of luck with your writing, and I hope you have a good day, too! 🌼 also, I’m on mobile and I’m so sorry for all the scrolling! I’ll add a read more when I get on my laptop ✨ edit: the read more has been added :’)

MARK :: oh, where do i start with mister absolutely fully capable? mark is the definition of adorkable. if you look up that word in the dictionary, you’re gonna see his picture pasted right under it. he’s endearing and awkward, and he tries his best in everything and puts his best foot forward, giving 110% in whatever he does. he’s a hard worker and a good boy. he laughs at that’s what she said jokes, and he’s the type of person to think of a funny joke from three days ago and start laughing at the most inappropriate time, like in the middle of standard testing. he’ll say things he thinks are funny, like “five guys hello guys” or that long sentence about possibilities and immediately look to you with those wide doe eyes, seeking a positive reaction from you and hoping you’ll laugh. he’ll try to wink at you randomly sometimes, but he always fails and just ends up blinking, which will make you laugh and call him cute and have him scrunching up his nose because that’s not what he intended to happen and he’ll be really flustered at the compliment. he’s really sweet, and I think taeil called him the most romantic? however, I feel like having a relationship isn’t a high priority for him right now. he seems to have workaholic tendencies, which could frustrate his s/o. he would need to have someone that understands his work and music is the most important to him, and he might unintentionally neglect checking up with his s/o at times. he’s a little shy and introverted, so it might be hard for him to make a first move if you aren’t friends at first. he’ll write dozens upon dozens of songs about you. that’s the way he’ll express his affection because he’s too shy to in the beginning and music is what he’s good at. there will be lots of late nights with him strumming his guitar and you sitting next to him, reading a book or playing a game on your phone, and he’ll call your name and you look up before he nervously starts to play a new song that he’s written for you. and at the end of the song, he’ll glance up at you really quickly before looking back down at his guitar, and you’re going to have to go over to him and take his face into your hands softly and tell him his song was amazing and you love it as much as you love him. and he’ll smile so big as his glasses slide down his nose before he quickly leans up and presses the softest kiss against your mouth to show you his appreciation before he loses courage to do so. sometimes you steal those round rimmed glasses of his and try them on yourself, and mark has to cover his face and look away and wring his hands and he makes those little oi mark noises because you look so cute and he doesn’t know what to do with himself. on the other hand, mark is also very stubborn. it may not look like that, but if you notice the relationship between him and hyuck, hyuck is always the one giving in at the end. mark will absolutely not do something if he doesn’t want to do it. I do think he will go after something if he wants it, but he will hesitate slightly at first. he follows the rules a bit too much. he doesn’t seem to be the most fun person to party with either unless you get him to drink a beer because he’s a lightweight, but that also means you have to take care of him afterwards. also, he said in an interview that he doesn’t like rollercoasters or fast rides, but he enjoys the cotton candy at amusement parks lol but he did go on those rides in the end, but his head was down the entire time rip. mark gets easily embarrassed. it’s like in that video where they read tweets aloud and mark got super embarrassed when jaehyun read this tweet that gushed about his laugh, and mark just curled up into himself and couldn’t lift his head up and awkwardly laughed. he’s adorkable. please tease him and hype him up in this very same way just to get this cute reaction out of him.

RENJUN :: renjun is the one you can call when you have a body to bury and he’ll show up with the shovel. he’ll call you a stupid idiot, but he’ll still show up to help you. he’s the type that would come over at 3 a.m. if there’s a bug in your apartment and squash it for you after much complaining and telling you that he won’t do it. he’s fiercely loyal and caring. he took care of chenle when chenle wasn’t as proficient with korean and made sure he was doing ok and was always ready to translate for him whenever. he puts up a tough, ready to fight front, but he’s a scaredy cat and if you pretend to be a ghost (read: jisung), he’ll be scared shitless. you can see him get scared and hide behind jeno and hug him so hard when the zombie jumped out in one of those save dream interactive videos. he’s the person you can banter with and he understands dry humor and sarcasm, and I think he’s best for e2l story plot lines because of this lmao but he also fits the best friend role well. he will roast anyone with no mercy with just a few words. he’s artistic. he’s super good at art and has shared several of his beautiful digital drawings before. he’s the person to go to when you want to have long, serious talks at 4 in the morning, and as seen through his radio show, he will try his best to give you advice, even if he may not be experienced enough, but he is trying his hardest to help. if you read some of the advice he gives on his radio show, you can get a better sense of who he is as a person. he’s really insightful and puts a lot of effort into giving the best answer he can. also, he really reminds me of a little brother or someone I want to be best friends with because we can roast people together or talk about paranormal stuff. he just seems really fun to mess around with because he gives funny reactions. he gives off that younger sibling vibe where only your big sister can make fun of you, but once she sees someone else doing it, it’s not ok and she’s gonna go after that person for making her lil bro cry. in a relationship, he wants someone he can trust with his thoughts and interests, such as aliens, and while his s/o may not believe in them, he wants them to genuinely listen to him and not just brush it off. however, he will still roast his s/o into oblivion. it’s how he shows his affection lol. he’ll call you an idiot and cute all in the same sentence. but he’s really a soft and sensitive boy underneath his snappy, sarcastic exterior. he cried when they won first place for the first time. i’m sure he cried when ridin’ reached number one on the charts. he’s attentive and likes affection even though he tries to say he doesn’t. in that one weekly idol dreamie episode, hyuck listed who hated affection, and he wasn’t one of them. he’s a good boy, and underneath all his snarky comments, he wants to be loved and cared for. you can see how he got a lil huffy when jisung chose chenle as his favorite hyung lol he doesn’t express his feelings outwardly as much, but if you’re his s/o, he will quietly adore you in his own way while outwardly being that one snarky couple who banters all the time. he’ll draw pictures of you, secretly have you as his homescreen, or have a secret photo album on his phone of just pictures of you. he’ll complain if you get him a couple item, like a bracelet, but he’ll wear it 24/7 and refuse to give it back to you. he will absolutely lose his shit if he misplaces it. he’ll cook for you if you ask, but he’ll make a big show about fake complaining about it beforehand. I think he’s okay with hand holding and kisses here and there, but he won’t do grand gestures of pda because he thinks those should be more private and between the two of you. he thinks pet names are sappy as heck, and he’ll get terribly embarrassed if you call him one but he’d be like “that’s so gross and corny... but call me that again.” honestly, just tell him ily and his cheeks will turn so red and he’ll bury his face in his hands but he’ll say it back in the quietest voice and he truly does mean it with his whole chest.

