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bl-inded · 11 months

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Our skyy 2- Wrap Up

Since this is an anthology and I, being the simp that I am, have watched all of the original shows, I thought it'd be fun to rank all the episodes.

The thing is, even though I have watched all of the shows, my opinion on these episodes are very reliant on my opinions of the original show as well. Meaning if I loved the original show and the our skyy episode was meh, it might be ranked lower than shows I didn't feel so highly about, but the our skyy episode delivered. Anywho-

7. Sky in your heart (ep 3-4)

Tbh I wasn't the biggest fan of the original show, but this episode was very in tone with said show. It was overall, cute. The greenflags were greening with the communication and lack of jealousy. You go boys! Live your happiest life.

But I did miss the other pair of the show (idk if you can technically count it as this show since they were two 7 episode series, but I would have liked to see even a cameo from them). Good vibes. I liked it.

(what i didn't like in a side note is the chunky ring design)

6. My school president (ep 9-10)

To anyone who hasn't already, you havvvveee to go watch the original show. It is so sweet it will give you diabetes. And I loved the concept of this episode.

As a fanfic author I was mostly here for the validation that all our headcanons are canon. But, it felt like a highlight reel with roles reversed. Which is interesting but 2 episodes wasn't enough time to develop that story.

For what they attempted they did aight! I kinda wish we got something more post canon in their universe, happy cute boyfriends™, but yk. It's okay. More Fourth and Gemini always makes me happy. Plus the cast seemed to have fun filming it if the behind the scenes are any indication.

5. A boss and a babe (ep 11-12)

Listen, half the excitement of our skyy is missing these characters. So it was surely a choice by gmm to time this episode riiiighhhttt after the finale of the show.

That being said, this episode was pretty dang fun. Am I still mourning the loss of multiple unresolved storylines from the show they set up and literally forgot about- yes (Drake, you deserved better🤧). But considering our skyy 2 is the biggest "who took my FANFIC out of ao3 and into YouTube" plot ever, I'll overlook it.

This episode managed to do what neither enchanté nor abaab did- show me the appeal of forcebook. They are very cute in light-hearted settings. I'm yet to see them thrive in the drama, but only friends is happening soon... Soooooo

4. Never Let Me Go (ep 1-2)

Now thiss was a perfect soulmates AU for TV (or YouTube in this case) if I've ever seen one. We got the time travel, the drama, the classism all wrapped in a ball of all fluff and no angst. They understood the assignment.

Again. I missed my second couple (I am Perth Stan, I can't help myself. The 6 of us who demanded justice for Chopper, I see you!) But I didn't miss them too much, coz the premise was fun.

(I also loved the house set that they had!! I wanna go visit it if it's real!)

3. The Eclipse (ep 5-6)

These two episodes are single-handedly responsible for increasing the average number of kisses in Our Skyy. I wasn't even expecting this many? Even if it was basically just prep for Khao and First in Only friends, I'm still here for it.

It was also surprisingly an episode that caused a lot of debate about Akk and/or Ayan being out of character, which I didn't expect, but have my opinions on.

But overall, it was an extremely sweet episode with political and social commentary that the show had, but commentary lite. The locations were fantastic! I honestly just want more First and Khao in everything, please and thank you.

2. Bad Buddy x A Tale of a Thousand Stars (ep 13-16)

(please don't kill me)

Speaking of who took my fanfic out of ao3, OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. I knewwww we can trust in P'Aof for delivering a story. BUT DID I EXPECT HIM TO PUT ALL MY FAVS IN THE SAME SCREEN AT THE SAME TIME???? What great times we're living in *sighs in bl*.

Watching EarthMix slip back into phuphatian was a pleasure. Ohm and Nanon are sooo awesome! I missed Pat and Pran so much. The crossover could have easily gone into the forced-for-fanservice territory, but they had a plot for it!🤌🏼

They brought back characters that felt like home. Even the conflicts were so lived in. It is self aware in what small things can blow out of proportion.

Watching Pat and Pran in their college years hiding their relationship after reading countless fanfics about it- just, tears. Thanks! I love them. I missed them. I'm living for this. I see why this was at the end. Worth all the hype and more.

Still screaming about this, and have been for two weeks. Will keep you updated on when or if I stop.

Buuuut the reason I didn't rank this at the top is because we didn't get enough bad buddy in the crossover. I loved both the shows, but i feel like pat pran were slightly overshadowed. I was lowkey cringing by the end too with the second atots recreation of the series!? Oh god. But we got a proposal! And the confirmation it's an open secret?!? And whatever tf it was that korn and wai were doing backstage🤡. So it was almost in the number one spot, it's just that I preferred my actual number one spot episode more.

1. Vice Versa (ep 7-8)

Did I expect vice versa to be this high on my list, nope. Did I fall and virtually adopt this kid as soon as he came on screen... Maybe👀. Are Jimmy and Sea climbing up on my couples i can't wait to see more of this yes- also maybe.

But even otherwise, I think this episode had the most solid and cohesive storyline. Everyone felt familiar and acted in character. They even wrapped up the whole random-kid-showed-up-at-our-front-door plot surprisingly well. Like if you watched the episode, they left very clear hints.

They even kept the colour theme (even though multi colour isn't technically a colour, would have gone with white or black maybe, but that's just me).

I did not expect this to be my number 1. Actually, i was barely even looking forward to this episode. But it was a pleasant surprise.

And I was shooketh, considering my biggest complaint about the original show was that they left too many threads loose.

Jimmy and Sea were so good! Got me even more excited to see them in Last Twilight (in P'Aof we trust).

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Now that that is over (and if you're reading this far) can we talk about how many birthday plots there were??? I feel like every other week there was a birthday. Just confused about it, that's all.

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thecraftymusician · 1 year

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SPOILER FOR TF EARTHSPARK AGAIN BECAUSE OOOOOOOOOOOOOH WE GOTTA TALK.

Ok so now that we’re here, we all caught the cameo at the end of the Soundwave episode right? We all heard that iconic cackle, we all saw the Boi ™️, the Bastard himself? If you missed it, Steve Blum is back as Starscream (who he voiced for TF Prime) and he’s iconic without even saying a word. Now I could be wrong, but I believe that makes him the only veteran TF VA reprising a role so far for Earthspark.

But THEN! Then then then! I noticed something last night on a rewatch. Mr. Smelt, the music teacher obsessively going outside to check his dating app, is voiced by none other than Daran Norris. Famously, TFP Knockout! This could be just the fact that Norris is a talented voice actor with an awesome background BUT it seems a little strange to have his voice be so recognizably KNOCKOUT right before the episode where hear Blum reprising Starscream, especially since these VA’s are from the same continuity (aligned/TFP).

Soooooo put on your tinfoil hats, folks! Earthspark has dipped into a lot of the comic concepts so far, specifically for things like Arcee’s barely contained murderous rage and everything about Megatron. Soooooooooo what if the next part to carry over is holomatter avatars?

It seems too specific a callback to have the VA recognizably sound like Knockout as a performing arts teacher who we really didn’t need to see as much of as we did. Why on earth was this one teacher shown so thoroughly to us over the course of the episode AND a veteran TF VA if not as an Easter egg? Especially since the matching Starscream VA is CONFIRMED to be reprising his role!

Now that I’ve proven myself insane, I’ll see myself out, but PLEASE let me know what y’all think. Holomatter? A possibility? Too insane?

#spoilers #tf earthspark #Earthspark #macaddam #transformers #theory #tinfoil hat not included

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polaris-the-north-star · 11 months

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go rush episode 63 spoilers

phaser's secret is revealed

i'm going to be putting these here now. they're very funny

i missed the first minute but. uh copyko and some MIK grunts are chasing ranran and damamu, who escape

phaser faces yuudias and points at valvelgear and threatens some aliens ig. yuudias gets angy

somewhere else, ranran stares at the ohdo cards and has a talk with damamu about carding and nyandestar

meanwhile back with yuudias hes still having his dilemma BUT damamu comes to him in a vision(?) and tells him about how they can reverse the carding or some shit and YUUDIAS' EYES GO FUCKING RED

i missed some stuff but they duel and phaser summons his non-maximum monster from phaser v yuuga i think. yuudias topdecks overtrain/fullsteam and destroys that monster. RAINAC RETURNS and phaser tells some MIK grunt to fucking blast off the jersey brothers into space

meanwhile(again) we see myuda dinois and manabu's shenanigains again. some sword lookin ass ship drags zaida velgear off ig

phaser summons kraken, uses his effects, and equips him with some tentacle tip drill thingys.

with tremolo and the skyfish in jail, tremolo gets a flashback of his and phaser's past on some barren wasteland

MIK releases 2 aliens in a mall while doverap watches and flies off to go tell yuudias what he saw

the UTS adults get a pep talk from galixon and see that aliens are getting along with humans.

SHEWBAHHA'S HERE and brings DUDI NISHAW and sics insert green energy blast on phaser to turn him into chinese dragon thing.

the card showcase is on the equip and yuudias duels a legit dragon. we get some possible zwiyuudi stuff and a sus scene of the carded people

episode anectotes here v

the eyes go red thing are from damamu possessing yuudias??? i think??

phaser goes "when i take damage the aliens die"

shewbahha had a cameo(?) when zaida velgear was dragged off. didn't see that part

new abysslayer trap

the equip is called "abyss arms - madness shell"

uhhh idk if shewbahha's gonna eat phaser but. he's there soooooo

not as much to say here as 62 lol

#yugioh go rush #yugioh sevens #go rush spoilers

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daz4i · 6 months

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Top 5 Nikolai moments (I miss seeing you gush about him)

i miss gushing about him too ;-; so thank you for the opportunity >:3 it's unironically very good for my health. and sorry for the late reply hehehe 🥺

under a read more if it works bc it's. long (added pics and they take a lot of space :P) also tw for ig some slight gore and blood?? bc it's nikolai lol

1. one of my most favorite lines in the entire manga tbh:

he is the only one who gets me . also what happens next is extremely hot (he gets cut in half) (dw it's coming up later in this post)

2. bird speech:

he is the only one who gets me pt 2. also love seeing him be genuine. in the anime his voice acting is SOOOOOO good it's unreal. also he is so beautiful without his eye cover. look at him

3. the thing that came right before it:

1 god he is so hot when he stabs and goes insane (sorry for the horny on main it will happen again) 2 i just love the duality in this entire scene. this is my take but i think he does feel guilty for killing as he says afterwards, but part of his guilt is because he does enjoy killing and inflicting pain, so his words here^ are genuine, but are in fact his guilt speaking, he just exaggerates his enjoyment, and later expresses his guilt in a more direct way

