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c0cktail-dumbass · 8 days

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Random ass headcanons for the Outsiders

(Angst Warning lmao)

Ponyboy Curtis

-Eventually had to quit smoking because he got bronchitis from it, that lead to him having to quit track n' feild

-He kept that note from Johnny for the rest of his life, at one point he cut out Johnny's signature and put the paper in a locket necklace

-For a long time Dallas' last word being "Pony" made him cry whenever he remembered it (Ik this is only movie canon but I just love it"

-He hung out at the empty lot a ton more after everything because it somehow made him feel closer to Johnny and Dally

-Has accidentally called Darry "Dad" more

-He can speak french almost fluently

Johnny Cade

-He hated when people compared him to a puppy because he was a cat person and dogs legit scared him

-He actually really wanted to tell Ponyboy that he loved him in his last words (That doesn't have to be romantically, I think it's more platonic but at the same time to each their own)

-The note Johnny had written to Ponyboy and left in the book was written in purple crayon, he wanted it to be red since that's Ponyboy's favourite colour but the nurse didn't have any red crayons

-The doctor who was keeping Mrs. Cade back and the nurse who told Johnny his mom was there were both "Considering calling CPS on that crazy lady if that kid survives,"

Dallas Winston

-When Dallas said "Pony..." right before he died, he was trying to tell him to stay alive. In a "Dont be like me" sense

-He was actually a really good boyfriend to Sylvia, almost to simping degrees, he doesn't get a lot of affection so he was starved for whatever Sylvia was giving him. It was totally toxic for him, and Johnny was always worried about it

-His skull ring was stolen from a thrift store, he stole it when he was 12

-Drunk cryer

Two-Bit Matthews

-His dad was italian-american

-His mom is actually from Canada, she moved to Olkahoma with her parents when she was in highschool, making Two-Bit Canadian but not a Canadian citizen

-He played a lot of hockey and baseball up until he turned 12

-Sometimes he gets super drunk and starts flirting with any of the greasers except for Ponyboy because; "If I'm going to jail it's not gonna be for charges of pedophilia."

Sodapop Curtis

-Definitely had Steve help him write the note to Ponyboy because his handwriting is barely legible.

-He's dyslexic.

-When Ponyboy had run off with Johnny he actually tried to confide in Sandy, but she couldn't stand to talk to him except over the phone so the only person Soda trusted to talk to was Steve

-Soda is a terrible cook

-When Soda is sitting down with Darry and Ponyboy before he ran out he was trying to discreetly cover his ears, and if Pony and Darry were paying attention to anything other than their own fighting they'd see Soda's about-to-cry eyes

-Can't fix a car to save his life, at least not like Steve can. He can door minor stuff but that's it.

-His first kiss was Steve by complete accident, the two were quite literally butting heads in the 6th grade. Nobody knows except them and they had this whole oath to never tell anybody

Steve Randle

-His parents split up, he has a step-dad and a step-mom and his bio parents are still on good terms. They aren't even legally divorced because neither of them could afford it

-He's actually pretty good friends with Buck like Dallas is because Buck brings his T-Bird to the DX whenever he needs something done with it, Buck is Steve's best-paying customer

-Steve's favourite pass-time is throwing glass bottles at Soc cars and ditching

-Steve favours his step-dad to his step-mom because he thinks his step-mom is taking advantage of his dad

-He actually has a step-sister but she's like 22 and in college

Darry Curtis

-Darry does indeed cry when Ponyboy calls him dad

-He genuinely had panic attacks before going to bed the whole week Ponyboy was gone

-Man has anxiety problems but wasn't actually diagnosed until the late 80's when he finally stopped being an "I don't need any help" man and decided to go to therapy... in his forties.

-Darry fucking loves dogs

-He would carry Johnny around like a doll if he needed to (if Johnny was in his way or needed to be pulled away from something)

#the outsiders ponyboy #the outsiders johnny #the outsiders sodapop #the outsiders steve #the outsiders #the outsiders dallas #the outsiders darry #ponyboy curtis #darry curtis #sodapop curtis #steve randle #two bit mathews #the outsiders two-bit matthews #johnny cade #dallas winston #the outsiders headcanons

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nineinch-nailgun · 3 months

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I'm so sorry mimic enjoyers I got caught up in my ultrakill brainrot and forgot about yall.

for the sake of keeping everything together I'm going to re-upload the stuff I've already written on quotev first so this is just the first chapter lol.

Weird Pet pt. 1

You'd never really been one to worry too much about mimics or any of the vita carnis. You lived in a remote area, it's not like you get a ton of human flesh eating monsters at your door everyday.

Well. That was until you saw the absolutely massive fleshy prick standing dead center of your bedroom, in the middle of trying to fold his arm up so he could get under your bed and wait to kill you in your sleep.

Naturally, this scares the shit out of you, and him as well. He wasn't expecting to be caught red-handed, or for you to stare at him that way. He didn't really seem to know what to do, until you took off running, that is. You sprinted off down your hall, adrenaline forcing your body forward as fast as your legs could carry you. You had to think fast, he was barreling after you, his gangly legs having little to no coordination, resulting in him slamming againsta wall or two. As you ran into the living room you thought quickly, grabbing the nearest object- a lamp- and smashing against the mimic's head.

He was dazed momentarily, stumbling back and making a strange sound similar to a whine and a growl. He regained himself, stumbling after you and lunging around to try and get to you. You didn't even know how you were still on your feet, you'd managed to jerk away from him to this point, you needed a plan. Slowly, an idea formulated in your head. You moved quickly, stumbling out of the living room to the stairs, he chased you down into your basement, lunging as far as he could to reach you- only missing you by a little and slamming right into the bottom step. He scorpioned over the last step, his legs flying over his head. Part of you felt bad, he seemed kinda shitty at this whole 'chase and kill' thing. Although your empathy made it difficult, you decided to use this to your advantage.

You rush past him as he tried to scramble back up, he looked at you with a weird slackjawed look, he raced up the stairs after you, only to get a face full of door. You slammed the door and locked it shut, hearing a loud thud against it, accompanied by a sliding sound. You backed away, hearing the sound of ragged breathing, and then a frustrated grunt from the now imprisoned mimic.

A day had gone by since you'd captured the mimic, and you hadn't let it out, or called anyone.. your initial plan was to let it starve in your basement, but that just seemed cruel at this point. So you did some research on what tastes like human flesh (which made you absolutely certain you'd wind up on a government watch list) and found that ham was pretty close to human meat. "OK, so I'll just get him some ham... yeah... feed the mimic." you muttered out loud, debating with yourself over whether or not you actually should go and get food for the freaky fucker in your basement. Eventually you gave in, closing your front door behind you to go to the local convenience store.

When you got home a pit had grown in your stomach, if you decided to take care of the mimic, you might get attached. So when it decides to eat you it won't just hurt physically but also emotionally. Whatever, feed it anyways. You take the ham, wrapped in plastic towards your basement door, unwrapping it so he wouldn't choke, and then staring at the door for roughly 2 minutes, still arguing with yourself over whether or not even opening the door was a good idea. Slowly, you twisted the door know, you couldn't see where he was- but you could hear him breathing. You threw the ham in and quickly slammed the door shut. You stayed there for a moment, wondering if he'd come and investigate or not. You heard some shuffling, but that was it.

#mimic vita carnis #vita carnis #mimic #mimic x reader #monster x reader (?)#i cant believe i just tagged that like in real life #chat is this real #so sorry vita carnis fans #monster x reader #monster x human

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smartycvnt · 5 months

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Beautiful Stranger*

Title: Beautiful Stranger

Pairing: Alex Cabot x Reader

Summary: Alex and Y/n go home together after meeting at a bar.

Minors DNI, 18+

Warnings: smut, vaginal fingering

Word Count: 1580

Y/n nervously fiddled with the folded up piece of paper in her pocket. Her day had been much less stressful than she thought it would have been. Still, this night out at the bar was more than warranted. Not only was it at the request of her new law firm, but it was also a staple of new lawyers to get their first drink here when they got hired.

"I still think you're a traitor, but I am proud of you," Casey said as she sat down with their drinks. Y/n accepted the Long Island iced tea, happily sipping on the straw as she watched Casey sip on her whiskey. "Eventually you'll have to find a nicer drink than that."

"But for now, I'm perfectly fine where I'm at," Y/n said. Casey kicked at Y/n under the table playfully. They had a good banter going on, one that reflected their very sibling-like relationship. Y/n was the little sister that Casey had always wished for growing up. Casey had an actual little sister, but Denise wasn't nearly as much fun for Casey to be around.

"I guess divorce lawyers are allowed to have a bit more fun than the rest of us," Casey teased. Y/n flicked some of her drink off of her fingers at Casey, who shook it off.

"You've been a lawyer for a whole year and a half longer than me. What exactly do you know?" Y/n asked. It was a challenge, or at least an opportunity to show off. One that Casey was not going to pass up.

"I know a ton of stuff. Over there is Serena Southerlyn, an ADA for homicide. There is the SVU Executive ADA, Elizabeth Donnelly, and the regular ADA, Alex Cabot." Y/n's focused was lost on anything else Casey said the moment she laid eyes on Alex. Casey sighed as she watched her best friend fall for the prickly SVU ADA.

