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Interesting choice of photos for The Bear s3 renewal announcement
I thought Syd and Carmy are just platonic, so WTF is this? Syd and Carmy are such a powerful couple and they are not even official yet.
#the bear s3 announcement#I’m so happy that they have finally announced s3#the bear#sydcarmy#sydney adamu#carmy x sydney#syd x carmy#sydney x carmy#carmen berzatto#carmy x syd#chef's kiss#syd x carmen
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bestie please explain what's going on in the witcher fandom because holy shit??! 👀👀
bestie what ISN’T going on in the witcher fandom. (i’m so sorry this got so long and boring i just started typing and did not stop apparently)
once upon a time in september 2018 henry cavill is cast as geralt of rivia in netflix’s adaptation of the witcher. people are generally surprised but pleased, reddit collectively nuts, mainly bc he's a self-professed 'nerd' and has talked about enjoying the witcher games and books previously
season 1 comes out and is generally well received, most of the negativity was just plain old racism and misogyny with people whinging that casting women and people of colour is 'netflix wokery' and 'inaccurate' because the setting is meant to be based on slavic countries. so according to some folks, henry cavill, as a straight white man who did not completely fuck up his role in s1, is basically the second coming of christ
season 2 comes out and is...not generally well received. by many people for many diverse reasons that i am not going into bc we will be here all day. but basically it becomes quite clear from s2 that the show is not an adaptation of the books, it’s more loosely based on the books. anyway the reddit bros start acting as if henry cavill is the show’s one saving grace and that he’s carrying a shitty show along on his back and that without him things would be even worse because there’d be nobody to overrule the showrunner on stuff like this
this intensifies in late october this year when stuff starts going around about the show writers mocking the books
anyway then henry cavill announces that he is leaving the witcher after s3 (filming had already wrapped at this point) and moving on to pastures new. he also announces that liam hemsworth will be playing geralt from s4. memeworthy stuff, the gift of prophecy strikes again. people tend to fall into one of two vibe camps in response: 1. ‘fucking lol’ 2. ‘i wish i was dead’
rumours swirl and the two main schools of thought about why he left are 1. because he was offered £££££££££ to play superman and 2. because he loves the source material so much he couldn’t bear to continue working on the show. these closely align with the two aforementioned vibe camps.
someone made this very reasonable post and i was grateful for it
THEN today a really objectively funny thing happened in that after all that, james gunn has turned around and said ‘actually the superman movie we’re doing is about a younger superman so none for henry cavill bye’
which is just like. icing on the cake of drama and dials everything up to 11 with the ‘i would kill and die for henry cavill’ gang taking this as proof that there were major creative differences between him and the showrunners (?) and the ‘fucking lol’ gang basically eating popcorn
and on that note i’m just leaving this post and this post here without comment
so yeah that’s that on that sorry for the novel <3
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My 2023 New-to-Me Media Wrap-Up
Movies
History of the World, Part 1 (★★★)
A Man Called Otto (★★★★)
The Beguiled (★★★★)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (★★★★★)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (★★★★)
Oppenheimer (★★★★★)
Barbie (★★★★★)
Bullet Train (★★★)
Other People (★★★)
A Haunting in Venice (★★★★)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (★★★★)
Death on the Nile – 2022 (★★★)
Death on the Nile – 2004 (★★★)
The Woman in Black (★★★)
Worth (★★★★)
The Woman in White (★★★★)
Murder on the Orient Express (★★★★★)
Santa Claus is Coming to Town (★★★)
Happiest Season (★★★)
The Other Boleyn Girl (★★★)
Maggie Moore(s) (★★★★★)
T.V. Shows
Ghosts S4-S5 (★★★★★)
Suits S1-S8 (★★★)
The Great S2-S3 (★★★)
The Bear S2 (★★★★★)
Mildred Pierce – Mini-series (★★★)
Fisk S1 (★★★★★)
Call the Midwife S12 (★★★★)
Over the Garden Wall (★★★★★)
Wolf Hall (★★★★★)
Books
Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherin Lacey (★★)
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman (★★★★)
Beowulf (★★★★)
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala (★★)
This One Summer by Jillian & Mariko Tamaki (★★★)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (★★★★)
Zami by Audre Lorde (★★★)
Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (★★★)
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (★★★)
Othello by William Shakespeare (★★★★)
Dawn by Elie Wiesel (★★★)
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn (★★★)
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (★★★)
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (★★★★)
Clover by Dori Sanders (★★)
Passing by Nella Larson (★★★★)
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow (★★★)
Daisy Miller by Henry James (★★★★)
The Turn of the Screw x2 by Henry James (★★★★)
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde x2 by Robert Louis Stevenson (★★★★)
To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck (★★★)
The Yellow Wallpaper & Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (★★★★)
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig (★★)
The Living by Annie Dillard (★★★)
Heartstones by Ruth Rendell (★★★)
The Law & the Lady by Wilkie Collins (★★★)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (★★★★)
Cane by Jean Toomer (★★★★)
Our Dark Academia by Adrienne Raphel (★★)
A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie (★★★)
Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown (★★★★★)
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammet (★★★★)
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (★★★)
E is for Evidence by Sue Grafton (★)
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley (★★)
Podcasts
Rehash (★)
Normal Gossip (★★)
Noble Blood (★★★★★)
Lore (★★★)
Fuckbois of Literature (★★★)
Stuff You Missed in History Class (★★★★)
If Books Could Kill (★★★★)
Wilder by Glynnis MacNicol (★★★★★)
Documentaries
Anna Nicole: You Don’t Know Me (★★★)
Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie (★★★★)
Defending My Life (★★★★★)
Plays
The Last Living Gun (★★★)
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Bonus 03 | COMING WHEN: Media Analysis Brain [S3 filming has wrapped!] -- follow the link below to listen!!
(SPOILER WARNING: This bonus episode contains explicit and implicit spoilers for the first two seasons of Young Royals.)
It's time to return to the present of Young Royals news, as Anton and Margaret finally get around to discussing the fact that Season 3 of the show has finished shooting. While stressing over and over again that show-related bonus episodes mean no ban on explicit spoilers, Anton beg the listeners to bear with him as he applies a whole lot of English Major EnergyTM to his anticipation of Season 3, and Margaret makes her feelings for a Season 2 character abundantly clear.
Check out our Instagram @peopledonttalkabout for all pod-related announcements and updates!
Also, we have an X (formerly Twitter) -- @pdtapodcast -- if you have bravely chosen to remain there post-Elon Musk. Check out Margaret's random musings while also receiving the weekly update when a new episode drops!
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Given the whole fiasco of the RTX involving v10, and the strike I doubt that we'll be getting any rvvby content for a while now, so...
I once again urge the RWDE side of the fandom to read Kubera: One last god. I promise you all that it's so good that a good chunk of the reason I didn't touch this blog in so long was precisely because I hyperfixated in it and despite its length I have made several re-reads of it.
It's a story rich in worldbuilding, lore, characterization, philosophical and moral questions, and A LOT of grey morality, of every single shade running around, even from the most upstanding of the characters, and right out of the bat it's announces as a story "with no heroes or villains, only victims."
Some of my favorite lines from it aren't even accompanied by impactful images, just a black bg with text, like a quiet acknowledgement of their situation:
Sure, the art of the 1st season is a little wonky, and some of the humor seem outdated (it started on 2011), the official translation can be awkward to read, but come on, this fandom was given a lot worse in terms of quality of animation, art, and dialogue from the v1 didn’t we? And unlike RT, the author delivers on everything they set up, and continuously improves, you can tell she has everything planned and knows exactly where she wants it to end.
