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respectthepetty · 1 year

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Hey :)

You are absolutly right about King being a walking green flag!

Can I ask you if you remember any other green flag - guys in bl? I tried to think about it but I almost only came up with Tinn and maaaybe Pat

Thank youu! :)

Anon, as I was compiling this list, I realized that most Green Flags are Blue Boys. Lesson to be learned here is get you a Blue Boy. I also noticed that BLs are doing a much better job of presenting non-toxic personalities when it comes to our queer boys, so there are A LOT of Green Flags roaming these global BL streets.

Since you already mentioned two of Greenest Flags, King and Tinn, I excluded them. I'm also not including the heteros like Takara-kun to Amagi-kun's best wingman Katori, To My Star's best CEO Kim Pil Hyun, To Sir With Love's best brother Yang, or Light on Me's bestest best friend Namgoong.

Honestly, I think this list is less about Green Flags and more about me appreciating my Best Boys:

Confident Green Flags

Chopper - Never Let Me Go

My Lamb Chop could do no wrong. For the first half of the series, I didn't even believe he could be so good, but he proved until the VERY END by not killing his dad that he was a good guy through and through.

Wat - The Eclipse

His friend group was doing the MOST every damn day, yet he stood by them and their boyfriends. He pushed them to examine their true feelings, was the easiest going of the cult prefects, and even gave his friends an alibi at the end when all hell broke loose. *He's with Namo in the upcoming book

Jin Xun An - My Tooth Your Love

He knows a good therapist. He knows boundaries. He knows what he likes. He knows he ain't got time for this bullshit. He knows things.

Korn - Cupid's Last Wish

This man deserves a damn medal for putting up with Win's bullshit. Oh, and then Win's MOTHER was the reason for their separation, yet Korn didn't want to divide Win's family, so he kept it a secret. People forget just how effed up Win's mom was. Korn not only had to deal with all of that, but when Win got his period, Korn did not hesitate to buy every single pad and tampon in the store, secured chocolate, and used a warm water bottle to help with Win's cramps WHILE HE HELD HIM IN BED. He is the best BL dad yet has no kids.

Cake - My Only 12%

This man was NOT a green flag until he figured out how he truly felt about Eiw, then he was a green flags parade. He told Eiw that if Eiw was gay, then he was gayer. He wanted to be out in the open to everyone immediately. He supported Eiw through his loss and constantly assured Eiw he wasn't going anywhere.

King - Hit Bite Love

Much like his fellow green flag, Wat, King's friend group had no chill. They even tried to murder someone, but our babyboy was giving nothing but hugs and love. He supported his friend when he came out, his mom taught him to practice safe sex, and he was willing to cover up for the murder. Oh, and he has a resume for love like another Best Boy, but not a confident Green Flag, Cherry Magic's Kurosawa.

Togawa - Old Fashion Cupcake

I was on the fence about him because he kissed Nozue on the cheek while he was asleep, but my hamster was just bursting with love for his longtime crush. Even when he was pouting with his bitter chocolate ass self, he was still trying to help Nozue, and that's what makes him a green flag. Even in his pain, he tried to help instead of harm.

Pluem - Ghost Host, Ghost House

Copy and repeat - Even in his pain, he tried to help instead of harm. He had reasons for being upset at Kevin's family and the way his life had turned out, but he took that anger, sat in it, then released it. He made his man food often. He also knows how to have sex of the homosexual variety, and was quick to let Kevin know. He is what Eat, Pray, Love wished it had been.

Mork - My Ride

He loves his gay uncles. He loves his gay boyfriend. He loves his nephew. He loves the food his uncles and boyfriend make him. He loves his life. Even when Mork had every right to be angry at life, he was never pressed. Instead, he took his guy to a local fair and was willing to take a bullet for him. What a guy!

Tangmo - Great Men Academy

I'm not getting into the mud about Great Men Academy's plot and if it's a BL therefore if Tangmo is a BL green flag because HE IS. Period. Baby was a prankster from the start, but once he saw how it affected Love, he gladly volunteered to be his mentor, was a good friend to Vier, took the competition seriously, but not to a toxic level like some..VIER...and told Love that he liked Love regardless of Love's gender. Period.

Thun - He's Coming to Me

If Korn is the best BL dad, then Thun is the best BL baby. He spent his entire life making friends with ghosts and helped solve one's death. He gave this ghost the life he didn't have a chance to live, and when his entire life was turned upside down, he still did the right thing. He also brought his (ghost) boyfriend to meet his mom, which 80% of the alive boyfriends don't even get in these BLs. Damn! He got his man in life AND the afterlife.

Mico - Hello Stranger

Mico isn't a green flag; he's a walking pride flag.

Homie was simply trying to pass his class in a pandemic and ended up getting stuck with the rude lazy jock. He was doing the Lord's work with Xavier all while trying to get both of them to pass the final presentation. Yet he was never mean to Xavier. He spoke to everyone with kindness, openly cried, and kept the heart light and plushie in the background of every Zoom call with NO SHAME!

Kim Jong Chan x Woo Seung Hyun - The New Employee

LOOK AT THEM! No words. Just feels. Lots of gay feels.

Amber x Pu Le Chien - DNA Says Love You

Like most Taiwanese pairs involving younger folks, they go well together with minimal toxic traits (see also About Youth), but what makes these two green flags was the understanding that went into their relationship. They both accepted not only who each other had become, but who they had always been, mostly to each other.

Ai & Nhai - Ai Long Nhai

Before you say "WTF?!" let me state that they are green flags FOR EACH OTHER and literally no one else. Nhai is a brat, but Ai needed that. Ai's mom is ridiculous, and we've seen many BL boyfriends run away after meeting such an opponent, but Nhai truly said "I'm not dumping your son, but I am gonna bully you, bitch!" and they lived happily ever after. I need more brats being green flags for the men who love them because someone has to tell the waiter the food ain't right and the parents to fuck off!

Bas - I Told Sunset About You

He deserved better!

I'm gonna leave it at that.

#I'll never be over Bas #Confident Green Flags #Thai BLs #Taiwanese BLs #Japanese BLs #Filipino BLs #Korean BLs #But really‚ Teh vs Bas?#I'm picking Bas each time!#He was green flags ALL OVER THE PLACE!#Bas was never toxic!#This is why I won't rewatch that show #Oh and it hurts me personally

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allfryam · 10 months

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Spider-fat part 3

Peter was doing great. He had finally stopped eating as much as he was and he hadn’t been to McDonald’s in a few weeks. He was even losing a little bit of weight. This also meant that Peter wasn’t talking to Kevin. Peter decided to go to Kevin’s house and let him know what happened.

Peter showed up to see Kevin on the couch. Kevin was looking very angry. “WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN” Kevin cried. Peter explained that he was just trying to lose some weight and all of the food that Kevin was giving him wasn’t helping. Peter sat down on the couch and Kevin got him a drink. As the cold drink slid down peters throat, he felt strange. Almost sleepy. “What did you…” Kevin smiled as Peter dozed off.

Peter awoke in a dark room. He was tied to a chair and his shirt and pants had been removed. He was wearing his Spider-Man suit. Kevin appeared in front of him. He explained that he knew Peter was Spider-Man from the moment he saw him. He explained that he was also Spider-Man. Kevin was jealous of Peter and he wanted to be the only Spider-Man. The only way to get rid of Peter was to make him so fat that he couldn’t even get off the couch. Kevin revealed a large table full of fast food, gainer shakes, pizzas, and desserts. He shoved a couple appetite enhancers down peters throat and Peter began to feel starving.

Kevin wasted no time in shoving the fattening food down peters throat. Burger after burger, fries after fries, cake after cake. The food kept coming. Peter felt his suit begin to stretch and become extremely tight. Kevin shoved a tube into peters mouth and began funneling the gainer shakes into Peters expanding gut. But even after all of the food peter had consumed, he wasn’t full. He was actually still hungry. Kevin continued to stuff 4 pizzas, 7 loaves of bread, a gallon of milk, and more. Peters suit was beginning to stretch beyond its limits. But Kevin just kept shoveling greasy food into the bottomless pit that was peters growing stomach. Kevin shoved an entire foot-long sub into peters mouth and as he swallowed there was a loud rip. The front of Peters suit had ripped and his massive gut surged forward. Peter let out a sigh of relief and a massive burp.

a few months later kevin had come home after a long day of saving the city. He walked into his room to find Peter laying on his bed. Peter had grown to the size of a hippo. His rolls of fat nearly took up the entire king size bed. He laid there naked with his massive gut covering his dick. His moobs had grown larger than his head and covered his entire chest. He had grown enough fat around his neck that he no longer had one. Kevin had connected a feeding tube to a massive tank of gainer shake. Whenever Peter was hungry, he could just suck on the tube. Peter could no longer move his arms and legs. He just laid there. Eating. Growing. Expanding. Kevin loved it. And to his surprise, Peter did too.

#chubby #fat #fat belly #fatty #fatty piggy #gaining fat #wg #immobile #spiderman #across the spiderverse #fat gut #getting bigger #gaining weight #gaining #overweight #fatboy #growing #obesity

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capcavan · 2 months

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im putting this on anon even though i literally just commented this too bc i think anon is fun. bro i do not trust this fandom with canon jerejean after they fanon decided that man is gay like jean was down SO ASTRONOMICALLY BAD for renee it was CRAZY. thoughts on jean?

