#But consider highjinx

[babacontainsmultitudes]

Hey I’ve heard you have your own sparrow rare pair with nick

may I offer nick doing gender-fluid sparrow’s eyeliner.

👀👉👈 Who me? A rare pair? No no… I would never… And certainly not one that’s doomed to be unpopular in light of popular fanon, no, that would be so foolish of me…

(You know, the thing about rare pairs is, a lot of it is just people taking their favourite characters and making them smooch, and yes I am no exception)

☺️🌸 and yes, you absolutely may! Truthfully I’d accept this with any form of Sparrow, though the specific appeal of gender fluid Sparrow is one that I’ve toyed with on my own time 🤔 (true for Lark as well actually? Ik this isn’t about him but… Well idk truthfully I’ve never been the type to get super caught up in those kinds of HCs necessarily but for some reason when it comes to Lark… Idk it interests me a bit more for whatever reason!). Anyways yes! This is very sweet fluffy and up my alley 🥰

:] Eventually Sparrow would try doing Nick’s eyeliner too I think! Maybe those art skills would come in handy…

😤😌💜 Thank you kindly for the offering!

#🤔 perhaps I owe you some Terrow hc in return… No promises but I’ll try to think on it! #I’m high key so embarrassed about shipping them #Especially cause I actually really like a lot of the Nark fanatics #Genuinely I think so many of them are like kinda super cool and making awesome content #So this almost feels like a dirty little secret #Not that it’s so secret but still… A little! #Also I hope this isn’t weird to say #I can get a bit irrationally nervous talking about this kinda thing but #I actually like “gender fluid oak garcia twin” the most in the context where it’s true for both of them (like both Lark and Sparrow) #I’ve more thoughts there tbh but I’m… Shy #yes #A bit shy is what I am #Hehe #Sparrow x Nicky #<- my dumbass has thought of ship names for them too #Maybe lovesong #But consider highjinx #Get it like high and hi-jinx yeah you get it #They’d smoke weed and listen to music together LOL #rarepair

[inspiteallthedanger]

Title: Something Borrowed, Something New

Summary: AU where John Lennon is invited to Pattie and Eric's wedding and decides to go along. Beatles reunions and general highjinx ensue, while John tries to decide the direction he wants to take next

Notes: Thank you @mydaroga for beta reading and being generally wonderful and supportive. This fic is finished, you can expect updates regularly, it’s short me, though - just three chapters. Comments are loved. 

Chapter one: John gets an invite, has some reunions and considers what’s next for him. 

Chapter two - The band enjoy another sort of reunion and John and Paul start some of that high jinx I’ve been talking about

Chapter three - John and Paul have some alone time, Paul tells John a secret and John makes a snap decision.

#beth rambles #Mclennon fic #it's happening guys #it's very silly #hope you enjoy #yes I'm starting new ones

[aestheticaxolotl]

Lets Talk About Mimebomb

I used two images here because both are priceless and I didn’t know which I wanted to use more.  Let me start with Mimebomb, using the Carmen Sandiego Wiki to break them (mimebomb is non binary fight me) down as a whole, starting with appearance and personality (Excluding the comments around his action in the show, please bear with me once more as I do this).

Mime Bomb is a thin, red-haired young man (*Cough*) who looks like a stereotypical mime. He (*They*) wears a grey and black striped shirt, black beret, white gloves, black spandex and black shoes. His (*Their*) makeup consists of white face paint, black face paint around the eyes and on the brows, and a light red shade of lipstick. 

So I wanna talk about Mimebomb without their makeup first. We see that they are not meant to be an attractive character, and I appreciate that Carmen Sandiego created characters like that. But I digress, red headed males are stereotypically either super hot or super not. And they really tried to go with super not. But failed because I love them anyway and so does most of the fandom. Now, the mime get up is a very strange choice to me, seeing as people are more scared of clowns than global warming, and mimes are very similar to clown, but I don’t think it’s a fear tactic. But more of a ‘hey even Mimes can be cool yall’. 

