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alright, so I’m gonna pass out and PROBABLY be asleep for when the vote rolls over unless I set an alarm. so, let me make one last propaganda post, this time of a different ilk!
hi, I have heard the campaigning or seen his posts and am curious. who’s joe hills and how do I watch him?
hi and welcome! whether you be an ally or an enemy or anything else, I hope you stick around after the voting is done! joe hills is a very cool guy and I hope you like watching him. he’s one of the hermitcraft creators, described as the “original new guy”, as he was the first new hermit added in season one. he’s been here for that decade since! joe was added to be a “wild card” and plays that role well, often having a reputation for doing weird things. when it comes to his in-game build style, he’s a big fan of scale models of things, as well as helping out on any and all community projects!
joe’s hermitcraft videos tend to be much lower-key than some of the others, normally with minimal-to-no music. they’re largely recorded on stream, though they’re edited in such a way that they don’t feel like stream clips, but more like “he uses his stream to film video clips”. he enjoys wordplay, intentionally taking storylines and ideas in unintended directions, and marching to the beat of his own drum. if you’re used to the pacing of people like grian (or, for that matter, a dsmp stream), joe’s style can take time to get used to, but if you miss the lower-key days of let’s plays, he’s a great option for exactly that!
this season, he’s making a giant model pinball machine for his megabase! it has pixel art of the jwst deep field on it, and will have scale recreations of pinball parts inside. he also participated in the king ren storyline, has built elvira’s house of horrors (and changed the landscaping to match the seasons twice), and participated in the crossover! give it a shot!
joe streams five nights a week, with his days off being tuesday and wednesday. his usual stream start time is 9:30 PM EST. however, he usually has an afternoon hhh bonus stream on mondays (around 2 EST), a morning crafting stream on wednesdays with cleo (around 9:30 AM EST), and recently, a thursday morning bonus stream with his sister, quinn hills, a musician (also around 9:30 AM EST). he also does other bonus streams depending on the day and his energy. as you may be able to see from this schedule, he’s streaming like, all the time, so feel free to stop in! he streams simultaneously on twitch and youtube, so choose whichever platform is easiest.
joe hills streams are of basically whatever he needs to do on hermitcraft; they can best be described as “hermitcraft behind the scenes”. they’re also weird but in a specific, ritualistic way. his face camera will get bigger and more transparent for every 20 dollars in tips. the first time this happens it can be disconcerting but you do adjust pretty quickly, and it’s part of the charm to me! additionally, he has specific songs he plays during his streams, from the album he and his sibling made! they’re often parody songs, but there are also several original ones, and they’re all original lyrics and recordings. you’ll hear “lay your head down and dream” specifically after the first two songs while he’s setting up; that’s effectively his nightly stream’s theme song. you’ll also hear the songs during hydration breaks.
if anything you’ve seen us say about joe intrigues you, I strongly recommend you give him a shot! I’d recommend either a nightly stream to get the sense of the “average joe hills content”, if you’re considering becoming a regular, or to check out his first episode from this season to get a good sense of what a joe hills episode looks like.
we’d love to have you around, whether you did the right thing and VOTE JOE HILLS or not! but, uh, still vote for him. for me, okay?
#mcytblr sexyman#joe hills#joehillssweep#anyone can add other useful ‘how to find him’ informTion I may have missed#I hope this is helpful propaganda!
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Endeavour & Joan - Missing Scene
It all started with this print (© The Red Dress London on Etsy):
I noticed that the moment depicted between Endeavour and Joan was not included in Season 6, which this artwork was commissioned to advertise. I didn't think much about it until the wonderful @sircolinmorgan posted this image from shutterstock:
Finally! Evidence that the deleted scene existed! But where from? Some investigation was required...
Okay, so when lightened up a bit, what you can tell just from that pic alone is that there’s a blackboard in the background, someone sitting at a desk, and you can see the edge of a camp bed (you can also see that she’s holding his other hand!) All of that of course suggests ‘Deguello’ and the aftermath of the tower collapse in the gymnasium. As far as I can tell there’s only one scene in the episode at this location and it’s when Endeavour escorts a child to a waiting parent and then Strange and Thursday are there and reach for him (quite a lovely caring moment):
Compare the first of these three pics and you’ll see the blackboard, the person at the desk, and that the blue area in the shutterstock pic is the privacy screen next to the blackboard.
Endeavour is wearing his blue shirt that’s consistent with both images, but he never takes his jacket off in the actual scene and it’s very odd that Strange touches Endeavour’s shoulder and he turns around, only for the scene to immediately cut to the makeshift morgue scene with DeBryn. You never see another scene at that location as far as I can tell. Does that imply something was cut there? The shutterstock pic shows Joan at that location, but she was never there in the episode.
The next scene with Endeavour is when he visits the little girl in hospital and meets Joan there:
Their conversation is extremely brief with Joan telling Endeavour he should be at home:
Morse: I wanted to see if she was all right. How is she? How's her mum?
Joan: Hanging in there. You should be home.
Morse: Home. So should she. So should her mother. So should everyone.
Joan: Accidents happen.
Morse: Yeah, not like this. You know, somebody's got to be responsible. Is there anything I can do?
Joan: You've done your bit and more.
Morse: Good night.
Joan: Good night.
Joan is of course wearing the same as in the shutterstock pic. The next time we see Joan she runs into Endeavour when he’s investigating the surveyor and she’s changed clothes:
They talk about the survivors and then have this little exchange:
Joan: How are things with you?
Morse: Oh, one day's much the same as the next.
Joan: I didn't mean work, I meant you.
Morse: Oh, it's the same thing, isn't it? Have you seen your father lately?
Joan: Not much. Why?
Morse: Well, I just wondered if he was all right. He hasn't seemed himself lately.
Joan: Oh.
Morse: Anyway, there it is.
It’s extremely halting and Endeavour leaves looking all awkward and uncomfortable. Make of that what you will because neither of the filmed scenes between Endeavour and Joan play like they could have had such a close moment as in the shutterstock pic with Joan touching his face and holding his hand. Obviously one was switched out, but it seems to me the entire tenor of their interaction in 'Deguello' was changed. These are the only scenes they had together and Joan isn’t in the rest of the episode or the next season for that matter! I wonder if it played a part that Sara Vickers wasn’t available - I have no idea how far in advance they could have known. It's also possible they felt that a romantic moment would have been out of place in the midst of a tragedy, or perhaps they simply decided against allowing Endeavour and Joan to be close. No matter the reason, it's a real shame - it looked like a beautiful scene!
Anyway, that was my little Sherlockian endeavour (snort!) into the missing Endeavour/Joan moment everyone was robbed of. I think it’s probably much like the sigil scene in BBCs ‘Merlin’ where a totally different version was filmed with a very different feel, and we don’t know why that was swapped out either! Damn my favourite shows.
#itv endeavour#endeavour morse#shaun evans#joan thursday#sarah vickers#deguello#season 6#morsetache forever!#and also those dark suits
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The 100 knew how to do a redemption arc.
Throughout its seven-season run on The CW, post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama repeatedly doubled down on one of its many thought-provoking mantras: there are no good guys. The “good guys” often did terrible things in the name of survival, and the “bad guys” were rarely through-and-through evil (although they could be “cockroaches”).
Timed to the recent 10-year anniversary of the series premiere, we chatted with Richard Harmon, Lindsey Morgan, and Henry Ian Cusick about how they came to join the show, the extent to which Harmon and Cusick saw their characters as villains during the first season, and why they think The 100 has stuck around in the sci-fi genre.
Murphy wasn’t originally Murphy: he was “John #1,” and he wasn’t meant to live past the show’s second episode. Harmon recalled the process of first auditioning for the show: “I originally auditioned for the role of Bellamy, beautifully played by Bob Morley,” he said. “I remember auditioning for that and thinking, ‘There’s no way in hell I’m ever going to get this role.’ Lo and behold, I did not.” Weeks later, he got an audition for the roles of “John #1” and “John #2,” and after feeling confident that he’d booked it, he learned that he had. He was John #1.
