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#a fun little throwback for the good morning#pernille harder#denwnt#sara björk gunnarsdóttir#ella masar
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Ethan & Kaycee
Ainna strikes again! How we give her a few little pieces and an idea, and she just brings it to life will never cease to amaze me! In my HC, Ethan & Kaycee's wedding day was last week, July 29th. It's a simple, informal affair held at a beach house they had rented on the Cape. It's also a surprise wedding. With guests thinking they're coming to a surprise birthday/engagement party for Kaycee, but the guests are the ones in for the surprise. Here's a little more about their big day. I'll be adding to it over time.
I hope you enjoy this little fic about how they spent the morning of their big day!
Book: Open Heart (Post Series)
Pairing: Ethan Ramsey x F!MC (Kaycee MacClennan)
Rating: Teen
Words: 1,400
Summary: They didn't want a lot of fuss, so they planned their "surprise wedding" in less than a month. On the morning of the big day, they remember they forgot to iron out a couple of details, but it all works out in the end.
A/N: @choicesmonthlychallenge (Throwback to February, Day 12, Marriage).
Kaycee peered out the bedroom window, perplexed to see the beach nearly deserted on a perfect July day. The homes on this part of the Cape owned the beaches that served as their backyards. Still, she and Ethan had had rented this property before, and on a Saturday in July, the neighbors were usually out in force. She let the curtain fall from her hand and shook her head.
“Ethan, what did you do?” she laughed to herself.
July 29th had arrived. She couldn’t say finally, as she and Ethan picked this day less than a month before, but it was hard to believe it was here. In just over an hour, they’d greet their guests, who would learn they weren’t sitting in traffic on Route 6 for Kaycee’s surprise birthday party. No, the surprise was all for them because today was their wedding day.
With the exception of her parents, Alan and Naveen, no one knew. They only caved and told them the week before, and now, she was glad they did. The four of them were happily attending to last-minute details – which she was convinced included threatening the neighbors to stay inside until the ceremony ended – leaving her to quietly enjoy her last hours as a single woman.
Also, she couldn’t have imagined getting ready for this day without her Mom. Rose had helped her into her wedding gown. Then she presented her with the pearl drop earrings she wore on her own wedding day, and Kaycee’s grandmother had worn on hers many years before. Even though Kaycee was going for a natural look, makeup still had to be reapplied after that. Now, with Rose off to ensure every flower was in its perfect place, Kaycee stood before the full-length mirror in her room, spinning in circles and watching the sheer, delicate lace of her gown dancing around her. Time spent planning be damned, she was allowed to say... the day was finally here!
A knock on the door startled her. She was pretty sure it was Rose making her way back, but just to be safe, she asked.
“Who is it?”
“It’s your future husband,” Ethan declared, a smile present in his voice. “I’m just checking to make sure you haven’t come to your senses and run away.”
“Hmmm, it was a close call,” she laughed through the door. “But Naveen stopped by and put this ankle monitor on me, so you’re safe.”
“Thank God for Naveen,” he chuckled. “You know, since Tobias still has no idea that he’s going to be my best man, I could change my mind and give the honor to Naveen.”
“Now, Ethan Ramsey! What has Tobias done for you to consider taking his title away?”
“Nothing. That’s just it; he’s done nothing, whereas Naveen prevented you from becoming a runaway bride.”
“Ethan,” she laughed. “If I was going to run away, it would have been long ago. You’re safe with me.”
Their conversation had all been in good fun, but those last four words left Ethan choked up. You’re safe with me.
“I know that,” he said with a cracked voice. “And I hope you know you’re safe with me, too.”
Kaycee leaned against the wooden door, a tender smile on her face. “Of course, I do, Ethan. Of course, I do.”
“Good,” he grinned. “And I heard two I do’s there. Excellent work, Rookie. Get practice in because I’m going to need you to say that one more time very soon.”
“Oh, I plan on it,” she reassured.
“So, we never really discussed it.. but when do I get to see you? It won’t be when you’re walking down the aisle, will it?”
“Considering we’ll be greeting our guests together, I think that’s a no. See, these are the things we would have ironed out if we had gone a more traditional route.”
“Any regrets?” he asked.
“Not one.”
“Good. But that puts me right back where I started. When do I get to see you?”
“Well... nothing is stopping me from opening this door right now.”
“All right, but shouldn’t I go grab the photographer? I believe it’s called a first look shot or something like that.”
“You could,” she replied with a question in her voice. “But I’m not of the belief that every moment has to be shared or recorded. Some of them should just be lived, and I want to share this with you and you alone. Is that all right?”
“All right?” He enthused. “I think I just fell in love with you a little more.”
“All right,” she beamed, bouncing on the balls of her feet with excitement. “Let me step back, and I’ll tell you when to open the door so we can see each other at the same time.”
Ethan’s heart began to race with anticipation. “Sounds good, but don’t make it long.”
“The room isn’t that big, Ethan,” she teased as she fluffed her skirt and positioned her lace train around her. “OK,” she beamed. “You can come in.”
His hand was already on the knob, and the door opened before Kaycee could complete the words. A puff of air escaped him, and he visibly stepped back when his eyes fell upon her.
“Kaycee...” he gasped, completely overwhelmed. “You look...” he wanted to say so much, but words truly escaped him.
“So, is it appropriate?” she giggled.
A bright smile spread on his lips, and he quickly closed the distance between them before taking his bride into his arms.
“You are breathtaking,” he breathed into her ear. “I knew you would be, but,” he stepped back with tears in his eyes. “Nothing could prepare me for this.”
“So... it’s definitely appropriate,” she grinned.
“I’m glad to see that getting married will have no impact on you being the wiseass I fell in love with.”
“Oh, never!” she assured. Moving closer, she smoothed out his lapel as Ethan wrapped his arm around the small of her back, pulling her tightly against him. “You look gorgeous, too,” Kaycee whispered. “Remind me how I got this lucky?”
“You,” he asked, lifting her hand over her head and giving her a gentle spin. His eyes drinking in every inch of her. “The lucky one is me, and I won’t hear any arguments.”
“We’re both lucky,” she smiled.
“OK, I’ll accept that one!”
“So,” she questioned. “We have a little time to kill before guests begin to arrive. What would you like to do?”
Ethan smirked, leaving little to the imagination. “If I did what I want to do right now, I promise, we wouldn’t be in any condition to greet our guests anytime soon.”
“We will save that for tonight, dear.”
“Yes, and we’ll be kicking people out early! But what would you like to do now?” he asked.
“I know! Why don’t we take a quick walk along the beach? I know it’s a small guest list, but even so... once everyone arrives, I won’t have you to myself until the end of the day. So, want to take a quick walk, just you and me?”
“I’d love that,” he smiled. “But you need one thing before we go.”
“I do. What’s that?”
Ethan stepped back into the hall, returning with Kaycee’s bridal bouquet in his hand.
“I think this will complete the picture.”
Kaycee held the bouquet to her nose, inhaling the beautiful fragrance of the soft pink and white roses and peonies in her bouquet.
“It’s so beautiful,” she sang.
“It is, but it pales in comparison to you.”
Kaycee reached up and pulled him into a tender kiss.
“Aren’t we supposed to wait until the officiant tells us to do that?” He asked.
“I won’t tell if you won’t.”
“Come on,” Ethan insisted as he took her hand. “Let’s take that walk so we’ll be back in time to greet everyone. Until then, I’m showing you off to everyone on the beach.”
“Speaking of that... who do you plan to show me off to? The starfish? Can you explain why none of the neighbors are on the beach on this gorgeous summer day?”
“Briberly,” he deadpanned. “Bribery may have had something to do with it. I also told them they could join us at the reception later.”
“I knew you were behind it!” she laughed as they approached the door.
But just before they reached it, Ethan stopped and turned to Kaycee, gently taking her face in his hands.
“I love you, Kaycee. I love you more than I could ever express, and I hope you know that.’
Reaching up, she gently squeezed his hand.
“I do. And I love you every bit as much. I hope you know that.”
“I do,” he smiled.
“Thank goodness,” she grinned as they stepped outside. “I do...now you’re practicing, too!”
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#choices fanfic#choices fanart#open heart#open heart choices#choices open heart#open heart fanfic#ethan ramsey#ethan ramsey x mc#playchoices#playchoices fanfic#ethan x kaycee
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Served Cold
Throwback to that time I wrote a twisty political scandal fic disguised as a coffeeshop AU. I'm still quite pleased with this one, it was very fun to write the twists and turns, with suave coffee snob Crowley and thirsty, thirsty Aziraphale. If you like a bit of a mystery, a bit of a plot twist, and a good deal of capital-c Clues, you'll enjoy this.
Served Cold by FeralTuxedo
M, 14205 words
Summary:
On a quiet Wednesday morning, a man with flaming red hair and a face tattoo saunters into a London café. But it appears that he’s there for rather more than just espresso.
Snippet:
This was exactly the type of customer Divinitea wanted to attract, Aziraphale thought. Modern, fashionable, rich. Too casually dressed to be a banker. No, this was someone with an undefinable job that was mostly done at posh brunch places with free wi-fi. He probably had the word entrepreneur on his business card.
He was clearly a bellend. But a very attractive one. Shame Anathema wasn’t here to admire him. Aziraphale would have to do that all by himself.
He turned to the stainless steel behemoth that was the coffee-maker, an expensive import from Italy which Anathema insisted would keep the customers coming back, and began the complicated series of steps that resulted in a steaming stream of thick black coffee pouring into a tiny and rather pretty duck-egg-blue cup.
Aziraphale served it to the stranger, placing the cup on an equally tiny saucer. The man had taken his sunglasses off by now and was watching him with curious brown eyes.
‘Is this place new? I swear it wasn’t here last year.’
‘It wasn’t,’ Aziraphale said. ‘We opened a few months ago.’
It had been a spur-of-the-moment decision, fuelled by two bottles of Chardonnay and a dangerously outraged Anathema. Gabriel, of course, had been the cause of her outrage. And Aziraphale, who’d very much been drinking to forget, had instead ended up agreeing to her harebrained idea.
But the mysterious customer didn’t need to know all that.
He took a sip of his espresso and pulled a face. Aziraphale tutted.
‘Coffee not to your liking?’
‘Well…’ The man scrunched up his nose and tipped his head from side to side. ‘Since you asked. It’s a little over in the roast.’
Aziraphale just about stopped himself from muttering You’re a little over in the roast and instead focused intently on wiping the already spotless bar top.
‘But then,’ the man continued, ‘you’re not called Divini-coffee, are you? I bet your tea is top notch.’
Despite himself, Aziraphale laughed.
‘Divini-coffee?’
‘Did the pun come first or the menu?’
‘If you must know, I wasn’t keen on serving coffee in the first place. There’s a perfectly serviceable Costa just up the road, you see, and even a little independent place for those with a more discerning palate and a bigger budget—’
‘What, so you’d rather have people go to the competition for a hot drink? That’s one way to sabotage your own business.’
‘— then my partner made the same observation, and here we are with apparently subpar espresso that’s a little over in the roast.’
‘Your partner?’
‘Junior partner,’ Aziraphale corrected. ‘She owns 30% of the business.’
‘But 100% of the business sense, by the sound of it.’
‘She’s also the one who picks and orders the coffee beans, so you better take it up with her.’
The man shielded his eyes with the side of his palm and turned his head left and right, like a ship’s captain on the lookout for land.
‘Unless your partner is invisible, I don’t seem to have an option but to take it up with you.’
‘Fine.’ Aziraphale sighed. ‘Do you want a refund?’
He hoped not. They were already in the red for this month. On the other hand, Anathema was always very quick to offer refunds, going on the rather flawed assumption that a happy customer was, somehow, preferable to actual money in the till.
‘No need for such extreme measures,’ the man said with a wink, ‘It’s leagues better than Costa at any rate. Though I will take a few minutes of your company as compensation.’
God damn, he was charming. Aziraphale detested him for it, just a little. But then, because he was Aziraphale Fell and his only two weaknesses were French pastries and arrogant men, he did sit down with him. On the edge of the chair, of course, with his back straight and one eye on the door, just to make it absolutely clear that he was at work, and not usually in the habit of lounging about with customers.
The man grinned at him, clearly relishing the awkwardness. Aziraphale stared right back, eyebrows raised. He was not going to let this stranger fluster him.
‘You could at least tell me your name, if you insist on this—’
He flapped his hands between them to make a point.
‘Crowley,’ the man said, after a drawn-out pause.
He savoured the word like a fine wine, and Aziraphale thought it suited him perfectly.
‘Crowley,’ he repeated. ‘You go by your surname?’