(also this scene is so much better in the manga, i love his cartoonishness here, the blood splatters, the lines covering his face etc. the anime was very underwhelming in that regard)

4. arm moment (not in the manga yet ;0)

again. stellar voice acting. a very emotional moment, most emotional than we've ever seen him, and he seems so conflicted too! with the new context the most recent manga chapter added to what comes before this moment, it makes it clearer where some of his conflicted feelings come from, as well. i already wrote a whole analysis of this scene on the day the ep came out lol i won't get into it again

5. a two frame combo >:3 (easier to take from the anime. also i think they were well adapted!)

me when i'm normal and well adjusted. and gay

this is kind of a sequel. it was my original #5 bc i straight up forgot abt that^ somehow but it's the same scene so it counts. and i love this frame so so much you have no idea

along with fyodor's jesus imagery and nikolai essentially betraying him. what if i went insane and started biting people. this frame means so much to me you have no idea.......

also bonus frames that just don't have as much emotional impact but i wanna share them bc i love him and this is a post for me to gush about nikolai after all:

this entire page <3 he is such a good actor (unless you subscribe to that one theory that he actually died here and was written back into life with the page or smth. idk) (+ small cameo from my other main bsd f/o teeheehee :3)

unironically one of my fav frames in all of bsd just bc he's so pretty. and i love the ?. you're so right king keep on speaking your truth with no fear.

m. my cover photo. also one of my most favorite frames in the entire manga. also one of the most me coded frames that isn't dazai lol

my boy in his cryptid era

another moment i prefer in the manga sm and i had a very vivid image of how it'll look and sound in the anime and i was kinda disappointed it didn't end up happening (tbf. other nikolai scenes DID end up looking exactly the way i imagined they would lol)

me when i'm having an identity crisis and letting it out on my cat:

ok the last one ik you may be sensitive to bc it is the most gory thing here so i'm giving you a warning to stop scrolling here

(unless you wanna see anyway in which case this is just a warning to prepare you <3)

and another line to actually take up space

this is my equivalent of sfw sasuke

okay there we go:

i need to eat him so fucking bad

and that's all i have to share i think <3 might've ended up using like 80% of his screentime here ngl. worth it. i love him sm

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caracuuw · 1 year

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OKAY I finally finished watching through all of the Fixxiverse so far as well as Fix’s Dominion POV and.

Hey. Um. Hey.

Anyways have some disorganized rambles about it that are in no way chronological and I just wrote them down as I thought about them because. I have emotions. About it all. And nobody in particular to share them with. Spoilers ahead!

Hhhhh okay. Where to start? Alright, okay, well, first off. I lost my mind at Sausage’s cameo. I was not at all expecting it and so it hit me like a train and it was so funny. I just. God. That was so good.

Like. Damn. Sausage and Bubbles are canon to the Fixxiverse O_o

I really love that the zombie apocalypse episode was the first in the series, I felt like it was such a great start that made everything else really feel like a very natural progression of the series, what with starting with an unnamed protagonist and then starting to make more and more characters as fit, you know?

Speaking of the unnamed protagonist of the zombie apocalypse. I miss him and I home we see more of him in the future.

The slow realization of, not only everything being connected in some way, but also just how connected it all is- it’s just. It really shows the love and care put into the series. No stone is left unturned there.

Fixxiverse!Grady D:

Seriously though I loooovvveee fv!Grady so much hearts floating around my head around his head hearts come into my vision whenever he’s on screen lying on my stomach kicking my legs in the air etc etc he’s sooooooo

Cal

Just. Cal. You know.

I already said it in some tags a bit back lol but Cal is to me what Grumbot is to some Hermitcraft fans

I can’t really choose a favorite character because I would just end up listing all of them but if I had to name a few that really stood out to me in terms of how excited I got any time I heard them speak, I really loved fv!Grady, Captain Dohan, The Oracle, and Fred

Okay listen. I watched Dominion in this order: Legundo, Viking, Nuke, and then Fix. When I first saw The Oracle in Nuke’s perspective, I was like ‘oh, this is a neat and mysterious character, I wonder where they take this’ (and also like SCOTT SMAJOR????), so when The Oracle showed up in Fix’s POV, then when I pivoted to Fixxiverse and he showed up there (and I learned who he was more), and THEN when he showed back up again in the rest of Fix’s Dominion POV. Listen. I just. I have grown to love The Oracle a lot.

Also I wonder; is Dominion directly tied to the Fixxiverse? Is anything with Fix in it tied to the Fixxiverse? Or is The Oracle a bit more like a being that could show up anywhere? Is it a bit more like the Hermatrix, where literally all Minecraft worlds are in the same multiverse? (Could Legundo’s Hardcore Multiverse be tied to it all as well? I doubt it, but I don’t have the brainpower to pull that apart right now…)

I’m genuinely impressed with how well Fix pulls of having a fairly large cast of different characters in the Fixxiverse, which is primarily a single player series, and he played most of said character at some point. That is not an easy task to pull off.

Fix’s Dominion musical episode was soooooo. I just. God.

Welsknight cameo FUCK YEAH :D

Fix’s megabase on Dominion s1. Jfc dude. It’s so amazing, seriously. If nothing else, you should watch his POV just to see it.

Both of his main bases, actually. They are both so god damn impressive.

Also, all of Fix’s builds in the Fixxiverse, but especially in the main hardcore (and now survival) one are so gorgeous. I am actually in love with his building style, it’s so pretty, and the scale of it all is amazing.

His custom textures too! I know they’re such a small thing, but I love them so much. I love the creativity that goes into some of them, changing the textures to use them in ways that just. It changes the vibe completely from if it were the vanilla textures, but they all still fit. In fact, they arguably fit better because of the texture changes.

I loved his ‘confession room’ bit on Dominion, especially in his final episode of s1 with Sneve. That was really funny.

Dominion!Fix is a super interesting character to me. I feel like he’s just so well played, but I can’t quite put into words all my thoughts about him. He’s like. He’s a thief. He’s a trickster. He runs from the consequences of his actions. He’s just a little guy c’mon he’s just a little guy. He wants so badly to be a good person. He has no moral backbone. He cares deeply about other people’s wellbeing. He’s The Oracle’s favorite little fella, and god he really wants to be a good person but god dammit old habits die hard and no matter how hard he tries he just keeps on falling back down, even when he knows, he knows that if he does, he will release something beyond anything any of them are remotely prepared to handle, and he knew, he was warned, he was warned, but it still didn’t matter, because he cannot escape the person he believes, he knows he is deep down, and that will always be his downfall- he’s just some little bug dude.

I also adore whenever Fix talks about his family in his videos. Like, genuinely, it’s so sweet and makes me feel all warm inside every time he does

I need you all to know how happy it makes my silly little autistic brain every time he talks about music I loooovvve it when people talk about music :)))))

I definitely have more that I’ll probably remember later but honestly, I don’t want to spend any more time on this post so this is what you get lol

TLDR; Watch Fixxiverse and Fixxitt’s Dominion SMP POV :D

#fixxitt #fixxiverse #dominion smp #long post

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yoditorian · 3 years

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lacuna- part 2

din/reader

technically i only missed thursday in my timezone by like 2 hours which means soMEWHERE this is done on time. as always a massive thanks to ellie for their encouragement and yelling, i rly did not think this one was gonna happen but then i sat down and whacked out 3k soooooo

MASTERLIST

word count: 4.7k

warnings: swears, overuse of italics, that poetic smutty goodness bc writing graphic stuff is not in my skillset, my lowkey hunter/prey k*nk plays a part don’t judge me, a purely STOOPID amount of cameos and name drops, 18+ only no babies thanks

Your back hurts. Eight hours running every maneuver under the sun and you’re praying for just five spare minutes to run to medical and ask if they can crack your whole spine like a glow stick.

It had been a little more difficult to find the rebels than you’d initially thought. Stealing a forgotten hopper from the back of Ran’s hangar -you’d only had to tweak it a little to make it capable of longer distances- was about as far ahead as you’d planned. You’d landed on some unnamed, hardly populated moon with next to no idea what to do next. At least it hadn’t taken long for a supply drop crew to come through, and one mention of your old information ring on Corellia had you on board and flying to the base on Yavin IV.

In binders. But it was a start.

You’d spent days in one little room, the same officers in and out, asking the same questions over and over. They hadn’t told you a thing, and you had been certain they were planning to drop you back where the crew found you. Until a woman in a flight suit stood in your doorway, asking exactly how much flight experience you had. They put you in the barracks that night, the bunk opposite yours was empty at the time but clearly lived in. You’d only hoped your roommate would be more welcoming than the criminals you used to spend your time with.

“I hope I don’t see you coming for my track time.” Her voice is loud and clear over the buzz of the hangar, and you can’t keep the smile off your face despite the ache deep in your bones.

“Maybe I am, you finally gonna do something about it?”

Shara launches herself at you, boisterous laugh echoing off the ships. You’re steadily climbing the ranks in training, the years of experience already under your belt make you more confident in the cockpit than the other new recruits and you’re not afraid to pull a stunt or two. The flawless dead drop recovery had earned your favour with some of the qualified pilots. Although it was definitely what had landed you with patrol duty on top of your usual drills in the first place.

“I talked to Draven.” She says, and your stomach flips. You’re leaps and bounds ahead of the other recruits, for sure, but nobody seems to want to sign off on your training. Always something about required hours or simulation times or more drills. You’re starting to get the feeling that no one in command wants you in the air at all.

“I told you I would!”

“I know, I know. But look, if I ask it’s more like an endorsement.”

“Shara-”

“He said he’d think about it, which in command language means no-”

“Tell me there’s a but.”

“But,” She grins, “He told me if you get this next info grab done, he’ll put in a good word with my commanders. And my commanders know I’m not going in the air next week unless you’re at my nine o’clock.”

Shara had been far more welcoming than the mercs you were used to back at Ran’s station. She was the same woman who’d rocked up to your little isolation room and asked about your skills. Over the moon to find out you were already in for flight training, she’d spent most of your first night recounting every little bit of drama between the other pilots and by the morning, you knew who was dating who, who wasn’t at all happy about it, which crews were rivals, and which held the fastest course runs. Green Squadron, she’d told you proudly. You were relatively vague about your journey to the base, only mentioning that you’d run with some rebels on your home planet and made a few detours on your way. Something about the look in her eye had made you wonder if she already knew. But she hadn’t dwelled on it, instead moving on to complain about how the dating pools are pitiful unless you were willing to wait until the next time her current boyfriend was around to set you up with one of his friends. A Pathfinder, she’d shrugged nonchalantly although her eyes lit up, fine enough to pass the time and strong enough to manhandle you a little, if that’s what you’re into.

