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Hi, this idea came to me and I won't write it so I wanted to share it with the world just in case it can inspire someone:

post rebuilding the Hotel Alastor hears that Lucifer is planning on leaving and he keeps on igniting petty competitions or coming up with increasingly bizarre excuses for the King to stay. The residents think he got a case of the feelings and start helping their beloved friend out.

Truth is, the fight with Adam left him weakened and if someone tries to attack he would *gasp* maybe show weakness in front of others.

He also catches on to what the others are trying to do and is panicking bc now he has to sort of play along and pretend to be alloromantic with 0 idea of what he is doing?!!

Lucifer just doesn't notice and is a bit flattered that everyone likes to have him around so much and a bit freaked out at Alastor being sort of not completely awful to him.

Charlie is conflicted but honestly delighted that the two seem to finally get along so well at last.

Lots of shenanigans ensue.

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I feel like people have been quick to dismiss Mimzy's importance in Ep. 5

I've been seeing a lot of Mimzy hate, mainly on Reddit, where people are genuinely REALLY hating on Mimzy because she was annoying, interrupted Hell's Greatest Dad, and served no purpose in the episode.

Whilst the previous two points are down to personal taste, I feel like considering Mimzy's role in this episode nonexistent, or that she just exists for fanservice here, is greatly overlooking what this episode is about. There are two focuses to the episode, one of course being Lucifer and his relationship with Charlie, but it's also the deepest look into Alastor's actual character that we've gotten so far, I'd say significantly more than the finale. We see two sides to Alastor that both Mimzy and Luficier bring out, and I wanted to kind of highlight my thoughts and what the episode was trying to show us about Alastor that we wouldn't have gotten if Mimzy wasn't there.

Alastor's instant hostility towards Lucifer makes it incredibly clear that Alastor can't keep his cool all the time - his two biggest flaws is that he is power-hungry and incredibly petty. From what we know - and what is likely to be true considering Lucifer is shown to have no idea who he is - Alastor has never met Lucifer before this. If the theories that he belongs to Eve/Lilith in some way are true, there is reasonable ground to say that this immediate hatred towards him could be justified, maybe it was in some way Lucifer's fault that he's caught in this deal and this is his way of taking it out on him or trying to uphold his end of that deal.

But look how much his mask slips, look how annoyed and angry he is. If this was a font that he was doing to somehow make Lucifer intentionally mad at him for some sort of personal gain, he wouldn't have looked so murderous. Him just leaning down and hissing 'fuck you' right in his face was so shocking for the audience purely because no one has done that to him before, no one has pushed him so much.

This indicates that Alastor isn't just playing some sort of game, Lucifer genuinely got under his skin, because he is so obviously more powerful than Alastor and he HATES that. He hates being reminded that he's not the biggest meanest in Hell - this was explored more in his showdown in Adam, but at the time of this episode's release, this is the most flawed and 'human' Alastor has ever felt. He's dropped from this force of mysterious evil, to randomly picking a fight with the Devil himself because he was so catty about being shown up.

As further reinforced with him snapping at Husk when he also reminded him he wasn't as all-powerful as he sees himself to be, Alastor will lash out at those who make him feel like he isn't the one in control and pulling the strings of everything - we finally see a hint of motivation for him sticking around at the hotel at all.

But then there's Mimzy.

We immediately go from seeing Alastor at his worst, at his most aggravated and petty, to seeing him literally melt into a hug. The demon who, according to Viv herself, hates physical contact so much that he would distort and melt himself to get away from it. We so quickly go from being shocked that Alastor is behaving so spitefully to now having to take in Alastor being ecstatic to see someone who he considers to be a friend.

Having this be so directly after his massive tiff with Lucifer is so important. If this wasn't included in this episode, our only insight into the person Alastor actually is would be that he's an asshole. Picking fights with people just because he wants to stay on top, that its the thing he cares about the most. But Mimzy does come along, and we see that it isn't true at all - and its confusing, and that is so perfect.

You think you're getting somewhere with the person Alastor is, but you see that, hold on, there is actually a semblance of heart in there, here he is actually caring about someone. But what is so important about this being a relationship he shares with Mimzy, and something that couldn't at all be explored with, say, Rosie, is the kind of person Mimzy is.

