if I had a dollar for every time an enstars character got proposed to and didn't reject it but only said that "the law says no" instead I'd have at LEAST one to two dollars which isn't much but it's funny that it happens
there's something about ritsu and fairytales that always gets me like,,,, the entirety of little romance being /about/ fairytales, his whole journey to slowly becoming a knight, HIM PROUDLY BEING ABLE TO CALL HIMSELF ONE AFTER SO MUCH TIME, the fact that he used to sleep all the
I'm so. dude. buddy. LEO? imagine people coming to visit their apartment or whatever and they step into leo's room and they're like "uhhhh is that a calendar with a pic from sena izumi's shirtless summer beach shoot" and leo's like :) yes why do you ask
izumi feeling suffocated as a kid cause he was just given EVERYTHING vs leo offering to basically give up his entire life for izumi's sake in checkmate,,, could that have been a factor contributing to izumi's reluctance to use him,,, like it'd definitely mean getting what he
izumi doing the audition just cause he's into the designer is so funny like I hope the rest of knights are just lying around one day and izumi bursts in and is like "we're doing the audition" and the rest are like "what audition" and he's already dragging them out the door
I love love love all the checkmate foreshadowing like leo saying he's feeling tired, izumi noticing something's a little off about him in the course events,,, THE SIGNS WERE ALL THERE they just got ignored or sidelined
Ritsu and Izumi practising that promise swords hand bump thing a hundred times and Ritsu accidentally-on-purpose slapping Izumi in the face a couple of times
RTs appreciated, thanks.
Sigh. Okay. The mods team seems insistent on staying quiet and not informing y'all about this, so you're hearing it from me instead. I won't be writing for the zine anymore- the mods changed the participant guidelines halfway through and dropped me in an
naru says that izumi's a treasure when he smiles makoto has said izumi's smile is cute in starmine izumi smiling cgs might sometimes be unhinged but he is also cute in conclusion izumi is cute and a treasure and should be thrown headfirst into the pacific ocean
"leo-san's always saying, 'sena gets unstable when his mind takes a hit'." this implies two things: 1. leo knows sena well enough that he can gauge what will/won't impact his mental state + knows the results of those impacts, and 2. leo has said this stuff to mama Multiple Times
peak enstarsdle strategy is just 1. typing in a knights member and/or 2. mentally going through every single character in order of agency and unit to see if their names fit the length requirement
based off general consensus i've come to the conclusion that you either love the outfits immediately or want to burn them on sight but slowly grow to like them after 3-4 hours
akiomi telling izumi that if he cries, his eyes will get messed up and interfere with tmrw's work is???? interesting????? cause that quite reflects how izumi's current priorities are. carry out your work perfectly that's what's IMPORTANT that's what comes before all else
You're telling me that ritsu thinks that putting on a cheerleading costume is a perfectly acceptable method of cheering someone up *scribbling notes* okay good great thank you
Since the enst fandom's so adamant about giving me shit for writing incest for COMPLETE OTHER FANDOMS, I decided to write a special piece juuust for them. Aka ramen, red bull and spite, featuring hiirin and somewhat-kabedons.
time because that's how he catches a break, and the outside world is hell so dreams are better. quiet and nothingness is better. fairytales and fantasy is better. dreamland means a lot to him and in little romance it's like he's pulling you /into/ that special place, and we
*flipping calendar pages* "and is this. um. from that valentines shoot he did a few years back in which he is lying very seductively amidst silk sheets and heart-shaped chocolates" "well yeah but that's july! look at june's puppy photoshoot pic first"
"it might be a solo audition" yes but also are u telling me this guy wouldn't drag the rest of these poor sods into this mess anyway. he'd make them come just to cheer him on
know how important the concept of comfort and having a safe haven is to ritsu. whether that haven is in another person or a physical place, he values that, and he probably wouldn't let just anyone share that with him, but here we are! ritsu's someone who knows how precious having
vote horoharo we have:
- quality fucking character development (izumi, makoto, ritsu, etc)
- ANGST (izuleo fight flashbacks, ritsu conflict, *insert everything else in the entire story*)
- more character development
- did i mention character development
an escape is, and little romance is him just Giving that to you. it's gentle, reassuring, even the feeling of the song itself is so light and pretty and fleeting. he's giving you your safe haven in the form of what He knows will work best, he's making himself and knights
personally responsible for giving you the love and safety than you need. which is such a tiny detail and probably not even worth reading into at all, but I especially like it because ritsu's spent so much time just running away from things, watching from the sidelines, etc. but
Just. A note. If you're planning to do a zine and filter out 'problematic' creators, do that from the fucking start. Changing your guidelines halfway through the damned project and dropping people because you got a tip off someone in your twitter dms is just a shitty thing to do.