‘Yup. I like it that way. Maybe you should try it, too, er… Aziraphale.’
Crowley’s eyes dropped down, once again, to Aziraphale’s name badge, and lingered there much longer than necessary.
‘Oh no, I shouldn’t think so,’ Aziraphale said lightly. ‘Anyway. Do you wish to converse at all, or are you perfectly happy just to stare?’
‘Was just admiring your apron, that’s all.’
‘Thank you. My partner hates it.’
‘I take it she’s not a fan of tartan?’
‘She says it doesn’t suit her.’
‘Suits you, anyway.’
Aziraphale mumbled another thank you. He was starting to get a little hot under the collar. It wasn’t hard to figure out why. He was fairly certain he’d seen this exact scenario play out on Pornhub. Minus the tartan apron, of course.
And really… it had been a quiet morning so far. Perhaps he could lock up the front door and drag Crowley to the back room. Have him rip the apron over his head and push him against the fridge and be done with him before Anathema arrived for her shift at lunch time.
Aziraphale sighed an inward sigh and, of course, did nothing of the sort. Good lord, he really needed to get laid. But ideally not at work. He had standards, after all. Unfortunately, Crowley appeared to meet all of them.
‘What do you want to talk about, then?’ he asked, trying hard to drag his thoughts out of the gutter.
‘Anything, really. The weather? Your favourite band? The embarrassment that is our current prime minister? Bet you’ve got some interesting thoughts to share.’
Aziraphale huffed. It was clumsy flirting, certainly more clumsy than he would have expected from a man who wore his trousers quite so tight.
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hi abby!! you love talking abt your fics? well, as it happens, i LOVE listening to people talk abt their fics *high-fives you* so hereee u go: 8, 17, 23, 24, 33 and 40 :)
hiiii ria thank you <333 [high fives you back] this is a beautiful synergy we are living...sorry this took me several days i just kept not having a shareable last line. for every we're so back there is always an it's so over. we're here now and that's what matters LOL
8. share the last line that you wrote
you have kept me waiting, my lord steward, she says when his footsteps stop, his reflection hovering just out of reach of her mirror.
well this is NOT umbar fic OR condolences congratulations. one day i will learn to finish one thing before i start another. but it is set in a slightly alternate version of the same reality. this is the crazy forty years later everyone lives au where aragorn is king and denethor is his steward and finduilas is actually the one running the place. it’s just an excuse for me to write “what if we made our healthy loving political marriage a messier and more political v-shape because you just HAD to officially get back together with your situationship from when you were 25 and oh he just HAPPENS to be the king.” they are shockingly functional about it (i do not know if i could call it healthy. but it is Incredibly High-Functioning and They Are Having Fun. so who am i to stop them!). conceptually/vibes-wise this is the result of my mind stirring around "their wives know the steward serves the king, and sometimes that goes beyond matters of state" (like truly...WHOA boy. that knocked me flat. @bretwalda-lamnguin i WILL respond to that post eventually i have things to say they just have to marinate a little longer) + regent!finduilas as a concept and an Energy + finduilas's general pure concentrated "i can fix him" beam + also going on a tangent off of anna @potatoesandsunshine's "our marriage is already bad enough what if we ruined someone else's life with it" theory. and this came out.
17. what is your favourite trope to write
NAMES AND TITLES AND MANNERS OF ADDRESS BABY!!! that shit is like drugs for me. whenever i'm messing around with it i feel like i am at the very height of caring about and understanding my own work i KNOW that sounds obnoxious as hell but like. aghhhhh. im in there THINKING. about specifically when and where and how one manner of address might shift to another and whether that is different inside the narration and out loud and what each name and title means in which situation. yeah im normal about hierarchies why do you ask.
23. where do you usually write
my beloved local coffeeshop down the street from my apartment! i am there as i write this. my regular barista often makes fun of me bc he sees me running for the train in the morning bc i am perpetually late for work. unfortunately the earliest i can make it out of the house in the evening is 7 and they close at 9 but it’s a good two hours. then it’s off to my friends’ apartment (they’re my downstairs neighbours i basically also live there) for like another two hours. yeah i do this every day. i am aware i am insane but it is the only way i get anything done.
24. which fic do you think is your funniest
hmm. i feel like im not often intending to be particularly funny. wait no its definitely open arms. “sokka, panicking: you like guys!” is literally in the description. i wrote it bc of a shitpost. WOW that is possibly the throwback of all time. that’s like the first fic i wrote back when i started getting really Good at writing because i was wildly hyperfixated on avatar and it was covid and i wrote 100k in a year. well well well
33. which of your fic titles is your favourite
ok i did do this one but im gonna give a runner up. TO THE VERY DEAR MEMORY OF [ ] is a personal fave for sure bc it's. idk nontraditional? well it's based off of this image and it took me a long time of testing different things before i figured out a way to appropriately represent that erasure of the name on the headstone by the water...the sensation that there Used to be something there, that there was Supposed to be something there, but all that is left is the water. and i'm very pleased by the effect of the brackets and how it looks on the ao3 page. it just brings me a lot of joy to let myself kind of fuck around and do whatever i think is cool. im trying so so so hard to internalize "get weird with it!" and its the baby steps out here.
40. pick one of your fics and share a quote to go with it (not a quote from the fic, but an outside quote that fits)
ooh ok a throwback. race for a hurricane (speaking of the titles/names/manners of address trope this is my BEST execution of it) + "the french have a saying: the fate of glass is to break. maybe the fate of spies is to just fade away. but with any luck, we leave something behind" -spectre, 2015. im getting that last line tattooed someday.
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#from the inbox#sweetshire#oh man you picked good ones. i love!!!! to do this!!!!! so much!!!! thank u again!!!!<333#also hello to my friends whom i have tagged. i am out here citing my sources.#ive been rediscovering how fun fandom is as a collaborative activity. i spent a lot of time just kind of quietly referencing a lot of thing#and never saying anything. Trying To Do This Less. the work is TRANSFORMATIVE for a reason!!!!
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⭐️⭐️⭐️
I’ll admit that when I walked into my IMAX screening of GODZILLA x KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE, I wasn’t expecting very much. Not that I hated any of the previous four big screen entries in this latest iteration of the Monsterverse, they just never really connected with me in a way that made me want to revisit them. They were spectacle, and to me, little more than forgettable. I was pleasantly surprised, then, to find this entry to be the THOR: RAGNAROK of the franchise.
Not that this necessarily reaches the heights of that comparison, but just to give you an idea of the vibe that this film is bringing to the table. It’s colorful, silly, and genuinely laugh-out-loud funny at times. Once I settled in with the mindset that this was basically a very expensive version of a Saturday morning cartoon brought to life, I had a marvelous time!
The story is laughably dumb, really just a series of reasons to get to the next big set piece. I’m not saying that as a negative, either. The previous entries I personally found took themselves a little too seriously, and I appreciated this one acknowledging what kind of story it was telling, and just having fun with the material for once!
The human characters are basically just there for exposition, especially Rebecca Hall’s Ilene, but thankfully she’s talented enough to (mostly) keep you from your eyes glazing over. The MVP of this one, though, is easily the addition of Dan Stevens’ Trapper. He is in his element as a vet to the Titans, being alternately weird and hilarious in a performance that feels like a throwback to the eighties. Adam Wingard definitely made the right call to reunite with him after the criminally underrated THE GUEST.
But we’re all here for the quite literally larger than life characters, so how do they fare? Well, from a character perspective, I enjoyed the arc more than any of the earlier entries. Alternately heartwarming, exciting, and funny, I was genuinely invested in Kong and Godzilla’s globe spanning adventures. Now, about the special effects… While I really loved [most of] the design choices for the various creatures I encountered during the runtime, especially Godzilla’s glow up, I couldn’t help but be distracted by a disconnect between how the effects didn’t feel connected in a tangible way to their surroundings. Good CGI has a weight to it, this felt like nothing onscreen was truly interacting in the world that is presented.
All that being said, my packed theater seemed to have a blast. Everyone laughed at all the right moments, and the theater even burst out into spontaneous applause at one late stage moment in the film! Turn off your brain (honestly, how many more layers are they going to discover in the middle of the Earth, anyway?), enjoy the richly saturated colors, and have fun watching some of the most iconic characters in the world wreak havoc!
3/5
#movie review#film review#godzilla#king kong#godzilla x kong: the new empire#Godzilla Kong#dan stevens#rebecca hall
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Hey, folks. Let's look a couple approaches to this week's contest!
@loreholdlesbian graced me with this Bantian benediction. Angel of the Shardic Empire has a lot of implications about the mechanics of this set:
Ability counters may or may not be present, and we're getting a new kind in the form of exalted counters; exalted, then, is probably gonna be back in the set!
Converge is working as flavorful glue here as well as a mechanical highlight. Presumably, all shards/factions are going to have access to converge in their own unique ways. This rewards multicolor deckbuilding.
And at the same time, the muticolor theme isn't going to be about permanents as much as it is exploratory deckbuilding through spells, mana bases, etc. In the same way that Alara cared about general multicolor, we're back to a similar kind of base without going as hog-wild as Alara Reborn.
As a rare as well, this is a top-end limited all-star for sure. Swinging for 4-8 damage in the air the turn after this comes out is no joke, and you can hold it back to spread out your damage elsewhere. Presumably there are gonna be a few other fliers, so we have that going for us as well. Bant-themed aggro!
The flavorful aspect of this card can be found in its dedication to rigidity despite the Conflux. The angels of Bant are eschewing vulnerability or exploration and, at least on this card, the determination to keep the hierarchy is important. From chaos, to order. From Conflux, to empire. Lorehold mentioned a slight antagonism to this angle, and I can buy it. I don't think this would be a strict villain-hero dichotomy throughout Alara in the same sense; there are good actions and bad actions, sure, dangers and survival, but everyone's trying in their own ways. Some (like Sedris) are definitely a little more on the villainous side, but it ain't great to be of a lowly caste in Bant either.
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This morning, I had a few random ideas, but I wanted to share one more nostalgic/micro-view of a planar possibility. I don't know if this would necessarily be a winning kind of card, but it's a part of the limited exploration that might help some folks.
Mechanically, it's a removal spell for small things that then becomes a combat boost later in the game with aggressive possibilities. In retrospect, I might even have given it flying and deathtouch for that much mana—no, wait! Oh, that's fun. Okay, so, now I'm imagining deathtouch and menace, as a throwback to Kederekt Creeper. Ah well, too late in the day now. But regardless, that's one aspect: a common cycle (like the common cycle of spells from original ALA that gave benefits to massive color-themed cycling) of spells with minor boosts later in the game post-exile.
I suppose I was more looking to the flavor side of it all—because fleshcrafting doesn't stop just because worlds collide. The wizards and humans of Grixis have to rely on some smarts and scavenging in order to retain their power. Sedris made for himself a wicked empire, no doubt, but these living are indeed living. Mostly. Somewhat. Who's to say when and where it's safe to go out? Zombies are a hot commodity.
This is my favorite Zombie token of all time (in the link). It's horrific, it's experimental, it's imaginative, and it shows what one can do with the craft. What if the muscles underneath brought out the instincts of those from whom the flesh was taken? Not everyone can reanimate a dragon, but picking up new ways to eat and scavenge... I suppose that I wanted to show the ways, just like Lorehold, that reactions to change are different. These cards speak to a choice of inhabitants: "The world has changed, but I will spread my cause out to it" vs. "The world has changed, but I'll change with it here" deal.
So there we have it. Enjoy!
-@abelzumi
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I realized it might take a little longer to make the other Spotify playlist covers for the Picture Perfect Boyfriend playlists I've been chugging along on, so I'll just post this one here as well already.
Got a playlist for the Ashino fans out there! I tried to make it generally a mix of songs he'd enjoy and ones that inform his vibe in some way.
For each character, I specifically start the list on something they'd listen to, so he gets Wannabe by Spice Girls. The second song is more about the character, so I chose Leave the Door Open by Silk Sonic, since it's a fun retro throwback love song, but can come off braggadocious to the point of smugness.
Aside from that, I'll make a cut below for game spoilers for Picture Perfect Boyfriend REBOOT. I suppose you can consider the playlist itself also a spoiler, but I hope people at least played some of Ashino's route before deciding to listen to this thing. :p
After that is a small string of fairly innocuous love songs. I thought that would be a fun way to sort of imitate the first date. Things are going fine (aside from some perceived self-centeredness) right up until it's really not fine. Arguably, the song Plastic Love by Mariya Takeuchi is a small warning, since it's about empty and unfulfilling flings, but I set Dangerous by Big Data and Joywave as the moment the other shoe drops. (Fun Fact: Ashton gets a song from the same album as Dangerous.)
