Thirst Trap meme!

[yohko]

The Thirst Trap Meme


 

Set a scene, get the right angle, reveal a little thigh, and snap! A thirst trap is a sexy photo posted on social media to attract attention. It can also refer to a person considered sexy—a social-media crush. Emerging from selfie culture, the well-staged thirst trap is a provocative photo, often with a coy or confident caption, that will trap (attract) thirst (attention, in the form of comments, likes, etc.).

 

Because, really, what’s the point of posting if no one is going to notice?
 

 

How it works:

 

- Post with your character name and fandom in the subject line. Include any prefs or no-no's.

- Comment with a link to an image of your character's very own thirst trap. To be safe, label them accordingly! (i.e., NSFW or not.)

- Tag around! Respond to others! Rate them, judge them, tell them what you wanna do to them.

- Think of this as the marriage between the Hot or Not Meme and the Rate That Ass Meme.

- Have fun and be excellent to each other!

 

Comments

[moonunit]

[This is truly the ultimate "then perish" moment though, isn't it? Tsukishima knows it and feels extra-sour about because there's no denying that a direct order from Kenma would even bring him up short.

Heh. Short.]

I'll only allow it because you're working on the side of good.

[Aka the side that makes sure Kuroo gets as good as he gives.]

[determine]

[ meanwhile Kenma retains a certain degree of superfluous amusement. he can feel that Extra-Sour. the reply further entertains him. he's almost looking forward to the next joint practice game...as if sensing disturbance subconsciously however he is just sinking deeper into his bed. well 'almost' is still something. and the look on kuroo's face is going to be well worth it. ]

The side that's interesting. Which is good I guess.

[ well it's not BAD Kenma geez... ]

[moonunit]

[Ha! Now Tsukishima only has Akaashi left to crack and he will turn from the tormented into the tormentor!

... he's not holding out much hope on the Akaashi front.]

Interesting, huh... I think of it as "sane," but that works.

[determine]

[ wise to not hold out, and ambitious to hope. godspeed tsukishima kei. the world will laugh at you not with you. akaashi is a sort of unflappable that even Kenma is Narrowed Cat Eyes at on the court. though off he likes him just fine.

he's quiet and stuff. ]

Both.
And anything to one up Kuroo.

[ because Kenma is a little shit in his own way and Kuroo already knows this so honestly if he's not expecting it already that's on him! ]

[moonunit]

[Not just quiet, but with the kind of capital-P Presence that words only tend to weaken. Tsukishima's admiration of him is less grudging than Kenma's, maybe because they don't face off so regularly, and more...

... aspirational. That's the word he's going to use.]

Can I ask how you two even became friends? Because I have to admit that I've always wondered.

[determine]

[ in a way it's a compliment that Kenma is aware of akaashi more than the norm, not quite shouyo levels of awareness but aware enough. it's sort of...hmmmm what's the word? gratifying? no... satisfying? maybe. to get one in on the other setter. and he'd never admit it at this stage of things to akaashi himself or anyone else, but that makes the game more fun for kenma.

reading tsukishima is fun too, in a different way. ]

We met when we were kids -- neighbors. It's pretty straightforward.

[ that could be mistaken for 'it's boring' or 'I don't really remember' or the like, none of which is true.

kenma remembers a lot. he remembers, for example, how kuroo was shy (even if he knows no one would believe him if he said so -- well, maybe kai or yaku) and he still sees it sometimes depending on the situation, despite how much of a hard time he gives him. kenma remembers kuroo practically vibrating with well-educated patience while they played games a little awkwardly together until kenma offered to let kuroo choose.

and the rest is history. proximity isn't a guarantee. they didn't have to stay friends; kenma didn't have to stick around during that nasty first year of volleyball at nekoma when he relearned his innate disdain for age based hierarchies. kuroo doesn't have to put up with his shit either. but they do. no one knows the other better and that's not its own excuse either, but they happen to work; so it's nice.

not that he'd say so. ]

[moonunit]

[Tsukishima wouldn't believe a single word, if not for the fact that Kenma rarely seems to outright lie. In Tsukishima's (very limited) view, people don't tend to undergo massive changes to the core of their personality - they adapt to get through specific situations, and then they just go back to who they are when the adaptations are no longer necessary. People are who they are, for better or worse.

It's one of the most personally stunting limitations of his overwhelming pessimism. One that should've dissolved long ago under the evidence provided to him by his own team and their perpetual state of flux, but - to him this is all situational necessity, nothing more.]

Ah. Figures. That's how I wound up with Yamaguchi.

[determine]

[ if kenma spent more time with tsukishima, even in the context of the amount that kuroo has for example, he'd have a better read on him as a person. as it is, what he's got down on him isn't wrong but it's not extensive and kenma's never been one to Assume, which is a sloppy business he's got no time for. but the wording of the text does pique his cat's curiosity just a little. he tucks it away for later if it suits him to pursue.

one thing is obvious enough though, without questions. ]

Your 12. He's very supportive.

[ of you, is what kenma means though certainly he can spy a soft heart with his eyes closed and knows that extends to the team too. 12 clearly wants to do well; is driven by something. who knows what. ]

[moonunit]

[Dang, knows him by number even! Kenma really does have a catalogue for a brain when it comes to teams he's faced off against.]