JENO :: jeno is someone who fits in so many roles. his character is versatile in a sense. you can make him into a bad boy, the boy next door, your best friend, anybody. his humor is underrated, and he makes funny puns. he’s good at sarcasm and wit, like when he asked jisung if he thought jaemin’s iq was single digits or when the instructor complimented him and said his rap sounded like mark and he was like “oh.... that’s not good.” he worries about being funny. he mentioned losing sleep over it in weekly idol, so please tell him he’s funny and laugh at his jokes ): he really is funny, and i love his humor. jeno is really smart. he managed to rank 4th or something I believe in his school after cram studying the day before. he’s really self-assured and confident in himself, but he doesn’t show off or act cocky, yet you can sense the quiet confidence in him. he’s humble and works hard and deserves more credit than he’s given. he possesses leadership qualities and is a source of strength for other members. i think they said he was one of the cleaner members and when he’s drunk, he cleans LMAO he is into sports and gymming, especially biking. hyuck said that jeno’s bedroom has his and jaemin’s bikes hanging on the walls lol he also is really competitive, but not a sore loser type. jeno doesn’t strike me as the type who needs his s/o around 24/7 and prefers to have hobbies and space separate from his s/o. he’s laid back, but at the same time, still energetic and fun to be around. he’s still weird, but not over the top weird. jeno is insightful and kind, and he has stated that he’s very shy and timid before. doyoung likes him the most because he’s kind and respectful and takes into account other people’s feelings and listens well. he’s a good boy. he’s also really playful and teasing and plays well with others, like jisung jokes around with him all the time. I feel like jisung jokes around with him the most out of all his hyungs aside from chenle because jeno doesn’t get mad. i believe the members say he’s the only one aside from chenle who doesn’t get mad when someone messes up in dance practices. he cries when he gets angry. jeno is also really affectionate. he enjoys cuddling and holding hands and back hugs and whatnot, but he doesn’t overdo it. it takes a long time for him to trust and open up to someone, and you’re a very lucky person if he lets you see this side of him. he won’t force you to do anything you’re uncomfortable with. If something is bothering you, he won’t pry at first if you refuse to talk about it, but I do think he will eventually make you talk if he feels something is terribly wrong or if it’s affecting the relationship. jeno is driven and knows what he wants. he’ll give you space, but if you’re not what he’s looking for or if you don’t put the effort in as well and won’t open up to him, I do think he will move on. he might bottle up his emotions at first, but as the relationship progresses, he’ll be fully open to you and tell you everything. I don’t think he’ll be terribly affected if he’s rejected because he is confident in himself and able to brush it off. he knows his self-worth. oh, and he loves animals. obviously, jeno loves his cats because he has them even when he’s allergic. he’s the type of s/o who, if you mention you’re walking back to your dorm late at night after staying in the art building to finish your painting, he’ll show up with messy hair and his glasses in his sweats with a hoodie thrown on haphazardly and walk you back safely even without you asking. kiss him on his nose at random times just because you love him, and he’ll make that jeno trademark noise of confusion before giving you the prettiest eye smile that makes the moon dim in shame and nuzzling his face into your shoulder shyly. call him jeno darling or jeno love if you want to see the same reaction as before. it’s gonna be a total KO to his heart if you call him that and boop him on the nose with the softest kiss. anyway, jeno is the bestest boy in the entire universe, and give him all your love, please and thank you.

HAECHAN :: hyuck is so fucking talented. he’s good at everything: singing, dancing, rapping, variety shows, you name it. he was born to be an idol. he’s the golden one and excels at everything. he’s an ace, and he knows it. yeah, he’s cocky and brags about everything he does, but he actually has evidence and proof to back it up. plus, no one can stay mad at him for very long because have you seen how cute he is?? he’s a brat, but you still love him anyway. he’s good at sweet talking and getting what he wants. he plays a push and pull game, and you end up falling for him in the end. i know in fics on here, you often see jaemin in the playboy/fuckboy persona, but I think hyuck absolutely exudes this persona. he is able to read the room or a person and knows the exact way to act in order to get the reaction he wants. it’s hyuck’s world, and we’re all just living in it. he can have all of us eating out of the palm of his hand if he desires. i think he truly embodies the traits of a slytherin: ambitious and cunning. it’s every man for himself, and he’ll do whatever it takes to get what he believes he deserves and plays by his own rules. hyuck is so smart and intelligent, both in terms of brains and emotion. he’s absolutely brilliant, and he’s the type of person to ace an exam without even studying for it. I think he did very well in school, and he also beat doyoung in mental maths when they had a competition on weekly idol lol and he’s also street smart. there’s a reason why doyoung and taeil are scared of him and why they prefer to be on his team than against him lmao. I think hyuck is also a people pleaser though. he wants to be liked, and it’ll drive him crazy if someone calls him boring or shows no interest towards him. I think he’ll want a s/o who plays the push and pull game with him. he’ll playfully tease them a lot, and they’ll have to be interesting and able to dazzle him with their own wit and sarcasm. he, like renjun, is snarky and sarcastic. he likes to make people laugh and enjoys being the center of attention. he is super affectionate and rivals jaemin in this aspect. he thrives off of physical touches, hugs, cuddles, etc. he likes to cuddle when he sleeps, and I feel like he enjoys being the little spoon. he isn’t afraid of pda and will show off his s/o to the world with a loud kiss or back hug anywhere. he’s the type who would do that back pocket spin peter does to lara jean lmao. the two of you can laze around at home, while he plays video games on his computer and you can sit in his lap and he’ll do that thing where his arms are around you and his chin is on your shoulder. he’s a good cook, and he’ll cook for you, but he expects you to pay him back in kisses. his s/o might think he doesn’t pay attention to what they’re saying to him, but he does. he absolutely adores his s/o and remembers everything about them. he’s the type to surprise his s/o with their favorite flowers on a random day, and his s/o would’ve thought he wasn’t paying attention when they told him their favorite flower months ago. and please, please, please surprise him with flowers too because that will catch him off guard and you’ll see him blush and get flustered for once. it’s like when the dreamies first debuted, and chenle said hyuck was the best singer and he wanted to be like hyuck, and hyuck got really quiet and shy and flustered about it. however, he’d get really shy around his crush if they weren’t friends first. there’s that video of him returning something that twice’s mono dropped I think and he was so nervous before and afterwards. or there’s that time when he handed flowers to seungwoo and got so flustered as the dreamies teased him afterwards. also, I feel like sometimes people forget that so much hard work goes into what he does because he makes it look so effortless. hyuck works so hard in everything and puts his all into what he does. anyway, please appreciate hyuck and love him lots. he deserves to be showered in love and affection.

