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yelenasdiary · 1 year

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Secret Mission

Pairing: Wanda Maximoff, Natasha Romanoff, Carol Denvers, Maria Hill, Pepper Potts, Yelena Belova & Kate Bishop x Reader (All Platonic)

Summary: You & the girls go out for the monthly ‘secret mission’

| Fluff | No Warnings | 0.9K |

AC: This idea comes from @libraylove754 sending me gifs of Wanda, Yelena & Nat followed by a gif of a cup of coffee! I hope you enjoy this x – sorry about the ending, I found this rather tricky to right for some reason!

Once a month, you and the other girls get together for coffee, something normal, away from the boys to just chill, chat and relax. Originally it was Kate's idea, trust the most social one to drag you all out, right? The boys back at the compound always questioned where you all would get too but none of you told them that it was just a simple coffee catch up, so, like men, they joked about it and called it "The Girls Secret Mission".

As you walked into the local coffee shop, the staff had already reserved a table of 8, ready for you all. You couldn't see anybody else insight has you stepped on it, your eyes searched the small shop that was slightly busier than usual but still, you couldn't see any of your friends.

"Ah, you made it!" Carol came up behind you, almost giving you a fright. "Me? Looks like you're late too!" you chuckled, the two of you walking over to the reserved table, "I wouldn't say we're the late ones by the looks of it" Carol smiled, pulling her chair out.

"Actually, you guys are kind of late" a Sokovian accent made you turn slightly to see Wanda smiling softly with a donut and coffee in hand, "I have a feeling you were craving this?" she ask before placing the coffee mug and donut in front of you. "Thanks Wands! How did you kn-" you paused when you realised she'd read your thoughts, "never mind" you added with a chuckle.

"What about mine?" Carol jokingly pouted, "well, maybe when you make up your mind on what you want to drink then I'll get your order too" Wanda replied with a smirk before taking a seat next to you. "Nat's in the bathroom and Yelena is finding a park" Wanda added.

"Good morning! Sorry I'm a tad late, I couldn't get Tony to shut it about his new project!" Pepper sighed lightly before taking a seat across from you, next to Carol. "Don't stress" you smiled, "Yelena, Maria or Kate aren't here yet" you added before taking a sip on of your latte.

After a good solid 10 minutes, everybody was finally seated and waiting for their order, well, not everybody. Kate came into the café, hands full of shopping bags that she dropped at her feet before taking a seat beside you, "Kate Bishop, nice of you to finally join us" Yelena looked at her friend. "Yeah, sorry about that! I was trying to do a quick shop around for clints birthday, I couldn't decide what he'd like best so Natty Nat, I need your help" Kate smiled proudly at the red head across from her.

Natasha looked up at the young Avenger in an almost disgusted look, "did you just call me Natty Nat?" she questioned with a cocked brow.

"S-sorry, I didn't think" Kate slumped down into her chair before the rest of you all chuckled.

The café was already loud enough but ask any other customer, most the of chatter and laughter was coming from the table full of Avengers. "I could go for another latte, anybody else want anything while I'm up?" you offered as you stood from your seat. "A latte isn't a real coffee, Y/n Y/l/n" Yelena commented before taking another sip of her coffee.

"And boxed mac n cheese isn't a real meal" you looked to the blonde with a smirk.

"I'll come up with you" Maria smiled before downing the rest of her coffee.

You and Maria took the others second order while the others started to secretly talk about the surprise that had been planned for you.

"They have no idea!" Kate smiled proudly once more, "yeah the excuse for presents for Clint worked a charm" Carol replied.

KB: Uh? Oh no, most of these are actually for Clint.

NR: But his birthday is still two months away?

KB: I know but he is so hard to shop for!

YB: She always shops months early for people, the apartment is currently full of crap she needs to return once she works out the perfect gift.

KB: Hey! it's better than what you gift people

YB: Nothing wrong with gift cards, they get whatever they want, and I don't have to think too much about it.

NR: I'm with Yelena on that one.

PP: Guys, the surprise party. It's tonight, do we have anything ready?

CD: Yeah, the boys are setting up the compound now.

NR: Peter said something about Aunt May had been up since 5am cooking.

PP: She has, that's where I'm headed after this. Maria too.

NR: I'm taking Y/n bike shopping so that'll but you all more time.

CD: Shh, they're coming.

Carol's shush wasn't as quiet as she thought, you took your seat and looked around the table at the others. "Did I miss something?" you asked, they all shook their heads, "Why are you guys all acting weird all of a sudden?" you added.

"We were just making fun of Yelena and her love for mac n cheese" Kate pitched in before pulling one of her shopping bags onto the table, "do you think Clint would like this?" she asked, distracting you from the odd behavior from the group. She showed off a new arrow sack.

"He has that one" Natasha replied, causing Kate to sigh. "It's a lovely idea though" you patted Kate on her back.

For the next hour, all of you enjoyed your last cups of warm goodness before all parting ways. You and Natasha went motorbike shopping, not that she was really looking for anything, but it was enough to keep you from guessing what was really going on. Your birthday was just around the corner, 2 weeks away in fact and for once the entire team wanted to surprise you without you finding out like you always did.

Safe to say, the surprise went undetected and you even made Natasha buy a motorbike!

#marvel #wanda maximoff #natasha romanoff #carol danvers #Maria hill #pepper potts #yelena belova #Kate bishop #x reader #fanfiction

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sunboki · 1 year

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✶ fourteen. — jake and the elephant in the room

— 0.5k words

“Is this something Music Bank arranged for us?” You’re laughing now, scrambling to catch up to Jake’s fast steps headed somewhere you couldn’t guess.

He turns to face you, rolling his eyes like he always did when you were younger(and got in trouble for) despite smiling incessantly.

“Yep, totally. We’re filming on top of a skyscraper today.” You scoff, muttering “Asshole” under your breath only to watch him lift his eyebrows dramatically.

It’s like he hadn’t changed at all.

Finally you reach a quiet corner store, fishing money from your wallet before being hushed by Jake who willingly pays for both yours and his snacks.

“What a gentleman~” You muse, greedily snatching the gimbap out of his hands as he settles down in the chair across from you — clearing his throat quite profusely at that. Calm moments never seem to stay.

Oh no.

“So.. I love the fact that you’re.. um.. feeling better. But I feel like even if we’re y’know, normal now it wouldn’t be complete if we still have the elephant in the room.”

Yikes.

Alright, play dumb and if worse comes to worse you can just explain yourself. Right?

Wrong. Worse came way too early.

“And the elephant in the room is..?”

“Ghosting me for two years? Or did you just happen to forget?” You can see the veins beginning to strain on his neck, anger creeping so close you feel the need to scoot back in your chair.

“I didn’t forget Jake I didn’t have time to answer I was training-“Oh so this was about training? Are you serious? You could’ve replied during I don’t know, breaks?! Was I really that insignificant to you?”

“Would you just LISTEN TO ME? You’re not insignificant to me I’m telling you I didn’t have time Jake please It’s not..”

He’s giving you a nonsensically upset look and you want to cry, want to run away to anywhere that isn’t here.

“It’s not what? What is it not, Yn. Thinking about it, what even am I to you? Am I just here for you to drag me along and rip me apart after all this time?“

That’s it. This is going nowhere and you’re millimeters from wailing. If he won’t listen that’s his problem. ‘Doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck though.

“Sim Jake if that’s how you want to play this I give up on explaining myself and you can just take your sweet time figuring things out by yourself.”

You grab your phone and half-eaten gimbap, wincing at the squeal of your chair as you begin storming away back to the dorms in hopes you don’t have a meltdown in the middle of the road. Except his voice breaking the loud silence stops you.

“Leaving me here to figure things out by myself, just like what you did back then huh.”

You can’t look back, can’t let him see the ugly tears steaming down your cheeks. You need Yeongmi, need the girls. God you need a fresh start.

However the battle is far from over.

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pinky promise — 심재휸

SYNOPSIS — the last summer you spent with Jake Sim was the beginning of a disaster. And it all began with a pinky promise between you two. You left Australia a few days before high school to become a trainee under BigHit Entertainment, sending you far away from home, from Jake. Well, you didn’t know it back then, but Jake had also come to Korea as a trainee a year later, and fate worked its magic when you’re both selected as KBS MC’s together. The pinky promise in question? A promise to be together till the end.

␥ NOTE — Jakey is a bit of a jerk here m sorry :(( i promise we’ll have a resolve .. eventually

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* if your url is italicized it means i couldn’t tag you!

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skulls-soul · 1 year

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Have some Booigi!! specifically there first I love you these are kind of head cannons, and also kind of prompts idk but if you wanna do something with this then go ahead

If king boo was the first one to say I love you, it would probably be in the middle of their first make out ascension or something I don’t know, but king boo did not wait at all. He’s been new and was ready to tell Luigi just waiting for the right moment.

When luigi heard the words come out of king boo, he was so shocked that he was basically like a deer staring at headlights KB after some time would get concerned and start poking his face trying to get him back down to earth

Once he’s finally back to reality Luigi asked him to say it again in which king boo obliges to Luigi Jaw drops a little take another moment before he asks “you really mean it?”

Yes, Luigi is a little bit suspicious since he haven’t been dating for that long and he is still trying to get used to the fact that the relationship is developing somewhere where he never thought it would go so at the moment he’s currently was not really ready to say. I love you back yet.

King boo (kind of expected this) says that it’s fine and that he can take his time and asked if it’s ok for him to say it as much as he wants since it’s true and he doesn’t want to hold back Luigi, without thinking says that it’s no problem and soon after wonders if he made a mistake since now king boo says it a lot and he means a lot

King boo started calling him my love, and sometimes when they’re just chilling on the couch, he’ll start saying I love you over and over again, causing Luigi to blush

One night, a king boo was sleeping over. He was talking to a very exhausted Luigi who is in the middle of getting in the bed, ready to fall asleep king boo—even though he doesn’t need to sleep—already settled and ready to join him. he was just about to give Luigi his nightly I love you and good night before luigi planted a kiss on him after pulling away and releasing a big yawn, he tells king boo, that he love him and good night

king boo malfunctioned for a a moment, surprised to hear the words once he came back though ready to say it back, he found a Luigi was out like a light which was good for king boo because he needed to fly off somewhere to celebrate before coming back to hold luigi close

But what if Luigi said i love you first?

King boo even though he really really wanted to decided that he would wait until Luigi said it first, since he didn’t want to scare Luigi off even though he really enjoys scaring Luigi, he wouldn’t enjoy scaring him away

It took a couple of months, and there were some moments where king boo almost broke, and said it first, but he held strong

It was one night after spending the entire day with each other and half of the night partying when Luigi said it.

They were sitting down at a bench under the moonlight as fire flies help light the shadows in the woods. Holding each other close as they talk to each one another in a low and hush voice.

It was in passing conversation said so casually that king boo almost didn’t catch it and yet somehow at the same time it’s stood out from the rest. all Luigi said was how lucky he was to spend the day with a boo he loves (or maybe) he says how he loved today and that today was awesome but he especially loves him the most

King boo had to take a moment to make sure that he heard Luigi correctly and in that moment Luigis face morphed from a gentle in love, smile, to slight concern and worry. for a bit, Luigi’s anxiety would tell him that he fucked up and that he shouldn’t have said that.