After that, the playlist mostly vascillates between sweet, bitter, and a couple of anime themes (if you know, you know). I specifically chose Rondo Revolution from Revolutionary Girl Utena (they didn't have the actual soundtrack version, so I chose a cover by Shokotan), as well as Morning Grace from Princess Tutu. Considering his tastes, I would so twist Ashino's arm into watching Princess Tutu, if he hasn't.
Aside from that, I think the most notable detail was that I added two songs regarding summer, namely because of a certain someone that canonically loves summer the best. Specifically, I chose to end on summertime by cinnamons and evening cinema for a sweet note, despite the fact that the game isn't finished, so what happens with Ashino is very open-ended at the moment. I just want to end each playlist on some sort of positive note.
I think one of my personal favorite choices for this playlist was the very bubblegum cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath by The Cardigans. It's a really good match for Ashino's feelings towards the Bureau as well as the existential nightmare that is his life (similar to Ghost in the Machine by SZA and Phoebe Bridgers but with absurdly sweet production) and I think it can also vaguely work for his constant attempts to gaslight Kadsey (something I really wish I could berate him for).
Guess I had more to say than I expected, but there you go! Next up for a cover image and post like this will be Ashton.
#picture perfect boyfriend#picture perfect boyfriend reboot#ppb#ppbr#ashino#spotify#spotify playlist#character playlist#playlist#ashton fell#espoirduvide#farshootingstar art#my art
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Throwback Thursday Monday
tagged by @ettelene, thank you!
I too have plenty of smut, but I may have even more implied smut - the Drabble Duel from last year's B2MEM was a particularly fun exercise in hinting at more within 100 words, so here are 3 smutty drabbles... without smut
A Lesson
In hindsight, Elrond thought, trying to fondle his lover in the forge might not have been the wisest idea.
“If you cannot keep your hands to yourself, little star,” Celebrimbor had said, “perhaps I shall have to teach you a lesson.”
And so Elrond found himself kneeling naked on the cold stone floor of Celebrimbor’s forge, his hands tied behind his back and to his ankles, his legs spread wide by a bar between his knees.
“What a pretty sight you make, my Elrond,” Celebrimbor whispered into his ear before returning to his work, leaving Elrond to kneel and wait.
My Jewel
“Kneel,” Celebrimbor says softly, and Lómion obeys. His posture is impeccable – legs spread, hands folded behind his back, head bowed.
“Very good,” Celebrimbor praises. “Look at me.”
Lómion’s eyes are dark and trusting. He submits so well. Celebrimbor wants to hold him close, far away from the world that had hurt him, keep him safe forever.
“Who do you belong to, my precious jewel?”
“You, my Lord.”
Celebrimbor runs a finger along the mithril collar around Lómion’s throat. “Mine. Mine to love, mine to treasure.”
“Yours to command, yours to use.”
Celebrimbor pulls him up and into a bruising kiss.
Blackmail
The door opens, and Lómion enters.
“Annatar,” he greets. “Or should I say Sauron?”
“How…”
“Did you truly think I had forgotten, Gorthaur? Now…” There is a small smile on his lips that unsettles Annatar. “I can go and tell Lord Celebrimbor, or…”
A shiver runs down Annatar’s spine at Lómion’s tone.
“... you can take off your clothes, lie down on the bed, and spread your legs.”
Slowly, Annatar complies.
When he wakes the next morning, sore and aching from Lómion’s attentions, he finds he cannot move.
“Maia-safe chains,” Lómion grins. “Now stay right here while I fetch Lord Celebrimbor.”
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07/04/2024. Today is my 14th day in hospital and it doesn’t look as if I will be going home just yet! I could wrong of course 😉.
As I am unable to get out and about to photograph the flooding that has been happening here or to take advantage of yesterdays warm sunny day when the mercury hit 27c! I decided to use “throwback photos” from places I have visited. The first photo is of “Temple Saint-Étienne” in Mulhouse, a city I visited in March 2022.
So it was Easter Day last Sunday and to celebrate we were given some appalling food which I returned untouched. The highlight of the lunchtime “plat” was the birds nest cake with jelly beans, it was delicious. In the evening there was a pastry square with chicken and mushroom and as much as I wasn’t going to eat it, it was rather tasty. It certainly beat a lot of the food we get here!
On Monday,we had coffee in the afternoon 😳 with a little cake and a couple of mini Easter eggs. Anie messaged and visited me bringing another couple of Easter eggs.
Everyday it seems that something else is low, red cells, white cells, platelets, potassium or blood pressure! I must admit by Wednesday I felt quite low myself. Asking why my body wasn’t working as it should? It turns out this is quite “normal” for the type of chemo I am having now (wish they had told me earlier). Anyway, a good talking to and I settled myself down, my positivity returned and I was “up there” again.
I now have provisional dates for my stay in the hospital in Paris. However, I really need to go home for a couple of days to get my case packed ready to take.
I have run out of reading materiel so I need more books. I have had to resort to reading the blog from inception December 2016. After two full days I am only at Xmas 2019. It’s interesting to look back on though, I must admit.
This week I have chosen two songs by someone I think has been very underrated. The songs go back to 1967 and 1968 respectively. Apparently the songwriter, Cat Stevens, sold this first song to P.P. Arnold for £30 and it became a big hit for Arnold as well as for other artists including Rod Stewart and Sheryl Crow, the song is “The First Cut Is The Deepest”.
The second song, written in 1967 and recorded by P.P. Arnold in 1968 is “Angel Of The Morning”. I must say I have loved both of these songs since first hearing them in the 60’s and was only too happy to sing them at any opportunity. However, I must admit it was much the same for lots of songs from those decades.
Pauline messaged last weekend, from Barcelona, where she is currently working. At some point over the Easter weekend she had her phone snatched out of her hand and the thief made off on an electric scooter. I imagine that was quite a shock! She, fortunately, had an old phone with her and just needed to buy a sim.
I have been messaging lots of people, French friends, English friends and catching up on “Hatched, Matched and Dispatched, unfortunately it is mainly now the “dispatched” that are known to me.
“The Photographer” had his daughter for the day on Tuesday. He sent me a photo of them waiting for the stately home they were going to visit, to open. They had such fun until my granddaughter fell in mud, all over her new leggings! She was worried Mummy would be unhappy, so they took a photo to let Mummy know what had happened. This weekend he has both of his children, it was wonderful to get photos of their happy smiling faces and then of my grandson catching “forty winks”. It was ok as Grand-mere has slept rather a lot today. Hope I sleep tonight! Last Monday “The Photographer” made the trip to Kings Lynn to photograph the home side v Scarborough AFC. At half-time the score was 3-0 and he felt sure Scarborough were going to be beaten, However, they pulled off an amazing feat to win 3-4. No-one saw that coming at half-time, absolutely brilliant!
“The Reconnect Navigator” is thrilled this week as she has now been given her own cases. She worked overtime one evening and so on Friday she had a 3pm finish which was great! Makes the weekend longer.
“The Trainee Solicitor” is feeling better about his job now. A new “young man” has joined the company and is working full-time. He hasn’t worked before so comes with no preconceived ideas (which is good), he is keen to work (always a plus point) and I think given time will be an asset to the firm. “The Trainee Solicitor” has applied for his Uni course and is hoping to get that done during May, June and July. It’s all positive steps. One thing that he messaged to me, really resonated with me and I thought it was a beautiful thing to say, he messaged “It doesn’t matter how long the road is, as long as you are walking it”. I was quite moved.
“The Jetsetter” is recharging her batteries ready for the next adventure. Not only that but you do need to work to have money to enjoy these jaunts. On Easter Sunday, she spent a lovely day with “The Photographer” around York. They took a photo of the house I once lived in. A view that was a favourite of mine when walking around the city walls and some photos of the Minster and the Clock Tower at the old Terry’s Chocolate Factory.
Monique and Ludivine (her daughter) have been messaging me, plus Nadine sent a message and said she will come and say “hello” on Monday or Tuesday. I messaged the ladies at the knitting workshop, it was thin on the ground, two at first then the 92 year old lady came for the cake and a drink. I am missing all of this but the treatment has to take priority.
My best friend from senior school messaged me yesterday to say that her mum had had a stroke. She is in hospital and I hope that is the best place for her. My friend is an only child who lost her father about eight years ago. Her mum is coming up 93 and although you “expect” things to happen due to age etc., it is still a shocking time because that person is your Mum. Thinking of them both ♥️.
I will leave you with this photo of the Cathedrale Saint-Christophe de Belfort . Thé photo was taken in February last year and I likened it to the Treasury at Petra due to the red hue.
Jusqu’à la semaine prochaine
#churches#france#photography#troyes#mulhouse#belfort#60’s music#York#family#friends#lovinglife#travel
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Please I need Coyote x reader anything! I don’t care if it’s fluff, smut, or headcanons. I need something 😭😭 (I know this is vague, but it’s hard being a Coyote stan out here)
(cracks the knuckles) Bish say no more, I've gotchu!!!!! I'm gonna try and make it a point to do more Coyote and Payback content soon enough (lol)
You and Coyote were due to get married soon and the stress levels were already hitting the roof
Hell you even thought about eloping in Brazil so the rest of his family could be there
Bob, his parents Joe and Irene, and the rest of the Floyd clan offered up the ranch in Oklahoma so you guys could have the reception there (Big Relief Number 1)
The other issue you guys had was actually getting Javy's extended family to come up from Rio but thanks to his mom and dad, they managed to get in with no problem (Big Relief Number 2)
Natasha, Amelia, Javy's sister and your best girlfrinds were the bridesmaids, Natasha of course was maid of honor
Hangman was best man, but the guys' night alone got a little crazy because they decided to give Javy the traditional chest wax
You and the girls however decided to have a little fun of your own
His sister, Alessandra, had picked up a little bottle of something while the family had a stopover in the Dominican......a big bottle of Mama Juana
Good God were you guys hammered that night. You sent a video of you guys to Javy, you and your girlfriends screaming "WE'RE TOASTED!!!!!" at the tops of your lungs
You guys were dancing to Javy's throwback and hip-hop mixtape by the bonfire
But you guys never.......NEVER.......missed the morning bell
When Javy saw you walk into the church on the day of the wedding he almost cried
And so didn't you, seeing him in his dress whites
The priest who married you and Javy was also the Navy chaplain. He had known the two of you for years and when you asked him for help, he readily said yes
Rooster and the rest of the Top Gunners held up the swords for you and Javy to walk under on the way out
And at the reception everybody went balls to the wall nuts
The boys all started dancing to "Copperhead Road", even Penny and Maverick, although Mav joked that he had two left feet and couldn't dance
Oh God, when they played "Get Low" by Lil Jon, you and the girls were all laughing
Javy, Hangman, Rooster, Fanboy, Payback and Bob were all dancing like they were in the club (lol).......let's just leave it at that
So weren't Phoenix and Halo
Harvard, Omaha and Fritz had started a breakdancing contest to see who was the best
All in all it was the best night of your life
Because you got to share it with Javy and the people you loved the most
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Leverage Season 3, Episode 13, The Morning After Job, Audio Commentary Transcript
Frakes: Welcome to The Morning After Job. Jonathan Frakes, Director.
John: John Rogers, Executive Producer.
Chris: Chris Downey, Executive Producer and Writer.
Frakes: And our star of the week, Mr. Spencer Garrett.
John: Did a great job.
Chris: Aw, how fantastic. Now, now, uh, Johnathan, then tell us where- where’d you first work with Spencer?
Frakes: He was on an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation with the late, great Jean Simmons.
John: With who?
Frakes: C’mon, don’t start with me.
[John and Chris Laughing]
Frakes: And, uh, so I hadn’t worked with him in about 20 years, and then two episodes in a row. I did this show with him and a show called Good Guys with him. And he was just perfect. This burned out hockey player.
Chris: He really is.
John: He’s got a great range.
Chris: Yeah, he plays-
John: He also played a lot of stuff in this.
Chris: He plays a lot of stuff. He plays rage, obviously. Plays fear, he plays arrogance.
Frakes: He’s a wonderful leading man, too. He’s got a great old ‘40s face.
John: Yup.
Chris: Now is- I guess his mom was an actor? Uh, I believe so.
Frakes: I wish I could pull her name. Yeah, still is.
Chris: Yeah, I guess-
Frakes: The Duchess, he calls her.
Chris: Yes! [Laughing]
John: That’s like if you’ve ever- everyone who watches the show knows Mark Sheppard. Mark Sheppard fills up a room.
Frakes: Yes.
John: You go to Mark Sheppard’s house to have dinner, and his father’s there and Mark Sheppard is wallpaper.
