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kendallroygf · 1 year

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like there has to be other people on here who are reading past the surface level implications of tom’s behaviour to shiv this episode. it’s part of a wider trend that’s been prevalent since the start of the show. like shiv repeatedly has told tom not to touch her this season yet he never took her seriously and then he flicks her ear. not gently might i add. and no matter your interpretation whether you consider that to be hitting her or not (it basically is) that’s still unwanted touch. it crossed a line shiv literally recoils right after. she looks shocked and tom knows he crossed a line but there just has to be a middle ground between reading it as ‘tom is a wife beater’ or ‘this is just silly failmarriage hijinks’ like there’s so clearly a tonal shift after he lays a hand on her. no less in an episode which clearly shows how similar waystar and gojo are as companies that enforce the idea that women are expendable and under the authority of these companies women are harassed and ignored and abused and then the nature of this abuse is trivialised. and like tom has always felt a certain entitlement towards shiv (eg attempting to baby trap her in s3 + the repeated social climbing attempts made through her every season since s1) but it’s so clearly emphasised this season. and like who has tom been in close proximity to since the s3 finale up until just recently who also feels a entitlement over shiv and also belittles and weaponises her gender against her? who also forces her into the gendered role of Wife/Daughter against her will and whose own abuse towards her is specifically misogynistic in its nature? like it seems to me the proximity around logan has enforced the idea in tom’s head that he has a certain given entitlement and right over shiv no matter what. like the jokes about tom being openly hostile towards shiv now when he hasn’t in past seasons. like i wonder where he internalised all that. who else has acted just exactly like that.. . simply put logan labels shiv as tom’s “fucking wife” enforcing the idea that shiv is just an extension of him and tom. and even now that logan’s gone tom’s misogyny and his utilisation of it has so clearly intensified from watching and learning how logan himself operates in regards to his treatment of shiv and other women close to him.

#succession #shiv roy #like to be clear i’m not saying tom’s an evil wifebeater but to ignore how his own strain of misogyny towards shiv has intensified after #spending prolonged time around her father. and logan’s abuse of shiv was always so connected to her gender and he always weaponised this.#logan tells tom . shiv is YOUR wife he suggests tom has a certain ownership of her just as he thinks he does. and this is so prevalent even #now that logan’s gone. like tom was always misogynistic but it’s really intensified . how many times does she have to say don’t touch me for #him to not touch her.#like shiv asking tom to dinner in the end is like. continuation of the cycles of abuse etc. i don’t wanna be reductive bc the tomshiv #relationship is a lot of things and it’s obviously not just power and control but to ignore this part of it and tom’s character is a huge #disservice i think . to their relationship.#like i hate tom but a lot of that is reactionary i actually think he’s really interesting nd i love tomshiv. pleading he becomes #tom of siobhan again . s1 is when he slayed the most just saying.#like tom loving husband of shiv roy i love. tom wambsgans i do not know #shiv #p

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bb-fennelposting · 8 months

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#better bones au #bumblemumble #justice4bumble #i was gonna do smth with bumble's reaction to tom The Wifebeater being eaten by one-eye buuuuut it might be too spicy #and maybe too ooc #so here's smth dumber instead

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inhumanfuckingdogman · 2 years

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When is the cousin greg prison wife era !!

#succession #yes j love tom wambsgams! yes i think he should go to jail #besides greg would be a great prison wife. posting cringe shit on his private insta w 15 followers.#tweety bird in a wifebeater shit #posting abt loyalty at 3am 💪 u kno it would be great.