It wasn’t until Luigis was asked to say it again a few more times before his anxiety disappeared. Being replaced with just pure confusion as he sees king boos face go from shock to overjoy he asked Luigi if he meant it like truly truly means it, and when Luigi gave a simple nod king boo flew up into the air, giving a little loop before diving back down to swoop up Luigi into his arms as he laughs

When lu was finally set back down on his feet, king boo showered him with kisses before saying “you don’t know how long I’ve been waiting to say. I love you too”

I have a Bowser X Luigi version of this as well that is posted at the same time as this if you want to check that out :P if not I hope you enjoyed and if you have your own little head cannons for this concept by all means, do you share :3

#luigi #luigi nintendo #king boo #king boo nintendo #king booigi #king boo and luigi #luigi and king boo #booigi #luigi x king boo #king boo x luigi

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simsinlowspace · 2 years

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Odd Pokémon - 30 Space Oddity Recolors + Default Replacement

Holy cowplants, y'all, I was starting to think I would never get this one done. 😅 Swatch, details and download below!

So I started these last Saturday when my stepsons came over, because they're Pokémon addicts and my knowledge of Pokémon can be summed up thusly:

Pikachu

Snorlax

There are too many Lavender Town creepypastas XP

They helped me pick out a bunch of Pokés (or are they mons?) and told me their names so I wouldn't have to spend hours crawling through the Pokémon wiki. XD After that, this was supposed to be easy.

Nope. Maxis' penchant for squashed, off-center textures struck again, so I had to redo these three times to get them right. And in the middle of trying to fix this, all hell broke loose in my neighborhood, and of course I managed to end up right in the middle of it. 😩 I love my little town, but sometimes I wish I lived in the woods.

Anyway! They're finally done, so here are some Pokémon posters for your kids and teens. These are on the Space Oddity poster mesh, so University is required:

There's a numbered swatch included. The Poké ball in the center is the default, so you'll want to delete either that or recolor 18 to avoid redundancy.

Pokémon Icons are by Darius Dan over at Flaticon. Much appreciation, because I really didn't want to do these myself. XD

DOWNLOAD (SFS) Recolors are ~375 KB

Okay! I know I have some stuff to catch up on, but first I need to bake a cake for a picnic tomorrow, so I should be back later to get caught up on all the good stuff. :D

Lots of love, Spacey

#s2cc #ts2cc #ts2 default #ts2 download #sims 2 download #ts2 custom content #sims 2 custom content #s2 cc #ts2 art #ts2 #default replacement #ts2 posters #ts2 wall decorations

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the-oc-lass · 5 months

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Nimona OC - Charlotte Swiftheart/Corova

This scene and the one for tomorrow are two that I've been excited (that may be the wrong word to use in this scenario...) to write since I started posting these, so I hope you enjoy them.

TW: Canonical su**ide discussion and ideology

First, Previous, Next

Nimona shoves the door so hard that it bounces back and almost hits Ballister in the face. It might've been funny if it weren't so obvious that Nimona is upset.

"Are you okay?" Ballister asks, though she clearly isn't. But Ballister didn't see the way that little girl looked at Nimona. The way that she held up that sword because she thought that's what she was supposed to do.

"I don't wanna talk about it," Nimona snaps, walking further into the tower. Her shoulders are hunched up defensively, and Charlotte watches her with concern as Ballister shuts the door behind them.

"I know something's wrong," he says, moving after her.

"I said I don't wanna talk about it!" she says, turning slightly to gesture before turning back around. Even though she isn't looking at him, Ballister's hands rise slightly in a placating gesture.

"Hey, hey, I'm just trying to help."

"I don't need your help!" Nimona grabs the bottom of the coffee table and flips it, sending everything on top of it clattering to the floor. The chain hanging from the ceiling swings back and forth from it, and the squeaking noises mix with Nimona's panting.

"Nim..." But Charlotte trails off, unable to find the right words. She stares at Nimona's back, wringing her hands together.

"Did you see the way that little girl looked at me?" Nimona asks softly. "Kids. Little kids. They grow up believing that they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything different." Charlotte purses her lips and bows her head slightly. "And I'm the monster?" As she lifts her head, she sees Nimona turn away from them again, hugging her arms around herself and bowing her head. "I don't know what's scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart...or that sometimes...I just wanna let 'em." The air catches in Charlotte's lungs, and it's as if her heart stops. She aches to take Nimona into her arms and protect her from this awful, cruel world. She looks helplessly at Ballister, who looks as heartbroken as she feels. For a moment, they look at each other, and then something of an understanding passes between them. Ballister takes a deep breath, and determination sets into his face.

"We have to get you out of here," he says, looking around before moving to start collecting things that they might need. Charlotte slowly starts moving around the sofa, toward Nimona. "We'll go over the wall. We won't stop until we find someplace safe. Okay, we'll go. Together." At that, Nimona's head lifts slightly.

"Together?" she asks softly, looking toward Ballister. Charlotte carefully sets a hand on her shoulder, and she offers a soft smile as Nimona looks up at her.

"Together," Charlotte agrees. She knows that she has the KB and the sanctuary to take care of, but Nimona has sworn to her before that there's nothing dangerous outside the wall. They could all go, find a new home. They wouldn't have to hide anymore.

"Listen, you were right about everything. The Institute, the wall...Ambrosius." Ballister pauses for a moment, and Charlotte can almost hear the last pieces of his heart shattering. "No matter what we do, we can't change the way people see us." It's not fair. It's never been fair.

"You changed the way you see me," Nimona says. "Didn't you?" Ballister sets what he's holding gently on the shelf, turning to look at her. He smiles softly, and Charlotte smiles as well as she looks down at Nimona again and gives her shoulder another soft squeeze. "We can't let the Director get away with this. We shouldn't have to run." She points at Ballister, and Charlotte lets her slip away as she starts moving toward him. "And you made a deal, right? We clear your name, you make me your sidekick. And you can't back out on a deal because you believe in truth and honor and blah, blah, blah. All that stupid stuff." Ballister chuckles, and Charlotte smiles a bit and crosses her arms, watching the two of them.

"Truth and honor aren't stupid, but all right," he says.

"So, you got a plan?" He gives a tiny shrug as he smirks.

"'Course I got a plan." He reaches over and picks up a piece of paper. "Something, something, something..." As he holds the paper toward Nimona, she takes it from him and grins mischievously at him.

"We win." She walks over to the "murder wall" and pins the paper over the picture of Ambrosius, then steps back. The two put their hands on their hips and look at the newly pinned up picture of the Director. After a few moments, Charlotte chuckles.

"That was really sweet, you two, but I hope you have a real plan, because we're going to need one to pull this off," she says. Ballister looks over his shoulder at her and raises an amused eyebrow.

"Of course I have a real plan," he says. Charlotte raises an eyebrow of her own.

"Oh?"

"That's right. And you-" He lightly smacks Nimona's arm. "-are going to play the starring role." Charlotte chuckles again.

"Oh, I can't wait to hear this."

Operation: Shambrosius—as Charlotte has delightfully been calling it—seems pretty solid, considering that they haven't been planning it for more than a half hour. However, it doesn't account for the whereabouts of actual Ambrosius.

"The knights and I can try to stall him so that you have time," she says. She doesn't exactly want to fight her own brother, but Norshe would probably pay to throw a punch or two at him, and so would a few other KB members.

"You think he'll go to the sanctuary?" Ballister asks, looking over at her. She sighs and crosses her arms, a somber look on her face.

"If he can turn on you the way he did, I don't know if I can really believe he couldn't do the same for me. I hope I'm wrong. I hope there's something I'm missing. But I have to be prepared, right? I already sent the kids and the sanctuary members somewhere else, and most of the KB is there to protect them." She purses her lips for a moment. "I hope that I did it for nothing." A beat passes, and she lifts her gaze, watching Ballister's profile. He frowns at the table for a moment, then looks at her again.

"Why did you help us? The Institute would've left you alone if you'd never shown your face," he says. The sentence itself should be accusatory, but instead, it's filled with concern. She reaches over, carefully taking his robotic hand.

"You and Ambrosius were all that I had at the Institute, and once I left, it was you two that I kept believing in. You gave me faith. But now...Now, I don't know if I can trust my own brother. But I know you, Bal. I trust you. And I would follow you anywhere," she says. His eyes widen for a moment, and he simply stares at her. Then, his gaze softens and he smiles at her, shifting his hand to give hers a squeeze. They both grin a little wider when they're met with an exaggerated gagging sound, and Charlotte looks over at Nimona. "Don't worry, Nim, I'd follow you most places." Nimona blows a raspberry.

"Gee, thanks," she says sarcastically. Charlotte smiles softly.

"Nimona." Nimona looks at her and raises an eyebrow. "I'm always gonna look out for you. You mean just as much to me as Bal does." Now, it's Nimona's turn to give her a startled, wide-eyed look. She opens her mouth, but nothing comes out.

"I think you broke her," Ballister says in a stage whisper. Charlotte looks at him and nods sagely.

"It's my specialty." A ball of paper is thrown at her, and she laughs.

"You guys are the worst," Nimona says, but she's smiling when Charlotte looks back at her. Just then, Charlotte's comm comes to life.

"He's on the move. Heading in the direction of the sanctuary." Charlotte frowns and sighs.

"Looks like I was right." She rises to her feet, and Ballister stands as well.

"What are you going to do?" he asks. She shrugs.

"Like I said, try to stall him. Give you two time to get a confession out of the Director. And...Maybe I can sway him," she says. He purses his lips for a moment, looking hesistant. She reaches out and sets a hand on his shoulder. "I won't hurt him, Bal." His gaze snaps to hers.

"I'm not worried about that, I'm worried about..." He cuts himself off, but she gets the message. He's worried about the opposite. About Ambrosius hurting her. She offers him a soft, reassuring smile, and he sighs. "Be careful, Char." She tilts her head.

"Hey." She pats his cheek affectionately. "Aren't I always?"

The answer is, of course, no.

Lovely tagged people:

@ammonitetheseaserpent @perfectkittystranger @madlad06 @xxlunadrawsstuffxx @floxu @lilith707sposts

#tw: sucidal thoughts #nimona #nimona oc #nimona movie #nimona 2023 #nimona film #nimona netflix #original character #oc: charlotte swiftheart/corova #ballister boldheart #nimona nimona #nimona ballister #Side note: Operation shambrosius is my proudest accomplishment

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sketchbook-stars · 8 months

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GLASS EYE JURY QUOTEBOOK

"Oh no what are they up to this time" find out!

