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dum1s-writings · 1 year

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Well, hello! It's nice to see an active total drama writer in here! I love this show so much and the fandom is like dead 💀

So, I had this idea...

It could be headcanons or a fic/one-shot, whatever you feel like the most!

But, what about the reaction to the TDWT crew to Chris bringing his niece with him?? Like, the reader is just a sweet 19 y/o teenager who looks for their safety and actually cares about them??? (Total contrary to his uncle lmao).

It doesn't have to be with one character specifically, most like how they would react overall to the reader wanting to protect them from Chris (AND PLEASE MAKE THE READER PROTECT CODY FROM SIERRA I BEG U)

Anyways, have a nice day!!! <3

~~~The Nice McLean~~~

I fucking love Total Drama!! I firmly believe Leshawna should've won the first season. I'll try to add my least favorite characters from World Tour to avoid being biased.

Warnings: Chris McLean, Sierra's stalker behavior, attempted manipulation from Alejandro, Duncan being kind of an ass, does Cody being a crybaby count? I'm making it count.

Pronouns: They/Them

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"Alright contestants I have another surprise for you." Chris looked at the tired teens. From behind Chef came another teen. They smiled and waved to the other teens.

"Another contestant?" A few questioned simultaneously.

"Oh hell no. Their mother would kill me." Chris slung his arm around them and tugged them close. "This here is -Y/N- McLean, my nibling."

"Heya," their smile got bigger "I hope we can get along."

Everyone was too shocked to speak for a moment. Sierra was trying so hard not to flip her shit. Chris McLean's nibling was actually in front of her.

"So you're related to Chris?" Harold finally asked.

"Yeah. My mom is his sister." -Y/N- answered truthfully.

"Think of -Y/N- as a co-host. Another Chris of sorts." The older man smirked. "They'll keep an eye on you famous wannabes while I can't."

First of all we'll get the obvious out of the way, the cast fucking love you, after getting to know you. Obviously at first learning you're related to the devil host, Chris McLean, they immediately thought this season would be twice as torturous. But give them a couple of days or weeks and most of them would willingly jump from the plane for you. The others may take some time.

I'll start with the ones that take no time in becoming your fans:

Cody: for him the moment he saw you give a genuine smile was when he trusted you. Having dealt with Chris's shit for so long made him aware of a real and fake smile. Also when you demand Sierra leave him alone? Oh yeah he likes you even more now. Expect a lot of clinging, as much as he can, crying for one reason or another mostly Sierra and excessive praise for the small things.

Lindsay: my sweetheart, so pretty so.....not traditionally smart. She saw you looking super nice in your outfit and that was it. Anyone with fashion choices as good as yours are definitely trustworthy. Please become shopping buddies after the show is over.

Owen: this big lug. He really tries to see the good in everyone. More often than not he's wrong. But he's genuinely happy he's right about you.

Sierra: she knew about you before anyone else. Obviously she's going to trust you from the get go. You're related to THE Chris McLean. That trust may or may not waver...TBD. Either way watch yourself around her. Keep a close eye on your belongings.

The neutral ones who need a bit more time are:

Noah: he just doesn't trust easily. Take no offense to it. I think only Owen was lucky enough, being an actual giant ball of sunshine and stupidity. Perhaps if you sneak him some Noah-Safe food he'll trust you faster.

Gwen: poor girl has been scorned by the world so often. It's left her with a few trust issues. Maybe stick up for her and watch some good horror movies together. Reassurance is the key, she was painted as a bad guy from the beginning. Let her know she's more than that and it's okay to admit she did wrong. Help her move past that.

Leshawna: this bad bitch (lovingly) knows her worth. She wants to make sure others know it as well. Don't talk down to her and hype up her plans and ideas and she'll consider you worth her time and respect. Also keep Alejandro away from her. Please. My queen deserves better.

DJ: he's a softie and a Mama's boy. He does want to trust you. But after his failed restaurant with his Mama it might take some time. People in power never helped him or his Mama. In fact he wonders if they were sabotaged. Help him find ways to "reverse his curse" and he'll definitely trust you, also maybe offer his Mama a job as a chef, especially if it's a higher position in a private kitchen.

The ones who just straight up dislike you and take a long time to like you are:

Alejandro: his family caused him so much trauma. He doesn't trust ANYONE. He may act like it, nodding to your advice and being nice. But alas tis all a front. He's really just waiting for the perfect moment to betray you. When that time comes and goes and you're still nice to him? Yeah....you may have started chipping away at his walls.

Heather: the queen bee. The head of every group project. Highschool taught her to look out for herself. So did the first two seasons of Total Drama. She'll bitch at you and talk shit about you "behind" your back. Just brush it off and continue being nice and you'll win her over, eventually.

Courtney: the Type A Psychotic Crazies and debate team caused Courtney to believe only Courtney can help Courtney. She'll refuse to trust you and judges those who do. In fact it's not until she's kicked off will she finally trust you. Maybe meet up after the show and talk to her, she'll apologize to you and own up to her wrongdoings.

Duncan: the runaway delinquent. The hardass he is doesn't trust you, purely because of your last name. Chris ruined his life, more than he himself could have. Being stalked no matter where he went for 2 years put him on edge. Abolish Chris's stupid "must always sing" rule and his opinion on you might change.

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Hopefully this works. I didn't know what to do for most of it. I was winging it big time.

#dum's writings #dum's requests #total drama x reader #total drama world tour #x gender neutral reader #x gn!reader

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smytherines · 15 days

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I think about Owen and the Chimera surveillance network a lot, because to me it isn't a question of having a surveillance network or not. It is happening. The question is: who will control it?

The surveillance network is an arms race between Chimera, the U.S. government, and I would imagine also the Russians and the British as well. One of these entities *will* succeed, Chimera is just the furthest along. Its like the race for the atomic bomb- each superpower pursued its own nuclear weapons program simultaneously, the US (collaborating with the British) just crossed the finish line first.

Here's my argument.

The first crucial piece of the puzzle is Barb Larvernor. The first time we hear about the concept of computers making spies obsolete, it isn't from DMA/Owen. It's from Barb. In A1P5, Barb says:

"Well picture this- the world's first, large-scale, information collective and archival system... Its just an idea I've been toying around with. If it worked, we'd be able to take down syndicates by doing the detective work from the safety of our desks. It would take the guesswork out of your job, hopefully saving some lives in the process- including your own. Can you imagine if this technology existed?"

There's also this conversation between Barb and Tatiana from the interludes during One Step Ahead.

Tatiana: I need you to search for an island, the size of a compound, that can store hundreds of computing systems

Barb: Easy, I have actually already been researching locations that fit that exact criteria... see, I have been thinking of a technology that can revolutionize- found one!"

From these two exchanges, we know that at the very least Barb is working on this "information collective and archival system" for the US government to use, although she seems to still be in the research and development phase.

Now, let's move on to what we know about Chimera's system, and what Owen wants from it.

First, we have this dialogue from A1P8, of DMA outright telling Curt his plan:

*recording of Cynthia plays*

Curt: where did that come from?

BVN: a little birdie told me

DMA: that little birdie being an advanced network of information surveillance that we've been-

Curt: boring!

Then, from A2P5, we have Owen explaining the system and why he wants to control it:

Tatiana: bird? Little birdies? His scientists developing... you're after the technology

Owen: Pop goes the weasel! An advanced Nazi information surveillance network to collect and archive state secrets.

They discuss why Owen wants the land (silicon babyyy), and then:

Owen: Don't you get it? Those stores of silicon from beneath the Earth's crust will allow us to mass produce Von Nazi's technology and deploy his system on a global scale! I'd have all the world's secrets. I'd be God. Now what a world that would be, eh?

The conversation continues:

Curt: my government will never allow this

Tatiana: not even the Soviets will

Owen: not at first, no. Everybody likes to do the watching, but nobody likes to be watched

Tatiana: you can't just invade the privacy of civilians without reason or suspicion

Owen: well, I like to think we are just turning everyone into a spy, they just aren't aware of it

Moving on to A2P6, the staircase scene:

Owen: YOU STILL DON'T SEE, DO YOU, CURT? There won't be any agency to go back to, once the system is global. I'm going to single-handedly dismantle everything you've ever believed in

Then

Owen: the future is happening, Curt. And it's not going to wait for you. What use will one man be, when a box in a room can do his job in seconds, huh?