Mimzy double crossed Alastor. And, according to Husk, this is a somewhat regular occurace. We can see that Alastor is annoyed at her, and I think most of us were prepared for him to do something to her like he was doing to those loan sharks a few seconds before this confrontation.

But...he doesn't. Not at all, he doesn't even snap at her. Perhaps scold her a bit, but other than that, he is so nice to her and just politely tells her to leave and that is that. He does more shit to Lucifer, who literally hasn't done nothing but exist in his presence, than someone who just trampled all over his ego by using him, both as a shield and, well, somewhat emotionally.

In this episode, Alastor is shown to lash out. Easily. All you have to do is be more powerful than Alastor, and he won't like you - that's the impression you'd get from his scenes with Lucifer alone. But we have his scenes with Mimzy as well, and you're being told, hold on, no, that isn't quite correct, because he's not acting the same here. What has Alastor got to gain from letting Mimzy get off of this with no repercussions? Mimzy, someone who has probably sold her soul to someone else and has absolutely no power at all.

Nothing. He does it because Alastor cares about her.

I don't think I would have considered his friendship with Rosie to be genuine at all if it wasn't for his friendship with Mimzy. Rosie is so powerful, and Alastor has so much to gain from being in close cahoots with her, but it's so clear that he doesn't care about that, but he sees her as an equal. If all we saw from Alastor in that episode was him lusting for power, it would render the way we see all his relationships with people to be of some gain to him somehow. ESPECIALLY Rosie and other Overlords like Zestial.

This makes Alastor and Mimzy's relationship arguably one of the most interesting in the show. Someone who is so powerful and unpredictable, who hardly cares for anyone other than himself, caring about this absolute gremlin of a woman. He likes Mimzy purely because she's fun to be around, a sentiment you might expect from Alastor, with his stated reasoning for joining the hotel being to laugh at people, but he's in no way laughing at Mimzy. You can tell that he doesn't intimidate her at all, because she has the absolute balls to pull off the loan shark thing with him.

Mimzy and Lucifer's interactions with Alastor has made him to be one, if not THE most interesting character in the show. Because you're exploring two contradictory sides of the same coin at once. One where he gets so worked up and angry over not having the power he sees himself as having, and one where he's visibly hurt that his long time friend used him. In one instance you have him pulling out all the stops to be as hostile as he could be to Lucifer without actually hurting him (even though he clearly wants to), and another where he has full range to hurt Mimzy as much as he wants to, but he doesn't.

Alastor cares about people. But also disregards people like playing cards. He is such a mixed bag, so far from being one note, and you wouldn't have gotten that insight without Mimzy.

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not babygirl henry saying one of the dirtiest lines in the movie with such an adorable and shy little smile and then he wonders how alex fell in love with him

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i simply love how the movie perfectly depicts alex as the embodiment of bisexual disaster and henry as the embodiment of real gay panic. it's fucking perfect.

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this is the face of a, and i quote, very very gay man soaking up every ounce of attention his crush is giving him but trying not to be too obvious

I mean, he's failing at hiding it, but Alex is Alex so Henry's in the clear

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The Look TM; details: he wants to hop on the next plane and flee the country due to drunken kiss with homie

Gay man felt being in the closet is not enough, he must also be physically in the closet among the coats.

They might be in the right governments to declare Food Fighting as an official Olympic sport.

“I am eNgLisH, oFC GRAMMAR MATTERS”

Sad lil gay boi is also a sexual orientation.

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'Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves they're straight'

this line played repeatedly in my head when i was questioning my sexuality

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I am reading One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston, and I saw some review that was like “ugh it’s too idealistic, it’s like the authors just putting on a performance for the audience rather than telling a story” and I’m like yesss, but that’s the point. They’re indulging us. As I was reading I kept getting so excited, like I’m less than half through (so this might not hold up) but I kept just thinking no way, how does everything keep happening so perfectly, this is like fanfiction of an actual book, or written like the dreams I use to fall asleep.

And then I was thinking (aside from the fact that’s exactly how I feel about Red White and Royal Blue politics criticism), that’s what defines all my favourite movies. They’re all built to indulge us. There’s Legally Blonde and Little Women and Ocean’s 8 and Mamma Mia and Midnight in Paris and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and they’re all designed to give us exactly what we want, in ways that are bold but nuanced and more often than not flippin stunning. It’s why Heartstopper was so revolutionary, and more generally why we love fanfiction and romcoms.

