#I know I know that Diego is very red as a whole vibe but this psd makes everything green and looks good with his caps so ...
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Red, Gery & GREEN
or GREEN & GREY ?
#I know I know that Diego is very red as a whole vibe but this psd makes everything green and looks good with his caps so ...#opinions / advice / thoughts pls <3#[OOC.] — Mari chitchats
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hello everyone!! i'm the person who ran the TUA color polls for each of the seven siblings over the last few weeks. sorry it took so long but i'm here with results! i'm going to have charts first because they are flashy, easy to look at an understand, and also won't make the post too long above the keep reading :DD without further ado, the results of the poll: "Which color do you associate with [Hargreeves]?" !!
[keep in mind that the labels are above the charts, and viktor's may be hard to read because the chart maker i used only had a white background- same if you're on dark mode i apologize]
analysis and words under here if you're interested lol :D it’s basically me just rambling for WAY TOO LONG about analysis lmao
okay so going into this, my hypothesis was that everyone’s colors were more or less determined by their s2 outfits. the fashion was iconic and stood out a lot, so it was very likely to stick in people’s brains.
my personal choices in order of siblings are: blue, orange, yellow, pink, green, red, and blue again. i chose green for five because of like.. chalkboards? i feel like he gives the green vibes y’a know? for the rest it was mostly determined by outfits and vibes etc.
but i’m sure nobody wants to hear me talk about my own opinions for too long [afterall, i didn’t even vote in the polls to keep them unbiased as possible] so here’s my analysis of YOUR choices
blue green and yellow were all the top choices for luther, which makes sense to me. blue ended up winning. they’re all generally cooler colors. when i think of luther i think of less stand-out colors, something solid and steady. blue is the most popular favorite color. it has a lot of range, just like luther. he wears it a lot throughout the seasons. blue is associated (not to bring color theory onto the color theory website or anything) with a feeling of sadness, and also responsibility. i really see him as a very tragic character tbh, à la s1 characterization.
diego was surprising to me, because even though my prediction of orange was correct there was a large amount of black in play. red was third after that. i don’t see it as that surprising considering his outfit from s1 lmao. let’s be honest they’re all emo anyways. red and orange are both associated with fire. diego probably would do arson if he thought he was doing the right thing. red is very agressive of a color, but orange is seen as a little less in your face. it can represent change too. but all in all, i think that it was chosen most often because of his orange and black polka dot shirt from s2. slay ig
allison was surprising to me at first, because i didn’t expect so much purple. i think that the pink might be because she’s a girl though. the red is what confused me the most. i would love to hear anyone else’s thoughts because i’m honestly not sure. @creepy-not-crawly (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️) was talking with me about the polls, and said this about allison having yellow win:
purple is associated with royalty and we all know she’s a queen. ofc, yellow won. we ALL remember that dress from s2. she’s also fairly optimistic for the first two seasons, and s3 largely revolves around her trying to force herself to be happy. yellow is associated with happy, and she was happy when she was with ray and trying to get it back s3. i have a post about the whole tone fuck up from s2/s3 here X so read that if you want!!
alright klaus. green came out (haha get it) in first and i think this one was essentially due to the association of ghosts and supernatural things in general with green. it’s SPOOOOOKY you know? it’s represents change and growth. the guy is trying. also the military is associated with green uniforms (at least in the US), so it can be easily linked back to the vietnam war incident from s1 and his connection to dave.
five had the most votes and it ended up with the closest results to one color taking half the pie. blue won, and red and black followed. i think for the red, it might be because of the metaphorical and literal blood on his hands. as far as i can tell, his powers- some of the most distinctly colored in the show- were a major factor: (credit to @dead-peppermint and @the-time-travelers-admirer in that order)
and his iconic uniform is mentioned as well. (thank god the old man got a change of clothes in s3, manifesting for s4) blue represents responsibility and we all know he has so much on his shoulders (insert joke about how hunched over he was s3 because aiden gallagher has been aging over these past 5 crazy years but he’s supposed to be playing a 13 y o boy). blue is also associated with calm- the man needs some calm in his life, à la that one part of s3. and last of all, sadness. i think most of us remember “HE’S LOVED THEM FOR LONGER THAN THEY’VE BEEN ALIVE” (link post cus i can’t find it) and he spent so long mourning his family, and is probably still mourning them.
og ben is probably the most underrated character imo, so i was excited for this one. i predicted red because of that one scene (UGHHH SO TRAGIC) when he was a kid and covered in blood like “can i go home now” (🥺). my dear mutual @/deadpeppermint from before left these thoughts:
blue and purple tied for first, with red and black in second. honestly the leather jacket? hoodie? thing? and generally emo vibe really lent itself to that lmao. i think purple and blue are also really good colors for him, because he is a king and also responsible as heck (or at least, he tries in comparison). i’m still crying over how he left in s2 ISTG BRING HIM BACKKKK (srsly tho line i want to make a post about his absence affected s3 ughfhfhfhfhfhh) but that brings us back to blue meaning sadness, and oh my lord does this boy represent grief!!! he’s soooooo <3
and finally omg we are at viktor! this graph is fucking hilarious to look at because it just looks empty. the white violin had an association with color, and you could NEVER GUESS which one (sarcasm). i actually forgot about this next was blue, and i think it’s cute that blue was on top three, even top two for 5 6 7. and the. @/deadpeppermint once again with thoughts:
SO TRUE!!
sorry for all of the errors i'm losing my mind.
anyways if anyone (unlikely lmao) has actually read this, or even scrolled down- hi! also goddamn! i hope someone enjoys this post because i have literally postponed so many projects for this weird little side thing. MMMMM DATA. i would make some kind of conclusion, but i'm damn tired and i think that my whole hypothesis kind of worked out! TYSM TO EVERYONE WHO VOTED!! and the people who left thing in the tags or talked to me about it? A MILLION LOVE FOREVER
i plan on doing more analysis in the future, but this is kind of dipping my toe in with a more fandom centered analysis. also! shameless self promotion! this whole thing started because i made a little animatic? thing? and started wondering about the colors because i ended up assigning them. CHECK IT OUT HERE X SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON MR BEAST TIKTOK FORTNITE. anyway. i literally have two other things that have been done for a while which i'll be posting in due time. if anyone is wondering why i haven't been posting art (idk, maybe?) it's because i was holding off on this crazy monster of a post! i'm really excited to make animatics because the music bro it's got me ITS GOT ME THIS DAMN SHOW. i am a self taught beginner artist tho, so i mean be ready for that. (that makes me sound so pretentious STOPP) anyways here! 🎩👑👒🧢 swaggy hats and a 🦉🦋🐞🐠🪿🦜🐁🦔 lil guy to go with it! 🥰🫵 see ya besties ily. i am so ill.
#tua#writingastraightanswer#tuacolorpoll#luther hargreeves#diego hargreeves#allison hargreeves#klaus hargreeves#five hargreeves#ben hargreeves#viktor hargreeves#the umbrella academy#guys help me please#holy shit this took me so long#idec anymore i have to get this out
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Do you have any sexuality headcanons for DCLA characters?
Hi anon! I couldn't reply to you when you sent this because I was busy with uni, but now I figured since I'm probably going on a Violetta s2 rewatch soon this could be a good way to give everyone an updated hc list, since some of them changed quite a bit since the last time I've been really active on this blog
Violetta:
Vilu - ............ straight. I know, I know, 'what about Franletta' and all, but the truth is I've always instinctively seen Vilu as het, it's just the vibe I get from her. When I joined dcla tumblr I saw people shipping Franletta and it seemed like a really fun new way to interact with these characters so I decided to change my hc and give it a go too, and I mean I did have a lot of fun with it but after being away for a while my brain just went back to my first instincts (and I'm having a lot of fun with token het Vilu too)
León - bi icon, pining over his ex gf one day and eye fucking his rival the next, who does it like him
Fran - bi (with a preference for men) queen
Diego - bi (with a preference for men) king
Ludmila - I'm actually not sure? My original hc for her was bi but then as I was watching I think s2 or s3 it changed to lesbian, but the thing is I was thinking about it these days and I can't remember what made me switch (😭), so I don't know if I still agree with my past self's reasoning or not. Right now I'm leaving her as just sapphic because if there's one thing I'm sure of is that this girl kisses girls, and hopefully as I rewatch I can make up my mind
Camila - chaotic lesbian ICON like genuinely hats off to her, all of the other chaotic lesbian girlies wish their antics could come close to the red dot green dot fiasco (myself included)
Naty - THE lesbian ever nobody can compare
Marco - bi boi
Maxi - I think he's pan
Broduey - he is indeed straight, backing up Vilu in the beloved token het gang
Andrés - he's bi and I think we as a community should talk about it more, between being so happy whe he thought he was getting flowers from Marco that one time and the whole flirting with Cardoso to try to date Emma situation I think it's safe to say he's one of the characters who said bi rights the loudest, put some respect on his name
Federico - I don't know. I don't know I have no clue. Everything related to Federico's sexuality is a whole mystery to me, I have no idea what it is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask
Angie and Jade - bi wives they're kissing as we speak
Gregorio - gay KING
Soy Luna:
Luna - she's a pan babygirl (with very hit or miss taste)
Simón - bi bi bi
Ámbar - THE bisexual icon of the show you guys won so hard with this one
Matteo - I don't wanna say it but sadly we all know the answer............. a loss for bi people everywhere, my heart is with you in these trying times
Nina - painfully straight
Gastón - he's bi but he's SO oblivious about it it actually hurts to watch, this man is full on having gay sex thinking it's just a bro moment someone save him from himself
Jim - the most oblivious lesbian of all times suffering from terminal comphet, all I have to say is get well soon girl please Yam is BEGGING
Yam - a lesbian WARRIOR fighting tooth and nail against the writers to come out, rescue her comphet afflicted gf and kiss her on the lips, I admire her perseverance
Ramiro - he's absolutely gay but tragically he was never told he can have female friends and thinks he has to date his lesbian bestie to hang out
Jazmin - I think lesbian. I flip flop a lot between lesbian and bi for her but right now this is the one I'm leaning towards, and if we just leave canon crushes aside it's also what feels the most right for the character to me. Maybe it’ll switch back to bi later but for now I'm keeping this one
Delfi - I just realised I never actually thought about this one. I mean I do ship Pelfi but I think she can kiss girls too, as a treat
Pedro - honestly I think he might be straight
Nico - yeah he's straight too
Emilia - ok ok this one is a bit of a messy one, and it's mostly because the way I see it s2 and s3 Emilia are pretty much completely different characters. In s2 she's THE goth lesbian icon of this show and I adore her, but in s3 she gets that very annoying and unnecessary crush on Matteo and the way it's done I can't even call it comphet, so that'd make her bi. I don't really acknowledge s3 Emila though since I really hate what the writers did with her character, s2 Emilia is the only one that my brain allows, so she's still THE goth lesbian icon in my heart <3
Juliana - oh she's 100% a lesbian too the energy radiates from every cell of her body and I love her for it, also she definitely had a crush on that singer she listened to as a teenager that she told Yam about
Ana and Mora - lesbian wives who I love with my whole heart
And since I'm not as into Bia as I am into the other two I never really bothered to make sexuality hcs for the characters there, so I'm ending this here. Thank you so much for the ask anon <3
#oof that was a long one but i mean i had fun#this is also my official goodbye to bi vilu it was good while it lasted but this just feels more right#and let's see how long lesbian jazmin lasts this time i hope it's my final answer but you never know#violetta#soy luna
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Oooooo the red bock au sounds so interesting! Does Five caught himself thinking of his brothers just as numbers and weapons like Reginald talks in his book? Does he read Vanya book to remind himself that they are still human even though he reads it through lens of someone hurt by them all? And I feel like the handler would know either way about the books but o it's so much fun to see five being paranoid
I think having both books and both perspectives reminds Five that... he’s getting some very biased accounts of his own siblings. I think that when he’s still young, he writes down as many memories as he can remember because... he starts to forget, at some point.
