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randomfoggytiger · 2 months

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Collector's Edition: Bill Scully, MSR, and Pain (Part I)

How to melt the Abominable SnowBilly, Season 2 through Season 7 (IVF arc not included.)

**Note**: I had to eliminate fics not specifically related to an illness or injury because the word capacity on Tumblr is uncharitably short.

Loose chronological order below~

SammyLovesASOIAF's I Don't Want You Like A Best Friend

He chuckled to himself. The Scully siblings were a weird juxtaposition of different traits. Bill Jr. was strict, Melissa was carefree, Scully was careful, and Charles—well, he was always in absentia.

AU-- Post One Breath Mulder is almost creamed by a firework before Bill Scully saves him.

@living-in-unreality/@television-overload/ContentsPriceless's beautiful (Ao3)

The pieces slowly come together in his mind, everything he knows about Fox Mulder. His mother must have seen it long ago, hence her willingness to help him this morning. And he would have stood in the way.

Bill Scully can see the love in Mulder's attempts to paint on Scully's makeup for her.

MldrItsMe's A Favor

“Should Dana be out of bed?” Bill grumbled.

Mulder involuntarily squeezed Scully a little closer to himself. “She asked me to,” he said. He thought better of adding “hold her” and just let the situation speak for itself.

AU-- Redux II Scully is suffering on her deathbed: 96 pounds and swiftly losing independence.

@scully-loves-ruthie's cancer arc: mulder sneaks a dying scully out

Bill will storm into her hospital room after, a firecracker beneath a teacup ready to explode sending the fine shards of his rage into the newlyweds. He’ll find himself frozen his fuse stamped out at the sight of his sister’s frail and fading body wrapped like a puzzle piece inside Mulder’s arms, the couple sound asleep.

AU-- Redux II Bill doesn't rip Mulder's head off after finding out he and Scully were quickly married.

intrepidment's Bill and me

"You had talent for medicine, Dana, everyone admitted that. You would've had every right to be haughty, but you never flaunted your talent then. Then you changed your mind, you became an investigator, and suddenly you're this overconfident professional."

I opened my mouth to rebuke him, but I had to admit he was right. Somewhat.

Post Redux II Bill and Scully have a siblings' semantics fight over Mulder's napping body.

amorfati3215/Amorfati32’s (FFN) Number 9 for the dialogue prompt.

Mulder hasn’t got very far when he hears Bill call out, stopping him in his tracks. “You’re in love with her, aren’t you?”

Post Redux II Bill gives Mulder his version of a blessing.

@lotsoforangesoutside/@lotzzoforangezoutside‘s (Ao3) Seven Pound and Six Ounces (Ao3)

He’s never held a day-old baby before this one.

And now, Fox Mulder can proudly say that he has held one, changed his diaper, and napped with the tiny thing like a log in the cradle of his arm.

With his other arm held by one Dana Scully, his hand holding hers. On the sofa in her big brother’s living room.

Post Emily Bill lets Mulder and Scully be.

soverysesual's The Truth Not Considered

He frowned as he observed the scene in front of him: his sister was sitting up, her head resting in an awkward position as she dozed, the mug of tea precariously balanced in one of her hands, while Mulder held her other hand grasped between both of his, as if he was clinging to her for dear life.

Post Emily Bill (reluctantly) helps Scully get comfy next to Mulder.

Marguerite's (Ao3) When the Bough Broke

Bill is standing between us and the embers of last night's fire. Scully has not stirred; I still keep her within the circle of my arms. Her brother's face is unreadable. I make a helpless gesture with my hand, but he stops me and points to my face. It's still wet with tears.

Post Emily Bill finally understands and becomes comrade-in-arms.

pen-paper-aliens/theficisoutthere/aka PPA's 95 ❤️

She’s still holding that hand when we walk in, nobody notices, or if they do, they don’t care. Bill notices too, but even he doesn’t say anything. What do you say to a mother who lost a child she never knew?

AU-- Post Emily Bill lets his sister find comfort in her partner.

Jen's (mulderscreek)

Christmas Eve & Airports and Christmas & Mrs. Scully's House

"He's upstairs," Dana said and could swear she heard Bill mutter something under his breath.

AU-- S6 Scully convinces Mulder to join her and her family for Christmas and ends up nursing his unexpected strep throat.

@baronessblixen‘s (Ao3)

Christmas With The Scullys (Tumblr)

“My bed,” she says, just to clarify. She hears a clatter from behind her and doesn’t need to turn around to know that Bill is there and listening.

S7 Bill and Scully battle it out after she brings an injured Mulder to the Scully family Christmas party.

O Holy No - Chapter 7 (Tumblr)

“Where’s the guy?” he asks, chewing with his mouth open.

“Do you mean Mulder?” Her brother nods, stuffing more chips into his mouth. It reminds her of when they were teenagers and Bill, towering over her and Melissa, would steal their snacks and interrogate them, claiming it was his duty when their father wasn’t home.

AU-- Mulder and Scully, newly minted couple that they are, both fly out to Bill's house for Christmas... and are greeted with unexpected shenanigans.

Shoshana's

Almost Home (4/4)

"Hey, wife," he said, approaching her from behind.

Mulder wrapped his arms around her, resting his head on her shoulder.