You’d quietly told her you weren’t interested, eyes slipping over to the old blanket bundled on your pillow, and she understood immediately. Offered you an arm around your shoulders and an attentive ear as you sighed heavily, only telling her that you’d likely never see him again. He’d gone home, and you didn’t even know where that was for him.

It’s been several months since you first met her, but she never fails to make you feel like you’ve been here for years. Like you’ve shared a bedroom for years, been best friends for years. Even now, she looks at you like she knows you backwards and forwards and inside out. Truth be told, she kind of does.

“Hell, someone came here last week having never left his planet before and they put him on the training roster. You’ve logged more flight time than any recruit I’ve ever seen and we didn’t even have to teach you in the first place. I know you’re Draven’s golden child, but he can’t keep you on the ground forever, kid.”

“You can’t call me ‘kid’, I’m older than you.” You laugh, shoving her shoulder with your own.

“Bitch, don’t ruin my rousing, inspirational speech.” She winks, pressing a kiss to your temple before she waves at a commander calling her name and makes her way to her ship.

The datapad under your arm beeps a reminder to pack for your intel grab. It shouldn’t be a long trip, Draven had assured you, simply an in and out: information for protection and transport to the base. Protection and transport optional. He makes the hard decisions, you’ve learned during your time running the smaller missions for intelligence. The more important runs get given to rebels like Cassian Andor, like the group of mercs you’d seen filing into the command room a few days ago. It was an odd combination, seeing people like that somewhere like this, and you shouldn’t have stared but you couldn’t help yourself. Weapons strapped to every empty space on each body, armour and clothes on a number of species from all across the galaxy. One of them had looked jarringly like you, although you hadn’t really gotten a good look at their face before they’d disappeared.

Just this mission, and you’d be in the air next week. Hopefully. It’s enough to get your feet moving towards the barracks to pack.

You only need the basics, a couple of changes of clothes and some medkit refills. Just in case. Except there’s still an empty space when you zip it shut, sitting heavy between your neatly folded shirts and the top of the bag, and you keep looking at your blanket. It gets cold in hyperspace, a voice in the back of your mind pipes up, and you decide that’s good enough reason as any to fold it in alongside your supplies. It smells solidly of the clean soap of your bedsheets, his scent- Din’s scent, a mix of metal and warmth- had faded months ago. You still hold it to your nose for a moment, just to check, before it too gets folded and laid in the bag.

Din isn’t overly fond of Nevarro. It’s not an unbearable heat, the dry plains are to thank for that, but he’s not a fan of days where the wind picks up and carries the sulphur of the lava fields under the lip of his helmet. The covert had welcomed him back, more or less with open arms. He hadn’t let them go without a cut of his pay from Ran, always sending something back to the foundlings, so at least he hadn’t totally abandoned them. The Armourer had decided he should be their beroya, their bounty hunter, and within days he found himself tracking a quarry in a system he’d never heard of. It was easy, really, to take the skills he’d garnered all his life and apply them to this. Paz had laughed with the familiarity of an old friend and told him that if a skinny thing like Din was their beroya, they were all fucked. So at least no one was angry that he’d left them.

The guild rep slides a puck across the table, metal scraping stone, and the blue hologram flickers. The human man staring back at him is unassuming, but the notes suggest otherwise. A former senator’s assistant, with strong connections to both the Empire and the Rebellion. Din nods, flicking the puck off and tucking it into his pocket without another word.

His loyalty is to the covert, to the Mandalorians. It always has been and it always will be. This is the way. But one mention has his mind surging back to thoughts of you. Everything in his life seems to. Every time he sets foot on the Crest all he can see is you, bent double with your head in an access panel and a greasy rag tucked into the back of your pants. He’d see the sun and remember how you always used to turn your face to it, just for a moment, whenever the team ran jobs planetside. You’d never told him where you came from, but Ran had let bits and pieces slip over the years. In the looming shadow of the Razor Crest, Din wonders if you ever made it off the station. If you decided to drop everything and find the rebellion, the way you said you would when you were half asleep on his chest, your mind fucked out and hazy. He hopes you did.

The tracking fob brings him to a semi populated planet, somewhere near the border of the Unknown Regions. Vast swathes of land and water are completely uncolonised, left to nature, only a few cities over the whole planet. The bounty is evidently in possession of some brains, having chosen a mid-sized city to get lost in, and Din is almost disappointed that he knows it won’t take long. Wishes he’d picked a different puck, a little further away.

He stays vigilant, but pays no mind to the beeping of the fob on his belt. He can steal a moment, he thinks, to take in the area. To live the life of some extravagant explorer in his mind while he does a little recon. The last thing he expects to see when he walks into that little cantina, is you.

Din spins on his heel and is out of the door almost as soon as he enters, slipping down the alley to the side of the building to catch his breath. You don’t notice.

His mind is reeling, echoes of the vows he swore as a child and the Armourer’s words swirl in his ears. His loyalty is to the covert. His loyalty is to the covert. His loyalty is to the covert. But he only sees you. The way you always had time for him back on the station, you told the others where they could shove it but always gave him a smile. You went above and beyond to help him without complaint when he asked, only ever got snippy with him when someone else had pissed you off first. He still remembers the way you felt in his hands, how you sounded, how you tasted. This is not the place to remember, there’ll be time for that later, although his body needs another minute to be completely convinced.

All he feels is guilt, once the blood comes back up to his brain. Guilt over the covert, over his vows and his creed and his people. But what’s more convincing is the guilt he has over you. Over how he just walked away, left you sleeping, and took the ship you’d spent months working on. Even if you were the one who told him to take it.

You’re beautiful, still. Of course you are, you always have been to him.

You notice when he walks in this time.

The sunlight streaming in from a window catches on his visor and your heart jumps into your throat. You don’t know if he’s spotted you yet, as he takes a seat at a table by the door angled away from you. Logically, you’d say it could be any Mandalorian. But you spent countless hours studying the way he moves, you had to know his gait to know if walking around a corner would get you killed or not. You could recognise his footsteps anywhere.

The untrained eye would think him relaxed, as relaxed as a man in head to toe armour can be, but you know better. There’s a tension in his shoulders, the same he used to get when Xi’an made another move on him with that grating giggle. His hand sits on his thigh, fingers splayed, ready to find the smooth contours of his blaster at any moment. Ever the soldier, never quite at ease. Until that night, it seemed.

He leaves before you’re even done with your drink, sitting there for barely five minutes when he throws a couple of credits on the table for a drink he didn’t buy and stalks out. You sigh and down the rest of your drink, hoping it’ll quell the nausea rising in your stomach. It doesn’t, but you follow him out all the same.

You were right behind him, weaving through the slowly emptying streets as the sun sets, but now he’s nowhere to be found. Until you feel a set of eyes land heavily on your shoulders. You turn, slowly, and catch a glimpse of where he ducked into a narrow alley. The city’s full of them, but you’re sure he hadn’t been there when you passed it.

A long moment passes when you’re swallowed by the shadow between buildings, a moment where he just watches you. You can’t deny you’re watching him too, carefully surveying his armour for new nicks and scrapes.

“What are you doing here?” He breaks the silence, the tension, first. You shrug.

“Working, you?”

Din holds a small round disk in his palm, arm stretching out towards you as the holo flickers to life and you’re faced with- you’re faced with your contact.

“Working.”

Fuck.

And that’s when a really, really bad idea starts to take shape.

“You want to- what?” Even the staticky crackle of the helmet doesn’t cloak Din’s confusion. You sigh heavily, hands sitting on your hips.

“Look, I need this intel and you need a payday. It’s the information we’re after, not the guy. Protection was only a negotiation tactic.” You shrug, kicking a boot in the soil at your feet. It would be risky, proposing this type of deal to a bounty hunter. Especially a bounty hunter probably hired by the other side. But this is Din.

“That’s harsh.” He says, tone clipped. Like he’s worried you’ll go back on your word as easily as you’re prepared to double back on the Rebellion’s promise to the target. Like he doesn’t know you at all.

“That's war. Once I get the information from him he’s useless to us. That’s where you come in and scoop him up on his way to my ship.”

“What about your commander?”

You don’t know why he’s suddenly worried about the repercussions you know you won’t face when you get back. Your orders aren’t necessarily to get the drive and bring the guy back to Yavin IV. Your orders are to get the drive, and any other useful tidbits he might have. You’re sure General Draven has no intentions of protecting him even if you did bring him back to base.

“I can handle my commander.” You leave it at that, expression hard. It’s not necessary. Maybe you’re not Draven’s best, but you work hard in the job you didn’t ask for, you’ve yet to bring him a bad tip, and he’s got a hell of a soft spot for you. You could probably go back empty handed with only a vague excuse of the deal going bad and not even get a slap on the wrist from him.

Din is definitely not convinced. His helmet is tilted to the side ever so slightly, and you can feel the weight of his gaze.

“All they want is the information. No one’s going to bat an eye if I come back without him. Even if they do, a scrappy little thing like me isn’t going to win a fight with a Mandalorian bounty hunter. I wouldn’t stand a chance.”

You’re back at the cantina the next day, at the same table, sipping the same drink. Just waiting. Din had wanted to find the guy last night, shake him down for the datastick and freeze him as soon as possible, but you know that any word of any bounty hunter in the city and he’ll vanish. He might be playing both sides of the war, but this guy definitely isn’t stupid.

The meeting window is closing by the time he slides into the booth opposite you. You weren’t given a name, and you’re sure he wasn’t given yours. Only a vague description, a table number, and a time window for him to show.

“Is this seat taken?” He asks lowly, refusing to meet your eyes.

“I was just leaving, think I might catch the last of the sun up on the ridge. It’s all yours.” You reply confidently. The man seems satisfied, and slides a datastick across the table so fast you almost don’t catch it. You rise from your seat slowly, making sure he watches you slip a bit of paper under your empty glass. The docking bay number, and a time. That’s all he needs. You don’t hang around any longer, and leave him alone in the booth. All you can do now is pray the plan works.

The hood of your informant’s cloak is pushed off of his head by the wind that whips this empty corner of the docking bays. You raise your hand from where you’re sitting, just inside your ship, to catch his attention and he turns towards you, but he doesn’t get far.

Din appears silently, stealthily, behind him in the waning sunlight. You’re not even sure where he could have been hiding, but you can feel the confidence even at your distance. This is what he was trained to do, what he was raised for. And it looks good on him. You can’t help but study the hard outline of his arm, tense in his suit, as he brings the butt of his blaster down hard on his bounty’s head. Unconscious in one swing, you shouldn’t find it as attractive as you do. Din doesn’t make a sound when he hauls the man over his shoulder, lifting him apparently effortlessly and carrying him towards the Crest. You watch them disappear into the hull, listen out for the telltale hiss of the carbonite chamber, and try to calm your suddenly thundering pulse. He strides out confidently, straight towards you. All hunter, all Mandalorian. It’s hot.