And look at how she portrays herself, as a literally Currygom, meaning a curry+bear in Korean (yeah, it's one of those authors who don't like showing their faces)
Every single promise that the RVVBY series has failed to fullfil for the audience? Currygom delivers far above and beyond, and she has a whole ass encyclopedia of comments for almost every episode of the story, just to fill in lore or the occasional blank.
So, try to give it a chance, please.
Also, if you doubt me on the art evolution, here's some proof, the first images are very early s1, and the second is from s3.
#rwdelady talks#not sure what to tag here#lol#fantasy setting? checked#badass female characters? Checked#foreshadowing inside the foreshadowing? Double checked#redemption arcs? checked#betrayal arcs? CHECKED#eldritch abominations? oh boy checked#magical objects that are actually relevant to the plot? lots of check marks#and a long long looong etcetera
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10-year-old, 4th grade elementary school student who can also turn into an adult. A cheerful and lively girl who likes bears and cute things. She is usually in a position to let herself be pampered, but sometimes she has an adult side and makes people let themselves be pampered by her. Sometimes she makes fun of other people in her adult form.[1]
Appearance
She has light, dull-lime green hair with a braid that has a pink bow and hair buns and green eyes . She wears a pink jacket with a light pink shirt with a pink pawprint on it and light blue and pink striped long socks that go above her knees with pink and blue sneakers..
History
Background
Following the popularity of their "Official NIJISANJI Virtual Livers," Ichikara Inc. opened a second set of auditions on 22 February 2018 with nine available designs.[2] On 15 March, Ichikara Inc. formally revealed NIJISANJI's second generation of Virtual Livers, including a tenth member, Morinaka Kazaki, whose design had not been publicly shown in the auditions.[3]
Kazaki uploaded her first YouTube video on 17 March.[4]
2018
On 22 May, Kazaki reached 30,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[5]
On 23 May, Kazaki revealed the full body of her adult version on Twitter for the first time.
On 20 June, Kazaki reached 40,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[6]
On 14 August, Kazaki reached 50,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[7]
2019
On 4 January, Kazaki reached 60,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[8]
On 5 January, Kazaki revealed her 2.0 brush up version of her Live2D model.[9]
On 17 February, Kazaki reached 70,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[10]
On 17 March, Kazaki reached 80,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[11]
On 15 April, Kazaki reached 90,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[12]
On 31 May, Kazaki reached 100,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during a Minecraft stream.[13][14]
On 25 August, Kazaki received a revamp of her original design (child version) which is to be used as her default form from now on. Her new model has a different outfit (no longer sleepwear) and a new hairstyle similar to her adult version's.
On 18 September, Kazaki unveiled her official 3D model via YouTube livestream (child version).
On 8 December, it was announced through NIJISANJI Official Twitter that Kazaki and Otogibara Era would make their major debut as music duo "petit fleurs" under the record label NBC Universal Entertainment with the album "première fleurs".[15]
2020
On 28 January, Kazaki reached 150,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[16]
On 22 April, petit fleurs released their first album "première fleurs".
On 20 November, petit fleurs held their first live concert "Lisianthus" (リシアンサス).
2021
On 17 January, Kazaki reached 200,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[17]
On 23 March, Kazaki announced that her first solo album, "Gekokujo" (下克上), would go on sale on 26 May.[18]
On 23 May, Kazaki held a virtual birthday live concert in 3D.
On 13 August, Kazaki reached 250,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[19]
2022
On 23 May, it was announced that Kazaki would hold a 3D live concert #森中花咲誕生日3Dライブ2022 on 26 May to celebrate her birthday.[20]
2023
On 14 March, Kazaki reached 300,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[21]
On 15 March, Kazaki celebrated her 5th anniversary by revealing a new outfit, featuring her 22-years-old self in 2D for the first time.[22]
On 23 May, Kazaki's 22-year-old self received a 3D model during her birthday live.
Events
On 8 December 2019, Kazaki participated in the NIJISANJI concert event "Virtual to LIVE in 両国国技館 2019" (Ryogoku Kokugikan).
On 5 April 2020, Kazaki performed in the Zepp concert tour "NIJISANJI JAPAN TOUR 2020 Shout in the Rainbow!" at the Zepp Namba venue.
On 24 January 2021, she participated in Apex Legends Vtuber Most Cooperative Tournament S3 as team "Sun Flower Garden" (花園快晴) along with Nishizono Chigusa & Kaida Haru. The team ranked last.
On 27 March 2021, she participated in Play Alive Fall Guys Super Match as Team Cool Sisters along with Yuhi Riri, Aiba Uiha & Kai Mayuzumi. The team ranked 13th.
On 22 August 2021, she participated in Apex Legends Vtuber Most Cooperatitive Tournament S3 as team "Youjosenki" (幼女戦姫) along with Amatsuka Uto and Yuki Chihiro. The team ranked 19th.[23]
On 27 February 2022, Kazaki participated in the NIJISANJI VALORANT Custom event organized by Lauren Iroas and Naraka as team "Noisy Cruise Ship" along with Ban Hada, Yuhi Riri, Saegusa Akina and Yukishiro Mahiro. The team was originally supposed to have Debidebi Debiru in place of Yukishiro Mahiro, but had to step down due to schedule conflict on Debiru's side.
Relationships
"petit fleurs" - Kazaki and Otogibara Era.
They had major debut under NBC Universal Entertainment.
Hashtag: #ぷちふる
"UtaKaza" 「うたかざ」 - Kazaki and Suzuka Utako.
"ATM" - Mononobe Alice (A), Kenmochi Touya (T), and Kazaki (M).
"Loli-gumi" 「ロリ組」 (Loli Group) - Kazaki (child ver.), Yuuki Chihiro, Ushimi Ichigo, and Mononobe Alice.
"JS-gumi" 「JS組」 (abbreviated from 「女子小学生組」(Joshi Shougakusei Gumi) Female Primary School Student Group) - a sub-unit from Loli-gumi, consist of Kazaki, Yuuki Chihiro, and Ushimi Ichigo.
"BG Club" (Beautiful Girls Club) - Kazaki (adult ver.), Moira, and Suzuka Utako.
"MoriGusa" 「森枝」 - Kazaki and Saegusa Akina.
They released a cover for Wasurena together.
"Judgment" 「ジャッジメント」 - Kazaki, Ex Albio, Makaino Ririmu, Watarai Hibari, and Min Suha
They competed in the 2nd NIJISANJI VALORANT Custom as a team.
Trivia
Color: #C8F39A [24]
Emma★August is her childhood friend. They were roommates for 6 months following Emma's debut.
Kazaki shares a character designer with fellow NIJISANJI member Achikita Chinami.
External Links
Media
Morinaka Kazaki's corporate profile on NIJISANJI website
森中花咲 - YouTube channel
@KazakiMorinaka - Twitter account
森中花咲Official - bilibili channel
森中花咲【にじさんじ所属】 - NicoNico channel
森中花咲 - Morinaka Kazaki NBCUniversal Entertainment Official Website
petit fleurs - petit fleur NBCUniversal Entertainment Official Website
Hashtags
#かざ生放送 - Stream hashtag
#森中びじゅつかん - Fan Art hashtag
#森中花咲ボイス感想文 - Voice Reaction hashtag
Further Readings
森中花咲 - Unofficial NIJISANJI Wiki
Nijisanji logo (V T E)
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JUST ANNOUNCED 🎬 ! @2000sgossip published the official cast for that 70's show, friends & scream. everyone wonders if they will be just as good as the original. their publicist just needs to make sure they follow the hollywood 101 rules & if they launch their social media account within 24 hours, they will take over the trends.