"Mind when I airdrop 23 kb of club penguin feet to his brain" -Envi

"I can make my tail change patterns, watch! [CRACK] ..Oh no!" -Tally

"'Nightmare Blunt Rotation' motherfucker you mean your therapists?" -Oreo to Seara

"I can have one abuser in my life as a treat" "ABSOLUTELY NOT." -Cometose, Doppel

"IM REPLACING YOUR MILK ICE CUBES WITH HOTDOG WATER." -Jude

"i need to hire this dude to hype me up to take my antidepressants whenever i get new ones" -Jude

"[loudly] WEEZER??? [weezer riff played full volume] AUUUGGHH" -Seara?

"OF COURSE YOU HAVE HEADMATES. IT CAME FOR FREE WITH YOUR FUCKING TRAUMA. /ref" -Jude

"your kid committed mitosis 🔥" -Cometose

"why's the bug speaking like that" "THERAPY BUG" "OH NAUR" -Spiral, Noximay, Spiral

"Fuck people named Eros ig" "On it 🫡/j" -Cometose, Noximay

From the same incident:

"YOU FLATTENED THE ORCA??" -Amias

"Are you fucking telling me you did a jolly conga line in here and crushed me like a pancake" -Tally

"'I won't tell a soul okay' walks up to soul" -Tally

"An anthropomorphic bug is giving me therapy. It's working, but why?" -Cometose

"FUCK YOU MY DAD IS BUGBO AND ALSO GOD" -Cometose

"Don't worry my abandonment issues are surface level" -Amias

"I am one roar song away from killing you" -Lucid

"Time to pray to Mr. Jash" "WHAT." -Jude, Tally

"Put your hand near me I am innocent and harmless" "ok" "HFHRHEHSGSHRHSHAG" -Seara, (out of sys person), Seara

"UHHH well you see- DISTRACTION! [Leaves Call]" -Eiwen

'EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY- AUTISM VERSUS AUTISM' -Eiwen

"Breaking Bad and Chonny Jash crossover" -Juno

"SHUT UP LET ME MAKE A PRETTY FLOWER FOR MY WIFE" -Juno

"Does a pirate know what pronouns are?" -Jude

"'Whats wrong with you' well erm.. (link to the dms with our abuser) catch up on the lore" -Cometose

"I just pspspsps'd a whole grown man." -Seara

"..comfort bong rip." -Jayshroom

"They took biograft in the divorce...[sobbing]" -Subspace

"silly little guy to traumatized pipeline except the pipeline is structured like a rollercoaster" -Civ

Part 1 of idk. Too tired to add more

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softsnzstuff · 1 year

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p/edro x reader for when he was sick during the tlou premier? 🤭🤭🤭

It’s really the way I’ve been waiting to write this for DAYS. But thankfully that’s given me some more time to think about how I wanna write it. I HAVE attended a premiere in LA before for one of the Thor movies so this is based off that experience.

((This will probably end up being short but I totally want to write more P/edro content in the future so keep the ideas coming! Just trying to find the right tone.)) 💗KB

*****

It’s a great day in Los Angeles as far as weather goes. It was usually either cold and rainy OR incredibly dry heat - but today, California seems to have made a peace offering in the form of extremely enjoyable weather.

The cast and main crew of the show, along with a few HBO marketing representatives, are all gathered in the hotel getting ready before the premiere for The Last of Us.

You’re checking yourself in your phone’s camera when your boyfriend emerges from the bathroom, tissue clamped over his nose.

“Eh’ikSHew! H’rrdSCHt!”

“Bless you, bless you!” You call out.

He blows his nose and rolls his eyes at you to show how done he is with being sick.

Usually his immune system was in tip top shape, but juggling different events for tlou and the Mandalorian for the past few months had finally taken its toll.

He started coming down with something a few days ago. A dull ache in his throat that he couldn’t swallow past, and the kind of congestion that hurts your ears and your nose at the same time.

It wasn’t until this morning that he’d spiked a fever. He approaches you, in his suave black button down and slacks, running his hands up and down your forearms, drinking you in.

“You look gorgeous.” He smiles, eyes glazed with fever behind his glasses.

You run a hand carefully through his hair and then rest your hand on his forehead again. “And you look like you feel terrible. After the premiere, you should go straight to bed.”

He wiggled his eyebrows naughtily, “Is that an order?”

You playfully slap his arm with your handbag. Pedro’s mind was almost always in the gutter, but it’s one of the qualities you were drawn to most - his sense of childlike humor. And he cracked himself up too!

“We need to be leaving in five minutes!” One of the handlers poked her head in.

Pedro shrugged on his big overcoat, grateful for the extra layer of warmth. This fever was good for nothing except giving him the chills. The makeup artist added a bit more powder to his nose and then the two of you were heading downstairs to the lobby where the Mercedes were waiting to drive you a few blocks away to the red carpet premiere.

“Mr.Pascal.” The driver nodded, holding open the door for you both.

Pedro stepped aside to let you in first, you sliding across to the other seat and him climbing in after you.

The drive was short. 5 minutes max, but even so, he rested his too-warm head on your shoulder while you rubbed a hand lovingly on his thigh.

“How you feeling baby?” You ask rhetorically.

He sighed, “Like a clicker…”

You frown at the comparison to the severely infected from the show and kiss his temple. “We can cuddle later okay? Let you get some proper rest?”

He nods and lifts his head as the car pulls up. You can already hear the screaming fans through the closed door of the car.

Pedro takes a breath and then gets out of the car, waving to fans before offering a hand to help you out. You take it willingly, and wave to the fans as well. By now they knew you two were an item.

The first stop for the premiere was always talking to the livestream host at the entrance. Pedro was familiar with her and so the intro was quick and easy. After that, he did a sort of movie star speed dating thing, going from table to table to do interviews while you mingled in the background with others.

A wave from across the carpet catches your eye. Bella is smiling and making their way over to you. They’re wearing a nude colored suit that stands out against the carpet.

“Hey Bella!” You fist bump them the way you always did when you two ran into each other on set.

“Hey hey! Where’s your man?” They tease.

You point over your shoulder to where he’s doing the last of his interviews.

“Wrapping up I suppose, but he’s really not feeling well.”

Bella gives a sympathetic frown, before it’s replaced by a mischievous grin. They trot over behind Pedro as he’s doing the interview.

“Hey Ellie Bellie!” He beams, laughing at the nickname.

“Back again for more is Bella Ramsey!” The host announces to the camera.

“Infected, are we?” They look him up and down but he just laughs.

He turns around to look at you and you shrug, laughing as well.

“I’ve got a fever, yeah.”

“Well we are glad you still came out to join us, and are even gladder that you aren’t actually infected.”

That certainly wouldn’t be the last time someone made that joke thinking they’re original…

Pedro wraps up with the interviewer as the host makes an announcement from the main stage, introducing the directors, producers and cast for a group photo.

After the picture is snapped, they’re all free for a few minutes to make their way to the theater for the screening.

Hundreds of fans are lining the streets, some pressed against the barricade and some standing on the display window ledges of the businesses on the street.

“PEDRO! PEDRO PLEASE”

“PEDRITO!!! BELLA!!!!!

“OVER HERE, OVER HERE!!!!”

In addition to being insanely flattering, the thunderous roar of the crowd is overwhelming and your heart aches in sympathy for the headache you know your boyfriend already has.

He loves his fans though, so he starts on one end and begins quickly signing posters and toys, pausing for the occasional selfie and throwing up a peace sign.

He is in a hurry to get to the theater in time before they start the screening, so he makes sure to keep moving down the line quickly. Bella is in front of him, also posing for pictures and signing different things.

You’re a few feet back, following along with his handler and Bella’s handler, watching in complete admiration watching him interact with the fans.

When he finally reaches the end and has to stop, he mouths “thank you, I love you” and holds a hand to his chest, nodding in an almost bowing type fashion as he leaves.

Once around the corner and walking to the theater, he slips an arm around your waist and you pull him closer.

“I’m so sleepy.” He whispers to you as you walk.

“I’m sorry,” you rub a hand up and down his back. “Can I do anything to help?”

“Let me rest on your shoulder in the theater?” He asks.

You smile at the softness of his question. “Of course babe. You can always rest on me.”

#p/edro p/ascal #r/p/f #T/LOU #snzblr #snz kink #Kb writes #sickfic #ask box

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bitterkarmaa · 1 year

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Master-list of completed shorts

1. “Do you remember when-“ “Oh, I definitely remember.” [BEING WRITTEN]

3. “You’re wrong. So just sit there in your wrongness and be wrong” [BEING WRITTEN]

4. “It’s too early for you to be so peppy.” [BEING WRITTEN]

5. “......you look like you just saw a ghost.” (KB Eclipse & Lord Eclipse)

6. “I... I can’t believe it’s really you. I thought I’d never see you again.”

7. “Alright, I tried to warn you, but fine. We’ll do this your way.” [BEING WRITTEN]

8. “Hey! Why’d you stop?!”

9. “...when are you coming home?” (Eclipse, Blood Moon, Killcode)

10. “I can almost hear you pouting.” [BEING WRITTEN]

12. “You’re such a scumbag!”

13. “When is this going to get easier?” (Eclipse & Moon)

14. “You lied!” “I didn’t lie, I omitted. There’s a difference.”

15. “Everyday, I contemplate ending this. But....” “....but what?” [BEING WRITTEN]

20. “Nobody touch me! Except you, you can touch me.” (Blood Moon & Eclipse)

21. “Fine, but I’m only doing this for you.” (Lunar & Eclipse)

22. “Don’t be greedy.” (Veil)

23. “You’re not allowed to be gone for a whole week ever again.” (Eclipse & Blood Moon)

24. “I’ll protect you, with my life if necessary.” (Eclipse & Killcode)

25. “What kind of psychopath has 1,273 unread emails?” (Moon & Eclipse)

26. “You’re gonna have a really hard time topping this apology next time we fight.”

27. “What was your first impression of me?” [BEING WRITTEN]

28. “Shhh! You’re gonna get us caught!” (Eclipse & Blood Moon)

29. “I can’t believe I thought you were a good person. Congratulations, you’ve proven me wrong.”

32. “Oooh, seems like I’ve struck a nerve.” [BEING WRITTEN]

36. “I’m so sick of waking up like this.” (Eclipse & Blood Moon)

37. “I can’t leave with you crying like this.” (Rays & Veil)

38. “Of course I’m scared, but I’m also excited.” (Eclipse & Rays)

39. “If this was the last time we ever spoke, what would you want me to know?”

40. “I’m not going to apologize just because that’s what you want to hear.” (Sun & Eclipse)

41. “Just close your eyes. I will still be here when you open them again.” [BEING WRITTEN]

42. “I’d come for you. No matter what, when you need me, I will be there.”

43. “Can you walk?”

44. “This is not who you are. I know you better than that.”

46. “You can hold my hand.”

47. “The nightmares are just an illusion. I’m really here.”

48. “Tell me to stay and I will be here for as long as you’ll have me.”

49. “It’s okay to be afraid sometimes.”

50. “You don’t have to be strong all the time.”

51. “It’s alright. I’m not going to let go.” [BRING WRITTEN]

52. “If you don’t know where to go, you can always come here.”

53. “You can go to sleep now. I will keep watch.”

54. “Hey, listen to me. You’re safe. Nothing is going to hurt you.”

