Ada Breker and Riley Smith in "Frequency"(2016)

The Near Far Problem

When Raimy uncovers evidence in the Thomas Goff (guest star MICHAEL CHARLES ROMAN) case, she relays this information to Frank over the ham radio, which prompts him to take matters into his own hands while ignoring a strong warning from Satch. Meanwhile, Gordo talks Raimy into going out for a drink where she has an interesting encounter with Daniel, who still considers her a complete stranger and possible stalker. Lastly, Raimy struggles to adapt to life without Julie, and Frank tries to adapt to life with her.

i think a lot of people don’t always realize the difference between “this is how i interpret canon” and “this is how i want to write it because that’s what’s fun to me”. a lot of times the latter is all headcanons or AUs are, not an indication of what the writer thinks “is” or “should be” canon

more power to those who are super tuned into actual canon and know these details like the back of their hand, but sometimes people just wanna use a series as a sandbox, not a ruleset. genuinely nothing but respect for people who ARE that knowledgeable, but i and a lot of other people are just here to have fun with characters we enjoy—and want to put them in more accessible settings

I just have a question because I saw your tags in the msi gifset. When you said Ming would have thoughts on he would take care of Joe and Joe should quit, wasn't he still hung up on Tong? Because had Tong reciprocated, the promise of taking care of Joe would mean nothing, no?

hiiii nonnie

i really wish i could share the excerpt of the novel but that would spoil the events of ep.4 this week. so instead i will say answer your question in the most non-spoilery way as possible.

sooooo for my interpretation of the characters, by the time ming and joe had settled into their relationship of 6 months/year (depending on whether you're talking abt the novel or series), i'd say that ming had pretty much set aside his feelings for tong and i don't think ming ever truly LIKED tong as a person but it's more like being attracted to the visual/physicality of a guy (think how you like someone very superficially for their face, you just like staring at them).

and i'd say when mingjoe had settled in their relationship, ming already knew he LIKED being treated nicely by joe. and in the series, you can see it even more clearly through his reciprocal of nice gestures to joe (bare minimum really but oh well that's the nicest we get of ming in this first timeline).

because for me, i don't view him crying over tong as him being still hung up on tong but rather just pain from finally letting go of this unrequited love for an unattainable someone he's had for so long.

but yea back to the point of his promise to take care of joe... now i did say i won't spoil it but i can give vague hints of the context in which it happens... and hopefully after this week's episode airs, i'll remember to share the novel excerpt from this part because i just know the series will definitely NOT adapt it as it is in the novel (it is so so so incredibly toxic it is insane, yet i enjoyed it)

so by the time yan ming xiu (ming) had said that promise to zhou xiang (joe), he had pretty much made up his mind that he wants zx and zx only but his possessiveness over zx made him do... some not very nice things that will happen this week... so please stay tune 😅

I’m cringing SO HARD as I’m about to write the smug part 😭😭😭😭 why am I like this?? It’s so easy to be unhinged on main here yet I’m putting off the fic cuz I need to wrap my head around, actually sit down and write a sex scene 😩😩😩😩

please bestie i feel you so bad 😭 literally cringing, it's so crazy lol esp since i too feel okay with writing like tags and stuff? and i don't cringe when reading it?? but my like five smut pieces are the hardest things I've ever written.... i truly do not understand how smut writers do it! like i'm so so thankful, but i really dont get it lol!!!

If there's one thing I like more than time travel it's crossover reincarnation, so.

Botk link reincarnated as Damian Wayne.

An incredible weapon master of all types, but especially prodigious with a sword - he was beating knights at the age of 4 and with his memories as intact as they get for him I can see that goalpost moving even further (probably with traps and tricks, a 3yo doesn't exactly have great bodily control).

He's an excellent survivalist, agile, strong, durable, cunning and creative. He can move like a feather in the breeze, strike from behind with ease. His first kill, an animal, did not stir him as it did the other children. With his poise, grace, skills, obedience, he ought to be ra'as' finest assassin in the making, a jewel in the crown of the league.

Except he never speaks a word. Half his targets escape unscathed. He skates by true punishment on the merit of his skills and achievements in other missions. Testing has shown it is not a physical deformity that prevents his speech, but not even talia has been able to coaxe a word from him past his second birthday.

