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7x02 coda
Hen drives to the firehouse, and changes her mind with every stoplight she hits.
Red light. Maybe this is an overreaction.
Green light. Bobby and Athena need help.
Red light. Cruise ships are built to withstand the weather, and the Uno had turned away from the storm. The Coast Guard has to be aware of the storm by now, and they’ll be on high alert for any distress.
Every rational thought points to everything being fine.
But—the light turns green, Hen hits the gas, and she remembers a sunny afternoon six years ago. Then, too, every rational thought had pointed to everything being fine, until she and Buck had found Bobby passed out cold.
There’s just one nagging thought at the back of her mind.
“Hey, Siri,” she says, slowing down at yet another red light. “Call Karen.”
“What did Maddie say?” Karen asks as soon as she picks up. Her voice is concerned, and Hen loves her for it. Karen, at least, understands.
“Am I overreacting?” Hen asks instead of answering. The question had been building so long it needed to escape.
“Tell me what Maddie said first,” Karen says. “I can’t answer without all the information.”
“She thinks something happened,” Hen says. “She called the local 911 down in Mexico, apparently they got a bunch of calls from the ship that all dropped.”
“Sure sounds like something happened,” Karen says. “So, you’re going out there?” She sounds the way she always does when Hen is about to run headfirst into danger, proud and terrified all at once.
“I—” Hen says, her fingers gripping the steering wheel. “I was going to, but I ran into Chief Simpson.”
“Oh,” Karen says, then, “oh no, he didn’t fire you?”
“No,” Hen says. “Just told me to get back to work. I told him about the ship, but he just said it’s not in our jurisdiction.”
“Oh,” Karen says again. There’s a humming on the line like she’s about to say something else, but she stays silent and lets Hen gather her thoughts.
“Is he right?” she asks, after another few seconds of silence. “Am I making the wrong call again?”
“What do you mean again?” Karen asks. “Didn’t you just say he told you to go back to work? That means you made right call, doesn’t it?”
“Just because it wasn’t wrong doesn’t mean it was right,” Hen says. “It was—Karen, I honestly don’t know what it was.”
“We don’t need to figure that out right now,” Karen says. “Do you think going after Bobby and Athena is the right call?”
Hen takes a breath. One second stretches into two, then five, and still, she doesn’t answer.
“Hen,” Karen says. “What does your instinct say?”
“Something is wrong,” Hen says. “I know it is. And the ocean may not be part of the LAFD’s jurisdiction, but Bobby and Athena are my jurisdiction.”
“Then go get ‘em,” Karen says. “But, Hen?”
“Yeah?”
“Come home to me.” Karen’s voice doesn’t shake, but Hen knows that’s only thanks to years and years of practice.
“I will,” Hen says. “I promise.”
By the time she hits the red light around the corner from the firehouse, Hen is certain that she’s made the right decision. She might have forgotten it for a moment, but she trusts her instincts.
The only uncertainty remaining is how she’s going to convince the rest of the team to accompany her, with nothing but a map of ships off the California coast and a bad gut feeling to go off.
But when she walks into the app bay, Chimney, Eddie, and Buck are lined up and waiting for her.
“Get changed and let’s go,” Eddie says. “Chopper’s on the way.”
Hen blinks. “How did you—”
“Maddie called,” Chimney says, brandishing his phone. “So I called Tommy, called in a favour.”
“Don’t you still owe him from last time?” Buck asks, and Chimney frowns.
“Well techincally—”
“We can settle it on the way,” Hen says, before the two of them can really start bickering, but her heart feels like it grows a size with every half-jogged step towards the locker room.
Bobby and Athena are their jurisdiction, and they’re on their way.
#911fic#hen wilson#911 7x02#911 spoilers#shush emma#emma writes#they threw off my lyrics from a soundtrack song naming scheme so the title is from the song rock the boat instead#this was hard bc everything is kind of unfinished and i like to do look back and reflect codas lmao#but here we are anyway
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Lockwood & co core
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#lockwood and co#anthony lockwood#lucy carlyle#35 portland row#save lockwood and co#my art#everytime i think about simply sitting down to have tea at a rickety old wooden table my heart does a little jig#i love dust#i love old things#I HATE HANDS#but HERE WE ARE ANYWAY#fanart
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"how are you doing" I'm about to watch a random Youtube vid of someone I've never heard of talking about Les Mis, so that's where we are tonight
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CAR @ FLA | 11.10.23
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Six Ears, and being left.