55. “I want you to know that it’s okay to cry.”

56. “Take all the time you need.”

57. “Just look at me. Forget everything else.”

58. “They won’t take you away from me ever again.”

59. “You need to keep your eyes open. Just a little longer.”

60. “I’m going to ask you how you are and I would like you to answer me honestly.” [BEING WRITTEN]

61. “Could you hold me? Please.” (Eclipse & Veil)

62. “Nothing I’ll say will make it go away, but maybe I can make it a bit better.”

63. “Silly of you to think, you would have to do this alone.”

65. “After a while, it will get easier.”

66. “I will always watch over you.”

67. “Remember that I promise I made?”

68. “I would like to hold onto you a while longer.”

69. “You don’t have to say anything, I’ll do the talking.”

70. “Don’t look down. I’ve got you.”

71. “What did I do wrong!?”

72. “Come here, you look cold..”

73. “WAIT- I can do BETTER!”

74. “You can’t leave me yet! I still need you!” [BEING WRITTEN]

75. “W-Whose blood is that…”

76. “I don’t feel so good..”

77. “Sit still! And let me wrap the wound!”

78. “I’ll come back- I promise..”

79. “You’re hurt.”

80. “It’s me! It’s me! J-Just calm down!”

81. “I haven’t been hugged in years.”

82. “You’re pathetic.”

83. “If you pass out, I’m not going to catch you.”

84. “I can’t move.”

85. “Why are you still up? ITS 3AM-”

86. “No. I’m not a mad scientist. I’m just insane.”

87. “Hate to break it to you, but I’m still alive.”

88. “Management called. They want their idiot back. ”

#angst dialogue #character dialogue #dialogue inspiration #masterlist #dialogue masterlist #drabble masterlist

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perfectpaperbluebirds · 1 year

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To Make You Well

Guess what, it’s another Secret Santa post from @softsnzstuff KB’s Secret Santa! I wrote for anon who requested a Grey’s Anatomy cold fic. I’ve always meant to write for Grey’s. Glad I finally got the chance! Hope you like it, anon

Words: 1957

Derek Shepherd was in the kitchen making coffee. Meredith Grey, freshly showered and ready for another day at the hospital, had just come into the kitchen. As she approached, Derek suddenly threw an arm over his face to muffle a sneeze:

"Hih'NGTCH!"

"Bless you," Meredith laughed, coming to his side to kiss him on the cheek. "Are you okay?"

"Thanks," he said, chuckling as he wrapped an arm around her waist. "I'm fine. Dusty in here I guess."

"Well it's not like I have a lot of free time to dust. If the dust bothers you, then you take care of it," she said playfully.

"Or we could just hire a cleaning service." He kissed the top of her head.

"I like the way you think," she said, taking the mug of coffee he held out to her.

They finished their morning routine as usual, and soon enough the pair was arriving at the hospital for their shifts. As busy surgeons, they saw very little of each other throughout the day. On this particular day though, the next time Meredith saw Derek, he was sneezing again. She was coming up a hallway only to find Derek standing at the nurses station, reading through a chart. Before she could catch his attention, he quickly turned his face into his elbow:

"HhHIITCHH'uhh!" With a little 'guh' sound, he freed his face with an annoyed-sounding sniffle, shaking his head.

"Bless you!" Meredith called.

He looked up, startled, but smiled upon seeing her as she stopped in front of him.

"Now don't tell me the hospital is dusty too," she said.

"Must be," he replied. "Or maybe someone is wearing strong perfume."

"I don't smell any perfume."

"I guess my nose is better than yours, then," he said matter-of-factly, scrubbing his nose into his shoulder with another small sniffle.

Meredith looked skeptical. "Are you sure you're–"

"Meredith, I'm fine. Really. Don't worry about me so much," he said, gently scolding.

She sighed, shaking her head. "Okay. But you better actually be fine."

"I promise I am. Will that be all, Dr. Grey?" he said with a smile.

"That will be all, Dr. Shepherd," she grinned back, continuing on her way.

The third time she caught him sneezing, she began to think it wasn't a coincidence. She was swinging through the cafeteria for a bagel for her and Cristina when she caught sight of him once more, evidently on his way out with his own food. She would normally not have tried to get his attention since he seemed to be in a hurry, but just as he passed the last table he stopped, hunching into his elbow to sneeze:

"Hihh'TEHHCH! HEHHTchoo!"

Bless you, bless you," she called, striding over to him. He jumped when he heard her, turning. This time he didn't smile when he saw her. She couldn't help but notice how much more tired he looked even from a few hours ago, with dark circles under his eyes.

"Thanks. But you know you don't need to bless me every time you hear me sneeze," he said, sounding annoyed.

"Yes I do. It's part of the rules of being a couple," she replied. "And you're sneezing in pairs now. You never sneeze in pairs except when you're sick."

"And how could you possibly know that? That's not true. I'm fine as ever."

"It's absolutely true. I have my sources. You're getting sick, Dr. Shepherd, don't try to deny it. Even if I didn't hear you, I could see it in your eyes."

Derek sniffled self-consciously. "As much as I would love to argue about that, I don't have time right now. I was due in surgery two minutes ago. I have to go. I'll talk to you tonight." He sped away without giving her a chance to reply.

She rolled her eyes at his retreating back. "Men. They're all the same, even dreamy doctors," she muttered to herself, getting back into line for her own food.

Meredith caught Derek sneezing one final time before their shifts ended, and it was the most pathetic display of all. As usual, she was not even looking for him. She had just gotten herself an iced coffee and was heading back to the nurses station when she heard the familiar sound of a pair of wet, stifled sneezes coming from inside the on-call room she had just passed.

"Hihh'GHETTchh! Ihhg'EHTCH!!"

The sound stopped her short, but she wondered if she should just let him be, since he was evidently trying not to be noticed. When he sneezed again a moment later, though, another miserable pair, her mind was made up. With a short knock she entered the small room, making Derek jump, his hands still cupped over his nose and mouth.

"Bless you," his partner said quietly, closing the door being herself and giving him a knowing look.

"… Thank you," he sighed, looking defeated.

"So do you want to explain why you're hiding in an on-call room to sneeze?" she asked.

"I'm not hiding. I just happened to sneeze while I was already in here," he retorted.

"Well, why were you in here at all?" She glanced at her watch. "Your shift ends in less than three hours. That's not enough time to bother trying to sleep. And I know you got out of surgery not that long ago."

"I just… needed a minute, I guess. I wasn't planning to sleep, just rest my eyes," Derek said, scrubbing a hand over his stubbled face, with special attention given to his nose. Meredith looked at him in concern, stepping closer to caress his cheek.

"You're not feeling well at all, are you? You look exhausted. And you feel pretty warm, too. The OR is the last place you should be if you're sick, you know that. It might be best if you go home early."

"You don't need to worry about me so much, Mer. I promise I'm fine. I can still do surgery and there's no reason I can't finish this shift."

"But you're coming down with a cold. What if you have to sneeze while you're in surgery? What if you sneeze on someone's brain!"

Derek gave her a warning look. "I've never sneezed on someone's brain before and I don't plan to start today. I can survive for a few more hours."

The last word was almost lost as he yawned hugely, immediately contradicting his statement. Meredith gave him a look of her own, then sighed. She knew she would be acting the exact same way if their roles were reversed. After all, they were surgeons first and foremost.

"Well if you're going to stay, then you'll need this." She handed him her precious coffee. "Take a twenty minute power nap, then drink that when you wake up."

He chuckled softly. "Alright. Any other orders, Dr. Grey?" he asked, his eyes dancing even through the fatigue.

"That's all for now. I'm sure I'll have more when we get home," she said.

"Then I'll await your wisdom with bated breath," Derek said. "And thank you for the coffee."

"You're welcome. You know I wouldn't give my coffee up for just anyone."

"I appreciate the sacrifice. I'll do my best to honor it," Derek said solemnly.

"Good. Then I'll leave you in peace. I'll see you later." They shared a tiny kiss, then, true to her word, she backed out of the room and closed the door.

She didn't have much of a chance to worry about him after that. In fact, she hardly had time to replace her coffee before the ER got busy with surgical cases, and from then on there was no down time for anyone. Before she knew it, her own shift had ended. She made her way home in the usual sleepy, post adrenaline haze, hardly noticing her surroundings.

The house was silent when she arrived. She knew Derek had come home a few hours before, and she hoped he was in bed. After a quick shower, she was also ready to sleep, so she headed straight for the bedroom.

Derek was indeed fast asleep and snoring away congestedly when she entered. He was wearing a sweatshirt and flannel pants even under the duvet and his nightstand was already littered with used tissues and bottles of cold medicine. Meredith considered waking him to fuss over him, or at least feel his forehead to check his temperature, since the flush over his cheeks was worrisome, but in the end she let him be, too tired herself to want to do more doctoring until she slept for a while. She fetched them both bottles of water to find when they woke, then crawled into bed beside him, thankful for the pre-warmed sheets, and was asleep beside her partner in minutes.

She was awakened an indeterminate amount of time later by the motion of the mattress as someone crawled under the covers. Rolling over, her eyes met Derek's. He was sipping from a steaming mug, red-nosed and bleary-eyed, but gave her a tired smile.

"Sorry I woke you," he said, hoarse and congested. "You can go back to sleep. You don't need to be up for hours yet."

"No it's okay," she yawned. "How are you feeling?"

As if in reply, Derek's breath hitched into a messy pair of sneezes:

"HEEIHT'choo! Hihh!- Hiihh'TEHHTCH!"

"Bless you," Meredith said. "That good, huh? You sound very germy."

"I am very cold-ridden," he agreed, sniffling pathetically. "I don't plan to leave this bed in the foreseeable future, unless it's to get more coffee."

"Is that so? I thought you had to work today."

Derek sniffled again. "I already called off. That's what I was doing just now. I really don't feel great. And as a wise person noted, it would be pretty terrible if I sneezed on someone's brain in the OR. It's safer for everyone if I stay home. This way you're the only person that's at risk of catching this."

He coughed wetly after the long speech, covering his nose and mouth with his shirt collar before returning to his drink.

"Poor guy, you really must be sick. I didn't think there was anything that could convince you to call off."

"I can be reasonable when necessary," he replied with a yawn. "And before you ask, yes, I have a mild fever. 100.5 when I checked just now. I think it was higher when I got home, though."

"Then I'm definitely glad you're staying home. And as it turns out, we'll both be staying home. Since you were getting sick, I thought it might be best for me to stay home too, since like you said, I'll probably catch this or at least be a carrier. Plus, you need someone to take care of you. I traded my next few shifts, so I'll be here with you for whatever you need."

"That wasn't necessary, you know. I've taken care of myself just fine for all these years before you came along."

"Well it's done now. You're stuck with me."

"If you insist." Derek said, shaking his head. Meredith could tell he was pleased, though. He set the mug aside, yawning again. "Before you start doctoring my cold though, can I request some more sleep as the first course of treatment?"

"Absolutely," Meredith mumbled around a yawn of her own, rolling back over and closing her eyes. "As long as I get the same treatment."

