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carmensbroom · 3 years

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I've once again had 6 hours to process everything I saw in season 4 so I'm just gonna say my thoughts on it (hold onto your fedoras again folks)

first off, WE FOUND OUT GRAY'S LAST NAME?? I was so shocked and happy at the same time I love how everyone asked for player's real name and we ended up with gray's surname for some reason shsjsj. NOBODY ASKED FOR THAT BUT THEY DELIVERED ANYWAY

ALSO GRAHAM IS AN ORPHAN?? my precious boy *throws mommy's boy headcanon out the window*

the second episode really had me shipping carmivy they're so cute we got a girl's trip and I'm all for it

I think I may now be a dash haber stan but let's not make a big thing of it

also ivy eating the chocolate in the middle of a mission deserves an honorable mention because of her cute little tongue (I'm weird okay djsjsjs)

zack trying to bond with shadowsan and him having none of it was delightful

that fucking robot god damn bellum really thought of everything didn't she every time I thought it was gone it made a come back I literally said out loud "carmen is so fucked"

I SWEAR TO GOD EVERY TIME GRAY TALKED ABOUT CARMEN I KEPT THINKING HE WAS GONNA SAY "BECAUSE I LOVE HER" IN WHICH CASE I WOULD HAVE DIED AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY

yall have no idea how relieved I was when I found out that photo of julia was her and her (presumably) mother and NOT a boyfriend sjsjsjs

catch me making a headcanon that julia has a single mom because her father disowned her for coming out as gay based on that picture alone 😭

I'M SORRY BUT THE AMOUNT OF FLIRTING BETWEEN CARMEN AND JULES?? PLEASE THEY'RE SECRET GIRLFRIENDS JUST ADMIT YOU CENSORED THEM AND GO

OKAY BUT WHEN THEY WERE IN JULIA'S OFFICE AND CARMEN SAID "WAY TO FOLLOW YOUR HEART JULES" AND SHE WAS LIKE "YOU REMEMBERED" I LOST IT WHAT DID CARMEN REMEMBER JULES?? DID THEY HAVE A CONVERSATION OFF SCREEN? MAYBE I'M JUST A BIG HUGE LESBIAN BUT THAT'S A BIT GAY LADIES

carmen getting all worried when julia wasn't answering her phone was the blessed gay content I signed up for PLEASE THEY CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER SO MUCH

never thought I'd say this but I loved devineaux this season he was funny, he improved his treatment towards julia (I don't recall him officially apologising I must have missed something djsjsjs)

the only thing I didn't like was it kinda seemed like they were trying to hint that chase and jules were into each other and I didn't really vibe with that

all that shit with dr bellum and the crown for cleo really had me thinking cleobellum was gonna be canon what a clown I am (seriously tho the way she lost it when the crown got stolen GIVE IT BACK IT BELONGS TO HER WIFE)

look all I'm saying is: tigress new outfit in the egypt episode was hot

HER FACE AT THE END AFTER SHE GOT TRAPPED WITH ALL THOSE BUGS

I wish julia and gray could have met there's so much friendship potential there 😭

is player... is he a bit 💅 I SEE THAT PRIDE STICKER ON YOUR LAPTOP YOUNG MAN YOU'RE NOT SUBTLE

ngl I nearly teared up when player finally met carmen in person

I'M SORRY BUT JULIA'S BLUSH IN EPISODE 7 PLEASE SHE'S SO SMITTEN WITH CARMEN IT'S BRILLIANT

EVIL CARMEN WAS REALLY SOMETHING ELSE I WAS SO SCARED SHE'D BE STUCK LIKE THAT FOREVER

I mentioned this in another post but when julia was like "don't you remember me? I'm your girlfriend friend, jules" I NEARLY FUCKING CRIED THEY WERE GETTING KINDA CLOSE AND THEN CARMEN GOT MIND WIPED

JULIA TOPS JULIA TOPS I SAID IT ALL ALONG AND IT'S TRUE SHE REALLY PINNED VILE CARMEN THAT'S TOP BEHAVIOR (also this now makes carmen a bottom I don't make the rules)

kinda shocked that paper star was hardly here I don't stan her so it didn't bother me much but still it was just strange they didn't use her this season

when shadowsan whipped out the last doll and carmen had all those flashbacks to when she was at vile I nearly started crying AGAIN

I LEGIT THOUGHT CARMEN HAD KILLED GRAY DJSJSJS AN ELECTRICIAN GETTING ELECTROCUTED THAT'S SOME IRONY RIGHT THERE

gray really confused me towards the end he kept switching sides every five minutes for the whole season I wasn't sure whether to trust him half the time dhshsjs

THE LOOK ON CARMEN'S FACE WHEN SHE THOUGHT SHE'D KILLED GRAY WAS SO HEARTBREAKING AND THEN SHE STARTED CRYING OH MY GOD I'M SORRY BABY

the way she's always been against hurting people/taking lives and then she ended up hurting all the people she loves (she nearly killed zack for god sake) really hit me hard

gray's ending was... kinda weird I understood the parallel of him not wanting to complicate carmen's life like she said about him in season 2 but it was still kinda strange that they didn't have one more conversation or get any closure

I'm obviously kinda upset that carulia wasn't canon they had so much potential imo and the show isn't about romance anyway BUT I'm happy with the content we got and THEY FLIRTED SO MUCH THEY'RE CANON IN MY HEART

THE TEAM RED GROUP HUG KILLED ME IT WAS SO CUTE

kinda annoyed that carmen just straight up left zack and ivy she really just left a note and said YEET

ivy's voice crack when she read the note got me all choked up

ngl I'm still not entirely sure how it ended I had to rewatch it a few times to understand what they were trying to imply sjsjsj

would have loved to know carmen's given name but at the same time she's literally THE carmen sandiego that's who she is, it would be silly to go by a name that she doesn't connect with just because her parents gave her it

her mom being a regular citizen was kinda bittersweet I mean a plot twist would have been good but at the same time it would make the story even more complicated

*dreams of a spinoff movie where we get better closure on everything*

ACME IVY ACME IVY I'M NOT AN IVY STAN BUT DAMN IF I AIN'T SIMPING FOR ACME IVY

I know carmen didn't want revenge but I feel like chief got let off with killing her father way too quickly if I'm honest sjsjsj

JULIA BEING IN CHARGE OF FINDING CARMEN'S MOM OH MY GOSH

I feel so bad for laughing when julia got knocked out the way the cloth fell on her head sent me but when the pole hit her head I was like "OKAY I TAKE IT BACK THIS ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE"

was not expecting julia to physically fight anyone I mean she's always been so calm and collected and then this season she was like fuck it might as well hit a few people before we finish forever

wishing carmen and jules could have hugged or had a scene together where they talked about stockholm but I won't complain it wouldn't have really made sense anyway considering they were cool with each other at the university

so glad the trailer was misleading about the coach brunt situation I really didn't want her to get a last minute redemption

another honorable mention: cleo snapping at julia "DON'T YOU DARE IMPLY THAT I AM COMMON" sent me djdjs she was just stood there like "I am but a humble history lesbian leave me be"

I think that's everything I'll probably add to it later if I think of anything or I might make a part 2 djsjsjs (I've been writing this for almost an hour now 😭)

overall I enjoyed it from start to finish. I haven't really cried about it ending yet I'm still processing everything but I'll probably have a little sob when it finally hits me djsjsjs

CARULIA NATION WE BASICALLY WON NOW EXCUSE ME WHILE I REWATCH ALL THEIR SCENES TOGETHER AND MAKE IT MY ENTIRE PERSONALITY

#wow this ended up being way too long #I was trying to go in order of what happened but I kept remembering other things so it's juat a big mess dhshsjs #anyways carulia is canon because I said so #really hope we get an animated movie or another short in the future #cs spoilers #julia argent #carulia #julethief #gray crackle #gray cs #chase devineaux #carmen sandiego season 4 #carmen sandiego

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itsclydebitches · 3 years

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Hey Clyde, did you check out Wonder Egg Priority at all? The first ep is super promising, but the series as a whole is one of those real fascinating disasters from a story and a production standpoint that might be up your alley as a thing to pick apart haha.

I’d warn that it’s also reeeeal offensive and this generally gets worse as it goes though.

Hi, Phoenix! How are you and Cube doing?

Okay, I hadn't watched Wonder Egg Priority when I received your ask this morning. Now I have. In a fit of intense curiosity I settled down for a rare binge session and tore through all twelve episodes + OVA in a single sitting. It is now nearly 3:00am as I write this because I, oh so clearly, make fantastic life choices.

A question for you: what did I just watch?

The rest is going under a read more partly for spoilers, but more-so because WEP—and the summary I'm about to give, because I feel like I need to try and explain this to tumblr's faceless void for my own, dwindling sanity—comes with about every trigger warning under the sun. Seriously, if you are triggered by anything that we might think of as a "standard" trigger (meaning, not unique to you and your own experiences), best to proceed with caution.

Right! What the ever loving fuck happened in this show? Well, let's work through this chronologically. Two genius, frat boy brothers (I get their names mixed up so I'm not even gonna bother) are locked in their apartment and closely monitored because of Super Secret Science Research. Even though, I think, they're the ones who created this company. Not important! What is important is that they're bored enough to create an AI for funsies, thinking of her as their daughter and letting her name herself Frill. Frill is the perfect, cutesy, also genius child who has a habit of popping her lips — which the camera focuses on in an incredibly creepy fashion. One day Brother #1 (the hot one) falls in love with a random woman we know nothing about and Frill gets jealous.

"Jealous in a general sense?" you ask, thinking this show is in any way normal. "Like, just of her Dad giving attention to someone else?"

"No," I respond, patting your hand. "Jealous because she's in love with him." Which, beyond the subject matter itself, comes completely out of nowhere. Frill has a line about what you'd do if some woman stole your husband away. I, fool that I was, briefly considered that these two guys were lovers, not brothers. Oh no. They're brothers. Frill just considers Dad #1 to be her "husband."

So, in true evil AI fashion, she murders the wife, leaving only her newly born child behind. Who is a daughter.

Uh oh.

Dad #1 locks Frill in a coffin-esque hole in the basement and goes on with his life. Things are great! Until years later when the daughter reveals that she has fallen in love with her uncle (Dad #2 to Frill). She knows (somehow??) that both her dad and her uncle loved her mom, so if the loser uncle will just wait a few years he can marry her instead! He brushes her off, but the next day she’s found dead of an apparent suicide.

Realizing that this was somehow Frill’s doing, he marches down to the basement and confronts the murderous child they’ve had locked up for years. She’s now surrounded by screens in, again, true creep AI fashion. How did she get all this while she was locked up? Oh, just the three bug girls she created as friends prior to killing the wife. They’re devoted slaves, I guess. So the uncle says enough of this insanity and seemingly sets Frill on fire.

OH and Frill’s subtitled dialogue also puts “uncle” in quotation marks, implying that the daughter was always Dad #2’s??

Anyway, both brothers are now super obsessed with death and claim that they think Frill has had a hand in lots of girls’ suicides, even now after her own death. This is brought into question later when it’s revealed that they might have just concocted this scheme to try and bring back their daughter. I’m really not sure. Regardless, they use hand-wavey science to create eggs that I guess contain the souls of young girls who have committed suicide, then they sucker in other young girls who have lost people to suicide to try and rescue their loved ones in a dream world, saving others along the way. A tomboyish girl, Momoe, lost a classmate who admitted to loving her, but who Momoe rejected. Rika, a former junior idol, used and rejected an overweight fan only to learn later that she’d starved herself to death. Neiru, the 14yo president of some science company (yup) was attacked by her sister before she jumped off a bridge. Finally Ai, our protagonist, is a victim of bullying who managed to make friends with a single girl, Koito, who then jumped from their school building for unknown reasons. They’re all given the chance to bring these individuals back to life, provided they protect other victims of suicide by defeating the monstrous traumas that drove them to that act in the first place.

And you know what? That concept was great. However, the execution ranges from “Okay, that was pretty good for an anime. Kudos there” to “That’s the most offensive thing I’ve seen in my life.” Needless to say, unpacking all the battles they fight would take a lot more than this already absurd summary. Basically, if you can think of something horrible to happen to young girls (and one trans guy whose existence in that egg undermines the whole message of the episode), there’s an attempt to tackle it here.

During all this the four girls become friends and Ai works through her suspicions about Mr. Sawaki, a teacher at her school. What’s going on with Mr. Sawaki? Uh… everything! He’s somehow connected to Koito’s death, he’s dating Ai’s mom, and Ai apparently loves him too because her friends say so, even though this is never actually addressed and she barely interacts with him. It’s all quite the complication.

In time though the girls complete their “mission” of bringing their loved ones back to life. Rika and Momoe manage it first, only to find that Frill’s bug-girl lackeys have arrived to kill them. Why? Because that’s what Frill does, I guess. Momoe’s crocodile familiar (cute animals the girls were gifted to help them fight) takes a killing blow for her and the bug-lady then proceeds to carve up his corpse and force feed it to Momoe. Fantastic!! Building off of that, the next bug-lady who Rika encounters kills her turtle too, following in the footsteps of her bug-sister by, presumably, forcing her to eat parts of its head. Ai refuses to sacrifice her familiar to stay alive, but luckily the suicide she was protecting turns out to be herself from a parallel universe (that's a thing now!) and she takes the killing blow herself, which is done by pulling out the eye she’s sensitive about (she has heterochromia.) So parallel Ai passes on (again?) and the three girls don’t work through this trauma at all, instead becoming more traumatized through the realization that the loved ones they brought back no longer remember them. They’re alive, but the relationship they all had with them is dead.

It’s about this point that the main storyline wraps up and I’m relieved that there’s an OVA to finish things off. Surely they can somehow bring this all together in 45 minutes.

…25 minutes of that OVA is recap.

So with only about 20 minutes left, we learn that Neiru, the only one to not complete her mission yet, has mysteriously gone missing. It turns out she was an AI/clone/something all along, made to replace her sister and, presumably, that’s what caused the whole stabbing-suicide incident. She successfully brings her sister back, but stays behind in the dream world because Frill promises her she can become human. How is Frill here when she’s dead? How will Neiru become human? Isn’t Frill the “temptation of death” or whatever? There are no answers. A flashback finally reveals that Koito was having a relationship with a teacher at another school, he committed suicide, she transferred, she tried the same thing with Mr. Sawaki, he kept refusing her advances, and finally while threatening suicide to get his attention, she accidentally fell.

(So why was she in the suicide egg if it was an accident??)

Except, all this information comes through Mr. Sawaki himself, there’s a whole subplot about whether he’s really a villain, or if Ai is just making him into one, and this show might as well be titled How Much Pedophilia Can We Put into One Anime? So make of that what you will.

A dead character randomly shows up, but it's fine because she's actually just a version from a parallel world. How did she get here? Why is she here? Lol, it's cute that you think these are answered.

Rika, the character who cuts and almost committed suicide halfway through the show, breaks down saying how much she misses her dead loved ones, right after her friends refused to let her go on another mission that would surely end in her death and… that’s it. That’s all we get about her.

Momoe too, though she’s hopefully just vibing somewhere with that longed-for boyfriend.

Ai transfers schools and then one day randomly remembers that she loves Neiru and rushes back to start cracking eggs again because that will? Somehow?? Let her see Neiru???

When I say there are too many unanswered questions to possibly list here I really, really mean it.

Finally, in a personal attack on me, the protagonist with a name that is literally AI is not in any way an artificial intelligence.