Harmon said that despite his character’s predetermined Episode 2 death, he approached the first episode determined to do something different and have fun with the role. Thankfully, showrunner Jason Rothenberg was watching. “I guess he noticed that, liked what I was doing, and expanded the role in some rewrites during the shooting of the Pilot,” Harmon said, adding that half of what Murphy said in the aired Pilot wasn’t there in the original script. “When it got picked up to series, he emailed me personally—which was kind of a shocking thing as not a lead, to get an email from the creator of the show. He said, ‘I really liked what you did, how would you feel about not dying in the second episode? Could you stick around for the whole first season? Your last name will be Murphy, people will call you Murphy, and what do you think?’” And so went the story of how he booked “John #1”… and how “John #1” became John Murphy.
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First appearing in the show’s second episode rather than in the Pilot, Morgan wound up on The 100 through a whirlwind of correct timing and fate. She’d been waiting to hear whether she’d booked a role on Chicago P.D. when she auditioned for the part of Raven on Tuesday, chemistry-read with Thomas McDonnell [played Finn Collins] on Thursday, and was on a plane headed to Vancouver by Sunday. She later found out she wouldn’t have gotten the Chicago P.D. role. “It’s crazy to look back and imagine it happening any other way,” she said.
Similarly to Harmon’s “John #1,” Morgan’s Raven wasn’t meant to be a The 100 mainstay. Originally, Morgan said, Raven was meant to die after just five episodes—a shock, when one considers how integral the quick-thinking mechanic and tech genius became to the plot of the show. “I was on pins and needles, waiting to receive my death notice with each passing script,” Morgan said. After the Season 1 finale, Rothenberg made the offer to Morgan to stick around for Season 2. She’d been up for a role on a different show at that time. If she’d gotten it, Raven would’ve died from the gunshot wound dealt her by Murphy. Obviously, Raven survived. “The rest was history,” Morgan said. “As we all know, nothing can kill Raven Reyes.”
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For his part, Cusick mentioned that it was a sense of longing for Lost that led him to The 100. “It was Pilot season, and I had just finished something, and I was reading a bunch of Pilots,” he remembered. “The 100 turned up, and I thought it was very similar in tone to Lost, which I was missing. I read that and I said to my agent, ‘That’s a cool Pilot.’ I ended up having a meeting with [showrunner] Jason Rothenberg, and we had a chat, and he offered it to me.”
While he did almost float Clarke’s mother, Dr. Abby Griffin (Paige Turco}, in the Pilot, Cusick disagrees with the label of Kane as a villain and passionately defends him. Even in the show’s early days, he says he just viewed Kane as “more of a d**k.” Cusick recounts several things his character was accused of doing but never actually did—such as attempting to kill Jaha (Isaiah Washington)—and maintains that rather than being villainous, Kane was simply a stickler for the rules. “Other people were talking about him and badmouthing him, but he was just a man who was trying to save the human race,” Cusick said. “He went about it in a rather authoritarian, draconian way. He was very strict. And then when he arrived on Earth, he went ‘Oh, humanity is still around.’ Then he could go back to being who he really was. That’s my opinion.”
Whether viewers considered him a villain or a d**k, Kane undoubtedly softened up. His kindness and diplomacy helped establish peace with the grounders as he formed a friendship with Indra (Adina Porter), he and Abby fell in love, and he gradually became a father figure to the delinquents—especially Bellamy Blake (Bob Morley). “I really took to Bob quite quickly,” Cusick remembered. “We would joke around a lot. I would call him my ‘idiot son’ and stuff like that,” he said with a laugh. “We kind of cultivated that relationship, I thought, that we were like father and son. We enjoyed each other’s company, so that was easy to play.”
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Harmon, on the other hand, readily admitted he played Murphy as a villain in Season 1—so much so that he’d taken inspiration for Murphy and Bellamy’s relationship from Biblical literature. “I based [Murphy] loosely off of Lucifer, actually,” he said. “Bellamy was God, for this group, and I’m his right-hand favorite angel, but demon, really. Eventually I try to take too much power, just like Lucifer does in the Bible, and God smites me down. That’s when I get thrown out to the grounders in the wild and come back way later, with the sickness.”
When the show was picked up for a second season, Harmon and Rothenberg had another chat. “At the end of Season 1, Jason said, ‘Will you stick around for the long haul now going forward to Season 2?’” Harmon said. “And I was like, ‘Of course, I would love to, but how are you going to do that?’” Rothenberg, Harmon remembered, wanted him to get the audience on Murphy’s side. Harmon was up for the challenge, as long as he was given material to convince the audience that there was a good reason behind Murphy’s notable not-niceness. “Eventually, as the seasons progressed and the fans responded favorably to Murphy, all of my cuts were a good angle, and I was a little more tanned with dirt, and I was like, ‘I think they’re trying to, maybe, make me hot,” Harmon laughed. “I don’t think at that point in my career anyone had ever tried to make me attractive on-screen before. That was nice. That felt good.”
Raven Reyes was about as far from a villain as one could get, even though she, like every character, had to make incredibly difficult choices. Morgan has fond memories especially of Season 2, and portraying Raven’s journey with losing the use of her leg. “As an able-bodied actor, I felt a deep responsibility and honor towards playing a character with disabilities as accurately as I could,” she said. “I wanted to bring justice, nuance, complexity, and the best accuracy to her journey as I could, and hopefully share and showcase her truth, as well as the strength people with disabilities exhibit daily.”
Morgan, too, has fond memories of filming in the Vancouver wilderness. While filming with Cusick and the “adult” cast on the Ark put her inside in the warm studio (and closer to the snacks), she enjoyed being outside in the forest… and sneaking in an on-set nap when an opportunity presented itself. “I can, and will, nap anywhere,” she recalled. “Thomas [McDonnell] almost stepped on my head once, because I was napping on the floor of our cast tent. I blended into the ground.”
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Aside from his bond with Bellamy Blake, Kane’s other major connection on The 100 was his romance with Dr. Abby Griffin. Surprisingly, Cusick hadn’t known the writers intended to take the characters in that direction. “I remember Paige [Turco] saying to me, ‘I think they’re trying to get us together,’ and I was thinking, ‘No, that’s never going to happen. We need to be combative. That’s where the drama is,’” he said. In the end, Kane and Abby had a heartwarming love that lasted several seasons. Cusick thinks that not being told from the start about the romance angle only improved his performance. “The actors had no clue that was going to happen, so we were just playing our motivations, and our roles, and what we thought was right,” he said. “There was no hint of any flirtation or anything like that between the characters, so that’s when it happened. Maybe the audience saw it, I don’t know, but it was certainly a surprise to me.”
Unfortunately, Kane and Abby didn’t have the happy ending that many might’ve hoped for. Cusick departed the show in its sixth season, and Turco’s character was killed off in the Season 6 finale. While The 100 fans know all about heartbreak, it might add an extra layer of sadness to know that originally, Kane and Abby had been intended to have a more hopeful story. “My relationship with Abby was good, and people wanted us to get together,” Cusick reflected. “I think that would’ve happened, had I not left. I know that Jason [Rothenberg] said he wanted that to happen—he wanted us to get married, which would’ve been interesting.”
Cusick also directed the eleventh episode of Season 4, “The Other Side,” and the tenth episode of Season 5, “The Warriors Will.” When he thinks back on those experiences, he does so with appreciation for the show’s crew including director of photography Michael Blundell, and gratitude to Jason Rothenberg, director Dean White, and the cast. “Just in general, I never really got a chance to say this: I wanted to say thank you,” he said. “When I meet everyone at cons, I’m thinking about how we all went through this together. We all have relationships that are unique, because we went through that show. I’m always amazed when we meet up at cons by how fun they all are, and how nice it is to see them again.”
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On the subject of conventions, Harmon mentioned that he and Morley used to take it as a badge of honor when fans would tell them that they hated Murphy and Bellamy. Twitter death threats, too, Harmon learned to take in stride. “It got a little hectic at times, for sure,” he remembered. “If people wanted to hate you so much, I’m so grateful for that. That just means we did our job well.” Harmon also mentioned that he wished he’d gotten to keep Murphy’s jacket from Season 1. Unfortunately, he doesn’t know what happened to it. Morgan, on the other hand, has held onto a few of Raven’s iconic items—including her trademark red jacket and knee brace. “I joked that I was going to make a plaster cast out of my body and display them in my house,” she said. “I definitely didn’t do that, but I have them in a safe place.”
