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kurosstuff · 2 months

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could you do 🍯 3 with girl dick lute?

Of course~ decided to do it like the last one in a way? Demon x angel plot♡♡ but it's a different plot is- execution day still though(cause I don't think she'd go to hell for anything else)

Warning(s): demon x angel, unprotected sex, girl dick lute, tail and horns thing, wing stuff? Idk, mating season(both of yours) afab reader, mating. Heat/ruts(mating season) , Lute is MEAN(but also praising you♡)

Didn't say if you wanted fem reader so I did gn reade

Gp! Lute x GN!demon reader

There are a lot of things you hated about hell. One of the biggest things? Was mating season. All demons go through with it- it's a normal thing. Considering sinners now have animal tributes, it's just something you'll have to deal with. No matter what you are- for some it's easier to handle and deal with.

But the beginning of it is the worst. It's like you've never BEEN in one before.

Panting you hid in the abandoned building, looking around, tail curled, tucking nervously. Its like God himself hated you the most. As if waiting to laugh in your face considering its execution day.

And your being hunted.

The flapping of wings nearby made you duck to hide, but you were too late something hit your side, making you fly to the side looking back. You saw her. A executioner staring you down.

Just your fucking luck. It's the leaders second in command. Lute.

"He-hey-" waving backing up, ignoring how she snarled stalking towards you as she found her prey. Her victim. "Been a while, huh lute?' Swallowing the last time you ran into her. You somehow out ran her.

Ever since? Her sights have been on you.

"Yeah. After you humiliated me. A sinner outrunning me? You got lucky" she snarled out swiping her sword to the side the blood on it flhong around.

It was fresh.

And, of course, your big mouth had to just speak. "Yeah, six times, is it?" Cursing yourself for uttering that. How she stopped and stared snarling wings fluttering flapping. You really did it now.

You pissed her off more.

Yelping, you turned rushing off. "NO NO IM SORRY LUTE SHIT-" you screamed out, racing into the first room you could find stumbling into it. A dead end. Seriously? Who the fuck sleeps in a room with no windows? Sighing, you turned barley missed the swipe of the sword from lute as she attempted to kill you.

With her being silent? You knew you really fucked up. Hearing her snarling and..panting? You turned, kicking her back roughly. "Sorry!" You couldn't help but call out as she luckily? Landed on the bed. Turning around she on her back she groaned taking a moment-

Taking the time with her on her back, you pounced on her, holding her down. "Stop! I- I don't wanna fight!" As she squirmed, trying to buck you off, making you whine unaware she's trying to stop you from feeling her shame. Her guilt for feeling like this in this situation.

Gasping finally feeling something poking your thigh smirking, you grind against her waist slowly, making her moan snarling up at you. "y-your mating season is here too?" Whining softly as she grabbed your waist roughly bucking up into your hips, panting heavily

"Yeah~" she whined softly, getting harder at the reveal. "fuck~ you fought me on your mating day? Did you want to get fucked?" She snarled out allowing you to reach up taking her mask off biting her lip kissing you deeply flipping you onto your back

Gasping ypu flushed looking up at her "i- I had to! Had no choice it comes when it wants!" You panted out on instinct, almost submitting to her looking away feeling guilty. By the smirk on her

You knew she saw-

"Guess there's only one thing to do, no?" She purred out, grinding against you, leaning to take her shirt off "we fuck of course. We're both on our mating season? Why not?" She hummed answering for you when you didn't reply "I'm gonna ask you once. Do you want this" She huffed out

Gently rubbing your waist wasn't what you expected from her, but here she was, waiting for you to think ignoring her instincts. "Yes. I... I want this" humming in approval she kissed you leaning back to strip you using her sword - "wha- I- my shirt!" You huffed flushed seeing her roll her eyes

"Take my jacket after. Ok?" Grunting leaning back, pulling her pants down- pulling her hard cock out already leaking pumping herself slowly groaning softly "fuck~" moving close testing rubbing her tip on your entrance smirking

"Wait, wait! You're too big!" You gasped moaning at the sheer length of her- making her hum rubbing herself on your entrance, grinding against you moaning against your neck leaning back "you- will you even fit-?"

"I'll go slow" at first- left unsaid not fully answering- grinding more on you covering her cock in your slick she hummed "it won't hurt slipping in. Your to deep in your heat you'd already pooling of yourself." She Grunting slowly pushing into you moaning loudly "fuck~ your tight~"

"Oh- oh god~" you sobbed out, spreading your legs more, feeling her push in more stretching you fully "too much~" moaning loudly under her tail thumping whining more when she reached gently taking your tail making you gasping loudly slipped under her

"You were just crying for my attention sweetheart~ now your begging me to stop? You sure that's what you want~?" She hummed, moaning, pounding into you, gasping."fuck~ getting even tighter for me~ fucking rutting against me before no~? Now you want me to stop" Leaning back rubbing your tail, watching you squirm more under her gently pinching it making you sob moaning drawing a loud whine

"No~" you begged out, sobbing under her kissing her deeply sobbing out her name, making her smirk pinching your tail, causing you to gasp whining lewdly

"That's my good pet~" she purred, shoving Into you fully moaning loudly eagerly fucking you into the bed panting heavily "thank God there was a bed here no?" Kissing along your neck hearing the purrs mixed with your moans "fuck you like this~? Being fucked by your greater?" She moaned out gasping leaning up pulling you by your horns to show your neck more- forcing you into submission for her "that's a good pet~" panting heavily pounding rougher into you flushed darkly

Whining loudly wrapping your legs around her waist, yanking her deeper into her, fully submitting to her "oh fuck please~ c-claim me~" you sobbed out holding her close watching her wings flap in approval. Puffing in a way to show off- like a dance of sorts "oh please~?"

Humming biting your neck roughly "claim you? You want to be my mate?' She growled out pounding rougher holding the bed- your sobs moaning for her, making her hum "your tail sensitive or something?" Rubbing it making you nod sobbing out

"It- its a courting thing ~ like like- sensitive makes them want to be mated-" You choked out arching your back into her at her unrelenting pace "horns and tails make- make demons horny at the touch If not careful~" flushed at her smirk as she tugged at your tail once more

"Guess I'll take you as mine then, huh? My pet?" Pounding roughly leaning close biting at your neck,"making you my mate~? Mine?" Purring out moaning heavily holding their waist roughly claiming you as hers.

She didn't care for the consequences(she does but she's so lost in her rut to acknowledge it) that she does do it. She bites down roughly "my mate ~ my sinner~" she snarled out her cock twitching deep inside you moaning heavily feeling you tighten around her moaning her name out smirking she hummed "yeah you like that? Like being claimed?" Groaning "fuck~ go ahead cum for me my pet~"

Sobbing our nodding, releasing around her clinging to her feeling her pound deeper shoving fully into you cumming deep inside with a loud moan snarling into your neck claiming you from the inside as well "fuck~" Sobbing out panting heavily rocking up into her feeling yourself gush onto the bed from them "n-need more~" you gasped out sobbing out for her

"Fuck~ yeah?" Pounding into you against groaning, twitching deep inside you,"want more? Fill you up more~?" Kissing you deeply relishing in the moans and cries you let out for her "fuck~ doing so fucking good what a good whore I have huh?" Snarling against your lips wings puffing up expanding fully flapping happily showing off smug

"Yes fuck yes~" you sobbed out moaning arching your back cumming around her cock again sobbing from the overestimating from the unrelenting pounding- the roughness from her "oh please~ please~" Sobbing out loudly

Groaning "this- is this the last time~ go-got to go-" hearing the alarm go off for her to come back snarling loudly pounding roughly into you- shoving fully into you so lost in her rut she couldn't hold back cumming deep inside you once more moaning loudly rocking into you slowly before slowly gently pulling out watching you gush of her. Feeling smug- possessive she properly mated you.

Made you hers.

Humming, she reached up, plucking a feather from her wing, putting it on your chest "wear it. Make it a necklace" putting a claim physically on you. "Accept my mateship by putting it on~?" Purring out kissing you gently moving to get dressed quickly putting her jacket on you rubbing your twitching legs

After a moment, she fled. Flying away without a goodbye(she hoped to see you again) humming, she smiled happily, hopping it all would end well for you both.

But all acts. Have consequences. Mating a demon as an angel? Would have a consequence

#hazbin hotel x reader #hazbin hotel #hazbin lute #lute x reader #hazbin hotel lute #lute smut #EVENT

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nevieatiny · 4 months

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Loveleaf Town

Seonghwa x reader

Summary: You thought playing animal crossing with your boyfriend would be a cute experience, however you forgot that is Park SeongHwa who we're talking about, a maniac who will never let you hear the end of it after finding out about your little secret

Word count: 1,148

Genre: Pure fluff

author's note: Hi, for those who are not that familiar with animal crossing, a treasure island is a completely flat island that is filled with dropped items that you can take for free, you can only access this type of islands if you have a nintendo online subscription so some people consider this "cheating"

btw, if you play animal crossing let's be friends and visit each others island <3

Mi nintendo friend code is: SW-6709-7599-7760

and the dream address of my island is : DA-3239-5826-9743

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"why would you put a tree in there" he watched the screen while eating a bag of pop corn and putting his long legs on top of you

"park seonghwa i swear to god, if you keep questioning my design decisions i'll break up with you" at this point he just stared at you while furrowing his brows "you cannot take constructive criticism for sure" this time you pinched the skin of his leg between your fingers, only getting a high pitched yelp in response "i don't go to your ugly island to tell you what to do" "hey, what do you mean ugly?!"

and that's how your live has been lately after finally buying your own nintendo switch, yeah maybe he insisted a little, but after playing animal crossing on your boyfriend's console for a while you got exited to have your own island (and maybe making him cry on mario kart) but Park Seonghwa took this game way too seriously, his island had a perfectly symmetrical street, post lamps perfectly placed, he even had a mini mart and all the colors of the island combined perfectly, on the other hand your island was not as planned as his, some streets ended in weird ways, all the houses were decorated with different colors because for you it had to match with the villagers personality, there were flowers of different colors everywhere and blank spaces due to your lack of planning skills, but you were happy with your little island.

Now, on the other side "i'm just trying to help you, just look, that space is empty, you could make a little pound in there" "it's going to be an arcade" you couldn't see his face because if you did you will smack him for sure this time, but you could imagine due to the groan he let out "y/n, it's like a 4x4 space, how are you gonna fit an arcade in there?" "i'll figure out"

you managed to make him quiet for a few minutes after asking him to bring you a bowl of pop corn as well, he silently watched you re-decorate your room for a while, that's something he usually did, just watched you play as if it was the most fascinating thing on the world, you thought it was cute, after you purchased the game he insisted on connecting it to the tv so he could watch you play for the first time, and ever since that moment he would just seat with you on the couch to play, sometimes he would bring his own console to visit each other's islands or just to play together, you both agreed to just play animal crossing to be on good terms after you almost ripped each others heads playing overcooked the first time, if you thought that Gordon Ramsay was bad, you should meet chef Park Seonghwa.