Casey didn't bother to tell Y/n that it was a bad idea. Y/n rarely ever actually went after women whenever she saw them, especially in places like this. Casey just watched as Y/n tried to subtly stare at Alex all night. They finished their drinks, and Y/n's must have been strong because when Casey went up for her third, Y/n took her chance to talk to Alex.

"I don't think that we have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Y/n Y/l/n," Y/n introduced herself. Alex looked surprised, as if Y/n had completely caught her off guard. Casey was about to go rush over to Alex's aid, but a different blonde caught her eye instead. Surely Y/n wouldn't mind if Casey tried to shoot her own shot with Serena on the other side of the bar.

"Alex Cabot. We're not going up against each other in court, are we?" Alex asked. Y/n shook her head as she leaned against the bar.

"Probably not. I was awful with criminal law. Luckily, a decent divorce firm in the city was hiring," Y/n said. Alex looked like one of the girls in school who would have torn Y/n apart, but she was much nicer than any of them had been capable of. The two of them spent hours talking with each other at the bar together until they noticed that the other patrons were clearing out.

"I don't want our night to end here," Alex said as she stepped out of the bar with Y/n.

"You could come back with me," Y/n offered.

"I'd like that," Alex said as she took Y/n's hand. The two of them walked in the direction of Y/n's apartment until they stumbled upon a cab waiting for them. There was a giddiness between the two of them, one that neither woman had felt in a long time. An aura of lightheartedness that didn't end even as they made their way out of the cab and up to Y/n's apartment.

The threshold of the apartment found their drunken giddiness turn into something a bit more lustful. Y/n tripped over her own feet while trying to take her shoes off and accidentally pinned Alex against the door. Alex let out a small gasp as she realized how close Y/n was to her.

Y/n's eyes flicked upwards, meeting Alex's as neither woman tried to move away. Alex brought her hands up to rest along the back of Y/n's neck. She hoped that Y/n would take the hint and lean in for the kiss. Alex would have been mortified if she had misread Y/n's signals. Luckily for her, Y/n caught on, and after what felt like eternity to Alex, Y/n leaned forward and kissed Alex.

The press of Y/n's lips against Alex's were gentle. Y/n's hands came up to grip at Alex's hips, and despite the obvious strength in them, Y/n was gentle. Alex felt a warmth spread throughout her body as Y/n pressed her knee against Alex's center. The blonde's head was starting to feel a little fuzzy, both from her growing arousal and the drinks at the bar.

"Take me to your bed," Alex said. It was forward enough that even she was surprised by her words. Y/n didn't need to be told twice, and happily led Alex back to her bedroom.

A formerly discarded skirt was kicked off to the side as Y/n led Alex towards the bed. Alex hit the mattress with a soft sigh. She sank deeper as Y/n moved on top of her. Y/n leaned down to kiss Alex once again, this time busying her hands with undoing each of the buttons on Alex's shirt.

The material felt expensive, as if it could have paid a month's worth of rent for Y/n's apartment. And still, it ended up pushed aside onto the floor with the rest of Alex's expensive clothes. Y/n pressed on without a care in the world for anything aside from Alex. Alex seemed to be in a similar mindset as Y/n and just wanted things to progress a little faster.

Alex did her best not to be pushy, but she was still grinding her cunt against Y/n's thigh as they made out. Y/n could feel the slick heat from Alex's cunt against her skin, making her fingers twitch slightly. Alex could feel the twitch against her scalp from the hand balled up in her hair.

"Please, I need more," Alex pleaded. Y/n hadn't expected Alex to sound so desperate, nor did she expect the power trip from it. It was intoxicating for Y/n to know that she was the one making Alex wet, even more than the alcohol had been. Y/n felt like she was on a power trip as she teased Alex's cunt with her fingers.

Alex's breathing grew heavier and heavier with each swipe of Y/n's fingers near her entrance. Alex bucked her hips trying to match Y/n's movements to catch her at the right angle, but Y/n was too good. She kept Alex on edge waiting for the sweet feeling of relief to come. Alex didn't know whether she wanted to feel Y/n's fingers rubbing against her clit or fucking in and out of her until she came screaming Y/n's name.

"You are so pretty like this," Y/n muttered into Alex's ear as she dropped down a little. The angle gave Alex exactly what she had been craving. Y/n's fingers slipped inside of Alex and moved slowly at first with shallow little thrusts. "Do you want more? Do you want me to fuck you harder?"

"Please," Alex whimpered. Y/n, who didn't need to be told or asked twice, quickly sprung into action. She let her fingers go as deeply into Alex as they could before pulling them out and pushing them back in. It quickly became almost too much for Alex's body to handle, especially with the curling of Y/n's fingers inside of her. Alex grabbed onto Y/n's shoulders and dug her nails into the skin as she felt her body try to turn into itself.

"You're so close Alex, I can feel it. Cum for me sweetie. I want to see how beautiful you look all blissed out. Let me see," Y/n softly commanded. Her tone was firm, but gentle, something that Alex had never experienced with another lover before. She didn't want any of it to end, even though she wanted to do exactly what Y/n told her to. Eventually, the sensations became too much and Alex was forced to let go of her composure as her orgasm washed over her.

"Don't go," Alex begged as she clung to Y/n. The woman hadn't moved away from Alex except to move off of her body. Y/n laid right beside Alex, who pulled Y/n's arms over her waist. It barely took any time for Alex to fall asleep with Y/n holding her in bed. Sleep came to Alex with an ease that she had never known before, not even in past relationships. It was something that Alex doubted would be available to her when the sun rose the next morning, but she was happy to indulge in for the remainder of the night.

#my writing #one shot #alex cabot x reader #alex cabot #svu x reader #svu #law & order x reader #law & order

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blade-that-was-broken · 16 days

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Soldier On AU Notes

For the person who asked for them... This is kinda what I got. Don't get me wrong, there is a ton of JD and Bruce stuff, I just... haven't written any of that down...

I told ya'll that Branch jumped out of the bushes and pushed his way in! What do you want me to do!?

John does eventually get a service dog - Rhonda - that is mostly a mobility and reach aid and does pressure therapy for his PTSD. Idk all the details yet.

Branch never met his dad. Their parents had been separated when he was born but the divorce was not finalized until he was almost a year old. That is when John was forced to leave.

Branch has vague memories that are actually of John. Calloused hands (JD used to play guitar), maybe goggles and a faint lullaby no one can tell where it came from. In reality, JD sang it to him constantly to get him to sleep. He wrote it.

Their mother cut off everything and was extremely bitter. The divorce was ugly and she didn’t like anyone talking about John or their father. So, after a few years, no one did. It just built up until he was a distant memory, and no one really thought of him.

Their dad wasn't much better but he was left with very little in the divorce anyways.

John on the other hand, wasn’t left with a lot. He was lonely and clung to the memory of his brothers with everything he had. Being away from them broke his heart, as he was close with all of them and took care of them. He was their big brother and close with them.

Bruce left home the moment he could when he turned 18. He tried to keep in contact with them, although his mother didn’t really like it. Clay felt betrayed. Bruce currently lives in Hawaii and owns a small resort with his native Hawaiian wife, and they have a couple of kids.

Clay did one semester at the local college to stay close to home but when their mother died and Floyd and Branch moved in with Grandma, he went to another school further away, one he wanted. Clay has been in and out of school for many years and is working on idk, some kind of doctorate or masters or whatever.

Floyd went to the local college for a while but then his music career started to pick up and now he does a fair bit of traveling. He is musically inclined and seriously started making music after his mother died. He plays an old guitar that he found in their house and just can’t let it go. He doesn’t actually know it was JD’s. There is a symbol on it that is actually initials.

Bruce does try to call Clay when John is with him but Clay absolutely does not want to talk to him. He barely answers the phone and hangs up before JD could get a word in.

Eventually JD just gets a plane ticket and flies out to the college to try and find him. Like this entirely blindsides Clay; he has zero clue. At this point JD is still struggling to get around and doesn’t have a lot of things… including a phone. So he just kind of disappears and well… Bruce panics a little. They are gonna haveta work on their communication a bit.

Branch is about 16 and lives with his grandmother. She likes to garden and they have an old dog named Gary. He is extremely smart and has a wealth of knowledge but people avoidant. He wants to go somewhere but he doesn’t want to be alone and he doesn’t know where. He’d like to do more outdoorsy things but his grandmother cannot and he doesn’t actually know much.

This is partially how he and JD bond. He spends a while with them, showing up one day and helps Branch with the outdoorsy stuff, actually teaching him things like how to start a fire, pitch a tent, a lot of stuff dudes like to do. He even helps start teaching him to drive. Just a little.

Rosiepuff does suggest JD just stay with them since Branch seems to really like him and he has difficulty actually having fun/getting friends/talking with people but by this time, JD has a place and responsibilities and can’t stay. Besides, he doesn’t want to burden his grandmother.

Branch ends up spending at least a summer in Hawaii with JD by suggestion of their grandmother. It goes well.

JD jokes about where his leg ended up. He thinks he left it back in Sudan but he’s not sure. He’ll tell everyone different stories on where it is. It’s kind of dark humor sometimes that… don’t always bode well with people.