And that’s it! Congratulations, you now “understand” WEP. And see, the funny thing is that the off-the-rails, bat-shit crazy aspects kind of catch you off guard? Yeah, the first episode is fantastic. In fact, I think I got through about six episodes thinking that this was a solid, if at times really messed up anime, but I was willing to shrug off a lot of stuff due solely to the amount of sensitive material they were attempting to cover (which is always quite difficult to do). Probably the only reason I was able to binge so fast was because the first half of the series was so engaging. The characters are charming. The animation is GORGEOUS. There's actually a ton of good here that is also worth yelling about. But then the plot comes in like a freight train and I was left staring dumbfounded at my screen as more and more insanity kept happening. Having watched the "explanations" I am now more confused about the show I just saw.

Phoenix, if you’ve bothered to read this rambling, 3:00am rant: thank you. I think? Idk if I should actually be thanking you or cursing you for tuning me into this, but it was definitely an experience, that’s for sure lol.

I'm off to bed now RIP the chance of having normal dreams ✌️

#mymetas

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bellatrixobsessed1 · 3 years

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Aether Metamorphosis

For day 2 of 30 Days of Witchversary 2021: Quintessence

Summary: In her lust for power and her obsession the Heart Of Kandrakar, Nerissa absorbs quintessence making herself into a human vessel for it. She is found by someone equally enamored with quintessence who seeks to use her as a human Heart Of Kandrakar.

Pleasure has long since turned to agony. Agony in its purest form and she thinks that she might deserve this.

Her body aches and spasms. It twitches and writhes, mostly involuntarily and in spite of her attempts to keep herself still. And she bleeds. Oh how she bleeds. It trickles most heavily from her nose and gushes from her mouth down her chin to where it spatters upon her chest. But it also trails from her ears and possibly from the corners of her eyes. There is so much of it and she no longer bleeds normal. She doesn’t know why she expected to.

She has long since stopped trying to wipe the blood away, it comes faster than she can cleanse it. And it stains her sleeves, no red, but a vivid and glowing fuschia. And when the freshly spilled warmth of it cools, it grays.

Her blood is thicker than blood and it burns searingly as it pumps through her veins. Her blood is poisoned--or in the processes of being so. It is being overtaken, cleared out for something else entirely. She had run out of red blood days ago--hemorrhaged it all out to make room for the very essence that had driven her mad.

She thinks that this must be like radiation feels like in its purest form. But this is worse. This is so much worse...

She is no longer uncertain. No, she is certain that she deserves this. She has most definitely done this to herself.

They had tried to stop her. They all had. But they couldn’t save her from herself. Couldn’t save her from her obsessive addiction. And so she bleeds for it. She bleeds it.

.oOo.

She was normal. She was quiet. Mostly she kept to herself. Evenings were quiet, charming, tranquil and they closed in watercolor shades of orange, yellow, and pink. Back then she had a meadow facing bedroom with billowing magenta curtains and a plush bay window cushion. Beneath which was a shelf full of books and an arrangement of art supplies. Mostly the brushes and pencils had gone untouched in favor of the music sheets and her flute. She liked to play with the window open and the breeze in her hair. Something about the wind sweeping up the notes and carrying them down the hillside, through plumes of dandelion seeds was enchanting. On those days she had been able to imagine touching the skies, could picture herself in worlds distant and parallel. On those days she hadn’t known that she would get to those places in due time.

Back then she had friends, only a small cluster of them, having a preference for quietness. There was Cassiday, Yan Lin, Kadma, and Halinor. She had a particular fondness for Cassidy. The girl and her cute spray of freckles and her vivid hair. Those soft aquamarine eyes. She was spirited and adventurous where Nerissa preferred more mundane affairs--perhaps a trip to the library with Kadma or stopping by Yan Lin’s family restaurant. Watching Halinor at tennis practice wasn’t so terrible either.

Nothing was particularly terrible back then. She hadn’t really any wishes for change, no higher goals, nor a need to move on. Frankly she had been content to remain stagnant, to keep her spot by the window and her view of the meadow until coming to pass. She hadn’t longed for something grander. Truth be told, the pressures of grandness and extravagance had been daunting. Back then, enough was almost more than enough, was almost too much.

And in the aftermath of everything that has come to pass, she thinks that she had, had it right back then. Thinks that she would have been better off if she hadn’t been roused from her content and given a taste of something more. Perhaps she wouldn’t be so damaged…

She remembers when it all changed. Remembers the day that the heart had come into her hands. It was an ordinary night as any. The last few notes had echoed into the night before she’d set her flute down. She had promised to meet the others in the park for some stargazing and a moonlit picnic. It was a serene enough affair and she hadn’t any assignments to be done.

It was Kadma’s birthday, as she recalls. The sky always seemed to glitter the brightest on Kadma’s birthday, as though the stars had a particular love for the girl. Nerissa almost envied that. She was never particularly favored by anything. Mostly, she was easy to forget. And mostly that was just fine with her, it was less trouble. Certainly if she had remained unnoticed, she would be in a better state.

She remembers having laid on her back that night, looking up at the stars while Yan Lin braided Halinor’s hair and Kadma opened the last of her gifts. Cassidy was fussing with a telescope and pointing out the constellations she enjoyed the most. “If I was a star…” she had declared loudly, “I’d want to go right there!” She’d pointed at a blank space in the inky sky. “You’d stay next to me, right, Rissa?”

Nerissa sat herself up and nodded, “sure, Cassidy. I’d be a star next to you.”

She can’t get that innocent, loving grin out of her mind. It is always there, always haunting her. And in the throes of whatever this is that she had gotten herself into, that promise stalks her with an extra potency. She wonders if Cassidy would still want her next to her.

It was on the way home when the heart came to her. On the way home when she was alone. Alone with summer’s dying breath--a breeze with a brisker undertone. And in that breath was a whisper. A whisper that came not from the wind but from the street lights she passed under. This would become rather routine--an ability to hear objects, particularly electric lights.

They told her to look up and into the forest. She looked down and across the street. Perhaps if it weren’t just the Oracle and his council she would have been another mysterious disappearance to discuss on late night TV.

He had put a hand on her shoulder and the start of the end in her hands. Deep down she had always known, even then, that it was a mistake. She is a weak woman with little resistance to her vices and cravings. In her passiveness hadn been an invitation, an open door. One that still hangs wide open. And through it come temptations and wickedness that she had and still does welcome with open arms.

The wickedness spills from her lips and the greed weeps from her nose as she writhes on the ground. She hopes that Cassidy has, despite everything, left a place for her by her side in the sky.

#W.i.t.c.h. Nerissa #W.i.t.c.h.#30 days of witchversary #Fanfiction #W.i.t.c.h. Cassidy #Yan Lin #Halinor #Kadma

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arcanadotcom · 4 years

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𝕄𝕒𝕚𝕟 𝟞 𝕒𝕤 𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤

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(Hi everyone! I came up with these when me and my sister went out for a quick little drive after feeling sick of staying home 😘✌🏻 my driving skills got rusty. smh!)

(This is my first time writing so i’m sorry if they’re all over the place!)

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☆ Asra

owns an old used car from the 90’s that makes you feel nostalgic

it kinda reeks of weed sometimes...

has random shit laying around the back including a blanket because he totally takes naps in the car between his classes

he’s a pretty slow driver (goes 23mph slower than the rest of traffic)

but as soon as he sees a yellow light he FLOORS IT

this lil shit never uses his blinkers...smh!

giggles when people cuss him out. he don’t give a fuck!

will always give you the aux cord because he vibes with whatever. any tunes you like, he likes too 🥰

often misses freeway exits because he’s too busy chatting with you (“wha..? oh haha...anyways!”)

he easily gets distracted with anything really, so you have to remind him to keep his eyes on the road all the time (it’s cute at first...but after a while it’s just annoying)

always offers to pick you up but never asks for gas money (pretends to forget but he just doesn’t care because it’s you and he care you <3)

overall he’s a cautious driver, he just has very erratic speed patterns and takes really shitty turns

★ Julian

has had the same old black car for about 8 years (hates that it’s a stick shift, but he got over it already)

he’s actually quite a responsible driver. doesn’t break transit rules

never got his license though, but it doesn’t really matter (u gotta do what u gotta do)

he never arrives on time, always late (super apologetic about it)

loses parking tickets and misplaces his keys all. the damn. time. so you usually end up carrying them instead

makes a HUGE fuss over your safety. please wear your seatbelt or else he will go bonkers

but at the same time will not hesitate to be your designated getaway driver (if you need to gtfo of somewhere, he will get you the fuck out of there)

he actually has to use glasses because his vision sucks and can’t read road signs. he looks so cute

his car doesn’t have an aux cord outlet, so he has a bunch of cassettes of different kinds of music ( 70’s rock, jazz, some obscure russian band, etc ) lying around. he can’t drive without music!

has a bit of road rage; if he’s with you he’ll mutter curses under his breath trying to keep composure

but when alone he will absolutely yell at people, but his way of doing it is somewhat.....endearing?

will occasionally bump into things, but has never caused any serious damage

has never been pulled over and only gets tickets due to expired parking meters in downtown (somehow manages to talk his way out of them all the time)

he’s had enough experience around the city so he talks to you about places no one really knows about

he will literally take you a random phone booth that is actually the entrance to a secret undergroung café that looks like a place where academics would hang out and conspire new literary movements

☆ Nadia

doesn’t drive, she has a chauffeur

but if she did, she would own one of those beautiful, modern, pearly off-white cars.

it’s perfectly clean, well kept and smells great

no food or drinks allowed inside. periodt

you’d probably be afraid of ruining the seat when you first get in. she assures you everything is okay

totally drives around wearing a pair of gloves, headscarf, and gorgeous sunglasses to protect herself from the sun. also because she’s so classy <3

she excels at everything in driving

flawless breaking and parking, but thinks that going around looking for a spot is a waste of time so she’d rather just pay extra for valet parking

her only flaw is that she gets super impatient with how long it takes for a red light to turn green

and she almost never stops for pedestrians

would usually call you to see if you’d like to go shopping with her or just accompany her for some errands (pls go with her she adores having you around 🥺)

doesn’t have a problem with giving you rides, but she’s always busy with a tight schedule, so rides from her are very rare

probably feels bad about it so she’ll send you an uber black instead

★ Muriel

hates going out because it means he has to drive ://

he just wants to get from point A to point B without any issues really

you’ll notice that his car always has a layer of dirt on it since he never really uses it (he doesn’t bother to give it a little wipe before hoping in)

would probably own a normal, practical car that gets the job done and doesn’t need much maintenance. nothing too fancy

.......but i really want to see him with a jeep so i’ll make him own a jeep ☺️

highkey anxious and hyperaware of his surrounding drivers

he looks too tense and grips the wheel hard....tell him to relax pls

if someone tries to pass him, he will absolutely give them a Look through the rear mirror

not one to listen to music (will sometimes turn on the radio but slams it off eventually because it’s annoying)

used to be terribly afraid of highways

mumbles and grumbles about how dangerous and stupid it is to carelessly swerve lanes just to go fast and look cool

☆ Portia

drives all the time so she’s definitely the most experienced on the road

owns a cute convertible beetle that she takes care of and loves very much ❤️ (has so many cute ass bumper stickers)

will not hesitate to change the tires on her own if needed

music is always loud and top is down most of the time

she’s got anything you might need in her glove box (hand cream? tissues? sanitizer? pocket knife? she has it yes ma’am)

when she’s by herself, laws simply do not exist

lowkey a threat to society. get her off

she goes so fucking fast like she zooms💨 down the road (mainly because she’s always on a hurry)

basically breaks whatever law she wants but once she spots a cop, citizen of the year

ohh but if you and/or anyone else is with her, it’s a whole different story

she drives carefully and slows down, would hate to put your safety at risk (same as julian)

road trips with her are THE BEST. going on drives with her always feel like a scene from a coming of age film 💕✨🧚‍♀️

★ Lucio

not necessarily an irresponsible driver, he’s just reckless and obnoxious

owns a restored, fancy vintage car that’s either red or white (his license plate is personalized, bedazzled and borderline opulent). genuinely proud of it

revs the engine just to piss people off

is always willing and able to be there for you if you need him

when he’s there to pick you up, he will absolutely make a scene for you to notice him. simply giving you a call is out of the equation!

the backseats are full of white hair...you know he brings his adored babies everywhere he goes

blasts music at an ASTRONOMICAL VOLUME and he just sits there like 🤪✌🏻🎶🕺🏼

but believe it or not, his music taste is actually really good....it slaps. so it’s okay

likes to drive fast (“oh you want to see some speed? i’ll show you some real speed”)

cannot stand traffic and slow drivers make him go batshit crazy

honks at everyone for everything but gets offended if they honk back >:(

you’ll still see him at the red light despite him doing 84 lane changes

tells you he LOVES the attention he gets because of the car, but then feels super self conscious if people stare too much or too long......although he will never admit it

this guy loves to gossip with you and likes to make fun of random pedestrians... you gotta admit he makes you snicker quite a bit. who am i kidding he’s funny as fuck of course you’re gonna laugh

doesn’t slow down for speed bumps, will blow quick kisses at the little fake cameras on top of the traffic lights, and has definitely scratched the lower sides of his car on curves more than once (*frantic wheel stirring* “not my fault not my fault!!”)

this man’s biggest struggle is parking. he cannot park for shit (secretly embarrassed about it)

it takes FOREVER for him to parallel park. might as well snooze while he’s at it

genuinely tries his best, going as far as to do the “arm behind the seat to look back” move (he wants to impress you dammit!!), but gets frustrated and gives up

so most of the time he ends up taking two spots despite trying so hard not to

gets tickets all the time (“now they’re ganging up against me! and for what?? what the fuck did i do!!”)

cannot comprehend street signs (“lucio you will get a $650 fine” “darling wdym?? it costs $650 to park here”)

going on a drive with him can be stressful and a bit crazy, but it’s always entertaining and you get the best stories to tell

#can u tell lucio is my fave? yeah me neither #the arcana #the arcana game #asra alnazar #nadia satrinava #julian devorak #count lucio #portia devorak #muriel #the arcana headcanons #the arcana imagines

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Uuh dunno if you would like this prompt : Anna and Elsa as a mythical creatures.

Would love too see what you will write them as ^^

@like-redhead-probably I sat thinking about this ask for a long time, because while I IMMEDIATELY thought of one for Elsa, Anna’s absolutely eluded me. And I know you were probably looking for a story, but I am unable to stop myself from first EXPLAINING my choices xD

I was already thinking about the myth of the Hulder (or huldra if we’re speaking of the creature in general instead of the specific Norwegian myth) for other story-related reasons, and as I did more research, I felt like the Hulder REALLY shared similarities with Elsa.

Generally speaking the huldra is a Scandinavian myth of a pale skinned, blonde or brown haired, attractive young woman who lives in the wilderness, often luring men away with song or dance to be killed or misled, stuck wandering forever. Sometimes she’s connected strongly to water, and instead of making men lost, she drowns them. Sometimes she is described as similar to an elf or fey-like creature, with characteristics related to other Huldufolk (we’ll get to them later) such as living in a parallel world, or a world Underground, and therefore preferring caves or appearing and disappearing suddenly. Sometimes she is depicted as having a hollow back, or a cow’s tail, which she hides out of embarrassment or to conceal her true identity. Which… how cute is that?

Before the 11th century, the myths were focussed more around the Huldufolk, which literally means “Hidden Folk”. There are lots of stories as to why and how the Huldufolk came to exist, but for the purpose of Elsa I think it most appropriate to look at the Christianization of the myths. Why?:

Frozen and Frozen 2 are modern movies made by an American company and Christianity is nigh untanglable with American culture, they take place in ~1840s Norway, F1 has a dedicated place of Christian congregation depicted in said movie, an official royal crowning overseen by a Christian faith leader, and the adaptation of Frozen generally comes from author Hans Christian Anderson and therefore should take his life and society into account, etc.