"wait a minute" oh no, here it comes " that's a seasonal item, how do you have that?" you knew this moment would come sooner o later, maybe you should've tried to be a little bit more modest with your decorations "... are you cheating?" you dropped the controller on the couch while trying to reach his hand "i can explain" he just moved the bowl out of his way, moving his hand away from yours "no, save it, i can't even look at you right now" and after that he stood up, his head hanging low while heading to the bed room "seonghwa wait " you grabbed his arm, forcing him to face you, but he just avoided your gaze, you love this man but sometimes he took situations to a whole new level of drama "no, you're disgusting, i don't want to see you". this time he covered his face with his free hand fake crying "ok, that was too much" "was it?, im sorry love" immediately after that he gave you a soft kiss while grabbing your free hand "but you're still a cheater tho" you rolled your eyes after hearing that, letting your head hang backwards as a child would do while being scolded "hey don't roll your eyes at me" carefully he grabbed your chin to face him "it's just that i don't want to wait for the store items to change every day, i wanted to have cute things" "yes love, but that's part of the game, building your island little by little" this man and his stupid rules " that's boring tho" "don't ever say that again or I will break up with you"

After convincing him of how treasure islands were just a complement of your hard work (and agreeing to wash the dishes after dinner) he asked you on a "date" on his island, grabbing his own console he sat beside you again all giggly and happy "wait, you're not gonna wear that to our date right?" Park seonghwa you're lucky you're handsome and great in bed "what's wrong with my outfit?" you asked, looking at him directly and tilting your head to the side "it's just... y/n you're wearing socks with slippers and a pink safety glasses" yeah maybe it wasn't the most flattering but in your defense you were wearing comfortable clothes to be on your island "please go and change before coming to my island" "ahhh, ok, but i though you would love me no matter how i look" after he picked an outfit for you himself and making a few remarks of how cute your clothes was because it was all "stolen" from a treasure island, you returned to the airport to finally visit him.

He first gave you a tour (again) of his island, showing you the new outside cinema he builded after the last time you payed him a visit, he constantly had to ask you to follow him to show you around because you kept running away, once he got you to sit at the cafe he so well decorated he started to pretend to be a barista to make you a drink, this man was just a little girl playing with barbies a this point "i have a gift for you" you said while dropping an item to the floor " thanks love, i love this flowers, specially because i saw you taking it from my garden" even after that he changed to equip the flower and put it in his hair "ok, this is the real gift" your rolled your eyes, dropping the construction set, when you saw it you immediately thought of your boyfriend "it's not a Lego set, but it kinda looks like one" he seemed genuinely happy with his little gift "awww, thanks love, I feel like when thieves steal jewelry for their girlfriends" "Give it back" he just laughed, kissing the top or your head "actually, i want to build a Lego room so... how do treasure islands work?"

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UPTADE

Hi! thank you for all the love and support, currently i'm working on the next chapter of "Chasing shadows in water" but i've been having ideas here and there for short scenarios like this one in the meantime, believe it or not this man is not my main bias hahahahah

But anyways thank you for all the love you gave to "Mrs. Park?" and i'll continue to write to give you something to read and entertain yourself as i do while reading the work of other authors on this platform.

#ateez #ateez au #ateez fanfic #ateez fanfiction #ateez imagines #ateez fluff #ateez imagine #ateez seonghwa #ateez x reader #ateez x seonghwa #ateez scenarios #pak seonghwa

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asimp4bee · 4 months

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HIVE THE LONG POST I BEG OF YOU

Okay you asked for this, we're gonna be here for a while 💀

This is a continuation of this post!

5. Megatron (MTMTE/LL)

I love his design and I'm a sucker for reformed antagonists/villains. Also him in this specific artstyle makes me feel things <\\33

6. TFP Arcee

MOTHER. Her voice, God her voice. I love her. I would smooch her and kiss her hand.

7. TF:E Elita-One

MOTHER PT.2. It's a crime we hardly get much content involving Elita in shows/movies. I love her design in TFE sm :(( hope we get more of her in season 2

8. TF:E Megatron

Again, I'm a sucker for reformed antagonists/villains. Also his design in Earthspark is gorgeous. The way interacts with Twitch :(( my heart, I love him, he's so sweet.

9. TF:E Soundwave

MF IS THE DEFINITION OF HOURGLASS. HIS HIPS LORD— Ahem.

10. TFP Ratchet

I love him. I love fictional grumpy old men. Especially if they're giant alien robots. There's a lot I love about Ratchet's character in TFP and I love him :((

11. RiD 2015 Windblade

MOTHER PT.3. I love her voice. I love her design. Her colors UGHHHH kissing her hand and treating her right mm-hmm.

12. Ultra Magnus (MTMTE/LL)

I love Magnus so so much. I love his design, I love his personality, HES JUST SO UGH. And him in this artstyle also makes me feel things <33

13. TFP Optimus

I love him. He deserves everything, deserves the world 😭 i just wanna be held by him and vice versa. He deserves sm love and smooches

14. TFP Ultra Magnus

Same thing as MTMTE Magnus <33

15. Knightverse Optimus

I love him sm. He deserves everything and the way he kept blaming himself in the movie??? GOD I JUST WANTED TO HUG HIM SO BAD. I love him :(((

Okay and that's pretty much all of them <333 (I think-)

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genericpuff · 6 months

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The Extended Mishandling of LO's S3 Midseason Finale Premiere

Alright, so I had mentioned leading up to the release of the newest LO episode that my feelings regarding LO returning were pretty "meh". Not hyped, but not completely back of mind either. Just sort of a weird calm before the storm type feeling that could go either way.

I'm glad I got to have that moment of calmness because good god, this episode was an absolute shitshow. And honestly, I'm not surprised, for several reasons:

Rachel has never been good at maintaining a buffer, even back at the start of the series she only ever had 2-3 episodes ready ahead of her schedule which is NOT an ideal buffer for an originals series.

Rachel has never been good at writing, she's very "draw first write later" and has stated as such in interviews that when she gets 'stuck' on what she's writing, she'll just start drawing and fit the pieces in later.

Four months is NOT enough time to both rest, attend massive conventions, and work on improving a project while also getting buffer episodes ready.

Because of the FP episodes remaining locked over the hiatus, technically Rachel only needed to have ONE episode ready upon return for the newest FP release, not multiple like she'd usually need like in the past during the S2 midseason hiatus or the season finale episodes which would unlock those FP releases like normal - so for all we know, she could have drawn this episode literally last week, especially when the promo material was so last minute. Frankly I think it was REALLY stupid for whoever it was who decided to keep these FP episodes locked (whether it was her or WT, it was more likely WT) but you can read all I have to say about that in my review of the midseason finale episodes.

All that's to say, no, there was never any guarantee Rachel was going to somehow "turn around" the ride we're currently on. I know that many of the critics were hoping for that to happen, but with the circumstances of the hiatus mixed with Rachel's bad habits of putting her best efforts into the procrastination projects that aren't her actual comic (ex. the few original pieces and LO sketches she put out during the hiatus) it just wasn't in the cards. This is where the comic is at and this is where it will remain until it's over.

I want to also point something out about this episode that was... really glaring to me.

As with all of these hiatus returns, LO got priority advertising in the first two banner slots and push notifications AND a popup ad within the app. This is unsurprising, Webtoons is still trying to milk this thing for what it's worth.

I know a lot of people are gonna focus on the art, or the fact that WT is continuing to shill LO, but I wanna point out the part that WT implemented specifically - "NEW SEASON".

This is literally just false. At best I'd like to think some intern just messed up and thought this was a new season, but it's literally not, the episode designation still says "S3". Note that the creators only design the banner art, the actual labels on top are put there by Webtoons.

But at worst, this feels like blatant lying to continue to hide the fact that LO is ending. Mind you, Rachel and Webtoons have still not put out official posts stating that this is the final arc. There is NOTHING from either of them to communicate to the audience that the comic is ending next year. It feels like they're trying to avoid the topic altogether out of fear of losing the fanbase they still have, rather than hyping up the comic's end for those who have stuck around to see how it all wraps up. And honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case, considering they're now trying to funnel the fanbase into Penguin/Inklore with new marketing deals and the whole Rachel Smythe Presents thing. They're trying to make this seem like the beginning of something "new" when it's really just a quiet shifting of management (Penguin House).

But all that aside, let's actually get into the episode. It's one episode after 4 months, which is not standard for LO's hiatuses, typically FP episodes release on schedule (meaning free readers start hiatuses 3 weeks after FP readers do), the only time this has been an exception has been with the 2 week breaks because the whole point of those was to build a buffer (which you can't do if you're going ahead and releasing the FP episodes anyways). For extended hiatuses like these, usually free readers still get their FP episodes, but that wasn't the case here. That means Rachel technically only needed one episode ready for the comic's return, and it shows. It really fucking shows.

FROM HERE ON OUT THERE WILL BE FASTPASS SPOILERS REGARDING EPISODE 254. DO NOT CONTINUE IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED !!!

As per tradition, we get a title that means nothing at all. It just says what we already know.

Our collective husband Zeus is dying, no thanks to the poison cupcake fed to him by Apollo. For those who don't remember, Apollo had tricked Zeus into eating the cupcake by making him believe it was from Hebe. We are fully aware that it was Apollo who poisoned him. Remember that for later in this review.

Right off the bat we're off to a hilarious start, both with a cryptid appearance from Apollo in the background (lmao) who is, for some reason, ALREADY returning to the scene of the crime he just committed because... who knows at this point. Apollo and Psyche know it was Apollo at this point, I might add, but I have no clue why Apollo is actually returning to the scene of the crime when he has no idea Eros and Psyche know.

Moving on from that, can we talk about this hilarious dialogue?

"We have to call a doctor! Let's call Asclepius!"

"No, we can't trust him! Gosh darn it, why are we only bothering to think of ONE doctor in this universe where we've seen more than one doctor?? Guess Zeus is just gonna die! What a horribly contrived situation this is!"

And that's literally how I can best describe most of this episode. Contrived. There is a LOT of manufactured drama in this that makes ZERO sense even on a surface level.

And what do you mean exactly, Eros? "What a terrible system!" Is this supposed to be a joke? Lampshading? We've seen Persephone go to the gynecologist. There are non-god doctors who tend to gods all the time here.

Eros just doesn't seem to be that pressed over this, he sounds like Ned Flanders and that's NOT a good way to open up a scene like this... let alone an episode people have been waiting four months for.

Anyways, after a few pointless reaction panels (again remember I have to cut a lot of what I show here for Tumblr image limitations but I promise you, I'm keeping as much important stuff as I can in this, there's just THAT MUCH filler at this point), Eros and Psyche confront Apollo and he is... good god.

There is... so much to unpack here.

First of all, remember those theories about how Rachel was clearly trying to write Apollo as this "secret twist villain" the whole time but it doesn't work because Apollo is simultaneously written as both a 'conniving villain' and a massive dumbass at the same time?

Well, I finally have a more appropriate term for him. He's your average red pill redditor - someone who thinks he's smarter than everyone else when really all he does is sit on reddit all day using big words incorrectly in arguments he gets himself into with a bunch of equally-air-headed dumbasses.

"You can't possibly understand the nuances of the Olympian political system," Apollo said proudly, a man who had, ironically and obliviously, run for president in a monarchy. The union of kettle and pot is eternal.

He's the Slappable Jerk but instead of it being a painfully hilarious impression, it's just painful and hilarious for all the wrong reasons.

this is so stupid because it's 1.) Eros pointing out how obvious Apollo's plan was, despite Apollo acting smart two seconds ago with a goddess who, mind you, has been a goddess for ten years, and 2.) patricide isn't even intrinsically linked to politics, there's nothing 'political' about a guy trying to kill his dad except in, idk, a monarchy, which again, Apollo has spent ten years trying to rise to power in as a president which is a completely different form of government.

If I wanted to be really granular with this, I'd like to think Apollo is making some kind of point about the critics who call out LO's whack as fuck political system (especially in the trial arc) - as if he's saying "well you're just a stupid reader and this is fantasy where you don't understand exactly what political system we're using, so shut the fuck up you stupid twig" - but I don't think it's meant to be that deep. I think it's just Rachel trying to write a smart character and then failing at it because she, herself, is not a smart writer. And I'm really inclined to believe that more than the theory about this being some kind of meta-narrative about the critics because this entire plotline is contrived and stupid down to its core.