Vanya’s book talks about how volatile Diego and Luther’s relationship is, and so Five writes down the time Luther and Diego teamed up to toss Five off a balcony when Five kept switching the pens in their hands with pipe cleaners during a lesson (and he will maintain until his dying day that he was just practicing his control, c’mon guys!)
when Reginald’s notes call Allison an “insufferable, narcissistic creature,” Five remembers Allison bribing him to cause trouble and distract Reginald so that she could use the microwave unobserved to heat up some water bottles as makeshift heat packs for Luther’s sore muscles
when Vanya calls Ben “easily manipulated,” Five recalls Ben arguing theories with him at 2am after one of Ben’s training sessions where Ben almost flipped his bed when Five jokingly suggested that he could use the horror’s tentacles to bounce up and down like a pogo stick before Ben tackled him and tried to beat Five to death with an encyclopedia of sea creatures (affectionately)
I think having Reginald’s journal actually helps in a lot of ways, because Five automatically autocorrects literally all of Reginald’s thoughts to be like, mostly inaccurate and much harsher than they need to be. So when he reads Vanya’s journal he also autocorrects and is able to recognize that it is a very biased and somewhat harsh view of his siblings
(he doesn’t distrust them as much as he does in canon, with only Vanya’s harsh words to cling to with no reminder that they were all raised by a man capable of unfathomable cruelty, no reminder that authors can be oh so biased)
outside of his equations, there’s notes to himself written in the margins of Vanya’s book. Sometimes they’re just small, pointing out that Klaus had fought to include Vanya in trap week (Klaus then proceeded to team up with her and managed to catch Five in a snare - he actually still has a scar around his ankle from his upsidedown thrashing before he managed to steal one of Diego’s knives to cut himself down) or pointing out that Luther’s chilly attitude when they were ten was probably the result of Vanya outperforming him in every standardized test they took because of Luther’s ridiculous inferiority-superiority complex
at the very least he has comparison, because Reginald’s book calls Klaus an absolute failure while Vanya’s book called him “sweet, as a child at least”
As for the Handler... she’s aware that he has Vanya’s book and a red notebook, but I don’t think she actually knows what’s in the red notebook! Reginald was notoriously secretive, after all
So the Handler assumes that the red notebook is where Five keeps his time travel equations because aw, he hasn’t given up! how cute!
She makes an assumption that, logically, makes sense. Of course Five is still trying to figure out time travel, no matter how much he denies it! Of course he’s writing the equations down! What a silly boy, thinking that he could hide this from her, of course she knows about his little plans to save his siblings ;3c
And because she’s so powerful and knowledgeable and one step ahead all the time, she makes an assumption and assumes that it is fact. Because she’s so smart, of course she isn’t wrong! She’s had Five clocked from day one!
(The Handler thinks she has Five all figured out, a creature so based in sentiment. Why would he carry a book around that details the torture his siblings went through? He hates his father, why would he ever carry around his father’s notebook! The Handler has a fatal flaw, and it is that she doesn’t understand loyalty and sneers at sentiment and those are two of Five’s most powerful driving factors. Five lives for his siblings and would die for his siblings, almost his entire life has been dedicated to saving them. Not the world, just his family.)
(She understands that Five considers his family to be exceptionally valuable, but doesn’t comprehend that Five is 100% willing to die for them should it come down to it. Why on earth would anyone value something like siblings over their own life? Absurd. I genuinely believe that the Handler thinks she could get Five to betray his siblings with the right leverage, and so she fundamentally does not understand Five as a person)
To be fair to the Handler, the whole academy’s morals and just. completely and utterly fucked. Luther condemns the murder of innocent civilians even if it would save the planet but doesn’t blink an eye at killing the ‘bad guy’ Commission agents. Diego stabs criminals as a pastime while still holding himself at a moral high ground for saving people, despite the fact that too many criminals are forced into crime by unfair circumstances. Allison used her powers to bolster her career without even blinking but now refuses to use her powers at all because of the manipulation of one (1) child, not even against ‘bad guys.’
I mean. Vanya wrote an entire salt book without consulting her siblings that had lasting impacts on at least one of her sibling’s career in the public eye and potentially impacting her siblings relationships with everyone who had every read the spark notes on her book, without the opportunity for reprisal. Publishing your entire family’s dirty laundry as personal emotional catharsis is... kind of a dick mood, lets be real. Especially when you were all abused children raised in an environment of excessive violence and rigid structure.
Like yeah, of course Allison is good at manipulation and lying - she grew up with an abusive and over-controlling father. She probably lied as easily as breathing about where she’d been, who she was with, what she was doing, etc. The only privacy they got in that household was what they seized with their own hands and carved out for themselves! Is it fair to say that Allison’s superpower is dishonestly?
Is it fair to say that Klaus got crueler as he grew? He was tortured and turned to drugs as an unhealthy coping mechanism, and then he sat down at a table and looked at all the other little kiddies who did not get locked into a crypt overnight. In fact, there was one child who never got any extra training at all! Can you imagine the jealousy? The bitterness? Klaus might have been exceptionally cruel to Vanya as a teenager, she had everything he wanted and dared to complain about it. Can you imagine listening to someone wistfully wish they could join in on missions when you know that the cost for doing so has been carved out of your soul?
My point is, none of these little bitches have anything that resembles a sane moral compass. They’re unpredictable as fuck! It’s like herding cats! You never know what they’re going to do next! Oh? Are they going to investigate in any logical pattern? No, because Diego just remembered Patch exists and helping her print flyers for the annual police ball is more important than saving the world or whatever lol
Luther is over there investigating the moon! The moon! Meanwhile Allison is breaking and entering her sister’s student’s house because she got shady vibes off of him one time and she has never heard of a proportionate action in her life.
Meanwhile Vanya is going through the phone book trying to call up psychiatrists who have any familiarity with whatever fucked up meds Dad put her on because like, she would like to Not Be On Them (fuck you dad) but also understands that danger of quitting cold turkey something you have been taking for years and would like a professional opinion on how to safely decrease and eventually eliminate her usage, thanks (Klaus is hanging over her shoulder pointing out the ones who will sell you non-prescription drugs for a price and Vanya mentally crosses those ones off of her list to call)
Five is probably joining on the breaking and entering because Allison promised she would sweet talk to eye dude if he did her this solid
(Five complains at length about how investigating the apocalypse should not be a solid because she would 100% die as well if the apocalypse came to pass)
#the red book au#plus like. some thoughts and opinions lmao#look Vanya's book was healing and cathartic for her#does that mean it should have been published?#FUCK NO#it's biased as all fuck for starters and could genuinely impact her siblings jobs and relationships#anyway the hargreeves are all cats#they do their own thing regardless of what they should be doing#their orders of priorities are fucked tbh#what do you mean vanya's job isn't equally as important as saving the world?#she has to pay rent somehow five !!#klaus is down to go threaten a seedy dude but can they investigate dad's will after pretty please?#maybe there's a clue! or numbers about inheritance!#if dad disowned them then diego is forging the will tbh#not because he wants the bastard's money but it's the PRINCIPLE of the thing#Anonymous#long post#far tua long
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Okay so guys, hear me out: Dangan Ronpa x JJBA AU
Lemme just preface this by saying that this AU isn’t going to be a 1 to 1 kinda thing, Imma switch things around a fair. Also this is by no means a fleshed out AU.
Character Roles that I’m pretty Confident about:
Dio: Of course, he’s the mastermind and Ultimate Despair JUNKO! But he’s also kinda Celeste in a way. (Explanations coming up)
Diego: Mukuro
Pucci: ALSO Mukuro
Vanilla Ice: Nagito
Protags are OBVIOUSLY the one and only JOESTARS! Makoto is Jonathan, Hajime is Joseph, and Shuichi is Jotaro, all of these fit almost perfectly imo.
Erina: Sayaka (probably should let you know there will be a lot of Ultimates switching around.
Speedwagon: Kyoko
Zeppeli: Byakuya (this one’s a bit iffy)
Kakyoin: Either Kaede or Kaito. Leaning towards Kaede
There is NO K*kichi O*ma mainly because I fucking hate him but feel free to have your own ideas for grape soda man if you’d like
General Plot I’ve come up With:
Ultimate Gentleman Jonathan wakes up in a classroom and finds that he’s trapped in school with some other students including his childhood friend and Ultimate Nurse, Erina. The most famous presence there is the Ultimate Chess Grandmaster, Dio Brando(who’s really Diego). Soon, a half black and half white robotic bird with one red eye and beak stretching into a sinister grin on one side, introduces itself as Pet Shop, the school’s ‘headmaster’. Everyone is shocked when the rules are announced and “Dio” steps up to to speak up, furiously kicking the bird as he demands that they be freed only for everyone to be horrified when spikes suddenly impale “Dio”, causing him to slump over and die. Now everyone knows this is serious. Later the first motive is introduced and Erina is terrified that her family is being held hostage and is forced to betray Jonathan and switches rooms with him. Next morning Erina’s body is found…..
Class trials and death, Etc, etc, now the End:
A discovery is made! The first person to die wasn’t actually Dio, but rather his twin, Diego, who was disguised as Dio. Once the truth is exposed, Dio comes out (“I’m bisexual.” “Okay that’s cool but you literally made us murder our friends”). Monologue, monologue, now this is why I also gave Dio Celeste qualities, I feel like they have a lot in common (liars from poor backgrounds trying to present themselves as their idealized versions and having a desire to be rich and powerful and disconnected from their past selves.) Speedwagon or Zeppeli are like “Well, I suppose this is checkmate.” and although Dio is unapologetically flaunting his status as the mastermind and having a whole despairgasm and everything, Dio’s still Dio and being told that he lost pisses him off because NO, HE DIDN’T LOSE, THIS IS ALL ACCORDING TO HIS PLAN. And he has a very Celeste-esque temper flare (“hahaha….HAHAHAHAHA! Don't make me laugh, you idiot! What do you mean, checkmate!?”) and he’s like go ahead and execute me then. He doesn’t actually want to die, unlike Junko, because he prefers others' despair to his own, and like Celeste, he goes through the Ultimate Punishment smiling. Like Celeste, he believes “Until the game's over, you never know what might happen!” and in his head, he NEVER loses, so at the end when the crusher stalls he’s all cocky….until it stops stalling and he is crushed.
Now since my brain is tired, here’re some bits and pieces:
Joseph is the SHSL Anthropologist
Jotaro is the SHSL Marine Biologist
Mukuro is split up into two characters because I just felt it fit better that way. Diego is the “sibling Mukuro”, he doesn’t really vibe with what Dio does but helps him nonetheless because they’re brothers and Pucci is the “100% Devoted Would do Anything for Dio'' who's the one dtl (down to lobotomize) and looks up to Dio affectionately (basically Anime Mukuro?). They have a significantly less toxic relationship than Mukuro and Junko because Dio doesn’t berate and constantly try to kill Pucci (they’re fwends 🥺🥺) and uh none of the weird incestuous undertones??)?!! Seriously wtf animeronpa…
that’s all for now lmao thanks for coming 2 my TEDtalk
#jjba#jojo no kimyō na bōken#jojos bizarre adventure#danganronpa#au#crossover#JoJo!Ronpa#jojo#jonathan joestar#jotaro kujo#joseph joestar#Dio Brando#enrico Pucci
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@theblacklistrareshipsweek
Day 1, “When I First Saw You”. The scene which made you fall in love with your ship
It was my engagement with you that ended that relationship.
My way to shipping resslington was bumpy—I didn’t like Ressler/Diego in the pilot (I loathed the guy at that time; love is blind XD), was fascinated by James/Red, and my first actual ship was lizzington :D. Then I switched to daddygate, to keenler (I know, right???), and only in 2018sh, I guess, I was really, into these two precious dumb idiots in love resslington.
The particular episode which made me fall in love with both of them—and I didn’t realize at that time I was ‘shipping’ them, just adore the dynamics and the chemistry sparks—is Anslo Garrick. Hands down, the best episode out of all seasons for me.
I fell in love with Ress/Diego first, and then this exact moment Red holds his gaze on Ressler… There’s intimacy to it, there’s sex subtext, and, also, a whole lot of this father-son vibes. I can’t even express in words; this scene always gets me on some visceral level. Not even the monologue, which is great. But this particular moment where Red looks at Ressler almost lovingly, I think. And the fact that throughout this whole ep they communicate with their eyes only, is what makes this ep/arc very special for me.
I kinda ship them both ways—their father-son dynamics lets me dive into their psychology (not without my amazing co-author @yddraigwyllt to steer me in the right direction, thank you!), and how the loss of a father and Red’s saving him hits Ressler, and hits him hard; and, of course, slash-y steamy lands (though I’m not quite into the spicy part, mostly the tension which would make a saint blush, ha).