Delta is probably one of JD's squad. I'm not sure who else. In their free time, they make a pretty awesome singing group though

There will probably be more but idk

#soldier on au

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casinotrio1965 · 1 month

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Disney Descendants : Tiger Lily x Lampwick story ideas Part 1

There's a tiny diner near Auradon Prep. Their food is just okay but their milkshakes are great. Most of the kids at Auradon Prep ignore it because it's cheap and not glamourous so Tiger Lily and Lampwick always go there to enjoy a quiet night out. They split a milkshake and enjoy their night together. Maybe they go see a movie or for a walk after. They went on a huge treasure hunt once looking for Captain Hook's old gold. They never found it but they had a great time exploring skull rock and going through the jungle. They found lots of old pirate stuff, just no gold. But a really great story! They love having their family over. Geppetto and Carina spoil the kids, and Tiger Lily and Lampwick visit with them. Pinocchio brings lots of stuff he baked. Alice and Lampwick will try to set up an awesome surprise and break something. XD Eventually they'll call Alexander and Eilonwy to join the fun. Even Bella drops in sometimes with a cool adventure story for the kids. They went on a trip to Russia once. They went on cool tours, saw a few museums, and they definitely hit the ballet! With their love for performing and dancing, it was so pretty to watch! They didn't understand the words but who cares when the dancers move that way? They also got to try some Russian cooking and Lampwick is very excited by that. Tiger Lily got a silver dress once. She showed up in it and Lampwick's jaw DROPPED. He was speechless. She joked she should wear it more often but she was flattered how excited he was.

When they were first starting out they didn't have a ton of money. Tiger Lily worked part time after school and Lampwick worked until she got her teaching job, but things were tough. They didn't want to abuse Tiger Lily's parents' generosity so they tried to be frugal, buying things they needed like food, baby stuff, cleaning stuff, and school stuff. They only got occasional luxuries and they were on sale. It was worth it to have their little loving family and they'd do it again.

Lampwick's bought her lots of rings over the years. Some were just for fashion. There was a promise ring in high school, of course her engagement and wedding rings. He just loves seeing her wearing things that remind them they're in it forever. They love each other! Some are plain, some have gems or other decorations. They come in all sorts of styles and they all mean I love you

Lampwick is always trying to get her attention while she studies. She gives him some but she really wants to do well so the best way is for him to try to study too. He gets bored easily though so she does stuff like find ways to make studying fun. That's a big reason why she became a teacher. She also likes how he'd complain about studying and his whining made her laugh.

They have a lot of fun having lazy days in Neverland. Lounging around picking fruit off trees, joking with the Lost Boys, and cozy nights by the fire looking at stars. They can feel young and carefree or they can look through at the beautiful sights and climb trees. It's perfect and they can still get back to pranks and going adventuring the next day. The first time Lampwick tried to teach her to cook, it was because he thought it'd be fun to do together. He tried to get her to come to a cooking class with him. It was a disaster. She broke three rolling pins, set a pan on fire, and cut herself on a knife. He learned first hand she could burn water. She kept trying because she doesn't like to admit defeat but finally she admitted she wasn't interested in cooking. He was very understanding and while he tried a couple more times to teach her for practical reasons, he found he didn't mind the idea of doing the cooking at ALL. The New Years they got together, Lampwick was worried she wouldn't want to hang out with him anymore because he'd be boring now that he was sober. He got really insecure when another guy talked to her. She told him the guy was just a teammate and that she only liked him. She also told him it made her happy that he was healthier and she loved seeing him get better and he felt better.

Once when Lampwick was scrambling to find an anniversary present for Tiger Lily (it's what happens when you're so PICKY), he found a silver ring. He was really tempted to give it to her, even when the owner showed up. But Lampwick felt bad because she was an old lady and it was her wedding ring so he reluctantly gave it back. She told him where he could find really nice jewelry though so it worked out. She knows he didn't grow up with a lot of means to provide for himself. So when they were young she took it upon herself to teach him. He has to AT LEAST hunt or fish, what if there's no food in winter! It took them both a long time to get used to Auradon being so rich and having modern distribution systems.

Lampwick put a lot of thought into her wedding ring. He'd gotten the engagement ring down but the wedding ring stressed him out. He was convinced she deserved more than a plain one and so he worked really hard and paid a lot to get it custom done. Tiger Lily loved doing roller derby. It's fighting on wheels! She loves the speed and adrenaline rush. Lampwick worried at first but came to watch. Turns out her skating and fighting is the hottest thing he's ever seen. He came to every meet and brought her snacks. He also cheers super loud and maybe got into a couple of fights with people who said rude things about Tiger Lily. XD Tiger Lily appreciates it but it sure is distracting! They went shopping once when they were still learning English. It was a huge fancy department store and sure enough, Tiger Lily got lost. XD Lampwick was freaking out but tried really hard to find her. Finally, he gave in and tried to ask someone there for help. It was hard to remember some of the words but he was really motivated here. XD Thankfully, she found herself at a help desk and so it was easy enough for them to be reunited. After that, he held onto her hand! Tiger Lily really worried about his history of substance abuse. He tried to brush her off at first, but she wouldn't let it go. Eventually she sat him down and had a mini intervention where she told him how worried she was. It was one of the big reasons he went to get help. And while now he's at a pretty good level of functionality, she still worries if he smokes more than usual. So she makes him see someone if it's getting bad again. So they like to rent movies, but Tiger Lily likes serious (Boring in his opinion) ones about serious problems. They make her cry and so he doesn't like them but she thinks it's important that they're aware. So to compromise they rent a serious movie and a happier movie. And then Lampwick pouts when award season comes around and her movies trounce his. 😛

Thanks to @askauradonprep / @blenderbender1811 for these ideas

#disney descendants #descendants #pinocchio 1940 #pinocchio #disney pinocchio #lampwick #peter pan #peter pan 1953 #disney peter pan #tiger lily #tiger lily x lampwick

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thatonecherrypie · 2 months

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So, I finally got to writing out some probably shitty HCs for that hero AU. I hope these are enjoyable!

- Vinnie has gecko-based powers; sticky fingers and feet, nocturnal vision, lower body temperature, etc. He got these abilities when he was a child and got a parasite by drinking out of a puddle. Even after years of tests, there's no sure answer as to why his body reacted this way, or as to why none of the symptoms went away after said parasite was removed.

- Sunil's powers are mostly just his magic tricks like disappearing and reappearing, short distance teleportation, cool shit like that. He originally wanted to use his skills for entertainment but used them for heroics when he finally realized that he had the potential. He also has small premonitions that appear at random and leave him drained, paranoid and confused, because they rarely give him any solid warnings. These cause him to have major migraines and nausea.

- They first met while both chasing the same villain(Pepper lmao), who ended up escaping due to Vinnie's impulsiveness. Sunil originally rejected the idea of partnering with Vinnie until Russell convinced him that their strengths and weaknesses would likely balance out and be beneficial

- Related to the last HC, Russell and Sunil work together. Russell is kind of like a manager for him who keeps tabs on stuff.

- Vinnie is more of an impulsive, physical fighter, where Sunil is more careful and uses more mental tactics. Depending on the situation, this combination is either amazing or horrible

- Vinnie wanted a super cool alias, but no matter how hard he tried to introduce new names, people just kept calling him “that one lizard dude.” That was until some kid online referred to him as Repto-Guy, and it stuck. Not as cool as Vinnie hoped for, but better than “oh, that guy”.

- Sunil's hero name is Blue Phantom, even though it sounds a bit… evil to him. Russell was the one to actually come up with it, because “it works with your powers and it's cool and easy to remember! Trust me on this!” and like always, Russell was right

- It doesn't take very long for Sunil, Vinnie and Russell to all become a mini hero squad with Russell forming plans and Vinnie and Sunil actually acting them out. It works for them, but it's absolute chaos.

- Because of his abilities, Vinnie's eyes are very reptile like, and seeing the way that they dilate and constrict for night vision can be very unsettling if you aren't ready for it. Sunil was, of course, not prepared for it and thought that he had confronted a demon

- Sunil eventually starts having a ton of visions of Vinnie being injured or killed, so he starts being on high alert at all times and even starts snapping at Vinnie for being reckless at times. He feels incredibly guilty about being so harsh on him, but he's not about to let his partner die because of a thoughtless move

- Vinnie definitely tries to hit on Sunil but it's always at the worst times. Like they'll be fighting off guys that 100% intend to kill them, and in the middle of nowhere Vinnie's just like “y'know, you're kinda hot when you're fighting-” and Sunil never registers it because he's, you know, trying not to die 😭

- Bonus from the previous HC: they definitely all have communication devices, so Russell can hear all of what Vinnie says. And he'll just sit there, dropping his head into his hands and sighing as he hears these awful attempts at completely unsubtle flirting.

#lps 2012 #vinnie terrio #sunil nevla #russell ferguson #littlest pet shop 2012 #vinnil #human au #hero au #feckin love these gays

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amethystsoda · 9 months

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It’s kind of cliche how stereotypical my abuse and indoctrination was growing up—

(I guess this is technically a bit of trauma dumping??? But hopefully it’s more like “here are some experiences other traumatized millennials will relate to.” We share in this history together 🤝)

Family was into religious cult activities (aka evangelical pentecostals) and made us spend lots of time at church (good for becoming someone who cares about others and giving, but not good bc brainwashing/shaming/etc)

Only got one year of kindergarten before getting pulled into homeschool after a move. Mother got into talk radio and the conservative brain poisoning.

