#that is how much i has lost it at thie point
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May I request a Husk before working at hazbin hotel and a (Nonbinary) reader that is a bartender at a club and everytime he comes in to get shitfaced drunk they bring home after their shift and he eventually gets attached?
(Optinonal: some creepy guy hits on reader and how husk reacts when the guy takes it to far?) Have a lovely day/night and stay healthy! 💕
My first request for Husk!! I love that kitty!
You stay healthy and enjoy your day/night!! <3
This is your favorite time of night. When a certain avian cat would come in and drink at the bar where you worked. You had developed a soft spot for the drunkard, talking with him everytime he'd come in. He'd always comment on how this was where the best alcohol was and how no other place was as good. Currently, he was sitting on a stool in front of you, and it looks like you're going to have to take him home again. That's fine, though, you don't mind, in fact you have a spare key to his apartment now because of how often you throw him in the backseat of your car and drag him up the stairs to his apartment.
"And! That bastard just smiles with a shit eating grin, tellin' me that he already did it!" Husk takes a swig of the bottle. "Fuckin' dick." You hummed in response. Truth be told, you had been only half listening to this drunken story slash rant he was slurring out. Something about an Alastor. He usually complains or vents about this guy and you have yet to meet him. Husk said that that's a good thing, though. He continues on this topic, occasionally forgetting where he left off, leaving you to remind him, and him getting fluffed up at the reminder of thie "Alastor".
"If he pisses you off that much, maybe bring him in here and I could give him a piece of my mind." You placed you chin on your hand, leaning slightly over the bar. Husk's angry rambling came to an abrupt stop and he looked at you with total seriousness.
"I would never let him come near you. Never." Those words made your dead heart beat faster. That's another thing about Husk, he'd recently become very protective of you. His excuse was that you were the only good bartender on this side of the Pentagram. You blinked slowly in shock making him look away and take another long gulp of his bottle. Before you could respond, another slightly tipsy demon slid onto the stool next to Husk.
"Hey, pretty thing, when are you off work?" You recoiled away from the disgusting individual. Noticing Husk stiffen and his tail flicking back and forth caused you to also be on alert.
"That's none of your business." Your cold reply made the unnamed man chuckle darkly. It made your skin crawl and fear to pool in your gut. The look this creep was giving you set off alarms in your head. Stay away, they said. Danger.
"I'll just wait outside for you then." That eased your anxiety a bit, you didn't need to leave the bar to get to your apartment above it. Then you looked at the drunk Husk and your blood went cold, remembering that you have to take him home. "And besides, I can continue to talk to you here 'n' now, gorgeous." The wink he sent you was uncoordinated and unsettling. Your mouth twisted into an uncomfortable frown.
"Too bad yer voice is annoying." The creep's and your attention was brought to Husk, who was sipping on his drink, looking a bit more sober than the last time you glanced at him. "Maybe you should get fuckin' lost, bub." The creep didn't like this and snarled at him.
"Maybe you should mind ya fuckin' business, shithead," the creep snarled. You felt your blood boil. People were creeps all the time to you, you could handle it, but something about him talking to Husk that way pissed you off.
"I think you talkin' like that to my significant other is my business." You watched in shock as Husk casually, yet meaningfully, took the last swig of his booze. The creep frowned and then sneered.
"A cat, babe you can do better than that." This guy was just not getting it, was he? Before you could retort with a nasty comment about his appearance, Husk takes the empty bottle and smashes it into the offender's face, knocking him off his stool. No one else even flinched at the scene, going about their conversations. It was Hell, no one gave a shit. The man got up, holding his face.
"I'll just wait outside for both of you, then! I'll bring my crew! You'll be fucked, one of you literally." He sent one last dark smile before leaving the bar. You let out a breath you didn't know you were holding and turned back to Husk.
"Thank you," You said. No other words were needed, though you wanted to say more. To say how you appreciate him being there and standing up for you, protecting you, but you kept quiet. You knew he just did it so you would be able to take him home.
"Don't mention it..." He looked down as you set another beer bottle in front of him. He took it and looked at it for a second before popping the top. "Ya need an escort home tonight?" His question surprised you. You smiled.
"Ha, no, I, uh, live upstairs, actually. But thanks." You pointed up to emphasize your sentence. Husk hummed and gulped down half the bottle. "Got too sobered up for that, huh?" Your attempt at a joke made him chuckle with a half smile.
"Yeah, maybe I shouldn't continue if I gotta walk home, though." He looked away and around the bar. You raised an eyebrow and glanced at his wings. He doesn't fly, he told you that once when you asked. Too much effort, he said.
"What makes you think you're walking home?" You asked, hand on your hip. He looked back at you in suspicious confusion.
"Ya ain't going out there with those assholes waitin' for ya." His voice was stern, like a father almost. You briefly wondered if he had kids before shaking your head.
"Then neither are you, they're waiting for you too, ya know." You crossed your arms. The both of you stared into each other's eyes for a minute before he sighed and took another swig.
"Well, then what am I gonna do? Sleep behind the bar?" The mental image of him sleeping on the floor behind the bar, clutching a bottle of whiskey brought a smile to your face.
"Wouldn't be the first time," he snorted at that, "but I was thinking that you could sleep on my couch." His eyes met yours again.
"What?"
"You heard me." You looked at the clock on the wall by the dart board. "It's closing time anyways." He followed your gaze to the clock and squinted.
"No it ain't. You don't close for another few hours." He looked back to you with an eyebrow raised. You smirked back.
"I'm the owner, I can close anytime I want." You rounded the bar and made your way over to the few occupied tables. "Help me get the drunks outta here and we'll head up." Husk gulped down the rest of the booze and stood up. You turned from him to politely tell the still sober occupants to leave as you were closing early today. They grumbled but complied.
The next table was handled by Husk, as he told the ones splayed out in their chairs that they had to leave. They blew raspberries at him, causing him to growl back. You went over and put your hand on Husk's back, between his wings. His tail started flicking at the tip.
"You heard him, guys, time to go." Your voice made them groan and get up, wobbling and stumbling to the exit. You let out a breath with a smile and shook your head. The rest of the tables seemed to understand thet they had to go too and left, leaving you and Husk alone. You walked over to the doors and locked them before heading to the employee's only door, Husk behind you.
You both walked through the kitchen to another door next to the pantry, leading to a hallway. Passing by the breakroom and bathroom, you pulled out your keys. The stairway at the end of the hall squeaked and complained as you both wallked up to the little landing where your door was. Keys jangled as you unlocked and opened the door.
"Home sweet trashy home." You moved aside to let him in. He looked around as you closed the door and locked it. His ear flicked back at the sound for a moment before turning back forwards.
"'S nicer than my place."
"I know." You smiled and made your way to the kitchen. "You hungry?" He grumbled out a ''I could eat" and plopped down on your couch. You set to work on some mac 'n' cheese.
"Ya know, this couch is pretty comfy," Husk calls from the livingroom. You snort at his attempt at a casual conversation.
"Don't force yerself, there. You know you don't have to talk if you don't want to." You chuckled again. You pulled out the milk and butter, setting them down on the counter. Husk doesn't answer back and you assume he's just taking in his surroundings.
The mac 'n' cheese is finished when you add some bacon bits to it. Smiling at your work, you pulled out two bowls and scooped out servings. The spoons made a clatter as they were placed into the bowls. Stopping by the fridge, you balanced the bowls on one arm before grabbing out a soda for you, and a can of beer for Husk.
In the livingroom, you see Husk hasn't moved from the couch but does look more relaxed and comfortable. You handed him a bowl and his beer. He took them with a mumbled "thanks" before he set the beer on a coaster and dug into the cheap pasta.
"This is really good." The comment made you smile as you dug into your own bowl. You swallowed and looked at him.
"Thanks, it's the bacon bits." You take another bite and swallow. "Makes it taste like you put effort into it." Husk smiled slightly as he continued eating.
This was perfect, you thought, just spending time with Husk, outside the bar. Aside from taking his mumbling, drunk ass home, you hadn't really ever spent time with him casually. You loved Husk, you knew that. Even with how rough his exterior is (figuratively, you had felt how soft that fur is), you couldn't get enough of his company.
"Yer starin', bud." You blinked and quickly looked away, chewing on the bite of food you put in your mouth. He huffed in amusement. swallowing hard, you noticed you didn't have any food left and set the bowl on the coffee table before picking up your drink.