It is a defect ra'as is growing more and more frustrated by, as each attempt to fix these two final flaws ends in resounding failure. Less extreme solutions are running dry.

Talia fears those solutions. Her child does too, she knows. For them, there is a possible solution, more extreme than anything ra'as would tolerate.

She sends him out of the league. To his father.

To Gotham.

Coming off Tim's Sixteenth birthday arc is so funny to me like- Robin 120: Batman is a terrible, abusive person and the only reason Tim doesn't cut him off right now is because he knows he'd loose all of the friends and family he'd made as robin in the process. Robin 121: And then he makes him go to bed on time- and then the next day he has him do his homework- and the worst thing Tim can imagine from him is his disappointed dad face <3 Like yea I do heavily prefer the latter and will accept the jarring as hell transition if it gets me out of the former faster but gosh golly is that some narrative whiplash

LMAO YEAH. YEAH. what a switch over of writers does to the General Vibe And Narrative of a book is so fucking funny sometimes

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It's lovely when I read a book and some random paragraph in it hits me in the face like a train at mach speed

Beginners guide to my Jackie and Olivia universe thoughts except the handwriting might be kinda unreadable so idk figure it out

Note to self: a large meal is a very effective sedative for hyperactive cats.

‘Stop trying to make me feel bad for billionaires!’ You do you fam I have my own principles and one of them is to recognize when something makes me think ‘hey that’s a little fucked up’ and reflect on why I feel that way. Get out of my bedroom if you don’t like the wallpaper no one’s forcing you to be here.

My Tav (Aurelia) is ready to throw hands with Cazador. Like full on we got 3rd level spells now, Rella and the girlies will make an afternoon of it. We'll bring his head back for Astarion as a gift. (Shadowheart has Daylight, Rella has Call Lightning, Lae'zel and Karlach have multiple attacks per round). We'll leave the squishy boys and Halsin at camp for boy time. Please just let me kill the bastard.

Love when I’m homesick so I call home and end the phone call crying instead bc the frustrations I have with myself are voiced aloud by my mom. And she is pragmatic and solutions oriented to a fault and while she is sympathetic to how exhausted I am from two jobs and physical stress walking everywhere etc there are things I simply have to get done. Full stop. And I am weeks to months behind on those things. So she berates me with half baked ideas for bandaid solutions (like using paper plates when stuff that goes in the dishwasher isn’t the problem, and she doesn’t get why it’s hard to work when my wifi isn’t functioning etc) bc she hates feeling helpless to assist me but unfortunately she lives 2,000 miles away and most of my problems can only be solved by me myself having more time and energy than I do

a collection of girls from the Worst Show Ever Made

lol ok well. that ended up being the sort of outing it would be very easy 2 get Dramatically Frustrated about…

went 2 the grocery store; didn't realize until after i'd already left that i'd forgotten to scan my savings card, so like, either i try to see if i can go back tomorrow and get them to make a retroactive adjustment (annoying) or resign myself to just being out the difference (not the end of the world in the scheme of things, but like, feels bad 2 just leave money on the table like that, esp when it's down to yr own fucking dandelion-clock of a brain); extra grocery weight made the ride back suck more; got back and did the stupid thing that i know is stupid of taking the near pannier off before the far one, which reliably causes the bike to topple away from me, and as a result ended up smashing my phone screen real good bc it was strapped to the handlebars, so now money and time have to go towards getting that sorted; went 2 put groceries away and realized i'd accidentally bought a more expensive variety of milk than i'd meant to buy, which again, isn't ultimately world-ending but like, it's one thing to spend money on purpose and it's another to spend it because you can't fucking get your brain to pay attention, you know?

anyway. these things are all frustrating but not actually ruinous, and the cat is sitting on my lap consolingly and in a bit i'll go get washed up and make some dinner, etc etc. just like. annoying 2 be trying to Take Positive Actions and have that be like. the direct cause of more problems!! scrunchy mad toddler face.

cold bucket of water realization im more comfortable with who I am and barely give a shit abt how people could see me as a freak than when I was like 13 14 15 16 17 18 19.