The Christianized myth says that one day Eve was washing her children (presumably after Cain, Abel, and Seth) in the river, when she heard God approaching. Ashamed that He would see her kids unclean, she hid the half she wasn’t done bathing, and when God asked, “Where are the other children?” Eve claimed that she had all of them present, indicating the clean ones. This gave God pause, but in the end He said, “Then let all that is Hidden, remain Hidden.” The children that Eve lied about became the Huldufolk, unable to live among humans. These people would eventually become characterized as dwarves, elves, fairies, etc., as time and interpretations rolled on, the huldra being just one of many mythical “species”.

So. Who is Elsa? She’s a:

fictional, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, fair-skinned young woman who led thousands of men wlw to wander helplessly into the dark caves and wildlands of social media with a power ballad and a jaw-dropping transformation sequence

Okay I’m joking… mostly…

In fact my interest in choosing the Hulder for Elsa lies purely outside of any romantic or sexual appeal, especially since Elsa as a character exhibits next to 0 romantic or sexual interest across two whole movies and an additional two shorts. Indeed, there’s a reason people headcanon her as either asexual, aromantic, or both! No, the reasons I chose the Hulder are:

Elsa’s name

Her upbringing

Her duty as queen, and

Her general behavior, specifically in regards to Frozen 1, as Frozen 2 Elsa is, at times, an almost completely different character

Elsa’s name was chosen very specifically by the filmmakers because it means “God is my Oath”. Oaths are binding, heavy, and invoke the maker’s or subject’s actions and personhood in the future. In Elsa’s case specifically, it invokes divine witness: perfect for a queen, someone born to rule. A promise to be fair, to uphold, to protect, to lead, to be a dignified and honorable face for the country. And Elsa was so ready to be that… except for the powers of course. Or at least, when they became something other than a magical gift of wonder and joy. When they became dangerous. Then there comes another oath, spoken to powerful creatures of magic, the Trolls, and born from parental fear: “She can learn to control it.”

Binding, heavy, invoking of Elsa’s future. As she grows, Elsa becomes closed off, quiet, hiding in her own home. She still takes her duties seriously, but now that she has been Other’d, taught to hide herself and her curse, she is just as much shadow as person. To young Anna, Elsa must have been almost ghostlike, disappearing right when Anna thought she’d cornered her, only to reappear sometime later down the hall, out of arm’s reach.

God promised Adam and Eve that their children would inherit the earth, even after leaving the Garden of Eden. Then suddenly that changed, due to Eve’s fear and shame of her unwashed children, and some would now inherit Underground, or somewhere else entirely. The lost children of Eve had become Other’d, needing to hide, disappear, and resort to inhuman tactics just to exist. Maybe they’re jealous, maybe they're just tricksters. But it’s not their fault. And it wasn’t Elsa’s either. Another reason they are similar.

Now, it’s not all doom and gloom for the Hulder, or for Elsa. While the Hulder is generally known for her more chaotic and negative attributes - just like our favorite snow queen, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. There are a few myths that say burning a charcoal fire -instead of a coal or gas one- is most pleasing to the Hulder, that she’ll even watch over it during the night, and wake the sleepers in case something happens. If a traveler leaves supplies behind with a note or offering for the Hulder, they will travel safely. In fact, some people leave caches for her, as though to cater to specific requests. Coming across the Hulder by chance can have a multitude of outcomes, but if an astute observer spots her cow tail and mentions it, she may become shy and run away. Don’t mention the empty back though, that’s almost certain death.

Basically my point is… trade out the word “traveler” for the name “Anna” and we can draw all the similarities we want. Anna did all of those things, in a way. Anna gave Elsa a little gift of their favorite snowman every Christmas. Anna knocked on Elsa’s door and spoke to her, treated her kindly despite the distance between them, literal and metaphorical. It’s not hard to imagine that Anna left little notes around the castle, hoping Elsa would find them, read them, and know that Anna still loved her, still missed her. And, well, hopefully Anna wasn’t setting any fires and falling asleep next to them - but Anna always kept a light on for Elsa, in her heart. And it flickered and wavered sometimes, but it was a strong fire most days. And we know Elsa was always drawn to it, drawn to Anna because she loved her right back. Loved her first, even. And because it was a warmth that pleased Elsa, she tended it, quietly, carefully, warmly. Like putting a blanket over an Anna that had fallen asleep in the painting room, refusing that slice of chocolate cake so Anna could have two desserts, and listening, for hours and hours, days and days, for the sound of Anna’s glorious bonfire-like soul outside her bedroom door. Even when her secret was revealed, Elsa believed that the best way to protect Anna’s life, her flame, was to distance herself, running to a secret, special place all her own - much like the Hulder might run away back to the Underground.

And this last part’s just me, but I’d like to think that if the Hulder was treated kindly, respected, and given dignity, maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if someone came across her accidentally. That instead of being instantly drowned, or the Hulder becoming sheepish and attempting to run, it would feel recognized. It could be called by name. And instead of feeling the need to hide it’s Otherness, it could be treated as part of it, and cared for just the same. I don’t even need to be subtle here: Anna called Elsa by Name, really saw her, and reframed her darkness into light. Anna hasn’t fought God yet, but she did walk through hell and back for a sister that everyone else saw as a threat, monster, and sorcerer. A category 9 Other. Too bad for them, Anna’s got a Category 10 heart.

Speaking of. We finally got to Anna.

Anna was difficult to pin down because to me, Anna is so very, very human. That’s what makes her special! Yes, yes, you could throw any mythical creature at Anna and the fun part would be trying to make it work within her personality and characterization BUT since the question was Anna AS a mythical creature, that changes the game! The word ‘creature’ itself tends to conjure something distinctly INhuman. So I…. tried, and cheated maybe a little. Because I picked for Anna the Norse Valkyrie.

Most people know what Valkyries are so this one takes significantly less explaining. Valkyries are women that are warriors, shieldmaidens, and the hands of Odin, and they choose who lives and who dies during battle. Their chosen dead ride with them to Valhalla, while those they choose to live are usually granted honors in life. There are the darker sides of Valkyries that paint them as blood hungry maidens waiting on the sidelines before a war, singing the names of who will die with glee… but generally speaking the version of Valkyries that most people know and admire today are accurate! And thank goodness because attempting to depict Anna the other way would probably give me an ulcer.

Anna, much like the Valkyries, is a woman of valor and strength, who is perceptive, guides others, sees into people’s hearts and reveals their goodness. Valkyries are also warriors of prowess themselves, and Anna in Frozen 2 with that ice sword? We all know she was ready to use that for real. She also exemplifies traits that Valkyries both look for and have! Bravery in the face of danger: hello Marshmallow, Elsa’s own blizzard, Hans’ lethal sword strike, LIVING MOUNTAINS, and a damn collapsing.... dam. She also defends those who cannot do it themselves: saying publicly that, “My sister is not a monster… she was scared, she didn’t mean any of this,” even if that cast suspicion or doubt on herself, and the crown, as a whole. Anna knew and believed in Elsa, despite all the years and heartbreak and anger. Despite the impossible magic that literally just happened before her very eyes. Belief in character, despite appearances. And once they were reunited, Anna made every effort to stay by Elsa’s side because she STILL had that faith in her. Anna’s name means “Grace” or “of Grace”, and damn if she didn’t extend that to the person others found most unworthy, even to Elsa herself. Valkyries see what others don’t, and their decisions are final.

[Deep breath] SO! You asked for Anna and Elsa as mythical creatures. You got… a small academic paper, by social media standards xD. I intend to write a little piece about a Valkyrie who encounters the Hulder on the edges of a battlefield and… realizes she never made a choice about this particular woman. And wonders why she can’t ;). BUT I didn’t wanna leave you hanging any longer. Hope you like my choices!

Oh also, nobody asked, but Kristoff is a werebear. No research required

#there's almost 2k words to this uhhh..... eyup that's all I have to say about that #the inner academic kinda popped out #begging to be utilized after a few dusty years xD #I have links to all this stuff btw if people want them #but now I should REALLY go to bed #or I'll be slowly flame-broiled by a certain someone who is about to find out I'm awake in the worst way possible #like-redhead-probably #mythical creature au #Hulder!Elsa #Valkyrie!Anna #mythology #also yes I know I didn't stray far from Scandinavian territories for the mythical choices I couldn't help it #once I got digging into the huldra I had a hard time looking anywhere else #still I think Valkyrie fits so nicely for anna #she might as well be on irl tbh #Elsa #Anna #my writing #and yeah I'll get to a little short story bc they're so CUTE like this!!

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But, I like to think that 1146 is sort of oblivious when it comes to body types and such. - I actually really like that and think that’s pretty canon. If someone commented on what he liked best about her, he’d go on about her personality. Then get confused when asked about what features he likes best.

His friends would call her really cute and he’d be all ‘yeah her personality is cute. She’s like a grown up platelet sometimes’ (you can not tell me he hasn’t compared her cute attitude to a platelet. He practically did that in canon). His friends would be like ….Yeah that’s what we meant by cute. (Of course he’d see it that way). <_<

Other immune cells (probably some rowdy Killer T’s before Memory T shut them up) would probably comment what a slick guy he is for getting a hottie red blood cell. 1146 would tell them she’s not hot. She’s perfect (in temperature but they don’t take it that way. They just think he’s being more smooth). 1146 has this reputation that 3803 is his RBC that he doesn’t know about).

I think I got the idea he’d start to notice her beauty as a parrelell to NC. Maybe he’d hear NC comment on her beauty too much (I could honestly see NC asking 1146 why he likes 3803. After hearing him go on about her personality he gets a mix of competitive irritation and fascination. So he goes on a big lecture on why and how she’s so beautiful because 1146 obviously doesn’t appreciate her in a way NC does) and that’d make him a little furious. He’d be upset to see 3803’s former abuser only talk about her looks, Ecspecially when NC keeps claiming he’s trying to change and be her friend better. While NC conceeds 1146 has a point (maybe?) and he’s right about appreciating her personality more. Because he actually does. He likes how strong she was against him and others. But then NC asks is it really bad to appreciate how someone looks. =/ 3803 had told him in the beginning she loved his green eyes and the platelets told him the same now. Both times made NC really happy. Not to mention 3803 is very self conscious about her own looks and doesn’t like how different her body is compared to how the average RBC is. NC has noticed other cells like Macrophage and 5100 always call her features pretty or cute. Wouldn’t she also like to hear how beautiful she is from 1146?

1146 is stunned and doesn’t like this unknown direction. 0_0;,;;

NC somehow picked up on something crucial about 3803 that 1146 either didn’t pay much attention to (on account he can’t relate) or has been oblivious to.

That gets him thinking if he’s been as attentive to her needs as he thought he had been or only seeing the things that matter to him about her. Then I guess he starts checking her out more and as a mirror to NC learning to love her personality more. 1146 finds himself really realizing how beautiful she is too (whether it’s because she is that pretty -she is- or because her personality made her really pretty to him). Which gets him flustered because he tries to compliment her looks, particularly after a incident when he over hears some cells whispering how weird she looks and wondering of her bad direction means there’s something physically wrong with her (the cells actually didn’t mean to be malicious. They were just curious in a insensitive way. But 1146 knew 3803 still heard them despite her smile never leaving her face). But he gets to shy and fumbles his words and ends up looking like a weirdo so much 3803 wants to get him to the infirmary because maybe he hit his head too hard in that last battle.

But yeah that’s it. 1146 would like her plump soft rosy cheeks the best after seeing how much 5100 fixated on them so much. Which caused him to start thinking about them a lot. His most embarrassing secret becomes a desire to touch them with his bare hands (2626 would say, man THAT’S your darkest secret? I can’t decide if you’re just too pure or too dorky you know that). Yep, that’s right. 1146 would love her cute perfect heavenly soft looking cheeks. One time when he caught her and they ended up in a blood clot. 1146 was chill just chest to chest with her wrapped up in his arms. Because at least they were more comfortable this way. He was just mainly focusing on not trying to get too grumpy about his current trapped situation because this seems to happen to him a lot. But then a shift happens and 3803’s cheek ends up smooshed against his cheek. She’s totally fine and oblivious to his sudden stiffening because at least she can rest her head against him in more comfort. 1146 on the other hand feels like he’s been triggered by Dendretic Cell’s stash. Her cheek feels even more soft and warm and plump then he imagined and he’s trying to keep it cool because they’re going to he like this for 3 days (Dendretic snaps several photos of his position and he doesn’t even bother hiding it. 1146’s growing horrified expression make it better. Plus 3803 is turned away so she doesn’t see and 1146 keeps his trap shut because he thinks his voice would squeak from how overwhelmed he is from having his dorky innocent dream come true. And he doesn’t trust that Dendretic doesn’t also carry sound recorders)

Honestly it’s just too pure to imagine 1146 suddenly thinks her cute cheeks are the best in the whole body and the rest are just so inferior to her goddess level cheeks. XD

He’d still be most attracted to her character. But I could see him,becoming attracted to other parts of her because they’re her.

As for 3803, she likes his biceps. She kept grabbing them to keep her safe so of course she’d plainly say 'yeah WBC’s biceps’ if asked what she thought was 1146’s best physical feature was. Unlike 1146 she wouldn’t think the answer was a big deal and would easily answer the same question about the rest of the WBC boys. =P

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Oooohhhh! Love the parallels that you drew here. Furthermore, love the idea that 1146 tries to think of ways to compliment 3803... Hehehe, and the whole spiel about him wanting to plump up her cheeks,,... That was so adorable!

And of course, I love how different 3803 is from 1146 in this regard. She would definitely be more straightforward and will definitely answer questions about the WBC if need be.

(Much to everyone’s pleasure, 1146 is somewhat annoyed that 3803 is willing to give her opinions on the rest of the squad).

2001: Definitely the lap and chest. Once 3803 smuggles on top of him, she can easily lay back and enjoy how firm his chest is and his thighs are plush enough so that she doesn’t get uncomfortable.

4989: His smile. He’s always so smiley and happy and it’s multiplied whenever he manages to invent a whole new weapon and doesn’t get caught by cell management, hahah.

2626: His eyes. 3803 has definitely seen his eyes many times and will never tell anyone what they look like except that they are beautiful.

2048: His legs. They’re very strong and powerful and sometimes, 3803 and 2048 race around the body to see who’s faster. (It’s 3803.)

Any spare thoughts and opinions?

#cells at work #hataraku saibou #caw #caw anon #anon ask #devintrinidad author #devintrinidad #devin trinidad author #devin trinidad #submission

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Love and Lust

There has been some thought that the depiction of the sex between Arya and Gendry was just that of Arya wanting to see what it was all about or even just horny lust. While those were both clearly aspects of what happened, I think anyone seeing either of those things as the only interpretation of their love scene—because, yes, it was a love scene—missed out on quite a few key things not only in that scene but in their interaction earlier in the episode.

I also think that all of their interaction in this episode—including the lustier aspect of their lovemaking—made it fairly clear that, no, Gendry is not going to being dying in the upcoming battle. Read on…

The first episode established their attraction to one another with the flirting calling back to their shared history. This episode upped the ante with the attraction by adding a dose of lust, but deepened it by showing both the trust and ease they still share with one another that we know neither would easily share with others due to what’s happened to them in the intervening years.

There was a reminder of their history again (she remembered that he's a smith’s apprentice), he told her about beyond the wall, she called him out on glossing it over and made him tell her the truth. They were completely real with one another.

Arya showed Gendry her skill with a knife and her knowledge of death, making it clear how skilled a fighter she is, not hiding who she really is. Gendry told her that he was Robert Baratheon’s son, what Melisandre had done to him (in so many words) and his sexual history. That’s a lot of private, vulnerable information to share. And yet both did it easily. (Well, OK, Gendry was a bit cutely flustered with his last bit of share.)