"Well, can you blame me? You over here looking cute and all that." You hide your blush behind the soda can as you take a sip. Husk whipped his head towards you. You decide to roll with this. "What your significant other can't tell you that you look cute?" Your callback to what he had called you earlier made him almost choke on his beer.
"Hh-what?" His response was full of shock and confusion. You shrugged, enjoying this newfound confidence. Maybe you accidentally grabbed yourself some liquid courage.
"I wouldn't mind being your real significant other." You shifted your gaze to look at him from the corner of your eye. His pupils were blown and he looked at you like you had hung the moon. It made your heart thud harshly in your chest.
"I wouldn't mind either..." His response shocked you, you had expected to be rejected and then just blow your statement off as a joke. You blinked slowly at him in shock again. He slowly blinked back. You made a mental side note to look up cat behavior later to see what the fuck that meant but for now, you just leaned over and kissed him. He kissed back, putting down his drink and pulling you closer. A purr rumbled out of his chest as you raked your fingers through his facial fur to the bcak of his head.
This was perfect, you thought.
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Follow-up post
So I got a reply to my comment about the ableism in Ironwood’s character arc by @swapauanon and then they immediately blocked me. Since I am sometimes a petty bastard I decided to make a separate response anyway.
The first thing I would like to point out is that this person does not actually address my points in any way throughout this lengthy rant. My comment was all about the behind-the-scenes comments from the creators and they only responded with in-text examples and their interpretations of them. Those are important sure, and I will talk about those, but they don’t exactly come off as arguing in good-faith right from the get-go.
Okay, so I don’t TYPICALLY acknowledge RWDE’s beyond blocking them, but I think it’s important to separate how Ironwood views himself versus how the writers view him.
Because Ironwood’s entire downfall is his misunderstanding of how humanity works. He denies his own humanity, and sees maiming his vulnerable flesh and replacing it with unfeeling machinery as ridding himself of his own human weaknesses.
Except at the end of the day, he can’t cast off his VERY human soul, and his refusal to acknowledge that he can’t and SHOULDN’T do that are ultimately what leads to his downfall.
I have seen this “Actually it is just Ironwood himself that is ableist” argument before, and I don’t think it holds any water. While it is true that he begins to see compassion as a weakness, he never expresses the views you say he does about his own machine parts. And if you want to talk about how Ironwood sees himself vs how the writers see him you really can’t do so without talking about framing and subtext. When we get scenes that emphazize Ironwood’s machine parts to make him look intimidating or use his passive superpower (described as “hyper-focus” by the creators themselves) to shut off his empathy, that is the writers telling us that these physical aspects of Ironwood makes him less human.
Meanwhile, what V8C12 was TRYING to convey (even if it was horrible in its execution), was that it’s one’s SOUL that defines them, not the body that houses it.
Literally NO OTHER CHARACTER with mechanical parts added to their body views themselves as less human.
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Penny doesn’t angst over not being human, she angsts over being treated like a soulless tool. (Which is why I don’t like that they turned her human. Had they set up that she’d wanted to be human back in Volume 2, it would’ve been one thing, but they don’t establish that Penny wanted to be human until AFTER her mechanical body has been discarded.)
So here they outright contradict themselves. They start off saying that no other character views themselves this way, and then go on to say that Penny does (but only after she has been turned human). And like, points for admitting that scene was bad, but they seem unwilling to consider that maybe the fact that the writers did include that scene tells us something about the way the show at large views disability. They seem to think they can just write it off and move on like this instance of Penny absolutely seeing herself as inhuman can just be ignored. it also disregards that this isn’t just Penny expressing how she feels about herself. When Penny gets her human body she expresses surprise that hugging someone makes her feel “warm inside” even though she has hugged people countless times before. This is not a villain saying that having machine parts makes you less human and being proven wrong, this is a hero saying outright that “wow, my mechaniocal body made me unable to appreciate this simple human interaction, but now that I have a flesh-body I can”. Things like this is why I do not buy the argument that it is only Ironwood who thinks being part machine makes you less human.
Mercury doesn’t angst over the loss of his legs, he angsts over the piece of his soul his father tore out.
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While Yang DOES lose her arm and angst over it, she doesn’t view herself as less human because of her prosthetic.
The closest we get to a LITERAL “cybernetics eats your soul” story is with Cinder, and she doesn’t have ANY cybernetics, just a parasitic leash that’s slowly consuming her flesh and threatens to eventually consume her mind if she doesn’t get rid of it. And if/when she does, I imagine she’ll replace that with a mechanical arm.
(I moved a few parts of their post around here because it made more sense to me to talk about these quotes together)
I feel like this highlights how much this person completely ignores the core argument of what makes the themes in RWBY ableist. They focus way too much on the literal and whether the characters “angst” over their humanity. But like I have said before, thie main issue here is theme and subtext.
Mercury doesn’t “angst” over his legs, but that doesn’t erase the subtext inherent in the fact that he still lost his legs (and presumanbly the piece of his soul) at the same time as he joins team evil.
Yang is probably the best take on a disabled person with a prosthetic in the show. I will give it that. I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong with how it has handled this storyline, but I do think it sets a certain expectation for how it thinks a “good” person should handle their disability. Because Yang basically deals with her lost arm by seeing her prosthetic as an “extra”. She creates a distance between herself and it instead of seeing her mechanical arm as actually part of herself. Again, nothing inherently wrong with that but combined with the Penny-nonsense it creates a pattern of seeing machine parts as inherently inhuman and “lesser”.
The point about Cinder is where the argument relies too much on technicality. Sure, Cinder’s new arm isn’t cybernetic, bhut it is still a prosthetic and it is unambiguously presented as evil and corrupting.
So, no, it’s not the fact that Ironwood has prosthetics that makes him less human, they’re simply a symptom of his view of “soft” traits (kindness, empathy, forgiveness, and flesh), as weaknesses to be sacrificed for the “greater good”. Basically, while I know this term gets misused a lot, Ironwood embodies toxic masculinity. The idea that showing any emotion other than rage and pride is “shameful” and “unmanly”. The idea that brute strength matters more than strategy. That taking unnecessary risks to achieve your goal is “brave” and “daring” and not “stupid beyond belief”. Plus, I want to point out that WINTER HERSELF said that Penny (as a robot) was more “human” than her.
Again, this completely ignores how Ironwood and his prosthetics are framed by the narrative. The idea that all of his flaws are based in toxic masculinity and have nothing to do with his disability is just not very supported by the text or by word of God (again, it was the creators themselves who said that losing his arm was “symbolic of losing his humanity).
And Winter’s words to Penny aren’t very positive either. The point being made there is that Penny was always human “underneeth” her robotics, which sounds good until you realize that this still frames her mechanical differences as negative. They are treated as a prison for the “real” Penny and the narrative explicitly tells us that they have made her unable to feel certain emotions.
It’s just that searing off that flesh after breaking his own Aura serves as a good visual metaphor for Ironwood giving up his “softer” traits to accomplish his goals, even if there was a better solution staring him right in the face (i.e. the rings were EXPOSED and he could’ve just nudged them out of alignment to get to Watts).
This feels like a really big reach on their parts to justify their idea of Ironwood as stupid on top of everything else. It relies on assuming things about fictional technology that was never explained in the show itself. I mean, if the rings are so easy to nudge then what is even holding them in place?
Either way it doesn’t really matter because the message of the scene is the same. If the point is to signal that ironwood is willing to give up his softer traits because he is also willing to give up his soft bady, then that also tells the viewer that being able-bodied and being capable of compassion/kindness/etc are synonymous.
It has nothing to do with the metal, and everything to do with the “Mettle”.
I have no idea why they would bring up the fantasy neurodivergence the writers added in through word-of-God as if it somehow makes the show less ableist. “Mettle” as it is described by the writers, is not a character flaw. It is a chronic condition.
Edit: Seriously, I hope you realize that the hatedom makes it VERY hard for any criticism of the show to be taken seriously when the very VALID cricisms are downed out by “Adam should’ve been an anti-hero!” and “Fascism is good, actually!” leading to those of us with ACTUAL constructive criticism getting lumped in with you lot!
I am curious what they think “constructive criticism” looks like since apparently “Hey, constantly equating robot parts with inhuman behavior is shitty and ableist, please stop” doesn’t cut it.
Anyways, fuck this guy. If they want to be taken seriously maybe they should think about why they had to make such a long-ass rant to dismiss criticism of very basic ableist tropes.