Nah I get you

I can talk shit about this fandom at length but let me focus on the boy

I adored jean's introduction I fucking loved that he was this threatening presence . Riko but taler and even more mysterious I was so fucking in love

Then we found out that Jean was Kevin's friend

That Jean would help Neil

My heart was so ready

And then riko beat him up and Renee took him out and this felt a bit too happy to easy and too convenient

And then I read extra content about how all those injuries just like Kevin's minced wrist are just flesh wound and he will play to live another day

And again .. much too perfect ?

Make him unable to walk make him carry marks of abuse that go deeper than scars on skin

For how focused aftg is physical pain it sure as hell keeps pulling back and leaving them with only mental disabilities

And then I read fan content

And more of authors ideas

And it's just too perfect

I don't read Jean as someone who likes or cares for Neil I see Jean as someone hekpus resentful and angry someone who is lashing out and bites and wants to cause pain to others because he is jealous they did not had to suffer as much as he did.

Again

I know that it's pretty much confirmed now that they would be friends so whatever I'm the delusional one

But if you adore Jean then you won't adore what i say about him because I take big pleasure in making him into selfish asshole. Because I think after all the shit he been through he has every right to it while at the same time being too suicidal to care about the fact that he pushes people away.

I think Jean who arrived to nest was already spoiled and broken boy of a rich family who never gave a fuck about him feeling like king on his street and the crash that was meeting riko broke all of his ribs. Jean had annoying temper and refused to believe that his life isn't his anymore that's why tetusuji decided to not waste time on him and had riko put him in place . I think tetusuji expected Jean to be wasted effort than sooner or later will be sold as organ donor because his attitude would be disturbence in delicate balance of nest.

I think jeans healing should be him getting this attitude back or at least want to have it back but realise he is too scared to be himself ever again

This child was burried the night his parents fell in debt to moriyamas

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twistedtummies2 · 4 months

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Year of the Bat - Number 21

Welcome to Year of the Bat! In honor of Kevin Conroy, Arleen Sorkin, and Richard Moll, I’m counting down my Top 31 Favorite Episodes of “Batman: The Animated Series” throughout this January. TODAY’S EPISODE QUOTE: “I’m a civic-minded citizen, with a lot of time on his hands!” Number 21 is…The Clock King.

Some of the best supervillains in “Batman: The Animated Series” weren’t necessarily characters who appeared time and time again. Sometimes they only showed up a couple of times, and that was honestly enough. The Clock King, titular antagonist of this episode, is a great example. The character was actually invented as part of another superhero’s Rogues Gallery – namely Green Arrow – but ever since the version played by Walter Slezak in the 60s series, at least, he’s often been confused for a Batman rogue, as well. This episode updated the character in a way that many agree is superior to the original found in the comics, and has been influential in later portrayals to this date. The story begins with a man named Temple Fugate, a businessman whose company is under serious trouble with a multi-million dollar lawsuit against him. If he loses the court hearing, it will mean his financial ruin. Hamilton Hill, an acquaintance on Fugate’s regular railway commute, suggests that Fugate should relax before the hearing, and recommends taking his usual coffee break at a different time. Fugate decides to take the advice…and a domino effect of accidents leads to not only the destruction of his company, but the end of any shred of sanity the man has left in his head. Years later, in present day Gotham, Hill is now the Mayor of the City, and is running for a re-election. Fugate appears as the self-proclaimed “Clock King,” a villain hell-bent on humiliating and then destroying the Mayor, whom he blames for all his woes. Batman must find a way to stop Fugate, as the Clock King’s crimes grow increasingly more brazen and dangerous. What I love about the Clock King is the way the motif of time is used in the story. The original villain in earlier interpretations was a very gimmicky character; I’ve always enjoyed the character, but I think it was primarily due to this version and the one in the 60s series that I really fell in love with the concept. Clock King, in this series, isn’t so much a guy who uses clocks as a gimmick, but is instead a living clock himself. He’s the world’s most nightmarish case of OCD, who has to make sure everything is neat, tidy, punctual, and efficient at all times. Why is this a threat? Because he knows when a train will be passing by X spot at Y time, and knows how to get down off a building and onto it without breaking a sweat. Because he knows the exact spot to stand, and when to stand there, in order to avoid being crushed by falling rubble. Because he knows exactly when to dodge a punch, when to retaliate with an attack of his own; his mind is a computer that can calculate every single action and motion down to a fraction of a second. As the series so often did, in other words, it took a character who had before seemed like something of a joke, and made him into a compelling and dangerous opponent. Alan Rachins, the voice actor for the Clock King, is also a big part of the character’s staying power. He’s just so wonderfully snide, for lack of a better way of putting it; while you do feel a bit sorry for Fugate due to his opening origins, he’s also just a wonderfully smug and smarmy sort of character. You kind of want to punch him in the face, but in the best possible way, and it never takes away from his menace as a character. The design is also really great; very simple, but very striking, with the watch-face glasses and the cane that resembles a minute hand. It’s easy to see why this version of the character caught on, both in and out of comics: sometimes just knowing the right time for everything can almost be a superpower in and of itself.

Tomorrow we move into the Top 20 of the countdown! Hint: “Why couldn’t you just let me make-believe?!”

#list #countdown #best #favorites #new year's special #year of the bat #top 31 btas episodes #btas #batman: the animated series #dcau #dc #batman #animation #tv #number 21 #clock king #temple fugate

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deadliestpieceontheboard · 2 years

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What happens when you read The Raven King for the Nth time

My mission this reread was to read throughoutly instead of devouring the whole trilogy in a day and I spotted some fun stuff!

[TFC] [TKM]

Does "smoky gray gaze" means Allison has gray eyes or is it some metaphorical way to say her eyes were clouded?

Wymack never straight up tells Andrew what to do (about serious stuff) and knows to ask him instead. that's why he does as he says, bcs he has the option to.

Neil walks around with a watch and if he weren't so cheap I'd say it's one of those bulky multitask sporty ones

They say a few times that "Andrew is the only one who didn't bet in x" and Kevin lost a bet to Nicky which tells me Kevin Day is very likely participating in multiple of the foxes betting pools

Neil talking about passport stuff and "technology changing fast" and all I can think about is that he and Mary must have hated all the extra security after 9/11

All the reasoning Nicky uses in the clothing store for Neil being gay also applies to Andrew. how didn't he ever notice? Did he just think Andrew was souless and frigid?

Andrew really enjoys sitting cross-legged anywhere he can. It must've been mentioned at least 3 times.

The fact that Andrew can just skip his dose at night to "wind down" makes no sense to me like. He doesn't go through withdrawal just because he'll be sleeping soon?

Neil: obsessively researches Kevin and Riko. Also Neil: only recognizes Jean for the 3 on his face

The Ravens walk in a V and then make a bully circle in the middle of the court and the other teams are just. hanging around i guess?

"Kathy gave me your glass as a souvenir. All it took was a smile and a kiss. It seems she is growing up to be quite a cougar." I... had always interpreted this as Riko filling her with pleasantries and a kiss on the cheek but... was it a KISS kiss??? Like? For real?

Katelyn introduces herself to Neil AFTER the fall banquet which tells me this gremlin just followed Andrew's lead and ignored the girl for hours lol

Tilda was neglectful to Aaron since the beginning, but only started to hit him when they found out about Andrew (13)

"I don't know why the hell Andrew's foster family told him [that both twins were given to adoption but Tilda only came back for one]" I bet it was Drake

Kevin never smiles, but he does to Neil when they score on the Ravens

Neil can identify a cop by the way he walks. ACAB king

Players have to stick to school colors on their racquets but can pick different designs. How much do you want to bet that Riko and Kevin had personalized ones?

I had forgotten that it wasn't just Wymack witnessing Neil shove Andrew's hand under his shirt. Kevin, Bee and two lawyers are also there.

They make a nest to sleep together after Baltimore, but it wasn't the first time: after Drake they sleep on the girl's dorm together too (minus Aaron and Allison)

Tetsuji has an actual house. Out of the Nest.

He also doesn't walk around with his cane in public.

"He was less ready to see the "4" tatooed on his left cheekbone." I'll take the quotation marks as a confirmation the tattoos are in arabic numerals and not roman.

#didn't get anything too surprising on this one #ig because tfc is the one i usually pay the least attention to?#aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #tfc #aftg reread #the raven king

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nikkeisimmer · 5 months

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54 Years of Pain (Part 1)

Yeah, there's good parts of this long trek with the Vancouver Canucks

...however...

Most of that trek has been filled with viewings of inconsistency and lack of motivation from the players that have come through here. Certainly there were bright spots - the Canucks had three of them, the 1982 Run (when I was 11 turning 12), 1994 Run (23 turning 24); and the 2011 Run (40 turning 41). Of course the fact that both the 1994 and 2011 runs were punctuated by riots was not a highlight, in fact, it was an absolute embarrassment not only to the City of Vancouver but to its fanbase.