Not allowed to watch cartoons other than veggie tales. Christian bookstore almost exclusively. Hyper patriotic. ONe nation under GOD!!!!!!! *eagle caw*

Rapture scare and apocalypse fear—don’t deny Jesus if someone tries to shoot you and make you renounce Christ. Forced to watch The Omega Code at way too young. Listened to the audiobooks of all the Left Behind series (content including rapture, natural disasters, assassinations, beheadings for not taking the mark of the beast, etc).

My biggest fear around 7-10 years old was that I would have to be loyal to Jesus and get beheaded. I literally sat around thinking about how scary a guillotine was and how I would have to steel myself to accept that fate.

Also as a Pentecostal family, my parents believed in speaking in tongues. Cue up me at maybe 4 years old being forced to “learn the language” (I was getting no divine insight, no spiritual spark. I was a child with my brain still developing)

but being put into the empty bathtub until “the spirit worked” (aka I faked it and replicated how my parents did it with tear streaked cheeks, just so I could escape that hell).

Spanking as punishment… I wasn’t even that bad of a kid. They just didn’t know how to handle me being an independent thinker and curious.

Talk out problems?? Nah. Open palm spanking your butt will silence you and train you not to talk back. You said something I don’t like??? Time to push you to the wall and grab your chin and yell at you until you “repent.” (No wonder my response eventually was just to shut down.)

It didn’t stop there. When we got older and they didn’t spank as much. It was “you have to pray and repent out loud” “you have to read scripture.” And for someone who went nonverbal during those times, it was so painful to do.

I got diagnosed with adhd in kindergarten but my mom basically said “that doesn’t exist” and ignored it. I had tons of sensory issues and that motor system stuff where you trip or are clumsy a lot. I cried when the crinoline of dresses scratched my legs. I was hyper fixated on red shoes and butterflies.

I had purity training at 9 years old. A sliding scale off a cliff diagram of “dangerous actions” (the start was holding hands. Off the cliff was laying in bed naked and sex).

Growing up fat and constant throat infections but no doctor’s care because “you just need to pray when you’re sick and quote scripture and god will heal you.” The advil? Hidden up in the kitchen cupboard and judgement any time you would reach for it.

I remember never talking about crushes too because everyone would embarrass me. I didn’t know any terms for demisexual/bisexual. I just knew I felt deep love for everyone, and sexual desire for almost no one.

I often think about how things could have been different. How I ended up parenting myself and only relying on myself. No one else would care for me, so I had to.

Sure there were occasionally good moments.

I’m sure my mother was trying her best with my dad constantly at work until late hours.

But it also could have been so much better…

If you also grew up like this, I am holding you so tenderly. I’m holding a warm washcloth to the old wounds and wiping the childhood tears off your face.

I’m giving 10 year old you a mug of hot cocoa and a warm blanket and putting cartoons on. There’s no yelling. No threat of abuse. You’re safe 🫂🫂

We’ve been through so much, but there are better days ahead. 💖💖💖

#i’ve been considering making some comics about this…#abuse cw #religious trauma #cults cw #emotional abuse cw #amethyst rants #purity culture

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purplecatghostposts · 1 year

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Do you have any headcanons on what Brian, Alex and Jay’a backstory’s are like?

I personally give them dark back stories and that’s why they we’re so easily manipulated

I mean honestly I think they were easily manipulated because they were just regular guys before! I do have some details of their backstories (including pre-MH stuff) that I stick with though:

Brian

- Single mother and only kid. Dad skipped out, Brian resents him more than his mother does because she doesn’t like to waste time thinking about him

- Brian and his mother were close, he called her pretty frequently. His missing poster was the first to go up when he stopped responding

- In at least two scenes showing Pre-MH, nobody knows where Brian is despite him being needed for a scene in one and them hanging out at his house for another. Because of this, I often HC that Brian was frequently losing time and waking up in weird places due to the Operator around this time. Not wanting to worry anyone however, he kept this to himself and always tried to play it off as something else

- While Brian and Tim were never officially roommates, they talked about it a lot and planned to do it next semester, though unfortunately never got that far

- Brian has been openly bisexual since he was young, even if he didn’t have a label for it back then. He got some shit for it, most of it being pretty backhanded stuff considering he was popular

- He met Alex during Freshman Orientation at college and immediately clocked him as bisexual before Alex officially came out to him

- While Brian is a popular guy and gets along with a lot of people, he only has a few close friends because he chooses them wisely. He had a handful of not so great ‘friends’ in High School that he’s no longer in contact with and is subtly wary with most relationships going forward

Alex

- Didn’t fully realize he was bisexual until High School but stayed deep in the closet until he could move out

- His family (of which Alex is the third kid of four) is largely shitty on top of being homophobic, especially his father, and he cuts off all contact when he moves out for college. He didn’t tell them what college he was going to either, leaving in the middle of the night

- The only family he IS in contact with and has a good relationship with is his cousin and his husband, as they’re the only other gay people in the family (though technically disowned, not that Alex cares) and have always been more of a family to Alex than his actual one. They got really worried when Alex sends Rocky up to live with them but they take good care of Rocky. When he drops off the map, they are the people who eventually call in a missing person report for him

- Alex got Rocky in High School and took him with him when he left. When shit goes on with the Operator, Alex sends Rocky to live with his cousin out of fear that something will happen to him if he doesn’t. Rocky outlives Alex because of this.

- Alex met Amy in a shared class in his Freshman Year. They end up dating about three months after but eventually in her second year, Amy ends up transferring to a different college in order to pursue her degree as the other college had better options. They remain long distance and visit each other as much as they can

Jay

- Him and his Moms have always been the odd ones out in their town so Jay was pretty used to the idea that people were always gonna find something to dislike about him no matter what he did and he might as well be himself if that’s the case

- Openly gay for as long as he can remember

- Didn’t really have a whole lot of friends growing up but fortunately while enduring some bullying, also knew how to snap back in a way to make them back off. Eventually everyone knew to just leave him alone

- His family, while living comfortably, has always been careful with money, causing Jay to pick up the same habits. He saved a ton of money before college and always has at least a dozen of coupons in his wallet

- When Jay stops answering calls, his moms went looking for him themselves. They’re used to only relying on each other so they don’t bother with the police. They find answers, just not the ones they want, but Tim is always welcomed to the Merrick Household. No matter how much he blames himself, they know otherwise. Call it mother’s intuition.

- Jay had a TON of cats growing up so he’s very friendly with them and can spout Cat Facts at any given moment

#marble hornets #homophobia m #death m #I think Tim should find his family in his friends’ family #I dunno. I think he should be loved and have a support system #because while in grief of losing their loved ones they look at Tim and see someone their sons age in need of help #and I realize Tim is still sick but SHUSH I WANT HIM TO HAVE SUPPORT #fuck the Operator and it’s ability to inflict isolation I want FOUND FAMILY #tell me if I need to tag anything else

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shadesofvermillionvoid · 2 years

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SO...I WAS ASKED TO COME TO YOU FOR PART TWO ON THAT AU YOU AND TWIG HAVE.

I need to KNOW.

(If you don't mind! ;D)

Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 // Part 4

Continuation of this post from Twig!

Hooohhh boy lets try and tackle this.

TW: self harm, s--cide attempt

So. Everyone knows that Lloyd has a true form now, even if the photo was only blurry. And we already saw what happened earlier. Kai is suspended, and he's got a bandage over his eye until the cut heals up properly. Lloyd is also out of school for a while and

He isn't. Answering anyones calls or texts.

For a while, he's seeing them, but eventually even that stops. He's just gone radio silent.

After 4 days of this Kai and Nya decide to visit Lloyd and Koko once Nya gets out of school. They talk to Koko a bit and she hasn't really had any luck getting Lloyd to talk. He's just been laying in bed ignoring everything.

Kai knocks on his door and opens it a bit, and Lloyd looks. Awful. His room is a mess, and he's a mess- his hairs matted and hes got bags under his eyes. He's also... in his human form. Which he usually isn't in at home.

Lloyd goes to tell his mom to leave him alone but then he sees that its Kai and Nya. He just stops, and Kai says hi while Nya asks if they can come in. More into the room it's just... a mess. You can barely walk there's so much stuff everywhere.

Kai and Nya try to talk to Lloyd and find out that Harumi messaged him. Asking for him back. They tell him she doesn't owe him anything, and he just... talks about how everyone knows his true form now. And he sounds so defeated.

How they've all spoken up and made it clear. He's a monster.

They just.. go quiet at that. They don't really know how to approach all that. Kai ends up blurting a question about why Lloyd's in his human form, and he tells them he hasn't changed from it since the fight happened. He's... he's been in that form for four days.

Kai and Nya are even more worried now, trying to get him to change forms, but he won't budge, no matter how much he's hurting himself. They eventually just sit down and say they won't leave until he changes back.

At some point Lloyd falls asleep, and they just stay in there with him, looking through his mech designs while Kai explains what Lloyd's told him to Nya.