"Deal," Derek agreed, sliding under the blankets. Before he drifted off, though, he slid closer to his partner until he was spooning her from behind, making her smile, which in turn made him smile. It was only when they were pressed together that they both fell deeply asleep.

#sickfic #everyone is hotter with a fever #derek and meredith #kb secret santa #prompt fill

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whentherewerebicycles · 4 months

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good! morning!! I’m feeling okay about being back at work which might be because I’m currently working from my bed lol. caught up on emails and checked in with my team from 7:30-8:30 and am now looking ahead to the day… I think I will feel like I’ve been productive if I do the following:

call to cancel appt

email N in the library to reserve space

check in with DW and CJ

reach out to L about advising numbers

email JK about summer research institute

revisit fall goals and draft informal impact report like the one K created (to share with CB tomorrow)

finish rough PD draft for meeting tomorrow

update winter schedule to review with CB/CJ

review CB check-in notes to see if there were any stray tasks I needed to wrap up

okay!! this is all very doable. here’s what I think the day will look like:

7:30-9:30 work emails & planning from bed

9:30-12 write up impact report, finish winter schedule updates, catch up on emails, review CB tasks

12-1 shower/get ready, lunch

1-2 KB mtg

2-3 catch up on whatever i didn't get finished

3-4 therapy

4-4:45 walk dogs (loop trail?) if it’s not too wet and gross out

5-7:30 watch hockey game and maybe write for a bit??

set timer and read 30 min before bed

9ish lights out zzzzz

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Turtles Catches Up With the Essential BLs: Semantic Error Edition

Woop woop, adding another BL to the library of Things I Am Watching Because Tumblr Is Catching Me Up -- Semantic Error review, here we go!

(Here’s the tag of what oldies-and-goodies I’ve watched and reviewed so far. As always, thanks for your patience as I review shows that y’all have likely already watched and reviewed. And, I think I should probably put a little explainer here as to why I’m doing so much catching up -- I only joined Tumblr about six months ago, and before then, I was busy literally having babies and feeding them for like five years, lol. So this is the HUGE drama/dorama catch-up moment of my life!)

I mean, Semantic Error was ::index fingers in the air, slightly curling them back, moving them in one half-circle:: PERFECT.

Or, almost perfect. I am so frustrated because I want to link to some great posts by @absolutebl on their analyses of the average show lengths of Korean BLs, and how many fans out there want the full-court, hourlong drama treatment for BLs out of Korea, but I can’t find them. If I can, I’ll link them here.

I think Semantic Error actually benefitted from having 30-minute episodes (although I would NOT have complained seeing Park Seo Ham on my screen for an hour a week) -- simply because I don’t think the plotline of Sangwoo’s hesitation to date Jaeyoung would have held up for that much extra drama time.

(However, I would have LOVED TO SEE A YUNA SIDE STORY, HOLY CRAP -- now THAT would have earned Semantic Error the full-court treatment, if there were some really juicy side love stories with that incredible character. She was SO GOOD.)

Anyway, my only tiny, tiny slight criticism of Semantic Error was that Sangwoo’s swings back and forth, from hesitation and turning away, to coming back to Jaeyoung, to turning away again -- by the penultimate episode, it seemed to me the tiniest bit contrived. But really, not by much. And I kind of wonder if what was happening was an echoing of a kind of storyline trope that I’ve seen time and time again in cishet K-dramas, especially the crappy KBS daytime soap dramas -- the tendency of writers to pull out a back-and-forth love story just to make it work with the length of the series.

But this is NOT a huge complaint. As ABL likes to say -- the Parks hit it out of the park, and this was a FABULOUS drama, done in the complete K-drama style, with the repeating/echoing kiss scenes (AAAAHHH GAAAHH I LOVE THIS TROPE, I LOVE IT!), the GREAT OST, the wonderful homies by their sides, the rejected lover supporting her bias. All of it. Give me all the K-drama tropes!

I am definitely not as read into KBL as I should be, especially the Strongberry portfolio, as my watching time is just glommed into Japan at the moment, along with catching up with the essential Thai BLs. The one KBL that I’m the most familiar with, Where Your Eyes Linger, didn’t dive into the usual K-drama tropes -- it was complicated, a little heavy, VERY sensual. When I was watching Semantic Error, I realized that I was feeling like I wanted, I NEEDED, the wonderful K-drama tropes that keep bringing me back to cishet Korea -- why are shows like Crash Landing On Me and Extraordinary Attorney Woo so great? I can have them on in the background and know exactly what’s happening whenever I look up.

It’s because so very often, the music tells me what’s happening, the tone of the voices speaking tell me what’s happening. Semantic Error allowed those tropes to enter and to play with the storyline. Absolutely nothing about the way the show was filmed or written seemed to me to be contrived for the sake of the storyline being a queer one. There was no condescension or heavy-handedness about the fact that our main couple was queer. There was no heavy-handed pointing to the revelations that Yuna shared with Sangwoo about Jaeyoung’s past relationships, and even that Yuna was also queer -- all of these were just slipped in as fact, because these late-series revelations are, yes, another K-drama trope that almost always work so well.

I loved it all. Considering that I think Korea had another smashing year of dramas all around, especially with Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Cafe Minamdang, Why Her?, and Little Women being so huge, the fact that Semantic Error held its own and was so freaking popular was heartwarming to see. I hope we have another one like this this year. (Park Seo Ham, ILYYYYY, tee-hee.)

Next up in my Catching Up series: Bad Buddy. After that, I’ll hit @absolutebl’s lists to see where I should go. I might take up Dark Blue Kiss to get to know TayNew before the GMMTV Cherry Magic adaptation airs.

#turtles catches up with the essential BLs #semantic error #semantic error the movie #jaeyoung x sangwoo #sangwoo x jaeyoung #semantic error the series

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musingsinmountains · 1 year

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Masquerade Chapter 3

Synopsis: Your name is Keisuke Baji and it's your third year of studying veterinary medicine in college. Now that the semester is almost over, you’re in danger of losing your scholarship because of your chemistry lab. You may be a pretty smart guy, but that’s not gonna save you. Maybe your lab partner can (even if she’s a bitchy nerd)? Maybe the extra credit you’re gonna get for going to the fine arts festival to support one of your mysterious colleagues? Who knows what happens when the house lights go down and the curtain opens.

C/W: AFAB!Reader, making out, cursing, nicknames, suggestive themes, fluff, angst, College AU,

Pairing: Keisuke Baji x AFAB!Reader

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Chapter 3: Baji’s Distraction

That might have been the best night's sleep you ever had. A beautiful woman who checked everything off your list, giving you the most private show in your dreams. While you did awake well rested, you also woke up needing to take care of yourself. It was Siren in your seven o’clock in the morning fantasy that got you off. “F-fuck,” you grunted, heat surging in your blood. You grab a shirt from your clothes hamper to clean up with. With a stretch and several pops to your spine, you get ready for the day.

You hurriedly shower, change clothes, feed the cats, grab your breakfast of champions (an energy drink and a slice of dry toast), and grab your school bag. “See yah later ‘Fuyu!” you call out as your head to your bike. Luckily the traffic this early in the morning won't delay your arrival to campus. At least it's a short day, working with Mouse for a little bit, and then going to the show tonight. Your first class today is Asian Civilization at eight am. Then you have an hour break before Technical Writing at ten, followed by Chemistry at 11.

Lecture was easier for you to sit through, especially with the note guide that was handed out today. Nine times out of ten, your professors have all the notes up on the board or provide a note guide/presentation for each class. Today’s Asian Civ lecture was all about the cultural revolution in China and dear god how your professor bird walked on that one. At least you got a good laugh out of that class. With all the tangents, the period went by real quick. So did your break and writing class. You make your way from the lecture hall in the library to the science building. When you made it to the lecture hall where chemistry was, you saw Mouse at her seat. If you weren’t mistaken, she put on makeup today. You approach her with caution, it's not often that she looks like a regular girl and not a bog witch.

“Mornin’ Mousey,” you yawn. Your caffeine high was fading and you felt like you were gonna crash, “You look normal today.” She’s wearing jeans and an off shoulder peasant top.You dont see any sort of strap, which makes you wonder if she's wearing any sort of bra. Your eyes dart away from her, hoping she doesn't catch on.

“Isn’t it a tad early for backhanded compliments?” she asks, looking at you with a content smirk on her face. She returns her look to her notebook, jotting down the almost insane and illegible scribbles from the board.

Your face scrunches and you sit next to her, “I’m trying t’be nice.” Professor Sato quietly entered the hall and all voices quieted. Today, the lecture was the start of the review for the midterm next week. Part way through the lecture, you feel your phone vibrate.

‘Fuyu: Yo, you left a book and a bunch of papers on the table.

An odd text to get but you feel in your bag and sure enough, you left a book at home. And it was the book you were gonna need for working with your lab partner. “Fuck,” you mutter, causing Mouse to glance at you as you text

KB: Fuck. I need that book. I’m fucked. ‘Fuyu: Sorry man, I can’t bring it to you. I’m at work.

“What’s wrong?” Mouse whispers as she nudges your arm with hers.

“Don’t wanna talk about it now,” the tension in your voice was palpable. You were disappointed with yourself. It's not like you were even running late today, but you were on auto pilot. You really gotta remember to put reminders into your phone.

“Ooh,’ she breathed, “well we can talk about it after class.” She sounded so calm and relaxed. It was nice seeing this side of her. You gently tap your face to keep awake as you continue filling out your notes. The hour that Professor Sato took for the lecture today was long. You’d catch yourself daydreaming of the Siren, seeing her up there lecturing you on molecular bonding.That helped time pass faster.

“Alright class,” Professor Sato began her closing statement, “I will email you a review worksheet with problems that correspond to today’s notes. They are due at our next lecture session. Dismissed” The room cleared in an instant, even the professor left quickly. Soon it was just you and Mouse, heading out together.

“So what happened?” she looked at you with her head, cocked to the side.

“I left all my lab stuff in the kitchen at home. I wasn’t even running late and I forgot it,” You didn't look at her.

“Oh,” she pushed her glasses up, “That's not that bad, why not go get them?”

“I have to come back to campus later and I don't want to do that much riding,” you shrug.

“Riding?”

“I have a motorcycle.”

“That's pretty cool,” she smiles, her dusty rose lips slightly parting, “We can’t do anything without your book. I could pay you for gas. I also have to be back here later tonight. We could just go back to your place and either work there or get it and come back.”

“Okay, Food first though,” you gesture with your head towards the cafeteria. There were a few odd glances as you and your lab partner headed into the cafeteria. You go your separate ways to the various counters to make choices and then meet up again at the drink station. “Where d’ya wanna sit?”

“I saw that the garden room was open. How about there?” She smiles, her volume is at a normal level and she's not screaming at you. The two of you find a high table in the garden room. The atrium was warm and had large plants, obscuring the view of your seats. For what seems like forever, the two of you eat in silence. It wasn’t until she let out a very controlled sigh that anything was said. “So what time do you have to be back on campus,” she inquired.