Now as a 53 year old male (turning 54 in another year) this is definitely not a player-simp blog (Oh, god, here I am using millennial speak) - but hey most of the people writing on Tumblr are millennials. There's very few of us Gen X'rs or Boomers writing on social media - they either mostly stick to Facebook - which has become unpopular as a result. I'm one of probably very few Gen X'rs who actually take the time to have a Tumblr blog.

So what I'm going to do here is give you a synopsis of my experience with the Vancouver Canucks as a long-time fan and let you appreciate some of my memories of being a long-standing fan of this franchise. Yes, I'm freakin' old.

The Big Irishman - good ol' Pat Quinn #3 playing versus the LA Kings.

So my journey with the Canucks (equal in age) has been from the time of my birth, where I was living in what would in 1978 become the heart of the enemy (when the Edmonton Oilers came to town). Back when I was born and for the first seven years, Edmonton did not have an NHL hockey team. So my search took me to the West Coast or Vancouver where the Canucks had been granted an NHL franchise. Of course for the first two years of my life, I was blissfully unaware of NHL hockey, since I was in diapers. But eventually, I would stumble across hockey and sit enthralled in front of a TV that my dad had bought. During the course of the news in which snippets of the war in Viet Nam (the dying years of the war leading up to the withdrawal of US forces from Saigon).

Orland Kurtenbach was our first captain of the Vancouver Canucks.

and here he was with our former Captain Bo Horvat which we traded to the New York Islanders. He's standing to the right and I'm glad after 54 years, he's still with us.

In '76, I moved from what would two years later be Oiler...hell... to Maple Ridge in British Columbia, smack dab in the heart of Canucks territory. And well...I was school-age (6 years old and in grade one). My former classmates at St. Timothy Elementary School are probably die-hard Edmonton Oilers fans. Sorry, classmates... I hate the Oilers. Canucks fan through and through.

Good ol' Harold Snepts was one of the members of the Vancouver Canucks when I moved to Canuck fandom territory in 76. and yeah, he didn't have that famous brush mustache of his that he would later sport in years since.

Harold was clean-shaven. And one of our toughest defenseman. He could sure throw that body around. We miss guys like that and hope that we got someone like that in our newest d-man Nikita Zadorov.

Harold as we would later know him. The big mustache.

Harold now, in Canucks in Cars with our now current captain Quinn Hughes. Still got the mustache but it's sprinkled with grey.

Our goalie was Cesare Maniago.

Our top goal scorer was a guy named Rick Blight.

And man did I love those away uniforms (the old stick in rink). And yes. nowadays, the dark colored jerseys are the home jerseys, but back in those days, they were the away jerseys. I'm glad they made the switch.

One of the other guys who hit the 20+ goal mark was Don Lever who became captain in 1977 taking over from Chris Oddleifsson who only held the position for an year in '76-77 and Andre Boudrias who held it during 75-76.

Kevin McCarthy would take over from him in 79-80.

But Don would be captain during the change over from the stick-in-rink to the Hallowe'en V's. God, they were goddawful.

But they still hold a special place in my heart, just for the jersey's sheer ugliness.

The were absolutely goddawful.

Tony Tanti, one of our Vancouver favourites would wear this jersey in 1980.

He would be one of those long-time Canucks from 1980 all the way to 1989 when he was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The Canucks first bright spot in this long, painful growth process was the Cinderella year of 1982. Back then the play-off format was a best of five, not the familiar best of 7 that we now have.

Vancouver swept Calgary in 3 games, then went onto play the LA Kings which they beat 4 games to 1. In the Campbell Conference finals they would meet the Chicago Blackhawks which were headlined by Denis Savard, Daryl Sutter, and Tony Esposito - so Chicago was a powerhouse back then. Yet, the Canucks seemingly on a roll steamrolled the Blackhawks 4-1. The wheels came off the wagon when they came up against the New York Islanders and Mike Bossy. The Canucks were swept in four and the New York Islanders one their second of 4 straight Stanley Cups. It was a heart-breaking loss for the Canucks as well as this fan who had hoped that the Canucks would at least give the New York Islanders some push-back.

It would be a long 12 years before the Canucks got a look at the Stanley Cup again.

The 1982 Stanley Cup Finals would be the swan-song for Canucks Captain Kevin McCarthy which would be watched from the pressbox as McCarthy broke his ankle late in the season and would relinquish his captaincy to Stan Smyl who would captain the team to the Cup finals.

McCarthy would later be dealt to the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Stan Smyl would be the first to have his jersey retired as he became one of the longest running captains of the Vancouver Canucks.

Steamer as he was affectionately known would go on to wear most of the jersey changes that happened during the 80s the way up to his retirement.

The next captain of the Canucks, Trevor Linden who was drafted in 1988 at number 2 and became the captain in 1990 (the youngest Canucks Captain to ever receive the captaincy) also wore the jersey with the V on the shoulders.

He also wore the orange spaghetti plate (downwards skate)

When he became captain the jerseys changed to yellow, red and white or yellow, red and black.

In 1989 they would draft in the sixth round a young Russian phenom named Pavel Bure. But their first round draft pick Jason Herter ended up only playing 1 game in the NHL after he was traded to the New York Islanders and became a career IHL'r

Evidently the draft pick was a complete bust. But at least he had a career in the minors and later a career coaching at Western Michigan.

The yellow/red/black/white were the jerseys that they wore during the 1994 Stanley Cup run. Again they would fall short after beating Calgary who had beaten them the year before being forced into a 7 game series which they won 4 games to 3, going into the Conference semifinals exhausted where they would meet up with the Dallas Stars which they would beat 4-1. In this there was a nasty altercation between Pavel Bure and Shane Churla where the former viciously elbowed Churla after Churla dogged him all throughout the series tying him up and ragdolling him. Finally Bure got sick and tired of it and cold-cocked him knocking Churla unconscious.

Vancouver was on a roll and they went on to steamroll Toronto 4-1 as well. Greg Adams would score the winning goal in Game 5 and the stage was set for the Stanley Cup finals where they would meet the Messier-led Rangers.

(to be continued in Part 2)

#Vancouver Canucks #Canucks #Canucks fan #54 years of waiting #non-sims #Nuckleheads

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duhragonball · 1 year

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Dragon Ball GT 45

✨GT Stands for Generating Trichomania✨

✨Positivity Page✨

This Super 17 Saga sucks, so I’ve decided to give myself a side-challenge of giffing every single time he sweeps back his long, silky hair, like Kevin Nash used to do. This episode has two such hair-sweeps, so I almost missed one. But I got them both, plus the one from Episode 44, so we’re all caught up. Don’t worry, I’ll be making a gallery post soon.

Also, we see the oni who run Hell taking Cell and Frieza away in a cage. Wait, they’re already in Hell, so where are they taking them to? Mostly, I like this shot because I’m pretty sure this is the last time my favorite character (Cell) will appear in this shitty, shitty show. Also, I like how Frieza is shoulder-to-shoulder with Cell, so there’s no way his feet can touch the floor. Cell’s basically wearing him like a backpack.

All right, let’s get down to business. Piccolo died in Episode 40, and Goku got trapped in Hell in Episode 42, and then Piccolo tricked King Yama into sending him to Hell in Episode 44, all so he could carry out some idea to get Goku back to Earth. Ideas? I know just the place to talk about this!

✨”Good” “Ideas”, Poorly Executed✨

Okay, so this is the stupidest shit...

So this all started when Dr. Gero and Dr. Mu teamed up to build an exact duplicate of Android 17, and then they somehow linked the minds of both 17′s and used them to send energy at each other, which somehow opened up a rift between Hell and Earth. It makes no sense because they literally refused to explain any of it. One minute the doctors were shaking hands, and then the title card, and then they show them toasting their newly created Hell portal.

Somehow, Piccolo knows exactly how they did this, even though he wasn’t there. He was in Heaven the whole time, which sounds about as far removed from Hell as you can get. Like, people write poetry about how far apart these two things are from each other. Meanwhile, King Kai and King Yemma, who are literal gods responsible for keeping an eye on this sort of thing, they had no idea how the portal opened in the first place, but Piccolo has the whole thing scouted.

Piccolo’s plan, then, is to just do what the 17′s did in Episode 41, so he telepathically contacts Dende to assist him from the other side. They send “concentration” at each other, and this is supposed to re-open the portal. But they have to time it just right, and that seems to be the only real problem they have with it.

So Goku suggests they use the same chant that he and Pan used to defeat Luud back in Episode 14. Piccolo is furious about having to use such a stupid chant, but it works. I’m more furious that they flat-out admitted that this whole portal-to-Hell business was swiped from an earlier episode, and one of the shittiest episodes, at that.

Also annoying: Just like Episode 14, it takes for-flippin’-ever to get the portal open, because they keep trying and trying and trying until finally Goku suggests the thing that works. Above all else, GT’s primary mission is to waste time.

Goku wants Piccolo to come with him, but Piccolo can’t move, or the portal will collapse. This means Piccolo will be trapped in Hell forever, but he says he knew what he was getting into when he came up with this plan. Goku thanks him, and dives through the portal. As Piccolo watches it close, the bad guys start to return, and Piccolo decides he can spend his time whoopin’ all the bad guys’ asses.

Okay, three things that make me livid about this.

