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im-in-a-love-cult · 7 months

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Marauders era headcanons!!

The Royal court

Requested by @thestarslittleking

Sorry if you disagree with some of them!!

Regulus

Pouty

Like a pout is almost always on his face

His eyes are really telling of his emotions sometimes

Likes physical contact with people hes EXTREMELY close with

Likes being called Reg by people hes close with

If a random person calls him it theyre going to the hospital 💀💀

Bi, trans and asexual

'Its the 70s he wouldnt be-' kindly stfu 💞💞🥰🥰

This is a common one but hes practically a poet

Strong French accent

Japanese/british English/ French

As i said in the previous hcs his accent is stronger then Sirius's

Loves the water

He's actually really smiley around his friends

Classical music but when he gets into his later years in hogwarts he starts to like goth music

I can see him being good at gothic dances

Black cat animagus IDC

Barty

unhinged

Thats it. Thats the hc.

A whore tbh

Liked Reggie for a while

Until he was like 'dayum look at Evan 😼'

LMFAO

Ok I'll try not to include too many ships in these

This isnt my original idea but affectionately bites people

'Barty... what're you doing?" "Nom"

When drunk hes...something

Take that how u will

Tw for drugs in the next hc!!

Honestly more of a weed kinda guy

Ok tw over continue reading

Professional complainer

If complaining was a job he'd be the richest man alive (well not alive but..)

ROCK MUSIC

queen fan idc

Him and Sirius are actually very similar in a lot of areas

Thats why Reggie was drawn to Barty

Plays the drums

He wears tank tops a lot

Always hurts somewhere

Its mostly his fault

I can see him being bi with a preference for boys or just full on gay

Dorcas

Sirius has competition to whos the most beautiful person in the Marauders era fr

Almost always has locs or braids

Scarily good at makeup

Tall

Potential to be a 2000s Victoria secret model fr

Has the most beautiful soothing voice

Lesbian non-binary (they/she)

So many people have a crush on them

Fav alcohol is wine

Classy 😻😻

Extremely smart

Really long eyelashes

I love her

Doesn't care for animals

Really likes dragons tho

HER AND REGGIE ARE A POWER DUO IDC

Steady hands

Wears lots of rings

Ignores people a lot 💀💀

Sassy as HELLL

Barely ever means it tho

Evan

One of those scary blue eyed blondes

Kind of a less energetic version of Barty

BISEXUAL IDC

A gentleman to all girls he dates

All the boys got usual, casual dating

Barty gets to be treated like a one of those dogs that look like rats 🥰

I KNOW WHAT THE NAME IS BUT I CANT SPELL IT

Chiwawa

Ciwawa

Chiwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I can see him having really light freckles

Will punch someone in the face for funsies

"Evan why would you do that!?!" "I was bored bro"

BARELY passes his tests

He passes but only by a few marks

Loves making fun of peoples voices

Its his favourite pastime

Pandora

So unnecessarily nice to 1st years

And everyone tbh

Smiley

Pansexual

Loves animals of any kind

If shes angry shes lowkey scary 😨😨

Actually really funny

Her hairs messy 84% of the time

When shes too active or gets too hot her cheeks go really red

ME TOO BABES ME TOO 😭🤞

Spaces out so easily

Blonde blue eyed but less scary than evan 😭

A bit of a potty mouth

Also really smart

"Wow this friend groups so smart!" And then theres Evan and Barty 💀💀

Really posh accent

Has scars from thorns and animals and shit 💀

Loves learning new things

No matter what that thing it

'Knowledge has no boundaries' i feel like she says that

Or at least goes by it

Shes so real wtf

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second-hand-heaven · 2 years

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Izzy hands has me chewing on fucking glass I s2g

He's a rat bastard who wouldn't know what niceness is if it punched him in the teeth. Thinks a quick death is kindness.

He's a working-class career-pirate who is bested at every turn by a bumbling wealthy colonist who bought his way into larping as a pirate during a midlife crisis (affectionate).

He's incredibly practical for a man who wears leathers on a ship in the middle of the Caribbean.

He's incredibly dramatic and 'sentimental' for a fucking pirate.

He sells Stede out to the British but asks for a quick death for Stede, and keeps the crew out of the bargain. He attempts to get Ed out of the way (not to step Ed from stopping the events, but to keep Ed safe (keep Ed from seeing what would become of Stede?))

He believes in rules and structure and hierarchy and professionalism in an anarchistic environment. He abides by these rules even when disadvantageous (see: the duel) and expects the same from others (see: No Pets, Izzy/Stede first meeting).

He tries to protect Edward the only way he knows how and ends up breaking him further

He tolerates Ed's softness in private but cannot let anyone else see that publicly out of fear of what will happen if the world sees that softness and takes it as vulnerability.

He doesn't tolerate softness in public from anyone on his crew. Doesn't tolerate idleness when there's work to be done.

He loses a toe to the man that he loves and (outwardly) shows even more devotion than before

He demands respect but has few means to attain it. He manages people okay, when they respect him, and when they don't, he really really doesn't ("ooh daddy").

He kills for a man (we believe) he knows cannot kill, and does not judge him for it

He fulfills his role as second in command but cannot (and does not want to) lead.

He loves Ed in such a selfish way, but gets absolutely nothing for it. He loves Ed in such a selfless way, demanding nothing for it except for Ed to remain himself (himself! the self Izzy has known for years!)

He's Ed's subtextual spouse, living off crumbs of affection that have long since gone stale. A pat on the back nearly breaks him.

He's starving.

I just... How can you not be at least a tiny bit fascinated by this guy?

#ofmd #our flag means death #izzy hands #nandor voice: fucking GUY

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lucifersresources · 5 months

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stupid shit said in discord servers part three meme.

edit/alter/change pronouns etc as you see fit!

how dare you be a cop.

i had a dream you worked for nasa but like... nasa were also cops, and you tried to arrest me for publishing pictures of the earth on twitter.

i have never been to jail.

i'm a nun, i've never been in horny jail in my life.

respectfully, you are gay 24/7

babe i'm horny, not sad.

[unintelligible mort screaming]

why am i even attracted to him?

your animagus form would be king julian.

shit i'm not a bot

i still have the immune system of a rat.

ethically, i can go to the library, right?

i can cry and rest at the same time, it's called multitasking.

i don't know where this comes from I'M A HAPPY PERSON.

i'm blowing you a kiss, if you don't catch it and put it in your pocket, i'm gonna end it all.

they're both switches, so there's multiple holes to choose from.

do you ever say something and wonder how exactly you got to this point in life?

mousekeep, mouselight, mouseboss.

ur funny and that's on me.

you made me do this, any injury is on you.

i can buy friends.

i can't bully you today, i have you pencilled in for tomorrow.

he's gay and mean.

ah yes, i'm a moron.

i am made a horrid joke... wait, you're british, you won't be scandalised.

i love lamps.

jfk is a werewolf for real this time.

i'm not putting him in the closet, he worked so hard to come out of that!

i'd like to thank the academy, my dad, and my trauma for the humour it gave me.

all he needs is a bong and he's happy.

god i wasn't even flirting i don't even like you like that man, no homo!

you're gonna die a bottom, how embarrassing.

now WHY is my banana nut muffin so goddamn bald.

i'm bisexual which means i'm attracted to men and i don't like men.

i'm bisexual which means i'm attracted to you as a result of your work and the fact i have no experience in this field.

i'm bisexual which means i'm attracted to me.

in the most affectionate way possible, i am not convinced you are of this earth.

