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‘24 was alright, but it’s definitely the Action to ‘23’s Island; stuck having to continue a tough act to follow.
I know I’m skipping Pahkitew Island (and to a lesser extent World Tour) to get to this, but I have a lot of ideas for what I want (but don’t at all expect) for a third season.
First the elephants in the room, the newbies. Assuming season three is full length, 18 contestants is seems like a good cast size. Nick, labeled “The Know-It-All”, is like an unholy cross between Sierra and Dave: He’s seen every episode of this show fifteen times…and he’s already regretting attending. He’s actually an online critic who made the vital mistake of pissing off Chris in front of millions of his (Nick’s) viewers, prompting Chris to personally reach out to invite him onto the show. The fact Nick’s an in-universe character means he’s a lot more fair to the contestants than most fans and critics would be, but he’s still incredibly caustic to everyone with a pulse (and also Scary Girl). Felicity, labeled “The Gamer Junky” combines Sam’s interests and Lindsay’s demeanor…which I guess is just Kitty. More or less the pain magnet for the first half of the season (Damien takes over partway through), Felicity’s a moderately famous streamer with a rapier wit and is almost as athletic and coordinated as Tyler. She’s more straightforwardly a fan of the show, that’s why Chris picked her, but given that her team is a ticking time bomb, she’s gonna hafta work fast.
The teams consist of the Hiding Snakes (Nick, Damien, Julia, MK, Wayne, Raj, Priya, Millie, and Caleb) and the Feral Kittens (Felicity, Nichelle, Bowie, Emma, Zee, Chase, Ripper, Axel, and Lauren).
Episode 1. The cast is dragged kicking and screaming back to wherever the season takes place. Wawanakwa again? The abandoned movie lot? Boney Island? Who knows, but they don’t have to worry about it, since the challenge is solely for the new duo to pick their teams by collecting golden statuettes of the cast. Maybe it is an Action Sequel.
Episode 2. Nick and Felicity both have their work cut out for them. In one corner is Nick, who has to put up with Julia/MK vs Priya and also everyone on his team not named Wayne. On the other corner is Felicity, who has the misfortune of being caught up in a popularity contest: now that Ripper and Axel are dating, Chase feels he and Zee have been left in the dust (Zee has no clue what’s happening), leaving Chase and Axel to bicker endlessly throughout the challenge. Meanwhile, Emma’s finally taking her opportunity to patch things up with Bowie, who himself is more preoccupied with Scary Girl, who’s taking her loss last season about as well as Courtney did in Island. The absurdity of Ripper being forced to play the voice of reason is not lost on him, but it doesn’t save him from elimination by Felicity, Nichelle, Emma, and Bowie to make the arguing stop. I didn’t want to eliminate him so soon, but he made it halfway through two seasons, so it had to be done.
Episode 3. So it turns out sending the one guy keeping Axel in check and Chase from accidentally killing everything packing was not Felicity’s best idea. Feli and Niche bond over poor game decisions (and the fact the latter’s career is starting to pick back up helps too), while Emma and Bowie are now on speaking terms again. Speaking of which, Emma tries to sic Lauren on Chase (he’s voted her off twice now), giving a recap of all the reckless and insane stuff he’s done. Gotta get rid of your distractions while you can. Unfortunately for Ms. People Person, Lauren was nicknamed “Reckless and Insane Girl” before signing up and the two surprisingly hit it off. MEANWHILE BACK AT THE LAB Nick picks up where Bowie left off and commandeers Julia and MK’s cheating skills for the team, much to Priya’s chagrin. Caleb grows worried about Priya’s mental state, but Millie, determined not to screw herself over again, goes with everything she says without question. In the end, Zee goes home, still hopelessly confused about why everyone’s fighting, but at least avoiding any major social gaffes. It’s a good thing he and Ripper merged twice, otherwise I’d really feel like scum.
Episode 4. This one’s a breather, but we don’t have to tell them that. Nick for the first time is divided over his role as a contestant and as a critic. As a contestant, he knows it’s best to keep Julia, Priya, Wayne, and Caleb as close to him as possible (and pats himself on the back for acing the team picking challenge), but as a critic he doesn’t particularly want to keep them around, especially Julia and Priya who pulled a Gweathuncanoey and have stuck around for two seasons in their entirety. He also kinda wants MK and Julia to become an item. On the flip side, since Emma introduced Chase to his demented new bestie, he’s gotten even more crazy himself and spends the entire challenge locked in a dare contest with Nichelle. Emma and Bowie watch on in amusement to take the latter’s mind off of being separated from Raj, while Axel reminisces about simpler times when she was an early boot. Caleb and Millie continue their power quartet with Damien (who has taken it upon himself to start lugging a first aid kit every he goes) and Priya, whose fuse grows shorter than Eva’s.
Episode 5. Caleb should probably know better than to make deals behind Priya’s back by this point, but it’s her own fault for sharing the Bow’s taste in men. Since the final four of the previous season (and also Damien) are all on the same team, Lauren makes her first strategistical move now that she knows the group’s biggest fears. MK proves to be a tougher nut to crack, however, building on the two’s interactions in the 24 finale. Axel and Chase have entered “Cold War” territory and are both trying to gather allies. Emma and Bowie are a given (although the latter can’t promise anything), and Chase has Scary, but Felicity and Nichelle are anyone’s game. Not that it really matters though, since that deal I mentioned was for The Boys (TM) to vote Caleb out, since he doesn’t want to hold Priya back anymore. Priya is crushed, Julia is laughing hysterically, and Damien’s salty that nobody voted him off when he was literally asking for it. I didn’t want to give him the Gwen/Ezekiel treatment where he’s the lowest member of two teams, especially since it means he’s 16th again, but here we are. Curse my impartiality!
Episode 6. Knowing Priya’s going to stick around as long as she has allies, Julia and MK start gunning for Millie, hoping she slips up eventually. Nick, however, secretly chooses to plot against the duo, even though MK is his favorite character from this season, because honestly, who would you pick as an ally? Meanwhile, the Kitty Kold War’s come to a boiling point with Nichelle and Felicity’s votes up for grabs. Bowie’s been on Team Axel, but after suffering a migraine all day decides to join the two wildcards. In the end however, Wayne genuinely asks Axel and Chase why they’re even arguing to begin with. Realizing that Ripper’s already gone by this point, they decide to cooperate this one time…a decision that sends poor Wayne right to the losers’ circle. I wanted to see how long I could keep the Hockey Bros around before I had to eliminate the one who lasted longer last season. At least he still has his sick awesome two buses.
Episode 7. Did somebody say “reward challenge”? With the teams even for the first time since the second episode, the two have to wrangle up old contestants scattered across the lot (I decided this will be the Action reboot), and appropriately it’s the three most frustrating contestants to track down: Shawn for the Kittens (much to zombie slayer Axel’s delight), Dawn for the Snakes (much to tiny Tsundere MK’s horror), and for a bonus, Ezekiel (who Chris has “procrastinated a bit” on retrieving). This one’s more or less an excuse for character growth, so that’s why I’m describing the challenge in a little more detail. Anywho, Dawn, Shawn, and the one whose name doesn’t rhyme are all caught, the Kittens winning. And MK’s secrets are totally safe and not revealed to the public at all. In other news, Dawn and Shawn both want off the lot immediately after finding out Scary Girl’s still on it.
Episode 8. (Sotto Voce) I’m gonna have to eliminate a girl sooner or later. Anywho, the Cold War arc has finally cooled down since even Axel can’t stay mad forever and Chase is too narcissistic to hold a grudge. With the merge coming up, Felicity requests Nichelle train her since her leadership skills can only get her so far at this point. Priya and Millie are taking the opportunity to relax since Julia and MK are still awkward about the secret crush I totally lied about earlier. Maybe they’ll get together, maybe they won’t…but Nick ensures they totally do, if only because he refuses to let his OTP sink…at least not before he takes the opportunity to eliminate MK, who’s both a bigger social threat and less of a physical aid at the moment. I think she’s made it far enough for me not to have to explain her elimination in detail.
Episode 9. With Julia out of allies, she’s gotta either guarantee her team wins, bribe Chris into throwing in another immunity idol, or make one of her teammates look less desirable than her. In unrelated news, Raj is still missing Wayne after I cruelly tore the two apart. Axel’s now in on Nichelle and Felicity’s alliance, meaning Emma and Bowie have to get in their good books before Scary Girl (she’s still plenty mad at him) does what Fang does best. Try as the noble Priyanka and Millicent may, Julia manages to play up Raj’s misery to get Nick and Damien (in a moment of weakness) to vote him off. For whom Raj himself voted, I didn’t think too hard about, but the Snakes are sucking for a team with four different finalists on it. Oh, and Bowie is pissed. TOTAL DRAMA BOMB!
Episode 10. In the final pre merge episode, not much occurs. That dang moon from All-Stars is making Lauren act strange, even by her own standards, and not in a productive way. Bowie throws caution into the wind and goes all out in trying to make sure Julia goes home (don’t have to tell them twice), making Emma realize how tiring it is to have to play damage control to someone else’s revenge schemes. Nichelle takes charge, refusing to get eliminated before the merge again, while Chase gets everything on film. By this point, Millie’s competent enough to single-handedly win this for her team, and also by this point, Scary’s freaked enough people to get voted out. Of course, this isn’t the last we’ll see of her…because she ran off before Chef could apprehend her.