As for The 100’s staying power, Harmon, Morgan, and Cusick all pointed out its continued interrogation of what it means to be human, especially in heightened, life-or-death situations. While the show was airing, Harmon said he called it the “biggest show you’ve never heard of.” At this point, he no longer thinks that description is true—people have heard of it.
“It was cool to be on the biggest show you’ve never heard of, because people would be like, ‘What show?’ and then all of a sudden there’d be five people who’d go, ‘The 100? Yes!’” he remembered. “People who watched it fell in love with it. Or were livid with it. Either way.”
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Bridgerton Season 3 Episode 1 Initial Reactions
I didn't get to post these reactions so I'm posting them late as I needed time to edit all my 3am typos (cry) from Thursday.
Bless Francesca for being the funniest lowkey Bridgerton with that piano playing scene.
I swear I paused the Colin glow up reveal scene to analyze everyone's reaction. My top choices are Anthony and Kate and Bennedict.
ABC reunion + Gregory being adorable. I love when they show the sibling interactions.
Backs up, did I just see ASL from a debutant! That is so cool!
Queen Charlotte is having none of these people lmfao
Not Eloise getting dragged by Colin by her fashion choices (peak brother-sister vibes)
Stop- Francesca: “y'all are chaotic yappers the lord cannot present me a harder challenge”
Featherington's! I almost forgot both of Pen's sisters were married here! I keep remembering the book (romancing Mr. Bridgerton) and that the show has arranged things differently.
Prudence's man (I cannot/ do not remember his name) is giving such strong Kenergy.
Would it be the Featherington household without financial drama?
Eloise - Pen meet up, omg the heart break in their eyes!!
Cressida, when I get you!! It has been 0.5 seconds since this girl got to this garden party and she's already bullying Pen. Girl breathe.
Cressida-Eloise is intriguing as a dynamic I’m afraid. Also, Pen’s sad little face (cry)
I'm a bit confused with Francesca's interest in the marriage mart right now as she seems to prefer being around small groups of people and does not have much interest in being around guys. It feels as if this is a chore she must fulfil.
Kate -Violet solidarity is so cute to see after the angst of last season
Lady Danbury in the white ensemble with the top hat is looking magnificent I want her to poke someone with her cane!!
I'm liking the make up on Kate much more this season??? She seems a lot more glowy and rosy, maybe it's the lighting or something but her make up looks different.
I'm so sorry but Colin getting all this attention after having a literal hot girl summer is vv funny. Like he's in his early 20s lmao, but he is not giving confidence he is giving slightly awkward line reading with no chemistry. In the books him being more rakish was believable because it was set 10 years later.
Colin meeting and talking to Pen, side eye my boy. I'm loving the costuming choices to visibly show they are both uncomfortable/ do not fit their clothes well and it’s so starkly done. Poor Pen in this yellow dress makes her look a lot more juvenile (which isn't bad but it is unflattering). And Colin with what I am assuming are Anthony hand me downs since that jacket looks frumpy. The parallels!
Omg "Go home and get to work" Mrs.Featherington is so unserious
One sentence horror story "I take comfort in knowing you will always be there to take care of me". Get out miss Penelope runnn
Colin had one slutty slutty summer and the fact they keep trying to frame it as mostly intellectual is sending me.
Eloise reading Jane Austen! Is this character development?
Every scene so far where Pen and Eloise see each other gives the vibe of two exes meeting after the most devastating break up, I appreciate this framing so much because losing your childhood girl best friend is one of the most painful types of breakups.
ABC hang out?? Bennedict responsibility arc?
"She is colder now I am afraid" is a wild way to say someone is dead.
NEWTON!! BABY!! KANTHONY! IN! BED! BEING ROMANTIC!!
Damn! We're getting steamy af scenes already in the first episode! Anthony needing to go down on his wife to start off the day is certainly something I can get behind.
OOh this outfit reveal! Yessssss bb Pen eat them up! Penelope having a *debut* moment.
Aww the Featherinton spouses are sweet.
I see you Colin with that side eye
Omg Penelope being a bombshell and being socially awkward is so cute. You’ll figure it out soon bb don’t give up, they’re just jelous!
Ooh these girls are not liking Eloise they're sus
I'm a little uninterested in the queen charlotte diamond drama atm
Francesca: Live Laugh Love the piano forte
These guys are being so rude to Fran like let the poor girl speak! You’re traumatizing her.
Kanthony dancing and Kate's dress to reference the Bridgerton blue?? Oh the costume department has served.
Aww walflower solidarity with Francesca and Penelope. They're both the more reserved of their family, it's sweet moment between the two and the encouragement!
I know we won't love lord Debling but he's looking so sweetly at Pen and being so welcoming compared to everyone else.
CRESSIDA they can never make me like you, you little brat.
Yes, Pen eat him up give it to him tell him!!! "You miss me but you would never court me". GET HIS ASSS!!
I fear our girl will be writing some scathing lady Whistledown.
This man threatening the Featheringtons is a gremlin, and I am getting bad vibes.
This conversation about the pitting of women against each other is valid social commentary but I cannot focus on it as it appears Cressida has murdered a flock of flamingoes to make her outfit.
Self-awareness, Cressida, does not free you from your crimes!
Kanthony is serving this episode. I appreciate this blissfully married life on them! Also Kate’s outfits are so intricate and beautiful. She has come so far.
Francesca so far feels like an external character, and it was similar in the novels until we got to her book. I really hope we get more context for her outlook soon.
Colin, what are YOU doing here. The way that Luke N is serving this season, whew. I really can buy his clueless innocence at his friendship with Pen, but finally the plot is plotting!
I'm very confused by this Baron Kent plot line and its introduction in the first episode.
OOH the drama for Colin's Whistledown dress down.
She really said he ain't shit, it's a facade, a ruse, he's a sad little attention whore
Colin: FUCK lady whistle down all my homies hate lady whistle down.
I'll keep it short. It was simply exhilarating. I love being back it's like slipping into a comfy worn hoodie. It's good to be back!
#bridgerton spoilers#spoilers#bridgerton s3#bridgerton season three#bridgerton 3x01#reaction#discussion#nicola coughlan#kanthony#polin#polin bridgerton#bridgerton#luke newton#lady whistledown#im just happy to be here y'all#francesca bridgerton
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Personal thoughts and meditations upon the occasion of the Riverdale series finale.
Probably like four people are going to read this but I feel compelled to write it out anyway. This show has genuinely been a massive part of my life. I watched the first episode because some high school friends encouraged me to (IRONICALLY, BRO). I was in high school when I started this show. Those friends of course long ago fell away, unable to continue, unable to wacth anymore, but I have kept the faith. All seven seasons. Every. Single. Episode.
I’m not even entirely sure what captivated me so much about the show. I loved the atmosphere of season 1. I genuinely wanted to find out who killed Jason Blossom. Was genuinely fucked up by episode 1 x 12 and the first season finale.
I have such fond memories of watching the first season. I distinctly remember a road-trip I Tok with my friends the summer of 2017, and joking about maple syrup drug empires and the “weirdo” line back when that was the wildest scene on the show. Joking about how sick of the song ‘Believer’ by Imagine Dragons (2017) we were.
And then I decided to get involved in a fandom for the first time in a couple of years, and so I revived my old Tumblr, and I began Posting. And reading posts.
That was my last summer after high school and I was so nervous about college but this show and this fandom helped me get through it. My freshman year I lived in a dorm, and if you wanted to watch TV you had to go down to this common room, so every Thursday I would go down there like an hour ahead of time and occupy the place to make sure the remote was in my hands by 7 PM. A few times I failed, and I missed an episode because of it. But rarely!
I remember that slowly dawning feeling as season 2 progressed. Scrolling my Tumblr feed and slowly seeing people come to the realization: “wait…is it just me or does this show actually suck.” Was kind of frustrating at the time, realizing that the writers just like…were bad, but in retrospect? Beautiful. Incredible. Legendary.
And you could even say that’s where the fun really began. Yes, there’s plenty to hate, but also Riverdale is brilliant. The show of all time. For real. No other show has done it like Riverdale. They just haven't, and they never will. The age of the cable television teen drama is ending, and what a hell of a last hurrah Riverdale has been.
