#anywayyyyyyyyyyyy

[marriedtothemorgue]

never knew i could find and feel happiness turns out i was dead wrong

[rozicheeks]

😤

[hotasfahrenheit]

where has that girl been that posts about flowers in BL shows the whole time The Next Prince has been airing? there's so many flowers in every episode! what's the deal!

GLAD YOU ASKED.

it's me. i'm still here, don't worry. and yes i've been thinking about the flowers in this show the whole time. i've been writing this post in my mind and it just hasn't gotten out there into the world. until now! just in time for the finale!

The Next Prince is BURSTING AT THE SEAMS with flowers. there are flowers and plants in every scene, in almost every shot sometimes.

flowers in the backgrounds,

flowers in the foregrounds,

flowers all around, all the time.

the tricky thing tho is that The Next Prince has been playing a lot with focus and depth of field in this show, if you haven't noticed because you haven't been squinting at the flowers like i have. sometimes even things in the middle of the frame between two character are kinda blurry or under a soft focus (i'm not a film student, so just pretend i know what i'm talking about), like the flowers on the table between Ran and Nin here.

in fact, when you start paying attention to the flowers throughout this whole show....

you start to notice that they're almost always blurry.

it doesn't matter how far they are from the camera either, if they're behind someone,

or right next to them.

once in a while we get a clear, focused shot of some flowers, but it's rare.

what does this mean for flower meaning discussion and reading that into things about the story like i've done before?

honestly i have no idea. i can't tell how much, if any, thought they put into flower choices because it's so damn hard to even tell what the flowers are more than half the time because they're so blurry or far away.

i HAVE noticed a few things tho like the thing that prompted me to take a bunch of screenshots like this and start actually considering a post was the fact that i noticed in the scene with Charan and Khanin in Charan's room with the paintbrushes, Ran's room was filled with pink flowers.

in previous shots of Ran's spaces, we've seen lots of green plants, and lots of white flowers. but Khanin has red flowers sometimes.

but now Charan has pinks. and so does Khanin.

....but then i went back through the episodes looking for possible flower colour clues and honestly.... the painting scene's not the first time Khanin has been framed with pink.

so take what you will from any of this, i guess.

i also couldn't pin down any kind of flower colour sceme for the other boys either. they have more colourful stuff around them usually, but no specific palettes.

there's tons of white flowers everywhere, sprinkles of colours, a decent amount of pink, i can barely tell what any of it is and.... that's really all i've got.

i feel like they generally went with a more "flowers are opulence and obviously royal families would have giant flower budgets" approach than anything else. there's tons of orchids everywhere (expensive!!!) and lots of big big arrangements tucked into shots.

do i think any of these flowers are fake? it's possible. one of the things i've learned though being a florist is that -good- silk flowers or other fake flowers are entirely possible but also expensive. like honestly expensive to the point where there's not a HUGE price difference between silk and fresh stem prices at my shop. also quality fake flowers are indistinguishable enough from fresh that people constantly come in my shop, ignore the cooler full of fresh flowers and already made arrangements, and bee-line for the big display of silks and other fake flowers because they're so eye catching and convincing, and are genuinely surprised when we tell them that they're fake.

fake flowers wouldn't wilt under lights and long times on sets, but also there's plenty of potted orchid plants in these shots too- tho i've also seen some VERY convincing fake orchids- so it's possible they used a mix of fake, fresh, and live flowers, depending on what they had access to and what each Q of shooting required.

is this post ultimately a whole lot of nothing? yeah kinda.

i guess i just wanted to ramble about flowers again, especially since this show has so many.

i hope everyone enjoys the finale, catch y'all the next time there's flowers i can ramble about 💖💖💖

[hydrolmao]

why am i so fucking scared of being cringe i dont fucking get it why do i care im on TUMBLR. why am i scared people wont like my personality or things i do???

[ambiguityenjoyer]

How do you personally think Connor is handling/viewing being objectified?