"I don't think Bill suspects a thing," she told him gravely.

AU-- Post Requiem Mulder is returned with ongoing medical complications; but that doesn't stop the leftover Conspiracy or Bill Scully's lingering concerns.

And salliejohns's

Mr. Mulder, Mother Maggie, and Empty Place Settings

It was a big risk, but it paid off well. We were able to establish contact with our old boss and he came through for us, sending Bill Scully, Jr. a cryptic message about his dry cleaning.

AU-- S9 Bill is happy to find his sister and her partner alive in California; but that doesn't erase the pain of losing touch with his mother while Maggie raises baby William in hiding.

Hestia01‘s (Ao3) The Next Great Adventure Chapter 1 and Chapter 5

"Bill, they're here!"

Bill looks around, now looking concerned for his mother's grip on reality. "Who's here?"

"Dana's here! She brought Fox along, too! You can't see them, but they stayed!"

Giving his mother a pitying look, he nods indulgently. "Sure, Mom, whatever helps."

AU-- The crack adventures of Mulder and Scully after death (Skinner hoarding their poster and Bill getting his comeuppance included.)

@incidental-ao3/incidental's

Keep It All the Year

“Where’d he go?” she asked. He shrugged.

“Got in a cab,” he said. “I don’t know where to.” Scully groaned.

“Maybe one of you should stay put so the other can find them,” he said, but she wasn’t listening at all.

“He left his phone at the hotel, I bet he went back to get it,” she said, barreling passing Bill down the stairs and grabbing the keys.

AU-- S6 Mulder is dragged out to Scully's torturous family Christmas in San Diego, where the franchise becomes a complete disaster all the way 'round (Diana included.)

bluesamutra's una via - Chapter 4, Chapter 5 and Chapter 6

Dana had been at death’s door before he showed up at the hospital with a computer chip and a story straight out of a Michael Crichton book. Bill had stood by in disbelief when she, a woman of science, trusted him enough to put it in her neck.

And yet.

And yet, he had watched from the shadows of her room, unseen, when Mulder crept into her room that same night and wept silently into her hand.

AU-- Post Amor Fati Bill Scully's family reunion takes a serious turn when Matthew almost drowns and Mulder injures his shoulder during the rescue.

@scully-eats-sushi/ijustknew's

You're Not Alone and You're Not Alone II

She’d barely stepped inside their mother’s home before Bill had started inspecting her injuries, making her instantly regret not wearing a turtleneck. He went so far as to grasp her chin and tilt her head up to get a better look at them. Irritated, she’d shoved his hand away and declared “I’m fine” before stepping past him to embrace her mother.

Post Millennium Mulder and Scully are navigating their relationship post episode, with their own personal complications as well as her family, profiling, and on-the-job demands.

Red0313's Nothing Breaks Like a Heart

We make eye contact. He knows I am awake. I can’t even fake it. This should be good. Kick a man while he’s down, literally.

“Mister Mulder, I see you’re going to be just fine. That seems to make my sister very happy,” he huffs. Something’s eating him up.

S7 Bill observes his sister's pain and penance after Mulder takes a bullet for her.

Susan Proto’s Barbecue Series 14, The - Labor of Love

She must have picked up Matty, because all I hear from him now are soft whimpers instead of hysterical crying. And then I hear her ask, "What happened, Bill?"

"He got hit by the Harley. He ran into the street and got hit by the Harley."

A Harley?

AU-- Mulder has been bullied by Bill for years, and finally sets his foot down after the other throws away his engagement ring.

@tatooedlaura-blog/tatooedlaura/Laura Sprys’s Always Been Yours

Mulder was out of the shower and in the kitchen helping Scully with a makeshift dinner when Charlie and Bill walked through the door. Scully's eyes swam again when she saw her older brother. Hugging her tightly, he looked over toward Mulder and nodded his head.

In shocked surprise, he walked over a shook Bill's hand, "hello again."

AU-- S7 Maggie is unexpectedly killed in a car accident; and Bill keeps to himself while Mulder prevents Scully from falling apart.

Thank you for reading~

Enjoy!

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nikki-rook · 10 months

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Stana Katic as Emily Byrne - Kicking Ass in Absentia Season 2

#stana katic #emily byrne #absentia #absentia tv show #amazon absentia #stana #katic #absentiagraphics #nikkirookgif

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hashtagloveloses · 9 months

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rewatching jjk season 1 and having now seen the hidden inventory, and as i introduce JJK to my partner, i actually think the ideal order to watch JJK for the first time right now is:

- season 1

- season 2 eps 1-7 (hidden inventory/premature death prequel arc + shibuya arc setup)

- JJK 0 (the movie)

- season 2 ep 8 (shibuya incident)-onwards

this is because without knowing things from the manga, various events like a certain someone’s death in JJK 0, the REVEAL in Shibuya, the references to Gojo’s past, etc, are actually very confusing and don’t hit as hard if you watch JJK 0 too early. at least, they were for me. And the end of season 1 really fits seamlessly back to season 2 episode 6 (the Shibuya setup, and then you get the perfect transition from when Gojo wakes up at the end of Hidden Inventory into the setup as well).

