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fridaythe13ththeseries · 11 months

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My Wife as a Dog

Episode Recap #68: My Wife as a Dog Original Airdate: March 3, 1990

Starring: Louise Robey as Micki Foster Steve Monarque as Johnny Ventura (as Steven Monarque) Chris Wiggins as Jack Marshak

Guest cast: Denis Forest as Aubrey Daniel Ross Kim Nelles as Lea Ross Jayne Eastwood as Joni Ken James as Capt. Channing Layne Coleman as Baldwin Vincent Dale as Keith Steele Alan Powell as Mitchell Charles Kerr as Dr. McGibbon Diana Rowland as Delia Cox Jennifer Griffin as Tricia Martin L. Evans as Boy (uncredited)

Written by Jim Henshaw Directed by Armand Mastroianni

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A man, Aubrey Daniel Ross, returns home in his truck. He is visibly upset and crying. He gets out and goes to the back of the truck and his dog is there looking old and sad. He carries the animal inside, putting her on her bed, telling her to ignore the vet and that she'll be fine soon.

Cut to night at a bar called Soupy's. Aubrey arrives and goes up to Lea, a waitress, who is unhappy to see him. Seems they are in the midst of a divorce. He tells her Kelly, the dog, is dying. Lea is not surprised since the dog is old. He begs Lea to come back to him and she drops her tray. He continues to push her, and the woman who runs the bar comes over and reminds him he's be banned. Lea tells him she doesn't care about him anymore. A man restrains Aubrey, telling him they will be late for work.

We go to a firehouse and the man, Keith, is talking with other firefighters about what to do about Aubrey. The others seem a bit frustrated, but Keith says soon they'll be all Aubrey has. He goes to talk to him and Aubrey accuses him of seeing Lea. Keith reminds Aubrey that Lea left because of him. There is a fire alarm.

At the fire, Aubrey and Keith are searching for anyone inside and Keith leaves to check upstairs. Aubrey is still seething about the affair he believes is happening and attacks the man and they fight in the fire. Aubrey grabs a dog leash on the floor and chokes Keith to death. He then drags him outside, acting like he saved him. They try to revive him, but it is too late.

Cut to credits.

Aubrey goes home, and Kelly is laying in her bed. He remembers the dog leash in his pocket and connects it to Kelly's collar. He notices she stands on her own and seems to have more energy.

Jack and Micki are getting an inspection from the fire chief. He sees lots of problems with the layout of the store and all the odd items. He threatens to shut them down. Johnny shows him a letter from someone offering more antiques, commenting that they are always in a state of flux with inventory. The chief isn't impressed and gives them 30 days to clean up. Before leaving, he mentions that the address on the letter burnt down, and a firefighter was killed, hence why he's being strict with their shop. Johnny wonders if one of their objects caused the fire and Jack leaves to find out.

The vet calls Aubrey, to remind him about their appointment to put Kelly to sleep. Aubrey says she's better, but the vet says she is terminal. Aubrey scoffs and says he'll take care of her himself.

Jack is getting a tour of the burned home by the woman who lives there. She says the dog barked and her and her children were able to get out. Seems old wiring caused the fire. She says they managed to save all but one of the items from Curious Goods that she wrote about. Seems the dog leash is missing, presumably burnt up. Jack isn't buying that and looks around on his own.

Aubrey leaves Kelly, saying he'll tell Lea about her improvement and maybe she'll come home.

At Soupy's, Lea is feeling ill. Aubrey comes in and he tells her about the dog improving. She just wants to know if he signed the divorce papers. He says they can now concentrate on their marriage and Lea yells at him. The entire bar listens. She says she doesn't care anymore, but Aubrey is in denial. The owner tells him again to leave.

Jack tells Micki he had no luck at the burned house, but Micki found something when cleaning up, the article about the firefighter's death. He didn't die of smoke inhalation, but had marks on his neck and they assume he got tangled in air hoses.

At the station, the chief informs them about Keith's funeral. He takes donations for the family. The guys talk about ex-wives and alimony, and Aubrey says wives should be more like dogs. The other guys are creeped out.

At night, Kelly barks, waking Aubrey. He reattaches the leash, but it isn't helping. He takes her to the vet, saying she was doing better. The vet wants to put her to sleep and fills a syringe. But Aubrey snaps, knocks the syringe away and chokes and kills the vet with the leash. As soon as he puts it on Kelly's collar, she stands up.

At the bar, Lea is attempting to make change and is struggling to remember how. Her boss helps and tells her she needs a vacation, but Lea is reluctant to go anywhere until Aubrey signs the divorce papers. She wonders what is happening to her.

Next morning, an energetic Kelly wakes up Aubrey with his slippers. He is surprised. Then he remembers Keith's funeral, which Kelly seems to have also remembered and woke him up. Kelly also brought in the paper and opened the fridge. Aubrey spots the leash and begins to connect the dots.

At Curious Goods, Micki and Johnny are repairing steps. Jack asks Micki to go to the vet clinic, since the vet died with abrasions on his neck, as well. They wonder if its connected, and Micki mentions the curse might involve animals. Jack looks in the manifest and finds an Aboriginal Leash of Dreams listed. He says the Aborigines didn't distinguish as much from dreams and reality as much. Micki speculates that maybe it is making someone's fondest dream come true. Jack tells Micki to go to the clinic, and he'll see if the fire chief recalls anything else.

At the station, the chief is addressing the men after Keith's funeral. He also says he is putting Aubrey up for a commendation. Another firefighter tells Aubrey to come to his place for a party tonight. He has a woman in mind for him. Jack asks the chief if anyone could have stolen the leash, but the chief scoffs. The chief says good-bye to Aubrey, then mentions to Jack that Aubrey's string of bad luck might be turning, since his dog's health is improving.

