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hirunoka · 10 months
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rambler73x · 1 year
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Hi, okay so hear me out… this has been in my head for days. Just this image. The slight smirk just everything about him screammmmmssss eat me 😂 Enjoy!
Summary: Y/N and Jensen have been on and off for years. Until he married Danneel where everything was cut off. That is until his recent divorce. (Nothing against Danneel) You are working on the set of The Boys right from season 1 so your were comfy with the cast and crew. That is until Jensen Ackles shows face… or in this case ass. Watching him portray this dirty mouthed crazy character hits you hard, making you relive your past with Jensen.
P.S sorry in advance if it goes from you to I, this is first time writing not in first pov.
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You’d been on the set of The Boys for 3 years now, this being the third year. There was talk of bringing someone on set for the new character “Soldier Boy” though you hadn’t the foggiest of who it was. You needed to catch up on recent events, which is what you were on your way to do now. You were on your way to see Eric Kripke, see if he can give you insight in what the commotion was about.
You caught sight of Eric sat around the filming crew. They were in the middle of shooting a scene. You quietly made your way over and stood next to Eric, who has been you long time creepy friend since season 1 of Supernatural where you were cast as an extra here and there and helped a lot with the team for around 7 seasons worth before you had to quit for personal reasons. The main reason was Jensen Ackles. His wife to be specific.
“Y/N, you good” Eric asked as I approached, I nodded and stood next to him.
“Just need some info from ya, who’s the newbie? Yanno for Soldier Boy?” I asked him. He smirked and diverted his eyes to the scene they were filming.
“You’re about to find out” he smirked. I furrowed my brows. I didn’t think they were on till next week?
I turned to watch as smoke filled the area, someone, someone very naked and vey male, stepped through the foggy smoke. All I could see was his back, and let me just say he had the best ass I have ever seen. I raised my brows slightly as I continued to watch on. This persons acting was good.
“Cut!” Eric shouted. The team set of to their duty’s, someone walking over and handing naked guy a robe. “Good job guys, let’s hit for break!” Eric continued and turned to me with a questioning look. “So?”
“We’ll, to be honest Eric all I saw was his ass, but seems okay. Good ass choice.” I chuckled. “Who is it?” I asked again.
“Eric!” A very familiar, gruff, Texan voice yelled out. My body shot with tingles my stomach growing butterflies.
“Really?” I mouthed to Eric, who looked smug as all hell, before walking past me to the ass man. To Jensen. I breathed in through my nose and exhaled loudly through my mouth. God I haven’t seen him for years.
I turned and walked over to Eric who was stood chatting to Jensen. He looked good. Real good. All gruff, messy haired and messy beard.
“Jensen, meet your on set PA, Y/N” Eric grinned, all smug, wrapping his arm around my shoulder. Jensen took this time to look to me, his eyes widening slightly. Before a slight smirk overtook his features.
“Good to see you Y/N/N” he smirked, using the nickname that only he used for me. My stomach fluttered immensely, my cheeks flushing as a smiled a small shy smile.
“You too, soldier boy” I smirked back, nodding my head slightly.
We always had a flirty banter, and great amazing passion fuled sex. Then he got married. To someone that wasn’t me.
“Like the scene?” He smirked.
“Eh, I’ve seen better” Lies. His ass is amazing.
He rolled his eyes and laughed. This is when Eric decided to drop in. Continuing his conversation with Jensen. I let him know I’ll be in the office room to continue my work.
Slowly stepping away, I watched Jensen watch every move I made. Turning my back on them I swayed my hips a little more than usual and made my way through the team to the office to continue my work.
I have a feeling this is gonna be messy.
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A couple weeks have passed now. I’ve been spending some time in set watching the scenes pull together. Jensen now had a short beard, groomed up and looking hot. Hair had a cut and was freshly styled each day. His Soldier Boy suit made him look delicious. Hearing him speak as Soldier Boy shook me to my core, my mind wandering to our past. To the hot passionate sex we had. All the dirty words that slipped from them plump lips and into my ear shooting through my head. God this is torture.
I was on my way to his trailer to make sure he had his directions for today. I knocked on the trailer door, it opened in seconds. His beautiful sunkissed face appearing.
“Hey, Y/N/N” he rasped, heat flushing my body. I grinned.
“Hey” I responded. All the thoughts growing through my mind with that raspy voice triggering them all. “Got your directions here, you need a copy?” I questioned holding up the paper. He reached out grabbing it and looking down running over the list.
“Can you do me a favour?” He asked, eyes staring straight into my soul.
“Sure what’s up?” I asked. I would do anything for him.
“Run lines with me?” He asked making room for me to step into his trailer. I nodded and made my way inside.
We got comfy and ready and started running his lines, and let me tell you, his persona for soldier boy was down right fucking dirty. I could feel my face flushing, neck heating up, my core burning with fire, desire.
“Y/N? You still with me?” His voice broke me from my dirty thoughts. I swallowed and nodded gripping the script infront of me keeping my eyes down. “You sure sweetheart?” He questioned again. I could hear the smirk in his voice. I huffed and continued nodding, my thighs clenching together.
“All good.” I muttered braving a look up at him. His green eyes shined, you could see the mischievous look in them, along with the gigantic smirk.
“Yeah right Y/N/N. I’ve known you long enough to know when somethings up. In this case when something is hot…” he trailed of. I rolled my eyes standing.
“I’m fine.” I paused. “Yanno Jen, I have some work I need to do else where, catch up later yeah?” I asked not waiting for a response and walking towards the trailer door. Before I could open it his hand was around my wrist and he was pulling me back in. Turning me so my back was against the side of the kitchen area in the trailer. He was stood directly infront of me. Hand wrapped around my wrist, another hand loosely around my throat. His hot minty breath fanning my face. Our hips flush together, I could feel his cock pressed against me, hard and waiting under the thin material of his joggers.
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kassiekole22 · 9 months
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Supermassive Questions Game!!!
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Hi, guys! So I decided to make this game because I always really love hearing other people's thoughts and opinions on these games. If you want, be sure to tag your friends to keep this going! 😃
I'll go first, but I'll place a blank one under mine for the people who play after me. Have fun! 🖤 (Also, explanations to answers are optional.)
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Games You've Played (In Order): House Of Ashes, The Quarry, The Devil In Me, Until Dawn.
Favorite Game: Until Dawn (Great writing, amazing twists, loveable characters is what did it for me.)
Least Favorite Game: The Quarry (The fact that relationship decisions don't actually amount to anything, any little bearing we got was pointless and we got fuck all of an ending just makes me feel like the whole thing is pointless.)
Favorite Character From Each Game: Josh, Jason, Abi, Erin.
Least Favorite Character From Each Game: Emily, Rachel, Emma, Charlie.
Favorite Character Overall: Josh (Possibly just me being biased. 😂 But I do love his character and story a lot though — especially his humor. And I'm a sucker for a tragic story as well. 😂)
Least Favorite Character Overall: Charlie (Just an overall dick, in my opinion. And he annoyed the absolute hell out of me.)
Favorite Ships:
Chris and Ashley (Just fucking adorable! 💖)
Mike and Sam (They had great chemistry and I really enjoyed seeing them together in the last chapter.)
Matt and Jess (There is something about these two together that just... Works for me, y'know?)
Rachel and Clarice (Clarice just seemed to bring out the good in Rachel. That scene with just the two was the only time I actually liked Rachel in the game.)