I’m conclusion, that’s why the Barbie movie is going to be a cultural reset.

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of all the things that I want to see in the rwrb movie, Henry's rant to Phillip may be the most important:

and, of course, Alex's reaction:

but I don't know how bold the movie will be. are they going to open the colonization box and get this honest? I'm not really sure, but I hope so.

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Haters have been really quiet since the trailer dropped.

So you agree? Casting announcements and photo stills aren't enough to form a real opinion on a piece of media? And doing this only creates uneccesary hate and criticism?

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it's been months since Henry's bonus chapter came out and i'm still not over the fact that baby Henry literally felt a disturbance in the force when Alex saw his picture in the magazine the first time. how are we all not screaming about this ??

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Things of note from Henry's chapter from the collector's edition as I make my way through it:

- they have a sex toy drawer

- they went on sex around the world tour

- Henry's an ass man

- Henry's internal monologue is just waxing poetic about Alex at all times

- David is the most precious boy

- Alex orders pancakes from 'some diner' and I refuse to believe it's any place other than Pancake Billy's from OLS

- They are the most sappy and nerdy and I fell in love with them all over again

Like Henry says. Falling in love, the sequel

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Little Gem by Elaine Murphy

Amber - Female - 18

In two minutes I’ll get an ‘accurate’ reading. Imagine me being pregnant? Like, a ma. There’s no way. Imagine Paul being a da! That’s mad. Like, I know I’ve nothing to worry about but Mandy has my head doing fucking overtime. My yokes are always all over the place but… I actually can’t remember when I got my last one. If I was… Paul’d have to… (Looks at the strip.) Oh my God, my heart. Negative. I knew it. Open the door; show Jo. The fucking relief. I knew it, but you know… Jo checks the box, then checks it again. She says it’s positive. Give over, an 'X’ means no. She turns it a bit and says: 'Plus means positive.’ Bollix.

Sitting at my desk waiting for calls to come through. I’m on directory enquiries today for an English phone company. This fella rings in, looking for a cab firm in Hackney. He doesn’t know the name of the place or the road it’s on but it’s definitely somewhere in Hackney, yeah… Do I not know it? How would I bleedin’ know it? I’m about to start a search, but it feels too much like work and he’s been real ignorant so I cut him off. Trying to remember when the fuck it could’ve happened cos in fairness we’re always real careful. I’ve done three pregnancy tests and they all say the same thing.

There was this one night, when we got back to his gaff and I was wrecked. Was lying there waiting for the bed to stop spinning so I could climb aboard the night train. He was off somewhere – probably playing that fucking Xbox with Stee – then he comes in and starts nudging me.

'You awake? You awake? You awake?’

'Well, I am now.’

Was so knackered, did the starfish – you know – (She stretches out her arms and legs and flails about a bit.) decked out, no energy. He’s going at it like a mad thing and I don’t know… Must’ve nodded off – only for a minute, mind – cos then I heard – 'Oh shite, Amber, it’s split! Amber! Amber! Amber!’

I’m like, 'What, what, what?’

'Were you asleep?’ He says, disgusted.

'Nooo, I had me eyes closed cos I was getting really into it.’

'I might as well be into necrophilia.’

At that stage I could feel my headache starting so I just said: 'Fuck off.’

But the next day I said to me ma: 'Here, what does necrophilia mean?’

The look on her face was pure horror.

'What weird shit are you getting up?’

'Ah, nothing,’ says I. 'Heard it on the telly.’

It must be really bad – like when they poo on ye or something. Maybe it’s his posh way of saying I’m shite in the sack. He does that sometimes, uses big words I don’t understand, bet the cunt doesn’t know what it means either. We hardly made a baby outta that, did we?

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One for Sorrow by Cordelia Lynn

Imogen - Female - Early 20s

I’m not angry.

Pause.

I’m not angry at all, actually.

You might think that I would be angry but I’m not. You see, I’ve taught myself how to be not angry. Anger is a kind of fear and fear is the worst thing so I taught myself to be not afraid of anything. My mother is afraid of birds. She pretends not to be but she is. Can you imagine being afraid of birds? I can’t. I used to be afraid of the dark. I’m not afraid of the dark any more. I’m not afraid of anything. And so I’m not angry at anything either.