We now interrupt this program to bring you this picture of Team Victory I drew for a follow up to my iconic TDWT/Jellystone animatic. I wasn’t feeling like making a whole video, but I kept the boarded first shot anyway.
Episode 11. Chris has dissolved the teams for one purpose: catch Scary Girl before she tries to reenact the events of Scarlett Fever. To make a long freaking story short, they apprehend her…and Chris decides to go the Dakota route and give her a promotion…to tertiary third host…meaning she has the means to cause even more mayhem. And no, Chase, that doesn’t mean you get to submit challenge ideas.
Episode 12. It’s Scary’s first day on the new job, but Chris insists she “sTaRt SmAlL”. The girls’ alliance approaches Nick, partially to build their numbers but also because Felicity feels it’s only fair she at least tries to build a friendship with the other rookie player. He agrees, but only if he can bring Damien (his best friend on the island and his second favorite character). Bowie and Emma take their chance to get rid of two birds with one stone, since Priya and Julia now have nothing stopping them from maiming each other. And maim, maim, maim they do, since (as you could probably guess by how I highlighted their names), they both get sent packing! Did I deliberately hold off on voting them out solely so they’d reach the merge a third time? Yes. Did I do this because having them be proper enemies instead of rivals like in 23 was entertaining? Yes. Did I also do this to piss off the people complaining they (read: mostly Priya) had too much screen time? YES! Do I love making this fan base cry? You tell me.
Episode 13. Against his alliance’s better judgment, Nick tries to edge Bowie back into active villainy, realizing too late he’s prioritized competent gameplay over plot by getting rid of the main conflict. Unbeknownst to him, Millie has her sights on him, correctly viewing his alleged alliance as suspicious, not to mention him turning against MK a few episodes back. Damien suffers from a terrible disease called “having Scary Girl in your general vicinity”, and to add figurative insult to literal injury has to deal with Chase trying to befriend him at her request. Luckily for everyone, it’s a reward challenge for the final eight.
Episode 14. Nick may have awakened a monster. Trying to stir up drama again, he decides it’s a great idea to set Lauren on Emma, claiming A: that it’s the best way to get his attention, and B: that only she gets to cause him harm. Feeling genuine emotions of protection for the first time in her life, she does all she can to make Emma suffer (even though the latter genuinely doesn’t care what Chase does at this point and is willing to be polite if he doesn’t pull anything). Millie and Bowie put aside their differences to stake out Nick, but of course Bowie has other plans. The girls’ alliance continues to serve and oh would you look at that, Emma’s gone because she’s canonically rich anyway and Scary’s not gonna let up while she’s still on the island. I could’ve made her elimination not Chase related. But I didn’t. Emma deserves better, but this is Total Drama, where we don’t even remotely give a crap.
Episode 15. Bowie’s out of allies and Scary’s still after him, so now he really needs to keep Millie close, and what better way is there than to break up an alliance? Nick’s more than a little suspicious about Millie’s sudden investment about everything he does, prompting Bowie to claim she’s in love with him and can’t communicate it. Nick is doubtful, but the idea behind planted in his mind causes him to catch feelings. Damien, being Nick’s confidant and feeling guilty about how he indirectly screwed Priya and Caleb (and also Zee) last season concerning their romance arc, tries to steer him away from her. Axel and Scary bond a little when they trick out the Sling of Shame, and by that I of course mean they accidentally break it in half. Chris already sold the Drone of Despair, so let’s call this one a draw.
Episode 16. Bowie, now fully back in the groove of things, tries to drive a wedge between Nick and the rest of his alliance, while Nick has some delicious angst over what he should do about his budding feelings, knowing full well that Bowie’s lying to him but failing to realize Millie wants him gone. Felicity pops up for the first time in a while, which in Island would mean she’s going home next (let’s imagine she won immunity last episode) but here means the girls’ alliance goes through its first rough patch when Axel, who’s long since taken over as leader, tests Felicity’s resolve. Unfortunately for Axel, Millie, Bowie, Damien, and Nick view her signature brand of tough love out of context and drop her like Ripper’s parents dropped him.
Episode 17. Ten episodes left and a lucky number seven contestants remain. Chris tells the kids (or are they 18 by now?) upfront that today’s a reward challenge, the prize being a FaceTime with the eliminated contestants. Millie, still wanting answers, and Bowie, wanting to see Raj again, immediately dissolve their alliance. Everyone tries (except Chase, who had a phone the entire time and got to keep it three seasons in a row by not being as obvious as Julia was), but Millie comes out on top, ultimately learning about Nick’s alliance…and his crush. She has the decency to let Raj and Wayne say hi to Bowie. Chase learns something, too…
Episode 18. Nick decides Bowie’s more trouble than he’s worth, but rather than just telling everyone to vote him off (which he predictably finds overused), he decides to play a game of “show, but don’t tell”. So using that as the episode title. He immediately decides to play this on hard mode with the two remaining contestants who have the least amount of beef with him: the fangirl Felicity and the airheaded Chase. Surprisingly, this actually works and Bowie gets sent home, Nick realizing he doesn’t have to rely on others to make drama for him. Millie sees what he’s doing but is confused about his slightly convoluted methods, not helped by Nick’s complete and utter failure to explain himself, by this point completely smitten. Damien notices that Nick’s popularity is fading and decides to lie low for a bit rather than betray him or risk being associated with him.
Episode 19. Reward challenge time? With only Millie, Felicity, Nichelle, Chase, Damien, and himself left, Nick seriously considers playing the main villain. Chase is the odd man out, lacking any sort of alliance and still having sort of a target on his back, but he doesn’t seem too concerned. Millie struggles to approach Nick without breaking his heart, since while he isn’t really her ally, he hasn’t really done much to wrong her. After all, he’s a better partner than opponent.
Episode 20. Every villain has their nemesis, and Nick was not expecting it to be Chase of all people, but Chase outs him before Millie can. Damien sticks by Nick (in silence of course, because he’s still friends with Nichelle and to a lesser extent Felicity), but Millie’s conflicted. Nonetheless, Nichelle and Felicity start gunning for him, breaking up the alliance, and they would’ve gotten away with it too, if Chris didn’t remember sudden death challenges exist. Millie has the misfortune of finishing last and is sent home, but not before she decides to just ask him out, figuring she doesn’t have anything to lose at this point.
Episode 21. Notice a pattern? It’s another reward challenge! Scary Girl’s been in a rut lately, and the challenges have grown dull, so Chris has brought in many of TD’s most terrifying beasts, mutants included back on to spice things up a bit. Even the Dakotazoid returns, half the size she was before but now sporting wings for some reason. I guess mutations evolve. Chase chooses now to start caring about other people, but because it’s Chase it’s doomed to backfire horribly, given that it gives Lauren a wonderfully wicked idea…
Episode 22. …that involves locking people in closets. Specifically Chris and Chef. Scary Girl’s the host today and she’s back and more terrifying than ever. Nick, Nichelle, Felicity, and Chase put aside their differences (not that Felicity ever had issues with any of them) when the challenge becomes “Stop Lauren”. Aaaand now I realize Scarlett Fever was probably recycled from the scrapped episode where Dakota hosted the show after locking Chris and Chef in a closet herself. Anywho, Chase is fired on the spot for starting this whole mess…right before Scary kisses him, resigns, hops on the sling with him, declaring him her “boyfriend for eternity”. Chase has only half a second to process what the freshwater frick just happened before getting flung away.
Episode 23. Can you tell I’m getting tired? Only four remain, split between two alliances who used to be part of a greater one. Nick assures the others it’s nothing personal before things can start. Things happen, hijinks ensue, interns are mauled, but it’s ultimately Nichelle who crosses the finish line last. Better 4th than 12th or 14th. On that note, now we all know Felicity’s gonna be a finalist.
Episode 24. Nick and Damien part ways somewhat amicably, Nick knowing it was bound to happen eventually.
Episode 25. One final breather episode: this one’s just a big pre finale party! Really, the only thing the contestants need to worry about are Chase diving into the cake, Wayne and Raj freezing the pool, and Julia and MK doing their darnedest to bring the mood down.
Episode 26. A simple, no frills finale…is what I’d say if Chris hadn’t brought back every finalist the show has had (including Ezekiel, ostensibly because he got the TDWT prize money, but mostly to squeeze some mayhem in before Zeke’s first therapy meeting), in particular Priya, Bowie, Millie, Wayne, Julia, and Caleb. Damien vs Felicity vs Nick, battle of the nerds! Three go in…one comes out.
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TBR Bingo Update!
Has been a while since I've posted one of these because my schedule has been super busy. I'm living with a pair of dogs that I have to walk separately and then I've got other work around town, so I'm in and out a LOT, but it also means I'm listening to books or reading them out loud to pets a LOT.
So here's what I've got so far:
And here's a text recap of the titles for each of those X's, just in case anyone says they'd kind of like to check things out.