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12/11/19
I fucked up bad. So much shit has happened and i have nobody left to talk to. I lost my bestfriend to a boy a LITERAL 15 YEAR OLD BOY who lies he has skin cancer. How i know he's lying? He said he hasn't told his parents yet, well in Estonia you need your parents to firmly read and sign you to a doctor if you're underage. My boyfriend hasn't been epending anytime with me and im not going ti see him til christmas break. I last saw him on the first weekend of november. I basically lost all my friends with my best friend. So now i have nobody to talk to and for the past 3 weeks ive scream cried myself to sleep. Ive tried starving but i just keep running back to overeating even when i feel sick to my stomach i still sneak downstairs and eat. Yesterday i tried a saltwater flush and it didnt work. Only after i ate i started peeing alot. Anyway besides the point, after 1w strong clean months i fucking slashed my right thie and tried to kill myself last night by taking half of my monthly prescribed medication but it just made me really dizzy and everything was droopy and i couldn't move so i couldn't slit my veins harder so i ended up with a bloody bedsheet and a shit ton of toiletpaper, ive cried so much in the past days that my eyes are shut and my face is puffy. Fuck me truly.
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avengers endgame reaction (spoilers!!!)
**if youre on mobile scroll fast bc idk if the keep reading works
holy shit holy shit fuck fuck fuck
i am an emotional wreak right now
ahhhhh it was so good im crying still
tony fucking stark my heart i guess ill start there
tony stark i love you three thousand. he got his happy ending with morgan and pepper for 5 years they had 5 years together and he knew that the time heist (lol) would jeopardize that and he still went and helped
that scene where he had it out with steve at the beginning fuck my heart was breaking and i was crying .
i cried a lot in this movie. legit sobbing when nat died but ill get to that
that scene was everything i wanted it to be and perfectly executed. of course hes angry and lashing out because they were supposed to do it together and lose together and the emotion behind that ughh rdj killed it
he literally hands steve his heart the arch reactor
tony and howard ugh everything with them together. tony got closure with his dad
everything tony was great.
steve
he got his happy ending. he got his dance with peggy (now im crying again) fuck. and he PICK UP MJOLNIR omg that scene was amazing and everything i never dreamed could happen when the hammer started moving ughhhh omg i was cheering so loud in the theatre and i dont normally do that. that whole scene ugh theres so much to react to
and he got to say assemble.
ok now from the beginning.
i started to cry literally before it even started. the screen was black and i was already tearing up but when clint and his daughter came up and then his family disappeared i was full on crying.
carol coming in clutch and saving tony and nebula yessss
steve and tony’s conversation right when he gets off the ship was everything i wanted it to be. (crying again) everything.
when they go to thanos’s house thing and thor chops off his arm . its what ive been saying they shouldve done on titan
and then he went for the head!
five.......
years later
fuck them. literally when the ‘five’ came up i was like no no no dont you dare do it dont you dare and then they did it. fuck them
five fucking years?!?! they made them live through 5 years of that trauma?!?!?
nat was everything in this film. she became the leader and keeping track of everything and her moment of breaking down was just so human. she couldnt move on in those 5 years and it just shows how much the avengers had become her family.
scott and cassie omg cassie all grown up made me so emotional
tony and morgan i love you three thousand she is the cutest and sweetest thing
tony fucking stark figured out time travel. he did that.
when tony gives steve his shield back my heart could not take it
the scenes where they were trying to pinpoint the exact time to go back and it was like a sleepover sesh and all the domestic avenger fanfics
going back a little bit
clint killing all the people that should have been killed and deserved to be killed and being a total badass showing up all those people who said he was just really good with an arrow and every scene he has with nat.
‘dont give me hope’
thor. oh where to start. he really did lose everything and he was blaming himself for all that happened so i get where hes coming from. every time you could see him remembering and tormenting himself about what happened broke me. his scene with his mother (crying again)
also hulk/bruce was an interesting choice (not a huge fan of it but ok)
the time traveling
everything about the new york scenes were amazing. the aftermath of the end of the avengers, loki turning into cap for a second, seeing rumlow and sitwell come out, steve getting into the elevator and channeling that winter soldier energy (i was slapping my sister on the arm so hard at this part) hail hydra and outsmarting them all. cap fighting cap “i can do this all day” lmao i was dying ‘bucky is alive” again dying they really nailed it with this. i was worried beforehand because like it would change how we would see the og avengers but i still think it works
also can talk about how tony (and scott) was checking out steves ass????
“i forgot how that suit did nothing for you ass” (be still my heart) “i like to think of it at america’s ass” (or whatever the line was)
loki getting away with the tesseract (is that in this timeline im confused about that hopefully someone will explain bc does that mean loki is alive in this timeline or not? lol)
them going back to the 1970s (do you trust me? i do) and tony meeting howard and introducing himself as howard potts. again i know i talked about howard and tony already but i loved their scenes. and JARVIS FROM AGENT CARTER MAKING AN APPEARANCE OMG
PEGGYYYYYYY (crying) when steve walked into her office (grabbed my sister again) and when he was watching her through the window and you could feel his pain.
thor and rocket are the pairing that i never imagined but amazing none the less. i loved that we got the return of mjolnir here even though idk what that does to the timeline (again who knows at this point)
rhodey and nebula again another pairing i didnt expect but are great together. everything about nebula in this film. she really has a great arch. i was stressing out so hard when the alternate timeline thanos found out that they came from the past. the scene where peter quill is dancing and singing to no music was great.
clint and natasha. this pairing thie duo the og. fuck my heart. when they started going off to vormir i knew. i knew it and i cannot handle it. the whole scene where they are fighting each other to sacrifice themself i was SOBBING. LEGIT SOBBING. ‘let me go’ i loved this so much and also hated it. she deserved her happy ending too. after everything she gave up everything to save those people. her arch is so good too. im excited for her origin. i kinda want to see her when shes a bad guy and killing everyone and her journey to shield. i hope thats what we’ll see in her movie.
but also that scene emotionally fucked me up hard.
the og avengers (minus nat) sitting on the edge of the lake
thor trying to put on the glove and redeem himself (in his own eyes not my own bc he doesnt deserve the shit he gets for not going for the head)
hulk doing it and the calm before the storm where everything goes back before that missile comes firing down.
steve tony and thor facing off with thanos. everything about this scene. tony getting a juice-up from thor and lightning to max out his powers. steve jump kicking on thanos’s ass. thanos beating up thor and steve coming in with FUCKING MJOLNIR AGAIN CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH HOW MUCH I WAS CHEERING AT THIS POINT HE IS WORTHY MY BOY STEVE IS WORTHY
also on that note tony coming up to steve and saying “theres my man” or something and giving him back his shield again.
steve standing there with his broken shield ready to face off with thanos’s army and sam coming in on the comm. and then EVERYONE COMING THRU AND KICKING NAMES AND TAKING ASS
legit cheering and crying so much
valkyrie with her pegasus
shuri with her blasters
peter parker and his reunion with tony was heartbreaking. tony looked so broken and complete at the same time. he got him back.
PEPPER FREAKING POTTS
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE (YEESSSSSSSS)
peter quill’s semi-reunion with gamora and how she doesnt know him but he gets her back
also gamora, nebula and still-evil!nebula was a great scene. nebula killing her past self is some symbolic shit right there AND to protect her sister who she hated
CAROL FUCKING DANVERS COMING TO SAVE THE DAY AND KICK THANOS’S ASS
im sad that she wasn’t in the film as much but i get why they did it and it also makes me really excited for her future films
but carol getting the gauntlet and peter saying “i dont know how youre gonna get through that”
and ALL THE BADASS MCU WOMEN COMING UP BEHIND HER READY TO FIGHT AND REPRESENT FOR THE FEMALES (CRYING)
this is something that couldn’t of been done a few years ago because there weren’t a lot of female superheroes in this universe and just the fact that this scene can make such an impression and become probably one of the most badass scenes of the mcu is one of the best things that came out of this movie.
side note: ‘activate instant kill’ great callback
and then we get to the sacrifice.
i knew it. i expected it. i read it in fanfics.
i was still not prepared.