#TBLRSW#the blacklist#donald ressler#raymond reddington#my gifs#my posts#tell me that's straight#btw if you're late like me with the entries#no worries#just post them any day and i'll tag them :D
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one unfortunate thing my rewatch yielded is that i am more and more aware of the massive missed opportunity of not just biting the bullet and setting tua in the 1980s.
aside from it being more loyal to the adaptation, the time is important to the plot and characterization.
luther being an astronaut is tied to the 60s space race, which he watched happen and participated in as a child
diego's crusade is pure war-on-crime bs and is literally pointed out in the text of the comic to be just that
diego spouting red scare anxiety about The Communists and how number five must be one (he just... is a republican)
five's dealings with 80s-era deregulationists and capitalists
klaus is tied deep to the 80s drug scare
diego and vanya didn't just have a band, it was a punk band performing at punk clubs during the height of the subculture
(and they were probably talking about gerald ford or jimmy carter when they recorded 'i don't wanna kill the president'-- assuming ford or carter even became president given the butterfly effect kennedy living and getting a second term would've had on us politics)
allison's most formative memories as a child are of her (~5-10 years old) watching the kennedy assassination on tv, which her future self causes, and which reginald refuses to comfort her over
the family, while time-traveled to the 60s, at any point being able to literally just go home to their child selves, weighing whether the emotional toll of seeing who they used to be might be too much for them, and deciding not to do it
john perseus x is an absolute fucking yuppie
.... the jp getty vibes reginald gives off
the apocalypse as a whole having deep ties to the fear of the nuclear bomb (complete with vanya's name literally having her roots in the name of the biggest nuclear weapon ever created)
tua very much sits in the shadow of watchmen, itself set in the 1980s
the hargreeves kids (and the 43 as a whole) happen because of a literal fucking baby boom. they are literal baby boomers, in terms of both when and how they are born.
like... i know the update was to ~keep it current,~ but the period piece appeal of tua is too vital to its dna. the things that set tua apart are
the use of the superhero genre to allegorize and discuss the dysfunctional family, the effects of and healing process from trauma and abuse
the gothic horror story approach to the telling of the story
the batshit crazy alternate world and its raygun gothic aesthetic
the queer subtext
it being a period piece
(and boy did the show throw all five of those things out, one by one, but that's gripe for another time)
and... it's especially annoying because the show doesn't even do anything with its updated setting. not only do they avoid making any conversations about the political and social movements of today, but they're desperately riding that diet-80s aesthetic.
they avoid using modern technology, social media and the internet, source their car models and much of their soundtrack from the 80s, give the wardrobe a vintage twist, and have the characters make outdated references no 30-yr-old in 2019-2020 would ever make (sonny and cher? meeting at a disco?).
it's just all the more frustrating. the story is a period piece, and clearly they wanted to make a piece with period trappings. why didn't they just... go all the way with it? it would've made the show stand out among the Subversive Superhero trend, and it'd have fit right the fuck in with the round of media based in 80s nostalgia that stranger things whipped up.
#tua tv#tua salt#tua meta#tua thoughts#the very specific crime of not giving allison 80s high fashion and a wedding to patrick with princess diana parallels#tua#tua comic
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Headcanons for dating Allison Hargreeves
Allison Hargreeves x reader
warnings: alcohol, drugs, blood
a/n: HI LEGEND BDBSHSHS
prompt: @amirahiddleston: “hi im back again (IM SORRY) becus that preference was *chefs kiss* i saw you wanted some allison hargreeves requests and here i am :D may i get an allison headcanon about how she'd try and "woo" someone / get in a relationship w/them? thank you again for the last request (and this one ofc)! i loved it so much <3 have a wonderful day!!”
allison was absolutely head-over-heels for you
but she hid it well
and she was determined to get with you
“hi there, sweetheart, how was your day?”
^that right there is flirting that puts butterflies in your stomach
“it’s so much better now that you’re here”
(she was doing very well)
allison wanted to savor all of the flirting and hints and stuff, so she didn’t even rumor you
but she did contemplate it once or twice
THE MAIN POINT IS SHE DIDNT RUMOR YOU
aaaaanyways she did kinda lowkey spoil u w little gifts
“y/n, look what i picked up on the way here! i went by that coffee place and got us breakfast, and i got you your favorite”
“aw, you shouldn’t have! how much do i owe you?”
“are you kidding me? i didn’t this out of the kindness of my heart, no payback required”
hanging out in her dressing room while she’s off doing actress-things
“make yourself at home, y/n. i’ll be back soon”
she totally sends u flowers w notes on them
AND YOU OBVIOUSLY LIKE EACH OTHER BUT??? IT’S BEEN SO LONG SINCE YALL STARTED FLIRTING THAT YOU GUYS FORGET YOU ARENT TOGETHER
oh heres a note i just found (in my brain) - “To my dearest, y/n, A dozen flowers are great to look at, but I’d rather be looking at you. -A.H.”
why is she so sweet ehwhshjshdgw
finally she asked you out to a super fancy dinner and just went all out with you
“what’s the most expensive wine you have?” -allison to waiter
“allison!”
“don’t worry, y/n, it’s fine!”
sharing dessert
“hey, y/n, i think right now is the perfect time to make things official, dont you?”
“personally, i think any time would be perfect, but sooner works better than later, don’t you think?”
“i’m going to have to agree with you, there. so, i’m going to kiss you now and then we’re going to go back to my place and conclude our first official date on my couch while we watch movies and maybe, you know, have a little fun...”
“well, what are we waiting for?”
it was not long at ALL before the world knew about your relationship
pictures of you two were everywhere
paparazzi could never get enough of the world’s most famous couple
red carpet, babey, lookin your best
you two looked SO good together
“allison, y/n! over here!”
“have you two moved in together?”
“how long have you been official?”
“give each other a kiss, this is magazine cover material!”
overwhelming, yes
but with allison by your side, you couldn’t care less
she rarely spoke about her family or her powers
but you always had your ears open whenever she did
“yeah, my dad was just super distant and never cared about any of my siblings and now look at them! oh wait—you can’t because no one ever sees them”
“well, maybe one day we’ll be able to visit them and you’ll all make amends?”
“hah! fat chance of that”
and then reggie kinda uhhhhhh he kinda died so like, you two went to the funeral
no one was very impressed by your presence
you sensed jealousy from luther
“i don’t think luther likes me”
“he’ll come around”
klaus thought you were pretty okay!!
“do you want to take some pills with me? it’ll make this whole funeral mess a whole lot more tolerable!”
“i’m okay, thanks”
getting called ‘sibling-in-law’ which wasn’t entirely true since you and allison weren’t married yet but you still loved it
(luther did not)
diego threatened you with a knife
you really wanted to go home
and a teenager dropped from the sky from a portal and you REALLY wanted to go home
“is that your missing brother?”
“yeah, it looks that way. y/n, that’s five. five, y/n”
“i dont care” -five
vibing with vanya the most
“so, youre the only normal one, huh?”
“yep. thats me.”
“it’s not so bad to be normal, right? i mean, im normal”
“you weren’t raised around such ‘special’ siblings, though”
sleeping in allison’s old room and asking abt her old stuff
“love the hot pink feather boa”
“try it on for me!”
you looked magnificent
her family actually was just a bunch of nutjobs
she warned you about this beforehand
“okay, well my mom’s a robot, there’s a dapper talking chimpanzee, luther had a little crush on me when we were kids, diego is a vigilante or some weird shit, klaus is an addict to everything, five is still missing, ben is dead, and vanya is normal and kind of resents us all”
“wonderful, thanks for the warning!”
that warning prepared you for nothing
anyways apparently there’s gonna be an apocalypse and allison didn’t wanna worry you
after the house got attacked she wanted you to stay in a motel down the road (literally where hazel and cha cha were staying)
“im sorry, y/n. im just worried about you being exposed to...all of this. i love you too much to see you get hurt”
nothing happened to you at the motel
it was just ironic that you and them were both there
you weren’t apart of much TUA stuff but allison came over every night to the motel and made it not-so-bad
cuddles! sm cuddles!
and going out to breakfast for 💕romantic dates 💕
sending her off to her siblings with a kiss
“stay safe, love ya”
the family called you in when allison’s neck got sliced
you were so panicked from it all
you were crying very hard
waiting for her to wake up w luther
awk
“so, how long have you been dating my sister?”
“um, a while”
her waking up and writing her words
“you always had a way with words, you know that, babe?”
A: “I love you, sorry I dragged you into this”
going into the theater with allison, not expecting it to be so goddamn dangerous
but you held allison’s hand through it all
squeezing it really hard, actually
watching allison hold the gun and being really scared to see her next move
but unfortunately the apocalypse still happened and you needed to get outta there
falling face first into 1962
which was not something you thought would ever happen to you
it took a while to grasp the fact that you time traveled but you after a while you got it
and after a year you finally found allison
“y/n?”
“allison? you’re okay?”
“oh my god, i haven’t stopped thinking about you since i got here”
“me neither, i’m so glad youre okay!”
a reunion to remember, wish you could have savored the sweetness a bit more before things went south again :/
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Alright I’m six episodes in and haven’t said anything yet time for a rundown of my thoughts on Umbrella Academy season 2 so far
Luther: I am liking him more this season. To be fair I was very much on the ‘hey he was also abused and Made Mistakes’ side BUT seeing him apologize to Vanya did make me happy. I’m ALSO subscribing more and more to the ‘Allison rumored him to love her’ theory bc a) it happened in the comics and b) kinda like that better than Luther just being creepily obsessive over his sister. (Shout out to Klaus’ ‘if you have to say technically you’re in trouble’ btw) It’s cool seeing him stand up to his father in episode 6 you go my man (Honestly they’re all slowly dealing with his abuse which is cool)
Diego: I’ve been really enjoying Diego this season! He’s coming to terms with his hero complex and what not and it’s cool to see. I also really appreciate him being like ‘no more numbers we’re a family.’ so shout out to him. Also the stutter making a reappearance after his father DEMOLISHED him hurt. (and the second hand embarrassment of him talking to Grace HURT IN A VERY DIFFERENT WAY I CANT DEAL WITH THAT WELL)
Allison: Oh BOY Allison my GIRL I love her but she’s COMPLICATED. Watching her deal with the sit-in and the riot was hard and I felt like punching someone with the blatant racism in her first scene. Her and Ray are a good couple, I want them to communicate and BE HAPPY cos Allison deserves it but also she did go a little too far with the coffee.
Klaus: Honestly he hasn’t changed THAT much. Shout out to him for trying to disband his cult tho! Also. Dude. Stop stalking your dead teenaged boyfriend it’s kinda creepy you deserved the punch ngl. Also be nicer to your BROTHER PLEASE HE HAS NO WAY OF INTERACTING WITH THE WORLD WITHOUT YOU (Side note I am loving his and Allison’s interactions this season we did NOT get enough of that last season)
Five: I don’t have that much to say about Five this season tbh. Aiden is once again given an amazing performance, he really nails the grumpy 58 year old vibe. But anyway he just wants his family safe and doesn’t know what to do!
Ben: can we please give my ghost boy some development? Some love??? Klaus is USING him and I’m mad at Klaus about that and Klaus KINDA deserved to be possessed but also kinda not cool on Ben’s side but like,,, unless Klaus lets him do ANYTHING he CANT so what else could he do this is his family as well??? Look I just want my boy to get the appreciation he DESERVES and Klaus isn’t GIVING THAT TO HIM why didn’t he tell Five he was there??? (I heard rumours that Ben’s death scene is in this season? Maybe? So I’m READY TO CRY BABYEE i just want him to have a part and to talk to his siblings and to be happy and to have more DEPTH i love him he’s my faovurite and he needs more love p l e a s e)
Vanya: Gonna be real with you. I am NOT A FAN of the whole Vanya and Sissy thing. I might make a separate post about that at some point but I’m just,,, really not liking it at all. Other than that, I am really enjoying Vanya’s story! I really enjoyed the scene with her Allison and Klaus in the barber shop THAT’S THE SIBLING CONTENT I AM HERE FOR
Other thoughts: Reginald is a better father to a chimpanzee than his own human children so shout out to father of the year here. Also baby Pogo is ADORABLE.
