#repy

[firagasoap]

REPY

[enden-k]

Have you heard drunk kaveh from his hangout in all languages? He’s so endearing & haitham sees that so often for free(or with his own money since he pays for drinks at times too hfgjdh)???

When can we get really drunk haitham too 😔 (altho I can’t see him willingly getting so drunk but still, I want a scenario that makes it happen so i can see what kinda changes happen to his voice/his mannerisms....)

heard him at least in cn/en dub when i did it last year and yea, considering hthm takes care of his bills most of the time and them living together, he witnesses it often enough

(i dont have to explain how alcoholism is a srs thing and ppl should drink in consideration. bringing it up anw as a reminder to yall)

with that being said, i too believe haitham prefers to have a clear mind, so he doesnt overindulge when he drinks (def always makes sure to not drink on an empty stomach -or kvh when theyre out together- and also take breaks/hydrates) but if he would ever be drunk off his ass the mental image of him being affectionate drunk is kinda cute..........also not holding back w his words and saying some stuff he would usually keep to himself....mumbling his words uwa

[putschki1969]

Hi! Can you tell me what is the software or extension you used for recording Keiko's instagram live? I am trying to record it in NoxPlayer but the color of the stream turns out to be so bad, everything is yellowish.

Hello there! Sorry for the late reply. I think I have mentioned it already but I am not the one who is recording the lives without comments. Keiko's lives typically happen during my work hours so I have no way of getting to my private PC to record them. A kind follower usually does it and sends me a link.

I am simply recording the normal lives WITH comments on my iPhone using the regular iPhone screen recording function. This works perfectly fine most of the time but I had some issues during Keiko's last Instagram Live.

[draceempressa]

It's hard to do any research about some characters especially the minor characters due to their lack of lore and development. Only the Overblotted boys (minus Leona cause his development is slow) get to have some development. Is it ok for you to like, compile all of your answers and analysis about the boys into 1 post? 1 by 1, I don't want to force you to do it all at the same time. You can start with the character you dislike the most cause he's the most intriguing to me.

Of course, that happens in a lot of fandoms that it's hard to do research about the character that canonically have minimum information , even if you do research on sites lie tvtrpe and wikia. That's also why you also do research on THEMES AND TOPIC regarding them. research on symbolism of apples regarding Epel. Research about asian parenting cultures about Riddle and Malleus' issues (also turning red just come out and it's a good example to compare with those two, with the whole generational role thing), research about the disney classic movies that based them on, or the original fairy tales they are based on even. Anything small is fine, you can make some hcs with smallest info or symbolism. besides we live in information era where you just need to type on google and voila

I don't know if I will ever make guides like that, because admittedly I'm whimsical and may or may not to make the guide, but I always tag my post, moreso if they are detailed enough. Like for example, leona's surname is kingscholar, as much it can means smart scholar king , also, in japanese it's spelled king-su-ka-ra, the same how you would say king scar (king-su-ka-ra) . Or how this game presents chess motif, Azul, Riddle and Vil, being "Queen" pieces, are much more mobile and active as leaders, when Leona , Idia, and Malleus are "king" pieces, content staying at one place and didn't rule/held responsible as dorm leader directly. Stuff like that. Any topic work as long it's related to the character.

[jung-koook]

hi love! do you know where can I watch that award show live?

here you go

[sodalitefully]

2nd prompt (human + supernatural friend) with Duff and Slash💛💛

"The chaotic human with no self-preservation whatsoever and the supernatural creature desperately trying to keep them alive"

Oh lord alright it is very hard to decide which of them has the stronger reckless bastard energy, but Slash by far has a more supernatural vibe and also you wrote their names in that order so that's what we're going to go with!

Duff McKagan has a 28% chance of surviving past the age of 30.  Slash would know, because he's Duff's guardian angel.

Or at least, he was.  For... ahem, unrelated reasons, Slash fell from Heaven when Duff was about 17.

(His first strike was when he directly intervened when Duff almost drowned as a child – "Whoa, kid, you almost died! Let's not do that again, huh? Seriously, tempting fate is not a good idea for you, buddy." Luckily, Duff was in shock at the time and afterwards he didn't remember getting dragged to the surface of the lake by a glowing figure with a literally blinding smile and fluffy white wings.  His second strike was getting caught disguising himself as a human so he could mess around on Earth, and his third strike was messing with the boundary between species in the afterlife causing an incident that ended with a dozen angels trying to restrain the spirit of a T. rex.)