At home, Aubrey is cooking dinner and Kelly is sitting at the table with a napkin around his neck. Aubrey puts two plates down and they eat together. Lea calls, telling him she wants the papers signed. She mentions not feeling well and hangs up. Aubrey says all he needs is Kelly.

Later, after his friend's party ends, the woman he'd hope to set up with Aubrey leaves. Walking, she feels like she's being followed. Aubrey approaches her, offering to walk her to her car. He pulls out the leash and we hear her choking off screen.

At home, he attaches it to Kelly's collar and her eyes change, looking more like human eyes. At the bar, Lea looks in the mirror and screams at the change in her own eyes.

Aubrey lies on the bed with Kelly, wondering how much longer it will take and hoping this is what Kelly wants, as well. There is a knock on the door. Aubrey keeps Kelly in the bedroom. Jack is there and asks if Aubrey saw a braided dog leash at the fire. Aubrey says no, but Jack asks to talk more. Aubrey invites him in. Jack explains about the unique quality of the leash, leaving out the curse. Kelly keeps trying to get out of the bedroom, and Aubrey yells once at her, surprising Jack, who asks about his dog. Aubrey says he doesn't have her anymore, then tries to cover by saying he's tired. Jack is suspicious, but leaves. Aubrey yells at Kelly for not listening, telling her they need to be careful. He thinks he has to kill Lea so Kelly can become her.

Jack tells Johnny he thinks Aubrey was hiding someone in his apartment. Micki says the vet assistant told her Aubrey didn't show for his appointment to put his dog down. They wonder what Aubrey wants the leash to do for him.

At the firehouse, Aubrey calls Lea at work. She is wearing sunglasses and has no patience for him. He tells her he signed the papers and will bring them later. Lea has trouble hanging up the phone and whines. His buddy says he should have shown up last night, but Aubrey says him and Lea are getting back together.

Lea cries to her boss about Aubrey and feeling so confused. Her boss gives her a plate of dinner to eat, and when she leaves Lea eats, using just her mouth.

Aubrey spots Jack watching outside the firehouse. He calls in a fake fire, so the men all have to take off. Jack follows the firetrucks, and Aubrey heads to Soupy's. The boss tells him she sent Lea home. She takes the divorce papers from him to check them and Aubrey strangles her from behind with the leash.

The firefighters arrive back at the station, as does a confused Jack. Aubrey says he was in the bathroom, and the chief says it was a false alarm anyway.

Later, Micki and Johnny are staking out Aubrey's house when he comes home. Jack pulls up, as well. Johnny tells Micki to go home with Jack, he'll keep watching Aubrey. Jack thinks Aubrey was with the firefighters all night. Aubrey puts the leash on Kelly. At her home, Lea freaks out now that her teeth are also changing into fangs.

In the morning, Johnny calls Jack who tells him to go home and sleep. Micki wonders what their next move is, since Aubrey just goes to work and back. Micki says she is going to call the chief to get a new inspection.

Aubrey is trying to get ahold of Lea with no luck. He wonders if he should have signed the papers then realized he couldn't do that.

The chief signs off on Curious Goods meeting codes, and mentions a meeting with police. Seems a woman is missing from a party held by one of his firefighters. He also mentions Aubrey and his wife reconciling, and that the woman works at Soupy's bar. Micki thinks Aubrey could be using the leash to somehow rekindle Lea's love for him.

Lea calls another waitress to cover the bar, since Joni, her boss is missing, and she isn't up to it. She hangs up when she notices her fingernails are becoming claws. The phone rings and it's Aubrey. He says he signed the papers and that Joni is there, too. Lea says she'll be right there. Aubrey tells Kelly that Lea is coming home.

At Soupy's, Johnny tells Micki and Jack that Lea just left and that the owner Joni is missing. They take off.

Lea arrives at Aubrey's. She is jumpy, and looks for Joni. Aubrey picks up the leash. Lea sees Joni's dead body and Aubrey tries to choke her with the leash. She bites him, he grabs her again and chokes her. As he is killing her, Kelly is transforming, the Lea is transfoming, as well. As she becomes a dog and Kelly becomes human. Micki and Jack come in a window and find both the missing woman and Joni's bodies. Johnny breaks in the door and pulls Aubrey off Kelly, who they think is Lea. As Micki tends to "Lea", she sees a dead dog in a trenchcoat.

At the store, Jack thinks Aubrey went insane, Micki thinks he was heartbroken. But they don't know what Aubrey was getting from the leash. Micki thinks they will never know. Johnny goes to put the leash in the vault.

At the prison, "Lea" brings Aubrey his slippers and the newspaper. As he praises her, she pants in happiness.

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My thoughts:

Wow. This has always stood out to me as one of the more bizarre episodes of the series. Turning your dog into your wife? And vice versa? An off-the-wall idea, at best.

And Aubrey gets away with it! Well, with the curse part. We see him in prison for the murders, but no one is aware of what happened with Kelly and Lea.

How is Kelly-as-Lea functioning in the world? Is she smart enough to make it day to day as Lea? We see her panting at Aubrey's praise at the end, but she is also dressed and made it to the prison, so we have to assume she is able to live as a human. Wonder if she'll tire of visiting him in prison.

I like how Jack and crew do all they normally would to get a cursed item back, but are continually left in the dark as to just what was happening with this cursed item. They can't think out there enough to imagine what Aubrey is really up to.