‘I am inevitable’
‘I AM IRON MAN’
FUCKKKKKKKK they really know how to write these movies.
he knew he would die. he knew he would never see morgan again. but he knew what he had to do.
his character arch from a selfish man to a selfless man has been the most profound and powerful story.
rdj and tony stark have really carried this franchise. they were the start. and it makes sense that his death closes out this era of the mcu.
to rdj: i will never forgive my mom for telling me that she didn’t like you way back when. that really influenced how i thought about you and about tony stark for years. and i limited me from really appreciating and loving iron man and those movies and tony’s character. but as i continued to watch more of you in the mcu and in real life and have seen how you have grown and who you are today, i have so much love and respect for you and your character. im just so upset at the time i lost where i could have fallen even more in love with you. thank you so much for everything you have done over the last 11 years for this franchise. thank you for the time thank you for the memories and the laughs. the journey has been amazing.
the funeral scene with ‘proof that tony stark has a heart’
(also was the the kid from iron man 3 in the back?)
VALKYRIE BECOMING KING (queen? i say king but who knows) of new asgard. look at my killing baby all grown up and being the leader they need.
thor becoming a guardian basically.
also was quill looking for his gamora? where was the gamora from this timeline on the ship? she wasn’t there in the scene so idk
also fighting with knives to see whos in charge lol
im glad people mentioned/mourned for nat too
steve rogers
steve.
i knew he wasn’t coming back.
bucky knew it too.
im wreaked
but at least he got his happy ending. he got his peggy (again idk what that does to her timeline)
captain sam wilson america in the house.
(old steve looks like joe biden or is it just me lol)
they ended it with a steggy dance and kiss
it really was a perfect end to his story and it wrapped up his character really well. he got that life he deserved
to chris evans: as this is probably the last time we will see you as captain america let me thank you too for the years and joy that you have brought to my life. youre it for me. you are the reason i became so invested in this world. when you jumped on the fake grenade i was in it with you. chris you are and will always be the best chris in my heart. your passion for this character and understanding of steve rogers and his motivations have created such a memorable performance. steve rogers will always be the og. he will always have my heart. i am so thankful that you took this opportunity and used it and made this character your own. you live up to the standards that steve holds for himself and i am so excited for your future. i am also so glad that you didn’t die in this movie bc i definitely could not have handled it if i had to watch both my favs die. i love you three thousand.
i literally cried throughout the whole movie. there were laughs, cheers, groans, stress, tears, and love throughout this film. i am so grateful that i am alive during this time in cinematic history. there will never be something as great or momentous as this film. a true culmination of 22 films. its never been done and i doubt itll ever be done again
i am also so impressed and amazed by how well this film turned out. it is just amazing how everything fell into place
im sure ill read other people’s reactions and they will bring up points or problematic things that will taint my view on this movie but i dont want that to ruin my own experience
and for me, this was truly emotionally draining and fulfilling. the feeling of being in that theatre with all those people who love the characters as much as i do and experiencing this film for the first time is something i will never forget.
people talk about how they remember lining up for star wars.
well i remember sobbing my eyes out when nat died, cheering along with everyone when cap picked up mjolnir and whipped thanos’s ass with it and when carol and the rest of the badass women of the mcu ready to kick ass, crying with everyone as the light went out in tony’s chest and eyes, watching as history was made in front of our eyes.
and the end credits with the og avengers getting recognition with their photos and autographs.
i love this franchise and these films and these characters i dont know who i would be without them.
one last thing
thank you to the og avengers. steve tony thor nat clint bruce. chris robert chris scarlett jeremy mark. you will always have a special place in my heart. you were there at the start. you were the reason this all could happen you were the reason i became so invested in these movies. you brought these characters to life and embodied them. you are all so much like your characters the casting is perfect. thank you for your dedication to your work to you fans and to your characters. it means so much that you all stuck through this together and that you are such great friends in real life and i can only hope that one day i can be so lucky as to meet you all and thank you in person.
#please dont read if you havent seen the movie i dont want to spoiler anything for anyone#my post#my reaction#mcu reaction#endgame#avengers endgame#avengers endgame spoilers#endgame spoilers#marvel endgame#spoilers#ae tags#ae#the avengers#avengers tags#the og avengers#dont spoil the endgame
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001- Bates Motel, 002-Cordelia/Angel :)
001 - Bates Motel
Favourite character: Norma Bates.
Least favourite character: As you pointed out, there are a lot of assholes on thie show so it’s hard to pick, but if we’re talking about main/reoccurring characters I’d go with Shelby.
5 favourite ships (canon or non-canon): Norma/Alex, Norman/Norma (non-romantic), Norma/Dylan (non-romantic), Dylan/Bradley and Dylan/Emma.
Character I find most attractive: Dylan or Bradley.
Character I would marry: Eh, none of them exactly make for perfect life partners lmao, but probably Dylan.
Character I would be best friends with: No one.
A random thought: Initially, I loved the idea of Dylan and Emma as a ship, but as they progressed I found them to be really overrated and didn’t like their development at all. Emma’s character was completely sidelined in favour of making her Dylan’s love interest and it made no sense for them to have a child so soon and so young. I didn’t see any longevity in their relationship and them having a child and playing house when they were 21 and 17 respectively when they met was so forced (particularly since neither Emma nor Dylan seemed remotely interested in having children or settling down, they were both trying to figure out who they were as people). Also, in the final season Emma just didn’t even seem that loving towards Dylan. They already felt like an old married couple whose relationship had gone stagnant and were on the brink of divorce.
An unpopular opinion: I feel like I’ve already stated my unpopular opinion above - I don’t really like Dylan and Emma that much. Another unpopular opinion is that I actually like Bradley and think that she had a lot of potential.
My Canon OTP: I wouldn’t necessarily call them an OTP, but Norma and Alex.
My Non-canon OTP: I don’t have one.
Most Badass Character: Norma.
Most Epic Villain: Norman.
Pairing I am not a fan of: Norma/Shelby, Norma/Christine’s brother (he’s so insignificant I can’t even remember his name lol), Norman/every love interest he has.
Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): Definitely Emma, and I’d probably also go with Alex.
Favourite friendship: In the early days I thought Norman/Emma and Norma/Emma’s friendships were cute, but unfortunately, both were kind of abandoned.
Character I most identify with: No one.
Character I wish I could be: Good god, no one haha.
002 - Cordelia/Angel
When or if I started shipping it: I started shipping them a couple of months ago after watching Angel. The first time I remember really being aware that I was starting to ship them was probably ‘To Shanshu in L.A’ and by season 2 I was completely in love with them.
My thoughts: I can’t believe how underrated and misunderstood this ship is. When I knew about them before watching Angel I couldn’t understand it at all, but now I do completely. Angel and Cordelia are two people that had something missing in their lives at the time when they found each other in L.A - a sense of purpose and identity. Angel had been through so much with the whole soul debacle and his break-up with Buffy that he din’t know who he was or where his place was in the world. Cordelia was the high school prom queen whose entire identity was embedded in popularity and the admiration and validation of others. Angel without Buffy, and Cordelia without high school, meant they were both uprooted and searching for a new meaning and purpose. By working together, creating Angel Investigations, forming a friendship (not just with each other but Doyle, Wes, Gunn, Fred etc.) and helping the helpless, they both found that purpose. When Cordelia died I truly believe Angel lost his purpose and that throughout the entirety of season 5 he was deeply grieving for her loss (although it wasn’t made obvious until ‘You’re Welcome’), because despite having the rest of his friends around him, Cordy was really his center. Emotionally, she was the one that reached him and kept him grounded. Their development was beautiful - they started out as acquaintances that only knew each other through Buffy, then they were colleagues, friends, family and they slowly fell in love. They fought together and grew together and complimented each other in every way. Cordelia’s vibrant personality and sense of humour brought Angel out of his shell, whilst Angel’s compassion and empathy made Cordelia open up to others in a new way and stop being so self-involved. What I love about them so much is that it’s not the kind of all consuming passionate if-I-can’t-have-you-I’m-going-to-die kind of love, it’s so much more realistic. They’re just two people who are a constant presence in each other’s lives for years, they go share each other’s ups and downs and share life-altering experiences in their fights against evil and come to realise that they need each other and love each other in a way that goes beyond friendship. Honestly, I could talk about them all day, so I think I should stop here. But basically, I think they’re an amazing ship that suffered hugely due to the writing and that if the writers had committed to them completely they could have been absolutely incredible.
What makes me happy about them: Urgh, everything? I love them so much. The way they laugh and smile together, how Angel turns into a blithering fool when he’s around her because she makes him nervous, how distraught Angel is whenever Cordy’s life is at risk because he can’t live without her, how they need each other, how they protect each other no matter what, how they’re always there for each other. This list could continue.
What makes me sad about them: The fact that they were never able to truly admit how they felt for each other or even had a chance to be together. That season 4 destroyed everything they had and could have had. That the writers never fully committed to them as a romantic ship and so wasted all of their potential. That Cordelia unfairly died.