The Red Circle. Jingle Jangle. The Gargoyle King. Edgar Evernever and his fantastic rocket. Bret Weston Wallis and Donna Sweett (genuinely cannot say their names without giggling). Jughead getting hit in the head with a rock and faking his death for like…some reason? I genuinely can’t remember, something to do with the Hardy Brothers idk. Tabitha sprinkling the devil with the tears of the Virgin Mary. The normies can laugh all they want about “epic highs and lows” but do they remember the even funnier lines like “if there’s no wedding, that means the gargoyle king has won” or “word of my exploits serving Nick his comeuppance…” THEY NEVER WILL. ONLY THE TRUE FAITHFUL UNDERSTAND.
And is silly as it all was, I have genuine affection for these characters. Like Betty, Veronica, Jughead, Archie, Cheryl, Toni, actually mean a lot to me. YES they’re fake but I want the best for them (and for Beronica to be canon but you know we can’t win them all). I’m genuinely grateful that this show has existed and been a part of my life for the past six years.
Moreover, I credit this show for seriously getting into writing. I’ve actually written almost a million words of Riverdale fanfiction. Much of it will never see the light of day, but it exists. Maybe I even have one or two left in me, I don’t know. At the very least I’d like to finish a few uncompleted fics. But I’ve also branched out. Since I started seriously writing in 2017, I’ve also finished several original manuscripts, and who knows, maybe one day I’ll get one published. Stranger things have happened.
So, thanks Roberto.
And thanks to all of the very cool people I’ve run into in this fandom. I honestly wish I’d gotten to know most of you better, but them’s the breaks. Hopefully this isn’t weird but I’m going to tag a few people in particular.
@village-skeptic. I know you’re not in the fandom anymore (lucky you), but thank you for, once upon a time, reading every one of the 200,000+ words of a 17-year-old kid’s turgid, indulgent, Riverdale Spanish Civil War fan fiction. I never, ever would have finished that story without you, and I credit it with giving me the confidence to keep writing, and in fact to write everything I’ve written since then. You’re brilliant and awesome.
@satelliteinasupernova. Thank you for also reading Interbellum (are we noticing a pattern), and more importantly for all of your wonderful drawings. INCLUDING fanart of some of my fics. You have no idea how happy that Strange Death of Elizabeth Cooper piece made me. You rule.
@sullypants. You were a perennial presence on my feed. Always wonderful to see. I love your taste in art, and I love those ‘penguin classics’ covers you made for a few of my fics. Thank you also for beta reading a few fics for me back in the glory days. And thank you for chatting with me a couple times over the years, including a few times when I was in quite unhappy places.
@stillhidden. I’m not sure if we’ve ever actually talked, but you like or reblog everything I post and it makes me feel like I’m not just shouting into the void. Same goes for @frauleinfunf Thank God for dutiful mutuals.
@sonyascomet. I can’t remember when I started following you but you have a really good sense of humor. And I’ll always remember when you kept posting about “Greg” for Succession and I, not knowing anything about Succession, kept imagining Greg Heffley.
@stillhidden thank you for your world-weary Riverdale posts. You truly understand fandom like few others.
@halcooper. Your devotion to the neglected parents of Riverdale is truly admirable. Every time I see Lochlyn Munro in some weird low budget horror movie I’ll think of you.
I hope I didn’t forget anyone who would be offended by my forgetting, but I doubt it.
All this to say this show has been a genuinely huge part of my life for six years. SIX YEARS. I graduated college, my God. I wish I could say I became a millionaire or a successful author in that time, but nah. Maybe one day, but for now I’m just kind of vibing. And unfortunately, I’ll have to vibe without Riverdale from now on.
But as I sit myself down to watch the very last episode of this show, I remind myself that we’ll always have the memories. And I’ll always be an unapologetic Riverdale enjoyer. As a great man once said, snakes don’t shed their skins so easily.
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grease: rise of the pink ladies episode 10 spoilers
read if you dare (or have already watched the ep)
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first of all
THE GFS ARE BACK TOGETHER.
AND ON THE FIRST DAY OF PRIDE
THEY RAN OUT OF THE CHURCH HOLDING HANDS
second of all
this was a good way to end the first season of an amazing show
third of all
the gil and jane scenes >>>
i love their dynamic
they act like siblings
fourth of all
i was talking to @cherrybb-ily about this. when jane gets mad (which isn’t often but that issue deserves its own post), you had to have messed up
so who the hell is this frankie zuko guy and what the hell did he do to my sweet girl jane to get our final jane rage moment of the season
i have my own theories (once again, its own post)
usually, i’m a sucker for lovers to enemies to lovers and second chance romance like 70% of the time
but we just got jane out of a love triangle and we can be getting richie back so let’s not introduce a mystery man from her past ny life
i’m going to miss watching my fav girls on my screen every thursday but don’t worry, the fics ain’t stopping anytime soon
#grease rise of the pink ladies#jane facciano#olivia valdovinos#richie valdovinos#cynthia zdunowski#nancy nakagawa#grease: rise of the pink ladies#the pink ladies#the t birds
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Dean Winchester Rare Ships Week
What is it?
A whole week to celebrate Dean Winchester and his rare ships in Supernatural. (Except, of course, Destiel and Wincest, which are not a rare ship unless you add a third to make a poly group.) Whether it is platonic, romantic, familial, or any other kind of relationship is up to you!
When is it?
January 21-27, 2024
What are the prompts?
Sunday, January 21 - Hotels and Motels
There are a lot of scenes throughout the series that take place in hotels and motels. We know that some of those hotels and motels saw some action from some pairings. Fill us in on what happened behind closed doors!
Monday, January 22 - Omegaverse
Alphas. Betas. Omegas. The Omegaverse is a complicated AU and everyone has their own way of presenting it. Let’s stick Dean into the Omegaverse and explore his relationships.
Tuesday, January 23 - Slash Ships
Today’s the day for Dean to be with the fellas! Remember, any kind of relationship is allowed today, as long as it’s Dean with his boy toys.
Wednesday, January 24 - “The Early Years” Seasons 1-5
Many episodes in the first five seasons had romantic interests come and go. Let’s expand on some of those characters, shall we? (Lori, Madison, Sarah, Lilith, Meg, Lisa, Cassie, Anna, Layla, Carmen, omg there are so many!)
Thursday, January 25 - Het Ships
Today’s the day for Dean to be with the ladies! Remember, any kind of relationship is allowed today, as long as it’s Dean with his gal pals.
Friday, January 26 - Missing Scene / Episode Tag
Take this opportunity to fill in the empty spaces of episodes with your headcanons of what happened. Whether you have an idea of a scene in the middle of the episode or something that should have been added to the end, share with us your ideas! (Tag the episode number in your posts, too!)
Saturday, January 27 - Dealer’s Choice Today is all you, we can’t wait to see what you come up with!
How do I participate?
No sign ups are required! Just post any and all Dean Rare Ship content and be sure to include #deanrareshipweek2024 and tag us @spnrareships in your post. We will reblog everything we see, but if we haven’t reblogged your work within 24 hours please send us an ask.
Reminder: Please review our General Rules, which apply to all events we host. If you have any questions, feel free to send in an Ask!
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Little Bird ‘We’re Almost There’ Update
1. I plan on posting Chapter 17, aka the second to last chapter of the story, this Thursday.
2. Revision of the final chapter is ongoing, with the only unfinished scene left now finished and only a few interventions missing.
3. Yes, We’re Almost There! So, how is everybody doing? I am… somewhere… here… kinda.
4. Please root for me to be able to work on it in the evening >.>
5. And really, thanks for all the support and the feedback and the cheering and all. I feel very lucky.
6. In other news, I participated to Candy Hearts Exchange 2024 and I received 2 gifts! Go give some love to:
Midnight reprieve by Anonymous, a Reiner & Armin post-Rumbling fic (600 words)
Mushroom hunting by Anonymous, an Apothecary diaries small canon divergent moment in episode 12 of the anime
7. The Anonymous period is still ongoing so I can’t reveal what I created. I will on the 21st or 22nd when it’s over.
8. Are you interested in the next fannish events for fic and art? I would like to make another small list of the things I’m interested in.