Also liked how Aubrey's co-workers weren't played as all bullies. They might not get Aubrey but they are genuinely concerned for him and his well-being.

Interesting plot, strange for sure, but not just run of the mill.

Next week: Jack-in-the-Box

#friday the 13th: the series #micki foster #80s tv #louise robey #robey #chris wiggins #curious goods #jack marshak #johnny ventura #steven monarque #dog leash #aboriginal leash #leash of dreams #season three #episode recap #denis forest

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olivierdemangeon · 2 years

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ERASER (1996) ★★★☆☆

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fhtagn-and-tentacles · 8 months

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ASHIOK'S REAPER

by Denis Zhbankov

#tentacles #fhtagn #denis zhbankov #ashiok #magic the gathering #wizards of the coast #creature #monster #horror #nightmare #axe #fantasy #warrior #tendrils #forest #mist #fhtagnnn

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bonefall · 8 months

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Does Heartstar/Tigerstar II have thalassophobia(fear of deep water/drowning) would certainly make sense given his family's entire Deal with the lake. Also does Rowanstar drowning in the Moonpool mean that there's just. A rotting corpse in the moonpool now? Don't the medcats drink from that water?! (Sorry if yiu see this twice! I think tumblr deleted my ask?

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The desire to CinemaSins Ding poetic imagery is the death of visual metaphor and the bane of creativity. Kill the impulse. The moonpool is as deep and clean as it needs to be in spite of being canonically a stillwater pool and logically full of algae and microbes. Magic cat god water, full of StarClan Magic (tm)

We do not need to see the cats fishing Rowanstar's body out, or an accurate estimate of pool depth, or its PH level. StarClan's emotions do wonderful things when miracles occur. A wizard with a big pool cleaning net did it.

#I get a ridiculous number of asks about this and the answer is always the same so I've started deleting them #Why don't they fly the eagles to Mordor? Same reason Barbie must travel to the Real World in her sports car #It is the journey #as for thalassophobia no she doesn't have that. Sometimes I get questions for like... situations where the answer is simply no gfgfdsgfd #And I'd feel bad answering with a flat “no” or writing out a bunch of paragraphs that soften the no #SO generally I simply don't answer them either #I think it'd be cool for Flametail's spirit or Jayfeather to fear drowning though #Especially since Flame was denied his Sharing of Stars for a long time because the Dark Forest got him first #So the poor baby was like #soaked with ice water for several months #In a cell where the demons kept him prisoner #LITERALLY the wet beast #bone babble

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Danny 'I don't do weird' Pink frustrates me as a character, because I'm honestly not sure whether he was supposed to have an arc or not.

His primary role is as a foil for Clara's arc and, in aid of that, as a mirror to the Doctor. A solider with survivor's guilt and a man of action who can't stand by when people need help etc., in some ways he and the Doctor have a lot in common, but he's also a very grounded and circumspect personality versus the Doctor's being fantastical and adventurous. Danny isn't curious and doesn't want to pursue new things or experiences, instead he wants to be fully present with and grateful for what he already has. The Doctor is incorrigibly curious and always interested in new things.

Danny is someone who desires nothing more than an ordinary life, and looks for beauty and satisfaction in the normal things and people around him. He wants his world to be small and quiet, he values the mundane things others might take for granted. He's normal, patient, dependable, simple, honest, etc. His reaction to trauma hasn't been to disavow the things which lead him to that event, or to seek out stimulation to avoid thinking about it, it's to be thoughtful and cautious and somewhat rigid so he can always apply the mindset and skills he retained from before he was traumatised.

He's very firm and unbending in his worldview and in his self-image. He doesn't seem to ever reassess people once he's decided what he thinks of them. He's not unreasonable or unwilling to compromise, he is in fact maybe too reasonable, but he is implastic. He's extremely even-tempered except for around his identity as a soldier, which he's prickly about, but still pretty quick to let it go as long as he's not being deliberately antagonised.

So anyway Danny represents this other path, and this opposite response to the horror of war and making a catastrophic mistake, but he never learns, he never grows and he and Clara are never much on the same wavelength about anything. He's supposed to be stability, the things she 'should' want, the 'person she's supposed to like', the safe choice, the presentable life which Clara feels like she has to have. He's orderly and ordinary and that's what she wants from him. She has to control her image, her future, and her options.

And their simple relationship, once it exists, functions well as the contrast to her complicated and tumultuous relationship with the Doctor while the companion power dynamic is being dismantled and rebuilt so they can be emotional equals. But like, the set up is confusingly executed.

Listen- they have zero chemistry, they have nothing to talk about and have to resort to talking about work, every conversation goes instantly off the rails, they rub each other the wrong way, there is never any reason for them to keep reconciling and trying again to connect. Like. You are not hitting it off! and keep offending each other bc you're not compatible! Quit!!

Clara is forcing it, that makes complete sense with what she's going through, she's trying to take control of her life and her emotions, trying to prove to herself she's not pining for the Doctor and at the mercy of his whims for her life to be full and complete. She doesn't want to need him or to be dependant on him. She doesn't want to be the heartbroken sadsack whom he abandoned at Christmas or who will take whatever scraps he'll throw her. She wants to control his position in her life and control how she feels about him. Hence her assigning him a specific day and confining their adventures on her own terms. She's trying to keep the Doctor compartmentalised. Having an Appropriate Human Relationship means she's successfully put the Doctor in his box (lol) and neutralised the chaotic power of her feelings for him. I mean, obviously not, but that's what she tells herself.

But what is Danny doing? Why does he keep pursuing this when it's so clearly not a good match?