#rp meme #rp sentence starters #sentence starters #rp memes #rp sentence meme #quotes rp meme #quotes sentence starters #funny rp meme

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lovecatsys · 3 years

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Straight friend groups be like: *blonde* *brunette* *chad* *the funny one* *kyle*

Gay friend groups be like: *lizard demon alien man* *actual rat* *a literal fairy* *a british dude with childhood trauma from homophobic parents trying to forget that hes gay who goes on a journey and unknowingly ends up accepting his past through this journey*

*angie bowie (affectionate)*

#velvet goldmine #i hate the actual angie but mandy deserved better guys

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twdmusicboxmystery · 3 years

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10x22: Here’s Negan - Details

All right. Here are a LOT of details.

***As always, spoilers abound below for 10x22. Don’t read until you’ve watched!***

We start with Maggie and Hershel walking around Alexandria early in the morning. She calls him “a little rat” affectionately, which I’m side eying. Because of Carol’s rat last episode and because we already established parallels between Hershel and Beth from ep 17 in that he went missing and Maggie and Daryl searched for him.

Then they sing “you are my sunshine” together, which is the same song Carl sang Negan. Because the sun is a Beth symbol, we’ve always seen her in that song. I also wonder if it foreshadows Maggie losing Hershel in some way. I don’t mean him dying, but rather being kidnapped. A lot of us have thought about one or some of the kids being taken at some point, and their parents having to search for them.

Carol looks out a broken window (Broken Glass Theory) and sees the exchange. So, she leaves Alexandria and takes Negan with her.

Actually, the next thing we see is a dead rabbit she pulls from a snare. The rabbit is SUPER interesting. I answered an Ask HERE about the moon rabbit, and I really love this explanation of the symbol. It makes perfect sense for Beth because the moon rabbit sacrificed itself, which is exactly what Father Gabriel said cryptically in 5x16. “How you sacrificed one of your own….”

Plus the Moon rabbit is resurrected and combines the moon symbol and the rabbit symbol.

So what does it mean in this context?

Well, I still don’t want to go into too much detail, though I will soon. (I promise.) But if rabbit = Beth, I think this is yet another example of symbolism that points to Negan and Beth having a big arc together later. (And Carol will probably be thrown into the mix.)

That evening, Negan drinks by the fire. What he’s drinking is clearly moonshine. It’s from one of those big glass moonshine bottles. I don’t know where he got it. I looked a second time at the stuff they left for him, and it might be in there, but if so, it isn’t visible. It would certainly be interesting if Daryl left him moonshine, but I don’t see any super-obvious hint at that. If it’s already there in the cabin, well, that’s Leah’s cabin, so….

This is where he sees his old self from the trailer. Some of the dialogue jumps out at me as things Daryl might say about himself. Evil Negan says to his good self, “You are nothing without her.” That sort of thing.

The next day he goes back to the tree with the stained-glass windows where Rick cut his throat. One of the plate glass windows has a hole in it and the other one is lying on the ground.

My go-to explanation of course is that the one with the hole represents the bullet hole in Beth’s head. (We actually said this of the stained-glass window in Father Gabriel’s church that Sasha shoots a hole in in 5x16 as well.) And I always see someone falling down as a serious injury. So, when Beth belly-flopped in the elevator shaft with Noah, that was a foreshadow of her getting shot. So I’m kind of seeing the window lying flat on the ground in the same way.

Of course, Negan digs up Lucille, and then it goes into the flashbacks.

It starts of course with him being a prisoner of the biker gang. We do think this gang is a parallel of the Claimers from S4. Remember that I said, overall, Negan = Daryl, right? So, this guy (Craven) even kind of looks like Joe Claimer. They dress in a similar fashion, are rough-and-tumble kind of dudes. But also, Negan runs into them after he loses Lucille. He doesn’t realize she’s died at that point, but she has. Just like Daryl ran into the Claimers after being separated from Beth in Alone.

And we immediately see a blue cooler with IV bags inside. They’re Lucille’s chemo treatments. So blue cooler/Frosty Cola symbolism. Plus this can parallel to 6x06 when Daryl accidentally took off with Tina’s medicine when he met Dwight. Basically, these are both pointing to the same thing: a future arc involving Daryl and Beth. There are also 22s on the IV bags. So, 22 theory.

I will say that the format of this episode is a lot like 10x18 because so much of it is flashback. They even use the same font to show the time jumps. The main difference is that with Daryl, they started 5 years ago and then jumped forward, toward the present. Here, they actually move backward first and then forward again.

So it’s like a swinging pendulum. They go back 12 years to where he’s a prisoner of the bikers. Then it goes back 6 weeks to when he’s with Lucille in their home , and then it jumps back again to before the apocalypse when she first found out she had cancer, which was right about the time the turn happened. And then it moves forward to the two of them together in the house, and then back to him with the bikers.

Okay, so, “12 Years Ago” he’s telling his story to the bikers.

Then it actually says “Two or Three Days Ago” and it’s odd to me that they don’t specify which one it is. Negan says he found the mobile medical clinic 2 or 3 days ago, but there’s got to be a reason they don’t just go with one or the other. Anyway, this is when he found an RV with supplies. He tries to hold the doctor up and Laura (Savior) comes up behind him with a bat and hits him.

We also get a bit of a hallucination theme. When Negan looks at the RV and the dummy guards on the roof, his sight sort of warps in and out like he can’t tell for sure. When he wakes up, he’s also hooked to an IV. (Parallel to Beth at Grady.) The doctor says he was dehydrated, malnourished, and exhausted. So maybe, in addition to all the mental break stuff we’ve already said about Daryl in 10x18, we should add these to the list.

“Six Weeks Earlier” and it shows him and Lucille. The first thing we see is that she tells him he’ll have to kill the walker but he doesn’t want to. He just turns off the generator, hoping it will go.

So, she makes him read Pride and Prejudice to her. The Pride and Prejudice thing is really interesting. He only reads a line or two, but anyone familiar with the story will be able to pick out the scene. Basically, in the story, a man asks Lizzie to marry him and she rejects him. He doesn’t love her or anything. He’s just looking for a “suitable” wife, and she can’t stand him. After she rejects him, her best friend marries him instead. And this friend doesn’t care that it’s not a love match. She just wants to be settled in life.