Blue Cover: King's Cage, by Victoria Aveyard
Family: A Long Petal Of The Sea, by Isabel Allende
Fantasy: Red Queen, by Victoria Aveyard
Animals: The Cat Who Saved Books, by Sosuke Matsukawa
Sports: My Year Of The Racehorse, by Kevin Chong
Realistic Fiction: A Very Typical Family, by Sierra Godfrey
Graphic Novel: Saga, by Brian K. Vaughn
Free Space: War Storm, by Victoria Aveyard
Red Cover: Cemetery Boys, by Aiden Thomas
Native Author: Crooked Hallelujah, by Kelli Jo Ford
Orange Cover: Genesis Begins Again, by Alicia D. Williams
Food: Tastes Like War, by Grace M. Cho
Real Person: The Forgotten Founding Father, by Joshua Kendall
Historical Fiction: Even As We Breathe, by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Audio Book: When to Rob a Bank, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
I won't go into details about all of them, but I'm going to point out the Big Library Read book because I think it is an amazing program and if your library doesn't have it, you should ask them to join!
The Big Library Read is a worldwide book club where participating libraries get an infinite number of digital books (kindle or audio) for their patrons to check out and enjoy all at the same time. At the site you can join the discussion with other readers from everywhere. I have not been disappointed by the selections yet and I've been participating almost since the beginning. If your library doesn't participate, you can still go to their site and look at the other books from the past events. I highly recommend just about every book on that list.
The Forgotten Founding Father has been on my list to read for YEARS. Yes, this is all about Webster of the famous dictionary and you get to hear all about the creation of the dictionary as well as the man's life. I had absolutely no idea how much stuff we owed Webster for until I read this book. Nonfiction is amazing.
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so to recap:
-first issue with my new-to-me 2013 imac came about in december and it was bc of a not genuine version of photoshop i had i think. still not 100% sure but you can never be. it was just so laggy slow it was unusable. decided maybe upgrading to latest os that the system could support might be a fine easy fix, didn't really think about it too much.
-worked fine for awhile except for google chrome which is what i use for work, was so slow and laggy and slowed the whole thing down
-computer wasnt able to boot up suddenly so i figured out how to install an earlier version of os x (first el capitan but that was a little tooo old so then installed sierra) and things seem to be working A+ brand new just like they were when i first got it and like i wanted this whole time -- EXCEPT FOR GOOGLE CHROME, which is what i use for work bc of all the bookmarks and saved passwords and crap!!!! it was laggy and slow and causing the rainbow wheel of death!!!! nO BUENO
-realize i dont want to sacrifice my 2013 imac aka the Dream Machine for stupid work stuff so i buy a $250 lenovo ideapad like what i use at the office for at home work and work on the go which will probably be good for the future anyway. it should get here in time to use it at the end of this week.
-currently downloading games for the Dream Machine bc im getting into games again bc it's something to do that isn't scrolling social media mindlessly - which i couldnt do with os catalina, bc they ended support for 32 bit apps!
#bottom line/tldr: idk if google chrome not working well on older macs is a Thing but in my experience. it is very much a thing!#so beware ig!
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Midnight Sun, Chapter 2 - Open Book
Not even a full paragraph in and I have to call Weirdo on something. In the Twilight canon, it is often mentioned that vampires are always always always cold. Like, big old blocks of perfectly sculpted ice. But here, Eddie boy says that his skin had cooled to match the air around him. Can’t work that way. Either Pires are heat sinks that are always freezing, or their temperature can change based on the temperature around them. Can’t be both.
Also gonna bring up the chapter titles real quick. Maybe SM will try to hamfist it, but in Twilight the chapter titles were (supposedly) related to the chapter. First Sight was Bella (supposedly) falling in love at first sight w Edward, and Open Book was Bella going on about how she was an open book and couldn’t hide anything and wore her emotions on her face etc etc. It doesn’t make sense to me to keep the same chapter titles when we’re obstensively living in the head of a different character.
Would have been, if I'd been able to really see it.
What SM was going for here was ‘Edward was so lost in his own head that he couldn’t even see the sky above him even though it was beautiful’ but this doesn’t work. Wanna know why? It’s because of this: The sky above me was clear, brilliant with stars, glowing blue in some places, yellow in others. The stars created majestic, swirling shapes against the black universe - an awesome sight
Weirdo described the sky with perfect, flowery detail, expressed outright the colors that were swirling above him and the way the stars swirled and made shapes. He wouldn’t have been able to do that if he was too focused on his own thoughts to pay attention to it. This is what I mean when I say that SM hasn’t really mastered the First Person POV. This would have absolutely worked if instead of ‘I’ it had said ‘he’.
As a note: Weirdo calling Bella ‘unremarkable’ in terms of how she looks just comes off as those shitty ‘you aren’t even that hot’ responses from people when they get rejected.
And Weirdo describing the way Tanya leaps at him reads really flat and boring. The play by play method to show how Graceful and Ethereal the Pires are is gross and the flat emotionless tone makes it read like a laundry list of actions.
Chagrin sighting number two. And I’ve gotta say, this little thing with Weirdo and Tanya reads a little more realistically than any interaction between our main couple throughout the entire Twilight Saga. Sure, Widdle Eddie isn’t into her, but they’re openly and honestly communicating about it, which is more than Bella and Weirdo ever did.
Mostly Tanya preferred human men
This sentence right here completely invalidates Weirdo’s entire argument about how he would murder Bella with his Schlong if he ever gave into his desire for her, as there is clearly a way to hook up with a pathetic, weak human without killing them.
Two chagrins in one chapter, I am blessed.
though her feelings were not deep, hardly pure, and, in any case, not something I could return.
This goes back to that thing I was bitching about in chapter one about Weirdo and only reading surface level thoughts. He isn’t an empath, he can’t descern from her surface thoughts how deep her feelings might be. Based on how his power comes across, it’s likely that he can’t actually interpret any kind of tone at all, and is guessing at the emotion behind the thought. Just because Tanya makes a passing thought about Eddie that may be ‘unpure’ (gag) doesn’t mean that her feelings for him are strictly lusty and naughty.
By the way, it’s only chapter two and I’m already sick of hearing about Bella’s ‘chocolate brown eyes’.
That time jump that they did from Snowy Alaska back to Fork High cafeteria was jarring. We have literally travelled through space time to get back to The Plot(tm) as quickly as possible. Maybe, just maybe, it would have been beneficial to see some of Weirdo’s drive back, get some more introspection, more of an idea of how he plans to handle himself re: The Bella Thing, even if it is in his whiny, affected urple prose.
Humans were constantly desperate to feel normal, to fit in. To blend in with everyone else around them, like a featureless flock of sheep.
Unlike our great, wonderful, perfect Pires, of course. They would never dare to try fitting in with the Sheep that they have decided to live among and try to blend in with. This goes to prove my point that SM’s Pires don’t give a flying shit about blending in with humans, even though it is supposedly Vampire Mafia Law that they don’t get exposed.
"Maybe you're not as scary as you think you are,"
Despite the fact that SM tries so hard to make him come off as the stereotype of ‘dumb jock’, Emmett deserves a better series than this one. Not being afraid to roast Weirdo is absolutely fucking A+ in my book.
We are, yet again, applying Pire logic and physics to not Pire things to show how Strong and Powerful and Amazing our Pires are. I must once again posit that these things are not Pires, and therefore, would not behave in this manner, even when a Pire is interacting with it.
I am once again unconvinced by this Let’s Shit On Jessica Stanley thing I’m having to schlock through. Sure, she’s a lil petty, but she doesn’t come across as overt mean girl bully and she never has. SM never made her feel like anything more than a (in fairness, extremely stereotypical) teenage girl trying to be nice to the new girl in school and being put off by her weird behavior.
Small point to make here, just because I realized how bored I was with the debate over whether Weirdo would go to class and murder Bella or not. Because this is a companion piece to an already published novel, we know what’s gonna happen. Now, a good author wouldn’t let that stop them from making the tension feel real. Even though I know the outcome, I would still be focused on the journey to get there. But I’m not, because it reads as dry and dull. The tension isn’t there and I’m not enjoying the journey to get to the ending I already know. The characters aren’t even likeable enough to keep me entertained. This is why companion pieces and POV shift retellings are so hard to do.
it was hard to believe that anyone so vulnerable could ever justify hatred.
I feel like this is supposed to be the first lil glimmer that Weirdo is In LUV with Bella or whatever in this POV, but the thing is, his patronizing tone and the way he is seemingly always going on about how weak and pathetic Bella is just kinda makes it feel like he’s acting like her Dad.
Though they didn't want to stand out from the herd, at the same time they craved a spotlight for their individual uniformity.
I only have one thing to say about this. Fuck You Edward Cullen.
I feel like Weirdo is starting to craft this idea of Bella in his head, much like he does with everyone else, but because he doesn’t have the crutch of using his surface thought mind reading powers, he has to guess at her thoughts (much like typical normal human people do because we’re weak and pathetic unlike the Pires), and he’s basically assigning her the thoughts he thinks she should be having. He’s crafting Bella into the perfect ideal for himself without taking her atonomy into consideration.
"Ladies first, partner?"
This is a continuity error. In Twilight, he did not say ‘Partner’, just ‘Ladies first’. It’s nitpickey, and I’m aware that it’s nitpickey, but it’s jarring if you know Twilight well enough to know the dialogue. If we’re going to see the same scene from a different POV, the only thing changing should be the inner monologue, not the dialogue between characters.