And I think that’s about it, aside from the theory that Lila (I think that’s her name) is one of the 43 children born on October 1st bc she WAS born in ‘89 so I wonder if she’ll get powers.
Oh yeah speaking of powers, the weird red glowy lights that Vanya gave to Hurley (I think that’s HIS name) looked kinda? like the lights Reggie let out at the end of season 1? So? Idk? I’m not sure if that’s a VANYA thing or a ‘children born on this date’ thing I am interested to find out!
#umbrella academy#tua#the umbrella academy#umbrella academy spoilers#zeeb dont look#umbrella academy season 2
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so I was late to asking u things and I don't want u to have to repeat yourself so answer all the questions in the thing that you haven't already answered thank u 😌
the way I had to pull out my laptop to answer these bc I couldn’t keep them straight on my phone clipboard................ fdskjfsdkj I think I’m gonna put most of these under a read more so they don’t take up too much dash space. thank u!! <3
zinc white; how are you really feeling today? no one-word answers please!
honestly I’m great! it is currently almost 2 in the morning but my day was nice, I got some new clothes, did my laundry, made a good dinner...good vibes all around, loving it for me rn
yellow ochre; name an artist/band whom you just discovered & can’t get enough of!
I haven’t really listened to a lot of new music lately dkfjskj I think the most recent new artist I started listening to was orville peck?? but that was back in like february
naples yellow; where do you feel most at home?
uhh when I’m at home. yes I’m a homebody <3
raw sienna; with whom do you feel most at home?
truly it’s with the thots I just feel so at ease
golden ochre; describe the relationship you have with your closest friend.
it’s just easy, u know? like no matter what we’re doing, even if we’re just vibing on our own together, it’s nice. I can tell them absolutely anything and it’s not weird and I don’t have to force it out at all
cadmium orange; what do you like to do on your days off?
ok first I always see if any of my friends are busy fkdjsfkj and if they aren’t I see if they wanna just chill or w/e but otherwise just like. turning some music up and sitting in my room with a book/a couple movies I love is ideal for me on a day off. I am very simple I just like to chill
orange lake; do you have anyone you can turn to when you’re sad?
yes! there are two whole people in this world that I spill absolutely everything to bc I trust them with my life and esp when I’m sad bc they always make me feel better. talking to them when I’m having A Day is like I vent and instantly I am normal again. they know who they are I’m sure but for transparency’s sake, it’s u (robin) and maya, no one else gets to unlock my tragic backstories <3
titans; do you prefer slow mornings or relaxing evenings?
relaxing evenings!
shakhnazaryan red; are you currently binge-watching anything?
actually I am currently rewatching cycles 1 through 22 of america’s next top model, I’m on like cycle 5 rn I think. having the time of my life, thanks for asking
red ochre; are you more right-brained (creative) or left-brained (analytical)?
I am very much more into creative endeavors, like work-wise, but I feel like the way I think about things is much more analytical. like I prefer Making things, writing or various crafts or what have u, but even when I create I think about the things I’m doing like analytically?? so ig left-brained
burnt sienna; is there a painting that brings you peace when you look at it?
boy with squirrel by john singleton copley. I love him
english red; what animal do you relate to most?
interesting question! I have no idea. maybe birds? like a finch, maybe. they seem like they have fun
cadmium red; do you have a “type” when it comes to a significant other?
this one is hard for me to answer bc like. I truly have no idea what a “type” is idk if that’s an ace thing or what. no? maybe? all the people I’ve had crushes on have been vastly different, in terms of like physical looks so probably not actually. I’m not attracted to muscular people tho bc I don’t think they have feelings <3
carmine; what does your ideal second date look like?
once again I have never pictured a date. I just want to hold hands! I think for the ideal first date question I said it just had to be going somewhere where we could Do things together, like walking around a museum or going through shops downtown or something, and that does still apply here, but for the sake of shaking it up, uhh...idk maybe staying in and watching a movie. like not at a theater no one needs to know my business like that but like. at a House. whoever’s, I’m not picky, again ideally I just want to hold hands.
madder lake red; would you ever kiss someone (or accept a kiss) on a first date?
yes. literally if the first thing u do is kiss me I am okay with it. I’m 23 someone just take the shot and kiss me already I’m going crazy over here
quinacridone rose; what’s something you’re really looking forward to?
really looking forward to the holidays personally I got everyone some really good gifts this year and I can’t wait to hand them out. also my copy of 13 storeys is supposed to finally ship out this week, for real this time! so that’s exciting too
violet rose; what does your dream house look like?
u know that idealized house with the yellow paint and the white trim? yes. just small and cute and homey
violet; is there any place in particular you’d like to settle down?
I guess not?? I’d like to be somewhere near my mom bc she’s important to me but like. as long as I’m living with someone I love it doesn’t really matter where I don’t think
blue lake; what would you like to do/accomplish before you settle down?
uh. settling down to me equates to like falling in love and living together so honestly that could happen any time. I need to get a job before we live together so I can like Help Out but like. really any time
cobalt blue spectral; what is the most beautiful place you have ever been to?
I have not been to a lot of places! I’ve been to new york, and san diego, and like. phoenix outside of where I live so. actually if I can include like buildings in places I would like to say that one opera house I went to in new york. I learned I wasn’t a fan of operas BUT I also learned those chandeliers were cool as hell
ultramarine; when was the last time you were in a good mood? do you know/remember what sparked it?
I’m usually in a good mood, I think? my baseline mood is genuinely just like. happy/chill, pero I think the last time I felt Euphoria (tm) was a couple days ago when my mom and I made a really nice dinner together and my brother was there and we just played board games all night
blue; what’s the most recent dream you remember?
I have this recurring habit of waking up from dreams but only barely so when I fall back asleep it feels like I just woke up within the dream? anyway the last one was like that but in one of the times I ‘woke up’ I looked out the window and instead of outside there was like this. static photo of buffalo grazing in open fields?? and it was like green screened kinda, so when I move the image moved with my line of sight it was weird. that’s how I knew it was a dream and woke myself up again, only to immediately fall back asleep and feel like I was waking up from a dream within a dream again
bright blue; what does your dream family look like? any kids or pets? how many of each?
I think living with friends would be cool. like I want to have a significant other I live with but also if we lived with other friends that would be fun. kids, maybe! would be something I’d have to discuss with whatever partner I have in the future. if yes to kids, max two. also I don't want babies, preferably I would adopt older children. pets absolutely, however many doesn’t matter. I’m open to just living in a house with the love of my life and like twelve dogs, that’s ok with me
blue cobalt; do you like your name? would you give yourself a different name if you could?
I do like my name! I think it’s nice and it feels like it fits me. I don’t think I’d change it ever, but if I did I think maybe I’d go with jude bc yes I do love to project <3
prussian azure; what’s your favorite scent?
it’s a tie between suntan lotion and the lumber aisle of any hardware store
azure blue; what’s your favorite type of tea, if any?
vanilla rooibos tea supremacy!
turquoise blue; if you could start a garden, what would you plant?
lots of flowers, first of all. also some kitchen herbs. maybe some fruits!
cerulean blue; if you were guaranteed to have a viewership, would you start a youtube vlog?
yes <3 I want to force people to listen to my pretentious horror opinions and get paid for it
glauconite; describe your body without using any negative adjectives.
look I just have to say it: I’m hot. last night I took a photo and saw my nose from the side and went “omg who IS she” like it’s cute. I’M cute. I’ve seen my ass in the mirror and nothing can top it, sorry
yellow green; picture yourself walking in a field. what do you see & hear in this scenario?
all I’m getting is those scenes from horror movies where eerie whistling starts and like birds start going crazy
green light; are you in a comfortable place in life? if not, what do you think might make it better?
I think so?? I’d like to be more financially secure, pero. I think for the most part yeah I’m alright
green; name three countries you want to visit; do you have any actual plans in place to visit any of them?
ireland and greece for sure, ireland is the one I have most planned out in my head. ig maybe england for the third one, just bc I know my mom wants to go and also I’m very bad at geography so I don’t know what counts as a country. I had to look all these up, I do want to visit them tho, genuinely! esp ireland
emerald green; do you speak any languages besides english? are there any additional languages you want to learn?
the one I’m most fluent in is spanish! and I’m still cracking along at russian, currently I can hold a conversation with like a 4 year old and we can understand each other, it’s pretty cool. I really wanna get into learning irish!! I have a few resources downloaded onto my phone I just haven’t gotten around to it yet
oxide of chromium; what’s your favorite book?
a little life <3 yes I hate it when things are sad just to be sad yes this is my favorite book I contain multitudes
mars brown; what’s a movie that always puts a smile on your face/makes you laugh?
the burbs! I’ve seen it so many times but it always hits
burnt umber; what’s something you plan to do before the day is over to take care of yourself?
the day IS over it’s like two thirty am now but uh. drink some water before I sleep probably
voronezhskaya black; what or who is your go-to outlet for when you need to vent?
I post the “kirby’s fucking pissed” meme on twitter and then I ask u (robin) if I can yell for like five minutes and then I feel valid and then I am normal again
payne’s gray; describe your aesthetic?
it’s a little bit jock and it’s a little bit 1980s skater boy but the best way I can really Describe it is just “gay”
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quoting you "But our brains are hardwired to find certain things attractive." and you said it on a post when you trying to talk about why people prefer white characters. not hard to figure out what you were saying there, i have reading comprehension (and a not-american education, your assumption was weird). also, here have this not on anon. not a coward just used to racists who pile on if you call them on it, but i can deal.
Dear sir and/or ma’am,
Firstly, kudos! I’m glad we can have an actual conversation without hiding behind anonymity. Still not sure how productive of a conversation we’re going to have, since you’re insistent I’m racist, but I’m now willing to discuss it with you further since we can have an open conversation and dialogue.
No, I did not say that people were hardwired to find white people attractive. I said our brains are weird; that they’re hardwired to find certain things attractive, and -the important bit you missed -is that there’s no rhyme nor reason to why.
For example, to get a bit personal here. I like short, stocky men, and I have a thing for big/abnormal shaped noses on men. Richard Harmon, Seth Gilliam, and Aaron Stanford are examples of this. In women, I like well-muscled and taller than me (which doesn’t take much, I’m 5′2″). Examples of this would include Marie Avgeropoulos, Rosario Dawson, and Lupita Nyong’o.
Now, clearly, I have two very different and distinct things I look for, depending on gender. This makes no sense, logically, and I am well aware of this; if I like large or abnormal shaped noses on men, I should like the same thing on women, logically. If I like short, stocky men, I should like the same thing in women.
But I don’t. Why don’t I? Because what we like isn’t something that we choose; it’s not something that we make a conscious decision about. Our brains are hardwired to find certain things attractive, and we don’t know why. We don’t know what crossed this particular pair of wires together, resulting in liking short men or tall women. We don’t know how those neurons in our brains got so jumbled that we have foot fetishes, or are into dominance play.
Telling people that they are racist because they don’t find a thing attractive is redundant, and can be turned against you very, very easily.
For example. Do you like fat men? Short women? Bald women? Amputees? No? Well, that makes you ableist and sexist!
Do you have any straight pairings? That makes you homophobic! And don’t even get me started on how screwed over us bi folk get when it comes to fandom shipping; we can’t win either way: because it’s not gay pairings, we’re labeled homophobic, and if it’s gay pairings, we’re labeled as attention seekers, for ‘calling ourselves bi when we’re actually gay’.
Are you starting to see where I’m going with this? You have a thing you like. I’m ambivalent about the thing, or maybe even I actively dislike the thing. Instead of accepting that, you decide to label me as racist.
Let’s say you like purple. Purple is a mixture of red and blue. You love purple, it’s your favorite color. I, however, do not like purple. I prefer orange, and believe that red should be mixed with yellow for the best results.
Am I horrible person for disagreeing with you? Am I bad because I like my red mixed with yellow instead of blue?
(Also, please bear in mind, I don’t see colors well, so this example might not be entirely accurate with the mixing, but I’m hoping your getting my point beyond that).
Let’s use another example here. In the Umbrella Academy, one of the most popular pairings is Luther and Allison. Well, how would you feel if I said that you’re racist for shipping Allison with a white man? As a minority woman, she should only be with other minorities! Therefore, she must be with Diego!