So the scene Negan reads part of is where the friend, Charlotte, is coming to tell Lizzie that she’s marrying him instead. This is the part Negan reads:

"I see what you are feeling," replied Charlotte. "You must be surprised, very much surprised--so lately as Mr. Collins was wishing to marry you. But when you have had time to think it over…”

Here’s the thing. No way they’re putting dialogue from such a well-known book like this into the show without reason. And I know they said on TTD that it’s supposed to be an Easter Egg for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Fair enough, but it’s not enough of an explanation for me. In the past, there have been things Nicotero has labelled as homages to various horror films, and I’m sure that’s true, but they’re also clearly Beth symbolism.

So, you could say that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies applies to Negan and Lucille. It’s a true love story, but zombies are thrown in. That works. But why this particular passage? It’s about NOT marrying for love, or the passing of a man’s offer of marriage from one woman to another. None of that applies to Negan and Lucille. It would have made more sense to have him read a different passage between Lizzie and Darcy, you know?

So, what does this mean? We’re not entirely sure, yet. For me, I tend to think it foreshadows a future arc (I’m sure you’re shocked) and I’ll get more into that in the next few days.

@wdway suggested perhaps we could apply it to the Leah situation. Daryl is in love with one woman, but hallucinating a relationship with another. I think that works, too. For now, let’s just keep it in mind, shall we? ;D

Dialogue parallels include Lucille saying, “we’ll have to kill it,” which parallels Beth saying the same thing about the walker at the moonshine shack.

And of course then we get that all important scene with the green wig, “serious” mention, IV stand and bag, and walker in the eye.

We see Negan going out to look for more gas for the generator, siphoning it out of cars.

We also see them having fun together. Obviously them playing darts is a callback to Still. The part where they play darts is actually just like half a second in the show, which just goes to show that they did the promo shot because they wanted us to see the symbols in the scene. I want to draw everyone’s attention to the fact that the British flag is printed on the darts. This is part of the template I’ll talk about in a day or two as well. For now, I just want you to notice it. It’s important.

When they do the candlelight dinner (*coughs alone*) they eat DOG food. Sirius reference. She suddenly says “happy anniversary” and pulls out a present for him. He says, “You know what day it is?” and she says, “no, I just wanted you to have this.” So I think the idea is that it’s not really their anniversary. She just said that as an excuse to give him a present. It reminded me a little of the “New Years Eve” theme we saw around the Claimers. Not exactly the same, but a similar vibe. It’s not REALLY New Year’s Eve. They’re just saying it as an excuse to do something else (in that case, kill Rick). Here, it’s not really their anniversary, but Lucille is saying that as an excuse to give him the jacket.

When Negan says she doesn’t owe him anything Lucille says, “I stuck with you because I could always see the man you are right now, even when you weren’t.” So again, kind of a Beth theme of seeing the best in him even when he doesn’t see it in himself. That’s a huge theme throughout this episode.

There’s more refrigerator/cooler symbolism when the fridge defrosts, ruining the last of Lucille’s treatments.

Then it jumps back to before the apocalypse. There were some symbols here as well. The main ones I noticed were specifically around Lucille. After her diagnosis, she gets in the car and hears the broadcast about the virus victims eating human flesh. Kind of a callback to hearing the Terminus broadcast in 4a.

Then she gets mad and says, just play some g**d*** music. (Music reference.) When the car pulls out, you have to check out this license plate!

XVD-1144. The 1-1 you should recognize from @frangipanilove’s 1-1 posts. The 44 references the comic book issue where Andrea was shot in the head, and survived. And of course there’s the X. So then @wdway had the ingenious idea to ask what roman numerals X and D stood for. X=5 and D=500. So we basically have “X, 550, 1-1, 44.” Yeah, series number 55 was Slabtown. Beth was on the 5th floor. And all the rooms around them in the hallway at Grady were in the 550s. If that’s not proof that Lucille is a Beth proxy, I don’t know what is.

Plus, notice the type of car: mustang. We’ve talked about this before, but horse symbolism, and the type of car is always important.

Another thing @wdway with her eagle eyes picked up. Lucille is scrolling back and forth between Negan and Janine’s numbers, right? Notice the date:

November 12. Recognize that:

Yeah, not kidding. It’s a reference to the headstone in Alone. 👀

Back in the future again, Lucille asks Negan to stay with her. You don’t realize this the first time watching it, but clearly she’s ready to die, and just wants him to be with her, but he’s bound and determined to save her, an goes anyway.

A couple of things to point out. Negan looking for meds parallels to Daryl looking for meds at the veterinary college in 4a. Also, on TTD they pointed out that Negan is constantly putting Lucille in a position to be alone. Before the apocalypse, he left her alone to fool around with another woman, who was her best friend. He made her go to the doctor alone. (Lucille alone at the hospital could = Beth at Grady.) We see him constantly leaving her here to get supplies. And he leaves for like 6 six weeks to track the mobile clinic.

I think that’s mostly an anti-parallel to Daryl. Daryl never left Beth intentionally. But I also think it could be a future theme, not in the sense that Daryl will leave her, but I’ve always thought he would feel super guilty because they left her behind and now she’s been “alone” for 8 years. And again, not physically alone as we know she’ll be part of other groups and such, but without him and her family.

Back with the medical people again, Laura gives Negan her bat, the one she first beaned him with, since he doesn’t have any other weapons.

All they said about Laura on TTD was that they wanted to use her—someone the audience would recognize—but also someone who had a relatively minor role. So they talked about how they could have brought Austin Amelio on and had Dwight give it to him, but because Dwight is a bigger character, and because his onscreen relationship with Negan was much bigger, it would have made it a Negan/Dwight moment and they wanted to keep this episode focused solely on Negan and Lucille. So they used Laura.

And sure, that’s fine. But they could have used any Savior they wanted. And why did they even WANT a familiar face? Why the return of the Savior with the blond hair, you know? I’m just saying. ;D

Of course Negan tells the biker gang where the medical RV is and then goes back to Lucille, but she’s already dead. This really was a very tragic episode.

We obviously have a suicide theme here, and the fact that Negan never actually shoots or stabs Lucille in the head, both of which parallel Beth.

On TTD, YNB even pointed out that she’s wearing the same clothes as she was the day he left, which means she committed suicide the day he left. Most of the 6 weeks he’s been out looking for medical supplies, she was already dead. Super tragic, no?

We also see keys, matches, the blue cooler again, and Negan wrapping the barbed wire around his bat.

So, a couple of preliminary thoughts here. The 6 weeks was bugging me because they said it 2 or 3 times, really emphasizing it. I’m kind of wanting to equate it to 6 seasons. Because if Beth doesn’t show until S11 (and clearly now she can’t, unless she shows in Fear or something, but I’m not holding my breath for that) then it will be 6 seasons since Beth left the show.

And again, it’s more anti-parallel than parallel. For 6 weeks, Negan thought Lucille was alive, but she was dead the entire time. For 6 seasons, Daryl thought Beth was dead, when really she’s been alive the whole time.

