totally in a non sexual way

shevine

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I love this so much

[shakebelton]

guys we need to talk

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Wait there’s more

[shakebelton]

let me be serious for a sec about adam and blake and their images and fame and online discussion that goes with it and why i even care...

the thing about adam levine is that it's damn impressive how resilient he is. i would just be fucking evil now if i were him, but he's chilling. in retrospect, knowing all the facts, 2018-2022 was just a really messy depressive spiral for him (i'd like to think i would've picked up on it if i were following his life in any way at that point but who knows really) and it's just insane how he got (and still gets) dragged to hell and back for every minor messy thing he did. i think the public should forgive him, but also like i think there's nothing to forgive. it's just clown level discourse, everything that's been happening around him these past few years especially.

i cannot even imagine that every single one of my, however slight, fuckups, is ridiculed by millions of people for months at a time. once, i cried at an airport at 5 am when i found out from a tweet a person hated me (it hurt more that they admitted it wasn't really for any discernible reason). if i had 10% of the things that happened to him happen to me i would've straight up killed myself or been full on evil by now. and like, i'm not really seeing the jerk people talk about. god knows i've dug around in his life for two years now and i'm not seeing a bad person. and granted, he's literally Just Some Guy with flaws to me, not an "adorable kitten who must be protected" as 2013 tumblr seemed to believe, but also i'm not seeing an asshole. and yeah maybe he's somehow shittier than i think, there's so much private stuff i might not know about, but what i know is, every public thing of his that i've seen criticised is just horribly misconstrued, like it's just plain wrong just about all the time. like i'll be looking at him talk about his workout and he comes across fine, funny and down to earth, and then i'll read the comments and it's people saying he's full of himself. i'll see him recoil in shock as a fan he didn't see approach runs into him on stage and all the people are saying he thinks he's better than everyone. it really makes you think... like whenever i see something about people saying he was a jerk when they met him, i really question the truth of that, because i've seen what they label 'jerk' behavior from him and they are straight up wrong, straight up.

and it's not like i even want to like him either. he's too rich, too talented and too good looking, and lives at a level of comfort i cannot even imagine if i try, and it pisses me off. but goddamn it if it isn't downright impressive/commendable how he can go on with his life with the amount of hate thrown around. he's stepping back, shutting up, minding his own business in the face of ill intentioned insanity, and it's almost incomprehensible to me.

it's somewhat similar when it comes to blake too, by the way. the shit that man's gone through and is still going through about everything related to his divorce with miranda and him getting together with gwen, i cannot even grasp it. and unlike adam's, blake's situation is even more crazy in some ways, because so much of stuff about him is just lies, like just completely made up by tabloids things, or full on delusions. and it's hard for me to imagine carrying on with my life, calm and silent, in that face of things like that potentially happening to me, and i applaud them for it.

so when it comes to me writing fanfic about them, i started out with mostly fun things, like pretty much on the crack side, just because their stuff on the voice is mostly banter and it's funny and you naturally try to replicate that dynamic in your writing. but lately i've been trying to explore angsty writing more, and the truth is that i can't even scratch the surface of it, of the level of low i perceive them to have experienced. some of it's really just drawn out hell, and i can't stay there long enough, story wise, to give it the justice it deserves. but i'm gonna keep at it, because the bad, upsetting things they've gone through just astonish me, and it's just endlessly fascinating to explore complex human emotion like that, and some of it even helps me work through my own trauma or figure things out in my own life. so at the end of the day, it's not all about them, it's about me, but sometimes i just can't stop thinking about their stories.

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Blake Quotes

Compiling a list of things Blake has said about Adam over the years

“When I’m here, this is my chance to be a complete idiot. And who better to act like a complete idiot with than the biggest one I’ve ever met in my life?” - 2013 The Voice

“It’s so foreign to see anything that’s genuine on television these days. That’s why I think so much attention is focused on Adam and I. You can tell we really like each other. We really are friends, and we’re giving each other crap like we’ve known each other all our lives. I just think the world of that dude.” - 2014 Rolling Stone