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celestial-depths · 3 months

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Poor Things and Born Sexy Yesterday

(spoilers for Poor Things)

I stumbled on a discussion on whether Bella Baxter from the movie Poor Things (2023) is a representation of the Born Sexy Yesterday trope coined by video essayist Pop Culture Detective, who defines it as a mostly fantasy and sci-fi adjacent trope of a regular human man falling in love with a beautiful, otherworldly woman who, through some plot quirk or another, has no knowledge of social norms and no sexual or romantic past. Even though he is brutally average, he is able to win her love simply because he is the first (human) man she connects with and thus everything that's basic about him is impressive to her. Some examples of the trope given by Pop Culture Detective in his video essay are Leeloo from Fifth Element (the physically grown yet mentally child-like alien creature who falls in love with a taxi driver in a wifebeater) and Madison from Splash (a clothes-aversive mermaid who thinks that Tom Hanks is the most enchanting man in the world). I love Pop Culture Detective's work, and the Born Sexy Yesterday video essay was a cultural reset in my personal history. I saw the video when it premiered six years ago, but it has never fully left my mind, so of course I immediately thought of it when I saw Poor Things a couple of weeks ago. The movie certainly touches on the same themes that the Born Sexy Yesterday is made of. However, I think that the movie is an intentional subversion and a satire of the trope rather than a sincere execution of it.

The main character of the movie Bella Baxter starts out as a grotesquely literal version of the trope, as she is literally a newborn in the shape of a conventionally attractive woman who is being actively shielded from the influence of the outside world. She has the brain of a baby salvaged from the fresh corpse of a deceased pregnant woman, planted inside the skull of the reanimated body of the aforementioned woman as an experiment done by the unorthodox doctor Godwin Baxter. He keeps her locked inside his house and controls every aspect of her life, so when he invites the young doctor Max McCandles to join his research, McCandles is served what is essentially the perfect Born Sexy Yesterday experience: an exclusive access to a beautiful and naive young woman who is in a prime position of being groomed into whatever her keepers wish her to become.

Or so they would think.

A sincere Born Sexy Yesterday would be fully fascinated by this power dynamic and probably leave her here to be romanced by McCandles for the rest of the film. The audience would be expected to assume McCandles's perspective and indulge in the fantasy of falling in love with the untainted woman who has neither the life experience nor the critical thinking skills needed to question him.

But, fortunately, the movie doesn't remain here. After the first act, the movie switches its point of view from McCandles to Bella and starts putting her experiences to the forefront. She starts developing interests that absolutely do not align with the wants and needs of the men around her, and she begins to learn things that clash with the essence of the Born Sexy Yesterday trope. Soon, she has grown into a headstrong, independent, sexually experienced, intellectually curious woman who had zero interest in entertaining the whims of men and who intends to live fully for herself and herself alone: an absolute antithesis of the clueless and subservient blank slate the trope would require her to be. My reading of the film is that it's an intentional satire and an autopsy of the BSY trope and the gender politics that gave birth to it. It criticizes the men who entertain fantasies like it by making them look like absolute losers, urging us to ponder on what the hell is wrong with these creeps who see nothing wrong with drooling over a woman who is mentally a toddler instead of their intellectual equal.

The movie also reads as a critique of how women are socialized into a patriarchy. Godwin treats Bella just like a possession of his. Her body and her life are completely under his control from the moment she is "born" (another act in which neither Bella nor the woman she was born from had any say in), which isn't dissimilar to how a lot of fathers view their daughters. He wishes to keep her under constant supervision until the end of her life, until she protests and gets him to change his mind. When he asks McCandles to marry her, the two men treat the proposed marriage as a contract between the two of them rather than as a contract between McCandles and Bella herself. Again, this isn't too different to what marriage between men and women has meant throughout history.

McCandles is romantically interested in Bella even though he is fully aware of the fact that she is mentally a child. He seems to be looking forward to starting a sexual relationship with her after they are wed, as if the seal of marriage would make the intellectual disparity between them any less iffy. This bears resemblance to the way men in the real world prey on young girls with little to no sexual experience and whose brains are not fully developed because they're easier to control than grown women. I don't think that McCandles's hypocrisy is lost on the film. He agrees to marry Bella almost in the same breath as expressing his desire to keep her safe from other men, as if his desire to bed a person who is intellectually at the level of a five-year-old was any better than theirs.