“Get what you needed?” He asks as he steps onto the loading ramp. You get to your feet slowly, and pat the pocket on your left hip.

“You find your people?” You ask in kind when he takes another step towards you, backing you further into the belly of the ship. It’s all so familiar, even if it's only played out once before. Although, if you’re speaking for yourself, he’s taken you a hundred times in your memory since. He nods, obviously stalling before he makes his decision. It’s a big one, bigger than before, you’re sure. If he’s found his people, you’re not sure you can convince him to part with his helmet again. And you really, really need him to kiss you right now.

“And the rebellion?”

“That’s who it’s for.” Your reply is soft, and you only realise you’ve hit the panel on the wall when the boarding ramp starts to raise. With the sun already set and the sky quickly darkening, you won’t be able to see an inch in front of your face once it closes.

“Good, that's good.”

And then the ramp locks up, and he’s on you. Breathlessly, desperately, his helmet hits the ground with a clang but he doesn’t even break away from you to try and see where it landed. Din swallows you whole, inhaling your every breath, stripping the both of you until there’s no more barriers. No worn leather on your shoulders, no cold beskar on his chest. Just you and him pressed so close together it would take a Mudhorn to pull you apart. His lips haven’t left yours once.

There’s something in this kiss, something different to the last time. Your memory is soft and maybe a little rose tinted, but you’re sure he was softer. This is all tongue and teeth and hands, but you don’t mind. You like it. You like the way he’s taken control and backed you up towards the pull out bunk. It’s not meant for any more than short naps in lightspeed, and somewhere in the back of your mind you wonder if you’ll break it, but then he moves from your lips to your neck and you can’t find it in yourself to care.

You lose yourself in him completely. Every touch, every kiss, every lick, has you begging him. For what, you’re not sure. You just need more. Of him. Of his skin under your hands and his moans in your ears and his taste on your tongue. You’re not sure you’ve ever needed anything as desperately as you need him to take you. Claim you. Maybe it’s a little primitive, but you can’t stop thinking about the way he took the bounty. One fell swoop of his arm and the man was down. Only Din could do something like that, only a warrior from a league of warriors. Their stories are legend, and you have one panting into your mouth.

Gods above, he wants to drown in you. In everything, anything, you’ll give him. Nothing is worth being denied this- denied you. He licks a hot stripe up your throat and revels in your choked gasp, he could give it all up if it meant he would hear that for the rest of time. He won’t though, he knows that, somewhere in his heart of hearts. You have loyalties and he has loyalties and none of them are to each other, not really. Maybe that’s why he holds you a little tighter than before. Because the last time was just that, or at least you’d both been under the impression that it was. A chance meeting, an accident. He’s not foolish enough to believe in accident and coincidence anymore.

Din really thought he was ready, to throw himself back into the covert, to give them everything. And he is. But he doesn’t want to share you with anyone. In every crowd he is the exception, he is the stand out. Faceless. Nameless. Mandalorian. But you know his name, you know him. You know how to anticipate his movements in a fight, you know how best to talk him down after a bad job. You know him. Din Djarin has not been known for a very long time. Until you, until now. You’re barely coming down, bodies panting, sweating, but still wanting. You find an anchor in his hair as he kisses down your body to disappear between your thighs again.

“Just stay until I’m asleep, please?” You whisper afterwards, voice hoarse. Din picks his head up from where he’s buried it into your neck, his body half covering your own, shielding you from the chill of the night. He pulls the old blanket at the foot of the bed up and around you both. Promises you. And he does.

Din wakes just before sunrise, the world outside of the cockpit that kind of grey-blue that only seems to exist right before dawn. You’ve shifted in your sleep curling into his chest almost completely, knees drawn up tight against your body. He slips the pillow he was resting on into your arms in his place when he eases himself from the scratchy sheet. Watching the way you inhale his smell from it, curling around it with a contented sigh, is almost enough to convince him to stay. Almost. But he has bounties and you have a mission and soon enough real life will have to take over. Still, he allows himself this quiet moment while he dresses, to pretend.

He didn’t dress you this time.

You wake up cold and alone and even though you knew this would happen, it still makes your heart ache somewhere deep in your chest. But the pillow you’ve wrapped yourself around smells like he does. You scrabble around in the sheets until you find the rough crochet of your blanket, lifting the wool to your nose and smelling nothing but Din.

“Where’s the informant?” Draven asks the question before you even get a chance to hand over the stick.

“Got jumped by a bounty hunter.” You reply calmly, fishing around in the pocket of your jacket for the datastick. You’re on time, with the intel. He can’t complain.

“And you couldn’t handle a bounty-”

“A Mandalorian bounty hunter. I wasn’t about to get in the middle of that.”

From his seat, General Draven can see the not-quite-faded mark just below your jawline. But it’s not his place to decide how you do your job, only that it gets done. A responsibility that won’t fall to him come the morning. He stands when the door behind you slides open, gestures to his now open seat, and makes his way across the room to glare at a chart. You’re expecting anyone except the man who takes his place in front of you.

“Congratulations Lieutenant.” Bail Organa grins, and you’re sure there’s protocol somewhere for how you should react. But you’re confused.

“Sir, I don’t rank?”

“Draven put in the paperwork before you left. Lieutenant Bey made a compelling argument, and she was right. You’re a good spy but you shine in the air. That’s where we need you. You’ll meet with Green Squadron first thing tomorrow.” He leans back in the chair to watch you try and reign in the buzzing in your veins. You’re so preoccupied with trying to keep your feet on the ground that you almost miss your squadron assignment.

“Green?”

“I can always ask him to reassign you-”

“No! I- thank you sir.” You should apologise for interrupting him, but you’re sure that the only sound you’ll make is an excited squeal. This is it. This is what you’ve worked so hard for, it feels like your whole life has been leading up to the moment Senator Bail Organa hands you the Lieutenant badge.

“You remind me of my daughter,” He muses as you stare at it in awe, “She’s ten years old, and already far too big for any room. Make her proud, Lieutenant. You’re Dismissed.”

You leave with the new stripes stuck proudly to your flight suit and a huge grin, desperate to find Shara and tell her the news. Even though she probably already knows, you want to be the one to share it with her. You spot her tucked in the front row of a small crowd around a transport, scruffy and exhausted looking soldiers piling out every which way. Until one man looks up to search the welcoming party, a face you recognise from the fuzzy holo she’d shown you late one night.

Your smile only grows when Shara throws herself into Kes’ arms, their happiness palpable as they cling to each other. And you’re happy. Really, you are. It’s just that watching them revel in one another’s company makes somewhere deep inside you ache. Like there’s something missing.

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#lacuna #the mandalorian #the mandalorian x reader #the mandalorian x you #din djarin #din djarin x reader #din djarin x you #star wars #liz does words #fic #pls work pls work pls work #smut

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taki118 · 4 years

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Why down grading Demeter was a terrible decision for Cats 2019

ok soooooo apparently i’m not done ranting about this adaptation.

Anyway you might be wondering why I care so much about 1 character getting down graded from the plot to essentially be a cameo when she’s not one who has a song about them. (And it’s not cause Munkustrap and Demeter is clearly the superior ship) But the thing is I’d argue Demeter is like just a notch bellow Munkustrap on the importance scale as she assists in nearly every song, and sings two narration songs, she also has some importance in the backstory thats kind of an implication thing but not really like only in that they never flat out say it, everyone who’s seen the musical can say without a doubt that like Demeter was Macavity’s ex who left him and he’s kinda not over her (not in a loving way mind you but a nobody leaves me sort of way).

And here’s the weird thing though they basically gave Demeter’s stuff to two characters in the movie and there by lessened it.

Soooooo this is hard to explain but like Demeter was with Macavity for sometime it’s debated whether or not she was with him willingly but what’s shown in the musical is that for a time she was into it, eventually though she left and was either taken back or brought into the tribe. (Where she hooked up with best boy Munkustrap who cares about her so much in certain productions like the 1998 taped version and 2016 revival that he constantly checks in with her or just does cute shit in the background and in the 2016 version goes to protect her first and i’ll shut up) By the time the musical starts Demeter is now a protector of the tribe and is a bit paranoid about Macavity returning this is why she’s the one to constantly shout Macavity, but this proves a benefit as its her knowledge of him that leads to him being unmasked. Another thing to note about Demeter is she’s one of the few older cats who shows Grizabella sympathy it often looks like she wants to help but is afraid of being cast out herself if she does so. Basically Demeter in a not in your face way shows that one can be reclaimed or claimed by the tribe even after making bad decisions.

But like the movie thought hey lets not put in the subtle allegory to an abuse victim reclaiming her life and helping to take down her abuser. Nah lets instead take her out lessen Grizabella’s story of youthful pride leading to ruin by giving her the fall back that she was taken in by Macavity and left by him. Then for good measure lets take Demeter’s greatest supporter Bombalurina who was like the Poison Ivy to her Harley Quinn. (like ya’ll realize when she’s describing him in the song she’s taking digs at him right? She says he’s got a bulbous head, he’s filthy and doesnt take care of himself) and lets make her Macavity’s new henchgirl more than likely the position Demeter use to have in the musical version and kinda missing the point of the song.

And the thing is it would have been so easy to have her there in the movie like you just make her Munkustrap’s mate (as she ought to be) replacing i think it was Cassandra? Have her helping with songs and looking after Victoria, kept the Macvity song a duet just switch the singing order like Demeter knows its a trap immediately and tries to stop it from happening.

But no lets take Demeter out even though she could only help to add cohesion to the story. Let’s take out Grizabella’s own agency make her more or less just another victim of Macavity Let’s take Bombalurina’s fun flirty spirit and make it a BAD thing cause what? Being sexual and a good person as a woman isn’t possible, hahaha.

I just ugh this bugs me so much

#cats #cats 2019 #cats musical #cats demeter #demeter #rant

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parsleybabe · 5 years

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Home Made Simple S01E03 - Chicken Party

We’re starting off with the exact same team as on episode 2: Host Lady, Chef Guy, Deco Guy and Wood guy. The episode centers around Caprisha, who just bought a house and is turning forty and wants to invite her friends to the party at her new place. Her bff is also there to help. Basically, they’re going to focus on the woman’s garden and turn it into a party location. I’m really bad with names, but I’ll keep referring to Caprisha by her name, because they say that name soooooo often in this episode and make songs and puns about it that I actually managed to remember.