Erin and Jamie (There was something about those two that was just so cute. And the part where they kiss for the first time melted my damn heart! The whole soft cinnamon roll/tough bitch dynamic gets me a lot too. 😂)
Least Favorite Ships:
Chris and Josh (Chris was head over heels for Ashley and Josh was CLEARLY very into girls so I don't really get it that much.)
Josh and Sam (Yeaaaaaaaah... They are just like water and oil, ok? I don't think they would actually mix well as a couple. 😂 And Sam belongs with Mike anyway. 💖)
Emily and Jess (Just not a fan. I don't know why.)
Jason and Salim (Another one I don't get that much. I used to ship them a long time ago because it was so popular, but then I realized that it just didn't make much sense to me so I stopped. I mean, one of the chapters about them is literally called "Brothers" so that just makes me think that that's the relationship the devs were aiming for with those two.)
Rachel and Eric/Rachel and Nick (If you played the game, you know my reasons. 😂)
Any characters with Du'met (Just not a really big fan of it at all. Doesn't make much sense to me neither.)
(I've only played Until Dawn, House Of Ashes, The Quarry and The Devil In Me. So that's why the list is without other ships from other games. But I'm not adding any of The Quarry ships to this list because it seemed like nothing came out of the relationship decisions and I didn't enjoy the characters as much so I tend to ignore ships from that game.Also, no hate towards the people who ship the ones I listed as least favorite. To each their own.)
Dr. Hill Or The Curator Or Eliza: Hmmmmmm... Probably Dr. Hill. (He was more creatively written than the others, in my opinion.)
Wolfie Or Connie: Fuck, I should have thought this through before writing it down. 🤣 Although I LOVE Connie with all my heart, Wolfie did get more screentime which led me to have a bit more of an attachment to him. So I'll have to go with Wolfie.
And most importantly—
Favorite Version Of O'Death: The Dark Pictures Anthology theme for sure!
Least Favorite Version Of O'Death: Though I didn't play the games, I heard the ones for Man Of Medan and Little Hope and I just wasn't a fan.
So those are my answers! I hope you guys have as much fun as I did doing this. And also, no hate towards the people who like the games/characters/ships that I don't. To each their own. 💖
So anyway, the blank one is down below. ⬇️
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Games You've Played:
Favorite Game:
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Favorite Character From Each Game:
Least Favorite Character From Each Game:
Favorite Character Overall:
Least Favorite Character Overall:
Favorite Ships:
Least Favorite Ships:
Dr. Hill Or The Curator Or Eliza:
Wolfie Or Connie:
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Favorite Version Of O'Death:
Least Favorite Version Of O'Death:
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thatseventiesbitch · 10 months
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do you have any unpopular fandom opinions ?
Thanks for the ask! I do, anon... but beware. These are actually unpopular/controversial 😂
Hyde was my favorite pairing for Jackie on the show, and I think they had a lot of (wasted) potential. I do not think the writers did them justice/they got a satisfying resolution to their storyline, and that is why they've resonated with such a significant portion of the fanbase. That's not the controversial part (😂). The controversial part is that I don't think Jackie and Hyde were ultimately meant to be endgame in the That '70s verse. Their relationship was riddled with trust & communication issues from the start, they had differing priorities for their future, and ultimately I do think that Jackie never resolved her feelings for Kelso. Sorry. Please don't throw garbage at me (/Pam Beesly)
I am not interested in reading stories that are driven by OC's (original characters), and I skip over those works altogether. OC's are almost always a self-insert (a way for the author to put themselves into the show's universe) and that's just not interesting to me/not why I engage with fan fiction. I have a whole stack of novels next to my bed that I pick up if I am interested in reading fiction about original characters. (That said - I do not begrudge anyone their right to engage with the fandom/fan fiction however they want to! I'm a big believer that the internet is big enough for everyone. If it's not for me, I just scroll on by.)
The name Leia has grown on me. 🤷‍♀️
Eric loving Star Wars is such an integral part of his character throughout the entire series, and of freaking course he would find a way to incorporate that into his future career in some way if he could. I enjoy the detail about him teaching a class on Star Wars in That '90s Show and find it to be very in-character.
Canon is what happened on the show/in the source material. It's simply the material the writers/showrunners/creators made for the characters. One doesn't have to like canon, or agree with it. That's kind of the whole reason fan fiction exists! But canon is canon, and it's very straight forward/there's no merit there to me about throwing out parts of the show that one doesn't like/"this isn't canon to me" doesn't make sense. In long-running fandoms like T70S, it's really just a label or a way to keep ideas organized. Because who doesn't enjoy a good canon-divergent fic? I know I do.
Kitty was not a Pollyanna, and I disagree with stories or analysis that paint her as such. She loved her kids more than anything - but she could also frequently be temperamental with them, yelled, called names, made questionable parenting moves, etc. One of my all time favorite lines from her is, "You know I love my family, but sometimes I just want to get in the car and run them all over!" Because same, Kitty. Same. 😂
I like Ozzie. He consistently made me laugh out loud on T90S, and given the short season/time constraints I actually thought his character was given a fair bit of depth (his coming-out storyline and how it helped him and Leia grow closer/closer to the Forman's in general). The ‘why is there a gay Asian kid in the ‘90s???’ criticism just... doesn’t ring true to me, as someone who grew up in the ‘90s with gay friends and is familiar with the Milwaukee-area. I would like to see more nuance given to his storylines next season (particularly around his sexuality), but I'd say that about each of the T90S characters.
Jackie and Eric are my NOTP. They are the ultimate ick for me, and I just cannot ever see it working under any circumstance. Donna/Hyde are more palatable - and that is saying something (because hell no, I do not ship Donna/Hyde!).
I think those are the main ones. 😅
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mobius-m-mobius · 5 months
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Bruh Tom said in this interview the last "for you, for all of us" bit was from him... youtube.com/watch?v=7JhnYlbtxmY If that's not the most roundabout way to say "that was just for Loki and Mobius" because they'd be the two characters in that scene who KNOW what the hell Loki is referencing? Is Tom also a Lokius believer because he was the one who talked to Natalie Holt extensively to craft the OST and she weaved so much of it into the music? Eric Martin referencing Spirk to Lokius. Michael Waldron being the one who wrote E5 aka the romcom episode. How much of that was Owen and Tom doing whatever and how much of it was in the script? And the show's editor insisting that she keeps the Lokius chat scenes as much as she could? Like what was in the water on that set 🤔🤔
Honestly getting whiplash from all the recent interviews coming out, lol, but that detail about Tom coming up with Loki's final line is definitely one of the best (and possibly only 😅) I'm taking to heart because what a beautiful callback and way to confirm that even if Mobius didn't get the chance to fully put the pieces together about Loki's attempts at fixing the loom he would instantly recognize those words and what they represent.
That plus the Lokius track playing constantly throughout the season as well as pretty notably when Loki becomes the God of Stories and then Tom previously mentioning he and Owen would recite poetry together (👀👀) before filming to set the tone for their scenes all definitely adds a lot to the theory of Tom's pov when discussing the OST with Natalie Holt who we all know is a champion of Lokius in her own right 😂💖
Speaking of what was in the water I'm still obsessed with finding out ep 5 was a last minute rewrite only for them to come up with the Cleveland based rom com of anyone's dreams and if anyone's listening a spin off of Don trying to woo whatever Loki inevitably ends up in his timeline would be a welcome balm to the soul because I can't rest without seeing him again 🥺
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chaoticace2005 · 9 months
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My reactions to Good Omens S2:
Episode 1
-wait Crowley backstory?