Curt: sounds boring

Owen: you're a caveman, and I've invented fire

To me, this absolutely reads as Owen being aware that somebody- be it Chimera, or the US, or the Russians- will have this surveillance network. The future is inevitable. The future is surveillance (he was soooo right), the future is computers. Curt just can't see it yet, because he doesn't know technology the way that Owen and Barb do.

Going back to "I'd have all the world's secrets. I'd be God." Makes me believe that Owen is doing this so that *he* will control the flow of information. That he will be able to protect himself against what is coming. That he will never have to be vulnerable to his secret again.

Because here's the thing: we don't know if Chimera is going to use this information to punish or harm queer people. Given that Owen believes he will be in charge of the surveillance system, I'd say at the very least he does not believe it will be.

His goal seems to be "a world without agencies, a world without spies, a world without secrets." It seems to be the destruction of spying as an institution, and undercutting the nations which make use of spies to influence global events. At no point does he say that he will expose queer people if he is in charge of the surveillance network.

But, the US government absolutely will.

The US government is already hunting down queer people, even without a fancy surveillance network. Having control over Chimera's network would only make that task easier for them. Curt's secret, the secret of any queer person in this time period, is almost certainly safer in the hands of a gay man than it would be in the hands of a bloodthirsty global superpower that is already hunting down queer people.

Finally, at the end of the show, after Cynthia says that pretty soon nerds in lab coats will be running the show, we find out that Barb is getting the resources to fully work on the technology she has been talking about the entire show:

When Curt killed Owen he did not kill the surveillance network. Not for Chimera. But also, by handing A.S.S. evidence of what Chimera was doing, he likely influenced the US government to fund Barb and make her surveillance system a reality. A surveillance system that will invariably be used to hurt people like Curt and Owen.

Its possible that Curt never takes down Chimera precisely because the US now has a surveillance system to tell them that their ex-agent, the agent who went rogue, is also gay. And I don't imagine they would be very Gay Rights about it.

From a real world perspective, Owen and Barb were right: surveillance technology was the future in 1961. It is the present we currently live in. Warrantless, invasive, built into every piece of tech we use. The future happened, and it didn't wait for Agent Curt Mega.

#jesus why do i do this #this is about to get 4 notes hahaha #spies are forever #tin can bros #curtwen #owen carvour #agent curt mega #saf #tcb #carvernor #seriously sincerely no disrespect meant to that owen surveillance network post going around #i just genuinely do think about this a lot and kept meaning to make a breakdown #and that post got my autism flowing

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welcometololaland · 10 months

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WIP WORKING WEEK PART 2: PRODUCT PLACEMENT This is way more than the sentences I was supposed to do, but it's dialogue so I feel like I can get away with it. I'm also doubling this up as my (twenty) seven sentence Sunday. Thanks for the tags @freneticfloetry, @rosedavid @jesuisici33 @rmd-writes @three-drink-amy @alrightbuckaroo @lemonlyman-dotcom @strandnreyes @carlos-in-glasses and @heartstringsduet! I can't wait to dig into your snippets!

Carlos pauses. “Why do I get the feeling that you’re about to confess to doing something that you know I won't like?”

“Well—”

Carlos sighs deeply and pinches the bridge of his nose. “TK.”

“You can’t be mad, you don’t even know what it is yet,” TK protests. Carlos thinks he can hear Nancy snickering in the background of the phone call.

“It?” Carlos asks, shuffling into the kitchen, throwing a Nespresso pod in the machine and turning it on at the wall. He feels a little woozy after spending so much time asleep and wonders whether a coffee will make him feel better about this conversation. He loves TK so much it feels like his heart could burst, but the love of his life also spends a lot of time tap dancing on Carlos’ last nerve.

“Okay, first of all,” TK insists. “It’s very small.”

“How small?” Carlos asks. “Like, Lou small? Or Buttercup small? Because sometimes you treat those two animals as if they’re the same size.”

TK scoffs. “Carlos, we have no idea how big Lou is now. He could be huge.”

“I doubt it,” Carlos says drily. “But we can go out to the Greenbelt and search for Godzilla if you like.”

“Okay, I meant huge for an alligator lizard. I think their maximum length is eight inches—”

“TK, what did you buy? It’s not…alive, is it?”

“Baby,” TK chides. “It’s super irresponsible to buy a pet without first consulting your partner. Unless you want to buy me a lizard, in which case you should just assume that the answer is yes—”

“You brought Lou home without consulting me!”

“Technically, I didn’t buy Lou because I found him in that guy’s leg.”

“That is not helpful.”

TK sighs. “Okay,” he admits. “I should have asked. But it all worked out for the best, right? We released Lou into the wild, and you got to finally redecorate the living room.”

“After I trashed it trying to find him,” Carlos says, rolling his eyes, but he can feel his resolve waning. TK has such a big and generous heart, something that Carlos loves intensely – even when it extends to reptiles. “Okay, come on. You need to confess before you get home or you’re going to be all funny.”

“What do you mean?” TK asks innocently.

“I mean, you’re going to simultaneously try to distract me with sex and a TV show we both know I don’t want to watch.”

“But the sex works, doesn’t it?” TK asks, his voice dropping to a whisper. In the background, Carlos hears Nancy make a retching noise.

“TK.”

“Fine,” TK relents. “I bought you something for work.”

Carlos pauses. “You know I can’t use costume handcuffs for work, right?”

TK practically chokes. “Mind out of the gutter please, Carlos,” he says. “I got you a desk vacuum.”

There’s a long pause, where Carlos tries to imagine how a vacuum cleaner is going to fit on a desk, much less what it is required for. The station has nightly cleaning and since the pandemic, each unit has been given a near-endless supply of anti-bacterial wipes which Carlos uses religiously on his office keyboard, even though he’s the only one who uses it.

“Thank you, babe,” Carlos says slowly. It’s not supposed to be a question, but it kind of sounds like one. “What’s a desk vacuum?”

“It’s like this mini vacuum that gets rid of all the crumbs and stuff on your desk,” TK explains calmly. “I bought one for Dad, too. He loves it.”

Carlos has heard those Freudian theories about marrying someone who subconsciously reminds you of your parent, but it still alarms him to realise TK considers him sufficiently similar to Owen that he buys them the same thing.

“I’m a little concerned you’re starting to believe police officers eat doughnuts at their desk all day,” Carlos says weakly, trying to pass off his uncertainty as humour.

TK laughs. “Baby, I’ve seen your abs,” he quips. “Those are not made of doughnut.”

“The doughnuts never last long enough in this house for me to—”

“You do spend heaps of time at your desk though,” TK continues. “I thought a desk vacuum would be useful.”

Carlos frowns. “I do?” he asks, wondering where TK has plucked this idea from. In reality, Carlos does spend more time than he’d like to sitting down, but most of it is in a patrol car.

“You’re always complaining about the paperwork,” TK says mildly. “Right?”

“Right,” Carlos agrees slowly. “But it doesn’t mean that police work is a desk job.”

“I mean…it kinda is,” TK replies. “Not all the time. But you spend heaps of time inside.”

Carlos scoffs. “Are you saying that because the one time you’ve been inside the station you were handcuffed to my desk?”

“Very funny, Carlos,” TK replies drily. “Don’t get defensive because you spend way more time typing things on a computer than I do.”

“You do inventory all the time!”

“With a clipboard,” TK says hotly. “Standing up and waiting for the bell to ring.”

“Oh, when you’re not busy playing table soccer and cooking up four course meals?”

“I also do those things standing up,” TK points out. “And I don’t see you running into any burning buildings on the job.”

“Do not go there, TK Strand,” Carlos mutters. “You can’t seriously be starting a red versus blue argument with me.”

Pretty sure everyone has done this already but tagging @bonheur-cafe and @marjansmarwani just in case and @goodways because I know you love a good TK and Carlos argument dlfjlsdkjf.