Things done in fanfic that annoys me: I haven’t read much fanficiton about Cordelia and Angel because there isn’t much out there. However, I wouldn’t really like to read any that bash other ships (e.g. Buffy/Angel), because I’m just not about that. I believe in respecting all ships and being true to the characters previous loves.
Things I look for in fanfic: Stories that are as close to canon as possible and true to the characters.
My wishlist: I’m not sure what this means, but I assume it means my wishes for them as a couple? In which case, I’d wish for Cordelia to still be alive, Cordelia to not have become a higher being, all of the events in season 4 to have never happened and for the two of them to have had the opportunity to meet at the beach that night and admit their feelings for each other. From there, I’d have them struggle with their feelings for each other, but agree they want to give it a go and be together. They’d have difficulty transitioning from friends to a couple (particularly with the rest of Angel Investigations and how that impacts the group dynamic) and come up against the looming issue of The Curse. From there on, I don’t know what I’d wish. It would be too cliche for me to wish for Angel to become human and the two of them to live happily ever after, and I don’t really think it would be fitting for them as a couple. But I’d definitely wish for them to have an opportunity to give their relationship a go, because they at least deserved that.
Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: For Angel, Buffy and Cordelia, I don’t really know. I’m not overly fond of any of Cordelia’s love interests except Angel.
My happily ever after for them: This might seem weird and I have no idea how it’d ever happen, but my happy ending for them would be that Angel becomes a demon (not a vampire, but a demon, maybe a half demon like Doyle) and he and Cordy continue to run Angel Investigations (screw W&H, let’s pretend they’re gone haha). That way Angel, as a demon, would still be physically strong and able to fight to help the helpless, he’d have his soul without The Curse and he wouldn’t be immortal (so he could grow old with Cordy) and he would be able to go into the sunlight. No matter what, for Angel to be happy he’d always need to feel like he had a purpose and for him, that was helping people. ‘I Will Remember You’ proved that. He had the opportunity to be human with Buffy but he chose not to be. He made that choice for a lot of reasons, including the protection of Buffy, but I strongly believe his primary reason for doing so was because he simply couldn’t see how he would live in a world where he couldn’t help people in the same way he was able to as a vampire with a soul.
Thanks so much for asking, lovely! And sorry this got a little long, as you can tell I have a lot of thoughts/feelings about Angel and this is the first chance I’ve had to talk about them.
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Giorno or Narancia for the character ask game! :0
Giorno
favorite thing about them: I love how he is like the protagonist and hero of part 5 but also our intro to him is Giorno stealing and I fucking love him. He’s gay and does crime.
least favorite thing about them: He felt a bit bland at times as a character. Maybe I was just too focused at the other members of the Bucci gang to actually pay attention to Giorno but hm.
favorite line
brOTP: Mista and Giorno
OTP: Don’t really ship him with anyone at this moment
nOTP: Giorno and Mista. I really love them as bros, but the age and power difference just get to me. I also know it’s a very popular ship in the fandom. But really? Giorno is still only 15
random headcanon: Goes to Claire’s
unpopular opinion: I don’t really know much of the opinions surrounding Giorno at this point. I think my main unpopular one would be the shipping.
song i associate with them: Goka? Gokai! Phantom Thief by Elements Garden performed by Hello, happy world!
favorite picture of them:
this drawing by Araki
Narancia under cut
favorite thing about them: Oh i love this child. I think he’s such a fun character with good depth and an interesting backstory and I love his actions and how much he cares for being part of the gang. Also his character development made me cry for real. Every time I think of pizza margarita I just cry
least favorite thing about them: He’s my son, I cannot say a single bad thing about him
favorite line: his lil tagline being “Volare Via!”
brOTP: Mista and Narancia
OTP: uh probs Trish and Narancia
nOTP: Fuugo and Narancia
random headcanon: Even when knowing that 2+2=4 he’ll never write is if Mista is around. Same goes for any math answer that has a 4 n it
unpopular opinion: He’s just a good boy who wanted a purpose in life.
song i associate with them: The lost one’s weeping by Neru ft Kagamine Rin
favorite picture of them
couldn’t really choose so have a random screenshot
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What Did You Expect? The Story Of A Jesus-Approved Social Reject (Or Three)
“And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for Him.” Luke 8:40
My Sarah-Laugh:
From Seven:
“Epilogue, The Man Formerly Known As Legion” excerpt:
“I’ve waited a long time for this reunion. Once again I break through chains—this time meant to keep me from falling from the cliffs and into thie sea. I don’t worry about falling, though; for, jumping from the boat and running to greet me is my Savior, my Lord, my Redeemer. I fall into His arms and am, once again, hugged fiercely and tenderly and I know I am loved.”
Reflection:
What would you expect it would take get a whole town out to meet Jesus? What could possibly have raised such awareness that they crowded on the coast not just to greet Him—but to WAIT for Him? It was surely people personally touched by Jesus, right? Those He healed, taught, or cast devils from, wouldn’t you think? This had to have been a key city in Jesus’ ministry— one in which He had spent many years teaching and healing, didn’t it? After all, the entire people were waiting on the shore for Him to return!
Why? Gadarenes wasn’t Jesus’ hometown or the center of His Church; it wasn’t His disciples that waited for him there; and it wasn’t because the people had personally been touched by Him. What, then, brought the entire country to the shore to await Jesus’ return?
It was because Jesus had instructed one person to spread His word there. A formerly-demon-possessed lunatic had been ordered to stay and share the Gospel with the people who had chained him in the cemetery and left him there. These same people had run Jesus off when He freed him of the demons. The same people the man-formerly-known-as-Legion probably wanted to escape and hoped to never see again! No doubt just as much as they hoped to escape him forever!
Yet, Jesus said stay; and, stay he did! This one man, reviled, hated, demeaned, and unwanted; this man who had been so consumed with demons that he lost his identify; this man who had begged Jesus to let him come with Him; the one man who needed to escape this place of torment and the people who probably caused him more pain and humiliation than he could ever have inflicted upon himself; this one man shared Jesus so well, with an audience that did not want to hear him, that the entire group turned out to wait for Jesus’ return on the same shore they had ran Him from earlier!
I can’t help but think of a word from another interpretation of this verse. The word used in The Message is “expect.” Most of the time when we are waiting, we are expecting something. If we’re not waiting, we’re just there with no purpose. The people in Gadarenes weren’t just at the shore by chance; they were expecting Someone. They knew exactly who Jesus was and they knew exactly what He could do.
There were several things they weren’t expecting, though. There weren’t expecting to ever have personal contact with someone like Legion: so vile, so disgusting, so dirty. They weren’t expecting to ever intentionally be seen talking to someone who ran around naked; someone who engaged in self-harm; someone their town had condemned to chains. They weren’t expecting the town lunatic could possibly have anything worth hearing to say. They weren’t expecting someone possessed of not just one but a legion of demons, to be a voice chosen by The Savior. They weren’t expecting to ever listen to, let alone believe, anything this man could possibly ever say.
But they did!
They weren’t expecting the Son of God to have stooped so low as to even talk to, let alone save, a man such as Legion. They weren’t expecting the Messiah to have been the One that showed up one day and drove two thousand of their town herd into the sea! They weren’t expecting to ever be eagerly awaiting the return of this Man, either.
But they were!
Just like the man-formerly-known-as-Legion, we have all begged Jesus not to “send us back there.” We’ve all thought, “Hallelujah! I’m saved! I never have to deal with them again!” We’ve all been willing to get on the boat with Jesus—but felt our hearts sink at His words, “Return to your town; show the great things I’ve done for you!”
It’s not Jesus we doubt, but ourselves, and others. What can we possibly have to say that they will want to hear? Why would they even bother listening? They didn’t want us then, they won’t want us now, and they will never believe us. But Jesus says go. We do, and there is no possible way to say that could ever be easy! Eventually, though, we may be blessed enough to stand with a group of people there because we were able to share Jesus with them, and that would be priceless!
Alternately, just as the people in Gadarenes, we’ve all had people in our lives that we secretly thought were beyond redemption. We’ve watched them self-injure—maybe even attempt suicide—and thought, “There’s just no way!” We’ve watched them become consumed by demon after demon until there is nothing human left in them, to mortal eye. We do what we can for them—maybe even imprison them— but nothing seems to contain their demons and, eventually, we banish them to the tombs of society, to the graveyard of our mind, for their safety as well as ours. Our final memory of them is probably them being responsible for the destruction of something dear to us—and at that point we requested them, and any associated with them, to just leave and not come back.
