While rewatching Coffee Prince over Christmas break with my sister, I found myself thinking more deeply about why this story still feels so groundbreaking, despite it being over a decade old at this point. Now that I have dozens of dramas under my belt to compare it to, I have an appreciation for what Coffee Prince achieves in its depiction of gender and sexuality that I didn’t have when I first watched it.
Coffee Prince reminds me of a pre-Hays code Hollywood movie. It may not be up to modern standards when it comes to portraying sensitive subjects, but it still deals with and directly depicts many concepts that were considered scandalous. As a modern viewer, I don’t know many other shows, in the US or in Korea, that would have handled this plot with the same level of sympathy and dignity as this show did.
Discussion of specific elements of this portrayal are under the cut!
contains: mild nsfw, blood, slight gore, biting, titty-sucking, blood-sucking, death, you know your usual lesbian vampire things, Vague Historical Setting, gothic themes because i’m a slut for gothic fiction
summary: vampires aren’t real. so, why is it that one visits you every night since you’ve stayed at the castle?
a/n: so this started out with me and @sugawara-sweetheart thirsting over kiyoko and then she sent a request to @super-noya who made an awesome drabble with kiyoko smut here and then i was like ‘hrrrmmm kiyoko as a hot vampire lady’ and then this happened :). also i don’t usually write nsfw or anything Vaguely Erotic so i won’t be adding my usual taglist :)
vampires aren’t real.
at least, that’s what everyone tells you. your nursemaid who brushes your hair before bed and dresses you up the next day. your father, who sent you off to this foreign place to marry a man you never met. your future husband and fiancee who is much older than you and had more than his fair share of young wives. vampires aren’t real. just creatures made up by old wives meant to scare young children into not leaving their beds at night. you had long grown out of such tales. almost everything from your girlhood, actually, ever since you packed away your toys and dresses with frills in a box and left, to stay in the castle that you would call home for the rest of your life.
vampires aren’t real. so, why is it that one visits you every night since you’ve stayed at the castle?
I'm not a lawyer, so don't come at me, but I'm pretty sure I can find a canonical reason (in comicverse) why the Joker doesn't fuck with the IRS.
For the IRS, if you plead Mental Illness in regards to not paying taxes, they don't test you for competency by way of a psychological evaluation.
They conduct an investigation into your business affairs while ill.
Which means they could, potentially, shoot his insanity plea out of the water in a court of law. If the IRS can prove that, per his business transactions and deliberate actions to hide them, he was in full knowledge of the consequences of his actions and had the ability to plan ahead, that could put a serious hole in Joker's loophole he keeps using.
This opens him up to being actually charged for all the murder he's committed. Instead of just being carted off to Arkham on Diminished Responsibility, he'd be liable for the death penalty.
My reasoning being that while the IRS might not have enough to jail him for tax evasion, the court decision saying he's responsible enough to have a clear understanding of what he was doing could be used in another court case against Joker.
It sets precedent.
There's probably a slew of IRS agents in Gotham just watching every single financial move Joker makes, waiting for even the slightest fuck up.
Again I'm not a lawyer, don't yell at me I just had a thought :(
A little over six weeks and his knee heals only for his breathing to act up. It may have been a handful of decades—coming up on a century, even—but he never did forget how it felt to wheeze through the night.
Steve sees it coming when Dr. Youssef tells him his lungs are taking a turn.
The year 2032 brings about the Summer Olympics, the coldest winter of the decade, and an end to Project Rebirth.
🔹 Learning to want by @luna-rainbow
Bucky is still trying to piece together his memories, but at least he now had Steve with him.
When Steve asks him if he wanted to meet with his sister, Becca, his response was, "I don't know about wants...I'll start with the shoulds."
Steve and Bucky goes for lunch with Becca. Steve and Bucky dealing with memory loss. Steve and Bucky being mutually pining idiots.
▪️better to speak or die by emilywithoutY (@between-a-ship-and-a-hard-place)
Summers in C. are as endless and hazy as when they were kids. All James wants is to play his part well enough that his mother stops looking at him with that twist of regret in her smile.
The only thing to break the sun-soaked monotony is the arrival of the new summer intern. While the rest of the household—and half the village—fawn over Steve Roger’s movie star looks and understated charm, James finds him aloof and his polite interest near unbearable.
But as they collide in vulnerable moments, the sparks of frustration ignite something neither has the power to stop.
Do you think Jonathan understood what happened that day David first stepped into his father’s court?
🔹The weapon remembers by pushdragon
The Winter Soldier finds old fantasies of Steve in his memory, and takes them for reality.