1) Piccolo is now not only dead, but he’s stuck in hell? This is bullshit.

2) Piccolo clobbering dead villains sounds a lot more appealing than whatever Goku does next to round out this series. If they took it seriously, GT Piccolo vs. GT Cell could actually be a cool fight, so let’s just see that instead.

3) NONE OF THIS WAS NECESSARY! GOKU COULD HAVE TURNED SUPER SAIYAN 4 AND TELEPORTED OUT OF HELL WHENEVER HE WANTED!

Oh, also, when the re-killed villains return to Hell, they go through the same process as the first time they died, so King Yemma has to stamp new papers to send them back to Hell. I bring this up because when Piccolo asked to be sent to Hell to help Goku, Yemma refused, saying that once he stamps your paper you can’t change your afterlife assignment, no matter what.

My point here is that it sounds like if Piccolo had jumped through the portal and returned to Earth, he could have gone through the line again and gotten a new paper stamped, allowing him to return to heaven. But none of this matters, because Goku can teleport anywhere he wants. He should have just used Instant Transmission to meet Piccolo in Heaven, and they could have done Piccolo’s portal thingy there instead. Or Goku could have just teleported directly to Earth, because HE ALWAYS HAD THAT OPTION!

Oh, and why do the dead people in GT lose their halos when they’re in hell? They get to have halos everywhere else, but in DBZ, every dead person had a halo, no matter where they were. What’s the deal? Did they forget about this? Did they change it for some reason?

Sigh....

Let’s move on.

✨Is this episode worse than “The Roaming Lake”?✨

Yes, it is. GT has lost forty-six straight matches with the worst Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z episode ever made. That’s 45 episodes of GT, and the TV Special, by the way.

So, when I came up with this idea, my thought was that a lot of GT would fail to clear this bar, but once I got to the episodes with some fighting, things would improve. I just assumed that an action-heavy episode of GT could overcome all the shitty writing and annoying side-characters.

But so far, that hasn’t panned out, and I think this Super 17 fight provides a good illustration of the problem. Let me pick out two examples.

First, we have this shot of 17 landing a heavy punch on Trunks’ abdomen.

Now, the still image doesn’t look too bad. We’ve even got the thing where it looks like 17′s arm is pushing all the way through Trunks’ body, a classic trope from the glory days of DBZ. Hell, it wouldn’t surprise me if they used this because it was a callback to the 17 vs. Piccolo fight in Z.

Well, here’s the gif version of this shot.

It just doesn’t work at all. The whole point of those “my arm went through your tummy” spots is that they’re very fast. So fast that by the time you realize that it doesn’t make any sense, the action has already shifted to something else. And that’s sort of what happens here. The next cut is a closeup on Trunks coughing up spittle as he reacts to the blow, and then 17 rises up behind him. That part’s kind of in slow motion, and then it cuts to a wide shot of 17 following up with a kick. I think that’s in slow motion too.

I say “think”, because this whole sequence is very slow, and some parts of the sequence are probably supposed to be slowed down for dramatic effect, but I’m positive that this tummy punch wasn’t supposed to be one of them. I’m not an animation expert or anything. I’m just a guy who watches a lot of Dragon Ball Z.

The point I’m getting at here is that this fight sucks. The story is that 17 is too strong and too fast, and Trunks can’t even touch him. 17′s punches are so hard and quick that there’s just nothing Trunks can do. That’s the script, but the animation tells a completely different story, one where 17′s punch isn’t hard or quick. It looks like he’s gently pressing his arm into Trunks, and Trunks is holding perfectly still as 17′s arm passes through him. Also, the “camera” shakes around.

There’s just no impact to any of this. It’s so plodding and slow, and when the characters hit each other, there’s no flashes or other effects to make it feel more authentic. And this happens all the time in GT. There’s a handful of episodes where the animators seem to be on their game, but those episodes are always dragged down by the shitty storytelling. But most of the time, the show is like this, where all the fighters look like they’re moving underwater.

Okay, next example: Uub tries to jump back into this thing, and 17 removes his left forearm and reveals a machine gun. It’s kind of like Dr. Cochin shooting Krillin in DBZ Movie 2.

Except Uub doesn’t dodge the bullets. He just lays there and covers up his head.

Super 17 shoots him for a while, and then Uub sort of lays there like “Ohhh, those bullets hurt me so much, you guys! Now I can’t do anything!” He’s not dead or anything, he’s just worn out.

And this is the big problem with every fight in this series. The idea here is to show off all the characters’ powers, and demonstrate which ones are stronger than the others. In this case Super 17 is outclassing everyone. The others are no match for him, even when they work together. And yet, scenes like this completely muddy the waters. Who is strong in this scene? Who is weak?

I mean, 17 seems strong because he shut down Uub so easily, but think about it. If he’s that much stronger than Uub, why didn’t his bullets kill him? And if the bullets can’t kill Uub, why is he using them? Why doesn’t he just run over and cut his head off or something?

You could argue that this is being done to show how strong Uub is, but I don’t buy it. If he’s strong enough that the bullets can’t hurt him, then why is he just lying there, letting them hit him? Shouldn’t he at least roll out of the way, and try to find some cover?

I want to stress here that this has nothing to do with power scaling. I’m not bringing this up to talk about whether DBZ characters are bulletproof, or make up some fanlore about how Dr. Mu made special Machine Mutant ammo for 17′s gun arms. That’s irrelevant. All that matters is that 17 is supposed to be dominating this battle, and yet we see him using attacks that don’t actually hurt anyone, at all. He hit Trunks and Uub with TWO Flash Bombers before this. I think Flash Bomber is Super 17′s finisher, but they took two of those last episode, and they’re still putting up a fight in this one. And Super 17′s like “Let me finish the job with a really slow punch and some non-lethal bullets!”

Then Vegeta tries to rally, and from here on, it’s basically Vegeta vs. Super 17, which would make sense except 17 already beat him down in the last episode. Somehow Vegeta lasts longer this time, even though he’s still using his Super Saiyan form, which did him no good earlier.

So while that’s going on, Pan gets fed up and takes matters into her own hands. She sneaks up on Dr. Gero and puts him in a hammerlock AND a choke hold at the same time, then has Giru hold a gun to his head. She threatens to kill him unless he orders Super 17 to stand down, and Gero... agrees? Shouldn’t Gero be a lot stronger than this? No, wait! Shouldn’t he be using the receptacles on his hands to steal Pan’s energy? He could just launch himself into the air, faster than Giru could follow, and drain Pan before she knows what’s happened.

I mean, what was the point of turning himself into an android if he can’t do things like that?

Anyway, he orders 17 to halt his attack on Vegeta, but then 17 aims at Gero instead. Gero is shocked, and then he’s shocked again when Dr. Mu reveals that he reprogrammed 17 to follow Mu’s orders alone. Apparently, every time 17 seemed to obey Gero, Mu was transmitting the same orders to him.

So 17 betrays Gero again, and Mu gloats that there’s no one left to stop him, now that Goku is trapped in hell. That offends Vegeta, who gets up and turns Super Saiyan one more time, insisting that he can win this fight without Goku’s help. Normally, this would be the part where Vegeta gets clobbered for a while, but instead Goku shows up almost immediately, and tackles Vegeta before he can eat another blast from 17. Why? Was this the blast from 17 that was actually going to kill someone?

So Goku’s finally here to take on Super 17. All he has to do is turn Super Saiyan 4 and even the playing field, but no. No, he won’t do that. Instead he turns Super Saiyan 1, and starts fighting 17 that way.

Motherf--!

Vegeta was already doing that this whole time, and it didn’t work! At all! Just turn into a Super Saiyan 4! What the hell is wrong with you, Goku?!

✨The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku*✨

Piccolo’s in hell.

Can it get worse? Ask his new

Roomate: Castiel.

#dragon ball #dragon ball gt #really sucks #2023dbapocryphaliveblog #*haiku does not come with crown as illustrated #goku #piccolo #pan #trunks #dr gero #vegeta #dr mu #android 17 #uub #king yemma #pui pui #frieza #cell #perfect cell

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queen-of-deans-booty · 10 months

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Devil May Care: Part One

Pairing: Dean Winchester x Female!Reader

Word Count: ~2k

Warnings: canon angst and violence

Summary: Castiel is missing after you told him to go to the Bunker after the angels fell. However, that is put on hold when Abaddon calls with two hostages that you now need to save.

Author’s Note: I do not own anything from Supernatural. All credit goes to their respective owners. Any and all comments on these are appreciated.

Instead of heading straight to the Bunker, Dean parked on the side of the road next to some outdoor picnic area. Sam's curious as to what's been happening since the fall, so you've told him everything minus the angel that's locked inside of him.

Dean is laying flat on top of the wooden table, and Joanna is climbing all over him like she's at a jungle gym. Mary's having some trouble crawling, but you're right next to her so she doesn't fall off the table.

"Joanna, be careful."

"Daddy is strong. He can take it," she says casually.

You and Dean laugh at this, and he tickles her side until she is crying with laughter.

"So, Cas is human?" Sam asks.

"Ish," Dean says, holding onto Joanna and sitting up so she is now in his lap. "I mean, he doesn't have any grace, no wings, no harp, and whatever the hell else he had."

