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ghxstlike · 7 months

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i love loving you

leon kennedy x reader content/warnings: petnames (baby), leon being awkward, leon antics, awkward flirting, teasing, cigarette mention, leon’s music taste, anxiety mention, nightmare mention. authors note: i am down bad for this man. he is rotting my brain and i am very okay with it. these are personal headcanons :)

leon's smile always starts out as a smirk. it's very cute.

always has a hand on you. around your shoulders, holding your hand, lightly gripping your thigh. he wants other people to know that you're taken- you're his.

he is a slightly possessive and jealous man. if someone is flirting with you, his eyes are narrowed at the person who is way too close to you, and his leg is bouncing with anxiety.

sooner or later, he saunters over to the two of you and wraps an arm around your shoulders.

"hey, baby," he whispers in your ear, but it was loud enough for the person in front of you to hear. you shiver, slightly leaning into leon's embrace.

when you first met leon, you were immediately attracted to him. so, of course, you started to flirt with him.

though, he isn't dumb. he knew you were flirting with him (he was flirting back, after all). he teased you for it, obviously.

"are you flirting with me?" he says with a smirk. leon leaned down to get closer to your face, tilting his head.

people say that leon is a flirting machine and is good with women. no he is not.

i mean, yes, he does flirt a lot, but he is not good with women at all.

you found it very charming and cute when he asked you out. a huge smile was plastered on your face, staring at the nervous man in front of you.

“i- hm, i was just- fuck. i was wondering if you, i dunno,” he clears his throat. his face is slightly pink, but he thinks that his face is a deep red by how hot his body feels. “do you want to go get dinner with me sometime?” he manages to get out. he sighs out of relief- he did it. he feels a drop of sweat roll down his temple onto his cheek, shoving his clammy hands into his jean pockets.

of course, you said yes. i mean, who wouldn’t?

y’all aren’t gonna like this, but he definitely smokes cigarettes.

i mean c’mon, he was born in 1977. though, he didn’t willingly start smoking. his friends in high-school peer pressured him.

he tried to stop smoking before his first day at rpd, but it failed miserably. he felt antsy and he was more on edge- angry. he hated that he got easily frustrated with people. he’ll try again someday.

he smells like cigarette smoke and leather. occasionally he smells like coconut & patchouli (his cologne).

always has a stress toy with him. i like to think he wears a fidget ring on his middle finger or thumb. playing with a stress ball or twirling a pen makes him more focused and calm.

bites the inside of his cheek when he’s deep in thought. he doesn’t even notice that he’s doing it, it just happens.

his music taste is decent!

he doesn’t listen to the radio, thinks 2010 music is trash and it’s annoying.

it’s mostly a combination between 90s alt & grunge and early 2000’s rock. his favorite band is radiohead.

always gives eye contact. never looks away when you're talking, especially when you're talking about your long day at work or something you're passionate about.

as we all may know, he's bad at communicating his feelings. you can tell he's getting better with it, but it's still a challenge for him.

he never talks about raccoon city. you only found out about this from overhearing a conversation he had with claire. you brought it up one time, but he fell silent and never looked up at you. ever since then, you never talked about it with him.

mans suffers with frequent nightmares, so obviously he never sleeps. when he's with you though, he doesn't have any nightmares. so, he stays up until you're ready for bed.

when you're out late, he's waiting for you in bed.

leon loves to get his hair played with. he loves the feeling of your nails lightly scratching his scalp.

if you take meds, he always reminds you to take them. he also watches you take them, just in case.

leon always wants the best for you. he just loves you, so so much.

#leon s kennedy x reader #leon s kennedy x you #leon kennedy x reader #leon kennedy x you #resident evil x reader #resident evil x you #x reader #leon kennedy #leon s kennedy #resident evil

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memzyyy · 3 months

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hi me again the girly who is going crazy over tom like you said in the last post :)

so I was wondering

2010 tom public sex

likee in the mall restrooms or something i do not know just PUBLIC SEX.

and the female reader tries to stay quiet but fails 🫢

I AM SO SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG. I HAD A DREAM WHERE I CHECKED MY TUMBLR AND HAD NO REQUESTS AND MY STUPID BEING BELIEVED IT😭

here’s your smut bbg💀

2010 tom k public sex fanfic (i will find who you are)

I DON’T CONDONE PUBLIC SEX AT ALL!!! it’s very disrespectful to the people what are around you (esp if your loud). it should be behind closed doors in your bedroom!!!!!! doing in public is very trampy. it’s only hot if it’s fictional so don’t do it. Thank you!

i’m skipping the fucking storyline i hate porn with plot with the entire fibre of my being.

if it’s bad i’m not taking responsibility. i’ve had a few drinks.

NSFW DOWN BELOW

“Tom—“ you try protest, but his lips lock with yours into a kiss; silencing your pleas to go home and do this! i mean, sex in a shop (mall if you must) restroom? you gotta be outta your mind!

his large hands run up your waist to your back before he unclasps your bra, it falling to the floor with a clud (did i have to drop my bra in order to know what sound it makes? absolutely😭) before he began pulling your panties to the side, too needy to take them off.

His lips against yours almost made you forget that you were in a toilet stall before a couple of men came past laughing to go to the men’s restroom before you snapped back into reality.

You place your hand upon his abdomen in a futile attempt to stop him from taking you in public; “what’s wrong Mein Häschen?” he had spoken, “shouldn’t we wait until we get home?” you had spoken to him, voice quiet making sure if anyone was in the bathroom they wouldn’t hear you.

“no one will find us, Prinzessin. I promise this will be fun! c’mon..” he spoke, neediness in his tone, his hands finding its way to your thighs rubbing it up and down before making it to your slick arousal “i’m just nervous.. i’ve never done something like this before..” you spoke with a soft voice, he never would put you in a bad situation!! he slid his cock in between your folds, teasing you.

“Tom please.” you cried with desperation, “what honey? tell me what you need.” “i need you…please.” “i’m gonna need more specifics…. don’t be shy, use your words.” you hesitated, your lip finding its way into the middle of your teeth before you spoke; “your cock, Tom… i need your cock so fuckin’ bad..”

“Braves Mädchen.” Tom whispered before he places his hands on your hips as he pushes the head of his cock inside of your pussy; “gonna make you feel reaaaal good..” he says before his cock hit right up against your sweet spot, making you moan.

“T-Tom-“ “shhhh, just enjoy it…” his dick pounding into your cunt, admiring how his dick slid so perfectly into you as you tried muffling your moans but you just couldn’t :( his cock was just bullying itself in all the right places!!!!

“f-fuck… give me more of that cock…” you moaned loudly “Atta girl.” as he pounded himself more into your sopping cunt, his balls hitting your clit so good !!!! <3

you moaned without a care in the world, anyone could hear what was happening inside of that restroom, or the restroom. (your very loud).

his thick dick fucks into into your walls, driving you to cum quickly. as you moaned about how good your upper thighs moved with the impact of his hips.

as his fingers began to play with your sensitive nub you came around his big cock, tightening deliciously around his dick which pushed him to cum too, pulling out and landing his load into your panties.

“Good Girl.”

(you got into trouble with the shop owner after)

Don’t judge my bad german😔

@1sjsoul

Mein Häschen - My Bunny

Prinzessin - Princess

Braves Mädchen - good girl

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liongoatsnake · 2 years

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You’re Never “Too Old” To Realize You’re Fictionkin

By Sky Singer (he/him/his)

1 October 2022 – Word count: ~1660

Talk about coming out is pretty common in the alterhuman community, even if it’s not always framed that way. Telling others about being alterhuman; being open about being alterhuman to others. It’s a common conversation: how to be open to others about being alterhuman, whether it be actively telling people directly or just passively let it be open in some way or another. Parents, siblings, close friends, partners… Less talked about is this being brought up in the context of the alterhuman community itself, though.