When Bella chooses to leave Godwin's house to explore the world, the two men immediately replace her with a new experiment, showing that they were never truly interested in her as a person. They wanted the eternal baby, the thing that they can cage and control, and not the person who can think and learn and disagree with them. This exemplifies how disposable women are when they no longer serve their limited purpose in a patriarchy, and how replaceable people are when they are primarily viewed as bodies to be used. (Sidenote: I do think that Godwin and McCandles eventually learn to appreciate Bella for the person she is and that they both grow to be better people by the end of the film, but I still attest that these two are total creeps at least by this point of the movie.)

And then there's the supreme loser of the movie: the sleazy lawyer Wedderburn, who slithers into Bella's life and convinces her to run away with him. He is the darkest example of the kind of person who is drawn to inexperienced women like the ones represented in BSY movies - a predator who finds pleasure in the prospect of getting to corrupt and consume an innocent. He intends to take advantage of Bella and abandon her once he's gotten his fill only to find himself choking on his prey, who turns out not to be the malleable, naive creature he thought her to be.

This is the point where I think the movie goes from simply critiquing the BSY trope and everything it represents to successfully subverting it. The characters who embody the BSY trope don't really evolve. The movies they appear in are not really interested in their inner worlds and individual experiences beyond whatever serves the interests of the male protagonists. These characters are projections of male fantasies, so there really isn't a way for them to exist without centering men. This is not the case with Bella, who quickly grows into her own woman who is only tangentially interested in the men around her.

The bright side of Bella's condition is that she isn't just unaware of the ways of the world, but that she's also unaffected by the years of patriarchal conditioning that most normal women are burdened with. She literally has no shame, no internalized misogyny, no history of crushing blows to her sense of self-worth, and no looming knowledge of societal norms society. She has skipped the part in life where she is constantly bombarded with demands to make herself smaller and more palatable, to hate herself, to think of her body and the way it finds pleasure as something disgusting and abnormal, to treat other women as competition, and to think of herself as so much less important than men that she must pursue their validation beyond all else. Because of this blessed defect, she is free in a very rare way.

Wedderburn absolutely cannot handle that. When Bella first gets to know him, he paints a flattering picture of himself as a proud social deviant who gleefully eschews the rules of polite society. However, when faced with the actually deviant Bella, who flatly refuses to obey and center him, Wedderburn is revealed to be a phony. He is not a genuine libertine. He does not want to live in a truly free world with a free spirit like Bella, because he is a pathetic, insecure little man who only likes women in scenarios where the power balance is stacked against them. In my opinion, this is a direct shot fired at the BSY trope and its average enjoyers: if your ideal woman is someone who is many steps behind you in terms of mental capacity and experience, you are quite pitiful and would not stand a chance in an equal playing field.

It's hilarious how Wedderburn loses his mind when Bella starts exhibiting the kind of behavior he himself has proudly displayed earlier in the film: having multiple sexual partners, keeping sex and feelings separate, not falling in love with him or treating him like he's special, dropping him once she's had enough of him, and generally living life in an unconventional way. Again, the movie is pointing out the hypocrisy in men who fetishize inexperienced women while bragging about their own sexual conquests.

The part in the movie where Bella becomes a sex worker delivers the final blow to whatever is left of the BSY trope in her story, because the trope relies on sexual exclusivity and the fetishization of virginity. By having many partners and gaining lots of sexual experience out of her own free will, Bella stops fitting the ideal of the untouched woman who can be deflowered and exclusively possessed by the male protagonist. Also, through the conversations between Bella and the other sex workers, the movie finds another way to address the politics behind certain men's sexual fantasies of women - such as pointing out that some men enjoy sex with women more the less the women themselves enjoy it. It's a stray observation that the movie doesn't get deep into, but it has its place in the tapestry of the general theme of what desire reveals about people.

Finally, there's Alfie, who gives Bella (and us) an idea of the kind of life Bella's "mother" lived - as well as the kind of life Bella herself might be living had she grown up the normal way. It seems hellish. She'd be living under the tyranny of her awful husband, under a constant threat of violence, under absolute bodily control. Alfie wants to impregnate her against her will and to mutilate her genitals to deprive her of pleasure, and there's nothing that she could do about it because he is her husband and thus legally allowed to lord over her. She sees a terrifying glimpse of the role even privileged women like her have in this world: objects who exist solely for the pleasure of the men who own them. I would venture to say that the same description lies in the underbelly of the BSY trope.