in both euthanasia and little romance, he steps up and takes the lead, and having the song be so... self-confident? smooth af? really helps imo like he's really GROWN into a knight, a knight who'll guide you through a land of madness and fairytales without a hitch. he promises
that now. also also the fact that euthanasia starts with ritsu having a terrible nightmare, while in little romance, he pulls you into the world of dreams and he /protects/ you. he makes sure you have a peaceful dream, the way he didn't get to have for himself. that absolutely
destroys me thanks. he takes you on a journey that /he/ didn't get to experience, and he takes care of you from beginning to end. ("if I'm going to be loved half-heartedly, I'd rather not be loved at all.") he's so. determined. and sweet. the entire song is a journey and it's
you that of his own accord, he takes the INITIATIVE, and you know he sure as hell will deliver. he's confident enough in his own abilities as sakuma ritsu and a knight to do all these things by himself, AND YET he's still relying on knights in the background, because he can do
Izumi's mountain of self regret: endless, because what if he'd paid proper attention to the signs, what if he'd noticed just a little bit more, what if he'd said I love you back, what if he'd been the support system leo needed so badly but DIDN'T HAVE
you that no matter what happens, he and knights will protect you from allll those evil dragons and witches, and things will have a happy ending. he's giving you what is important to /him/, and that's the knowledge- or at least the illusion- that things will be okay, so please,
got all these themes of a picture-perfect fairytale, where the good guys win and the bad guys lose, and this might be a stretch but it kinda reminds me of that one scene in requiem, where ritsu asks mao to just tell him things will be okay, even if it's a lie? ritsu needs the
comfort and reassurance, and even if he knows it's all bullshit, he likes to hear it anyway. he likes to think that things will be okay, that things will actually work out fine, even though he knows that they will NOT. and little romance is a lot of him promising and reassuring
in conclusion I love sakuma ritsu with all my heart I love him I love little romance he is the best that song decimates me every time. thank you for coming to my ted talk
rest easy. because dreams are the one thing that are supposed to give you a break from the rest of the world, and nobody wants those turned into nightmares instead! he's granting you a peaceful sleep, which we all know means a lot to him.
HIM being happy is infectious. and at the end of little romance, he asks /you/ to show him your best smile, and in the mv he... smiles at you...... and you probably collapse onto the floor in tears........ BUT THE POINT IS that. that is idol sakuma ritsu. that is a sakuma
also he's always had this complex about thinking he should live in the shadows, that darkness and light can't coexist, and that trying to live under the sun is pretty much futile (though he'll try anyway). he's always been the one who's had to be dragged out into the sunlight
ritsu, the guy who cannot deal with sunlight for the LIFE of him, is the one who's guiding you to such a bright, sunny, hot and ritchan-melting place. as long as it makes his princesses smile and gives them the happy dreams they deserve, he'll do it.
can you believe leo has an izumi calendar do you think he wakes up in the mornings looks over at his desk and thinks to himself "ah yes the sena izumi calendar of my dreams" and then he rolls over in bed and thinks to himself "ah yes the sena izumi of my dreams" and kisses him
together. and hey, maybe he's right! at the end of the day, maybe he really /can't/ fight those genetics of his! but what matters is that he's trying anyway, and in little romance, he and knights pull you through your fairytale dreams and guide you to "a sunlit place". sakuma
by other people, or done it under duress. even when he does it because he Wants to, for the sake of spending time with the ones he loves and all that, he still suffers, and for a long time, he was still rooted in that mindset of thinking that he and the daytime just cannot go
ritsu who's come this far and grown as an idol and knows EXACTLY how to make his princesses smile, and that's by smiling himself. also he's absolutely adorable I can't rewatch that mv enough times in my lifetime.
