#the new man in charge

[fist-of-vengeance]

I'm so surprised that I haven't seen more people in the lost fandom talk about The New Man in Charge. I just recently found out it existed and it's??? incredible??? like yes it's a pretty unnecessary wrap up that's pointed at the fans complaining about unanswered mysteries. but it also. finally gives some degree of payoff to walt's character? and serves as a wonderful capstone to ben's character development? I'm not gonna lie

"we all have friends...even me"

and

"because you're special. and i bet nobody's told you that in a very long time"

actually. got to me a little

#you can see ben's character growth because he actually gives people straight answers #i just adore his interaction with walt its so meaningful on so many levels #maybe i need to make another post #the fact that walt is around the same age alex was when she died... #i need to go lie down #lost #lost 2004 #lost abc #lost tv show #ben linus #walt lloyd #the new man in charge

[linusbenjamin]

Lost (2010) 6.00 | The New Man In Charge

#lost #lostedit #tvedit #lost spoilers #the new man in charge #benjamin linus #nikolatexla #not saying daddy for an entire minute challange 🥵🥵🥵 #my favourite childless dilf #i'm glad this was the ending they chose for benjamin because the bench scene hurts #i feel like i'm gonna throw up from sadness #i was gonna gif jack first but anyways

[screencapsontherun]

Lost | Epilogue - The New Man in Charge

#Lost #The New Man in Charge #Lost: The New Man in Charge #2010 #Benjamin Linus #Ben Linus #Michael Emerson #Screenshot #Screencap #TV #Epilogue #Lost: Epilogue #Lost ABC #Lost TV #Lost Series

[allskywalkerswhine]

in fics where luke gets plopped into the prequels i want every jedi within ten metres of him to think hes the weirdest jedi theyve ever seen. he has negative lightsaber form. he doesnt know what a kata is. he handstands when he meditates. his solution to sith is to try and have a chat. hes a political radical who keeps suggesting revolution. you ask him what the jedi code is and he says "kindness and compassion and helping those in need :) ". you ask how he used the force like that and he says some shit about how you are a luminous being limited only by your mind. the councils authority is just a suggestion. he is somehow the new favourite of both qui gon and yoda

#i think he Gets yoda in a way few do bc he knew him as a feral old man in a swamp and not Guy In Charge Of Everything #so he is yodas new best friend #and qui gon hears him talk for five mins and realises his ideal jedi is a real guy that exists #luke doesnt realise how much of a heretic he is okay he is a Luminous Being #luke skywalker #star wars prequels #stat wars original trilogy #sw originals #original trilogy #sw prequel trilogy #sw og trilogy #jedi order #star wars #sw #sw time travel fic #time travel au #the force #yoda #qui gon jinn #i think after a bit plo koon would also be a big fan #lee posts

[little-pondhead]

DP x DC Prompt

…

There are no more heroes.

Well, okay. Rewind a bit.

Danny has been doing the hero thing for a while now. He’s had a big reveal; everyone has accepted him (including his parents), the GIW disbanded, the Anti-Ecto acts repealed, and generally, everything is going great. Some of the A-Listers are even training as junior ghost hunters to help give him a break from his rogues! (Being Ghost King makes things hectic sometimes, and he just needs the extra help. Sue him!)

The point is, literally nothing is wrong with Danny Phantom’s afterlife.

And then Valerie Gray, the Red Huntress, disappears in front of his eyes.

Danny is baffled! She’s just…gone! Valerie just popped out of existence, like she was never there. But no matter how hard he searches in the Ghost Zone, he can’t find her soul anywhere. His core isn't broken in grief. So she’s not dead. Which is good. So then, where is she?

Some of the others come forward with ideas on how to find her. A few ghosts volunteer to go out into the mortal realm, an area Danny had declared off-limits, to see if she was out there. Danny approves it. He rounds up some of the friendlier (i.e., discreet) ghosts and Amity Parkers and demolishes the outside travel ban.

So everyone spreads out, looking for their dear frenemy and teammate. But it becomes apparent very quickly that something is wrong with the rest of the world.

There are no more heroes.