I did not cut anything out here, that's the pacing. Leto literally just appears out of nowhere and uh oh spaghettio's, she has Kassandra! Remember Leto? The character we were led to believe was truly "pulling the strings" until she disappeared from the story completely after she realized that Apollo and Persephone weren't a thing, even going so far as to call out her own son for being a fucking dumbass? Well, she's back and once again she's being involved as some kind of "double agent" in this whole thing, even though we literally haven't seen her since halfway through S2.

"Mm yes, you're so stupid, falling into my trap! Even though you had no reason to remember Kassandra anyways because she's literally a mortal woman you just met and you yourself have committed acts of violence against mortals without a shred of care! I'm so smart! My plan is all coming together!"

We've never seen Apollo do anything except cry and poop his pants, the closest he got to being "powerful" was his attempts to murder Daphne (who he seems to have forgotten about in this "master plan" of his) but ultimately he's literally just a piss ant baby and there's no reason to believe that he could somehow outmatch the God of Love who can literally manipulate people's emotions and states of mind with his arrows. But yeah sure go off, you're so powerful and smart.

The worst part is, I can't even buy this as the narrative trying to be like "see how manipulative and conniving he is?" because it's just silly. We've SEEN this man cry with his victim complex, we've seen him say and do the DUMBEST things that don't lend to any amount of "intelligence" he may have, it comes across less as him being "smart the whole time" and more as him trying to sound smart but ultimately sounding incredibly stupid. And I can't even immerse myself into it and buy that maybe that's the point, because it doesn't feel like the point, it just feels like inconsistent writing, he doesn't feel like a 'threat', he's just monologuing.

Bad art and Apollo literally just repeating what Leto already implied so this is a waste of the audience's time.

This is the funniest panel in the whole episode because I can't tell if Apollo is supposed to be in the background (for some reason, despite him literally being in front of Eros and Psyche two seconds ago) or if he's in the foreground and just REALLY small for some reason. This is so off-putting. And of course, it's just Apollo explaining what we're ALREADY SEEING ONSCREEN.

You see, in addition to this episode being contrived, it also talks down to its audience a LOT by explaining exactly what we're seeing onscreen. It's like Rachel saw the criticisms about her not including enough to depict what's actually going on in her head and so she thought the solution was to spoon feed information over pictures that are already doing the job of explaining what's going on. Rachel really doesn't know how to write and even when she tries to implement changes that reflect criticisms that have been made of her writing, she somehow makes things worse because she completely misses the point of what those criticisms are trying to get across.

Anyways, without even trying to resist (for some reason) Eros and Psyche get sentenced to horny jail.

They're now trapped in a basement that Leto somehow has in her home. How do we know that?

HAHAHA FUNNY LAMPSHADING SO FUNNNYYYYYYY

Leto claims that they shouldn't try to escape because the dungeon is "enchanted", but she doesn't even bother to explain what that means. So they literally don't bother trying. They don't try to call her bluff, they don't try to teleport out of there, they literally just go "well shoot", shrug their shoulders, and accept their fate. Just like with the whole "we can't trust the only doctor we bothered to think of" situation, Eros and Psyche are turning out to be some of the stupidest, lowest-effort characters in this comic who literally can't be bothered to try because that would require too much brain power.

Notice how much time we've spent on this and we haven't gotten back to where the cliffhanger of the last episode left off? Well buckle up because there's still more to cover.

So it turns out Hebe was still inside with her dad, in FULL VIEW of what was going on through glass which is somehow COMPLETELY soundproof, and when Apollo steps inside, she just has no idea what happened. She never bothered to even look outside to see what was going on with Eros and Psyche, she's just been sitting on the floor staring at Zeus' dead face for what was likely several minutes, unless Rachel is seriously trying to convince us that conversation and hostage negotiation from earlier only took 2 seconds. The timeline is such a mess at this point that characters basically freeze in place as soon as they're not the focus of the scene.

Apollo rushes inside, acting shocked over the situation, and when Hebe asks where Eros and Psyche are (again, she could have just looked out the window at any time), he's just like "dur idk they just left lol" which Hebe just... buys, I guess.

That's just Persephone but yellow. She's even missing her beauty mark.

See how Apollo put his hand on Zeus' chest/shoulder by the way?

Apparently, despite Mr. Smarter Than Everyone Else trying to pretend it wasn't him, he's able to discern that Zeus is dying from a toxic and rare poison just from touching him. He doesn't even really seem to use his powers, he just touches him and goes "welp he's dead i guess lol don't bother asking me how I know that".

But oh nooo remember that note from before? Well gasp Apollo's gonna use it to frame Hebe! In front of no one else at all!

Hebe of course says she didn't write it, but Apollo continues to try and frame her anyways, even though, again, there's no one else present here, and so it effectively just becomes the most absurd form of gaslighting I've ever seen.

Again, THERE IS NO ONE ELSE HERE IN THE SCENE. He's just trying to claim she did it to absolutely no one at all, in the hopes of... what exactly? That she'll just take the fall for something she knows she didn't do? That she'll somehow be convinced? It's not like Hebe has the same thing going on as Persephone where she has a 'wrathful dark side' he could pin it on, this is just a criminal who just robbed a building pointing at the first person they see and yelling "YOU DID IT!"

All I'm saying is that Apollo would be really bad at Among Us. He'd be the type of player to kill someone, hit the report button, then claim yellow did it which, even if he DID convince the rest of the team, would still get kicked anyways as soon as yellow was proven through the eject to not be the imp and everyone would go "okay cool so yellow wasn't the imp, that means obviously it's purple self-reporting." It's a trick that doesn't even work anymore because of how old it is. Hebe isn't a child here, she's an 18 year old woman who should be fully capable of raising an eyebrow and wondering why Apollo is this quick to accuse her - almost like he's trying to hide the fact that he did it.

But Hebe can't catch onto this, just like Eros and Psyche, she has to act stupid for the sake of the plot.

At first I thought maybe Rachel was trying to do some "whodunit" scenario, but that doesn't work here because we already know who did it. And while there are stories that exist like that that pull it off (ex. Knives Out) the problem with trying to do this the way Rachel did is that the person being framed has to have this thing called motive. The reason why Knives Out and Glass Onion work so well is because the person who was murdered (or conspired against) is someone who is being targeted by multiple people who could all be the murderer. It's quite literally called out in Glass Onion as a form of smart lampshading. "It's like putting a loaded gun on the table, and turning off the lights."

But it doesn't work here because Hebe does not have motive. If you're going to attempt to frame a murder on someone, it has to be someone who would have reasonable motive to commit that murder, even if they didn't actually commit it.

And who among Zeus' children has motive?

What about the war-mongering bloodthirsty god of war who has been regularly sentenced to time in the Mortal Realm to fight in wars in which he's been regularly injured?

What about the chaos-seeking wrathful goddess who would do it to get revenge on the parental figure who cast her aside, or even just for the fun of saying she did it?

Why try and pin it on Hebe, the doting daughter of Zeus who's only had a collective of maybe 20 panels in the entire comic?

But then I realized... it's not Knives Out, it's the fucking Lion King.

Which is just as contrived - if not more - than the assumption this was gonna be some attempt to frame Hebe. It's not. He's literally just trying to keep her from assuming it was him. He could have just as easily played dumb without calling attention to the note but he intentionally went out of his way to try and be Scar from The Lion King , while completely missing the point of why that scene worked in the original movie.

Scar wasn't trying to 'frame' Simba for Mufasa's murder. He was trying to hide the murder, while also attempting to get the only heir to the throne out of the picture, so he passed the guilt of the death onto Simba - a child who, unlike Hebe, wouldn't have the ability to rationalize or realize his uncle his a scumbag - who then ran away from home because he was too terrified to face his family for what happened, assuming that it was all his fault when it wasn't.

That's not how this is panning out here. Hebe is the now 18 year old daughter of Zeus, and not one of his only children. She doesn't even fit into the whole "sons overthrowing their fathers" prophecy like Aries would. Apollo is literally just being a big idiot here by saying "well I'm gonna give you a headstart to run away, because if you stay, I might hurt you" (which btw, should be MORE of a smoking gun that Apollo did it??)

And again, it's all so contrived so that the plot can move forward. "Well I'm going to frame you for this murder, but y'know, you should just leave, I'm not gonna try and press it further lmao"

Again, Apollo is a fucking idiot here, because he just attempted to frame someone who has NO MOTIVE to harm Zeus, to absolutely NO ONE at all who would side with him, only to let her go which would leave her to question why Apollo would try to accuse and harm her in the first place before considering other options. And through ALL this he claims he's the smart one, which I can't even be bothered to "love to hate" because it's written so poorly.

And really it all comes down to how everyone else behaves in relation to Apollo that makes it so stupid and unbelievable. Apollo, you're not smart just because all the characters around you are intentionally being written to be as stupid and non-confrontation as possible. If you can only write a smart villain by making everyone else stupid, you haven't written a smart villain, you've written a dumbass whose victory only happens due to contrived plot convenience. It's not even done well like in Glass Onion, it's just bad writing, full stop.

And who does he call to report this emergency? The satyr police? His son the doctor?

No.

The media. Literally just "hello, the media?? I need your best journalist here stat!"

I need you to understand, even if he were calling a tabloid magazine like The Weekly Nark, you don't just... call a journalist to report a murder. These are not the actions of someone who's trying to absolve himself of guilt, these are the actions of a complete dumbass trying to get news coverage of his trophy kill who would be better off just playing dumb instead of trying to play smart. Even Walter White wasn't this fucking stupid despite all the times he fell on his own sword, Apollo is literally just instigating suspicion towards himself for no reason at all. He's self-reporting so hard and worst of all, you can't even take any of this seriously because of how corny it is. There's no dramatic tension, no stakes, it's just a bunch of characters performing in a really bad stage play and reducing every conflict to "well I guess Zeus is just dead now because no one's bothering to make an effort to stop Apollo or ask questions lmao"

It's truly the epitome of "this plot wouldn't exist if characters would just talk to each other."

But finally, FINALLY we mention the thing this episode is named after, the transition point to Persephone.

Just like with the midseason finale episode, there's a lot to cover here, so I'm gonna get more into it in a part two post.

That said, you can see already this is the messiest, most contrived bullshit to ever wind up in LO. It's trying so hard to be smart and it just comes across as a bunch of toddlers in the world's worst stage play rendition of Clue. None of what was done here was in any way dramatic or tense, it's just a bunch of characters infodumping shit we already know, trying to set up new plot threads that don't make any sense, and allowing one another to get away with what they're doing because they don't bother to even try.

It's completely manufactured, contrived nonsense. It's not "smart", it's not "so dumb it's brilliant", it's just dumb.

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STUDY IN LOKI ROMANCE

Part 4: Heart of the TVA

Since we're only a few days away from the last episode, I decided to COUNT DOWN everything we´ve got so far ( that can be interpreted very easily as romantic ) and discuss what the actual fuck is going on with second season. Because even though I shipped lokius practically from S1E2, I absolutely did NOT expect this kind of development. (Not that I´m complaining)

Warning: This is gonna be LONG post, lots of screenshots, lots of SPOILERS, lot of "oh-my-god-they-so-cute" language, and little bit of meta.

I originally thought that this post would be everything at once, but since I have just too many screenshots this time around, I´ll have to split it. so every post will be one episode. Color coding means:

IIIIIIIIII = anything, that coud potentialy be just acting choice.