#little bird#little: chapter 17#aot fanfiction#Annie Leonhart fanfiction#aruani fanfiction#writing#fanfic writing#revision#candy hearts exchange#kusuriya no hitorigoto
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My Current WIP’s!
Hi there! It’s been a while since I’ve given you a WIP update, so let’s do it now! 💖
1. Stumblin’ In (Steve Rogers X Reader): Yes, I finished Endgame but you didn’t think that was the end, did you? Lol the first one-shot in Book VII: Superhero Snapshots will be uploaded this Thursday! The one-shots will either be missing/deleted scenes from various Stumblin’ In books or a look into what (Y/N) and Steve are up to during Phases 4, 5 and beyond in the MCU, and this first one-shot will show us Steve’s POV of his run-in with (Y/N) at the Smithsonian during The Winter Soldier.
2. Spellbinding (Loki X Reader): I promise that I haven’t forgotten about Loki and the Cosmic Sorceress’ wedding, but it’s grown into a much bigger one-shot than I originally anticipated lol I’m working on it as often as I can, so I promise that it’ll see the light of day soon.
3. Tales from the SSR/Specs and the Flyboy (Jack Thompson X Reader): This is another case of a one-shot running away from me but believe me, once you read it you’ll realize why it’s taken so long to write lol
4. Taking Care of Business (Din Djarin X Reader): While I’m already writing new chapters for this, I’m going to wait until a few more episodes are out to begin uploading them because I don’t want my writing to conflict with the show. Don’t worry, you’ll definitely be getting your Din and Alor’ad fix soon!
5. The Angel of Hell’s Kitchen (Matt Murdock X Reader): My first Daredevil one-shot will be uploaded this Sunday!!! I’m very excited for you all to read it, so keep a look out for it then!
So yeah, that's pretty much it. Which stories or one-shots are you guys looking forward to? Let me know and don't forget to give my fanfiction masterlist a like, I always update it after posting a new work! (Sorry that this isn't a true sneak peek @mostclevermiss but I hope that you like it regardless, and good luck on your final!)
#stumblin' in#spellbinding#taking care of business#the angel of hell's kitchen#tales from the ssr#specs and the flyboy#steve rogers x reader#captain america x reader#loki x reader#din djarin x reader#the mandalorian x reader#matt murdock x reader#daredevil x reader#jack thompson x reader#strategic scientific reserve#marvel cinematic universe#star wars
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2022 in Mittens Fic
It’s time again for the annual accounting of things I wrote this year! I’m pleased that while still a disappointingly low total for me, I still beat my total word count from 2021, so progress is being made, which I’ll always gladly take! Honestly anything is better than that 2020 total at this point lolol! I long since abandoned my goal of ever surpassing the 250k i posted in 2015, but that’s okay! I still wrote a decent bit!
For reference, past year end summaries can be found here:
2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | the closest thing I have to a 2015 wrap up post is the lil bit of text at the bottom of 2016′s post… even though my two most popular fics were from 2015 lololol
I managed a Pinefest fic, a DCRB fic, AND a DCBB fic this year, which is the first time I’ve ever managed all three, so go me I guess? And maybe I enjoy working to deadlines more than I ever assumed before? Or maybe I would’ve written even more if I hadn’t been pushing at deadlines (and letting myself slack off, even if rest is important and beneficial to writer brain, when I was far ahead of schedule...). But I’m overall pretty pleased with this year’s works.
I tied last year’s fic total, with six, but beat last year’s word count with 117,486, so go me! Not even counting the ~63k fic i’m working on for pinefest this year...even if it’s already written it’s not posting until February. Love rolling over a big fic into the new year every year like this. it feels weirdly like cheating somehow, yet I do it every year :’D
Also slightly cheating, but since I mentioned it last year, I still haven’t missed a week of my eternal rewatch podcast, @spngeorg which is still going strong! Uploading episode 91, 5.09 The Real Ghostbusters tonight! If my millions of words of written meta aren’t enough for you, you can now hear me being grumpy about this show out loud! (new episodes drop every Thursday night at or around midnight eastern time, if you’re interested you can start from the beginning on AnchorFM or wherever you enjoy podcasts!)
Let’s get to the fic! Presented in the order they posted:
Mr. Fix It (54,383 words, rated M) written for the Pinefest. It started with a photo of the shopping center sign that Mel sent me several years back, and the instruction “this is a writing prompt.” Amazingly, it was a great writing prompt! and a great art prompt, thanks to @lotrspnfangirl! Dean runs a repair shop called Mr. Fix It with Charlie, and Cas runs the bar at the other end of the strip mall, Steve’s. There’s shady real estate dealings, secret identities, and found family taking care of each other through it all.
lectio in equis (13,016 words, rated T) my first ever DCRB, and I screamed delightedly when I claimed @scarlettmichkat ’s artwork! Actually still kinda lowkey screaming about it. I LOVE this artwork. Like, wanna frame it and hang it in my living room love. Canon case fic, sort of, as Dean and Cas get to play cowboy for a day looking for a lost MoL chapter storage facility out in the New Mexico desert. Plus, Jesse and Cesar being the best retired hunters.
Baby X-File (2,698 words, rated T) Written for the final GISH hunt, a crossover scene between SPN and the X Files, canon-adjacent to both, to a prompt from my team captain who isn’t on tumblr... thank you Sammy!
honey wine (764 words, rated T) annual deancasversary fic! They go to the rennfest, and medieval hilarity and fluff ensues
Heart Shaped Box (43,504 words, rated M) my DCBB this year, canon case fic wherein Dean and Cas are the case. beautifully illustrated by @marvfortytwo and a cathartic walk through a series of memories. I mostly wanted to revisit . Set within days of Dean rescuing Cas from the Empty, because that’s exactly what happened in canon as we all know (I SAID, AS WE ALL KNOW).
The Ghost of Christmas Present(s) (3,121 words, rated T) annual holiday fic, Dean and Cas attempt holiday shopping together. hilarity and shmoop ensue.
And that’s my year in fic. Like I said at the top, I’ve already got more than half this total written to post in 2023, so it looks like I’m still not slowing down. Since I posted my To Be Written file’s stats last year, I figured I should do the same again...
lol... a year later, two pages and 1400 more words added... i swear at this rate i will never finish writing it all, which I find weirdly comforting.
Thanks to everyone who’s read, kudos’ed, commented, reblogged, rec’ed, and enjoyed anything I’ve written in the last year. I love you all. <3 See you in 2023!
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Games beat in 2022
I was sick a lot this year (thought it was a post viral chest thing but it’s now starting to look like I might have asthma) and did a lot of gaming as I couldn’t manage anything else. I used https://howlongtobeat.com/ to get through a lot of games.
Bold for games I recommend, italics for those I would recommend avoiding.
Thief Simulator
Mexicana: Deadly Holiday
The Room 4: Old Sins
Book of Demons
Haunt the House: Terrortown
Speed Dating for Ghosts
After Hours
Unpacking
Strange Horticulture
Tales from Off Peak City Vol. 1
Panmorphia
Paramonsters and the Haunted Escape Room
Retrace
The Search
Solitune
Safe Journey
The Majesty of Colours
The Recipe for Madness
The Haunted Island
Timestone
Un Pas Fragile
Dusk Child
Nonsense at Nightfall
In the Shadow of the Valley
Thursday the 12th
The Red Door Chapter 1
Bonbon
Orion Trail
Tangrams Deluxe
Knightmare Tower
Rainy Season
Fossil Hunters
Midnight Scenes: The Highway
Midnight Scenes: The Goodbye Note
Bunny Hill Horror
Bunny Hill Horror 2: Bunny Boiler
2ECONDS TO STΔRLIVHT: Forever My Diamond
2econds to Starlight: My Heart's Reflection
(What Even is That Thing?)