For personality we do not have a lot to go on as some of the other but we still have SOMETHING, I was forced to reference the books for this so please, if you have no read “Clue by Clue”, check it out.

Mime Bomb has been described as quiet by El Topo and weird by Tigress. Mime Bomb is seen as an opportunist, immediately tattling to V.I.L.E Faculty when witnessing Carmen stowing away on the graduate mission during her holdover year, and secretly hiding a rare stamp in Detective Chase Devineaux's coat when he was on to him. In the Clue by Clue novel, Mime Bomb is said to be skilled in symbiology and cryptanalysis according to Professor Maelstrom. He is also prone to avoiding fights or physical contact when possible. When fighting Sheena in the Who in the World is Carmen Sandiego novel, she easily beats him while he is distracted. When offered a helping hand to his feet by Black Sheep, he declines with a shrug and silent nod. In Clue by Clue, when Le Chèvre and Tigress are fighting Carmen, he stands off in the sidelines and shadowboxes rather than assisting.

Now, let us begin on what I have brought to the table.

Mime Bomb is seen as an opportunist

I have to begin by defining the term ‘Opportunistic’ using the Webster's Dictionary, Opportunistic meaning “exploiting chances offered by immediate circumstances without reference to a general plan or moral principle”. And dumbing it down for myself “They take what is best for theirself rather than the people around them.” Right, so. Mimebomb being opportunistic is CANON and shown MANY times. I will draw your attention to every time Mimebomb has turned Carmen or who ever into the Faculty for not following the rules. I would have loved to stated that this is a ‘teacher pet’ thing but I was surprised when I realized it wasn’t. The Faculty really doesn’t like Mimebomb and are very sarcastic towards them, constantly underestimating them and using them as the butt of the joke! And yet we see them completing missions successfully and with finesse, other messing up the mission they set up so carefully and thoughtfully.

Mime Bomb is said to be skilled in symbology and cryptanalysis

Cryptanalysis is the art or process of deciphering coded messages without being told the key. While Symbology is  the study or use of symbols. This is very telling. Mimebomb studying codes and symbols can allude to selective mutism or even mutism. Personally, I prefer the former, Selective mutism is a childhood disorder in which a child does not speak in some social situations although he or she is able to talk normally at other times. And this can form in adults too. But the implications that they let if form how they preformed in school/college? Amazing, they made a choice and stuck to it for SUCH a LONG time. That commitment is amazing. This is also useful to more historical based mission or where it may lead into hieroglyph or other symbols. I’m willing to wager that these talents are why DOCTOR BELLUM brought Mimebomb on the hunt for an artifact. Because they would know some of the writing and symbols.

He is also prone to avoiding fights or physical contact when possible

Mimebomb being physically weak is not an accidental detail. Far from it! I think addressing that a male character who is more brains than brawn is a detail that needs to be pushed, and as off as Mimebomb is, they are the perfect example of this. They are not masculine and are easily taken down by Young Blacksheep, Chase, and other characters. Mind you it’s halariauous but PLEASE- You are KILLING their JOINTS. I have a feeling the avoiding physical contact is a very... Self protecting action that I feel would have to be more touched on in a headcanon post rather than an analysis post. The best I can come up with is the speculation that Mimebomb refuses to let people become close to them.

When offered a helping hand to his feet by Black Sheep, he declines with a shrug and silent nod

This, this the most telling thing EVER.  Mimebomb refuses a helping hand. They do not work well with others and when they are offered help, the refuse it. They have a self serving bias. A self-serving bias is any cognitive or perceptual process that is distorted by the need to maintain and enhance self-esteem, or the tendency to perceive oneself in an overly favorable manner. It is the belief that individuals tend to ascribe success to their own abilities and efforts, but ascribe failure to external factors. When individuals reject the validity of negative feedback, focus on their strengths and achievements but overlook their faults and failures, or take more credit for their group's work than they give to other members, they are protecting their ego from threat and injury. Mimebomb protects themself at all cost, and that makes me wonder, why? Because they know that they can’t accept others help or their comforts. And they are fine with it. They are okay with being alone.

he stands off in the sidelines and shadowboxes rather than assisting.