I am happy that the movie doesn't take its sweet time to revel in the horror of this part of the story like so many other movies that address the oppression of women do. Instead, Bella stays with Alfie just enough time to say a hard and a well-informed no to his bullshit before getting on her merry way.

I think Poor Things is such a great example of taking a trope and exploring its implications in a way that goes beyond just pointing it out or parodying it by simply repeating it.

#poor things #yorgos lanthimos #bella baxter #emma stone #born sexy yesterday #pop culture #tropes #feminism #gender politics #movies #cinema #film #film studies

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bonebabbles · 3 months

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Tigerstar body count:

Redtail

Runningwind

Brindleface

Gorsepaw

Bluestar (last life)

Stonefur

Clear Sky body count:

Fox

Misty

Bumble

Rainswept Flower

I will charitably count every indirect death at the First Battle, an event which was 100% his fault, as only 1 (Falling Feather, Jackdaw's Cry, Hawk Swoop, Frost, Fircone, etc)

Micah

Tiny Branch (refused to let Acorn Fur get fully trained or fetch help until it was too late)

Willow Tail

Wind Runner (1 life)

I could also point out that Tom the Wifebeater, Moon Shadow, Storm, Petal, and Bright Stream died as a result of bad calls or terrible choices he made. Not to mention his long history of physical assault, abandonment of the disabled, and emotional abuse.

This is fine because the writers like him. "He just made some mistakes," but also he should totally forgive himself because it was always foretold and thus not really his fault

#dotc hate #bones reads dotc #Clear sky hate #This would absolutely never happen for a female character. Girls can sneeze rudely and the erins will beat them to death #Edit: oops I put stonefur twice #It's worse <3

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jynzandtonic · 5 months

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I need your thots on Tom from snl😭 this man has me salivating for anything

TOM THE FUCKIN LANDLORD! Oh my god, that skit absolutely sent me. Adam in a wifebeater and tropical shirt was TOO MUCH lolol. OKAY HMMM THOTS.

-Calls you "babygirl" and "princess"

-Pays for everything in cash, NEVER lets you pay your half

-Has definitely taken dates to TGI Fridays or Chilis

-Loves fucking you doggy style

-"Happy wife happy life"

-Not afraid to spank you when you're being a brat

-Fixes things around your place but takes a really long time to do it

#tom the landlord #adam driverl snl #adam driver #tom the landlord x reader #give this man a permanent spot on snl please #jyn z asks

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bonefall · 8 months

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Sincerely, what was behind the decision in DOTC: The First Battle to have Turtle Tail fight her domestic abuser, at the grave of the friend who was murdered by a maniac after refusing to return to this same abuser, while saying "we must stay out of this fight, she must stand up for herself,"

And then show her LOSING BADLY, BEING BEATEN VIOLENTLY BY TOM,

Just to have fucking GRAY WING jump in and save her ass from the wifebeater??? The guy who's supposed to have asthma and be held back by that??

Like, look at it!

Was all of this just for a chance to show how coooool Gray Wing is?? Have a woman get battered on screen just so the writer's pet can save her??? I am absolutely baffled by the choices that were made in this arc

#Dotc hate #The first battle #Tom the Wifebeater #Tom wc #I hate Gray so fucking much it is unreal #This story is absolutely insufferable because it revolves around him and his shitty brother #And like. He is supposed to be held back by this respiratory disability of his #Yet he's perfectly physically capable every time the plot demands it or it would make him uncool #Infuriating

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ijuststareatstuffhereok89 · 7 months

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Loki S2E1 Review: A Triumphant Return? Or Just More Smoke and Mirrors?

A review by Lena, because I promised.