You’d say I’m nuts; clearly, Allison and Diego would be terrible for each other. They’re both very strong-willed, stubborn people with serious attitude problems. But hey, I like the Allison/Diego pairing. I think they’d go well together. I like the bad boy vibes, and Allison is strong enough to tell Diego where to shove it when he starts getting angsty and sarcastic. It could work!
Let’s go a step further. I ship Diego and Vanya; I think they look absolutely adorable together. On an emotional level, they’re all wrong for each other, and I understand that. But physically? Hell, I dig it. I’d dig it a trench a mile deep. I don’t know why I find them to be so cute together, but I just do.
However, I logically understand that Vanya is gay -or bi, potentially, I’m sure we’ll get that hammered out sooner or later in the show. And I completely accept that character’s decision to be with Sissy. But the two of them together just don’t do it for me. I look at them as a couple and go, ‘meh’. It doesn’t evoke any feeling in me. But that one scene at the end of the last episode, where Vanya just rests her head against Diego, and after a moment, he returns the gesture? That gave me chills. And I decided right then and there, I would die with that ship. Because it made me feel good and happy, and gave me those butterflies floating in my stomach.
Do you pick your partners based off of what you think society wants you to like? I sincerely hope you don’t, and instead follow your heart. I hope you pick your partners or your ships based off of what makes you happy as a person. What makes you get those butterflies, of what gives you chills when you think of them together.
Shipping in fandom is the same. If you’re shipping people based off of what other people tell you you should like, or what you think is socially acceptable to like... You won’t get those butterflies. You won’t get those chills. You won’t get that stupid little grin when you think of the cute shenanigans your pairing gets up to. It will be wooden, mechanical, and soulless. There’s no heart in it, because you’re not shipping what you like... you’re shipping what you think you should like.
Biology doesn’t work like that. Know that whole thing where everybody kept telling gay people not to be gay? To force themselves to be with the opposite gender?
You and I know -hopefully you know, anyways -that that is absolutely stupid. Being gay isn’t a choice; it’s just something you are. As Lady Gaga so aptly put it years ago, we’re just born that way. We like what we like, and telling us to try and be different is not only pointless, but it’s hateful. It’s hurtful. But many large groups -mostly Christian, and/or conservative -insisted that you could just choose to not be gay. You could choose to like the opposite gender, and by not choosing that, you were going straight to hell.
But this is exactly what you're trying to do with shipping. You are taking the part of the Moral Majority and Jerry Falwell here. You are the one telling people that what they like is wrong! They should just like what you like! If they don’t, they’re terrible bad awful people who should be ashamed of themselves! The Christians/conservatives called them amoral degenerates; you’re calling them hateful racists. But the end result is the same: you’re trying to shame and humiliate anyone who disagrees with you.
Now, I’m not going to make any presumptions about what you like; I don’t know you well enough for that. Maybe you dig interracial couples; maybe you dig gay couples. Maybe you like disabled couples, or dominant/submissive couples.
But whatever it is that you like, or what gets you hot and bothered? I wouldn’t dream of telling you it’s wrong. As long as you keep your IRL stuff consensual? It’s not my place to tell you what you can like. It’s not my place to tell you that your ideas of cute couples are wrong.
More and more lately, I find many fandom shippers using the idea of an ‘ism’ to try and force people to accept their pairing. Whether it’s racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism, classism, ableism... Everybody can throw an ‘ism’ at people who dislike their pairings. It’s relatively easy to do, in fact. Give me any popular pairing, and I can throw an ‘ism’ at it.
Sorry I refuse to be browbeaten into saying that your pairing is more valid than mine. Sorry that I won’t let you bully me into going along with your pairing, and leaving my own by the wayside. Sorry I won’t bow to your threats of calling me mean things to force me to like your ships. Sorry I won’t just sit meekly back, and let you dictate what I’m allowed to find cute, or attractive, or sexy, or hot.
Actually, you know what? No. I’m not sorry. You can try to browbeat me. You can try to bully me. You can try to make me capitulate. You can try and make me sit quietly and not have an opinion.
But it ain’t gonna work. You misconstruing my argument, reading what you want to read in it, cherry picking your way through, or you calling me a racist, sexist, homophobic meanie head isn’t going to force me to root for your ship.
If I find a straight ship cute? I’ll ship it. If I find a gay ship cute? I’ll ship it. If I find a bi ship cute? I’ll ship it. If I find an interracial ship cute? I’ll ship it. If I find a intraracial ship cute? I’ll ship it. If I find a disabled/abled ship cute? I’ll ship it.
I will ship what I ship, and no amount of you throwing stones is going to force me to abandon my ship.
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Umbrella Academy
season 2, episode 4
New episode, new post!
This was the other post I had written out that got accidently deleted so I'm writing it all again.
1993? And Lila was 4? TOO MUCH COINCIDENCE! I still stand by my theory that Lila is one of the 43.
Yes, she has a father but that could just be her mother's husband. It's just too coincidental that the show would make her exactly the same age as the Hargreeves for no reason.
Ah the red heels. Hi Handler. These heels are really pretty though, very wicked witch with the ruby slippers. Even that outfit kind of screams wicked witch meets Cruella de Vil 😏
Kill parents, adopt child. Interesting MO, Handler. Like an evil Bruce Wayne (does this make Handler Owlman? I know, I'm not funny).
Oh, Handler pulling a Reginald with Lila!
Except, you know, she actually gives Lila positive reinforcement and affection, unlike Reggie. But her training seems just as brutal and inhumane for a child (and possibly even more violent) as Reginald's...
It's curious and interesting, a nice foil. Handler succeeds where Reggie fails- creating a loyal and effective soldier will into adulthood- because she was willing to give the kid affection and compassion. Reggie saw himself as some sort of hero creating heros but he failed at the most basic and human thing that even the villain understood.
-The filmography in these training scenes is brilliant.
-Ah, that prom look is the same as half of my classmates when we graduated 🤣 down to the blue makeup.
I'm guessing Lila's "prom"/"graduation" was her first solo assassination?
Wait, Handler wants to protect Five...? What the hell is she up to now?
Talking about killing people like it's a fun hobby 🤨
Oh, so the Swedes are triplets? I suspected but I like the confirmation.
Oh, Handler is lying ~~~~ 🎶
She's definitely following her own agenda here and she's leading Lila into danger. The question is if she's going to undermine the Commission for revenge of if she wants to prove her ability to get promoted back into administrative ranks of the Commission.
Either way, this will not end well for Five.
Lila is going to end up having to choose between Diego and Handler, isn't she?
Five stays in the car to give Luther space... No matter what Five says he actually cares about his siblings' feelings, doesn't he? He's the most overprotective of them all and always has been. It's sweet.
Ah, Luther and Vanya bonding over Five being an asshole. ☺️
"very warm and cuddly father" 🤣
Of course Vanya figured out Five was sparing her feelings, because she's not dumb
Oh, thank you for the honesty, Luther! Gotta love that.
I'm actually really happy to see Luther owning up to his mistakes instead of trying to act like the flawless leader. I think he grew a lot after accepting that Reginald wasnt perfect and I'm glad to see that growth still happening as he learns how to be an independent person. I just hope his guilt doesn't turn into even more self-hatred.
"you had kind of a bad childhood" -understatement of the century, Luther!
Luther, you have pissed off the mobster, you moron. You're on big trouble now.
Dramatic wall punch! 🙄
"when you get angry shit blows up" 😂😂😂
"you're our sister and a member of the umbrella academy" - oh, now you want to include her? The irony of this is that it's the one thing Vanya wanted for the first 29 years of her life and if anyone had said it then, the apocalypse would probably have never happened.
🖕🙊🖕
"I wonder if it's too late to be un-adopted" -ah, you know you love them, Five
Honestly, Allison actually keeps her cool really well, if I went through that phone call I would have broken something.
Why the hell does Klaus want menudo first thing in the morning?? Ew...
Klaus butchering "the frog and the scorpion"... You were doing so well but ended up completely missing the point of that story, dummy.
Diego's stab wound is healing really quickly...
Wait, he's healing quickly and Allison doesn't have a neck scar... Plus Klaus is immortal... Hmm, I wonder if quick healing is an ability they all share? Though that would put Diego's scars (and maybe Ben's death) into perspective...
Does Diego wax his chest? Those pecs are real smooth for someone who spent over two months in a 60s mental institution. 😆
"we've all had the urge" 😂 and Diego's sarcastic laugh 🤣
Who's the 12th of the Magestic 12? Oh, I WONDER WHO THAT COULD BE??? Maybe a certain monocled asshole?
"Mamie pink" is Klaus's new nickname, I don't make the rules.
Klaus, you are freaking the boy out with all this new information...
Oh no, the homophobia 😡😡😡
You know what's more heartbreaking about this homophobic disaster? Dave is likely in the closet and this whole situation here and the hate his uncle is showing must be so painful to him, it would probably bury him even deeper in the closet...
Klaus... The punch... Oh, baby... 😢 Oh no, I'm going to cry 😭😭😭
Is Raymond really implying that Allison is a spy? Damn...
Just tell him the truth, Allison! How do you marry a person without telling them something so big about yourself??
Oh, so Klaus has been sober for 3 years... Interesting.
No, Klaus! Don't start self-destructing again! 😢😢😢
It must be so painful for Ben to watch this and not be able to stop it...
Oh shoot, the cult found him.
"prophet"? "holy wanderer"? Interesting.
Poor Klaus just wants peace.
They seriously couldn't get a suit for Five too? Is he not allowed to wear anything else?
Five is onto Lila 🎶
Luther, are you stress eating? Well, at least you're not going on a bender again.
Awww, Luther- Allison reunion. Cute. Please don't make it weird.
Oh God, the awkward small talk is back 😩
I'm glad Luther is being so mature about this. I like this dynamic better.
"Vanya is on a farm. And happy" and Allison finds the happy part weird. Diego in the "nuthouse" and Allison doesn't find that weird at all, even does that 'yeah, ok makes sense' face. Klaus "cult leader" and Luther isn't surprised at all, that little "eh" was so funny.
Lord, this family is mess.
"Doomsday" *awkward chuckle* -you guys are getting way too used to this.
"Diego, try not to do anything too stupid" 😆 ah, brothers.
Lila in red heels, like mommy... 😏
Reggie taught them ballroom dancing? And Handler had the same idea?
Um.... Ok, so new theories! Do Handler and Reginald know each other? Could Reginald have been in the Commission? I'm going to be thinking about this for a while...
Just let the girl lead, Diego. Stop being a little bitch.
GRACE?!
So mom!Grace is either a cyborg or she was modeled after this woman... Makes curious about Reggie's relationship with this lady.
Diego going through the universal horror every kid goes through when realizing that mommy and daddy are "together". 🤣🤣🤣 "I can't picture it on my head. That's nasty"
She didn't tell him her name was Grace but apparently it is.
Am I the only one getting weird desperate and co-dependant vibes from Sissy?
Oh no! Save the baby!
Holy shit! HOLY SHIT! Vanya's powers are incredible! The special effects in this scene are unbelievable!
Save the child!
How did his lips get blue so quickly?
THE RETURN OF THE MAGIC ALIEN LIGHTS! AAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Ok, I need to pause to gather my thoughts... Ok, things I hope don't happen-please don't magically "fix" the disabled boy, and please don't make the powers transferrable (that's just lazy writing, don't rehash "Misfits").
However, other than that I'm just very curious what those lights will do to Harlan. Will they just save his life? Will he gain powers? Will he have some weird connection to Vanya now? I'm dying to find out!
Anyway, back to the ep.
Baby boy is ok!
Luther, did you think pissing off the mobster would end well?
Elliot just starting up at Luther in awe and visibly fighting not to poke him. 😆
HELL NO, LUTHER! NO DRUGS! DON'T YOU REMEMBER THE LAST TIME?? YOU GOT YOUR BROTHER KILLED!
Oh, Sissy... Poor woman.
There going to kiss, aren't they?
Melancholic music kicking in. Sad emotional talk. Sitting way too close. Yeah, they're going to kiss.
Aaaaaand there's the kiss! ☺️
But now I need to pause and digress again...
Yeah, Sissy's feelings for Vanya are not healthy at all. In fact they mirror Vanya's feelings for Leonard- she's unhappy with her life and clinging to the first person that gives her attention. She wants help, she wants to be rescued, she's touch and attention starved. She's co-dependant and emotionally manipulative.