One could argue you should start with JJK 0, and you COULD and might be fine, because in season 1 they mention and show Yuta a lot and it doesn’t really click very well if you don’t know who he is or what happened, but season 1 does a great job of introducing the viewer to the jujutsu world, and I think hearing about Yuta in absentia as if you were Yuji or Nobara adds to the experience (especially for when he will show up in the series…it’ll be a crazy reveal).

Of course, watching the movie right before Shibuya starts makes seeing a certain someone in season 1 confusing for a little bit, but right now I think it’s the most straightforward. It also means you go into Shibuya with the same mindset and knowledge as Gojo, so you experience the reveal as he does, and don’t have to double back.

#original post #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk season 2 #jjk 0 #jjk shibuya arc #jjk hidden inventory arc

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flanaganfilm · 2 years

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Still can’t believe I can write to you on here but I’ve been a huge fan since Absentia (seems like blasphemy but we watched it on a laptop freshman year of high school and it still haunts me), loved The Midnight Club; the parallels with grief and storytelling have been so interesting to watch develop through your career and helped more than anything else dealing with my dad’s death this last year. So grateful especially for Midnight Mass.

Going off your Midnight Club season 2 post, were there any plans for Julia/Shasta and/or Mark? Love all your collabs with Samantha and Zach so much!

I wasn't thinking it was necessary to see Shasta again. As for Mark, he would be there throughout, and in particular would be with Spence as he navigated the new antivirals

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jazz-bazz · 7 months

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i never did do an introduction… so thx for the tags peeps 🖤 @hypnoneghoul @mac-and-thefox @jimothybarnes

nice to get to know you guys 🥰🥰

tagging @webbyghoul @jesusbutbetterrr and idk who else so… feel free to do it if you want and consider yourself tagged? ☺️

last song : i almost always have music on 24/7 either with headphones, earphones, or speaker… and i have a playlist with over 2000 songs on it… and it’s currently playing Deus In Absentia so yeah… that

favorite color : blue and black! especially when combined to make this really dark blue

currently watching : i started Loki season 2 ep 1 last week but only got halfway through… might try to finish it someday this month

currently reading : Clayden Organic Chemistry bcs i have to write a lab report 😭 but something more fun are the first book of the Seven Realms series on kindle and a shit ton of fanfics on ao3

last movie : I think A Haunting In Venice back in mid September…

sweet/spicy/savory : savory!! especially with msg 😃

relationship : single and not ready to mingle

current obsession : i think music has always been my obsession? so yeah… talk to me about anything music and i’ll be happy

last thing googled : kapitälchen macbook pages… (for the lab report 😬)

selfie : 🙈 i am too awkward for selfies most of the time, but ig have this blurry picture of me playing bass last saturday?

#🖤#following in the footsteps of desr mr barnes #bex lore

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deadcactuswalking · 6 months

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REVIEWING THE CHARTS: 02/12/2023 a.k.a. a Deep Dive into '10 Hour Deep Relaxation'

Content warning: Christmas, some language, sex and politics

Welp, it’s officially Christmastime on the chart, and I really wanted an easy week in the first place. So thankfully they gave me one, no debuts in the top 75, “Lovin’ on Me” by Jack Harlow is still at #1, I’m going to do the rundown, two reviews for song suggestions and dip. Welcome to perhaps the least essential episode of REVIEWING THE CHARTS!

Rundown

Brenda Lee’s at #14, Mariah’s at #6 and for the first time this year, a Christmas song is in the top five: “Last Christmas” by Wham!. This means that I’m in the space every year when I can mess with the structure because there is no ordinary chart week from now on, and I’m kind of glad because things tend to get busy this time of year anyway. Our top five is rounded out by “greedy” by Tate McRae at #4, “Prada” by casso, RAYE and D-Block Europe at #3, “Stick Season” by Noah Kahan surprisingly at #2 and of course, Jack Harlow coming in for a third week at the top.

Whilst we’re discussing the non-holly and non-jolly songs on the chart, there are a few gains and returns that have nothing to do with the holidays. Drake’s “IDGAF” featuring Yeat returns to #61 in the stead of “You Broke My Heart”, which drops off from its debut last week, and then we have “Lose Control” by Teddy Swims gaining at #53. We then may as well bid adieu to the songs falling victim to the holiday plague this week, also known as our notable dropouts. They peaked in the top 40 or stayed in the UK Top 75, which is what I cover, for five weeks, but now they’re out, and they are: “Nice to meet you” by PinkPantheress featuring Central Cee, “Seven” by Jung Kook featuring Latto, “adore u” by Fred again.. and Obongjayar, “Desire” by Calvin Harris and Sam Smith, “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish, “Daylight” by David Kushner, “Calm Down” by Rema, assisted by the remix with Selena Gomez, “Another Love” by Tom Odell and of course, “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers.