-they knew each other? I’m screaming
-okay Crowley maybe don’t brush off your future husband like that?
-angel Crowley is such a nerd
-oof Aziraphale, don’t worry in 6000+ years Crowley will only be thinking that about you
-and yeah of course Crowley is already questioning things
-I’m sure they could object to that
-HE DID THE WING THING
-is starmaker Crowley gonna be something actually discussed??
-also im just now thinking that in s1 only Crowley introduced himself and in s2 only aziraphale did
-yeah… aziraphale is not gonna like the “angle” thing
-THERE WERE LOCKDOWNS
-aziraphale really just adopted someone huh
-“I’m very good at forgiveness, it’s one of my favorite things” dude you’re too good for this world
-yep Crowley is having an existential crisis
-oh hi Gabriel
-yeah aziraphale is about to be in for a rude awakening
-aww they’re cute
-oh wow aziraphale stop lying
-okay does this guy have both types of amnesia
-okay but there was a fly in the box so… beezelbub?
-okay Crowley I’m sure there’s more reasons than just those 3
-okay he really just chugged that
-aww she’s cute
-oof Maggie
-okay him and Crowley are already killing me
-yeah Crowley is having a mental breakdown
-“hell me take care of him”, shfhsh
-“he’s smoking”
-oh dang the old, lock them in a room together
-okay they’re really a human aziraphale and Crowley
-yep Lindsay sucks
-love how aziraphale is pretending not to look interested
-this is a complete flip from s1 where Crowley has to convince aziraphale to get involved
Episode 2
-CROWLEY NO
-DUDE STOP KILLING GOATS
-oh him and Muriel knew each other
-love how aziraphale really doesn’t want anyone to buy books
-Crowley archangel?!
-the fact that they have to make the place accessible
-oof I thought Jim was just invisible, turns out archangels really are just so self involved
-they have to be matchmakers dhdhdhdh
-yeah I’d be scared too if that Crowley was looking for my children
-THEY REMEMBER THEY KNEW EACHOTHER AS ANGELS
-Crowley got aziraphale into food?!
-Yeah the angels are gonna be confused about childbirth
-“OUR CAR”
-THERES A GOOD OMENS BOOK
-okay was last season just Crowley falling for aziraphale and this one is the opposite
Episode 3
-aww they’re cute
-Crowley’s moving in
-awww they’re cute
-ooh why’s beezelbub so anxious?
-awww Crowley gets quality time with his son
-Crowley really is stuck on the rain
-is this gonna be Crowley and aziraphale taking care of kids throughout the years?
-Crowley is fucking high
-fudgfhdhdh Crowley
-“blessings to twitter and Grindr”… yeah I’ll give blessings to one of them
-protective Crowley!
Episode 4:
-“Lesi”?
-dude, do NOT let her into your car
-“you don’t seem his type at all” babe wtf
-“I REMEMBER HEARING YOU AND CROWLEY WERE AN ITEM”
-who is furfur?
-ooh after the church?
-how did those bastards not die?
-awww aziraphale is so in love
-oh no aziraphale is going as magician?
-ZOMBIE NAZIS
-“expert lip reader”…oh this will be good
-Crowley’s doing voices 😂
-“someone you can really trust”
-oof miracle blocking 😭 this is gonna be painful
-“my miracles aren’t working” “neither are mine” god they’re so stupid
-of course he’s never fired a gun before dhdhdhebbd
-how is this magic trick legal?
-ejhdhd démons really can’t read
-“I knew you’d come through for me, you always do”
Episode 5
-doctor who
-DUDE GAVE AWAY A BOOK
-Eric dude stop asking questions, you’re gonna get lightning bolted
-Nina definitely thinks they’re an item
-I WAS RIGHT
-Crowley’s a stuttering mess 😂
-the fact Nina just assumes Crowley could never be straight
-okay I think Nina broke Crowley
-did Crowley set up a fucking date?
-oh aziraphale you’re definitely “smitten”
-oh dude, Crowley maybe don’t spill about the swap?
-told “MY OWN FRIEND”
-“and I did not care for it” oh baby I’m sure you didn’t
-CROWLEY FINALLY ACCEPTED HES A DAD
-the way Gabriel is dressed up 😂
-everyone is so posh
-oh no Maggie
-aziraphale censored the bloody place
-dude let her say something other “seamstress”
-LET CROWLEY AND AZIRPAHALE DANCE TOGETHER
-lmao they’re flirting with Gabriel
-THEYRE GONNA FANCE
-well they danced for like five seconds
-CROWLEY IS A NERD, Aziraphale is gonna fucking marry this guy on the spot
-nevermind he’s just quick in his feet
-“I won’t leave you on your own”
-oh that’s the magician’s partner, I was wondering who they were
-“you’re a good lad” “I’m not actually either”
-“rescuing me makes him so happy”
-I do not think azirpahale is gonna like Crowley just running to heaven
-okay how are they gonna finish this in 50 minutes?
Episode 6
-ANGEL COSPLAYER CROWLEY
-so Nina and Maggie just keep developing their relationship while locked in places
-warrior aziraphale?
-dang hes really just using what killed him last season as a weapon?
-“nah”?
-“Crowley’s emotional support angel”
-“Jim go to your room” “goodnight”: THIS IS LITERALLY PARENTS TO THEIR KIDS
-oh wait what about his books?
-THE BOOKS
-angel form aziraphale?
-ooh halo
-DONT TOUCH IT ERIC
-Crowley is the only one here with any braincells
-if they do a miracle together it works too well? 😂
-beezlebub actually talking to flies
-“you’re perfect” they say, to a fly holding Gabriel’s memories
-THEY WERE SEEING EACH OTHER
-are they gonna dance?
-their hands lingered
-“no one’s ever given me anything before”
-THEY GOT TOGETHER: “I just found something that matters more to me than choosing sides”
-Crowley is just watching his husband get to work
-“alpha centauri’s nice”, aziraphale looks at him
-aziraphale is just looking lovingly at Crowley during this entire scene and I’m losing it
-“we need a little us time” “just us. Not you”
-aww he’s putting the place back together
-Nina called Maggie angel
-them recognizing that they can do things at their own pace and not be forced together
-they’re giving him relationship advice
-he put his glasses on :(
-“we could have been us”
-CROWLEY CJRHDHRHDH
-THEYRE KISSING?!
-oh Crowley no :(
-“anything you need to take with you?”
-WHY WOUKD YOU END IT LIKE THAT?
-WHAT THE FUCKKKKKK
-okay I seriously can’t believe at the end of this somehow Aziraphale in the Archangel and Gabriel is the one who ran off to Alpha Centauri with a demon
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Chapter 11 of Open Heart Second Year (part 1)
First of all, Open Heart was supposed to be realistic. This felt like it was straight out of Batman:
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Years of plotting revenge about to come to fruition…yeah, whatever. Kyra dying of cancer would have had the grounded emotion the team claimed they wanted…..hell, you didn’t even need Raf in the room. Keep MC in there, have Raf a second too late and MC closes the door on him, then Raf has to watch helplessly. Anything was better than what PB wrote.