JAEMIN :: jaemin is like jeno in the sense that his character is also super versatile. you can make him fit any type of persona for your fic. jaemin is a sweetheart. his entire existence is love. hyuck said that he treats his members the same way he treats his fans in an episode of weekly idol before. he’s a really affectionate person as seen in the way he showers jisung with affection. he eats, sleeps, and breathes aegyo. you’re going to experience his aegyo a lot if you’re his s/o, so brace yourself. he even managed to make hyuck flustered when he kissed him in that recent reload era game video. he has a lot of love to give out, but he also wants the same amount of love in return. you can see how he craves for love from jisung in return and the way he gets a little upset when he doesn’t get it, like when jisung didn’t call him his favorite hyung. his s/o needs to be okay with being showered with affection and love, and they have to do the same for him. call him cute pet names, give him random kisses throughout the day, back hug him while he’s cooking, he will just absolutely glow and bask in your love. jaemin is good at cooking. he will cook for you, and if you cook, he’ll eat what you make with no complaints. it’s like that meme where person A gives person B a drink with salt in it, and person B drinks it all, and when person A asks why they did that even though it was salty, person B says it’s because they didn’t want to hurt person A’s feelings. jaemin is person B. he’ll also make you model for him and pose literally everywhere so he can take pictures of you because you’re the prettiest person in the entire world to him. he’ll make you his lockscreen, homescreen, hang up pictures of you in his room, all that jazz. he’s the one who buys couple items or outfits and makes you wear them with them. his entire Instagram account will be pictures of you or with you. however, he’s also petty af and nags a lot lmao. he complained to jeno when jisung said he wanted to eat bread at 3 a.m. and how he couldn’t go out to buy him any. he also nagged renjun in one of those dream vs dream videos for not having any questions about him, while all his questions were about renjun. or when he was sulking about jeno not knowing his favorite cartoon character. I believe he mentioned having extreme mood swings too where he’s either too quiet or too loud and out there, and as a s/o, you’d have to cater to both sides of him. jaemin is also an introvert. he’s very quiet and shy around strangers, but he’ll unleash his inner weirdness and loudness when he feels comfortable around you, and you’re in for a wild, fun ride. in that video where he and jeno were making cakes, he seems really hyper and wild. same goes for that video where they went out to eat, and jaemin was pouring soda into a glass dramatically. or when they played that dance game where you have to add onto the dance and copy the previous dances, and he added some random flailing motion and complained when someone did it wrong. or when he and renjun were paired up for that guessing game when they both had headphones on, and he started flailing everywhere and getting kinda frustrated at renjun for getting zero right. he’s a bit weird lmao. as his s/o, i hope you go along with his weird antics and have fun with him too! you also have to remind him to take care of himself. make sure he doesn’t drink that ungodly coffee drink of his or eat too much sugar. take care of him, love him, cherish him, and jaemin will be the best boyfriend ever. he might even set up a whole led light display for you at night declaring his love like he did for jeno. actually, no, he definitely will. he’ll do big grand gestures to show his love for you. he’ll fill your house with roses and press kisses to each of your fingertips with a different reason for why he loves you. he’ll continue to list the reasons for why he loves you for every star he sees until he runs out of stars, but he’ll never run out of reasons for loving you.

CHENLE :: chenle was born to be a star. he is so incredibly talented and picks up skills so quickly. it’s evident because he managed to debut after two months of training and he became fluent in korean quickly. he’s humble and gracious, and he’s the embodiment of that miss universe song: he’s beauty, he’s grace. he doesn’t flaunt his wealth, in fact, it only ever comes up because others bring it up. or he accidentally shows it off when he asks what rent means or when he tries to innocently rectify the situation, like when jaemin was like “oh his parents held a concert for him for his bday” and chenle was like “noooo no it was just to make a memory” on idol room lmao. the way he expresses his love is through gift giving. it shows in the way he told mark he’ll buy him anything he wants for his bday or when he gave apple watches to the 00 liners or when he immediately agreed to buy jeno a plane ticket to china to show him around his home. but he’s not trying to flaunt his wealth. this is simply how he shows his love. chenle is laidback and easygoing. he doesn’t care about jisung using honorifics with him, and he’ll go along with whatever’s happening. there’s that one video during mfal era where hyuck and chenle won the prize and hyuck was like “hey I’ll take the prize ok?” and chenle just immediately agrees and doesn’t care at all. but don’t get me wrong, chenle is super competitive. he wants to win, but it’s more about that feeling you get when you’re the winner, rather than the actual prize for him. he’s really into sports, specifically basketball, so i feel like he’d enjoy it if his s/o expressed some sort of interest in it with him. they don’t have to play basketball with him, but he’d appreciate it greatly if they listened to him talk about stephen curry or cheer him on from the sidelines. he’s affectionate. if you read my renjun description, chenle is the other one that hyuck said doesn’t mind affection from the other members on weekly idol. I don’t see him showing affection blatantly as much like hyuck and jaemin, but I think he loves receiving it. chenle obviously receives so much love from his family and is super close to them. he will love his s/o with his whole heart, and I hope his s/o will love him back just as much. also, I’m pretty sure he’ll love his s/o acting cute because his heart rate spiked up when jisung did aegyo on idol room lmao. I think he’s the only other extrovert in the dreamies, besides hyuck. I believe someone asked jaemin or skz hyunjin if they got close after the collab stage, and they said that they were really awkward with each other. however, skz felix and chenle became good friends! chenle is friendly and a people person. he thrives in social settings, and he’s a social butterfly. he’ll help people out of their shells and make sure to include them in conversations. he’s the type of person who would clear his throat and be like “hey y/n has something to say” if you tried to say something in a group convo and weren’t heard. he’s fine with being the center of attention, but he doesn’t actively seek out that position, like hyuck does. unlike hyuck, he’s not a people pleaser. I think he’s confident in himself, and he’s self assured and satisfied with who he is, so he doesn’t really care what others think of him. chenle is really playful. he likes to tease the other members and wreak harmless havoc lol you can see how he plays around with the other members, like in nct life where he just throws snow at jisung or scares jisung with a rubber chicken when they went to an amusement park in shanghai. he’s a thrill seeker. he loves roller coasters, shooting games, laser tag, etc. he gets excited over the littlest things, and he’s a naturally cheerful person who lights up the room and just naturally has people gravitate towards him. however, he has his serious moments too, and I can see him sitting next to his s/o behind the piano and playing something for them. but then, he’ll probably ruin the soft moment by slamming his hands down on the keys and scaring them at the end.

JISUNG :: jisung reminds me of high school puppy love. he’s curious about the world and introspective. he asked the fans to send him pictures of the moon because he couldn’t see it himself. I think he has a lot of deep thoughts and keeps them to himself because he’s introverted and nervous about sharing them aloud in case he’s not taken seriously as the youngest. he’s inquisitive and sweet, and he’s the culmination of everything good in the universe. he’s the one whom renjun talks to about aliens and paranormal things, and I believe he’ll want a s/o who will take him seriously on these things and listens to his concerns without teasing or making fun of him for believing in them. jisung is shy and gets embarrassed when he’s given compliments. there’s this video where the dreamies read compliments from fans aloud, and you can see how flustered and shy he gets as he ducks his head, has to pause and cover his face before playing with his hair as he reads through the compliments with the biggest smile peeking on his face. I think this is the cutest thing ever, and at the beginning of the relationship, if his s/o compliments him or does something cute, he’s going to react exactly like that. tell him his dancing is amazing, watch his fancams around him, tell him his face is nice to look at, etc. and you’ll see him get reduced to a flustered, blushing mess. the first time he sees you wearing one of his sweaters with the sleeves covering your hands and giving you sweater paws, he will combust and stutter and not be able to look at you as his cheeks turn red. he might just suffer a heart attack if you decide to casually call him a cute pet name one day. additionally, jisung is at that age where he wants to know what others think of him and he wants to be liked. I think this is the reason why he’s more hesitant about speaking up or voicing himself in an unfamiliar environment because he doesn’t want to give off a negative image. he’s also painfully shy, but he wants to make friends, which he explains on dancing high. because of this, he truly cherishes any friendship or relationship he has because it’s seen as something incredibly special to him. as his s/o, you’re gonna mean the world to him and he will value your opinion greatly. once he’s comfortable around you, he’ll be loud and talkative. jeno says that jisung talks the most at the dorm and he’s never quiet. jisung is also a lil shit lol, and he knows how to get out of things, like cleaning up after dinner by locking himself in the bathroom. he’s also a little lazy and probably not the cleanest tbh. he sleeps in jaemin’s bed or in the living room because he’s too lazy to go to his top bunk. he doesn’t listen to his hyungs and talks down to them in a playful way because he knows they’re whipped for him lmao. when the relationship progresses, jisung is going to act in the same, exact way with you. he’s a savage, and he will roast you in the same way he roasts his hyungs, like when hyuck wanted to go to LA with him for why not the dancer and he was like “you have to be good at dancing to go” (which btw, fight me, jisung, hyuck is literally the best dancer). he’ll tease you, hide items on the tallest shelf just so that you’ll call him for help, and smush your cheeks and call you cute. he’ll ruffle your hair and run up behind you and sweep you off your feet princess style just to scare you before carefully placing you back down or tossing you into the pool lol he may have complained about carrying renjun in that reload era game video, but he’ll give you piggy backs when you’re tired or carry you around if you asked. he likes playing video games and those block breaker game apps and when he loses, he’ll sit there and pout without realizing it. he does that little nose scrunch unknowingly, and it’s the cutest. he’ll like dates at home the best. he sucks at cooking, but he’ll try to do it for you. but it’ll end up with you cooking while he back hugs you, and you have to walk around the kitchen with him being a koala attached to you as you feed him bits of the food being made.