**SPOILERS FOR THE EPISODE BELOW THE CUT!** **READ AFTER WATCHING THE EPISODE OR AT YOUR PERIL!**

Everyone knows my opinion on Season 1 of Loki, and how I find it an insult to character who went through over a decade of progress, only to be featured as the whipping boy in the show that bears his name, while a cipher of a Sue takes the spotlight in all of her brashness to such an extent that I kept wishing she’d be stuck in a goddamn elevator.

Lol, dreams do come true (kinda).

My rolling internal conflicts with the show made it a very difficult decision for me to even choose to give Season 2 a chance. Do I suck it up and try to see what most viewers seem to with a repeat watch of S1? Or do I stand by my (admittedly, annoyingly negative and isolating) opinions and just wait for the onslaught of delicious gif-fitry of Hiddleston’s ass the SAS Sisterhood would soon bring forth?

The only thing tipping the scales was the promise in the early release reviews that Sylvie would be scaled back, if not in screentime, at least in level of abusiveness and misery that we’re supposed to identify with. So, onward I went.

THE STORY I was expecting S2’s overall plot to be “ The Cunt Hunt for Sylvie” from the get go, but surprised to see how little they chose to use her in the first episode.

So almost immediately after Sylvie was a giant butt and risked the entirety of creation itself for the sake of personal revenge, Loki starts Apparating zapping across time and space seemingly randomly. Kang the Wifebeater Conqueror is taking over and has a giant Mount Rushmore monument in the middle of the TVA to remind everyone that it really doesn’t matter how terrible of as person you are, Disney will continue to hire you if they’ve already hired you enough times.

We find Loki running from the TVA and Mobius, proving once again that his hair alone deserves an Emmy, before yeeting himself off a balcony and casually watching as an innocent hovertruck driver falls to her death at the 4:08 timestamp.

We’re off to a banger start?

In a scene with more ridiculous accents than a Long Islander remake of Braveheart, B-15 and Mobius try to convince Professor McGonagall’s Nazi Sister that the new timelines shouldn’t be closed, as now there are people living in those timelines, and closing the loop would essentially be genocide. B-15 is pretty great. I forget about them.

The scene with OB is the best in the episode, and it does a good job at being funny and expository without getting difficult to follow. My eyes were also thankful for the brief change in the color filters to something with more contrast and light.

**HAIRWHIPHAIRWHIPHAIRWHIPHAIRWHIP** Ten points to Gryffindor.

I had to go back and re-watch the scenes leading up to the episode’s climax because I didn’t catch what they were doing at first. I hope they don’t make this a pattern again. We need less complication, more character development.

2.75 out of 5 Sexy Leather Holsters for being engaging and Sylvie-minimal, but hard to follow in parts, and while I smelled it coming a mile away, I’m not going to be at all impressed by the “Where in the World is Sylvie Sandiego?” thing.

THE CHARACTERS/ACTING It’s a little off-putting to watch the characters themselves through some inconsistent writing, but the acting shines through regardless, which I expected from Frame 1.

At times I swear Mobius is autistic or ADHD-coded, at least somewhat, in the way he stops what he’s doing to express his special interests whenever they’re brought up. I’m sure he isn’t supposed to be, but as someone who has two sisters with autism, I still get some neurodivergent vibes off of Mobius, but that’s more of a personal note.

Tom and Owen still have infinitely better chemistry than Tom and Sophia. The banter between them is pretty fun, although in a few spots it gets kind of Mac-and-Dennis-y from Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and the talking over one another once in a while goes on for a second or two too long.

Rando girl in the elevator is the champion of the episode.

Ke Huy Quan is going to be a fan favorite on the level of Wandavision’s Randall Park (who we NEVER got our show about, btw). His Q-like character (Ourboros, but called OB) is always the highlight of his featured scenes, and a lot of it is just because Ke Huy Quan just exudes excitement and enthusiasm the whole time. I want to hug him. I hope this wasn’t his one episode and that he’s a recurring character. I just want to see his Pinchers of Peril save the day again.