"Okay. Where'd he crash-land?"

"He called us from a payphone from Longmont, Colorado. We told him to head to the Bunker."

"You think he can handle a road trip like that?"

"Cas is a big boy. If things go sideways, he has our number. Right now, we have bigger worries."

"Like the fallen angels."

Dean meant about Ezekiel, first, but he doesn't make a move to show his true feelings.

"Right. Thanks to Metatron, we now have a couple of thousand confused loose nukes walking around down here."

"What do you think they're gonna do?"

"We have no damn idea," you sigh.

"What about Crowley? Did you kill him?"

"I would've loved nothing better than to ice that fucking bitch. Then I thought to myself, what would Sam Winchester do?" Dean says bitterly.

"I'd've stabbed him in the brain."

"Well, I figured the King of Hell might know a few things, so why not keep his ass alive for the time being?"

"He's alive?" Sam asks, shocked.

You pick Mary up and follow Dean over to the car, to which Dean unlocks the trunk. Inside is Crowley, handcuffed, gagged, and unable to get out because of the warding. Dean painted a devil's trap underneath the roof to keep him from smoking out.

"Yeah, he's our bitch now," you grin.

"Yeah, bitch," Joanna says.

"Joanna!" you laugh, and Dean covers her mouth immediately. Crowley rolls his eyes at the sass she gives him, and Dean closes and locks the trunk. "We should really watch what we say around her."

By the time you get back to the Bunker, you're disappointed that Castiel isn't here. He either got lost, got captured by the many different angels after him, or found someone else to help. Either way, he's not here. The only person who you left behind in the Bunker is Kevin, and you're not sure what you'll be walking into.

Some of the lights are on, but as soon as you walk in, someone sets off the first trap. An arrow whizzes straight at you, but you use your magic to catch it before it can hit anyone. You look below to see Kevin with an automatic crossbow in his hands. You can't see much from your vantage point, but you can see that he's overturned the library tables to make some sort of barrier to protect him. He also took the books and stacked them all around him so nothing could get him.

"Easy there, Katniss," you say and walk down the metal stairs with Dean.

"Dean? Y/N? You're alive!" Kevin laughs.

"Had that hit me, not for long."

"Sorry, it's been a bad couple of days. I haven't slept or eaten, and I'm pretty backed up."

"Okay, TMI," Dean shakes his head.

"After we talked, this place went nuts, alright? There was some alarm, all the machines were freaking out, and the bunker just locked down! I couldn't open the door, my cell phone stopped working, and I thought the world was ending!"

"Close. The angels fell from Heaven."

"What does that mean?"

"Nothing good," Dean answers, and takes the crossbow from Kevin. "Listen, next time the world's ending, grab a gun." He takes out his cell phone to check if he has service. "I have service."

Kevin flips some switches on the control panel in the war room. All the lights turn on, and the machines whir into action.

"It's back online. Maybe when you opened the door from the outside, it reset the system."

"Yeah, let's go with that. Clean this all up," you say regarding the mess.

Sam enters the Bunker from above with Crowley next to him, and the demon has a bag over his head so he doesn't see where the Bunker is or what's inside. As soon as Kevin sees him, all he sees is red.

"No," Kevin whispers to himself.

Sam and Dean lead Crowley to the dungeon which is perfect for holding a demon while you put the kids to bed. They've been stuck in a car for almost twenty-four hours, so they need to take a much-needed nap. After that, you leave their room and head to the dungeon where Crowley is now chained to a chair in the center of the big devil's trap on the floor. Crowley takes in his surroundings. The side wall is filled with all kinds of torture implements.

"Homey. Where did you get this fantastic little treehouse?"

"Alright, here's how it's gonna go. You're giving us the name of every demon on Earth, and the people they're possessing," Sam demands.

"Am I? That doesn't sound like me."

"I saw you break down, Crowley. When I was trying to cure you, I knew a part of you was human again, and maybe still is."

"Blah blah, boohoo," Crowley rolls his eyes. "Are you done? Good because this is what I know. I'm not giving you anything. Why would I? You have no leverage, darlings. You're not gonna close the gates of Hell because you didn't. You're not gonna kill me because you haven't. So, what's left?"

"We have a few ideas," Dean smirks.

"Torture. Brilliant. Can't wait to see Sam in stilettos and a leather bustier, really putting the S-A-M into S&M. Honestly, boys. What are you gonna do to me that I don't do to myself just for kicks every Friday night?"

"Rot in Hell. See if we care," you say.

You and the brothers turn and leave the dungeon, closing the doors and locking them. Not like he can get out anyway. You turn off the lights and leave Crowley alone to stew in his feelings. When you get back upstairs, Kevin isn't shy to show his anger.

"What's Crowley doing here?! Why isn't he dead?! Why aren't you stabbing him right now?!"

"Calm down, Kevin," you sigh. "We need him."

"What?!"

"If we can get Crowley to give us the name of every demon he's got topside, we can hunt them down. All of them. He will break. When he does, we'll hold him down while you knife him. Then, we all go out for ice cream and strippers," Dean jokes.

"Just stay away from him, alright?"

Kevin sighs knowing he is outnumbered and unable to get past two heavyset Winchesters and a witch.

"Now what?"

"I gotta make some phone calls. You need to hit the Angel tablet and see if you can find anything on the spell that Metatron used to empty out Heaven," Dean says.

"Yeah, maybe we can reverse it before the God Squad does too much damage," Sam says. "I'll check anything relating to angels and demons and anything with monsters."

"It's going to be a long year," you sigh.

The best thing to do is to get on top of this angel thing, and Dean called every hunter he knew to see if they knew more about the angels falling. Some of them had no clue what was going on, some had information that Dean already knew, and others didn't answer. Dean's on the phone with Irv, a hunter your dad used to work with that he'd tell stories about. You've never met him but you know about him.

"Did you say fallen angels?"

"Yeah, they're monsters with good PR," Dean rolls his eyes. "So, if you run into one, torch his ass with holy oil. Oh, and if they drop a silver sword, grab it. Those pigstickers come in handy."

"Copy that."

"Hey, I know this is weird, but--"

"Weird is what we do," Irv cuts him off. "I remember this case me and Bobby worked up in Saskatoon, and it had these two—"

"Werewolf siamese twins," Dean chuckles.

"He told you about that?"

"Every time he drank Labatt's," you say.

"Yeah, so if you run into any problems, give me a call, okay? The more hunters that know, the better."

"Roger-Dodger."

Sam comes in with his laptop in hand just as Dean hangs up on Irv.

"I found something. Nothing angel related but it's demon related."

"They're all the same thing to me. Tell us in the car."

"Kevin!" you shout. You peek your head into the library where Kevin is cleaning up the books he made a mess of. "You're on kid duty. Can you handle that?"

"Fine," he sighs.

"Great. Thank you. Call me if you have any issues."

After packing up your things, you three head out. All that Sam knows is that a bus that held a few army soldiers and some prisoners was abandoned in a parking lot. The only thing left behind was the prisoners, but they were all dead. The entire area has been marked off with yellow tape, and there are multiple police officers and army personnel present. This is either going to go very well or not at all.

As soon as you step out of the Impala, you cough at the strong scent.

"Oh, God. This place reeks of sulfur," you groan.

"Between the stink, the freak thunderstorms, and every dead cow within three miles, I'll take demons for $1000, please," Dean jokes. A sergeant walks up to you three with an unhappy face. She must not like that you're here. "Hey. Agents Stark, Banner, and Maximoff, FBI. We're here to have a look around."

"Why? This is a military case, not a federal one."

"Well, that's not what our supervisor said," Sam sasses her.

"Is that so? Then maybe he and I oughta have a chat," she says with a bittersweet smile.

You're about to use your magic on her, but Dean is already pulling out his phone. There are a bunch of police and military personnel here, and if one of them sees you using magic, then it's game over for you. Dean quickly dials someone without looking at the Sergeant.

"Hey, boss, uh... we have a little problem here."

"Boss?" Kevin says, confused.

"Yeah, just a local badge needs confirmation we're supposed to be here. About how the word came down from FBI headquarters in DC."

"Wait, what?" Kevin stutters.

Dean has no choice but to hand her the phone, and you wait and see if you'll really need your magic or not. The Sergeant doesn't take her eyes off Dean as she puts the phone to her ear.

"This is Sargent Miranda Bates, who am I talking to?"

"Uh, Kevin... Solo."

"How old are you?"

Uh oh. Kevin better be quick on his feet if he is going to get you access to this crime scene without you stepping in.

"Old enough, and I'm with the FBI so you have to do what I say, or—"

"Listen, kid," Miranda cuts him off, "I don't have to do anything, and I don't take orders from the Feds. So, unless you can give me one good reason you got a few pretty-boy agents poking around my crime scene, I'm gonna put them in cuffs and spank your ass raw, understand?"

Shit.

"Cabo, last June."

"What?" her face pales, and you smirk subtly.

"That's my reason. My favorite is you in a sombrero doing a body shot off some naked guy in a Luchador mask. Super classy."

"How did you find that?"

Classic Kevin to go hacking around in her life.