#asks #anonymous

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chicksung · 4 years

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stray kids reaction to their (idol) s/o being made fun of by fans? if that's not against your guidelines of course!!

Stray Kids reaction to their idol s/o being made fun of by fans

A/N: Hi beauty! Of course not! This is my first time doing a reaction so please bare with me here! Thank you for the request @dreamsaboutnct

Warning/s: cyber bullying, crying, disappointed chan

Bang Chan: When he came home to find your shaking form in waves of tears, he knew something was up. He knew that you were in preparation for a comeback and he thought maybe it was the stress of it, but when you broke down futher in his arms and said that it was the fans that had you in this state, he was speechless.

To say he was disappointed was an understatement. He was baffled when he saw the tweets and comments regarding your appearance, your talent and abilities and even your relationship with Chan.

He decided to host another episode of Chan’s Room that night. As he greeted the fans, he watched the comments carefully, seeing if there was anything negative said about you.

“Now, I actually wanted to talk to you guys. I love being with Y/N. I truly do. But there are some things that need to be addressed. For as long as Y/N and I are together, I expect you guys to respect her and treat her like you would treat me. It breaks my heart to see how many negative comments my s/o has been getting and I am giving you one warning and one warning only. It has got to stop.”

He had never been so strict when talking to stays but he needed to knock some sense into this ridiculousness, but it seemed to work.

The next morning, #RespectYN was trending #1 on twitter and the negativity was outweighed by the positive. Chan smiled as you read out all the cute things fans had written.

“And if anything like this happens again, let me know. I’ll fix it.”

Lee Minho: He hates seeing you cry. In fact, he hated seeing you anything but happy. You couldn’t explain yourself through the tears so instead you showed him your twitter feed, when he read it, he was frozen. How could his own fans do this to you. Not his stay. Everyone seemed to be supportive of your relationship. This was until he saw one tweet and he felt his blood boil.

“I’m not a stay but I am a (y/n’s fandom name) and honestly? Y/N doesn’t deserve Lee Know”

“Come with me.” Minho whispered, grasping your hand tightly and leading you elsewhere.

Sometimes, you really loved being in the same company as Minho. He told his manager and your manager about the whole situation and they said they would bring it up with the CEO.

Not a week later, Twitter once again say something that they knew was somewhat bad.

‘안녕하세요, JYP입니다.’

The article explained that if any further malicious comments were made about either idols, there would be serious consequences in place for the perpetrators found guilty.

Minho took out on a date that day, to clear out all the negative thoughts and feelings in your mind and heart with all the love he could possibly give to you. He really loves you.

Seo Changbin: Changbin immediately pulled you into his arms when he saw the tears on your cheeks. He didn’t need to know if it was dance practice, a conflict between you and your members, or even if it was that time of the month again. All he knew was that you were upset and he needed to fix it. He pet your hair and let you cry out your feelings until your loud sobs slowly turned into soft sniffles.

“What’s wrong, love? What’s got my baby all upset?” He asked you, pulling you away from his chest and wiping your tears away with his thumb.

“It’s the fans. They’ve been telling me that I don’t deserve you and it’s getting to a point that I’m too scared to post on Twitter and Instagram or turn on vlive. I’m so scared, Binnie.”

Changbin needed to find a way to fix this. And what better way than to write a song. He knew it would take a while and he told you to just try and hang in there.

A few weeks later, he dropped his song on SKZ-Player and the response to it was overwhelmingly good. He decided to turn on vlive and he saw a comment asking what the song is about.

“The song is from the perspective of a fan. They really love this idol to the point where they think they will eventually get married to him. However, it shows the developed hatred towards the idol’s partner when the idol announces that he’s dating. I actually wrote this song to express what could possibly be going through a lot of your heads in regards to myself and my own s/o. They haven’t been taking your...’criticism’ too well.”

When he turned of vlive, within minutes, translation of what he had said had spread like wildfire throughout different social media but people seemed to get the message.

Hwang Hyunjin: Hyunjin felt his heart break a little as he heard you blame the fans for your fragile state of mind. He almost didn’t believe what he was hearing.

“Come on babe. Let’s go and get some ice cream and come back to this with a clearer mind.” He whispered before a small peck on your cheek was delivered and he took your hand and headed out the door.

A few days went by and the messages were just getting worse. Hyunjin couldn’t ignore anymore and your state was deteriorating to the point where Hyunjin banned you of your phone and laptop. “If you keep reading them, it’s just going to put you in a worse state than you already are.” He argued.

JYP and your company both released statements concerning the mental health of both idols and if such behaviour was kept up, they would turn off the comments all together. That seemed to get the fans to see just how much their comments were hurting you and your mental state.

Hyunjin smiled when he saw the comments turning from negative to positive almost overnight.

“See? All it takes is a little shove in the right direction for people to realise what they’re doing is wrong.” He said as he cuddled you into his side.

“Ice cream to celebrate?” You asked with pleading eyes.

“Ice cream to celebrate.” He sighed.

Han Jisung: Jisung listened to you talk out your problems. He judged watched you carefully as you vented about the heated argument two of your members had engaged in and now left tension between the two, but since the announcement that you and Jisung were dating, some of the fans were not being so...kind towards you. Your normally weekly vlives slowly became fewer and farther apart as you were too scared to see the comments.

When your eyes got watery, Jisung momentarily forgot everything else in existence. He forgot about the new album Stray Kids were working on, he forgot about his ramen that he was cooking. All his mind was filled of was ways he could make you feel better.

“Wait wait. Stay here.” He said, gesturing for you to stay put before sprinting out of the room. A few moments later, he returned with a blanket and the teddy bear he was planning to give you on your birthday but decided that you needed it now more than ever.

All wrapped up in a blanket and a tub of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream in your hand plus hugs from Jisung, your tears were long dried and gone.

“I’ll speak with my managers tomorrow, but right now, let’s just cuddle for now.”