Maybe that doesn’t automatically make sense: why would one alterhuman need to “come out” to another alterhuman? But coming out isn’t always about making non-ingroup people aware of something and expressing they are part of that group. Sometimes it’s just about opening up to others about something about yourself. And it’s not like this “opening up” is always a topic that goes smoothly, even if both the speaker and the listener are all from the same “group.” Opening up about being a certain kind of alterhuman, or having a certain kind of ‘type, or so on isn’t always easy peasy. The person wanting to open up about something can be worried how others will react.

We remember a time when grilling was still common. Where coming out about an aspect of your identity could lead to issues. People demanding to know the logistics: How long have you “properly” questioned this identity? Have you considered every alternative explanation? Can you write a small thesis detailing your reasonings to hold this identity? (We’re only slightly exaggerating on the latter question, though the old Awareness Forums certainly did have its moments of desiring thousand words long replies to questions…)

We don’t expect that sort of mind-numbing, soul-crushing analysis from anyone… Except ourselves, unfortunately. We are our own worst critic. It’s not a conscious thing. It’s not even something we want to do. It’s just something that got drilled into us for years, and our issues with crippling anxiety keeps that methodology alive in the recesses of our brain. Our anxiety makes us uncontrollably nitpick and second guess ourselves. Imposter syndrome is strong in us.

Not so fun fact, the origins of our personal essays on our experiences, both the ones we have actually finished and the dozens of WIPs languishing in folders, almost all got their start within a question that we were grilled about. We hate reinventing the wheel over and over again, so we just started writing out these monstrously long explanations just so we can copy/paste parts of them over and over again when the same questions would crop up again and again. We write and update our personal essays still today because we hope they might be of interest or use to someone else, but we would be lying if we said we didn’t go into painstaking detail about things because we fear someone might think we didn’t explain something in “good enough” detail.

Some habits die hard. Some linger like scars.

Not even a decade ago, if someone came out as fictionkin they were either doomed to be the community pariah or, if they were lucky, the community might have accepted them if they could play the grilling “game” well enough to placate any self-appointed gatekeepers. A “game” where they could never stop playing and if they fumbled the ball, they could possibly be ousted from the community for their loss. We remember that time in the community too well. It pained us to see fictionkin treated like that back then, and it hurt to see the people in our system who were open about being fictionkin have to be ready for scorn at the drop of a hat. Now, those old fears are weighing on not only my shoulders but also those of the other two hosts here at the House of Chimeras.

It’s funny. Our system has members who are very open about being fictionkin. They’ve been open about it for years. Several were even open about it in the late 2000s and early 2010s when fictionkin were still treated with so much contempt and ridicule. (Ebony the thestral, Miushra the Named, Cavern-Risen the Black Spiral Dancer garou, and others.) So, one would think that other people in our system discovering they too were fictionkin wouldn’t be so destabilizing. Yet here we are. Maybe it’s because I and my siblings have grown comfortable in the way we are perceived in the community. Yeah, we’re part of a large multiple system but we were “just” polytherians with only two theriotypes. The most likely controversial thing people found with us was either the fact we are part of a system or that Ocean Watcher’s theriotypes are a shark and a sea slug. (In the past there was controversy in the therian community if it was possible for someone to have fish and mollusk theriotypes.) Outside of those possibly controversial things the three of us have long felt like just a face in the crowd. Maybe our anxiety of changing the status quo for us publicly has rattled some old fears about how fictionkin are perceived.

Maybe what also raises our anxiety is the fact that we actually were aware we were these characters before we knew we were these characters. That sounds so paradoxically absurd, but here we are. We’ve known since we first saw the movies, each just over a decade ago. We knew. We just never thought about it. We never questioned it.

It’s particularly absurd for me, Sky Singer, because out of the three of us, everything was a lot more obvious in my case, looking back. I didn’t always go by the name I go by today. Growing up, as a kid, my name was Jim, and I went by that name until only a few years ago. Moreover, I didn’t discover my theriotypes, red-tailed hawk and Sinornithosaurus, until our early 20s. So before then I stuck exclusively to my human form. So as soon as we first saw the movie my fictiotype is in I knew right off the bat I shared the same name and appearance as one of the characters. (Since myself and the two other hosts of this system were aging roughly at the same rate as our body, I was even around the age as the character in question, so it was even easier to see the resemblance. However, it wasn’t just the name and appearance. Seeing the movie, it was almost like watching old home videos from your childhood: you just knew that was you from some time ago, you generally remembered stuff (give or take some hazy spots) but from a first-person perspective, and everything. But bizarrely enough, that being weird somehow didn’t click in our system’s brain. We knew I was Jim, but we didn’t recognize that as odd. We just went about our life like that knowledge wasn’t anything noteworthy. Even when our system discovered the term fictionkin because of the therian community, I didn’t connect the dots.

It wasn’t until a month ago, while talking in-system about what movies we could watch that this anomaly was highlighted. It wasn’t even me who brought it to light. While glancing through DVDs I saw our old copy of Treasure Planet and dismissively said I didn’t want to watch it which led to Miushra asking questions as to why I didn’t, and it was her who pointed out how similar I looked to the character. It was only then everything fell into place. It wasn’t even a question of “do I actually identify as this character?” It was a realization of years of knowing I was that character meant I was fictionkin. I had made the discovery long ago. I just never connected it to fictionkin. Somehow. Cognitive dissonance can be one hell of a thing, I guess. I hadn’t “missed the signs;” I had hit all the signs and hadn’t bothered to read any of them or wonder why they were in my way.

And it didn’t end there.

Long story short: the three hosts at House of Chimeras: myself, Earth Listener, and Ocean Watcher don’t just have names that really follow a similar pattern. Everything about us kind of does that. If one thing is the case for one of us, then something along the same lines (but not in the same way) will be the case for the other two. That is why we call ourselves siblings. So, when I realized I was not just a therian but also fictionkin that got Earth Listener and Ocean Watcher thinking if there was any character they knew they were but hadn’t ever made the connection either. And they did. Earth Listener realized her being San from Princess Mononoke was something unusual as did Ocean Watcher with the character, Tetsu from Blue Submarine No. 6. (And they also had to deal with the feeling of “how did I never question this?!” like I did.)

Since discovering this we’ve been equal parts wanting to talk about this to others (because what the fuck, this is buck wild) but also highly anxious to talk about it as well (because of all our bad experiences with fictionkin being treated terribly in the not too distant past). But also, talking about it to others, or just writing about it, is useful for us to get a handle on our thoughts. Like, how we connect our fictiotypes into our existing personal mythology regarding our origins, and more.

This essay isn’t a grand splash but a timid dipping our toes into the water. A shy opening up about the three of us being not just therians, but fictionkin as well. It is so bizarre to have known something for a decade but were not aware of it until recently. We are anxious how people might react, either to just how ridiculously oblivious we were for a decade or to the news we are fictionkin in general, but we want to share this anyway.

#alterhuman #fictionkin #fictionkind #fictive #therian #alterhuman community history #awakening

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zahri-melitor · 7 months

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New(ish) Comics: Gotham War Edition

So I’m doing this hey. Going to read a few lead ins I haven’t got to yet then dive in.

Batman #136: Tim is baby here. Bruce is…not doing well. The set up for this conflict is actually reasonably entertaining (aka ‘both Bruce and Selina have been keeping secrets that are causing problems’, the scale of which really pisses off the other). Gosh, that family scene is very much calculated to be circulated as a panel out of context, and I’m wondering if it’s real at all.

I am NOT going to advocate that Bruce needs therapy (folks. FOLKS. The therapy Bruce has had previously has got us into this mess) but I am going to point and laugh at his mental state a lot.

Knight Terrors Batman #1-2: I’m on record as disliking the whole Zur-En-Arrh mythos but at least this storyline is actually revisiting all aspects of it? We got the sensory deprivation tank back. Apparently me reading the entirety of the Black Casebook was actually worth it for something. Golly, this nightmare is so BORING. It’s literally ticking the boxes – lack of control, everyone is dead, replay of Crime Alley, etc. The Gun-Bat (gun-bat. GUN-BAT. ffs) just isn’t convincingly scary. The only interesting twist at ALL was Bruce getting to play as Joe Chill for a bit.