east harvey harry styles is playing michael kelso
ananya "anya" vipavakit davika hoorne is playing rachel green
sabriye aydin aslihan malbora is playing gale weathers
( harry styles, demiguy, he/they ) — 🎬 just announced, EAST HARVEY has been cast as MICHAEL KELSO in the upcoming THAT 70s SHOW reboot. the twenty - eight year old is trending as people are debating if the holding the door open for too long, spotting a rainbow directly after a storm, a jumbo bag of gummy bears, talking to plants to help them grow, a loopy smile and an honest heart that they are known for is enough to make them as good as original. a quick google search shows that their fans call them saccharine, but internet trolls think they’re more ditzy. i guess their newest interview for variety where they talk about how he almost got run over while following a squirrel into the street will let people to know them better. ( laur, 24, est, they/she, animal ab*se + filming s2 ! )
( davika hoorne, cis woman, she / her ) — 🎬 just announced, ANANYA “ANYA" VIPAVAKIT has been cast as RACHEL GREEN in the upcoming FRIENDS reboot. the twenty eight year old is trending as people are debating if the sweet smile that thaws the coldest of hearts, freshly picked flowers, silk dress straps falling off shoulders, gold heart necklace that never leaves her neck, peach lip gloss and rosy cheeks that they are known for is enough to make them as good as original. a quick google search shows that their fans call them ambitious, but internet trolls think they’re more insecure. i guess their newest interview for variety where they talk about her journey from being miss universe to playing one of the main characters in a beloved sitcom will let people to know them better. ( g, 25, est, she/her, triggers + filming s3 ! )
( aslihan malbora, cis woman, she / her ) — 🎬 just announced, SABRIYE AYDIN has been cast as GALE WEATHERS in the upcoming SCREAM reboot. the twenty six year old is trending as people are debating if the iconic theatrical scream, bored eye rolls hidden by vintage chanel sunnies, resting bitch face to everyone but her puppy, knee high boots and skirts as an aesthetic that they are known for is enough to make them as good as original. a quick google search shows that their fans call them candid, but internet trolls think they’re more aloof. i guess their newest interview for variety where they talk about the claims about her being this generation' scream queen will let people to know them better.
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New Post has been published on https://www.vividracing.com/blog/cts-turbo-release-drop-in-turbo-for-audi-vw-ea888-3/
CTS Turbo Release Drop-In Turbo for Audi / VW EA888.3
We are so happy to announce some good news from CTS Turbo for owners of MQB vehicles. The company has released a budget-friendly-direct-bolt-on hybrid turbocharger for the 2015-2020 MQB platform. The kit is available in our shop for $1,499.99. CTS Turbo as a leading brand in the automotive industry is known for manufacturing and wholesaling performance parts for late-model Audi, BMW, and Volkswagen, their latest release fits all MQB-based EA888.3 vehicles such as:
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Honestly it was Jensen's shady marriage that made me believe on tinhat theories. I stopped being a tinhatter now, I no longer believe that J2 are in secret relationship.
But if I ever have to pinpoint why I thought J2 were in relationship ...Well then, Jensen marriage was the tipping point. It was so shoddy...
Bear with Me plz while I jot a bit of chronology
Now when SPN started Jared was in relationship with Sandy and soon got engaged...while Jensen was going thru girlfriends (no judgement, just saying he didn't had long term relationship) Those were the times when Manager meddled Into artists life and would dictate whom they should be seen with and whom they should not. So it is possible that Jensen manager was hooking him up with duff upcoming actress/ models to making him look like ladies man.
But something weird happened during S3...all of sudden Jared breaks up with his fiance, no explanation just amicable breakup..and Jensen also stop showing up with new woman.
Then Jared meet Gen, falls in love announce engagement.. suddenly news come out - Jensen dating Danneel...There were no sighting no rumors, nothing... suddenly we see their is Danneel on Jensen's arms.
Jared gets engage and two or three months down the line we hear the news of J&D getting engaged. Just news no pictures or comments from either party involved. Post engagement there were those famous altercations between Danneel & the talk show host on Twitter, Dannel and fans on Twitter...the Famous squabble between D and Jensen mom ...Everything was so clear that most fans were sure that this relationship won't last
Then Jared & Gen gets married and two months down the line we have Jensen and Danneel getting married. The news was literal shock to most fans seeing how there was zero compatibility. Most fans were asking the question why? what did he saw in her?
Til Date people got that question coz 10 years down the line they are still not on same page. They are uncomfortable and awkward. Some die-hard fans chalked their lack of chemistry and awkwardness to them being shy. Which is the hardest pill to swallow seeing the profession both are in and especially seeing Danneel body of work.
I believe that getting married to Danneel was decision Jensen took in haste or spite. Or as tinhatters believe - out of hurt and jealousy
Thank you for taking the time to share that. I get how fake his marriage seems so I kind of get why some people believed or believe J2 were together. I don't believe they are but I get that so many holes in Jensen's image and lack of chemistry with Danneel can cause those kinds of rumors. I think he may have felt pressure due to seeing Jared as a reference point and seeing Jared advance so he settled for what's her face. No, seriously, what is her face? She no longer looks even remotely as any of the previous versions of herself. I hope she stops with the touch ups before she veers from Marcia Cross territory into Mickey Rourke territory.
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Today is Two For One because these two eps pretty much follow onto each other in terms of storylines and themes etc.
Black Sails V and VI (s1 eps 05-06)
- A big plot point in these two episodes is Billy mistrusting and investigating Flint. It starts with Flint approaching Billy and claiming he wants an “honest” conversation with him (note that he’s had time to think about what he’ll say to Billy, coming back to my previous comment about how Flint does better at persuasion when he has time to script things). Flint explains that you can’t ever be entirely truthful to a crew because if you explain any risk of failure they’ll be demoralised. He also talks very briefly about Miranda, portraying her as a “nice Puritan woman” who likes books. When Billy asks if this is really true, Flint just gives him That Wink. Billy spends the episode wavering between trying to support both Flint and protect the crew, clearly conflicted. This feeling intensifies when Logan asks whether Flint will give up trying to get the guns even if the situation becomes extremely dangerous, and Billy can see that Flint is risking the lives of men to get at the guns and knows what he did on the Maria Aleyne. The last straw is the discovery of Miranda’s letter and the realisation that she didn’t prevent Guthrie from betraying them like she was supposed to. Gates dismisses Billy’s doubts and refuses to get into it, mostly in a stategic move, knowing that Flint is the only one who can get them through this battle, and that they all need to obey him in this moment.
- Speaking of battles, this is the first prolonged sea battle we get to see, and the first time that Flint is given a really worthy opponent in the character of Bryson. Bryson is extremely clever and uses both sailing and defense/siege/booby-trap strategies that make taking the Andromache practically impossible to take. Flint shows a lot of resourcefulness in response: he seems to know exactly how much his ship can take and how to handle it (in spite of DeGroot’s warnings, which end up being unfounded for once) and hammers out a good (if dangerous) strategy to board the ship. However, this isn’t enough to outwit Bryson, who’s extremely well prepared for a siege if he gets boarded and has the Scarborough already heading their way. In fact if the slaves in the hold hadn’t helped the pirates, I doubt Flint would have had to leave without the guns. Even when he’s dying, Bryson still attempts to blow his ship up. In fact, his explosive booby trap has a real impact on what happens in the end of episode 6.
- It’s interesting to watch Dufresne in his first battle. He’s clearly meant for us to identify with, as the “nerd” on the ship who’s never seen battle. Following him allows us to see the faces of a lot of crew members, to feel the tension and fear before boarding the other ship, the desperation of the battle, and... okay I’m not sure just anyone would go feral like Dufresne does and rip someone’s throat out. This is definitely a turning point in Dufresne’s character.