Moving on to Bryce’s scene…
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Obviously Bryce is very upset upon hearing about MC, and I get it, they’re the main character, but Raf is one of his best friends. They just had an emotional goodbye where Bryce asked who he’d be going on adventures with when Raf was in Brazil, and yet now he doesn’t even get to react upon hearing Raf might be in danger.
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Oh, hi again Eric 😂
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I love Baz.
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Given how Phoebe disappeared off the face of the earth, I don’t think the writers had actually planned anything for Danny and Sienna either. Poor girl deserved so much better (but then, who didn’t, besides Ethan).
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Glad we got a choice here but that phrasing of ‘we are more than colleagues’ feels really weird.
Moving on, a few days before the chapter release I had seen a spoiler for what MC was going to look like and prepared myself for a change in Rafael’s appearance…
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…And I cried out loud ‘baby, what have they done to you?!?!’
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imthebadguyyy · 2 years
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what songs remind you of f1 drivers?
OMG HOW HAVE I NOT SEEN THIS ASK TILL NOW I AM SO SORRY
okay so here we go -
lewis - rise by katy perry, and higher by the score, hall of fame the script and behind blue eyes the who and to be alone by hozier (actually there's many more but I'll restrict it!)
george - don't ask why but....gold dust woman by fleetwood mac
charles - running up that hill by kate bush and tears in heaven by eric clapton
carlos - mercy by duffy 💀 and good luck bad luck by lynyrd skynyrd and reggaeton lento by little mix
daniel - hips don't lie by shakira 😂 and bump bump bump by b2k and diddy
lando - on top of the world by imagine dragons
pierre - ocean eyes by billie eilish and (everything i do) i do it for you by bryan adams
yuki - im still standing by elton john and wings by little mix
esteban - im a survivor by reba mcentire and sweet dreams by eurythmetics
fernando - as much as i don't like to associate him with anything at all the winner takes it all by abba and trash by little mix 💀
nicholas - .....hey jude by the beatles.
alex - do i wanna know? by the arctic monkeys and the road to hell part 2 by chris rea
valterri - this is me trying by taylor swift and it's nice to have a friend by taylor swift
zhou - keep your head up by andy grammar
seb - livin on a prayer by bon jovi and i would do anything for love by meat loaf
lance - money by pink floyd and bad habits by ed sheeran
mick - i still haven't found what im looking for by U2 and under pressure by queen and david bowie
kevin magnussen - hurt people by two feet and dead sea by the lumineers
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clarkegriffins · 2 years
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man i was thinking about stancy and how people are being too hard on them and the shippers and then i started thinking about mileven, you see i liked them a lot in s1 and s2 but then s3 happened and that changed, but what i realized after all the hell i'm going through as a stancy shipper is that i was being too hard on mileven, when we dislike something we can be really blind, i made so many posts in 2019 about how annoying s3 mileven was, that mike didnt cared about his friends anymore (which wasn't true) but u see, can u really blame them for being clingy in s3? they spent 353 days apart, he thought that she was dead even tho he still called her everyday, can u imagine if someone you loved so much, and thought they were dead, came back? i would be EXTRA clingy, and no matter how many mistakes mike makes he ALWAYS apologizes, and yes sometimes i can be unfair with mike too, we shouldn't forget that he's only 14 and he's also going through some stuff, and after vol 2 we saw how he thinks el is way too good for him and if he said that he loved her and she dumped him he would be extremely heartbroken, he's really insecure :( and about the whole i love you thing, i was also being unfair with mike, i made fun of that and all, but if u think about it being this vunerable sometimes can be scary, and it must be way more scary when you're 14 and you feel insecure, el wrote so many letters saying how her life was amazing in california, how happy she was like? even though he knew that she loved him he was probably thinking that she doesnt need him anymore, and one day she'll be bored of him bc of how amazing she was.... guys struggling to say ily to the girl they love has been a trope for years now, remember in that 70s show how donna confessed her love to Eric and how nervous he was even though he loved her back, the "i love cake" scene 😂 also ricky from hsmtmts, he loved nini so much but he didnt have the guts to say it, and many more examples..... the monologue is also something i was being unfair, i made fun of it and all, do i think it could be more well written? yes, ofc, but it wasn't that bad, it gave el the strenght to not give up, and made mike finally be vunerable with el, saying i love you when the person you love is in danger is also an old trope btw, so yeah i just needed to get this off my chest, i still dont ship them (i think they are cute tho they just dont give me the buzz you know?) but for now on before judging their scenes i'll try to understand them better, and i feel like everyone who's hating on them should too, never forget: THEY'RE ONLY 14, they aren't perfect, they will make mistakes and learn from them.
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scribeofpnakotis · 7 months
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Daingit I should have known it would be you 😂
Um ok here's to WIP hell I guess.
The first one is the OFMD idea I'm pretty sure you know about already but w/e. Basic plot is;
Alma runs away to sea at some point post ep10 but before the Blackbonnet reunion
She is found stowing away on a ship Ed & co are raiding
When asked what she's doing there (obviously rich kid, fairly clean and well fed etc etc) she says she's looking for her dad (just. Pretend this works with how e10 ended.)
In spite of himself, Ed is kind of invested. Life After Stede has been painfully, mind numbingly boring when it isn't just crushingly sad and he's once again desperate for a break in the monotony. Not getting attached this time though, no sir 🤡
There's a background here where since s1 Ed & Izzy's dynamic has gotten just, way more blatantly abusive, with Izzy lashing out with threats and verbal abuse (never in front of the crew) whenever he feels Ed isn't performing 'Blackbeard' convincingly enough. Most of the time, Ed's just dissociating to get through the day.
Anyway Ed decides he wants to help Alma find her dad (he has no idea who he is, she's not giving a name), with the justification to Izzy & the crew that she's obviously rich so her dad will probably pay a huge ransom to get her back.
So then there's an extended period of Alma living on the Revenge with Ed, Izzy, Jim & Frenchie & the rest of the crew
There's cute kid bonding with the crew bc I'm not made of stone, but the primary focus of this part of the story is on the dynamic between Ed, Alma and Izzy
Specifically with it mirroring the dynamic of Ed & his parents growing up
Alma= bb!Ed
Izzy= Ed's dad
Ed= His mum
So then it's Alma's POV of Izzy's abuse of Ed getting worse and eventually starting to spill over to her (Izzy generally fucking hates that there's this rando kid here now and also specifically thinks she's in the way of Ed being Blackbeard properly)
Culmination of the fic is Ed either killing or firing or otherwise doing something to Izzy to protect Alma (thematically it has to be murder but I don't like making my blorbo kill people)
This brings the parallel full circle with Ed protecting the kid he's basically adopted from a shitty violent white man in the way he wishes his mum had been able to protect him from his dad
Generic Blackbonnet Reunion Epilogue
The second idea newer and more vague but basically it's a TMA/Good Omens crossover called 'Hope, Love and Indigestion' (came up with the title first, can you tell?)
Current plot points include;
Aziraphale finds Pinhole Books while searching for a rare bible (leitners that are bibles anyone??)
The Boys(gn) adopt Gerry & exorcise Mary's horrible skin ghost & also get closure for Eric's horrible skin ghost
Something about how the Good Omens 'god' is the inverse of the TMA fear Entities, two halves of a whole that cannot exist without each other as per gomens themes about how binaries are dumb
Angels & demons are the positive entity equivalent of the fear avatars??? Maybe? Somehow?