The Arsenal backup – seriously the lack of creativity in everyone’s nightmares SHOWS. Not being able to use the Cry isn’t a nightmare for Dinah, it’s something she understands intimately and knows how to work around. (“Nobody listens to me” is slightly better but also if you just pop your earrings back in Dinah, I am SURE Babs would be happy to go back to obsessively stalking you and being available to talk at any or all hours) Roy being beset by the events of 2010 to present and accompanying costumes is at least meta but it’s still ‘I miss Lian’ (we know, we know, you already lived through your nightmare).

Batman/Catwoman The Gotham War – Battle Lines #1: Maxie Zeus my sweetie!!! Oh wait I’m supposed to care about everything else here, but the fact it’s Tim kicking around Maxie is very satisfying. Love to see Robins against their own period rogues (one of Tim’s first proper times working with Oracle was a Maxie Zeus case).

Okay fine, whatever, Selina’s pitch for how to stop violent crime in Gotham. It’s incredibly silly, as has been widely canvassed, and ignores basic common sense questions like ‘what happens when security increases’, ‘what happens when you run out of these low risk high value targets’, ‘who is fencing all this and how is the increased black market bearing the weight of a higher flow of goods without dropping prices too far’ and ‘how is the entire room of detectives who’ve been operating in Gotham unaware of any changes in crime levels’. The whole club scene is just clearly here to start fracturing the family (yay!).

Wow I hate this version of Montoya I hate it so much, this is so jarring after just having read Gotham Central.

Anyway Selina is getting handed the idiot ball hard here, which is unfortunate, given this issue literally goes ‘here’s the clear point you’ve ignored’ as the last few pages.

Batman #137: Vandal Savage causing problems on purpose! LOVE YOU SAVAGE. (He’s so annoying. Nice to have him as a change to Ra’s) So battle lines are drawn up with Jason in Selina’s camp, Damian in Bruce’s and the rest of them currently in the centre trying to work things out. I still think everyone is being a bit helpless due to this storyline, but we’ll see how it develops.

Catwoman #57: Ehhhhhhh. Jason is weirdly excited about jacking cars here? This is trying SO HARD to position the whole conflict on a classism front and it just doesn’t work for me. “We can just solve financial inequality by Robin Hooding!” uh it doesn’t quite work that way folks. You know what also helps get people out of poverty? Education, healthcare and steady jobs that AREN’T likely to land people in the prison system. Yes also a cash injection can help but your whole training is oriented at continuing to acquire money by criming.

Dick dropping by to go ‘hey do you realise you’re being an idiot? Think about it, Selina’ was cute though.

HELLO SCANDAL PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HAVE A DECENT VERSION OF YOUR PERSONALITY. YOU ARE ALWAYS FUN.

Batman/Catwoman: the Gotham War - Red Hood #1: (the name goes on a bit hey) Can’t believe I’m reading a Red Hood tie in.

It’s pretty ridiculous, but at least Jason is aware this plan is goddamn stupid and is just exploiting it for his own ends?

Ah and there we go, people using guns when they shouldn’t, aka the whole self-defeating part of this whole scenario.

Okay. About to start Batman #138 but will pop that in a separate post with even more spoiler warnings.

#z canon read throughs #newish comics #Gotham war spoilers #gotham war

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phanfictioncatalogue · 4 months

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New Year's (7) Masterlist

part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six

24:00 (ao3) - Cyane

Summary: Phil makes a split-second decision to kiss Dan at midnight.

He doesn't realize that Dan is livestreaming on his phone with half a million fans.

A Day Early - howthemoonsuitsthenightsky

Summary: It's just gone 2am on New Year’s Eve and Dan has found that he can see fireworks going off on the other side of the city from the window.

a warm heart (ao3) - okaydoomer

Summary: Inspired by Dan's new year's tweet and especially this reply: "the nips will be cold but my heart will be warm"

On new year's eve Dan is thinking about the year he's had. He's the happiest he's ever been and he can't put his feelings into words but Phil is there to listen and he knows what feeling this is. Pride.

Ain’t No Party Like a Dan and Phil Party - danzphilz

Summary: Basically: New years eve, Dan is sexually frustrated, drunk!phan, fwb/one night stand?? i guess

A New Year's Cliché (ao3) - ExclusiveGorgeousGeek

Summary: Phil talks Dan into going to a New Year’s Eve party with him.

Between Phil having a great time and Dan trying to convince himself of all the reasons not to kiss his best friend at midnight, it’s sure to be one hell of an evening.

best friends, companions through life, like, actual soulmates (ao3) - nivi_chip

Summary: “where are we going to find a terrifying cross-breed of Chris and PJ?” Or the year they give the people what they want.

Celebrate (ao3) - soft_lester

Summary: Dan and Phil stay in for New Year’s Eve this year.

December 31, 2010 (ao3) - ReederJoe

Summary: New Year’s Eve, 2010

Fireworks (ao3) - Miss_Shadowfox

Summary: it's new year's eve, and Louise is trying to play matchmaker. The trouble is, she doesn't realise Dan's not into girls. Fortunately, the girl Louise thinks would be a great match actually has a lot in common with Dan - just not the way Louise thinks.

Happy New Year! (2017/18) (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: Phil discovers his feelings for Dan whilst watching fan made Phan videos on YouTube. Oh, and they kiss to ring in 2018!!

Here’s to 2016 - snlogger

Summary: Dan and Phil are separated on New Year’s Eve.

Interrupted By Fireworks, Literally (ao3) - ticklishpickle

Summary: Dan has a wake up call when he realises 2018 is fast approaching, meaning he’s spent nearly a decade pining over the one and only Phil Lester. Not wanting to waste any more time, he devises a plan. This year, he’s going to kiss Phil at midnight. If he doesn’t kiss back, he’ll write it off as a drunk, meaningless mistake and try his best to move on. But if he does… oh, how Dan wants to know.

Let's See What the Night Can Do - analester

Summary: He’s never spent New Years Eve with anyone other than his family. When he does, they usually have a quiet night in, sitting around the TV and watching the countdown from their living room.

Not tonight though.

Tonight he’s with Dan.

New Year’s Eve - discoveringemily

Summary: It’s New Year’s Eve and when one small Lester refuses to sleep, a story of the past is told.

New Year's Eve (ao3) - phanburnhamizzard

Summary: New Year’s Eve is a time of reflection for Dan and Phil, who sneak out of their hotel to watch the ball drop in Time’s Square in New York City.

new year's eve (ao3) - bk119

Summary: basically cliché new years eve kiss thing ok

New Year's Kiss (ao3) - srm628

Summary: Dan and Phil watch fireworks together.

party poison (ao3) - howellesterfics

Summary: Dan wants to get properly drunk on New Years to celebrate the end of a decade, things don't go exactly to plan because he's kinda dumb

Sparkle (ao3) - your_starless_eyes

Summary: Phil wasn't looking forward to this party, but the pretty boy in way too many sequins might make it a bit more bearable...

time stands still (ao3) - CapriciousCrab

Summary: It’s New Year’s Eve and Phil has something he wants to confess…

We'll Laugh 'til Our Ribs Get Tough (ao3) - WhereDidTayeGo

Summary: It's New Year's Eve 2014, and Dan thinks too much...

#phanfictioncatalogue #phanfiction #phanfic #phan #masterlists #newyears #newyears masterlist

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the-invisible-queer · 27 days

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Do you think that the Big Time Rush show was better structured than the Jonas show? Completely setting aside which music you prefer, just going off of characters and the story itself.