[Chris Laughing]
Frakes: That’s right. Oh, his father’s the actor of the family.
John: Mark Sheppard’s father is just- fantastic, giant, British presence. Just really great. Um, what was the inspiration for this episode? Which is what I always ask during the credits.
Chris: Um, well, you know, it’s always-
Frakes: Tell the DVD story!
Chris: [Laughing] Oh, well, there is- there is a movie called The Morning After.
[Frakes Laughing]
John: Which is, uh, Jane Fonda.
Chris: Which is Jane Fonda- which, I believe she was either nominated or won an Oscar for. Uh, in which she wakes up next to-
Frakes: You sure that wasn’t Klute?
Chris: She’s a blackout drunk who wakes up next to-
John: Might’ve been Klute.
Chris: Wakes up next to a dead guy.
John: Yes.
Chris: And, uh, I actually tracked it down on VHS. It was not-
John: Wow!
Chris: Not very, not very helpful.
John: What, uh, what Russian- Russian grocery store did you find that in?
Chris: [Laughing] I don’t know. I don’t know where it was. Somewhere out here. Some, uh, you know, video stores that divide things by cinematographer.
[John Laughing]
Chris: Which is a great thing out in LA. Um, and, uh, I- I guess just the idea was- in doing what we call a gaslight episode.
Chris: These are kinds of throwbacks to Mission Impossibles where we put somebody in a situation.
John: A tightly controlled situation, yeah.
Chris: A very tightly controlled situation where we’re- you know, the team is controlling all the information, trying to find something that is everybody's worst nightmare. And waking up next to the dead girl you picked up in a bar is every dude's worst nightmare. So that was-
John: You’re generalizing a lot there.
Chris: Well it's one of the guys-
Frakes: Just saying.
John: Just saying.
Frakes: Some.
Chris: -worst nightmares.
John: They came quick, that's all.
Chris: Yes.
John: And a little Order 23 actually.
Chris: Yes.
Frakes: Ooh there she is. The Italian is back!
John: The Italian is back.
John: The lovely Elisabetta Canalis proved to be a wonderful young woman, really charming and really found this character. This is great.
Frakes: And luckily for us, found her American accent.
[Laughter]
Chris: Yes.
John: No, the sort of surliness between the two of them was a lot of fun to play. And it was kinda fun because we debated naming her, and her just being The Italian was this kinda throwback to the 60’s spy movies, and it gave her a hook into the character, because her job is to just torment him.
Chris: Yes.
John: She's an outside force. She’s weather, so to speak.
Frakes: She's weather, but she was also very game, she loved this.
John: Oh yeah. Well this- nevermind the finale, we duct taped her to a chair!
Chris: Yeah.
John: And she's like, “No, no, duct tape me! I have no problem.” And we blew her up and we shot bullets at her, she's fantastic.
Chris: And we hadn't seen her in a while this season, so this was a really important scene.
John: It was a good reset cause we'd originally had another episode that might have popped her up and reset the story in the middle but it didn't work out with the story structure.
Frakes: It was smart to pepper her through the season, cause she's sort of a part of the family, and if you don't see her enough, you forget that.
Chris: Yes.
John: And we also were in another situation where we were not sure where the summer break would fall again.
Chris: Right.
John: We didn’t know which episode was gonna wind up being the one we went out on. And this worked out, this was our new format, sorta putting the desk/table down there.
Frakes: This is actually a good call. The L.
John: Yeah, this- well it gave us the thing we had first year; it allowed us to shoot down that table, everyone’s at business, they're at work.
Frakes: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah leaning forward, engaged. When they were sitting in those couches, they tended to, like, sink and disappear.
[Laughter]
Frakes: Well it also does something to you physically as an actor; you have to sit more erect and your posture has to be-
John: We also shocked them, we put electric current through these seats just to wake them up.
Chris: And John I have to give you credit, I think you're the one that sorta pioneered the flash back and forth briefing scene. We kinda tend to do these-
Frakes: It was here. This was the one.
John: No, there was another episode where we did it on the first, and-
Chris: We did it in the first season, and what we typically do is we kinda unload all the exposition and then we start the con, and-
John: Yeah I actually like this, and whenever we run into - in the writing room - a really chunky first or second act, this is the first tool out of the toolbox.
Chris: Yeah.
John: Like can we crosscut in time, as we plan, as we execute.
Frakes: As we lay the plan and exposition.
Chris: And it makes it so much more energetic and dynamic, and I think this is the way we’re gonna do it a lot in the future.
John: I'm trying to remember the first episode we did that in.
Chris: I think it was Juror #6 Job.
John: Yes! Where, as he explained what he was doing in the chess game-
Chris: As he explained the assignments we zhoomed to the people doing the assignment, and we zhoomed back to the next guy.
John: Yeah. There's nothing- there's no law that you have to obey linear time in television. And also this character is based on- at least his violence is based on Terry O’Reilly who is my favorite Bruin.
Chris: Oh, sure.
John: And one of my favorite things is you can go on YouTube and find fights of Terry O'Reilly on YouTube, and they're just unspeakable [laughs].
Frakes: So that's who she’s referencing in this next beat with Spencer, yeah, “I know you from-”
John: Yeah, exactly.
Chris: And this is great, we shot this at the convention.
Frakes: We discovered this location, we shot the shit out of this location, it's so easy.
John: It's the convention center. It's doubled as the airport a couple times, it looks like an airport!
Chris: Yeah, and our special effects people put a plane in the back.
John: Yeah.
Chris: And John and I love this-
Frakes: Boom! Boom! Boom!
John: Now wait-
Chris: That's a beautiful-
John: Beautiful zhoom, but how was-
Frakes: Well I had to out Dean Devlin, Dean Devlin!
John: How was he in sight line for that, I just realized that?
Frakes: That's how the camera works!
Chris: They saw him, they 're up high!
John: That's a great shot by the way, look at that eye. Just one eye peeking over it's a great shot, it's beautifully done.
Frakes: And there’s from Aloha Air, they're there, they're in the airport.
John: Yeah, it's amazing if you tightly constrain your shot how much business you can put through it.
Frakes: Given the number of extras we’re allowed.
John: Our 20 extras turn into 40. “Now take off the stewardess uniform! Now put on a skirt! Now walk through again!” Yeah.
Frakes: “Change luggage! Another ticket!”
John: And that's- by the way, a great bit there that Beth does, just deciding to poke out while he's making the phone call.
Chris: Yeah.
John: She's really working on being a Doctor Who companion in this episode, she's really working the cute-
Chris: And there's the great Gerald Downey.
Frakes: Gerald Downey.
Chris: Who is not my brother!
Frakes: Another recurring member of the family.
Chris: But I feel a member of my TV family, certainly.
John: Yes, it broke our scheduling that we were not able to get both FBI agents. But we did establish that he was off doing- that he was doing very well.
Chris: Yes, doing well.
John: And it really started from throwaway joke in the first season-
Frakes: Oh he had the pentagon job, the pentagon translating job?
John: Yeah he was doing-
Chris: Doing krav maga in Quantico.
[Laughter]
Chris: Which is an Israeli martial art.
John: We did- first season we wanted to start establishing the bigger world in the Leverage universe, and those guys happened to be the first two. And we just loved the actors so much that we started feeling bad for the characters.
Chris: Yeah.
John: So we made the plot point that they start doing better every time we interact with them.
Chris: I think we kind of talked about in the arc of the overall series, every time the Leverage team brings them in and sort of hands these bumbling FBI agents a collar, that they move up the ranks until the final episode you see them being sworn in as director of the FBI.
Frakes: What about your buddy Michael Mahon, you gonna give him some love?
Chris: Oh let me give some love to Michael Mahon. I cast him on King of Queens - twice - as sort of an oily lawyer businessman.
Frakes: Oddly enough, something we use around here!
[Laughter]
John: That is in the Leverage wheelhouse.
Chris: And I knew in conceiving this character of the fixer lawyer that he would be perfect, and he was.
John: This, by the way, was so old school and one of the fun things about doing this show is we are taking absolutely Mission Impossible old school, and take parts of the conversation and cut them together.
Chris: Yes.
John: Which you can do fairly seamlessly with electronic technology now-
Chris: Yeah we're not taking any liberties with technology like that.
John: No. Yeah, it's just fun, it really is, there is no difference between this and some dude cutting up reel to reel in Mission Impossible.
Frakes: What has she got? Bam! Recorded the whole thing.
John: Yeah. Exactly. No problem, great little mini gloat there. This was the cut, what are we gonna do, how are we gonna do it, and we bounced.
Frakes: And you do it.
John: Yeah.
Frakes: Did get us through this exposition of Act 1.
Chris: And there you go, and we're gonna set up-
John: And there's our-
Frakes: Our UPM.
Chris: Our UPM.
John: UPM, James Scura.
Chris: Who is known as the-
Frakes: The Frenchman!
Chris: Yeah, I think the Frenchman.
John: He's the Frenchman.
Frakes: He's the assassin.
Chris: Long-haired bearded guy.
John: Now he is the assassin this episode, he is married to Kari Whurer-
Chris: Yes.
John: Who is the assassin in the other-
Chris: The Reunion Job.
John: The Reunion Job! so in our heads they're like a very bad Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
[Laughter]
John: In the Leverage-verse they're the kind of B-level assassins that always try to get each other jobs. The Leverage-verse is a cruel place.
Frakes: Never too soon to do the 360!
John: Never too soon.
Chris: And this is a great 360.
John: I'd like to- oh and if you're playing the Leverage RPG, I'd like to use both those characters, I'd like to say. She's great as the groupie in this and it's fun, another thing that she could not have done in the first season, but we've established: Parker can do the short con. She's gotten those skills. She can't do the long con. You know, but Aldis in theory can do the long con, but he always goes over the top- pardon me: Hardison always goes over the top. And Eliot’s the next best.
Frakes: She knows a bar!
Chris: Knows a bar right near her place. And here we land on: boom!
John: Yeah right there, nice timing on that turn and we popped to him. When a girl like that says she knows a bar? You go to the bar.
Frakes: Go to the bar, yeah.
John: You go to that bar, yeah. Nice shot through the- oh wow that is a pretty shot.
Chris: And some nice closing time music from Joe LoDuca, our composer.
John: Yeah, really nice. Then and- good drunk by Spencer Garrett.
Frakes: I gotta say he pulled it out, he really did.
Chris: He did.
John: Again, we talk on another episode-
Frakes: You're afraid of going full tar. But you can't go- gotta go full drunk.
John: Never be afraid of going full drunk. You know what a good thing to do if you're playing drunk, by the way? Is, as an actor, close your eyes and spin for 30 seconds, and then start the scene.
Frakes: Oh good technique.
John: That is- that really helps, good for your physicality.
Frakes: So you're one of those guys who pulls their nose hairs when they wanna cry, too?
John: No, if I were playing drunk I would just get drunk. I'm playing drunk now and I'm drunk. Oh this was a lot of fun, we've been wanting some stereography for ages.
Frakes: Now where does this come from? It's a color combo thing?
Chris: Well our research showed a lot of terrorist groups use- actually use photographs to send coded messages. When you decode the photograph it breaks down into language.
Frakes: When you break down the pixels?
John: Yes, when you break down the pixels, they break down to the binary code, the binary codes are different enough, as soon as there's a difference, it’s encryption.
Frakes: Oh look at Beth here!
John: She's great, digging in on this.
Chris: She's awesome here.
John: And I like them-
Frakes: Setting the con, rebuilding Nate's apartment.
John: Yeah exactly. First time we’re in Nate's bedroom. I don't know why there's a praying mantis in there.
[Laughter]
John: It's really disturbing, I'm not gonna lie to you.
Frakes: I gotta say, there's not just one praying mantis as you recall. There's a callback.
John: Yeah, and take the picture, always take the picture. And yeah, you can see the pictures in- the books in theory that are on his shelf.
Frakes: Never been done before.
Chris: No, dosing the glass? First time.
John: Just the little roll, that was a nice shot.
Chris: Time tested.
John: And then play to the camera: I'm done, I'm done, and now we go. I like Gina in these black outfits.
Chris: Yeah.
John: I just noticed that we started putting her more in these black outfits this year and it was nice. Well it's black and black because now we have Nate in thief gear, it’s very iconic.
Chris: Yeah, and if I could be a little pretentious for a moment, and I'll indulge myself.
John: Please, go ahead.
Frakes: You gonna talk about the mise en scène?
Chris: I'm gonna talk about the color scheme.
John: Oh alright.
Chris: We talked about colors being important here and we kinda used red as the color of rage, which is our character’s- our bad guy's fatal flaw, so you'll see red play a lot in his scenes, and some of the other scenes.