and aghhhhh do you know how many times he's talked about showing off his own cute smile. I don't even remember myself but I'm pretty sure it's AT LEAST TWICE. requiem and operetta? he's being so so adorable in both lines but when you think about it, smiles and happiness /are/
off confident vibes no matter What happened five minutes ago or what they've all been talking about, he KNOWS his smile is insanely cute and he's utilising it (as he should <3). he's learned how powerful smiles and joy can be, how he can use it to influence other people and just
important for ritsu. his official profile quote has to do with happiness, and... how do I put this. in those requiem and operetta lines where he's talking about himself smiling (I hope to hell I'm remembering these right), he's kind of... being an idol at its finest? he's giving
Honestly, I don't have an issue with being dropped from the zine. After all this, I can't wait to wash my hands of it. What I've got an issue with is the the team changing their guidelines halfway through the damned project and dropping people, then trying to just hush it up
wanted in the long run but it might've left a bad taste in his mouth since it wouldn't really be achieving things with his own hands the way he values,,,, though that also opens up the possibility of his refusal having been less to do with caring about leo's wellbeing, and more
I accepted the offer to join this zine as a guest based on the initial guidelines that participants wouldn't be judged or moderated for their work /outside of the zine space/. As long as their pieces /for/ the zine didn't violate content guidelines, it'd be fine. I already
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But then a few days back, after announcing me as one of the guest writers, the team was "privately informed" of some of my existing published works involving "contents they don't approve of"- works published /outside/ the zine space, mind you. Then they threw their initial
You could say that izumi was dense but you could also say he was deliberately avoiding the problem. Maybe there was even a bit of natural malice involved too like idk how likely it is, but we do know that izumi was feeling pretty resentful towards leo once things started going
"lionheart" = bravery, courage, determination, etc. funny since the light novel's title might be a reference to leo, who's- well, a lion and king, but it's also from izumi's pov, and if you want to talk about determination, it's /izumi/ who's the lionheart in this situation-
the very first thing that drives me insane about this is the fact that leo /knows/. we, as the audience, know what exactly happens when sena gets unstable (makoto fiasco), but that's only because we saw it happen in real time in all of its maddening glory. we can assume that leo
guidelines out the window and messaged to let me know they'd be dropping me from the zine, and that they weren't going to make a public statement about it- supposedly to keep it "in my best interests"- and that they'd just treat it as nothing but a self-dropout. Sweep it under
-on the other hand if checkmate gets fully voiced we'll get to hear leo's mad laughter-screaming and telling sena to laugh because what people loved him for wasn't himself, but rather his songs. and we've all been wanting that since day one haven't we
all that. No time to think, just act! Keep lashing out at each other and making everything worse! Drive each other to the ground for the sake of your own well-being though you both actually care deeply for each other but are just too blinded by desperation to care! I love them
I requested for them to make the statement. Since they've already announced me as one of their guests, keeping quiet about me /no longer participating/ is just a severely irresponsible thing to do. It's unfair to the zine buyers, because people should at least have a transparent
the way leo always thinks back to izumi in the end it's always like oh maybe sena will know! maybe sena will understand! no we won't talk about the amount of pressure that probably puts on izumi to live up to leo's expectations nope no *shoves it under bed* not happeni
has never seen sena do anything like that around the point he says this stuff to mama during the war era, because sena hasn't gone off the rails at that point yet. still, leo's got a good enough read on sena that he can predict what will happen/maybe he's just seen sena close to
to do with his own self-satisfaction and pride. which isn't exactly a bad thing ig since it did prevent a slightly larger catastrophe (maybe) but like. hm