“I have to be back in time for the fine arts festival event,” you say, swallowing your mouthful of noodles, “So sometime between five and five fifteen. I want a good seat at the showcase.” You notice her eyes widened and she swallowed hard, like she was choking on her lunch.

“Oh,” she breathed, “I have a study group at five fifteen. So if we went back to your place, we could work through maybe a quarter of our reports.” She’s just staring at her tray, moving her salad around her plate. It’s almost like she's nervous about possibly being in someone else's home.

“That works for me,” you move your head to get into her line of vision and give her a sincere smile, “I’ll text my buds and let them know you’re comin’ home with me”. You tap away on your cell, sending a message to the roommate chat. Kazutora and Chifuyu text you back real quick with thumbs up emojis. You both continue eating in silence. At one point you look up from your lunch and notice her swaying rhythmically. “They’re okay with it. We can head out whenever.”

She grins, “Sweet. Let’s roll.” She’s quick to clean her seat up and grab her bag. You follow suit and you walk out to where you parked your bike. You hand her your helmet. “Thanks,” she said, clipping the strap under her chin. You took your seat and motioned to where you wanted her to sit. She gets on and tightly wraps her arms around your waist. You can feel your heart race. It wasn’t the first time you had a woman on your bike, but it was the first time that having someone hold themself so close to you. You take just a moment to try to slow your pulse back to normal, then you’re off. Your lab partner is holding you just tight enough that you can feel her laughing and you're pretty sure she squealed with glee. Mental note, ask her if this was her first ride. Having a passenger with you always makes the ride feel not as long. Especially when there is light traffic.

“We’re here,” you say slowly pulling into your parking spot. She hands you the helmet and she's got this huge smile on her face. “Was that your first time on a motorcycle?”

“Yeah,” She’s messing with her hair, finger combing out the tangles from the wind. “That is exhilarating. What a rush”. Her pupils are dilated and her breathing is slightly labored. You motion for her to follow you up to the next floor. You usher her into your apartment and lead her to the kitchen, where the table (and your lab book) were.

“Ya want anything to drink?” You grab two glasses of water and head back to the table, offering her one. She accepts it graciously as you sit down, pulling out your notebooks and laptop. “I’m gonna set an alarm for four forty five. It’ll take us ‘bout half an hour to get back to campus”. She nods and sets up her laptop. The two of you start in on the revisions to the first lab report of the semester. The conversation is very academic but you feel like looking back on these reports that you are able to understand it better than you did. And she’s being so… sweet? Maybe that's not the right word, but it feels sweet to you. You work on edits and show them to her. She gives you pointers on where to improve your wording. By the time your alarm goes off, the two of you are one report short of being a quarter of the way done with the reports. You put your things in your room before grabbing a bunch of snacks.

“We did some great work,” she smiles at you as she’s learning in the door frame of the kitchen sending a text message while you pack up for your return to campus. She looks content, relaxed, and so much more human. Up until today, you would have thought she was just like Professor Sato; cold, calculated, robotic.

“Yeah,” you reply, locking eyes with her. She smiles at you, fidgeting at her shirt’s hem. Your face feels warm, causing you to shake yourself out of blankly staring at her collar bones. “We should head out. The ride to campus will take us about half an hour.” You motion towards the door with your head. Your newly formed duo headed out the door, down to your bike. She grabs the helmet, secures it in place, and takes her seat behind you. Her grip on your waist isn’t as tight as the first ride, but she still closes the gap between your bodies. You can feel your stomach fill with butterflies, the intensity of this feeling grew with each minute you felt her body against yours. There is a pang of guilt for having these feelings when you know she’s holding on for safety. It is for safety right?

This time, your return to campus was quick, taking only fifteen minutes. The road was literally clear of ninety percent of vehicles. When you finally pull into the motorcycle space at the fine arts building, you feel a little sick. Who wouldn’t after having intense butterflies in their stomach for fifteen minutes. You dismount your bike and offer her a hand, which she accepts. “Thanks,” she quietly breathes, “Do you have Paypal? I’ll wire you some gas money.” She hands you her phone for you to input your info. You do so quickly, but reluctantly, and hand her phone back.

“You didn’t have to,” you shrug.

“I’m a woman of my word,” she says, “Let me repay your kindness, you didn't have to give me a round trip ride.” The silence between you feels odd, you wanted to reach out and touch her shoulder. Then you hear another voice.

“HEY MOUSEY!” It was some guy, calling out to her and jogging to meet the two of you. “Hey, we gotta get to study group.” You felt a twinge of jealousy as he grabbed her by the hand and pulled her away.

“I’ll text you,” she yelled as she was pulled around the corner. You manage a faint wave just barely raising your hand. Something felt off about this, but you didn’t question it further. It was still light out and the weather was nice, so you decided to walk over to the quad to eat your snack dinner. You pick a nice sakura tree to sit against while you eat. It had a great view of the reflective pond. Time passes slowly and you finish just in time to trek back to the art building to go get your seat.

Tonight the performance space is a little brighter, very much resembling that of a stage production. You found your way to the seat you had yesterday. Hell yeah, best seat in the house.The handout for tonight says that tonight is about ensembles, duets, trios, and so on. This should be interesting, you think flipping through to where you see Siren pictured. The first page you see her on is a recreation of the poster from Wicked with the one they are calling Butterfly. Looks like she's portraying the evil one. The notes on the page talk about the song choice, what it means to the singers. A few pages later there is a two page spread featuring Siren, Pomme, Fox, and Lizard. They were featured in a quartet exclusively found in the stage production of The Little Mermaid. Again, interesting. I’m guessing she's the mermaid.

The house lights flicker and you settle in for an evening. You shut off all sound on your phone just as the MC girl came onto the stage for the welcome spiel and to let the audience know that order for tonight would be the same for both . Siren’s first performance tonight was right before the intermission. You sat through plenty of performances from RENT, Sweeny Todd, Little Women, and Hamilton. They were good, but maybe the acting could have been better. What do you know? You are certainly NOT the type to be up there on stage. Could you hold a tune if you tried? Maybe, but it would be a stretch.

The MC girl came out to start the transition from Cabinet Battle #1 to For Good. Siren and Butterfly found their positions on the stage. The intro began, “I’m limited, just look at me,” Siren gestures to her whole self, looking out at the audience before turning slightly to Butterfly. “I’m limited, and just look at you. You can do all I couldn't do, Glinda,” she takes a step back, “So now it’s up to you, for both of us. Now it’s up to you”. She glides to mid stage, met by Butterfly. Siren takes Butterfly’s hands. Then the Butterfly starts her verse and her chorus. Her gestures are soft and flowing like water.

When Siren comes back in, the verse is full of emotion. It feels like she’s truly preparing to go into hiding. Siren goes into her chorus and your breath catches in your throat. Suddenly the two women’s voices come together for a line. Their voices are powerful and continue to grow as their lyrics move apart and come back, blending their choruses into what resembles a call and response moment. There is a dissonance that just pulls the lyrics together, and you feel a chill move down your spine. The women continue to sing together, trading off lines and coming back to unison until the song ends. “Because I knew you, I have been changed, For good”. As they let the last note go, Siren pulls her hood up and “flees” into the shadows just off stage. When applause begins, Siren and Butterfly come together, join hands, and take a simultaneous bow. Once again, the MC girl comes out to announce the intermission. Ten minutes to stretch, grab a drink of water and write a couple notes for your paper.

While you are enjoying a drink of water from the fountain, you decide to text your lab partner.

KB: Hey Mouse, Thanks for working with me today. KB: When’s your next break where we can work on the next set of reports? KB: It was nice hangin’ out with ya today.

You don’t normally send that many in a row, but getting your thoughts to where they were coherent was difficult tonight. You lock your phone quickly as you head back to your seat. The MC returns and welcomes everyone back from the intermission.Then the next set of ensembles start. They’re good, but not what you wanted to hear. You did watch them and applaud them, but they were ultimately forgettable. Only when the MC came out for the final time, you were snapped back to the current reality. “Thank you for coming! Without further delay, our final number, If Only performed by Siren, Fox, Pomme, and Lizard”. The MC seemed to poof away from the stage as four singers came out and became statue-esque. You notice that Siren is towards the middle of the left hand side of the stage. Soft warbles of woodwinds cue the first entrance.

And just as you predicted, it’s Siren playing the mermaid. Fitting considering the creature she chose as her moniker. Her voice is ethereal and you feel those butterflies come back to your stomach followed by the hair on the back of your neck standing on end. “It’s in my ev’ry glance, my heart’s and open book. You’d see it all at once, if only you would look.” She looks right at you, there is no mistaking it. You can feel a deep heat engulf your body as you hold her gaze through the phrase she’s singing. The one called Pomme comes in as the Prince. His lyrics seem to speak to you, make you think about Siren and oddly Mouse. Then Siren comes back in, “If only you would notice how I ache behind my smile,” Her eyes glittered in the light. Just as this mini-duet began, the voice of Lizard came in as the crab. Lastly, the one called Fox comes in as what you think is the mermaid's father.

At the end of the song, there is a haunting cacophony of these mixed voices; rising, falling, echoing, reaching out. It’s emotional and you feel it. You can feel the hurt, love, confusion, and ache of wanting to be seen. None of the other performances moved you like this, to tears. You weren’t the guy who would burst out in tears by listening to music. You decided to ignore the tears running down your face. As their final notes disappear into the walls, you are staring at her and how she's looking up into the rafters of the theater. Out of the corner of your eye, you see the entire theater is standing around you. You join them as the MC comes out, “Two nights in a row our final act has received a standing ovation. All performers will be in the lobby following their exit from the stage. Feel free to come talk to your faves.”

That was an invitation and you didn't know if you should go say something to her. What would you even say? It would be disrespectful to comment on her appearance or would she want to hear that you appreciate her costume choice. But would you want to tell her that she made you cry? How many opportunities would you get to talk to her before her identity is revealed? You grab your bag and file out of the theater. The lobby was crowded with audience members talking to the various acts. The dark silhouette of Siren caught your eye. She was standing with the guy in red, named Pomme, with his arm wrapped around her waist. You can feel your pulse quicken and you feel shaky as you approach them. “Uh, Hi,” you manage to choke out.

“Hi,” she smiled. Her voice was sultry and silky, like chocolate. “Thanks for coming tonight.” She extends her hand to you.

“The pleasure is mine,” you breathe and you gently shake her soft hand, “I’ve never been moved to tears by music before. That last song was an emotional roller coaster.” You could feel heat rise into your cheeks.

“I think I know what you're getting at. I love that you could appreciate it.” Her lips curled around the words and you were mesmerized.

“I saw you at yesterday's show,” Pomme interjected. His voice sounded like the ocean. “Thank you for supporting us.” You watch as he holds Siren’s waist tighter.

“I can tell there is a lot of hard work being put on display,” you respond looking him in the eye. You hate small talk. Shifting your gaze back to Siren, the fluttering in your stomach is almost too much to bear, “It was nice to meet you. Thanks again.” You turn on your heel and head out to your bike. The cool of the night helped settle your stomach. After a quick check of your phone, you text your roommates to let them know you’re on your way home. Still no reply from Mouse.