I could feel myself warming slightly to the higher temperature.
Bzzzzt, no. I already talked about this earlier, but everything established in canon shows that Eddie doesn’t ever warm up. He and Bella cuddle under a blanket and he is still described as rock hard marble adonis ice. He can’t warm up, according to established canon.
And in this chapter, we finally start the Shitting On Mike Newton run. Mike is the fucking worst in this book and is treated like shit, all because -- can you guess??? -- all because he thought the new girl was pretty and had a little crush on her. Mike gets shit on SO FUCKING MUCH in this series just for daring to think Bella is pretty.
Ignorance was bliss to the human mind.
OR EDDIE YOU’RE JUST ARROGANT AND RUDE AND NOT AS INTERESTING AS YOU THINK YOU ARE. The Cullens fucking PRANCE around this school in their designer beige turtlenecks with their flashy fucking cars and look down their noses at the pleb humans who could never be as good as they are, and especially with the way SM wants to paint Forks as this fucking insular hick town where everyone knows everyone and are probably socioeconomically lower than American average, its RUDE AND GROSS and makes them look like stuck up fucking JERKS. But sure. Keep touting on about how humans are scared of you.
And yet again, we get an example of Eddie boy ignoring the fact that Bella (for all of her faults) is a HUMAN PERSON and not some game for him to play. ‘Wahhh, I can’t read her thoughts, that makes me angy and frustrated’ and whining about how he wants her to GO AWAY because her blood makes his froat hurt but how he wants her to stay because she’s so MYSTERIOUS AND DEEP.
This didn't fit with the scenario I'd been constructing in my head.
And this is exactly the point I was making up there. Edward is making wild assumptions about Bella based solely on his experience with the human condition from his immortality, but he is also crafting her into what HE thinks is the right way for her to be in his mind without taking into consideration that she is a complex human with feelings and emotions. But instead of actually correcting himself, he continues to do this, and we know he does because he continues to posit that she’s deep and wise even though we know different from being in her POV for three and a half books.
A lot more of this dialogue is changed from the conversation in the original Twilight than I thought. It should be easy to keep at least the dialogue consistent.
I clearly was not as perceptive as I gave myself credit for.
This is the most true thing that Eddie is going to think in this entire book, and it isn’t even genuine and that upsets me so much.
my mother always calls me her open book.
I would like to use my solid four years of Twilight knowledge to point out that Bella Swan is not an open book, she’s a lying liar who lies about things, even though she says all the time that she doesn’t like lying. She was always going on about how she fakes her emotions for the benefits of others, she is not an open book at all.
The reason she was upset was because she thought I saw through her too easily.
And, of course, Weirdo eats this shit right the fuck up.
"I find you very difficult to read."
"You must be a good reader then,"
This exchange didn’t make sense in Twilight, and it still doesn’t make sense here. Unless Bella is being sarcastic based on her previous statement, the exchange just... isn’t good. And it’s pretty clear that Bella isn’t being sarcastic. So. Explain it, someone, pls.
Emmett still deserves a better book than this one. He is literally out here like ‘Everyone makes mistakes, Eddie boy.’ But we are still talking about murder here, so...
And that’s chapter two. I didn’t mean to do it all in one long post, but I couldn’t really see a good break in it to cut it in half. The human bashing is already getting worse and it’s making me annoyed. As you can probably tell from the Cap Locks. We get the first glimpse of Eddie being ‘protective’ that we know is gonna get creepy and paternal as the story goes along. And I know that SM was going for an old timey thing with Eddie, but Bella’s inner monologue was really dry and boring, and Weirdo is even worse in that area. Yet again, we see the First Person POV slipping. Little things that just don’t work in Eddie’s head.
Join me tomorrow for more, and thanks for reading along.
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i do think dan’s book will take me about two years to read actually
#like there's little dan parts that i'm like :D that basic mental health stuff where i'm like... bored now i think#and the bits wher ei'm like bored now will make me put it down for about 6 months#this isn't an insult hgfredfgbhn i know dan would have to have included the basics but god#i have been told and read so much stuff by doctorssssss#i cant read go to sleep and eat good food anymor#e#like i fully read one preview in a seond and the other preview i still haven't finished i jst got a recap off sierra ngbfgewefgbh
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 2021 Recap+my moots. 🌈✨
So, idk if any of yall remember when my account had a very soft purple theme to it. I made this blog when I was 17, following a pretty bad breakup in February because I found that writing helped me a lot. My blog changed as soon as I turned 18 because the soft theme wasnt really the right vibe and I wanted to try my hand at writing more smut (obviously I like writing angst and more fluffy stuff now and shitposr constantly). I started my blog back in March (dont remember the date) and since then, I never thought I would have as many moots and close friends like I do now. My lovely moots generally hear from me more and I’m so glad that I have them. I’m so thankful to have all you lovely amazing beautiful, and talented people in my life. I also am SO SO sorry if I forgot someone and if I remember tomorrow I will add whoever I forget. Thank you to every single one of you for making my first year on tumblr amazing!
Now for my precious lil moots 💜
@junjungsunwoo My precious little nana counterpart or better known by my I love our facetimes, especially when we call when I’m sketched out about driving places at night or me bugging both you and your sister on facetime. I dont think you know this but you are seriously someone that makes me feel really safe. Safe unless I try to steal sunwoo (and I wont). I am so freaking glad I joined the crackerz discord and joined so many collabs when I first started. I seriously love you so much and deadass you are one of my closest friends online and offline. Deadass a ride or die. Ps- you’re literally gorgeous 💕
@yuta-senpai sweet and slightly cursed sierra 💜 anothwr super gorgeous and amazing personnnn I miss talking to you so much. You are the only moot to know e x a c t l y where I live. I’m so glad we became friends and I still have a lot of screenshots from our cursed kkt conversations. I seriously cant thank you enough for getting me into oneus and dongkiz. I love you so much. I miss hearing about your fansigns and clowning you about minhyuk. I remember joining the frat boi nct collab and being super excited. I think we got closer in crackerz too but i have the memory of a goldfish so I dont particularly rememvsr how long ago it was. But I love how many inside jokes we have and you’re like another big sister to me. I cant wait to talk to you again!!
@symoneismeh MY CHILD ❤️❤️ PROTECT THIS ONE AT ALL COSTS. I remember when this sweet little baby first followed me and was interacting a lit with my posts. Sy’mone, you are literally the sweetest most wholesome person I have ever met. I love the writing sessions we have on discord and talking about anything and everything. Absolute sweetheart.
@daegalfangirl hello my beloved kaydence ❤️❤️ Absolute sweetheart. Idk why but something about kaydence randomly appearing on discord makes my day and I love showing her how genuinely happy I am to see her. Again total sweetheart and I just love her to pieces
@taemin-jaemin/ @babycheese-6v6 : Sarah babyyyy hiii. Sweet baby sarah. Another one I think I randomly joined a collab from that ended up being a fun person to pester. Seriously, this kid puts up with so many antics between me and @jimineos. I never tell you this much but I love talking to you and wish we talked more. I’m so grateful to have you as one of my sweet little moots. You’re so adorable and sweet.
@yeongwvnhi / @chxngyunie : YUGIYUGIIIIII loml ❤️ absolute sweetheart but like where the fuck did they go. yugi is also pretty dear to me because they were one of the first friends I made here. They are super chill and fun and I love making gay jokes with them.
@jimineos my cursed queen, jules ❤️❤️ I met this absolute baddie through baby sarah and we both found our love for writing completely cursed shit while annoying sarah. I love you babyyyyy I wish we talked moreeee!! Maybe we could make a sideblog of cursed writings one day? Highkey love this bitch so much and every time I talk to her she makes me smile and laugh.
@jeontaeil oh my fucking god. I looked up to Charlie so much when I first started writing again. I am so glad that we’re moots and I love the small convos we have and love simping over jake with her. Literally one of the coolest moots ever!! She was one of the first people I ever followed on tumblr and was lowkey one of the blogs that made me want to start writing again. I can’t thank her enough and I can see us being pretty good friends. Charlie is insanely talented and I’d love to get to know her more. Literal queen.
@jaesspresso another one that I first followed here. I have some of the best conversations with Camellia. She’s a beautiful person inside and out and so so talented. She’s one that is like another sister to me and I’m so grateful to have her.
@teailtime has been here for me for some time and puts up with my bullshit. I appreciate her so much and I’m so glad we are moots. I never proper thanked her so now is a really good time to and I did send her an ask and maybe going to slide in dms and say hi. I miss you!!
@intokook another one I would absolutely love to talk to more. Ivy seems so cool!! I have only talked to her a handful of times but her blog is so cool!! I wanna say she was the first or second person I ever followed here but I dont remember haha
@127-mile was one of the first moots. I wanna say I followed her back when my account was a less problematic soft stan account. Emi was so so nice to me when I started out and I’m so so grateful to have been in collabs with her!
@jenossslut Billie!! Hey I always want to reach out to you and say hi but never know what to say. Youre so chill and sweet and I wanna be friends with you.