And, of course, Negan burns the house down, much like Beth and Daryl did in Still.

But here’s the other thing @wdway noticed. Check out the similarities here:

Similar colors and structures, and both seem to be on fire at some point. And I don’t think the cabin in 5x09 was pointing toward Negan and Lucille. Rather, I think the symbolism in both instances point toward something we haven’t seen, yet. But the parallels and repeated symbolism are there.

When Negan leaves, he gets on his bike with Lucille (the bat) and drives away from the burning house. And interestingly, we see him smack his mailbox with it and knock it off it’s post.

Couple of things here:

The name “Smith” is written on the mailbox, so apparently that was their last name. And they mentioned it on TTD. Smith is such an everyman sort of name. It might be one of the most common surnames on the planet, so there’s definitely some interesting symbolism there having to do with Negan.

But I’m side-eyeing the actual mailbox, as part of the Communication Theme. And, on a very basic level, I’m thinking that the mailbox was intact when Lucille was still alive. He destroyed it after he lost her. So maybe it represents something along those lines, or even represents the person they lost. So mailbox = Beth.

The scene that keeps flashing in my head is from 6x03 when Daryl is riding around on his bike, searching for Rick, and he’s passing all these mailboxes in the background.

Then in 10x21, we see him walking toward the military walker on the train tracks (*coughs CRM, *coughs Rick*) and he passes the blond, Beth walker, but doesn’t actually look at her or see her. Do you kind of see the similar theme there?

Negan brutally killing the biker gang can parallel Rick doing the same to Joe Claimer in 4x16.

Negan tells Craven a story about how he lost his job. He got in a bar fight. It was their favorite because it had a JUKE BOX. And they loved the juke box because it played their favorite song (You are So Beautiful to Me.) He even talks about “seeing red” and how he now realizes he can do anything he wants (read: kill anyone he wants) so we kind of see his evolution into S6 Negan here.

And honestly, they leave a lot of loose threads here. We never learn what happens to Franklin (he’s still alive at this point) and obviously Laura stays with Negan long term, but they really could do more flashbacks about how he started gathering people and found the Sanctuary.

So then we come back to the present where he’s just dug Lucille up under the stained glass window tree. In the first scene at the beginning, we see a walker making its way toward him. Yes, it’s a blond, female walker, and I’m pretty sure she’s wearing Daryl’s shirt from when he was at the Sanctuary. Here at the end, Negan has been lost in his own thoughts so long, the walker comes up behind him and he turns around and kills it with Lucille.

When he does, the bat splits down the middle. Yet another symbol of Lucille’s death.

He goes back to the cabin and sits in front of the fire and talks to Lucille (both the bat and his actual wife). He says, “I’m sorry I left you…I made myself not feel anything…I miss you.” See how we could apply that to Daryl?

He also says, “I’m going to do your fighting for you,” which I take to mean he’ll honor her memory better, now, rather than go back to the old, evil Negan he was. Which was really just years of him avoiding his feelings about her death. (Kind of like Daryl has with Beth, hence the Leah situation.)

Then he covers the bat in a white cloth (clearly meant to be a shroud) and puts the bat in the fireplace, burning it. On TTD, they do say this is meant to be the funeral she never got. 👀

Oh, and at the end of the “in memoriam” on TTD, it actually says, “Negan is burning down his past.”

So, at the very end, he actually goes back to Alexandria. Maggie, Carol, and Daryl are near the entrance and he asks where the “A” team is going. Carol warns Negan that if he lives at Alexandria, Maggie will kill him at some point. I actually really liked this ending. It was a good way to kick us into S11.

That’s the end of the episode. So, I’ll say this again and it will be a good segue into my next post about what I think Beth’s arc will be in S11, and how she’ll appear. I’ll post it either tomorrow or Thursday.

Without getting too much into the weeds, I think Negan and Beth will have some major, future interaction. And I really think the symbolism here backs it up, for various reasons. The symbolism itself wouldn’t prove anything, as we’ve seen this stuff repeated with lots of different characters and especially true love couples, which Negan and Lucille clearly were, despite his cheating.

But on TTD, Hilarie Burton talked about how strong Lucille was. She said she liked the character because so often when cancer victims or victims of other prolonged diseases are portrayed on film, they’re seen as angelic, ethereal beings. And while that’s fine if that’s truly who they are, you don’t lose your personality just because you become sick. So she liked it that Lucille was a little rough around the edges. She says that even before the apocalypse, Negan was just fussy enough that he would need a strong woman to rein him in, and he would also be attracted to exactly this kind of strong woman.

Strong woman = Beth.

So, I’ll just leave it there.

Anyone find any symbols I missed?

#beth greene #beth greene lives #beth is alive #beth is coming #td theory #td theories #team delusional #team defiance #beth is almost here #bethyl

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story-collector · 4 years

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Maribat AU AU!

Adrien and Marinette are 13 when they become miraculous holders

14 when they add to the team (Chloe, Kagami, Luka)

14 when the save Damian from bleeding out on a mission gone bad.

The League of assassins want him back

They start fighting team miraculous

To bad Ass bois, we've adopted Damian and you cant have him back

At 15 Marinette becomes the Guardian

She gives Damian the turtle miraculous for when he goes on patrol with him

They want him to have a real childhood so they try to keep him from the fighting

But theres only so much they can do about a 9 year old that was raised as an assassin

He has energy

Patrol seems to help

And occasionally he gets to beat up someone

But not often

He is Precious and he is absolutely not allowed to fight in real akuma or league battles

(He tried once and they took away his miraculous for a month and didnt give it back till he apologized. They were all very emotional about their child that didnt get a childhood)

(Adrien connects with him pretty well)

Over time they add more to the team (Alix, Kim, Max and Nathaniel) as the fighting gets worse

Damian doesnt like the fighting or his family getting hurt (yes he considered the miraculous team his family, both in and out of the masks) so he leaves (leaving the turtle miraculous behind)

The team is devastated and search for him for months

They are more vicious with the Akuma during fighting

(Also Lie-la comes in but that's normal for maribat)

Shortly after Damian leaves canon stuff happens and he is brought to Bruce

Damian doenst like these new people

He misses the family he made in Paris

They learned Arabic for him!