#Product Placement #TK and tiktok #red versus blue #seven sentence sunday #WIP working week #911 lone star fic #tarlos fic #911 lone star #tarlos #tk strand #carlos reyes

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messymindofmine · 1 year

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How long is this Owen hate thing going to go on? It's honestly kind of funny how people seem to just look for reasons to hate on him. I feel like 404 just gave them even more reason to do so while simultaneously deifying the Reyes'. The thing is, my problem isn't even with the characters, I like them all. My problem is with the double standards. The Reyes' are obviously not perfect either. And even though Carlos’s relationship with them seems to be better, the fact that he didn't feel like he could go to them after him and TK broke up shows that things are still not great between them. Not to mention Gabriel's comment about how Carlos should have corrected Andrea's mistake in 211 rather than think about why their son wouldn't feel comfortable introducing his boyfriend to them in the first place.

I think Carlos’s face says it all here. Mind you, this was after Bad Call yet apparently Gabriel still doesn't recognize his mistakes with Carlos. Not only that but now apparently we need do add the fact that he felt like such a disappointment to them that he married a woman and they just let him go through with it despite knowing he was gay. I love the scenes we got with Gabriel in 404 but I don't like how it seems that even those have been weaponized against Owen. Yes, Gabriel saved his son and it was beautiful but Owen has done the same more than once. I mean, the episode is meant to be a parallel of Bad Call where Owen and Carlos were the ones that teamed up. Not to mention when TK got shot in 108, Owen sat with him the whole time stroking his face and talking to him. He apparently didn't even leave the hospital for a shower. When TK woke up, it was his dad he called for before he even opened his eyes and Owen was right there. And then Owen saved him again in 110.

Even the scene where TK revives Carlos is a parallel to Owen reviving TK in the pilot

Look, there's no denying that Owen is flawed and to be fair it is easier to focus on Owen's flaws since he's the main character and we see more of him but that still doesn't make the double standard any less unfair. Owen didn't ignore TK at all in 404. He picked up the phone despite the FBI lady not wanting him too. He looked at her like she was crazy for even thinking that he wouldn't pick up the phone bc "it's my son" and gave TK the best advice he could with what he knew. And he did this while the FBI lady badgered him and almost took the phone out of his hand. Yet there's literally people saying that it would be a good thing if Owen died and cheering on the FBI lady for making that comment.

I also don't buy the argument that Owen hasn't been apologetic about his mistakes. Out of all three parents, Owen is the one that is actually seen reflecting on his mistakes and and apologizing. People go after him for the "about to be a father" comment yet Owen himself expressed regret for it unprompted. He did it again in 316 when in the midst of his own struggles and dealing with his trauma, he called TK up just to tell TK that he loved him and that he was proud of him. He apologized for the distance between them and promised to do better. And we know they're going to be talking in 408. That closeness they had that we all were so charmed by in s1 existed for a reason. And we now know that the reason we haven't seen it in a while is going to be addressed.

Look, I love all three of the parents plus Gwyn but at the end of the day parents are human and all humans make mistakes and have flaws. I like how the show reminds us of that. What I don't like is the double standard and the way people look for reasons to hate on Owen. It's gotten to the point where I have to filter tags and be very careful what fics I read bc I'm not interested in anything that just makes Owen out to be this awful parent when that's very far from what he actually is. My biggest pet peeve with fandoms in general is double standards and the ones people have for Owen compared to the Reyes' and even Gwyn are too glaring for me to just ignore

#911 on fox #911 lone star #tk strand #carlos reyes #tarlos #owen strand #gwyn morgan #gabriel reyes #andrea reyes

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carlos-in-glasses · 11 months

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God the TK and Owen flashback 💔. TK and Owen's relationship was actually what got me interested in the show even before everything else and I love anything with them together. And there's so much complexity in that relationship. Based on what's been shown and implied with Owen and Gwyn, it seems like they'd have been very young when they had TK and I wouldn't be surprised if TK was actually unexpected. And that would've shaped their relationship with each other and with TK. And we can see that they must have been such a happy family at one time and there is so much pain on all sides but despite that the love never went away

❤️ I see Owen and Gwyn as a team who would rally around TK a lot in his teens and tried hard to be a united, stable force for him when things took a turn. I often think of the way Owen says "I loved your mother," when they're in the car on the way to the airport. He's absolutely telling the truth. You can adore and respect a person and not be compatible with them to live with and spend a whole life with. I was also drawn to the show because of TK and Owen - I saw clips on Youtube, and I discovered Tarlos a short time later - and I will always be so grateful for their relationship. It's a deep pool to swim in as a writer, for sure. In general I'm interested in the dynamics between parents and their now-adult children, because it's always complex even if close and loving and full of ups and downs and history. I happen to be writing this live from my teenage bedroom and when I tell you my mother was absolutely rock-solid here for me today, while simultaneously being annoying because she keeps trying to feed me.....

I'm just fascinated by TK and Owen (and Gwyn, and Gabriel, Andrea, Carlos....) and I'm really enjoying writing them at the moment 😊

#Ask

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tailoredshirt · 1 year

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you mentioned you don't have any anon asks rn so here i am! :D how do you feel after this ep? i've seen ppl saying that looking back at tarlos' scenes from the previous eps might've been tainted by this – him harbouring this big of a secret to his literal fiancé, of all ppl – and i do get where they're coming from too :(

also, i'm soooOOooOOooO annoyed that tk just brushed it off like that 😭😭 for someone who has been so heavily affected by a) being cheated on (although imo this marriage is more of a desperate need to belong/be loved, knowing that there was no way he'd ever find oor marry the love of his life, and then afterwards, more out of necessity for the health insurance aspect of things) so i don't really count this as cheating, but i understand ppl have diff definitions of it), and constantly having ppl he loved and cared about (re: owen and gwyn) keeping (big, life-changing) secrets from him, i'm trying to make peace with the fact we didn't get more out of that scene. although, i do hope that his need to console and support carlos at that time far outweighs his need to process the news, so that has taken backseat for the time and would probably resurface as we progress further along in the story.

so far, i don't trust anyone or anything that has been said from the actors and writers of the show, so i literally just will be going into the upcoming eps with zero expectations.

Hello!! <3

I pretty much agree with everything you said, I think? I've got a lot of conflicting thoughts that are living side-by-side right now. Like...how I feel about this situation vs. how I feel about it as a plotline vs. how I will treat it going forward. If this was real life, I would agree that it taints their relationship (and that I'd be dumping his ass), but as a plot device I don't find this secret as difficult to reconcile as I would if one of them slept with someone else or had some kind of emotional infidelity. This falls more into 'huge breach of trust' territory than cheating to me, but ymmv.

I think I'm glad for my own tender Tarlos feelings that TK mostly accepted it, because it makes it easier to kinda mentally skip past it if they're not showing a bunch of angst between TK and Carlos onscreen, but like you I do hate how it feels like the narrative is brushing it away (even if I am simultaneously happy that they're doing it??). I dislike the sloppy execution, although there are aspects of the storyline I honestly don't hate? Carlos being married to Iris for the reasons discussed is actually giving me a ton of feelings, and would probably be giving me more if they'd laid a better foundation for their friendship in previous seasons. I keep imagining them as "lost", lonely teenagers and it kills me. Even if I gloss over most of this plotline moving forward, I will take that with me.

But yes, I am hoping they at least acknowledge that Carlos fucked up by not telling TK much sooner! Until then I just imagine that TK's angry/sad reaction is delayed. The spoilers say it will affect them throughout the season, and it would make sense if TK's feelings over Carlos's lack of communication was part of it. They can't go into marriage if Carlos is going to make decisions for them and/or withhold huge things he'd prefer to avoid.

(And yeah, TK having been cheated on and people keeping things from him makes me hugely sad for him. Like...he found the love of his life! This man who kept proving time and again that he loves TK and will be there for him in ways other people haven't. And then...... PSYCH. That's so traumatizing.)

Zero expectations is the way to do it lol. I was driving myself out of my mind with anxiety before the episode aired, and I can't sustain that all season. It's why I'm trying to just go with the flow as much as possible. I am not telling anyone else how to feel. I've dropped shows for doing things I hated. I'm just not at that point with LS and don't want to be.