But they do!
They come back and they have a testimony that rocks the very foundation of everything we believe to be true. They have a new-found faith that seems so much stronger and more intimate than ours that we are compelled to stop and listen. When we do, we meet Jesus all over again. When we view Him through the eyes of someone that was one the vilest of sinners, but is now telling the world about Jesus, we can’t help but rush to the shore to wait expectantly with them for His return! As a preacher once said at our church, “Look around; we didn’t always used to be this way! God changed us!”
If I were asked my favorite part of Seven, I wouldn’t hesitate to say it was the epilogue to “Demon VII, Hopelessness.” In it, the-man-formerly-known-as-Legion is once more waiting for Jesus to arrive in Gadarenes; once again, the people are trying to restrain him—but this time, from being hurt as he rushes to the sea when Jesus finally arrives. He breaks through the safety chains and runs to meet Jesus, who has leapt from the boat and is running to meet him. They embrace, and by that point in the story every time, my eyes are filled with tears and my voice is cracking. This is the Legion I want to know. This is the Legion that I am!
The reunion between this man and his Jesus was one of the biggest blessings I received from writing Seven, and I continue to be blessed by it each time I re-read it. Jesus chose the story of a demon-possessed social reject to show me just how happy He is to be reunited with His child, and I cannot wait to see His boat on the horizon and run to meet Him as He runs to me! Imagine your own reunion with Jesus. I promise you won’t need any guidance in finding your own blessing in it, and you won’t need instructions for how to find it. Just imagine the moment you and Jesus are reunited on the shore on which you met Him and He gave you your calling!
I love Luke and Mark’s stories of a demon-possessed saint. I want to sit down by the crystal sea some day with this man-formerly-known-as-Legion and learn his real name! I want to hear the testimony that changed a whole country’s views on Jesus! I want to meet the man who went from Hell’s handpuppet to Jesus’ Beloved. I want to be there with him on the shore the next time Jesus pulls up in His boat, and I want to watch their joyous reunion; I want to join them.
I love the theme of the Jesus-approved social reject so much I continued to explore it in future fiction works. A scene in the third book of the Seven trilogy addresses the elephant of hypocrisy: in it, the lead character looks around her church and thinks about the past and present of many there. She praises God that so many people have been able to shed their sin and worship Him not under the weight of guilt, but in joy at forgiveness.
The next time you’re in your circle of believers (whether it be at church, in Bible study, or even with friends and family), reflect on how far each of you have come with Jesus. If you ever catch yourself judging someone for “playing church,” think about how each of us is a “used to be” and a “whosever will,” and glorify a God that chooses to free us from our demons and welcome us to Him even with our pasts!
(Author’s note: I chose Luke’s version of the story for this reflection, but it’s Mark’s I connect with more intimately; I can’t help but wonder if John-Mark didn’t feel a similar pang of panic when he was sent back to Paul after their ill-fated mission trip Pamphyas. I think he, too, may love the story of Jesus choosing the rejected, unwanted Legion as the voice by which to spread His Word. I think Mark might just connect to someone people didn’t believe in and that had sent him away; people that never wanted to hear from him again! I think Mark would have seen the poignancy in this story, and felt the reunion so much more acutely! I also think he might just join the man-formerly-known-as-Legion and me in our powwow by the sea some day!)
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i really wanna watch s2 but is it That bad??? :((
ummm ok i'm gonna try and answer this as objectively as i can but it gets very very long so i’m putting this under a read more in case yall think i’m Whining
(ok it’s really long)
the one thing that makes me very sad about season 2 of sg is that, for me, it's lost the main feminist undertones™ that made me wanna watch it in the first place. (kinda comes with the loss of caIista fIockhart/cat grant, and the forcing of mon eI into the scene.)
james's character was almost completely binned.-- literally overnight from 1.20 to 2.01, kara, who'd spent the entirety of season one pining for him 'james is one of the most incredible people i've ever met. he makes me be a better superhero.' (paraphrased) immediately turns round and tells him that they're better off as friends, after one date (continuously interrupted by Crime™ which is ok??? that's what happens when you're secretly a superhero???) but she's literally... she was always smitten by him and i don't? know why they decided to get rid of a relationship built on so much respect and trust?
on the subject of james, i don't think their relationship would've worked out (purely because james has always been in the shadow, whether it's standing at sg's side or superman's, and as the season unveiled guardian, it kinda made sense tbh. but kara and james had so much chemistry which was immediately trampled all over with the arrival of mon eI.)
kara's relationship with mon eI has hindered a lot of her character growth, which is very sad. especially as the show is literally... about her... she's the titular protagonist... if anything, a character should allow her to grow (even negatively. for example, max Iord. even then, max Iord's character was a device for baby superhero kara to understand that she can't decide who lives and dies.)
the writers handle a lot of scenarios quite poorly. for example, winn gets a girlfriend, Iyra. she's an alien refugee from starhaven and most likely has ptsd from the treatment she suffered. she had an anger outburst, and the writers tried to ??? make it funny??? like it was a comedic moment??? smashing beer bottles and yelling at winn (who, remember, was raised by a serial killer...buddy) and i think it's important to highlight mental illness, but it was so calloused??? the writing was so poor here and let down her character.
with a lot of scenes, and a lot of episodes, i've felt as though the writers have thought of a Really Cool Plot (for example, alex being kidnapped because someone figured out who sg is and therefore that she was her sister. having maggie and kara working together, when they've butted heads before, to save the person that they care about the most. that's a sick idea. i like that.) but they change the characters in order to service the plot. for example, kara relying on her muscle and powers to save alex, and having to be taught that she has to use her words sometimes by maggie. this is by no means anti-maggie. this is the writers forgetting the copious sg speeches™ that kara's delivered throughout the series about hope and humanity and how we can be better. to me, it's just... lazy. it’s lazy writing.
mon eI is a problem for me. that's it. that's the bullet-point.
(ok no. mon eI is a problem for me because the writers wrote kara rejecting his advances MULTIPLE times throughout the first half of the season, only to turn around and be like 'actually maybe i can have it all' and suddenly falling for him in like 2 episodes? he personally embodies a lot of traits i don't like in general so. douchebag mcgee)
all female characters' screentime has cut in half. even kara's. what are you doing with this extra screentime what is going on why is this happening
SO ! MUCH ! HAPPENS ! sooooo much. so much. it's so rushed. the plots are cool, but there are so many of them. they're like - piling every single cliche and every single possible story arc into thie season, and it's just... a lot. this leaves a lot of the other arcs rushed and unfulfilled, and it's kinda like ... weird... for example, jeremiah comes back and kara and alex butt heads because he's a cadmus operative, and there were some really quite nasty things said by both of them (for example, it became a kind of blood vs adoptive family thing and that...yikes. i feel for both of them.) this was not resolved. this was not spoken about. the danvers sisters did not talk about this. the danvers sisters, who talk about everything, who talk about homeland theories and what they're going to have for dinner, and probably kara asking alex stupid shit like 'why have i never seen a baby pigeon', did not talk about a possible schism in their family.
for every 10 minutes of screentime kara/mel gets, san/vers gets 30 seconds. i adore alex's coming out arc. and i adore her relationship with maggie. i really do. however, to me, it feels like the writers are like 'haha, see, we've got a canon wlw relationship... as long as we give them 0.2 seconds every 5 episodes, all is well. we're progressive. we appeal to the lgbt community.' and from what i've seen, the audience is largely lgbt. (hey, it's rare to find canon f/f pairings that don’t die so when you do, boy you jump on that.) i would love to see more maggie/alex i love them:/
the writers have been pushing the fact that romantic love > familial love since the start of the season and it's a useless rhetoric which i don't need to see lol
tl;dr: a lot of the characters are ooc, mon eI is a problem, and the core of the show has been lost.
butttttttt i'm gonna give you some actual good things which happen in season two.