"Because I'm Kevin fucking Solo. So, unless you want this forwarded to your commanding officer, Major Velasquez... I suggest you give my guys anything they want. Understand?"

"Yes."

"Yes, what?"

"Yes, sir," she sighs and hands the phone back to Dean.

She looks around awkwardly before leaving your side.

"Kevin? What the hell did you just do?" Dean asks.

"All military computers are linked to the same network."

Dean gives Sam the okay, and both you and Sam leave his side so he can finish his conversation with Kevin.

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You stand backstage while Stephanie and Shane are in the ring before deciding to stir the pot, hell you might as well at this point. Chyna raises a brow when you call out to her while walking to the curtain "I'm gonna make things spicier, tell the boys to be ready to come to the ring" everyone in the ring turns when your new theme of Alive by Pearl Jam plays throughout the arena as you climb in the ring and stand between the four. Hunter and steph try to keep their composure as you stare holes into them, but you knew they were afraid as they see the new side of you that was full of vengeance and rage by what happened to you and it only grew since you found out the truth behind your injury and near death experience, "You thought you could get rid of me and expect me not to find out the truth?" Test and Edge along with the roster backstage watch you stand nose to nose with the couple. While their grins were for show, your grin was full of malice "Unlike you two, the people on this roster actually like and care about me which is way more than the two of you can say and you don't need to explain why, you nearly killed me" they laugh while making a joke of you being braindead which finally had you snap and black out, shoving your steel toe boot into hunter's crotch while you yank and throw steph around leading to a fist fight between the two of you. Mostly it was you yelling and beating up steph which then went out of the ring in front of JR and King, "The princess getting her face beat in! Hell has broken loose and Y/N getting payback beating Stephanie's ass tonight!" the boys run down and pull you off steph who lays against the commentary table wide eyed as you stare at her "The only bitch in this business that everyone will respect and love isn't your spoiled ass! It's me!" the crowd yells in support chanting "Our bitch Y/N" as you walk away with an arm looped with either of the boys. But you turn and walk back to scare steph until edge grabs and holds you while staring at hunter and steph "Remember your roots my friend cause there's more that's heading your way!" you feel a bit of pain flow through you after sitting in test's locker room, he cleans your scraped knuckles while edge puts ice on your bruised shoulder while waiting for your match. Christian brings you a chicken wrap followed by a small cup of soda from Lita, tears form due your burning knuckles before the boys were in front of you grabbing pieces of the wrap and eating as edge tore pieces to hand you and test puts a straw in your water after you slowly sip on soda for extra energy before heading out for your match with Tori where you used and showed off new techniques that you learned from Kevin Nash who took you under his wing as you recovered. The two of you did physical therapy together after meeting when he injured his leg, the crowd is amazed when used kevin's jackknife powerbomb to end the match with a win and when you see kevin in the crowd you both smile and laugh as he lifts and hugs you, "Knew you could do it you little firecracker" everyone yells and cheers during a small party at a bar for your return unable to control your laughter at a drunk Lita as Matt and Jeff carry her to their hotel room. The door to your room opens as you step out of the shower drying off, your face floods with a blush seeing the boys look over your body while walking out in your underwear throwing edge's tank top and test's boxers on before they had you in their arms letting you know how proud they were of you for your big return match and win, the three of you walk hand in hand to the arena not knowing the chaos that would happen later that night.

#wwe x reader #who and what i am #wwf x reader #wwf #wwe

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mlobsters · 8 months

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supernatural s8e21 the great escapist (w. ben edlund)

i am thoroughly confused. did the. i don't even know where to start with the fake sam and dean

DEAN Alright, here we go. John Winchester's famous cure-all kitchen sink stew. There you go. Enough cayenne pepper in there to burn your lips off, just like Dad used to make. DEAN Yeah, we do the whole airplane thing with the spoon? When was the last time you ate? SAM I- I don't... DEAN Days, Sam. It's been three days. DEAN pulls out a thermometer. SAM When'd you get that? DEAN When you started throwing off heat waves. Here.

this was hard to watch.

SAM Enough, Dean. Please. DEAN The bloody handkerchiefs, the fever, the shaky legs... this is not good.

SAM Well, I'm not good. And I'm not going to be good until we can start moving again. Until I can start the third trial. DEAN Trial? I wouldn't let you start a moped. We're on the rails with this thing, okay, and the only way out of it is through it, believe me, I know. And you know how bad I wanna slam the door on all those sons of bitches. But you gotta let me take care of you, man. You gotta let me help you get your strength back. SAM This isn't a cold. Or a fever, or whatever it is you're supposed to feed. This is part of it all. Those first two trials... they're not just things I did. They're doing something to me. They're changing me, Dean.

sam, i hear you, but you seem to still be human currently and so you do need to eat. like dealing with a sick toddler

they've been doing good sick makeup

i had not thought of that lol but YES YOU SHOULD HAVE

DEAN On that hunch? You can barely function. SAM I'm only gonna get worse.

🥲

CROWLEY Of course, if I wasn't running everything, I could've played Dean myself.

uh huh

so john winchester made a signature stew and took the kids to the grand canyon on a pack mule ride. like... i love little splashes of backstory about the family, but these don't quite line up with the character of john they've established prior :p

again with the hard to watch... 💔

s8e21 / the fifth element (1997)

well, not surprisingly, it gets worse

SAM You used to read to me, um, when I was little, I— I mean, really little, from that— from that old, uh... Classics Illustrated comic book. You remember that? DEAN No. SAM Knights of the Round Table. Had all of King Arthur's knights, and they were all on the quest for the Holy Grail. And I remember looking at this picture of Sir Galahad, and, and, and he was kneeling, and— and light streaming over his face, and— I remember... thinking, uh, I could never go on a quest like that. Because I'm not clean. I mean, I w— I was just a little kid. You think... maybe I knew? I mean, deep down, that— I had... demon blood in me, and about the evil of it, and that I'm— wasn't pure? DEAN Sam, it's not your fault. SAM It doesn't matter anymore. Because these trials... they're purifying me.

💔sam. purifying, killing. potayto potahto. sure padalecki, you had to make me go and get super into my sam feelings before whumpifying to hell and back

well i don't need to even see the rest of his face, that's the dude that i know primarily from the revenge of the nerds movies. i don't know why or even how i ended up seeing those movies so much when i was a kid but

revenge of the nerds (1984) curtis armstrong as booger

DEAN Cure a demon. Okay, ignoring the fact that I have no idea what that actually means, if we— if we do this, you get better, right? I mean, you stop trying to cough up a lung, and, and, and bumping into furniture? SAM I feel better, yeah, um, just having a direction to move in. DEAN Well, good, cause where we're headed doesn't sound like a picnic. SAM But we're heading somewhere. The end.

i'm sure it'll be smooth sailing

i'm getting on board with kevin finally, which means he's gonna die soon, right? and i just don't care at all about this fucking heaven politics angle. it's somewhat reminiscent of the leviathans honestly. eyes glaze over

#supernatural #spnwatch #spn 8x21 #spnhiky #hiky #revenge of the nerds #curtis armstrong #metatron #the fifth element

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elderrolley · 2 years

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thoughts from show number 13

if it’s too h-word blame @all-american-prophet for encouraging me

When Tom runs round and leans out from behind George pre-two by two, George looked down at him and smiled and waved hi 😭

Ryan as one of Kevin’s brothers ‘talking’ to Audibert by counting the travel pillows had me giggling

Tom dragging the glasses of George’s face is so funny I love-hate how much all the dad actors are ramping up their hatred for Arnold

Dom dancing a la Nic Rouleau in Hasa Diga is everything I’ve been waiting for

M-Jae dragging Dom away to hold the baby by his belt 😭😭😭 man corpsed

Rolley has nearly kissed Dom 3 times this evening what’s going on I’m so gay

He moved his hands down his body instead of holding them out to kiss him in turn it off??? let me blow u

Fuckin,,, forearm veins

im so gay he literally just called me a f4ggot

Tom looks progressively more scared as Rolley tells the Steve blade story,, homophobic Arnold era

he shouted ‘bam wham push it down’ and did a shoulder shimmy for push it down we love a camp king 💅🏻💅🏻

HE GIVES BEDROOM EYES SO HARD WHEN LEADING DOM like obvs stevie holds his hand too but bc he’s actually tall enough to make eye contact my god… mr rolley what if u held my hand like this… new bunda lengers CEO

Dom normally says ‘goodnight pal’ at the end of I am here for you but idk what happened, if he meant to say bud or whatever bc it just came out as ‘goodbye Ben’ and you saw him corpse

Rolley cocking his gay little leg up when Dom says to heck with rules lol f4g (affectionate)

Tom did the entire first half of Man Up up to when Dom enters with his trouser zip open funniest fucking thing I’ve ever seen

the interval was here but most of act 2 was spent being h-word so apologies for the lack of equal observation this is about rolley unless stated otherwise

his reactions in making things up… so camp omg stevie u might need to fight him

got picked out during hell dream my life is so fucking complete best day of my life dropping out of uni to be his footrest

DOMINUC??? LEANED IN FOR THE HELL DREAM KISS??