He wakes up a bit at some point, but falls asleep again pretty quickly. Kai notices that he's been... completely still, which is. Weird. Lloyd usually moves a ton in his sleep. They ended up staying over, and he still hasn't moved at all in the past few hours; it's like 2 am at this point.

Nya tries to shake him awake but it doesn't work, so Kai turns him over to see if that helps and.

There's. Purple dripping from his mouth. Blood. Kai panics and rushes out of the room to get Koko, coming back and rushing words, trying to ask if there's any way to get him out of his human form like this. Koko doesn't know.

They end up taking him to the bathroom and splashing him with cold water which wakes him up a bit- and then Kai just starts practically begging him to drop his form because this is killing him- but he doesn't want to drop it, 'cause they all said he's a monster, he's refusing to change his form.

Koko and Nya are frozen while Kai's trying to get him to drop to his true form. He eventually gets him to drop it and Lloyd just immediately passes out again.

Kai just... cleans up the blood and takes Lloyd back to his room so he can rest. He isn't gonna be leaving him alone for a while.

#yeah this is... a lot #lloyds in a really bad place because of harumie #and the smiths are worried about him #lego ninjago #lego ninjago movie #ninjago au #ninjago pre movie au #kai smith #kai ninjago #nya smith #nya ninjago #lloyd garmadon #koko garmadon #suicide attempt tw #self harm tw

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waywardsunlight · 1 year

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All The Owl House Lore

That I can remember at the moment, until Watching and Dreaming, Spoilers

A long time ago, there was a species that lived on the Boiling Isles called Titans. Four Collectors (and one baby Collector) came from the stars to collect and control their species, but the Titans fought back which led to the Collectors pretending to dress as Titans to kill them all because the Titan’s magic cancelled their magic out (inspiring the Titan trappers). The Collectors also trap creatures and turn them into scrolls, which is what happened to the Owl Beast. However, the final Titan protected it’s egg and locked the baby Collector in the In-between. In the 1600s, a witch named Evelyn found her way into the Human Realm, likely using Titan’s blood, which creates portals between the worlds. She met Caleb Wittebane, who had recently moved to Gravesfield after being orphaned. The brothers had a good relationship, and Caleb, who did a lot of wood working created Philip’s mask which he would continue to wear for a long time. They would play a game where Caleb would dress as a witch and Philip would be a witch hunter. Caleb didn’t agree with the practices of Gravesfield and they soon became friends and eventually partners, leaving messages in code for each other. They create a symbol together that is a bird that looks like a branch, and Evelyn either gives or creates Flapjack for Caleb, or he was a shared Palisman. At some point, the building which is now the Historical Society caught fire which is implied to have caused Caleb to flee to the Boiling Isles where he lived somewhere outside of Boneborough with his wife. His brother, Philip (our ... favorite unreliable narrator, came after him and wrote a bunch of information about the Isles in his journal and also his attempts at returning home. Philip carved glyphs on his arm, which caused him to transform into a monster. He approached Caleb alone and Caleb, seeing his monster form, accepted him. At some point they met up again, now with Evelyn. Philip attacked them, likely attacking Evelyn and their baby. This is likely when Flapjack got his scar and Evelyn hid the portal. Caleb tried to talk him down, but at some point it was just the two of them and Caleb was stabbed. Philip sat nearby and watched him bleed out, and then Evelyn returned, cursing Philip as he ran away. At some point Philip got ahold of Caleb’s body, and took him to the cave under the skull of the Titan where Philip eventually started working out of. He did at least four experiments with Caleb’s body before he met Luz. Caleb’s remains are still there. Philip came back to Boneborough, trying to get help, which is where he met Luz Noceda and Lilith Clawthorne. He thought he could con them, but Lilith catches on to him and in the end she punches him in the face, breaking his nose, not before Luz helped him find the Collector’s disk. Now that he has the Collector, Philip is starting to see his plans realized, and the cut on his nose turns green and his voice begins changing. Philip changes his name to Belos and creates his first few Grimwalkers, taking on his preacher persona. At some point he goes to the knee, begins experiments for the Day of Unity, and has a Grimwalker blow up a town which is the same destroyed town in season 1. Eventually he rises to power, establishes the coven system, and gains control of the Boiling Isles. After Flapjack was injured or perhaps after Evelyn died, Flapjack ended up in the care of the Bat Queen, a Palisman who protects Palismen from harm. Her owner is missing but she thought it was a giant, and Luz promised to help her find them, but unfortunately we might never know due to time. This is where Flapjack stays until he meets Luz!

I probably missed some, there’s a ton of lore. I didn’t mention Darius and his relationship to the Golden Guards or Hagsquad lore or Manny or Cosmic Frontier and a lot of other stuff but this is just the general detailed lore we have from the best of my ability! :D

#the owl house #so... so much #toh spoilers #long post #the owl house spoilers

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pleathewrites · 1 month

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bellow the fire into my deadened lungs

chapter 2 excerpt — sick care read full story here

The second time he wakes up, he is still horribly ill but much more lucid. This time, Touya has enough strength to call out for Keigo and demand the hero take him to the bathroom, dropping to his knees the second he gets the toilet seat up.

He gags but nothing comes out. It feels like agony.

He moans, tipping forward to rest his forehead on the cool toilet seat, “Why do I feel like this?”

Keigo’s warm and familiar hands are on his back, moving in up and down motions while Touya hears the whoosh of stray feathers moving about.

“You fought Endeavor. You almost died.”

He’s lucid enough to hear the disappointed tone in Keigo’s voice. He shuts his eyes, “And? If I’m not dead, means the bastard got away.”

“Dabi…” Keigo’s voice was wary, “Shouto stopped the fight. Iced down your fire before the both of you burned to death.”

Horror runs through Touya’s already pained body, “Sh-Shou… to?” His body lurches, scrambling up to the bowl of the toilet and gags over it, nothing coming out except the wads of spit that keep flooding his mouth.

“Wha — ” Heavy coughs racked through his body, “Wh’the hell — ” and he can’t even get a single sentence out.

Keigo starts to shush him, “There’s time for all that later, you’re not well.”

When the coughing dies down, there’s still that horrible churning in Touya’s stomach, and he knows he’s not leaving this toilet until he throws up whatever toxin plagues his stomach.

But — “I-I can’t. Get it out,” desperate whimpers leave his mouth and Touya has never felt so pathetic.

“Do you…” Keigo begins and Touya rests his forehead against the seat again, turning his head so he can look at the hero while resting his temple on the cool rim, “Do you want some help?” Keigo raises his own hand up for Touya’s viewing, bending his first two fingers a bit.

Touya panics, his chest tightening in such a painful way, “That’s so — ” He feels his head weakly shake against hard porcelain, shame filling his body, “No, that’s disgusting. I can do it myself.”

The hand on his back moves to his brow, a thumb smoothing down the hairs gently, “Your seams. You could get sick in them. You’re already fighting infection, we’ve worked so hard to get you this far. Please.”

Keigo sounds so gentle. His golden eyes are wide and soft and he hasn’t looked away from Touya’s own grotesque and hideous face for a second.

“I…” He feels so ashamed.

Without all of this, Touya knows he’s already so horrendous to look at, to comprehend as human. Especially compared to Keigo, who is beautiful and strong and so, so alive, health radiating in every square inch. This Keigo who has spent countless nights holding Touya, whispering pretty little lies in his mangled ear, squeezed his body like Touya was also something alive, instead of the half-rotted near-dead man he is. He can’t even imagine how ugly he looks now, after a fight that’s left him in this kind of condition. And now, Keigo wants to stick his fingers down his throat and make an even more disgusting mess of Touya?

‘He’ll never look at me the same.’

He tries to find another excuse, “Wha’bout your talons? Pretty sure you’ll end up tearin’ m’throat out.”

Keigo only gives him a knowing smile, “Take a closer look, Hot Stuff.”

Touya does and he gasps. All of Keigo’s talons have been cut off, down to the nib.

Rage and worry for the hero run through Touya’s broken body, “The fuck?”

Keigo’s eyes widened a bit, “Wait, don’t worry! Relax, s’not like that. There was a real reason for this.”

Touya’s body relaxes a bit, relieved at the bird’s lighthearted tone. He raises his eyebrow, as if to say, ‘continue’.

Keigo laughs a bit, that small and soft laugh that Touya had burned in his memory and stitched into his heart, “They kept ripping through the latex gloves. Natsou eventually told me that I’d either have to cut them down or opt-out of treating you. Did you know, apparently, there’s a shit ton of bacteria that lives underneath our fingernails?”

Touya weakly tips his lips and raises his hand up, attempting to show Keigo his own short and immaculately self-manicured nails.

Keigo laughs again, a bit louder this time, “Of course,” and takes Touya’s fingers in his own hand to deliver a hard kiss to his nails. Touya’s heart feels stuck in his throat. Keigo sets their hands down, “Anyways, I kinda panicked at the idea of not being able to help you, and bit all ‘em off. Filed them clean once you were stable and asleep, though. I know how to groom them so they grow right. So, no worries, alright?”

Touya’s heart is beating so fast and he honestly isn’t sure if that’s to do with his condition or this completely unreal man in front of him.

“I’m not worth this, Kei.”

And there it is, out loud and laid bare.

“You don’t get to decide that on your own, Dabi.”