Disclaimer: Please keep in mind I haven't watched Big Time Rush since it ended. And while I've rewatched Jonas, this last rewatch feels like I'm watching it for the first time and I'm still mid S1 so my memories might be a little out of wack

Bestie one had 4 seasons and the other only had 2

Plus Big Time Rush got a movie

What did Jonas get? Cancelled

They both started around the same time too

They are very much the same show which is group of guys navigating teen/young adult life and getting into all types of drama

Both heavily inspired by The Monkees

But Big Time Rush was more interesting with their plots and shenanigans because sometimes they lasted several episodes

Like Big Time Rush had more time for serious plotlines

While I feel like the drama of Jonas was always around Joe and Stella will they won't they

Like the whole Kendall and Jo and then Kendall and Lucy AND THEN when Jo came BACK

TRUE ART

The dynamics between the BTR guys was a little more interesting because they were four very different dudes who were childhood friends and sometimes got into tiffs

I feel like Jonas with them being brothers the stakes were lower

The pizza girl plot COULD HAVE lasted like 3 whole episodes if they cared about keeping it interesting or it could have been a running gag throughout the first season

But Nick and Disney's programing are so different

Like I'd argue (non-Schnieder) Nick shows are actual entertainment while most Disney shows were always to sell a product whether it be toys or music - and JB did say they were sold on the show because Disney was like this will keep people interested between tours and albums

While I ADORE the Jonas show and will always have a soft spot for it, I wonder if it was the best choice for them

Because they were on top of the world in 2008

I don't think they needed a dumb sitcom

If they made longer episodes of Living the Dream I think it would have been more successful

WHERE DISNEY DROPPED THE BALL is not creating the originally planed J.O.N.A.S. (Junior Operatives Networking As Spies) where they were spies

But BIg Time Rush is definitely the better show

But also keep in mind Big Time Rush the boyband was only made for the show just like The Monkees

NOW what I wish we could have gotten is the Big Time Movie BUT JONAS

Like same exact plot same Beatles songs but with JB

IN THE END I adore both shows

I adore both music groups

My favorite band and my favorite boyband

They've all been watching me sleep since 2010 🤣

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laresearchette · 7 months

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Friday, October 13, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY (Apple TV+) THE PUPPETMAN (Shudder/AMC+) RAID THE CAGE (Global) 9:00pm CURIOUS CATERER: FATAL VOWS (W Network) 9:00pm CREEPSHOW (AMC 10:00pm/Shudder/AMC+) SHINING VALE (Starz Canada) 10:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT? JOHN CARPENTER’S SUBURBAN SCREAMS (Premiering on October 18 on Showcase at 10:00pm) NEXT AT THE KENNEDY CENTER (PBS Feed) READY TO LOVE: MAKE A MOVE (TBD - OWN Canada)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA THE BURIAL DARK HARVEST EVERYBODY LOVES DIAMONDS JIGEN DAISUKE

CBC GEM CHUCK AND THE FIRST PEOPLE’S KITCHEN COME TRUE HOW TO FAIL AS A POPSTAR

CRAVE TV BRIA MACK GETS A LIFE (Season 1, Episodes 1-3) CABBIE THE CABLE GUY THE DROP FINDING A FAMILY FREDDY VS. JASON THE HATEFUL EIGHT PREDATOR (1987) THE PREDATOR (2018) PREDATORS (2010) SHINING VALE (Season 2, Episode 1) SPOILER ALERT STAYING INN: HOTEL JULIE (Season 1) STELLAR THE THING

DISNEY + STAR GHOST OF THE MOUNTAINS GOOSEBUMPS (five-episode series premiere) THE SOUND OF THE POLICE

NETFLIX CANADA THE CONFERENCE IJOGBON SPY KIDS SPY KIDS 2: THE ISLAND OF LOST DREAMS SPY KIDS 3: GAME OVER SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD

CFL FOOTBALL (TSN/TSN4/TSN5) 7:00pm: Lions vs. Ti-Cats (TSN/TSN3) 10:00pm: Roughriders vs. Stamps

MONSTER HIGH 2 (YTV) 7:00pm: As they enter sophomore year at Monster High, Clawdeen Wolf, Draculaura and Frankie Stein face new students, new powers, and an even bigger threat that could not only tear their friendship apart but could change the world forever.

NHL HOCKEY (SN) 7:30pm: Penguins vs. Capitals

NBA BASKETBALL (TSN2) 7:30pm: Heat vs. Spurs (TSN2) 10:00pm: Warriors vs. Lakers

BE MY VALENTINE (Super Channel Heart & Home) 7:30pm: A widowed firefighter (William Baldwin) asks a florist (Natalie Brown) to be his date for a Valentine's Day ball.

MARKETPLACE (CBC) 8:00pm

THE MULE (CTV2) 8:00pm: Broke and facing foreclosure on his business, a 90-year-old horticulturist takes a job as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. His immediate success leads to easy money and a larger shipment that soon draws the attention of a hard-charging DEA agent.

THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF JERSEY (Slice) 8:00pm: A Grave Concern

THE VERY VERY BEST OF THE 80s (AXS Canada) 8:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): We're ranking EPIC MOVIES OF 1987. From tear-jerking to side-splitting, find out what made our list as Jodie Sweetin, Tia Carrere, Morgan Fairchild, and more give us their opinions!

PLANET WONDER (CBC) 8:30pm: Johanna dives into how climate change is messing with the motion of the ocean.

FRIDAY NIGHT THUNDER (APTN) 8:30pm: Joshua Hill, alongside friends and family, orchestrates a massive lacrosse stick giveaway to help kids in the community and remind us of the importance of giving back.

BIG NEWS (CBC) 9:00pm: Unpacking the media's role in polarization and its effects on democracy.

TRANSPLANT (CTV) 9:00pm: When a sinkhole traps a man beneath the city street, Bash dives in.

THE DROP (Crave) 9:00pm: A married couple face a marriage test when one of them drops a baby during an island wedding.

DEATH OF THE PARTY (Super Channel Fuse) 9:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): After a night of partying, a young California woman disappears; the police and her parents scour the area around her abandoned car, but there is no trace of Denise; three long years pass without a single clue to the mystery.

W5 (CTV) 10:00pm: Who Killed Sonia?: A 50-year-old cold case murder is blown open by new scientific evidence.

CRIME BEAT (Global) 10:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): A sexual predator on the loose in the 1970s and 1980s; two little girls are attacked by the "Southwest Calgary Rapist" while riding their bikes one hot sunny day; homicide investigators were on the trail for a killer.

MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT (Slice) 10:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): In Denver, 10 singles take the plunge to marry strangers, sight unseen in two weeks; among them, an inexperienced bride questions her decision, while a groom's girthy secret shocks everyone; the countdown to the weddings is on.

MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED: HIDDEN AMERICA (Cottage Life) 10:00pm: A curiously designed, windowless building adorned with gold tinted diamond shapes now stands derelict in Tulsa; experts investigate and uncover a controversial religious figure and the headquarters behind a pioneering form of American TV evangelism.

STELLAR (Crave) 10:35pm: A man and a woman meet in a bar as catastrophe looms outside.

#cdntv #cancon #canadian tv #canadian tv listings #marketplace #the real housewives of jersey #planet wonder #friday night thunder #transplant #W5 #crime beat #cfl football #nhl hockey #nba basketball

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What’s the story behind jewelry jelly?

So, I'll try to be as concise as possible but the gist is...

This dress was released in 2010 so back when Angelic Pretty was still using cotton mainly for their dresses and such. When the little preview was released, people noticed right away something was a little weird. If you compare the print illustration to the actual dress you can see the color is WAY lighter on the dress.

The print is way more saturated than the dress. Like, there's always going to be a discrepancy between illustration and physical print, especially for clothes but this one was especially noticeable. BUT this dress is also really cute and a lot of people still liked the concept.