Now for the surge of festivities - I’ve already told you the three highest and that’s all I’ll tell you for now until they creep higher into the top five. As for now, as with all Christmas weeks, I’ll only mention the songs that are making it to the top 75 for the first time for this year’s round in this week, or songs reaching new peaks. In the first category, we see the grand returns of “Merry Xmas Everybody” by Slade at #70, “Feliz Navidad” by Jose Feliciano at #60, “One More Sleep” by Leona Lewis at #58, “I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday” by WIzzard at #55, “Mistletoe” by Justin Bieber at #54, “Wonderful Christmastime” by Paul McCartney at #52, “Sleigh Ride” by the Ronettes at #51, “Step into Christmas” by Elton John at #47, “Driving Home for Christmas” by Chris Rea at #46, “Holly Jolly Christmas” by Michael Bublé at #45, “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” by the late John Lennon and Yoko Ono with the Plastic Ono Band and the Harlem Community Choir at #44 - only time I’m saying that one, always a relief. The sooner we get to that mouthful, the better. We then continue with “Snowman” by Sia at #40 and “Merry Christmas” by Ed Sheeran and Elton John at #17, with the Amazon original tracks “Stay Another Day” by Jorja Smith and “You’re Christmas to Me” by Sam Ryder reaching new peaks of #38 and #23 respectively.

And whilst we’re here, if I covered the entire top 100, which I have an array of reasons why I don’t but they’re becoming increasingly irrelevant, I would still only be reviewing one song: “#skeptacore pt. 3” by Ryder and Skepta, a cute little wistful weightless grime remix of a Skepta track that I actually checked out when it was released a month or two ago.I’m holding out for it to stick past Christmas because it’s actually pretty brilliant. If it doesn’t end up in the top 75 in January, well... it got Best of the Week in absentia. Let’s review randomly-selected songs from the batch provided to me by viewers like you.

SUGGESTED REVIEWS

Suggestion #1

Like Santa pulls gifts from his sack, I pulled out two randomly-selected song suggestions from the 49 that I now have, except I excluded a certain suggestion submission because he… sorry, it’s anonymous. SOMEONE added like morbillion songs so I actually chose from 20, and then I chose from 19, because someone else suggested Travis Scott’s “FE!N” as if I hadn’t reviewed it before. Regardless, our first suggestion is “Like a River” by Frederico featuring Tiffany Aris. Frederico is a German producer hiring Brussels-based singer Tiffany Aris for a dance-pop effort and it’s pretty effective. It has a decent amount of melodrama with the unnecessary reverb and how it starts with an overwhelming level of synth suffocation, and it almost reminds me of 2013’s weird blend of folk and EDM given the heavy and sometimes pretty stripped use of acoustic guitars as the main melody in the verses, it reminds me of “Counting Stars” especially with the snaps and several dusty layers of acoustics that eventually propel into a pretty typical house beat, with cascading synths pushing in during the chorus. I respect how it goes for more of a house format instead of a build-drop EDM structure, so the song - however basic its lyrics - does ground its narrative a bit more effectively. Aris is a good singer and whilst the chorus does feel cluttered with the several attempts at a hook, which only gets worse when she starts doing vocal riffs and backing vocals eventually, she is surprisingly emotive throughout all of it. As a song, it’s functionally fine, but it’s also just not my thing, honestly. I can appreciate a lot of genres but this kind of phase-through-you dance-pop glut feels more fitting for an advert than being on Spotify as a full song, and I do think it runs out of steam by the end. Like I said, the chorus throws a lot of hook melodies at you, in a pretty rushed fashion, and we get a song that sacrifices its respect for catchiness. That wouldn’t be a problem if those hooks were more punctuated or really damn good, but what we have here just isn’t all too up to par. Sorry.

Suggestion #2

Our second suggestion is… a bit unorthodox. One joker suggested one song and one song only, “10 Hour Rain, Thunder, and Lightning | Deep Relaxation, Meditation, and Sleep”. The song I assume they meant by this, the highest search result on Spotify and only one I could find with that exact name, even down to the Oxford commas, is far from 10 hours. In fact, it’s five minutes and three seconds. Released in 2022 on the label Truefin Music, which seems to be one guy, who is the same guy the song is credited to. It may be by “10 Hour Deep Relaxation” but in reality it’s by a self-declared “music man” from Miami, Florida, who also goes by Bluefin Music online. He released his first single in 2018 under the name Tropical Punk, and it’s a cute little Spanish jam called “Mar y Sol” that whilst amateurly mixed as one would expect, is actually decently professional and very fun for what it is. I could see it as a theme song for a show about some groovy Hispanic surfers, I don’t know, it’s fun. He released a second song in 2019, “Dragonfly_summernight”, and it’s not great, it’s more ambitious than the last as well as being slower and in English, and it just doesn’t feel like a very natural fit. He could have usually found himself in this pop rock lane though. It sounds a bit like a local band rather than a singer-songwriter but with some refinement I can see a lot of appeal in this sound that’s informed by 80s soft rock cheese whilst still being relatively contemporary and with an… interesting vocal take. Hell, I actually really like the bridge and think it’s a pretty inspired little detour. So, naturally, after I found out that the 10 Hour Deep Relaxation guy was a failed two-song singer-songwriter, real name Gustavo Ordunez, it’s not doxing if it’s on Spotify, I checked his social media to see if there was any explanation to why he switched to the ambient stuff. So I looked through ALL of his Tweets. Or Xeets, I suppose.