So, no big deal, right?  Earth is way more fun anyway.  Slash messes around for a while, trying to figure out both his new powers and human culture, and then it occurs to him – he doesn't have to follow Heavenly rules anymore, there's nothing to stop him from keeping Duff alive any way he can.  Slash is a fallen angel with superpowerful magic, and he is not one to back down from a challenge: Duff is going to live to 100 if it kills him! Which it probably won't, since he's immortal.

Well, their first (technically second) meeting doesn't go so smoothly.  Slash is Bad at disguising himself as a human, and when a slightly demonic-looking stranger suddenly appears in Duff's bedroom and leads with, "Hey, Duff, how's it going? Still alive, I see!" Duff kinda freaks out.

Which is understandable! Slash knows that humans aren't supposed to know anything about angels and demons and all the rest, but... He was kinda hoping that the human he spent 17 years lovingly watching over would greet him in some way that didn't involve swinging a baseball bat at his face.

Oh well. Water under the bridge, it's not like Duff can actually hurt him, anyway!  Things calm down a bit and Slash explains himself.  Duff is very skeptical... right up until he realizes that having a friend with supernatural powers means that he can get away with just about anything he wants.

So Slash tags along on Duff's teenage exploits, saving him from everything from the Seattle PD to his own clumsiness.  Duff learns to take Slash's magical weirdness in stride, and they become close friends.

Thing is, the older Duff gets, the harder he is to look out for.  Slash tries to protect him from heroin by convincing him to move to L.A. (on of Slash's favorite Earth cities), but now there's a whole new world of threats to Duff's safety and well-being.

See, Slash's first mistake was telling Duff that he had slim chances of living through adulthood.  He didn't really mean to, humans aren't supposed to know the details of their own mortality, but he got drunk, it slipped out, and he later realized that Duff took it completely the wrong way.  If he's not going to live past 30, then he better make the most of it while he can, right?!

No!  For fuck's sake Duff, you could at least try to make Slash's job a little easier

("It's not your job anymore," Duff tells him on one of the rare occasions they get into an argument.  Slash is being overbearing, why doesn't he just give up on this stupid obsession and let Duff live the way he wants? It stings to hear.  Duff knows that it's not just a job, that Slash acts the way he does because he cares.  He's the one to reach out to Slash when they make up.)

So Slash spends the next decade keeping Duff alive.  When Duff isn't making enough money to feed himself, Slash manages to get whatever he needs.  When Duff joins a band, Slash is his biggest cheerleader.  When the audience throws trash at the stage, Slash deflects it.  When Duff orders that last drink that's going to push him over the edge, Slash grabs it from him and drinks it instead.

On Duff's 30th birthday, Slash was pretty fucking proud of himself and of Duff for beating the odds!  But then a few months later... Fuck.  Things get bad.

It takes a lot of time and effort on both their parts to get Duff back to a stable, healthy place.  Slash didn't realize how hard it would be to take care of Duff when all he can think is that his help might not be enough this time.  But slowly, things get better, even better than they were before.

Somewhere along the way, Slash catches feelings.  He loves Duff more than anything, and he knows Duff well enough to tell that his feelings are returned.

Slash is afraid of what will happen when Duff dies and Slash is left alone, he's not an angel anymore so he won't be allowed to visit Duff in the afterlife.  But when it comes down to it, Slash's only goal is to give Duff the best life possible, and if that means showing Duff how much he loves him every minute, even though someday he's going to leave Slash behind, then so be it.

[infriga]

Well yeah but that was after seeing the gross monster that particular food made he was happy at the suggestion of ordering a pizza though in together breakfast. All that mattered to him was spending time together, it seemed like he had to BEG for it in early SU. And then of course in SUF, after all the effort earlier in his life, and time spent doing nothing felt like it was undeserved and it hurt to just try and spend time with people you love. They took too long to reciprocate.

My post about the together breakfast was mainly poking fun at how people had an existencial crisis over Steven not liking things that he used to like as if it made him a completely different person. In reality out of the three things they suggested that he supposedly used to like only one of them was something he was ever actually into beyond like one episode, if at all. He was never into Pupcopter during SU, he was into Dogcopter. Pupcopter is basically the version meant for extremely young children, and would be like asking a 16 year old to watch Paw Patrol with you. And he didn't even want to eat the Together Breakfast by the end of its titular episode. It only showed up one other time during one brief scene during the wedding as a call back, vanished before the ceremony started, and was otherwise never seen again as far as I can remember. Only the cheeseburger backpack was something he liked and used that he stopped using in Future, but he'd still kept it and still used a hot dog duffle bag, so it wasn't like he hated it or didn't still use food themed bags, he just didn't want to use a bag that was 4 years old, possibly because it's actually really annoying to use a bag with too many pockets when you're using it for something important like school. So I always felt like it was a bit of an overreaction. I don't mean the jokes and stuff people made, I'm sure many of them weren't serious and were just joking around about our little boy growing up, but I remember there were plenty of people taking it way too seriously. I specifically recall one person literally stating that Steven had become a "husk of his former self" after that episode which is patently ridiculous, and I got a bit peeved about it back then. I noticed the ending of Together Breakfast during a rewatch so I thought I'd make a sassy post about it. But I do want to address something you mentioned in this ask seriously, as well as some other things related to it that are on my mind regarding Future.