IIIIIIIIII = everything else (tzn.: whatever was written, and/or carefully prepared by filmmakers. )

side note: I already wrote, about how amazing it is, that Mobius is unable to fight but fights anyway and how beautifuly, and ridiculously brave he is HERE. But this is about Loki/Mobius interactions, so I´ll try my best not to talk about THAT. (Even when I´m really happy, that s2 continues with this formula and Mobius is still his completely defenseless while aggressively brave self. I love him, btw.)

EPISODE 1 HERE

EPISODE 2 HERE

EPISODE 3 HERE

check-list, episode 4 (my beloved): 33) changing clothes together not to be that person, but like... they always went through the door from TVA on timeline in their "camouflage disguises". So Loki couldn't use his magic to change their clothes. I mean... they even make turning off system that prevents magic plot point in this episode So unless they have some special device in TVA (which was never established) It is implied, that these two just spend some time changing clothes together, before going out. And that brings me to this specific moment: At the end of the previous episode we see them going through the time door (fairly soon after Victor Timely, in 1893 clothing) And this episodes starts with Victor ariving at TVA and wondering around the empty hallways. Alone. So let me get this straight: After we see them both walk through the time door, they end in that war room (were they met in ep1), just the two of them. Victor is.... somewhere. who knows where, who even cares? And they though: it is actualy priority number one to change our clothes. Yes, right now. Never mind, we have He Who Remains variant wondering around the TVA and everything is going to explode soon. We have to take our clothes off. RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. I´m sorry, film makers, but what the acual f-

34) Bickering like married couple (part 4) (but this time with EVERYONE else watching them with question marks above their heads. And these two idiots husbands probably didn´t even noticed xDD )

Also.... "It´s got your shape" 😳 really? really Mobius? And how would you- oh sorry, my bad, never mind. I almost forget you were changing clothes togheter MULTIPLE TIMES, so of course you would know that. ... right? 35) The "misunderstanding trope"

This whole scene is just... jeeez! Sylvie screeming at Mobius for wanting cake (while Loki already knows, that Mobius wants it, because he is in a stress.) He tries to stop Sylvie, but she continues. Loki circles around her and ends up right between them (cough...smybolism...cough) And Sylvie starts attacking Mobius because he doesn´t want to know his life on a timeline. While Loki is RIGHT THERE, knowing perfectly well Mobiuses reason´s and how bad she is hurting him, because episode 2 happened. Loki knows. And then she leaves, and Loki follows her. But Mobius doesn´t know, what we know: and that he went to her to DEFEND HIM. Jeeeeeeez writers.... thanks, for this perfect example of romantic complication. Dramatic irony 100%. I´m living for this relationship drama while everything around them collapses and explodes. 10/10 television!

Also... poor man needed pick-me-up cocoa drink immediately after 😭

36) Pie scene number two I have to say, I LOVED this scene. EVERY FUCKING WORD. philosophical conflicts? yes please. moral dilemas? give me more! but let´s focus on Loki defending Mobius. Him bringing up Thor into the coversation, and comparing his change on Earth (that he didn´t understand before) to his own change that came from spending time at TVA. spending time with Mobius. And he is standing infront of pies this whole time! basicly him low key comparing Thor´s love for Jane to his love for Mobius

And let´s not forget how obvious the difference between two pie scenes is! Because the first one is full of relaxed gestures, kindness and understanding. Just Loki and Mobius being intimite and open with each other 🥹 In glaring contrast with that, THIS scene, with Sylvie is full of conflict, tention and disagreements. The are standind, far from each other, and whole room has completely different (horror like) vibe.

37) THIS SHOT. just the two of them, right before the end.

God I love this episode so much! 💛💛💛

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no because, supernatural is absolutely a train wreck. it's a colossal accident that is happening in front of you that you can't look away from. it is homophobic and non-sensical and downright laughable at times but you know what? I love it. I absolute love it.

season 1 was absolutely beautiful. you don't understand, really, you don't. they had a piss poor budget, you can see that in every frame. but does that stop it from being fucking beautiful? no. it is stylised and ambitious and a fucking visual treat.

and this is like the first fucking episode. the shots have so much character! and that's nothing to say of the characters themselves. from the first fucking scene you can clearly distinguish sam and dean's character clear as day. their motivations, their dreams, their hopes, all of it. it's established so well. their dynamic is unmatched. does it also have a lot of garbage? yes for sure. because what in the name of hell was that episode with bugs? what glue were they sniffing when they green lit that one? no seriously... I wanna try some.

but then they recovered, cause they did faith. my god, what an episode. WHAT AN EPISODE. that motherfucking reaper haunts my every waking hour

like yeah, I love me some baby dean and baby sam going on their small scale ghost hunts while learning deep lessons about who they are as people and what they want from life.

also that 'laugh I nearly died' needle drop? where sam sees jess? god tier editing, GOD TIER.

then they came back with season 2. and here is my most controversial opinion that should not be controversial at all, season 2 is the best season of supernatural to ever supernatural.

what is and what should never be, hollywood babylon, heart, nightshifter, and the whole fucking season actually. not a single miss in my humble opinion. and that finale? THAT FINALE. beautiful, magnificent. ground breaking character writing, everything comes full circle while simultaneously opening up new plot lines to explore.

and my god, yellow eyes is an epic villain. he is a very viciously written villain like, he's... my god. it ain't a walk in the park writing villains, believe you me patient readers, villains are harder to write than the protagonists, always. well, at least the compelling ones are.

now season 3 suffered because of the writer's strike, but didn't miss much either. like yeah some of the hits don't hit as hard as the season 2, but hey, mystery spot, time is on my side, ghostfacers, bedtime stories are nothing to laugh about. those episodes are fucking solid, like most of the season. and there is so much raw emotion is sam's need to save dean, it just makes my weak winchester brothers loving heart throb a little too hard. also...

need I say more?

does the show did look little more washed out and boring? yes. but it's cool, cause we're moving on to season 4.

listen, I kinda just wanna leave all my season's critique at this. i mean, yeah this. this is it. this is the long and short of it; castiel. i don't think i need to get anymore into it

so season 5 is just—

i'm kidding. obviously i'm gonna talk about season 4, at length.

listen, being able to introduce angels this late in the game and then have them be a such perfectly hidden players is a masterstroke of genius. it just is. i am a writer guys... apart from the relentless fanfic as well lol. and when i tell you, introducing a new big player which is also (not so) secretly the next big bad and playing it off as smoothly as they did in season 4, is beyond hard. but the biggest home run these fuckers hit is castiel and the best part is they weren't aiming for a one lol. and oh oh, the way they use their very VERY limited budget to show wings with just flashing the fucking light? CINEMA! that's fucking cinema right there man. i work on film sets, i am telling you, this is the smartest filmmaking choice they make on the entire show. it adds so much visual intrigue while being so awfully easy to execute. BRILLIANt.

now i cannot talk about supernatural without talking about the deancas romance of it all, which i understand not everyone can see or wants to, which is fine. to each their own. you consume art the way you want to, i don't care much as long as you can acknowledge that castiel and dean's friendship was just some of the best written television that mankind has ever seen. is that too grand a statement? yes. does that make it any less true? no.

they even brought back the moody lighting.

and then there's the episodes this season, most of which are home runs in their own regard. just like beautiful writing, the character development for cas, for dean, for sam, even the late john winchester is wild. anna is a wonderful addition, so is uriel, and alastair? they don't make villains like him anymore, they just fucking don't. AND THAT GODDAMN PLOT TWIST AT THE END? man! the finale was just... too good. Chuck's introduction is absolutely wonderful, even if they ruin him by the end but that happens a decade later so wtv, who cares? But,,,, Jimmy. Fucking. Novak. That's all. that's the tweet. yeah. i'm gonna end the season 4 fan fair with jimmy.

moving to season 5.

subjectively speaking, this is my fucking favorite. this season is a writer's dream while also being their goddamn nightmare. so many WONDERFUL characters to play with and such a grand plot but you get to see it all on a very small, consumable scale which is just... it's too smart for me to not mention. i won't start naming the plot points and neither will i name my favourite episodes because what even is the point? all of it was fucking perfect. you don't understand how hard it is to develop characters to such an extent that they become so familiar to the audience that they know their next move before you even put it on the screen. and supernatural had that. they tied everything together with so much care and consideration, just... AAAH so good.

a special shoutout goes to endverse!cas, crowley and death this season. you all know it in your bones that those three were just the absolute scene stealers. especially death's introduction... immaculate.

they did lose a few points for not being as aesthetically pleasing as the past few seasons but hey, gabriel was enough to make a smooth recovery.

but this... this is the end of the road for me people. season 5 is where it should have ended. in no way shape or form am i saying that there aren't a few good episodes here and there after this, because there are. i think season 5 was so fucking solid, tied up so many goddamn lose ends and then just put a cute little hell shaped bow on top and i just... yeah. this was and should have been the end of the road. do not get me wrong, i love me some jack kline, charlie bradbury, kevin tran, rowena macleod and eileen lahey but were they worth the bullshit ending i had to sit through? not really.

i absolutely think if there weren't more episodes of supernatural I would never have become a destiel fan, because i started shipping them when dean made cas a mixtape in season TWELVE! but my god, the good times were so scattered amongst the horseshit that even when i found those hidden gems, they were so fucking drenched in the stink that they lost their value.

the worst of it all is that, i cannot explain to you what supernatural means to me in a million words, because it is a part of me, heart and soul. i fucking AM castiel. i am a gay little angel you hear me? i love this show. i do. i'm glad it went on for however long it did but i feel like once in a while i need to write shit like this or read shit like this to remind myself of the show that it used to be. of it's beautiful cinematography, of it's clever little storytelling techniques. of it's wonderful cast. of how epic their song choices used to be.

FUcking RENEGADE? iconic. wanted, dead or alive? cannot hear the song without hearing sam's off tune goat bleating that he called singing along.

i need to remind myself of how afraid i used to be of lucifer. of how much i cried while watching dark side of the moon; when dean and sam burst the crackers, and how i learnt the lyrics to knocking on heaven's door just because of that scene.

sometimes i just have to walk through memory lane and look back at gabriel's death, the good one, the only one. it was so fucking meaningful. i have to think of "we are making it up as we go" to be able to breathe properly because those moments were so fucking beautiful.

fuck the big ones, i even remind myself of the small ones, of dean's handwriting being in all caps, just like him. of sam's fucking huge laptop with that weird blue black sticker in the middle. of castiel's tie, that just was the right shade of blue, and hung all wrong but just naturally enough to add so much more to his character than any fucking dialogue could. every small little detail of supernatural that made it so damn supernatural. i miss it all.

idk. i'm rambling. whatever.

#superntural #dean winchester #sam winchester #castiel #deancas #destiel #spn #spn season 1 #spn season 2 #spn season 3 #spn season 4 #spn season 5 #dean #cas #sam #dean and sam #i think it'll add onto this post later #as i think of more things #because you best believe i will

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i-am-the-niche · 1 month

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Percy Jackson Analysis ep.1

(did that sound vaguely pretentious? I feel like a need a funny name for this)

SO SORRY it took me this long. To be truthful I put on My Happy Marriage to listen to while refining my notes, I'm not a huge romance lover so I didn't think I would get that invested but then I proceeded to binge the whole thing...

anyways go watch My Happy Marriage, it messed me up in the best ways

On to my children, the way I wrote these notes was chronological, including lines I thought were powerful and thoughts I had while watching, enjoy my sub-tier analysis

To start with I think the casting, as well as most of the acting in the show, is phenomenal. There are some acting scenes which aren't great, but the nice things about child actors is that they grow and improve

iconic opening line 10000000/10

blackjack cameo? *chefs kiss*

One thing that really stands out to me regarding young Percy in school is that the bullying is portrayed so well. Like, sure some kids get punched but more often it's whispers, snide comments, teachers not doing enough to stop it. Not to mention when you have mental health problems or neurodivergency on top of that it makes it even harder to fit in and gain help from authority figures. There's no way teachers weren't aware of how Percy was being treated (we even see this in the books with mortals that don't care about him getting picked on by other mortals, think sea of monsters)

GROVER!!! I know I already ranted about the casting but Aryan just does such a good job. I hope in later seasons we see him more than we did in the books.

