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"No way jerk, not only did you brainwash all my friends to the point where I was literally fighting them, in one of the worst moments of my life, but you also were the one who broke Zangetsu in the first place!"
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wicked community i just found something so deeply cursed i'm not sure if i should subject you all to it or just take one for the team
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No Good Deed
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Stepping away from the table she walks passed the bend into a quieter corner of the space. “You have a set of balls on you calling this number” she half whispers into her phone.
You chuckle a little before you’re overcome with a coughing fit. You clutch at your side. The one where the fabric feels damp. Probably shouldn’t have used super glue on that stab wound but it was what you had at the time. Call it an emergency. Desperate times, desperate measures or whatever.
“L/N…you OK?” her voice comes through your earpiece. She sounds concerned. For some reason it lifts your spirit a little.
“I’m fine” you answer through a wheeze. “Just a little wiped out y’know. I ain’t no spring chicken no more.”
“Just turn yourself in and I can help you” she huffs. You hear her shut a door and the sound of papers rustling.
“Can’t do that.” You mute your phone to let out another string of coughs. This one hurts more than the previous ones. It brings up phlegm which you spit onto a paper towel noting some blood in it. Finally able to catch your breath you feel hot and drained of energy.
You unmute your microphone. Natasha is still speaking. Something about tracing the call and not being able to hide from Shield.
“…are you still there?” she says after a long pause.
“Mmhmm” you smile as you pull down the only bottle on the shelf with any liquid in it.
“Since when did you start drinking cognac?” you say plonking three ice cubes into a mug.
“Y/N…” she warns.
Pouring the golden liquid down your throat you feel a little better. You’re surprised that it actually tastes palatable.
You can hear her tapping on a keyboard and some beeps come through the phone. “Are you…at my place?” she asks.
You turn smiling to where you know she’s set up the security camera. Giving it a wave and a bow. “Missed me?”
“Of course you’d turn up there” she says more to herself.
“Wish I could see you too. I bet you’re a sight for sore eyes” you say winking at the camera.
“Are you bleeding? Is that blood?” her voice sounds tense.
“Aww” you coo leaning against the table. “Is that concern I hear in your voice, Romanoff?”
She rolls her eyes. Not that you can see it. “You’d better not get any of that on my rug” she scolds.
You laugh and pout at the camera. “…umm, about that.”
She groans on the line. “Just stay where you are, I’m coming over.”
“Listen,” you walk closer to the camera and stare into it. Nat stares into the monitor as your face takes up the entire screen. She notes the bags under your eyes and the various cuts and scratches that litter your face. “You know I’ll be gone long before you even get close.”
“You’re wanted for murder, L/N. Do you expect me to just sit here while you drink my alcohol and trash my place?” For once Nat feels helpless. She pinches the bridge of her nose and sighs to herself.
“Excuse me?” you say offended. “First of all, your place isn’t exactly the Ritz to begin with and I was expecting you to help me?”
“What makes you think I’d want to help you?” she says leaning back into her chair. She watches you down the last of her cognac and wishes she had a drink herself.
“Because deep down you know I didn’t do it, Romanoff.” You smirk into the camera.
She laughs into her mouthpiece. “Wow.”
“What’s so funny?” you ask moving away from the camera to gingerly sit down on the sofa still in full view of her. You were trying to put on a brave face but in truth your side was starting to burn. A lot.
“Not only are you brazen and foolish, but also presumptuous” she answers.
“I know you’ve rigged this place up not only with explosives but also to lock down as tight as a nun at Daytona Beach on Spring Break. And if you didn’t believe I was innocent, you could’ve chosen either one of those options and poof, problem solved. The fact that you haven’t makes me think that either you like me, or you know I didn’t kill those men.”
The line goes silent for a few minutes. You’ve played all your cards and you wait patiently for her move. A fat bead of sweat rolls from your forehead down to your neck and passes under your shirt.
Finally after what felt like forever she breaks the silence.
“What do you want?”