I'm not saying Sissy is a bad person, she's not, she's a sad person stuck in an unhappy marriage, terrified of being abandoned (almost paranoid) and exhausted under a lot of pressure dealing with a disabled child. And then in comes Vanya, who is perfect with Harlan, so loving and kind and has nothing else to pour all her attention towards. Of course Sissy sees salvation in Vanya and is desperate to keep her.
I'm not saying Vanya and Sissy can't have a beautiful healthy relationship, they can, but not like this. Sissy is clinging too tight and using Vanya to make herself feel better and make her life easier. They both deserve better than that and I hope they get it.
I'm starting to think that all relationships in this season might be doomed to fail:
-Sissy and Vanya have a co-dependant and emotionally unhealthy infatuation and Sissy is married to a man that, while not great, still clearly loves her;
-Raymond and Allison have too many secrets between them that are causing a major rift, they can fix it but there's also the chance that Ray might not be able to accept the truth about her;
-Lila is a double agent using Diego to get close to Five, she seems to be developing feelings but the fact that she's lying about who she is and working for Handler is obviously toxic;
-Klaus is pining over a person that Dave has not yet become and while he only wants to save Dave's life, it's obvious there's too big an experience and culture gap between them for a relationship to flourish;
-Luther and Allison have become one-sided and less innocent and puppy-love than before, now it really is just creepy and unhealthy (whereas before it was understandable because they grew up together under an emotionally unavailable father and isolated from the real world, naturally they became attached and confused their feelings, their attachment wasn't healthy but it was justified and almost innocent... Not anymore though);
-we have no concrete proof yet, but it seems Ben MIGHT be pining over a girl that might not even see him, he's dead, it might be an interesting dynamic storywise, but it's not going to happen, it's unhealthy and unfair;
Some of these couples might still survive and become great, it's still really in the season after all, but they have a lot of growing to do before they get there.
Anyway.... Back to the episode.
Oh Klaus... Off the wagon...
Allison being a good sister and taking care of her brother. My heart ❤️
Luther, you idiot... Well, at least you're getting high in a safe environment.
Luther and Klaus are self-destructing, my poor boys.
"you are super weird" - Luther, you have no zero right to call anyone weird, have you looked in the mirror??
"the woman I love loves someone else" -the woman you love is. your. SISTER!
I really like poor Elliot, I hope nothing bad happens to him.
Jesus, that's creepy, Luther.
Didn't I say Reginald was the 12th? 😏
Roswell? Reggie probably has a vested interest in that.
Blink out of there, Five.
I love that Five's main move is always 'teleport onto their backs and go for the throat'.
Wait, why did Five's teleportation glitch???
The music!!!!
Wait, did Diego's aim just glitch too???
Could these power glitches be connected to Vanya's magic lights going into Harlan? Or could it be something about the Swedes? Or about Reginald's presence, seeing as he dodged Diego's power before? Hmm...
Oooh, Lila has to choose between Diego and her mission already? Interesting... Of course she chooses to save Five.
Badass Lila is amazing!
So she could have helped Diego after helping Five but instead she just walks away? Huh, unexpected.
Diego, you adrenaline junkie. Good moves though.
The ancient Greek is a surprise! I really want to know what Five said to Reginald!!! What did he say? I need to know!!!
Another great chapter!! Very emotional too!
I want more!!!
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Hello, your fiveya pride and prejuice had me on my knees. Everything you have writing for the umbrella academy is so nice, this fandom should be thankfull you are here making gold content. I'm not very creative and I still dont know which kind of prompts you would like, but the last au gave me some Elizabeth Swan vibes, so maybe you could do a Fiveya Pirates of the Caribbean Au? Whatever you make I'm sure will be wonderfull :)
It’s 1732, and Governor Reginald Hargreeves and his two adopted daughters, accompanied by the family butler, Pogo, are sailing to Port Royal aboard HMS Crown when they come across a shipwreck. The lone survivor of the tragedy is a young boy, shaking and shell-shocked. A sympathetic Pogo begs Reginald to allow him to take him in - Pogo himself will rear and provide for the child out of his own wages.
Vanya clutches the railing and looks out into the wreckage, into jagged mountains of burning wood obscured by ink black plumes of smoke that cast a ghostly silhouette against the dreary sky and the great gray sea, and can’t take her eyes off of it. It’s a tragedy, with glowing embers peeking through the remains of the ship, keeping it alive and drowning in the water, and Vanya is fascinated.
I do not want to know what transpired here, she thinks. She doesn’t need to know, anyway - it looks like a wasteland, like something writhing and nearly dead, and then her father takes her by the shoulders and pulls her away.
The boy is raised in a fine household, alongside Reginald’s two young daughters, both of whom are handsome, intelligent, and composed. His truest and most constant friend, though, is Vanya.
The Boy starts out as a Will Turner of sorts, only more confident and living in relative comfort, except with the knowledge that he is an outsider even among orphans, and a survivor of something terrible. He longs to go back.
By 1742, the boy is merely fifteen and already deemed an academic prodigy in a vast array of scientific, mathematical, mechanical and historical studies.
By the end of 1742, he’s gone, vanished into the night and headed for the sea. Vanya, not for the first time in her life, is alone.
Years later, she’s grown into a beautiful yet confined woman. During a botched proposal, Vanya faints, due to a combination of heat, anxiety, and a too-tight corset, plummeting into the harbor below, only to be rescued by a mysterious man
Surprise y’all guess who it is
Five and his crew are under a curse that renders them undead corpses under the moonlight, burdened with immortality. Idk why he’s cursed, ig he just got up to a lot of pirate shit lmao. The gold of his father’s pocket watch is key to breaking this curse, and he’s returned to Port Royal after all these years to retrieve it, after he gave it to Vanya for safekeeping the day before he abandoned the Hargreeves household to rejoin the life of piracy
She agrees, of course, but he is soon confronted by both Reginald and Leonard, backed by the Navy, on account of 1) being a pirate and 2) trespassing and in order to safely escape he takes Vanya hostage
In his time away, Five has become captain of the dreaded Academy, the ship that his own father used to command before the wreck. Vanya initially disapproves of his life choices because he may be older now and like damn ok, but 1) hygiene 2) the ethical ambiguity of piracy and 3) you left me dude without warning ,, tf is up with that?
Cue childhood friends reconnecting in really awkward circumstances + maybe Stockholm syndrome
Luther, Ben, Klaus, and Diego are members of his crew. While Diego is a fantastic swordsman, Ben has a connection with sea monsters that allows him to dissuade nearby creatures from bothering their ship. Klaus is a mystic they picked up along the coast who can communicate with the dead - it’s through him that they learn the specifics of the curse.
Five glances down at her, sleeves rolled above his forearms, his hair dripping saltwater over his brow. “The Romans did it, didn’t they?” Honor among thieves is how the saying goes. “They encouraged it, actually, especially in children. Stealing. Steal from your enemies, steal from your neighbors, steal from your friends.”
At this, Vanya’s eyes narrow. “I wouldn’t steal from my friends.”
Five shrugs.
“It builds character,” he says, “and it builds world skills. If you’re a thief, then you’re fast, resourceful, and, most importantly, you’re still alive. That’s helpful. It can be a good thing, to be a thief.”
“The greatest empire of all time, after Britain, just a whole lot of thieves?”
“That’s Rome, then, a bunch of thieves. The empire essentially stole its own foundation from other civilizations, you know? Arches and aqueducts and art - even the Republic was based on direct democracy.” He leans back and looks at her from under his lids. The floor below them shifts and sways along with the rhythm of the sea, and Vanya leans against the mast to keep her horizon line steady.
“So you’re a history buff now?”
“I always have been,” Five says defensively. “Math is just more exciting. You don’t need to get caught up with the Romans anyway,” Five laughs. “We’re pirates.”
“I suppose I need to find a way to make myself useful, then?” Vanya crosses her arms, squinting under the white hot sun. “Be helpful.” Do as the Romans do.
“No, of course not,” Five says quickly, uneasy, bitter. “You didn’t join the crew, remember? You were kidnapped.”
Days into her kidnapping on the high seas, Vanya ditched her heavy ass dress for a practical pair of trousers and tied her hair up. The sun smiles down on them in a thousand yard stare, reflecting white off the crests of the waves that jostle the ship further away from land, and her white skin has already shown signs of browning. She can breathe, though, better and easier than she’s ever breathed in her entire life
The ocean never ends, but Vanya can see something flickering on the horizon, something that looms across the skyline and drags the sky down to meet it. It feels like hope, like dreams once dashed in her girlhood, and now that it has come out of hiding, unclothed and unabashed under an impossible white sun, Vanya can’t stop looking.
The Academy is still being pursued by the Royal Navy, and Five can’t just return Vanya bc they're not only on the run but they’ve got shit to do, aka curse-breaking shit. Plus, he really, really doesn’t want to
And deep down he can tell that she doesn’t want to either
“But you like it here, don’t you,” he accuses her, hard and fast because he knows she’ll be honest, and the strategist in him wants to size the queen, wants to take her home. “You were miserable back there,” Five reminds her, his own eagerness a tangible thing to his ears. “Reginald made you miserable. Jenkins made you miserable, hell, even Allison made you miserable.” Vanya’s gaze remains unblinking, but the corner of her mouth twitches ever so slightly, her lower lip dragging it down. The sight of it gives him pause, and he wants to stop for a moment, wants to apologize for it, but the conqueror in him leers in approval and he’s plowed too forward, too far already. “You wanted to leave, every second of every day. That’s what you told me,” Five reaches forward to take her by the shoulders, gently crowding her against the railing, and she looks up and into his face, dwarfed by his height. “You’re free now, you’re here. Reginald can’t get to you. Why would you want to go back?”
You’re free now. There’s nothing for you there, he tries to say, and she must get this, because her eyes go alight, just for a second, and her lip curls into a snarl.
The thing is, she’s much happier here, with Five and his crew and a great, endless sea, but she remembers Allison all too vividly, remembers that she left her alone without warning. Vanya knows that it’s like to be left behind, and the thought of Allison alone with only their father for company strikes something hollow and sinking into her chest, something like dread
“I don’t want to go back,” she snaps, harsher than he expected, and he lets go of her. “Of course I don’t.”
You think I want to go back to corsets and Reginald’s voice in every hallway of that old, evil house, and Leonard crowding me everywhere, acting like I’ve already said yes, and this stench of absence that follows me wherever I go.
Oh, she realizes, of course he doesn’t.
“Then don’t.”
Vanya glares at him, hard and herself, and he can see the betrayal sink into her face and settle like silt at the bottom of a glass.
“It’s because we’re family,” she says, and the fifteen-year-old in Five finds himself enraged because Vanya’s family is supposed to be here, with him.
“I need to see her again,” Vanya enunciates carefully, forming every word with a nervous kind of fear, like she thinks he won’t understand, and Five’s anger dissipates almost as quickly as it had risen.
They’re going to break that curse, and Five will be a real boy (man) again. Allison won’t be alone, because her sister will come back for her (just as Five came back for Vanya). They’ll all have real, red, beating hearts, and Five will have Vanya for himself and Vanya will have one thing all her own - she has an entire ocean to conquer and no regrets
For once, Vanya has a choice, and it’s a pirate's life for her
#fiveya#the umbrella academy#five hargreeves#vanya hargreeves#ask me anons#mini fic#i havent seen this movie since fourth grade and know shit about pirates smh#and this is not my best writing plus i wrote it at like 1 in the morning#but i do love the concept of a pirate Five and a Vanya just looking for agency in her life#thank you so much btw and if you have any other prompts hit me with them as hard as you can#pirates of the caribbean au
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The Masked Singer Season 3 Episode 4: Meet Group B (Kickoffs Thoughts and Guesses)
Hello fellow Masked Singer lovers. Welcome (or welcome back) to my commentary on the Masked Singer. This time, we are meeting a whole new group of 6 celebrities, a new six pack if you will (wow these puns are dumb but funny in a dumb way), which is so exciting since some of these masks (I will be talking about who in a second) are some that I have been pumped to see perform and now I get to see them. Group B consisted of the Elephant, Mouse, Banana, Kitty, and Taco.
Honestly, to evaluate the whole group, I enjoyed them so much more than the last group. They were a fantastic group and so funny/entertaining to watch, I freaking loved everyone. Also, I feel like this was the hardest set of clues to crack open and I am not sure at all who some of these masked singers are so here comes me being super unsure about it with a crap ton of question marks. Anyways, let’s get started with the celebrity who got eliminated...