@oddlittlefandomist my other partner in crime ❤️ I see you in my notifs all the time and never know how to say hello lmao. I believe we bonded over being theatre nerds at some point. You’re a really cool and funny and I love that you encourage my chaos. Sometimes seeing what you put in the tags of posts makes me smile a lot
@hachanbaecon anna ❤️ love her so much!! She’s another one I met through crackerz and I feel like we have chaotic chats anytime we talk. She is also not only super talented but DROP DEAD GORGEOUS
@trashlord-007 MY BELOVED TANAAAAAAA OMFG 💗💗 She tags me in tag games a lot and fun fact: I have A LOT of tag games in my drafts that I somehow forgot to post :’). I really appreciate it because I like being included in getting to know more people. I love and respect tana so so much
@jaxminskale emoLYYYY oh my god where did you GO I miss youuuuu! Okay but absolute sweetheart again. I miss talking to her on discord and she is absolutely amazing.
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February 21, 2021: The African Queen (1951) (Part 1)
The leading man!
It’s an old term from old Hollywood, and while leading men certainly exist today, it’s not something we really use anymore. And yet, we all have some concept of the leading man. First modern one that came to mind for me was Chris Evans. For the GF, it was this guy:
And that’s valid! But if we’re gonna talk about Hollywood’s leading men, we have to go BACK. FAR back, to the beginning of film, and to some of the most iconic film stars that helped define the term. These are guys like Errol Flynn, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Rock Hudson, yesterday’s Cary Grant, and of course, Clark Gable.
And some of those guys will appear on this blog at some point this year, most likely. One of them is gonna pop up this month, even! But there’s one more leading man to talk about, and that’s Humphrey Bogart, one of the most prominent of the leading men of the 1940s and ‘50′s.
I mean, come on! Casablanca! He’s a classic leading man, and I’m excited to see more of him. But every leading man needs his leading lady, and there are plenty of classic ones to choose from. Lauren Bacall, Jean Arthur, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood, Mae West, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Greta Garbo, Lena Horne, Sophia Loren, yesterday’s Deborah Kerr, my mom’s favorites Doris Day and Audrey Hepburn, and OF COURSE, today’s star: Katharine Hepburn.
The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner! Another classic leading lady in another set of classic films. And, OF COURSE, these two starred together in today’s movie, The African Queen. And who’s the director of this film? MOTHAFUCKIN’ JOHN HUSTON BOIIIIIIIIIIII
Director of The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, Moby Dick, The Misfits, the original Casino Royale, and weirdly enough, Annie. AND he was an actor in The Bible, Chinatown, The Hobbit, The Black Cauldron, and weirdly enough, Annie! Goddamn, this movie’s got a lot of talent behind it! I’m genuinely looking forward to watching this, considering that it’s often considered one of the best films of the 1950s. So let’s do it, yeah? SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
Recap (1/2)
We begin in German West Africa, where...yeah, it’s a little uncomfortable from modern day standards, as a group of indigenous people are in a service at a constructed Methodist Church, where two missionaries, Rose Sayer (Katharine Hepburn) and her brother, Reverend Samuel (Katharine Hepburn), are pretty unsuccessfully leading the singing of hymns.
As they do so, a boat called the African Queen pulls up, captained by Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart). When he pulls up, he delivers needed supplies and mail to the village, which disrupts the ceremony (thank God), and leads to an interaction between Allnut and the Sayers, who invite him to tea.
The Canadian Allnut seems to be pretty relaxed, while the British Rose and Samuel are obviously pretty stuck-up. But this is probably not going to matter soon, as Allnut delivers the news that World War I has begin, leaving the status of the British missionaries in German-occupied West Africa in danger.
And as soon as they realize this, a group of German soldiers comes through the village, and soldiers gather up all of the people from their houses, and...Jesus, they set fire to the place! Why? I mean, it’s war, duh, but WHY? The villagers are taken away for what I’m sure are totally good reasons, as the village of Kungdu burns to the ground. Samuel and Rose are left behind, and Samuel’s clearly a little fucked up by the encounter with the soldiers.
Soon after, Samuel seems ill, forgetting that they’re even in Africa. She helps him to his room, and he falls to the ground, obviously not well. It’s central Africa, so this could be malaria, trypanosomaisis, yellow fever, a BUNCH of shit. But I’m sure he’s gonna be fine. He’ll be fiiiiiiiiiiiiine.
Oh, wait, he’s dead. We find that out when Charlie arrives to deliver more bad news: people are being taken from their homes to forcibly join the army, and the villages are destroyed in order to give them no place to go back to. Which is...disgusting, fuck me.
They bury Samuel, and Charlie takes Rose onto The African Queen so that they can get away from the village before the soldiers return. This is backed by...very light-hearted music. Very poorly-timed sprightly music. I dunno, it really just doesn’t match the done, given that Sam just died, and they’re trying to escape.
We learn what some of the issues are for our two. The British won’t easily be coming because of the various German fortifications, including a large ship called the Königin Luise on a nearby lake. Said boat has a massive gun on it, posing major damage to any enemies.
But Rose has an idea: using explosive gel and some pipes and cylinders, she has an idea to use The African Queen itself as a torpedo to plow up the Luise. Charlie points out that the only where there is down the dangerous Ulanga River, and past a German fort. And Rose guilts him for not wanting to help his Queen and country. And, with that, he agrees.
From there, it’s time for a boat trip! Like a road trip, but with a boat! Katherine learns to steer, and Charlie notes that he hasn’t fixed the safety mechanism on the engine because he likes kicking it. Y’know, psychologists say that catharsis doesn’t work like that, Charlie.
It would seem that Charlie knows this, and settles instead for a drink. And as he brings out his bottle of gin, Rose looks ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIED. Like he brought out a dead body instead of a bottle of alcohol; it’s even backed by this bombastic DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUN in the score! It’s weirdly hilarious.
The two take separate baths in the river, which has gotta be FULL of a bunch of stuff, but whatever. They tuck in for the night as it rains, and Charlie’s stuck outside while Rose gets the tent. Which is...supremely unfair, and ASKING for Charlie to get malaria or other diseases. Thankfully, Rose realizes this and allows him inside.
The next day, they come upon the rapids, which look dangerous...but also kind of fun, it that weird to say? I dunno, I’d go rafting down those. On a related note, I’ve never been whitewater rafting. Maybe one day, huh? Well, despite the ride and again, WEIRDLY sprightly music, they survive...and more. See, Rose LOVED it. Like, really LOVED it. She compares it to a bonafide religious experience, and says that she’s never experienced such joy from a...physical experience.
So, either she’s an adrenaline junkie, or that was some, uh...foreshadowing. Charlie’s a little less excited by this, and notes that the upcoming rapids are far worse. And Rose is just...SO FUCKING PUMPED for this. Shit, I think something’s awoken in her. Get this lady to a theme park, STAT!
But again, Charlie is NOT happy about this, and gets kinda drunk later in the day. While drunk, he insults her plan, and goes back on his agreement to go on. She calls him a coward, and she calls him a “crazy, psalm-singin’, skinny old maid.” Um, Charlie, maybe not the best idea to do that to a woman who’s just learned to joys of adrenaline and tsting her limits. She might retaliate by, I dunno...throwing all of your gin over the side of the river while you’re asleep.
Yeah, like that. Exactly like that. Some drunk fish in the river today, lemme tell you.
Anyway, despite this, Rose is pissed off, as Charlie still won’t go down the river. As he insists that all that’s down the river is death, she still insists that he promised to go. He finally agrees, despite thinking that they’re doomed to be food for the crocodiles. And so, they go.
They pass the fort, the Shona, and the Germans do indeed fire at them as they go down. And I mean the ENTIRE time they pass. They hit the engine, and Charlie has to fix it right amidst all of this. They also hit the boxes of blasting gel, but they don’t go off. And, as Rose rightly suggested earlier, the sun gets in the soldiers’ eyes as they try to fire on them. And they pass without a hitch! Except for oooooooooone tiny detail.
HALFWAY POINT! See you in Part 2!
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The Trip of a Lifetime Part 12
Recap: You had just graduated from college, but you had one last trip to go on for one of your classes. You were going to London with your intercultural media communication class for two weeks. The first night you matched with a boy named Ben on Bumble. The second night of your trip you go on a date with him and go home with him. You only have three days left in London, but you have just decided that eventually you will move to London to live with him.
A/N: Well everyone, I think this is going to be the last part of this series! I kind of what to do an epilogue, let me know what you think!
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“Babe! I’m nervous!” you yell at Ben from the bedroom while you curl your hair.
“Why?” he asks he walks into the room. All he has on is his dress shirt, not buttoned yet, and his suit pants.
“Well for one, how the hell can I compete with how good you look,” you say standing up and walking towards him. When you got to him you ran your hand up and down his exposed chest. “Second of all, this is my first red carpet! I have no idea what to expect.”
“Y/N, don’t start something we can’t finish right now,” Ben says laughing and playfully pushing you away. He looks at you lustfully, but you both know you need to leave soon. “You will be great, just be yourself. And I know, I am a tough act to follow, but I’m sure you will look just as good.”
You laugh nervously at him and go back to curling your hair.
“What kind of things are they going to ask me? Will they ask me anything at all?”