MY GOD HOW IS DOM DOING THE COME HERE HANDS INSTEAD OF STEPHEN UM

the was i in it is so camp stephen stop looking him up and down

when Stephen says they can leave Dom out of it and leads Tom across stage, he gave Dom such a gay bitchy look tonight purr 😻

white trousers bulge and white shirt veins return i have missed u

he looked disgusted when Jack said tribal woman w/o a bra that’s one thing I’ve always wanted stevie to do thank fuck

He was so touchy feely in pageant everyone say slay

Post pageant when they’re getting told off omg he fully looked like he was gonna burst into tears and the way he was shaking his head when Naba said they come from their sparkly lovely paradise had me writing a sad fic in my head in the middle of the show istg

Also I mostly just got a little hot at the end bc it sounded like he somehow optioned up in his little verse (also sorry to stevie but that little arm thing he does on his riff down is so him and not Connor I literally hate it)

Also took a picture of a certain slice of Mormon bundalicious cake so 💅🏻💅🏻

#théo rambles #the book of mormon #book of mormon musical #visit number thirteen #dom simpson as price #tom xander as cunningham #amandla elynah as naba #stephen rolley as mckinley #rolley thirst #WHEN WILL I SEE OLLIE JACOBSON

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Kevin's Swan Song

Of all the ways Kevin pictured dying, he didn’t think that a song would be stuck in his head.

Yet here he was now. Knife plunged deeply into his stomach. Mordred staring in frozen shock, like he couldn’t believe Eli actually took that step, went that far. A few of the vampires watching in hungry anticipation as crimson dripped to the floor.

And all going through Kevin’s head was ‘The World’s Smallest Violin’ by AJR.

Eli finally let go of Kevin and let him drop to the floor. It was strange, it both hurt and didn’t hurt. Instinct screamed at him to pull that knife out, but Kevin dimly remembered (in between lyrics) that you shouldn’t take out knives inside of your body. Just leave it. Until the ambulance is called.

But they weren’t going to call an ambulance, were they?

Mordred was begging. Even if any of the words weren’t sinking into Kevin’s ears, he could hear Mordred’s pleading tone, asking Eli to spare Kevin- he’d do anything. He’d come back to the coven. He’d stop causing shit. He’d do anything- at the very least, don’t leave him dead-

Something about that actually made something in Kevin’s chest turn.

A life without the sun… drinking blood to survive…

The world's smallest violin,

Really needs an audience,

So if I do not find somebody soon…

Kevin grabbed onto Eli’s leg, as if also begging for his life, but his other hand was on the knife in his gut.

You killed Obsidian vampires by cutting their heads off.

I'll blow up into smithereens,

And spew my tiny symphony,

All up and down a city street,

While tryna put my mind at ease-

Maybe Kevin couldn’t decapitate the dickhead that was Eli, but he could sure as hell try. He hissed through his teeth as he successfully hauled himself to his feet while gripping onto Eli’s shirt sleeve. Eli, finally taking note of the dying human, wrinkling his nose.

“What are you doing? Lie down and die already, brat.” He tried shaking Kevin off, but Kevin had a vice grip on him. No. If this was how he went out, he was going out with one final fuck you.

Like finishing this melody,

This feels like a necessity,

So this could be the death of me,

Or maybe just a better me-

Kevin yanked the knife out of his gut and holy fuck that hurt- he nearly stumbled over but it didn’t matter. Pain wouldn’t matter in a few minutes- maybe even a few seconds- when he was dead.

Now, come in with the timpanis

And take a shot of Hennessy-

Mordred realized a second too late what Kevin was doing.

“Kevin no-”

I know I'm not there mentally-

Kevin hoped Mordred and Natalie wouldn’t miss him too much as he took that knife and buried it in Eli’s neck. The Vampire King’s eyes popped wipe open as his dead blood spattered out from his lips.

But you could be the remedy-

Kevin exhaled for what he figured was his final time as he sliced through flesh. He didn’t take off the king’s head, but he sure as hell hurt the bastard.

So let-

This was it. One final fuck you.

Me play-

Funny enough, Kevin didn’t really want to die. That was a new feeling.

My violin-

Things were going dark. Was he going to heaven or hell? Depended if he saw a light or not, he figured.

For…

There was the light. Huh. It was hotter than Kevin figured it would be. So maybe it was hell?

You!

The last thing Kevin felt before losing consciousness was that heat. Burning away his skin but rebuilding it in the same moment. Destroying him and making him.

He screamed. And it all was consumed by fire.

~*~

Welp. That happened.

Mordred reformed from mist, his jaw already dropped.

Save for Eli, the three vampires closest to Kevin were no longer there… or rather, all that was left were some soot smudges on the cement floor. The rest of the blast radius had charred skeletons.

Eli, the bastard, had actually faired pretty well considering how close he was to the fireball. He’d taken the same strategy as Mordred, but he’d not been as fast about it. Half of Eli’s body was still good… the other half looked like cooked meat. The eye that wasn’t burnt shut was still wide, the powerful vampire king shaking and lips just barely parted… but he couldn’t even scream. Just wheeze.

The only person who was perfectly fine? Kevin.

He was curled up in the fetal position on the ground, naked, obnoxious hair dye faded back to the natural black color but… fine. Even all the injures from the torture Eli had been inflicting on him for weeks was gone.

Mordred stumbled to his feet and rushed to his friend’s side- holy fuck had this all just happened- and knelt beside Kevin.

“Kev? Buddy?”

He was breathing. Mordred swallowed before he reached for Kevin’s shoulder to try and shake him awake.

Well, he would’ve, but touching Kevin’s skin was like touching a hot stove. Mordred yelped and jerked his hand away, shaking out his fingers. A look confirmed he did legitly burn himself, his fingertips healing quickly but pink and blistered.

…. What the actual fuck.

“EL! KEV!”

Natalie burst through the door, sweat plastering her hair to her forehead, a bruise on her cheek and the magical cuffs still hanging on by a thread. “What- what was that!? I heard an explosion and… what happened?”

“Uh. Kevin blew up.”

How else could Mordred describe it? Fire so hot it literally incinerated those too close exploding out of Kevin’s body… even as mist Mordred could feel that heat. He might not have eyebrows anymore.

“But he got better.”

What the fuck. Just. HAPPENED.

#;leaning towards arson #;the goth vampire cliche #;reincarnated heroine #darkest lore;worldbuilding #drabble #end to the missing Kevin arc and the beginning of another lmfao

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Kings of Summer (2013) Review

“Hey Joe? Did you know we’ve been walking for half a mile? I can tell by how much we’ve bonded.” - Biaggio

“He took the Monopoly, too. As a way to spite me.” - Frank Toy

Hey gang, wow. It’s been like... eight months since I was here last. Still no Northman review in the works. To be honest I sort of forgot I had this account. I started grad school in January, so my other passion projects sort of went out the window.

Instead of reviewing a movie that anyone remembers or is in theatres, I’m going to review/break down one of my favourites - Kings of Summer. I don’t think that many people know this one. It was Nick Robinson pre-Love Simon. I have endless love for this film. It feels like a warm hug. Every time I need to bring myself back to reality or chill the hell out, I watch this film. Considering the whole grad school thing, it’s likely I’ll need to watch it again pretty soon.

The movie follows three teenagers who are frustrated with their families and decide to build a house in the woods to escape them for a summer. It’s a coming of age story about navigating relationships, self-discovery and growing up. Sounds simple enough, right? But this film is so much more than a typical attempt at engaging a teenage audience. In addition to the coming of age element, it’s also a look at a father/son relationship that’s on the rocks, as they tend to be when you’re 15. I really believe it has something for everyone, it is so funny and so wholesome.

The cast is “star-studded” in the best way. Nick Robinson (as mentioned), Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Moises Arias (maybe better known as Rico from Hannah Montanna), Lilli Reinhart (Riverdale), Erin Moriarty (The Boys), Marc Evan Jackson (Kevin from B99), Eugene Cordero, and Hannibal Buress and Kumail Nanjiani in smaller roles, among others. All of the adult actors are pretty established in comedy, and bring really interesting depth to the characters they embody.

The soundtrack is fantastic. Like I could not think of better music for a coming of age movie. I regularly listen to it while studying or writing papers. ( https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2c86gY4Ehvpngyxx8LwnTX?si=c2f2381ee3c2468f for anyone interested).

The art direction is phenomenal as well. This movie is very close to Arrival in that watching it feels like taking a breath of fresh air. There are so many shots that seem to place you into a cool summer evening in the woods. They remind me so much of the summers of my childhood, where I’d be out before noon and come home as the streetlights turned on.

And it is funny. The humour is very much typical of Nick Offerman, paired with capitalizing on tension and awkwardness among all the characters. It gives me a little secondhand embarrassment, but some of the most effective humour is within the scenes you sort of wish would just end.

So, clearly I’m already biased to this film. It’s in my top five movies of all time, if that says anything.

From here on is more of an analysis, so spoilers inbound:

I’m going to organize the content of this movie into two sections - one which will follow the standard three-act play, and the other which I will affectionately label “fuck around and find out”.

Before we start, some general character sketches of everyone so I don’t have to go through the entire synopsis.

Joe Toy: Fantastical thinker, head-in-the-clouds-syndrome. Rebellious, sort of petulant, and at least in the beginning expects to be able to do whatever he wants just because he wants to. Bottom line, he’s a selfish teenager.