Again in Listen, and much more so The Caretaker, Danny illustrates that he does not know who Clara is, he's wildly wrong about her and what she's like, and he's very high handed about it as well. He's convinced that the Doctor is taking advantage of her, that the Doctor is domineering in their relationship, that she is not a person who wants to be put into challenging or dangerous positions, that the Doctor is pushing her to takes risks and become a leader where that's not her nature. None of this is true. Clara was always a decisive, assertive, strongly driven person who seeks out new experiences and naturally assumes a leadership role any time that's necessary; she relishes being challenged and facing the unknown. Her blow up with the Doctor wasn't about him 'pushing her too far', it was about him failing to support her when she needed him and condescending to her as a human rather than treating her with the intimacy and equity their bond and history together demands. It's personal and it's about their emotional relationship. It's not about making hard choices, it's about having to make hard choices without her partner being honest with and emotionally available to her.

Clara was always an adventurous person, willing to be spontaneous as long as it's on her terms, and excited by the prospect of authority and responsibility. The danger and challenge isn't an unfortunate side effect or a risk she has to take to see amazing sights, it's part of the appeal. She lied to Danny by omission when she said she went off in the box to 'see wonders', not just because the real reason is that she's in love with Doctor, but also because she doesn't just want to be a tourist. She wants to get involved and save people, she wants things to sometimes go pear shaped. She enjoys and craves that part of it too.

Danny is also wildly wrong about the Doctor, but this is understandable and would be fine except that he's never corrected? He never learns better? What's the point?

In Death in Heaven Danny goes out still wrong about the Doctor, still condemning him cruelly and unfairly while knowing nothing about him. He had a point with his original rant, there was actual insight there, but it's buried in assumptions and bitterness and then Danny keeps tripling down on the assumption. The one which doesn't understand that the very thing he's shitting on the Doctor for (being willing to lead and make hard choices which must be made in order to save people) is something the Doctor has in common with Clara. And always has. The Doctor didn't change her or push her into that, that's who she's always been.

What is the point of Danny calling him a blood-soaked general and mocking him, calling him an officer as a pejorative again, and again because the Doctor is trying to save the planet. Like, memory check, that's what Danny is mad about. The Doctor doing everything in his power to save literal billions of lives. Doing it for no reason, out of altruism. Doing it while always trying very hard not to fight or kill anyone.

I don't understand how we're meant to find Danny sympathetic in that moment, because he comes off like a complete dickhead. And it's all the more frustrating because in the intervening episodes Danny has been eminently reasonable. As I've discussed before, we're exhaustively shown that Danny is 100% okay with what Clara claims is going on, that he doesn't want to get in the way of her friendship with the Doctor, that if it really were only the relationship she's pretending it is, there would be no conflict. He's the one who encourages her to make up with him after Kill the Moon! He tells her to go on travelling and it's fine!

Even when he discovers she's been lying to him and cavorting with the Doctor behind his back (again despite him telling her it was fine!), he's calm and repeats for the millionth time that all he wants from her is honesty. The truth. Which is the one thing she can't give him because Clara knows their relationship is built on the lie. The truth is, as Moffatt said, that Danny never stood a chance. There is a conflict between the two relationships and she's always going to choose the Doctor.

And that does come out, she gives the whole speech to Danny, not knowing it's him, finally being honest. And he seems unsurprised by it, which makes sense because on some level he definitely always knew ('do you love him?' 'no' 'really sick of the lies'), but then nothing comes of it. Clara just soldiers on and he allows her to pretend. He goes off on the Doctor, but not in a way he actually deserves at all, and just sweeps her confession under the carpet. Letting her get away with it again. True to form, I guess! he always did. But shouldn't we make progress?

And it's like... I hate that he dies on that note. It feels like he dies in denial. I guess you could argue it contributes to his decision to not come back, but that feels like a disservice to the character. Saving the kid is important to Danny, it allows him to atone but he didn't need to change or grow to accomplish that and it doesn't provide closure to his actual role in the narrative, which was as Clara's foil. Clara is off the hook, free to go on lying to herself about their relationship. It's not addressed in Last Christmas, either, it's only hinted at.

#clara oswald #whouffaldi #dw #twelfth doctor #dw meta #I feel a constant need to remind people that the first thing Danny asks after Clara explains who the Doctor is #is 'do you love him?'#it's that transparent #and he asks already knowing the answer and immediately calling bullshit when she denies it #and apparently accepts this as not a threat to him on the basis of the Doctor being an untouchable alien incapable of loving her back #like as if she had a crush on a dragon or the Great Wall of China #I can't tell if that speaks to his lack of self worth or if it's just really patronising #I appreciate In the Forests of the Night so much for the scene where he finally realises he should be jealous #but then he's just Extremely Reasonable about it again #he has total faith in his idea of who Clara is- utter conviction #and it's completely misplaced #I feel owed the psychological fallout from this is all I'm saying #calling this meta is being very generous bc did I even say anything #but whatever it's a bunch of words I'll put it in the box with the other words #I've realised 95% of my whouffaldi meta is in tags on gifsets so

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also with all the damage the show did to jon's reputation as a good northern lad and wildling i hope germ comes out with like. yeah he's rhaegar and lyanna's son and the name she gave him while bleeding out on the birthing bed alone but for her big brother holding her hand in a tower with no way to know that baby aegon had been murdered leaving the title of Egg 6 up for grabs was like. howland.