John: That's actually- we talk about how different writers approach stuff, a lot of times Chris is the guy in the room who will ask like, “OK, what's this bad guys problem? What's his fatal flaw? What's his emotion? What's the hook?” Everyone writes from different places.
Chris: This guy has a temper, and that's his weakness.
John: And sometimes it just-
Frakes: I didn't think that was too pretentious.
Chris: Thank you!
John: No, and it wasn't too pretentious at all. Great makeup! Great makeup by the makeup department here, fantastic. The little bit of blue there, the marks on the neck. That's an act out.
Chris: That's an act out!
Frakes: You wanna come back and see what happened to Beth.
John: I would like to know, I would like to know. A little disturbing, I have to admit. I'm fond of Beth, so that's a little disturbing.
Chris: And Spencer's fantastic here, he is really just going through all of what you would do.
John: And we do our flashback here rather than later, no it's a nice bit of work. This was a complicated little episode.
Frakes: Different pieces.
John: Unlike most episodes where there's only one timeshift, there's three. There's the shift forward in the set up, there's the shift back in this exposition, and at the end there's the standard flashbacks.
Chris: Well you had to flashback here because you wanted the audience- you didn't want the audience thinking she's actually dead for very long. And you knew that they were gonna key into that.
John: Also making sure like, well why wouldn't he check her pulse? Well-
Chris: He did!
John: We’re making sure he can't.
Frakes: He did that's why she put the piece of leather on her wrist.
Chris: And now who do you call? And this is the question guys ask each other. Who are you gonna call in this situation?
John: Your lawyer! Gotta call your lawyer.
Frakes: You got your guy, right I've got a guy. Gotta set that call.
John: I will also say, to a great degree, this is why you wrote the episode.
[Laughter]
Frakes: For these two doing this?
John: You wrote the episode so the boys could be cops.
Chris: The B story in this was an homage to Cops.
Frakes: Bad boys, bad boys.
Chris: Bad boys, bad boys, playing in our heads.
John: Don't sing it! If you sing it we have to pay.
Frakes: Boy did they want to sing it in this scene, though.
Chris: Oh they wanted to.
John: I know, Jesus. People don't know - that's fifty grand, boom.
Chris: And that's a beautiful shot right there.
John: The mirror shot? Really nice.
Chris: As we find her in the bed, and then find him looking at himself in the mirror. Oh that’s great.
John: Now I’d do a cop show with the two of them, just two surly Boston cops? Could do 13 episodes. We should do that show when we’re in the off season.
Frakes: And no time in the hair department!
John: Cause he's in the cap.
Frakes: Hats go on.
John: Hats go on. There you go. Yeah, we could do that in the hiatus show, we just do the cop show.
Chris: Yeah, and this scene here- we had, I guess, a strep throat outbreak during this episode.
John: Yes that’s right!
Chris: And there were a couple of things we didn't get to, and I believe this was shot a couple episodes later, really late at night, like three in the morning, and they did a great job.
John: Yeah, no, and just-
Chris: And I love them putting the hats on!
John: The hats, both turning.
Chris: And we’re off.
John: And it’s interesting, because they still always play the hostility cause they annoy each other.
Frakes: They can barely stand to be in the same room, but they're fantastic together.
John: But the physical mirror is one of those giveaways. There's a great bit in The Underground Job where he comes in for the high five and Eliot's annoyed and he goes, “For morale!” Which is a call back to when they were in the woods, and Chris actually has Eliot break into a smile, you know? They’re not- oh that's great. “Next time you can get a firetruck!”
Chris: I think I wrote that on set, I think that was a replacement.
Frakes: I think you did write that on set.
John: You know what, that's like in Inside where he's like, “That's fantastic, you’re great, can we get out of here?”
Chris: Yeah, yeah, I think that was exactly it.
John: The mocking tone is flawless. And strategizing, these are two people at the top of their game trying to figure out exactly how to handle something.
Chris: It was nice to put the two of them together, you know, kind of reminiscing. It was a nice little kind of romantic beat, here.
John: Yeah, they do have a shared history, that's what originally drew them together, you know.
Chris: Yeah.
Frakes: That's sorta what's hanging over both these characters heads, is their shared history?
John: Yeah, and then in the end of the season it collides.
Chris: But here she's sending him off.
John: Yeah, and she'll always be better at the con. She's always giving him little confidence moments, little confidence beats and Gina does a lot of that with physicality that's not in the script. Great encountering bureaucracy moment here.
Frakes: And this is a funny scene, actually.
Chris: And they did a great job of just underplaying the debate between the two of them.
John: Yeah.
Chris: Just throwing it away.
John: Just the-
Chris: The harried prosecutor.
John: Eliot, once again, not happy with the lack of prep Hardison has done, Hardison, once again, overestimating his ability to pull off the con on the fly.
Chris: This is just them, you know-
John: Bickering!
Chris: Improving bullshit.
Frakes: This is Blake, whose wedding Tim had just been at.
John: Oh that's right!
Frakes: She was fabulous as a lawyer.
Chris: She was great.
John: And they're out. See we've done, we've- oh and now.
Frakes: Oh no, not the convict.
John: If you’re a young writer remember, the much better solution to we screwed up is we succeeded too well.
Chris: We succeeded too well, we convinced them so well that we now have to take a prisoner back with us.
John: There's really no way to go wrong with we succeeded too well.
Frakes: Also, we see the scene doesn't seem too long cause it has the second beat.
John: Yeah that's right, you'd be out by now, you'd be in the car.
Frakes: “Idiot, now we gotta take this guy to the car with us!”
John: And he winds up being a clue path, by the way. Because he's at the same grand jury.
Chris: Yes.
John: It’s actually- this all hangs together pretty beautifully, I gotta say.
Chris: And now here we go, you've found the dead girl in the bed, your substitute lawyer is here.
John: And your lawyer with the gloves, as one has!
Chris: When you’re the fixer lawyer, you have them.
John: You have gloves!
Chris: Yes. And by the way, there’s no-
Frakes: He's been in messy situations before.
John: He's got a wood chipper.
Chris: By the way, I went to law school; there's no class in fixer law.
John: Really?
Chris: I wish there was.
John: Yeah, you would have gone into that instead of the white collar defense law that you were into?
Chris: I would have gone into that. I would have gone into fixer law, that's much more interesting.
John: Isn't that close, though?
Chris: Oh well, not with rubber gloves.
[Laughter]
John: Oh, worst client you ever had? Worst client. I don't think you've said it on the DVD.
Chris: Oh, well, I think it was the guy that looted the trust funds of Holocaust survivors.
John: Wow!
Frakes: Ohhh.
Chris: And he was actually a lawyer, too.
John: Yeah, wow.
Frakes: Here we go, here's the beginning of our cop sequence.
Chris: Oh I love this, this is my wife's favorite scene in the whole episode.
[Laughter]
Chris: She goes, “That guy in the cage, where did you get that guy?”
Frakes: Well I got him going, too! I said, “You can't do enough, try to get into this scene with these guys.” Remember when we were shooting this? I said, “Do anything you can to get into this scene, because they will not let you,” and he said, “Are you sure?” I said, “I promise you.”
Chris: ‘Just try, do everything you can.’
John: You never have to worry on a Frakes episode with him getting somebody to underplay something, that's not- why are there so many praying mantises?! Alright the Irish whiskey just kicked in, I need a little bit more. I love the realization, the head snap that she does here. I adore- “Oh, what the hell?”
[Laughter]
John: Zero to Parker. In .5 seconds with Nate calling audibles.
Frakes: Yeah, and of course we've all got one of these.
Chris: Of course, it's Leverage! You don't have one of these?
John: And of course she does, yeah. Why wouldn’t she?
Frakes: I could use it. This one fits!
John: We never explain that.
Chris: And by the way, it’ll set up a locked off comedy frame, like we talked about in the previous episode.
John: Yes, exactly. Can't go wrong with that. And now they got the call.
Frakes: I had a field day with these guys.
John: Oh yeah.
Chris: What was nice was that Eliot gave Hardison shit for over investing them, and now we can switch it, now all of a sudden Eliot’s the one over invested.
Frakes: Yeah.
John: Eliot has his own soft spots that he’s-
Frakes: Kids! You don't put kids in jeopardy around him.
Chris: You don’t put kids in jeopardy.
John: And that's one of the tricks on the show is making sure- because there's a great saying that every private eye book is a private I - and I'm pointing at myself - book. So it’s very easy to write these characters to be very cool, but without flaws. And so it's very important to constantly remind- each one has their own specific set of flaws that run, that throw a spanner into the works.
Chris: Oh how fun was this?
Frakes: Really fun.
John: Oh guys, how much time did you spend on the cops pastiche, guys? How much money did you spend on this? Two characters?
Frakes: Boom!
Chris: Shot pretty quickly, too, because it’s all handheld.
Frakes: Two characters, two handhelds.
John: These characters are in the plot, how? They're related to the main storyline, how?
Frakes: Derek Sitter!
John: You're not answering any of these questions, are you?
Chris: Derek Sitter and Erin McGarry.
Frakes: They're in the plot because we stopped to save them!
John: Alright, alright, it's a gimme, I'll give it to you.
Chris: And they went for it, too.
John: The dude with the bat.
Chris: Derek especially got thrown into the deep end.
Frakes: His feet got ripped up, his hands. There was real blood by the end of this scene.
Chris: That was real blood, and he was like in character.
John: Yeah. “Sit your ass on the bumper.” That's great; just he puts on the dad voice right there. Just, “I have had enough of this shit.”
[Laughter]
Chris: And there's always the moment in the episode of Cops where it all seems to be calmed down, but there's some moment of disrespect, and the guy jumps back in.
Frakes: “Don’t you talk about my woman!”
John: Oh and down!
Frakes: That's where the blood came!
John: Big takedown by Aldis Hodge, there you go. I love also, by the way, this is plainly in the bartender's view, he's just used to this. He works-
Chris: Locked off comedy frame folks!
[Laughter]
John: There she goes! And by the way, how lucky are we to have an actress like Beth Riesgraf who will get her as in that harness and do that for us? That's not a stunt girl.
Frakes: Here's a cue!
Chris: How great is he?
John: Look at his face light up, there you go, and the hand shake- the awkward handshake. Yeah, that bartender works there, that bartender knows what's going on.
Chris: He knows the deal.
John: Yeah well cause Cora told him
Frakes: He knows who lives upstairs.
John: Exactly, they saved the bar. That's also tied into my theory of the bar where Fitzy, the old guy at the end of the bar, was a contract killer for the Irish mob back in the 50s, and now he kinda just keeps everything calm here.
[Laughter]
John: He seems innocuous, but you watch, he's got dead eyes.
Chris: Oh, but I'm so glad we were able to keep this storyline alive.
Frakes: With Downey?
Chris: Of his flirtation with her, and he’s just so sweet.
John: This is one of the frustrating things about making television, real human beings are attached to roles. And so availabilities! You know, budgets, schedules. You know, we wanted to bring Tara back this year and Jeri got another show and couldn't come back. You know, it always makes you happy when you can kinda bend reality to fit the show.
Frakes: See that look on Downey's face? That's something everyone feels when they finish playing a scene with Beth.
John: They always have.
Frakes: It is.
John: She's a blithe spirit.
Chris: And this is great, this is a great shot right here in the window. This is done- this is a great special effects shot, look at that.
John: Yeah we put the glare in, right.
Chris: Yeah.
John: And also the reflection, that reflection is CG, too, if I’m correct.
Chris: Now the bat he's carrying was once a dog.
John: Yes, originally it was a dog.
Frakes: Budget eliminated the dog and the trainer and the amount of hours we could use them.
John: Turns out dogs are ridiculously expensive.
Chris: It’s crazy, I think dogs- I learned that dogs are more expensive than trains.
John: Yes.
Chris: Trains, apparently dirt cheap in Portland. Dogs? Ridiculously expensive.
John: Nice push in on that to help set up in a static shot that things are changing, that's a nice choice.
Chris: Oh I love this, this is great. And this is the two of them going mano y mano.
Frakes: This is a great scene, this is a Godfather scene, or a Goodfellas scene.
John: Yes, yeah. This is- Tim really enjoys these too.
Frakes: He also loves when a good actor shows up. He loves to go toe to toe with a good one.
John: This was like in Double Blind when O’Keefe-
Chris: Michael O’Keefe?
John: Michael O’Keefe came in.
Frakes: And the three hander you had at the end of the season.
John: Yeah, you can’t get him out of these scenes, cause actors- and they tend to shoot these- they want to go long, they wind up doing the whole scene a couple times, as long as you set up to get the coverage. We’re very lucky.