Also I think Adam Young & Agnes Montague would get on really well
Mostly this is about how I like making A&C adopt traumatised children from other media
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hacked-by-jake · 2 years
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SPOILER AHEAD
All right, I haven't seen anyone mention anything about those two yet and I was starting to wonder about it.
You know right when we send the video about Hannah and Richy to Alan, he told his about a guy called Bob Lindley something like that who recognize the mine and during our phone call in the mine itself, he asked us a favour. For us to call the police and ask to talk to Eric Briggs and him only, right like no one else. So I was wondering, are those two just random put in the last ep to help out finish the ep with context, knowing where the mine was and all OR are those two people foreshadowed that might be there and have a play in the next game.👀
I felt weird seeing that they mentioned, 2 people, full name and all just out of nowhere. I know we don't know much about others characters but why mentioning them right at the end???
Just wanna know if I think too much or if anyone else see something about those two.
Ohh btw!! Absolutely love your blog, usually pretty much in the shadow tho!😁
Thanks!
Spoiler!
When I saw your ask, Anon, I thought, Damn, why did I get so distracted by Jake?😂
You have an incredibly good and interesting point. I haven’t actually seen anyone talking about it either, but I also don’t see everything that happens.
But, I was actually a little surprised while playing why these two names suddenly appear. And then in such an absolutely serious situation in such an absolutely serious context.
But yes, then I actually did not think about the two, until your ask came.
And I have to say, whatever it is, it sounds SUS as hell.
Alan’s sentence: "Call the Police department in Duskwood and explicitly ask for Eric Biggs, talk to him and nobody else."
Whatever happened, the Duskwood police seems to have a pretty big internal problem if the boss himself doesn’t want anyone else to know about it. He doesn’t seem to trust anyone but Eric and Bob.
And, that fits so incredibly well with what Phil tells us when he calls us from prison. The problem is, of course, that we can’t hear exactly what he’s saying, because then the automatic announcement comes that Phil’s credit is used up.
But Phil says something about the police not wanting to hear what he has to say, and he says, "they conspired against me." 🤔
However, the call interrupts at this point, but I can imagine that he wanted to say that the police conspired against Phil. And they don’t care if he’s guilty or not, they just want the case to be over.
And that, in connection with what Alan has now said, would fit so incredibly well.
About the new game there is already the theory that we may have to work with the FBI. But what if we don’t have to work with the FBI, but with the Duskwood police? Because there’s a corruption scandal or something.
Maybe even both, and the FBI and the police are involved.
This is a really good point and very strange to get both names completely in the end, and then in such a situation. Maybe it will actually be important for our new case.
Imagine that Everbyte has been planning this "second" part since that moment with Phil. xD
But I also have to mention that we all thought that Darkness could be important, but in the end he wasn’t.
But there’s the difference, of course, that it wasn’t so serious when it came to Darkness.
But as Alan says, it’s pretty clear that something is wrong with the Duskwood police..
(I’m going to throw in a thought here that might not really make sense at this point, but maybe it’s Alan helping Jake out of the mine… Just sayin' and wishful thinking, still interesting.)
I mean, but we know Everbyte and they always create confusion. But I don’t think you’re thinking too much about it, it really makes sense and is a very good thought with real possibilities.
Maybe they just wanted to increase the tension a little further, but it can also be that it was intentional and with an ulterior motive.
What speaks against it are the words Everbyte has already mentioned about the new game.
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"New surrounding"
That’s why I don’t know if a case with the Duskwood police would really be something new. I mean, it sounds more like it’s going to have really little to do with duskwood, except for a few things maybe.
But who knows, this can mean a lot and it’s interesting to think about what these names can mean, and maybe do.
We can only let ourselves get surprised as always and have to somehow survive the agonizing time of waiting together. But even if it is not important for the new game, it is still fun to put theories about it.
Thank you very much for sharing this thought with me and us. :D
And of course a huge thank you for your words! I am incredibly happy that you like my blog! This means a lot to me and makes me happy! And I’m glad you’re here, whether you stay in the shadows or not, it’s nice that you’re here. I hope you will also enjoy it in the future! 🥺❤️
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biaswreckingfics · 2 years
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I wanna know how you always manage to surpass the previous chapter?! 🤔
‘The two of you in bed all day? That would undoubtedly lead to only one thing because you're sure you'll have zero self-control when it comes to the man in front of you.’
Y/n has Z.E.R.O self control and I don’t blame her at all 😂
"I don't think Haknyeon had such a good night."…Sunwoo shrugs his shoulders. "Better him than you."
Sunwoo, the most loving and caring person ever… as long as you are y/n 😂
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How freaking cute is that whole morning breath scene. Why do forehead kisses have this affect?! 🫠
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‘Before you're even fully standing, the bedroom door flies open, revealing a nosey Eric and scaring the shit out of you and Sunwoo…"I can't tell if I'm upset about finding you both boringly clothed or not," Eric sighs.
Seriously… I think Eric’s chosen date in the betting pool is coming up soon. He’s a lil too invested in what is or isn’t happening with y/n & Sunwoo 😂 I wanna know how Eric would have reacted if they were butt naked in the middle of things?!!
‘You glance over at Haknyeon and give him a sympathetic smile. "How'd you sleep?" "Not as good as you did," he grumpily replies. "I slept great because I didn't hear a single peep in the cabin last night," Eric smiles smugly. “Not even the tiniest scuffle of a bed frame.”
Code for the betting pool is still going, they haven’t hooked up yet lol
‘Haknyeon looks over at Eric with furrowed brows. "You know you're being really annoying, right?" Eric scoffs. "You think I didn't get shit from him when I started dating Sophia? This is sweet, sweet revenge."
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Ahhhhh…. His behaviour makes a lot of sense now
‘Have I dreamt about you showering with me?" He pretends to think. "Oh, absolutely. Now, it's just up to you to make it happen."
My thoughts and prayers are with y/n during these trying times lol Sunwoo is not gonna make this easy for her in any way 😂
"There she is," Hyunjae smirks at you. "I hear that your cabin was quite boring last night."
The are the most gossipy bunch ever lol
‘…you silently watch for a moment as he makes himself a plate. You can't help but think about how cute he looks with his hair all poofy and nearly drowning in his baggy hoodie…"He's so cute, isn't he?" Kevin dreamily asks, fluttering his lashes like some 80's movie lead.’
I stand corrected the WHOLE group won’t make it easy for y/n 😂
"Yes. He is very cute." You give him a smug look in return to show him that his teasing won't get to you. When a smile grows on Kevin's face, you think he's amused by you, but you quickly learn that's not the case. "I hope you're talking about me," Sunwoo's low voice vibrates in your ear, causing you to slightly jump.’
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Kevin is soo sneaky. Sunwoo being… Sunwoo lol
‘You hear a couple of "awes" come from around you as you happily eat the food Sunwoo prepared for you. You look up from your plate to see some of the group members looking fondly at Sunwoo like they're proud of him for what he did.’
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Sunwoo went from ultimate f**kboy to the definition of Boyf material
‘Sophia throws a glare at Eric. "Why do you never do anything like that for me?" You nearly choke on your eggs as Eric sputters in response before he turns on Sunwoo. "Quit making me look bad!"
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Eric should maybe pay more attention to his actual girlfriend and a less on y/n & Sunwoo 😂
‘A dangerous intensity is building between the two of you, and you knew the climax was coming soon. Hopefully, literally.’ 😏
‘His eyes fall to your lips, and just when you think you're going to get what you want, Sunwoo whispers, "Got them".’