#another big issue of fandom missing the narrative forest for the tinfoil theory trees for me is the duality at the core of jon's story #and centering targ vs stark when he's spent all the books fighting his identity as a stark vs a watchman #and Finally coming to a point where he can deny stannis and say i have a name. being satisfied with being a snow bc it does not matter #at the wall nor beyond it. and his fatal flaws in adwd are 1. he can't lead the way westerosi feudalism demands 2. he loves his family #two things that point very far away from him being a secret targaryen as something actually consequential beyond its role on history #and in places where his parentage matters is about wondering who his mother is. and his mother is lyanna and she loved him.#and ned promised her. who gives a shit abt rhaegar he is literally ned stark's son! and arya and sansa and bran and rickon's big brother!#at this stage what he is to the Greater North (wall & beyond) and the Westerosi North (thru his siblings) is more important than anything #and if he's destined for anything in THAT duality it's king beyond the north though i recognize that that is my tinfoil hill to die on #anyway. if the show confirmed anything abt targ jon as far as i'm concerned its how vital young griff/egg6 is gonna be going forward #mawdop #asoiaf

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sapphia · 11 months

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hearing grian tell the jimmy pictionary story and then watching him run around after scar all stream has made it very clear to me:

grian is himbo-sexual

#grian #jimmy solidarity #goodtimeswithscar #solidaritygaming #sons of the forest stream #as always this is very tongue in cheek #but you cant deny that grian always heads straight for the most hopeless person in the room. there's something about them #maybe its because they vibe so well with his chaos #scarian #i suppose haha

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territorial-utopia · 2 years

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Happy Midsummer’s Eve!! Tonight is a night of bonfires, booze and magic consisting of 7 different flowers that’ll grant you dreams of your future spouse. Sadly I’m still recovering from covid so I’m at home drinking and drawing this.

I’d like to imagine that tonight is a night these two dream of eachother <3

#gianttiny #giant/tiny #giant tiny #sfwgt #sfw gt #gt fluff #gtfluff #niart #dragon's lair #lovia #t #also might or might not be getting ideas on how these two bastards finally realise that they're eachother's spouses after the memory loss~#god i haven't gotten to see a bonfire in so many midsummers in a row....#they tend to get denied here at the capital most years #cuz ya know #dry season #forest fire warnings be on #and since the family cottage exists no longer no way to do private bonfires either #which reminds me #even tho this picture only has them there's others there too asdfas #i just need to design bg characters #one day #maybe i'll let patrons pick some of their charas that i can make versions of that'd fit this world #who knows #can you see i'm tipsy and just writing all my thoughts out rn #also yes summer nights are that light here in the nordic countries #it's almost midnight and that's the exact shade of the sky atm #but hey #midsummer marks the longest day of the year #so soon we be getting the dark nights back

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thegoblinwitchqueen · 9 months

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Me after I meet each companion in Baldur’s Gate 3, not sure who I want to romance because they are literally all hot:

#baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #I keep falling in love with each of them and I can’t choose.#I did sleep with Astarion first though #then I denied him because I wanted to romance Gale #then I panicked because I met Wyll #BUT THEN FOREST DADDY HALSIN #BUT THEN HOT STRONG DOMMY MOMMY KARLACH???#I LITERALLY WANT HER TO BURN MY CLOTHES OFF

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fridaythe13ththeseries · 1 year

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The Mephisto Ring

Episode Recap #43: The Mephisto Ring Original Airdate: April 15, 1989

Starring: John D. LeMay as Ryan Dallion Louise Robey as Micki Foster Chris Wiggins as Jack Marshak (credit only)

Guest cast: Denis Forest as Donald Wren James Purcell as Anthony Macklin Doris Petrie as Mrs. Wren Jack Duffy as William Wren Michael Woods as Angelo A.C. Peterson as Louis Hunt (as Alar Aedma) David McKnight as Johnny Morrow Paul MacCallum as Mike Steve Whistance-Smith as Benny (as Steven Whistance-Smith) Bill Vibert as Sleazy Hood

Written by Marilyn Anderson (teleplay) & Billy Riback (teleplay) and Peter Largo (story)

Directed by Bruce Pittman

We are in 1982, a man on the phone talking about coming to collect from his bookie. He's watching a car race and holding a ring. Someone else is loading a gun and the proceeds to shoot the man in head, killing him, blood hitting the television screen.

Jump to the present, and a young man is also watching a car race. He isn't happy with the race and kicks in the tv screen. His mother rushes in to see what's going on. She realizes Donald, her son, has bet on something after promising not to. He says he has debts to pay. He grabs his coat and heads through their store, looking for money in the cash register. His mother is trying to get through to him when someone knocks on the door. Donald asks her to send the person away, afraid he'll get killed like his dad. He hides when the man enters, letting his mother get punched in the face. The man finds Donald and roughs him up, breaking his finger.

In their apartment, the man is going through the mother's jewelry and finds an old World Series ring. He puts it on, but it begins to shoot arcs of electricity, breaking the mirror and throwing the man around the room. He is eventually killed as Donald watches. Then Donald takes the ring off of him and in the gem in the center he sees the winner of a horse race.

At Curious Goods, Micki is on the phone with the police property room, asking about a World Series ring. They can't help her. Ryan says the ring was the very first thing Uncle Louis listed in the manifest, so it's been out in the world the longest. Micki says they know the ring was made for the Chicago White Sox, a shoe in to win the Series in 1919, but they threw the game. Then it was sold. Micki wonders if the ring could be associated with gambling.

Donald is tending to his mother, telling her it'll all be okay and that his luck is changing. He kisses her and heads out. His mother notices her ransacked jewelry and that the ring is missing.

At a club, a bookie, Macklin, is counting money brought by his goons. They tell Mr. Macklin that a fellow goon, Angelo, is missing after going to Donald's for payment. They wonder if Angelo took the money. Macklin tells the goons to split up and look for Angelo and talk to Donald.