He's got two days to sort out all his mixed-up history, before he puts himself back in cryo freeze. Harder still, he's got to convince Steve to let him do it.
▪️Preberseeschießen by Ginny_Potter (@hipsterdiva)
Bucky takes his time, ignoring his comrades’ cheering and Gaiswinkler and Mariandl’s teasing. From his position, Steve only has an oblique view of Bucky’s face, which is mostly in the dark anyway – the strong line of his jaw, a smudge of grease on his cheekbone, a sweaty lock of hair curling on his forehead, his mouth pouting in concentration. Steve itches to draw him, to take out his battered sketchbook and reproduce that instant of perfect imperfection. Steve itches to touch him, push back his unruly curls, wipe away the smudge on his cheekbone, cup his face in his hands and…
Bucky breathes out and shoots. The bullet hits water… and there it is, the zapping sound of paper tearing.
The light turns on and off three times. Third circle. Just a lick out of bullseye.
The Howlies explode in cheers.
Or, the Howling Commandos play a shooting game with the Austrian Resistance and Steve has lots of unresolved feelings about himself, his new body, and his changing relationship with Bucky. In other words, comrades are comrades, angst looms, and Steve feels.
🔹Till there were no more wolves in the West
by @dharmasharks
“I’m afraid of a lot of things, Steve,” Bucky says softly.
“But this thing sticking in my heart—the part of me that’s yours? It is the best part of me. Maybe the only good part.” His rueful smile wavers. He makes a pained expression.
“What if it’s the only good part?” he asks.
Two Brooklyn boys find themselves aboard an orphan train headed west in 1854. Across farmland, war, and the lawless frontier, a childhood promise helps them find each other again.
(A Western SteveBucky retelling.)
▪️Hiraeth by ixalit
Hiraeth
noun /ˈhɪraɨ̯θ/
[Welsh] A homesickness or nostalgia, an earnest longing or desire, or a sense of regret. The feeling of longing for a home that never was.
🔹Undone by justanotherStonyfan
You’d think, given everything, that if one of them were going to regress, that if one of them were going to break down, it would be Bucky.
(Set mostly after Endgame - canon deaths remain but Steve doesn't leave)
▪️But You Can Hold Me (Only 'Cause It's a Cold Night in Brooklyn) by Voylitscope_speed (@voylitscope)
This should just be two friends getting off after the burlesque show. This should just be two pals both thinking about the girl. That would probably be okay, Bucky thinks.
But then he ruins it all when he says,
"Come here," and puts a hand out to tug on Steve's shoulder.
(Or: Sometimes, Bucky and Steve lend each other a hand, literally. Bucky tries not to be weird about it, but he's always been bad at controlling his thoughts about Steve.)
🔹Midlife Crisis by profoundalpacakitten
Steve isn’t expecting much of anything from life, he’s content to coast by, letting life flow past. Get up, get dressed, get to work, get home, get to sleep, rinse and repeat.
▪️ The Magic Touch by @broodybuck
The soldier is finally free but he has one big problem, he can't finish. Until he meets a man called Steve who apparently has the magic touch.
Good morning. This might be my last message from the city of Rafah. The occupation [Israel] is carrying out crazy fire. Violent belts. As you’re hearing, there are helicopters. Planes and gunfire from the vehicles. There’s a complete invasion of the city.
We don’t know what is going on in Rafah. The place that the occupation [Israel] claimed to be safe. This is happening all of a sudden; the people didn’t go out. They didn’t do anything. More than thirty targets were hit in just minutes. People were asleep. We woke up to the bombing, to the shooting from the helicopters. It was horrifying. Unacceptable.
This might be my last message. Please relay it to the world.
— Hazem, journalist residing in Rafah; 02.11.2024
Rafah was Palestinians’ very last safe zone. There is quite literally nowhere else left to go. And now it’s being bombed with airstrike after airstrike.
You all remember how in s2e3, Jim was almost about to actually tell Stede what happened? They start in with "yeah, Stede, there's no easy way to say this, but" before Frenchie interrupts them with "he retired." And I'm sure it would've been just horrendous for the mental health of everyone present but I do really want to hear what Jim was planning to say.
"There's no easy way to say this, but we did beat him to death 😐"
"Sorry, Stede, I know he was the love of your life but he was becoming rapidly more and more self-desctructive and was threatening to kill us if we didn't kill him first. Anyway this soup is good yeah?"
"No stop crying I swear I cracked his head open with that cannonball as humanely as possible"
This is the same person who tried to comfort Fang when he was sobbing by saying "hey. stop crying 😐" so I would just love to know how they were planning on finishing that sentence.