We do get kind of a story here. In 2011, he Tweets that he made his account because he has a chance of winning $1000, and maybe that budget when to recording his two songs, who knows? He appears to have been romantically involved with one “jellsbells07”, whom he pretty consistently made loving posts towards, and called her the prettiest white girl he knew. On March 5th, 2012, he posted that she was a dick, and then a minute later, that she was the “most beautiful lady in all the lands”. In November, he got a new phone and by December, he was making passive-aggressive Tweets about a girl missing out on Italian food, and given some other Tweets at this time, they may have broken up, as in early 2013, he Tweeted that he was on the cusp of reanimation, went to strip clubs, and in April, Tweeted separately: “Man mode active” and “#thisbitch”.

He started being all profound in May of 2013 before the end of the month where, maybe they didn’t break up, maybe it was temporary, maybe all this time they were friends, who knows? Either way, he started Tweeting jellsbells again, notifying her that he was listening to 2Pac outside of a Starbucks, “#thuglife”. Then he started tracking his runs, which he does for like half a decade on Twitter. Interestingly enough, in October of 2013, he was still Tweeting his possible former lover jellsbells with stuff like “Real man breakfast” and how someone “don’t need no women”, which just seems like harassment at that point but I’m sure I’m missing some needed context and deleted or private replies. In November, he Tweeted possibly the best one liner of all time: “Don’t piss and text. #splashmountain”.

By December of 2013, he was defnitely dating jellsbells again because he was hornyposting on main, and we find that he is still in education during February of 2014. He was grinding at the gym this year, setting “impressive cardio records” and being generally appreciate of human anatomy, stating that “thumbs totally […] rock”. He gets a bit boring talking about his workouts and biceps in brief anecdotes, but on Christmas Day… he posts feet. To be clear, he actually just retweets an image someone else had posted showing three people, one of which is Ordunez, with varying levels of footwear. I don’t know which one is him, but there’s feet regardless.

He once again started to Tweet reclusive, fake-woke one-liners in 2015, ones that I’m sure he’d be embarrassed by now, as well as continuing to track his runs. In May of that year, he Tweeted, without context, “Lol irony”, and in June, “I care for you. I really do, I really do”. I hope jellsbells07 is okay.

That month, he went on a bunch of runs and listened to Paramore’s “Ain’t it Fun”, and he was actually really active during this time but I can’t lie, most of it is abstract and slightly insufferable non-Tweets that are half-poetic. In July, he Tweeted, “the microchip has been compromised” and in August, “I beats meats man”. These are not the only political posts I could find from our protagonist, he Tweeted against capitalism in September, but I just like the dichotomy. He touched a manatee in February of 2016 and continued to track his runs. That’s what he spent most of the year doing, he didn’t Tweet much that year so I assume it was an inward-looking year. He had some what appear to be post-breakup posts, retweeted Neil deGrasse Tyson and some posts criticising Donald Trump, but that kind of appears to be it.

It’s much of the same in 2017, with even less of a Twitter presence, the vast majority of it being tracking his runs through the same third-party app, which he probably forgot was still doing that. In December, however, he did Tweet that his big regret from 2011 was “not staying in school full-time”, which is… interesting, given that he’d been more outwardly depressive and political in the years before? In January of 2018, he was actually still quoting and tagging jellsbells, and this seems to align with a new brief period of activity early this year, with mostly very positive, wholesome Tweets about how he’s blessed and filled with love, posting a rare selfie in April and yes, still tracking his runs. Possibly my favourite Tweet from him is on May 1st, 2018, and it reads: “BOY DO I LOVE DOING STUFF FOR PEOPLE I LIKE”.

In June, however, he had another one of those semi-poetic, vaguely coherent breaking down moments, which came with a lot of Tweeting as well, some of which was oddly funny, like him quote-Tweeting a picture of a snake in a boot from a year prior, questioning why he’s thinking about it, but most of it just seems a bit sad, but by August, he says he was in bliss… and thanked Taco Bell for words of wisdom. In October, he retweeted Russell Brand. I think he knew. In November, he released his debut single.

He went on a bit of a Twitter break until January of 2019, wherein he got even more abstract, with a lot of motivational weirdness throughout that entire year, and by the entire year, I meant two years because he was doing this in 2020 as well. In fact, he took most of 2019 off - despite apparently playing a gig around 2018 and 2019 time, probably to do with his single release - and returned to Twitter in July of 2020. It got borderline conspiratory at times. In November, he started streaming on Twitch, but he doesn’t have any VODs so I couldn’t find anything of interest. It seems like he was doing some gaming but also just livestreaming his musical creative process, which is really cool. He streamed on Twitch pretty constantly during the last two months of 2020, but he hasn’t Tweeted since 2021 or liked anything since 2022. Truefin Music appears to be his brand, I think he’s from Cuba, he seems like a decent guy, I just genuinely have no idea why he made this pivot other than I guess the streaming money but he didn’t announce it anywhere. Maybe he’s kind of ashamed? I don’t know, maybe I would be too.

It’s beautiful but also a bit worrying that I have created this perspective of Ordunez. I don’t really know much about this guy, but I also feel like I know everything from this journey. I’ve just created a guy, a character. In my mind, he’s married to jellsbells07 and he still listens to 2Pac outside of a Starbucks, just now the clean version in his car with his one-year-old son in the passenger seat. Maybe he made the 10-hour meditation single to stop him from crying.