Chris: It's a great objective, I mean he's gotta convince a guy that he killed somebody that he doesn't remember.
John: Yeah, I mean prosecutors in the south do this all the time.
[Laughter]
John: Well- the letters, the emails, go to the website!
Chris: Oh. “Close your eyes.”
John: What's that? Oh, “Close your eyes.”
Chris: I love “Close your eyes.”
John: What I love is he's trying to get him to remember and what he's doing is hypnotizing him. He's basically planting these memories into place.
Chris: He’s planting memories.
Frakes: He’s closing the blinds.
Chris: Yes, and I have to give Tim credit because he said, “I wish there was a little something more in this scene where I'm doing something to put it in his head.” And I added it later and it really worked well.
John: The choking?
Chris: I added the just closing your eyes and putting yourself back in the scene. Because we talk about the unreliability of memory all the time.
John: All the time, yeah. A lot of times when we’re talking about credit and who did what, and who should get the credit for stuff they show.
[Laughter]
Chris: Unreliability.
John: Memory is unreliable, it’s really- that's why it's safer to default to us. Spencer's great, great way to play this in the closeup.
Frakes: Also a man comfortable with a glass in his hands.
Chris: Here we go, look at this shot! How did we- how many blocks was that?
Frakes: That was four- three blocks.
John: Three blocks on a zhoom.
Chris: That’s great.
Frakes: Three piece, three piece ninja.
John: Three piece ninja.
Frakes: Look at this guy, lost his shoe.
Chris: Hit him with the bat, and wait for the locked off frame- there!
[Laughter]
John: Oh nothing funnier than being taken out of a locked off frame.
Frakes: That's twice in this episode.
John: This was- I remember actually this- when you were writing this, you were in the- you were in the office, the writers room is right next to the office Chris and I share, because we’re a cable show, and we were breaking something else and you came in and you did not have the linkage.
Chris: I needed the linkage.
John: And we wanted- this was one of the ones where we needed to tie it in. And this is why you have a writers room, cause you never know when someone's gonna come up with- oh you know, this is how to do it. It's good to have ten brains. And again you can do a show with these two as FBI agents. We’re just oh so lucky.
Frakes: Blessed.
John: Yup.
Frakes: This is a long shot.
Chris: That is a long shot, right into the back room.
Frakes: From the exterior door, through the bathroom area, and back room.
John: I think we said it- I had fought building this set. I did not want to build this set; I thought we would never be back there. And the number of great long shots we've had moving back and forth between those sets? It's well worth it, worth it.
Chris: Well Jonathan, it was in the bar episode.
John: Yeah, it was in Bottle Job, we built it.
Chris: That was in your job.
John: Yeah, it was in Bottle Job.
Frakes: Alan Smith in the house.
John: Alan Smith is in the back, lurking, drinking. Drinking, Lurking. All those verbs. And- but it was just gonna be a standalone set and then wound up- and then this is also where your experience as a lawyer is handy because I never would have come up in a million years - you need the deposition, he needs to see his handwriting.
Chris: You need his agreement that he made with the government in order to convince the guy that you can make a deal and get him out of this.
John: Yeah, he needs to see the deal, he wouldn't believe any lawyer who didn't have the deal would be the person he could talk to.
Frakes: Red tie, symbolic red tie.
Chris: Symbolic red tie.
John: This was fun eventually-
Chris: Oh and this is-
John: Yeah she plays a great hardass prosecutor.
Chris: Another of my favorite scenes. And this is good cop, bad cop.
Frakes: When she puts on the glasses, whenever she puts on the glasses.
John: It works!
Frakes: You know she's good to go.
John: Those are great glasses, too. The sort of bored, the sort of just move it along here.
Frakes: [Unintelligible] and wiser girl for me.
Chris: And I love the way it was blocked, too, because you had Tim sitting, and you had the great shot to the blinds, and I mean you really had that kind of like Verdict/Godfather kind of feel.
Frakes: It did feel Godfather.
John: When you have three, by the way, you have to change one person's level, that's how you do a three hander. There's actually a great shot in Laura, which is where the actors are stacked up on different vertical levels, and that's how they handle a four hander, and they have people move in and out of those levels.
Frakes: Wow.
John: Yeah.
[Laughter]
John: I do occasionally know what I'm talking about.
Frakes: You referenced Laura?
John: You know, the noir thing, we’re very heavy into noir this year.
Chris: Here we go!
John: And then they fight! And that's what I love is-
Frakes: He just- this is the beat where Tim goes behind, which is wonderful.
John: But whenever you can make the mark- and Apollo told us this, whenever you can make the mark feel like he's the audience rather than the guy being worked-
Chris: Yes, absolutely.
John: They want to be involved in it, they don't want to feel like you're left out of it.
Chris: You don't feel like you're being conned by two people that are fighting each other and one of them is on your side.
John: Exactly. If they’re working you, you're being conned. If you’re seeing it, they let you do your own work. No, it's really spectacular, yup. And then-
[Laughter]
John: Just the little note to ‘hey this actually ties into the entire plot for the season’.
Chris: Yes. And worked out nicely in the end.
John: Yes! Yeah, absolutely.
Chris: And she looks great in that power suit, boy.
John: I will say that we didn't have the absolute ending con written yet, that was the great thing with you coming in like, “What do we need to have in that office?” and I'm like, “I don't know yet! we haven't written the finale!” we wound up cobbling the entire finale together, the plot of it-
Chris: Oh I mean it was all planned from the beginning, right John?
[Laughter]
John: Oh c'mon we don’t lie to them. They’re well past that by now.
Frakes: Oh wait, how do you tell these guys are cops?
John: Shoes.
Chris: They got cop shoes!
John: This is actually based on a thing that used to happen to me in New York. When I used to go to Times Square I'd get mistaken for a detective, cause I wore cop shoes.
Frakes: You still do.
John: I don't still-
Chris: And paramedic shirts!
John: Not paramedic shirts then. But when I lived in New York-
Chris: Were you ever mistaken for a paramedic for your shirt?
John: No.
[Laughter]
John: Oh you know, people gave me a television show and everything, you've had pilots, you know what the process is like. Your own show, top lining, Jonathan, you know.
Frakes: Ohhh.
John: Anyway, yes it's cop shoes are a dead giveaway.
Chris: There we go, here's our action act, now this is where all hell’s gonna break loose.
Frakes: Dave Connel again, props.
John: Yeah, that’s a beautiful light. That looks like the verdict, too, right there, very nice. Yeah, we grabbed this on the fly was her trying to maneuver him. And a lot of that is playing the catcher, she's kinda just put people in play in different locations.
Chris: Yeah, and that was also tricky here was, since everyone was more or less in the same location, it's just keeping track of who was where.
Frakes: Who could see what, and who would hear what.
John: I don't think this foyer actually existed originally, we kinda cobbled it together like, “Oh, remember the other times you've seen us walk through here? This is here. You just haven't noticed it before.”
Frakes: “It's a little bigger than it used to be.”
John: Yeah, exactly.
Frakes: Big enough to shoot in now.
John: Yeah, exactly. Now that's a beautiful shot, that's a movie shot right there. And then look! “I trust you, that person is the antagonist and you're my friend.”
Chris: And here we go!
John: And he's not good. Let's face it, he’s not a good assassin.
Frakes: Oh that slow mo.
Chris: Oh that was good.
Frakes: Remember this night, Chris?
Chris: Oh god, how many times did we do the windows?
Frakes: We had to walk away.
Chris: Yeah, we had to leave.
Frakes: Went over to the bar and shot a scene and came back.
John: Nice slide slam by the stuntie, by the way.
Chris: Oh she did great.
John: Nice work. And then Gina dodging squibs all over the place.
Chris: Yeah, this is fantastic.
Frakes: This is actually a good sequence.
John: This is a great sequence! This is act four- by the way, you can do this, this is not magic; hacking this is eminently doable.
Chris: Yeah, clone the phone to track them.
Frakes: That's the bump!
John: Yup.
Frakes: I have a bump.
John: You have a what? John, please, no.
[Laughter]
John: The- oh he's shooting the candles, now he's just angry, now he's not getting the job done now he's just- yeah.
Chris: Well we are gonna explain that it's not his chosen profession, he got the job from his wife.
John: That's right.
Chris: Who sent it over to him.
Frakes: Now’s the moment I've been waiting to ask, I have both of you in the room. I was on the set with Chris Downey, who I've done two shows with now, who I've learned to trust.
John: Yup.
Frakes: I’ve been in many rooms with you, we've had many conversations. I said to Downey “Whose idea was this with the wire and the water running down the wire?”
John: The water dripping down the wire? That’s mine.
Frakes: Did you get that?
Chris: I said that!
John: I'm sure Downey said that. He knows, because he had read the script that I had originally wrote it in for a movie that will never get made and he was like “I love this bit!”
Chris: I love that - it’s an awesome bit!
John: And we wound up just turning the lights off cause the flicker was too tough to do.
Frakes: Believe me, what we went through to get the water down the wire.
John: I know, and then, but this is one of those things where you're like, “Oh, we'll be able to do it in post.” And it turns out no, you can't do it in post. But-
Frakes: We got bad information.
Chris: It was supposed to be a strobe fight.
John: Yeah, it was supposed to be a strobe fight. But you know what? This is just as great.
Chris: This is great.
John: This is great. He's Batman.
Chris: Aaaaand-
John: And the locked POV, and- boom!
Chris: There we go.
John: And down. Yeah, and then the spinning flashlight.
Frakes: Dean Devlin did this?
John: No, Marc Roskin did this, and shot the hell out of it, really nice.
Frakes: Do you remember us in here with these wires and the water bottle in the ceiling?
Chris: Yeah, I know.
[Laughter]
John: Yeah, that’s- by the way, why I wrote it in a movie. Cause it’s a sequence that you need, like, movie time to do. You can’t do that on a TV show - that's fucking crazy! I don’t know why the hell you thought you could do it in that episode.
Frakes: I said to Chris, “Whose idea is this?” He said, “It’s Rogers! It’s Rogers! It’s Rogers’ idea! It’s great, it’s gonna work!”
Chris: I did. I loved it.
John: I did, I was wrong, I was drunk. Don’t trust me, that only ends in tears.
Chris: I thought it was great.
John: Oh, that's so sweet. You actually had a kiss, originally.
Chris: I originally had a kiss, but you said that was too much.
John: You know, I just don’t think she’s physically intimate enough for that. But if she’s gonna kiss anybody, it's him.
Frakes: Bam!
Chris: Oh here we go- boom, great stunt.
Frakes: Rockford.
Chris: Gut punch.
John: There you go, not afraid to use the bat.
Frakes: Worked better than that dog would have worked.
[Laughter]
John: That would've been like- where's Hardison?
Chris: The dog was supposed to jump out and attack him.
John: Now he’s really pissed, he’s blowing up the offices.
John: He's just having a bad day!
Chris: He's really going crazy on Pottery Barn.
Frakes: Everything that explodes.
John: “Maybe shrapnel from a vase will get in your eye and you'll die!” It's just- he's shooting blind now.
[Laughter]
Frakes: “You don't think I brought enough bullets! I’m French!”
John: “I’m French!” Maybe he's got-
Chris: Why do we think he's French?
John: I don't know! I don't remember. Oh, lovely overhead shot. Oh, and the French hate to get wet, there you go.
Chris: They don't like to get wet when they're shooting.
[Laughter]
Frakes: “That's it, I'm done, I'm wet.”
Chris: We had-
Frakes: “You turned the water on, I'm leaving. It’s bad for my gun.”
Chris: We had a little bit here that also helped the finale, cause we had Eliot come in and- I thought he did- he played this really nicely, saying this is the way Moreau does things.
John: Yeah.
Chris: Which I think, people are paying attention, kind of helps foreshadow the end.
John: Here is the thing. We did know that Eliot would know Moreau from the beginning of the season. And so there is a lot of stuff during this season that you can go back and watch now that you'll see it indirectly.
Frakes: You can attach it to him.
Chris: That was a little clue right there.
John: And then him panicking, as one does.
Frakes: That’s it, I don't trust any of you, I'll take my chances.
John: And it was interesting, at one point somebody asked, “Why is he running?” Somebody just shot you up, man! You're gonna run, absolutely.
Chris: He's gonna he's not gonna give up Moreau; he’ll take his chances in jail.
John: And that was one of those great times, too, “How the hell do we get him out of there? Wait, is there an elevator in that hallway?”
Frakes: Yes!
John: Yeah, and we never shoot it, we never use it, but it's been in that set since day one. Or day one of this set, which is season 2.
Chris: Now we gotta figure out where we’re all gonna go.