“I consider him one of my best friends. I actually went and stayed with the guy when I was going through my divorce, and he was a really good friend to me during all that.” - “I think the thing that’s our bond is we come from such different worlds. I find we’ll get into conversations where we just pick each other’s brains of how we do our touring. The same with him. He wants to know if I’m really a farmer. We have these conversations, and hours go by. The thing we have in common is music. But that’s not what we’re interested in. We’re interested in ‘Why are you so weird?’” - 2015 Country Countdown USA

“As close as we have been, we got even closer.” - 2016 Billboard

“We are constantly at each other’s throats, and sometimes we really do get mad at each other. We’re those two guys you knew in high school where we have this bond that is unexplainable. It brings out the best and worst in both of us. It truly is an explosive relationship.” … “I’ve stayed at the man’s house with him. He’s one of the best friends that I have, but I still want to kill him sometimes.” - 2017 Tennesseean

“He’s one of the most loving people I’ve ever known. We drive each other nuts, but outside of this world, he’s one of my best friends and it’s because of his heart. He needs his face slapped around, but he has a huge, huge heart.” - 2017 People

“I just wanna talk about my journey with Adam because I think it’s been one of the most important relationships that I’ve made in my life.” … “I’ve seen a lot of ups and downs and I’ve never had a more honest and loyal friend than Adam Levine through my personal journey knowing him. And so I know this, getting a star on the walk of fame is a big deal and we all know he’s a huge star with music and movies and television but I’m happy to see him get this because he’s my friend. And nobody is more shocked, I mean proud, than I am that he’s gonna have a star on the Hollywood walk of fame forever. Congratulations brother, I love you.” - 2017 Hollywood Walk of Fame

“So full disclosure, I saw you FaceTiming on Kelsea Ballerini’s phone. Do you care to share who you were FaceTiming with?”

“I think—it was not FaceTime, she was recording for Adam, and she was like can we say hi? and I was like oh yeah, I got a message for Adam, which we can’t obviously repeat here, you’ll be bleeping a lot of bleeps.”

“Why the hostility for your buddy?”

“Oh that’s just our relationship. That means we’re in a good place.”

“Does he text you a lot? Does he FaceTime you a lot?”

“We had a text marathon two nights ago, actually. I was on an airplane and this text was like one of those back and forth for an hour, you know what I mean, just stupid, horrible things that we would never want anybody to know.” - 2025 American Country Countdown

Unknown (if anyone knows where these are from help me out!)

“So many times, when you meet somebody whose work you respect, they end up being a dickhead. But Adam has to be the most real, honest, easy-to-talk-to person that I've met in all of show business. He's just a good dude with superhero powers.”

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Here is another POV to go with my other post. I love this one because you can see all his facial expressions and reactions. To be seen felt SO special 🫶🏼

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I am not one to bring signs to concerts. I think it’s a super cool idea, I’ve just honestly never had the courage to do it. But I knew I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t bring one for my 10th show, which happened to coincide with my 10th year of seeing them. I brought something simple and small (per venue rules lol) and never waved it around or held it up higher than chest level. Adam stole a couple glances at me throughout the show, but during WGHWY is when he actually stopped to read it. He then smiled, pointed, winked, and gave me a thumbs up. Later in the song, he looked right back at me and sang to me.

I say all this not to brag, but because it felt like I finally got MY moment. I’ve loved this band with all my heart for 12+ years and to finally put myself out there for them with a message and to be SEEN felt so amazing.

Maroon 5 Love Is Like Tour | Little Rock, AR 11/9/25

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The fact that maroon 5 is doing a pop-up at a brewery called Yee Haw Brewery in fucking Nashville, and Adam just dyed his hair back to blonde, is really fucking with my shevine brain

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“Whatever this whole surreal experience was, I’m just happy I got to experience it with you.”

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Been re-reading my old shevine fics because I’m too lazy to write more

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Bury it deep down inside where the real shit hides and it don’t come out till somebody gets honest

Yeah we tried and we fought a good fight but no matter who wins ain’t nobody surviving 🦋🔥

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Adam’s recent obsession with cowboy hats needs to be studied

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Just a little something I made. This song makes me think of them.

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This song is about Blake and you can’t convince me otherwise

[donske]

LOST - 1.08

[amberpriceenthusiast]

Sawyer wants to fuck Jack so bad

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Need a fic where Blake visits Adam’s house for the first time in a while and he sees the cowboy hat from Kelsea hanging up in his bedroom