For the record, his relaxation release isn’t even great, it’s a stream-trolling, maybe even stolen ambient palette that isn’t really dynamic enough to feel effectively like ambiance. It’s honestly quite the opposite, at least to me, it’s a bunch of fuzz most of the time instead of being what it describes itself as, but from what I see on his Twitter, the man is honest to a fault and also somewhat pretentious, but willing to put himself out there. I’ve looked through all this man’s non-reply Tweets - maybe the replies could be a further episode - and the singles he made in the late 2010s make so much more sense to me than this 2022 pivot, and it’s pretty telling that he only released the one ambient track.

I would like to end this weird, unexpected way of handling this suggestion by reciting two consecutive Tweets made by Gustavo “10 Hour Deep Meditation” Ordunez in 2013 that particularly resonated with me, and I think will provide a great deal of closure to our story. Ahem…

“A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men.” “You know what guys get for free? Handjobs. From ourselves.”

Thanks for everything, Gustavo.

Conclusion

Hopefully next week there’ll be people starting to clammer for that Christmas #1? Or you know, anything at all? But I can’t lie, these slow weeks where I can have a nap and wake up to doing a really simple, dry episode… kind of growing on me, man. If you read this, thanks? Rest in peace to Shane MacGowan, and I’ll see you next week.

#pop music #song review #uk singles chart #christmas #10 hour deep relaxation

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louisdelac · 2 years

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okay so one thing i've learned from making pie charts is that compiling data sucks if you don't have a great sorting system for that data. egad.

anyways let's look at some data <3:

so what we can learn from this is that i like tma. i think it's very very very exceptionally good, and by far the vast majority of episodes land perfectly or near perfectly for me.

i was a little surprised to see each season average go up consecutively when i first saw it, but thinking about it, that does track. i have and likely always will be a fan of knowing characters intimately, and the more i get of them, the more attached i grow. it helps, i think, that tma's first 4 seasons have excellent payoff, and every revelation you reach only helps mount your excitement for the next step forward in the plot.

and also i go a little insane in season 4 because elias is having such a good time. sue me.

that said, if i were to rank them without any objective number attached, i'd probably go season 2 > season 4 > season 1 > season 3. much like the extremely negligible distinction between my average score for these seasons, the amount separating my favorite from my least favorite is almost nothing at all. i just love jon when he's paranoid and unhappy.

okay moving on! reranking my top 10 favorite episodes based off all this:

new vs old

and what can be learned from this is that after relistening to the series, i've decided i really like statements that touch on history. this also isn't surprising, i'm pretty sure in one of my episode reviews i mentioned that there's something very engaging about the older statements - there's a willingness and sincerity in belief that's lacking in modern statements, by nature of how modern man has established a norm of intellectualism and rationale that promotes cool detachment and ironic engagement with the world. i think we should go back to fearing god's wrath tbh.

also since i'm already ranking things, my ranking of the main cast (again, only through s4. we aren't bring s5 into this):

jon > elias > melanie > daisy > basira > martin > sasha > georgie > tim

and top 10 favorite statement givers:

mary keay > oliver banks > agnes montague (in absentia) > jared hopworth > michael shelley > hezekiah wakely > manuela dominguez > peter lukas > adelard dekker > eric delano

and that's all the data i have! what a very excellent 4 season show, literally no notes, it is completely perfect as is <3

#tmags #tmags ranking #oh this is soooo fun and self indulgent. nothing more fun than looking at data and going over favorites #also martin would rank higher if i got more of s4 of him tbh #i love lonely martin so so so much <3

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2023 in TV For the year of 2023, I still haven’t watched as much as I’ve wanted. Peak TV is still rampant across network, cable and streaming platforms. I did finish Prodigal Son: Season 2 which I’m proud of.

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Siren: Season 3 (Freeform) - April 2 2020

Home Before Dark (Apple TV+) - April 3 2020

Outer Banks (Netflix) - April 15 2020

Untitled Mindy Kalling Bio/Never Have I Ever (Netflix) - April 27 2020

Amphibia: Season 2 (Disney Channel) - July 11 2020

Killer Camp (The CW) - July 16 2020

Don’t Look Deeper (Quibi) - July 27 2020

Slutty Teenage Bounty Hunters (Netflix) - Aug 14 2020

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Away - Mars Drama (Netflix) - Sept 4 2020

Wireless (Quibi) - Sept 14 2020

The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix) - Oct 9 2020

Small Axe (BBC) - Nov 20 2020

Amityville Horror House (Discovery Plus) - Jan 4 2021

A Discovery of Witches: Season 2 (Sky/BBC America) - Jan 8 2021

UFO Witness (Travel) - January 14 2021

Firefly Lane (Netflix) - Feb 3 2021

Amphibia Returns - March 6 2021

THEM (Amazon) - April 9 2021

Last Summer/Cruel Summer (Freeform) - April 20 2021

Grishaverse/Shadow & Bone (Netflix) - April 23 2021

Jupiter’s Legacy (Netflix) - May 7 2021

The Underground Railroad (Amazon) - May 14 2021

The Owl House (Disney Channel) - June 12 2021

Motherland: Fort Salem: Season 2 (Freeform) - June 22 2021

The Mysterious Benedict Society (Hulu) - June 25 2021

Brand New Cherry Flavor (Netflix) - August 13 2021

Chapelwaite (Epix) - August 22 2021

Foundation (Apple TV+) - September 23 2021

Midnight Mass (Netflix) - September 24 2021

Amphibia: Season 3 (Disney Channel - Oct 2 2021

You: Season 3 (Netflix) - October 15 2021

I Know What You Did Last Summer (Amazon) - October 15 2021

Invasion (Apple TV+) - Oct 22 2021

The Expanse Season 6 (Amazon) - December 10 2021

A Discovery of Witches: Season 3 (Sky Max) - January 7 2022

Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch: Season 2 (Discovery) - January 7 2022