I'm UNHEALTHILY OBSESSED at the idea that mythomagic cards are to help train halfbloods. It also gets me thinking about season 3 interactions between little Nico and Percy. But it's incredibly clever to have a game that would entice children to learn more about the monsters they're likely to face against. It's also a clever marketing move irl.

Once again great portrayal of bullying while still keeping the show appropriate for kids

UNREALISTIC their paper would never be printed with color ink /lh

I really enjoy how they displayed dyslexia, it seems very accurate to descriptions.

"how it makes you feeeeel"

The lines about not everyone who looks like a hero being a hero and not everyone who looks like a monster being a monster is some of the best foreshadowing I've ever seen. It perfectly foreshadows Luke, Medusa, and generally captures one of the major points of Uncle Ricks books.

the hold fast line being used through the series *chefs kiss*

One thing I stand by in both the books and series is that I was incredibly disappointed in how little Chiron directly stood up for Percy- even in regards to mortals. Like yeah ok he's gonna be a hero but he's also twelve, help the poor boy!

The bullying Dodds shows Percy is also very accurate to real life. I've had many teachers who straight up bully kids just like this and are never called out for it.

The utilization of the word 'Special' thought the series is a great example of how "PoLite EUpHEmiSm' and often weaponized and used as derogatory terms and serves as an example of why many push for using terms like disabled over differently abled.

"childhood trauma, feelings of inadequacy" DAMN GROVER just going for the jugular, pop off. love how the show incorporates realistic convos kids would have. This instance and other little side bars we see throughout the show add something that I often find missing in television throughout all generas. it's incredibly important to have realistic convos to help solidify characters as people.

"Never ever stand up to them" "that doesn't sound right" THIS LINE 10000000/10

"there you are" we're not fools Percy Jackson

I did feel like this should have been Perseus Jackson seeing as how it's pretty canonical that monsters and gods alike only refer to him using his full name, adding on the the names have power theme that permeates throughout the series.

trauma for days

"is he dead?"

Chiron low-key being the embodiment of gaslighting, girl boss, gatekeep

UNCLE RICK CAMEO!!!

realist portrayal of adults already having their mind made up and children being unable to do anything except tell their story over and over

(also does Kronos speak to Percy in his dreams as the school principal? I genuinely can't remember, if so Kronos sure knows how to embody nightmares)

I honestly wish they would have expanded more on both how guilty grover would have felt rating Percy out (even if it means protecting him) and also how betrayed Percy would have felt. his fatal flaw is loyalty, grover was his very first and very best friend, he only really has his mother, this would have been a huge punch in the gut.

anyone else feel like grover and Percy should have been interviewed separately?

I'm sorry, I have to complain about the lighting in this show. WHY IS IT SO DARK? THIS ISNT SHOWN IN THEATERS! MY EYES ARENT THIS GOOD. IM SQUINTING TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT IS ON THE TV!! WHYYYYY??!?!

"at least I know you think you didnt" -not helpful Chiron :/ shame on you

"you might have the most difficult journey" great foreshadowing

'SPeCiaL'

I know there was lots of discussion about how Gabe wasn't abusive 'enough' but often times abuse isn't easy to see or what TV leads you to believe. The show keeps it age appropriate while also showing how much of a leech and how controlling he is (answering Sally's phone, not wanting her to leave to the beach). Honestly I might make a separate post on this but at the moment I'm tired of seeing ignorant people claim that Gabe wasn't aggressive enough or that Sally wasn't meek enough to be abused.

I was disappointed that Eddie became a 'good' character instead of showing how abusive adults often have buddies backing them up

It's realistic Percy would talk to Gabe even though he's a dick, kids want to make connections

Sally in the rain- reference to Poseidon 10/10

Sally is just happy to see him :')

"all that matters is that your here, ok?" aww

BLUE FOOD!!!

"Is there something else you wanna talk about" mom knows

"I'm scared" damn does that resonate

once more just because Sally isn't portrayed as meek doesn't mean that that whole interaction wasn't unhealthy and abusive

di angelo reference! even if it's not our di angelo the name choice was incredibly purposeful

"it's getting angrier" personification of the storm lends well to Zeus and Poseidon

love PJO dream sequences

"who are you" does Kronos not know who Percy is? Gonna be real this confuses me, am I missing something obvious?

Sally was crying??!?!

the race from the car to the cabin is another example of the writers (and actors) creating realistic people you can connect to. the nostalgia that hit me in this scene was POTENT

It's so so so important to have a place to escape to as an abuse victim, and as a teen in general. Scratch that, just people in general need places to escape to which makes the cabin even more significant

Percy's self deprecating marshmallow talk :(

"I'm used to the world feeling weird to me" neurodivergency and mental health issues can create very isolating atmospheres making community important -camp is that community

Uncle Rick does a great job creating metaphores regarding discrimination and ableism

It's so hard to tell someone you trust and love that you think something is wrong, especially as a child. Walker did a fantastic job capturing all the mixed up emotions that occur.

"something that felt real to you but no one else could see" once again significant to neurodivergency and mental health

I don't personally like the choice to have Sally tell Percy that his father is a god. The acting in the scene also just rubs me really wrong - it feels fake. I think I enjoyed the book version better with him never receiving a clear answer until camp, and even then you can debate on how "clear" it was.

I would be freaking out so much more that Walker if my mom approached the subject like this. It would be incredibly frightening to think your mom was going insane alongside you.

"there is something wrong with my brain" once again, uncle Rick reaches out of the screen/pages to hit me where it hurts

"I don't want to see him" the betrayal he feels :(

grover pants scene (I feel no need to elaborate on this note, it was by far the funniest scene of the episode 1000000000+

"so the important thing is not to panic"

"who are you" nooo he's ur friend don't do this to me :(((

I love grover

very nice natural lead into explaining the mist

The show is unfortunately hit with the complex issue of trying to provide context to an audience who already knows and is eager to see the action. I know there were many criticisms about it but I will say my mother, who didn't read the books, felt she had a firm grasp on the lore of the show, so that counts for something?

"what else haven't we talked about, what else haven't you told me" broken trust :(((

"I'm actually 24" NOW IS NOT THE TIME GROVER

"won't all of us be safe" ha... about that

"swear it, SWEAR IT GROVER" damn, okay sally

again, WHY IS THE LIGHTING SO DARK?!?! I know it helps hide cgi but we know there's gonna be CGI in a show abt monsters and myths

"you are not broken, you are singular" amazing foreshadowing

Sally is bamf

trauma

the choice to make things silent after Sally 'dies' *chefs kiss once again

I just really love the shot of Percy surfing down the monster dust

"he must be the one" :)))

hope y'all enjoyed :)

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echowithpain · 3 months

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So Season 7 Episode 6, (the episode that'll be after the two week break) is apparently titled,

"There Goes The Groom"

...

Dumbass glasses going on in 3,

Alright! Let's see what we're working with here. *nods at title* Mhm, I understand:

✨Chimney is gonna get kidnapped and the entire episode is gonna revolve around finding him and getting him back in time for the wedding✨

Okay let me explain a bit. "There Goes the Groom" is basically the opposite of "Here Comes the Bride" and obviously we don't even want to consider Chim running out of the wedding so scratch that off your lists.

Another way that can be taken is like the other play on words "There Goes the Neighborhood" where something/one moves in and it's so bad that it's making everything worse just by being there, so I guess that could be interpreted by either Chim's dad being there and stressing him out so much he wants to leave for some space, or it could be the Buckley parents being horrible people and Chim wants to leave for some air (also when I say leave I mean like step outside or go for a quick walk, not leaving Maddie). While on the walk he notices someone is hurt in a car accident and goes to help only for them to come to and drive off all crazy like that one scene in season I can't remember where Buck had to chase them down on a bike-

HOLY SHIT SCRATCH EVERYTHING I JUST SAID OH MY FUCKING GOD!!! THE UNIVERSE JUST SLAPPED THE DUMBASS GLASSES RIGHT OFF MY FACE!!!

I literally JUST remembered there was a movie in the 90's called There Goes The Neighborhood and I think that's actually what it's referring to!!!

In the movie there's a shit ton of money buried in the basement of this house that was stolen from a mafia casino or something like that (it's been a bit since I've watched it lol) and a bunch of people are trying to get to it! You know what made me think of this???

THIS PICTURE!!!

Why is this picture important??? CAUSE IT REMINDED ME OF THIS PICTURE!!!!

AND WHAT WERE THEY DOING IN THIS PICTURE?!?!? LOOKING FOR THE MONEY AN AUTHOR HID AWAY FOR A WORLDWIDE TREASURE HUNT!!!!

YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT ELSE I NOTICED????

THE JET CRASHING INTO SOMEONES HOUSE! IT COULD BREAK UP THE CONCRETE AND REVEAL EITHER A HIDDEN BASEMENT OR THE FIRST SIGNS THATS SOMETHINGS BURIED UNDERNEATH THE PLACE THAT'LL HAVE THE BOX THAT THEYRE OPENING IN THE FIRST PIC YOU GUYS!!!!

And then because it's in police custody, there could be a race to break into the police station to see who can unlock the box and see what's inside first without getting caught! I don't know about y'all but those lights and that ceiling in the first pic make me think of the evidence room in a police station lmao. This could be a super fun episode guys omg!!!!

Oh my fucking god it's actually starting to make sense (or maybe the dumbass glasses are still halfway on) because in this pic (moreso the second one but they came together so you get both):

It looks like they were moving stuff out of the destroyed house, hence why the chair is out on the front lawn, and as they get to the basement, destroyed from the jet, that's when they find the random locked box that goes into police custody because the officers don't know what's in it. Drugs? Weapons? A bomb? Nuke launch codes?? ... Money? 👀✨

>:3

And because there's paperwork that needs to be done and phone calls that need to be made before they can even look inside the box, that's when people start to guess about what's inside

This pic could be Ravi pitching the idea to Buck and Eddie for the three of them to go see what's in the box for themselves which could lead to Buddie leading him away and definitely asking him in private, "Are you saying you want to break into the police station and snoop around in their evidence just to see what's in a random box we found?"

And Ravi goes, "Yeah, don't you?"

And Buck goes, "You do realize how dangerous that is right? Breaking into a police station with officers everywhere?"

And Eddie goes, "Not to mention the box should still be locked. What's your plan then?"

And it goes back and forth and Ravi slowly convinces them to join him and help him out. Insert shenanigans and a lot of distractions and close calls before they finally get to the now unlocked box that's!!!...

Completely empty.

(inserting pic again for reference, if that's not a WTF?! face on Ravi then idk what is. They're even wearing gloves so they don't get caught 😂)

But how could it be empty? They heard stuff rustling around in it when they found it and moved it out of the basement. That's when the show can do the fun thing they do where they go back and tell the story!!!

But where does the groom part come in? Idk maybe it was Chim's bachelor party but because of the jet crashing it was an all hands on deck where firefighters who didn't have a shift had to come in to help? Or maybe they were planning the bachelor party but plans keep getting interrupted with calls. Who knows? We certainly won't until May 2nd lol

Maybe the whole breaking into the police station was Chim just joking around about how it could be money and they could use it to help pay for the wedding, and then Ravi took the idea and actually did it with Buck and Eddie. I have no idea! But I do know, this has the potential to be a really fun episode. The first on the new network!