Now fast forward a few years after everyone got their dresses and the print is RAPIDLY fading. It's been almost 13 years since Jewelry Jelly was released and it is almost impossible to find any dress that hasn't just faded into oblivion. I'm not sure what happened during manufacturing but unlike a lot of older prints that have stayed relatively fine with proper care, this one kinda missed the mark. You aren't supposed to put cotton prints in the sun for too long cause the print will fade, but with this dress, it didn't really matter because it was already extremely light and even going out in it seemed to be a bit of a problem?

I still see people from time to time trying to fix their dresses and give them a bit of a color boost but man they kinda dropped the ball with this one. The pink colorway was hit especially hard since it was so light already. The mint and purple seem to be ok? But overall it's a bit of a mess.

Nowadays, I've noticed this dress goes for a bit of a premium since AP never re-released this dress (which is a little absurd). It's definitely an iconic print for the wrong reasons lol, but that's a rundown on the Jewelry Jelly dress case.

I still personally want the dress but I don't know what colorway I want based on how faded these dresses tend to be.

#sweet ollie tag #sweet ollie ask #ask #anon #jewelry jelly #sweet lolita fashion #sweet lolita #angelic pretty

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ideal location [ch.10]

Nathan Hale x F!Reader

[a/n: YOO we made it to chapter ten!! I have no idea the plan for how long this story will go, but this is a huge milestone. the most my chapter stories have made it to is I think a prologue & one chapter. this makes me so happy that people enjoy it! ❤️]

The book about George Washington was published in the year 2010, so the books description says. And as he flips through it, the more the feeling of emptiness swells in his chest, the notion of uselessness brimming as well.

Nathan was not one to sit and mope, he was a man of action.

So why was he such a child when it came to everything about you? He allowed himself to be coddled by you, let you smush his cheeks, and play with his hair. He was a soldier, a teacher-a brother. He never needed any of this before, yet, it all went away when he had met you.

The sensation he had never felt before either rested heavy on his heart. It was love, and while he could use the word easy to describe his friend Benjamin Tallmadge, or his brother Enoch…the word meant something different when it came to you.

Trivial things are harder to describe. The feeling comes heavy in fleeting passes, but it always lingers. Every time he looks at you, the emotion spikes, and a dumb smile worms its way to his face.

“Your scar is so badass! What are you talking about?”

It was offhand, when he was attempting to discuss the events of his fateful mission with you. He had always been a tad insecure about his scar, since it marred his face, but the moment he mentioned it, you replied easily with such a compliment.

He, unsure of what to say, overcome with such emotion?

“It is nothing but a reminder of what honestly got me caught!”

It’s said in a half-jokingly manner, but the statement is true. His scar is what made him stand out like a sore thumb, where no schoolteacher would ever sport such a burn, easily from the source of gunpowder.

“So what?”

You’d said, frown forming slightly.

“It doesn’t mean that it isn’t a part of you.”

Maybe you realized you’d said something inappropriate, and tried to take it back. Nathan, himself, only felt pride in what you had said.

“I’m not trying to discredit your insecurity—“

“You really have a way with words, don’t you, y/n?”

He had gotten very good at making you turn a bright shade of red, floundering for words that once came so easily.

“It’s not my fault! It’s something that makes you unique. I like it, but it doesn’t mean you have to feel the same as me.”

You say sheepishly, playing with the ends of your hair.

Unknowingly, it’s made Nathan’s heart hammer loudly in his chest. He’s trying his best to contain himself, but little did you know, you saying your feelings, made him feel extremely validated.

“Can I tell you about this, then?”

He points to the mole on his neck.

“Sure, I’d love to hear it.”

Nathan thinks back to this memory in your relationship a lot. When he can’t sleep, he stares up at the ceiling and absentmindedly runs his fingers over his powder-burn.

So when he’s sat across from you, watching you type away on your…lap…top…as you call it, he can’t fight his rampaging thoughts.

He was so close, so so close to just dropping the ball about it, but quickly retreated backwards in fear of…

In fear of what, exactly?

Rejection, most likely.

He knows you aren’t like that, but as he practically begged you to return to your homework, he takes this moment to study your forehead as it scrunches in confusion.

Would it be selfish of him to dismiss his feelings for you and focus on getting himself home?

But would it also be selfish to wish to stay? The more time has passed, he feels that he’s ready to accept the fact that there’s no home for him to return to.

If he went back to September 21rst, 1776, he would die the next morning.

Would he die, and never remember you?

This part of his life is something that isn’t just going to happen and be forgotten. It means too much to him.

His eyes move from your forehead to the foyer of your apartment.

The sofa that had been his bed, instead of the dusty interior of that schoolhouse.

The kitchen, where you showed him how to make pancakes.

The spot where he found out there was no home for him to go back to.

In a span of a week, he had made too many fond memories here.

In the end, what is selfishness?

What aspect would be selfish?

Then…it all falls to you.

It meant whatever you wanted, in the end. He has decided.

If you wished for him to stay, he’d stay. If your wish was to see him home, he’d do it.

Because it’s what you wanted, now. It isn’t about what he wants anymore.

“You look like you could use some assistance.”

He pushes the book aside, rounding the table so he can sit next to you. Your eyes move from the screen to his, wide with some surprise.

“I have a degree from Yale, I think I can manage some writing.”

“You went to Yale?”

He laughs at your surprised remark, and he adds another mental note to the reasons that he absolutely adores you.

“Yale? The Yale University?”

“Yes, I did.”

“Go on Yale-boy, do my research assignment then.”

You’re joking, but he’d do it anyway, without as much as a second glance.

“It has been a while, to be honest.”

He hadn’t intended for it to be a joke, but you laughed next to him, causing him to pause and think about what he said.

“Ohh, I get it. Yeah, 1773, it was a long time ago.”

Rolling his eyes playfully, you gasp loudly (and very dramatically, might he add), looking up at him expectingly.

“Wait—how old are you? How did you graduate in ‘73?”

“I graduated when I was eighteen years old.”

Another gasp follows, less dramatic, but more surprised.

“You…oh my gosh. That’s when I graduated high school.”

Nathan looks at you curiously, but moves his eyes back to the screen.

“And when would you graduate university?”

“Depends…likely 21 or 22,”

“That’s when I joined the war.”

The conversation never lulls, and it causes the assessment get ignored for a long while. Something that he’s grown to love, is the exchange of information between the present and the past. You were always so eager to listen, and he was fascinated by how things have evolved.

He loves it.

He’s content with here, right now, as long as you were right there with him.

And that, he’s decided, was more than enough.

#sul writes #turn amc #turn washington's spies #nathan hale #nathan hale headcanons #nathan hale x reader #ideal location

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My sister is really into watching trad wife content like classically Abby? I think that’s her name. I don’t really know who is she. But my sister basically changed her whole personality to follow this woman’s life advice

Turns out though as I learned, her brother is Ben Shapro (that guy that talks weird and made that video about the WAP song and how his wife never got wet for sex , not sure if he was joking because his voice is just very flat) But they’re both very supportive of Zionism and my sister began defending Israel and the genocide in Gaza because of this. Im currently not talking to her because she’s been so disgusting towards Palestinians

If she's under 25, consider this like a fad, like the meninist nlogs of the early 2010s. And like meninist they will come around as they age and cringe when looking back at it lol

The trad movement is just the pendulum shifting back from the mid 2010 #girlboss era. You can bet that in a few years from now, a new version of glirboss will pop out as an opposition to the trad/anti feminist movement and its consequences. I'm very curious where those women will be. Either washed out from their toxic relationship dynamics, bitter for still being not picked (à la Pearl and other MRA girls). I'm sure gen alpha will see this mess and be like "maaan I do not want to be like that, I want to be a free and emancipated woman!!" ....and the pendulum will shift again. Rinse and repeat.

If she's older than that well.... there's not much you can do for her. One of the perks of aging is realizing you can't save everyone and that other people's mistakes (yes, even family members) aren't your responsibility and that's ok.

I have very complicated relationship with one of my sister and very seldomly interact with her and I'm fine with that.