“They will probably mostly have questions for me, but they might ask you a few things. Maybe about us? Or what you’re wearing? It is usually pretty standard stuff.”
You finish your hair and walk over to the closet to put on your outfit for the evening. It is a black low cut jumpsuit, that fits you perfectly, and matches Ben’s suit.
“Will you zip me?”
“God, this outfit will be the death of me,” Ben says, in a deeper, huskier voice as he zips you up?
“Don’t start something you know we can’t finish, love” you say, mocking his accent as you turn around to face him.
He laughs at you pulls you in for a hug. “You’re going to be great love, everyone will love you.” He kisses your head and looks in the mirror, buttons up his shirt and puts on his tie.
You walk over to the bed to slip on your shoes.
“What do we even do? Just walk down the carpet and stop a few times and then move on?”
“Yeah that’s about it, I have never really fully understood the point of it but it’s just part of the job.”
~~~
You step out of the car and Ben grabs your hand as you both start walking towards the event. As you are walking you are stopped by the first reporter.
“Ben, it is so lovely to see you! What are you up to these days?”
“I’m starting a new project in a few months. Right now, I am just enjoying some time off!”
“Spending it finding love, I’ve heard?”
You blush and try not to laugh.
“You’ve heard correctly!” Ben says as he turns and looks at you. “This is my lovely girlfriend, Y/N.”
“Y/N what is it like dating a heartthrob like Ben?”
You can’t help but to let out a laugh. “It has been interesting! I honestly didn’t even put together who he was until after our first date.”
“Just for the record -- I don’t think I am a heartthrob,” Ben quickly adds.
“You might not, but everyone else on Earth does,” you say laughing at him.
The reporter laughs along with you. “You look stunning by the way Y/N, who are you wearing?”
“Valentino!” you say spinning around. “Can you believe how amazing it is?”
“Ben, seems like you’ve found a good one!”
“I really have, you will be seeing a lot more of her,” he says smiling at you.
“Looking forward to it! See you both later!” the reporter says winking.
You both laugh.
“That wasn’t so bad,” you say whispering to Ben as you both pose together for the photographers.
“Can we get one of just her?” a photographer yells.
“Me?!” you yell back.
“Yes!”
“Be my guest!” Ben says as he backs out of the picture, giving you a thumbs up.
You laugh and start to pose. After a few seconds you run back over to Ben.
“That was wild!” you say.
“I told you they would love you,” Ben says. He looks up and sees Bohemian Rhapsody co-star, Joe Mazzello.
“Ben! What’s up my man!” Joe says as he gives Ben a hug.
“Joe! You finally get to meet Y/N! Y/N this is Joe,” Ben says.
“Y/N! It’s so nice to finally meet you! I have heard so much about you. Only good things!” Joe says as he pulls you in for a hug.
You laugh and hug Joe back. “Ditto! It’s also nice to talk to an American,” you say laughing.
“Agreed,” Joe says laughing back. “I can only take so much British accents before I just really need someone to talk to me about football and hotdogs, you know?”
“If Ben corrects me one more time when I say SOCCER, I am going to lose my mind!” you say, turning and looking at Ben. He mocks you both and you all laugh together.
“Well mates, it looks like it’s time to go inside, shall we?” Joe says with his John Deacon accent.
“I think we shall,” you say back with your best attempt at a British accent. You link your arm into Ben’s as you walk into the event.
~~~
*** THREE DAYS LATER ****
You are packing the last of your things into your carry on bag when you look down and see you have three texts and a missed call from Ben.
“Shit, I didn’t even hear my phone buzz,” you mumble to yourself.
“Is it Ben?” Brooke says, looking up from her bag.
“Yeah... I ...” you try to say something but tears start forming in your eyes. “I don’t know what to say to him.”
Brooke walks over to your bed and sits down. “It’s going to be okay! We are going to go home and then in a few weeks Ben will come to visit!”
“I know... I just... I am going to miss him,” you say between breaths, trying to calm yourself down.
“What did he say?” Brooke says handing you your phone.
“What time do you leave? Can I see you before you go?” you read to Brooke.
“We leave the hotel in an hour, I’d say that’s enough time!” Brooke says.
“Leaving my hotel in about an hour. Flight leaves in 3 hours” you text Ben.
“On my way” he responds.
“He’s on his way. It is just going to be so weird to go back. And I will have to explain this whole thing to my family and then once our lease is up I am going to PACK UP AND MOVE TO LONDON?!?!” you say to Brooke. “I am kind of freaking out.”
“It will all work out! You are an adult, what is your family going to say? No? Like that even really matters? It’s your life, you get to live it however and with whoever you want.”
“I know, I know. I just know that my parents are going to freak out. The only reason they haven’t said much is because of the cell service over here. They freaked out when I told them I was thinking about moving to California, imagine what they are going to do when I tell them I’m moving to London to live with an actor that I met two weeks ago.”
“Everything will work itself out, trust me,” Brooke says.
There’s a knock at the door. Brooke walks across the room to answer it.
“Hey Ben! I was actually just going to Sierra’s room to borrow her... perfume! See you later!” Brooke says as she walks away. She clearly just made up the excuse so she could leave you two alone.
Ben steps into the room and shuts the door. He walks over and sits next to you on the bed. He lifts your face up with his finger and looks into your eyes.
“Have you been crying?” he asks, sounding concerned.
“Uh.. yeah well I had a bit of a meltdown about 10 minutes before you got here,” you say wiping the tears from your eyes.
Ben leans in and kisses you softly. You can taste the cigarette and mint gum on his lips, a taste you have come to adore.
He pulls away and looks at you. “Why is that?”
“Well, I am going back home, without you. And I have to explain this whole thing to my whole entire family, because I am sure there are rumors and a ton of shit just brewing over there waiting for me to come home. And then when my lease is up, I’m moving to another country. I am just a little stressed.”
“I can go with you!” Ben says. “I will book a one way ticket right now if you want me to.”
“No, that’s okay. I think I need to go home and sort this out myself first, before I add you into the mix. And you will be coming in what, two weeks?”
“Yes, my flight to Omaha leaves in exactly two weeks from tomorrow. It won’t be so bad love.”
“I am going to miss you so much, but I think this trip, being in our own little world for two weeks, is what I am going to miss the most. You know? We didn’t have to answer to anyone. We didn’t have to worry about anything. And now that is all over.”
“We will get through it. I will meet your family, and they will all obviously fall in love with me, and then before you know it you will be settled in London and we will be back in our little world.”
“That sounds so nice...” you say looking into his eyes. “But don’t get too cocky, my family is HARD to get along with. They are all going to have something to say about us moving in together. My cousin’s fiancé moved in with him three months after they got engaged and my aunts still talk about it. They’ve been married for two years. His brother knocked up his fiancé before they got married. My aunts still talk about that. The baby is four.”
“Let them talk! Who cares! As long as we are happy, what your aunts think doesn’t matter. You will be a whole ocean away anyway,” he says. “I will just turn on the charm when I meet them. lay on the accent super thick and everything will be fine!”
You laugh at him, he always knows what to say.
“You’re right! Who cares what my aunts think of our relationship, it’s ours! Not theirs. They are just going to have to live with it. And as soon as I move to London, everything will be perfect.”
“Well then this sounds like a win-win situation to me. Now, how long do we have until you leave?”
You look down at your phone checking the time.
“About half an hou...,” you say. Before you can even finish what you are saying Ben has pushed you back onto the bed.
“Just enough time for me to give you something to remember me by,” he says biting his lip.
tags: @isabella-bby @roger-bang-the-drum
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Riverdale 3x06 Recap
A quick opening scene with Archie and Betty to remind us that Barchie is endgame
Betty makes a rookie mistake and assembles the Midnight Club before she knows who the murderer is. Ms. Marple would never!
My girl Penelope spins an obviously fake cover story about her and Dilton’s dad being star crossed lovers. We get the truth from her later I think when she tells Betty that she wouldn’t have used that herb to kill Mr. Doiley as it leaves traces
The notion that the poisoning may have been meant as a murder suicide is an interesting one that would make it much harder to separate intended victims from possible murderers
I also believe Hiram when he tells Jughead that he’s not the Gargoyle King. It’s not his style to use playing cards to give orders and we’ve seen him call Warden Norton and show up to the prison and the fight club in person. Plus Hiram was in New York and then prison for most of his adult life, it seems more likely he only started bribing Norton after his return to Riverdale
Alice is really wearing a lot of hippie style clothing since she joined the cult
I’d love to know what’s going on with these seizures that so far have only happened to girls
Kevin actually got stuff to do this ep, I like his and Archie’s friendship a lot and hope we get to see more of it later
RIP Joaquin, you were too gay to survive on Riverdale. At least he got to kiss Archie before he died
Speaking of, it makes no sense at all that Norton would confide any of his plans or knowledge with Joaquin nor does it make sense that he would let Joaquin just leave after he stabbed Archie on his behalf
I get that Riverdale is a strange place but why is no one just rushing the Gargoyle King when he shows up? He’s obviously a guy in a very unwieldy costume who has a limited range of motion and would be easy to take down
Not sure why Alice has any reason to think that the Sisters will keep Betty safe at all considering the abuse Polly, the real Charles, and Alice herself suffered there
The single most unbelievable thing about Riverdale is that a bunch of nuns would be in thrall to the gargoyle king instead of Jesus and the pope
Archie trying to ‘disguise’ himself by wearing a hat and keeping his hood up is such a perfect encapsulation of his character
Nice of Hiram to make Hermione an unwitting accessory to his obstruction of justice, now that Manetta is gone I wonder if Tom Keller returns as Sheriff
Pretty wild that Tom covered up Dilton’s dads murder just to protect the Midnight club. Either he knows a lot more than he’s letting on or he thinks that Sierra might have been put in danger if the murder was investigated and covered it up to protect her. His connection to Norton is interesting and I wonder if it will go anywhere
I laughed so hard when Veronica was crying and called her and Archie endgame. Afterwards I was mad at myself because I know I’ll be watching this trash show to the bitter end
Archie’s motivations continue to make no sense and there’s no reason why he and Jughead have to shack up at some farm but hopefully it doesn’t last long
Varchie breakup aside, Veronica scored a big victory over her father this ep, by taking down Sheriff Manetta she’s put the law outside of Hiram’s control and he’ll now be forced to rely exclusively on his criminal associates
#Riverdale#Riverdale Recap#Varchie#Archie Andrews#Betty Cooper#Veronica Lodge#Alice Cooper#Hiram Lodge#Penelope Blossom#Tom Keller
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‘The Right Stuff’ recap: Meet the Mercury 7 astronauts — ‘Sierra Hotel’ and ‘Goodies’ "The Right Stuff" lifts off with a countdown to a liftoff.