I feel like this was originally supposed to be a one off joke rather than an actual trait or habit. But... If you know me by now, I can twist this on it’s head so fast, it’s not even funny. But I can’t here, I can’t except maybe they do this to encourage others? I think when they do work in a team, they do try their best to support who they are working with unless its an annoying slime ball like Neal the Eel (Not hating on Slimebomb, I just noticed they work better as comical enemies rather than a relationship, and i love that)

Now, there was no abilities category in the wiki, and I found this interesting, so i drew from the Trivia section of the page and found out... A lot really, that is interesting. But only one of them made and impression on me and it’s the one I want to focus on for a paragraph or two.

Mime Bomb is actually classified by A.C.M.E. as insane; given he is locked up with Maelstrom in a loony bin. considering he NEVER speaks (by choice), makes sense.

I’m going to take a second to define the term “Insane” using “Wikipedia” rather than a dictionary. “ Insanity, madness, and craziness are terms that describe a spectrum of individual and group behaviors that are characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns.” Hmm....What abnormal pattern are we looking at here. Selective Mutism. The mime outfit doesn’t help. I’ll make note that the official wiki says it’s choice that Mimebomb doesn’t speak, but doesn’t give us a reason why, speculation and theories are in store here and I will reference my V.I.L.E Operative headcanons.

In the end, Mimebomb was and still is one of my favorite characters in the whole freaking show. I enjoyed ever second of them on screen, every caper and ever wacky highjinx.  I’d watch the whole show again just to see them being the awesome character they are. As usual, requests are open and please! I love when requests come in! Stay tuned for the next one y’all!!

[ascalonianpicnic]

SPEAKING OF RHOSSIL AND CANACH give me them for the ship thing

SPEAKING OF THEM here you go, I had a lot to say

How did they meet?

They were saplings together. More specifically, Rhosill and Canach started getting to know each other while they and a group of other secondborn were trapped and experimented on in that asuran lab we see in Caithe’s memories during LS2. They didn’t talk much during, but after they were freed, Rhosill started to hang around Canach more and actually get to know him.

Who developed romantic feelings first?

Canach did. Since Rhosill’s actually aromantic, and just doesn’t realize. It caused some serious issues the first time the two started dating, but they’ve both figured things out a lot better the second time they got together. It’s not a one-sided relationship or anything, they’re both really caring and supportive of each other, and they love each other a whole lot. The feelings just come from different places.

Who is their biggest shipper?

Hands down, Tvelle, who belongs to @mystery-salad​ and who is the one that encouraged Rhosill and Canach to get back together. They’re her boys and she wants them to both be happy.

When did they have their first kiss and under what circumstances?

It was maybe a month after the ancient karka’s death in LS1. I never got to play season 1 so my knowledge of it is fuzzy at best, but Rhosill and Canach got together for the first time in the months leading up to Canach’s plan to destroy the contracts and free the Southsun settlers. The two had been hanging out together and spending time reconnecting while Rhosill helped Canach learn how to dodge the people after him. It was a quiet night, and the two were just chatting, when Rhosill leaned over to kiss him.

Who confessed their feelings first?

Canach, when Rhosill was leaving to avoid arrest by the Lionguard. The two sat down and actually talked through their feelings when they met again in the Silverwastes.

What was their first official date?

Do you count taking on the molten alliance, or going after the consortium on Southsun? No? Then their first actual, going out date wasn’t until after Heart of Thorns. Rhosill helped Canach sneak away from Anise and the Shining Blade briefly to go get drinks together. They started a bar fight in norn territory. Rhosill won. It was fun.

How do they feel about double dates / group dates?