I feel like I'm asking a really silly question like "who likes being objectified? Of course, it's hard to handle and feels awful. Ridiculous question," but I guess to break it into like levels of questions: like do you think it bothers him full stop, no exceptions (if so, do you think he pretends that it doesn't even behind closed doors)? Do you think it was more or less fine initially (even an expectation of this kind of role for him), but has started to grate now? Do you think he's fine with it when it's Ilya as the focus (like he attempts to do a separation between his own body and the character's as if it's not his own)? Do you think (driven, worked for 6 years just to get his SAG card, always employed model, 6% to 30% secretly sly/evil lol; talky talky manipulate manipulate) Connor sees it happening and uses it to his advantage (if so, do you think he doesn't mind doing so especially if it gets him where he wants or do you think he feels like he has to)? Do you think he accepts it (any/most levels of it) in a way as a part of the job and moves along (or tries to ignore it)?

I wanna ramble about why the question popped into my head (and I recognize that my own paper dolls answer and biases are clouding what has popped out to me and how I'm taking things especially when I get to the SNL part like I am fully showing my hand there lmao) so I'm gonna yap a lot and kinda bounce around lol. (I just scrolled back up here after I finished typing all of this and "a lot" is an understatement. This is an accidental dissertation. I did not intend for it to be omg)

What first sparked it was the Compliment Battle's "I need people who are obsessed with me, sexually" bit. I know it's a 'lil joke-y joke, but it left me wondering if there is the tiniest nugget of truth there in the joke (whether that's actually what he needs or not idk lol, I just mean wondering if he believes that he needs/wants that truly even a little and if this is a true "I welcome this to some degree" reaction).

In one of the thousands of "white background, brown-white-black-striped shirt' interviews he did with Hudson, Connor talked about how sex can be the initial appeal for some (is this a 'accepting a bit of it as a part of the job' reaction?) and how he anticipated discussion around sex scenes but not necessarily about his body specifically. In the BuzzFeed Thirst Tweets segment, it reaches a point where Connor goes "that's not my tweet, it's Ilya's" despite the tweet being about how hot his Ilya's body is in his towel (is this an 'attempt to separate/place it outside himself/fine for Ilya but leave me out of it' bit?).

I thought about the "The butt's gone. The butt's dead...[tone shift] I'm just kidding" from The Cut interview or (this next one I noticed on first viewing tbh) the way that Connor says "This is another one about my butt, again" at the very, very end of the Quinn interview which felt like a different reaction to earlier mentions of his butt (are these the 'this was kinda fine/expected initially, but is getting grating after awhile' reaction?). In his Men's Health video, Hudson goes "I'm okay talking about my butt, but poor Connor Storrie [...] I'm sure just wants to stop talking about his beautiful cheeks" (this being direct from Hudson who's clearly talked to Connor to state this feels like a definite 'fine at first, but grating now" reaction, but also feels like it could be a definite "this has been grating the whole time" reaction too).

In the BuzzFeed Thirst Tweets video, he has another 'lil "joke-y joke" of "I thought it would be my acting or my charisma that made me a big star [...] but no, it's the butt I got from my mama." Then during the Torch Relay, I noticed that people would throw physical compliments his way and he received them well when he reacted, but the only time he seemed to literally light up during the crowd's compliments was when someone yelled "you're such an amazing actor!" He turned to look directly at the specific person who said it and beamed before saying "thank you!" (I don't believe that happened with any other compliment during that walk, but I could absolutely be wrong) (these feel like a "it's okay, but can it please not be the only thing? What about what I do? What about what I make?" reaction).

Then the infamous Variety interview with Janelle James where the interviewer asks Janelle if she's thinking about his sex scenes while presenting with him. Connor's facial expression and telling her "I appreciate that. Thank you. You're very s(weet)." after she compliments his Russian accent and character work sticks out for me too (that one feels like a "what about what I do?" reaction, but instead of 'it's okay' like the above it's 'hate it, hate it, hate it' though anyone would hate this example seeing as it was said directly in front of him while talking about him but not to him as if he were a literal object, saying it on-camera in a professional setting to a professional senior/colleague he just met, etc).