Ben Shapiro is a Jew so it's not surprising for him to root for Israel imo. His DailyWire drama with Candace Owen and how they dropped the ball on her was very entertaining to watch lol I think it's extremely telling that those folks had no issue with her dunking on Blacks, and supporting Kanye "slavery was choice" West, but God forbid being remotely critical of Israel 👀

FYI Kanye backtracked his statements about the Jewish community lmao I mean, homebro has ugly sneakers to sell, he knows what he's doing.... 🙃 still no excuses to the Black community for his slavery comments though #iykyk

A moment of silence for all the people who genuinely believed he was born again after his Christian era. Dude got back to his vomit in a QUICKNESS smh

#the 'kanye is a victim!!!' thing is getting sooooo tired #jesus showed him the way for his deliverance #but his pride and ego was too big to genuinely give up on every thing he has to be truly comitted #he kinda reminds me the story of the rich man who came up to jesus #you can't expect change if you don't sacrifice what costs you the most in life #answered

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I've seen a few people refer to pete dropping a scary amount of weight during the hiatus but can't find a source on that; do you know what happened

he said this when he went on howard stern in 2015, the interview is not available in full online, only clips of it where he doesnt say that, but several relatively reputable entertainment sites like mtv quoted it after it aired. this was also where he talked about his wee wee piercing

i also wrote a paragraph about this period in my peteryan dissertation

As Ryan Ross’ flame sputtered, Pete Wentz was suffering from his own issues. Wentz told Rolling Stone that by the time of Fall Out Boy’s 2009 hiatus announcement (not-so-coincidentally the same year Ross departed Panic! alongside guitarist Jon Walker), “I was in such a haze of selfishness and pills it was hard to believe I could feel anything.” In the fall of 2009, not-so-coincidentally just three months after Panic! at the Disco announced their split, Fall Out Boy went on hiatus; later, the band would cite mental health strain as one of the factors leading up to the decision. Wentz would reveal to Rolling Stone that, following Fall Out Boy’s hiatus, he suffered from paranoia and anxiety so extreme he had his house searched for cameras, and fell back on his old habits of abusing Xanax and Klonopin. In February 2011, just three months after The Young Veins announced their indefinite hiatus, Pete Wentz and his wife, Ashlee Simpson, would divorce; tabloids reported that Simpson was the one that filed, due to Wentz’s “erratic behavior,” and that Wentz begged her not to leave; Wentz would later state in an interview in 2015 that he and Simpson ultimately came to an amicable arrangement and successfully co-parent together. Like Ross, Wentz continued to struggle; he told Howard Stern in 2015 he dealt with serious depression during the years surrounding the Fall Out Boy hiatus and the dissolution of his marriage to the point of dropping to only 95 pounds and getting so drunk at a Jingle Ball event he smashed his face up and needed stitches. Potentially, this incident was the cause of the cuts and bruises he sported in late December 2009, though this remains speculation; at the time, Wentz’s publicist said “he tripped” while doing post-Christmas shopping. James Montgomery spoke with Cobra Starship’s Gabe Saporta regarding the incident in early 2010, though Saporta did not give any details regarding the cause of the incident.

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New Fiction 2023 - January

"Psalms" (1-100) ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Okay so this is where priests pull all the one-liners that they drop during sermons.

"The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Can’t let it go despite the peril.

"Inventory" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

When in doubt, a list.

"Mothers" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Penitent daughters of singular mothers.

"Especially Heinous" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

You learn sooner or later that they were always dead girls.

"Real Women Have Bodies" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

They’ll always find you.

"Eight Bites" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

When left with little recourse, it’s only natural to sing the song.

"The Resident" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Make things around people? No, thank you.

"Difficult At Parties" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

The party parable rings universal.

"The First Peer" by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore (2010)

The things we do when we failed to realize we’re not at fault.

"Reservoir Ferengi" by David McIntee (2010)

Can’t make a song bird do your taxes.

"The Slow Knife" by James Swallow (2010)

The only reasonable conclusion to plotting.

"The Unhappy Ones" by Keith R.A. DeCandido (2010)

Carving out the place you’re due from bone.

"Freedom Angst" by Britta Burdett Dennison (2010)

You can play the part, but when will you live it?

"Revenant" by Marc D. Giller (2010)

Once more: Star Trek is primed for horror.

"Work Is Hard" by Greg Cox (2010)

Achieving a satisfactory life.

"The Briefcase" by Rebecca Makkai, performed by Victor Garber for NPR's Selected Shorts (2009, 2023)

The skin is loose but if it fits...

"Paradise" by Yxta Maya Murray, performed by Tanis Parenteau for NPR's Selected Shorts (2020, 2023)

Limited options means limited solutions.

Honor in the Night by Scott Pearson (2010)

That’s the stuff. A cross-generational Star Trek mystery is just my game.

Trapped in Bat Wing Hall by R.L. Stine (1995)

Goosebumps books are simply a delight.

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, presented by Rice University Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts (1595, 2013)

Hey, this Shakespeare guy was pretty funny.

"Comet as Paperboy" by Samantha Blysse Haviland (2022)

Forever waiting.

"The Art of Negotiation" by Meghan Privitello (2016)

We’re still waiting.

"Forest Spirits" by Secondlina (2022)

Give them space.

"Forest Spirits 2" by Secondlina (2022)

Gotta have a Joe.

"With Sympathy" by Oglaf Comics (2017)

You can have it.

"it went like this" by chaumas-deactivated20230115 (2023)

Power of the belly.

Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium - Volume One (2013)

Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in.

"Full Void Demo" dev. OutOfTheBit (2023)

Oh this is great. I've been in the mood to play a game just like this. 2D movement, careful and considered locomotion, single screen puzzles with no frustrating resets to far back in the level when a player dies. It looks and sounds amazing, and I love the environment design.

Thunderbirds dev. Saffire (2004)

I worked on this nearly twenty years ago but somehow wasn’t sure that I’d actually completed the game. Now I know.

"bugs" dir. k. pakiz (2023)

Of course there’s hats.

"enter initials" dir. k. pakiz (2023)

Three letters, no supervision.

Avatar: The Way of Water dir. James Cameron (2022)

Looks pretty, stops short.

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody dir. Kasi Lemmons (2022)

A respectful consideration.

Thunderbirds dir. Jonathan Frakes (2004)

I wasn’t sure about the game, but I know I hadn’t watched this movie. Something in the wake of the Spy Kids era.

M3GAN dir. Gerard Johnstone (2023)

It builds up but doesn’t quite land. Not sure what I expected, but it seems to have done well so they’ll get another shot.

Corsage dir. Marie Kreutzer (2022)

Just follow a person for a while and listen.

Broker dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda (2022)

There’s no conscious family.

Skinamarink dir. Kyle Edward Ball (2022)

You had me without the jumpscares.

Plane dir. Jean-François Richet (2023)

Plane goes down, plane goes up.

Missing dir. Will Merrick & Nick Johnson (2023)

They ratchet up the melodrama.

That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond dir. Yasuhito Kikuchi (2023)

As lost in the weeds as expected.

A Man Called Otto dir. Marc Forster (2023)

I mean, so would I.

Puss In Boots: The Last Wish dir. Joel Crawford (2022)

This many characters done so well. An impressive story.

Women Talking dir. Sarah Polley (2022)

Stageplay tragedies.

Thunderbirds - "Trapped In The Sky" (1965)

An impressive VFX showcase.

Tales from the Crypt - "The Man Who Was Death" (1989)

This is supposed to be the best the series has to offer? (But I’m here for the cheese anyway.)

The Outer Limits - Seasons 1-3 (1995-1997)

Speaking of cheese, this is perfect 90s sci-fi, and a fine example of Canada’s dominance of 90s TV production.

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incorrectsibunaquotes · 2 years

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if you could change how the hoa couples got together (or even back together), what would you have wanted to happen instead? (also, are there any couples that you would have wanted to see happen that didn't?)