Considering Rhosill is dating Canach, who’s dating Tvelle, who’s dating Logan, and Rhosill is bffs with Tvelle and surprisingly pretty close to Logan... Yeah they’re cool with group dates since they end up going on a lot of them.

What do they do in their downtime?

Drink, chat, stargaze and reminisce about the good old days when they were dumbasses. Canach got Rhosill to pick up the fiddle again recently, so they spend a lot of time sitting outside and making music together now. And Rhosill always loves hearing about whatever scheme Canach has been planning, or what he’s been up to with his explosives.

What was the first meeting of the parents as an official couple like?

There hasn’t been one, since Rhosill isn’t allowed to step foot in the Grove, not that he would want to. He’s terrified of seeing the Pale Tree again. The next closest thing, the warband that really helped Rhosill find his place in the world, is dead. So yeah......

What was their first fight over and how did they get past it?

It was over Rhosill’s cowardice and Canach being a stubborn idiot. Rhosill wasn’t going to stay and help Canach fight a losing battle against the lionguard and the hero coming for them. He was leaving, and Canach could either stay behind or come with, he didn’t care. Canach wasn’t about to give up and was upset Rhosill would so easily, while also starting to think that he just didn’t care. Rhosill coming back and risking arrest to offer to break Canach out of jail helped both of them start to move past the fight, as did some time apart. They eventually got to sit down and talk through what happened, which is when Canach really forgave Rhosill, and Rhosill really showed he’d grown.

Which one is more easily made jealous?

Canach? Rhosill isn’t the sort to get jealous. He has some inferiority issues, sure, but that just means he’s glad Canach has more people in his life to make up for what Rhosill can’t offer. Canach wishes Rhosill would stick around more and be more apart of this home Tvelle has built for all of them, but he gets that Rhosill still has a lot to work through and figure out. Not really jealousy, but something close, I guess.

What is their favorite thing to get to eat?

Rhosill likes whatever, but is surprisingly partial to fish. Canach likes to splurge and treat his loved ones. The two end up going to a lot of nice seafood places to try them out. Afterwards, they pretend to be snobby food critics all the way home.

Who’s the cuddly one? What is their favorite cuddling position position?

Rhosill was, when he was much younger and not traumatized to the point where he can’t ask for things he wants or initiate outside of rare moments. Canach remembers what he used to like, and when he wants to cuddle, or it looks like Rhosill needs to be held, he’ll go up and wrap his arms around Rhosill. The big guy really likes to be held~

Are they hand holders?

No. Tvelle is usually taking up all of the hand realestate with her highjinx.

How long do they wait before sleeping together for the first time? What’s the circumstances?

It happens the same night as the first kiss. They get together, make out, sleep together, and wake up saying they’re dating the next day.

Who tops?

They switch it up constantly.

What’s the worst first they’ve ever gotten into?

I don’t know if that’s supposed to say fight or not so. Worst Fight? The time Rhosill abandoned Canach to deal with the lionguard alone. Worst first? You know, I’d say getting captured and experimented on by asura is a horrible first experience to share with someone.

Who does the shopping and the cooking?

It’s Tvelle’s house, that she shares with Canach and Logan if I remember right. @mystery-salad​ can correct me if I’m wrong. Rhosill just comes over to visit. He’ll cook if offered the food to do it with, and occasionally goes out for groceries if he sees that they’re out of stuff, but that’s about it. Canach, Tvelle, and Logan are all more in charge of food in general.

Which one is more organized and prone to tidiness?

It’s Canach. He works with explosives. He has to keep his work and living space at least reasonable. Rhosill, on the other hand, has been squatting in Scarlet’s abandoned lab in Drytop since she left, and hasn’t cleaned anything up yet. It’s been years. Rhosill please.

Who proposes?

Rhosill would first, years down the line, after he’s sorted himself out and really recovered from his life. He’d throw it out there super casually. Canach would say he’ll think about it, then later counter with a much more planned out, but still private, proposal.

Do they have joined Bachelor parties or separate?