And taught him English, and French and Mandrin, and some Japanese and Italian (he was still learning) and sign language! (American, British, French, Arabic)

He doenst like this new family

They arent as affectionate and he misses that

He closes off again

He still becomes Robin

But he feels that he is betraying his old family by fighting in battles

Anyway

Usual Gotham trip

The miraculous team helped Marinette (class president) plan the trip, send in the application and fundraise (plus extra)

They win, Lie-la takes the credit, and some things get changed (like where they are staying. Luckily they saved extra because even though the stay is cheaper the extra prices are not) ( and its next to crime alley (I dont remember who's idea this was but I didnt come up with it))

Kagami is on the trip

Luka is the only one in paris

But they have the miraculous box and Kaalki (mabey Max has her, that seems pretty canon by now or mabey it is idk I didnt watch s3)

(Also Marinette hasn't taken off the turtle miraculous since Damian left)

They know the tricks Lie-la will pull

(They get left at the airport. That's 8 students that you "forgot" Bustier(?) But they are a well oiled fighting machine and some of them have a good sense of direction so they make it to the hotel fine)

(Also not my idea but I forgot the owner (I need to bookmark stuff more) but the class has to wait because marinette is the only one who can get passes and check in because she won the contest so they are waiting there)

(She apologizes profusely to all the staff for her classmates behavior, they all adore her (mabey background twitter posts? Also not my idea))

Anyway

They plan to get up two hours early every day.

Theres no way that they can miss anything

(Also batfam themed outfits because Marinette is MDC)

(Overly connected Marinette and miraculous group because their just that good, they also dont flaunt it so no one really knows)

Usual Lie-la "I'm dating Damain Wayne and I had a fling with (insert Wayne family member)" Rossi

(Damian is 13 here, the class is all around 17-18)

Wayne tour day!

Get up 2 hours early and go out to explore

Leave note with front desk to let them know if Bustier asks about them and to tell them that they went out (they try Bustier tells them off, shes trying to do a "headcount" and she doenst listen)

The group is very nice to everyone

Also!

Mom friend Mari

Chlogami

Acedrien (Ace Adrien)

Alix×Kim×Max

Nathaniel and Marc (Marc is still in Paris)

Wander Gotham (Chloe, Kagami, and Adrien have been here with parents so they know some places)

Impromptu photoshoot with batfam outfits (much badassery in pose choices)

Breakfast at a cafe near wayne tower

Meet exhausted tim

Mom friend Marinette takes over

No more coffee young man

Tim is mothered

Tim gets adopted

He fine with this

He likes being cared for (dont tell jason or dick) (batfam needs to get on the actual family aspects of a family, come on now yall)

He also just pulled a 48 hour work "day"

Asks for a photo with his adopted new family

It's his new homescreen

Jeez this is long

No regrets, let's keep going

Marinette is Batman (batmom! No be quiet Adrien)

Adrien is Spoiler (purple looks good on you Agreste. Thanks batmom)

Alix is Red Hood (you dont even need a helmet! Yes you do. Yes batmom)

Max is Red Robin (tech bois unite! Thank you Adrien)

Kim is Orphan (gotta represent those badass girls yall!)

Chloe is Nightwing (you both have that wonderful sunny disposition. Shut up Dupain Cheng)

Kagami is Robin (you guys are so alike it's scary. I agree. Same)

Nathaniel is Batgirl (didnt she die though? No) (here is where a second HC can fit in)

So anyway they have met Tim, adopted him.

Even though hes 17

And their 17/18

Hes their child now

They spend an hour talking and stuff

Then they remember, oh yeah tour

So Tim takes them to Wayne Tower (he has promised to go home after they start the tour. He doesnt want to upset his new parents and aunts and uncles)

Dick is already there and tired of the group because she "forgot" 8 students (8!)

And hes been listening to Lie-la complain and lie for like 45 minutes

They cant start the tour with out Marinette but Bustier insists that it's fine and I basically being a little shit

They arrive with Tim and Dick is like immediately ok now we have a new sister and then he realizes that shes Marinette

The group goes over to him

The rest of the class hasn't noticed them

They drop off Tired Tim

And she sincerely apologizes to him and the staff for her classmates behavior and gathers the passes so that the tour can start

Dick has basically claimed her AND the rest of her group and his flock now

Especially when Tim tells hime what they did for him

(The outfits are a definite bonus. They would fit right in!)

Ok I'm running out of ideas

But basically they do the tour

Regular maribat shenanigans

They meet Damian at some point

He turns back into the child hes supposed to be and crystal on their shoulders and basically refuses to leave them

Obviously theres an identity reveal

Marinette absolutely demolishes Bruce because HE WAS 10 DAMNIT! LET HIM BE A CHILD INSTEAD OF A SOLDIER!

Also Marinette fashionista (who the hell told you that was a good design. No I'm making you a new one)

Lie-la falls (stop lieing about my family Rossi. Damian be nice to the rat)

Hawkmoth gets revealed (just because your a good detective doenst mean I forgive you)

Mabey they get adopted by the rouges (they knows our science, they're good with plants, they're absolutely adorable, they're smart)

Mabey Iceberg lounge because come on I want to see more of that!

But yeah this is what I've got.

I'll add the stuff for Nathaniels HC on a different post.

#tim drake #batman #batfamily #damian wayne #damian al ghul #maribat #marinette dupain cheng #team miraculous #miraculous au #miraculous ladybug #au #dc #ml/dc

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werejustcutethatway · 3 years

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Marius Lokison

Age: 25

Height: 5'6"

Pronouns: He/him

Sexuality: Bisexual

Dom/sub: Switch

Origins: Assam, India, During the Time of the British Raj

Languages Spoken: Assamese, English, French, Chinese, Some Latin

Favorite Color: Night Sky Blue

Job: Doctor/Healer

Powers: Healing Abilities for both himself and others. He can transfer any wound or disease to himself. However there are three limitations:

No Healing the Dead

No Healing Old Wounds (e.g. scars, amputations)

No Healing Emotional or Mental Pain

If he tries any of these, his life force dissolves, making him go faint, cough blood, his hair turn white, and eventually die.

Family: Adoptive Parent @loki-of-asgard-god-of-mischief

Personality: Marius is a very sweet and happy man, always keeping a smile on his face. He enjoys seeing others happy and falls in love all too quickly for his own good. And it's not just romantically! It's almost like he keeps adoption papers in his first aid kit. He is very quick to sacrifice himself for another, which is a complex in and of itself. He is very affectionate with those he cares about, and if you catch his heart, you'll be on the receiving end of many kisses and heartfelt declarations. However, he is very good at masking anger, to the point where he does not understand how to deal with it. When he is scared, he will attempt to placate the people around him with a disturbing level of desperation. He is quick to cry and quick to forgive, but despite these flaws, he's a true lover, friend, and family all the way!

Backstory: Marius was born to a woman who worked as a tea picker in on of the British East India Company's Tea Gardens. His father is unknown and most likely part of an almost extinct tribe of people who have the power to heal themselves and transfer others' wounds to themselves. He has inherited this power. His mother died giving birth to him and his village chose to let him stay in exchange for him learning to heal for them. He has been healing people since he was a child, taking a plethora of injuries onto himself. Eventually, when he grew up to be 18, he realized he wanted to be a Doctor. So he took a few caravans, ships and footsteps to London, learning a lot of languages on the way and taking a European name, Marius. However, because of his ethnicity, the London medical schools ignored his perfect test scores and rejected him.