My personal highlights:

We’re starting out with Deco Guy introducing a yellow color theme and Chef Guy deciding to make the party lemon themed, as there is a lemon tree in the backyard. I’m genuinely worried that Host Lady is going to lose her shit over the yellowness again, based on what we’ve seen from her previously, but she remains surprisingly calm.

Wood Guy suggests they could build a pergola and explains to the audience what that is with pictures and descriptions. I don’t know, maybe they just aren’t as common in the US? But for a brief moment I’m worried they might start explaining other basic building structures like garages or front doors or whatnot as well. Fortunately they don’t. But they do explain the pergola twice in the episode, because Caprisha and her bff also don’t know what it is, and the renovators have to fill them in as well. Anyway. Everybody is totally into the idea of building such a thing, except for Host Lady. Because, “A pergola is an enormous project.” No, no no no. No! “That’s too much!” So they say they’re scratching the idea, although it looks super fake.

I don’t really get what the big deal is, in the first place, because pergolas are very easy to build and it won’t take up a lot of time either, you just need to screw some wood pieces together and anchor them in the ground, for example by using iron bars. Definitely not more of a hassle than the storage benches from episode 2, but what do I know?

Chef Guy is extraordinarily camp in this episode, which, don’t get me wrong, is totally fine. It just takes me by surprise because I had to actually check if he’s the same Chef Guy as in the previous episodes, that’s how differently his personality comes across. Maybe it’s just the girl party theme of the episode that he’s feeling, though.

Anyway, they’re emptying lemons to use them as party food containers for granita later. Ooooh, I spot a Dawn Power Clean cameo while Caprisha is rinsing out the lemons. It’s like spotting the Stan Lee of home renovation. It’s a bit funny tbh, because Caprisha’s at the sink but her hands and the lemons are out of frame, instead you get the soap dead center and placed strategically right under her arm, so you can read the brand name without obstructions. I don’t even care anymore, I’m just glad they didn’t use the soap to rinse out the lemons.

Next, they’re standing in the dog run of Caprisha’s garden and it’s surrounded by high, smooth grey walls with barbwire on top. To be honest, it looks like a mix of a prison and a chicken coop. If I were doing anything to that backyard, I’d take the barbed wire down and paint the walls a different color. Instead, they’re talking about building a lounge inside it. Alright, you could do that too, I guess.

Deco Guy and the bff are now working on party invitations. The plan is to put the invitation inside a music CD, then put that in a fancy orange gift box, wrap it as a present and hand it out as an invitation. It’s actually a neat little gimmick, but quite expensive and time consuming just for an invitation, if you ask me, depending on how many friends you have. You could say, it’d be easier to build a pergola, but maybe that’s just me.

So, Deco Guy shows a simple invitation that he printed out from the show’s homepage, and… yeah, simple indeed. It’s literally a square with the most basic party info written inside. Like, in the most basic font, Arial or something, just black print on yellow paper. You could type that up in word quicker than searching for it on their website, but okay… Then he shows her how to cut out the paper, how to put it into the CD case and that into the box and how to wrap a ribbon around the box and make “a nice little bow”. All very important steps that you don’t wanna miss, or you’re not gonna be able to do this on your own. Hmm, he states that the invitation costs “literally pennies” and I am left to wonder how they managed to get the ten to twenty gift boxes and CDs for free.

Okay, now Wood Guy and the bff stand inside the “prison” part of the garden and are gonna build the lounge seating area. Cool, cool, cool. They got a lot of same sized wooden bars and are screwing them together to form squares. They stand the squares up and place them side by side in a row to later put a large sheet of wood on top to form a bench. Easy, simple concept. I actually do like it, but I can already tell that that base is going to be too high to sit on the lounge comfortably. Your feet won’t be able to reach the floor. Should have made rectangles to keep the benches lower, but maybe that was too complicated? They’re using an electric screw driver to put in the screws and you can totally see the wood break all the way through to the end of the bar, both when the bff and Wood Guy are doing it. It’s neither addressed nor fixed though. I guess the whole thing isn’t meant to last anyway, because they also don’t put any varnish on the construction, even though it’s meant for outside, so.

Meanwhile, Chef Guy shows Caprisha how to make some mousse for the party, and it’s an alright recipe too. It just cracks me up a little how Caprisha tries some and expresses, “It’s nice and light!” And Chef Guy totally jumps on the “light” aspect, even though the mousse is made of basically sugar, cornstarch and whipped cream.

We’re back in the garden and the benches are coming together. The seats are now at the hight of Wood Guy’s upper thigh without any cushions or padding yet. But I assume you could work around that. As I mentioned, it looks like a chicken scoop, so why not add some chicken ladders going up to the roost, right? They briefly show that they’re going to use more wood to make a backrest at an angle, and then we see the finished result, but we don’t get to see how they work around sharp edges or cracks. They also don’t mention that you should probably sand the wood so you won’t get any splinters. But I’m not an expert, so don’t listen to my layman’s opinion.

As a filling for the empty lemon cups, Chef Guy and Caprisha are preparing some the granita, which is basically frozen lemonade with sugar. I’m sensing a theme and it’s not the lemons. I wonder if there’s gonna be any non-sweet food at the party at all. Doesn’t look like it though. But it doesn’t matter, Chef Guy and Caprishado a little sexy victory dance in the kitchen, because freezing lemonade is hard and they deserve that. And then he gives her “the gift of cleaning”, which translates to filling up the dishwasher in front of a smartly placed bag of Cascade dishwater tabs, then gently taking a tab out and placing it into the slot before turning the machine on. Cameo #2. The gift that keeps on giving.

Back in the garden, Wood Guy and Deco guy are having a talk while sitting on the half-finished lounge and letting their feet dangle. I don’t wanna say that they look small on the too high bench, let’s say… youthful. But the truth is, they’re having a really deep conversation and heart to heart, because Wood Guy opens up about his love for pergolas and confesses that he can’t let go of the idea. Deco Guy is super supportive and they decide to tackle the obstacles. Have some respect for these men, for real though. Wood Guy admits, “I’ve never seen it done before.” And Deco Guy understands the pressure, “We’re going where no man has ever gone before.” And then they talk briefly about having to draw up the steps to build it because “it’s really simple.”

Now they gotta convince Host Lady. Instead of anchoring the wooden build in the ground they want to use deck pair footing inside plastic flower pots as floor weights. My idea would have been simpler, safer, cheaper and longer lasting, but I guess you could do that too. I still don’t know why they need the flower pots at all, but, on the plus side, Wood Guy drew little stick figures on his sketches so that Host Lady can understand what he’s talking about, and who cares about the flower pots anyway. She has to let them do it now, right? She does and Wood Guy gets “a gold star today.”

He actually deserves one, btw, because – for the first time ever on this show – we do actually see footage of him and the girls building the whole thing including all the steps he talked about before.

We’re back with Deco Guy, Caprisha and her bff inside the house. He’s teaching them how to sew straight lines to make a pillow. And that’s as complicated as it gets. He also shows them how to fix the fabric with pins and does it wrong (puts them in line with the sewing direction, which will get them stuck in either the sewing machine or your fingers, instead of pinning them sideways to the direction, so you can easily pull them out as you’re sewing). Fortunately, the two ladies don’t know how to sew and won’t even notice. And since they’re now “master sewers”, they get to sew a whole bunch of pillow cases overnight. Right before the party. Because why would the birthday girl need any sleep, am I right?

So, it’s the next day, and the pillows are done. Deco Guy is excited but criticizes the “fresh, out-of-the-fabric-store smell.“ Now, I don’t know where he bought the fabric, but all the fabric stores that I’ve ever been to smelled lovely. And new fabric usually doesn’t have any smell at all. Maybe that’s different where they are though, I assume. But, fear not, Deco Guy is a true hero because he brought some Febreze Fabric Refresher which will both freshen up the pillows and add to the ever growing family of product placements on this show. And, man, does it smell good. They all agree on that and we’re getting lots of footage of them spraying the pillows very elegantly with their new super weapon.

We’re now back in the kitchen with Chef Guy and Caprisha and he’s gonna show her how to make whipped cream out of cream and syrup, because clearly the other food they got doesn’t have enough sugar. They put it onto the previously made mousse and it looks like… chicken poop. Which started out as a joke on my end, but genuinely must be the unspoken theme of their party. I didn’t even plan this when I began writing this review. I genuinely edited the title just now.

Back out in the yard, Host Lady and Wood Guy are talking about building a fire pit in the center, and that sounds like a really cool idea, I have to admit. This is something that’s gonna last and will come in handy later whenever you wanna have a garden party. It’s great. However, instead of building a fire pit, they just drop sand and big pieces of gravel onto the floor and put an empty grill bowl on it, like a random makeshift beach bonfire. This is the most disappointed I have been so far on this show.

Host Lady then steps inside and suggests that she and Caprisha will decorate the inside of the house with lemons in case any guests come in and need to use the bathroom. The instructions are, “Make sure to have enough toilet paper, light some candles and hang out fresh hand towels.” I have no idea where the lemons actually come into play and they don’t show it either, we just see them step into another room and that’s it.

The final results of the “renovation” are now prepared and shown. Suddenly there are several big pink, yellow and orange tables and étageres standing around which serve as displays for the food. They are the biggest eye catcher in the whole garden. But all we got to see about how those came into play was in a brief overall work process montage (where amongst many other things Deco Guy was shown for about half a second, painting them). No idea if they built them themselves or bought them. It’s never addressed and they’re just there.

Host Lady goes to get the girls and loses her shit “bright yellow” style when she sees them. The pitch of her voice is higher than ever and she throws her hands up and screams, “You look gooooood , guuuurrrrlll!!!” and then puts her hands to her hips and screeches, “Woooooooooooooow!!!” , except it sounds more like a police siren. I mean, it’s a nice compliment. A bit super over the top and super loud, but… nice, I guess. Maybe they couldn’t take the barbed wire down because it belongs to the neighbors who put it up in fear of the weird Host Lady.

Anyway, back to the final look of the garden. The lounge benches are now painted, no idea when that happened, and they now have padding and cushions and pillows and are even higher than before. Sadly, no chicken ladders though. But Caprisha and her bff won’t have to use the bench anyway, because they get a couple of swinging chairs as a gift for under the pergola (which they need to remove for the party, but can keep afterwards). Yaaaaay!

#home made simple #no gender bias worth mentioning in this episode #wow

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spaceorphan18 · 6 years

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TDB Rewatch: The Sue Sylvester Shuffle

On one hand - I wonder if my week has been feeling off because it’s Wednesday and I am just now getting around to doing this. On the other - this episode feels soooooo long. It does have five extra minutes, but man, so much of this I just don’t care about. It feels more like an episode of Friday Night Lights than Glee, which I suppose is purposeful since it is the one that debuted after the Superbowl.