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Alright, time for biology class, let’s go.
Except not quite yet because I have a continuity question: This might be a book to movie error, but this says that Emmett, Rose, and Jasper were pretending to be seniors, but in New Moon (definitely in the movie, but I thought also in the book), Jasper is there at school with Alice and Edward and Bella. So did Forks High flunk Jasper???
Anyway, Biology class.
would manage to pull out anything in his lecture that would surprise someone holding two graduate degrees in medicine.
Edward has two graduate degrees in Medicine. This makes all of the Twilight books look hilarious in retrospect, but makes the fourth one especially funny in a rage inducing kind of way.
The humans weren't smart enough to know that they feared me, but their survival instincts were enough to keep them away.
1) You said this shit already back in the cafeteria, and I didn’t buy it then, so stop repeating yourself, and 2) I will say again since we’re repeating ourselves: They stay away from you because you’re a stuck up, smarmy little asshole.
Still, from the place where Bella Swan stood, nothing.
If only, sweet Weirdo, you had taken this as a sign of what it truly is: Your sweet precious flower Bella is empty space. A placeholder where hundreds of thousands of guys, gals, and non-binary pals can slip in and make it their fantasy. Can’t do that if she has unique and interesting thoughts. (And no, dear readers, I do not consider Twilight Bella’s ‘unique and interesting thoughts’ because SM never mastered that first person POV and it never felt like we were actually in Bella’s head.)
There was no room full of witnesses - they were already collateral damage in my head.
Okay everyone (myself included) clowns on the fact that as soon as Weirdo gets a sniff of the blood, he’s plotting out the murder of his entire class, but if we could all just take a second here.
Edward Cullen, the Vampire with Morals and A Heart Of Gold (according to the fanbase) gets a sniff of Bella’s blood and is immediately plotting out the murder of his entire class. No hesitation, no thought. This does not strike me as a man with a high regard for human life, as the books tried to tell me over and over that he was. If the line is still in there, this will get even worse later, but for now, I’m letting it rest on that.
I would also like to make a point about Vampires and their Instincts, but I don’t think this is the time for it. Not yet. So hold on to that thought for later.
the face I'd beaten back with decades of effort and uncompromising discipline
Remember that time Weirdo got pissed at Carlisle and fucked off to go people for a few years in a fit of warped vigilante justice?
Okay, the section is far too long to quote, but let’s talk about Weirdo’s little murder plot, shall we? At this point in the story, especially in this one as I am in Weirdo’s head, I’m supposed to think that he’s driven mad by bloodlust and in some kind of incontrollable madness.
But he’s sitting in his seat literally planning out exactly what the best route is to kill every single student in this classroom so that he doesn’t leave any wittnesses to his crime. He’s being detailed to the point that he can tell exactly how much time he has to do this.
That isn’t driven mad by bloodlust, guys. That’s fucking cold and calculated. This man is planning to the second how to kill 20 people all at once without getting caught. It’s planned down to the detail. As hilarious as it may be to clown on Weirdo about this passage, please think about it. Think about the cold, calculating way he’s describing murdering innocent teenagers and his biology teacher just so he can drink Bella in peace. Please think about the implications of what kind of person Edward Cullen is, that he can so coldly plan something like that.
In my head, Carlisle's kind eyes did not judge me.
I have a lot of feelings about Carlisle, and none of them are very nice, but I’ll save that rant and see just how he is in this book, since we’re gonna see more of him.
There is more of Weirdo’s woe is me bullshit here. I feel like it’s supposed to be dramatic and really get us into his Feelies about the Tasty Good Hooman Blood he’s wiffing, but it reads so much like a dramatic pre-teen diary entry that all I hear when I read it is ‘Waaaaaah! Why me? I hate everything, this isn’t FAIR!’
But I didn't have to breathe.
This is a very relevant and important point about the mythology of vampires in this canon. They don’t have to breathe. They literally never have to breathe and choose to do so anyway, and while I could understand that new vampires might continue to breathe because it’s a comfort of their previous life and a force of habit carried over, Weirdo has had plenty of time to lose the habit. And it is absolutely possible to not notice someone not breathing if you aren’t constantly staring at them waiting for the signs, so saying that it’s a tactic to blend in (especially when the Cullens do nothing in their power to blend in to begin with) doesn’t fly either. Weirdo goes on to make a point about how he relies on scent more than his other senses, for the hunt and for warning signs and all that, but he is in school, and if we go by the text, he doesn’t want to hurt the humans around him, so even if he does use his sense of smell, he has no reason to use it in a school full of vulnerable teenagers.
Weirdo calls Bella a Woman-Child and Thanks I fucking Hate It.
And once again, Edward is going into a lengthy fantasy about how to get Bella alone to murder her. I said it already but I’ll say it again. This isn’t fucking bloodlust, this is a cold blooded killer plotting his next kill. This fucker is Calculating. He’s plotting. If he was truly as bad off as he’s claiming, he wouldn’t have the brain power to be this cold and rational about it.
I played a CD of music that usually calmed me, but it did little for me now.
This is funny to me for a number of reasons. The first is my assumption that the CD he’s playing is that one with the DeBussy song on it. Symbolism and all that. But the second is that this is v much something that happened all throughout the Twilight saga with SM. She refuses outright to call things by name. She won’t say the names of bands, or search engines, and the only ‘product placement’ we get is the cars. I can’t tell if she did this to try and make her stories feel more timeless or because she was genuinely afraid of being sued or something for using specifics.
He's almost young enough to be my son. Too young to think of that way..
We get is SM, you want us to think your Pires are the most beautiful, amazing, alabaster angel creatures on the planet. But no sane, rational middle-aged school secretary is going to think of a student this way. It’s gross and creepy and makes me think extremely badly of Mrs. Cope if she’s having lustilicious thoughts about what she thinks is a teenage boy.
like they've found some way to cheat in every subject.
I would like to point out that, at the very least Weirdo has found a way to cheat in every subject. Even taking into consieration the amount of times he’s been through high school and college, the guy can literally just pluck the answers right out of the teacher’s head.
And we end Chapter One with a wimper. There are a lot of plot holes in relation to Alice’s visions, but they aren’t bad here, so I’ll leave them alone. The narrative of ‘Vampires do everything so much better than icky humans because they’re just the best and wonderful and great and amazing�� has already started happening, and now that we’re in the head on one of the Pires, I can only assume it’s gonna get so much worse. Here, it only really came up in the form of ‘pitiful, insignificant humans could never do that that I could.’ and the super fast driving bullshit that makes no sense because a car is not a Pire so it can’t just magically adhere to the warped Pire physics.
Anyway, that’s chapter one done. On to the next.
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Counting On Season 6 Episode 5: Tomboy Joy
Here is a recap of last night’s episode of Counting On!
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Jessa arrives at the main house with her kids. Jenni grabs Spurgeon right away, Henry is all smiles. Jana and Jessa want to do something special for Joy’s wedding. Jessa wants to do a play on “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue” as a gift idea. Jessa says she can do something borrowed from the duplicate gifts she got from her wedding so she can share those. The boys can do something old in the storage units, Jana says they can customize new hardhats and Jinger can do something blue. They Skype Jinger and tell her the plan and she agrees to do something blue. This will be fun, Jessa promises.
In Laredo, Jinger begins working on her something blue. She spray paints a tin bin blue and says she is reminiscing about Joy as a kid. She often had a blue mouth from lollypops, Jinger says, and flashbacks show us that this is true. They called her Joy Joy, Joesph said, because she brought Joy. Jill says her earliest memories together are calling asleep holding Joy on the couch and dressing her as a toddler. Jessa says she is so happy, used to be a tomboy. Joy is between two brothers and above and a bunch below. They show her playing with the boys, sledding on old signs, and Joy says she only fought once over the school computers but she felt guilty and apologizes. Joy was not the girly-girl like the other sisters, Jer says. As she got older she started hanging out with the girls more. They show Joy, Jason, Jessa and Ben working out before Jessa’s wedding by pushing the truck. Jeremy talks about when he first met Joy. They show her spraying them in the bumper boats. Jinger got one red thing- an Austin shirt, and a bunch of small blue stuff to put in her bin. Little fun things like candy, lotion, a candle, sun glasses.