It was then that the Doctor found him, an Englishman who recognized his potential and promised him the education and care he was denied. It was all peachy roses until the Doctor learned of his self-healing abilities and realized that Marius was more useful to him as a person-sized organ farm, rather than an apprentice. So he drugged him and chained him to the basement, taking all parts of his body and letting them regrow again. The tortures he suffered through in those 7 years were unspeakable, but if you coax him, he might open up to you!

One night, he absorbed the wound of a dead rat so that he could appear dead and the Doctor threw his "corpse" into the river. As he escapes, he is lost, but free looking for a future beyond his past...

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effervescentdragon · 1 year

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HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO MATTERS ACTUALLY <3

#the british rat man (affectionate)#jenson button #abu dhabi 22

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leviathan-says-hi · 6 years

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[Tagged by the lovely @hiding-behind-the-shade-of-art ! Hope you’re having a great day wherever you are :)]

Got tagged in another ask-thing! Got super rambly with this one too, sorry I'm also just as boring as last time so yeah...whoops...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

× Name: Leviathan (yes, really. It's what my library card says and it doesn't get more official than that folks)

× Nickname: Levi, Lichen/Moss (because I have a bad tenancy to kind of just...spread out everywhere? And thrive in the dark and cold? Idk it sounds weird but my parents mean it affectionately I swear 😂)

× Height: Some weird middle ground between 5'7 and 5'8 I think...Maybe.

× Orientation: Under construction ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

× Nationality: British!

× Favorite Fruit: Uhh...does artificial count? If so blue raspberry all day every day 🖤

× Favorite Season: Autumn! I'm a sucker for the colder weather and big knitted jumpers. Also the leaves go cronch. 10/10 excellent sound design there nature 👍

× Favorite Scent: Ooh, the rain, definetly. Either in a forest so everything smells of wood and wet grass or on a road so you get that almost dusty tarmac smell. Does that even make sense to anyone? Either way I love it 🖤

× Favorite Flower: Kinda cheating here but I actually love cacti. They flower though, right? Shh, totally counts (Fun fact: I had over 20 all crammed in my tiny student room at one point. All individually named too. I'm officially that guy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

× Favorite Color(s): Black, like the angsty teen I never grew out of being. Love black and white as a combo but I'm far too clumsy and messy to ever wear it 😅 On the rare off-chance you ever catch me wearing colour it’s probably going to be blue. Is there a name for that not-quite-navy-but-still-dark kind of blue? Like TARDIS blue but with a name I can actually say out in public without getting weird looks? Yeah, that one. It’s a good blue.

× Favorite Animal(s): Oh man, all animals are so good though. I do love sea creatures, not even any in particular, just...kind of all of them. And rats! Beautiful silky bois 🖤 Also, considering my 15 year old pupper's lying next to me as I type this I guess I've got to mention I'm a sucker for dogs too. Ones with long, foxy faces and pointy ears just like my good boi has.

× Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: I like coffee either black and ridiculously strong, or so milky it's basically not even coffee anymore. Only really drink green tea (I've actually recently discovered a green tea that tastes of strawberry cupcakes and its officially my new favourite thing ever), and hot chocolate I always make too sweet and make myself sick. Every. Single. Time. I never learn. The malteser instant one's good though!

× Average hours of Sleep: Not many...maybe 5 on a good night? I'm a "body physically refuses to shut down before 3am and will fight me over it if I suggest otherwise" kind of guy.

× Number of blankets you sleep with: Usually just one. Heathenous, I know.

× Random Facts:

° Being out in the rain has the ultimate calming affect on me. It doesn't matter what's going on or what mood I'm in, if it's raining I feel better the second I step outside. Works every time 😊

° I currently have 5 tattoos, all in black and white and 2 of which completely cover my forearms. Kind of planning eventual half sleeves but far less organised and way more, uh, sporadic? 😅

° I'm currently re-marathoning Doctor Who. I haven't seen it since the reboot first aired and it's giving me MAJOR nostalgia. I literally grew up with the show and it even made me my first friend in school. Really. Like from the ages of 5/6 to 9 we would run round the school yard pretending to be 9 or 10 and his companions, and even got the other kids to join in being the monsters of the week. We even had our own sonic screwdrivers and everything 😂

(Sorry, these are probably all seem super boring or weird, but they're what's been on my mind lately for one reason or another ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

× Dream trip: I'm actually not really one for travel, I'm genuinely happy being at home. I guess Italy though? I would love to visit the Vatican City and see all the old churches. I mean...actual aesthetic goals, amirite?

× Blog Created: Mmh, around Halloween 2015 maybe? Actually only made it then because before that you could somehow use the mobile app without an account if I remember correctly - this site’s so broken I marvel it still holds together sometimes 😂

× Number of Followers: Nearly 200! And I'm still not actually sure why anyone follows me, but I'm glad you're all here nonetheless 🖤

× Tags: Uhh I recently tagged a bunch of people in a thing and I don’t want to be super annoying and bug them again, but if you find this on your dash and want to do it please do! Please tag me if you do, I’d love to hear how you guys are doing.

@brotherofsin (Have you already done this one as well? Sorry if so! I swear I’m just gonna keep on tagging you until we find one you haven’t done yet, warning in advance 😂)

#ask meme #personal

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dancinggrimm · 6 years

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My Day in London: A Review

I just thought I’d share a few points of my day down in London earlier this week.

1. Missed my fucking train. I’d forgotten that there were some major road works going on and didn’t allow enough time to get to the station. The taxi driver very helpfully spent the last ten minutes of the journey telling me that I should have allowed more time until I wanted to knock his block off. However, he made up for it earlier by telling me a story about how he knew all about the history of my home town, Kidderminster, and how in the second World War the British Sikh regiment captured all of the Italian military (no they didn’t), brought them back to England as POWs (no they didn’t) and didn’t have enough prison camps so they closed down all of Kiddermister’s carpet factories (nope) and made people live there and that’s why Kidderminster doesn’t have any carpet factories any more (it has several) and why most of the townsfolk have Italian names (seriously? It’s full of chavs!).

2. Got another train and ended up sitting next to a man who was talking in his sleep in, I think, Korean. I wish I’d known what he was saying, because his two travelling companions sitting across the aisle from us seemed really embarrassed for him.

3. Went to the V&A museum. The guard on the way in to the tunnel entrance gave me the glad eye and told me I didn’t have to have my bag searched because I was too pretty to be a terrorist. This made me feel neither complimented nor particularly safe, but at least I got to take my bottle of Oasis into the museum unhindered. Mmm, delicious Oasis. Even tastier when it’s contraband.

4. I searched for but failed to find @atlinmerrick‘s favourite statue that looks like Martin Freeman in the nip with a peach bum. I did however see some wonderful statues, some nicely gothic ironworks, a lot of beautiful kimonos, and some truly fuck ugly high fashion clothes in the Balenciaga exhibit.