- Something new in Billy’s character that he is shown lying to Dufresne to reassure him before the battle, using exactly the technique Flint mentioned earlier. First he tried telling Dufresne that guns only go off half the time - not at all reassuring. Then he tells Dufresne that sailors on their crew never die in their first battle. Only after the battle, does Dufresne realise that what Billy told him isn’t true - and tells Billy that he appreciates the lie. Does this change Billy’s point of view on lying? Is lying all right, for a good cause?
- In the meantime, Eleanor is saddled with Silver. I absolutely love this plot line and wish these two had worked together some more, because they’re hilarious. Silver knows that Eleanor’s angry with him and finally gets to find out that it’s because he involved Max in his scheme, but he flatly refuses taking any responsibility for that, saying it was Max’s choice (which it was). Later, when the angry pirates are turning into a mob, Silver is clearly getting anxious and Eleanor pretending not to be, he says: "if you're pretending to remain unconcerned for my peace of mind, please don't", a line mirrored in S2, where Flint openly admits to Silver that he’s “appearing unconcerned” as a strategy (and thus establishing the Flint/Eleanor parallel). Finally, Silver confronts Eleanor about the danger of not appeasing the mob by letting Vane operate out of Nassau again; she asks him to convince her why she should - and he actually does. It takes two hours, but he actually gets through to her. In this conversation, he utters the classic line “guilt is natural; it also goes away, if you let it”. Clearly he’s had to make some nasty choices for his survival, and likely he has quite a personal experience of mobs, too.
- Richard Guthrie continues to be one of the biggest assholes of the show. In these two episodes he 1) betrayed Mr Scott by telling Bryson to kidnap him and sell him as a slave, 2) announcing that he’s liquidating his holdings in Nassau without warning Eleanor and saddling her with the angry mob, 3) shamelessly revealing to Eleanor how he betrayed her and why, disregarding the fact that she’s made Nassau what it is over the last few years, 4) is worming his way into Mr Underhill’s good books and got himself a cosy and very safe place to live while all hell breaks loose in Nassau.
- Speaking of Mr Scott, he ends up amongst the slaves in Bryson’s ship and appears somewhat disdainful towards them, mostly because he doesn’t want to knows the realities of what would happen to them if they joined the pirates (some would still be sold as slaves). Eme believes that they should still seize their chance for freedom, but Mr Scott won’t help the pirates get these weapons, which “are dangerous to someone I love". This of course is understood as being Eleanor, but it also easily be interpreted as the Maroon Queen/Madi in light of S3. In fact, it makes much more sense that he is resisting the Urca plan to protect them/his community than because he’s worried that Eleanor will be killed. Eme counters that he’ll never see this person again, which still isn’t quite enough to break his resolve. Finally, once Mr Scott has changed his mind and helped free the slaves and ended up helping Flint, he has a conversation with him. Flint decides not to tell the crew of Mr Scott's betrayal, because he’d rather prove Mr Scott wrong re: making Nassau into more than it currently is.
- Anne’s inability to bear the violence done to Max comes to a head in these episodes. First she dismisses Mrs Mapleton who’s not being all too gentle while “tending” to Max, and the brief talk between Max and Anne seems to reinforce Anne’s resolve to stop Hamund (looked him up) (but did they really need to bond while Anne pushes a phallic instrument into Max’s cervix after lubing it up? there’s clear sexual innuendo in the way it’s filmed and it’s pretty inappropriate). It’s only when Rackham sees Anne defending the entrance to Max’s tent and can’t believe that Anne would put herself in danger over “a fucking whore”, that it finally dawns on him that Anne is horrified with this situation (something he could have guessed considering the circumstances in which he met Anne). Once Max is freed and thanks Anne, Anne tells her that she didn’t do it for Max. Which is probably not completely true, but again what we know of Anne’s past also means that she didn’t want to see any woman treated that way.
- The theme of men siding together and not listening to women comes up several times in these two episodes. Guthrie says that he persuaded Mr Scott to betray Eleanor because “we talked like men and he saw reason”. The “like men” suggests that men support each other’s decisions, especially to resist a woman’s folly. The Consortium refuses to listen to Eleanor unless a respected captain, in this case Hornigold, also backs it. But of course Hornigold won’t back it unless Eleanor allows Vane to become a captain again; he considers how Vane’s men are treating the “thieving whore” to be of absolutely no relevance. Rackham opposes Anne’s attempt at stopping Hamund from visiting Max to protect her from Hamund, who he fears would harm Anne. And finally, Pastor Lambrick doesn’t believe Miranda when she tells him that doesn’t need to fear Flint’s anger.
- An answer to this is unlikely collaboration between women people in ep 6, aka, Eleanor and Anne who deeply despises her. Both of them share a sense of responsibility for what happened to Max, and believe that they’ll only feel better when Max is free and Hamund is dead. John “guilt will go away if you let it” Silver is roped into the plot, when Eleanor, reminds him that he’s a “loose end” to Flint, who will likely want to get rid of him, and promises to tell Flint not to kill Silver after he’s served his purpose if Silver helps them. Which he does, begrudgingly, and at the risk of getting murdered by Hamund at any moment. This puts Eleanor and Anne’s plan to kill Vane’s remaining crew into place, and ruffles Rackham’s feathers: he’s forced to help kill even the men who aren’t disgusting rapists like Hamund. He asks "do I not deserve say", to which Anne answers "you had your say, now I have mine". GOOD FOR HER.
- When the dust settles, we get a really interesting moment where Silver accurately analyses Eleanor, pointing out that she can’t stand to be wrong, feel weak or let anyone get away with fucking with her - which makes her in his opinion possibly more dangerous than Flint. Does this mean that Silver still thinks he had a genuine chance of winning Flint over and surviving him even without Eleanor’s help? (he’d be right, considering how his relationship with Flint evolves later on the show; perhaps the difference between Flint and Eleanor is that because she’s a woman, she can’t *afford* to show any weakness at all)
- Lambrick has his big moment in episode 6 when he rides chivalrously to Miranda in the middle of the night, hoping to save her from Flint’s retribution. Instead of really reassuring him, Miranda chooses to talk about Thomas instead. This is where we hear the most about Thomas in S1, and the way Miranda speaks about him is clearly loving and admiring. She compares Thomas to Lambrick, saying that he was also a sort of shepherd (the comparison stops here imo). Then she imagines how Thomas would have played devil’s advocate, left all of Lambrick’s beliefs in tatters, all for his own good, to free him from the yoke of shame. I can’t help but think, from her teasing tone and the way she smiles, that she believes that Thomas would have somehow debauched Lambrick. The fact that she decides to have sex with him moments later certainly supports that idea. The ghost of Thomas looms on this scene, and it could be that she briefly imagines being with him, which could explain her smile and the way she holds him afterwards. But Miranda had another reason for sleeping with him: it was a very good way to make him stop asking questions about Flint.
- And in the meantime, Flint knows that Billy has been asking questions about Miranda and overheard him talking angrily with Gates about the letter. It just so happens that Billy has to go cut off a piece of the Andromache’s sail that’s slowing the Walrus down, which puts him in a secluded and dangerous spot. The conversation between Flint and Billy is very brief: Flint asks about the letter Billy found, and Billy answers “I think you know what was in it”. Actually, no, Flint has NO CLUE what was in it. Whatever else passes between them is a mystery, and the next thing we know is Flint announcing that Billy went overboard. We see him hovering behind Gates, watching him intently, until Gates decides that they can’t turn back for Billy. The camera pans a lot on Flint’s face, and his expression is quite unreadable. At first I wasn’t convinced that he’d pushed Billy, but on this watch I’m not so sure, because of the way Flint’s face is filmed. There’s also a sort of clue where we see Flint throw Billy’s sword into the sea during the burial at sea ritual. Of course as Captain he was meant to do that... but the gesture is suggestive of him throwing Billy himself. It’s certainly true that Billy had become a thorn in his side for two reasons: 1) he was one of the rare crew members who could influence Gates and get him on his side; 2) he was much too interested in who Mrs Barlow was and what her motivations were - if Billy had alerted the crew of what she’d done, Miranda may have been in danger (a mob quickly turns against a witch who works against the crew).