Iena Iuthor, love of my life, light of my world. possibly one of the only saving graces for the season for me. a Good depiction of a woman in science, a ceo, and overcoming previous stereotypes and crawling out of the shadow of her family. i love her and she deserves better than everything this show's thrown at her
san/vers... my daughters... making alex a lesbian was the best decision season 2 made. one of the worst is not developing maggie beyond 'she's alex's girlfriend, she has trust issues, and is a lesbian cop with a traumatic past'.
superman being present when kara is able to actually step out of his shadow. cIark also beginning to understand and appreciate kara's feelings on the matter.
james stepping out as guardian!!! my boy!!! please devote more time to my beautiful boy because he didn't get nearly enough screentime as he deserved. actually, he pretty much disappeared for most of it.
honestly if you want to watch it, then watch it. what i say isn't gonna change that, and it's not gonna change what happened. maybe i'm just bitter and cynical and maybe it's not actually that bad i really don’t know anymore
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4 Innovative Ways to Co-Author a Book
Everyone wants to write a book — right? Studies show that 74% of people think they have a book in them. Teens are no exception. With the ease in which that can be done, thanks to word processors like Word and Docs, online editors like Grammarly, and automated publishers like Kindle, there’s no reason why teens can’t do just that. Look at this list of kids who wrote successful books in their teens — or in one case, before:
Alexandra Adornetto — published The Shadow Thief at age 14 and Halo at 18.
Christopher Paolini — published Eragon at age 16 (he is now over 30)
Steph Bowe — published Girl Saves Boy at age 16.
Cayla Kluver — published Legacy at age 16
Alec Greven — published How to Talk to Girls at age 9
As a teacher, I recognize that writing a book ticks off a range of student writing skills by providing organic practice in many required standards such as descriptive detail, well-structured event sequences, precision in words and phrases, dialogue, pacing, character development, transition words, a conclusion that follows what came before, research, and production/distribution of the finished product. I’ve tried novel-writing activities with students several times to varied results. Everyone starts out fully committed and enthusiastically engaged but by the end of the project, only the outliers on the Bell Curve finish. The rest have too much trouble balancing the demands inherent to writing a 70,000-word book (or even its shorter cousin, the novella). That I understand, as a teacher-author struggling with the same problems. As a result, usually I settle for less-impassioned but easier-accomplished pieces like short stories or essays.
Then I discovered co-authoring, a way to get all of the good achieved from writing a book without the intimidating bad. Many famous books have been co-authored, most recently, Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s The President is Missing but there’s also Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens, Stephen King and Peter Straub’s The Talisman, and Preston and Child’s Special Agent Pendergast series. Done right, co-authoring encourages not just the writing skills we talked about earlier but perspective-taking, collaboration, and the teamwork skills that have become de rigueur in education.
The most common approach to co-authoring a book is to have students write alternate chapters but this doesn’t work for everyone. Today, I want to talk about four alternative co-authoring approaches that allow students to differentiate for their unique needs:
vignettes
multiple POV
themed collections
comics
Vignettes
A vignette is a verbal sketch, a brief essay, or a carefully crafted short work of fiction or nonfiction based around a setting, an atmosphere, or the same characters. Typically, it is about eight hundred words but can be shorter. While it can be to one writing piece, in most cases, these are published in collections that are character-driven (rather than plot-driven), located in the same location but with different story goals, or another variance that includes the same setting/atmosphere/characters. Well-known vignettes include:
Dickens’ Sketches by Boz
Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street
Here’s how students can collaborate on a book of vignettes:
Students gather in groups interested in a specific theme, atmosphere, or character.
As a group, they write a character study of each character who will be included in the vignettes and decide on setting and atmosphere.
Individually, students write their vignette and then come together as a group to publish them.
Someone takes charge of ensuring that the ebook is formatted for the needs of the online publisher. For example, Kindle’s requirements are different than iBooks.
Multiple POVs
Multiple Point of Views (POV) make a story more interesting, more personal, and often faster-paced. For students, it’s a great way to share the work required of a novel by writing one told from multiple POVs, each student taking responsibility for telling the story through their unique POV. This instantly gives each POV character a distinct voice with its own goals and themes. Most experts suggest assigning each POV character his/her own chapter. In this way, students know roughly where they are in a plot, understand what has happened to this point and carry it forward through the eyes of their particular character.
Some excellent books written in this way are Holly Robinson’s Same But Different about a child with autism and John Green’s Will Grayson Will Grayson about two boys who share a name. A different take on multiple POVs is used by A.S. King in her YA novel, Please Ignore Vera Dietz where the multiple viewpoints are Vera Dietz at different points in her life.
A Themed Collection
A themed collection is probably the most common collaborative approach and the easiest to achieve if the class lasts only a semester. In this option, each student writes a story that is unconnected to classmate stories in every way except for the theme. For example, the theme might be Life in Colonial America or Life of an 1820’s Immigrant. Students can write a biography, a personal memory, an essay, or a fictional story as long as it revolves around the chosen theme.
To make it more challenging, students might not only share a theme but characters, a setting, or a plot.
A Comic Book
Note: While comic books and graphic novels are different writing forms, for this comic book option, either is acceptable.
Kids and adults love comic books. For some, it’s what first got them excited about reading. For others, comics like Brian Vaughan’s Paper Girls and Jarrett Krosoczka’s Hey, Kiddo are why they returned to reading after pages filled with black-and-white text lost their interest.
Co-authoring with comics as the vehicle is the easiest approach when it comes to dividing up responsibilities. Here’s how you would do that:
As a group, students collaborate on a storyline, characters, setting, rising action, climax, and timeline.
Once this is done, each student accepts responsibility for the completion of one task associated with the story such as drawing the frames, inking and coloring the images (which could be done by two students), adding the dialogue bubbles, lettering the emotion bubbles, and proofing.
Comics can be written old school — by hand — or using a digital comic program like Manga Studio Ex.
Students might select this option because they love comics but also because it’s a more social form of writing in what traditionally is a solitary exercise. Students who have avoided writing because they prefer spending time with friends may rethink that decision when given the option to write with comics.
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Now really, aren’t these great ways students can collaborate on writing? Students, using one of these approaches, will come away with a completely different attitude about being an author.
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today and TeachHUB, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
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4 Innovative Ways to Co-Author a Book
Everyone wants to write a book — right? Studies show that 74% of people think they have a book in them. Teens are no exception. With the ease in which that can be done, thanks to word processors like Word and Docs, online editors like Grammarly, and automated publishers like Kindle, there’s no reason why teens can’t do just that. Look at this list of kids who wrote successful books in their teens — or in one case, before:
Alexandra Adornetto — published The Shadow Thief at age 14 and Halo at 18.
Christopher Paolini — published Eragon at age 16 (he is now over 30)
Steph Bowe — published Girl Saves Boy at age 16.
Cayla Kluver — published Legacy at age 16
Alec Greven — published How to Talk to Girls at age 9
As a teacher, I recognize that writing a book ticks off a range of student writing skills by providing organic practice in many required standards such as descriptive detail, well-structured event sequences, precision in words and phrases, dialogue, pacing, character development, transition words, a conclusion that follows what came before, research, and production/distribution of the finished product. I’ve tried novel-writing activities with students several times to varied results. Everyone starts out fully committed and enthusiastically engaged but by the end of the project, only the outliers on the Bell Curve finish. The rest have too much trouble balancing the demands inherent to writing a 70,000-word book (or even its shorter cousin, the novella). That I understand, as a teacher-author struggling with the same problems. As a result, usually I settle for less-impassioned but easier-accomplished pieces like short stories or essays.
Then I discovered co-authoring, a way to get all of the good achieved from writing a book without the intimidating bad. Many famous books have been co-authored, most recently, Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s The President is Missing but there’s also Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens, Stephen King and Peter Straub’s The Talisman, and Preston and Child’s Special Agent Pendergast series. Done right, co-authoring encourages not just the writing skills we talked about earlier but perspective-taking, collaboration, and the teamwork skills that have become de rigueur in education.
The most common approach to co-authoring a book is to have students write alternate chapters but this doesn’t work for everyone. Today, I want to talk about four alternative co-authoring approaches that allow students to differentiate for their unique needs:
vignettes
multiple POV
themed collections
comics
Vignettes
A vignette is a verbal sketch, a brief essay, or a carefully crafted short work of fiction or nonfiction based around a setting, an atmosphere, or the same characters. Typically, it is about eight hundred words but can be shorter. While it can be to one writing piece, in most cases, these are published in collections that are character-driven (rather than plot-driven), located in the same location but with different story goals, or another variance that includes the same setting/atmosphere/characters. Well-known vignettes include:
Dickens’ Sketches by Boz
Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street
Here’s how students can collaborate on a book of vignettes:
Students gather in groups interested in a specific theme, atmosphere, or character.
As a group, they write a character study of each character who will be included in the vignettes and decide on setting and atmosphere.
Individually, students write their vignette and then come together as a group to publish them.