3.75 out of 5 Sexy Leather Holsters for wonderful acting and a memorable new character, but I had to take a few points off for those stupid accents in the board room scene and not really doing much otherwise with Fascism Braveheart.

THE PRODUCTION My theory is that Loki is the most successful of the MCU shows for two reasons: 1- Tom Hiddleston’s incredible appeal as the title character, and 2- the production values are both higher and more cinematic overall than many of the other MCU shows, most of which take place on Present Day Earth and try to rely more on special effects and savvy camerawork than environment to wow the audience (Wandavision aside). Undeniably, Loki resembles a film more than any of them, and therefore, it easier to appeal to a broader audience…

…but is it?

S1 of Loki was creative in terms of setting, but the screen itself was often so dark I thought I was watching Season 3 of A Handmaid’s Tale, so how does one enjoy the talent behind the scenes if the scenes themselves are hard to make out? The filters are still a little overused so far, but I’d call S2 an upgrade, if only because I can see more of what’s going on.

I’ll admit that the 70s aesthetic wasn’t my favorite in the beginning (esp because I’m not particularly fond of the soupy colors and odd designs of the decade), but it’s growing on me a bit more here. The haziness gives the TVA a musty, claustrophobic feel, like it would smell vaguely of sawdust and cleaning fluid if you breathed it in.

The animation at the climax was quite pretty to look at, and the soundtrack continues to be the show’s boon.

4.25 out of 5 Sexy Leather Holsters

MY THOUGHTS AND FINAL GRADE This episode’s purpose was to examine the consequences of Sylvie’s actions at the end of S1, and for some reason, it chose to do so without her present for most of it. Not once was it suggested that she should face punishment, and in fact, she is seen in her few scenes as even more of a victim than S1, quickly becoming Loki’s purpose and motivation yet again without doing anything but stumbling into an Oklahoma McDonalds and asking for one of everything like a stoner on payday.

So much of this episode was Tom Hiddleston running around full tilt, and to that I say…brilliant. I could watch those cheeks clap for days. Also, I’ll give the creative team credit, they finally seemed to understand that Tom’s hair is an actor unto itself and deserves some spotlight (I wish it was longer though…Ragnarok Hair Supremacy!). Nine out of ten mangos for thirst-quenching.

I'll give it props, I was engaged until the somewhat-muddled climactic activities (I needed a few rewinds to understand what Mobius was doing in the Sontaran costume). It certainly reads like Disney banked everything on this season doing well, with S2E1 still showing off the higher budget and more cinematic feel that the other MCU shows generally lack. I have no doubt it will pull in enough views for them to re-consider a S3. I'm still clenching a bit on what comes next, though.

I I'll go on to episode 2, but I reserve the right to stop at any time.

My theory: The Mysterious Pruner was OB.

3 out of 5 Sexy Leather Holsters overall for the episode.

SAS TAGGIES: @holdmytesseract @lokisgoodgirl @gigglingtiggerv2 @gruftiela

#loki #loki season 2 #episode 1 review #loki season 2 review

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3-2-whump · 2 months

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Whumper Profile

Thomas James Costa is a muscular, mid-to-late-thirties Caucasian man with a broad body that was built up over the years by ruthless training from the USMC and his own family. He has short blonde hair and steel gray eyes. Thick limbs, strong jaw, and a perpetual resting bitch face complete the mental picture. A scar from an old bullet wound grazes his left temple, and while he has plenty of scars and tattoos adorning his body, the author/artist (me) does not and cannot draw them consistently and accurately across all media. Tom is rarely seen outside of formal wear in public; he dresses the part of a mafia don. When at home, he dresses down considerably to only a wifebeater and sweatpants.

Born to the daughter/only child of mob boss Antonio Costa and James Michael Sullivan, Thomas was raised with the expectation of taking over his grandpa’s organization. He had everything –money, education, a loving supportive family who wanted the best for him, and he decided to leave it all behind to try and live the straight life. It… did not go well. He doesn’t talk about it. Only a few people know what happened, but all anyone in the Costa Organization really knows is that the heir came back seven years later, eyes a little colder, more tired, and ready to learn the family business. Grandpa Tony welcomed him back with open arms and a heaping side of “I told you so” and taught him everything he knew before he died. At the start of our story, Thomas is the new Boss.