Edit: I’m putting the rest of this under a cut because I didn’t realize how long this got when I wrote it on my phone. TL;DR: I believe Snow Day is more about Steven’s imposter syndrome than about the gems taking too long to reciprocate his desire to spend time with them. Below is a bunch of my thoughts about Steven’s shift from seeing gem missions as adventures and a way to hang out with the gems to seeing them as a responsibility and something he was obligated to do for the greater good whether he wanted to or not.

You're right that in the beginning he got left alone a lot and often had to beg the gems to spend time with him, and he felt as if he had to be a crystal gem and be useful in order to go on missions with them, which he thought was his only way to hang out with them as shown in An Indirect Kiss. But later on things changed in that department. The gems did start spending more time with him outside of missions, the problem was that his desire to be useful and help with missions morphed into something else. Take The Test as an example. In the beginning of the episode the gems are playing a board game with Steven, spending time with him and having fun with something that wasn't related to missions. But then their time hanging out together is interrupted when Steven finds the statue from the moon spire and expresses guilt over leaving it behind, leading to the revelation that it was a test he failed. In a way that scene is the perfect analogy for the change in his views regarding missions, because that episode is when Steven's treatment of missions shifts from cool adventures to an obligation, and it's also when his priorities shift from himself and what he wants, to others and what they need. It stops being about his desires of being included, and starts being about putting his own problems aside to help others, and about him wanting to live up to the expectations others have of him. He was expected to pass an easy test and he failed, and because of that the spire was destroyed. The gems didn't know how to handle him, so he ignored his own hurt and feelings of inadequacy to make them feel better and boost their confidence. And from that point on, he mostly acted based on the greater good, and on not falling short of what others expected of him because he was afraid of the potentially destructive consequences of failure. You can really see the difference between how Steven saw missions during Cheeseburger backpack and how he saw them later on after the test when you go back to rewatch that episode. In Cheeseburger Backpack he saw it as a chance to do something fun and cool with the gems, to be a member of their exclusive group, which is a view he still has by An Indirect Kiss, though he's already started to see it as him having to live up to his mother's legacy, at that point he just sees that as his method of being able to hang out with them by being useful. After The Test he takes things much more seriously as a duty that he's obligated to do for the sake of the earth, and as something he sees as a responsibility. You can especially see this in Marble Madness just 6 episodes later, where Connie treats the events occurring as something cool and adventurous, while Steven treats it as an important issue that they've been dealing with, one that by the third interruption he's clearly not happy about. Sure, you could argue that it's because of what happens between those episodes causing him to take things more seriously, like Mirror/Ocean Gem or Warp Tour, but The Test has been noted by Rebecca and others as a turning point for Steven for a reason. Now I’m not saying Steven didn’t want to help people for the sake of helping people, he did because he’s a good kid who’s empathetic and kind, but he also clearly grew to view the missions and gem drama as more important than how he felt, even when they were something he didn’t want to do or resulted in him getting hurt and upset. He ended up thinking that helping people was more important than what he wanted or needed, and that came to a head in Future when his problems came back to bite him all at once and he couldn’t dismiss them anymore. The problem wasn’t that he wanted to help people, the problem was that he pushed his own needs aside to do it at any cost.

So I don't think the issue in Snow Day was that their reciprocation was too late, because they'd reciprocated before that point. I think the problem was that the way they reciprocated played into his feelings of inadequacy and his fear of falling short of the expectations of others. He grew up feeling like he couldn't live up to his mother's legacy, and even after he managed to break free of that he started feeling like he couldn't live up to his own legacy. He thought people didn't see him for who he really is now, and we learn in Everything's Fine that on top of his ptsd he has a really bad case of imposter syndrome. So when the gems want to spend time with him and they base it on the person he used to be years ago, it just further plays in to the idea that they haven't been paying attention to he is now, that he's still being seen as the 14 year old who saved the galaxy, and that's who they want him to be again. It would feel very isolating and alienating for the parents who say they miss you to act like they miss who you used to be rather than who you are currently.

That said, it was good that by the end of the episode he told them how he felt and they adjusted their behaviour. personally I do still think that episode had a happy ending all things considered, and I don't think it contributed much if at all to his issues down the line, it just wasn't enough to prevent them. I think it served more as a hint to some of his insecurities regarding how he felt like a fraud because he thought everyone saw him as something he wasn't.