‘Confused, you pull back from him. You search the amusement on his face to figure out what the hell he's talking about until he brings his hand up to your view. The two spice bottles you were reaching for sit in his relaxed grip, and a myriad of emotions hits you: irritation, disappointment, and annoyance.’
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Who knew that one of Sunwoo’s many talents, was magic!!! The master of misdirection lol. It’s kinda unfair using his luscious lips as a distraction 😂
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Can he not!!!!!!!!!! This should be illegal!!!!
‘Changmin to add, "Yeah, some of us would actually like to eat dinner tonight."… "Like actual dinner. Food. Not whatever the two of you -"
Why has absolutely everyone got no chill?!! Or subtlety I’m nicknaming the ‘The No Chill Gang’ lol
"I want you," he says, in a voice so low and hot that you nearly whimper. "So. Badly… I don't think I can wait another second." "Then, don't," you whisper back.’
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‘You both silently make the decision that this is it. It's time for this to go all the way like you both desperately want, and there will be absolutely no holding back.’
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Your cliffhangers are killer lol
I throughly enjoy this chapter, really looking forward to the next one, when you’re ready and have recovered from writing it 😂
Istg, I LIVE for your asks 😭😭❤️❤️ and then I sit here and giggle like a school girl when I read them 😂😂
I don't blame her for not having any self-control either, bc I sure as hell wouldn't. He'd ask me to do something and I'd immediately obey. It'd be embarrassing lmao. Also, your thoughts and prayers are with her 💀💀 it's so true lol. She's gonna need them!!
Thank you for pulling out the receipts!! If you're not Sunwoo or YN, he simply doesn't care 😂😂
Eric would've freaked out if he had actually walked in on anything 💀💀. I can hear him yelling something about "my eyes" right now lmao. I like the concept of his bet coming to an end or even them moving faster than he expected lol. He's so all over the place. I also, like you realizing that a lot of his motive is bc of revenge 😂😂
The whole group dynamic is so funny. They simultaneously want to tease the living crap out of the pair while also enjoying the mess they help create lol. They 100% would sit back with popcorn and watch the show unfold 😂😂
Sunwoo leaving the fuckboy life behind for our queen 👏👏👏 we love to see it 👏👏👏
Can he not?? Can YOU not?? Was the gif necessary?? 😭😭😭 his lips are a lethal weapon and that little shit knows it!! Why does he always have to tongue them?! 😫😫 he's a hoe.
Also, bonus points for using one of my favorite scenes from The Office for that moment 💀💀👏👏 it fits perfectly lol
I'm already like 70% done with next one 🥴🥴🤭🤭. I may or may not have already stated that I need Jesus for what I've wrote so far 💀💀 good luck yall ✌️✌️you're gonna need it
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lokisprettygirl · 2 years
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Chapter 26 is...
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It has it all, from closeness and cuteness of Loki and y/n🥰 to the first necessary revenge😈🦴👊🏻...yessss and I was like
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Loki and y/n really can't live without each other and they have the understandable need to be together all the time and it's so adorable. I hope this comes true for them soon🥺💖
'You'll be sick off me baby' noooooo we will never be sick of our Loki 😭🥺but I get his reasons why he thinks like this.
His scars in his heart are deep and the healing process just started, and so it's for y/n too. The reassurance Loki gave her is so important...in her world there are only those abusive, disgusting and cruel people and she needs Loki to show her that there are also good things and good people in this world...like the the people who helped him to get on his feet again. It's a learning process for her...but she has the best teacher 😉🥰
Daddy needs to protect his Baby. NOBODY will ever touch his baby again 🤬💀, she is his and his alone . Why is protective and avenging Loki sooo HOT🌶🥵 ? I have BMUBMD vibes here (think I have to re-read it...in blood drenched Loki...🥵❤️‍🔥🤣). And he did it, yessss I love what he did to Bucky, he got what he deserved. I'm empathic like y/n but...that piece of shit Bucky would never have stopped his evil actions so...I 'm more like an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth...and never mess with a Loki in love. 😈💀👊🏻😈
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I could literally hear it through my phone when Bucky's bones cracked and it made me shiver...you Queen of writing you.💖❤️‍🔥🦴
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Loki will always protect and defend his baby, he has an enormous protective instinct and he loves her so much...thinking about it makes me always so emotional.🥺🤗🥰
My presumption was right, Steve let Bucky down in the moment when he became useless for him. Steve is a narcissist, only money and fame is on his mind. I still have my theories about Steve and I'm curious what will happen next and if I'm right...and the Osbornes 🤔.. ?(I hope I remember the name right 🤪)
We don't know her yet but I already like Loki's little sister (she's like a mother😂😂) And I love Eric, I like how much he cares about Loki , he's a real friend and a gift.
I'm so happy that y/n got her satisfaction when she visited Bucky, I feel so good about it.
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I'm sorry but I can't stop thinking about it, I don't know why it touches me so much, Loki's and y/n's beginning relationship is kind of immaculate and the loveable way they treat each other...and at the same time it's so hot 💚❤️‍🔥💚❤️‍🔥
'...and played with his poofy chest hair'...thank you for this line🤣🥵
...and I'm excited for the dirty things he will do to her and when he will take care of her 😏😏...and she of him and worshipping him❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
'Katlyn was next on his list' yes bitch, burn in hell 💀🔥🔥🔥
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And he will send that bitch in her own personal hell 🔥🔥🔥
My Queen👑 you had a big lack of sleep but you wrote a gorgeous chapter. I'm on my knees again🧎🏻‍♀️ and I love you so much🥰💖
Take good care of you 💚💚💚😘
loki doesn't understand how addicted we are to him and that we'll never be sick of him 🥺
Yup bodyguard loki has channeled his BMUBMD self ;) but to be fair this is not the first time he has harmed someone, he was in the army and he has been a bodyguard for a long time.
I don't feel too bad for Bucky either and Steve's true colours are out in front of him, like y/n said now he'll know how it feels to be betrayed like that.
The bone cracking makes me cringe and I wrote that, i hate violence but yeah if daddy loki wants to protect me and avenge me? Goo daddy go.. I love you 🤣
His poofy almost non existent chest hair owns me
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Thank you for the loveliest ask my dear, love you so much 💚💚🤗❤️
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leonsliga · 1 year
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i need to jump on gay ships in football too!!!
Hiii i love you and everything you post basically ahahaha
so i think we’re all missing on the perfect pairing (in my opinion ofc) deledier
dele and eric together are sooooo perfect
the touches
the love glances they share
the things they say to each other
i mean googlebox was basically them just cuddling on a sofa
the insta live they did?!?! they didn’t care about other people watching, they probably just forgot because they were so engulfed in each other i love them
AAAAAAAHHHH THANK YOU ANON 💕 yesss come join us!! The water’s nice 😂 I love you already and I’m so glad you like my blog :)
*claps hands rapidly and jumps up and down* yayayayay I love ship recs!! Oh yeah, I know about deledier and I like them a lot! I think my problem is I’ve been swept up by way too many other ships and while I think they’re great together, I’m not obsessed with them (yet anyway…give me time and I probs will be lol, knowing my track record with footy ships).
But anyways, for the uninitiated, I present to you Deledier:
Holding each other through the good times and the bad
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Hell’s Angels who?