Micki and Ryan are going through all their files pertaining to gambling when Donald's mother comes in to the store. She has one of their mailers. She said she had an old World Series ring they might want. She then tells them the ring was just stolen. Ryan asks why she didn't bring it back when she had it, but Micki realizes the lady knows the ring is cursed. She said she wasn't sure she could trust them. She also tells them about her husband using the ring to win at gambling. She says the cops though Macklin killed him, but couldn't prove it. But now she is afraid her son is using the ring.

At a bar, Donald comes in happy and flush with cash. He buys drinks for all but the bartender wants his tab paid. Macklin's goon wants the money Donald owes, and takes him out, driving him home to get the rest of his money. Donald tries to get the man to try on the ring, and leaves him with it while he pretends to head in to his home. The ring kills again, Donald watching and laughing as it does. He then rushes to the car, takes the ring off the dead man, and sees the winning goal of a hockey game in the gem. His mother watches from the window. Donald drags the dead man to the sewer and drops him inside.

Later, he is showing his mother the new television he bought, and an expensive necklace, but she won't touch it. She knows how he is winning. He says he's paid off his debts, and now wants to use his new luck to break Macklin. She tells him she saw him kill that man, but Donald won't stop. He takes off.

Micki is still researching Macklin when Ryan comes in with the paper, and shows her an article about Donald winning big. They suspect he's using the ring and head out to find him.

At the bar, Donald pays his bar tab. The bartender and another man question him paying back Macklin, and Donald says he is going to own him, soon, and heads out. The other man follows. Outside, the guy, Benny, wants in on whatever Donald is into. Donald tells him to get lost, so the guy threatens to go to Macklin. Donald calls Benny over, shows him his good luck charm and tells him to try it on. Benny does, as Donald steps away and the ring throws Benny around, killing him. In the ring's gem, Donald sees the winning play at the end of a basketball game.

Micki and Ryan arrive at the Wren family store, and ask her about Donald. She tells them he has the ring, but he wouldn't hurt innocent people. She insists they can't call the cops, and they say they just want the ring. She was going to check his favorite bars, so they offer to take her.

At the bar, Donald is watching the basketball game when his mom, Micki and Ryan arrive. She goes to talk to Donald, begging him to stop gambling. She wants the ring, he won't fork it over. She tells him his father died over it, but nothing can get through to her son. He wants to buy her dream retirement home in the Bahamas. She asks if he will stop using it after that, buying into his false promises. He tells her to go home. She tells Micki and Ryan that Donald will bring the ring back tonight. They don't believe it, so Micki tells Ryan to get the woman a cab and wait outside, she will try and get Donald to leave with her. Donald is watching the game and spots Micki at the bar.

Macklin is hearing from his goon about the other goons' bodies being found floating in the sewer. The phone rings, and it is the bartender alerting Macklin to Donald being in the bar. Macklin tells him not to let him leave.

Donald approaches Micki, offering to buy her a drink. She flirts back and says they should go somewhere quiet. The bartender asks where he's going, but Donald blows him off. Micki says they should go to Donald's place and they drive off, with Ryan following.

Donald notices Micki looking to make sure Ryan is behind them and thinks they are both working for Macklin. He speeds off, driving to a secluded spot and tries to force the ring on to Micki's finger. Micki bites his hand and takes off. Donald trips and is the confronted with Macklin's goon, who takes Donald. Micki comes out of hiding as Ryan finally finds her. They race off to find Donald.

At the closed club, the goons drop Donald in to a chair across from Macklin. The bookie wants to know how Donald's luck could change so quickly. Donald tries to say he has a system. Macklin says Donald's father had a system, too, and wants to know what it is. Donald won't tell him, so Macklin cuts off one of his fingers. He says he has more fingers to go before he kills him, then has his goons take him away.

At her store, Micki and Ryan fill in the old lady about Donald's latest shenanigans. She can't believe it, then tells them that Donald wants to ruin Macklin, blaming the bookie for his father's death. They head off to Macklin's club to find Donald as she swears it is the ring's fault, not Donald's.

Macklin is watching a boxing match, and has his goon bring Donald back. Donald is bloody, having been beaten up. Macklin wants to know who will win the match, and roughs Donald up some more.

Micki and Ryan pull up out front. Macklin is still pushing Donald for the outcome of the match. Donald lies, saying he just takes a guess. Ryan and Micki see a cab pull up with Donald's mother, who goes in to the club. They go to find way in.

Inside, Donald's mother is shocked to see the condition her son is in. Macklin wants her to talk sense in to her son. The boxing match ends with the opposite outcome Donald predicted, so Macklin wants to cut off another finger. His mother begs her son to tell the truth. But Donald says he'll just kill him like his father. Macklin says if he doesn't, he'll kill his mother. The goon takes him away again.

Outside, out back, Micki and Ryan are looking for a way inside. They see other gangsters enter a back door.

The goon is about to chop off another finger, when Donald tricks the man by telling him to take his ring. In the other room, his mother tells Macklin about the ring.

Micki approaches the goon outside and asks to be let in, and while he is distracted, Ryan knocks him out.

Donald shows the ring to the goon, saying it is good luck. Macklin isn't buying the story his mother is telling him, but they hear the goon's screams and rush to see what's happening. The ring kills the goon, Donald removes the ring and sees the winner of the bare-knuckle fighting match. Macklin and Donald's mother come in and see the dead man.