There was so much stuff that the episode’s writer Bryan Cogman got in their two scenes... so much about their history, their trust in one another, their feelings, and how much set-up for what's to come to. All of that? Was showing how strong the foundation this relationship has.

I will circle back to some of these points later with regards to Gendry’s future, but first, let me tackle their other scenes. I mentioned at the top that their sex scene was a love scene and not just about horny lust or Arya wanting to try sex. And going into detail about that first scene was part of laying that down. But the second scene before the love scene as well goes into that.

It’s obvious with regards to Gendry that it is not just lust. The boy is completely gone for her. We saw that in the first scene after she threw the dragon glass knives and then said she wanted her weapon again and walked away, Gendry—unlike most sane people—looked completely awestruck and watched her walk away with hearts in his eyes. He’s completely lovestruck.

Also, in this second scene, after Arya made it clear that she wanted to have sex, Gendry’s said her name all soft and breathily. He didn’t pull away, he didn’t resist, he said her name and you could read exactly what he was saying in that exhalation of her name and by the expression on his face. He was saying: ‘Girl, you know I love you, but I'm not sure we should do this because I want to treasure you and treat you right, you know—’ But then she kissed him and he was like 'OK, fuck it, I'm having some SEX with milady! YEAH!'

And another so not just lust for Gendry, although this was more in between the lines. They wouldn’t have all but made the guy pretty much this close to a virgin. I mean… seriously. Honestly, I figured Gendry being practically a virgin would be fanon. I can’t believe that they basically made it canon. The guy was off of the show for three years—looking like that, fine as all hell—and they canonically had him actually say he only had sex with three women?! Bronn was literally with three women at the same time in the previous episode. I mean, yeah. Arya Stark is his fucking OTP. That essentially was the show’s shorthand way of saying so.

Finally, anyone saying that this love scene was just lust was not paying attention to the last five to ten seconds. The final shot of Gendry before she comes down for the kiss he's just looking at her with complete and utter love in his gaze. Joe Dempsie played that like Gendry just completely adores Arya.... total heart eyes there.

So, you know that had to have been the direction, in the script, the plan… not lust… but love. And there is this comparison shot from Jon and Daenerys’ first-time making love where she is looking up at Jon with love and it is LITERALLY the exact same framing. LITERALLY.

From a directing point of view that is really telling. Jon and Daenerys are supposed to be this great love and there you have literally an IDENTICAL shot of Gendry and Arya. What these two shared in this episode was a lusty love scene, not just a sex scene. You can feel lust and love at the same time.

And, yeah, it was love for Arya too. She just didn’t quite realize it. But look at her face as she’s leaning down to kiss him. It’s dark and we don’t get the best angle because it’s a close-up, but there’s a softness there you can see. Which leads us to that final scene. She’s not numb; she’s not dissatisfied. She’s freaking the ever-loving fuck out.

She was feeling all kinds of hot, hot lust for him sure, and then she opened herself up to the feels and suddenly it was hitting her, she might die, *he* might die. And it was gonna hurt. A LOT. She’d already lost him once and it was going to be a helluva lot worse now because she’d re-opened herself up to him a lot more now. And in the past, Gendry hadn’t allowed himself to open himself up to her, but now… this time he had. They were open to each other and now they could very well both lose each other. She was shaken to the core. That was what we saw from her in the final scene.

A few additional thoughts…

- I loved the parallels beginning each of their scenes. Gendry doing his thing and then there was Arya watching him silently in the first scene. In the second, Arya doing her thing, Gendry watching her.

- Speaking of Arya watching Gendry in that first scene, damn, she was all but licking her lips…

- And then that little eyebrow raise she gave him when he first saw her and that smoldering look he sent back her way in return.... SO HOT!

- Joe Dempsie and Maisie Williams have such great chemistry. Damn, that scene was so fucking hot.

- Hah, it was funny. Silly Gendry, he was trying to assert some kind of dominance at one point, reaching out to wrap his hand around Arya’s head while they were kissing.... and boom within like two seconds, she shoved him onto the bags, LMAO. Nope, Gendry, she's the dominant.... always.

- Aww, but she let him take off his own pants. She was in complete command from beginning to end, but still gave him his own agency. She's so sweet. It was definitely mutual all around.

- Speaking of… after Arya said that, the way he was so quickly untying those laces, LMAO.

- I did love that Arya just shoved him down (and, yes, it did remind me of when she did it when he kept calling her “Milady” back in season 02).

OK, circling back to Gendry’s future like I said I would… a lot that happened in this episode between these two actually made me more strongly believe that Gendry will *not* be dying any time soon. Why?

1.) Arya’s commentary about knowing death. 2.) Her knife-throwing kills. 3.) The focus on her scars, and then Gendry focusing on her scars. 4.) Gendry bringing up her wanting him to come to Winterfell. 5.) The fact that despite all of the set-up and the obvious love from Gendry’s side, Arya went into it just wanting his hot body to give her some loving. 6.) Gendry telling her he’s Robert Baratheon’s bastard. 7.) Arya’s realizing that she’s scared out of her ever-loving mind of losing Gendry (because, yeah, I’m sure that’s what the final scene meant).

In other words, there was SO MUCH SET-UP for more of their love story to flourish to come. Not to mention that Gendry still has more weapons to make, the Baratheon line is not going to die out. GRRM had three Baratheon bastards in the books and yet D&D only brought ONE to the show. I highly doubt it was just so that Arya could lose her virginity to him. If it was to have an “emotional impact” on her when he died… she would have been the one all “heart eyes emoji” during the love scene as opposed to Gendry.

Also, Joe Dempsie is wearing a Baratheon-style costume in the behind-the-scenes video for episode 01 while sitting on the set of a sunny climate and I doubt that Michelle Clapton would have created that for funsies.

Ergo, Gendry is not dying.

Thank you for coming to my Gendrya-themed Ted Talk.

#arya x gendry #gendrya #game of thrones #arya stark #gendry

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CHAPTER ONE: THE BOYFRIEND

I knew I wasn't crazy but I could be a little control freak and a tad bit obsessive-compulsive at times. I had a tendency to get anxious if things around me weren't organized. I couldn't ask the world to keep it that way for me but I could control my environment. I always kept my bedroom clean and in order, with all my books and stationaries piled up neatly on my side table, my dresser a display of beautiful things I had collected over the years—cute buttons, old jewelries, broken pearls and other beads, a ballpen with green feathers attached to one side and a matching notebook that was my diary, along with the array of headbands and hairclips, as well as my hygiene products, while every other nook of my bedroom—even the ceiling—showcased my collections of stuffed toys and every other cute and green thing that matched the mint-colored walls and linens. I didn't have much but I had decent clothes that consisted mostly of t-shirts and pants—I never liked to wear anything without a sleeve. I'd pile them up neatly in my closet, with the width of the folds always uniform and parallel to each other. I always kept everything in order and I would immediately notice if something had been moved or wasn't in its place. That's just who I was. Things should be planned. Things should be organized. And it was frustrating whenever things didn't go my way.

But there were things that I didn't plan but surprised me, anyway. Like meeting my boyfriend, Matthew.

I first met him at an inter-school event. I was in second year of high school and he was in his last. We both went to private schools but in different districts. When our schools decided to work together for a radio broadcasting competition, I had to team up with Matt's group for a few days before the actual event and literally holed up in one room with the group for another day or two during the actual event, which was hosted in another school.

He barely caught my eyes at first. Meeting new people was awkward and a little difficult for me. I mostly kept to myself and only talked if asked to. Until I noticed those little giggles erupting around me and the looks the other members of the group shot each other, which was becoming more and more distracting each day. This guy, the group's leader, would just shrug it off. When our eyes met one time, he gave me an apologetic smile, which only brought more giggles from the others. I froze and, suddenly, became very self-conscious. I didn't want to assume but I believed the group was teasing him about me, which brought out conflicting feelings from within me.

I always tried to look neat and presentable, as if I had a mother doing that for me just as how my friends' mothers seemed to be doing to their kids, but that didn't mean I was confident to say I was pretty. Honestly, I believed I looked at least average. My long, straight hair was a product of my yearly visit to the salon. I hated every wave and curl of my hair so I kept them straight by acquiring the magical services of hairdressers. My face was too simple that it wouldn't stand out in the crowd. My eyes too large. My lips too full. My height average. I also hadn't shed most of the baby fats in my midsection and it was one thing I really disliked about myself. Well, to keep the points even, my skin was naturally fair. It just wasn't as fair as Kendra's—the person I'd hate to compare myself with the most.

Kendra topped the long list of girls at school who had brought up my insecurities. People claimed she was the prettiest. Her skin the fairest. Her face the most angelic. Her voice could even summon the angels if she'd like. Her dance the most graceful. Her body a perfect structure. And when I knew some boy I had a crush on liked her first, I flipped. I claimed not to mind but I did. I kind of felt embarrassed to sit next to her. She was a year younger than I was but we mostly ended up performing in various events together. There was one time I was called to become one of her back-up dancers during a competition and it really irked me. For days, I wondered how nice it would be to switch places with her. I believed I was the better dancer. I couldn't sing, though. And she really was beautiful—I paled in comparison to her. But the thought was a bitter pill to swallow. I kind of hated her for being too perfect. Kendra really brought out the worst in me, and she didn't even know.

Someone liking me was both confusing and unbelievable to me. There was only one boy who openly showed his feelings to me, and sure I liked him too. For a while, I was obsessed with him and of our budding friendship. But the moment someone made a comment about me growing taller and bigger than he was, my feelings died out like a candle blown. And he liked Kendra first. Like most boys in school did. It just also didn't sit well with me to become someone's consolation prize because he didn't win the grand prize. Aaron was a good guy, though. My insecurities just gnawed on me.

Matthew's appearance to my life was unexpected but pleasant. The teasing during the competition even intensified when Matthew called my name during script-reading instead of someone else's. Suddenly, I was hyperaware of his presence. I knew where he was in the room without looking. I anticipated hearing his voice during practices. And I had become exceedingly conscious of myself when he was there. I realized how magnetic his eyes were behind those thin slits and how sheepish his smile was. And it unnerved me whenever he chose to throw that smile at me. When the actual competition came, he stood next to me and it was the closest he ever was with me during the entire event. We never talked, though. We only ever had our timid stares whenever our eyes met.

While we never talked during those first few days, we spent months and months of talking through the phone during the duration of our relationship. It started with friendly chats and warm conversations. He would always throw compliments at me and say he was very lucky I was giving him any attention. I felt luckier. I never knew having someone to listen to all my internal dialogues was that satisfying. The constant communication bound us together despite the aching distance. He wrote the most romantic messages and the most heartfelt promises that I fell in love with him almost instantly. He was pretty poetic but always sounded so mature. He took up Mass Communication in college and I thought it suited him best. Matt had his way with words...and words were all we had for each other.

For almost two years of being together, we had only met four times. The first time was during the earliest part of our relationship. There was an event at school and he surprised me by visiting. I ruined that when I just screamed upon seeing him and ran home. I literally ran away, dragging one of my friends with me. It took only a second and I was gone.

The second was unexpected. My mother had to process some documents in the city for her flight back to work. My sister and I went looking for a copier machine and, lo and behold, Matt was standing in the middle of a busy alley, his gaze locked on mine. Everything around us seemed to move in slow motion as I stared back at him, my heart beating erratically. I couldn't even remember if we talked. The fear of having us found out by my parents superseded my excitement so, again, I rushed away as fast as possible.

The third time we met lasted about thirty minutes. We had our first date. A really short one, though. I snuck away from our school event to meet him at lunch. It wasn't even a real lunch, but I couldn't care less. Finally, I was with him. I had been wanting to see him for what seemed like forever. While we talked endlessly on the phone, we barely did in real life. I was shy, awkward, and couldn't even mutter a word without stuttering. I had been trying to write our love story that time and I wanted him to read it. I was hesitant at first but he was already so curious that he had to read it. I watched his lips twitch a few times as his eyes scanned my words, and I felt the contents of my stomach trying to come back up. It was embarrassing. I didn't know what he thought about it but seeing him smile somehow calmed my nerves. It was the shortest date ever that one could hardly call it a date. But he was sweet and a real gentleman too. He never even touched my hand, which I had been hoping he would. I wanted to hold him...to feel he was there. Like he was real. Like what we had was real. It was weird how close it felt we were on the phone but how distant we actually were in real life. I started thinking about the reality of it all. Was I just hallucinating things? Did he really love me back? I started to doubt everything.

The fourth time we met was in the city. I had to attend to an overnight school activity and the morning after I had to sneak away to see him. No one knew about it. The sun had just been up and I had to see him in my pajamas for I was still waiting for my turn in the bathroom. We met outside the dormitory my group was staying at and sat on a bench nearby. I had started wearing my prescription glasses by that time and regretted doing so when he asked me about it. I probably looked hideous. I hadn't even taken my bath yet. Everything that morning just made me feel so embarrassed once again. We were together for like ten minutes, with me just squirming in my seat as he looked at me. Again, I couldn't remember what we talked about—if we ever did, but I remembered him taking off his black rubber bracelet that had a knot in the middle and slid it up my wrist. "To remind you of me," he said. As if he ever left my mind. The slight grazing of his skin over mine was enough to make me dizzy and it didn't help that my heart was pumping like crazy. He left shortly after that, seeing we both had full days waiting for us. And when he waved his final goodbye, he said he loved me.

I loved him too.

But being Matthew's girlfriend wasn't entirely easy. As a matter of fact, it was too difficult and too complicated that I always found myself crying at night. It was because of this relationship that I met loneliness and learned it was a terrible companion.

Being in college and living in the city away from his family hadn't always been easy for Matthew. He had dreams and he had been doing his best to achieve them, even if it meant he had to take part-time jobs here and there just to support his education. He was always responsible and I never knew anyone who worked as hard he did. Even in high school, he already part-timed as a radio DJ. I was very proud of him. He inspired me to work very hard myself so I could reach my dreams too, although him working that hard meant our relationship would be put to the least of his priorities. I knew I mattered to him...he just didn't have the time for me yet.

And it left me wrecked. He had broken up with me multiple times that I lost count already. He told me he couldn't keep a relationship while life was beating the hell out of him and added I was too young and too naive to even understand. But he couldn't seem to leave me alone for long too. It was that uncertainty that kept me awake at night. He said he loved me even after dumping me. He said I'd just have to hold on and wait for him to be ready. He said we'd be together once I finished high school—he let me promise that one. Matt said I'd just have to be patient.

Then he would disappear for weeks.

Those days were torture to me.

Loneliness started eating me. I'd wake up feeling nothing and I would go to bed feeling like the world just crashed on my shoulders. There were days I'd wreck everything in my bedroom and I'd snap at anyone who tried to come near me. There were days that I hated everyone, even my friends at school, and just holed up in the library after class. But mostly, I'd cry myself to sleep. And it didn't help that every song on the radio seemed to mock me. Then I'd start feeling like sleeping and never wanting to wake up.

I tried to forget him and focused all my attention to school, and it became an obsession. When mother was talking about possible universities and colleges for me, she mentioned I could go to the country's capital and study there. But flying across the country, stretching the distance between Matt and I into thousands and thousands of kilometers, wasn't an option for me. Despite the uncertainties and the heartaches, I'd rather be near him, like a moth ever so tempted to embrace the flame.