Kazutora meets you in the parking lot when you get back to the apartment. “Dude, you look like crap. What happened?”

“Nothing, just a good show,” you playfully punch his shoulder and head up to the apartment. Tonight, you make sure all your books are in your bag. As you are about to call it a night, your phone lights up.

Mousey: Sorry I got pulled away. Mako is very type A. It was nice hanging with you too. I’m busy all day tomorrow but we could get lunch after class tomorrow and then repeat our work session the day after. Mousey: I’ll bring us lunch. Maybe we could go back to your place to work?

Seeing her respond to you makes you smile and your pulse quickens. Almost exactly as it did when your thoughts turned to Mouse during the final number at the concert.

KB: Yeah, that was a little weird. Figured it was important. KB: That sounds great. See yah tomorrow. Mousey: Great. Have a good night :3 KB: Night.

You fall asleep thinking of your lab partner.

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4x23 always

Liveblog

ooh <3 always, great title!

I can't believe it has been a whole season since the shot! Good recap sequence!

Ok lmao both my father & I have fallen down mountains before. You cannot catch yourself like that, & if you do then you are probably able to swing yourself to the side to land on that balcony there. Like you can see, she pulls herself to get a better grip there!

But once one arm falls, you need to pull it back up & grab a different (non-sweaty) part of the ledge. & while yes your fingers are strong, you would do better to Bring Up Your Other Hand

Ok def sounded like castle not "man" as the captions said, then it sounded like "someone" pretending to be castle, then it sounded somewhat like castle again. (first "beckett" might have been SD told to speak like castle, could have been a different person told so. Then it was def not castle, then it was someone pretending to be castle & then the "hang on" was castle again.)

Still tho, I don't much like the unrealistic hanging scene. Actually no I really did like it & I can find reasonable excuses for the stuff I find unreasonable. It's cool.

3 days earlier

no caps. I love it.

Alexis <3 <3 <3

oh lmao she is valedictorian. I sometimes relate castle & alexis to me & my mom, but in this situation mum is alexis (smart val) & I'm castle (barely passed).

or TWILIGHT! *blinks*

RC: You know, the most worthwhile things in life are often the most difficult. For example…

*phone rings from beckett*

RC: Wow, that really is a smart phone.

btw love the golden light

KB, with a bomb cute jacket: you're probably the guy who had nothing on but boxers underneath his gown.

Me: *ran away from my graduation & climbed my way on top of a giant dumpster/storage pod*

RC: That is so insulting. If you must know, I was naked underneath.

THEY ARE GOING ON A DATE A DATE A DATE

KB: You coming, Castle?

SDFHSKJDHF I LOVE IT

Hm, two shots...

Love a shoe thing

Ooh lockpicks. Nice. I finally picked one of my locks the other day. I was using my rake tho, not my feeling peg so I would not be easily able to recreate it. I want one of those clear locks that you can see through.

Cazadores, love it when they tap the r.

Ryan is not super pretty rn

lmao poor guy down on his luck broke af, goes into the military? Sounds about right. Screw the military, this poor kid.

Captions were missing the accent on the N

Marisol? parasol? paraplui? paranormal? paralysis? analysis? synthesis? Synthwave? Literally my little brother & I went down a thought path like this. we both have adhd btw. I can't remember what thoughts came after that but we got all the way to fruit-by-the-foot.

How old is she?

I believe her.

F yeah girl. They keep blaming him & you just want to get the one who killed him.

They are so wrecking the crime scene lol.

Love how he smells the gun to see if it was fired recently ugh so good.

MONTGOMERY'S HOUSE???

Love how beckett & espt know his address but ryan looks shocked & castle (who was friends, or at least acquainted with montgomery before the show) did not know.

That was ryan not esposito who said that. This time I could tell.

Doesn't he have three kids? These pics are so weird. Roy, his wife, an older daughter, some boy... oh maybe it is a boyfriend. The baby boy would be what like 5 by now?

Girl I hope it is Not Loaded. In canada you need to have your gun locked up, though on the farm we would only lock up the bullets not the gun.

Love her.

So he knew when they were out of the house.

Btw I love espt's scar on his forehead & beckett's mole on her cheek, both give a little bit of Character to them.

Well obv this is going to be a plot heavy episode, but now is about the time I'd say it has to do with beckett not just roy & his files.

It has been like a year, or almost a year, why would you still have his old work files? nvm a year is a really short period of time

Her handwriting right now...

also I like her turtleneck.

I mean it COULD be a coincidence & it could be just for their own personal gain like maybe some rando roy put in jail & it is not actually related to johanna (in fact it makes things harder for The Big Bad Guy bc now Rando has the files)

Castle is still here, he did not leave after all <3.

She is stirring her coffee so smoothly.

KB: Say something reassuring.

RC: There are thousands of break-ins in New York City every year.

He's right: "Montgomery worked hundreds of cases. Just because this guy was after files doesn't mean he was after your mom's case."

Castle now might be the time to tell her

Green intro. Remind me to take a pic of that

Martha <3

Ooh transition! Murderboard to murderboard!

Yeah no she looks tired af.

Holding hands & they are not quite together yet but aaaah

Esposito looks nice & ryan looks incredible. Must pic this.

They blamed gangs for johanna's murder too

A MONTH after mongt was killed!?

That door really WENT. they BLEW IT UP.

Finally! They are wearing helmets!

Esposito *gets file* *face goes*

Ryan *what???? what is it?* *takes file* *face also goes*

RC: Well at least that's something. What was the crime scene?

JE: It was a shooting.

Me: ...!

their faces upon telling her, you can see how much they love her

Ryan's hands dangling there like that.

You can see ryan feeling conflicted abt this.

RC: Maybe you should be off this case.

Me: So true bestie

He brings out the first name. He loves her so much & wants her to be safe. In fact, castle has confided in him, like that time he asked ryan to keep an eye out for stuff related to johanna's murder but didn't tell becks nor espt.

(that was a weird way of pronouncing "why")

Esposito is right tho in the sense that nothing will stop her. (Except maybe castle telling her that someone forced him into a deal for her life.)

(also ryan's hair & the way he avoids eye contact)

I think I remember seeing something in the s5 bloopers but this is s4... hmm weird. I'll clip it for u tho.

No the heck you do not hold all the cards...

Who is "they"?

tbh smith is kind of unhelpful with that. I mean the rest of it was good but... idk man.

also like, they just killed another person. a thief. How many more people are they going to kill if they don't get taken down? Beckett would SO be willing to put her life in (temporary) danger to take down this ring that not only wants to kill her but also other ppl sometimes. Is her one life worth more than the lives of so many others who die because of this? They are turning a blind eye on so many things to let her live...

Interesting lighting. like the scene with alexis.

Girl he is more afraid of Them than of you.

Oh or not or he's telling her stuff

"make him whole" interesting words

Same "they"?

He KNEW he would come back to the gang & he accepted that price? Even tho he literally said he just wanted the loan? & the wife said he would not get into that?

Vincente Delgado, being poetic: Caught a glimpse before the night swallowed him whole.

KB: Yeah, but how did they know [he was desperate for money]? How do they know his background?

Me: bc they can tap into police files?

JE: Because they knew him from the military. He was hired by somebody he knew.

Me: or that

RC, trying to keep everyone safe: But whoever's gotten close to that secret is dead. I think it's clear we're in over our heads here.

JE: Speak for yourself, bro.

of course she is. If you get a mysterious $10k & don't question it & then your husband ends up dead you too would run.

Oh no the poor son!

WHAT is going ON with the lighting?

Also this room needs to be brighter than the observation room.

GIRL NO. WE ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH NATIVE KIDS IN THE FOSTER SYSTEM

Captions come on, I want to read what she said! I'm hard of hearing but I am NOT monolingual! If hearing people can understand the spanish, I WANT TO SEE THE SPANISH.

Someone military.

Getting files from the dead cop's house.

Montgomery would DEF have duplicate files hidden somewhere of the important files at least.

I love a good church. We have a native church where I live & it serves as the base church for other ethnic churches. The huge & popular italian church got its start here, the eritrean church is still in here just getting started... Plenty of good programs. It is a great church. It is one of the few churches I feel comfy going to, as a queer fnmi christowitch.

They just happen to sit near the back of the church?

& he just happens to show his face?

You can just go through the files manually.

What does cid stand for btw?

KR: How are we supposed to investigate if we can’t investigate?

My little bro while I had it paused: "I work in homicide." 'YOU KILL PEOPLE?'

Nice zoom there, love it, going into her window murderboard.

Wow a lot of shots from the past there, love it.

Oh & now we see castle doing castle investigation at home!

& we also see esposito doing investigation at night in the precinct, which kind of sucks for him, he hasn't gone home yet. (Also they haven't made his apartment set yet lol)

What is that, a pair of pliars? A razorblade?

& we don't get to see ryan investigating?

Wow he shows up at her house & esposito called her & he was ABLE TO FIGURE OUT THAT IT WAS A KEYCHAIN?

But at least it's a haystack.

He's going to tell her!

& he is not talking about mental health.

Ok so now Tell Her!

RC: Before Montgomery went into that hangar, he sent a package to someone, someone…he trusted. It contained information damaging to the person behind all this. Montgomery was trying to protect you. But the package didn’t arrive until after you’d been shot. Montgomery’s friend…struck a deal with them. If they left you alone, the package and the information inside would never see the light of day. But they made one condition—you had to back off. And that’s the reason you’re alive, Kate, because you stopped.

He's crying he loves her he really does.

Ok chill! Also he was not the one striking the deal! He was a pawn!

Yeah I thought he was behind the murder too but he could not have been bc why would he SAVE kate? maybe he is NOT saving her but he is preventing her from looking into it.

Yeah bro now is not the time to bring it up

(but I always love a "because I love you" & it is always SO good)

RC: How are you s—? Because of everything we’ve been through together! Four years I’ve been right here. Four years just waiting for you to just open your eyes, and see that I’m right here…and that I’m more than a partner. Every morning, I—I bring you a cup of coffee just so I could see a smile on your face, ((AAA <3 <3 <3)) because I think you are the most…remarkable…maddening…challenging…frustrating person I have ever met. And I love you, Kate, and if…that means anything to you, if you care about me at all, just don’t do this.

KATE NO HE WAS NOT THE ONE WHO CUT THE DEAL LIKE YOU WERE A CHILD. MONTGOMERY DID BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU LIKE HE IS YOUR FATHER. AAAAAAAGH

Actually yk what? He should have told her ages ago that someone struck a deal & she would have to back off. Except she would not have listened, just like this conversation now.

KB: Let them come. They sent Coonan, and he is dead. They sent Lockwood, and he is dead. And I am still here, Castle! And I am ready!

Ugh I had to stop my watch (which was the plan in the first place anyway) but I had the opportunity to try on my computer, I wanted to finish watching the ep & maybe post some photos that I could more easily get, but the issue is the library DVDs we have are blue ray. My computer won't play them. So yeah that's fun. I ended up doing some recording for the audiobook which I have not worked on in over a year. (About since I've been on T.)