“I love you.” You mumbled, your voice still a little crackly

Jisung chuckled.

“And I love you just as much...if not more.”

Lee Felix: Felix was always good at reading people’s emotions. He was able to tell when people were angry or sad or just genuinely happy. However, it didn’t take a genius to see that you weren’t doing so crash hot.

“Sweetheart?” He called out as he patted the outline of your figure under your blanket cocoon. All he got was a sniffle in return. He sighed and collected you up in the blanket and scooping you up like a baby.

“Why are you crying, love?” He whispered into your hair as he pressed light kisses to your cheeks and forehead. You just broke down further, the only words he was able to pick up were ‘comeback’, ‘fans’ and ‘hate’.

Felix had a burning dislike for the four letter h word and didn’t really like using it unless he had really strong opinions on it.

“What about the fans, sweetheart?” He reworded his question and that just seemed to make you more upset.

“They’ve been calling me fat, ugly, useless, untalented, and even worse, that I don’t deserve to be with someone as talented and amazing as you.” You cried out, tears falling so often that your chest was constricting.

“Baby, baby, shhh. It’s okay. I’ll deal with this later. But right now, let’s focus on you.” He pressed his lips gently against yours and hugged you tightly. A small smile tugged at Felix’s lips. “Do you wanna bake some cookies with me?”

You’ve never said yes so fast in your life.

Kim Seungmin: Your usually bubbly aura and personality was nowhere to be seen or felt when Seungmin dropped by your group’s dorm on a surprise visit (and partially to congratulate all of you in your first music show win)

When he saw your slumped over figure and your phone in your hand, his first thought was maybe you were tired, but when he looked closer at you and saw the tears, he walked straight over to you and picked your phone out of your hand like a grape.

“Hey! Minnie! Give it back!” You demanded, trying so hard to wipe away your tears. Seungmin ignored your pleas and started to look at what seemed to be the reason for silent crying.

“If Y/N really thinks she can sing, she’s got another thing coming”

“If I got hit by a truck, I’d look like Y/N”

“Can’t believe some bitch named Y/N got to Seungmo before I did”

Seungmin felt his blood boil, reporting each of the tweet for hate speech and turned back to you.

“How long has this been happening?” Seungmin asked, his eyes softening as he gazed over to you, sitting next to you and grabbing your hands.

You sniffed and couldn’t even look him in his pretty eyes.

“A while now...” Your voice trailed off as a new wave of tears cleansed your eyes.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” He asked, petting your hair and tilting your chin up to lock eyes.

“I didn’t wanna worry you.” You sobbed out. Seungmin wrapped his arms around your body and pulled you into his chest letting you cry it out.

“What worries me more is that you didn’t tell me and you didn’t tell the company either.” He whispered, pressing a kiss to the top of your head.

“How about I take you out to that barbecue place you really like? I’ll pay for it.” He offered, tracing patterns in your hands. You smiled and looked up him.

“That would be nice.”

“Go get your coat, sweetheart.”

Yang Jeongin: You were Jeongin’s first serious relationship. He was shy around you even after being together for almost a year. He finally built up the courage and told the whole world that he, I.N of Stray Kids, was dating you, the member of the hottest debut girl group.

That shit spread like wildfire. Even though the majority of your fandoms supported your relationship, more recently some fans, who seemed to be notably younger, had been sending hate, not towards Jeongin but towards you for ‘taking away their oppa away’ from them.

It was a stupid thing to get upset over but as the days went on it, it just got worse and it was starting to chip away at your emotional state.

That’s how Jeongin came to find you, curled up and alone in the middle of one of the practice rooms.

“Y/N! Oh my god, are you okay?” He bombarded you with questions and checking you over for any injuries.

“I’m fine, Innie. It’s just...” You didn’t finish your sentence and just sighed.

“Just what? Please tell me. I wanna help.” He said with his round doe eyes.

“I’m guessing you haven’t been keeping up on Twitter.” You let out a half hearted laugh, trying to put on a brave face as you wipe your nose on your sleeve.

“Is this about...” He finally got the hint when he saw your phone thrown across the room with a new crack in the screen.

“The amount of horrible words that they’ve thrown at me is starting to eat away at me. I hate it, Jeongin. I hate it!” You yelled out the last part before wailing into your hands.

Jeongin wrapped you up in his arms and rocked you back and forth. His hands rubbed soothing circles on your back and started humming in your ears. Soon, your sobs were reduced to just small sniffles and he pulled your face of the crook of his neck. His eyes held an idea.

“Follow me. I know what will cheer you up.” He said, pulling the both of you up onto your feet as he guided you through the JYP building.

He lead you up a small staircase on the top floor and swung the door open. He had taken you to the rooftop. The soft noise of traffic below paired with the bright twinkling of the stars made the scene feel like it was something out of a movie. It brought an unfamiliar sense of serenity wash over you and for the first time in about a week, you smiled.

Jeongin laid down on the floor, his head resting on his arms and gazing up at the sky. His gaze cut to you and he patted the empty spot next to him, inviting you to join him.

You watched the stars shine vibrantly above you and you sighed with content.

“Y/N. Don’t you ever forget how much I love you. No matter how bad the comments get, that won’t change how I feel about you. I’m doing a vlive tomorrow night so I’ll address it then.” He told you as you rested your head on his chest.

“Thank you, Jeongin. What would I do without you?”

“I’m not quite sure.”

“Nor am I.”

I hope this was good. I know some were longer than others but I got more inspired the more I wrote it :))

#kpop #fanfiction #kpop fanfiction #kpop fluff #kpop smut #stray kids fluff #stray kids fanfiction #stray kids angst #bang chan #lee minho #seo changbin #hwang hyunjin #han jisung #lee felix #kim seungmin #yang jeongin

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kazarinn · 4 years

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Roundup of all the things I’ve translated within the last month

Those who have been following me for a while might know that the last month saw me be very unusually prolific with translation (especially Digimon-related ones), to unprecedented extents. I'll be very honest about the fact that it's because of the current quarantine, which has left me with not a lot to do and a sense of boredom that translation somehow happens to satiate a bit ^^;; That said, the very large number of translations I'd been posting has caused things to get a bit buried, and has made things easily missable, so I've decided to make a bit of a roundup post summarizing everything I've done in the last month.