There was only one college for me. My brother said it was one of the best and it was in the same city as Matt's. I wasn't actually looking forward to become a nurse but I also didn't have anything I particularly liked at the moment. I was merely following my brother's footsteps and it didn't sound so bad at all. But to get to that college, I would have to ensure my scholarship that promised a hundred percent off the tuition fee, even though I never once had been pressured by my family about it. I just didn't want to add to my mother's burden and it also made me feel good to study at a college with the word best attached to it. So I had been studying really hard and I had also been joining all the extra-curricular activities that would hopefully earn me points and help me graduate at the top of my class. For a while, it took my mind off my broken heart.

But, as I said, Matthew couldn't leave me alone for long. He would pop right back up when I had started getting used to his absence. It was becoming exhausting but I couldn't seem to let go of him too, so I'd jump back again to this vicious cycle.

Five months and I'd be off to college. Matthew and I had gotten back together and jumpstarted our relationship once again. It was as exhausting as ever but the thought of seeing him at the end of this waiting game was enough to keep me going. Matthew had becoming more and more distant and inattentive each passing day but I believed he was just really busy tossing himself between school and work that he could hardly find the time to check his phone. Still, I couldn't help but wallow in his absence. He even forgot about my birthday and it crushed me so hard. He promised he'd see me but it never happened. I tried getting his attention though, but it was worthless. I only looked like a clingy, immature, whining little girl who couldn't wait to get her candy.

I knew I'd been really annoying but Matt was still sweet and kind with his words whenever he found the time to check up on me. "You know you're my sunshine, right?" he asked once, in between my silly attempts of getting his attention. I didn't actually know how he had been doing and it made me feel guilty. I hoped I'd brought him more happiness than headaches. "We'll be together soon. You just have to wait," he always said. And those were the words I held on to.

Soon.

Very soon.

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Like Rabbits - Chapter 5

Like Rabbits: A Black Widow/WinterHawk Fanfic

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Buy me a ☕ Character Pairing: Natasha Romanoff x Reader, Bucky Barnes x Clint Barton

Rating: E Square: none

Word Count: 1437

Warnings: Pregnancy stuff, angst, negative self-worth

Synopsis: While you and Natasha are contemplating starting a family together, Bucky and Clint are doing the exact same thing. So two couples go take the same path to parenthood together.

A/N: This is a Nat/Reader chapter

Chapter 5

You sat on the edge of the bath clutching the pregnancy test in your hand. To say you were anxious would be putting it mildly. This was your second go-around at trying to get pregnant to Clint or Bucky. The first time everyone had been so sure it would work right away that the day you took the test you’d invited the boys around and they’d brought champagne and sparkling grape juice and when it had shown up negative, while everyone had been nice and said next time for sure, you could tell how upset they were and you felt like it was somehow your fault. That you’d let them down and even though they kept trying to reassure you that it was fine and nothing to worry about yet. It made no difference, you’d end up having to excuse yourself and then broke down crying in the bedroom.

Of course, Natasha had sent them home and consoled you, but somehow that made it worse, not better. It was supposed to be a celebration and not only had you let them down but also that you had made them feel guilty because you had reacted so strongly to the negative.

You’d done the group sex thing again. This time, while the four of you were in some way more confident with each other, there was a lot of uncertainty and you’d wondered if Clint and Bucky were worried you’d start crying again.

This time only Natasha knew when and where the pregnancy test was happening and she was pacing the hall outside as you sat trying to will yourself to look at the test.

There was a knock on the door. Soft and uncertain and so very unlike Natasha Romanoff it made your heart hurt. You had done this to her. You’d gotten her hopes up that she could have this family and you had failed her and now she was too scared to come and check too because if it was negative again she’d feel just as broken as you did.

“Zaika,” she said gently. “It’s been five minutes. If it’s negative it’s okay. I promise.”

You let out a ragged breath. “I’m too scared to look,” you all but whispered.

She opened the door just a crack and poked her head in. “Can I come in?”

You nodded but didn’t say anything. You couldn’t even look up at her as she carefully approached you like you were a wild animal that could lash out at any moment.

She sat down on the edge of the tub beside you and put her hand on the hand you held the test in. “Zaika, lyubimaya, I promise whatever this says, it’s okay. They say anything up to a year is normal for most straight couples who have regular sex. Which is not us. You had it one time this month, one-time last month. We can try other methods if that would make you feel better? Or … we don’t have to do it this way at all. We can try to adopt.”

“You were so excited. And they were. Bucky said it was fate and it’s all on me. What if there’s something wrong with me too, Tasha?” You asked. Fat tears began to roll down your cheeks and she wrapped her arms around you and pulled you against her, so your head was resting on her breasts.

“I’m sorry I’ve made you feel this much pressure,” She said softly. “I never meant that to happen. Why don’t we just check the test and see what it says? Maybe you’re upset about nothing.”

“I can’t look.” You whispered.

“Do you mind if I do?” She asked.

You pressed the test into her hand and squeezed your eyes closed. She took it and didn’t say anything for a moment. “Zaika,” she whispered. “Open your eyes, my love.”

You slowly opened your eyes a crack, pulling back from Natasha and looking at her first. She was beaming at you and her eyes were glistening. “You're pregnant, zaika.”

“I'm… I'm pregnant?” You said in disbelief.

“Yes. Look. Two lines.”

You looked down at the test in her hand, and there in the indicator window were two pink parallel lines. The second was fainter than the first, but it was there. The test was positive. You were pregnant.

“I'm pregnant, Nat?” You asked looking back up at her.

She has started to cry. Not a lot, but a few years of joy had escaped the corners of her eyes. “We’re going to have a baby,” she said. “We're going to be mothers.”

She put the test down on the edge of the tub and cupped your jaw with both hands, looking into your eyes. “It worked?” You asked, still not quite able to believe it.

“It worked.” She confirmed leaning in and kissing you deeply.

You wrapped your arms around her and bunched your hand in her hair and the kiss that had started deep and loving turned into something frenzied and passionate. You nipped and bit at each other’s lips and swirled your tongues together.

Natasha pulled back and looked at you. “You think we should call the boys?”

You nodded. “Yes. They’ve probably been anxious all week about it.”

“Come on then. We’ll do it on video chat.” She said taking your hand and getting up.

You followed after her and took a seat on the couch as she got out one of her Stark Pads and brought up a video chat.

Bucky was the one that answered and the scowl on his face told you he was full in work mode. “Nat? Is something wrong?”

“No, James. Why do you always say that?” Natasha asked.

He shrugged. “Because most of the time something is wrong.”

“Well, everything is fine. Where’s the bird? We have some news.” Natasha said.

Bucky’s face lit up. “You do? Is it good? Did it…? Are you…?”

“Clint first. News second. Go.” Natasha said.

“Clint!” Bucky said getting up. “Clint! Come here.”

You watched as the screen was carried through a couple of rooms and then out into the hall of their apartment building. Bucky seemed to head up the stairs and up onto the roof. “Clint!” He called.

“What? I’m right here?” You heard Clint reply.

Bucky held up the phone so that Clint could see you and you and Nat could see him. He was sitting on the edge of the roof with a blonde woman. “Is that Mockingbird?” You whispered to Natasha. You didn’t really know Clint’s ex-wife. Though you knew she was an accomplished spy too.

Natasha nodded and winced. “This might not be the best time to tell them.”

“Oh, hey Bobbi. When did you get here?” Bucky asked.

“About half an hour ago. Clint said he needed to talk.” She said. “Hey, Nat.”

“Hey, Bobbi,” Natasha said. “We can call back if you’re busy.”

“No!” Bucky said quickly. “No, I’ll lose my fucking mind. You gotta say now.”

Bobbi waved you off. “It’s fine. I was gonna go anyway. They’re all yours.”

“You don’t have to go,” Clint said, frowning.

She patted his shoulder. “Yeah, I think I do. It was good seeing you, Clint. Bucky,” she nodded and headed to the stairwell.

“Alright, news? Is it good news?” Clint asked coming over and bunching up closely to Bucky to see the screen better.

Natasha smiled her cute little half-smile. “That depends. You want to tell them, zaika?”

“Is getting to be dads good news?” You asked them.

“It worked?” Clint asked.

“It did. I’m pregnant.” You said.

“Oh my god! That’s amazing. We should celebrate!” Clint said. “Shouldn’t we? We can go over there, right? Bring some food and drinks?”

Bucky looked into the screen questionly, like he was asking for permission. Natasha gave a small nod. “Yeah. I think this is celebration news. But not pizza. Or not just pizza.”

“We’ll be there soon,” Bucky said disconnecting the call.

You leaned against Natasha, feeling content and much lighter than you had since you started this journey. “I was kinda hoping we could celebrate just the two of us.” You said, nipping at her neck.

She rubbed your thigh and rubbed her nose against yours. “Don’t worry,” she said. “There’s going to be plenty of time for that later. But for now, we should do something the four of us. They need to feel like they are part of this too.”

You smiled and relaxed. She was right of course. Plus you knew, when Bucky and Clint went home she’d make it very special for you.

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endearingsalt · 3 years

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I’m rewatching Journey to Babel and I have a *lot* of feelings

and i also have pumpkin liqueur with ice cream and you should too

i have BIG feelings about the very first shot of sarek being one where spock and bones are in the foreground as spock tries to teach bones the ta’al and the two are doing their banter as normal. like sarek boards the enterprise probably knowing spock would be there, and there’s huge fanfare, all eyes on him, except for one person, and that person is his son, who’s too busy talking to his friend to fuckn bother looking up for him

what kind of an asshole do you have to be to not return the ta’al, at all, ever, much less to your own child, like i don’t even fuckn care that they’ve been estranged for 18 years, what the fuck @ Sarek

and jim and bones agree with me. they have that quick exchange as the tension grows and sarek looks away, and i’m RIGHT there with them because they KNOW what a big deal this shit is and right out of the gate for seemingly no reason this guy’s just gonna insult spock like that

we see bones think about trying the ta’al for all of one second and then my boi puts his hand back down and i’m like good, he doesn’t deserve your well-wishes

and when amanda comes up?? when sarek presents her to jim??? she brushes past spock without so much as a glance. i hate them both so much

now. we all love to laugh about jim asking if spock wants to beam down to visit his parents and then having to get told that “.....these.....ARE my parents....” but i’d also like to point out that jim’s original plan was to have spock show sarek and amanda around, likely because of a mix of being the first officer + being a vulcan. when sarek asks for someone else, jim and bones make eye contact again, and this one is more steely than the last. they were surprised and annoyed at the unreturned ta’al, but they’re both straight-up pissed now, and they don’t even know the tea yet. i would like to suggest jim goes out of his way to point out that spock is both well-regarded and a fellow vulcan, all while also trying to give him an out for a few hours, since none of them are happy about being around this many politicians anyway, and there’s clearly something Up with these two specifically. idk i really like that the timing and tone indicates jim specifically chose to offer that to spock because of what had just happened. of course it really blows up in his face, but, well, how could he have known considering none of these people chose to fuckn tell him

on that note, damn, we all talk about this one, but what the hell was spock’s plan huh? did he think jim knew, somehow? did he think he’d have a chance to explain later on? did he think he could get away with no one ever finding out? was his sole purpose truly just to sow chaos? did he try to find some way to explain all this beforehand and just kept falling short until the deadline was upon him and he just went in blind hoping for the best? not very logical in any case but wow is it a mood

the first. and i mean THE FIRST FUCKING THING amanda says to spock is “after all these years among humans, you still haven’t learned to smile” okay lemme just break down all the ways i’m in a damn rage over this

FIRST OF ALL, when they + jim arrive in engineering where spock is, he doesn’t seem to have been aware they were coming, and his back was to the door at the time, which means they effectively snuck up on him. he gets up, turns around, and settles into parade rest, as he do. he doesn’t acknowledge them beyond that, and jim continues the tour past him, graciously attempting to end the brief and unexpected encounter smoothly. need i remind us all that both sarek and amanda actively chose to not acknowledge spock before this; indeed, sarek actively insulted him twice, and amanda settled on simply acting like she’d never seen him before in her life. they set the tone here. his reaction in this scene is simply falling in step with what they had set, and is actually on the polite end of that.

amanda breaks this no-contact with an immediate insult both to spock as an individual and to his vulcan side, which she knows spock highly values. furthermore, her exact words are something many of us have repeatedly heard. they are invalidating words that seek to shame a person for not presenting what they have deemed the correct emotion at the correct time. they’re invalidating enough when used on a person who is actively happy and just doesn’t show it in the way some are used to seeing it, but that isn’t what’s happening here. no, here amanda knows exactly what she and sarek have done to alienate spock just in the last 5 minutes, let alone the last 18 years. she knows precisely why he would be on edge here, and seek to avoid another encounter. she’s fully aware of his discomfort, and chooses to make her first words to him scolding ones.

his response is measured, and scans as normal, but there’s tension in his tone, as there rightfully should be under the circumstances. and yet her next words are scolding him for not visiting her, despite the fact that he and sarek are estranged and she knows that, despite the fact that she’s given him not a single fuckn reason to do so in both scenes she’s been in so far.

can we talk about “my wife, attend” and “mr spock, a moment if you please” and the fact that the parallel is completely obvious and jim is really clearly doing it so that spock can show off after it became clear that just walking past wasn’t gonna be an option (thanks, amanda). that ALSO immediately blows up in his face, but dammit, he’s trying. i feel for jim here honestly. he keeps trying to help spock out and at every turn he accidentally does the worst possible thing. anyways spock takes off, thankfully, and i sure hope the man gets to go have a solid meditation time before the dinner later, because Lord knows he’ll need it

so then sarek, that little sniveling bitch, bows out on the rest of the tour. because “offense is a human emotion,” but pettiness is SURE vulcan. the humans are now alone. important to note that jim did not hear what amanda and spock just said to each other. all he saw was that the second amanda had an opportunity to speak to spock without sarek hearing them, she took it. he therefore likely thinks (correctly, to a degree) that he and amanda are on better terms. he’s also more comfortable with her because she’s human. so the first thing he says, after finally letting himself actually show some of the massive discomfort he’s been feeling this whole time, is “i don’t understand him,” meaning sarek. he’s hoping to gauge amanda and get some insight on what the HELL is wrong with sarek. and he and amanda hit it off! amanda is charming! they’re cute together! meet the mother-in-law is going well, and based off the way amanda says “he is a vulcan; i’m his wife,” it seems pretty clear that amanda is woke to The Premise from the get-go. meet the son-in-law is going well. jim then tackles the big question. the father/son estrangement.

“spock is my best officer. and my friend” says jim immediately, because amanda’s response indicates the sarek isn’t wrong for the way he just treated spock, and wow is jim not gonna stand for that for a second. we love to see it.

amanda is wearing this “concerned mother” expression as she talks about how it’s “hard” for spock to be split between humans and vulcans, as if she ever actually understood any of that when she so clearly doesn’t.

let me. let me get this straight. let me just. let me really just. get this hammered in here. “it’s logical,” says amanda, for sarek and spock to have not spoken as father and son for 18 years, because spock chose starfleet, and sarek had wanted him to carry on the family tradition at the VSA. sarek is so fucking upset that spock chose a different career than the one he wanted him to have that he cut contact for nearly 20 years, and, amanda says, “it’s logical.” “it’s the vulcan way.” “it’s a better way than ours, but it isn’t easy.” what about this is the vulcan way? what the fuck? what the FUCK.

anyways. stubbornness. a human trait. that grin. yeah, these two are tight now, as shitty as amanda may be.

this post is about spock’s family life so i won’t rant about the colored marshmallow wine.

jim: *kicks back a shot as he has to listen to sarek speak words*. what a mood

bones: now’s my time to shine. my time to learn all the dirt on spock.

spock: no, please, no

amanda: now is my time to shine. my time to sow chaos

this is it. this is why spock tried to not let bones know who sarek and amanda were. this was it all along

“you embarrassed spock this evening” says sarek, to amanda, when they are alone. “not even a mother may do that. he is a vulcan.” i’m gonna cut a bitch, i swear, this guy, this guy thinks telling your son’s friends about a childhood pet is worse than not returning the ta’al, what the fuck. don’t act so fucking high and mighty sarek. don’t even start with me.