I kinda think the Superbowl is overrated, too.

Thoughts:

This episode so panders to the football watching crowd - from the opening with half-naked women and fire to the whole football championship thing to, well, barely any music... I get it. I do. But... I miss my delightfully gay show. And I mean, this aired when Glee was at the height of its power. But as I’ve talked a ton on the podcast about -- this show really ended up being a niche thing. I think it became a main stream thing because it hit a few good chords (pun intended) with what was going on in society. But I’m not surprised that the popularity declined after this. And, tbh, I’m slightly grateful for it - because it ended up giving me more of what I wanted to see and less of... this.

I don’t think this episode is bad, and if you’re into football, and regular (heterosexual) male driven teen drama. Here ya go. But, it’s just not for me, hence me getting bored.

I also have some issues with logic about episode, such as --- HS football doesn’t go into February because the season ends at the semester and... snow.

It’s funny that Sue talks about being bored and wanting to top herself, because I think they’ve finally hit a wall with Sue. I don’t really find her funny at all in this episode. I have Sue fatigue now. Even with the cannon stuff, I’m like -- this is so dumb.

Note - she watches a cartoon when she gets the idea - cause, you know, she is a literal cartoon character at this point.

I will say, the line about her needing to translate the owner manual from German was kinda funny.

The Katie Couric cameo was pretty unnecessary - and really dated now, but I do appreciate Sue being called a loser.

I don’t know if I have a whole lot to say about the whole football/big game/being on top of the school - stuff? It sorta feels like the return of the previous season’s main theme. And I’m glad it kind of dies out after this (with the exception of when they try to force it back in every now and then).

Still not a Karofsky fan. Especially at this point in the narrative. Sorry.

I don’t think the episode needed the five extra minutes. Coulda cut one of the five speeches about working together as a team.

And now that I think about it, it’s funny that such effort is made towards the football team working together, but never that much about Glee working together.

I realize Finn is still, kinda, the main character at the moment. But I’m kind of eye-rolly at why can no one figure things out until Finn tells them.

Do I care enough about Finn and Puck’s friendship to comment on it? ... Nope not really. I almost forgot that they dropped that friendship for, idk, the past year.

Meanwhile... Rachel was pretty funny during this episode. I’m giving her all the points.

Mercedes and Tina needed more to do, but I’m glad they all joined the football team (even if this plot felt borrowed from the 80s or 90s).

I’m glad the girls quit cheerleading - not a fan of those outfits.

Can’t have a half time show without cheerleaders -- hey now, I was in marching band for years -- yes you fuckin’ can.

Oh - and they used the University of Southern California’s marching band for this episode. Awesome.

Quinn -- please stop using men to define yourself.

The ending cliffhanger of the Finn/Quinn kiss is so.... uh, why.

Sam felt so different. At some point after Comeback (??) he stops feeling like generic guy who wants to be cool.

Kudos to the make-up artists of this episode - awesome job.

Will didn’t annoy me once this episode. Crazy, huh?

28 minutes into the episode, after the main stream already turned off the TV or was too drunk to care, we finally bring in all the gay. And it’s delightful.

Man, it was such a relief to see Blaine dancing on the furniture again.

Trent is adorable.

There’s a ton of Klaine flirting in this number.

There’s just not enough Klaine in this episode (though I mean - they weren’t in it originally, so I’ll take the little bits we got.)

The music of the episode is... fine. I’m sorry that I’m less enamored by Thriller - but I do think they did a good job with it.

Fun fact: when I was in college marching band, we did thrilled with the alums on the field - it was pretty crazy.

And I think that’s that! On to the much more interesting second half of the season ;)

#tdb rewatch #todaydreambelievers

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allisonm22 · 7 years

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95 Thoughts I Had During the PLL Finale

If its not already obvious, spoilers below.

1) What the hell is this scene? 2) I think this is a dream, why is there no one else around 3) Jennas on a horse, dream theory confirmed 4) Off to a weird start already 5) Hannah is too nice, Mona tried to kill you honey, let that friendship die 6) Caleb won’t say hi? Thats super fucking shady baby please don’t be A.D. 7) oh fuck is that Melissa? 8) JK its mona..wait why is she even wearing a mask? 9) If I were Aria, I’d be pissed as hell that Hannah brought Mona along, like kick her ass out? 10) Oh god Aria,stop crying, why cant you marry bae? Actually I dont even care. 11) Spencer that was a BOLD move...oh fuck that its for scrabble?! 12) How is Mona trying to act like she doesnt know who A is, didnt she see him/ her at Radley? Or are we supposed to just forget about that? 13) oooh no poor Aria sorry boo 14) Oh hey its mary drake 15) the spencer/ mary drake relationship annoys me to be honest 16) how did the cop not see them holding hands? 17) Ezra is fucking goals..except that time he was kind of A and writing a book about them behind their back. 18) Aria’s dad will forever creep me the fuck out 19) Alison and Em’s mom are being so obvious 20) Alison is deff gunna propose 21) Random thought I’ve had since 2010- Spencer’s mom (before that mary drake shit) looks like Olivia Benson 22) Why do they keep talking about Addison? Why are we supposed to care about her? Marlene don’t make her part of this I WILL FLIP. 23) The moms mentioned the basement! Are they going to tell us how they got out?!?! 24) Nope they are not 25) I’ve been hearing about their relationships since 2010, wrap it up and start talking about A.D.! 26) whyyyyy do they dress Alison so horribly? Like even her pajamas are horrendous 27) called that proposal 28) That ring is so pretty!!! 29)”How much damage can she do in one night” FORESHADOWING!!!!!!!!!! 30) any scene with a naked toby is a gift, I'm about it 31) Toby’s hair looks so soft 32) Who the fuck is playing the piano 33) ohhhh fuck its Mona, im not shocked though 34) Im getting vibes that someone is going to die 35) whaaaaaaat the fuckkkkkk is this place 36) whats happening 37) oh fuck how’d mary get out? I never know how to feel about her 38) DO NOT TELL ME SPENCER HAS A BRITISH TWIN 39) DO NOT TELL ME THAT 40) her british accent is horrendous 41) WREN! 42) Are they trying to pull a parent trap on PLL 43) omg all those times it wasnt spencer! 44) Hannah wasnt sleeping! YO TOBY FUCKED FAKE SPENCER TWICE! 45) I knew i got weird vibes from that airport scene! 46) but why would she do all this if she didnt even know Charlotte? 47) “Till death do us part”...SIG-NIF-I-CANT (sung like Jean-Ralphio from Parks and Rec) 48) Isn’t Wren a fucking psychologist?! there were soooooo many red flags buddy and you missed them ALL 49) oh fuck she killed him and put him in a necklace...casual 50) Remember when Marlene King lied and said they werent going to copy the books? 51) Well actually I take it back she didnt technically lie, she gave us not one but three sets of twins 52) going off track for a second, twins skip a generation so super unlikely that mary drake would have twins 53) also like why couldnt they mention Ali was having twins? im not understanding the twin obsession 54) Back on track...OH FUCK THEYRE WREN’S BABIES 55) Why cant mary help her? thats your daughter bitch! 56) yo Mary literaly sold Alex, I know she didnt have a choice really but thats fucked upppppp. 57) A.D.-Alex Drake....I literally just got that 58) Spencer I wouldve knocked mary out and RAN 59) why does she have bae/Ezra? like what is the point? 60) Rollins looks like Keanu Reeves 61) seriously why is Cece dressed like a fucking pimp 62) wait they just explained like five years worth of plot in five seconds and I can barely understand it because of THAT SHIT ACCENT! 63) honestly them explaining how jenna/sara/sydney are involed so quickly shows how bad this ending really is 64) Toby is gunna figure it out with the horse doesnt like her!!! 65) Horses always know wtf is up 66) Jennas gunna sniff her out 67) Evil twin is such a big leap to make based off a person smelling weird 68) I feel like that whole squad accepted the evil twin theory too quickly like if someone came up to me and was like hey our best friend smells different I think shes being held hostage and the one walking around is actually her evil twin, I would be like ..............what 69) Mona’s a double agent! I think? another one im never sure about 70) Yay theyre out run babies run! 71) why the fuck would you split up have you people learned nothing 72) whaaaaaat, thats not real theyre not actually outside right? 73) I feel like I’m watching Lost honestly 74) Alex walking around with that axe though is my forever mood honestly 75) DONT YOU FUCKING DARE KILL EZRA 76) WAIT WHOSE WHO 77) OHHHH FUCK DONT SHOOT THE WRONG ONE! 78) He shouldve shot Alex fuck that she helped mary escape jail she could easily escape 79) Arias second wedding dress- SO much better 80) oh fuck you marlene king with your cameo shush yourself right off my screen 81) Mona sells dolls in france.....cool cool cool (not cool) 82) deff the creepiest thing ive ever seen in my life 83) oh wait just kidding now its the creepiest thing ive ever seen 84) so Mona’s just full blown psychotic, weve known that since season two thanks for the well written plot twist 85) Dont tell me Addisons about to go missing for a spin off 86) lol addison went missing for a spin off 87) nope sorry im out, i cant invest any more time into another marlene king shit show 88) lemme save you time babies, you better hope addison is dead, cause if not, youre in for a fucking roller coaster of a life 89) in conclusion, im SUPER PISSED jason didnt come back because i looooooved me some jason eye candy 90) I hate that this whole plot was orchestrated by an new character whose only motivation was that she was friends with cece. 91) why did everyone love cece?! she was so fucking shitty like the fuck? 92) I wanted it to be this intricate theory that theyve been planning for years, I really wanted it to be someone weve seen for the past seven years, someone in the background we wouldnt have even thought twice about, that wouldve had alot more shock value 93) also giving it to a new character takes away the opportunity to link A.D. back the original plot for the first five years. I hate how it was essentially two different stories, it makes me feel like the first five years were a waste. 94) Im just dissapointed because i REALLY wanted them to redeem themselves after the Cece/Charlie shit show and they had so many opportunities to make it great and they continued to drop the ball. I like the characters and their personal storylines though, thats the thing ill miss, not the fake reveals and actual reveals that make no sense. Im all about their character growth and personally loved watching them grow on and off screen. Its just a shame the storyline couldnt do them justice. 95) Lets not let Marlene King write anymore shows, K? K.

#PLL #pll finale #pll lb #pll spoilers #pll fandom

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cielospeaks · 6 years

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various headcanons for knight of space au (space au is already a thing so idk the name? (uchuu no kishi maybe?)