Peacemaker (HBO Max) - January 13 2022

Wolf Like Me (Peacock) - January 13 2022

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel: Season 4 (Amazon) - February 18 2022

Killing Eve: Season 4 (AMC) - February 23 2022

The Dropout (Hulu) - March 3 2022

Joe Vs Carole (Peacock) - March 3 2022

The Thing About Pam (NBC) - March 8 2022

Mr. Mayor: Season 2 (NBC) - March 15 2022

Welcome to Flatch (Fox) - March 17 2022

Lost Gold of the Aztecs (History) - March 29 2022

The Girl from Plainville (Hulu) - March 29 2022

Outer Range (Amazon) - April 15 2022

Billy the Kid (Epix) - April 24 2022

Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles (Netflix) - April 28 2022

Grace and Frankie: Season 7 (Netflix) - April 29 2022

The Wilds: Season 2 - May 4 2022

Candy (Hulu) - May 9 2022

The Lake (Amazon) - June 17 2022

Motherland: Fort Salem: Season 3 (Freeform) - June 21 2022

UFO Witness: Season 2 (Travel) - June 21 2022

Mysteries Decoded: Season 2 (The CW) - July 6 2022

The Challenge: USA (CBS) - July 6 2022

Boo, Bitch (Netflix) - July 8 2022

SkyMed (CBC Gem) - July 10 2022

Unprecedented (Discovery+) - July 2022

Resident Evil (Netflix) - July 14 2022

Blood & Treasure (CBS): Season 2 - July 17 2022

Breathe/Keep Breathing (Netflix) - July 28 2022

Paper Girls (Amazon) - July 29 2022

Are You Afraid of the Dark (2019): Season 3: Ghost Island (Nickelodeon) - June 30 2022

Children of the Underground (FX) - Aug 12 2022

Surfside Girls (Apple TV+) - August 19 2022

The Imperfects (Netflix) - September 8 2022

Quantum Leap Reboot (NBC) - Sept 19 2022

La Brea: Season 2 (NBC) - Sept 27 2022

Walker Independence (The CW) - October 6 2022

The Midnight Club (Netflix) - October 7 2022

The Winchesters (The CW) - October 11 2022

28 Days Haunted (Netflix) - October 21 2022

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (Netflix) - October 25 2022

Manifest: Season 4 (Netflix) - November 4 2022

1899 (Netflix) - November 17 2022

Fantasy Island: Season 2 - May 31 2022/January 2 2023

The Last of Us (HBO) - January 15 2023

Shrinking (Apple TV+) - January 26 2023

Poker Face (Peacock) - January 26 2023

Wolf Pack (Paramount+) - January 26 2023

Lockwood & Co (Netflix) - January 27 2023

The Watchful Eye (Freeform) - January 30 2023

Deadman’s Curse (Hulu) - January 31 2023

The Ark (CTV) - February 1 2023

The Spencer Sisters (CTV) - February 10 2023

Daisy Jones and the Six (Amazon) - March 3 2023

Shelved (CTV) - March 6 2023

MH370: The Plane That Disappeared (Netflix) - March 8 2023

School Spirits (Paramount+) - March 9 2023

Ted Lasso: Season 3 (Apple TV+) - March 15 2023

The Power (Amazon) - March 31 2023

The UnXplained: Season 5 (History) - March 31 2023

Mysteries Decoded: Season 3 (The CW) - April 4 2023

The Making of a haunting: The Amityville Murders/Amityville: An Origin Story (MGM Plus) - April 23 2023

Nancy Drew: Season 5 (The CW) - May 31 2023

Twisted Metal (Peacock) - July 27 2023

Black Cake (Hulu) - November 1 2023

Blue Eye Samurai (Netflix) - November 3 2023

The Buccaneers (Apple TV+) - November 8 2023

The Curse (Showtime) - November 12 2023

Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters: Season 2 - November 14 2023

Doctor Who: The Star Beast (Special) - November 25 2023

UPCOMING

They Can’t Kill Us All (AMC)

Heist 88 (FX)

Kaos (Netflix)

Diablo Animated Series (Netflix)

Avatar Last Airbender Live Action (Netflix)

Sunshine Scouts (Netflix)

Dark Cargo (YouTube Premium)

Triangle (ABC) - Pilot - 2019 - NOT PICKED UP SEPT 23 2019

The Lost Boys (CW) - Pilot - 2019

Scare Club (Freeform) - 2020?