John: They gotta call an audible, ok.
Frakes: Glasses off, now she’s gonna get this.
Chris: Now she's all business.
John: Glasses on is a role, the glasses off is Sophie using her giant brain.
[Laughter]
John: I don't remember what the- yeah there you go, and that was great cause we get to do the whole everyones coming up with a plan and they're in different places.
Chris: And he's gonna drive. Cause now that they're back to being bickering brothers again.
Frakes: Bickering brothers, exactly.
John: Now the danger’s passed, they can go back. I remember we wrote Eliot particularly brutal in that fight too, it's just- this is what he does when other people aren’t around.
Chris: Right.
John: He moderates his violence when there's other people around, but when they're not, he's as ruthlessly efficient as one can be.
Chris: Mike Mahon, again, as the fixer lawyer.
John: “Where the hell were you?” And here's the-
Frakes: This is a good scene, I like the cutaways in this scene, what he sees and how he's been conned.
John: How he's perceiving it.
Frakes: Yeah.
John: There was an interesting new story today where a guy got conned out of between 6 and 20 million dollars by computer consultants. He brought his laptop in and- allegedly, the people examining the laptop told him he was the victim of a giant conspiracy and they got him to pay. He had a lot of money, he had inherited a lot of money, and got him to pay a ridiculous amount of money for 24/7 computer security. And they did it by controlling information and convincing him that he was the subject of a conspiracy.
Chris: Oh, so kind of a gaslight.
John: They gaslit him! They did the thing we do.
Chris: Teah.
John: And, well, they're real con people they're turned out- but anyway, what's interesting is how- when we do our research, how far you can drive someone in a tight situation with little information, you know, you really- all you have is what you see.
Chris: Yeah, and now he plays this- I mean, again, we talked about how many shades that Spencer has to play in this episode, and here it's just panic and rage all in one.
John: All at the same time.
Chris: And we did it a bunch of times and he brought it every single time.
Frakes: Oh he did bring it.
John: And great shit eating grin by Beth there, that's a nice- this is a big part of what Dean calls the gloat, is the part of the episode where you have to make the bad guys suffer. We must gloat and the bad guy must suffer.
Frakes: Schadenfreude. [pronounced shoo-den-freud]
John: Is that the word for it? Schadenfreude [pronounced correctly]. I like [shoo-den-freud] cause he's about to start shooting people.
Chris: Here's our guys.
John: And of course they would be, of course you wouldn't question two cops who were arresting him.
Chris: No, the guys going batshit in court, two cops in the hall are gonna go grab him.
Frakes: Good thing they were there.
Chris: And then, “Moreau wants to talk to you.” Now he's really gonna lose it.
John: And then go for the gun.
Frakes: I never use a gun, slow mo.
John: Nice lock. And the taser, which we pay off in the season finale.
Chris: Oh she loves the taser.
John: She loves the taser. She's beginning to realize she loves the taser a bit too much.
Chris: She is a little self aware.
Frakes: Right here she realizes it.
John: And the neck crack.
Chris: And there’s a smile!
John: I love the neck crack, she just enjoys tasering people, that's just a good day for her.
Chris: And remind people that Eliot doesn't like guns.
John: Exactly. Although we did not know at this point whether we were gonna do the gunfight. We talked about saving the gunfight for season 5 and we wound up using it here, because we had never had a villain that was so tightly tied to him before, so it made sense.
Frakes: This is funny, this is a oner.
Chris: This is a great shot, what a great shot.
John: And a great how to tell a story in one shot. Conservation of energy and momentum.
Frakes: Few producers will let you do it; Dean did.
Chris: Now where did she- did she stop and buy the bow? I know people have asked me that, but she comes prepared with a green bow wherever she goes.
[Laughter]
John: I think she has gift wrapping in her car.
Chris: She has gift wrapping in her car!
John: Cause she likes to give people little gifts. Sometimes it's their own wallet.
Chris: Oh, and that's great.
John: And this is- this became kinda an iconic shot in the show just the three [unintelligible] just, you know, her enjoying it too much. This was a big fan favorite.
Chris: And now-
Frakes: Here it comes.
John: And now the showdown. The place is trashed, and this really-
Chris: Oh and I gotta give credit to our- Becca Molino, who just dressed this office, and I love- you'll see it in the backshot, but the kind of Warhol-like shot, that lithograph she did of-
John: Oh, of him, yeah.
Chris: Of him, it was great.
John: Him at the height of his fame as a hockey player, yeah, really nice. And this is a great- this is a great screw you scene. Now what's interesting is there's a reason her back is to you later in the scene. We shot- we wrote two pieces of dialogue, one where she lays in that they're going off on their own, and one where we laid in that she was working for Moreau.
Chris: Yeah.
John: Because we had not broken the season finale at this point, and we were kinda in the writers room-
Frakes: Luckily we shot her facing away!
Chris: Yes we did. Lucky we made that call.
John: But to be fair, this is a thing- you know, in a writers room there are multiple humans and you don't always- you know, it's nice when creators say, “I knew what was going on from moment one.” On 99.9% of shows, that's bullshit. And we were in a dead tie in the room at this point, like is she working for Moreau or isn't she? And so we pushed. We pushed the bet to the finale which was two weeks later, we were breaking it then.
Chris: Well ultimately it just didn't get us anything. I mean her being in cahoots with him kind of meant that it split the focus on the bad guys, and what was she doing that was different from this big bad guy?
John: Exactly, we got down into plotting the first half of the season finale-
Chris: It sounded great as the ending of this! Oh my god!
John: This was the summer season finale, this was fantastic.
Chris: And here was great this was another- Derek Frederickson, our-
John: The fifth Beatle.
Chris: The fifth Beatle does a great job here.
John: And again, absolutely true. Great way to transmit information if you're trying to overthrow the government, or plan some sort of insurrection, do that. Don't mention you heard it here though, don't tell the FBI that. Tell them you picked up on Boing Boing or Cory Doctorow, something like that, an already known subversive human.
Chris: And now he says sayonara to-
John: Yeah, this is, again, one of those places where Nate- the Nate of first season wouldn't have made this speech. Nate’s been to prison, Nate’s a hardass, Nate’s a thief, Nate plays by his rules now, and is cut loose in thief world. And now she makes the phone call.
Chris: Boy, good call that her back was turned, huh?
John: Well it gave you a nice silhouette.
Frakes: It’s a better shot.
Chris: Jonathan, you must've known that we were gonna go back and change it, right?
Frakes: Unfortunately you added this last scene.
John: What do you mean unfortunately?
Chris: Well, we were a little short.
[Laughter]
John: Things happen.
Chris: It was so fast paced. But I think it worked.
John: Yeah, what was this scene? Cause the sounds off when we watch these.
Chris: Oh this is the- you know we don't have to go after Moreau. This is just kinda reiterating to the audience that this is a war of choice, not of necessity. That now that The Italian is out of the way-
Frakes: Yeah, you've chosen to be in it and we haven’t.
Chris: Yes, yes.
John: Which is why later on we have him then saying, “I'm asking you,” instead of him bullying them into it.
Chris: Yes, exactly.
John: And this a part of the fact that Nate’s hubris is- when Nate’s in the game, he loses track of the goal line, he just needs to win. It's what made him a good investigator, but not necessarily the best guy to lead a crew.
Chris: And I gotta say, to go out on the summer season, I would prefer to go out on our guys than on a bad guy.
Frakes: Yeah, fair enough.
Chris: So it kinda worked out, even though we were a little short.
John: Also I like the fact we had Sophie start drinking this year. She never really drank a lot, but you know, she's a thief. To me, they are a lot like stand up comics. They work in bars at night, you know, they hang out that way. That's a great- that's the last image of the summer, right there.
Chris: That’s it.
Frakes: Damn.
Chris: Frakes!
Frakes: What fun.
John: What a pleasure!
Chris: What fun. I had to wait two seasons to do this.
Frakes: To get back. Because the first time we worked together, The Wedding Job- too funny.
[Laughter]
John: Too funny, let’s not rehash.
Frakes: That’ll never happen again!
John: There you go, alright say goodnight to the folks.
Frakes: Thank you for coming.
Chris: Thank you.
John: Put another DVD in, they get funnier as we get drunker.
[Laughter]
Frakes: Can we watch one more, dad?
John: No we can't!
Frakes: C’mon!
John: You gotta direct another show!
Frakes: I wanna watch the whole season tonight!
John: Alright we’ll put them in, fine.
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Creeping Toward September
Shhhh. The last three days we've woken up to temperatures hovering between 58-60 and I don't want to scare it away. I know it's still August, summer is still spreading her fiery breath around, and we're a solid month away from really pleasant weather, but this sneak peek is wonderful. Our daytime highs still soar to the 80's, but I'll take that cool morning kiss and dream about fall.
I haven't posted in a week! We had the sweet grandgirl for three days and had a ball. We returned her Monday afternoon and then I took Tuesday off. I didn't lift a finger. Since then I've been cranking out earrings like my life depends on it. I still need to make cards and if I have time, do some of my altered art watches. I'm working on earrings first because they require more time. First I condition and blend the clay and decide what sort of pattern or look I want, then I roll and cut, and into the oven they go. Once they're baked I do a little sanding to smooth the edges, then they get an acrylic glaze and go into my little UV machine. When they're all pretty and glossy, I drill holes and put them together with jump rings and posts. None of it is hard, but it is a bit time consuming. I am building an inventory though, and that's the goal. My plan for Artisans on the Choptank is to have one display of autumn and Halloween earrings, one display of the local high school colors, and one display of just really FUN earrings - all colors and designs. I've made several pairs in the high school colors, and right now I'm in the thick of the autumn batch.
I'm really digging the gray, gold, and white. I was actually just using up scraps when I made those, but I may make more.
I won't be charging much because I know how imperfect these are. I'm not using high end findings, I'm still a bit clumsy with the whole process, and I'm simply not a perfectionist. If anything has to be exact, I'm not your gal. But for a few bucks, surely the ladies of Caroline County would like some fun earrings. I guess I'll find out.
I'm planning to post this sign at my booth.
I may also have a little sign with a "days until Christmas" countdown. It's closer than you think.
So, that's what's keeping me busy. I'm happiest when I'm creating, so it's been a good week. I can't wait to complete the earring plan and get started on the cards. I've roughed out a couple of ideas.
Come on over to my booth and buy a gift for the fancy gal in your life and a card to go with it. One stop shopping! I have the Square thing for my phone so I can swipe a card, I have appropriate displays for my wares, and I'll have this banner on the front of my table.
That's me!
I think that since my first foray into the craft fair world is in September, I'll use an orange table cloth and maybe some mini pumpkins with that banner. Keep it simple, but noticeable.
I'm trying not to over invest because this may be a flop. Or I might decide that I hate sitting at a booth all day. That banner was $7, my time is free (seriously, what else am I going to do?), and my supplies are mostly inexpensive. Clay is cheap. I don't want this to become a money pit of a hobby. Hopefully I can sell enough to pay for my spot at the event. Booth space for the day is $50 and it's only four hours! I think that's steep. Maybe I'm naïve.
Aright, enough about that. You've probably fallen asleep while I yammered on about clay earrings. B-O-R-I-N-G. Sorry.
Honestly, I can't share a zillion photos of the grandgirl (which is what I want to do) and there's not much else happening around here. The mister is still running far and wide doing his photo stuff. The last two evenings he was at Summerfest. That's Denton's BIG send-off to summer, celebrating harvest as well as sending the kids back to school. They don't start school until after Labor Day here (throwback to my childhood!). Anyway, at Summerfest there's a lot of good music, dancing, food, fireworks, a play area for kids with giant sides and bouncy houses, and so on. I probably should have gone, but I end up attending those sorts of things alone. That's no fun. I figured I'd stay home and use those hours to produce inventory (I was trying to avoid saying earrings again). Last year I tried to enjoy it, but I had horrible sciatica pain and I was still feeling puny from a double bout of covid. I did enjoy the music though!
Heyyyyy, speaking of pain...guess who is living practically pain-free these days? Ol' Grancy has found the perfect recipe for feeling whole again! First, movement. Walking for just 30 minutes every morning and being diligent about my stretches and some core work has made a huge difference. I'd like to get a treadmill and increase my waking time. I used to do 3.5 miles every morning and it set the tone for the rest of my day. That was before my ankle surgery. After the ankle surgery I tried so hard to maintain activity, water aerobics, Jazzercise,etc. I even had a routine before Jazzercise - ibuprofen one hour before class, after class I'd drive home with an ice wrap on my ankle and then elevate it. Stupid, huh? THEN WE MOVED. That move was when I hurt my back and the sciatica stuff started. If you want to know how much true sciatica issues hurt, brawny boxer Mike Tyson uses a wheel chair when his flairs up. So PT, stretches, and walking had reduced my pain by about half. I'm not bragging when I say that I endure pain well. That's just how I'm made. An ER nurse once called me "stoic". But that doesn't mean it's not exhausting. It takes a toll, it robs you of joy. It's no bueno. That's when someone I love and trust told me all about gummies.