I'm pretty sure he swore a blood oath to me behind my back.
I bullied a bunch of his bullies for being lame enough to pick him as a target when we were kids and he decided that was standing up for him.

[Thaaaaaat is technically true but also reeks of lies by omission, Tsukki.]

[determine]

[ as one who lies by omission himself usually for fun more than anything else (so rarely, to be fair, because honesty while not the best policy, is less work in his eyes), he gets a sense of that. but it's none of his business. the given anecdote is generous enough for now. ]

He seems like he'd be squeamish around blood. Is he not?

[ taking the first part literally? taking the first part literally. ]

I wonder if there's a specific word for a bully of bullies.

[ granted, he knows most people would just call that 'hero' even in the ordinary every-day sense. but kenma likes the idea that there's differences in how people stand up for others and they're not all nice.

it's just stupid to think things are that cut and dry. if they were, life would be a lot simpler.

blander too. ]

[moonunit]

I didn't consider that side of it. Maybe just a life debt without the blood?

Hmm, I like to think of myself as ambitious. Never settle for the low-hanging fruit.

[determine]

Makes it more imaginable honestly.

That's one way to look at it.

[ pause. two seconds later... ]

I feel like low-hanging fruit would be too much of a hassle for you to reach anyway.

[moonunit]

You, on the other hand...

[Yes, the height jokes are, paradoxically, the ultimate low-hanging fruit and Kenma left himself open for that.]

[determine]

I'd still make Kuroo do it.

[ he is Prepared, as the lazy ones must be; if they're also smart lazy ones~ ]

[moonunit]

[This is probably the part where someone who's good at making friends would say something like: "It's fun talking to you like this, we should hang out sometime other than joint practices. Maybe even without Kuroo."

Neither Kenma nor Tsukishima is that person, unfortunately. Tsukishima hates putting too fine a point on good feelings in case that jinxes them, and he's loath to ask more of them than they offer unprompted. He's just going to enjoy this moment of camaraderie with Kenma and then, when it's over, tuck it away as a nice memory.]

Doing god's work. He'd be a tyrant without your influence.

[determine]

Between his hair and his laugh, someone has to do it.

[ kenma too finds this conversation shockingly easy and sort of fun if it had to put a particular word upon its category. 'easy' is not what he associates with the concept of talking to people, despite the fact that he's loads better at it than he used to be. maybe it comes of two people who don't, on any given day, necessarily opt-in for lax dialogue because mostly it's either tiring, boring, or just not at the top of the list of what either one of them would rather be doing. or could be doing.

he finds himself humming a soft intonation thoughtfully to himself as he none too lightly prods the subject of their conversation in his side: time to get up, you said one hour; it's been one hour; go study.

watching kuroo's more unkempt than usual bedhead, he stifles a laugh and sends tsukishima another text because while he's talking, well, why not. ]

Will you be at the practice game?

[ sort of a business inquiry? that's easy enough. and relevant. he has this vague sense that tsukishima seesaws with his opinion or commitment towards volleyball, and while kenma can admit he's wrong when he's wrong, he doesn't think that read is off. maybe out of date though? perhaps he's fine now. ]

[moonunit]

[Oh. Kenma did it - right? That's what Kenma just did?

Tsukishima suddenly feels stupid and jittery and has no idea why. Kenma didn't ask him on a date or anything, and even if he did, why would that cause butterflies? He'd just have to turn down kind of a nice guy and ruin several friendships and possible friendships. It'd be grounds for feeling sick to his stomach, not...

... giddy? Is this just because making a friend of Kenma was so easy?]

Yeah. Now that I'm getting Noticed I doubt I'll get away with skipping out on anything ever again.

You?

[determine]

[ he did the thing! insomuch as kenma does the thing anyway.

sometimes he surprises himself. now might actually qualify as he realizes he could have as easily let the conversation end a line or two prior. that annoying voice that's actually his own voice in his head -- the one that worries about what others think far too much while at the same time insisting he doesn't -- qualifies that as a stupid move. but he can't take it back much like tsukishima can't become suddenly an uncommitted player when it's been witnessed he's at the very threshold of change on the upswing.

anxiously kenma's toes curl. then he sends his text thinking: well it's fine -- i just want to know who to expect.

that's all. ]



True. It's impossible, but at least you know that. Saved yourself some trouble there.

Yep. I'd rather go than never hear the end of it.

[ from you know who ]

[moonunit]

Cool, then I'll see you there.

[And that just clinched it. Now if they don't at least acknowledge each other, it'll seem rude on both their parts. Tsukishima even sounded kind of excited about it, he realizes when he reads back his words.

Well god, if nothing else, it'll be nice to have a potential safe haven of silence and sanity with his own team and the Tokyo crowd swarming together again. His brain even provides him with a cozy little mental image of he and Kenma hiding out in a stairwell somewhere, maybe splitting a pair of earbuds or maybe Tsukishima in his over-ear headphones and Kenma bent over a handheld console, Kenma's shoulder pressed against Tsukki's upper arm just enough to create a tiny patch of warmth -

- it's probably an insane thought, but that doesn't make it less pleasant.]