And by fun episodes I mean like Oceans 9-1-1, Jinx, Treasure Hunt, Brawl in Cell Block 9-1-1, Cursed. Episodes you're watching and can feel yourself getting invested or just having a good time (I wanna say the full moon episode and Karma's a bitch from season 1 but I didn't like the cheating Hen storyline or Abby's character. Why start off the show with one of your married lesbians cheating on the other? Also I just didn't like Abby's character lmao)

The cruise ship disaster is gonna take 3 episodes and while I'm sure there's gonna be fun moments, it's mostly gonna be drama focused with trying to make sure Bobby and Athena are safe. Then we got episode 100 the Buck musical extravaganza 🤡 but because it's the 100th episode I won't count it cause people expect it to be fun (or full of pain, who knows with this show) and then there's "You Don't Know Me"... I doubt we're gonna be having fun.

Anyway those are my thoughts! Dumbass glasses are being safely stored away until next time✨ (along with my clown makeup 🤡) And again, if Episode 6 isn't exactly like how I said, word for word, then literally unwatchable 😤

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darishima · 10 months

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i'm sure somebody else has posted about this already but here's an analysis of all the wanted posters at the end of the new one piece live action trailer!!

alvida's the most obvious one of course. below hers you can see part of a foxy wanted poster, and another poster i'll get to later

this one was interesting, we're not gonna see bellamy this season, probably not even the next one (unless they change his introduction to be sooner?) but it was an awesome touch, his actor looks great

this one was FASCINATING actually, cavendish reveal THIS EARLY?? he's not gonna show up for another, like, 26 arcs. he was cast insanely well though like. god damn that really is cavendish couldn't have gotten a better actor

this, again, was really interesting? foxy's not gonna show up for a while either, why bother casting him now? what is shown of his face looks great, though, and by "great" i mean "absolutely fucking stupid." as it should

the wanted poster next to foxy is completely torn, but i'm pretty sure it's buggy? the poster is slightly blurry in the trailer so this is the best screencap of it i could get, but its clearly got some orange/red and a yellowish border like his hat, and i think those two tiny white spots by the black border might be the edge of his jolly roger?

here's a screencap of his hat from the same trailer, and it seems to match up. i mean, im doing this off a couple of pixels of color so it's hard to tell, but having his wanted poster up would make sense at this point in the story so i'm going with it

this poster is near cavendish's, and it's super small and only part of it is shown but it clearly says "ONG" so i'm pretty certain this is arlong's poster

this poster is by foxy's, and at first i thought it was another poster of bellamy but the shirt area doesn't seem to match up. comparing the blue background color and the white shirt stripe on the right side, it looks similar to arlong's poster, so i think it's another of him

this poster is below alvida's and uh. honestly i have no clue who this is. it doesn't look anything like the other posters we're shown in this shot and there's not nearly enough of it shown to make a guess on which character's it is, so idk. if you have an idea on who this could be please lmk in the reblogs/comments

i almost had a heart attack when i saw this propaganda poster, i saw "EAD DISEASE" and thought it said "amber lead disease" for half a second but no. it says "pirates spread disease" :( thought we were getting law foreshadowing </3

also, with cavendish, bellamy's, and foxy's posters all being shown this early, i wonder if their introduction will come sooner?? because like, the other posters are alvida, arlong, and buggy (probably), all characters who are prominent characters at this point in the story, but cavendish doesn't show up until DRESSROSA. why is he here? also, foxy's from the south blue, bellamy's from the north blue, and cavendish is from the grand line. why are their wanted posters in the east blue, and not somebody currently plot-relevant and location-relevant, like don krieg or other members of arlong's crew? the only reasons i can think of are that their introductions are changed to be much sooner. not sure how that would work with cavendish but it wouldn't be too hard to have foxy or bellamy show up sooner for some reason. or, the more likely reason, it's just easter eggs for the hardcore fans. like me. who spent way too long analyzing like three pixels of color to see if a wanted poster was buggy's. (which is really cool but the logic of why a northern, southern, and grand line pirates' wanted posters are here in the east blue doesn't really make any sense but hey)

also, look at koby <3 he's so cute i love him so much

#reblogs are super appreciated btw i spent way too long making this post #one piece #one piece live action #op live action #opla #one piece analysis #one piece theories #op netflix #one piece netflix #casey post

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Desert Rose

Chapter 33 ~ Woodbury

✧ Pairing : Daryl Dixon x Rose

✧ Era : Season 3

✧ Word Count : 6.8k

In this chapter ~ When saving the random injured woman that walked right up to their gates, she informs them of something terrible. Glenn and Maggie had been captured and taken to a town, leading the others to not hesitate as they formulated some kind of plan to get them back.

I finally unlocked the gate once she hit the ground, quickly running over and stabbing the few walkers that were just beginning to bend down and grab her. I ripped the blade out of their skulls, spinning around to kill off the ones that were now coming at me. As I kicked one in the chest harshly, preparing to throw my knife at its head, it suddenly fell to the ground as a gunshot was fired from behind me.

My head whipped around to see Rick standing there pointing his revolver, nodding to me as he tucked it away and began to rush over.

"Is she bit?" I heard Hershel ask from inside the gate, coming down upon hearing all the noise.

My gaze moved down towards her injury to look closer, glancing down at her leg as I shook my head, "Gunshot." I replied, "Rick help me get her up, Carl grab the supplies." I ordered and lifted her arm up over one of my shoulders, while Rick did the same with her other.

All four of us made our way back to the prison as quickly as possible, moving fast to get her inside and away from the lone walkers that still lingered. Once we made our way in through the heavy doors, Rick told Beth to get some water and a blanket, along with a towel for her wound. Carl set the blanket down on the ground towards the door, watching as we slowly lowered her onto the soft material, sitting her upright as her head continued to hang downward.

Beth returned quickly, handing us the things Rick requested and watched as he opened the bottle, beginning to pour the water over her face so she would wake. Her eyes blinked open only seconds later at the feeling, breathing heavily as she looked up to all of us in obvious fear.

I raised my hand out as I saw she was about to get up, "Hey, hey, it's okay." I assured her calmly.

She eyed me for a moment, before jumping to the side to try and reach for her weapon sitting close by, Rick quickly kicking it away from her before she could touch it, "No. We're not going to hurt you unless you try something stupid first, alright?" he spoke.

"Rose?"

I turned around when I heard the familiar voice, seeing Daryl coming out of the cellblock from behind us and I gave him a small smile. He didn't return it however, only looking confused and defensive as he slowly walked over, "Who the hell is this?"

Rick looked back to the woman with a tilt of his head, "You want to tell us your name?"

She didn't say anything, only staring right back at him with a cold glare and her lips sealed shut. My arm was then being slowly pulled away from her by my elbow, looking back to see Daryl as he eyed her suspiciously, "Oh for the love of God." I muttered to myself.

"Hey, I heard that." he said.

"Well, I said it loud." I replied with a sarcastic smile.

He rolled his eyes and swung his arm around my shoulders to pull me back further, turning back towards the group, "Y'all come on in here for a sec. Yer gonna want to see this."

The man guided me back into the cellblock gently, leading into an occupied room where a figure was lying down on the bed. It took me a moment to process who it was but once I knew for sure, I quickly tackled her in a hug. She laughed lightly and hugged me back while placing a kiss on the side of my head. I couldn't believe it was Carol.

Everyone told me when Daryl and Maggie were out on that run, that her and T-Dog sadly didn't make it when all the chaos erupted. Though I guess my mind was too clouded with the thoughts of Lori and the baby to fully process what they meant by "didn't make it." But now that I saw her physically standing in front of me, I was so relieved she was alright.

Rick quickly moved in next, swinging his arms around her just as I did with a breath, "Poor thing fought her way into a cell, must've passed out. Dehydrated." Daryl informed.

She finished greeting Rick and Hershel with tearful eyes, making her way down the line as Beth then stood right in front of her with the baby in her arms. She gasped lightly and turned towards Rick with a shocked smile, but her face immediately dropped when she noticed the solemn look on his features, apologizing profusely as she placed a hand on his cheek.

I pressed my lips together and shut my eyes, feeling Daryl's hand start to rub my back soothingly. The memories only came flooding back as I watched Carol process the loss of whom she considered a friend. I heard Carl sniff next to me and I instantly wrapped my arm around his shoulders and placed a kiss on his head as he leaned further into me. We all had a moment of silence after that, for Lori, for T-Dog, and it was much needed as we honored our time we had with them. Even if it seemed short.

But I noticed out of the corner of my eye, the woman had got up from where she was sitting and stood behind the door watching us. Though it wasn't in a way that made me uncomfortable. She looked at all of us huddled together as if she felt sorry, like she somehow knew we lost someone important.

And just from that one look, I could tell she was a good person. Not someone we needed to be threatened by.

After a few moments, we left Beth and the baby alone with Carol, knowing that she needed to rest but didn't want to be left completely alone. The rest of us walked back out into the common room, seeing the woman sitting on one of the tables as she waited for us to return. Sensing that we would want the full story on how she found us.

"We can tend to your wound, give you a little food and water and then send you on your way. But you're gonna have to tell us how you found us, and why you were carrying formula." Rick said.

Her gaze remained on him for a long moment before she finally spoke, "The supplies were dropped by a young Asian guy, with a pretty girl."

My heart sank to my ass and I instantly got chills; I should've gone with them. "What happened?" I asked her.

"They were taken." she said as she released a breath.

"Taken by who?" Rick stepped in.

"By the same son of a bitch who shot me." she responded bluntly.

Rick waited for her to go on, to tell us more about what she knew because there always seemed to be more, but she grew silent. He clearly didn't have the patience nor the time, the next thing I knew I was watching him approach her more threateningly, "Hey these are our people, you tell us what happened now!" he yelled while putting pressure on her wound.

She gasped in pain and shoved him away harshly, "Don't you ever touch me again!" she yelled back.

Daryl quickly raised his crossbow in her face as he watched her outburst, "You'd better start talkin. Or yer gonna have a much bigger problem than a gunshot wound." he said lowly.

"Hey!" I yelled, "She was talking to us, I don't think it's necessary to put a bolt in between her eyes." I snapped as I shoved Daryl's weapon out of her face.

She looked at me with a somewhat grateful expression as I turned back to face her, "You obviously came here for a reason...just tell us what you know." I spoke softly.

She paused and stared at me for a moment before sighing heavily at the information she was about to give, "There's a town, Woodbury. About seventy-five survivors, I think your people were taken there."

"A whole town?" Rick asked from beside me.

I immediately pushed his chest so he would back up, "Nope, no, you lost your privilege. I'm talking to her now." I spoke.

He rolled his eyes but backed off, "It's run by this guy who calls himself The Governor. Pretty boy, charming, Jim Jones type." she continued.

"He has muscle?" I asked.

"Paramilitary wannabes," she replied, "They have armed sentries on every wall."

"Do you know a way in?"

"The place is secure from walkers, but we could slip our way through. We'd have to be slow, careful, but it's possible."

I stopped for a moment as it dawned on me how easily she got back here, "How did you know where to find us?"

"They mentioned a prison, said which direction it was in. Said it was a straight shot." she informed.

I just nodded my head as I put all the pieces together. She knew where they were, how to get in, and seemed willing to help us for the time being. I figured if we left within an hour we could get them back here by tomorrow, already working out some kind of plan in my head. But my eyes then traveled down towards the gash in her leg, knowing she wouldn't be able to go anywhere without having it fixed up.