TO AMANDA’S CREDIT, she needles sarek about how he actually is proud of spock and just doesn’t want to admit he’s been wrong for the last 18 years.

their marriage is cute i’ll give them that

“threats are illogical and payment is usually expensive” IS a baller line, even though it comes from sarek. see this is the thing, sarek and amanda both have redeeming qualities. i can’t quite manage to hate either of them completely. which is what makes this episode so good.

mm. i really like how bones just like, really tries to avoid outing sarek as a suspect, and just looks to spock instead. we love to see it.

“sorry, it couldn’t have been me, i was busy having a heart attack”

“sorry, can’t argue, am having a heart attack now”

the vulcan way is to time heart attacks to the most dramatic times possible

spock: jim, please, please stop trying to make me feel feelings about my father. i am NOT prepared for that shit right now, for the love of surak.

also, this episode said “uhura is a vital member of this team” and we love to see it

someone get amanda a damn chair, her husband’s in the middle of dying

spock: wow. i was dreading this trip but i did not anticipate having to deal with the fact that i still care about my shitty father

OOOOOOOOKKKKAAAAYYYY. when spock puts together the plan to use the drug on himself and then give the necessary blood to sarek, amanda is the one to explicitly put it together. when spock says yeah, still under the “emotions? none here, all i have is Logic,” we cut back to amanda, who goes through several emotions in the close-up. she knows. she knows spock’s quick willingness to take the risk is stemming from care for sarek, despite the fact that he’s been an extremely shitty father. she also looks maybe a little guilty. and i hope she feels that way. some guilt would do her good.

this whole episode really sucks for bones. he’s just trying to be a decent medical practitioner and no one is respecting that.

oh here’s kirk’s ass

gosh this fight scene is fucking outta nowhere. i fucking love this show. it’s weird as hell. what the HELL is this fighting technique. and passing like that? i’m losing my mind what the hell

THAT SAID this episode REALLY sucks for spock. homeboy’s already going through some massive shit and then jim gets critically injured. we hate to see it

oh no. oh shit. here it comes. the worst scene. the scene that makes me want to throw things at the screen. here we go

FUCK YOU, AMANDA. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU, AMANDA. FUCK. YOU.

this isn’t even a vulcan-based decision. This is the kind of decision a human in the same situation would also have to make. spock CANNOT hand over command right now. there are dozens of delegates on board. the captain has been critically injured. there is an extremely dangerous, unidentified ship just outside. there is so obviously a scheme at work. there is immediate danger to hundreds of individuals, and as first officer, he has a duty to the ship. he literally says all this. he literally says that he would do it if he could without abandoning everyone else. this decision is logical, but it is not devoid of emotion. he states that clearly. but does amanda listen? no. she doesn’t. her ears are closed in this conversation. she only has one goal here: shame spock into obedience. and when he refuses to yield, she gets aggressive.

i get it, okay. i do. this situation is awful for her. she’s stressed to the max. she has an outburst, a mistake. but what she does isn’t acceptable. it’s awful, it’s horrible, i hate her for it so much.

i have more i could say on this subject, but this post is about the whole episode, not just this scene.

“we cannot disregard that philosophy for personal gain, no matter how important that gain might be.” your 1 is showing mr spock. also i love you. i’d ask you to marry me but you’re already married

oh, i hate her. OH, i hate her.

the gaslighting, folks!! the shaming!!!! the emotional manipulation!! i hate it!! i hate it so much!!!! OHHHHHHH MY GOSH I HATE THIS

oh wow i’m gonna have to make a second post just about this scene later. i can’t type it all now. i don’t have time and also i’ve get too emotional

spock can’t even talk it out with jim because jim’s busy being near death in the same damn room as his father, and he can’t go to bones because bones is busy trying to keep them both from dying, and he can’t go to uhura because uhura is busy tracking the threat.........ohhhhh i hate this so much

the hand he puts up against the door that will ultimately mirror wrath of khan, only this door isn’t clear, and the gesture isn’t returned....... i hate this so much

jim, finding out about all the shit that’s gone down while he’s been unconscious: can’t damn a man for his loyalty. YES JIM YES. this is what we love to see. everyone else sees spock’s actions so far as disloyal to his father. only jim has seen them as acutely loyal, to starfleet. AND he’s willing to put himself in danger to let spock off the hook.

spock, looking from jim to bones back to jim: mm. i sense bullshit. and you know what? plausible deniability. yeah sure i’ll go save my father’s life.

I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT, that the plan jim made upon waking up assumed spock was overly cautious in thinking scotty shouldn’t be put in command. he intended to let scotty take over as soon as spock was gone. then. after a mere few seconds on the bridge, he changes his plans. spock had been right. spock was RIGHT to stay in command. VINDICATION.

okay i don’t even think amanda should be in the room right now but she should CERTAINLY have a damn chair

spock, in the middle of an operation: okay WAIT actually i just figured it ou- *is sedated* this is just like hermione getting petrified

wow this episode really sucks for bones. the poor man’s doing surgery on vulcans in the middle of a space battle.

jim, immediately: is spock okay. don’t give me this bullshit is hE OKAY YES OR NO

the end scene is sweet. EXCEPT FOR SAREK BEING A BITCH, AS HE FUCKN DOES. “one does not thank logic” fuck you man

“Logic, logic, FUCK your logic” - let amanda say fuck edition

we do like to see sarek finally speaking to spock of his own free will, but he’s still an asshole

okay this bit with the triumvirate. very cute. a nice ending. we need some release after that damn episode.

i can’t believe i made it to the end. i started at 8:15 and it’s 10 now.

#marie talks #star trek

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elizabeatrice · 4 years

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Walking Blind + Thoughts on The Little Mermaid Being Episode 12

Let’s Talk About JSHK Anime #2

Warning: Manga spoilers up until Tanabata Arc (basically that + the entirety of season 1 + the skipped arcs)

I’m gonna talk about how the anime keeps proving my predictions wrong with skipped arcs, and later right, with consequences. Due note that this isn’t me hating the anime (because I love it). Just my funny experience attempting to Sherlock my way through the anime, plus my thoughts on The Little Mermaid being the finale.

No deduction works when it comes to predicting this series.

It all started when episode 5, The Confession Tree, came out. I was looking forward to it ‘cause I’m hananene trash af. Legit thought the entire episode was gonna be about Kodama.

But then the episode preview pics came out and I was like, “Sakura wtf are you doing here you don’t show up again until three chapters later?”

My first prediction was ep 5 would be entirely Kodama, and then ep 6 would be Young Exorcist. Seeing that these arcs serve to build up Nene and Kou wanting to know more about Hanako, I thought it’d be nice that we set aside two episodes just for that.

But then Kodama finished somewhere around the fifteenth minute mark, and we started Young Exorcist Part 1. Which was, you know, fine. But then instead of continuing, they jumped right to the end of the arc when Nene met Sakura for the first time, and then kept going to No. 5′s rumor and revealed Tsukasa early. Next episode’s title preview confirmed it, too. Ep 6 was gonna be 4PM Bookstacks.

Okay. I still had hope. Maybe they just rearranged the order.

On the other hand, the lack of ‘Part 1′ in the title was alarming. And it came true. They packed four chapters into one episode. A lot of things got cut. There wasn’t enough room for the op, and they had to run the credits while the episode was still ongoing. Though, tbh, other than Tsuchi’s line about him being able to change the books (with dire consequences), I didn’t have much problem with the cut scenes.

Then this thing showed up.

Before ep 5 I didn’t think we’d get Donuts until around episode 9-ish. But nope the No. 7s would meet each other in ep 7 (lmao see what I did there?). Again, I was fine with it, but I was a bit upset about Young Exorcist.

Someone said it may be moved to the finale, and I didn’t like that idea. Mostly because Yashiro, our main audience POV, isn’t in the arc. And it just sounds weird having a finale without your main audience POV.

They could put her there, sure, but that would mean adjusting Nene and Teru’s every future interaction. Even without shipping goggles or Nene’s romance-colored glasses, do you think Nene would still act the same towards Teru if she saw him hurt Hanako like that? ‘Cause that was brutal. Like she wouldn’t run and protect him like she did when they met Kou.

They put Kou and Teru’s resolution from Young Exorcist into their convo in episode 7. This kinda makes Teru a bit useless, though. I mean, he still doesn’t do much in the manga but the tension between him and Kou was supposed to set up this badass fight. Since it didn’t happen, and Young Exorcist isn’t gonna be the finale either, then he’s pretty much useless.

Anyway, the thing about Teru being onto The Broadcasting Club?

Not from the manga.

I’m not sure if Manga!Teru is really onto them. As far as I remember, it wasn’t hinted anywhere in the manga. Do correct me if I’m wrong. So what was the point of that change?

I didn’t get pissed until halfway through episode 7 and suddenly Mitsuba was there, but no fishes.

“What is he doing here, where’s that puffer fish, where’s his murder? Hello?”

I was very neutral about Mitsuba from the very beginning but when he showed up where The Little Mermaid (and my fish murder!!!) was supposed to be I kinda began to grow undeserved resentment toward him (I’m cool now though!). Totally, totally undeserved, because it wasn’t his character’s fault.

I was happy because Mitsuba stans got to see him animated (he was cute, and his VA was so good). But putting him in episode 7??? I mean they just left Hanako and Nene’s tension unresolved like that. That makes the episode really choppy in my opinion. They could’ve had the coolest final shot of the season of Tsukasa murdering that fish to scare and excite the anime-onlys. They missed that chance.

We got to episode 8. Pretty solid. Still would’ve preferred if its first bits weren’t in Donuts, but solid.

Preview title basically confirmed they’re skipping The Little Mermaid too. That was when I lost hope in Young Exorcist. But I tried to compromise. If they weren’t animating The Little Mermaid, then they have to put Hanako and Nene’s conversation and pinky promise in The Little Mermaid at the end of ep 9.

Episode 9 turned out to be my favorite. It was all thanks to Natsuhiko. He really cheered me up over our loss of two arcs. And my prediction was right for once. Hanako apologized for ruining the donuts. That’s definitely not the point of their tension (Tsu-ka-sa and trust), but it was still nice and I’d take what I could get. The hug. The hug was very nice.

I was mostly content, excited to see my boi Akane the next week. But then I thought, wait, we only have three episodes left. And we’re definitely reaching Hell of Mirrors, ‘cause No. 3′s silhouette is in the OP. Then the horrifying thought hit me.

They were gonna skip Searching.

But! The freaking post-credit showed up followed by this:

“They skipped Searching AND Clock Keeper??? Why on earth would you highlight Akane, with Teru of all people, in the OP then?! Paralleling Mitsuba and Kou no less!”

Due notice, yet again, the lack of ‘Part 1′ in the title preview. Before the episode actually aired, this was my train of thought: “Okay so they skipped The Clock Keeper and Searching, and decided to outdo episode 6 by packing 6 chapters (yeah, I counted “Reach Out Your Hand”) into one episode. Ahahaha ... what?”

Thankfully, they proved me wrong. Kay. Good. Thanks a bunch for fooling me with that title preview.

But then it freaking hit me. You got one episode left. The finale. Sure, Clock Keeper as a finale will be perfect. It’s a good hook for season 2. However. You can’t do Clock Keeper without doing Searching. It’d basically be almost the same as doing Donuts without doing The Little Mermaid. The finale wouldn’t feel resolved this way, because, again, there’s tension between Hanako and Nene (and Kou too) that isn’t resolved yet.

Not that Searching addressed the cause of the tension, but at least it brought the trio back to their status quo (well, with a bit of kounene and hananene development haha). Also, without Searching, it’ll only end like this:

Clock Keeper itself is 5 chapters. They can cut and modify. Sure. But y’all saw ep 6.

So that’s why I was sure we’re definitely not getting No. 1 this season. To me, that leaves three options for the finale.

A. Delivery + Tanabata Arc

Best pick in my opinion

It’s the direct continuation to Hell of Mirrors

The main trio are all there, especially our audience POV

More glimpses of Amane is always a plus point

The ‘getting hit by a bull, waking up in the past, and seeing your boyfriend before he died’ is just so random I think it’d be a pleasant surprise for the anime-onlys

Just wholesome in general, leaves the audience feeling good

The-ma-tic!!! You begin the series with Nene’s wish and end it with Amane’s isn’t that just asdfghjkl wish wish wish, everything’s about wishes in JSHK

B. Young Exorcist

Classic boss battle finale

Just Teru’s badassery *chef’s kiss*

Hanako getting emotional (something we haven’t really seen before)

Getting deeper into Hanako’s motive (episode 8 would’ve been more impactful had we had Young Exorcist before it, what with his view of disappearing/exorcism for ghosts being salvation)

Kou’s character development

^ counter argument: he already got the character development he went through in Young Exorcist in episode 6 and 7, plus, he and Teru already resolved their disagreements - though, not as impactful as in the manga

Also wholesome, HanaKou is great I love their friendship so much *sobs*

C. The Little Mermaid

@emee-ems pointed out here: “it started with the mermaid so they’ll end it with the mermaid” and I agree

Yashiro being persuaded to leave Hanako, while their friendship was what began the whole series? That’s some good conflict right there

Seeing Hanako worried about Yashiro leaving him? Good shit

Also wholesome (extra shipping content never hurts, either)

Hanako willingly opening up to Yashiro for the first time!!! That’s a big milestone for them

Yashiro accepting that he’s just not ready instead of not trusting her like she’d thought is *chef’s kiss*

That pinky promise! Starting the series making a bond due to unfortunate circumstances and ending the series making/staying loyal to a bond out of choice??? Good shit

Aaaaannnnddddd the verdict was:

Mmmmmkay.

I did previously think we’re gonna end the season with The Little Mermaid. But here’s the thing. It only works if everything is in chronological order.

Why? Because the tension that led to this arc in the first place is resolved already in episode 9.

The whole point of TLM is that conversation at the end, really, where:

Hanako apologizes for ruining the donuts (he already did in episode 9)

Hanako thanks Yashiro for telling him that she liked him

Hanako admits that he had a little brother and that he killed him (Tsukasa already confirmed both of this for Nene, both in episode 7 and episode 9)

So having Hanako repeating all this seems kinda redundant. Nene already knows. Sure, it’ll be nice to hear it from him directly ... but it’s too late now, isn’t it? It’s been four episodes. She’s met Tsukasa three times now. However, point number 2 is still available.

Furthermore, since Hanako already apologized in episode 9, I’m not sure if the fishes can use what happened in episode 7 to persuade Nene to leave him. I mean, she forgave him already. Tension resolved. They hugged and all. And it’s been so long since then.

Animating the fish murder scene is also kinda useless. It was supposed to give the audience a glimpse of how dangerous Tsukasa is. But we already know that. We saw him rip someone’s heart out and force-feed it to someone else.

The first half of The Little Mermaid Part 1 and The Broadcasting Club at the end of Part 2 are already animated in episode 7. That leaves them even more room for extra scenes. I hope they take good advantage of that.

Basically, they have to make a lot of adjustments and I’m curious to see what they’re gonna do.

I am happy that we’re gonna see The Little Mermaid. The way Hanako wipes Nene’s face with his sleeve, and then cradles her head? I need it, they make my heart melt. Can’t wait.

#jibaku shounen hanako kun #toilet bound hanako kun #let's talk about jshk anime #bea rambles

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heroineimages · 4 years

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I wasn’t tagged by anyone in particular, but @enigmaticagentalice invited anyone interested to share an excerpt from a work in progress. The following WIP is the opening to a reimagining of Avatar: the Last Airbender if Korra had been the Avatar then instead of Aang. Working title is The Ghost in the Iceburg.