- To finish on Flint and Miranda: season 1 has painted them as a unit, an inseparable pair, working as a team (in supernatural ways, sometimes). And to some extent they are. Even at this time where they are truly at odds, where Miranda has tried to take control of Flint’s fate behind his back, they are still protecting each other. Flint doesn’t reveal anything about Miranda and possibly attempts to kill Billy to protect her, while Miranda seduces Pastor Lambrick as a way to distract him from his questions about Flint. She can’t convince him to believe her, but she herself is clearly convinced that Flint is a good, decent person (as she tells the Boston judge in her letter) and she trusts that he knows that she only tried to stop him get the Urca because she wanted to save him - something he will come to accept by the end of S2 (unfortunately for them).
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How far do you think S4 will go because I can see they’ve gotten as far as Jack murdering that prostitute (which was in the 220s I think?), but they’re also animating a bunch of S3 material. S3 has the least amount of cut content and that was 60 chapters minus Sekiya and Koito’s backstory. I’m hoping for more than 12 eps or at least S5 coming sooner than 2 years since the manga is finished now.
looking at the trailer for s4 most stuff seems to be lifted from the opening. and based on that the stuff that will get animated:
noboribetsu 1 episode
sekiya 1 episode
koito's backstory + tsukishima confrontation 1 episode
boat 1 episode
heita 1 episode
cinematograph half an episode? probably combined with something else/sekiya
since it goes all the way up to boat there's gonna be asirpa & tsurumi's meeting, their fight & escape on the ice, the white bear etc i don't even know, 1 episode?
tanigaki & inkarmat escaping and the birth of bokkiko, 1 episode
which is already 7.5-8 episodes. honestly i'm just trying to think of a good place to cut off the 12 episodes without it feeling TOO incomplete of a story and it seems tough. jack is present twice in the trailer and kikuta & usami are properly introduced in the beginning so maaaaybe chapter 248-250... ish? but that's so much stuff, idk what they could afford to cut off without too much loss for the plot. kind of ready to part with the sperm detective. if 250 is too far then maybe 245 when sugimoto's group reunites with hijikata's? god knows. unless they're gonna make it 2 cours/announce s5 immediately after then i have no idea where they could cut it off nicely. but i do hope for either of those scenarios because by october the manga will be long done.
there's also the fact that they changed the studio so it all depends on the budget gk is given, s4 is either going to be experimental in terms of observing how much profit it's going to generate -> potential renewing, or things are already decided for the long run. in short i have no idea, we can only wait for additional announcements/trailers because the first one was too vague.
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Only the Light Ch. 20
20/? | AU where Melissa moves in with Scully after Scully’s abduction | angst, msr slow-burn, occasional fluff | currently: mid-s3 (canon-divergent) | T | 4.7k | previous chapters | read on ao3 | tagging: @today-in-fic <3
I now present to you a chapter that is filled with more angst than Chris Carter could ever dream of, and for that, I am truly sorry.
Scully and Mulder's foray into domesticity with Emily is interrupted by the past catching up to them. Faced with despair, they cling even tighter to each other.
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Scully is granted maternity leave, though it’s only for two weeks, which Missy let her know is “a piss-poor bargain.” And she knows this is true, but she also has more incentive to stay at her job than ever, so she’d like not to lose it. The fact that advocating for herself and her child would mean risking her job is a mess in itself, but one lone woman can’t be expected to take down the patriarchy, and besides, she’s already tried and failed.
As for she and Mulder, they hide their flirtation in plain sight. Mulder’s perpetually present in body or spirit, but his behavior never reveals anything more than it did before. Every morning he swings by to say hi, brings Scully coffee and a bagel with full-fat cream cheese, and checks if Emily’s picked up any new words. Personally, he’s working on “alien” and if you ask him, she’ll get it soon. She knows that it refers to her UFO stuffie, so sounding out the letters can’t be far behind, much to her mother’s dismay.
On Wednesday of the first week, he shows up at 6pm with takeout carbonara from a local Italian joint. His presence makes every Scully girl happy, but it makes one in particular the happiest, and Melissa realizes that there are definitely things her sister has failed to mention. She doesn’t question it, but watches with glee as the situation unfolds.
After that first night, Mulder keeps coming back with dinner and refuses to let either sister shoulder the cost. On Friday, he stays for a movie too and gets to participate in Emily’s nightly tucking-in ritual (a tickle on the left foot, a tickle on the right foot, and a big smooch on the forehead).
Saturday afternoon, he joins them for a stroller push through the park, earning some serious side-eye from Scully when he suggests that they stop at the playground because, according to the mama bear, “Em can only take six steps at a time, Mulder.” So instead they buy hotdogs from a vendor and eat them on a bench, Emily sandwiched between her mother, her aunt, and her...Mulder. They couldn’t ask for more.
That night, Mulder hangs around after dinner because what else is he gonna do? Go home and watch old baseball games until he falls asleep? A new leaf has been offered to him, and he’s gotta turn it.
He’s baffled when, upon announcing that it’s Emily’s bathtime, Scully goes to the kitchen and switches on the sink.
Scully raises an eyebrow at him. “What, your mother never washed you in the sink when you were a baby?”
“Not that I know of...I have a hard time envisioning myself ever fitting in a sink.”
Scully scoffs. “I forget. You were a Vineyard boy.”
Before he can come up with a smart response to that (as if there actually is one), Missy pipes up. “Oh, I bet you were the kid that took baths with your mother,” she teases. “Care to confirm or deny?”
“If I did I blocked it out of memory, thank god,” he testifies.
Having spread a towel on the counter, Scully strips Emily down and perches the girl on her hip. She sticks her hand under the faucet.
“That’s not too hot, do you think?” she asks Missy, who tests it as well.
“That should be fine.”
Mulder joins in too, and immediately regrets it. He shrinks away from the water, shaking droplets all over the room. “Jesus, Scully! Are you trying to boil her?”
“Babies lose heat quickly because of their body surface to weight ratio,” she says matter-of-factly. “They’re more susceptible to the cold.”
“I think the cold will be the least of her worries,” Mulder quips.
“If you really think it’s too hot, I’ll turn it down…” There’s a concerned crease beneath her eyes, and it makes Mulder feel bad about his joking.
“No, no, you know what you’re doing,” he assures her. “You’re her mother.”
As she lowers Em into the sink, Scully’s heart twinges. Her. A mother. How many times will she have to hear this before it stops feeling like news to her?
One week and bathtime has already become routine. Missy fills a plastic cup and pours it gently over her niece, the water cascading down Em like she is nature’s own. Scully soaps her palms, then glides over her daughter’s skin with such care that its memory may blight any future affection Em is graced with. And then another waterfall, and the gentle brush of a wash cloth against eyes and nose.
Scully squeezes a penny’s worth of baby shampoo into her hand, looks to Mulder. “Come on, get in here. You’re not afraid to get your hands dirty, are you?” she says with a smirk.
He smirks back and shakes his head as she lifts his open palm and shrinks her accumulation to a dime. “Although, technically I am getting my hands cleaner…”
She boops him right on the nose with a shampooed finger. He laughs.
Missy smiles. Oh, to see destiny play out right in front of you. “Someone’s cracking dad jokes,” she points out, unable to resist. This observation is much too on-the-nose for the pair (quite literally for Mulder), who simultaneously blush but say nothing.