Midnight Scenes: The Nanny
HammerTime
Beyond the Bow
Livescream
Korpus: Buried Over the Black Soil
Without Escape
Eyewear Cleaner 2077
Fantastic Foetus: Prebirth
Fit for a King
Dagon
Miss Fisher and the Deathly Maze: Episode 1
Curious Expedition
Miss Fisher and the Deathly Maze: Episode 2
Treasure Hunter Simulator
Nobodies: Murder Cleaner
Okaeri
Stigmatized Property
Missing Children
Inunaki Tunnel
The Caregiver
The Ghost Train
Fossil Echo
Neverout
Night Delivery
The Closing Shift
The Radio Station
Brukel
Say No! More
Silvercreek Falls Chapter 2
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Whispering Willows
Ontamarama
Beautiful Desolation
Near Death
Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis
Black Widow: Recharged
The First Tree
Avadon: The Black Fortress
(Not Escape Room)
The Henry Stickmin Collection
Centipede Recharged
Doodle Mafia
Borderlands 3
Alone in the Dark (1992)
Jack in the Dark
The Town of Light
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 Bonus Chapter
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2
Borderlands 3: Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot
D the Game
Last Half of Darkness: Society of the Serpent Moon
Borderlands 3: Guns, Love, and Tentacles
Ahnayro: The Dream World
Wheels of Aurelia
Mummmaster!
Borderlands 3: Bounty of Blood
Yes Your Grace
Just One, Must Choose
The Whisperer in the Darkness
He plays the Piano
Monad
Hope's Peak
Guide of the Butterfly
The Spark of One
Hairdash
Pizzaboy
Sangwich
Virtua Blinds
Homing
Dawndusk Dream Sewer
Forgotten Hill Tales
In My Friend Carrie's Car
nigel.
Summer Gems
The Night Fisherman
Stealth Fishing
Out the Window: A Car Trip Sim
Dogs Throwing Swords II: Three Barks to the Wind
Hi-Score Boi
Petty Puny Planet
To Duel List
Worldcraft
Running Askew
Feisty Heist
This Call May Be Recorded
Baby Labour
Stophat
Conversations with my Anxiety
The Alabaster Donut Farm
The Sun Will Set
a completely normal dating simulation that is definitely completely sweet, innocent and normal
Toaster Jam
Shrine to Anubis
Inter-view
Froggy Family Fort
The Change Architect
Can Androids Pray: Red
Clean Attack
There You Go
Hot Pot Panic
Waiting for the Loop
Chesto – At the Checkout
Can Androids Pray: Blue
Otherside
The Outcast Lovers
Samorost
Grumpy Librarian
Walkerwall
Boa Retina
ring ring
Homebound
Liyla and the Shadow of War
Devtheism
Lonely Wolf Treat
SYSCRUSHER
Stray
Nainai's Recipe
Candylight
The Hero of Budgie Island
dstnce.
Cromwell
KIDS
Parcels and Pollen
The Supper
Thing in Itself
Serre
Jet Buster
Lieve Oma
The Adventures of Wolf and Hood - A Jigsaw Tale
Tomato Clinic
Cosmic Courier: Lost in Limbo
SAI
Nancy Drew: The Final Scene
Nancy Drew: Danger on Deception Island
planktOs
Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch
Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor
Mortuary Assistant
Tessa's Ark: Chapter One
What isn't saved (shall be lost)
Traveller
Karambola
Eternia: Pet Whisperer
Dear Mariko: Crimson
TimeOut
Order a Pizza: A Visual Novel
You Died But a Necromancer Revived You!
Flufftopia
Doodle Date
Fostering Apocalypse
Good Morning Hon
KAIMA
Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock
We Met in May
Untitled Darkness
Homunculus Hotel
Gunpig: Firepower for Hire
Martial Law
Pebble Witch
Hysteria Project
Dream Dye
Hero-ing Addict
Baked: Magic
Escaped Chasm
Detours
Sunlight
Feud
The Little Mermaid (NES)
Cuckoo Castle
Find Me
Veiled
a new life.
Some Like it Hot: Episode 0
Don't Take It Personally, I Just Don't Like You: The Camping Trip
Mobility! Accessible Precision Platformer
Meta Form
Imaginaria
Wishing Sarah
Glitch Dungeon
The Secret of Tremendous Corporation
We Should Talk
Path Out
As Long As We're Together: Magical Girls Sweet & Pure
Co-open
Gardenia
Parsnip
Monster Pub Vol. 1
IF not us
Islands: Non-Places
Sudd City Adventures
Imperishable Memories
3 out of 10, Ep 1: Welcome to Shovelworks
Bard Harder!
3 out of 10, Ep 2: Foundation 101
Wakamarina Valley
Take A Hike!
Reminiscence in the Night
Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon
The Light at the End of the Ocean
Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
Penance
Surfacing
Gutwhale
Forgiveness: Escape Room
Interactivity: The Interactive Experience
Project Kat – Paperlily Prologue
Heartbreak High: A Breakup Simulator
Online Simulator: Love in the Time of Malware
Us Lovely Corpses
Sanguine Sanctum
3 out of 10, Ep 3: Pivot Like a Chamption
3 out of 10, Ep 4: Thank you for Being an Asset
Cleansuit
3 out of 10, Ep 5: The Rig is Up!
Good Lookin’ Home Cookin’
Metal Slug
Shrug Island: The Meeting
Death's Life
The Wolf's Bite
Water's Fine
Dungeons & Lesbians
Kid A Mnesia Exhibition
Rex: Another Island
Call of the Sea
Wide Ocean Big Jacket
Ring of Fire: Prologue
King's Field (PS1)
A Nightmare's Trip
a museum of dubious splendours
Towards the Pantheon: Escaping Eternity
Return Null: Episode 1
Error: Human Not Found
Save Room – Organisation Puzzle
The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune's Fool
Regeria Hope: Episode 1
What Comes After
Self Checkout Unlimited
Scorch
Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Quest (Megadrive)
Dominique Pamplemousse in "It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!"
Shantae: Half Genie Hero
Acidtrip
Dominique Pamplemousse and Dominique Pamplemousse in "Combinatorial Explosion!"
Shadowgate Classic
Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze
Ripped Pants at Work
El Tango de la Muerte
Helltaker
Shantae: Half Genie Hero: Pirate Queen's Quest
Mon-cuties for All
Graveyard Shift
By Your Side
The Black Iris
Fuzz Dungeon
An Oath in Kind
Silent Hill 2
Where the Snow Settles
The Westport Independent
Once Upon a Crime in the West
The Testimony of Trixie Glimmer Smith
Ticket to Ride
Wanderlust: Transsiberian
Three Lesbians in a Barrow
The Enigma Machine
SHUT IN
Brave: The Video Game
Taco Tom 2
Drones: The Human Condition
Cats in Time
Roll for Confidence
Lynne
Vampire Night Shift
Prison of the Magi: Chapter 0
Extreme Meatpunks Forever: Powered By Blood
Until Dawn
Nepenthe
Martha is Dead
Maid of Sker
Beyond Blue
Gray Dawn
Soul Waste
Sato Wonderland
Chip's Tips
Eden: Garden of the Faultless
Axis Mundi
Uktena
Rose of Meat
Seraphaxial
The Black Relic
The Fruit
The House of Unrest
Hunstvotti
Gallerie
Book of Blood
Karao
Rotten Stigma
Vampire Survivors
Spirit Guardian
We Never Left
Vestige
Resver
Ludomalica
Beyond the Curtain
Lego Starwars: The Complete Saga
Whimsy
Ys 1
She Sees Red
Momodora 3
Far From Noise
Do I Pass?