The ghost’s name was Aang. Korra knew that much about him. Aang was an airbender boy who’d died around the time Korra was born, though he seemed a little fuzzy on the circumstances of his passing. He admitted, in fact, that it took a while to figure out he was even dead. The fact that Naga could also see and hear Aang was the only assurance Korra had that he wasn’t just a figment of her imagination.

Aang had been around her as long as Korra could remember. Some of her first memories were of him making faces at her and playing hide-and-seek in the snow outside her parents’ home. He’d been the one who’d first identified her as a waterbender and the one who’d first talked her into trying out penguin sledding.

And it was his warnings that had saved her life and kept her hidden and safe that night nine years ago when soldiers from the Fire Nation raided her village.

The rest of her village had been captured or killed, but Aang had protected the six-year-old Korra by warning her when soldiers were coming and by helping her find places to hide. She’d been on her own since then, just her, Aang, and Naga. Though she traded with the remaining Water Tribe villages from time to time, Korra had spent most of her time since wandering the South Pole in search of others who could teach her to waterbend.

There didn’t seem to be any left.

“What we need is a boat,” Aang decided, riding behind Korra as Naga loped along through the snow. “I mean, since there aren’t any waterbending teachers at the South Pole, we should try the North Pole.”

“That… might be hard to trade for,” Korra admitted, shifting her spear to her left hand. What little she owned was tucked into her backpack or Naga’s saddlebags. She’d made a couple new javelins, but she doubted they’d be worth even a small canoe, let alone something large enough to carry Naga aboard. “And I’m not about to steal one, but I can ask around in this next village and find out what they might be willing to part with one for.”

“Actually… I think we should go… that way,” Aang suggested, pointing to their right.

“Why?” Korra frowned, slowing Naga and turning to look toward the cliffs a mile off and the ocean beyond. “The village with that goofy boomerang guy and his cute sister who you have a crush on is this way.”

“Hey, you have crush on her too,” Aang objected. “Anyway, it’s just, there’s something really familiar about this place… like, it’s tugging at me… like it wants us to find something…? Can’t you feel it?”

“Maybe…?” Korra admitted, tugging Naga’s reigns to guide her that direction. “Now that you mention it, something does feel familiar about this.”

Korra spurred Naga into a jog, loping across the snowy hills. They drew to a halt at the edge of the cliffs, looking out over the ocean and drifting icebergs.

“You feel it too, don’t you?” Aang asked. “Kind of a warm pull?”

“I don’t know about ‘warm,’ but I do feel something soothing… comforting…” Korra agreed, sniffing the salty sea air.

“Hey, those people have a boat,” Aang pointed out. Korra looked to see a small fishing boat being pulled along by the currents. “Maybe we can trade with them for a ride to the Earth Kingdom.”

“They’re moving awful fast,” Korra frowned, spurring Naga to parallel them from atop the cliffs while looking for a way down. That ice shelf drifting away from the cliffs was probably creating the currents. But that little fishing canoe was likely to get smashed against the ice if the rowers didn’t—

Crunch!

Korra grimaced as the canoe busted to pieces between two ice burgs, spilling the two occupants.

“I think they’re okay!” Aang yelled as he drifted down toward them.

Korra exhaled with relief as she watched two figures crawl from the water. Using her waterbending, she bent steps from the icy cliff side for Naga to leap down from.

And this is about all I have written on this. Also, given that Korra is bi, it’s really freaking hard to decide which of the AtLA cast to ship her with.

Anyway, I’m not tagging anyone in particular, but anyone is free to share a bit from one of their WIPs and tag me so I can read it too!

#my writing #my stories #The Legend of Korra #Avatar: the Last Airbender #Avatar Korra #Naga #fan fiction #excerpts

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WWDCTR

Warning: this about to be all over the damn place because even after a night’s sleep my emotions have still not recovered. Definitely feel like I’m going to forget things & it’s already long so bear with me.

Nick’s humor in this kept me laughing the whole time; like “Polly wanna cracker??” — I’m sorry WHAT 😂 the best part- he cracks himself up (AND Ellie even if she tried to hide it in that scene. She knows he’s hilarious, she thinks it’s cuuuute)

The. Red. Lollipop. I mean- First, Gibbs AND Nick pick out red lollipops (hmmm who all is feeling that passion lately guys?? (And yes, without a doubt, the writers 100 percent knew what they were doing when they chose it to be red. Rule 39 y’all - there’s no such thing as concidences.) So like Nick saying “yeah, buddy” and popping that lollipop OMG the flirt. I can’t even. He wants her to be hypnotized so that he can see her true feelings - tell me I’m wrong. Then, THEN she steals it back (her eyes flicking back and forth between his face & the lollipop, conveniently placed in his lap...ahem, ahem...then with a wicked glint to her eye popping it in her mouth but holding it with her teeth. Like 💀💀💀

What I can’t get over is, like, last season - that would’ve been it. That wouldb’ve been the content for the ep & we would’ve freaking the hell out. This season the writers be like, BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE. (And more and more!)

I will never forget McGee calling Nick “Mr. Muscle Boy” and Ellie not even batting an eye, oh she knows about those muscles, buddy, she knows 👀

Nick giving her his blade...even if he was hypnotized...he gave it to someone he trusts 😍😭❤️

I am officially signing off with gnsdily on everything now, ever. The unison sing-song “i love you” was too much. BUT I’m hesitant to think they actually say I love you to each other. I think I saw this theory out there in the ether - I feel like they say it more in a “joking” manner than in a true “i love you”. *Because* - hear me out - A. How the hell would we have gotten from distant/not looking at each other/Nick terrified about how the clown “answered” for him in 17x04 to this and B. they wouldn’t have had that reaction over the note...like if they say I love you, the note Nick wrote wouldn’t have been a big deal. Also, Gibbs & McGee’s reaction will forever be priceless, THEY SO KNOW.

SPEAKING OF. THIS DAMN NOTE. First - there actually is something written in it, it’s not empty. You can pause the shot & see the writing on the other side of the paper (you can’t make it out, I promise, I tried), so there’s something. Now, WHAT that is, I’m dyyyyyying to know. One thought - it’s actually not that big, not a declaration of love, maybe still something cute, but not huge & Ellie is just loving giving him a hard time (because she totally would, she’d milk that shit so fast). Second thought - still not quite a declaration of love, but Ellie can read through the lines and finally knows how Nick feels (or at least as a realllll good idea). When she said it’s “personal stuff” - immediate parallel to Nick telling Jack it’s personal. SO does that mean it’s Nick telling her why he let Ziva win? Regardless of what’s in it - NICK’S REACTION HAS ME DEAD. He goes from freaking out to owning it in a hot sec. And I want him to own it SO. BAD. “Read it...think about me” 😍😍😍 I can’ttttt y’all, I can’t. Her genuine smile at him after, they’re walking so close, I just-. Speaking of, every single look (especially those near the end of the ep), slays me.

I just can’t imagine where we’re going to go from here! We did NOT get this kind of content in season 16. Let me repeat, we are on episode FIVE. And we have:

Jokes/banter

Shared lollipop

Entrusting Ellie with his blade

Sing-song in unison “goodnight, sweet dreams, I love you”

A. Love. Note.

Y’all. I am not gonna make it to the end.

If we get a KISS this season?? 😩💀

Side note: Gibbs telling McGee & Ellie to “go fight in the car” and restoring that father/daughter dynamic between them has my heart 💞

#WWDCTR #ncis #ellick #torres x bishop #ellie bishop #nick torres #timothy mcgee #ncis season 17 #17x05 #wide awake

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vgckwb · 4 years

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P5R: Rebel Girl (A FeMC Story/P5R Rework) Chapter 17: Friends Stick Together

Ren walked back into Le Blanc. “Ah, you’re back,” Sojiro said. He looked Ren over. “You seem exhausted. Busy day at school? Or did you apply for a job?”

Ren looked at him confused. “I can apply for a job?” she asked.

Sojiro sighed. “You probably should if you want any extra spending money. I’d rather not have to keep giving you money.”

“No, what I mean is, I can apply for one given my...record?” Ren asked again.

“Oh. Right” Sojiro said. “To be honest, I almost forgot about that. But yeah. There are places that would hire you despite your record. Heck, I don’t even know how you’d plan on making a living on your own once you get out of school if you didn’t think that.”

“I see,” Ren said. “I’ll have to look into that.”

“You should,” Sojiro said. “It might be helpful.”

Ren knew Sojiro meant that in the best possible way, but she did feel some stings coming off of it where she knew he still wouldn’t believe her if she said she was innocent. She figured she'd take what she could get. She walked up to her room and got a message from the Phantom Thief group chat.

Ryuji: So, how’s Shiho doing?

Ann: Well…

Ann: When I called her, she was inside the school throwing up.

Ryuji: WHAT?!

Morgana, who was looking on, wondered “Could this be a side-effect of her losing at Kamoshida’s Palace?”

Ren: Morgana wants to know if it’s Metaverse-related.

Ann: I think it is.

Ann: She said that she’d just started, which would make sense with the timeline.

Ann: When I got there she was still going.

Ann: After she finished, she told me she was sorry again. For trying to organize a student-wide burning of the school.

Ann: I assured her everything was alright and got her home.

Ryuji: Well that’s nice of you. I hope she feels better soon.

Ren: She apologized again? Didn’t she apologize in the other world too?

“Yeah, that’s a good point,” Morgana said.

Ann: I thought that was strange as well.

Ann: I asked her how she came up with such an idea.

Ann: She told me that a mysterious figure came into her room one night and gave her an apple.

Ann: Once she took a bite of it, she had a vision about what to do.

Ren: Eris…

Ann: Yeah.

Ann: She doesn’t seem to remember what happened in Kamoshida’s Palace.

“That makes sense,” Morgana said. “Kamoshida’s shadow wouldn’t know exactly what happened either.”

Ren: Morgana says it’s the same with Kamoshida.

Ryuji: Yeah, I was wondering about that.

Ann: Shiho says she’ll be fine, but she is going to be absent from school until she feels better.

Ren: Well, you know I’m here if you need anything.

Ryuji: Yeah, same.

Ann: Thanks.

Ren: Hey, wanna meet up briefly tomorrow? I’m going to check around the subway station for some part-time jobs.

Ann: Sure!

Ryuji: I’ll come too.

Ren: Great! See you then.

Ann: Good night.

Ryuji: Good night.

Ren changed into her pajamas and sat down on her bed. Morgana pounced up to meet her there. “Is something on your mind?” he asked.

Ren was thinking about something. “So, do you want to talk about what happened with the treasure?” she asked.

“Oh, um, well…” Morgana said, embarrassed. He sighed. “We went over this. I’m apparently attracted to human desire.”

“Right,” Ren said, “but why?”

Morgana sat there for a few seconds. “...Well, I guess it’s because I have no real desires of my own. I was created with the purpose of guiding you. So, I don’t know what it’s like to have any desires of my own. I’m just here to lend a hand whenever I can. You said I’m always thinking about the job. It’s because I don’t have anything but the job to think about.” Ren chuckled. “What?!” Morgana asked, incensed

“Sorry,” Ren apologized. “But we both know that’s not true.”

Morgana was perplexed. “What do you mean?”

“Oh, come on,” Ren said. “Don’t think I haven’t noticed your affection for ‘Lady Ann’.”

“Uh-Well-I” Morgana stammered.

Ren giggled. “It's fine. Relax. People get crushes all the time.”

“Well...yeah...but…” Morgana said. “But I’m not a ‘person’. If I confessed my affection for Lady Ann, there’s no way she’d take me seriously.”

Ren empathized with him in that moment. “Aww, it’s OK,” she said, petting him. “We all have crushes like that from time to time.”

“Yeah, but, even if I find some other girl I like,” Morgana lamented, “they won’t take me seriously either because I’m a cat. Or I’m in the body of a cat. Argh! The point is, I can’t get a significant other no matter how hard I try!”

Ren thought for a moment. “Do you think you would fancy cats romantically?”

“WHAT?” Morgana said. “What kind of question is that?”

“I think it’s fairly reasonable,” Ren said. “If you’re in the body of a cat, why not try wooing a cat?”

Morgana growled. “I get your logic, but I’m not a cat.”

“But you’re not human either,” Ren said.

Morgana pouted. “I guess that’s true. But, I dunno. I...feel human. I know that doesn't make sense.”

“I think it does,” Ren said.

“Really?” Morgana said.

“Yeah” Ren answered. “Being human is complicated, and there’s no one more complicated than you.”

Morgana glared at her. “Very funny.”

“It’s true though,” Ren said. “Believe me, if being a human was easy, then people like Kamoshida wouldn’t exist.”

“I guess that’s a fair point,” Morgana said. “In a way, we’re trying to make people’s lives easier.”

“That’s the spirit!” Ren said.

“Still, trying to find love in this body is impossible” Morgana said, once again dejected.

Ren simply smiled. “It’s human nature to wish for the impossible sometimes. Heck, there’s even a book that says you should wish for six impossible things before breakfast.”

“Huh” Morgana said. “So, do you have any impossible wishes?”

Ren paused for a moment. “Well, despite the fact that I’m talking to a cat, while being chosen to save the world from an emissary of chaos by sneaking into a parallel dimension to steal hearts, yes.”

Morgana smiled. “Would they happen to do with Sumire?”

“I-uh-What?” Ren said, feigning ignorance.

“Don’t think I haven’t noticed either,” Morgana said. “It’s subtle, but you lose some of your usual bravado around her. Plus, you put off the entire operation just for her.”

“Well… I would have done it for anyone” Ren said, nervously. Ren and Morgana looked at each other. “OK, let’s say hypothetically you’re right. What then?”

“Well, it doesn’t matter to me,” Morgana said. “You’re both human at least.”

“Yeah, but we’re also both girls…” Ren said.

Morgana got confused. “So? That shouldn’t matter. Love is love. If you think I’m the type of person to be judgmental, I’m a creation of a powerful being who looks, and sometimes acts, like a cat with a crush on a human. I don’t think I have much room to criticize.”

Ren laughed and then smiled. “You know, you’re better than some humans, Morgana. Maybe you should take pride in that.”

“I guess” Morgana said. “But I’d still like to be one.”

“Are you still sad?” Ren asked.

“Nope!” Morgana responded. “I’m just wishing for the impossible now!”

“That’s the spirit,” Ren said.

Magician-Morgana: Rank 2

“We should really get to bed,” Morgana said.

“Yeah” Ren said as she slid under the covers. She fell asleep soon after.

The next day, Ren and Morgana were out walking around Shibuya Station. “Yo!” Ryuji said, walking up to her. “How’s the job hunt?”

“I just got started,” Ren explained. They continued onward and started looking at some brochures.

“Hey!” Ann shouted. The two turn to her as she rushes to meet them. “How’s it going you two?”

“I think it’s going well,” Ren said.

“Yeah, same,” Ryuji said. He continued to look through the brochures. “Hmmm.”

“So, are you two really just looking for jobs?” Ann asked.

“I guess” Ryuji said.

“Well, that’s part of it,” Ren said. “But I also called you here to debrief.”

“De...brief…?” Ryuji said, confused and embarrassed.

“She means she wants to discuss what happened yesterday, you moron!” Morgana said.

“Oh. Yeah. I knew that” Ryuji said. “Stupid cat.” Morgana hissed at him.

“Oh. I guess that makes sense” Ann said.

“Yeah, I wasn’t sure why you wanted to bring Ann job hunting,” Ryuji said. “She’s already a model.”