Mulder wipes the shampoo from his nose and plants it on Emily’s head, joining his partner in making soapy circles over the girl’s tuft of strawberry hair. Scully’s full attention is directed toward her daughter. As soon as the lather is sufficient, she dons the lifted lilt of motherhood. “Okay, time to rinse! Missy, will you do the honors?”
Missy turns the faucet, fills the cup, and lets it flow over Emily. Mulder and Scully wash their hands off in the stream.
And as Scully leans for the towel, a splash of red dirties its fresh white surface. Mulder notices it first. He points at his partner’s porcelain face. “Scully, you’re bleeding.”
Her hand shoots to her nose. Sure enough, it stains her fingers. “Shit.” She turns away, goes for a tissue. “I haven’t had nosebleeds since I was fourteen,” she tells them, as if that invalidates this one. She wipes away a glob of blood, her stomach turning. “Missy--” her voice shakes involuntarily, “--will you dry Em off?”
“Uh-huh.” She nudges Mulder. “Will you grab a new towel from the linen closet?” she whispers, not wanting to further upset her sister.
Mulder goes off without a word, and Missy squeezes out Em’s hair as best she can. “What a pretty girl!” she gushes. “All clean!”
“Yee!” Emily throws her little fists in the air, injecting joy back into the room.
“Time to put your PJs on, and get a tickle, tickle, smooch.”
Mulder scrambles back in with a new towel, skirting around Scully, who remains occupied with her own situation. He slides the soiled towel away and helps Missy swaddle Em. Mulder ruffles the little girl’s hair, and she laughs like a music box.
“Mol-dy.” She spits it out in halves, as if she’s been rehearsing.
Mulder’s eyes water with recognition. “Mulder? Mul-der? Is that what you’re trying to say?”
“Moldy,” the girl declares again, certain of herself.
Missy adjusts Em on her hip, smiles at Mulder. “Looks like you’re Moldy now.”
Mulder bites his lip to hide his overwhelming delight. “Yeah, I...I never thought I'd be so happy to be called moldy.”
Next thing he knows, Scully is at his shoulder with a tissue stuffed up her nostrils. “Wait, what’s going on?”
“Em called me Moldy,” he tells her, full of satisfaction.
“Oh.” It comes out relatively unimpressed, but really, she’s just distracted. “Missy, will you get a diaper on her before there’s an accident? I would but I’m still--” She gestures to her nose.
“Yeah, yeah.” Missy smiles at the baby in her arms. “PJ time, Em!” They go off toward the bedroom, a happy pair.
As soon as Em is out of sight, Mulder spirals toward his partner, panic-stricken. The glee of moments ago has evaporated.
“Are you okay?” He touches her hair, shoulders, and the familiar small of her back, unsure of where he should land.
“I’m fine, it’s fine.” Her grip on his elbows--keeping his hands firmly placed on her waistline--suggests otherwise.
“You’ve got to see a doctor,” he pleads. “This could be...”
“This could be what, Mulder?” The steel in her blue eyes is a death grip. She’s never liked being told the obvious.
“Scully…” He sighs, rubs his neck, wills her to say what they both know. When she doesn’t, he takes his hands off her and wrings them together. “The Mufon women...they said it would happen to all of them eventually.” He’s careful not to lump Scully in with their group.
“And what do they know?” she retorts. “One of them was sick. One.”
“Okay, well, don’t you think it’s better to be safe than sorry?” he reasons. “You have Emily to look out for now.”
Scully rolls her eyes. “Don’t guilt trip me. It’s a nosebleed. Those happen all the time for completely benign reasons.”
“Yeah, but they don’t happen to you. You just said--you haven’t had one since you were fourteen.”
She clenches her jaw. He’s right, and she’s playing the fool. His position is the one she would take if this were anyone other than herself. She’s gonna have to lose this fight with as much grace as possible.
“Fine. I’ll get it checked out, but they’re gonna think I’m insane for coming in because of one nosebleed.”
“That’s a nice change of pace--you being the insane one for once.”
“Well, you’re the one who wants me to go, so you’re not out of the woods.”
“Good, I’ve finally got some company!”
Scully smiles in spite of herself. “Yes, yes you do.”
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It happens very quickly, as most calamities of life can be said to. This gives it the unreal quality of a nightmare that might soon be woken up from, if there is any justice in the world.
Scully snags a doctor’s appointment for three days after the initial nosebleed. By the time she walks into the waiting room, one nosebleed has quadrupled into four, and her minor concern has snowballed into abject terror.
Margaret Scully drove into the city to watch Emily so Missy could join her sister. Scully insisted that she would go alone, but Missy wouldn’t accept this. She threatened to tell Mulder the details of the appointment if Dana didn’t let her go, and that was enough to earn her a spot in the passenger seat. Scully can’t take the thought of Mulder witnessing the worst--let alone her reaction to the worst.
And so it goes something like this: they are taken to an exam room, at which point Scully explains her situation to a nurse, including that she has recently learned she is at high risk for cancer. The nurse assures her that such a diagnosis is highly unlikely, but makes a note for the doctor. The doctor comes in with knitted eyebrows and listens to Scully describe the aftermath of her abduction experience with a heavy emphasis on the convoluted but substantial claims of the Mufon women. She asks if Scully has had any other symptoms, to which Scully replies that it’s hard to tell because she has an infant in the house and thus, a marked lack of sleep.
The doctor laughs, but it’s not a haha laugh, more of an I feel your pain. She agrees that the women’s claims are concerning, but tells her patient not to fret. They’ll take all the precautions, run any test that might assuage her worries. There’s a quip about how it’ll be on the government’s dime since it covers Scully’s insurance, and then the doctor leaves to order an MRI.
A full body MRI, which Scully has never had, and which she hoped she would never require. There’s no deeper sickness than one that cannot be pinpointed, and no greater fear than of the unknown turning into the worst case scenario.
The MRI is completed that same day. As she slides into the machine, Scully thinks of Betsy Hagopian and wonders how she’s doing. It has been many months since she stood outside an exam room and watched Betsy enter one of these. Has fate been kind to her?
For a few minutes, her world is limited to the mere inches between her face and this life-saving yet life-ruining contraption. It is noisy and sometimes bright and altogether disorientating. She is glad when it’s over.
The images return almost immediately, and maybe it would all have been okay if Scully weren’t trained in radiology herself, if she wasn’t able to recognize the glaring speck of light in her nasal cavity for what it is. But that one glance is all she needs to know that waiting by the phone isn’t an option.
“It’s a tumor, isn’t it?” she blurts as the radiologist tries to escort her and Melissa from the room. “In the nasal cavity. I have a M.D. I saw.”
“Your doctor will call with the results,” the radiologist insists, standing by the open doorway.
“No, no, you can’t do this to me,” Scully sputters. “I know what I saw, and I don’t have any time to waste.” Her eye twitches in a combination of stress and anger. “I have an infant daughter.”
The radiologist sighs, pity on top of pity. “Perhaps your doctor will talk it through with you now.”
“Yes. Please.”
And it is talked through, though there’s no need to make it complicated: nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Inoperable, and just barely in the realm of treatable. That’s the kicker, the coyote in the pasture, the cloud covering the sun. In the words of Scully’s doctor, it is auspiciously rare. And in Scully’s brain, it is the bottom she’s been expecting to drop out from under since she held her daughter in her arms.
Melissa drives home. The sisters cannot fathom how they will tell their mother. Cannot fathom ruining her blissful time with the granddaughter she’s just met. When they turn onto their street, Scully swallows hard and coughs on her own spit. “Will you do something for me?”
Missy looks over, eager to do anything she can, yet terrified by the possibility of the request.
“Will you take me to Mulder’s?” Scully mumbles. “I would just take the car but...I can’t face mom right now. I don’t want to risk it.”
Missy bites her lip. “And what am I supposed to tell mom when she asks where you are?”