5. Took the tube to Camden and managed to find exactly the same pub that my friend @bagelofdeath and I went to for lunch last time we met up. They do really good pizzas and cider, and have a little upstairs room overlooking a busy junction. So I sat at a table right in the window, looking out at the rain and the traffic, listening to indie rock music and cramming my face with carbs and rocket. Which is a very London thing to do.

6. Wandered up to the lock market for a bit of Christmas present shopping and did my best to avoid the storekeepers trying to ingratiate me. Saw many stalls selling the exact same products, the stall keepers of which all hurried to assure me were handmade by themselves that very morning. You wove all these printed scarves by hand in a morning? Why are you not in the Avengers?

7. There were way more shops selling bongs, marajuana sweets, and similar stuff than last time I was there. Sign of the times, man.

8. As I walked past one shop front the guy at the counter cat called me, which I hate, but he yelled “Hey darlin, where you from?” and when I ignored him he bitterly added “Oh yeah, that’s a really pretty name”, like he couldn’t remember what he’d even asked me, and it was funny enough that I didn’t really care.

9. He did exactly the same thing when I went back down the road an hour later. What a bell end.

10. So. Back on the tube and up to Leicester Square. I had a wander around the Lego store without buying anything, as you do (honestly, it’s more of a museum than anything else), and then popped into the M&M store which smells fucking awful. How do you manage to have a shop full of chocolate products and make it smell like the back of a printer? And who loves M&Ms that much that they want their whole wardrobe to feature them? They’re just Smarties’ inbred cousins! They were having a German Christmas market there too, but it wasn’t anywhere near as good as ours. Fuck yeah Birmingham!

11. Found a tiny second hand bookshop staffed by a woman who was the most perfect fit of a librarian stereotype I have ever seen and it’s genuinely tragic that she doesn’t work in a library. Tiny build, twinset and bead necklace, decorative chain on her wing glasses, nervous demeanor and a itsy bitsy high pitched voice. She was so cute. I bought a book just so she’d talk to me a bit more (and the book turned out to be quite good) and managed to put the Evangelist who had been badgering her into enough of a snit by interrupting him that he left.

12. It was 7pm by now, and time for the actual reason I’d gone down to London in the first place, the stage musical of Young Frankenstein at the Garrick Theatre! It was fantastic. Ross Noble, one of my favourite stand up comedians, was playing Igor and he was great, really enjoying the hell out of his costume and his occasional use of a French Horn. The songs were hilarious and, though they didn’t include my favourite moment of the Affectionate Elbow Nudge, the song that replaced it, ‘Don’t Touch Me’ (Tits! Tits! Tits!) was a real highlight. As was the extended performance of ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz’, and Lesley Joseph’s (72 and still a fox) Frau Blucher who was getting really annoyed with those damn horses. I loved it! If you can get to London before the end of February, give it a go.

13. Back on the train to come home, and spent much of the journey listening to the conversation of a young couple at the table seats opposite who were really not at all on the same wavelength. He would tell her about how often his brother threw up on trains and she would reply that yeah, the special effects on the music video she was watching on her phone would make anyone hurl, and he replied that he didn’t like Spotify either and it made everything look weird, and it was like that game where you’ve got to come up with names that start with the last letter of the name that came before it, except with entire concepts. Also, I played quite a lot of Kitty Powers’ Matchmaker, which was good fun, highly recommended.

14. Birmingham New Street Station is really, really creepy when you arrive there at 12.30 am and nobody is around and you can fool yourself into thinking that you’ll never find the exit and you’ll be wondering around in a tasteful but poorly signposted interior for the rest of your life like a brushed chrome pergatory until you’re suddenly outside and almost falling into a flowerbed and you don’t know what happened.

15. You know that thing where you and a stranger going in opposite directions nearly walk into each other, and you stop, and you move to your right and they move to their left, and you’re still in the same place, so you apologise and both move the other way, and oh no, ha ha, what a to-do, until one of you makes a break for it? While walking home through a pedestrian underpass I got trapped in that idiot dance for a good thirty seconds with the biggest fucking rat I have ever seen. She was the one that made a break for it, and I was honestly surprised not to see a small cowboy riding on her back as the ran past me.

And then I got home and went to bed, the end :)

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bestiesandagents · 7 years

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While We Can

-12x21 spoilers-

I needed to write something after 12x21 to cope with how angry I was, so here’s what I came up with. Basically, I asked myself, ‘What semi-good thing can come after that episode?’ and I wrote this.

Rating: Teen Warnings: None Ships: Drowley Characters: Dean Winchester, Crowley, Sam Winchester, Toni Bevell Word Count: 1037 Summary: Sam and Dean are trapped to die in the bunker with Toni Bevell, but Dean’s not about to let that happen. There’s one person he can get word to who should be able to help them - Crowley. But why is there suddenly a rat in the bunker?

“Dean, what are you doing?” Sam demanded as Dean rushed around the bunker, their home that they were now trapped in.

“What does it look like I’m doing?” he snapped without stopping his rush to gather the ingredients for a demon summoning. “I’m summoning Crowley. He can zap us out of here.”

“The demon?” Toni questioned, as haughty as ever, even when she was condemned to die with Sam and Dean Winchester.

“No, the poet. Yes, the freakin’ demon! Now shut up and stop wasting our oxygen.”

She pursed her lips, but miraculously managed to refrain from speaking as Dean finished up the summoning spell. A few seconds later, the empty space before him was occupied by… a rat.

“What the hell?” he muttered as Toni coughed to hide a laugh, and Sam stepped up beside him to confirm that he was really seeing what he thought he was. “How did I summon a rat?”

To answer his question, the rat's eyes turned red, and Dean's eyes widened in shock. “Crowley?”

The rat moved forward, stopping about a foot before Dean and glaring up at him in a way that wasn’t exactly rat-like.

“What the hell happened to you?”

Crowley-the-rat proceeded to crawl up Dean's leg and under his jacket. Dean stumbled backwards, his arm flailing and hitting Sam, who was watching the scene with raised eyebrows. “What the hell, man?” Dean demanded. “Get off-” He stopped when Crowley nudged the angel blade in his jacket. “Someone was trying to kill you?” he pieced together. “So you had to take refuge in a rat?”

Crowley did the closest approximation to a nod that a rat could manage.

Dean reached into his jacket, picking Crowley up to hold him in his hand. “I don’t suppose you can teleport us out of here?”

His head moved from side to side. That would be a no, then.

“Well, shit.”

Crowley’s tail curled up, forming a question mark.

“We’re trapped and we’re losing oxygen.”

“And there’s no point in a demon taking up more of it,” Toni said, making to reach for Crowley.

Dean immediately pulled Crowley in to cradle in his arms protectively, while Sam stepped between Dean and Toni.

“You don’t get to make that call,” Sam said coldly. “In fact, you don’t get to make any call.” He turned to his brother, eyes briefly flicking down to rat that was looking between the two of them. “Let’s find a way out of here.”