#mhw09 personal#gif warning#*screaming into knees*#can I draw your attention to his HAND PLEASE#I didn't realize that was going to be a *thing*#that little WAVE#I paid subzero attention to the closing and it was because I was subconsciously protecting my heart apparently#listen to me listen#it's about 'and a double-edged sword cuts your heart in two'#torn between Stone Monkey and *gestures to everything else in his life* *like literally everything*#it's about Stone Monkey going where Six Ears can't follow#and where the line is between staying behind and being left behind#and so he's stuck in place. watching him leave. weights around his ankles.#whether those be his duty to his troop or the demons in his head#always holding back. always in-between. always feeling like he's going to lose *something*.#six ears and that fear that's inside him#I've only seen 11 episodes and have just One Major Spoiler in my pocket am I barking up the wrong tree? MAYBE#but here we are anyway#also Jade Rabbit looking at him in concern from the background! this missing scene is gold. too bad it's on eternal mute.
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Don't you think that it's a bit dodgy how 13 basically kills a TARDIS to kill the Daleks and never gets called out on it?
Oh it's super messed up she did it, it's also a bit messed up she wasn't called on it, either, lbr, but this has been one of those things i'm not sure how i feel about. Because hm, hello, that was a murder. That they didn't face consequences for, or even a call out. But also, it's not the first time the doctor's done a murder and not been called on it or faced any consequences for, it happens occasionally.
I know it's happened more than once, but hilariously the only one i can remember rn is one also written by chibnall. Maybe he just has a ~thing (I am talking about dinosaurs on a space ship, which is an episode i hate and probably only remember Because i can't stand it, but still). I distinctly remember rewatching the episode and thinking to myself that I could add that to my list of episodes where the doctor offs somebody, and now I can't remember the others, which is typical, really. Though, I personally think 12 pushed the guy, because he'd never have jumped on his own, so that moment's on the list.
(this whole list was a Thing to start with bc i find it fascinating that the doctor sometimes casually does genocides and doesn't catch Half the fandom crap for it than they do if they kill one person. Something something about crimes that we are able to comprehend and feel emotionally and those we aren't. Like, I cannot comprehend the total annihilation of a species in a single second at all, but I can comprehend a single death and have an emotional response to that one. I find it fascinating ngl).
But to get back on subject, in the end, I think my real answer to this would be to say that it depends on Why she's not called on it. When it aired, people in fandom immediately clocked what she'd done was bad and messed up, so obviously a telling was not strictly Necessary in that people worked it out for themselves.
But, was she not called out for it in the show bc A) they didn't believe it was Necessary to do so bc it wasn't supposed to be bad, B) they didn't believe it was necessary to do so because they realised the audience members both old enough to understand and familiar enough with the snow to know tardises are alive would realise what had happened Without mentioning it and know what she'd done was bad without a hand hold or C) she was not called on it simply because there was nobody To call her on it.
Or it could be a mix of the three different things above. Like, they thought it was messed up for her to do it, but she simply was not called on it bc it was exactly like a few of her other greatest and very messed up hits. Nobody had the context to call her on it, so she wasn't called on it even though it Was messed up just because nobody knew it was messed up.
I like, work on a case by case basis as to whether media should call out its characters for bad behaviour and if it's wrong for them not to because you can't paint everything with the same brush and have any sense of nuance, so I guess I think it depends on if you think it's acceptable or not for a show to portray a character doing something bad that is obviously bad without mentioning it, and if that not doing so implies any kind of acceptance of it. I don't think in general the lack of call outs in media imply acceptance, personally, but that doesn't mean there aren't times when call outs Are necessary.
But I do genuinely think it depends on their reasoning as to if it's actually dodgy they didn't do it or not. Like, if they didn't call her on it bc she apparently did nothing wrong, that's dodgy as hell. If they didn't because they portrayed something bad and trusted the audience to get that without being told, that's ambiguous to me and i am personally unsure how i feel about this instance, and since i've not worked it out in two years, I don't expect to any time soon.
If they didn't do it for watsonian reasons involving the lack of informed knowledgeable characters actually there to call her on it, then i'm fine with that in a vacuum? The fam don't ever actually work out if they think the tardis is alive or some kind of super argumentative AI and that 13 implodes one would probably suggest the ai thing to them, lets be real (even though they'd be very wrong, she hides her worst from them). Jack has basically been trained by the doctor to not ask too many questions at this point by the doctor treating him awfully when he does, And on top of that, he's more ruthless than the doctor to start with and I doubt he'd care much.
I think, in general, instead of a callout, i'd have personally liked a Consequence instead? I don't think bad actions necessarily require a call out bc audiences aren't thick and neither are kids, especially In context of the lack of people to call her out on it. But I do think that consequences should be more often utilised unless you're deliberately showing a moment where somebody Gets Away With Something.