As you know, this is a **SPOILER ALERT**, avert your eyes now if you don’t want to know what happens during this episode. This is a disclaimer, don’t say I never warned you.
Ok, so the unmasked/eliminated celebrity mask was:
*DRUMROLL PLEASE*
THE ELEPHANT
Ok, so I was really sad to see him go, but I kind of figured because he was the weakest singer of the group even though as a singer he was really good. I had legit no idea who he was, mostly because I didn’t really see the clues and I heard a piece of his voice, but even if I did, I feel like I would have never guessed it because I was honestly shocked when I found out who it was.
So the Elephant was revealed to be *SPOILER*
TONY HAWK (LIKE WOW I AM STILL SHOOK AB THIS)
Ok so I wouldn’t have ever thought that Tony freaking Hawk would be on The Masked Singer like wow I am shocked, mostly because of his voice. If you study the clues though, it makes sense:
In the clues, he talks about “canvassing park benches,” which refers to his childhood skating in San Diego parks.
There were also birds in the package which allude to his last name Hawk and his company Birdhouse
He also alluded to the fact that he skated at the White House in 2010.
As for my opinion on his performance, I really liked it, he wasn’t the worst singer, but didn’t really have the same personality and charisma as the rest of the contestants so I am not shocked that he went home. I never would've imagined that Tony Hawk would do this show and say yes to it, so kudos to him because he did do a great job. He sang “Friday I’m in Love” by The Cure.
Ok, so now that we have that out of the way, let’s take a look at the 5 remaining contestants going to the playoffs:
1. The Frog
Performance: Ok so the frog is pretty cool not gonna lie, he’s got moves. You could tell that he can dance, but his singing isn’t the best thing ever. From his voice, I feel like he is more of a rapper than a singer. However, he still was really fun to watch and kind of reminds me of a better sounding version of the White Tiger with the same fun energy (well not the same, but he has a lot of swag and is a suave ass frog like wow). He sang “U Can’t Touch This” by MC Hammer.
Ok so my guess is:
BOW WOW
My reasoning behind this has to do with the clues:
In clue package, there was a 1996 Olympics ad and it was in Atlanta and he lives in Atlanta.
Bag of “leftovers” = doggie bag= allude to his stage name
$106 bills = he was the host of 106 and park
2. The Kitty
Performance: Ok, I adored her performance of “Dangerous Woman” by Ariana Grande. She really killed it, probably one of my favorites in this group. Her vocals are crazy amazing.
My guess for her is:
SABRINA CARPENTER
Alright so I am between Sabrina and Sarah Hyland tbh, but Entertainment Tonight convinced me with their interpretation of the clues:
She is really short= only 5 feet tall
Theater in the clues = she is about to star in Mean Girls on Broadway
Pirates fighting in the clues= she did a live showing of Peter Pan
3. The Taco
Performance: I was really surprised by this one. I saw that mask and was like this has to be someone like a comedian or something who is like screwing with us and dressing as a taco, like a George Lopez type. However, wow he can sing, like he has a Frank Sinatra vibe to him. Never thought I’d say this, but he is another favorite of mine from this group. I was pretty shook at how good he was, singing “Fly Me to the Moon,” by Frank Sinatra (lol I was searching up the song and I just noticed this).
My guess for Taco is:
TOM BERGERON
My reasoning was because of these clues:
In clue package, VHS Tapes= he hosted America’s Funniest Home Videos
Anchor on a plate= alluding to how he is an actor for Dancing with the Stars
Been on the screen for decades= being a host for multiple years
4. The Mouse
Performance: I loved this performance, yay I am happy. I keep seeing super cool and awesome looking masks that don’t have the vocal chops to match, but this one isn’t the case. This one is such a cute and lovely mask and her voice is as great. I really enjoyed her performance of “Get Here” by Oleta Adams.
My guess for Mouse is:
DIONNE WARWICK
These clues solidified the guess for me:
“Bang Bang Formation”= Song Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
1979 in clue package= her self-titled came out in 1979 and was gold certified (which could make sense with the gold pom poms)
5. The Banana
Performance: In my opinion, the banana isn’t the most skilled singer of the group but he is very entertaining. His voice has a Southern twang to it and he seems cool I guess, but like who is he? I am so confused, I am in between a comedian or a country singer.. ahh idk
My guess is:
I HAVE NONE BC I LEGIT HAVE NO CLUE
The clues don’t make any sense to me solidifying one person:
There’s a cowboy hat and a blowfish which the judges thought it could be Darius Rucker.
He says at the end “I just want to see you smile”
A Blue Collar, which could mean Blue collar comedy (or is a red herring I have no idea)
Anyways, that’s all, folks. I am so excited to see what these 5 masks will do next and if my guesses will change. I feel like this is the most lost I have ever been on the show because these clues have been the hardest to crack, but I am pretty happy that I got at least 3 or so solid guesses from this, the only ones I need to solidify are Kitty and Banana... To be determined, I guess? See you guys next week with another crazy Masked Singer recap.
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Blackout (MCU Fanfic)
So this is me trying to hype up my own fanfiction, which I have posted on AO3 and am currently working on. It’s an OC story, featuring most of New York’s small-time heroes, like Daredevil and pre-Civil War Spider-Man. Any feedback would be appreciated, either here or on AO3!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20239192/chapters/47966818#main
prologue | shocking beginnings
The static shock is new.
Michaela isn’t an idiot (most days); static shock as a concept isn’t new. She’s been terrorizing the neighborhood with it since she was seven and her grandma knitted her a pair of incredibly ugly wool socks that she refused to take off, which were then forcibly removed after she’d gone two days without a bath. And she’s hardly a stranger to grabbing onto a pole on the subway and zapping the hell out of herself.
But this is… more.
Tuesday morning dawns, presumably, bright and bitterly cold, though Michaela doesn’t open her eyes until 8:53, approximately seven minutes before her first class. The only comment she has about the weather is to declare it was too fucking cold as she hurriedly threw on a seasonally-inappropriate jacket on her way out of her apartment. Late as she is, she can’t grab breakfast from the cafe on campus, or even a coffee, which doesn’t bode well for her attitude for the rest of the day.
She snaps at a professor or two. Her next paper is probably going to get tanked. Oh fucking well.
The point is, though, that she wasn’t in any state of mind to notice it until well into the afternoon when she’s holed up behind the register at Cody’s, mindlessly greeting customers and desperately hoping none of them choose to mention her smudged makeup or the unavoidable stains under her arms. This wasn’t a clean shirt by any means, hadn’t been clean when she wore it last, either. Is it her fault that the washers in her apartment complex ate quarters like they were fucking caviar?
A few regulars pass through — Diego and Carla, Tommy and Riley, Mr. Yang — but they don’t linger today like they might have otherwise. The shop isn’t busy, really, there are only a handful of people browsing, so apparently she’s giving off pretty strong don’t-engage-with-me-I’m-not-human-today vibes, which suits her fine. For the most part.
The absence of friendly conversation is starting to wear on her the longer her shift drags on. Her leg shakes, knee bobbing against the row of drawers behind the register; she worries at a hangnail on her thumb, too chicken just to rip it off; the copper on her tongue comes from having her teeth planted a little viciously in her lower lip. God, she has so much homework for this week, and then finals are coming up, she’ll be swamped, how the hell is she going to come into work when she already knows she has three papers, two projects, and an oral presentation due in a few weeks—
Someone steps up to the register and Michaela straightens instinctively, whacking her knee against the drawers in her haste. She hisses out a strangled breath, fighting the urge to crouch down and cradle her leg; instead, she forces a brittle smile at the man in front of her and says, “Hope you found everything alright. Want me to ring you up?”
The man smiles in sympathy, his brows drawn together behind his red-tinted glasses. “Yeah, that’d be great.” He loads his things onto the counter and Michaela dutifully ignores them; she’s learned not to make assumptions based on what people bought, and more to the point, she doesn’t care to make a guessing game out of it, not when she has better things to waste brainpower on. She’s already started working his purchases into the register when he says, with a smidge of hesitation, “Are you alright? I heard a bang and it, uh, didn’t sound great.”
Michaela pauses, biting again at her lip. She doesn’t normally take notice of customers, aside from the ones that turn up on a daily basis, but — the guy smiles at her, sheepish but charming, and she drops her gaze to give him an absent once-over and—
Ah. Fuck.
His suit is nice, though she doesn’t really have an eye for expensive tastes. For all she knows he’d nicked it from a Good Will bin and it’s really thirty years old. But it looks good on him; charcoal jacket and pants, crisp white shirt, maroon tie that she thinks maybe matches his glasses? Short, dark-brown hair, stubble on his cheeks and chin. Cute, overall. And then there’s the cane.
She’d thought his phrasing had been a little odd. He’d heard her, didn’t mention the pained grimace that had undoubtedly flashed across her face before she schooled her features into reluctant professionalism.
So. Cute and blind, if she isn’t being too presumptuous. Huh.
“I’m…” She waves a hand, mentally curses herself, then says, “You know. Banged my knee a little. Nothing to complain to HR about.” What HR? She works at a convenience store. Michaela squeezes her eyes shut, breathes out slowly, embarrassingly grateful he can’t see just how much of a fool she is. Awkward as fuck and caffeine-deficient, she isn’t at her best today, or. Well. She can’t remember the last time she’d been at her best. “I’m fine, really, but thanks for asking. This all for today?” she asks, grabbing at a subject change with both hands and yanking for all she was worth.
He probably sees— or, not sees, hell. He can probably tell what she was doing, but he doesn’t seem to mind, just gives an easy shrug and taps his cane lightly against the floor. “That’s all. I’m just on a snack run for my partner. We’ve been at the office all day, and he likes to remind me when I’ve gone too long without getting some fresh air.”
Aw, nice guy. Michaela could use someone like that, if she’s being honest with herself. Which she isn’t, not today anyway. Today is not a day for honesty. She needs more sleep for that, and like, at least one espresso.
She grins, another reflex, and bags his snacks. “Not sure if the air here qualifies. Especially not after last week.”
The man’s brows twitch upwards, just a little. “Were you around for the attack?”
“Uh.” Way to go, Michaela. That’s a pleasant topic, very casual. “Yes? Technically?” Stop making everything a question, Jesus! “The, um, the blast, or whatever, I wasn’t all that close to it, but I got caught by the cloud of…”
She trails off. Fuck if she knew what tragic-backstory-of-the-week exposed them to. The doctors at the hospital she’d woken up at didn’t know what it was, either, but they’d collectively decided that it hadn’t been toxic, so. Death isn’t on the horizon, apparently.
What a pity.
“I mean, I’m fine, obviously. Got kinda scraped up when I fell and all, but nothing serious.” That’s when she clocks the bandage wrapped around the guy’s hand, and since she’d already stuck her foot in her mouth, she might as well go for broke. “Did you… What about you?”
That gives him pause, only for a moment, before his injured hand flexes and then cinches tighter around the handle of his cane. He laughs, shakes his head. “Oh, no, I got lucky. I was visiting a friend when it happened, so I wasn’t in town.” Another smile. “But I’m glad to hear you’re alright.”
Right. Sure. This isn’t just two people exchanging niceties for a (nearly) awkward length of time. Michaela abruptly ducks her head and pushes his bag closer to the edge of the counter. “Yeah, good news for me,” she says, refusing to acknowledge her flushed cheeks. When is her shift over again? Not soon enough. “Here you go. That’ll be $8.37.”
He passes her a twenty, insists she keep the change (which is absurd, she doesn’t get tips, and she can’t be rude—) but when she makes to press the bill back into his hands she yelps at the shock of their skin meeting. And for once she isn’t being dramatic, there was a literal shock, she could’ve sworn she’d seen a spark—
Glasses frowns as his hand spasms, then shakes out his fingers and tips his head, looking at her just a bit off-center, his gaze seemingly focused over her left shoulder. “That was…”
“Static,” she mutters, staring at her own hand. It doesn’t look— she doesn’t know, burned? She’s pale as ever, though, no blemishes or marks that she can see. “My fault, probably. Sorry.”