"Hershel?" I called, watching him get up from his place, "This is Hershel, the father of the girl who was taken. He can help you with your wound, he's a doctor." I said to the woman.

She stayed silent, though nodded in appreciation.

I sent her a small smile before turning back around to head towards the cellblock, passing by the two men standing behind me as I smiled to myself, "That's how you get information. I thought you'd have that down by now sheriff." I spoke knowingly before patting his shoulder as I passed by.

I could almost hear Rick rolling his eyes from behind me, but I know I definitely heard Daryl mumble, "That's my girl."

We were quick to gather the rest of the group in the smaller space, now going back and forth with one another about what our next move would be. I tried to put my worry aside for Maggie and Glenn, but it was hard considering they were my best friends. We hardly knew anything about this town or the people behind the walls, leaving us clueless about what could be happening to them. But I couldn't panic, I just had to get them out of there. If I were to panic I knew I would just want to go in there guns blazing. But we had to think it through so we could surely get them out of there alive.

"How do we know we can trust her?" Oscar asked.

My brow furrowed as I looked at him, "You really think she just showed up to drop off some supplies, making up a story along the way? She wants to help."

"This is Maggie and Glenn, why are we even debating?" Beth slightly snapped, watching the conversation going around in too many circles.

"We ain't." Daryl said, "I'll go after em."

"Not alone." I quickly corrected, "We need the numbers in case things get bad with these people."

Beth raised up her hand, "I'll go." she offered.

"Me too." Axel stepped in.

Oscar paused for a minute, before finally giving in and nodding to himself, "I'm in."

In the end of our little discussion that took far too long for my liking, we decided to split the group in half. One would stay here and keep an eye on things just in case, while a handful of us would head out to get them back. I knew it wasn't going to be easy, but I was prepared for anything. Anything if it meant getting the two of them back here safe.

I was walking out of the prison with my weapons, heading over to the car we were taking to place them in the trunk, when I saw Daryl slip on his leather vest from just a couple feet away. I didn't fail to notice how he seemed to wear it all the time just as he promised, the memory alone bringing a small smile to my face.

Carl stood rummaging around in the back of the car, helping place some extra supplies inside as I walked up next to him to do the same. I took everything off my shoulders, emptying my hands into the trunk of the vehicle, before I looked over to the kid who now stood there glancing around worriedly.

"Hey, what's wrong?" I asked, getting down to his level.

He shrugged, "Just...be careful out there. I...I can't lose you too."

My heart broke slightly at his words, and I didn't hesitate to pull him in for a hug, "You won't lose me, okay?" I whispered, "We're going to go, and bring Glenn and Maggie back safe, it's all gonna be fine."

He nodded his head against my shoulder, but his grip only tightened on me, his hat tipping a little off of his head. I pulled away after only a few moments, looking him in the eye as I adjusted the large hat atop his head.

"Take care of things around here, yeah? I don't care what your dad says, you're in charge." I spoke with a growing smile.

Though trying to suppress it at first, he managed a smile too as he nodded, "Okay."

Our attention was then pulled from one another as Rick called his name from the right, causing him to send me a subtle thumbs up before he was backing off towards his dad.

My eyes followed him for a moment before I slammed the trunk shut, watching everyone start to pile inside the vehicle after finishing up their goodbyes. I scanned the small area where our people stood outside to see us out, waving one last time at the remaining few before my eyes then caught sight of Beth. She stood a bit slumped by the front gate, waiting to open it for us when we were finally ready to leave, but I couldn't help but frown at the saddened look she had on her face.

In my mind, she was having some of the same thoughts that Carl was moments ago, tugging at my heartstrings as I slowly walked over to talk to her before we left.

The second I got close enough, she spoke first, "Do you have to go?" she asked quietly.

I gave her a sad smile, "Yeah...I do. But don't worry I'll be back before you know it, and I'll bring your sister home safe."

She looked up at me, tears glazing over her eyes, "What am I supposed to do if both of my sisters are gone?" she asked.

It took me a moment before the realization hit me on what she meant, making it even harder to leave than it was before. "Oh honey," I sighed as I brought her into a hug, "I'll be safe out there, I promise. I'll come back."

She nodded her head tearfully, giving me one final squeeze before letting me go, giving me a small smile of reassurance before slowly heading back over to the gate to open it for us. At the sound of a honk, I turned to see an arm sticking out the car window, waving me back so we could move. I waved at her one last time before rushing back over towards the vehicle, hopping in the backseat as Rick didn't hesitate to drive off in an instant, determined to get our people back.

We had been on the road for about an hour or two before we pulled over to the side once we got close enough to the destination. The woman informed us that at this point we would be better off on foot as to not draw more attention to us. She said it was no more than two more miles to the town, leading us to walk through some kind of short cut through the woods. I mostly kept to myself as we moved, trying to listen for anything nearby while also trying not to think too much about what would happen once we were inside. It was no secret that I was worried, we all were, yet we seemed to keep it from one another as if we weren't thinking the exact same things about the situation.

My eyes only looked up once I noticed Rick and Daryl having some kind of hushed conversation, one that I was just out of earshot to hear. That alone only reminded myself of the talk he tried to have with me, knowing that he hadn't forgotten about it either. But it was safe to say now wasn't exactly the time to get all sappy with one another. I would avoid it forever if I could.

The sounds of sudden snarls quickly caught all of our attention at once, instantly getting low to the ground as if it were a chain reaction. But we all realized that there were far too many for them to just ignore us and move on. We tried to kill most of the ones approaching us fast, stabbing each of them with our handheld weapons, but soon realized after a few moments that there were too many of them to take by ourselves. With one wide eyed glance at each other, none of us hesitated to run further down the path in a line, away from the remaining dead ones.

Our breaths were heavy as we trucked through the trees, passing by dirt roads, trying to avoid the walkers reach. They were still hot on our trail, all the way up until we spotted a small cabin tucked away behind the greenery, making a beeline for it to hide out in there. Daryl was the first to make it to the entrance, tugging and pushing on it though it was locked from the inside. In a state of panic, Rick pushed him aside as he began kicking it repeatedly, before the door finally flew open with a loud slam, the lock shattering.

Rick went in first with his flashlight raised high, followed by the rest of us as we quickly shut the door before the walkers could get too close. As soon as I stepped in, I gagged at the smell that filled the entire house, the stench almost bringing me to my knees. The rest had the same reaction that I did, covering their noses with their arms as they scoped the place out.

"That smell is loud." Daryl said while trying to figure out where it was coming from.

Rick looked over at me as I continued to obviously struggle, "You okay?" he asked as he breathed through his mouth.

I nodded my head, swallowing the lump in my throat, "Yeah...just trying not to puke."

"Fair enough." he replied, turning back around to follow Daryl through the quiet house.

The rest of us slowly trailed behind them, looking at the many shelves lined up with a bunch of junk and a desk scooted off towards the side, "What the hell is that?" Oscar asked from beside me.

I followed his line of sight right as Daryl peered over, "Gotta be a fox...or what's left of one." he muttered as we all stared at the dead rotting animal just barely a few feet away from us.

Rick shined his flashlight over the animal, "It's a dog." I stated while covering my nose.

"Guess Lassie went home." Daryl said with a smirk on his face, bumping my shoulder as he expected me to laugh.

I raised my eyebrows in faux amusement with a nod, "Hilarious." I deadpanned before moving past him to scope out the rest of the space.

There was now loud banging at the front door, the walkers catching up and trying to claw their way inside. We all whipped our heads toward the sound, but were relieved that none of them were successful, seeing someone had propped a chair up against the handle.

Everyone continued to spread out, but I paused in my tracks as I saw a thick blanket covering something rather big. I let out a single whistle to grab their attention, Rick and Daryl at my side within seconds to see what I had found. Without hesitation, Rick placed his hand over the material, silently counting down with his other hand before ripping the thing off quickly.

A man instantly jumped up from where he was laying, pointing a gun at all of our faces as he began to panic with wide eyes, "Who the hell are you?!" he asked loudly.

"Woah, woah, we don't mean any harm." Rick said calmly.

"Get out of my house!" he yelled.

Rick put a hand out in front of him, trying to put some distance between us and the wielding weapon, "Okay, okay. We will, but we can't right now."

"Now!" he demanded.

"Shut him up." the woman snapped harshly, noting the dead corpses outside now banging even louder to try and get in.

"Get out right now!" he yelled again.

I had enough as I snapped in his direction "Hey!" I whisper yelled, "There are walkers outside. Do you have a death wish or something?" I said through gritted teeth.

He paused for a moment in genuine confusion, "I'll call the cops." he threatened.

"I am a cop, now I need you to lower the gun. Don't do anything rash, everything's fine let's just take this nice and slow...okay?" Rick said.

The man took a risky glance at the rest of us, "Look at me." Rick said to get his attention, "Hey, hey."

He suddenly aimed the gun right at Rick's head and my hand hovered over my knife, but one wave of Rick's hand was enough for me to falter, "Show me your badge!" the man demanded.

"Alright, it's in my pocket. Now I'm going to reach down nice and slow..." Rick said as his hand moved down to his pants. But as soon as the man's eyes darted away from him slightly, Rick knocked the gun out of his hands, a bullet firing off to the side as his finger hovered over the trigger.

Rick's arms immediately went around the man's shoulders in attempts to contain him, but it only spurred him on more. He flailed around and carelessly screamed in his grasp, Rick's hand flying over his mouth to try and finally silence him. But the man played dirty, biting Rick's hand harsh enough for him to groan loudly and let go.

He made a run for it towards the door the moment he was free, but the woman was one step ahead. As he barely brushed his fingertips against the handle, she took her sword and stabbed him from behind, the blade going completely through his chest before he fell limp to the ground.

I raised my eyebrows at her, "Well, that'll do it."

I could've sworn I saw a ghost of a smile appear on her face but her head snapped back towards the door, hearing just how many walkers were attracted to the man's screams. We had to act fast, cause a distraction somehow for even a sliver of a chance to get out of here.

Rick suddenly then moved towards the front in record speed, placing his ear up to the door before his eyes trailed down towards the dead stranger. He didn't waste a single second before he let out a whistle, gesturing Daryl over to give him a hand.

"You've gotta be kidding." Oscar said, knowing exactly where this was leading.

"He's dead." he obviously stated, "You and Rose check the back." he said while lifting the man up.

Oscar didn't move at first as his eyes stayed down, only snapping out of his small trance when I placed my hand on his arm, nodding back for him to follow. I pushed the door open with a creak, looking out through a small crack to see that none of the walkers had made their way back there and it was clear enough for us to make a run for it.

"Clear." I quietly yelled over to them.

They nodded before quickly throwing the man outside at my signal, slamming the door shut behind them before making their way towards us and out the back door. We all quickly sprinted right past the walkers while they were distracted with their new meal, so we could finally get back on the road.

By the time we finally made it to the gates of the small town, it was completely dark, making it even harder to see if we were being watched. We quietly stalked low to the ground, spotting an abandoned car just off to the side of the main gates, hiding us from the people on watch up at the top. We watched their movements for a few seconds, noticing how they had giant lights that were constantly scanning around the area as they looked for threats.

Everyone quickly began to get impatient just sitting there, waiting for a moment where they would falter so we could slip in like the woman said. Though right as I was thinking of a way we could all get past, she apparently decided to sneak off back towards the woods without us and all our heads snapped in her direction the second her movement hit our ears.

"Hey. Hey!" Rick whisper yelled.

She stayed behind the shadows, moving forward to God only knows whereas Rick groaned in frustration, "Alright, we need to downsize." he said.