So I'd have loved a consequence for her. Like, 13 desperately needs another tardis being alive and well to do something vital and Oh No the world is going to burn to a cinder bc she killed the last one in a callous last ditch plan which suddenly makes it very clear exactly What she did by killing one! So she's slapped in the face by it even though she didn't have anybody to call her on it at the time. The audience is reminded that what she did was wrong without compromising characterisation, ~viola.
TLDR, it depends on Why she wasn't called on it as to if i think it's necessarily dodgy she wasn't (personally i'd have called her on it, but I don't think it's an automatic black mark she wasn't considering the circumstances of there being nobody would could effectively do so), but i do think it's dodgy she didn't catch any consequences for it, actually? idk, i would have done it differently but i'm a terrible writer so I don't know how. I also would like to know the plan for this show pre-pandemic so i can see what didn't happen through necessity via episode cuts and what didn't happen bc nobody thought it was necessary. It's so hard trying to pick apart anything post rotd without knowing this.
#cynicalclassicist#dw shit#i think this may be too nonsense to add to#dw meta#but here we are anyway#i had an answer for this one right away bc i've spent a long time not being able to come to a proper conclusion and didn't have to#think about it lol
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Semi-retired roller derby player sliding in to hear more about the harlivy roller derby au
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Helllooooo 🛼 VERY excited someone asked about this one! (And even someone that I don't have to explain the rules to!)
Basically, Harley and Ivy are on rival roller derby teams (who saw that coming, right?) but Ivy's a new player that Harley hasn't ever faced before. Harley's more aggressive style of jamming usually clears some space in the pack for her but it doesn't seem to intimidate this new pivot (Ivy).
Here's a little snippet:
“Fuck,” Harley hisses as she finds herself caught up on the pivot’s ass again.
It’s been at least forty seconds and she hasn’t even gotten out of the pack once yet.
“Harls!”
She looks up to see Banshee coming back for her, an arm extended.
They’ve done this move a lot, Banshee whipping Harley forward while sitting on the blocker she’s stuck behind, acting like a screen so that Harley can get free.
This’ll work. It always works.
Banshee’s hand wraps around Harley’s wrist, grinding the hard plastic of her wrist guard into her bones, and yanks while she spins, using the momentum to drag Harley forward and out of the pack. Except…
Except that fucking pivot has read the move and turned into their clasped hands, forcing them to let go or receive a penalty, and now she’s chest blocking Harley and goddamn it she has some nice tits. Her violently red hair is tied up in a braid that’s draped over her shoulder and tickling Harley’s cheek, and she wants to commit murder about it.
“Welcome to fucking Arkham,” Harley snaps as she pulls back a shoulder and drives it forward and up, trying to get unstuck from this bitch, but the pivot doesn’t even breathe hard.
“Are you the welcome wagon?”
The pivot’s voice is low and flat like she on a fucking walk in the woods and she’s never found anything even remotely interesting in her entire life.
Goodie comes swooping in from the left trying to sweep the pivot out of Harley’s way, but she just takes her stupid red hair and pushes herself backward eighteen inches, letting Goodie pass right on by, before she catches Harley on her chest again.
DAMN IT.
Her tits are really, really nice.
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#wip ask#roller derby au#harlivy#fanfic#i am playing into every single roller derby trope i hate#but here we are anyway
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I saw the Year of the OTP challenge last year and was inspired by the prompts to attempt it myself. Unfortunately I wasn't able to commit to the challenge all the way through and only have a couple of drafts to show for it. I took the challenge as a way to re-acquaint myself with an old ship of mine: Klema. So here is this drabble based on the February prompt: "if i kiss you, will you shut up?"
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“This is why, Detective Skye, you need to look into this man again," He said.
“Prosecutor Gavin," she intoned with only a light mocking tone. "I have already gone over this: we searched the perp’s home, we interviewed his neighbors, they didn’t clearly see when he came back home on the night of the incident.”
“But the defense is going to hone in on that and come up with a way to lambast the case. And if they do that, I’m afraid blame is going to fall on you.”
“On me?!”
“Yes, our case should be airtight. And we know that the defendant is guilty. You can’t give them any opening.”
"It's your case!"
"Based on your investigation."
“If I kiss you, will you shut up?”
Klavier blinked and said nothing.
Ema was smug as she continued. “Wow, just the suggestion of it was enough.”
“Ema,” Even amidst the bickering, the sound of her name was a tender note from his mouth, like it was the answer to all his questions. “That is not fair. That only worked one time. The first time, in fact.”
“But you still keep talking.”
Klavier’s eyes crinkled in amusement and affection. “All the more reason for you to try again.”
Ema rolled her eyes and sighed heavily, a show of resignation at the man’s 'reasoning'. Still, the hand that reached for his lapels was gentle. She leaned in closer, and before Klavier’s eyes shut close he saw the corners of her mouth twitch upwards, giving him a smile to kiss.