#I started making notes for a fic but I honestly don't want to write a 'fix-it' conversation for them #I want to write.....other stuff #911 lone star spoilers #sorry for putting more discourse in the tag

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thec0untry · 11 months

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I am Sitting under the darkening summer sky drinking irish breakfast tea smoking winston menthol 100s, until we move into our apartment i will probably continue smoking constantly because it makes me feel like i have a forcefield around me, like a foothold in the constantly shifting anonymity of the house i’m living in right now. I think this tumblr page is serving a similar purpose. It is july 7, 8:55pm, i can hear some fireworks echoing far off. I got off of work at 9am, woke at 7pm or so. Bowl of oatmeal and instant espresso. I haven't been able to listen to much other than Advance Base for the past week, owen's lyrics instill in me the greatest gratitude for the incomprehensible size of life, the multitudes of lives happening all simultaneously and the even greater multitudes of shapes those same lives will take on in the future. The shapes my own life will take on, the shape it is now. All of these stories of melancholic loss and change, families and friends, relationships that don't have any easy label. These albums give me so much gratitude for my life and so much sweet, quiet excitement for the future, the places i will live, the people i will meet, the loves that will come and go (or maybe arrive and stay forever). I'm three weeks into my new job, it is becoming monotonous, this isn't a bad thing right now. I think i will value this time greatly in the future, and that makes me value it much more right now. Most worknights i dream of the future and of the past. I think about my old girlfriend, what she is to me now, try to get a three-dimensional view of her place in me. I think of my friends who i love and will probably love more in the future once i am more settled. I think of travel, of going to chicago alone later this year. Maybe i'll fly out for an advance base show if it lines up, i've been wanting to see him since i was 17. After the show, or on the other nights i'm there, i'll go to a bar that i'll find on google maps, one in the university area, i remember walking around there when i was 15 or so, i'll bring a book, i could see something by barbara comyns or muriel spark hitting nicely there, or maybe something more serious. Maybe then i'll read iris murdoch. It is silly to say but i dream of meeting someone there, a new chicago person, somehow we'll hit it off and talk for a long time and be moved by each other. Maybe they're there with friends and we'll all be drunk and laughing and i will lose the handle on reality in the way that only sudden and intuitive social connections can feel. Isn't everyone in a city that is not their own always quietly dreaming of things like that? The last time i was in chicago was with my old girlfriend. It was her birthday, her phone broke and it ended up being sort of messed up but if i remember correctly we had a very nice time all the same. Chicago is my land of dreams, going there to visit family when i was young, going there when i was falling in love with my old girlfriend in the summer of 2017. I was still roaringly medicated then so i can't remember all of it, but there are splashes of walking by the university, and seeing family on some strange farm in michigan. I remember the gray skies and greenery. I remember feeling life expand. There are some other things. i remember thinking of her. Off chicago. At work i dream of the places i will live in the future, of the apartment or house i'll be moving into in a few months (it may come sooner than expected). I dream of setting it up, making it feel serene and exactly perfect for me right now. I will probably be making more money by then, i have these images in my head of different perfume bottles, from tea rose to varying comme des garcons, surrounding the base of an antique lamp (i keep seeing beautiful, inexpensive lamps at antique stores) on a small round dark wooden table. I see a bedframe low to the ground with a mattress in white bedclothes. The way it will all smell, the mess of incense and perfume and whatever candles i'm into by then.

I dream of the cities and towns i will live in. Will i return to new york? The question is always there, but i have very few ideas of what it would look like. The thought can make me feel powerless, the way new york did during my month there this year. But i know to trust the expansiveness and unpredictability of experience. Perhaps if i begin bartending, then such places will open themselves to me, both in expense and in feeling. I will be older. I could go on forever. There is always so much to dream of. I do not know why i have been writing so much on this site lately. But when i begin to feel lost and deflated, it feels very good to come here and write it all out. The screen door just slammed, someone is home. I will go have another cigarette and maybe more tea.

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debbiechanclub · 1 year

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I'm just gonna say this because I know that WrestleMania draws a lot of eyes that don't regularly watch WWE, and probably even more so last night because it was Cody returning to wrestle in the main event after literally founding another company because he wasn't happy with how things went for him in WWE.

I think everyone expected Cody to win, myself included, either for petty company vs. company reasons or because we can see now that he is a bona fide main eventer, whether you care for him or not. But I'm honestly not surprised that Roman retained.

Roman has been the WWE Universal Champion since August 30, 2020 (Payback) and the combined Undisputed WWE Universal Champion since WrestleMania 38. And in that time he's gone from a divisive Super Cena-type character with "go away heat" to THEE Final Boss telling THEE most emotional and compelling stories in WWE, starting with the "I Quit" match against Jey Uso at Hell in a Cell 2020. And if you haven't seen that match, I highly recommend you go watch it. Truly, if anyone was still doubting Roman's star power, wrestling ability, and storytelling ability at that point, that match made them all sit down and take notice.

And the crazy thing is that ever since then, Roman and the Bloodline have continued to deliver, and deliver, and deliver. It's been 2.5 years of nonstop gold. And yeah, there's an argument to be made about quitting while you're ahead and letting Roman go out on top while simultaneously giving Cody his due―but the Bloodline is still way too hot. And to be frank, Cody was nothing more than a supporting character in the real story, which was the soap opera drama between The Bloodline, Sami Zayn, and Kevin Owens. And now that Roman retained and The Usos didn't... phew. I can't wait to see what kind of pissed off mafia don shit Roman is gonna pull next.

So yeah, I don't doubt that Cody will get his time in the sun. But now wasn't the right time, because The Bloodline is just too good and too hot. And I just felt like saying all this for anyone who hasn't been watching Roman's run and might be thinking that WWE's reasoning for denying Cody was entirely political.

#signed your friendly neighborhood 'e drone #/s #anyway don't know if anyone cares but I hit post anyway #roman reigns #cody rhodes #the bloodline #wrestlemania 39

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spr1g4t1t0 · 2 months

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Uhm... Just went through my emails and found a deleted fic...

Noah stared blankly at Owen "What? You're throwing a party?? And inviting our whole tutor group??"

"Yeah!! My parents are out of town"

"You didn't think this through, everyone is going to get in fights"

"Noah, just trust me they won't."

"Well if you say so"

Time skip

I've been waiting for this all day, despite not wanting to go. I think it could be an opportunity to see Cody. Wait what? Why am I so excited to see Cody? I know Cody likes girls and it's not like I like Cody like that right? Right, Noah?? I spent half an hour wondering that before walking to Owens, despite it being dark, Owens' house was two minutes away so I'll be fine, I was sure of it.I got to the party and it was so bright, with all the lights and decorations Owen had set up. I went and found Owen and told him he was there and said hello to a few people, huh some of the people weren't even in our tutor, the party must've just caught on. I decided to go sit down and read, he went nowhere without a book.I sat reading peacefully for about half an hour before I felt something on the back of my neck, it was someone's breath, I slowly craned my neck to face them and it was Cody, his face was inches apart from Cody's.Cody's Pov:Im stood behind noah well stood leaning over him, I've had a crush on him for like a year but I've not come out yet and I don't think I plan on it for a while, I mean people think I like Gwen so I had to roll with it "oh yeah I like Gwen" "mm yeah I'd love to date Gwen" and all the shit like that. But it's never been her, it's always been him. Maybe if I wasn't so scared this could be funny, but it's not. Noah turns to look at me and our faces are now inches apart. Shit.

"Oh hi Noah!-"

"Cody!?"

Shit. I'm blushing and so is he, I jump up from being that close to him and ask if he wants a drink, he says no and I just sit next to him. What do I say? What do I do?

I just get my phone out and start doing random stuff to distract myself until I see Noah getting up, where's she going? Not that I am forcing him to stay but it would be nice even if it would just be us sitting in silence again. Oh well. Ohhh, he's going over to everyone else wait why's everyone sitting on the floor??

"CODY!"

"HUH???"

"WE'VE BEEN CALLING YOU FOR AGES COME HERE"

"OH OK"

I go and sit in the circle with everyone, they're playing truth or dare. Shit. I'm so bad at that game, especially since whenever I've played before I was seen as the 'easy target'Noah's pov:

We're all playing truth or dare and Cody finally comes and sits with us, I'm not paying too much attention until I hear my name

"Uh, Noah?? Hello??? Truth or dare????"