Joined. Tvelle plans it. Rhosill tries to avoid having one at all, but gets pulled in because it’s hard enough saying no to Tvelle, but the she gets all the pact recruits he’s been training to help her and he really can’t say no to all of them. Canach is living watching it all play out.

Who is the best man/maid of honor? Any other groomsmen or bridesmaids?

Tvelle is on Rhosill’s side, and Kasmeer is probably on Canach’s. Logan officiates. A few of their friends come to watch. It’s kept as a small thing for Rhosill.

Do they have a honeymoon? If so, where?

Everywhere. They would go traveling together, visiting places they haven’t seen before and places that they liked or were important to them.

Do they have children? How many?

If Canach ever decides he wants to raise kids with Tvelle and Logan, he’s free to. Rhosill is never going to trust himself enough as a person to be a dad. That does not stop some of the pact recruits he helps Tvelle train from calling him Dad when he’s out of earshot.

#my characters #rhosill #oof its so long #they have a really rough relationship the first go around #but get things smoothed out well for attempt number two #disaster-bi-canach

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[travellingwiththedead]

Blame the random number generator for this. There're three here as options. Feel free to ignore two. 42x74: The Big Damn Kiss x Huddling for Warmth; 36x78: Text/Letter Fic x Above the Influence; 50x60: Arranged Marriage x Poorly Timed Confession. Pairing: Methos x AnyoneButDuncan (gen is A-OK).

Thank you so much for the ask. I actually laughed out loud at that “anyone but Duncan” bit xD

42x74: The Big Damn Kiss x Huddling for Warmth

So, gonna go with Methos/Alexa for this because feels. I mean you can’t tell me that everything went perfectly to plan on that around the world tour he took her on (is that “Postcards from Alexa” story in An Evening at Joe’s considered canon btw? Because that’s basically one way to answer this prompt, isn’t it? If you count a shared bath as huddling for warmth ;))

So anyway here’s this lovely, awkward pair of people who barely know each other. Methos is his most Adam Pierson adorably awkward self, trying to make the woman he fell head over heels in love with happy, make her last months perfect, and yet despite all his planning things go wrong.

There is Alexa who knows she’s going to die and has accepted the fact and didn’t expect anything remotely interesting to happen until the end. Who just wanted to keep on living life as she always has, when along comes this slightly goofy knight in a worn, too big trench coat (and without a horse) who wants to sweep her off her feet. And she’s reluctant and maybe a bit suspicious but then she thinks: “Why the hell not? What’s the worst that could happen? I’m gonna die anyway.” and she lets him.

And it could all be perfectly romantic and rose coloured but car tires don’t care for Methos’ plans and remote mountain roads in the Alps aren’t exactly the best places to be stranded. Especially not in winter. It’s not snowing, yet, but it’s still freezing outside and getting dark so they decide to wrap up in coats and blankets and wait until the morning to try and find help instead of traipsing off into the wilderness in the middle of the night and getting lost and freezing to death (not the most terrible way to die, Methos knows, but he would still prefer not to die at all).

And because it’s cold and the backseat isn’t that big they share the blankets and Alex clings to him like a limpet to steal all his warmth and he doesn’t mind in the slightest. Neither of them is quite sleepy enough for actual sleep yet so they talk about their lives, about their friends (about how Joe would be furious with them for not having a spare tire), and about their … whatever this is. And Methos wants to tell her he loves her but he knows it would be too much, too soon, no matter the fact that they’re on a time limit here. And Alexa can see it in his face anyway and maybe if she stops thinking in terms of how this whole relationship thing should work and just lived in the moment she could maybe admit to herself that she loves him, too. But neither says it and wrapped in clothes as they are the scene couldn’t be more innocent if they were both nuns (actually, if you ask Methos, nuns are the kinkiest people of all, he’s never going to request shelter in a remote nunnery ever again, no matter which immoral is on his trail currently.).