If Touya could cry, he thinks he would. Instead, his dry eyes burn and he has to close them.

Warm hands cup his cheek tenderly, the warmth of Keigo’s fingertips dulled by the layer of bandages that dress whatever wound had opened in the fight.

“I don’t mind doing this for you, baby. I want to. So, please, let me help you.”

Touya feels his walls lower and his shame starts to recede. He feels so awful, so tired and weak, he feels like he’s going to die. He knows he needs to throw up, get rid of the poison that churns inside him.

He opens his eyes and nods, “... Okay.”

Keigo absolutely beams at him, and stands up to wash his hands.

When he’s done, he kneels back down and scoots next to Touya, raising his hand until his two fingers rest at Touya’s mouth and Touya’s own fingers wrap around Keigo’s wrist as he repositions himself to face over the toilet bowl.

“Slap my wrist if you want me to stop, okay?”

Touya nods before opening his mouth.

Keigo’s fingers dip into the heat of Touya’s mouth and momentarily rest on his tongue, his golden eyes paying attention.

Touya weakly nods his head, giving Keigo the go-ahead.

Keigo’s fingers push further, down his throat and deeper until Touya begins to gag, but Touya only squeezes his wrist and he doesn’t slap, so Keigo keeps going until a warm rush of bile floods over his fingers and he pulls out that very second, and Touya is finally able to relieve his stomach of all its toxic contents.

It hurts, but he focuses on Keigo’s soft coos, “... You’re doing so good. Let it out, baby, it’s okay, you’ll feel so much better. I got you, you’re doing so good...”

Touya feels so gross, he hates the sound, and the cramping of his stomach seems like it’s never going to end, but he keeps squeezing onto Keigo’s wrist like an anchor, and wills himself to get through this.

When it finally stops, his stomach feels completely empty and he doesn’t think he remembers a time where he’s felt so relieved.

He spits one final time in the toilet, takes a deep breath in, and tips his head back.

Keigo’s clean hand wipes Touya’s damp bangs back from his sweaty forehead, “You feel better?”

A feather flushes the toilet.

Touya chances a look at Keigo's face with his peripheral vision and sees that gentle look hasn’t gone away, “Yeah. Much better. Thanks.”

A few feathers hover around Touya’s face and they’re carrying wet paper towels, “Can I clean you up a little?”

Touya nods and lets one feather dab at his mouth and another at his forehead.

When he’s cleaned up, Keigo holds up a vaguely familiar glass, “Same deal, swish around then spit out.” Touya does so, and Keigo presses a closed-mouthed kiss to his lips, “Thank you for letting me help you.”

Touya feels his cheeks heat in a blush and hopes there are enough bandages around his face to hide it.

He feels much more clear now that the nausea is gone, and he takes a look around at the down-right luxurious bathroom they sit in, and the tube he didn’t realize until now connected into his hand, trailing his eyes up to an almost-empty bag of what he thinks could either be nutrients or antibiotics on a rolling IV stand.

He scoots until his back rests against the foggy glass of the shower, “Alright, Birdy. Care to explain what’s going on now?”

Keigo stands up to wash his hands and looks at Touya over his shoulder with a raised brow, “I think it’s you that needs to do some explaining,” and turns his gaze back to the sink, “But I’ll ask you about your side of things later when you’re well, and the sun is up.”

Touya fidgets a bit in shame. He never expected to actually live after the day he sought out his father. He doesn’t know what to say, never planned for any kind of confrontation. That’s what The Will was for.

‘Shit.’

His eyes widened, “Kei, how long have I been out? Do people think I’m dead?”

Keigo wipes his hands and sits down next to him, “You woke up after a week the first time, and it's been about four days since. And, no, I assume the general public just thinks you’ve disappeared, all mysterious and villain-like. Don’t worry about the League, I’ve been giving Twice updates. Why d’you ask?”

Touya shakes his head, absolutely not ready for this conversation, “Later,” At least he doesn't have to call Giran to let him know he’s still alive. His death would have been all over national news if it actually happened — a win that hero-society would surely boast about. “Tell me what you know, and how my… You keep bringing up Natsou, and I’m pretty sure you said Shouto ‘stopped me’. What do you mean by that?”

“Oh,” Keigo perks up, “Natsou and Shouto are asleep in the guest bedroom.”

Touya feels like he’s going to faint, “What?”

Keigo’s head falls back to the glass and he rolls it over until he’s facing Touya, “Like I said, Shouto stopped you. He’s Endeavor’s intern this year, y’know?” Touya shakes his head but doesn’t say anything. He didn’t know. Keigo continues, “He told me he heard your conversation with Endeavor, where you basically outed yourself, which I’m pretty sure was on purpose. When I arrived at the scene, he didn’t want you arrested and taken away, so I brought him here with me. He's been coming back ever since, both of 'em.”

It takes Touya a few minutes to digest all this information, “And where is ‘here’?”

Keigo smiles, “My apartment. I have an empty one that the Commission owns but I bought this one in private with cash,” He winks.

Touya laughs a bit, “Look at you.”

“Yeah,” Keigo laughs, too, before biting his lip, “You were in real bad shape, Dabs. Shouto said you needed a doctor and he was right. I have no real medical training, just basic first aid. He’s the one who called Natsou.”

‘Shouldn’t heroes have medical training…?’

Touya’s eyebrows furrowed, “Wait a minute…” He did the calculations in his head, “Natsou’s four years younger than me. That means he would have just graduated university — not a doctor, Birdbrain.”

“I said the same thing!” Keigo exclaimed, “I seriously wondered if Shouto lost his mind or something. But — did you know, your brother is apparently a genius? Yeah, graduated from university early, and is already in his second year of medical school. So, yeah, still a student but — med-student is better than anything Shouto and I were ever gonna get.”

A smile involuntarily tugs at Touya’s lips, proud of his brother’s achievements but bittersweet in the way he wasn’t there to see it with his own eyes, “Good for him.”

Time flies and life really just goes on by.

“Yeah, you lot are really something else. The Todorokis.”

Touya rolls his head to give Keigo a look, but it’s softened with a smile. Keigo leans forward to tip his own forehead against Touya’s and he’s finally healthy enough — kind of — to truly appreciate the familiar contact of Keigo’s cool skin against his own fever.

“So, I’m gonna have to face them both in the morning, is what you’re saying?”

“Can’t help you out of this one, buddy.”

“Hmm, you could kick them out?”

“I am not doing that.”

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Thoughts at 230pm

Where do I begin....

I have a lot on my mind and little of it is good

I don't like dentists.

And let me tell you why....

When I was young... maybe 6 or 7, my father punched me hard in the mouth. Hard enough that my lower jaw moved in a way the upper jaw didn't. Hard enough that an abscess formed over an upper tooth. Hard enough that my lower teeth deformed pushing one front tooth behind the other at an angle.

My father was a big man who did construction his whole life, and was a raging alcoholic. I was a very frail, sickly little kid... his fist was about the size of my entire head.

Days later when I went to visit my mother, she saw that I couldn't speak, eat, and barely drink.

I don't think she called the police this time, other times she and teachers did... but this was the early 80s and well... even when I had bruises up and down my body, they wouldn't do anything about it.

So mom took me to a dentist.... not my usual one but one that could see me right now.

I sat in the chair... he grabbed my jaw and wiggled it and kept yelling at me to open my mouth more. I tried to explain that I couldn't, that it was locked, that the tendons and muscles were so swollen I couldn't move it....

He just berated me some more and then roughly grabbed my lower jaw and forced it open and to the left with a sickening POP!

I woke up minutes later.

I just remember the sound and then bright lights as he yelled at me more to wake up.

The pain was insane... to this day i'm not sure i've felt anything that hurt that bad. Not when I got run over by the truck, not when I fell into a burning building, not when I first got hit in the jaw.

He then shoved some stuff for xrays into my mouth that were sharp as hell... so sharp that the next round of yelling began because I started gushing blood from where they cut deep into my upper lip and the roof of my mouth.

It was pouring out so bad and I was crying, and they had to use the suction hose to stop me from choking on it.

Eventually mom came back to find out what the noise was, saw me covered in blood and took me home.

The next day I was still spitting up blood and couldn't even drink so my regular dentist saw me who ushered me into the next room where his partner the oral surgeon was.

I ended up getting a root canal, the abscess drained, and a ton of shots in my jaw. I was on pain pills and muscle relaxers and so much more for weeks after.

I never saw the dentist again.

----

Until now.

That tooth with the root canal cracked in half ... the front is just gone... the back is fine... but the front is gone.

I can't leave it like that so I'm going to see a dentist.

Not only do I have to deal with the overwhelming prior trauma... but you know... covid is still a thing.

Most of the dentists I called who accept my insurance all have open seating ... it's like going to a barber shop. Everyone's in the same room with just small partitions between you.

That's about as COVID safe as kissing everyone on a cruise ship after they dock.

So that's a no.

I did find one small place with good ratings who is nearby.... so ... wed I go in and will pay full price.

It'll be awful, it'll be expensive... and then I will come home and isolate from W. She'll take the front room, I'll take the back... no shared spaces or air. No shared bathrooms, or kitchens, or hallways... all self contained, with open windows and fans blowing and everything so we're not breathing the same air at all.