Shit. shit. shit. I'm not great at dares but what would I be asked I mean a bunch of 17-year-olds that have had alcohol probably isn't the best mix for this game. Fuck it there's no chance I'm doing a dare.

"Uhh, truth I guess?" OH GOD, WHY'D I SAY IT LIKE THAT??? That came out as more of a question than anything but oh well he'd said it. Everyone smirked as if it was one big telepathic decision. Shit, what does that mean?? What am I about to be asked?

Izzy was the first to blurt out the one question that seemed to be a simultaneous effort "NOAH WHO'S YOUR CRUSH??" fuck. I mean it's not like he has one right? But then again there's Cody. No no no. Not Cody I can't like Cody what the fuck??? I can't lie to them its truth or- "EARTH TO NOAH ANSWER THE QUESTION"

"I'm thinking???"

"About what?"

"If it's worth telling you??"

"We're all drunk trust me, no one's gonna remember just do it!"

"Oh okay. Fine. Uhh, I like Cody. At least I think I do. I'm not sure though"

Cody immediately blushes, fuck I forgot he's not drunk. He's like the only one who wasn't. He's also right next to me. That's actually what I find funny though because he came and sat with me right after hanging around me. Huh didn't know we were friends. Well we aren't but I think he wants to be!Cody's Pov:I purposely sat with Noah and we were playing truth or dare, this was fine until he got asked a question 'Who is your crush?" He immediately went pale and quiet but answered. He said my name. NOAH STERECRA JUST SAID MY NAME IN RESPONSE TO WHO HIS CRUSH IS. Calm yourself Cody he said he thinks so not for sure. Besides you're meant to like Gwen. And shit now I'm blushing. "Cody truth or dare?" Fuck it's my turn?? How long hadn't I been paying attention? "Uh dare" FUCK they're going to give me a dare either involving Noah or Gwen and I'm praying it's not the latter. No wait. Everyone thinks I'm straight so I should be hoping it's the latter. But I don't want to ugh I don't know.

"Cody we dare you to go kiss your crush, your *real* one" HUH?? WHAT DO THEY MEAN BY REAL ONE?? HOW DO THEY KNOW?? WHA- oh they have my diary that explains it WAIT THEY HAVE MY DIARY "Cody if you want your little diary back, complete the dare" Oh fuck Welp

"Like can it just be on the cheek or like do I have to go full force with it???"

"It's up to you idiot now just get on with it??"

Right, there's no going back, especially at the expense of my diary! Noah's sat next to me- well I'm sat next to him too I just lean over and give him a peck on the cheek and we both immediately start blushing. Well, that was one way to confess.Noah's pov:WHAT DID CODY JUST KISS ME?? Ok calm yourself, Noah, stop blushing and just get on with your life. Well then everyone goes back to playing the game until Izzy has a 'better idea' I highly doubt it's better knowing Izzy but sure I'll play it if I can be around Cody a little bit more. Izzy jumps up and goes to get an empty beer bottle. Why does she need- oh. We're probably going to play something stupid like Seven Minutes in Heaven because drunk Izzy has zero chills. Wait is she drunk? She has like no chill normally. Oh well. Everyone spins the bottle one by one, well it takes a little longer than just spinning it because well they are playing 7 minutes in heaven. "NOAH! your turn!" Izzy waggles her eyebrows. Yup, she's drunk. Well, I have to do this so I spin the bottle and it lands on Cody. Well fuck. We just get shoved into the bathroom and then barricaded in by a chair. Well, that's one way to ensure there are no escapees. Wait. This game isn't necessarily sexual right?? They don't actually make you do anything. Great!Cody's pov:I just sit on the floor with my back resting on the door.

"Soo.. Cody hi"

"Hi... Noah"

Shit why is this so awkward?

"Uh, so you know how we both pretty much confessed earlier?"

"I guess so yeah??"

"Well do you.." he mumbled the rest

"Exqueese me, I didn't quite get that!"

Noah just repeats what he said but a little louder. OH! he just asked me out. Should I say yes? I mean everyone already knows we like each other so why not. "YEAH"

"Great!"

"So like we don't have to do anything weird right??"

"No, they can't make us do anything."

"Great! Not that I don't like you because I do but I don't wanna-"

"Cody I know what you meant"

Noah was sitting on the floor, next to me. Well damn. I put my arm around his shoulder and he leans into me. Great!

"*This party is shit, wish we could dip*"

"Agreed, especially just *go anywhere but here*"

"I wish everyone was sober"

"So we wouldn't have to be stuck here?"

"Yup"

Noah's pov:Great Cody's agreed to not do anything weird so now we're just sitting on the floor hugging. I look over at him and realise it's probably been more than 7 minutes. Well if they've got so drunk they've forgotten they'll just have to survive in there, not a difficult task but it would make stuff a little awkward, either that or it would make it better. Weighing out the pros and cons is fun.

"Can I kiss you?" did Cody just ask that??

"Yeah sur-" I'm caught off guard by Cody kissing me on the lips, it wasn't very long and it wasn't making out, but he kissed me. I look back over at him and he's grinning goofily, still blushing though. We both just laugh, I don't think Cody's ever seen this side of me. Normally I'm trying to keep up the facade that I'm not bothered by anything and am super serious and stoic but I guess Cody is one of the few that just let me relax and be silly!Cody's pov:Noah's laughing with me? I didn't think he knew how to laugh. Wait that's mean. Oh well.

"Hey Noah I think they forgot about us"

"Probably"

"I think Izzy has brownies so they probably got so zooted whilst waiting that they forgot"

"Either that or they just forgot because they were drunk, I don't think everyone would've had brownies"

"Fair point" We just start giggling at the idea of everyone being high. God I'm hungry, I haven't really eaten and now I'm stuck in here, my stomach rumbles. Fuuuck. "Are you hungry??"

"Yeah" I'm looking down and playing with my thumbs now, maybe that'll take my mind off of being so hungry. Noah passes me a granola bar?

"Huh?"

"Well you're hungry and I have those so-"

"Thanks" I smile at him, in a way that my tooth gap is showing

"You're very cute you know that right?" I can't tell if he's being serious, right now he's talking with such a flat tone you can't tell anything

"Wait for real"

"Yeah you idiot" he flicked my forehead

"Hey!"Noah's pov:"I was hoping to have another drink but now we're eating granola bars"

"*Please don't drink more beer*" Cody seems concerned not sure why, maybe his parents were alcoholics

"Oh ok, I mean I've only had one so I'm not drunk. Not even tipsy"

"Great job"

"*we could crawl out the window now?, kinda hoping you'll follow me out*"

"To be fair that's a good idea"

"I hate drunk people so right now, *I don't like anyone around*"

"Fair point"

"What if I kick the door down?"

"That's a terrible idea you'd have to pay for a new one??"

"Wow *17 but you act 25 now*"

"Stand up"

"Sure.." Cody looks at me confused

"*See knees weak but you talk pretty proud. Wow.*"

"You've got ripped jeans," he says in response

"Ok and??"

"Weird fashion sense"

"I also have a cup that I just downed is that weird fashion?"

"*Well out there is definitely not my crowd*"

"That's true I hate our tutor group"

"They get so drunk so easily like what???"

I got up and banged on the door "*THIS IS REAL SWEET BUT I WISH YOU WERE SOBER*"

no response. I just sit back next to Cody.

"Welp Cody looks like we're going to be stuck here for a while"

"I guess so"

WHAT THE FUCK WAS I DOING, who let me write bro 🙏🦐 also I habe a feeling this was written when I was sleep deprived but liek....

#uhmmmm #tdi #ao3 #sprig talks #spr1g4t1t0

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lonestardust · 2 years

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TK Strand in The Pilot vs TK in season three finale.