“The truth,” Scully says curtly. “She doesn’t need the backstory.”
Missy drives past their building, though she’s not completely sold on her sister’s reasoning. “Don’t you think she might wonder why you aren’t coming home to your daughter?”
“I know she’ll wonder, Melissa, I know all of this,” Scully snaps because she needs to. “I don’t care.”
“Okay.” Missy’s voice is barely perceptible. I don’t care; she knows how low her sister has to be to say those words.
They complete the drive in silence, Scully biting her nails--a habit which she has never possessed, and perhaps just acquired. The car idles as Missy pulls up to the curb of Mulder’s building.
“I can pick you up when you need it,” she tells her sister as she pulls herself out of the car. “I’ll bring Em.”
“I’ll figure it out,” Scully says, closing the passenger door and edging toward the building. Missy hears a thanks float toward the car, then her sister is gone like a teenage girl embarrassed by her mother.
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They sit on Mulder’s couch, muted. Words cannot fathom the injustice of this situation, nor can they suffice as empathy. Their hands are clasped together, a throughline of strength between them. This is what they need now; the most primitive language of all.
Scully’s watery eyes brush Mulder’s face. His own eyes, more pained than usual, look into hers. Without a word, she drapes an arm around her partner’s shoulders and scoots into his lap. He is surprised but not distressed. What else is left for them, now?
She is tiny, so tiny. And she is his.
Their eyes meet once again, speaking in tongues. Scully nods, and then Mulder does too. This is it. This is it.
Permission granted at last, Scully’s lips travel to her partner’s jawline. The first time her lips have touched his body, and this is where they go. She is a constant box of wonders, a fortune he can never predict. Her lips are much like he has fantasized they would be: wondrously soft and silky, stroking him like they have always meant to be there. Yet he couldn’t have imagined the urgency with which they burrow into his skin. As if she’s making a mental map of his bone structure. He never expected that she would want him this much.
His hands find her hips and grip the cotton of her shirt between his fingers. It is enough to tear her away from his flesh. Mission accomplished. His breath travels past her ear, hitting her neck. It is shallow and warm as he breathes her name. Her real name, the one her family calls her. She breathes his own back to him, like a bird responding to a mating call.
She feels his lips on her neck, wet and aching. It feels like God. This is the most blasphemous thought she has ever had. She throws her head back, exposing the whole of her skin to him. What is holiness, if not this moment?
He showers her in tattoo kisses, and she lets him, she lets him, she lets him. This is not just what she wants, but what she needs. No one will save her now, she knows this. So she has decided not to be saved.
Her shirt ripples as he clutches it. “May I?” He is breathy, awe-struck.
“Only if I can do the same.” Always about equality, his Scully is. He lifts his arms, lets her strip him first. He is fraught with the temptation to feel insecure, inadequate, but this is not about him--this is all for her. There is no time to dwell on this anyway. Scully takes in the sight, then puts her own arms up with a hint of impatience. He pulls her shirt over her head, and goosebumps adorn her as the air hits her bare stomach.
It is unimaginable, the significance of this moment. All Mulder can do is keep going, lest the emotion hit him and he find himself blubbering all over her. His hands travel her body...it is slender and white, but so solid, so strong. Cartilage forming ligaments forming joints connecting bones. And her skin, stretching over her hips and framing it all. The masterpiece that is Dana Katherine Scully.
He fears for the day she will cave in on herself. Already, one of his hands covers her whole rib cage. Right now he can cradle her body comfortably against his own, but the day will come when a single cautious touch will crush her, and his heart along with it. He wants her as she is now forever.
Seeing that he wants to pamper her, Scully lets herself be pampered. He showers the taut length of her collar bone in kisses. The vibration resonates throughout her bone structure, and already she can feel him in places she’s only fantasized about having him. He is going to heal me, she thinks. If anyone could heal her in any way, it would be him doing this.
She shows her gratitude by kneading circles into his soft tissues, so tense from all their days chasing ghosts. The sinew relaxes beneath the pads of her fingers, and she feels like she has solved the most important X-File of all.
Mulder traces his way along her spine. He has never touched her here, nor ever even fantasized about it, and there is an erotic tension--like a needle about to drop on a record--that neither one of them could have seen coming. Inevitably, his hands converge at the hooks of her bra. She arches her back in approval. He slides the hooks away from each other, and both of them feel the release. She shimmies off the garment before he can pull it out of the way. No secrets, not anymore.
Mulder didn’t expect to cry and is aware that most women wouldn’t take that as a positive sign, but seeing her, like this, knowing what they both know, tears feel like the least he could offer up. She is...beautiful is too weak a word to describe it. He needs to invent a new word to capture the essence of his emotions, the reverence with which he views her. He is not a religious man, but he will worship her until the end of time.
He has known this, intuitively, for a while, and now he’s putting it into practice. He wants to do everything he can for her, give her everything she wants. Yet he doesn’t know how to, and this scares him. She has always slipped through his fingers, always turned on a dime just when he thought he figured her out. Tonight is no exception. How was he to know that he’d be on his couch with a half-naked Scully in his lap?
He fears the tears will offend her, so he nuzzles into her heartspace, his nose pressed against the heart that is--by the grace of that God she worships--still beating. His lips meet the plush of her left breast.
Where does he go from here? The dusty routine he’s used with other women--the few who have given themselves to him or let him hand himself over--is not worthy enough for Scully. He could never touch Scully in the ways he’s touched the women before because she is not like the women before. There is no mere giving or taking here, no detached exchange of commodities or pleasure for the sake of pleasure. This is survival. They are symbiotically keeping each other alive.
A drop of water hits Scully’s skin, slides down the curvature of her breast. She shudders. A tear. That’s what it is, she realizes. Mulder is crying. It’s a baptism of unfortunate proportions.
She cups her hand against his chin, tilts it up so his bleary eyes meet hers. She rests her forehead against his. “Shh, shh, it’s okay.” She kisses each eye closed, his lids fluttering beneath her lips. “It’s okay.”
His breathing steadies. He is quite certain that it is not okay, that it never will be, but he listens to her, lets himself pretend.
Hands still on his chin, she careens their lips together. His mouth on hers; a godsend. They caress each other for a moment, then Scully opens wide, and Mulder does too. They are reflecting.
If Scully could compress herself, pushing every particle of air out of her lungs and into his, she would. As a sort of thank you, for everything. For what he has done, what is doing, what he will do...She will never have to live without him. She knows this now, and it makes this easier. But he will have to live without her, and so she must make sure he gets the memories he needs to carry on. This is how grief works, she’s acquainted with it. These moments, these feelings, these bated breaths and tender touches, will be his survival mechanism for awhile. Until the day when he can throw them off and go on without her ghost. It will happen one day, and she will be glad that he made it.
She feels him pressing against her stomach, which is certainly not where she wants him. “Fox…” Her hands hover above his belt. She unzips his fly first, her hand warm against him. He is dizzy with want as her fingers curl against his belt buckle, loosening it with confidence. In a sweeping gesture, she pushes his jeans off his hips, exposing him. The thrill she feels, seeing him big and bare in front of her, is a new kind of livelihood. She’s overcome with the desire to take him in her mouth--and that has never, never been her first instinct. She ducks down, but he stops her.
“Dana, no. You.”
She doesn’t need to hear it twice. She sucks in a breath, arches her back, and slides onto him. Slowly, gasping as they go.
“Am I hurting you?”
Scully shakes her head, lips parted. It has been nothing like this before...nothing so fulfilling. She crosses her ankles, binding them completely together at last.
Unity triumphs against the self, their union abolishing the world’s insistence on the solitude of the individual. This is what it’s about, isn’t it? Being joined, not only in spirit, but in body? Knowing that whatever horrors are to come, he will feel them as she does. Her dwindling will be his too, her losses an equally empty space within him.