-its been about 5 yrs since the events of spacetacular. just as an estimation larry/la’ri was about 8 then, and minor was in young teen years. so currently minor is about 18 and larry is about 13?

-ganymede and io made it back to jupiter safely, and still keep in touch with the others. someone (ie pluffle) has been delivering mail between space and earth for some reason the entire time, but no one knows who. the darth duo still feel a bit bad for what they did to the others in spacetacular so they havent seen them in 5 yrs, and no ones been able to go to earth in that time either, so no ones seen larry/la’ri (or senpai)

-knight of space aka uchuu no kishi is the main character/self insert, a gallant but softhearted and sweet person who dreams of helping others and befriending cute people. its basically me? or like me but a decent person lmao. also friends w tuley bc why not

-tuley, aka the rogue of mind, originally from earth but as her title suggests has mind powers. can control minds, read minds, place thoughts in minds, stop time for short periods of time, all that jazz. if you ask her to say za warudo when she stops time shell just tilt her head all confused like “stfu weeb”. nonetheless is a bit salty at not doing much lately but overall chill and easygoing, hardworking and skilled at her field of mind stuff but not forceful of others. hardly uses the more forceful mind powers but can use the mind reading? to figure out what sorta stuffs gone on w others in hypnotism in the past. might know minor.

-space ayers. why hes interacting w tuley n the others is a mystery. hes the same cute widdwe fanboy from before and has mellowed out just a touch since the space summer au thingy. summer sizzle? idk.

-on that note completely simultaneous to this but not in the same verse lloyd is also going to space. but he gets advice from the two most sexual space ppl, jacob and mizumi. lloyd getting turned on by weird stuff the whole trip there. idk but i want some wholesome interaction of velius and elsen even tho theres like no reason. and lilac probably. idk how far i could go but red haired glasses wearing kouhai, white haired tall senpai, pink haired good hearted gremlin- idk. lloyd chuckling in the distance.

-i havent tv show au’d any of the old dudes in so long. its literally just been lloyd and sometimes creepypasta lilac and cal rip me

-anyways these guys never interact w the tuley/major and minor/uchuu no kishi party soooooo

-anyway tldr its another one of my hero complex aus but this time w added cameos from spacetacular bc this time im platonically thirsting over someone who isnt my senpai i guess. why does this happen every week

-i forgot to mention before rip but pluffle is here too. which means im lucky enough to have the mentorship? of two of my most platonically and romantically successful ocs in my quest to get schuu kun to love himself probably. pluffle is also the heckin golden thread between like everyone from spacetacular. idk if she gives a heck about the whole loids thing, but shes at least kinda sympathetic. makes me wonder tho what voices id headcanon like her and tuley having? maybe i could see tuley’s voice being kinda like shiki from knk, and pluffle as shuten’s voice actor maybe? idk maybe thats a bit too high pitched? tho idk.

-actual circumstances of meeting up can range i guess depending on my mood. but about the most realistic is we just all meet up somewhere in space, its probably not home for the darths, pluffle maybe is there on a missing persons case she took for a reward and also out of curiosity, tuley is there for fun/maybe meeting up w minor from their hypnotists club? (but would that make micchan part of the hypnotists club? maybe tuleys been trying to hypnotise her but none of the mail went through bc she put arc rather than arkhe on the address or somethin idk)

-in any case we take this good boy back home, and maybe get him a change of clothes too (the robot outfit thingy?) ayers suggests going to the space bar but everyone is like “dame dame dame!” meanwhile its one of those stories and at the same time lloyd and pals are at the space bar. everyone gets drunk af and lloyd does a musik to some kinda drinking song (la traviata? the champagne song from fledermaus? idk even) i can imagine jacob ends up faking drunk off juice boxes bc no one will let him drink, hes very pissed and sleepy, misumi is quiet and kinda depressing drunk, elsen tries his heckin best to keep a calm face but breaks out in tears when someone says “kouhai”, vel is a very sloppy and loud drunk, and probably is the one that says kouhai while shouting about his shitty senpai- idk if hes admitted yet his senpai is trash. anyways loid gives this bunch of gremlins a drinking song musik and also someone is the designated driver that takes em all back home.

#au ramblings #oc ramblings #tv show gijinka au

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bookgeekgrrl · 7 years

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Sunday reading recap (week of 15-Jan-2017)

So that happened. I took Friday off and I’m really glad I did. I binged all of the new One Day At A Time (excellent) and started on black-ish (also pretty good). But I did some reading too, especially several that I’ve been waiting for!

Hainted (Jordan L Hawk) - well, this was the last book by this author I hadn’t yet read. And of course I loved it! Her capacity for detailed world building in a very short space continually amazes me - and each world is different!!!

Idlewild (Jude Sierra) - omfg I loved this book soooooo much!!!! I loved how real both characters were and how they needed to find each other to figure themselves out but not because the other ‘completes’ them but because the other SEES them. Also a love letter to Detroit, and I think very nuanced in relaying both sides of Detroit’s rebirth - some really good points I would not have thought of.

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Lunch with the Do-Nothings at the Tammy Dinette (Killian B Brewer) - I have been DYING to read this. I love a good story about idyllic small towns, and when you add idealized Southern old ladies to the mix, it’s perfect. And this delivered by the truckload. It’s a sweet romance, and I really did love Marcus & Hank but the absolute shining stars are the Do-Nothings. I love them so fiercely and with all my heart.

My absolute fav character is Miss Annie, who suffered a Disappointment from A Man, and hasn’t spoken in 40 years but sneaks in to people’s house to play piano. But only if your house is clean, so you for sure WANT Miss Annie sneaking in, because what will people think of your housekeeping otherwise. (NB: Miss Annie would not come within 40 feet of my house.)

I also really loved Inez Coffee, who gave us such beautiful lines as “Oh, dear lord, child, you didn’t go and kill the man, did you? I mean, if you did you should have called us first. You don’t know this town well enough to know where to put the body. I mean, things like this can’t just be done willy-nilly. You’ve got to—”

I just really loved this whole book and want to have lunch with the Do-Nothings.

Island Medics series - first of all, these damn books gave me an earworm of “Island Girl” by Elton John, which isn’t the worst thing that could happen but is NOT my favorite EJ song. I really like Sue Brown’s stuff -- lovely, sweet tales about ordinary guys. I loved her Lyon Road Vet series. This series, set on the Isle of Wight, is apparently related to a different series she did a few years ago BUT there is guest cameos from the Lyon Road Vet series! I love love love it when authors make it clear all their stories take place in the same universe. You definitely don’t have to have read any earlier series to enjoy this though. Sweet, warm, perfect for a cozy read

Island Doctor (Island Medics #1, Sue Brown)

Island Counselor (Island Medics #2, Sue Brown)

Undertow (Whyborne & Griffin series, Jordan L Hawk) - ahhhhhh, I’ve been eagerly awaiting this novella forEVER it seems. And it was so good!!!!!! I’ve loved the burgeoning romance between Whyborne’s secretary and his sister and I’m so pleased they got their very own story.

#bookgeekgrrl's reading habits #hainted #idlewild #island medics series #jordan l hawk #jude sierra #killian b brewer #lunch with the do-nothings at the tammy dinette #maggie parkhurst #persephone whyborne #sue brown #sunday reading recap #whyborne & griffin

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lil-oowada · 6 years

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((Ok soooooo theres gonna be a couple cameos I apologize but this wouldn’t leave my head))

“KICHI!”

Bruno’s eyes popped open. Instead of being greeted by the absolute void of nothingness, or the fires of the actual place he expected to be, he was greeted by a black haired child sitting on his chest, black marker in hand. The kid wore a green dress… like a school uniform?

“Awww~ Mooooooom~” The kid drawled out in disappointment, inching the marker back closer to Bruno’s face. “Can I at least give him a monocle? This guy said it was fine! Right right right???”

He couldn’t speak. Honestly he hadn’t really spoken to nearly anyone in a year so he couldn’t trust that his voice wouldn’t be a croaky mess.

…Maybe he was in Hell. A hell where he’s forever forced to silently allow a child to draw on him. Meh, he’d take this over whatever the fuck the other Super High School Level Despairs could come up with. Suddenly he was very thankful he dipped out of the Enoshima’s little group when he did.

“No, Kichi!” The stern voice yelled once again. Suddenly the weight on his chest was lifted and the kid was pulled away by the scruff of their collar. “I told ya to leave him the fuck alone, young man! He’s sick ‘n’ I don’t want ya gettin’ it too!”

Bruno gulped as he watched the new figure at the end of his bed place the boy in a dress down and hand him a bag. “'N’ quit callin’ me Mom, ya lil’ shit! I got the clothes ya asked for, so take yer shit ‘n’ go change. ”

“NYEHEHE! Why? You’re not my mooooom remember??” He giggled and ran off giddily into the other room anyway.

Bruno was really too stunned to react to anything. White jacket. Pink goggles. Black hair. Violet eye glaring down at him, the other hidden behind a black eye patch…

Crissy Oowada, Bruno’s high school sweet heart, and someone he had been told was torn apart by turrets on the steps of Hope’s Peak Academy, was standing at the edge of his bed.

“Bruno-san,” she stated. Her visible eye stared down at him. “Ya know who I am, yea?”

He flinched and looked down. Crissy didn’t address anyone formally, ever. He didn’t like that, but nonetheless he nodded his head. He was ashamed… He threw a party when he got the news she was dead. ‘Enoshima freed me so I didn’t have to do it myself~’ he once called out triumpantly. God, he hated what he became.

“Ya ain’t gotta talk. I’m fine filln’ ya in.” He was glad she had accepted the nod as an answer and watched as she circled around the bed to the chair Kichi must have set up there.

“You were being wreckless,” she stated, sitting down in the chair. “Left a fuckin’ trail a mile long, 'n’ if I didn’t have my contact in the Future Foundation, they woulda found ya 'n’ shot yer ass, no questions asked.”

He bit his tongue to interject. Bruno wasn’t stupid, he knew what he was doing. Not that he wanted to let her in on what he had been planning.

“Ya… ya done a lotta shit, Bruno-san,” she continued, running her hands through her long black hair. “Ya hurt a lotta people. Like so much that I can’t deny, I almost slit yer throat when I found ya.”

There was that brutal honesty he found so endearing. His mouth quirked up a little before it fell back down.

“W…why didn’t you?” Just as he feared, the words came out more as a croak then actual words. Thankfully she seemed to understand.

“'Cuz I care 'bout ya,” Crissy said, grabbing his hand. “A-at least I did… once. There’s no way I’m lettin’ ya get hurt that easily.”