No. That’s not right. I’m very angry. I’m angry all the time. Sometimes I’m so angry I think my heart will stop. I wake up in the morning and I’m not sure if my heart is beating because I’m so angry. I wake up in the morning some days and I think I’ve had a heart attack on waking. I’m so angry sometimes my eyes and my ears start to hiss and I have to stand up and walk across the room and put my hands to my head and say I’m So Angry I’m So So Angry just to do something because otherwise I think I’ll let blood out somewhere on someone and perhaps myself. That’s how angry I am. I’m furious. I’m furious at us. I’m furious at the world we’ve created.

I think we should destroy it.

No. That’s not right either. I’m a pacifist. I don’t think we should destroy anything ever. Even bad things. I think we should hold bad things close and never let them go until they realise how loved they are and stop being bad.

Yes.

That’s how it works.

I’m angry at us. We deserve everything we get.

No. That’s not right. No one deserves anything.

No, that is right. Everything we get.

We made it.

The meaning of the word Aftermath is the crop that follows the first harvest which you harvest again. This is the aftermath of our harvest. We deserve this. We are guilty of this. We should reap it up and eat it up. And smile. And say, Yes thank you very much for our aftermath. It is very delicious thank you and then we should hold them close and never let them go until they know how loved they are. How very very loved. And never again. And never ever again what we have done what we did and always hold them close as close can be and always close and always loved and always –

Yes.

That’s how it’s going to work.

Silence.

Talk to me.

I need you to talk to me. I need you to be here and talk to me. I need you to /

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Dancing Bears by Sam Holcroft

Charity - Female - Teenager 

Aaron? I was in a car at the traffic lights and I saw across the other side of the road a baby fox. It had run out from someone’s front garden and it was so tiny it could hardly walk on its little legs. But it bounded across the pavement like Bambi and ran into the road just as the lights changed and the car in front took off. And my heart, like, jumped into my throat all of a sudden but the car stopped and I thought, ‘Thank God, it’s stopped just in time,’ and I was waiting for it to run out the other side but I couldn’t see it and then the car in front swerved and drove around it and I could see that it was still running, the baby fox, but running on its side with his head now facing its tail and blood coming from its mouth with these wild, wild eyes. And though I only saw it for a second I can’t stop seeing the image in my mind. And when we drove past again on the way back it had gone, but there was a stain on the tarmac, like someone had been sick. The other day I watched a grown man get punched in the face till he was basically dead, and the only thing I can’t get out my mind is a baby fox that didn’t do nothing but run out into the road. I keep seeing it, running, you know, on its side, but it’s not the running, it’s not its twisted spine, it’s the eyes, Aaron, cos even though it was dying, even though its life was beaten out of it, its eyes… its eyes were on fire.

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Dark Earth by David Harrower

Christine - Female - 20

I live here. Is that no enough? It’s enough for me. (Pause.) Least I know where I am an how tae get out. You dinnae even know that. You’re lost. So dinnae speak without knowin what you’re speakin about – cause you don’t know the first thing about this place.

Fair got the bit between your mouth now, haven’t you?

It was you in the dock a minute ago – how’s it turned so quick? See, I was right – sly, sleekit. College? Why no university? I could go tae university. I might be goin for all you know. You’ll have went, won’t you? You’ve got that look.

Well, I’m no goin anywhere. School was torture enough. Why’d I want tae prolong the pain o that? They’d never give you a chance to learn what you really wanted tae. Sit an listen tae all kinds o subjects I couldnae give a toss about and then they couldnae understand me wantin to know everythin I could about what really interested me. Where I live. Round here. I know all about round here. All there is tae know. I’d tae learn most of it myself cause with them it was always, right, we need tae move on now but I never wanted tae. I know about the Romans an their empire an Agricola an Antoninus an the Votadini and the Selgovae. I know about Charlie an the seven men o Moidart an the genius Lord George Murray an old Jamie the Rover bidin his time in Rome. I know more people from round here joined him than any o them fuckin Highlanders. You don’t know any o that, do you? Or about dairy herds and set-aside and cereal prices. I know about where I live.

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I hope (for all of yall's safety) that I do not come across a Lesso x Rafal post anywhere