Let me start by saying I've never smoked pot in my life. I've never had a negative view of it, it just wasn't my thing. I've never been a drinker either, I don't care what anyone else drinks or smokes, it just wasn't for me. Do you, enjoy your life, none of my business.
Maryland recently legalized marijuana, like so many other states, and people are becoming more educated about the plant, the products, and the benefits. What I knew could have fit in a teacup. I learned that medical marijuana is often used for chronic pain with great success and no side effects. I cringe at the thought of using prescription meds with a long list of possible and horrifying side effects. I was already living on a steady diet of Tylenol (not good) that only half worked. So when that dear person explained to me what she uses and how, I was intrigued. Fast forward to visiting a dispensary and telling the very helpful person at the counter, "I don't want to get high, but I'm old and I hurt." She said, "Gotcha." Because I am a lightweight with everything from alcohol to cold medicine, I tried one quarter of a gummie to start. One fourth of a CBD/THC gummie and I am a perfectly normal, not high, PAIN-FREE person! I am astounded. I knew that THC is used for people who are suffering with conditions from cancer to Lyme Disease, but I assumed that those patients were trading lucidity for relief. Maybe at higher doses they are, I don't know. Still, better than so many of the alternatives. So this plant, possibly put on Earth just for this purpose, criminalized and stigmatized (with the help of big pharma who wants your money), is the simplest solution of all. Of course, just like alcohol, there are people who abuse it. Alcohol, oxycontin, all sorts of legal things are abused. People are people. I'm just saying that 1/4 of a little gummie candy allows me to move through my day without pain and feel like myself again. No expensive, addictive drug with scary side effects - just a plant. Hallelujah.
I may regret sharing that, because plenty of people will judge without researching. I'm okay with it. I know what I know. I'm not a drinker, a smoker, a pill taker, or a whiner. I'll just say that if your state has been smart enough to legalize it, and you have any sort of chronic pain, I'm happy to answer any of your questions about my experience. I'm still learning, but I can tell you that it's been a miracle for me. I'm dancing again! No foggy brain, just relief.
If anyone had told young me that old me would be chewing up pot candy, I'd have called you a damn liar. Old me is wiser, thank goodness.
Alright, it's past time for me to get some chores done. I've already cleaned the bathrooms but I definitely need to water a few things outside. A couple of days ago I tidied up the gardens and hacked down about half of the spent sunflowers (because I'm pain free!). I stuck the heads into a staked planter so the yellow finches can keep enjoying them.
Once I finish outside I can get busy painting eyes on these ghosties and giving them some glitter.
Can you tell I don't use my good baking sheets for making earrings? Some eyes, some glitter, and some posts and they'll be ready to go! I'm not going to do very many cutesy earrings - just these ghosts and some pumpkins. I don't want to get too stuck on holidays, I'd rather do seasons.
Anywho, wishing you a wonderful Sunday. I hope that yours is as busy or as quiet as you like. Do something that delights you, whether that's a lazy afternoon in a hammock with a book or a deep clean of your space. Take care of yourself, body and soul. It's important.
Sending out loads of love.
Stay safe, stay well.
XOXO,
Nancy
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26 & 29 for the ao3 wrapped!
Thank for the questions!!
26. What’s your most common category?
Of my 69 (nice) posted fics, 51 of them are M/M haha. Interestingly, second place is Gen with 11.
29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?
Oh man this is hard, I instantly forget everything I wrote haha. Did give me a good excuse to go delving back through my fics and rereading, though!
I'm gonna go with this passage from I ain't gotta tell him (I think he knows), and Old Guard fic written for some spicy prompts for Troped Throwback. It was really fun to write a smutty letter that's pretending not to be a smutty letter, and it made me laugh so much.
The nights are long here as well. I am still unused to these winters, to the snow and sunless skies. Crawling into bed is like sliding between layers of ice, and it is hard to arise in the morning without the sun to greet me. I think often of the months ahead, when the sun will return with all its heat and light, when I will raise my face to it’s gentle touch.
Until then, I will have to rely on my own touch to warm me. I rub my hands and my legs to help the blood flow. The friction produces heat as well, as my skin chafes against the sheets. It builds quickly, and before long my bed is a warm paradise and I am loose and tired from the exertion. As much as I detest entering the cold bed, there is little I enjoy more than warming it.
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Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day. Welcome to Throwback Thursday!
On this page, ‘Throwback Thursday’ is all about memories. So, what do you remember? If I was to say the word RELATIONSHIP, what immediately comes to mind?
In my final years at MTV, I used to walk to work. 6.1 miles from my front door to Hawley Crescent. I would always stop at Costa Coffee for a soya cappuccino. More often than not, I would meet this lovely girl there and we would catch up on events. She’s a teacher and psychotherapist and was very supportive and helpful to me when I morphed into a teacher. Down the years, she’s had a variety of unsuccessful relationships with men, who she described as “immature”. Not surprising, she’s an academic; she needs a little more from her men than shits and giggles. We’ve kept in touch and I met up with her last night. She finally has a boyfriend; someone that she really likes and feels safe with. “I like being in a relationship!” she said. She’s 42 now, Muslim and ready to settle down. Those of us in a relationship understand that. Companionship is very pleasant! Though many men are very resistant to the relationship and try to stay the lothario for as long as possible. Which is why I created the character of Wes in my novels ‘Whatever Makes Them Dance’ and ‘Keep It Fun’. Wes intuitively knows that he’s not a wham-bam single man. Wes knows that he functions better within a relationship, which is why my main female character Roz likes him so much. After 37 years, everyone looks at The Trouble and I as some kind of model relationship, which of course we’re NOT!. The only reason we’re together is because she puts up with my shit and because – for some bizarre reason – she loves me. “It’s not easy!” I said to my friend. “Remember to breathe!” I don’t think she believes me. After only eight months, she definitely doesn’t appreciate those words but what could I say to her? “It’s not easy!” is about the best advice I could give. Having said that, I do like my companion.
So, on this Throwback Thursday, what kind of memories, thoughts or emotions does the word RELATIONSHIP conjure up for you?
People expect me to be Mr. Happy or Mr. Naughty. They expect the cheeky chappie to come up with an endless stream of dad jokes and double entendres. At this moment, that kind of post seems irrelevant and almost insensitive. I am confronted by images of wounded, bleeding, traumatized and weeping children and babies. Callous cruelty beyond words. I don’t really have the heart or inclination to crack any kind of jokes. Right now, all the joy has been sucked out of life. As a trained actor, I will leap into action on Saturday afternoon and I will sound as normal: excited, upbeat, animated, amused. Yesterday, somebody asked me how I was so sure I was abreast of the truth. Thankfully, we have a HUGE array of TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, websites, blogs and books. Plus, we have ordinary people on the ground with social media feeds that give us live, on the spot reports. We now get ‘news’ stories from a wide range of sources. In order to find the truth, you take ALL of those sources and you filter them through your own knowledge, experience and cynicism, and you even add in a modicum of common sense. Not all people that look like me are good. Not all people with my background are good. Your common sense tells you not to generalise.
Have a throbbing and thrusting Thursday (with hopefully a few thrills through your thoroughfare?) I love you all.
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Qrow sent a bouquet of flowers, and some fancy cheese and crackers with a note.
Probably better I'm not there tonight, but please enjoy these. Happy Birthday, I'll be there with the hangover cure and hugs tomorrow.
A big party like that was, sadly, too tempting. A quiet, sober night in would have to suffice.
This was different, and this was the best. Briar always receives a slew of traditional goodies from distant fans, but this basket is a throwback to inside jokes and camaraderie, thoughtful and deliberate; This note comes not as a cowardly stone throw over her thorns to avoid approaching the wolf directly, but as apology for the notion of the night with her being too good of a time, and a promise for sometime ever so much more direct and personal.
For once, her features still, with no performative smile nor tail wag. Her heart all but stops, skips a beat, before gratitude sinks deep into her bones, relaxes her body with the thought of being so pampered, taken care of within her rock star reckless.
Does Qrow have any idea of the real gravity behind this gift? That this year, it gives Briar the best of both worlds. A big party with so many loved ones and some special one on one time once the lights go down and sun comes up, just like she's always wanted.
She snacks with one hand, while delicately slipping the little love note between each finger on the other.
When finally satisfied, she sends Qrow a quick text (including a spicy little pic of her half-dressed while getting stage ready, his flowers carefully placed in the shot, covering certain parts of its composition. Is that flirty enough?): Thank you, Qrow. I look forward to it.
He would also receive more selfies and group shots that night -evidence for how she's having extra fun for him, too, and why she'll need lots and lots of attention to recover come morning.
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I've just realised I don't actually know what timezone you're in? I'm GMT, UK so it's almost 9am here. It's freaking sweltering! I live in a flat and we seem to get no air up here 🥵 BUT we're in the process of buying a house so hopefully we'll be moving in September all being well 🤞
I'm 32 in September and I definitely haven't accepted that I'm in even in my 30's 😂
Thank you 😳 he's honestly the sweetest little boy! He turns 3 soon and I can't believe it! His favourite things are lining up his blocks or organising them by colour.
I am SO behind on the Shadowhunter books! The last ones I read were The Dark Artifices and there are so many more now! I definitely want to catch up though. And also I'm tempted to rewatch Shadowhunters...my main complaint about the show is that they did Ragnor dirty 😒 was not impressed! How caught up are you with the books?? Maybe we'll both renew a hyperfixation 🤣
Oh god this whole Eddie thing is insane and I'm here for it. I didn't expect it but I'm not complaining.
"You're a whole mood tbh" made me laugh, love it! And that's exactly it! I am fully ghosting all my books right now. Earlier this year I was reading EVERYTHING, I lived at the library and devoured so many books. But then I suddenly couldn't get into anything and anything I did manage to read was disappointing. So here I am, ghosting them all! What type of books do you read?
I've just finished rewatching all of Gilmore Girls, I'm now on the last episode of A Year In The Life which has it's faults and is less of a vibe but still good. I need to find something else to watch once I'm finished! Any suggestions, I've just got Netflix!
I'm currently working on part 3 of my series. It's called Happy Birthday and is very fluffy 😂 I've got a few more in the works that I'm excited to write, even a smutty one which I'm nervous about as I've never written smut before!
My novel is a full on thing. I've written out the plan entirely but actually sitting down and writing is a whole thing. It's basically a love story, grumpy x sunshine vibes set mostly in a B&B by the seaside. It's a slowburn with some long distance elements while they get to know each other and fall in love. There's also a mismatched cast of other B&B visitors with their own little stories 😂 I'm excited to write it but it's a lot!
Omg so I'm a rambler in text but I'm very shy and awkward in person until I get to know someone, then all bets are off!
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Hiya! We are in the same timezone as me, I’m also from the UK! I just had work all day and then boring adult stuff to tend to but now I’m here and ready to pester you! How was your day?! I hope your flat cooled down so you weren’t sweating all day long, congrats on the house :D
32 isn’t old, so don’t even worry yourself with that 😊 Your kid sounds like me, I did that throughout my childhood into my adulthood and mum just went “aw that’s quirky,” but even after getting diagnosed she just thinks it’s for fun rather than because my brain needs things in certain ways, ugh.
The last ones I read were either the throwback ones in London (idk what they’re called, I could google them or even just look at my shelf next to me but I cba!!) or the City of Fallen Angels, I can’t remember. I have literally every book in the collection except one, but I need to read the rest oops? How did the show do Ragnor dirty?
Idk how we can binge read like every Eddie fanfic ever but the thought of picking up a book is just too much effort right now, we are broken by his grip hahahh. I normally read fantasy things cause I don’t wanna be thinking about the real world for longer than I have to, oops?
I’ll have to think of something to suggest for you on Netflix, I’m more of a Disney+ person myself but I always rewatch the same handful of shows tbh..
I’m excited to read this!! Good luck writing the smut, I cringe whenever I write it cause it just doesn’t feel natural to me. So I end up speeding through it and focusing more on the fluff cause I can’t be dealing with the cringe language people use for sex stuff.
Grumpy x sunshine vibes are a staple, that’s so great!! Can’t get enough grumpy and sunshine couples in stories, they are just so stinking cute ☹ good luck with your book, I hope you have a blast writing it!
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