“Don’t worry about it,” he says graciously, like there was nothing out of the ordinary about what had just happened. And maybe there wasn’t anything strange there, maybe Michaela just needs someone to knock her the fuck out so she can move on from today. “Have a nice day!”
It takes her a solid fifteen minutes once he’s left to realize she hadn’t given him his change.
“Motherfucker.”
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She’d write it off as another product of her shitty, shitty day and care not at all about the significance of it, but it… keeps happening.
Two more customers brush hands with her and two more times they both got shocked. Then, when she’s on her way out, so, so ready to bury her head in a pillow and possibly never emerge into the light of day again, she closes her hand around the door handle and — her whole hand this time, a bright burst of pain, electricity crackling over her skin, but now it isn’t quite pain. Or, it’s not as painful as before, like the shock has diffused across her hand, up her forearm, dissipating quicker.
She doesn’t have the chance to dwell on it, because Emmett’s taking over her position at the register and she does not want to get sucked into a conversation with him, well-meaning as he is. (He’s in college, too, which he likes to remind her about whenever possible, but he can’t seem to grasp that he’s eighteen and she’s twenty-four and that their experiences weren’t really the same at all). So she shoves aside the prickle of worry at the back of her neck, decides very promptly that she’s imagining things and slips out onto the street, hands stuffed deep into her pockets and her breath crystallizing in the air as she makes her way home.
Then she’s inhaling a cup of ramen, speed reading (i.e., skimming) through an article for her modern graphics class tomorrow, and internally freaking out about no less than five separate and completely unrelated problems. It’s her greatest talent, and also the reason she averages four hours of sleep a night. Why had she wanted to go back to college again?
By the time Michaela is ready to start on the logo project that’s due Friday, it’s eleven at night and she’s drained three cups of absolutely disgusting coffee, so she’s looking at little to no sleep. Again. Hurray for her impulsive nature and inability to course-correct even when she knows she’s fucking herself over and careening right into a terrible decision. She’d always heard her twenties would be the best time of her life, and wow, so many people had lied to her, it’s not even funny.
Michaela drops heavily into her armchair (which she’d stolen off the sidewalk and felt no shame whatsoever about), dragging her laptop off the coffee table and into her lap. She’s buzzing, her skin too tight. Her mouth’s gone dry despite the coffee and she feels like the absolute last thing she should be doing is sitting down, but she isn’t going to go for a run at eleven o’clock at night in Hell’s Kitchen. Her brain betrays her on a nearly daily basis and she’s failed more tests than she can count, but she isn’t that stupid. Taking one year of karate when she was eight does not mean she has any business defending herself, so she isn’t going to stick her neck out just to run off the jitters, thanks. She’ll distract herself with schoolwork and maybe take a couple of laps around her tiny shithole of an apartment.
That’s the plan, at least, until she sets her fingers down on the keyboard and the laptop abruptly goes up in smoke.
Michaela shrieks, her hands tingling as she tosses the laptop onto the ground, watching wide-eyed as it spits out sparks like she’d dumped a bucket of water over it. That… is not normal. Neither is whatever the hell is going on with her hands because they’re tingling, yeah, but it’s more than pins and needles; they feel charged, staticky in a way that’s far from the harmless zaps you prank people with.
What the fucking fuck?
The smoking laptop is a lost cause, or not one worth pursuing right now, anyway. And her hands, well — she could, uh, go to the emergency room? Would they even take her in for something like this, whatever this was? Does she need a therapist?
That’s a stupid question. Who doesn’t need a therapist? Michaela doesn’t want to meet that person, honestly.
Why is she daydreaming about the emergency room, anyway? She doesn’t have health insurance. Hell, she’d nearly had a panic attack when she woke up in the hospital in the wake of the Avengers bagging another bad guy; not because she was in a hospital, but because she’d have to pay for being in a hospital. Which was a nightmare worse than death, really, and god, can’t Tony Start just cover everyone who ends up bruised and broken after they save the day? She’s grateful the Avengers are around, she is, New York wouldn’t exist without them, but the man has literal billions of dollars. Hospital fees won’t even make a dent in his gold-plated wallet, or whatever.
Focus, Michaela. Weird electrical shenanigans take precedence over lingering bitterness towards Tony Fucking Stark.
Yeah, there would always be time for that. Just not right now.
Michaela jabs a toe at the laptop, which responds by coughing up another round of sparks, so she draws her legs hastily onto the chair and cowers there for a minute, then flings her hands out away from her body. The tightness in her chest is a warning she doesn’t need, and she forces herself to breathe as evenly as she can, hoping to stave off the inevitable anxiety attack for a little while longer.
She flips her hands over, fingers splayed wide. Her careful breathing hitches. She’s always been pale despite her more colorful heritage, but not to the point where her veins stand out glacial blue against her skin. And she’s kidding herself if she labels the blue, arcing lights beneath her skin as veins — that’s electricity, or something like it. Something almost… alive, right there, writhing even as she watches, snaking through her palms, and when it reaches her fingertips, sparks fizzle in the air just beyond her bitten-off nails.
That’s about when her panic hits the wall, too big for her chest, and she lets out a sharp, broken breath that coincidentally coincides with all of the lights in her apartment — and, she’ll learn later, her entire complex — blanking out with a high-pitched whine.
Somehow her awkward failure of an encounter with the cute office worker doesn’t seem like such a big deal anymore.
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Guys, last Sunday I had one of the craziest experiences of my life. It’s not going to sound that impressive, but for me it was a movie moment and something that may never happen again.
I mentioned earlier I was at San Diego for an event, and on Sunday night there was a pool party. Well I was just standing around on my own, and this guy--let’s call him N--approached me and started making conversation about our involvement in the event. At first I wasn’t sure from the way he spoke if he was foreign or just drunk, but he was drunk. Actually, he was both, because he was Canadian. He was also very, very cute, both face and body (he was in swimming trunks).
Well I was a little excited about that exchange, because the conversation went smoothly, and because it was funny that he was slurring his words and kept asking me the same questions multiple times. And the fact that I got to talk face to face to someone as cute as him was really pleasant.
WELL, a few minutes later HE CAME BACK and he wanted to go for a walk????? I hesitated because sirens went off in my head, but then I said sure, but I don’t think he heard me. So he left. But I refused to let it end there and waited nearby, hoping he’d come back once again.
And he did!!!! And he asked me again if I wanted to go on a walk. And I KNOW this was a very, very bad idea. Don’t walk alone with strangers. Don’t walk alone at night with strangers. Don’t walk alone at night with drunk strangers. But I went with him, because this literally never happens to me. Cool motive, still stupid.
So we were walking all alone and again I was answering the same questions. I think he asked me four times what year I was in school. In my head I was hoping he wasn’t much of a threat in this condition since it seemed he could barely even walk, but I knew I was still very vulnerable. I was also wondering if I was the one taking advantage of him since I was sober and he wasn’t.
At one point we sat down, and he asked if I wanted us to get close. I looked to him and said “What?” because I didn’t know what he was talking about. So he asked me if I was cold, and I realized he meant he wanted us to scoot closer together, but I didn’t know what to say, so I just said not right now, since I wasn’t cold right then. It was about then that I realized that if he tried to make a move and I explicitly declined him, he might become aggressive, and we were completely alone in the dark. Soon he asked me if I wanted to go back to the pool, so I said yes. The pool has witnesses.
Back at the pool, he introduced me to his friends. One of them referred to me as N’s girlfriend, and internally I was like, ‘Yes!!! I’m the girlfriend!!!’ All of them were also drunk but nice. We chatted for a bit, and then I sort of faded away from the conversation as usual, so I was feeling awkward. And I didn’t want them to ask me hard questions and realize I’m dumb, so I kind of wanted to get out of there. Eventually they decided to get in the hot tub, but I was wearing jeans and a jacket, so I took that opportunity to say I should be heading back. So he walked me to the stairs leading to where I was staying, and he wished me good luck. And that was it.
So that’s the story of how I risked getting assaulted and became a stranger’s girlfriend for 1.5 hours. It was so exciting to be acknowledged, let alone wanted. He didn’t ask for my number, which was super disappointing. I was so sad I’d never see him again. Maybe he lost interest, or maybe I wasn’t reciprocating enough, or maybe he only wanted a one-night thing, or maybe he was too drunk to know what he was doing. He may not have any recollection of me at this point, which is really sad. In contrast, I’m going to remember him possibly for the rest of my life. I don’t mean that in a creepy way; it’s just the experience was so bizarre for me, I’ll never forget it.
It’s also worth mentioning that the next morning, I saw N’s friend walking around a few times. At one point I saw him walk into a door, and I went by to stand outside that door for a few seconds in hopes he’d come out and see me. I wanted to know if at least he’d remember me (and maybe tell N about me or something??). But he didn’t come out until a few seconds after I had left that spot. So he never saw me.
When I got back home, I was very emotional over the whole trip ending, and by extension, about this encounter with N. I thought about how the only way someone would flirt with me like this would be if they were drunk. I know I’m not pretty or interesting enough. And it was overwhelming to think that this is probably never going to happen again. I felt like I was putting too much emphasis on the fact that someone as cute as him was out of my league and would never approach me in a normal setting, and I hate doing that. I feel very shallow and hypocritical, given that I am the average-looking duckling that no one pays attention to (granted, my personality doesn’t help either). My sister tried to convince me that it’s not bad to like someone for their looks, and that everyone is attractive to someone. She almost convinced me, but I just ended up confused. I know it’s normal to give importance to looks, but it still feels wrong and irresponsible. But going back to my main point, I was stressing over the fact that I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have someone jump at me so quickly and decidedly, and then it simply faded into nothing just as quickly as it happened.
I do have a way to contact him. Given that he gave me his first name and we were at the same event, it was easy to find his last name on the website, and it was a quick Google search from there. So I could contact him. The question is, should I? At first I thought that was completely out of the question, because I figure if he hadn’t been so drunk, he would’ve never approached me in that manner. And he didn’t ask for my number, so you’d think he didn’t want us to keep in touch. To be fair, I didn’t ask for his number either, but still, he was the forward one, so he should’ve been the one to ask, maybe? Point is, it seems creepy and/or inconsiderate to reach out to him given the circumstances.
But I talked to my sister about it, and she said it was neither creepy nor inconsiderate, but it was not necessarily a good idea, because chances are he doesn’t remember me and won’t want to talk to me. I think I’ll think about it and wait. If I do end up talking to him, I won’t mention the flirting; I’ll just say we talked and throw in the fact he may not remember me and it’s okay if he doesn’t. I definitely don’t want him to feel pressured.
Okay, note, I started writing this post Sunday night, and it is now Tuesday night. I’ve since told my mom this story (although I conveniently left out the part where I was alone with a drunk dude), and without me prompting her, she said I should message him to let him know what kind of funny business he was getting himself into. So I was like, ‘Oh, so even my own mother thinks it’s totally normal if I reach out to him?’ So I sent him a friend request. And he accepted me two hours later. Now I want to wait because, again, I don’t want to seem desperate, so I’ll message him in the morning. But just know I’m super excited about this. Also, the boy speaks French. Kill me now.
Another concern I’ve had, though, is that I’m not sure where I want to go with this. Chances are, without his beer goggles, he won’t be interested anymore, so we’ll probably never talk again after this. Which is fine, and I think I’d still feel satisfied in that case. At least I’d know that he doesn’t want to go through with this, as opposed to being left wondering if we could’ve had something but we lost our chance at the pool. Also, I’d know that he knows about me. Even if he doesn’t remember me, I’d like for him to know that I exist and that we crossed paths at some point.
But if for some unconceivable reason he’s still interested in me, I’m afraid I’d be leading him on for no reason. I’m not sure I want a relationship. I like feeling wanted and all that jazz, but I’m not sure I want to go through the trouble of dating someone, or if I even want to care that much about a stranger. I don’t know; my feelings about these things are very complicated even for me to understand. There are other personal reasons too.
In terms of seeing him specifically, I don’t know if it’s a good idea either. If he flirted with me so out of the blue, there’s a good chance he’s a flirt with everyone. His party-animal demeanor gave me f-boy vibes. And the fact that he was drunk is also a red flag. Sure, he’s young and he was celebrating, but as someone whose father is/was a bit of a drunk, to me it raises some concerns. In his defense, he was very respectful, always seeking consent. But again, here’s where I feel like I’m cutting him too much slack because he was good-looking.
I’ll update tomorrow if he replies.
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