#Klavier Gavin#Ema Skye#Klema#in this day and age? believe it!#I'm out of practice my guy#happy valentine's day?? ... or i guess happy february 15th?#I know these days klema isn't as popular as it used to be eight years ago#I'd even venture to say it's nowhere near the peak of its popularity 13-14 years ago#but here we are anyway#the first draft of this just started with the prompt line and there's no further context here#they just like to kiss your honor#Ace Attorney#my writing
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JUSTIN MIN in After Yang (2021)
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#this has been unfinished for a long time#and the quality of the video was uneven#but here we are anyway#i just have a hard time creating rn#very sad#justin min#after yang (2021)#after yang#justin h min#movie gifs#films#gifs#myworks#mygifs#my nonsense#i had to throw away so many clips for graininess#also sad#ccnet
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Good stress stim: hand flapping at the SPEED OF LIGHT
Bad stress stim: whacking ur head w the heel of ur palm (ow)
#I am trying real hard not to do the head whacking#and replace it with other things#bc I know it is not good for the brain or the head to Whack#but sometimes it just Happens and then I get upset w myself for doing that#bc like. in what universe does it make sense to do that when stressed.#but here we are anyway
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I need you all to know that this is a thing I'm going to make and sell. No I do not care abt the degeneracy of it all
#we all know this man has no ass but like that's what the imagination is for#he is all leg and all back no ass#but here we are anyway#!bladeless! (ooc)#suggestive//#mun art;;
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People who know Una's secret
-Chirs
-M'bega
-Chapel
-La'an
Chris - would never tell and is blindsided by the arrest. Also no implications were made that he knew and was hiding info as that would likely result in him getting in trouble.
M'bega - while he could have made a medical report about it I highly doubt it. He has/had too many of his own secrets. And again, there's no implications that it was an accidental slip or M'bega would probably get in some sort of trouble. Then again he's at a lower rank in TOS so it's possible. Still unlikely.
Chapel - tattling is so not her vibe. And she moves up not down the ranks and leaking that info would soooo ruin her character for me.
La'an - ticked to find out about the lies. Leaving the Enterprise. Promoted. Doesn't seem all that upset about not being able to contact Una. Never seen in TOS. Known to be a stickler for the rules.
I'm not saying La'an sold out I'm just saying I wouldn't be shocked at the revelation.
#full disclosure i have never liked it#she just annoys me#so this is probably a crack theory#but here we are anyway#snw spoilers#star trek strange new worlds#anti la'an nooninan-singh#anti la'an#anti laan#strange new worlds theory#snw theory#snw e10
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“oh it’ll be fun to have a story set in that particular time period in that particular place” turns out that was the devil speaking uh
#jau rants#I am desperately trying to grab every crumb of information I can find in english on the Xianbei#and completing it with current Mongolian stuff even though I know it's ridiculous#there's nearly 2000 years between the two and I know it's ridiculous#but here we are anyway
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After a whirlwind series of adventures, the Doctor gives the Tardis a tune-up while Ben, Polly, and Jamie finally get some sleep. But the edge of the galaxy where the ship has materialized has more to offer than just an isolated workspace for repairs - it also provides an excellent view of the stars, and an opportunity for the Doctor to show his newest companion a side of the universe he hasn't had a chance to see before.
((A bit of early days pre-relationship Two/Jamie fluff, set during Jamie’s first night aboard the Tardis after the Highlanders/Underwater Menace/Moonbase/Macra Terror string of adventures))
#jamie mccrimmon#second doctor#two/jamie#the 60s series: never visually establishes the link between the inside of the console room/big white doors & the wooden blue ones#me: *sets an entire fic in that space* it's fine#i am utterly failing at the 'write fic about jamie without bringing up katarina challenge' tho which is weird bc that shouldn't be hard#but here we are anyway#also if the science in this sounds ridiculously basic it's not bc i think the dr thinks jamie's dumb#it is because i myself am dumb and never properly learned anything about space beyond like elementary school#so in an effort to not get things wrong everything said here had to be very rudimentary my apologies#not that explaining astrophysics is a large part of this fic bc it's not#im just self conscious enough about my own lack of physics education to warrant a disclaimer#i should have a consistent tag for my fics
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A few weeks after being recruited to the Phonix, Riley faces the first serious injury to her team when an mission goes sideways and Jack ends up in the line of fire.
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For the MacGyver Flashfic Writealong, June 20 prompt: "Is that a bullet hole?"
#MacGyver Flashfic Writealong#June 20#MacGyver#finally I finish a thing#the thing is clearly not flash#but here we are anyway#MacGyver Fanfiction#Whump
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