Super Ledgehop: Double Laser
Meeting in the Flesh
The Beast Inside
Nancy Drew: Danger by Design
Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave
Forager
Actual Crimes: Jack the Ripper
Blood And Lust
Shadows Over Loathing
Rogue Quest: The Vault of the Lost Tyrant
Amelie
Social Justice Warriors
Nancy Drew and the White Wolf of Icicle Creek
Creepy Tale
Your Future Self
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I have so many thoughts on today's episode holy shit
1. Birds of a feather flock together (Minwoo and Attorney Jang). Fr though I was cringing so much. I have really bad second hand embarrassment even for people I don't like and watching Attorney Jang fumble through that case was truly painful
2. I always feel conflicted about Choi Suyeon cuz on the one hand she's got a very frustrating mindset about autism and Youngwoo but on the other hand she can't stand seeing her suffer even when she's not around to hear the things being said etc. It feels like she either pities Youngwoo or thinks Youngwoo can't handle herself or she doesn't and is just a genuinely decent person who rationalizes her actions in an ableist way cuz she doesn't have the language to explain why she actually likes Youngwoo when others don't (and ik she shouldn't have to defend her friendship to assholes but she has now been asked to do so by assholes on multiple occasions). Some of her actions lead me to think it's the latter but I just can't believe that's true because she likes enemy #1 Kwon Minwoo which only can be explained by the former. I'm not sure if they didn't know what they were doing with her or if she's going to have more explanation. Ig we'll find out tomorrow. Because let's be honest, it's way to late to redeem Minwoo and Suyeon won't be the one to educate him (see their conversation about how they can't act like Youngwoo 🙄)
3. I didn't say anything about last Thursday's episode cuz I didn't have time. But I'm not worried at all about Junho and Youngwoo. Everything points to them getting back together. Especially after the chat they had this episode. My guess is Junho is now just taking his time to fully absorb her reason for breaking up with him and considering his options. But I think they'll be fine
(Also, complete side note, but the way everyone is comparing this to 2521 is so funny and so sad to me cuz 2521 is my favorite kdrama and I actually liked the end. Ik I'm in the minority but I really appreciated it, I made a post about that when it came out tho so I won't reiterate it here. And I don't think this is the kind of show where we have to worry about anything like that here. Especially because we knew it was coming in 2521, the seeds have not been planted here. Even if Youngwoo and Junho don't end up together, I think they'll have a satisfying ending)
Junho can tell how much she misses him. From the beginning of the episode he noticed her waiting to see him and he knows she just has to see him and that's it. But also that scene in court after the plaintiff took cyanide he wanted to help her so bad. Also also I think both his and my heart cracked when Youngwoo said she was afraid of making him feel lonely because she likes him so much 😭😭😭😭
4. THAT TRAILER!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHES GONNA MEET HER BROTHER!!!!!
5. Attorney Jang pissed me off but I genuinely laughed when he pushed the rookies to the reporters and then hid sneaking into the car... although driving away without everyone felt very out of character for Junho
6. HARY'S PLACE HAS BECOME THEIR HANGOUT I LOVE THEM THEY ARE SO DRAR TO ME
7. SPEAKING OF DEAR TO ME! ONCE AGAIN THE WAY YOUNGWOOS FRIENDS IMMEDIATELY BONDED WITH JUNG MYEONGSOEK!!!!!!!! I hope they're friends forever. The fact that a) they visited him in the hospital and b) that he made foOD FOR HIS MOTHER - save it. I wanted Hairy and Suyeon endgame before but I take it back. If we don't see a hot and heavy Attorney Jung/Hairy make out scene in the finale I'm staging a protest
#eaw#extraordinary attorney woo#jung myeongsoek#attorney jung#attorney jang#kwon minwoo#choi suyeon#woo youngwoo#hairy#big fan#cant wait for tomorrow#also holy shit fuck both the ceos#why ruin every fucking ones life#its petty and unnecessary#im on a plane as i write this it took me 20 minutes
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter - Wednesday, July 26 - Thursday July 27 - Part II
The Sunnydale Herald is looking for at least one new editor. Contributing to the Herald is a great way to get your Buffy on!! Find out more here.
[Images, Audio & Video]
Artwork: BTVS “Every Outfit” “Dirty Girls” Xx by whatshisfaceblogs (Buffy, worksafe)
Artwork: BTVS “Every Outfit” “Lies My Parents Told Me” Xx by whatshisfaceblogs (Buffy, worksafe)
Vidlet: buffy & angel - first love (edit) by vu-prod (Buffy/Angel, worksafe)
Vidlet: moonlight - Faith (BtVS) edit by vu-prod (Faith, worksafe)
Vidlet: he go vrrrm - Spike Edit (BtVS) by vu-prod (Spike, worksafe)
Vidlet: Faith Lehane Edit (BtVS) - Cochise Pocket Rocket by vu-prod (Faith, worksafe)
Fanvid: sonia j : Buffy & Faith ✗ Bad Girl by cornflowershade (Buffy/Faith, worksafe)
Artwork: Accepting that these are not getting finished! by snakeliciousbaby (various, worksafe)
Artwork: I made this Buffy-themed painting for a friend... by interplanetaryartgasm (worksafe)
Moodboard: Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) by originalwitchedits (Drusilla, worksafe)
Manip: HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS ⌞ spuffy version by l0veisntbrains (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)
Gifset: [hands] Buffy the Vampire Slayer by deadwivesclub (worksafe)
Gifset: LEGALLY BLONDE (2001) || ANGEL (1999-2004) by charmedslayer (Harmony, worksafe)
Gifset: What is love to you? How would you define love? by andremichaux [incorrect quotes] (Buffy, Scoobies, Faith, worksafe)
Artwork: the chain by spikedru (Spike/Drusilla, worksafe)
Artwork: old tara sketch by softest-butch (Tara, worksafe)
Artwork: Faith x Buffy request for the pride event ♥️ by somewillwin (Buffy/Faith, worksafe)
[Reviews & Recaps]
The Buffy re-watch: S1E7 (part 1) by jvstheworld
PODCAST: Lap Sweater - Angel S05E02 - Just Rewards by Pop Culture Role Call
[Recs & In Search Of]
ISO: UpstairsReasonable71 seeks Accessing all audio commentaries [transcripts or direct from DVDs]
[Community Announcements]
SoS: Living with Spike Competition [reminder for Giles and Spike story deadline] by nightshade
[Fandom Discussions]
Giles would totally go with Buffy to Barbie and ... by angelique-of-the-volturi-guard
So if Spike is in the tub then... how does Giles do well anything in the bathroom??? by a-potato-wearing-plaid and several others
Do vampires in the Buffyverse have their own underground porn companies? by aphony-cree and multiple others
[cool and pathetic scale for main characters] by hersterical
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'The Blacklist' Series Finale: How the NBC Thriller Ended After 10 Seasons
After 10 seasons and 218 episodes, NBC's international crime thriller came to an end on July 13
This post contains spoilers for Thursday’s series finale of The Blacklist.
The Blacklist has reached the end of its run.
On Thursday, July 13, the hit investigative series from NBC reached its close. Created by crime juggernaut Jon Bokenkamp of Taking Lives and The Call, The Blacklist followed former fugitive Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader), who turned himself in with his own list of the most wanted fugitives with two conditions: immunity, and that he only speak with FBI rookie Elizabeth "Liz" Keen (Megan Boone).
After Liz’s shocking death in season 8 by a revenge-thirsty hitman, Red returned to his deal with the FBI to hunt down the criminals of the blacklist in her memory. Soon, however, the committee’s operations under Harold Cooper (Harry Lenix) and Red’s own criminal enterprise came into question.
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By the end of season 10, Red was officially called in by the Congressman Arthur Hudson’s (Toby Leonard Moore) task force. This left Red on the run, severing ties with the FBI and keeping one step ahead. A show built on criminal cat-and-mouse games, Red’s evasion was one last hurrah for The Blacklist.
Still, Red’s close personal ties to some individuals on the Task Force, including his former bodyguard-turned-FBI Special Agent Dembe Zuma (Hisham Tawfiq), made the committee’s movements fraught.
"Don't do me any more favors," Red demanded in a secret phone call to Zuma in the two-part finale’s opening scene. "I won't. I'm going to bring you in, Raymond," Zuma answered.
While the Task Force may have captured Red’s license plate and were tracking down the car, they quickly learned that Red had multiple cars driving as a diversion. Their standard techniques simply wouldn't work in hunting down Red.
“You may want to think of Raymond as an ordinary criminal,” Zuma told the committee. “That would be a mistake.” He then reminded them that “it’s his mind we should be worried about.”
As Red camped out, he called real estate agent Andrea Athens (Krista Braun). The agents were able to track down his temporary safehouse, primarily through Zuma’s reasoning. “You’ve got a hunch, don’t you?” agent Siya Malik (Anya Banerjee) asked. “It’s not on that list, is it?"
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Still, the agents just missed Red, but learned of his new destination: a beat-down house that he was supposedly purchasing. When they arrived, the house was on fire.
“Raymond’s using the fire,” Zuma realized. “That’s how he’s getting out.”
Ever ahead of the curve, Red left the fire truck and drove off in a cab.