After 48-72hrs if no symptoms, I'll take a covid test and then 12 hrs later a 2nd one to see if anything pops. I don't want to do this... I don't want to risk this... I don't want to pay this.... I don't want ANY OF THIS.... We've gone this long without getting COVID... of taking almost no risks at all... now this! Sometimes you get over trauma... sometimes trauma follows you your entire life.

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The apocalypse, a classic scenario. Except what if it was also kinda slice of life like? Or at least if I were to actually make this into a series that's how I'd imagine it being. It's the last day of school and now suddenly a teacher and his daughters' summer are going to be spent hiding inside away from zombies... With his ex best friend/ex crush/ex enemy and that guy's current best friend.

Kaitlyn's and Carly's mom, Cameron, died when they were young (8 & 2 yrs old respectively at the time, now 16 & 10 when our story takes place) and soon after their birth father, Henry, went to jail. So they were put in care of their godfather, Matt. He makes a great dad for them. He's also high school English teacher.

Matt, Cameron and Damien were best friends in middle and high school. Until Damien's homophobic parents, his own internalized homophobia, and jealousy thst Matt was excepted and love for who he was, got to him. He started seperate from them. Then he became friends bad people at the school, school bullies and stuff. Yeah, Matt and Damien didn't like each other in their last year at all. Damien ended up moving towns. Until recently when he moved back to his hometown. Now he's become friends with a bartender, Hailey, at one of the local bars. In fact she's his only friend. Now that it's so many years later he's done a ton of reflecting and knows what he did was wrong. He wants to apologize to Matt but doesn't actually have the guts to find him and say sorry. (I imagine he's actually nearly ran into him several but always runs into alley ways or hides behind trees or gets himself into a goofy scenario in order to hide).

Then the zombie apocalypse starts. It's not your typically zombie apocalypse, it's not power runs out and news stations are gone and they have to go scavenge for food. It's more like... Well honestly it's more like covid. And when Matt sees a random guy running for zombies and saves him, it's a little too late when he realizes just who that guy is, Damien. By coincidence Kaitlyn also saves Hailey. And now they're all stuck in a house a together. Yippee.

Kaitlyn would do and Matt would do anything for their family. And by that I ofc mean each other and Carly. Also Kaitlyn's best friend Willow. Kaitlyn doesn't really like anyone outside those 3, I mean she'll help people who really need help but she's not going to want to keep talking afterwards. Like "ok I saved your life? I'm not friend tho, you can go away now". Matt is kind to everyone, and tries to to see the best in everyone. Although he definitely doesn't see the best in Henry, and ofc he's going to struggle a bit with Damien. Matt also takes all his negative emotions and... Pushes them down. He's needs to be strong and no one else needs to see those, he's fine, he'll just cry at night. Damien doesn't like sharing his emotions either. Damien is super cool and totally not a loser wet cat of man (yes he is). Hailey is fun, fairly positive, funny and sarcastic. Damien's the only regular she doesn't mind, ofc they also became actual friends too. Willow is sweet, Kaitlyn's best friend and really the only one she ever hangs out with. Definitely tries to encourage Kaitlyn to do things out of her comfort, but would never force her to do anything. Willow's family got lucky with being on vacation right when the apocalypse started. But they have to come back eventually. In a way Willow is happy when she comes back, it feels better to see friend in person. Victor is another high school teacher, spefically math. He's not a well liked teacher, he's not like a total absolute peice of shit but he does kinda suck. Matt's always felt that if you chipped away long enough there Victor could be a really good person. Who knew a near death experience would be the cause to make him change?

#joey draws #my ocs #my oc art

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It's Not The Years It's the Mileage: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Comissioned by WeirdKev27)

Welcome back folks to "It's Not the Years, It's the Mileage", my long look at the Indiana Jones Franchise. And we've come, a bit belatedly thanks to my recent move throwing my schedule out of wack, to our penultimate chapter, what was until just a week ago the final film in the franchise.. and the one most fans like to ignore when their not shaking their fists at it..

So going into this one was a bit loaded to say the least. I thankfully still had mostly fresh eyes: i remembered this one a bit better thanks to having seen it theatrically with my dad and his friend Don, a really neat guy who really loved star wars and who we also saw the Star Wars Prequels with. As a teen.. I thought it was eh, but I also wasn't that invested in the franchise. So the question is as an adult who now genuinely loves this franchise after two great movies and a mess so far, how will Crystal Skull hit me now? The answer, as always is under the cut.

Saucer Men from Mars

Naturally Indy's 4 starts in the 90's. Last Crusade really felt like the end of the road: The Indy films were now a trilogy, Speilberg wanted to move on, and while Harrison Ford wasn't convinced that more coudln't happen, he also saw the writing on the wall. George Lucas though WANTED to keep it going and during the early 90's tried to convince both men to do a film: Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men from Mars

You know I thought Indiana Jones and the Monkey King was going to be the most bonkers draft to a potetial indy film I heard of on this journey. Given it involved human chess, cyborg nazis, and Sun Wukong, I had every reason to. But friends thanks to this article at den of geek , I can tell you.. saucer men is somehow WEIRDER.

So the film follows Indy as he tries to marry someone we just meet, has a wedding with every prevoius supporting character present including both of his exes, gets left at the alter , and then has drinks with Marion and Willie. Oh and it turns out his bride to be was called away to investigate A FLYING SAUCER.

Yeah... the film has Indy having to solve an ancient puzzle before invading aliens torch the earth. Oh and he also has to deal with cold war paranoia, the russians, and DEATH RAYS THAT MELT PLANES OUT OF THE SKY. Did.. did professor farnsworth write this? It also all apparently takes place in one small town which fits the astethic Lucas was going for but REALLY dosen't fit indy at all. indy is about globetrotting.. this is just

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Also Indy gets abducted in a drive in. Yeah this film really sounds more like an invasion film that Lucas just plopped indy into than an actual indy film.

SHOCKINGLY Speilberg wanted nothing to do with this: After doing Schinlders List he decided he was done with Blockbusters for a while, only returning to them for Minority Report and ironically, War of the Worlds, but both had a thinky sci fi undercurrent where as this is just stuff blowing up. As for harrison ford

So Lucas instead focused on the star wars prequels, and the matter was tabled for a while, though he kept having the film rewrote each time, piece by piece replacing itself. Eventually Speilberg and Ford wer ein just the right position Lucas needed...

And the film shockingly went off without a ton of hitches despite a near endless script cycle. a few cast subtstitions, some extra cgi and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull happened pretty easily.

And this might come as a shock given it's modern presentation, it certainly did to me.. but the film was WELL recevied at the time. Many a critic, including Roger Ebert, loved it, and it made money hand over fist. Fan response at it's most vitrolic was a resounding..

Not liking the hoakiness but not really getting the hate the star wars prequels got till later.

So the question is where do I fall in this debate? Is it okay or a true disaster? One that salted the earth so the franchise would never grow again?

Yeah honestly Crystal Skull is just.. mediocre. It's not OFFENSIVELY bad, but it feels like two legends half assing it. So because of this film being uniquely half assed and having such a rep, i'm going to break it down into diffrent parts than usual: The three biggest complaints people have with the film, Then what I thought about it beyond those. Of Ancient Aliens, Nuked Fridges and Mutt Williams: So yeah when you tend to hear complaints about the film, the three things that get brought up the most are the nuking of the fridge, using aliens, and Mutt Williams. So i'm going to go ahead and get out front of these. Nuking the Fridge: For those not as familiar, which I suspect is almost none of you but humor me, early in the film while fighting the russians, Indy accidently ends up in a nuclear test site and hides in a lead lined fridge to survivied, getting blown clean. He should be dead but isn't. And I... love this sequence. Is indy surviving this implausable? Entirely. Should he have been blown clear for this to at all work? Fuck no. But is it a beautifully shot, tense and fun sequence? Absolutely. The reveal of the manequins got me as a teen and as an adult, knowing the town was fake, I spoted how .. artifical it looked and loved the suspense as I waited for Indy to find out and even knowing how he'd survive this, the tension is awesome. IT's a classic indy ploy. And look this is a series where Shiva killed one antagonist and the Judeo Christian god killed the rest and let a knight live forever. It's okay to have a small bit of bollocks and frankly Indy's survived stuff that should kill him anyway, this is just the first time it was made painfully obvious he's indy-structable. I get not liking it, it is over the top.. but I fucking love it. The Aliens are more of a mixed bag. Now the alien itself we see.. is awesome: the way it arrives by having the skulls assembled with it slowly shifting into the statues, it's intimidating apperance, and the way it fries the big bad's brain in the same way she tortured Indy earlier, a look of contempt on it's face as if to say "You wanted our knowledge CHOKE ON IT". I also really don't have an issue WITH aliens being involved. Is it a tad more sci fi than fantasy? Yup. But honestly pulp adventure is the kind of genre you can take anywhere. While Scrooge McDuck mostly found lost cities he did visit the moon, aliens, and fantasy creatures, and Lucas made the right call in having the aliens be extra dimensional instead: instead of a ship it's more of a teleporter. It being aliens in itself isn't the problem The problem.. is the execution. Looking back on previous indy macguffins and forward to Archemedies Dial, each one has a reason why it exists: The Arc was made to hold the commandments and has the power of god because it's construction was ordained by him and it was hidden because no one should have this power. THe stones were in a place of worship before being pilfiried, fitting for a dieties power. And the grail was hidden because it could ONLY be used in that spot, similar to how in the arthurian stories, which I looked up, the grail had to be kept near the fisher king to heal his father. Here the aliens skulls are spread world wide, beam information into people, and summon the aliens themselves because...