This is the SNL part where I'm likely reading too much into his skit because it's his and he wrote it. And I feel like based on his Vogue Adria interview where he mentioned that “art that tries to be didactic can backfire” and, from that same interview, seems to not be into over-intellectualizing media that he would haaaate what I'm about to say about his SNL skit that he wrote lmao. BUT (The Atlantic article about his SNL debut got into this as well) there is something to be said about bringing back a skit where a character you play's body is so much of a object of desire that even you bleeding out and being nearly on the brink of death doesn't quell the screams to see as much of it as possible (this one feels like a little 'hate it, hate it, hate it' reaction underneath the skit, deep down, but I can also see someone bringing this up to Connor and him going 'I'm only trying to make people laugh' which...valid lmao).

Anyways, I did not need to give you 859 examples of types of possible reactions I think I've noticed from him about his own objectification, oop. And since it's been 50,000 words since the actual question, it was: how do you personally think Connor is handling/viewing being objectified lol?

I love this. Thank you for laying it all out there and I do admire you asking question, and then fully answering it yourself. I get to just hop in at the end and put a little bow on things.

Isn’t the conclusion: he feels kinda mixed about it. And wishes there was more to say about what he can do as an actor? To add to this pile of citations, I’m remembering veryyyyy early like Montreal release press where he made some comment about. And we’re not getting paid so we aren’t going to do it!! And hudson is like I don’t need to be paid I’ll do it for free.

To me there’s a tension around one’s beautiful body being the way that one has built a career (modeling, getting good at wearing clothes or not wearing clothes, weaponizing the skinny vegan look or the gym rat look for financial gain). Even heated rivalry, though they didn’t ask him to take his shirt off in the chemistry reads, he had loads of shit on IG, and the selling point was and still is how beautiful he is.

There’s something also in a willingness to get ugly, verses a very slight aversion where….comedy wise he pushes it, right?! He does push it. But never to the extent that someone like Chris Fleming can push it. Even when it’s ugly it’s still beautiful ugly, and not like, fully embarrassingly ugly. Even Ilya’s stupid O face is pretty hot. I think Surge is as close as we’re going to get to clear statement on the subject, with the dead empty eyes humping the floor asking do you like this ladies?

My final non conclusive thought is about the Quinn audio drama, which I can barely listen to but I did manage some of in that montage of Hudson moaning (lol) and oh my god. It’s more explicit to me than any of the heated rivalry sex scenes. That more than anything else they’ve done felt like full on sex work to me.

I think he’s been glowing this past weekend because he got to do all his fave things (live show, lots of bits and characters and voices and his own concept and everyone cheering and adoring him, plus being adored on the carpet and looking pretty in photos where he got to play dress up). And he got to set the terms on when he got his beautiful body out.

[muchmossymess]

/overthinking everything/ can we even call bakugos quirk explosion bc he just seems to have ignition palms and nitroglycerine sweat, which is less of a quirk factor thing (fuck if i know how to say this) and more of a mutation thing, so like. Huh???? Mostly im thinking about this in terms of copying/stealing/temp swapping of his quirk bc im me, and also a little bit in the "so ALL of his sweat is explosive. Highly volatile. And hes NEVER had a catastrophic accident. Sure" and grrrrrrrr brain its not that serious ITS NOT THAT SERIOUS but like i did see a post going "He doesnt like ppl touching him bc he worries about sweat transfer and then the person being fucking blown up randomly" and i was like "what if he wears gloves (1 ignoring his hero costume and 2 ignoring the rest of his body for a moment) but what if it soaks the material, but what if its plastic or smth, but then wouldnt that pool up and make even MORE volatile liquid to be worried about, but but but" and like im talking myself into CIRCLES bro

[paint-me-in-watercolour]

I was talking to a friend earlier and we were talking about doctors for some reason and um i think i might be a little bit too desensitized to like...... hospitals. which could be a good thing or a bad thing

[thotsyndrome]

drunk on a wednesday jught….. BEAUTIFUL‼️