Every single living superhero on the face of the Earth has just…vanished. Villains are running amok; the countries are in chaos! Some aliens are invading Earth, mythical deities are trying to take over, and society is crumbling to the ground. Everything is on the brink of collapse.

Well, Danny was still there. And so were his people. They were pretty spread out, so could they just…take up the mantles? He also knew where to find the souls of dead heroes in the Zone; surely they wouldn't mind coming out of retirement for a little bit, especially if they couldn't die again. Oh! And that skeleton army leftover from Pariah Dark's reign might be useful in repelling those invading forces.

Honestly, there were more than enough hands to go around! And with the heroes gone, Danny didn't mind letting everyone out for a little break, as long as they followed his rules. They wouldn't stop the search for the other heroes, but hopefully, when they found them, the heroes wouldn't mind Danny's intervention too much. :)

In other words:

Someone fucks up, and all of Earth's living heroes are either wished out of existence or are whisked away to some far-off realm where Danny hasn't checked yet. In the attempt to figure out what's going on, Danny lets the dead run amok over the Earth as they search for clues. The skeleton army repels the invading armies, the souls of dead heroes deal with the world leaders, and his rogues and other Amity Parkers set up shop in place of famous heroes, trying to get the cities under control again.

Basically, they just do their best to keep everything from imploding until the Justice League and others are back.

(And why is it that Danny hasn't disappeared? Well, whatever caused everyone to go poof! only affected living heroes. Anyone heroes that were dead in the first place, or even just half-dead, stayed behind.)

#pondhead blurbs #danny phantom #dpxdc #reveal gone right au #ghost king au #for plot reasons #it doesn't count if the hero had died and then came back to life #lots of heroes would still be around then #but this is me pushing the halfa!jason todd narrative work with me here he deserves the fun #deadman is there too #and he's just thriving honestly. it's so nice to be around his own kind even if the world is ending #maybe ellie is whooshed away too cause she never technically died but she took up danny's moniker when he was crowned #vlad is ecstatic cause danny put him in charge of several states while they looked for clues including Wisconsin #skulker is replacing superman and just has a shitty S painted on his chest and just eats kryptonite like candy the first time he meets Lex #Kitty and Johnny take over in gotham and sam is now the new wonder woman #idk man just stupid stuff like this #the press is flabbergasted cause the fucking KING OF GHOSTS just showed up and he's 14 and just looking for some friends #Danny: hey guys sorry about the zombies and fire i'm just here to find my coworker and lil sister and maybe the other heroes #Danny: in the meantime i'll just let my army into the mortal realm to defend it while we figure out what's going on pls don't yell at us :) #the press: how do we explain this to the justice league when they come back. how do we explain that earth was saved by a 14 year old boy- #also idk which heroes are technically dead but are still kicking so if you feel like someone deserves liminal status slap it on them idc #some villains are trying for world dominance and some are just trying to find their buddies. their fight buds. where'd they go? :( #joker gets bitch slapped by a skeleton two days in and waylon becomes bffs with wulf #danny uses the watchtower as a base of operations and it's the only thing he doesn't want to give up when the heroes are back #i have no plot ideas beyond this #i just want everyone to be baffled that an army of the dead showed up while they were gone and just made sure everything stayed cool #later danny realizes he was technically the ruler of the world for a bit since his people were everywhere keeping the villains in check

[skymantle]

noticed a while ago that yes man has a small lisp that's noticeable in a handful of his lines, so i made a little compilation of the ones where its Most apparent! :-)

#its like a 'ch' or whistled 's' sound for words that end in -s. i dont know how else to describe it i never learned ipa #sorry i mentioned this comp in the tags of that one post hoping someone would prompt me to post it because im a coward but i had to accept #that i'm in charge of my own destiny...!!! #logs #fallout new vegas #fallout #fnv #yes man #i also isolated 54 seconds of him laughing because im sooo normal. there's also a line where his voice really cracks which isnt used ingame #(another take is used) but its still in the files

[starryyourstruly]

No bc Kaeya has to be hoyo’s favorite at this point. All signs point to FAVORTISM (same). The way he’s got some of the best lore out of any one else in this game. The way he’s such a dynamic character that so many people misjudge at first. The way they find ways to carefully craft him to look inconspicuous despite being EXTREMELY important to the main plot of the game as a whole. The way he’s the only one of the first 3 free characters (Lisa, Kaeya, Amber) to get a hangout quest. The way the old people of Mondstadt vote him as “best candidate for grandson in law”. And the most random mentions in any world quest/traveler voice lines?? Be so fr.