I don't need to know WHY the arc can melt nazis or the stones can shoot lightning, but I need to know WHY the crystal skulls are what they are. You could say "to get the temple back".. but then WHY did they leave it there? Why were they worshipped? I'm fine with going with the flow and filling in the cracks myself if the storys good enough.. but the mystery here just isn't. Lucas and Speilberg REALLY coast on the idea "aliens isn't that neat", without building up the intrigue from before. The exposition here is just boring. It's just indy talking, saying really nothing, instead of building up a compelling mystery as to WHY these things are here and what the skulls ultimately mean. IT's the films fatal flaw: I often don't care about this adventure beyond Indy and his family... because the story dosen't seem to care. It's scattered around the world because "Well that's what these pictures do" instead of for intresting and well thoguht out reasons. If you want a globetrotting adventure.. you have to have a reason to trot the globe otherwise you just make me wish for the next set peice and that's NOT what these films should be. The non set peice stuff is there to build character, build the mystery and give us a second to calm down. It's just.. boring. Even temple for all it's issue iwth it's downtime scenes, didn't make me wish to turn the film off.

Finally we have Mutt who again is a mixed bag... but mostly a good one. For the first half of the film.. Mutt is actually a great character. He's a greaser sure, and the fact he says Daddy-O later physically hurts, but he's also shown as a troubled kid who has daddy issues, runs away from his problems and is passionate about what he does. He's indy himself, years younger, simply lacking his passion for discovery, somethign Mutt finds along the way allegedlys. And look.. as a person Shia Lebouf sucks. He truly sucks and he's an absuive monster. But I have to admit through gritted teeth he's a good actor, with Transformers being more bad direction and a script that called for him to SCREAM LOUDLY AT THINGS HAPPENING.. ALL THE THINGS ALL THE SCREAMING. He was a good choice for the part and plays off ford well. Sure the Tarzan thing was stupid, and Shia LeBouf was RIGHT to call it stupid no matter what Speilberg thought. No really Stephen took it personally and said "There's a time to speak and there's a time to shut up and eat"

Dude, oscar award winning film changing dude... sometimes ... it's okay to say something in a film you were in was bad TWO YEARS after it came out. Because it was. You admitted Temple of Doom was bad and should feel bad. How did this bother you?

Mutt isn't a terrible character the issue is more the film.. forgets to really finish his arc. He's mad at indy when he finds out even though he really.. shoudln't be? Indy had no idea he existed? , but this.. never gets resolved. He just accepts it because the movies over, picks up his hat and thankfully never puts it on. Mutt COULD have worked.. but the film just forgets to give a shit about him once his mom shows up and aliens are a comin. He's sadly wasted potetial and luckily the next film finds a way to make up for it with a whole new sidekick reminding indy of his past mistakes. Speaking of character

A Weakness of Character

In my Temple of Doom review I pointed out how it's lack of character arc was one of it's biggest weaknesses: By resetting indy to where he was before raiders, there was no where to really take him. Crystal Skull has the oppositie problem: Now set a few decades later, with an older Indy in a world he dosen't understand the film keeps him ... largely the same. We get some intresting seeds of a man out of time early on: The Goverment, originally indy's steadfast allies, are now in full red scare mode and instantly question Indy for simply having been friends with a traitor to the soviets without considering Indy didn't know, nearly costing him is job. He served in the army, worked hard, did all the things he thought were right.. and now he's getting spat on for stuff not his fault. So what does the film do with this?

Yeah after our hero leaves on his quest with Mutt and gets trailed by the KGB.. NOTHING comes of this. It has no impact on the plot. And that's the real issue... the movie brings up intresting character arcs for Indy and dosen't pay them off in any meaningful way. We get the knowledge he left Marion at the alter and has commitment issues.. and he uh marries her at the end and their married all the way to dial of destiny. That's it. He clamps down hard on wanting Mutt to go back to college and trying to be a dad.. and er.. he's a dad now I guess? The film starts up intresting ideas but can't finish a goddamn one. IT's what holds the film back: it STARTS really strong but then falls apart. Marion at least is awesome as ever and bringing her back was a top notch choice. Karen Allen is as good as ever, and feels like she's still fleshing Marion out and she plays off Indy and Mutt perfectly. My only regret is she really.. dosen't have much to do in the plot. She's held hostage, gets free, teams up with the rest of the heroes and.. really dosen't add anything. It's a far fall from last time. And that's the REAL problem with the crystal skull. Don't get me wrong, I get why the big three issues I tackled are such a big deal... but this is the subtle death that kills the film. Lucas and Speilberg and writer David Koepp, who wrote freaking Spider-Man and thus should knwo better, just didn't care to finish anything.

It's more apparent in the villians. Kate Blanchett is an awesome actress, as much as I didn't like Tar she does a phenominal job there and was amazing fun as Hela in Thor Ragnarok, but all she's given to be as Irina Spalko is a very sterotpical cold war russian bad guy. There's not substance to her and unlike with Toht there isn't any.. cold looming menace. It was much more personal with the Nazis and I fully respect Speilberg, after portraying them at their deadliest seriousness in schindlers list, for not using them again. This is personal to him for damn obvious reasons. But it was shown with Molla Ram he could make an intimdating villian outside the nazis. Here it's just a cartoon caracture. Irinia comes off like a bad 60's era iron man villian wanting to CRUSH AMERICA AND THE CAPTALISTS instead of the very real dread of a nation ran by dogma and under an unflinching uncaring leader, the stuff we deal with NOW with Russia as they continue to invade an inncoent country.

There's also Mac, Indy's friend who just loves money... and that's it. That's his character. He loves money and sold out to the reds to get it. He's a complete waste of breath and space and should've died int he prologue. I do not care fo rhim. There's also Ox. While John Rhys Davies tries his best... he's just diet Henry Sr. And that's not hyperbole: they wanted him to replace connery, he refused so we're just given this guy we're told is important who mostly goes around half brain dead till he gets his mind back at the end. Crystal Skull.. just has weak character. There was no care or depth put in. Even Thot as horrbile as he is had the thought of being a simple for just how purely monsterous the Nazi's were. Ther'es juts NOTHING here and it makes the film a slog. If your not going to finish any arc or give me a bad guy to actually want see taken down, why do I care?

Odds and Ends: So yeah ONCE AGAIN an Indy film does a racisim. You'd think after last Crusade reduced it to Sallah, who I begrudgingly accept at this point, they WOULDN'T go back to this well. You'd think 19 years later and after they already turned down one idea for the third Indy film for being too racist they wouldn't instead...

Yeah there's a weird martial arts cult of indegnious peoples depicted as savages. So .. THAT happened and i'm less lenient. Again they had 19 YEARS to learn this shit wasn't okay. Granted anyone familiar with episode 1 can tell Lucas really had learned nothing. But given Speilberg had done MULTIPLE films heavily tackling prejudice, slavery, and genocide at this point, you'd THINK he'd know better. YOU'D THINK. YOU'D. THINK. It's not as in your face as Temple but it's still very much beneath them. I have nothing but contempt for this choice and for them going with it and learning NOTHING about being culturally senstive after 19 years.

There's also a lot of CGI in this film. It wasn't intended and the practical effects, as before are good.. but the CGI here has aged like mayo topped with a fresh egg and dumped on the sidewalk and left in the hot unforgiving sun for 19 years. The Jungle Chase is paticuarlly bad: while they coudln't find a clear cut jungle to use, they'd of been better off.. doing somethign else. The actual stuntwork is good.

The Motorcycle Set piece is great and should feel great. And overall the goofy tone of the film is one I don't mind: I don't mind it being ab it more over the top outside of it's racist bullshit, and it's more over the top moments remind me of the good in temple of doom and help catapult me out of the dry rest of the film.

So overall.. Crystal Skull.. is

It has the potetial to be a good film, but dosen't care to actually use it. It's not a GOOD film.. but it's also just not bad enough for me to truly hate it. The good parts help keep it above that as does Karen Allen. It's a bad indiana jones film and a very bleh adventure film.. but it's just not this "RUINED THE FRANCHISE FOREVER" .. thing people desribe it as. If it was to you, I totally get it and could see that, but for me it's just a mediocre disapointing sequel. I've had plenty of those and plenty of worse disapointments sequel wise. Maybe the fact we got a much better one makes it impossible for me to really care. I deeply love indy now, I love this franchise and this is a bloch.. but it dosen't erase the two great films before this or the highs temple had amid the extreme lows. And with the power of time and nostalgia.. it didn't stop someone else from taking one last crack at it. Next Time: We put this retrospective in a box to be examined by Top Men as I look at the final Indiana Jones film, which is still in theaters: Dial of Destiny. Is it good, bad, mediocre? find out with me next time.

#indiana jones #indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull #harrison ford #marion ravenwood #mutt williams #cate blanchett #karen allen #stephen speilberg #george lucas

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