"Ain't no way we're gonna check all them buildings. Not with all them guards there." Daryl stated while silently handing me a gun.

I took it from his hands, placing it behind my back when suddenly a branch snapped. All of us quickly had our weapons drawn, but it was the woman mouthing something to us, pointing in the direction she went off to for us to follow.

"Let's go." I said, being the first one to move forward and follow her into the dark.

Everyone quickly maneuvered through an opening she found in the gate, squeezing through quietly as she then moved towards a building that was familiar to her. She looked back to make sure we all made it through silently, before opening the door and leading us inside.

The place was completely dark and empty, noticing that we had come in through the back door as there were windows towards the front that gave us a perfect view of the rest of the town.

"This is where you were held?" I asked her.

"Where I was questioned." she corrected with a nod.

Rick stepped in, "Any idea where else they could be?"

Daryl made his way over to one of the windows and I copied his actions, moving the curtain slightly so I was able to peek through the space. The streets were lit up brightly, leaving us little to no room to be able to sneak through without getting seen. But then a few people walking on the sidewalk just outside caught my attention, laughing and having a conversation side by side.

"I thought you said there was a curfew." I said while backing up before they could catch a glimpse of me inside.

"The street is packed during the day. Those are stragglers." she informed.

Rick was getting anxious as he let out a deep sigh, "Anyone comes in here we're sitting ducks. We gotta move."

"They could be in his apartment." she said.

"Yeah? What if they ain't?" Daryl asked with harshness to his tone.

"Then we'll look somewhere else." she snapped slightly.

Rick stepped forward, getting in her face, "You said you could help us."

"I'm doing what I can."

"Then where the hell are they?" Oscar asked.

She didn't respond as she truly didn't know, thinking they could be anywhere at this point if they weren't being held here like she was. Rick was growing more impatient, whispering for us to come over and talk to him a few feet away from her.

He walked back far enough, waiting for a moment before saying, "If this goes south, we're cutting her loose." he whispered.

"No, we're not." I snapped at him.

He gave me a pointed look and I mocked his expression as if he was stupid, "She's helping us the best she can, we're not just feeding her to the wolves here. What the hell is wrong with you?" I asked unironically, before turning to walk back towards her, not caring enough to hear the rest of the conversation.

The woman stood back slightly as she looked out the windows, not paying the rest of them any mind as they were very clearly talking about her. She only minded her business, reaching down slightly to take a look at her leg, gritting her teeth a little in pain as she touched the sensitive part.

"How's your leg?" I asked her softly.

Her head snapped up to me in surprise, taking a few seconds to respond. "It's fine." she eventually muttered.

"Good." I said with a nod of my head, turning around to glance at the guys to make sure they couldn't hear me, "Sorry about them. Men, am I right?" I muttered while scrunching my nose up in disgust.

She gave the tiniest smile, nodding in agreement as I let out a huff of a laugh. But the moment was over quicker than I could even process.

Sudden knocking from the front door is what caused us all to freeze in our places. The next noise filling the outside was keys jingling in the doorhandle as the person attempted to unlock it. I cursed under my breath as I scanned the area for a place to hide, seeing a curtain that led to a small, tucked away space and made a beeline for it without a second thought. I ignored my name behind called from behind me as I quickly hid behind the thin fabric, placing my back up against the left side of the wall and holding my breath in anticipation.

But a sharp gasp left my lips in surprise when Rick barged his way in the small space, facing me as his back hit something hard behind him and he grunted in pain with tightly shut eyes.

"Hey! Go find your own place to hide." I whisper yelled.

He rubbed the sore spot, "There aren't any other places." he argued.

His feet moved around wildly as he tried to fit in the corner, stepping directly on my foot, "Ow you just stepped on my-"

He quickly covered my mouth with his hand before I could finish, and I gave him a pointed look. He raised his pointer finger to his lips, signaling me to be quiet as he listened for the person to come in and make themselves known.

"I will lick your hand." I threatened, my voice slightly muffled.

His eyes widened, "Don't." he quietly snapped.

"Then get the hell off me." I demanded, shoving his chest further away from me right as the front door finally swung open.

His back hit the same spot that it had earlier, watching as he tightly closed his eyes as he tried desperately not to make a single noise.

"I know you're in here." a male voice called out, "I saw you moving from outside."

My eyes widened as I heard the man's footsteps only getting closer to us. I hoped Rick had a plan on how to take this guy out because I sure as hell didn't know what to do. It was like the most fucked up game of hide and seek I've ever played.

"Alright now, you're not supposed to me here and you know it." the voice said again, his shadow coming right in front of the curtain as he stood there and listened.

In a single swift movement, Rick shoved the barrier out of the way and took the gun the man had in his hands, maneuvering it up towards the ceiling as a single shot was fired. His forearm was against the man's throat as he pinned him up on the wall, trying to take the weapon away from him with just one hand.

I made a move from behind our hiding spot seeing he was struggling, rushing up to the two and prying the weapon from the man's grasp as he struggled to hold onto it. Rick then saw he was defenseless, whistling for Daryl to come over as he got the man down on his knees, Daryl coming up behind him to zip tie his wrists together.

"Where are our people?" Rick asked in a cold tone, getting in front of his face.

"I- I don't know." the man stated frantically.

Rick grabbed his cheeks as his anger bubbled further, "You are holding some of our people, where the hell are they?" he asked more aggressively.

"I don't know." the man said again.

Rick tugged away from his face harshly as he walked away, letting out a deep sigh as we were nowhere closer to pinpoint them in this so-called small town.

The man then began to stutter, clearly growing more afraid as he realized how many people he was actually up against and I grew tired of that in about two seconds as my gaze trailed back down to him. Looking up to see a frying pan hung up on the nearby wall, I quickly took the handle in my hand and slammed it harshly on the back of his head. He fell limp in a split second, knocked out cold as he face planted on the ground.

"Thanks for nothing." I muttered bitterly.

That's when we all heard sudden gun fire from just outside and seeing people run frantically in the streets from the slightly opened curtains. We all looked at each other for a second before quickly making our way towards the door, Rick opening it cautiously.

He led the way to where the gun fire was shot, leading towards a random building in the middle of the town. All of us were light on our feet as we moved, trying not to draw too much attention as people rushed by us, pushing through in a panic. We made our way inside the building quickly and quietly, stopping when Rick had his back up against the wall, raising his hand up in a fist for all of us to stop. We all followed his movements and waited.

We heard voices and footsteps and Rick quickly pulled out a smoke bomb from his bag and threw it towards the sound of people coming our way from around the corner, right before they could spot us. They yelled suddenly when the smoke began to rise, and it was hard to see anything as their coughs filled the air. Rick then harshly threw his hand down as he was the first to move, squinting through the smoke to see if our people were in here.

I turned the corner, following Rick's figure as best as I could as I coughed into my arm every few seconds, noticing his shadow stilled for a moment. He then grabbed onto a man by the arm, pulling him through the smoke and back towards the outside. I barely got a good look, but I could only assume the man was Glenn as I spotted a woman a few feet away from me, a bag covering her face. Maggie.

I rushed over to her quickly, taking her by the hand to pull the bag over her head and lead her out of the building, dodging the men lingering in every turn we made as they blindly tried to find us. Daryl covered us from behind as we booked it out the front doors, following Rick down the street and into safe place so we could lay low and catch our breath.

When we all made it inside, Daryl slammed the doors behind us and I gently let go of Maggie and took my gun to scope out the place, checking every hiding place and around in the back to make sure it was empty. Once I didn't see anything, her and I made eye contact from across the room and ran towards each other instantly. I discarded my gun on the floor and wrapped my arms around her shoulders as she started to cry.

"Are you okay?" I asked frantically, as I held onto her tightly. She sniffled and nodded her head and pulled away. I took her face in my hands and wiped her tears away, "Are you sure?"

"Yeah. Oh, thank God you're here." she cried.

"We're here." I reassured her as I brought her into my arms again with a breath.

We finally pulled apart from each other when I heard a groan coming from the floor, seeing Glenn sitting down on the ground in pain, his face covered in blood. His eye was black and blue, so swollen that I could barely see his eye at all. I quickly walked over to him, sitting next to him on the floor as I reached out to touch his shoulder lightly.

"Oh my God, Glenn." I whispered as I got a better look at his face, noticing that his clothes were torn to shreds as well.

"Rose?" he questioned with a slight smile.

I smiled sadly, "It's me hon, are you okay?" I asked while placing my hand on the side of his face.

He winced slightly but nodded, "Yeah...yeah."

I felt my eyes mist with tears at the sight of him so beaten and bruised, yet somehow still smiling as he saw we had found them. I kissed his forehead and brought him into a gentle hug, being as careful as I could to not hurt him more than he already was.

Rick got down to his level, stepping away from the window as he asked, "How bad are you hurt?"

"I'll be okay." he assured.

"Where's that woman?" Maggie asked suddenly, her eyes scanning around to see that she was nowhere in the room with us anymore.

"She was right behind us." Rick said while going back to the window, "Damnit." he silently cursed to himself as he did a scan over the streets.

"Maybe someone spotted her." I said.

"Want me to go look for her?" Daryl asked.

Rick shook his head, "No, we gotta get them out of here. She's on her own."

I wanted to argue with him, that we needed to make sure she was okay, but with just one more look towards Glenn I knew we couldn't. We had to get the two of them out of here before people started to realize they were gone.

"Daryl, this was Merle." Glenn said suddenly. I froze at that name, and so did Daryl. My eyes slowly seemed to find his from his hovering figure above me, his frame standing rigid as Glenn continued, "It was, he did this."

"You saw him?" Rick asked.

"Face to face." he confirmed, "Threw a walker at me, he was going to execute us."

Daryl was stunned, though he tried desperately to hide it, "So...my brother's this Governor?" he asked with a slight shake to his voice.

"No, he's somebody else, your brother's his lieutenant or something." Maggie said.

Daryl reached down to grab my shoulder gently, probably still trying to wrap his head around this as time seemed to stand still. "Does...does he know m' still with ya?" he asked.

"He does now. Rick, I'm sorry we told him where the prison was. We couldn't hold out." Glenn tried to explain.

Rick got down to eye level with him and quickly shook his head, "Don't. No need to apologize."

Maggie continued, "They're going to be looking for us."

"We have to get back," Rick said, "Can you walk? We've got cars a few miles out." he informed Glenn.

"I'm good." Glenn grunted, gesturing for my hand as I shakily helped him stand up to his full height.

Daryl's breathing became heavy from just behind me as he spoke, "Hey, if Merle's around I- I need to see him."

I turned around to look at him in slight disbelief, "Daryl, no. We have to leave now."

"Rosie I gotta, he's my brother-"

"Look what he did!" I yelled with a quiver in my voice.

He stopped for a minute to look at Glenn, his eyes holding so much emotion as he glanced between the two of us.

Rick stepped in when he couldn't seem to say anything else, "Look we gotta- we gotta get out of here now."

"Maybe I can talk to him, maybe I can work somethin out." Daryl pleaded.

Rick was growing frustrated, "No, no, you're not thinking straight. Look, no matter what they say they're hurt. Glenn can barely walk, how are we gonna make it out if we get overrun by walkers and this Governor catches up to us? We need you! Are you with me?"

Daryl looked from Rick to me, his eyes lingering when they locked again with mine. He bit his lip anxiously as he thought about all of this for a few seconds, a few seconds that we didn't have to spare.

His gaze pulled away from me as he gave the man a slight nod, "Yeah."

I narrowed my eyes at him, noticing how he could no longer look at me when he answered.

He was lying.

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