Someone takes charge of ensuring that the ebook is formatted for the needs of the online publisher. For example, Kindle’s requirements are different than iBooks.
Multiple POVs
Multiple Point of Views (POV) make a story more interesting, more personal, and often faster-paced. For students, it’s a great way to share the work required of a novel by writing one told from multiple POVs, each student taking responsibility for telling the story through their unique POV. This instantly gives each POV character a distinct voice with its own goals and themes. Most experts suggest assigning each POV character his/her own chapter. In this way, students know roughly where they are in a plot, understand what has happened to this point and carry it forward through the eyes of their particular character.
Some excellent books written in this way are Holly Robinson’s Same But Different about a child with autism and John Green’s Will Grayson Will Grayson about two boys who share a name. A different take on multiple POVs is used by A.S. King in her YA novel, Please Ignore Vera Dietz where the multiple viewpoints are Vera Dietz at different points in her life.
A Themed Collection
A themed collection is probably the most common collaborative approach and the easiest to achieve if the class lasts only a semester. In this option, each student writes a story that is unconnected to classmate stories in every way except for the theme. For example, the theme might be Life in Colonial America or Life of an 1820’s Immigrant. Students can write a biography, a personal memory, an essay, or a fictional story as long as it revolves around the chosen theme.
To make it more challenging, students might not only share a theme but characters, a setting, or a plot.
A Comic Book
Note: While comic books and graphic novels are different writing forms, for this comic book option, either is acceptable.
Kids and adults love comic books. For some, it’s what first got them excited about reading. For others, comics like Brian Vaughan’s Paper Girls and Jarrett Krosoczka’s Hey, Kiddo are why they returned to reading after pages filled with black-and-white text lost their interest.
Co-authoring with comics as the vehicle is the easiest approach when it comes to dividing up responsibilities. Here’s how you would do that:
As a group, students collaborate on a storyline, characters, setting, rising action, climax, and timeline.
Once this is done, each student accepts responsibility for the completion of one task associated with the story such as drawing the frames, inking and coloring the images (which could be done by two students), adding the dialogue bubbles, lettering the emotion bubbles, and proofing.
Comics can be written old school — by hand — or using a digital comic program like Manga Studio Ex.
Students might select this option because they love comics but also because it’s a more social form of writing in what traditionally is a solitary exercise. Students who have avoided writing because they prefer spending time with friends may rethink that decision when given the option to write with comics.
***
Now really, aren’t these great ways students can collaborate on writing? Students, using one of these approaches, will come away with a completely different attitude about being an author.
More
Middle School lesson plan for writing an ebook
10 Great PowerPoint Changes You Probably Don’t Know About
Innovative Ways to Encourage Writing
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today and TeachHUB, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
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2018-20(MAR)-Wednesday--a Western Australian POLICE vehicle at in this hellhole early afternoon.
2018-20(MAR)-Wednesday--a Western Australian POLICE vehicle at in this hellhole early afternoon.
I was checking my locked mailbox for any word from dearest Fliss (there was none at all), but there was some false hopes for soemthing else that have never evevtuated and it originally was one of the major reasons why dear Fliss went mentally, and emotionally off the rails several years back, and took me along with her to despair and therafter wishing to be dead after she left all of a sudden.
An whilst was checking my mailbox which is usually empty but for damn endless bills that can't be paid, there was a marked West Australian Police vehicle parked next door there and they two policemen were VERY quietly talking to the woman homeowner about what I do not know.
The unfenced corner house had them return from another batch of collecting stuff yesterday, but everything else they have just abandoned and left laying about the unfenced yard. That is the entire nature of this entire hellhole area.
It's HOT. It's somewhat cloudly but still HOT. More less clouds than there is of clouds. And of course there is no rain. That is also the nature of thie hellhole area where you have to use water to water plants in 'winter' because there is no rain and it's so dry that everything just dies. Dies like I want to be dead beauae I am not so far away from here with dearest sweet FLiss.
I have no idea why the Police where there and it's pointless to even ask. Nobody tellls me the truth, any of the truth, and so I have long learned my place in life and that's to be the whipping-boy for EVERYTHING that has nothng to do with me and to suffer in every agony there is until I am dead, dead, dead.
The unfenced corner house is empty once again, and once again it will be a haven for crime and criminals, just as it was before the most recent residents moved in (now moved OUT), just as they were once people living there, just as there will be again now they have moved out....it never ends, it only writhes in the shit that it is......HELL.
Perhaps the woman neighbur was speaking out to the Police once again for her own safety of this hellhole. She has good reason to from past experiences of this hellhole area.
Poor Rusty keeps barking.
The poor dog on the other side of me keeps barking.
Poor Sam & Max are amlost alwasy utterly quiet and distraught day and night becase dear Fliss is not with us, or we with her. - This is a hellhole we have been condemned to suffer abd die in until we are dead. We are all long forgotten and despised for no faults of our own and for daring to love dear Fliss.
The abo criminal kids were all picked up by a private plan white bus vechicle this morning despite Koongamia school being across the road from them. The others aimlessly walked the streets as always after they were gone and were even walking the streets before they were gone.
The abo man with the loose fistfulls of golf clubs he was carrying is like so many other abo's who wander the areas with golf clubs in their hands. Golf clubs have long been a favorite for the criminals and as a favourite weapon for assulting people and animals and breaking and entering.
The old guy seems quite noticeable by his absence for normally he is perched on his front fence watching/staring at everthing and everyone going on by and wildly waving his arms and hands in the air as he gesticulates his displease of everything of this hellhole of which is nevereding and auththorities keep just brushing aside all as if everthing means nothing, until too many innocent people make the SAME complaints and only THEN do the Police deicde they had better put in a brief appearance to make it seem like they're doing soemthing and 'on the job'. - The Police HATE ever coming to this area and so they make it a point not to as much as they can. They may like to differ, (and they DO), but that is the stark reality of this hehllhole and has been for decades. They refuse to do the things normal policing does. Or they do it so piecemeal and in such lacklustre regards it's as if they're never here at all, and that's certainly true too. - Hence the criminals have a free hand to do whatever they want, whenever they want, however they want. And I've lost count the number of times where Police berate innocent citizens whilsy all around them (sometimes quite literally) the ones responsible just prance about with complete abandon and complete derision.for rule of law, least of of all for any officers of the law. They will create complete tales of complete lies and push them onto the Police and DEAMND the Police do something about it. And as soon as the Police are gone, the criminals burst out laughing at how gullible the Police can be played for the fools that they are.....and meanwhile the innocent carry on suffering, without hope, without safety, without any future.......through no fault of their own.......
And the evil laughter and insane cackling carries on into the night as usual, as always.......as it always is in this hellhole area......the steet drinking, the drunkenness, the ones walking about doped up on illegal drugs, the door-to-door drug illegal dealing and drug deliveries, the too-many cars ravelling all about, the toddlerrs (now just out of diapers but not all of them) wandering all over the roaads.......
This morning an unmarked white private bus went straight to Fatguts criminal heusehold eaarly this morning and picked up some of the mini-criminals like a limousine taking exalted criminal royalty out for a day trip. That the ONLY reason all of them were not out on the roads today in traffic....but they'll soo be back on the roads again....as always......and at night........and at the Koongamia shops (their second home away from home) and a favoured criminals hunting ground.......and enlessly about the pedestrian walkway at the end of Kalara Road steet where depsite the vertical posts put in there to stop trafic, it doesn't stop the illegal unlicensed motorbikes day or night.......or the criminal aborignals on pushbikes forever prowling about all areas.....including into Bellevue, Helena Valley, and into Greenmount, into Swan View and over into Middle Swan and over up into Midland itself, and perhaps into Guildford as well.......all favoured hunting grounds for criminals and so handy to all the pubs and liquor stores and human prey.......
I love you dear Fliss and want to be with you. Sam & Max love you and miss you so terribly much too. So does the lone surviving chicken living a life of utter soul destroying solitude as I am and dying in agony from lonliness after all the others have tragicilly died from illness. Poor dear Sam & dear Max are going to die like poor Matey and poor Vespa in despair and agony and feeling utterly abandoned by you, as will I.
I love you dear Fliss and want to be with you together as you promised us.
I have had nothing to eat for two days now. And I cannot sleep. Dear Sam & dea Max get fed as much as I can safely feed them and they sleep and have nightmares too at this hellhole.
I love you dear Fliss and want to be with you just as you promised us both living the lives we once had and were alwasy somuch in love and hopes for the future not just for us but for all things and all people across the world.
I love you dearest Fliss.
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