#natasha x reader#natasha romanoff x reader#natasha romanoff x fem!reader#black widow x reader#redfic#No Good Deed
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"kill them with kindness"? wrong! ELEKA NAHMEN NAHMEN AH TUM AH TUM ELEKA NAHMEN
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"No Good Deed goes unpunished~"
And finally, Elphaba in her Final Form: The Wicked Witch of the West. Elphaba's general style.... but make it Dramatic. The much wider hat brim and cloak for Drama darling. Maximum swooshing in and out of scenes.
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#elphaba#wicked#elphaba thropp#wicked the musical#character design#lnart#costume design#historically inspired#redesigning heroines#historical costuming#digital illustration#no good deed
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the brilliance of jay's progression in countdown is that it gives you a promise of positive character development, and then it breaks it. and it does so intentionally, in the most diverting way, to emphasize jason's inability to escape the cycle.
or, another post breaking down the series, where i repeat myself a lot but also make a clearer argument.
there are three notable events that happen at the beginning: the subtle showcase of jay's internal conflict considering his approach toward killing (the very first encounter with duela and the monitor), jay reaching out to donna in crisis ("i guess I just wanted to be around someone else who might know how it feels…"), and finally – his helmet shattering. these scenes tell you: jason's direction as a character is changing, and it seems, for the better. he's about to abandon his trauma-based (no matter how ironic, it does remain tied to his trauma) identity, he is connecting with people, and he seems to be on a brink of understanding that his moral standing does not provide easy answers or solutions either.
and for the most part of the series, we see that narrative unfolding (even if a bit non-linear, still innocently convincing way). it is, in many ways, supported by bringing up features of his characterisation from the 80s. jason remains, of course, still unpleasant in ways typical for this era of writing, and is conflicted and disagreeable, which makes sense for his utrh/post-utrh personality. however, there are also details that bring us back to his original robin run and his cameos on ntt – we see him being responsible (e.g. #43 – suggesting to bring in other superheroes in crisis, even though he clearly is not keen on the idea of working with them), determined (#16: “isn’t that your super-power, stupid boy? too stupid to ever give up?” “maybe it is”), sensitive (half of the whole storyline, really), caring for gotham (gotham by gaslight) and people-oriented (as early as #51).
the issue that particularly signals that jason is an inherently good person and externalizes his internal conflicts regarding classic heroic vigilantism vs his cynical approach is #30, where we meet batman of earth-15 – alt jason, whom our jason attempts to punch in the face.
and on topic of batman – jason is always gravitating towards batman. in gotham by gaslight jay looks delighted to see (the foreign) bruce and suggests checking with the local bat. then, earth-51 arc arrives.
earth-51 arc (#16 - #13) is a culmination of a promise of catharsis for jason. we have already seen him as batman, as a confirmation that a different life for him is possible. and here he has a chance to come to terms with his past and overcome it. he meets a version of bruce who has done exactly what he wanted him to do in utrh: killed the joker and the rest of the rogue gallery. what is most important – he is disappointed with this version of his father. we realise that jason, deep down, has an intimate and intuitive understanding of what batman stands for; and that he shares most of his values. this is a truth that you can't ignore especially since jay is the one to inspire this hollow, cynical version of batman to go out and fight in a seemingly lost battle.
and then batman dies. right in front of him.
this is a central moment of the narrative, for many reasons, most strikingly:
the symmetry:, a premise known from the lost days, becomes literal. this "the father had lost a son, and now the son had lost the father" is a cruel parallel to a death in the family and bruce's grief. jason's death created a gap between them that jay has been desperately trying to close, with no avail – because in bruce's mind, jason remains dead. now that jason is grieving bruce, the connection closes on both sides, and there's no way for either of them to reconcile the mourning with the reality of the other being truly alive. in this sense, the arc solidifies that jason can never come home.
no good deed goes unpunished. as i have mentioned before, so far jason is established as someone good at heart, but confused; and the reader intuitively assumes that his better, honest side will win. yet, the moment jason gives in to hope, it victimises and retraumatizes him. this event, again, brings to mind his own death, when he tried his best to save sheila and ended up paying the highest price for it. so, narrative-wise, jason is always punished for his kindness.