Jessa is putting together her part of the gift now, putting together some cooking stuff she hasn’t been using, a Mrs. Forsyth apron. Jessa says Joy enjoys cooking and making things from scratch, unlike her. Jessa says when Joy and Austin get married, they’ll spend a lot of time working together but Joy will be excited to set up her kitchen. Jessa includes a fire retardant, just in case. Jill says she hasn’t had a big disaster in her kitchen, Jana accidentally melted a plastic bowl in the oven, Jessa talks about baking the owners manual, the boy mention burnt popcorn. Jessa also includes a recipe box full of the family recipes- rolls, chicken and couscous, and beef and cabbage stew which causes “rumbles” as Jessa puts it. Jessa says time has flown by. They talk about homeschooling, show Joy, Jed and Jer’s graduation. They show that Joy took over the jurisdiction assignments after Jessa got married. Joy says she has a good relationship with the little kids and she hopes they look up to her. They show her trying to teach the littles a new song. They show her making pickles with Jill and their buddy team. Joy says she took over when Jill got married. Joy says her mom is pretty calm except for teaching her to drive. Jill says when she got her drives license, Joy was the first person she took anywhere- to the drive though, which is actually a story I didn’t know and is sweet. They show John letting Joy take the controls of a plane and trying to show her how to fly. She yells a few times- John says Joy would still make a great pilot. Joy says she still wants her pilots license. They show Joy and Sierra planning parties-for Kristen’s baby shower and getting everything set up. Jessa’s gift is wrapped up and ready for Joy.
The boys are doing something old, and they look in the shed for something. They’re not too sure what to pick. They find an old camping grill, they think that Joy & Austin will like it because Austin loves the outdoors. Austin and Joy met when she was 5 and he was 8. They show the Forsyths, say he was homeschooled, Austin says his father is the hardest working man he knew. Joy says about 5 years ago, when Austin got his license, they would come over to play football. Austin and his sister would drive four wheelers around very fast and which scared Jinger. Austin says he wanted more siblings so he enjoyed hanging out with the Duggars. Joy says she didn’t like Austin when they were young and immature. They show Ben & Derick taking Austin to the trampoline park to bond with Austin showing both of them up. Joy says Austin has an adventurous spirit. The guys try the grill- Josiah helpfully brings a fire extinguisher over- and the twins try to figure out how to start the grill. They figure it out and it actually works nicely. They decide the grill is it. The twins say it is exciting and a little sad that they’re getting married so soon.
Jana is working on something new with Jordyn and Josie. They have white hardhats because they flip houses together. Jessa says they should put Mr and Mrs on the helmets. Jana tries out a blocky, bold font for “Mr.” and a script for “Mrs”. In a talking head, Austin says he realized he liked Joy was when he was in flight school. Joy says for her, it was when Austin came over for volleyball and shared his testimony. Austin said he never really thought about it growing up but he was a fool not to have his eyes open looking at her. They show a flashback to him asking her to court. They show the triple date Joy and Austin went on with Derick & Jill and Jessa & Ben. Back at the Duggar compound. Jana freehand writes on the helmets and like everything Jana does, they look amazing. They remind us about Austin’s Five House challenge and show Joy and Austin and Terry working together. They show us Austin asking Jim Bob for Joy’s hand in marriage. Then they show a flashback to the proposal. She says yes. Jana has finished her work on the helmets and then all the siblings come and sign the helmet. Joy says she can’t believe she’s getting married but a little nervous and Austin says he is excited to do life with his best friend and start a family with her.
Next week is the two hour wedding special.
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The Trip of a Lifetime PT 6
Recap: You had just graduated from college, but you had one last trip to go on for one of your classes. You were going to London with your intercultural media communication class for two weeks. The first night you matched with a boy named Ben on Bumble. The second night of your trip you go on a date with him and go home with him. After a few dates, Ben tells you he loves you.
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You roll over, expecting to see Ben next to you, but he isn’t there. You look around and just see Frankie sitting by your feet. You put on one of Ben’s shirts and walk out to the kitchen. There is a note on the wall that reads
“Had a last minute scene to shoot, had to run, sorry love. Catch up with you later. Here’s some cash for a cab”
You are slightly annoyed because you really don’t want to take a cab, but at least he left you money to get back to the hotel. You look at the clock on the oven, it’s 7:24.
Shit, I have to be back by 8, you think. You grab your stuff, play with Frankie, run out of the apartment and catch a cab back to the hotel.
You barely make it back in time to get ready.
“Where were you this morning?” Brooke asks.
“Ben usually wakes me up, but he was gone when I woke up this morning,” you say. “He left a note about how he had a last minute scene to shoot or something? I’m not really sure, I was in a rush.”
“Huh, that’s a little weird,” Brooke says. “How was last night?”
“Well... we decided to go to Paris over the weekend,” you say. You start to blush.
“I can tell there is something you aren’t telling me,” Brooke says.
“So we went to the London Eye and he got us a private capsule, and, uh, well, he kind of told me he loves me...” you say.
Brooke screams.
“NO WAY!!!! OH MY GOD!”
“Way,” you respond laughing.
“What did you say back?”
“I told him I love him too.”
“Shut UP!!! Who knew you would find your actual soul mate on this trip? Oh wait, I DID,” Brooke says, while she walks over to give you a hug. “So are you guys like official now?”
“Yeah, we decided to be a real couple,” you say. “I am not really sure how this is going to work out, since you know we live in the middle of the US and he lives in London, but I think we can make it work. I actually see this going somewhere.”
“Y/N I am so happy for you, you seriously deserve this so much.”
“Thanks Brooke,” you say.”Now if we don’t shut the hell up and get going we are going to be late.”
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You and your class visit some radio stations that day, and are done for the day around 3 pm. Ben usually would have texted you by then but you have not heard anything from him all day. You brush it off, he is probably just busy.
“Y/N, we are going out tonight, do you want to come?” Brooke asks.
“Hell yeah I do! I never turn down a chance to turn up!” you say, laughing.
“Oh my god, never say that again,” Brooke responds, laughing.
You get back to your hotel room and talk about what your plans are that night.
“I think we are going to have SOO much fun,” Brooke says.
“Me too, I can’t wait to see how Londoners party,” you say.
“I know I told you last night that I am totally cool with you spending so much time with Ben, which I still totally am, but I am so glad you are coming out with us tonight,” she says.
“Brooke, I wouldn’t miss this night out together for anything or anyone, we are about to tear up this town.”
“Have you heard from Ben yet today since you left?”
“Not yet, but he is probably just busy with work,” you say.
You and Brooke continue to talk about the trip so far amongst other things. You get ready to go out with some other girls in your class. You get an Uber to the first pub you are going to.
After a few drinks, you walk to the club that is next door.
You and Brooke go to the bar to get some drinks, while the other girls go to the dance floor. After you get your drinks, you meet them out there. Ashley walks up to you and starts to whisper-yell in your ear.
“Hey, so I don’t know what exactly is going on with you and that actor, but, I think he is over there with another girl,” she says as she points to her right.
You look over and there he is, dancing with another girl. You turn around, facing away from him so he can’t see you. You text Brooke and the others and tell them to look. Then, you pull your friends off the dance floor and take them to the ladies room with you.
“Okay ladies, we have the upper hand right now since he doesn’t know I’m here, what is our next move?” you ask.
“Are they even like official?” Sierra asks Brooke.
“They just made it official last night,” Brooke says.
“Yikes,” Sierra says.
“Yeah I know, she is head over heels for him,” Brooke says.
Brooke looks as you and grabs your shoulders.
“Y/N, you are going to march over there, and ask him WHAT THE HELL he thinks he’s doing.”
“You’re right, I might need a shot before I can do that though,” you say.
“Then let’s go! To the BAR!” Brooke yells.
You and your friends go to the bar, take a shot of tequila, and they start to hype you up.
You look around to find Ben still with the same girl, and now they are sitting down in a booth, and she is on his lap and she’s a little too close to his face for comfort. That is the last straw.
You walk across the club over to them and you tap Ben on the shoulder.
“So this is how you treat a girl after you tell her you love her??” you yell at him.
He looks at you with a blank face. The girl on his lap gets up, slaps him, and apologizes to you. You tell her it’s okay, she didn’t know.
Ben stands up and leans in so you can hear him.
“Can we go somewhere and talk?” he asks.
“Why can’t we talk here?”
“Because I can’t hear a bloody thing in here,” he says.
“Fine, you have five minutes to explain yourself.”
He leads you outside the club and into a quiet connivence store.
“So what the hell is going on? You tell me you love me last night and then all of a sudden you disappear, and then I find you all over another girl in a club? Wha the hell Ben?”
“Y/N, I can explain,” he says to you, sounding desperate.
part 7
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