Of course, there's probably still more to come in the near future -- I have two books (the Digimon Official Super Encyclopedia and the Gakken Digimon Adventure tri. Memorial Book) hopefully coming in the mail soon, and I still have some stuff lying around I might take up if my mood warms up to it, but since I've finally cleared up a ton of the backlog I felt I should take a breather to summarize stuff. (Although, every time I say I've cleared the backlog, suddenly more interesting things pop up...^^;;)

Digimon Adventure, Adventure 02, Tamers, Frontier

Digimon Adventure 02 Drama CD "Armor Evolution to the Unknown" I will be honest in that this is actually my favorite thing to have translated in this past month. Actually, fiction translation has a higher level of difficulty for me than things like interviews -- because I want to be careful with what real people have said, I tend to be less stringent about rewording things, whereas with fiction I hold myself to a higher standard to make things flow well. But that's actually what makes it so much fun, because I can challenge myself to play with wording and broaden my horizons, and moreover Adventure 02 has a ton of characters, and it's really fun to try and make unique "voices" for all of them. That said, translating this was a bit of a wake-up call, because the sheer amount of pop culture references (to things made before I was even born, at that) and wordplay everywhere led me to the very harsh realization of why so few people have attempted to translate this drama CD into so few languages over the past two decades ^^;; I give my thanks to the anonymous Japanese commenters on Nico Nico Douga who pointed out many of the really old and obscure pop culture references, and I ended up spending several hours on Japanese Wikipedia looking up things like said old anime and British punk rock artists. I might not have gotten everything, and I'm sure there are people out there who probably would have been able to pull it off better than I did, but it ultimately became a test of my abilities as a translator, and if it's fun and entertaining and enjoyable, then that alone makes me satisfied. But I think this will be the last time (at least for a while) that I try translating something audio-only with no transcript -- my hearing is not that great, not even in English ^^;;

The Mystery of the American Box Bug A story from Adventure and Adventure 02 director Hiroyuki Kakudou that has some very tangential (at best) relation to Digimon, but is amusing nevertheless.

Digimon Adventure Character Complete File -- Future Encyclopedia Little "dialogue" snippets from an Adventure/Adventure 02-related book, checking in on the kids-turned-adults during the time of Adventure 02's epilogue. I actually translated this a long time ago, but I lost the transcript for it and I'm pretty sure (given how long ago it was) it was probably pretty embarrassing by my current standards, so I went ahead and did this over again. There are some other things in this book that are interesting and/or amusing, like further background info on the kids' family lives and room layouts, so if I have some spare time I might do some of those in the future, although naturally doing the entire book would probably be practically impossible.

Digimon Series Memorial Book: Digimon Animation Chronicle — Special interview with Hiromi Seki, Hiroyuki Kakudou, and Yukio Kaizawa An interview with some perennial Digimon staff members about Adventure through Frontier (and a bit of X-Evolution). We've had no shortage of these kinds of interviews over the years, but this one happens to summarize a lot of things that used to be considered "obscure" in the Digimon fanbase outside Japan, even though this book (and thus this interview) is one of the most prominent resources for diehard Digimon fans out there. Also, Frontier-related development info tends to be somewhat rare, so it's nice to hear about it. The Digimon Official Super Encyclopedia that I'm hoping to get my hands on soon allegedly has a similar interview with the same three people. I don't know specifics about it yet, but I'm informed that it mostly covers similar territory to this one, but also allegedly has some very fascinating details that weren't in this, so I'm looking forward to that as well.

Message from Digimon Adventure producer Hiromi Seki, to Toshiko Fujita Posted by Adventure producer Hiromi Seki to the LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna Twitter on February 8, 2019, right before the 49th day (last day of mourning, in Japanese tradition) after Taichi Yagami voice actress Toshiko Fujita's passing.

Mimi Tachikawa and Lilimon Posted by Adventure director Hiroyuki Kakudou on his blog, talking about the intent behind Mimi Tachikawa's character and her corresponding track in the drama CD Digimon Adventure: Two-and-a-Half Year Break.

Digimon Adventure tri.

On Creation and Production for “Super Evolution Stage: Digimon Adventure tri.” A post by Director Kenichi Tani about his work on the Adventure tri. stage play. Despite technically being under Adventure tri. branding, the stage play actually has surprisingly little in common with the Adventure tri. anime in terms of both content and production background, and moreover Digimon hasn't had a lot of contact with the stage medium all that much, so I thought it'd be interesting to translate something about its production, especially since this tends to be a lesser talked-about part of the franchise.

October/November 2018 Gashapon Blog interviews with Kenji Watanabe This is actually two interviews, one where Digimon franchise creator and character designer Kenji Watanabe talks about design for a Digimon gachapon set, and one where he talks about Adventure tri.'s Omegamon Merciful Mode, but I'm categorizing it under the Adventure tri. section because I figure the vast majority of readers will be reading the interview for the latter.

Digimon Adventure tri. voice actor comments (Part 1: Reunion | Part 2: Determination | Part 3: Confession | Part 4: Loss | Part 5: Coexistence | Part 6: Our Future) A series of voice actor comments that were posted to the official website prior to each Adventure tri. movie being released. I'd actually had it on the brain to try my hand at these when they were first posted, but various circumstances happened and I never got around to it, until now. In retrospect, though, I think it turned out for the better that I didn't attempt them on the spot. Adventure tri.-related interviews tend to be much more difficult to translate than most Digimon-related ones, and although there are a few reasons why, the biggest one is that, during its run, it had a very tight spoiler embargo, resulting in a lot of vague language being used, and so when you translate from a language like Japanese -- where having proper context can be life or death -- not knowing the original context behind what was being said can throw the end result into completely incorrect and misleading interpretations. While I was working on these, I did actually end up having to pull up the movies again and reference what scenes were being referred to multiple times just so I could phrase the sentence correctly, so yeah, I think it did ultimately work out. Incidentally, this is also the first direct Adventure tri. production-related thing I've translated since 2016 (mainly due to the expenses incurred by importing magazines and my difficulty with translating print media at the time). Looking back at it, I'm honestly kind of ashamed at my own inexperience from back then, but sadly, I don't have the original magazines anymore, so I can't do much to fix it, and so I'm kind of glad to have these as my sort of attempt at "redeeming myself".

Digimon Adventure tri. — Yoshimasa Hosoya interview on “To Me” Also from the official website, discussing voice actor Yoshimasa Hosoya's involvement with the ending theme song from part 3 (Confession), "To Me".

Digimon Adventure LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna

Anime! Anime! interview series (Director Tomohisa Taguchi interview | Natsuki Hanae and Chika Sakamoto interview | 02 human cast voice actor interview | 02 Digimon cast voice actor interview | Producer Yousuke Kinoshita and supervisor Hiromi Seki interview) I didn't actually know this was a series until very recently, so you'll have to forgive me for translating these out of order. Technically, all of these were posted in February to March 2020, after the movie was released in Japan, but it's pretty much spoiler-free. It's got a huge amount of development and background info behind LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna, so I recommend them as reading for anyone interested in seeing the movie.

"In regards to the new Digimon project" Otherwise known as "what happened when Hiroyuki Kakudou accidentally revealed that they were making another Digimon Adventure-related movie". Since the news that original Adventure director was recusing from LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna due to some kind of creative difference over lore ended up naturally being a hot topic, I felt like having a proper translation of his statement on the matter would be a useful thing to have. Despite technically being LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna-related, it also has a transcription of his tweets regarding Adventure/Adventure 02 background lore along with some surprising production details, so it may interest fans of the original series as well.

Digimon Continues to be Loved Thanks to its Creator’s Commitment — With Digimon Character Designer Kenji Watanabe An Asahi &M article (sort of a half-interview) with Kenji Watanabe over his involvement in LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna, which, unusually for a Digimon anime work, actually had him directly involved in production from beginning to end. I put this on the post already, but this article gets a lot dangerously closer to outright spoilers than you'd expect for this kind of material, so if you're particularly keen on going into the movie "completely clean", best to maybe avoid this one until you've seen the movie.

Digimon Adventure LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna — Website messages from Hiromi Seki and Yousuke Kinoshita It's just a short greeting message on the official website. I wanted to translate it mainly because it's not on the official English site.