Patrick Keeney: Joe’s best friend. Cautious - a total reflection of his household. Patrick is caught between wanting to make Joe happy, his realistic thinking, and figuring out who he wants to be in relation to those around him.

Biaggio: A-grade comic relief. Awkward, a little strange, but very loyal. We don’t hear anything about Biaggio’s family until the last 30 minutes of the movie. We don’t find out if they anticipated his disappearance or not since he seems to trust his father, but at the very least they were not worried that he’d gone missing. We can only imagine the kind of household he lives in considering his personality and the relative ease with which he returns after being gone for three and a half weeks.

Kelly: Joe’s love interest. Clearly has her own shit going on. She opens with a boyfriend who is visibly a lot older than she is, and is working a job where she has to deal with idiots constantly. Kelly needs someone who is kind to her and treats her like a person, which is 100% not Joe for like 95% of the movie, which is probably why she ends up with Patrick.

Frank Toy: Joe’s dad, widower, typical Nick Offerman character. Headstrong and combative. Not bad, just lonely and punishing others for it.

Mr and Ms. Keeney: overbearing helicopter parents who love their son a whole lot, despite how in his business they are.

Heather: Joe’s older sister. Must be somewhat similar to her mother, based on the way that Frank describes their mother as being someone who just “let Joe be”. She’s a sort of voice of reason, but is also fed up with her father’s antics. She’s the quintessential “sibling who got out of the oppressive household” character. Often a catalyst for Frank’s realizations.

And with that, I will break down the acts and the things that I noticed. This is mostly a commentary on how the acts set one another up, and the ways they transition between one another.

Act 1: The transitions between acts are marked with the song “The Pipe”. The first time we hear this song is prior to the director giving us the first shot - it plays, and eventually opens on Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and Biaggio (Moises Arias) in what we will later learn is a flash-forward. They’re in-sync, hammering on a pipe in the middle of the woods. As any film major will say, the opening scene is always the most important of the movie. It sets up the entire rest of the film. This shot gives us an important look into their dynamic - Biaggio dancing, and Patrick and Joe complementing one another’s beats on the pipe. In this scene, they are still youthful. We then jump to “one month earlier”, with Joe in the shower dreaming about Kelly (Erin Moriarty), and Frank (Nick Offerman) pounding on the bathroom door, “you’ve been in there for fifty four, no, fifty five minutes!”. From these scenes we know several things - 1) Patrick and Joe are the best friends of the group, Biaggio is adding his very particular flare to the dynamic, 2) Kelly is Joe’s love interest, 3) Joe and Frank are at complete odds with one another. In act 1, we’re at the beginning of our character’s arcs. Joe is rebelling against his father, Frank is bringing down the hammer on his son, Patrick wants to get away from his helicopter parents, and... well, we don’t know much about Biaggio. It’s Biaggio and Joe who initially discover the clearing in the woods where they’ll build the house, and so the plan is hatched.

The crucial parts we learn in Act 1 are all the things that motivate the change which takes place in Act 2. The art direction here is more simplistic, since we’re just setting up the characters. Much of it is reflected between the beginning and ends of the narratives with the characters external to Joe; Biaggio is the first to find the clearing where they build the house, as they walk in darkness after escaping the beach party. Biaggio is conversely the last to leave, also under the cover of darkness. Patrick stumbles into the clearing with the two of them the following day, unsure of the plan, and is the one to tear a hole in the wall of the house they built together. I’m sensing metaphors all around...

Act 2: The second time we hear “The Pipe” it shepherds in Act 2. It comes after a scene with the parents of Patrick and Joe check a greyhound bus for evidence of where their children have gone, and find their phones and a single Monopoly piece. Frank’s Monopoly piece. The scene ends with Frank saying, “he’s taunting me,”. Act 2 begins with, of course, “The Pipe”. Now in the present, we return to Patrick, Joe and Biaggio at the pipe in the woods, followed by Joe’s speech about “being men and answering to no one”. This, of course, will be the catalyst to all of Joe’s character development.

The art direction begins to take on a warmer tone leading up to Act 2. The boys have broken out - they’re free, they’re having fun. There are multiple shots of the scenery, of the sunlight coming through the leaves of the trees - this is the part that really speaks to my childhood.

Act 3: Act 3 begins again with “The Pipe”, but this time we don’t see Patrick, Joe and Biaggio. The music starts after Kelly brings Frank to the hideout in the woods, and Biaggio shows up to try and redirect the attention of a copperhead that has backed Joe and Kelly into a corner. This is where we somewhat of a resolution to Joe’s struggle with his father, when they begin to work together as a team. There’s as much of a heart-to-heart as you can get between them.

Leading up to Act 3, after Joe kicks Patrick, Kelly and Biaggio from the house in the woods, the shots take a cooler tone. Joe’s scenes are overcast, whereas Patrick’s are still warm now that he’s back with his family. Patrick’s narrative at this point has mostly been based around how he’s already mature, he had much less learning to do than Joe, and could go home. Joe on the other hand suffers a radical shock to his worldview, which is reflected in the scenery. I’ll discuss in a moment the divergence between the fuck around and find out sections of the movie, but I’ll note here that Patrick’s scene immediately follows a scene showing Frank and Joe. Patrick is mirrored in the same position, but is the only one of the three who is actually happy.

The resolution to Act 3 is somewhat ambiguous. We don’t totally get resolution between Patrick, Joe, and Kelly, but we can see that there’s at least forgiveness between them. Ultimately we don’t need to, because we can see that Joe has grown up, completed his character arc, and he’s less of a petulant child than he was before. This leads essentially into my next method of breakdown:

Fuck Around/Find Out: The Frank and Joe Dichotomy

This breakdown I am making based on the character arcs of both Joe and Frank in relation to one another. This is split almost evenly 2/3 to 1/3 of the runtime, and is how we learn that Joe and his dad are very much parallel to one another. As much as Joe’s is the critical character arc, the narrative underpins the entire film. Frank is really a grown-up version of Joe, navigating his own grief and isolation, with no interest in doing any of the things that would allow him to have a better relationship with his son. They exist in opposition to one another, with Joe perpetually looking for the upper hand on his father. Even when Joe disappears, Frank maintains a “he’s messing with me” narrative, which Patrick’s parents do not have. This childish back and forth is what I’d label the “fuck around” portion of the film, which translates to at least the first 2/3.

The “find out” part of this breakdown takes place once we see that both Joe and his father are alone - physically and emotionally. Joe has cast all of his friends aside after finding out Kelly is with Patrick, and Frank is alone after Heather leaves their house with the conversation, “Heather, am I a bastard?”, “no dad, a bastard would make everyone around him miserable just because he is,”. That’s the tie between them, when both of their arcs meet - they’re both making everyone else miserable because they are.

The scene I’m most interested in is where their parallel scenes with food. Joe has run out of money for the chickens that he was “hunting” (buying form the Boston market) and elects to eat a mouse which we can assume came from inside the forest house, whereas Frank hasn’t bothered to cook anything and instead finally eats the leftover dumplings that he’d previously complained about. They are united in their pathetic meals, neither deciding to take initiative and eat something other than what’s immediately available to them. They’re feeling sorry for themselves, why would they? The scene then cuts between them, both lying on their couches, looking up towards nothing. They are both alone, and they feel it.

This is the scene I’d mentioned which leads into Patrick’s; Patrick is also reintroduced to us sleeping on a couch, but he’s the only one who is in a good mood. He’s been able to rest, and he’s given up on his idea that his parents are the villains (it’s debatable that he ever thought that in the first place). Throughout the film Patrick’s family is cast in contrast to Joe’s. They have inverse problems with their parents, but at the end of the day what Joe has that Patrick doesn’t is a perpetual power struggle between himself and his father.

The scenes in the “find out” portion of the movie are where we start to see divergence between the characters. Joe is thrust into the realization that he needs to grow up for real in his isolation. I’d argue that his father also has to come to terms with admitting that he’s wrong, but Joe’s is the arc that is more glaring in this instance. The reason I say this is that if Frank had his own similar character arc, it’s unlikely that Joe would have felt the need to run away in the first place. Their dynamic culminates, of course, in them being able to at least somewhat settle their grievances at the end of the movie. Like any tumultuous parent/child relationship, there’s no real “sorry” moment, just a mutual understanding that settles between them. It’s the equivalent of your parent bringing you a bowl of fruit after a blow-out, or waking up to find they’ve taken your car to get its oil changed.

So yeah, that’s my little (not so little) stream of consciousness assessment of Kings of Summer. I may come back and edit this one later - I’ve been writing about Harry Truman for the last three weeks, which makes it hard to switch into coherent creative-style writing.

Have you seen Kings of Summer? If you haven’t, please watch it. It would make my nerd heart so happy to know other people like my favourite movies.

Oh yeah, and if it wasn’t clear already - 5/5 stars. or 10/10. I have no idea what metric I’ve been using to rate movies, or if I even had for the last few posts. All you need to know is it’s good, ok?

#Kings of summer #nick robinson #nick offerman #movie review #alison brie #movie recommendation #watch this movie #my favourite movie #favourite movies #good movies #coming of age

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