#ooooooo I bet hoyo is regretting not making Kaeya a 5 star with all of this free marketing they’re doing #I bet they’re soooo mad they aren’t charging us $40 for his new skin #They KNOW we love him and they KNOW we’ll pay for it but they’re letting us get it for free and I think that’s just lovely #kaeya #genshin impact #Genshin #kaeya alberich #i could go on and on about this man forever truly

[coquelicoq]

the reason for all the marriage offers isn't because everybody wants a piece of that sweet sweet matoba power but because the old exorcist aunties think it's such a shame that some two-bit soap opera actor is stringing along that nice matoba boy. they just want to help him get over this unworthy charlatan who is clearly never going to give him the time of day. remind him there's other fish in the sea, sort of thing. matoba is taking longer than planned to fall in love with one of their grandchildren but they are not above leaving a little cursed voicemail here and there and one day, their efforts are bound to bear fruit. surely any day now.

#people leaving natori cursed voicemails because they're tired of matoba's pathetic pining is my new favorite thing #like everybody wants someone to look up to...someone they can be impressed by and trust in the composure of #they all want matoba to be that person because he's strong and in charge of everything #but unfortunately he keeps bursting their bubble by soppily mooning over this ridiculous pretty boy idol #the man is on billboards for fuck's sake. is matoba shallow or what? what does he see in this guy? #embarrassing! they all wish he had better taste. he's making them all look bad. letting down the side #natsume's book of friends #horrible exorcists #natsume yuujinchou #my posts #joke's on them though. matoba would not stop being obsessed with natori even were he to be cursed into an early grave

[dykedvonte]

In light of me being obsessed with House saying he started to see Benny as a son, House is a hypocrite in calling Yes-man a vanity project cause while Vegas is clearly his vanity project with all his plans for it, there’s something more subtly vain about trying to rewrite and recreate an hypothetical heir in his image that he clearly would’ve done with Benny as he does it with you.

#like sir having an unknowing protege is very vain #mfw house likely has regrets about not having more human connections and a more mundane legacy in a family seeing as he was an orphan #and it’s likely Vegas is not only a substitute in how he explicitly wants the tribes to call themselves families now and how he creates ties #between himself and them hit particularly Benny #fallout #fallout new vegas #robert edwin house #mr house fnv #benny gecko #Benny fnv #I do not believe Benny would see house as a father figure a mentor maybe but that’s still pushing it #he’s just the man in charge and and a smart knowledgeable guy #and I’d say more but it’s just speculation as I have to supplement a lot of the families backgrounds and customs with HCs #as we have no idea if any of them had traditional family structures or something that would denote Benny giving house that specific type of #respect and adherence

[caemthe]

dominant cú just hits different idk

#/ to delete. #ns.fw mention // #/ the duality of this man istg. takes everyone by surprise bc who would've guessed that the bubbly sunshine guy could be so--- #/ he's very assertive and keeps his partner in a tight leash; but that playfulness and softness doesn't go away #/ will give the gentlest kisses and words of encouragement while making them whimper and squirm underneath him #/ letting cú be in charge makes them see a new side of themself they didn't know they had. and i think thats beautiful uvu

[fist-of-vengeance]

rewatching the new man in charge and im obsessed with the little moment where walt hesitates to step outside the institution and ben tells him it's okay. sobbing over how gentle it is, how walt hasn't had anyone care about him since he lost his dad, how at his core, ben is still a father

#DON'T TALK TO ME #i need to take a nap #(guy who slept in til like noon this morning) #the parallels...the emotional significance #lost 2004 #lost tv show #lost abc #LOST #the new man in charge #ben linus #walt lloyd