perhaps because of the nonchalant act that jason pulls off, many readers seem to miss that everything that happens after that arc is an upshot that follows logically from it.
jason's immediate determination to leave – and later a short period of indecision that ends up with his dramatic exit, pushing his team away, makes perfect sense when you consider what intense trauma he has just gone through. admittedly, i'm not a fan of the notion that he would give up at all (i think he's always ready to give up on himself, but not on the world), but then on the other hand, if there's anything that would cause it, narrative-wise, witnessing batman dying does sound like a good incentive for that. (it also has to be pointed out that jason seems to be confident that the rest of the team can go into the final battle without him anyway; it's not like he would go back to his earth not even knowing if said earth will exist tomorrow).
it's crucial to notice that following that crisis of faith (faith in fighting for the world) is followed by him raising up for the challenge again, but now... worse and even more confused. in the final confrontation with donna, jason antagonizes the superhero community, and when we see him at the end of the series (#1) his monologue indicates that he believes the capes to be naive. (significantly, he also focuses on bruce and offends the memory of 51 earth-bruce by calling him crazy; an action that can be seen as suppression of his own guilt and invoking, once again, a cruel symmetry considering bruce's engagement in victim-blaming after jason's death). this, once again, is consistent with the "no good deed" reading – jason diminishes superhero values because he has been continuously punished for living by them. (and unlike other superheroes, he doesn't have a support system nor skills in compartmentalization that would help him deal with this trauma) every leap of hope re-traumatised him. hence, it seems to be no surprise that jason decides to abandon the mask, and in the closing scene we see him without it. the promise of the shattered helmet is pushed to an extreme – jason does not get a new alt identity. he denounces the idea of superheroism completely.
and yet, what is ultimately subversive about the ending, is that jay is not truly a civilian and he does not abandon vigilante ways. he does the same thing. we see him without a mask, but he is clearly working a case. he might have rejected the symbolic dimension of the vigilante work, but he still carries the same delusional hope for bettering the world and protecting people that the superhero community does. only now, he is even more isolated and doesn't have any identity to go by (as he is still legally dead).
as such, the ending opens a new question regarding jason's understanding of himself and vigilantism, or rather the lack thereof. is it possible that vigilantism is really at the core of jay's trauma? and why, potentially, is it something that is so destructive for him as a character specifically? (and i have some answers for that, but i'm not going to get into it here, as it's already a very long post)
so, tldr; the genius of countdown is that it establishes jay as sensitive, determined, and fundamentally good (this is what the purpose of seeing him as batman is!), and then it brutally reminds the reader that jason’s tragedy is that on this specific earth, in this specific timeline, his love doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. the story goes on as it did; one way or another, jay is trapped in the cycle of his care ironically creating rifts between him and the others, and bringing him to his own downfall.
#okay i know i said a lot of it already but it's been some time since i finished the reread and i feel like my take on it has shifted a bit#and i wanted to emphasise the 'no good deed' interpretation!!#also it's just that i've seen a lot of people saying that countdown ends with jason being a civilian.#while i think the whole genius of it is that he is not really a civilian??#have you seen civilians doing whatever the hell he is doing in the final scene?#this is arguably the element of the narrative that is by most readers missed – and i understand why#it's easy to get confused when navigating an event that spans across pretty much all of dc#fortunately for you i have worms for brain. and i have hyperanalysed it#i'm not saying overanalysed btw because i genuinely believe that this is not a case of accidental narrative brilliance#this is a pretty clear and straightforward progression once you dissect it from the rest of the series#and there are a lot of details that further cement my belief that it had to be intentional#i mean. even the recognition that donna and jason know each other is already... a lot for dc writers?#the fatal flaw#51#no good deed#jay.zip#jay.txt#jason todd#core texts
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A Seraphim's Anguish
“Let all Heaven be agreed
Extermination is required, after all
Since I cannot succeed,
Adam and Lute, saving you
I promise no good deed
Will I attempt to do again
EVER AGAIN!”
ANGELICGUITARSWORD AU WHERE ADAM AND LUTE BOTH DIE WOOHOO!
Emily is angry and now believes in extermination.