I find it interesting how some people reacted to that episode and to Steven during Future in general. We the audience should know that he is a good person and not a monster, and that his mistakes don't define him, and that he should be allowed to change without being held up to an impossible standard, because that's what the show has always championed: the ability to grow. Yet a vocal section of the audience reacted in a way that bought into the kind of insecurities Steven had cultivated. They reacted as if a few minor changes were the end of the world, and that because he wasn't exactly the same kind of person he was in SU that meant he was somehow a worse person, a "husk of his former self" so to speak, even though he was still a kind person who wanted to help people. He wasn't refusing to hang out with the gems because he had become asocial and hated them, or because he was an edgy teenager, it was because their attempts at spending time with him were done in a way that made him unhappy. Once they adapted to something more comfortable for him he was perfectly happy to hang out and have fun with them.

The biggest difference between Steven then and now was that Steven issues had built up to a point where they couldn't be pushed aside or ignored anymore. The way he'd helped people in the past had proven to be unhealthy in the long run due to the fact that he always minimized his own needs and desires over those of others. So a chunk of the fandom had done exactly what Steven accused everyone of doing in Everything's Fine: they expected him to be the same kid from before who was perfect, mature, and always knew what to do. They thought of him as an angel who only helped people. In that episode he says "I'm not that kid anymore" but the thing is, he was never that kid. Much of that so-called maturity and decisiveness and perfection was actually just a traumatized child trying to live up to impossible expectations while utilizing unhealthy coping methods to push his own feelings aside in order to help others and save the world.

When Growing Pains aired, a lot of those people went suspiciously silent. No more people calling him edgy, no more people saying he was turning into White Diamond, no more people saying he was making the same mistakes as his mom, no more people accusing him of having developed an ego, and no more people saying Steven was going to be the "villain" of Future. Or at least there were way less people saying those things. That's why I think that episode was so important. It blatantly stated "this is the behaviour of a traumatized 16 year old who has experienced multiple traumatic childhood events. Trauma shapes our behaviours and our physical reactions and has a long lasting or even permanent effect on our body and mind." it made everyone take a long hard look at what Steven had been through through without the rose-tinted lenses of nostalgia. Obviously there were still some people with bad takes calling Steven an asshole, but there were way less of them than there were before the episode slapped us in the face with the reality that the show was taking this seriously and always had been. And I hope it caused a lot of people to take that same hard look at stuff in real life, so they could be aware of the effects of trauma on others instead of harshly judging trauma survivors for not being perfect and having difficulties and struggling, so that they can hopefully stop demonizing the less convenient and less pretty symptoms of trauma as character flaws that make someone evil, and so they can hopefully see things in less black and white or good and evil like the internet is prone to do. And maybe some people can even see those same issues in themselves and feel encouraged to actually seek help, and maybe they can feel like they're seen and heard even if it's just by a cartoon about dancing singing lesbian space rocks.

Sorry this got so long, I have a lot of thoughts about this and I wanted to just get them out there.

[itsaship-literally]

As a couple, what do you think their biggest fight would be about?

Let’s break it down by Alternate Universes!

Movie Verse:

Beetlejuice and Lydia hardly have any interaction. It’s safe to say that their early relationship is filled with arguments and misunderstandings. Beej isn’t a good guy. Lydia is still so very human and a kind soul. We don’t know that much about her in this universe like we do in the other two but we know she loves horror yet is adverse to dissecting a frog. It’s easy to project different types of backstories on this beautiful canvas. 

As for a fight, It’s safe to say their biggest would be something to do with trust and fidelity. BJ would have had to keep a gnarly secret that festers and festers like they do in all romantic comedies. Then it all blows up when Lydia gets a blunt truth thrown at her. She would be heartbroken.

Toon Verse:

Beetlejuice and Lydia have had some pretty good fights but their biggest ones usually involved Lydia’s family. BJ is a selfish ass. No way around it. In this universe, she would be angry over him overreaching and being cruel to their family. She defends Donny, Bea, and Gnat the same way as she defends Jaques, Ginger, and Monster. Mildly but If BJ betrayed her trust and did something that got her father hurt. That would be nasty. 

Musical Verse:

Beetlejuice and Lydia Well… you would think they already had their biggest fight but no. Those two are like anxiety volcanoes. Serious trust issues and they have a bad habit of conning each other. Sometimes it’s fun. But other times, it goes too far. Both of them would pull a con on each other at the same time. Then, they both get burned. Neither is willing to apologize and it takes Lydia’s family to intervene.

I think about these things way too much. LOL