He visibly shivered at her touch and squeezed back. It was warm. But this was wrong. He didn’t deserve this. If she grabbed him before the Future Foundation could, she’d be in trouble. From documentation he had dug up on the punishment of the man that dared to defy the Future Foundation and save Remnants of Despair… She would be as good as dead.

"Kitten,“ he whispered softly. He knew she hated that old nickname, but couldn’t resist. “I don’t deserve this… I can’t-”

“Yer right,” she stated simply, a bit cold. She slid her hand away and stood up. “Ya don’t deserve my hospitality 'r whatever. Yer not like the others.Ya chose this. Ya chose to leave me 'n’ all yer friends behind to hurt people, fucking kill people! 'Cuz yer fuckin bored!” She stopped her ranting to pinch the bridge of her nose, as if trying to keep herself from yelling anymore.

He didn’t know why. He deserved every syllable and more.

“Ya can never undo the hurt ya caused us,” she muttered, reaching into a satchel the strap strung around the nearby hat rack. “But ya can help make things right.”

Bruno raised his eyebrows as Crissy dumped a laptop in front of him. “Wha-?”

“KICHI! Bring yer classmate!”

He just sat there confused for a moment. Kichi then returned, proudly dressed in a strange strsight jacket like white shirt and pants, but Bruno nearly stopped breathing as he saw him hand in hand with the 'classmate’ Crissy mentioned. He wore a uniform, similar to Kichi’s former clothes, but an ugly grey Monokuma helmet sat on his head.

“Bruno-san,” Crissy sighed. “I brought ya to a house in Towa City… I know ya can fix this,” she grabbed his shoulder. “Ya know what happens if ya break the controller? 'R if the link between the Monokumas and the kids ’re severed?”

Knew? Please. Once he was bored of hacking government servers and sending nukes to small villages, he had helped the little green haired shit write the actual code. Bruno had even coded it so that if someone didn’t take it off just right, the thing would implode on the poor little bastard inside. However he didn’t want to devulge all of that in fear of what Crissy would do to him and simply nodded. He knew that no matter how desperate she was, if he freely gave away that info, she’d make him suffer when this was all over.

“Then please…” She breathed shakily. “Set them free. I tried and I can’t…can’t keep doing this…” Even with Crissy’s Super High School Level Sabotuer talent, he could tell she hadn’t been able to save many. Kichi must have been one of the lucky ones.

He turned back to the laptop and opened it. It was old, honestly. A giant piece of shit, but it could work. Hell, he lauched a nuke with worse. His fingers danced on the keys, not answering her. Her eyes lit up with hope, as she watched him work silently. She didn’t say a word until Kichi groaned in the background, complaining of boredom and hunger.

Crissy relented and retired with Kichi to the kitchen to whip up food for the boys, leaving Bruno alone with the boy in the Monokuma helmet. He tried not to look up at the boy, at the empty eyes of the helmet. Tried to push down the guilt, and the small voice at the back of his head that whispered about how cool it would be if he just moved around some code to make all the children’s heads just explode when Crissy walked in.

Bruno just grit his teeth bared it until-

Chssshhhhh

The helmet thumped onto the ground, revealing dark purple hair and watering violet eyes to match.

Bruno sighed and slid the laptop away from him, keeping the temptation to add any harmful coding at bay.

“Kaito-chan!”

He turned to the door and found that Kichi had returned with bread rolls and soup, probably for him. However, it didn’t matter, since the boy immediately dropped the entire platter and raced to his friend. Bruno didn’t mind; he probably would have thrown it up anyway.

“Kichi! I know yer not throwin’ shi-” Crissy stomped angrily into the room, but deflated the instant she found Kichi hugging and crying the hugging the confused but newly freed child.

She turned to Bruno, who in turn simply leaned back against the headboard, and brushed his fingernails against his shirt as if it was no big deal, a bit of his forner cheekiness beginning to shine through his formerly sullen face. “All the kids should be coming around about now.”

Her visible eye filled with tears and she flung her arms around him. “Thank you, thank you, thank you!” She sobbed hard, catching the hacker off guard. He had no clue what the hell to do in this situation… so he simply pat her head. “I- I can’t thank you enough, Prettyboy!”

He never realized how much he missed that name.

((Yaaah still can’t end things for shit haa sorry if this was ooc like i couldn’t write this from Crissy’s view honestly and kaito and ouma are like 13 here which i figured would be appropriate since a certain character looked a bit older for reference also as far as i know they never broke up so like yeah haha))

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laurietom · 7 years

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My Favorite Anime of 2016

In the final installment of my 2016 entertainment round-up, let's cover my favorite TV anime of 2016. Since I ended up watching quite a bit, I decided to remove any sequels (since people generally don't jump in the middle) as well as restrict the list to my Top 10. Unless mentioned otherwise, all series completed their runs in 2016. Anime listed are not ranked, but presented in the order I watched them. Erased Erased has a killer premise. Satoru has the uncontrollable ability to go back in time (in his own body) to correct the past before someone is hurt or killed, but when his mother is murdered he's sent back a shocking 18 years in time to when he's a 10-year-old kid. He thinks by saving the life of a classmate who was murdered he'll be able to save the life of his mother in the future. If the ending had lived up to the first half this would have made my top 3 of the year, but it couldn't quite pull it off. Prince of Stride: Alternative This is apparently based off an otome game, but I actually watched it for the sport (and there is surprisingly no romance in the show either, so it's either the pretty boys or their athletics). Stride is a fictional sport that works like a cross between an obstacle course and a relay race. Honan High School used to have the best stride team, but has fallen on hard times until our intrepid first year students manage to fill up the remaining team slots and revive the dream of winning the End of Summer championship. I don't watch much sports anime so I can't compare to others of its genre, but as someone who ran track and field in high school this rang true for me. Schwarzesmarken I never watched Muv-Luv so I can't speak for Schwarzesmarken's place in that universe, but the spin-off is fairly stand alone and I didn't feel the need to watch the parent series. In an alternate 1983 aliens have landed and are slowly wiping humanity off the planet in a grueling land battle. It's a mecha series and despite all the political shenanigans, it never forgets it is a mecha series, with a pivotal battle every episode that never feels like filler. Every round of combat has a purpose and moves the story forward, resulting in a lot of plot and character development that other series wouldn't be able to fit in a similar amount of time. Joker Game Joker Game follows a group of spies affiliated with D-Agency, a fictional Japanese spy unit from World War II. Unlike most of the Japanese army at the time, they aren't staunch nationalists, blind to anything but the success of war. Taking an anthology format, each episode or two-parter revolves around a particular character who either belongs to or comes into contact with an agent of D-Agency. It's a dicey topic depicting Japanese spies during World War II, but is made palatable by the fact that D-Agency's rules forbid killing and the spies are more interested in protecting Japan than attacking other countries. Knights of Sidonia The two seasons of Knights of Sidonia ran in 2014 and 2015 respectively. It's a far future hard science fiction story about the remnants of humanity fleeing into the depths of space in search of a new home after the mysterious alien Gauna destroyed Earth. Centuries later the Gauna catch up with the generation ship Sidonia and a new war begins. Unlike most mecha series, Knights of Sidonia injects a heavy dose of realism, ranging from how pilots can relieve themselves in a sanitary manner while stuck in a mecha for hours on end, to the effect on people's bodies when a vehicle as large as a generation ship has to sudden change course. The series is great for people who like science in their sf, and narrowly misses being in my top 3 of the year. Orange * Orange is instantly relatable for anyone who was a shy and awkward teenager. Teenage Naho receives a letter from herself ten years into the future, telling her to watch for a new student, Kakeru, who will become very important to her. The letter is full of future Naho's regrets and how she would have done things differently if given the chance, but the crux of the matter is that it's easy for adult Naho to say such things, and considerably more difficult for teenage Naho to act on them. I won't spoil the real dilemma of the series, but it's not hard to find with a little searching. Orange does falter around the final third of the series, but its feelings and treatment of isolation and depression are expertly handled and make for a beautiful ending. Psycho-Pass * The other older series I watched this year, Psycho-Pass, originally ran in 2012-2013 (and I have not yet watched the sequel) and after I finished I just could not get it out of my mind. Taking place in a dystopian future, Psycho-Pass follows the members of Division 1 from the Criminal Investigative Department (i.e. the police). The interesting thing is that they are law enforcement in an authoritarian police state, and yet they are essentially good people, who are doing their best to work with an oppressive system that in many ways works against them. The worldbuilding is fantastic and brings up excellent questions that the series both notes and addresses. Things get technical, but I never felt lost, and the series is self-contained without any need for future material, even though it exists. It's dark and a tad on the violent side, but soooooo good. 91 Days I have a weakness for no-doubt romanticized period pieces about the mafia, and 91 Days stands with the best of them. Though made by people an ocean away, it's clearly a love letter to mafia media featuring mafiosos who are fully capable of being caring friends and family while ordering a hit without breaking a sweat. Angelo Lagusa is a bit of a cipher as a protagonist, but even if the audience isn't privy to his inner thoughts, the motivation for his single-minded quest for revenge is understandable. This is a show where how the protagonist does something is more interesting than whether the audience would have done the same. Reactions to the ending might be a bit mixed, but considering where the show is coming from, it's clear that there would never have been a happy ending. ReLIFE I dithered on including this or Ushio and Tora and ReLIFE edged out in that the cast is the more relatable of the two. I wasn't sure how well the manga would transition to anime considering that it's essentially a series of short scenes, but it holds together remarkable well, pulling itself together into a solid episode format. I know people who are or have been in exactly Arata Kaizaki's position, being intelligent people who graduated from a university but can't seem to land a full time job. I'm not sure they would have taken the opportunity to be de-aged ten years and sent back to high school, but the premise is the charm of the series, with Arata coming off as strange or weird to other high schoolers due to his actual age and the actual teenagers behaving more like actual teenagers. Yuri on Ice * It may be too soon to truly rank Yuri on Ice as one of my top 3 of the year, seeing as this just wrapped up in December, but I'm a huge figure skating fan, and combining realistic figure skating with an amazing cast of characters, is just like catnip. You can see how much effort went into recreating the sport in the animation, the details of what it's like to compete, and even cameos by former Olympic skaters. That this is one of the most gay positive portrayals in anime is icing on the cake. It's refreshing to see a show where the characters are comfortably attracted to each other and it's given the same respect as a heterosexual romance rather than being fetishized for the straight female audience. And this concludes my Top 10 anime viewed during 2016. The three series I tagged with an asterisk (*) were my favorites of the year, where I found myself looking forward to every new episode or binge watching in Psycho-Pass's case. Though not an anime I'd also like to give a thumbs up to Voltron: Legendary Defender for capturing what was good about the anime original while still updating it for present day audiences.

Mirrored from: The Rat’s Den

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