And after a lot of shivering and a lot of talking Alexa glimpses lights coming up the path from beneath them and she’s so relieved she forgets about all her doubts and shouldn’ts and just kisses Methos. And it’s so nice and right (cue angels singing and harps playing and all that stuff) that they nearly don’t hear the friendly guy knocking on their window asking them if they need any help.

36x78: Text/Letter Fic x Above the Influence

I think this might work really well with those chat room/whatsapp group chat conversation type fics. So I guess it would have to be set in current times because there would have to be cell phones and whatsapp so I’ll make it a modern AU.

So let’s say we’re at the Watcher Academy and because there’s lots of young, eager Watchers-in-training there they have Whatsapp groups for students and instructors and whoever else gets along.

Joe is teaching some courses, maybe he does this regularly, maybe he’s just taking over for a friend who’s sick, but there in his class sits this goofy kid called Adam Pierson. Sharp mind, sharper tongue, funny and a hell of a looker. But he’s a student, Joe’s a teacher and old enough to be his father so this old Watcher can only observe (and dream) but not touch.

Anyway, exams are over, students want to party, and teachers come along because they want to party, too. Soon everyone is slightly tipsy and then they get out the hard stuff.

Somehow Methos (who lives on beer, really) actually gets totally hammered (or high) and comes on to Joe. And not in a shy, goofy manner either but in a hands all over him like an octopus manner. Joe does his best to fend off the advances then hides in the restroom where he tells Don via their Whatsapp about his little predicament and asks for help. But because he’s a bit less than sober himself he’s sending all those messages in the general teacher group and it blows up with everyone either making fun of him, telling him to go ahead and have some fun or telling him to get this kid the hell home before he makes advances on someone else.

Joe is just glad he’s not used any names and the teachers who are at the bar with them and had a first row seat of the octopus act are too drunk themselves to look at their phones.

After a while Adam comes knocking on the stall door Joe is hiding behind, asking if he’s alright and if they should just have sex right there and then. Joe, of course, is now begging the group for someone sober to come there and rescue him from Adam.

In the end one of his friends stops laughing long enough to drive to the bar and help him herd Adam to his bed (“no, Adam, alone, not with Joe, and especially not with both of us!”).

They are all a bit sheepish the next day and Adam sends Joe a very apologetic message and promises to never get that drunk/high again. Joe just gruffly replies “Or at least find someone your own age so they can actually keep up with you, kid”.

50x60: Arranged Marriage x Poorly Timed Confession

I’m thinking some kind of Methos and Amanda highjinx where they aren’t actually an item but Methos has somehow managed to get into a bit of a tight spot where the only way out with his head on his shoulders would be to marry the mafia bosses daughter. He agrees, of course, because he’s a survivor but he’s already looking for any possible loophole or escape plan. She’s pretty and all but a bit too high profile for his tastes and he’s just not looking for a wife right now, thank you. He’d much rather get the hell out of there but said mafia boss has people watching him 24/7 until the wedding lest he run away. Chains might also be involved, depending on how desperate they are to see that marriage happen.

Somehow Methos manages to get a message out to Amanda begging her to rescue him.

She grumbles about it a lot but actually comes to his aid. She has nearly no problem sneaking in and unlocking his chains or door lock or whatnot and they snark a bit about which one of them gets into tight sports more often and who owes whom a rescue while trying to sneak out unnoticed.

They actually manage to nearly get away before they get cornered by the goons and dragged before the very unamused mafia boss. Right outside the door to his office Amanda says: “I guess now might be the right time to admit that I stole a lot of money from Antonio? After marrying him last year...”

Cue Methos’ angry, glary face and a hissed: “You couldn’t have mentioned this earlier?!”

(and there you have it, three silly Methos things, with anyone but Duncan. I hope you like :) last one is cheating a bit and not really the whole Arranged Marriage trope but it’s the closest I could come up with.)

#ask meme #fic ideas #highlander #methos #joe dawson #amanda darrieux #argentum-ls