They had probably been in worse situations, but there was something about the fear of suffocating in his own home that had Dean nearing frantic as they searched for a way out. Crowley helped as best he could, gesturing with his tail to communicate ideas. Finally, they managed to get outside, all taking a deep breath because they finally could.

“Okay,” Dean muttered, turning to Toni with narrowed eyes. “We just saved your life. Now you’re gonna tell us what the hell you did to our mom.”

She scoffed. “Saved my life? You would have let me suffocate if it hadn’t meant you dying, too.”

“So? We’re still the reason you’re alive. Start talking.”

She looked at him in disbelief before suddenly kicking him, sending him stumbling into Sam, and then turning to run. She hadn’t taken Crowley into account, though. He scampered forward and bit into her ankle, slowing her down just enough for Sam to recover and grab hold of her arm.

“My turn to get you to talk,” he spoke in a low voice, glaring at her furiously. “But I promise my methods will be effective.”

Her composure wavered, traces of fear breaking through. Dean smirked as he bent down to pick up Crowley, who nestled in the crook of his elbow, his tail wrapping around his arm. He pet him absentmindedly as Toni told them everything they wanted to know.

Once they had everything they needed, they took Crowley to retrieve his meatsuit, then went up against the British Men of Letters. Later that night, after Sam went to bed, Dean stayed up drinking with Crowley.

“I think I liked you better as a rat,” he muttered as he opened another beer.

Crowley snorted. “Certainly seemed like it. You were downright affectionate.”

“What?” Dean’s eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

“You were petting me almost the entire time, Dean.”

His cheeks turned faintly pink. “I… wasn’t thinking about it.”

“Well, it felt nice.” As soon as the words left his mouth, he cringed, clearly haven’t had meant to say it out loud. “I just mean… after the day I had, it was nice to be… close to y- anyone.”

Dean raised his eyebrows. “How much have you drank?”

Crowley sighed. “Too much. But still not enough.”

He nodded understandingly. “Same.”

They drank in silence for a few minutes, occasionally glancing in each other’s direction, but never making eye-contact.

“I’m glad you’re okay,” Dean finally said, the words falling from his mouth quickly, as though he had been keeping them in for so long, they all inevitably came spilling out at once.

Crowley blinked at him in surprise. “Where’d that come from?”

“You… you nearly died today, Crowley, and… I don’t want that to happen.”

A slight smile curled up one corner of his mouth. “That so?”

“Shut up,” he muttered, turning back to his beer.

He chuckled. “While we’re sharing, I’m glad that you’re okay, too.”

He tried and failed to hold back his smile. “Good. We’re both glad, then. At least, until tomorrow comes and we have to take on Lucifer and son.”

“Should probably enjoy it while we can, then.”

Dean turned to see that Crowley’s gaze was fixed on him, a thoughtful gleam in his eyes. Dean swallowed thickly, suddenly finding it difficult to speak. “Yeah… suppose we should,” he admitted, his voice little more than a whisper.

He couldn’t say he was surprised when no more than a second later, Crowley’s lips were on his. He wished he could at least say he was surprised when he kissed him back, but honestly, there had never been any question about that. But he could lecture himself in the morning; for now, he was going to enjoy it while he could.

#drowley #crowlean #dean x crowley #crowley x dean #drowley:fanfic #my work

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moddomkapoddom · 7 years

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By Nick Harris, full article and podcast at:

http://british.museumblog.org/the-purrrplexing-story-of-the-british-museum-cats/?utm_source=Things+to+do+in+London+today&utm_campaign=06bed25588-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dde2edec7e-06bed25588-217988185

This is the story of how the British Museum became a cat haven, and how they eventually came to be on the Museum payroll, thanks in large part to a British Museum cleaner affectionately referred to as the ‘Cat Man’.

The British Museum has been open to the public since 1759 – that’s 258 years! That makes it older than Napoleon (we have one of his death masks, which you should definitely check out), older than the steam locomotive, it even predates the entire industrial revolution. But my favourite thing that the Museum is older than? Sandwiches. Definitely sandwiches.

Why am I talking about the origin date of sandwiches in a blog about cats? Well they’re related, if not immediately obviously. When you’re a Museum employee, you get access to many of the areas the public aren’t allowed to go into, and this is one of my favourite things about working here. Because those areas are littered with outdated signs and staff notices from the Museum’s history. They frequently make little to no sense at first glance, because what they relate to has long since passed, but if you dig a little deeper, they tend to have fantastic stories attached to them. And there’s one in particular that had me so purrrplexed (sorry), that I had to find out more about it.

In my three years of working at the Museum I’ve never even seen a tin of cat food, let alone an actual cat that could be fed in an official or unofficial cat feeding area. In order to sate my cat-like curiosity I started asking some of the longer serving members of staff if they knew anything about the Museum cats.

They did. It turns out that between the 1970s and 1990s the Museum had between 4 and 7 cats – depending on what year we’re talking about – kept to deter mice and rats.

The Museum cats frequently featured in newspaper articles. A feature on the British Museum cats having their Christmas dinner became a worldwide sensation in the 1980s, and in 1993 the New York Times had a double page spread on how some of our cats had developed the ability to catch pigeons in mid-air. All this proved that the cat feeding sign I had witnessed wasn’t an 18th-century Museum employee’s idea of a practical joke, but it didn’t tell me how the cats got the British Museum in the first place. That question proved a little harder to answer.

Next I went down to the Museum’s central archives where Archivist Francesca Hillier handed me a large box labelled: ‘Cats’ Welfare Society 1907–1993’.

The box was filled with half-conversations, chains of internal memos that came to an abrupt halt, references to telephone calls that weren’t recorded and a few newspaper clippings. It was incomplete, but workable. With a little time I started to piece together the events that seemed to lead to the official Museum cats. What I discovered was more than a little surprising.

It appears that the cats were not in fact invited to inhabit the Museum, but found their way to the site quite of their own accord. Sometime before 1960 a colony of stray cats (a frequent problem throughout London in the 1950s–1970s) found its way to the Museum and continued to breed and cause a nuisance for some 15 years. They were smelly, antisocial and at one point may have numbered over 100.

The Museum eventually decided to remove their feline inhabitants, and a dedicated group of volunteer staff brought the population down to just six (all through very humane means). At this point a cleaner called Rex Shepherd (who became known to staff as the Cat Man) formed the Cat Welfare Society. For the next 20 years, Rex and the Society kept the Museum cat population healthy and at a manageable number.

This group of cats consisted of Suzie, who spent much of her time prowling the Museum’s colonnade waiting to catch pigeons in mid-air, Pippin and Poppet who could roll over on command (all you had to say was ‘sayonara’) and Wilson, named after the British Museum director Sir David Wilson (who did not like cats). The cats even became an international phenomenon thanks to the coverage they received from the media during the 1980s and 1990s. But for all that coverage, the only reason I now know anything about them is thanks to an outdated sign stuck to a wall en route to the Museum canteen.

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