So i'm putting together a reference of Macaque expressions/emotions because I like him a regular amount and this is the coolest frame by frame subtlety find i've found yet
like the fact that Wukong was willing capable of showing restraint and mercy but not for him-
also, absolutely enthralled he ended up like this from this
what happened bud
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I will literally never stop thinking about the kanej scene with the geraniums. The concept of Inej’s dad saying to get a boy who knows her favorite flower and getting her mom geraniums all the time. And then her and Kaz knock over a bunch of flowers, and they’re geraniums and she tells him they’re her mom’s favorite, and Kaz teases her just a little. It’s probably my favorite Kanej moment. Because Inej realizes then that she doesn’t want that fairy tale boy her father has wished for her. She’s not the kind of person who could even live with that kind of boy. She is, however, the kind to make grand escapes with a boy, to fall for the boy that would kill for her, that creates elaborate, reckless plans just to get her back. This moment is such a pivotal turn for their relationship because it shows us that Kaz isn’t a boy she dreamed about as a little girl, but he’s still the one she wants.
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The Husbands of River Song is not and has never been about the Eleventh Doctor being a deadbeat, distant husband (gross mischaracterization by the way) and the Twelfth Doctor being the "better, more mature, affectionate" husband.
It was about River Song. It was about River and how the events in Manhattan took such a toll on her. It was about letting us see River dealing with grief the way The Snowmen showed us how the Doctor coped after losing believing he had used up all his time with River.
Looking at THORS now with The Ruby's Curse in mind, I get the instinct (for lack of a word that I cannot remember) that the Manhattan incident Blue Roach read from River's diary was not the Manhattan episode that we saw in series 7.
On that note, I'd also like to bring up the fact that the Doctor grounds River and River grounds the Doctor. As Tree talked about in one of her tags, River's empathy is more cognitive than emotional and after musing on it for a bit – considering that the Doctor can no longer go to Manhattan (which may have changed in later series but I wouldn't know at the moment because I have yet to overcome series 7b) and that River does spend time with her parents in Manhattan post-TATM, would the latest Manhattan incident in River's diary be the funeral for Amy? Amy's death? Perhaps even Anthony's? I mean, we already know Rory died five years earlier than Amy. So, knowing how deep River's love for her mother is, it's not too farfetched to say that River spent that time with them. River was by their bedsides as they drew their last breath.
Then Rory's gone, Amy's gone, Anthony's gone. Where does that leave River? Where is the Doctor? (sulking on a cloud on top of Victorian London? trying to figure out the mystery of his newest companion? all while constantly mentioning a certain Professor Song who actually turns out to be his dearly sort of departed absolutely beloved wife?)
Without her parents (and her husband) to ground her, she goes on this maddened, grieving space Robin Hood spree. She seeks fun to fill in the void and takes up marriage as a hobby/side quest. Does she look for the Doctor? Perhaps. Yes, actually. Considering she crashed her latest sort-of-husband's ship onto a planet where she purported the TARDIS to be.
But... she's stealing the TARDIS. She could have just called the Doctor, yeah? So, she doesn't want the Doctor to know then. Well... yeah, considering she has two sort-of-husbands in hand.
So, River would just have gone on from one space Robin Hood spree to the next had the TARDIS not sort-of-stranded herself on Mendorax Dellora to make sure her Water stopped being stubborn and reconcile(?) with her Thief?
Also taking note of how River has read stories about them and knows that Darillium is purported to be their last night together (I could also bring up the fact that this is why I find it easy to digest the "River meeting regenerations of the Doctor younger than the Tenth Doctor makes sense and doesn't break cannon nor ruin SITL/FOTD" but that would take a whole other post). Does this River believe her time with the Eleventh Doctor has ended? The same way series 7b Eleven believed his time with older versions of River has ended? Is this all part of some grand fuckup in communication all thanks to their tangled timelines?
Maybe. Maybe not.
But has River not just been running from her family's death? Has River been running from her supposed last night with the Doctor?
"But River doesn't run." Oh yes. Yes, she does. She knows when to stand her ground. She knows when to charge. And she knows when to run.