for three years my boy has been through the wringer but he's come so far too

#wretched broken and down in the dumps vs safe and sound and blissed out around his chosen family and the love of his life #even when it gets hard at times #my HEART #tk deserves to be happy and safe and loved and a support system to get him through life when it throws his way hardships #i just hope nothing haunts him for too long and he manages to find comfort within the discomfort #we're gonna see him almost lose his other parent huh.. and its gonna make him come to the realization that life is too short to #not tie the knot with the love of his life #i'm thinking of owen simultaneously now..#it's sad but it's par for the course with life.. sometimes #tk strand #911 lone star #owen strand #911ls #ronen rubinstein #tarlos #3x18 #1x01

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penny-anna · 3 years

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Infinity Train S4 thoughts!

I feel like I will mostly be echoing everyone else's thoughts here haha

- loved Ryan & Min and their friendship. they were both assholes at different points in the season and that is part of the beauty of the show.

- the first episode w the memory tapes... outstanding. beautiful. loved it.

- I also rly enjoyed but was frustrated by the Amelia content for obvious reasons MORE ON THAT BELOW ugh

- I'm not sure what to make of the cars being so much more hm. threatening this season? like was it just a thematic choice to have Ryan & Min get especially unlucky in the cars they got/only show us the threatening cars (they def went through at least a couple of fun and harmless cars) or was the Train just Like That before Amelia's takeover? unclear

but! for the most part I really enjoyed it, especially the Art Gallery car and the one w all the dead astronauts... unsettling.

- fucking hated that pig baby tho. hated him so much.

- I liked Kez! Kez was a fun character. she was very funny & cute. no complaints about her as a character.

- I just. wish so much of the season hadn't been taken up w the 'everybody hates Kez' stuff. like I think if it had just been 1 ep of 'these people hate Kez, she sincerely apologies, they accept her apology and leave' it would have been a good arc but having it as a major season arc was just. tiresome.

like I feel weird complaining about it bcos it was a perfectly fine moral arc for a children's show? but every other Infinity Train season arc has been so much more emotionally heavy & complex and it was. idk disappointing.

- also I just didn't enjoy the designs/concepts for any of the Angry Denizens (except the Astronaut Bouncer). they were fine I just didn't vibe w them. every time they showed up I was like 'ugh these guys again'.

- also like it just felt kind of. unnecessary? like Ryan & Min's arc plus the backdrop of Amelia's takeover struck me as enough to carry a season on its own.

- that said! having read some of Owen Dennis's Reddit AMA I simultaneously like it better and am also very pissed off bcos apparently the reason why this season teased but didn't focus on the takeover was bcos season five was going to be the Amelia's takeover season and ARGHHHH.

so now i'm like. OH ok this was supposed to be the breather season bcos another big & heavy season. and now im mad bcos i want season 5 so bad and will probably never get it. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

- I was kind of hoping for some gay content this season but I'm not disappointed at all w the relationship we got bcos it was obvious they weren't going that way from ep1

on a vaguely related note I was. I don't know if 'pleasantly surprised' is the right description? but the scene in the bathroom where they talk about there not being any Asian rockbands was just. really good.

- fav car was the art gallery car. least fav was the pig baby. i'm going to re-watch this season more than once and every time i get to that ep i'm going to be like 'ugh it's the pig baby ):<'

anyway here is the most important section of the AMA

#infinity train spoilers

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dukereviewsmovies · 5 years

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Duke Reviews: Furious 7

Hi Everyone, I'm Andrew Leduc And Welcome To Duke Reviews Where We Are Continuing Our Look At The Fast And Furious Films By Talking About Furious 7

This Film Sees Dom And His Crew Having Their New Peace Shattered By Deckard Shaw (Played By Jason Statham) Who Kills Han And Destroys Dom And Mia's Home When He Seeks Vengeance For What Dom Did To His Younger Brother, Owen Shaw (Played By Luke Evans) In The Last Movie. This Film Marks The Last Appearance Of Paul Walker, Who Died During Production In A Single Vehicle Crash On November 30th, 2013, His Death Devastated The Cast Greatly Including Vin Diesel Who Is Still Devastated To This Day. Walker's Brothers, Caleb And Cody Finished Up Their Brother's Scenes And Script Rewrites Were Made To Complete Walkier And Brewster's Character Arcs (That Is Until Brewster Wanted To Come Back For The 9th One Coming In 2020)...

So, Let's Find Out How They Say Goodbye To Brian O'Conner As We Watch Furious 7...

The Film Starts With Deckard Shaw Who Is Visiting His Comatose Brother, Owen Shaw (And Yes That's Luke Evans Playing Him In A Coma) In The Hospital To Tell Him That He's Going To Settle The Score With Dom As We See A Nurse And A Doctor Cower As He Says Before He Leaves To Take Care Of Owen Or He'll Be Back...

While The Opening Credits Roll We See Damage All Over The Hospital That Deckard (Most Likely) Caused As He Walks Out Of The Hospital...

After That Cool Scene We See Dom And A Still Amnesia Ridden Letty, Driving In The Middle Of The Desert Which Leads To Our Title Card!...

Asking Where They're Going, It Turns Out That Dom Is Taking Her To A Familiar Place, Namely Race Wars, Which Has Become A Worldwide Event Since The First Movie...

With Letty Racing Some Guy, She Wins When The Guy Blows Out His Engine Which Leads To Everyone Congratulating Her, Even Iggy Azalea But With Everyone Crowding Her, The Pressure Gets To Be Too Much For Letty...

Which Leads To Her Punching Hector From The First Movie (Yes, He's Back) Before Driving Off...

Meanwhile, Brian Faces A New Challenge....

Parenthood...

Finding Letty At Her Grave, Dom Goes To Smash It, But Letty Stops Him Saying That It's The Truth That's When Letty Died And That's When She Was Born. Saying That Despite The Memories That Dom Has Shared With Her, It's All A Blank Slate And That If She's Ever Going To Discover Anything Now, She's Got To Do It Herself, She Walks Off...

Meanwhile At The DDS, Neves Take Off For Night, But Before She Goes Hobbs Gives Her Something, A Letter Of Recommendation But As He Returns To His Office, He Finds Deckard Shaw In His Office Who Says He's Looking For The Team That Put Owen In The Hospital, Hobbs Lies Off Course Saying That It Was Him But Shaw Knows He's Lying Which Leads To A Fight Between The 2 Men And Neves Who Tries To Save Hobbs...

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With Hobbs And Neves Blown Out Of The Building Only To Land On A Car, We See Shaw Leave As We See Who He's Going After First, Han...

Back At The Toretto House, Brian Gets Ready To Take His Son, Jack To School As Mia Talks With Dom About How Brian Is Having A Hard Time Adjusting To Being A Dad Which Leads Mia To Tell Dom Some Good News, She Is Pregnant Again But She's Afraid On How Brian Will Take The News...

Getting A Box From Han In Tokyo, Dom Gets A Call From Deckard Shaw (Which Is The Same Scene From The End Of Furious 6) Which After He Hangs Up, Causes The Box To Explode, Destroying The Toretto House...

Getting A Call From Neves, Dom Visits Hobbs In The Hospital, Where He's Eating Jello And Watching The Bill Bixby Hulk Series While His Daughter Keeps Him Company...

(Dom)You Kidding, Kid? I Almost Killed Your Dad With A Wrench....

(Hobbs) Thank God She's Gone, She's Been Begging Me To Sing You're Welcome For Hours...

(Dom) Hey, If That's Anything, Brian's Kid Likes It When I Say I Am Groot...

Asking Who Was Behind The Attack, Hobbs Tells Dom About Deckard Shaw Who Was A British Special Forces Assassin Before His Own People Turned On Him, Making Him Basically A Ghost...

Asking Hobbs How To Find Him, Hobbs Says He Doesn't, Asking Dom To Stay Out Of This But Knowing That Dom Won't Hobbs Asks Him To Do A Favor For Him When And If He Finds Shaw....

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Sending Brian And Mia To Stay With A Friend In Monte Cristi In The Dominican Republic, Mia Gets A Call From Dom Who Tells Her That The Sins Of London Have Followed Them Home, Knowing That Dom Will Need Brian With Him Mia Decides To Hold Off Telling Him About The Baby As Dom Tells Mia To Tell Brian That He'll See Him In LA In 2 Days As He's Going To Tokyo To Bring What's Left Of Han Home...