The Cove (CW)

Untitled Steven Speilberg Horror Series (Quibi) - 2020

Wicked, Kansas (Epix) - 2020

Gormenghast (Showtime) - 2020

One Night Forever (Quibi) - 2020

13 Ghosts (Crypt TV/Facebook Watch) - 2020

Trip (Quibi) - 2020

Green Cross (Netflix) -????

Heaven’s Forest (Netflix) - ????

The Magic Order (Netflix) - ????

Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires (Amazon) - ????

Firekeeper’s Daughter (Netflix) - ????

Skull Island (Netflix) -2022/?????

The Lighthouse Witches (Unknown Network/Streaming Service) - ????

Five Point (CBS) - ?????

The Big Cigar (Apple TV+) - ????

Jade City (Peacock) - ???? - Series Order cancelled July 2022

The Islands (Peacock) - ????

Witch Mountain Pilot (Disney+) - ????

The Castaways (Paramount+) - ????

The Deep (Amazon) - ????

Earth Abides (MGM+) - ????

Five Families (History) - ????

The Hunting Party (NBC) - ????

Nowhere (NBC) - ????

Apples Never Fall (Peacock) - March 2023

FINISHED

Doctor Who Spring Special (Legend of the Sea Devils) - January 5 2023

Doctor Who Fall Special 2022 (Power of the Doctor) - January 5 2023

Survivor: Season 43 - January 9 2023

Big Sky: Season 3 - January 21 2023

The Traitors: Season 1 - February 19 2023

Alert Missing Persons Unit: Season 1 - March 3 2023

Picard: Season 3 - April 20 2023

Yellowjackets: Season 2 - May 26 2023

Succession: Season 4 - May 28 2023

Curse of Oak Island: Season 10 - June 27 2023

The Bear: Season 2 - July 20 2023

Secret Invasion: Season 1 - July 26 2023

Justified: City Primeval (Miniseries) - August 30 2023

Survivor: Season 44 - September 7 2023

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 1 - September 9 2023

Prodigal Son: Season 2 - September 10 2023

History’s Greatest Mysteries: Season 4 - October 10 2023

Stargirl: Season 3 - November 26 2023

SurrealEstate: Season 2 - December 7 2023

Abbott Elementary: Season 2 - December 19 2023

Ghosts: Season 2 - December 20 2023

Survivor 45 - December 20 2023

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee - Canceled June 2002 but forgot to remove it - Removed from List December 20 2023

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[tv review] tng 5x07-5x08 "unification" (1991)

5x07 “unification, part 1”

the main attraction for the audience (spock’s presence) is certainly more pronounced in part 2 given that all we get in part 1 is his dramatic entrance and immediately throw to one of the show’s most dramatic “to be continued”s. in retrospect it’s kind of amazing that this two-parter didn’t straddle the end of one season and the beginning of another. but part 1 does have a lot more going for it than it might initially seem.

captain picard’s scene with sarek is difficult–it’s hard to see sarek in so much turmoil and pain–but it’s also full of super touching moments. despite his compromised state and the state of his relationship with his estranged son, sarek immediately declares, “never!” when picard informs him that many within starfleet worry spock has defected. when picard says that thanks to their mind meld he knows their relationship is difficult but he also knows sarek loves spock very much, sarek pleads, “tell him.” but maybe the most touching moment of the whole scene comes when sarek is struggling to give picard the vulcan salute, and the captain gently helps the ambassador’s fingers into the correct position.

in order to journey to romulus to see what’s become of ambassador spock, picard is going to need a cloaked ship. the scene where he speaks with a junior klingon diplomat because gowron and the rest of the high council are ducking him and picard tactfully eviscerates gowron in absentia is one of my favorite scenes in the entire damn show, it’s just so damn good.

with captain picard and data finally underway to romulus, we get a b-plot where commander riker and the enterprise are trying to unravel the mystery of some parts from scuttled vulcan ships ending up in ferengi hands. their investigation takes them to a space junkyard where riker and troi have to deal with a guy with a serious case of big fish, small pond syndrome, and watching them maneuver their way through this is honestly delightful. it’s definitely one of the more inconsequential parts of the episode, but it adds a needed element of fun to counterbalance all the heavy stuff going on.

and apart from that we get the first real appearance of romulus in the franchise (unless you count the holodeck scene in “the defector”) and ambassador spock’s aforementioned dramatic entrance, which is more than enough to round this out into one of the best episodes of the series. s-rank

5x08 “unification, part 2”

the first scene with captain picard and ambassador spock is just a pretty straightforward conversation, but by the end of it i was just like… yeah. this episode is exactly as good as i remember it being. patrick stewart and leonardo nimoy are just absolute legends, and seeing them play off of each other while stewart is at the height of his powers and nimoy might be a bit past that but definitely has still got it was just all kinds of breathtaking.

this is one of those episodes that’s just jam-packed with amazing stuff from start to finish. there isn’t a single bad scene in the entire episode. it’s all romulan scheming and riker visiting a fucking awesome alien bar and wholesomely hitting on a four-armed piano player who plays klingon opera for worf later and data and spock bonding and spock passing the torch to picard and picard comforting spock over his father’s death and sela being a super effective villain and omfg this episode is just so freaking good, you guys. easily in the conversation as one of the best episodes in star trek history. s-rank

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