"That's out of character for her." No, it's not. She's not invincible. She's this well trained assassin, yes. But invincible? No.
Invincible from the tendency to be blinded by their emotions? Obviously not.
River lies. And River runs.
She is not afraid of her death. She is afraid of the day when her husband, her Doctor, looks into her eyes and looks right through her. And it shouldn't kill her but it does. It did.
So she ran and ran until her bigger-on-the-inside Mum gently reached out and put her back together with the only person left who could ground her. Who she didn't recognize at first but still fell in love with (and would have loved even if he hadn't been revealed to be her actual, long missing husband). Who finally found out their last night wasn't just any night – it was a twenty-four year long last night. Who finally gave her a breather from all the running she'd been doing.
And oh what a night that was (it was the talk of the universe).
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The shadow puppet looked at the note and turned it over in their hands, looking for anything that could show it was some kind of a trick but once again turned up nothing. Besides if they had been trying to trick him then they didn't send a good choice, a low chuckle leaving the puppet and Macaque chose to reveal himself.
Emerging from the shadows he created, the dark fur simian had a look of amusement on his face as he stood right before the young human. Taking the note from the shadow puppet before they vanished, Shaking his head no to the question on if the staff was his.
"No the staff isn't mine kid, the golden staff belonged to Sun Wukong, the monkey king. I am known as Six ear Macaque, the warrior. It still raises the question though of how you're wielding Wukong's staff, not just anyone can lift it." If this human could lift Wukong's staff then that meant two things. The first being that this kid was special in some way or things were starting to change regarding Wukong and it was getting close to that time to act.
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Found this funky challenge on twitter to draw characters from the 3 games you recently played on your steam...
and well... try to find one odd out
Original from the challenge under the cut ^^
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Ok, but like, if we do ever actually get a movie, THEY NEED TO MAKE ABED AND TROY A REAL COUPLE!!!!
Imagine a scene where they’re the last to arrive, and they’re holding hands and their first lines are, “🎶Troy and Abed are a COUPLE!🎶” And then the rest of the group are all happy and smiling with them and are like, “Finally!”
Gah!!! I NEED this to happen!
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theory progression on what exactly happened between Wukong and Macaque cause literally one frame from s4 ep1 has shaken my world.
Wukong may not have killed Macaque, but he definitely landed a devastating blow that severely weakened him.
Macaque isn't shown dead in the flashback, even though he frequently references his own non figurative death ("ive had a taste of dying..." "kinda on this whole living streak..." his hanfu folded the wrong way, etc)
instead we get this
He's being sealed or restrained by something, but that part isn't important
What's important is this
He's reaching out for help
and Wukong isn't there. Instead his plea is answered by LBD. It may have factored into his immediate abandonment of the skeleton key. He wasn't reaching out for her, he wasn't reaching out for a partner for vengeance, was reaching out for his best friend.
Wukong didn't kill Macaque, but he certainly left him for dead
which somehow feels more devastating.
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I'm surprised more people don't describe writing as connecting the dots. I typically plan out my short stories and professional writing more thoroughly but I find for fanfic (Or when I'm otherwise just having fun), it's basically just a game of "this is what I want to see. How can I make it happen in a way that makes sense?" And then just... connecting them.
Okay, the whole point of this fic is this dude dealing with a head wound? Great, then this, this, and this can happen to explain why and how he got it. Then this, this, and this can be the consequences.
And then it just... all kinda falls into place from there?
Honestly that's how I've been able to figure out the underlying issues or connections I want to include.
The current piece I'm working on is Kaz whump with some angsty undertones, which I only decided to include because I needed a reason for Kaz of all people to end up with a headwound. Okay, he was distracted. Why? Because Jesper shot him (Just a tiny bit) by accident. Great, okay. That ties in with Jesper ending up as the caretaker later on. It's basically just that one "ah yes it's all coming together" meme.
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anyways, laying rhett down on y’all’s wooden floor, hand around his throat as you ride him.. your inner thighs pressed against his thick ones, your spur-clad heels digging into the sides of that milky, muscled mass every so often - making his hips jolt up into you as he hisses so deliciously at the sharp sting of them🤤
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