Oooo yes these are excellent questions. Sorry it took so long to reply! I’ll go in order of their canon appearances! I get a little long on some of them so my bad lol

mick & amber: i’d have loved to hear more about their backstory. obviously they were together pre-canon so i wish we could have gotten more info about them. did they go out often? did they go on holiday together? some more info would be nice!

amber & alfie: season 1 followed a similar trajectory to amber/appie and felix/delia (which were both masterfully written best friendships with one-sided pining with the other in complete denial to the bitter end), and so when season 2 did… that shitshow, i didn’t even know what to think. so i would change amfie’s plot entirely to be just like that with them being chaotic best friends. and if amber still left in season 3, that is where i’d have her reveal she’d actually really liked him the whole time. a little angstier than hha’s love confession in the final movie, but at least they’d still get a confession at the end unlike in dha. overall, season 2 ruined any and all positive feelings i had about amber and alfie together as a couple because of how terrible they were for each other romantically. that’s why in neither of the other versions did they actually get together while they were in school: they weren’t right for each other romantically because neither were mature enough. in the other versions i liked them together later bc they waited. #killamfiewithfire

mick & mara: keep it relatively the same, but truly lol to that cheating scandal. also have her let mick down gently instead of locking lips with jerome bc oh lord, mick didn’t deserve that.

fabian & nina: season 1 has my heart, but i wish they’d made them less… ridiculous in season 2. the love triangle thing was popular in media in the 2010s, which is why i think they went that route instead of sticking with hha/dha’s relationship trajectory, but i think it was entirely the wrong choice. so i’d scrap that and make them get back together mid-season instead of the finale. they can still have road bumps, but it’s not dragged out. i’d also tweak their ultimate split a little by having her call instead, or have told fabian pre-season 3 what was going down. we didn’t need the drama.

jerome & mara: keep it the exact same tbh. they had good moments, and they were both necessary to each other’s overall development.

patricia & eddie: my babies. i’d keep most of season 2 as is, but here’s where i’d differ— i would have eddie be more insistent about what patricia was up to from the jump. it would help set up for the reveal of osirian!eddie, and also force patricia to confront her own hesitations about romantic intimacy earlier on. in season 3, i needed more mutual pining. i know they dropped the ball with that in the first 10–15 episodes because they were unsure of how they were going to proceed with their relationship (or if they were gonna let keddie/fabicia come on the scene lol), but i think their onscreen relationship would have benefited from a more obvious lingering interest in each other after the summer break up.

jerome & willow: needed more of them tbh. i wish willow had been around as a minor character in the first two seasons. like if she’d been in the background pining for jerome while he was so fixated on mara, it would have felt more satisfying for them to get together even if it all still ended in flames.

willow & alfie: literally perfection. i wish i had a spin-off with just them going on all their cute dates.

joy & jerome: they were perfect, i just wish we had more

mara & fabian: maybe a little more interaction in season 3 would have been nice, but overall i like them fine. people act like they never even knew each other before suddenly being thrown together, but you gotta remember that fabian knew mara well before he knew nina. they weren’t that random.

non-canon couples i’d have liked to see:

patricia & alfie: look, i think we can all agree that they had a crush on each other (alfie especially), and so i would have loved for their to be palfie in the episodes after amber left and before alfie got with willow. i just think it would work really well if they had a fling that turned out it was right person, wrong circumstances, and they then went back to being friends who finally got that crush out of their system. or alternatively, they’re endgame. i ship them a lot.

kt & joy: need i say more?

#i could go on but yeah #thank you anon!#house of anubis #tess answers #ask

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sweetswesf · 1 year

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Check In

What I Did Today

Prayed

Cleaned my produce & packed up my fridge I just cleaned

Had a call with a recruiter from one of the companies I'd like to work for

Chatted with an old friend

Cried tears (happy & sad ones) watching muva

youtube

What I Learned Today

A serving of udon has the same amount of carbs

Not today, but recently, peaches are TOTALLY a summer fruit...learning to appreciate eating produce more seasonally as opposed to being mad I can't get certain foods year round

I need to buy some chili oil

the company I want to work for's interview process

Tumblr FINALLY added an auto save function because their site keeps crashing on long post edits

I had been real irresponsible with my produce: so much dirt that I thought a quick rinse would fix

Feeling

I did have the runs today, but not a severe headache sooo...need to figure out what's up...

Honestly, angry. Sad. I have such a ball of emotions. Can’t trust anyone. Feel out of control. Burnt out but feel such an urge to perform and do what I’ve never felt before; had a nice dream of an old friend that is enemy, but they were not AT ALL in my dream; today an old friend, but different from the one in my dream, who broke my heart hit me; there was excitement, then relief when I thought I would be able to relate to someone in a real vulnerable way who has known me before moving here to San Francisco who isn’t my pastor mentor, but then crashed when I realized it wasn’t that at all and he was just hitting me to stroke his ego because he knew he could manipulate me in that way…and I fell for it…and I stress ate, and didn’t start today like I wanted to, and then I hopped on LinkedIn and read a post from this ex-Amazon VP that basically said, if you were let go, you are expendable, and he was right, and then I just felt so much embarrassment, and questioning what I want to do with my life or where I want to be, because I have not been happy since like June 2010…and I’m so frustrated at my family for abandoning me and I really just wanted to run away, but to where? And hating all the entitled ass white neighbors I have and not knowing where I want to be in the world, not knowing if I will find peace here; and I’m tired of having random headaches; and I’m tired of people just inserting their way into my life and just not even listening to what I am saying, just trying to “fix” me in their way; I am grateful for what I’m going through and know that it is a rough time and things will get better, but I’m just so tired

Takeaways

I should follow more recipes; I made a bomb ass udon from Pinterest:

Goals After Today

Strengthen my relationship with God

Understand the main concepts I need to from Interview Cake, AlgoExpert, etc. in less 3 months

Drop my body fat percentage

Use social media/YouTube less

Improve my relationship with my family

Be more confident & faithful

Move more during my day

DRINK MORE WATER!

Get back on the ball

Be kinder to myself and stop guilting myself if my energy isn't always on 100%

Go on a date with a guy I actually like who actually likes me too

Find a therapist

Figure out what keeps making me sick...

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carnellousthecat · 4 months

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So, two days ago marks the first day I've ever posted to a blog anywhere in my life, and I'm thirty years old lol. Been a lurker on this site for a long time, seen the seasons come and go, the trends

okay that's enough waxing poetical. My previous post proved a couple people might read my stuff so I'm gonna find something to talk about. I think today's topic will be... Super Smash Brothers

So story time, growing up I was a microsoft kid. Dad worked at microsoft, our pcs were windows, our consoles were xboxes, you know how it is. This means the only times I ever got to play any nintendo property was over at a friend's place. Back in high school one time I went to a friend's and there was a gamecube there. My friend was playing on the 360 so I was like "can I play the gamecube?" and my friend was like yeah totally bruh or something idk, 2010s shit lol. So I looked through the games and found: Metroid Prime. I thought, that's the character from Smash Brothers! I've always loved playing as her! I knew two things about her. One, she was secretly a woman under the suit, and two, she was from a game called Metroid. So here was my chance to play Metroid Prime.

I am not exaggerating when I say, that single session of Metroid Prime got me thirsting for the entire series, something I would not experience until earlier this year, when I heard Metroid Prime was available to play on the Nintendo Switch. I legit dropped like 300 dollars on a Switch just to play that. And pokemon. I'd never played pokemon, my girlfriend seems to like it. Maybe I should give it a go?

Anyway, now we come to the last couple of days. I finally caved and decided to buy myself super smash brothers ultimate, a game I had always dreamed of owning so I could practice and stand a chance against all my friends! I've been playing it almost nonstop since I bought it, it's such a blast, even did a couple fights with my girlfriend, that was fun!

And I got to thinking. What's the pro scene like?