Talking With Brian, Mia Tells Him To Be Careful As She Makes Him Promise That After This It's Over...

Oh, God Not This Song Again! If They Knew They Were Going Back To Tokyo Drift Why Didn't They Use This Song?...

It Would Be A Hell Of A Lot Better Than The Boring Piece Of Crap Song They Chose...

Anyway, We Get A Rehash Of The End Of Tokyo Drift, As Through Old Footage, We See Twinkie Tell Sean And Neela That Close To Han Wants To Race Him Which In Tokyo Drift Leads To This...

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But After That Scene We Get New Footage As We Hear About Sean And Dom's Race Where It Sounds Like Dom Kicked His Ass. Anyway, Sean Gives Dom Some Stuff He Found At The Crash Scene (Which Was Never Seen In Tokyo Drift But Still) Including A Picture Of Giselle And The Cross Left By Shaw When He Killed Han...

Wait A Minute, Sean! Someone Says That Your Friend Was Killed And You're Gonna Do Nothing About It At All? Then Why Did We Have You In This Film If You Weren't Going To Join Dom's Team Whatsoever When They Get Revenge For The Person You Called Your Friend?!? Hell, He Doesn't Even Attend The Funeral In The Next Scene I Mean If Harley Keener Can Attend Tony Stark's Funeral Then Sean Should Have Attended Han's Funeral, Thanks For Nothing, Sean Thanks For Nothing!

So After That Pointless Scene, We Cut To Han's Funeral, Where Dom Vows Vengeance Against Deckard Shaw As Brian Promises To Tej And Roman That After Shaw's Funeral There'll Be No More Funerals...

But As Brian Says That Dom Notices A Silver Car Which Somehow He Knows That Shaw Is Driving Which Leads Dom To After It...

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Shaw Leaves After He Gets Under Attack By People Who Look Like SWAT Or Military But Turns Out They're Run By Somebody Else, This Is Mr. Nobody (Played By Kurt Russell) Who Is There On Behalf Of Hobbs To Tell Dom That When Him And His Team Arrived In London They Walked In The Middle Of A War Between Shadows And Ghosts Like Him And It's Now Followed Them Home...

Which Leads Nobody To Buy Dom A Drink Before He Tells Him That He Can He Can Help Him Nab Shaw...

Travelling To A Covert Base In El Secundo, Nobody Tells Dom About A Terrorist Named Mose Jakande Who Recently Kidnapped A Hacker Who Goes By The Name Ramsey Who Has Created A Device Known As God's Eye That Can Basically Hack Anything That's On A Digital Network (Every Phone, Satellite, ATM And Computer) Simultaneously...

But Allow Me To Put It In The Way Nobody Puts It, It Took Them A Decade To Find Osama Bin Laden But With The God's Eye They Would Have Found Him A lot Quicker...

Telling Dom That This Device Could Be Disasterous In The Wrong Hands, Dom Realizes Why Nobody Needs Him But The Question He Has Is Why Does He Need Nobody And The Answer Is Simple...

Shaw Lives In A World That Doesn't Play By Dom's Rules And Like It Or Not He's Part Of That World Now, So, He Tells Dom That If He Gets The God's Eye, He Will Dom Use It To Find Shaw Until He's Arrested. Dom Accepts Nobody's Offer On The Condition That He Does It His Way With His Team (Which Nobody Has Already Gotten)...

With Ramsey Being Taken By Armed Motorcade Through The Caucasus Mountain Range, Roman Thinks That Their Plan Is Absolutely Crazy To The Point That He's Ready To Walk If They Don't Let Him Make Some Leadership Decisions And..They Do...

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(Mimicking Roman) Aw, You Know I Wasn't...You Know What Roman? Zip It!

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But Despite Me Thinking That Roman's Being A Pain In The Butt Here He Does Come Up With A Plan Despite DJ's Partner/Ex-Boyfriend From Fuller House Shooting Him Down At Times...

So With The Plan Set, The Team Is Finally Complete As Letty Arrives Saying That Despite What She Said Earlier, Han Was Family And She's Gonna Help...

Dom Tells Brian To Get Long Travel Suspension And Limited Slip Differentials On All The Cars While Works On The Demon Love Child Of Cars...

Which Tej Says Will Only Slow Him Down But Dom Says That This It's Not About Being Fast...

With The Team In Their Cars Talking, Nobody Tells Them To Be As Low-Key As Possible As A Door Opens To Reveal They're On Board An Airplane...

With Each Of Them Backing Up, They All Go Flying...

However, Roman Is Having Second Thoughts About This...

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With Everyone Except Roman Losing Their Parachutes, They Find The Motorcade Near The Caucasus Mountain, Where They Use Tej's Car As A Shield To Knock Down 2 Cars With Gattling Guns, Brian And Tej Drive On The Side Of The Bus To Place Charges On The Back But They Have More Guns On The Sides Of The Bus...

But With The Charges Set, Dom And Letty Launch Grappling Hooks At The Back Of The Bus In Which After Brian And Tej Blow The Charges, Dom And Letty Pull Down The Back Of The Bus...

With Brian Going In, He Fights The Men On-Board Before Finding Ramsey Who Is A Woman (Played By Game Of Thrones Nathalie Emmanuel) But After Brian Frees Her She Jumps Onto Dom's Vehicle However, There Is Another Vehicle Approaching That Is Being Driven By Deckard Shaw That Is Trying To Prevent Dom From Getting Ramsey...

But Back On Board The Motorcade, Brian Is Being Attacked By A Guard Named Kiet (Played By Tony Jaa) Who Brian Ends Up Fighting But As Dom Finally Gets Ramsey Inside His Car, He Ends Up Going Off Road With Ramsey And Jakande's Forces Behind Him...

As Brian Continues Fighting Kiet, Kiet Accidentally Knocks Out The Driver Which Causes The Motorcade To Turn On It's Side, Sliding Toward A Cliff...

With Kiet Trapping Brian While He Escapes, Brian Ends Up Using The Front Of The Vehicle Which Is Now Hanging Off Of A Cliff. Roman Reappears To Help Dom With Shaw's Vehicle As Brian Escapes The Bus By Climbing The Front And Running Up The Side Of The Bus Before Jumping Onto Letty's Car...

(Letty) Brian? You Dead?

(Brian) Ya, Mon...

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With Dom And Roman Returning To The Road, He Tells Roman To Find The Others While He Leads These Soldiers Off However, They End Up Cornering Dom Where He's Confronted By The Man Himself, Mose Jakande (Played By Djimon Hounsou)...

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I'd Actually Like Dom To Give Him His Name So That Mose Would Go...

(Laughing) I Had To Do That In A Movie With 3 People That Have Appeared In Both Guardians 1&2, I Just Had To Do That...

Telling Ramsey To Put On The Helmet Under The Seat, Dom Creates A Sandstorm Before Driving Forward To Go Over The Cliff...

It Would Seem That Way As No One Could Possibly Survive That! But Surprisingly Only Dom Could As The Reinforced Metal Frame Was Enough To Save Both Him And Ramsey...

Asking Her Where The God's Eye Is, She Tells Them That It's With A Friend In Abu Dhabi, Brian Is Surprised She Told Them So Easily But That's Because She's Not As Dumb As She Seems...

Back On The Plane, Brian And Dom Talk About How He Kind Of Missed Getting Shot At But Dom Tells Him That The Bravest Thing He's Ever Seen Him Do Is Being A Husband To Mia And A Father To Jack...

Stopping By A Hotel, The Team Relaxes For A Few While They Wait For Ramsey's Friend...

As We Get A Bikini Shot Of Ramsey (Because She Was In Game Of Thrones?) Her Partner, Safar Arrives To Talk With Ramsey About The God's Eye, However, It Turns Out That Safar Accidentally Sold It A Jordanian Prince Who Lives In The 3 Towers Who Said He Wanted To Use It For His Supercar...

Asking Where He Keeps It, Safar Tells Dom In Tower 1...

Uh, Quick Question, WHICH ONE IS TOWER ONE!?!

With Tomorrow Being The Longest Day Of The Year, The Prince Is Throwing A Party Tomorrow Afternoon And Yes, Safar Can Get Them Up There But Not Dressed Like That...