The disarray of the Task Force raged on, as Congressman Hudson became more paranoid of his team’s intentions. “How many times do we have to fail before we admit there’s a reason he’s always one step ahead?” he questioned.
Eventually, Hudson learned that a call was made to a burner phone before the chase, confirming his suspicion that Red was tipped off.
Zuma realized that Red only had two options: up, by plane, or out, by boat. Eventually, the crew set their sights on Tillman’s Wharf, but before they could leave, Hudson demanded Zuma be brought in for questioning. After Cooper fought back, they agreed that he can be interrogated en route.
After reaching the wharf, Zuma learned that Red had taken out the Great Shirley. Before they could track the boat down, though, Zuma was arrested for aiding and abetting a fugitive. “Hope he washed his hands,” the Congressman spouted off.
Meanwhile, Red got off a smaller boat, proclaiming that he “sunk” the Great Shirley, and drove off unscathed.
Cooper demanded to speak with Zuma, bursting his way into the questioning room and quickly admitting to tipping Red off. “Raymond is gone,” he said. “Someone on this Task Force will be held accountable. It should be me.”
And he was right: Red was currently in the process of leaving the country, though he had gotten word of Zuma’s arrest.
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Zuma was eventually dragged off for questioning, with Hudson’s paranoia coming to a head: “I don’t trust you, I don’t trust him, and I certainly don’t trust this place.” Agent Donald Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff) quickly joined them.
Wracked with guilt, Red crashed his car into the FBI and attempted to save Zuma. Still, Zuma told Red that he wouldn't go with him. Just then, Hudson and Ressler got out of the car and raised their weapons. Hudson shot Zuma in the neck, at which point Red shot Hudson and Ressler. While Ressler survived, the Congressman was left dead on the ground, closing out the first episode of the finale.
Agent Malik tracked Red down to a local nursing home, sending the Task Force to capture him. However, by the time they reached the home, Red was gone and Zuma was in the midst of an operation. Zuma survived after Red gave him a blood transfer, and the nurse alerted the agents that Red left looking unwell.
Hudson’s right-hand man Jordan Nixon (Derrick Williams) declared that when he finds Red, he doesn’t just want to capture him; he’ll “put him down.” This caused some agents to jump ship, while Cooper confronted Nixon over the claim, leading to a physical altercation.
Cooper and Malik headed to the bathhouse that Red resided in before his flight, but found nothing. Nixon soon arrived, having followed them with his own crew. Once they left, Malik had a realization: the bull skull that Red kept had gone missing. This clued them to his location in Spain.
Sure enough, the episode then cut to Red living in Seville, attempting to contact his granddaughter.
Ressler arrived at the house in Seville, while Red called Zuma and Cooper, keeping his cool. When Ressler searched the house, he was unable to find Red. Minutes later, Red learned of Ressler’s visit, and planed his trip to drop the skull off at the Miura Bull Ranch.
While Red hobbled away from the house in Seville, Zuma and Cooper reflected on the finality of their journey. “It’s hard to believe this is how it ends,” Cooper said, to which Zuma tearfully added, “Our time with him, our time together, it was never about how it ended.”
Continuing his walk, a weary Red spotted a bull in the wild. The ultimate sign of death, the bull made movements to charge at him. And, in the closing scene of the finale, Ressler found Red’s mangled body on the ground, killed by the creature that meant so much to him throughout the show’s tenure.
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Yusrarel, Minky Momo Episode 5
I posted recently about the fifth episode of Magical Princess Minky Momo (魔法のプリンセス ミンキー モモ), which involves a made-up country somewhere in the Mediterranean region. The first comment I received on that post was a snide remark that it didn't appear to be an imaginary country but rather simply Spain. At first I felt defensive, but the commenter was right that there were flamenco dancers and, the more I thought about it, the more I felt like I should rewatch the episode and pay a little closer attention so I could parse all of the details, particularly because this is exactly the kind of thing I'm interested in.
The subtitles on the version of this show I'm watching render the country's name as Yusrarel. I don't know for sure but I assume that would be ユスラレル, which could also be transliterated into the Roman alphabet as Yusurareru. This is somewhat close to the way Israel is transliterated into Japanese -- Isuraeru (イスラエル).
The reason the prince of Yusrarel has come to Japan is to deliver a rare three-humped camel to a local zoo. This is, of course, the tie-in to the show's animal and veterinary theme.
In addition to the camel, another key cultural element that makes this country seem like it could be in the Middle East-North Africa region is the style of headdress they wear. We see two turbans -- a white/cream one and a black/navy one. Neither are exactly like real world headdresses from any region but they are certainly reminsicent.
One thing that I think is worth mentioning here is that the prince is depicted as having curly red hair and freckles. Of course, it's fraught to over interpret racial phenotypes in Showa era anime, and it is also noteworthy that these traits are more widespread throughout the Mediterranean region than we might guess based on stereotypes. For example, I have met people in Tunisia with red hair which might not have been what I would have assumed before I had been there.
Also, his name is Prince Tam Tam (タムタム王子), which I don't think really gives any clues to the culture they're constructing.
One thing that is kind of neither here nor there in terms of interpreting this imaginary country but that I thought was still very fun was the appearance of this Christian omamori (御守) for safe travels. It's funny to see something so Shinto in a Christian fom.
So my commenter was right that part of this episode takes place in Madrid, Spain. This was the line I missed the first time I watched this that actually makes a big difference in trying to understand the geography of this episode.
The last scene does take place in the palace in Yusrarel, which looks very European to me. It looks like Versailles or something.
So, while some of the episode takes place in Japan and some does take place in Spain, Yusrarel is definitely imaginary and combines elements of several existing cultures, adding in a dash of the fantastic. It reminds me a bit of the way Showa majokko series treat Africa, which I also noted recently here and here.
All of this also reminds me of the contemporary series, Patalliro! (パタリロ!), which I am primarily interested in because of its groundbreaking queer content. But it also takes place in a fantastical European country called Malynera. It ran against Minky Momo on Thursday nights on a different channel.
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SPN Femslash Week
Welcome to the SPN Femslash Week!
What is it?
A whole week to celebrate all Female x Female (a.k.a. Femslash) Ships in Supernatural. Whether it is platonic, romantic, familial, or any other kind of relationship is up to you!
When is it?
July 2-8, 2023
What are the prompts?
Sunday, July 2 - Canon Compliant
We didn’t always get to see what was up in the lives of the ladies of Supernatural. Let’s share some thoughts on canon compliant events that could have been happening while our boys were on screen!
Monday, July 3 - Polyamorous Ships
Let’s explore the ladies and their relationships with more than one other person involved (any grouping of 3 or more will work for Poly Day!).
Tuesday, July 4 - Complete AU
Let’s take those girls to another dimension! Maybe Claire is a badass coffee barista, or Donna owns a bar, or there’s a world where Eileen and Charlie are BFFs. The sky is the limit when you write AUs!
Wednesday, July 5 - Missing Scene / Episode Tag
Take this opportunity to fill in the empty spaces of episodes with your headcanons of what happened. Whether you have an idea of a scene in the middle of the episode or something that should have been added to the end, share with us your ideas! (Tag the episode number in your posts, too!) Unlike Sunday’s prompt, today doesn’t necessarily need to be canon compliant!
Thursday, July 6 - Omegaverse
Alphas. Betas. Omegas. The Omegaverse is a complicated AU and everyone has their own way of presenting it. Let’s stick these awesome women into the Omegaverse and explore their relationships.
Friday, July 7 - Post-Canon
What happened to our ladies after the show canonically ended? Did Claire keep hunting? Did Charlie ever go back to Oz? Are Donna and Jody still badass women of the law, or maybe did they retire to be full-time hunters? Share some Post-Canon thoughts with us today.
Saturday, July 8 - Dealer’s Choice
It’s your pick today! Want to see the girls in an AU? Maybe some Pre-Canon thoughts or you need to explore the Wayward Sisters family? Today is all you, we can’t wait to see what you come up with!
How do I participate?
No sign ups are required! Just post any and all Femslash content and be sure to include #spnfemslashweek2023 and tag us @spnrareships in your post. We will reblog everything we see, but if we haven’t reblogged your work within 24 hours please send us an ask.
Reminder: Please review our General Rules, which apply to all events we host. If you have any questions, feel free to send in an Ask!
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