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The most down-to-fuck face I’ve probably ever seen from a footballer
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Whatever the fuck this is supposed to be 👀
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Dele’s literally feeding him…they’re so domestic wtf
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Have the above moment in video form because pictures simply are insufficient 🥰 it’s just so undeniably tender and sweet…I just had to include it!
Also, while I was doing research for this ask I found a compilation of their best moments…and uhh fuck yeah? If you haven’t seen it, I totally recommend a watch :) The moment where Dele said that out of the two of them, Eric would be more likely to tuck him in at night might’ve sold me on these two forever 🥰 anyway, I love that this exists and now I wanna see more of these for every football ship! I would do it but I’m shit at video editing, so someone please come thru 😩
And I nearly forgot: have this little beauty I discovered on my lil deep-dive.
So yeah…in other news, I think I might be a deledier convert now. Thanks for that anon <3
**Please note: the gifs used here aren’t mine…legit just found them on google when I was searching up these two and I don’t know who to credit 😵 I’ll add creds if I can find them!
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thatseventiesbitch · 10 months
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When did Eric and Donna first meet? I'm confused
Thanks for the ask! You are not alone, anon. 😂
The show gives several different versions of how long they've known each other, and those versions contradict each other. So it is confusing! This franchise directly contradicts itself all the time (it's fun🙃), so you really just have to pick your favorite/preferred version and roll with it.
Here are the various mentions the series made about how Eric and Donna met (or how long they've known each other):
In the pilot episode (S1xE1 "That '70s Pilot") while they're sitting on the stairs, Donna says,
"Eric, relax. We've lived next door to each other forever. You could've had me when I was four."
This implies they've lived next door to each other and known each other since they were really young. Younger than four.
Later in S1xE10 "Sunday Bloody Sunday" there's this exchange:
Donna [to Grandma Forman]: If you're allergic to dairy then you shouldn't be putting cream in your coffee. I mean, cream is dairy - Eric: Donna, just, no. No, okay? Grandma Forman: You shut up Eric. [To Donna] Who the hell are you? Eric: Grandma that's Donna. You've known her for sixteen years.
They're 17 in season 1, so this implies Eric and Donna have known each other (and their families have been close) since they were 1.
In season 6, Eric calls her "the girl he's been in love with since he was 5." So again, this implies he's known and been close to Donna since toddlerhood/pre-school.
In season 7 before Eric leaves for Africa, Donna says "You've always been like, 20 steps away from me my entire life. What am I supposed to do without you?"
But then in S4xE20 "Class Picture", it's revealed that Eric and Donna met for the first time with their parents on Eric's driveway, after the Pinciotti's moved in next door. Eric and Donna were kids, but they were elementary school aged. Around 6 or 7. Eric immediately had heart-eyes for her, but Donna didn't - she punched him in the stomach.
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So there you have it. Those are all of the mentions/versions I can think of. Like I said - choose your favorite. 🤣
Personally, I go with the "Class Picture" version of events, because we actually saw it play out on screen (and it's a cute/funny moment *lol*) and the other members of the gang confirm it. The other mentions they both make throughout the series can maybe be chalked up to hyperbole. When you're 17 years old and looking back on a relationship that's been as long as theirs, even if you first met when you were 6yo you might say things like "I've known you my whole life" or "I've been in love with her forever". People exaggerate, their memories are inaccurate, they might remember age 4 or 5 instead of 6. *narrows eyes at writers* I guess. 🤷‍♀️
I'm fond of saying this franchise gets the little details wrong but the big (heart) stuff right, which is why so many of us care so deeply about the characters.
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josiebelladonna · 1 year
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blood & chocolate
pairing: alex skolnick/eric peterson
warnings : creator chose not to archive
tags: food kink, food as metaphor for love, belly kink, weight gain, weight issues, food porn, body image, body worship, obsessive behavior, obsession, mind manipulation, mind games, sensual play, sensuality, you will get hungry reading this mark my words, praise kink, bondage, threesome - m/m/m, sadism, this is not going to go the way you think
summary: That Skolnick boy, with his stone face and gray streak, he is almost impenetrable. That is, until Eric discovers a slight notch in his armor on a mere whim.
word count: 2326 (so far!!)
ao3 link
notes: THE RETURN OF BLOOD & CHOCOLATE! i’ve been kicking around this arc of what i feel should have been the real thing since early june. i have to confess to you guys, i’m a little uncomfortable sharing this particular kink with the world because it’s one of my main ones (a kinky girl in a vanilla world 🫣). i think i might make some art for this one, too: we shall see and i’ll keep y’all updated on that. i just think about how alex is bit of a health nut—and his protruding tummy will tell you otherwise 😜 (health at every size, sure, but i’ll let the fic be the judge, though). given the nature, i beg that you read at your own risk. the sexuality is very understated but it’s kinky as holy hell, so explicit rating is on. based on my own predilections or not, this is still a work of fiction.by the way, you will get hungry reading this: notably, i write chapters while i’m hungry just to amplify it 😂
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He was the kind of boy whom you only read about before in those guitar player magazines on the back shelf in the grocery store. He seemed to have come from another world altogether, a world that gave us the fastest, most fantastic fingers to dream of. That little plume of gray at the crown of his head only further indicated of his otherworldly qualities. The way he sashayed and moved about utterly hypnotized and mesmerized everyone, including me. 
So I was told, especially when I went about with business as usual in the grocery store. I saw him on the cover and I sighed through my nose.
Some day I would have my own moment in the sun. Some day, somehow, by some dark magic, I would do it. I would reach the same top that Alex did.
He was my band mate, my kid brother, my everything. He had those long, spidery fingers that crept and crawled about on the fretboard, and he moved about as if his ass was in fire. Sometimes, I’ll listen to those early solos that he performed for me, Steve, Lou, and Derrick, and we salvaged them on tape, and I’ll get goosebumps all up and down my spine. Though I made a promise to myself that things were decent between me and him, I still had my moments, especially when I noticed how much more attention he was garnering in comparison to me and Louie, the actual founders of the band.
A part of me wanted to merely forget it, because damn it, we let him in. We made our bed and thus, we have to lay in it. He also was like the antithesis of the lead guitarist: where most of them were known for going out and getting some ass with booze and coke rolled into one single cocktail, Alex went home and curled up with a book to read and a cup of coffee, or he went home and had dinner with his parents and his grandmother.
The boy barely turned eighteen: of course he was going to have coffee over the really hard stuff.
And yet, I still had an itch I couldn’t hardly scratch. I wanted to be at the top, and I wanted to be seen for my deeds, and I wanted Lou to be seen, too. Damn it, we expanded the platform and this new boy from the ‘burbs was stealing our thunder with his own properly trained stuff and things.
But let me tell you: the boy loved to eat.
He was Jewish, and so I figured that most of it had to do with the fact that he grew up under the direction of his elder professor parents, who lived on teachers’ salaries and they lived over in the really suburban neighborhood of Berkeley. Everything I knew about Jewish cuisine was the humility of it all: I had had my share of matzo ball soup from the bakery not too far from my house.
Delicious, but quite humble. The same could be said for Challah bread, or latkes, or any kind of babka.