Ok good morning I have work at 16.00 (so I need to leave before 14.45) & it is only 10 right now so I have plenty of time. But ofc I am working until midnight so that sucks pine sap. Tho I will be let off 15 minutes early so I can get home w/o breaking the law.

sdfjkfdhdsjkhhdffdkash aaaaaaah hdskjhfdska;euvn

& alexis is graduating... I cannot believe it is 2012. I mean half of 09 (s1 was short), all of 10, all of 11, & "all" of 12 (tho it has kind of only been 6m of 2012 bc she is graduating now in june)

I put my graduation tassle on my bike helmet. I rode my back to school during the warm months & I had an extra year of high school after graduating so I got to bike to school boasting that I graduated.

AC: I have watched or read every graduation address ever written and compiled all the best advice into one speech,

Me: Good idea, you overachiever

AC: and then I read it out loud. And guess what I sounded like? A pompous ass.

Me: Yeah

AC: I’m eighteen years old. What the hell do I know?

Me: You are correct, you are missing a lot more life experience than you will end up with, but you have a lot of experience now & your current speech will be relevant to the people who are here in this situation.

That's one of the reasons I stayed in high school for an extra year, I did not feel ready. I mean I also was not ready in the sense that I needed to upgrade courses but other than that I also did not feel ready on a psychological level. As an adhder my brain develops more slowly so at 18 I had the executive functions of like a 12 year old. That last year was great. I was legally an adult, I had mstured since g10, I knew the people & teachers, I was willing to accept help but I had also grown more independent, & I had gained the respect of people/staff. I was not some baby googoo gagaa, they were not robot overlords, we were people. Equals as people, though they had authority over me.

Oof fidgeting with the ring hhh

The lighting again.

They don't know what happened last night to get castle off the team & they are thinking "he would NEVER abandon beckett like that" so they know smth bad happened.

Cole Maddox.

But they looked him up so don't They know they're coming for him now?

I like how ryan is watching beckett this entire time through here, he is not looking at the driver's license he is watching beckett

Also since the tiger don't they need to tell ppl where they are going?

(also ryan's sweater is great)

Becks used to be the goody two shoes & now ryan is arguing her to go the pro way

The ether?

Wow it has been 13 years!?

First names

IDK IF YOU DO GOT THIS

"or the entire graduation" I mean like it is fine lmao

WHO from the 12th?

RYANNNN

beckett SAID he was off the team but ryan didn't believe her, he knew castle would help, like that time beckett got montgomery to kick him out & then monty still got castle back to pick her up & take her away from the hangar.

But now ryan probably thinks castle truly is NOT on the team anymore

Y'all at least wearing vests?

"get out of the way" lmao

Girl grab it & go OR un-ass the place

Oof those sexy Xs on the place

I thought they said this place was clear

Wow that was way too easy. he just Took Down both of them.

So he comes in from the front door I think. Maybe the door to the kitchen actually bc becks falls in the living room it looks like. He grabs her & smacks her against the wall, then she falls the other direction & drops her gun, which slides over to where the doorman is lying too; then esposito comes up trying to attack the guy near the door again, arms out probably trying to take a gun or maybe maddox is the one who had the gun, Madx twisted espt to the side, then looks like he maybe kneed him in the gut & threw him down to the floor too. esposito is left reeling, doesn't look unconscious.

My little bro: Savais! ("know" in french) Javier!

back to the fight scene: becks then pushes herself on the floor to grab her gun. Madx is already running away. She gets up & runs after him, then he is already running up the stairs when she shoots at him.

You can tell they had multiple sets to film this here bc suddenly they are on a roof. Lighting is fun. I'd like to hear this episode commentary by the lighting one. (Sorry, I don't watch the credits most of the time.) Well, it is also plot heavy so I'd like to hear the writer & director but shush, I want Every episode with commentary, & I want some of my fave episodes commented on by several groups. I want to hear the actors, I want to hear the writer producer & director, I want to hear the DP & lighting one & the set designer & costume designer...

Also her gun. When did she cock it & turn the safety off? I would not feel confident running like that with a loaded cocked gun like that.

She could stop for a second & shoot him... I'm sure she could make the shot.

Oh wait she does.

Look up. He probably climbed it & is going to jump you from the top.

& he probably does climb it bc he managed to get behind u.

Why does he pick her up like that? If I were him I'd use my Cool Military Training to karate chop her shoulder & knock her out.

Ooh now that was a great scene, he flips her over his shoulder & she rolls & we see it from a bird's-eye angle of destiny long shot thing? So good.

There we go he finally kicks the gun away from her, but why kick with your foot? Kicks are not useful so high, they should always be low. Chi geuk or whatever.

She is really wailing on him & he is just Fine.

Kick him in the balls hun.

lol I slowed down the video & that kick was... well. Again, don't kick the face, kick the nuts. I cannot tell if he dodges it or if he gets kicked & doesn't flinch.

Also what happened there? She goes to attack him but the camera pans down & his hand is just kind of Out & she falls?

Solar plexus? Winded her?

XD the way he just picks her up

For a sec I thought they were going to kiss

Grab her gun & shoot her? Bro come on.

The people on the street was a good choice in filming this.

(why is he just waiting there?)

(I said that out loud & lil bro said "because he's Powafull!!")

btw where is eposito? Was he knocked out there? He didn't seem unconscious. If Becks got up & came out here, surely espt (even if he was unconscious for a few seconds) could be coming up to help... UNLESS MADDOX HAS ACCOMPLICES THAT ARE KIDNAPPING OR KILLING ESPOSITO RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK

KB: Just tell me who’s behind this.

As if there is One person, which doubtless there is not

CM: You’re wasting your time, Detective. You have no idea what you’re up against.

KB, hot af: Neither do you.

*tries a sort of double takedown which really just fails*

& now is the start of the episode. Why doesn't he kill her tho? Long live the king mufasa style?

Oh I see. She DOES catch herself for a moment on the big ledge, making her slow enough in falling to catch herself a second time.

Like you can see she readjusts her hand! She should start side-bar-ing to the balcony to her right.

Your fingers are surprisingly strong. She is doing all this flailing & readjusting & gripping that she should totally inch her way to the right

Ooh the music

Ooh a pushzoom

Maybe growing up with parents who rock climb made me too smart.

Losing one hand might make you swing which can be dangerous but girl Bring Your Hand Back Up. Hold on with TWO hands. Unless catching absolutely ruined your tendons so you can hold on as long as it is up there but as soon as your arm fell you can't pick it up again.

She is yelling for castle not esposito who is Actually There

I already went over the voices, but this time I went over them with my little bro. Whose voice did they use when? Was it Dever trying to sound like castle?

The wedding ring!

Also y'all, if someone is falling, you do NOT have the weight to keep them up. You need to anchor yourself.

See the only reason ryan did not also fall was bc ppl were holding HIM.

Again good music

(also upon slowing it down you can see the uh.. consistency in grabbing someone falling. Have you ever done that bar trick where you get someone to catch a bill? They cannot do it. In fact, we did a similar thing in biology class. They cut & zoom in a little bit. They make ryan's sleeve into beckett's sleeve somehow.)

Castle is not here babe. It sounded like castle bc you were on the brink of death.

& gates there. She looks mad, not concerned that becks almost fell off a building

At least someone else's hand comes in there too to help her up.

& NOW beckett reaches up her other hand.

See? they have ryan & the other one down low holding up beckett & then there are also (at least) two others who are holding THEM up.

The thing is, ryan would probably be too low to pull her up, he was just holding her up. The other one helped by taking off some of the weight & pulling so that ryan could reposition himself & use his weight to pull her up.

You can see tho that she stops *there* once her elbows are on the ledge. It is hard to lift someone up. They would need to lift her up enough that she can do a pullup & get her elbows on the ledge. Then they probably grip her shoulders/upper arms to help her up while she pushes up with her arms & gets friction with her feet. Then she would roll onto the ground. & THEN she would stand up & they would be face-to-face. I would honestly like to try out smth like this (in a safe environment) to see how it works for myself rather than my logic limited experience. I want more exp.

Ryannnnnn!

(again with the lighting)

I mean yeah communication is important babes. I'm surprised she doesn't fire them.

Also esposito looks so saddddd.

VG: Don’t you “sir” me!

XD idk why I find that so funny

they don't even wear uniforms tho lol.

Girl don't resign. Don't do this you're emotional.

btw esposito in the t-shirt is great.

She looked at the badge so fondly there before resigning.

Ooooof alexis' speech over this ending? immaculate.

Wow I really feel that.

oof she looks back at the chair castle sits in hhhh

(btw they took esposito's gun but not the extra magazines he has on his belt.)

*Esposito walks angrily past Ryan and grabs his coat.*

KR, sitting on his desk after watching beckett leave & now watching esposito get going too: Javi… I had to.

*Esposito leaves without looking at Ryan.*

(& then beckett takes the elevator but not esposito??)

*Ryan throws a book across the bullpen.*

(which like...??? we often see emotion here but he yote a book. What did it hit? Where did it go?)

Ugh the rain & Her SwingsSet! I looove the swingset location in this show. I read a fic after this scene recently & it was p good. ( https://archiveofourown.org/works/3122723 )

What song is this btw?

Self is a construct. You are a person made of all the people you surround yourself with. When mum & I make the exact same noise of sympathy at the exact same time, you know she raised me. When I adopt a new word into my vocabulary from a character on a show. When I make my tea the way a past friend taught me. When my brother gets a new fidget or display of physicality...

She ends it with always instead of putting the always first shfaskjdfhsdjkfhsjhf this episode aaaaaaahhh

"in our hearts that will be with us,, always."

See? Adults are meant to play too. xbox is not just for preteen to teenaged boys.

Eeeee he puts the tassle On His Lamp!!

Don't delete it don't delete it don't delete it at least send it to her before deleting it or smth hsdjhskjdh

(at least he still has the recycling bin lol)

Knocking on the door, it has been like one minute since she called. She was probably calling to say "tell your doorman to let me in"

(fun fact, according to that set design bonus feature in new york, caskett live a 5-10min walk from one another.)

YOU

FINALLY THEY ARE KISSING WHY DID IT TAKE FOUR WHOLE SEASONS.

Sorry for what?

YOU DIDN'T CARE?

yes YES this is GREAT

& the MUSIC

& the lightning+thunder & the closing the door

& HER SCAR (but no surgery stars from when they cut her open to fix her heart lol)

Oohhhhhh it is not the end!!

Wow man looks way younger

NOOO MADDOX IS HERE IN SMITH'S PLACE AAAAH ON NO

Why is there an obsession over kate beckett? She is surely not the only enemy of Them.

& that's the end of the season!

Ok I started at 10, it is quarter to noon, it took me two hours to watch like 15 minutes of show. Holy moly.

I need to get all the clips & bonus features I want & then I'm good to send this back to the library.

#plot heavy #castle 4x23 #castle 4x23 quote #castle 4x23 spoilers #castle s4 spoilers #the always episode

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