So, Putting On Their Sunday Clothes, Letty And Dom Have A Moment In The Elevator Where We See Letty Getting A Little Of Her Memory Back But Not Much, Which Leads Them To The Party..

With Tej And Ramsey On The Lower Floor, Everyone Scours For Security, The Prince And His Bodyguards But To Get To Where The Car Is In The Vault, They Have To Tap Into The Security System Which Is In The Prince's Bedroom, Which Letty Goes To Handle...

Shutting Down The Security, Roman Distracts Everyone With A Dumb Birthday Thing While Dom And Brian Sneak Into The Vault So They Can Find The God's Eye In The Prince's Car...

Meanwhile, Letty's About To Leave The Prince's Room When She Is Confronted By The Prince's Bodyguards That Are With His Head Of Security, Kara....

If It Was That Kara Than This Fight Would Be A Hell Of A lot More Interesting...

No, This Kara Is Played By Ronda Rousey Who Is In My Opinion, In A Role That Should Have Gone To Someone Else...

Honestly, This Is An Embarrassment To Her Skills, With How Good Of A Fighter She Is, She Deserved A Better Role And If They Wanted Her So Badly They Should Have Waited Until She Wasn't Doing Any Fighting For The UFC And They Should Have Waited When She Wasn't Making Any Other Films (Cause At The Time She Was Working On Expendables 3) Because If I Were Casting This I Would Place Her As A Partner For Either Mr. Nobody(Kurt Russell) Or Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) Like Gina Carano Was Before She Betrayed Them...

With Kara Locking Down Security, Tej Tries To Get It Back Under Control While Letty Fights Bodyguards Before Eventually Fighting Kara...

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With Tej Losing The Final Gate, Dom And Brian Decide To Drive Through It, But As They Do Guess Who Shows Up?...

Shaw!

Realizing That This Car's Bulletproof, Dom Decides To Run Over Shaw Before Driving Out The Window...

Discovering That This Car Has No Brakes, Brian Tries To Find The God's Eye While Dom Flies The Car Out Another Window

Finding The God's Eye, Dom And Brian Abandon Car While It Goes Tumbling Out The Building Like Wile E. Coyote Falling Off A Cliff...

Returning To Safar At His Garage They're All Encountered By Mr.Nobody Who While Upset About Them Not Being As Low-Key As The Last Mission Isn't Really As Upset Because They Got The God's Eye. So, Keeping His Word, Nobody Gives Dom The God's Eye Along With Command Of His Forces So He Can Use Them To Find Shaw Which He Does With The Help Of Ramsey...

Finding Shaw's Location, Dom Is Ready To Go As Soon Everyone Except Nobody And His Men Are Asleep But Brian Expected Dom To Pull This And Decided To Stay Up...

Entering Shaw's HQ, They Find Him Eating Dinner, However, He's More Prepared Than They Think He Is...

Turns Out That Shaw Is Working With Jakande...

During The Fight, Nobody Gets Injured And Jakande Gets The God's Eye...

With SOCM Medics On The Way, Nobody Tells Dom And Brian To Leave Him On The Side Of The Road Even Through Dom Doesn't Want To Leave Him But Noticing Helicopters On Their Way To Their Position, They Respect Nobody's Wishes And Leave Him On The Side Of The Road...

Realizing That War Is Coming, Dom Decides To Fight It On The Streets That They Know Best, Meaning The Streets Of LA...

Standing On A Hill Overlooking LA, Tej Comes Up With A Plan To Plant A Virus In The God's Eye, But The Only Problem Is That They Can't Hack Into It Unless They're Within A 2 Mile Range, Which Leads Brian To Suggest A Game Of Keep Away With Ramsey...

With Dom Taking On Shaw, Letty Worries That She'll Never See Him Again To Which He Gives Her The Necklace Found In Near Han's Car Stating That He'll Be Back For It...

That Night, Brian Calls Mia Telling Her About The Plan And That If She Doesn't Hear From Him In 24 Hours She's To Move On With Jack, But Telling Him About The Baby And That It's A Girl, She's Unable To Accept That...

Telling Her To Kiss Jack For Him He Hangs Up With Them Both Saying I Love You After...

Heading Home, Dom Unveils A 1970 Charger, Which Leads To A Montage Of Dom, Brian And Shaw Preparing To Go To War...

With Jakande Activating God's Eye, They Find Dom With Shaw In Pursuit...

Searching For Ramsey Now, She's With Brian And With The Helicopter In Range, Ramsey Starts The Hack But Unfortunately They Know About It Which Causes Jakande To Release A Big Drone Called The Predator To Go After Them...

With Dom And Shaw Finding Each Other, Shaw Follows Dom Across The City Until They Reach The Top Of A Parking Garage Where They Come At Each Other...

With The Predator Coming After Brian, He's Like Schwarzenegger Going "Come On, Kill Me! Here I Am"

With Roman And Tej Coming In, Ramsey Switches From His Car To Roman's Car While Jakande Blows Up Brian's Car Just As Brian Jumps Out Of It...

Discovering Ramsey Is Still Alive, The Predator Is Now Following Roman's Car While Hobbs Sees What's Going On And Decides "Hey, I'm Part Of This Movie Too!" And Loses The Cast So He Can Suit Up...

Oh, My God, The Manliness Of This Scene Is Over The Roof! I Repeat, OVER THE ROOF!

Finding Where They're Piggybacking The Hack, Jakande Destroys The Antenna To Break The Connection, This Leads Brian To Head To Another Signal Tower So They Can Reroute It To This Location, But Overhearing That, Jakande Sends Kiet To Stop Brian...

But While Brian Gets There Let's Check Back On Dom And Shaw, Who Have Gotten Out Of Their Cars So They Can Fight...

With The Drone Behind Them Trying To Kill Them, Tej And Roman Drive While Arguing What It Is, Luckily, Letty Is On Her Way...

With The Drone Locked, Ramsey Gets Ready To Jump As Jakande Blows Up Roman's Car But Luckily They All Got Out Before It Blew And Switched Ramsey To Letty's Car...

Arriving At The Tower, Brian Is Confronted By Kiet And A Few Soldiers, While He Manages To Deal With The Soldiers He Has To Fight Kiet Who Does Some Serious Parkour In Order To Catch Up With Brian But Eventually Brian Defeats Kiet By Connecting Him To A Heavy Rope That Brian Kicks Down The Elevator, Taking Kiet With It...

With The Predator Right On Letty And Ramsey, It Gets Destroyed When An Ambulance Driven By Hobbs Lands Right On Top Of It...

(Hobbs) Terminate This, Mothertrucker!

We Have Levels Of Badassness, I Repeat, Levels Of Badassness! If This Movie Gets Anymore Badassness From Dwayne Johnson The Movie Will Explode!

Reaching The Top, Brian Reroutes The Signal, Allowing Ramsey To Finish The Hack So They Can Take The God's Eye Back...

With Military Inbound, Jakande Targets Dom And Shaw, Firing A Middle Which Allows Dom To Finish Shaw Off...

Getting Back In His Car, Dom Tries To Escape The Parking Garage But With No Way Out He Activates Some Nos To Use A Rubble Formed Lift So He Can Place Grenades On Jakande's Helicopter...

(Jakande) Oh, Shit!

With The Team Saving Dom From His Car, It's Not Looking Good As Letty Holds Him, The Others Decide To Back Off As She Says Something....

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So, With Shaw In An Inescapable Jail, Dom And His Crew Head To The Beach As They Watch Mia And Brian Have Fun With Jack, Realizing That This Where Brian Belongs with His Family...

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And That Was Furious 7 And What Can I Say About It?...

The Story Is Great, But The Ending Is Sad Mainly Because Of Paul Walker And The Song At The End Sung By Whiz Khalifa And Charlie Puth. The Characters Are Good As Always And The Villain While Not Better Than The Last Movie Is Just As Good To Say The Least, And I Say See It...

Till Next Time, This Is Duke, Signing Off...

#Furious 7 #the fast and the furious #Vin Diesel #paul walker #jordana brewster #michelle rodriguez #tyrese gibson #ludacris #dwayne the rock johnson #jason statham

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