Shit I forgot the tag list: @kabie-whump @rainydaywhump

#my oc stuff #whump writing #whumper #art coming soon #when the lighting is better in my apartment #no beta we die like my protestant upbringing

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daughter-of-melpomene · 2 months

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Cute character question for Felix! (Tell me when to stop to ask about him lmao he's my favourite can't help it!)

You never have to stop asking about him, Greta, I promise, I love you for it!! Thank you so much!! (And I’ll also tag @dancingsunflowers-ocs and @manyfandomocs since they love him too. <3)

the basics:

name: felix william wilkinson. age: sixteen years old (as of the first movie). zodiac sign: aquarius. one good trait: his courage. one bad trait: his tendency to be an asshole even when the other person might not deserve it.

habits:

one bad habit: his smoking. one good habit: always taking meticulous notes in class. one habit they can’t break: picking at the skin of his hands. one they’ve broken: chewing with his mouth open. what they’re afraid of: being abandoned again the way his parents abandoned him.

family:

their parents’ names: tom sturgess (biological father), rebecca sturgess (biological mother), nathaniel wilkinson (adoptive father), elizabeth wilkinson (adoptive mother). their siblings’ names: n/a. favorite childhood memory: the first time his father showed him how to shoot a camera. favorite childhood toy: an old ragdoll passed down from his mother that she used to play with when she was a child. embarrassing story: the story of when felix absentmindedly said that he thought a male actor in a movie the family was watching was cute, before he was out to his parents, and then hurriedly and badly tried to cover by saying he just liked the guy’s jacket. favorite family member: his father (adoptive father, technically, but felix has always thought of nathaniel as his real father). a story about that family member: as mentioned, nathaniel was the one who first taught felix how to properly take pictures; after felix found an older camera in the attic when the family was cleaning it out and asked his father how to use it, so nathaniel gave him a lesson, and unknowingly sparked his son’s lifelong passion for photography.

what they prefer:

coffee or tea?: coffee. showering in the day or night?: night. taking baths or taking showers?: showers. tv or movies?: tv. writing or reading?: reading. platonic or romantic love?: platonic. iced tea or lemonade?: lemonade. ice cream or smoothies?: ice cream. cupcakes or cake?: cake. beach or mountains?: mountains.

favorites:

song: “i think we’re alone now” by tiffany. band: aerosmith. outfit: his favorite jean jacket worn over a plaid shirt and a white wifebeater underneath that, paired with blue jeans, his favorite sneakers, and a camera strapped around his neck. place: hanging out with marty, wherever they happen to be. memory: finally getting to kiss marty at the end of their wild west adventure, after everything they’d been through up until that point. person: both of his adoptive parents. movie: stand by me. show: scooby-doo, where are you?.

send me an oc!!

#asks about my ocs #oc: felix wilkinson

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asoiafzambi · 1 year

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HOTD Rumors, Gossip, Leaks. My hot takes.

Disclaimer: Of course this might just be one or two twitter/reddit trolls having the time of their lives, but lets just say for me all of the ‘leaks rumors and gossip” are coming together so I pretend here it’s all true:

Blood and Cheese being a kidnapping ‘accident’?

It may even be a planned kidnapping of either Aemond or Aegon but Helaena and her twins get in the way of the hired henchmen and shit happens (they panic and kill Jaehaerys).

I gotta confess here: I never gave a single fuck except saying “Ew!” about this convoluted plotpoint in the books (which makes me a coldhearted psycho bitch apparently). GRRMy just wanted to have a Sophie’s choice in the story and planted it here. I might actually like this kidnapping gone wrong idea better but it does of course whitewash Daemon/the Blacks insanely.

On the other hand ...

Pimpslap!Daemon being really mad at whiny Rhaenyra and still wanting the throne for himself?