Animage Plus interviews with Yousuke Kinoshita Also something I'd wanted to translate for a while but never got around to (until now). A triple set of interviews with LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna producer Yousuke Kinoshita, who also talks about Adventure's 20th anniversary and the "Memorial Story" short story collection crowdfund.

Digimon Adventure:

Interviews with Yabuno Tenya and Atsuhiro Tomioka (Part 1: V-Jump Web | Part 2: Digimon Web) A two-part interview (each part on different websites) with Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 artist Yabuno Tenya and Digimon Adventure: lead writer Atsuhiro Tomioka, discussing their respective works and Adventure:'s surprising relation to V-Tamer.

Digimon Adventure director Hiroyuki Kakudou’s initial comments on the Digimon Adventure: reboot A triple set of blog posts from original Digimon Adventure director Hiroyuki Kakudou about the Adventure: reboot and what relation it has to him and the original Adventure (along with some fun trivia about the latter). I figured some people out there might be curious about what the original Adventure director thought about Toei rebooting his series.

Digimon games

Explore the Secrets of Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode’s Evolution! Interview with Habu and Tomono Decode is rather inaccessible to the West right now (being unlocalized, and on the region-locked 3DS at that), so the idea of translating too many things relevant to it is pretty low-priority to me at the moment, but it's still a game of significant interest to the Digimon fanbase outside Japan, and is also notable as one of the first major titles spearheaded by Digimon game producer Kazumasa Habu, so I felt that there'd be quite a few people interested in this one.

Interview with Producer Habu of Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Hacker’s Memory: Highlights and Future Prospects A 4Gamer interview that I'd wanted to translate since I'd first read it, but never got around to. Incidentally, I decided to go back and make some revisions to the wording for the Famitsu interviews I translated for the original game. They were some of the first things I ever translated, and it...kind of shows. ^^;; Normally I don't like to lock myself into a habit of constantly going back and revising old work, as doing so tends to be a bit of a black hole, but since the original Cyber Sleuth is still quite the hot topic among the fanbase right now (and especially with Complete Edition being recently released), I thought it might be worth it this time.

Famitsu.com interview with Kazumasa Habu on Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Hacker’s Memory Another Hacker's Memory interview, a bit less detailed than the above but still fairly informative.

Other

Iwata Asks #14: Hatsune Miku and Future Stars: Project mirai Somehow this ended up the only non-Digimon thing on the list ^^;; The version of this game that eventually did make it to the West (Project Mirai DX) is so different from the original game that it meant this Iwata Asks was never officially translated, so I thought it'd be worth taking a shot at this one. I don't have any plans to translate any other Iwata Asks at the moment, mainly because it requires me to have more than a passing knowledge of how each game works for proper context, but I hope you can at least enjoy this one.

#Digimon #Digimon Adventure #Digimon Adventure 02 #Digimon Adventure tri #Digimon Adventure LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna #Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth #Hacker's Memory #Digimon Adventure Reboot #Digimon Adventure V Tamer 01 #Digimon World Re:Digitize #Digimon Tamers #Digimon Frontier #Vocaloid #Project Mirai

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polyshipprompts · 4 years

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so it’s a little later than usual. sorry about that. i intended to do it earlier today and have some silly little april fools joke, the kind where i’d lie about a thing for a sentence or two before revealing it’s a prank. but things happened and now i’m just not in the mood for jokes.

not in the mood for much, really, so. forgive me but this is gonna be a full on copy of last month’s post rather than me even trying to reword it

shout out to marielle m. and @lytefoot (ao3 found also at lytefoot) for their continued patronage (patreonage?)

to be a patron yourself, the patreon is here. if one-time donations are more your thing, though, there’s also my ko-fi (it’s not polyshipprompts-branded because this is just. my ko-fi and i use it for everything basically)

and if you happen to want something in exchange for money, i do take prompt commissions, link is to my post about it with information about that

aside from asking for money we also have a discord server and a twitter account (cross-posts from tumblr, mostly. no original content there aside from the occasional tweet so twitter doesn’t think i’m a bot and prevent me from cross-posting)

#not a prompt

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danandphilnews · 5 years

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Me again. Is "joining" Phil's youtube channel (and paying $4.99/month) worth it??? I mean, cacti are cool, but is there really extra content?

To be honest, Phil doesn’t post that much. It was every two weeks in the beginning, but now it’s maybe once every month. It’s often something he’s already said via a tweet or instagram story but reworded. Or he’ll do the opposite and post it as a member’s only post, then share it with the rest of the world. Personally, the only reason I haven’t cancelled my membership is because I think of the $4.99 a month as a thank you for everything they’ve done for me. We post all the updates here anyways (the tag is “#amazingphil premium” if anyone wants to blacklist those posts). So it really depends on if you are okay with only a few posts every once in a while and would be fine with supporting Phil regardless of constant content. That’s just my personal opinion.

#answered

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purple-spring · 5 years

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it kind of sucks how people willfully misconstrued Ashleigh’s tweets. Personally, her tweet on how Elijah treated the black girl and white boy differently was about a microaggression. i feel you really eloquently said the right thing regarding privilege so thanks.

Thank you. I just think that talking about privilege either way - whether someone is benefiting from it or is victim to it - shouldn’t be a threat.

Well, okay, let me reword that: calling out privilege isn’t always about calling out a person, unless that person is reinforcing it of course. It’s about calling out a system. It’s when people turn that dialogue into hate that’s directed towards an individual that it misses the point, and the conversation is derailed. If someone just treat thats conversation simplistically and says shit like, oh so-and-so is a privileged bitch CANCEL HER, well, they’ve simply made a complex issue a vehicle and disguise for their hate. This is why Twitter is a vitriolic cesspool: it turns a nuanced discussion into a series of 280-character hot takes that are more reactive and attention-hungry than thoughtful.

To be clear, I think there are other complex factors at work here that go beyond privilege and race and sexism, one of which is the fact that Lili got dragged and publicised for something she wasn’t even involved in, by idiots who are looking to mistake her every move. I stand by the fact that Ashleigh deserves an apology. But one apology does not cancel out the other. Quite frankly, this Elijah guy needs to be driven by more than just the attention to his content and apologise to everyone for being an all-round douchebag. But that’s just my opinion.