Donald tells Macklin what he saw, and then his mother tells Macklin to put the ring on and see for himself. Macklin takes it, look at it, and then him and his goon take them both outside. They go in to the other building where the gangsters went and we see it is full of people watching the cage fight Donald saw in the ring. Micki and Ryan also sneak inside.

Everyone is watching the fight, Macklin is wondering how Donald knew about it. Donald reiterates who will win, so Macklin places a bet on it. The fight goes on and the guy Donald said would win, wins. Macklin gets his winnings, then takes mother and son to another room. Micki and Ryan try to follow, but are stopped when a goon shuts the door.

In the office, Macklin wants to know how to use the ring to win more. Donald's mother tells him he just has to put the ring on to see. Macklin believes her and puts it on, and the ring does its business on the bookie as Donald laughs. Macklin is tossed around.

Micki notices the guard is distracted so she tells Ryan to get ready.

Macklin is killed and Donald goes to get the ring off the body. His mother begs him to give it up, but with Macklin dead, her son is more determined then ever. Ryan and Micki are confronted with another goon and this time Ryan tackles the guy, fighting him, before Micki knocks him out. Just as they enter the next room, they hear a gunshot, then inside see that Donald has just been shot by his mother. Micki takes the woman away as Ryan gets the ring.

At Curious Goods, Mrs. Wren admits it was her who killed her husband when he wouldn't stop using the ring in 1982. She says she had no choice then, or tonight. Ryan and Micki try to comfort her, and she asks if they are going to tell the police. They both shake their heads no, she says thank you, and leaves.

My thoughts:

A good episode. Well written, with an interesting cursed item. I like how it was a ring for a team that should have won, but didn't, and Louis used this part of it's own history in the curse.

Also liked the mini-mystery of who killed Donald's dad. Not sure if I guessed it the first time, but hard not to see who it was by the end.

I liked Mrs. Wren not being oblivious to what her husband, then son, were up to with the ring, and also trying to keep it safe herself, unsure what Micki and Ryan wanted with the flyer they sent her. She might not do the right thing, but she wants to do the right thing.

Denis Forest is always fun. He is almost like an honorary cast member at this point.

Liked Micki and Ryan doing calls and research to figure things out. Jack isn't here this week, but we see that he has taught them well.

Love Micki and Ryan's quips outside the club about getting good at this. Fun little moment between the two, and again shows how far they have come in a year and a half.

Just a good episode of the show, from start to finish.

Next week: A Friend to the End

#world series ring #ring #season two #episode recap #curious goods #denis forest #louise robey #robey #john d. lemay #ryan dallion #micki foster #gambling

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mist-dancing · 6 months

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If Breezepelt got a pov I wonder if people would hate him almost as much as Nightheart

#genuinwly wonder this sometimed #they’re basically the same person except Nighthearts dad went to get milk in starclan #and Breezepelt’s dad hates him #breezepelt #nightheart #warrior cats #warriors #wc #like dont deny it Breezepelt would have some weird fucking monologues about how he should just kill his clanmates #especially when hes working with the dark forest #dont forget he tried to kill a disabled nun and a pregnant lady at a church

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pristine-starlight · 3 months

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People who cry about how difficult it is to adjust to using it/its for a person bc they aren't used to it are fuckin Weak, way before i picked up it/its myself i had a friend swap to using them and it was the first time i had someone in my circle use those pronouns so i went "oh. New grammar structure. Doesn't compute properly yet, gotta make it settle in" and proceeded to play minecraft for three hours while rambling to myself about my friend in my head using it/its

And that's all it took

#like it aint hard bro you just gotta make an effort and act normal about it when you mess up #'it/its pronouns are difficult for me to use but i try anyway' what you want a medal about it??#its difficult for me to deal with ppl denying me my identity for the sake of their own fragile lil feelies but i do it anyway. so what #chatter tag #rute is back in hibernation but. mwah. love you buddy i hope youre cosy #fond memories of running around atop a dark oak forest thinking about how cool you are

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Update on the fantasy ay with mushroom Killer

There may be Kist

Also Killer leaves little mushrooms that eat other plants alive when he walks on stuff that has plants on it

KIST!!! hell yeah dude

also. that fucking rules actually i lovee stuff like that

#like one of my favorite scenes from mononoke is when the forest spirit walks toward ashitaka and it leaves plants in its footprints #so fucking good #one of my favorite?? tropes??? whatever it is #answering asks #denieatsart asks #deni!!

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A little angst again, sorry. But it's a headcanon, I really think it happened in the film.

If you can remember the scene where Sersi told everyone that there is no Olympia, Kingo saying they're basically fancy robots, and Sprite saying that all this time Thena was remembering. And they had an argument if they should stop/delay the birth of the Celestial, if they should help the humanity. It's like headcanon to me where Thena suddenly stood during that argument saying that she and Gil already have a good life and then they started coming back again (the other Eternals) she's sort of stating that they're bothering their life and she's done and that she's sorry because she won't give a damn about it, then she walked out. Gil followed her and they also both started having an argument because Thena doesn't want them to be involved, she doesn't want to fight because she thinks she can't do it anymore, but Gil still wants to help them, the humanity, the mission. And Gil promising that everything will be okay, they'll be back home again together...

Sorry☹️☹️☹️

"All this time, Thena was remembering all the other planets we were sent to, and everyone dying during the emergence."

Thena was still quiet, barely having said a word since being pulled from her episode earlier in the day. Gilgamesh had excused that it wasn't uncommon for her to be untalkative. That was an understatement for their family present: Thena could go for days without talking after a bad one.

It had been so, so long since they had seen their family--sat down, had a meal with them. Even Ikaris had managed some warmth for them. But the warm welcome was no match for the sting of reality.