[linusbenjamin]

Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes + Benjamin Linus // A duo

#lost #lostedit #tvedit #lost spoilers #hugo hurley reyes #benjamin linus #nikolatexla #define an unexpected duo that turned out better than you expected #i want what they have honestly #btw i wanted to add new man in charge so so bad but i deleted it and now couldn't find it anywhere 😩😩😩 #ps it's my second time watching their last scene bc i cried so hard during my first time and been skipping since then

[fictionadventurer]

Slotting The Long Winter alongside North and South as a book about life in the nineteeth century that counts as a sci fi because it explores how technology affects the lives of the people whose society depends on it, and explores what kind of duty a man has to care for his own business vs. that of the community.

#preliminary thought is that north and south is kinder to the poor and more community-minded #because there's a lot of stuff in the long winter about how you need to care for yourself and not rely on others #or the scenes where the guy's like 'why should i have to give up my seed for folks who were too dumb to get their own supplies?' #and the response is 'of course you don't have to. of course we'll pay you for it' #as if letting people starve would have been a valid option #but then there are scenes that push back against it #namely the scene with the storekeeper trying to pricegouge the wheat #(contender for new favorite scene in the book) #where they show the other side of capitalism/free market #where of course you have the right to charge what you want #but get too greedy and the community will remember #so it's in your best interests to be decent #and now that i put it that way WOW is that a cynical take #but it's still a nice moment when they make the storekeeper change his mind #but anyway it's kind of interesting that the working-class take is more 'every man for himself' than the genteel english take was #the long winter #north and south #little house #laura ingalls wilder #elizabeth gaskell

[thevioletcaptain]

whoever stole my account information in order to spend $127 on [checks notes] roku purchases, i hope you have incurable hangnails on every finger and toe for the rest of your shitty life.

#does that seem disproportionate? #i promise it's not #because my former manager decided that me being in australia dealing with my dad's death #and me attempting to contact said manager about a dozen times and getting no response #and then me opening multiple HR tickets and getting NO RESPONSE #equates to me ''abandoning my position'' #so i currently have no income and only $43 to my name since someone decided my broke ass was a good candidate for theft #plus because of all the fraudulent charges i had to lock my account #which had the utterly ridiculous and undisclosed effect of not only blocking charges to my account but CREDITS #which means that when i decided to make a sensible mental health decision #and withdrew from the class i was taking this quarter so that i could give myself time to grieve #with the intention of enrolling in the same class next quarter instead #the tuition refund got blocked #and is now just like. hanging in no mans land. #so i can't enroll in the class for next quarter yet because i can't access the money i intended to use for it #and the classes only have space for 15 students #and it's going to take 7-10 days for the bank to issue my new card and for my account to be functional #so now i've got a new thing to be stressed about #when i was specifically trying to give myself a break from stress #so yeah i hope the person who stole from me has a shit day forever #hope they get little bits of egg shell in everything they eat #and that they can always faintly smell dog poop as if they stepped in it but can never find the source #cass says things

[angiestown]

everyone be glad I am not training you because I am Very Bad At It

#new girl started today and I'm in charge of training and it is so so so hard for me to slow down #I constantly run at 90% speed with everything I do in life (last 10% saved for when I'm in a rush) but for this I gotta go at like 15% spee #so I don't just leave her behind. she previously did custom cakes from her home so she's not used to the go go go grocery store pace #also man I already knew this but training the new hire just really emphasizes how COMPLICATED the cake department is now #when I started 9 years ago it wasn't so bad but they keep adding new shit to the program that you gotta know #especially 2019 onward it's like every month they give us something new we gotta make

[risingsunresistance]

worst "april fool's day prank" of my life. they wrote the wrong day on our appointment cards and now we have to reschedule bc neither of us are free on the actual date they put in their system .

#MAN. #AND they're trying to charge my mom an extra $100. she's fighting with them rn :/ #this isnt even a joke my life is Just like this **{^]+]+{**+ #but of course it would happen on april 1st. salt in the wound or whatever #in more fun news today's pokemon go event is great i love you free exp #chat