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runawayballista · 2 years

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i think the reason that writing in a notebook has been really working out for me, other than it being a really useful tool for writing thru the bad brain fog, is that its kind of like laying down a sketch layer. it's the first draft "this won't be perfect" mentality with a more practical (for me) approach. i can't backspace or make things tidy, so instead i let my brain free range and write notes in the margins, cross things out, outline things in boxes and draw arrows to move them elsewhere or star a passage and then add something to it i forgot in another box on the next page. one of my problems with brain fog is that my working memory is really short. if i know what i want to write 3 paragraphs from now, i'm liable to forget in the time that it takes to write those 3 pargraphs, so i'm frequently sketching out reminders or snippets of dialogue in the middle of paragraphs so i can remember where i was going. (sometimes this means i forget what i'm in the middle of writing, but not usually.) writing by hand does mean the writing goes slower but it's good in a way, it means my hands can't get ahead of my brain and stall out on the next thought like sometimes happens while typing, at which point i have to try to remember where i was going, and then the time it takes to turn over the ignition in my brain makes me incredibly prone to doing things like, getting distracted by a funny tweet.

but i don't worry too much about sentence structure, or being concise, or whether or not the prose is elegant. my handwriting is messy and hard to scan, so it's not uncommon for me to lose track of a sentence structure or end up with an unintentional sentence fragment. i do a lot of stream-of-consciousness writing to get around the brain fog, because it's easier for me to write until i figure out what i want to say than think it out. and i wind up with some really great prose this way, too! i try to avoid ever putting things like [insert joke here] because it's just a blank space in my writing that will be harder to fill in later, but i will put a less funny joke there that's more or less to the effect i want. punching up a flat joke is, for me, way easier (or at least more reliable) than spinning a really funny one out of nothing later. i'll write some flat prose sketching out what i want to happen knowing i can reword it later instead of writing "and this is where they talk about the thing". i save typing up what i've written for when i'm more awake and edit as i write, fixing the glaring issues like sentence structure and omitted words and reworking it as ideas come to me, but i save the heavy lifting for actual editing because it's still a rough draft.

i don't really think writing two rough drafts is a universally useful approach, but a lot of what i do (in life in general, not just writing for fun) is basically focused on reducing the cognitive load for any given task. my fog-riddled brain can't juggle too many parallel lines of thought without losing track of them, so i try to frontload as much of my thinking as i can, so that i can think about as little else as possible than the words right in front of me. i don't trust my memory so i write out ideas for future scenes (or things later down the line in this scene) as they come and highlight those sections or pages in bright colors so it's easy to flip through and remind myself what i was going to include. it is a little labor intensive and i am limited by how long i can get my hand to cooperate, but i found a really comfortable to hold pen and as someone who has a hard time unplugging and unwinding it's really nice to just put on a ragtime piano album and write by hand for a few hours. it worked well enough to write a whole-ass romance novel last year during one of the most stressful work periods of my life and it's working out pretty dang well for fanfiction

#雑談 #thankful 2 my notebooks and comfy pen today

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rayinberkeley · 2 years

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“Why Hasn’t Biden Done Our Jobs for Us???” Yells Fauxgressive Senators

PA fight with an unexpected opponent today: Mueller She Wrote.

Look, you want your loans forgiven. Okay fine. But really really wanting something and thinking deep down in your heart that you deserve it because you’re a good person and really special (your mommy even said so!) isn’t going to magically make it happen.

We have a Constitution. It has ways things have to be done. And right now this little fight where Schumer and Warren and Bernie and the Squad keep self-righteously tweeting the whole “Today would be a great day for Biden to wipe out student debt with a flick of a pen!” are the very motherfuckers who need to write the fucking bill. Because his promise was to sign a bill if it hits his desk.

And they don’t want to do the work.

So today Warren did it again, and the fight began:

And here comes Mueller She Wrote, except Stupid She Tweeted:

The link above is from Forbes (don’t worry, she’ll make that an issue in a real mature way in a moment. Biden Will Cancel Student Loans for Millions of Borrowers, but Congress Hasn’t Passed Any Legislation. The thing is, I can’t help it if the media by and large, especially left-leaning media like she no doubts loves, wants so badly to believe this “flick of the pen” vanishing act is possible. Seems Forbes gets it. A point I later make...

...using my other account when she inevitably blocks me! Oh shit, spoiler alert... she’s gonna block me. And not just me.

But but but he did it for ME, she lies:

And here it is.......

So we’re “uneducated” eh? Insert tweet from second account here, cuz that’s when I said that. Anyways, enter friends who say it all way better than I ever could:

And for full validation, even calls me outright here:

Precisely. When I said he only was able, from the executive branch, to enforce already existing methods of forgiveness, I meant it. I have someone very dear to me who is disabled and I am helping him learn what he needs to declare Total and Permanent Disability, or TPD, so he can have his taken care of.

Thankfully this is where she, knowing the facts of the situation, saw reason and came to her senses, apologizing for being insulting and short with me.

You know I’m kidding, right? Of course she didn’t.

Yep, blocked him too. And in came another friend:

She of course did not answer, so he challenged her claim that Biden cancelled her loans by executive order, vindicating both of us:

Sorry folks, but it isn’t going to be done that way. It’s going to be done if those so called progressive heroes in the Legislature stop bitching at Biden to do his job for him, and does their fucking job. And they won’t. And I have to wonder why the fuck these people want to sabotage Biden to give us another four years of Trump?

Oh and don’t eeeeeeeeven try to tell me you got more under Trump. Some rose-emoji super-Lefties are telling me Trump at least stopped student loan payment! But no, that started by Democratic controlled Congress, and has continued on through the entirety of Biden’s presidency. Although Biden isn’t the one who turned that virus loose onto the world. That was Trump.

Anyways, you see my Twitter username? I changed it to that after this exchange. During the entire exchange it read: Ray: LET’S GO DARWIN! but I couldn’t resist. And I even made my most popular tweet-joke yet, I think:

So get it straight. No matter what sources try to tell you, no how much you really really want it, or how much you wish upon a star, power of the purse belongs to Legislative Branch alone, and they are the ones you need to be yelling at.

And Biden only promised to sign it when they put it on his desk.

UPDATE:

So, a lot of people stormed in and dragged her. She called them all idiots:

Maudi63 is right. It cannot. It was pointed out to her that the Executive Order she claims was responsible for the removal of her student loans is part of.......

PSLF stands for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, which was something Congress had already approved, and Biden simply reinstated after Trump’s rewording took it away from many people. And that includes something called TPD, Total Permanent Disability discharge.

You may recall I speculated above that her loans were probably taken off for TPD, because my joke was she’s Totally and Permanently Disabled from understanding what the fuck she’s talking about (the joke was implied).

She denies this, of course:

But we did demand the receipts of her discharge, and the dumb thing posted the letter!

Problem though......

Yep! She just told on herself! Then she denied even that...... KHive always brings the receipts......

And Candidy posted the very exchange:

Yes, TPD, part of PSLF was a program already established by Congress. She’s demanding a “flick of the pen’ to cancel loans by new legislation that isn’t.

Point, set, match, GAME! But she’s too dumb to realize she just lost this.

Anyway, just to fuck with her:

Additional kudos goes to @EGettier Catalina School Bonds for posting this excellent thread showing how much of the progressive media is duped into thinking this foolish idea there’s a loophole that would allow Biden to just cancel any loans he wants to. It’s not true. It’s self-contained within the confines of the statue they’re pointing to, not giving him such carte blanche for all loans.

This one is wrapped up quite tight and she just won’t admit it. She just blocks anybody proving her wrong.

Yeah, @DearDean22 was blocked by her too, and I’m more than certain my second account will be as well.

Don’t fucking come for me.

Second Update:

After several people told her to just take the loss and admit she was wrong, the same woman who insisted Biden be able to forgive EVERYBODY the same way hers were (which, remember, was not by executive order).....

.....and doesn’t care if you really need it or not.....

.....has now moved the goalpost. Now she says all she was saying is she hoped Biden could do it. Oooooooh, okay.

But admitted she was wrong? Still not yet. Of course not.

Funniest moment of the entire thing: THIS POST

I see what you did there!

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