Lyrics from "No Good Deed" from Wicked. Upcoming fanfic!
And look... she has an A and L necklace... :)
#angelicguitarsword#adam x lute x emily#angelicguitar#emily x adam#adam x emily#angelicsword#emilute#luteemily#lute x emily#emily x lute#guitarspear#guitarsword#adam x lute#lute x adam#polyamourous#poly relationship#angst no comfort#angst fanart#sad fanart#upcoming fan fiction#WICKED lyrics#No Good Deed
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I think Cynthia Erivo’s No Good Deed might kill me dead
#broadway#mine#theatre#theater#theatre kid#cynthia erivo#wicked#wicked movie#wicked broadway#musical theater#musical theatre#musical theater fandom#the color purple#no good deed#stephen schwartz#elphaba thropp#wicked elphaba#elphaba#elphie#Glinda#galinda#text post#text
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Most people: Defying Gravity is the best song in Wicked
Me: anyway, inject No Good Deed into my veins
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On the topic of songs that are perfect for Mission: Impossible and Benthan angst, I present to you: "No Good Deed" from Wicked.
( Ethan is singing, Benji is Fiyero - or, for more angst and pain, the other way around. )
#ethan hunt#benji dunn#mission impossible#benthan#no good deed#wicked the musical#it just makes sense
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Found on the Hungarian internet: a video of Susan Rigvava-Dumas at a Halloween concert in Budapest, singing "No Good Deed" from Wicked, wearing an Elphaba hat. (Apologies for the video quality.)
For @neednottoneed, @jon-withnoh, @callmekamel, and everyone else who loves Susan as much as I do. 💖
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#susan rigvava dumas#elphaba thropp#wicked#no good deed#wicked the musical#wicked 20#stephen schwartz#Youtube
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Vague-posting is vague, sorry.
Today has been a complete shit show. It started absurdly early this morning - under normal circumstances, I'd be at work. But I've been keeping normal hours for the last two weeks, so I got swept into a mess. Dunno how that mess is going to play out - I'm waiting to see if it blows up in my face in a big way tonight.
On a brighter note, my hip/glute twinge seems to be improving. I actually managed a set of rear lunges - it's been almost a year since I was working out, let alone move with mostly no pain. So, there is that. I can go down stairs reasonably well, although going up stairs still hurts like a bastard. But not as much as it did, so...yay?
Re: this AM - I did the right thing, I know I did. And this may just be the price to be paid, I don't know. But damn, I do miss having someone I could talk to from time to time.
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Musical songs that are like "No more Mr. Nice Guy" have my heart
#my sceenshot of jay looks so funny sorry#epic the musical#monster#the hunchback of notre dame#made of stone#wicked#no good deed#musicals
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Wicked | West End | May 20, 2023 | Matinee | NFT Until June 3
Cast: Alexia Khadime (Elphaba), Lucy St. Louis (Glinda), Ryan Reid (Fiyero), Natalie Spriggs (u/s Madame Morrible), Mark Curry (The Wizard), Caitlin Anderson (Nessarose), Joe Thompson-Oubari (Boq), Simeon Truby (Doctor Dillamond), Conor Ashman (Chistery), Harry Mills (Witch’s Father), Micaela Todd (Witch’s Mother), Yuki Abe, Kofi Aidoo-Appiah, Jessica Aubrey, Joshua Clemetson, Fergus Dale, Nicola Espallardo (s/w), Ross Harmon, Kate Leiper, Paddyjoe Martin (s/w) Millie Mayhew, Jeanie Ryan (s/w), Christine Tucker, Jaydon Vijn, Taela Yeomans-Brown
NOTES: its-all-green's master. NFT Through master until June 3. Recorded from the front row. Alexia goes insane during No Good Deed. Tracked
This is quite possibly the best quality Wicked audio I have ever recorded and one of the best No Good Deeds I have ever heard. Alexia is a force of nature.
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Top 2 answers from this poll go against the top answers from act 1
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Test doodle ❤️
#elphaba#wicked#no good deed#art#artists on tumblr#sketch#my art#digital art#riddledoodle#sketches#artwork#wicked witch of the west
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