Thena knew it. As soon as she saw that Deviant on the horizon, she knew that the veneer of peace over their lives was going to be shattered. It was a feeling that came over her often. Only now, she was finding out that it was familiar for a reason.

"Sersi, we have no right to stop the birth of a Celestial."

Yes, it was called the birth of a Celestial. A deity of entire universes of galaxies at a time. A god borne of one measly planet's sacrifice. Even as part of that sacrifice, what they lost each time was mitigated by a cold, sterile reboot of who they were. Reduced to a question of numbers, the answer was clear.

"We're not going to let everyone on Earth die, right?!"

"No."

Heads turned as Thena stood, pushing herself back from the table and rising from her chair. They all looked at her to continue, but she held Gilgamesh's eyes.

"Right!" the human newcomer agreed. "We're not-"

"Our answer," Thena clarified with a frightening bite to it. The temperature in the arid desert home dropped several degrees. "Is no."

"Thena," Gilgamesh started, clearly knowing this was coming, and where it was headed.

"I'm with you, T," Kingo smiled, although his usual affability also failed to pierce through the hardened shell of the Warrior Eternal.

"No," she looked at her brother, and then at the rest of their family, "you're not. None of you are."

"Thena, please," Sersi pleaded, both the most gently and the most heartfelt of them.

Thena at least looked at her to voice her next denial. "Sersi, my life is here. Our life."

Gilgamesh also rose from his chair, seated at the opposite end from her to make room for their many guests. A handful of family turned strangers.

Thena met his eyes, the rest of them fading from her mind as her words finally surfaced. "We have done enough."

"Thena," he sighed, torn between the argument his family was making for human life and the other half of his life facing him a metre away.

"We have given up enough," she continued, palms pressing to the table. "Is that not why we are out here?--have been out here, for centuries?"

Sersi and Kingo met eyes for the briefest of seconds before looking down at the table again. That night left scars of different shapes on all of them, but inarguably the two to bear still-open wounds from it were the two standing.

"You're right," Gilgamesh nodded. He had never been one to argue for the sake of it, and the last person he would ever argue with under any circumstances was Thena. "But we're out here for another reason, aren't we?"

This time it was Thena whose eyes broke away--something the rest of the family had never witnessed from the Goddess of War herself.

"To protect humans." It was said with a faint smile--an attempt to draw the same from her. Gilgamesh was always good at that. "You made it all the way here on that promise alone."

It was true. She had endured Mahd Wy'ry, stormy seas and trembling in Gilgamesh's arms in the hulls of ships all the way to this godforsaken continent. Because she was unwilling to subject humanity to the destruction of which she was capable if left alone.

And Gilgamesh had never left her alone, in all their thousands of years together.

Gil pressed his palms to the table as well, mirroring his other half. "We have to help."

"No, we don't," Thena whispered, but it hit the air as if she were screaming and crying. Faces of shock and alarm rose and crumbled at the tears in her wide, green eyes. Even Ikaris pushed off the far wall at the development. But she shook her head ever so minutely. "Why this time? Why now?--again? Why is it always us?"

There was no flicker of white, or gold glowing under her skin. There was only Thena, asking why she was being denied her hard earned peace yet again.

Gilgamesh sighed, leaving his end of the table to reach the woman in tears. Were it not for those crowded around it, he would have simply tossed it out of his way to reach her. But he took the long way, unlocking her stiff posture and pulling her hand into his, winding their fingers together. "I know."

Thena held tight, shaking from head to toe. Every ounce of strength she had been given, and all it boiled down to was fragility. "You promised we had eternity."

"I did," he agreed, bringing her hand up to his lips. The family continued to stare, watching before them something that had unfolded thousands of years ago and yet was new to them.

Thena held his hand so tight that a mortal would break in her grip. She was built to fight--she was made to protect, but it only worked if she had the most to lose. "I can't."

"You can," he promised, as if it were just that simple. He still looked at her in a way Athens could never. "I'll be right there."

Thena's eyes moved definitively to his cuts and scrapes scars. He had been here this whole time, prey to a predator that she was just as vulnerable to, in a much crueller way.

He pressed his forehead to hers, "we have to help. You know we do."

Thena inhaled, breathing in the feeling of him in front of her. Her instincts demanded it, preparing her for the worst case scenario. "If I lose you-"

"You won't."

Gilgamesh. Her sweet Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh the Strongest Eternal, who would lay down his life for her, and for their mission for humanity, and both in twain if it came to such a conclusion. The ever present ache in the back of her head already knew what it would be like to lose him. She woke from nightmares with it, walked with blank eyes with it. She already knew how bereft any world without him was, in some recesses in her mind.

She knew the world would burn, because either a Celestial would burst from the Earth's core, or she would lose her heart and soul along the way, and burn it to ash herself.

#Thenamesh #man you guys really like your angst #and who am I to deny you?#this is a little evil #but I love it #and I agree #I think Thena would be protective of the life she has with Gil #she's resistant to picking up and leaving #to going back to the life that literally drove her to Mahdness #and affects her #AND GIL #every single day #she doesn't want to put him through anything else #but let's face it #it's Gil who got her out of that house #canonically speaking #it had to be him #who got her on that plane #who got her on that boat #when they are sitting in the forest #it's the first word she's spoken since the scene in Australia #because she almost only talks when it's just her and Gil #even when they're interacting with the rest of the fam #she's looking at Gil when she does speak #or even react to those around her #she says “I don't like this place”#who do you think convinced her to go?#do you think she would be anywhere but home if it weren't for him beside her?!#I could go into heavy detail!!!#AND I WILL

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