She is teetering on the edge of something she can never come back from. She is not afraid.
She careens her fingernails into his back as the pressure builds. If it doesn’t come to a head, she’ll die right here, she thinks.
She barely registers the cathartic noises coming out of her, though they give Mulder great delight. He thought she would be quiet, and the fact that she’s not trying to hold anything in--after holding everything in for so goddamn long--is the most moving part of the experience.
And they want this to go on forever, but they want the release. Mulder swivels his hips into her, bringing them both closer to climax. Scully curls against him.
“I’m sorry,” she cries into his ear.
“What?” He nearly pulls out of her, fearing that she’s hurt.
“No, no--” She scrambles to stay with him. “This--” she pants “--is so good.” She lowers her lips onto his as confirmation, then speaks into his open mouth. “I’m just sorry to be the one to go.”
He frames her ribcage, thumbs arching toward her belly button. “Fuck, honey...don’t say that, don’t even think that…”
They won’t linger on the choice of pet name, the tenderness with which it settles over her, nor the absolute devastation of her words. There is simply no time.
Scully hides her face in his neck as the wave breaks over both of them. There is no world anymore, only the two of them on this couch. They have forsaken the physical realm, ascending to heaven in time with their heartbeats.
Mulder understands then what his reciprocal means when she says she needs proof to believe. Now that he’s been there and felt it, he knows that heaven exists, and holy shit, what does that mean for the life he has lived and the time he has left? What did it mean for Samantha?...What will it mean for Scully?
They collapse into each other, a melted mass of skin and bone. Two becoming one, becoming two again. Mulder strokes the back of his partner’s head, presses his lips to her temple. Her chest rises against him in jagged breaths.
“You are the only proof I’ll ever need that this life is worth it,” he murmurs. “Just you.”
Scully looks up at him, tears running down her cheeks. He kisses them away and wraps his arms around her. “I don’t know if you got the memo, but I love you, Dana Scully.”
She rests her cheek against his. “I love you too, F--Mulder.”
Mulder chuckles, his amusement shaking both of them. Scully closes her eyes and snuggles into him. He puts his hand over her heart, feels it beating steadily into his palm, and longs for it to stay like that forever.
#i have been working on that last scene since uhhh...october#i apologize for any emotional distress this and the following chapters will cause lmao#probably only two or three chapters left!!!#thank you for reading <3#only the light fic#missy and scully fic#txf#txf fic#the x-files#fox mulder#dana scully#melissa scully#mine
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what are your thoughts on the other aot boys?
ooooh this sounds like a fun question 🤩 since i love every single character in aot, i'm going to limit this around the 104th ☺️
long post ahead !! woot woot 🥳
let's start with eren. sighs. this man, istg, somebody hated on me a while back for defending him while the final season kicked off. i think behind the facade of this impassive persona he has to portray in season 4, he's still the passionate, determined eren we grew to love since the beginning of aot. at first, i actually didn't like him mainly bc he nearly made me deaf 😭 buuuut i admire him for that tenacity he has in achieving his goal of having a safe place for his family. i think this personality of his will still show in the modern au. i see him as this person who brings out the talkative in you bc he's so comfortable to talk to. as if he knows how to gauge your mood to adjust his responses.
ngl, armin is my little sister's favorite character and she cried at what happened in s3 🥶 armin tho is someone i want to protect, like i know he's stronger and smarter than me but he has this atmosphere where you want to give him all the attention. it's those blue eyes, man, they make me weak in the knees. you can't help but love him at first glance bc he has this childlike wonder whenever he learns new things and that's mainly why i like him as a character. for sure, i'm never going to talk to him in the modern world, he's this amazing student that i probably would look stupid if talk to him, much less sit beside him. yikes. nonetheless, i think if you're friends with him, he'll be your platonic soulmate, where everyone thought you're dating but you're really not.
JEAN. yes in caps. JEAN MF KIRSCHTEIN. he's my first guy crush in aot. the moment i saw him appear on my laptop screen, i was ready to fight for this man 😔 he's so handsome like what the actual fuck ???!! i have been thinking on this for a while — all of the male characters in aot are pretty but the exception lies in the form of jean (cough and erwin cough but we won't talk abt this fine man bc it's jean's time). if you search the term handsome in the dictionary, his face greets you. putting aside my dying crush on this man, he'll be the best guy friend you'll ever get aside from armin. he knows his boundaries and learns not to overstep on the line you created for the sake of your friendship. just imagine him knowing about your period cramps and he comes knocking at your door with your favorite foods. MARRY ME.
ah, connie. there's never a dull day if you're with this guy. every day will be an adventure when i think of connie. i also want him as a best friend bc i need to do stupid yet exhilarating things to spice up my boring life ankdkwj don't come at me but i think that his trio with jean and sasha remains superior. istg, they're so fun if i think about it. i think connie will be the type of person to send you random memes late at night or invite you in a video call, on any platform mind you, whether it's zoom or Facetime, he'll be announcing that you two will be calling — just accept it. he's such a fun character. i will never forget how he made me wheeze while making that eren jaeger joke in s3, that shit made me laugh to this day.
reiner. i had a phase where all i think about is reiner. he's such a teddy bear to my eyes ??? i think that's just me but the moment i saw him in the timeskip, i wanted to bury myself in his chest. and i wanna hug him so bad :((( the guilt he carries and the burden he has to endure while being sent to paradis at such a young age, that shit still hurts me, man. i will never forget one of my facebook friends for hating on him for no reason whatsoever, i was about to defend him in the comments even tho that friend of mine is just a schoolmate but the way that they seem like they're woke makes me so mad. fucking hell, this guy wanted to shoot himself and they're thankful for it. JUST ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT. in short, reiner is a husband material, caring for your worries while being empathetic enough to prioritize mental health in your relationship (no matter what kind it is 🧡). all the hugs won't be enough for me to comfort him. agh, i love him so much tho.
in short: i love all of them and the rest of the boys who i didn't mention 😌
#I WENT OVERBOARD SHIT#NDIWJSJDK THIS IS LONG#AND ITS STILL FIVE CHARACTERS#MIGHT MAKE A PART 2 eep#rorytalks#anons 💌🥰#🦋✨🦋✨
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We’re back with another edition of Christmas Movies and Christmas Cocktails, and this one is a special one. For the guys' 25th (!) episode, they welcome actor, writer, and Chicago hunk Michael Vlamis to the show to discuss the Chicago Christmas classic Home Alone.
You may know Michael Vlamis from his starring role on the hit CW series Roswell, New Mexico, but not long ago he was a struggling actor trying to find his place in the world, not unlike Kevin McCallister.
The three old friends discuss how the message of Home Alone weirdly ties into Vlamis’ journey to Roswell, Daniel Stern’s iconic scream (and his resemblance to Bear’s dad), how cool it was being a Chicago kid & discovering John Hughes’ films, plus a live update from Vlamis himself on how COVID has affected shooting film and TV shows today.
And don’t worry, Roswell fans: Vlamis drops a few tiny hints about what to expect from his character in season three. You don’t wanna miss this one! The cocktail of choice this week is called Les Incompetents (seriously).
Okay, I’ve listened to the whole thing, and he doesn’t actually drop any S3 hints???
At the end he claimed that the show might return in mid JANUARY, which imo is impossible since The CW has already announced it’s schedule for Jan - March (and it’s all the fall shows that would’ve normally started airing in September/October 2020, Covid prevented that and they will all premiere in January/February 2021), and there’s just NO time slot left for RNM, especially not in January. :/
They’ll be filming S3 until the end of April (we’ve heard about that before). They had Covid cases, but are suuuper strict about keeping apart on set, and they’ve been able to avoid a shutdown yet.
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