“Yeah,” Ann said. “Hey, would you want to be a model with me Ren? I think you’d be really good at it. You’re already super cute!”

Renn giggled. “I appreciate the gesture, but I’d rather not have more attention on me than need be.”

“Oh right,” Ann said. “I doubt that the modeling world is a place for someone on parole. It can be brutal at times.”

“You thinking of leaving?” Ryuji asked.

“Well…” Ann replied. “I’m not sure. There are things I enjoy about it, but at the same time… I need to think about it some more.”

“I see,” Ryuji said. “Well, whatever happens, I support you.”

“Thanks,” Ann said, smiling. She turned to Ren. “So, what did you want to talk about?”

“Well, how do you think yesterday went?” Ren asked.

“How it went?” An said.

“Yeah” Ren reiterated. “Chances are things are only going to get more difficult, so how did you feel about yesterday?”

“Huh” Ryuji said. “Well, I think it went pretty well, all things considered. We managed to steal the treasure while making sure Shiho didn’t kill Kamoshida.”

“Yeah, but we had to fight Shiho” Ren reminded them.

“Well, she did tell us Kamoshida was waiting to ambush us” Ann said. “I feel like we were going to have to fight either her or Kamoshida at that point.”

“Yeah” Ren agreed. “But also, Shiho managed to take over more.”

“Is that what you’re worried about?” Morgana asked. “Like I said, as long as we kept Kamoshida alive, the takeover wouldn’t be complete.”

“Yeah, but we originally planned on alerting Shiho specifically because we wanted to disorient her” Ren reminded them.

“Well, I think it did,” Morgana said. “It just disoriented Kamoshida even more. In fact, I think if we didn’t, we might have had to fight the both of them. Not to mention, we might have had a harder time convincing Kamoshida to confess his crimes.”

“Is that so?” Ren asked. Morgana nodded. Ren smiled. “Thanks.” She paused for a moment. “Ann. Ryuji.” They looked at her. “Are...are you OK with continuing this? I’m only asking because I’m the only one that HAS to do this. I kind of feel like I’m just dragging you along. Especially since it is probably going to get harder.”

Ryuji and Ann looked at each other, then back at Ren. “What are you talking about?” Ann asked. “We’re in this together!”

“Yeah!” Ryuji said. “I’m not one to give up when things get tough. Especially if it’s for a friend!”

“And if things are going to get as tough as you say they are, you’re going to need all the help you can get,” Ann told her.

Ren smiled. “Thanks guys. I...kind of needed that.”

Ann put her arm around Ren. “What are friends for?”

Ryuji did the same on the other side.”Yeah. We’re going to be by your side no matter what!”

Ren started welling up. “Heh heh.”

Ann fished her phone out of her pocket. She reached her hand out to take a selfie of the three of them. “Smile!” she said. She clicked the button. She broke off from the group embrace to check the photo. “Heh.” She sent it to Ren and Ryuji.

When Ren looked at it, she smiled. “This is good.”

“Thanks,” Ann said.

“No kidding” Ryuji added on. “You have a really good eye for this stuff.” Ann slightly blushed.

“Well, now that that’s settled,” Ren said, “I’m going to keep looking through this stuff.”

“You do that,” Ann said. “I think I’m going to go check on Shiho.”

“Oh yeah” Ryuji said. “Do you think we could visit her?”

“Well…” Ann said nervously, “she is still feeling a bit under the weather. I think it’d be best if only I went.”

“Oh” Ryuji said, somewhat disappointed. “Well, keep us updated. When she feels better, I definitely want to say hi.”

“Will do!” Ann said. “Seeya!” She walked off.

“Anyway, let’s continue,” Ryuji said. Ren and Ryuji continued looking through brochures to see if they could find a job they liked. Once they found a few things they linked, they took the brochures and headed back home for the day.

The next day at school, there were some murmurs. Shiho was still home sick from school, but Kamoshida was also nowhere to be found. “I wonder what’s going on?” Ann asked Ren when they met up in the hall during break.

Ms. Kawakami walked up to them. “Oh. Hey.” The two girls turned to face her. “Listen, you're probably going to hear things, so I just want to get out ahead of it. Especially when it comes to you two.”

Ren was confused. “Why us?”

“Well, more so Takamaki-chan” Kawakami said. “I’ve...heard things. I didn’t believe them, of course, but…” She sighed. “I’m sorry.”

Ann sat in silence for a moment. “No. I get it. You were probably just as wrapped up in Kamoshida’s influence as I was…”

“Yeah…” Kawakami said, dejected. “Anyways, I wanted to tell you as well since he called you into his office on your first day here. I don’t know what happened, but it’s evident there’s something between you and him.”

“Nothing really happened,” Ren informed her. “Thanks to Ann here.”

Kawakami was shocked. “Ugh. This whole thing is making my head spin.”

“Are you alright?” Ren asked.

“...Maybe” Kawakami answered. “I’ve had better days.”

“So, what did you want to tell us?” Ann asked.

“Oh, right,” Kawakami said. “Kamoshida said he was taking a leave of absence. He said he needed to reflect a little bit.”

“Huh” Ann said.

“I’m letting you know because you know how rumors are,” Kawakami said. “I just wanted you to know the truth before things get out of hand.”

“I see,” Ren said.

“Well, thanks for listening,” Kawakami said. She walked off.

“Huh” Ann said. “I think I’m starting to see Kawakami-sensei in a new light. She seems genuinely concerned about us.”

Ren nodded. “However, it seems like something is troubling her as well.”

“Yeah. I wonder what that could be though” Ann said. “If we knew, we could help.”

“Yeah,” Ren said. “Anyway, let’s meet up with Ryuji after school and tell him about this.”

After school, they told Ryuji. “No way! For real?! So, you think the change of heart worked?”

“Probably” Morgana said, poking his head out. “But we won’t know for sure for a bit.”

“Aw man!” Ryuji said. “I was kind of hoping he’d confess already.”

“Remember: Patience is a virtue” Ren said.

“Yeah, yeah,” Ryuji said.

The group overheard some voices. “So, Shiho is sick?”

“Yeah. I guess she’s also not moving forward with that plan of hers huh.”

“I guess not.”

“Man, why did we even agree to such a crazy idea?”

“I know, right? There’s no way the staff didn’t hear about this.”

“Hey, wanna just let them know Shiho was planning on doing that? You know, get out ahead of it?”

“What?!” Ren said.

“Those jerks!” Ryuji said.

“Shiho!” Ann said.

Before any of them could do something, a voice screamed at them. “HEY!”

The thieves were shocked. “Was that Mishima?” Ann asked. They went to investigate.

Sure enough, Mishima was staring down a crowd of students. “Don’t pretend you all weren’t in on this! Don’t pretend Shiho was the only one angry enough to do this! Lucky for me, I wasn’t. But I’ve been keeping tabs. For the record, the teachers had no idea that any of this was happening. But if you tell them, then I’m going to have to list you all off as willing participants. So, you have a choice to make: Either keep quiet, or I reveal each and every one of you who was willing to go along with it. What’s it gonna be?” The other students stood there frozen for a bit. They then quietly shuffled off. “That’s what I thought.”

“Woah!” Ryuji said. “Mishima’s really scary.”

“Yeah…” Ann said. “But he really stood up for Shiho.” She walked up to Mishima.

“Oh, Takamaki-chan,” Mishima said, surprised.

“Thanks...for being on Shiho’s side,” she told him.

“Oh. It was nothing” Mishima said. “We’re teammates after all.”

Ren and Ryuji walked over. “Dude…” Ryuji said.

“Oh, Hey Sakamoto. Amamiya” Mishima greeted.

“I’m stunned,” Ren said. “I wasn’t sure you had it in you.”

“Well, what can I say?” Mishima responded. “Hey, if you’re stunned now, just wait until I show you this surprise I’ve been working on.”

Ren was puzzled. “Surprise?”

“What is it?” Ryuji asked.

“Why would I tell you right away? It’s a surprise” Mishima said enthusiastically.

“Well, alright…” Ren said. “I’ll trust you on this.”

“That’s great. See ya later!” Mishima told them. He walked off.

“Man, that Mishima is quite the character” Morgana noted.

“Yeah” Ryuji said. “But I don’t think he’s a bad guy.”

“Yeah” Morgana agreed. “Just kind of weird.”

“I thought you weren’t the judgmental type” Ren said, reminding him of their conversation last night.

“Well...uh…” Morgana stammered.

Ren giggled. “Just kidding.” Morgana pouted.

“Well, at least Shiho won’t have to worry so much once she gets back,” Ann said.

“Yeah” Ryuji said. “I’m glad for that.”

“Same” Ren added.

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AUTHOR REVEAL of the Chopped: Choose Your Own Adventure Fics!

We hope you all had fun Guessing the Authors, now here they are! Did you guess any correctly?

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all dead hearts to you (Rated T) [Clarke/Raven] by @kindclaws

Theme: Canon Divergent || Tropes: 1. Ark AU, 2. Character swap, 3. One character kisses the other, and the person who gets kissed is shocked still, and 4. One character is asleep (can be cute sleep, can be drooling mouth breathing sleep, you pick) and the other is just watching them totally in love

When the countdown ticks over into the last minute, Raven forces herself to begin imagining a world without Bellamy. It’s not easy to shove aside her initial impulses to bargain with the universe, with her own rationality. Maybe her predictions are too pessimistic. Maybe they have an extra handful of minutes before the death wave reaches them and steals away their escape route. Maybe he is right outside, and he will come around the corner any second now - but she hasn’t kept her friends alive until now by being an optimist. They don’t have the luxury of hope.

The rocket takes off without Bellamy. Raven and Clarke pick up the pieces.

Don't Wanna Fly If You're Still On The Ground (Rated G) [Clarke & Wells] by @loveislarryislove

Theme: Canonverse || Tropes: 1. 4+1, 2. Character not looking for love, 3. Mistaken for a couple, and 4. Protectiveness

Clarke has always been the one person who really got Wells. She understands the pressures of his position in a way no one else ever has. She knows what it is to be a leader, to bear responsibility. She's one of a kind. Wells can't imagine a life without her.

She feels the same way, but differently. Sometimes that's hard, but Wells wouldn't trade it for the world.

Four times Wells almost said "I love you" to Clarke... and the one time she said it first.

The Roach (Rated G) [Emori/Murphy] by @the-most-beautiful-broom

Theme: Modern || Tropes: 1. Coffee Shop AU, 2. Mythical Creature, 3. A Dichotomy, 4. One character gives the other a gift

Since her brother's disappearance, Emori has dedicated her life to tracking down children taken by the Fae. But one day, she realizes that she might be leading the Fae directly to the barista who--though he brews a mean cup of coffee--is less than capable of defense against kindly neighbors.

dreams are just what you make them (Rated T) [Jasper/Maya] by @justbecauseyoubelievesomething

Theme: Horror || Tropes: 1. Ark AU, 2. Childhood friends to lovers, 3. One character is asleep and the other is just watching them totally in love, 4. Based on a song - Who’s With Us by Current Swell

He’s been friends with Maya for almost as long as he was friends with Monty. They grew up playing the kinds of make believe games that Ark kids needed to survive a reality of darkness and cold, grey walls. And when they got older, and Jasper’s reality started to blur and buckle, Maya was still there. Always patient. Always kind. His other friends meant well, but even Monty had other distractions in his life. Maya would drop everything and help him through an episode. It was just who she was.

Thanks for playing (Rated M) [Lexa & Luna] by @dylanobrienisbatman

Theme: Post Apocalyptic || Tropes: 1. Fairy Tale AU, 2. Road Trip, 3. Characters reuniting with someone they thought was dead, and 4. Characters hugging each other after one or both of them have been through hell

Six years ago, the world ended. A violent, deadly viral plague decimated the world, with no way to stop it. Society had crumbled, and the new world order was one of chaos and fear.

Lexa and Luna are sent out on a mission, but everything is not as it seems. Will they succeed, or will the chaos claim them?

it is new moon and twilight (Rated T) [Bellamy/Raven] by @kinetic-elaboration

Theme: Angst || Tropes: 1. Exes, 2. reunion, 3. character a catches character b crying, and 4. surprise kiss

Long separation means little, once he’s walked through the door. Two years gone, slightly more, since they saw each other in person; still they fall easily into old, soft habits again. He knows himself well with her. Only Murphy’s absence remains a jagged pit between them, a pain that spikes sometimes as a physical hurt, other times as a foggy confusion, the sense of something not quite seen out of the corner of his eye.

Bellamy, Murphy, and Raven were best friends once. Then boundaries started to blur.

Now, three months after Murphy’s death, Bellamy comes to visit Raven, his widow, at her home in the mountains on the precipice of spring.

Sail Away With Someone’s Daughter (Rated T) [Clarke/Murphy] by @kinetic-elaboration

Theme: Young Adult || Tropes: 1. Based on a song, 2. Band AU, 3. Friends with Benefits, and 4. Hiding in an enclosed space

If Abby Griffin knew that this arrangement was her daughter’s idea, she’d have a heart attack.

Which is fine, as far as Murphy is concerned.

Oh Sister My Sister (Rated T) [Bellamy & Octavia] by @teeandsnowflakes

Theme: Comedy || Tropes: 1. One is Law Enforcement, the Other is a Criminal/Suspect, 2. A terribly loud crash and one character yelling 'I'm OK", 3. Characters are not together but are mistaken for a couple, and 4. Trapped in or hiding in an enclosed space!

After years of estrangement, Octavia waltzes back into Bellamy’s life and helps him take down one of the biggest drug rings in New York, all while making all his friends think they’re in a relationship. Lovely.

our words are not yet written (Rated T) [Bellamy/Clarke] by @she-who-the-river-could-not-hold

Theme: Dystopia || Tropes: 1. Bed Sharing, 2. Hurt/Comfort, 3. Interrupted Kiss, and 4. Road Trip AU

After the rise of religious zealot, Chancellor Russell Lightbourne, life changes for the worst. The hinges of society begin to collapse and as riots fill the streets, it’s impossible to stay neutral. Bellamy Blake is more than willing to throw himself into the thick of it, but when his sister disappears he has no choice but to go after her. With a target on his back though, he also knows that he needs help.

In this new society, if you need to get around undetected, there’s one person you contact: The Princess. Bellamy does just that, putting himself on a road trip across a divided country with an unexpected ally. Clarke Griffin might have a past that would have put them at odds with each other, but now they’re the only hope that they each have to get through this together.

and then the earth spun (Rated M) [Octavia/Lincoln] by @thelittlefanpire

Theme: Holiday || Tropes: 1. Post-Apocalyptic AU, 2. Magic AU, 3. Zombie AU, and 4. Trapped in or hiding in an enclosed space

Octavia Blake thought the end of her world started when the earth went dark, but it really didn’t begin again until the zombies walked in.

It would almost be poetic, if it wasn’t so damn sad. (Rated T) [Raven/Wells] by @dylanobrienisbatman

Theme: Dystopia || Tropes: 1. Hunger Games AU, 2. Enemies to Friends to Lovers, 3. Butterflies, and 4. First Kiss

When Raven was chosen as tribute for District Three, she hadn’t expected to find love.

When Raven was chosen as tribute for District Three, she had also planned to win.

integrity, faith, and crocodile tears (trust me, darling) (Rated T) [Clarke/Murphy] by @probably-voldemort

Theme: Post Apocalyptic || Tropes: 1. Zombie AU, 2. Parallel Universe, 3. Character Reuniting With Someone They Thought Was Dead, and 4. Watching Someone Sleep While Being Super In Love With Them

Clarke was never supposed to end up in a different world with a different apocalypse.

Zombies were never supposed to be a thing outside the old movies they’d had on the Ark.

And Murphy was never supposed to be looking at her like that.

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