Oh my. That sounds like a really good bad fanfiction premise to me. A bit ooc maybe?

While I can live with their AU wifebeater!Daemon (I mean he’ll pull Ramsay Bolton level shit in my own Daemond/Daemicent AU) it’s crybaby Rhaenyra that really rubs me the wrong way. Suddenly she is totaly helpless against all those evil men around her and only whines and cries about it when things get a bit rough?

Also weird to me her complaining about:

Aegon stealing her throne from her (I guess for those who can’t remember season 1) and either

- Daemon stealing her crown (?) from her?

- Daemon stealing her innocence (?) via the Blood and Cheese incident?

About the first point see further down, about the second point: OMG the cheese. My Guuurrrl, that dude took you to a brothel to ruin your virginTM reputation and you commended him for being depraved before you fucked him on a beach at his second wife’s funeral. Then you asked him to kill some rando to make your husband be able to run away. Get a grip! (book!Rhaenyra doesn’t seem to be the sharpest cookie, but this would make show!Rhaenyra even dumber.)

And while I said I can live with their wifebeater!Daemon I think he doesn’t quite fit their own AU (don’t come at me about Rhea’s murder, that woman ranked beneath sheep for Daemon). My take on this is, they might be pissed they can’t do the sexual creepy Daemon stuff on the show so this is the replacement.

In the books of course it is not mentioned in any of the sources that Daemon was physically abusive to Rhaenyra? That’s strange if he was. Would be a boon for the Green’s history take. Emotionally abusive I can absolutely see (much harder to write for of course) but actually slapping her around?

Here the rumors about an actor not being happy with the direction of his char speaking up might come in. At first I actually was thinking it might be one of the younger actors (Tom or Ewan) but now I think it was probably really Matt (and maybe he is the only one who could get away with it) or Emily.

Now about this Daemon still wants the throne himself stuff they seem absolutely unable to let go (I mean it was a nice hook at first but now?) as seen in the leaked Alys auditition. The dialoge there again harps on this “Daemon is totally going to betray her for the throne” to which he is like 12th in line at this point and has produced the last two heirs to come before him himself in the last years? Eh, maybe they are really going to have him feed LilAegon and LilViserys to Caraxes, they are conveniently snack sized on the show, so who knows? (I hope I don’t give them ideas here.)

Aemond kinda sorta having snapped after killing Lucerys?

Hahahaha! Lucemond forever!11!!!1

Okay, I may be reading too much into it, but the ‘talking to Vhagar like she is human’ implies that he is not behaving normal anymore? He is not blaming the old dragon lady (but then who do we blame Aemond, huh?) just sad that mama and grandpa are mad with him now.

But really, if we go by Aemond’s show characterization, then yeah, he probably should have a mental breakdown over what happend. B&C is not going to make it better. Alys in whatever role she will play is not going to make it better. Burning the Riverlands is not going to make it better. Only Dark Sister is going to make it better I guess.

More nonexistent-mustache-twirling-evil-cackle Aegon rubbing his hands together at the thought of dead strong bastards, interwined with some soft Aegon when he learns Helaena is pregnant again (with Maelor we presume)?

Sad. They totally sold me on young funny-drunk-fuckup-Aegon and now this? I don’t give a shit about that young maid he raped btw (cold hearted psycho bitch remember?) So yeah, just sad.

Also some stuff about Daeron, Ormund (Hobbard’s/House Hightower’s heir) and Garmund (Ormund’s third son and Rhaena’s ultimate husband) being introduced in Oldtown?

Fine, not sure what’s not to like here.

And yes, Sara Snow seems to exists on the show?

The horror. j/k I don’t care. I always thought she and Jace were a cute story (much better than Robb/Jeyne). Otherwise the Jace comes to Winterfell stuff sounds a bit lackluster.

The rumor that some of the season 2 stuff is rewritten with GRRM’s input now, could either be true, or a way for the trolls to cover their tracks, who knows? If GRRMy really threw an actual fit for whatever reason, then I guess shit has really hit the fan behind the scenes, holy, moly.

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