See, I knew some things about the smash pro scene. I watched like maybe one or two matches, I knew that meme where the sweaty smash bros player goes "four stock, final destination, NO ITEMS!" and I always thought that was just... boring. When I played with my friends it was four player free for all every time, and we'd pick random fun stages and have a blast literally blasting each other into lava or acid or the sky or something. That just sounds a lot more fun to me.

So, if that's more fun to play, why does the pro scene sound so much more boring to someone like me who's only got a passing understanding of it and has never been interested? Whenever my more sweaty friends decided they'd have enough of the party game and went "1v1! Final Destination! No-" you get the picture, I immediately tuned out. I had no chance of winning because I didn't have any of the tools I used to use to get by in the free for all games. Doing unexpected things, spotting and using the right item at the right time, being more effective at platforming when the stage is falling out of the sky or something, and being tactical with who I engaged with and who I should just do that Godzilla meme with. You know the one. Those were skills I had from general gaming, and I could employ them in ways even my non-switch owning ass self could understand clearly and instantly.

So. If I, the casual consumer, was bored and tuned out every time the game inexplicably turned into Street Fighter, and had such a blast with literally anything other than that, then, why is that like the only type of thing they play at pro matches?

Limited stages to the most bare bones and simple ones. No free for all tournaments, but one v ones and team ones instead, absolutely no items save for the smash ball usually, someone correct me if I'm wrong but from my understanding that's the type of thing they do at tournaments.

See, I was talking to my friend who's an absolute legend veteran of fighting games, has been to tournaments, has a custom "hit box" I thought he called it, basically this chunky board with buttons and sticks like an old arcade game, coolest shit I've ever seen. I was trying to explain my frustrations and he said something that stuck with me, something along the lines of, any random element introduced into a match immediately ruins it. I was trying to explain that in my hypothetical smash bros tournament the victor wouldn't be decided by a single match but probably five matches in random stages or more so the law of averages applies and whatnot (not sure that's what the law of averages is but ykwim) but, you know, even in random chaos, play enough matches and a clear victor emerges, that's always been the norm with sports. You don't do a single bout of football, you smash into your opponents again and again and again and again for hours to make abundantly clear when one team has absolutely destroyed the other and there can be no question about it.

So, what makes a good sport. Not even esport, what makes a fun and watchable sport. I have a few ideas.

Personalities. You need recognizable names and personalities that the layman can easily get to know in a way that little narratives and rivalries and legends start to form around them. This is something in esports already obviously.

Simplicity and readability. A person just tuning into a football match for the first time in their life should be able to quickly pick up what's going on.

Relatability. The sport should be a high stakes version of a game we all play. Who hasn't played catch, or thrown a football, or kicked a futbol, or swung a tennis racket at least once in their life. You have experience with the sport and you know how it's played because you have played it.

Excitement. A match of a sport should have an ebb and flow, it should change in easily understandable ways, you need to be able to tell easily when one team is winning and the other team is losing, when they're having a comeback, when things are getting exciting because they're changing.

Skill. When watching the sport it should be immediately abundantly clear to all watching who is the single best player in the world.

So putting all this stuff together, let me tell you what I learned from experimenting with the game for the past couple days.

I was on my own mostly so I had to play with bots. I missed the free for alls so I did that, four player ffa, I always liked some of the items so I turned select ones on at low frequency or whatever, they show up less often, and on every match I'd switch to a different stage that looked interesting.

I was pretty rusty so I experimented a bit with the CPU difficulty until I was just about able to hold my own just enough that the outcome wasn't always sure, I would win about 1/4 of the time, which should happen when there's four players.

But then for kicks I swapped to the one v one final destination style, with the simple stages and such. And I discovered something amazing.

Even though there was no one on my team helping me, the cpu player at the exact same difficulty as the FFA game became a complete pushover, I had to go up two difficulty levels just for it to stand a chance. I noticed from observing that the lower difficulty npc was acting in some very odd ways. Doing things players never ever do. Sometimes they'd walk slowly unshielded. Sometimes they'd just stand still, any player of smash bros knows the name of the game is keep moving at all times, depending on the character you might try to never touch the ground. And I'm sure 90% of players don't know it's even possible to walk slowly. The npc had a handicap on that made it behave in a way that was SO much easier than any real player.

So... why was the FFA harder at the same npc difficulty?

I thought about it and see, computers have an ability that humans will never be able to replicate. The ability to think instantly. They can absorb almost any amount of basic information and follow algoritms on it in a heartbeat. Essentially what this means is that an NPC player is omnipresent. It knows and processes every single bit of input, event, any change that happens to the stage even though they're on the opposite side of the map, instantly frame by frame, and this ability is SO powerful that they had to add a ridiculous handicap that made the computer players do shit real players never ever do.

And then I thought. What if a human could do that?

Imagine if you will, a huge stage, four players duking it out in FFA, items raining on them, the stage changing dramatically, sometimes even purposefully by players, the stage being selected at random every subsequent match until a clear winner from the four is declared.

But the people playing are the greatest Smash Brothers Ultimate players in the entire world.

Wouldn't you pay to see that? I would absolutely pay to see that.

See, what happens when you introduce "random elements" is that the pro player has to have a response ready in reflex time for every single possible event that could change the board state. They'd have to learn the intricacies and mechanics of every single stage in the game. They'd have to familiarize themselves with every item and be able to pick out which it is when there's a mosh pit of four players scrambling on top of it with a bunch of flashing effects and kicks. There might be item metas, which are unique to every stage, there might be special tactics about when to engage and when to stay out of a bout because it benefits that lone player in the mosh pit.

The thing about a 3v3 co op match is that there are only two possible outcomes. One team wins, or the other team wins. So yeah, it's excitingg when they're getting close to winning. You probably have one team you like that you'd rather won the match and so when it gets close to that happening or not happening you get excited.

Well, imagine if every match actually had 4 possible endings. Four personalities, four titans of Smash, who know every single stage by heart, who have items they prefer over others, who are known for being good at Corneria but not at... idk that metroid one that's constantly spinning and there's lava under it and everyone hates that map but unexplicably Sonicfox is unstoppable there. And as stocks start to dwindle, these unbeatable and instantly recognizable titans start to get picked off one by one by one.

See that's what I learned. I played free for all games with like 6 npc players and me, it was chaos, things were happening everywhere constantly all over the screen. And when I got knocked out early I stuck around to watch and see how it turns out. Maybe I'd get knocked out SUPER early and there's still like four players on the board.

Now imagine that situation at a event. One person is knocked out. And then another. And then another. It's down to three of them now and while your favorite player is out already two of them you also love but one you despise with pure rage. And the two you like are fighting each other instead of the one you hate, and they're about to both get knocked out! Then it's just down to the one you hate and the one you love, after that arduous chaos, that gauntlet of insanity it's just down to one player against the other.

And then the guy you hate wins.

But don't worry, there's ten more rematches to go, and maybe they'll get corneria! Your favorite Ducunt player might still have a chance.

This is what I'm saying. Super Smash Brothers is severly slept on, it has SO much potential. The developers crafted a game with an incredible cavalcade of mechanics and the esports only interact with like maybe 20% of them. And if you walk from the smash game to the guilty gear or tekken or street fighter booths or even other arena fighters and what have you, you're in for just about the same thing. A couple of guys or more hitting each other like it's a boxing match.

Which is exciting! Obviously! Boxing matches are fucking exciting as hell! But if you want a boxing match you could go to the boxing match booth, or you could go to the six player free for all extravaganza that reminds you of that tv show with all the squids.

I think about this kind of thing often. Games like Chivalry pit armies of 32 players against each other in huge objective based modes. It's a hell of a lot of fun to play, but what if every single player there was a master at their craft? What if that huge 32 player team was like an entire army of personalities who've mastered the art of cooperation on the field of battle, professional warriors at their peak cooperating like an entire football team, with demarcated leadership, with a single general or whatever, professional comm chatter. It would be like a world record Wow guild doing a thingy thing but it's PVP and the entire world is watching.

I would pay to watch that. Wouldn't you?

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