When I was in school, my mom taught me how to cook: being half-Mexican, it’s kind of a big deal. I kind of have to know these things, especially if I wanted to live my best life with the band that I had founded with my cousin and one of my bestest friends. But she taught me how to make tortillas from scratch as well as chorizo without breaking the bank. Given I was often practicing and doing all things musical, I had very little time to go about and make lunch or dinner for my parents or my band mates. I could make breakfast willy-nilly, but I could only do so much with an egg and a piece of toast, or a bowl of cereal with a cup of coffee and a glass of juice. There were some days where all I felt like doing was swinging by a place like the Golden Arches and picking up one of those egg sandwiches on an English muffin, but I also yearned for the tenderness of home, the sweet comfort of knowing where your food came from.
Most of all, the comfort and coziness of home itself.
Home had become more or less of a strange place to me when I thought about it, as I had moved out of my parents’ house about four years ago and Lou and his girlfriend had a little nest of their own in the apartment three doors down. It was strange the more that I thought about it, and the more that I wanted Lou to be in on it, too. He and I had known each other for about that long, and I was eager to make him a little more than my proverbial brother.
I thought for sure that Lou would want to be in on it, especially when we got to discussing homemade food one evening during a rehearsal, back when we were still called Legacy. He was behind his drum kit and I sat there on a stool with my guitar perched across my lap.
“When I was little, my mom would make me spaghetti and meatballs, but she’d make the meatballs in such a way that they almost melted in your mouth.”
“Really?” I asked him, taken aback. “How’d she make them?”
“I have no clue,” Lou confessed. “I do remember that she put a little bit of chili powder and nutmeg in them, too, just for a little bit of a kick, but the meat itself was so tender and lush. It almost melted in your mouth.” He even licked his lips when he said that.
“Reminds me of my mom’s chorizo,” I added. “The one time it snowed by our house when I was a kid, and she made that stuff so well and it fit the whole entire night so perfectly. I had always wanted to make it the way that she did.”
“Makes me kind of curious about Alex, to be honest,” he said.
“How so?”
“Well, I just think about how thin he is,” Lou clarified. “Thin and stoic, too.”
“He’s probably got some stories of growing up,” I suggested with a shrug of my shoulders. “Growing up fast, though. I would think after he’s had older parents and they both hail from the very heart of New York City.”
But then again, I realized that Alex didn’t have very fond memories of growing up. The quiet kid, bit of an outsider with his heritage and the plume at the top of his head, and a kid who was also rather artistic to boot. The kind of kid I myself had bore witness to in the past, and they always got their asses whooped because they refused to play sports and went with the nourishment of the soul instead.
So, I just wondered what on earth was going to make Alex feel this way, the same way that Lou and I did with our mothers’ food when we were young boys. He told us about it, about life in that part of Berkeley and through his eyes, but he never fully elaborated on anything particularly home-worthy. His parents were reluctant in finding him guitar lessons, first with a neighborhood guy and then with this guy Joe Satriani.
To me, it sounded like he had a very stuffy home life, where it almost felt as though he had been raised by his grandparents than anything. Two very distinct feelings, and they both left quite the impression, especially with him.
Nevertheless, I wanted to blow Alex’s mind with something delicious: all the food that we had taken for ourselves was pretty humble, too, paid for by the label and all its own humility in its own rite.
So, because of this very tidbit here, it’s been a long time coming with all of this. It’s been a long time coming since I had been able to look at him and also Lou, and for me to say to myself that this was the right decision for me. Of course, it’s imperative to find the opportunities at first and thus, they will be almost given to me at the right time.
And there I was, at the grocery store, all to pick up some necessities for myself before I threw myself at the wall with the new music for the album. I said “new music”, granted, but a lot of these songs I had written when Zetro sang with us. 
They would be new to the world at large, as Lou and I both would duly believe.
I carried the little basket by my side and, as I made my way past the baking aisle, something caught my eye. I peered over my shoulder to ensure no one else was headed my way, and I reached for the little packet of matzo meal. I had no idea as to what it was, or what it even tasted like: but I thought of him the very second that I saw it there on the shelf. It helped that poked out a bit from the shelf, as if it beckoned me to pick out for myself.
The package was smooth, and about the size of a bag of coffee grounds: indeed, I opened a little corner of it with the expectation to smell coffee inside of there. I gazed on at the back side, at the little footnote there on the back: a footnote about matzo balls and the accompanying soup, but nothing about the making of said soup. I glimpsed up at the rest of that section, that particular corner of the baking aisle that I had always seen while in passing, but I never scrounged up the courage to graze over for myself.
It felt strange to stand there, this stubby little Hispanic boy with his eye on some food outside of his culture. But everything that I had seen there tickled me, and such in a way that my own culture could not suffice for me.
I had an idea right then, to fuse the best of both worlds, to give Alex a little piece of home while I gave him a little piece of me and my home.
I raised my gaze from the bag of matzo meal to find one of the clerks there before me.
“Excuse me, how do you make matzo soup?” I asked him as he sauntered towards the other side of the aisle.
“Nope, but—I think Elle does, though.” He gestured to the other clerk right behind me, a short lanky brunette with a little Black-eyed Susan pinned to one side of her head.
I thanked him and I scooped up the basket from the floor, and I padded over to her.
She turned to me with a smile on her face: I spotted the Star of David medallion around her neck. I hit the jackpot.
“Hi, do you know how to make matzo ball soup?” I asked her.
“Indeed, I do!” she declared: she set a couple of boxes of day-old pastries on the shelf behind her and she returned to me.
“It’s really simple,” she started as she rubbed her hands together. “Like really simple.”
“I worry about messing it up, though,” I confessed to her with a shy shrug of my shoulders.
“Well, you use matzo meal, eggs, and water to make the dumplings, and then they’re simmered in chicken broth for a time. I would recommend all day just to bring out the flavors a bit more. Also—forgive me if I’m a bit nosy…” Her eyes grazed over my body. “May I ask who’s it for?”
“I want to make a batch for my friend,” I told her. “He’s Jewish and I kinda wanna cook for him.”
“Oh, mazel tov! Well—“ She touched the Star of David around her neck. “—you, my dear, came to the right person.”
I looked on at the packet again at that little footnote on the back. Surely, it could be rather easy.
“Now, does he like the balls light or dense?” And I had to double take when she asked me that.
“Uh, what do you recommend?” I asked her.
“I like a nice balance of the two,” she replied. “Light and fluffy, but neatly packed. When they’re dense, they’re full of flavor. When they’re light, they melt in your mouth.”
“Okay, uh… I’ll take best of both worlds,” I quipped to her. She reached into the front pocket of her apron for a little pad of paper and a pen.
“Excellent! I’m gonna write it all down for ya because, like I said, even though it’s simple, you’re a gentile boy and I want you to make it again if you’d like.” She flashed me a wink and rested the paper on the shelf. All the while, I glanced down at the other groceries in the basket.
I had a feeling I was going to have everything I needed for when I saw him again. I watched her scribble it down for me, and all the while, I had butterflies in my stomach. I was eager to make something for Alex, and I was eager to have Lou with me when the whole thing went down.
Elle then handed me the piece of paper with a sly smile on her face.
“Thank you so much,” I told her.
“Any time, bubbeleh,” she assured me. “If you ever need a little recipe of the Jewish sort, I’m your woman.” She bowed back to the shelves behind her and into the back room for something.
I kept the paper in hand as I returned to the rest of the market behind me.
A nice big bowl of matzo ball soup with a big cup of Mexican hot chocolate. 
I hoped it would work for him.
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