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loveyourownsmiilee · 3 months

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Ok my speculation for what I think those new photos are about and what may be in store for us in terms of Buddie.

I’m fully on the train that Eddie had his full on moment of realization in the graveyard when speaking to Buck. You can see the moment in his facial expression where something clicks and alters his brain chemistry. Especially considering he looks at Buck slightly a bit different after that moment. But it was the wrong time because Buck was speaking about Natalia and how happy he was bla bla. So of course that put a damper on Eddie’s newly realized feelings, hence the need to get out there and start dating again right after that whole thing. He literally went out and put himself out there to find someone and done it in a somewhat urgent matter. Almost as if he’s a man trying to get over someone quick. That’s why the moment he ran into someone he kinda knew, he wanted to take that risk and give it a shot, regardless of whether or not they had organic chemistry or not.

Now we know the season ended with Buck making things official with Natalia and Eddie starting something new with Marisol. So this new season should bring forth these two men in their respective relationships. However due to the actress who plays Natalia being in a play til mid March, something tells me it’s likely she’s not coming back. Which means a probable off screen break up. Now why do I think that’s more than likely?

Well look at this photo of Eddie and Buck (it doesn’t look like Bobby to me).

Eddie has never once touched anyone’s shoulder like that other than Buck’s (and also Christopher’s). Not only is the touch so natural and familiar to other scenes like that, but also his eyes are fully soft and you can actually see the hearts in them. Something tells me it’s a scene of Buck and Eddie in the locker room with a sad Buck who is upset over another failed relationship. The stance and the touch with the soft look that Eddie’s giving clearly shows he’s reassuring Buck of something. What else would he be reassuring him about other than the fact that he will find his person eventually. He’s probably giving him a pep talk and reassuring all of his doubts and you can tell it’s being done in such a lovely, soft manner that is so Eddie to his core.

Then the other photo with Buck and Christopher. Idk why but my immediate thought was that Buck is babysitting Chris while Eddie’s on a date with Marisol. Even though we ended the season with Christopher being supportive of his father asking her out, we all know how he didn’t take well to Eddie dating again the first time. Maybe he’s upset with the lack of family time or maybe it’s something else but Buck doesn’t look too happy about whatever they’re discussing either. Maybe both of them are sad about not spending enough time with Eddie and them as a family unit.

And the reason I have for that is because even in the little glimpse we saw of the trailer, we see Eddie once again looking exasperated and struggling with something while he’s talking to Buck. We’ve seen that same reaction from him when he was dating Ana. And Buck has his little fake passive aggressive smile like he’s trying to be supportive but he’s jealous over Eddie literally talking about another female. We’ve seen this happen many times especially last season.

Now all this to say that I don’t think Eddie and Marisol are going to last very long. I think Eddie’s going to realize it’s just not working with her because she’s not who he needs as a life partner. Simultaneously I see Buck finally working on himself and really sitting down to contemplate why all his relationships have failed thus far. I can actually see this season finally being one where Buck finally realizes the things he has been searching for a partner for years has always been in front of him. I think it’s the season for eye opening realizations for him and I really hope to see what it brings forth for both him and Eddie. I also hope this season brings them closer as a family unit than ever before.

#buddie #911 spoilers #evan buckley #eddie diaz #christopher diaz #911 speculation #god I’m sorry I had to get this out

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kousaka-ayumu · 1 year

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Heartslabyul's and Diasomnia's reaction to Ace's actual appearance.

Notes: this was only a headcannon, Ace and Knave's past will be revealed in the next post. And I got the gifs from the Red Trailer

Warning: Bad english, emotional abuse in Riddle's part, out of character TWST characters

Scenarios

'..' Is thoughts and flashbacks

Headcannons

(This is Ace's actual appearance)

Heartslabyul

Riddle Rosehearts

The 2nd one to discover it.

I- What?! No wonder his hair was a little messy, because it was a wig!

So it started out like this

"Ace! Deuce told me that you didn't feed the hedgehogs again! I swear, I'm going to have you head for this one!"

"Wait dorm leader don't-" Unfortunately as the red haired male ran towards Ace and Deuce's room and barged open. "OFF WITH YOUR-" But he got interrupted by seeing a snow white with dark red streak haired and silver eyed Ace, holding a ginger haired wig and a red eyed contacts.

"....... "

"...... "

"What in the name of the Great Seven is this?!"

Riddle at first demanded explanation from Ace not realizing how freaking beautiful(yes he got that from Weiss) until when he got closer to him.

He 'Off With Your Head' Ace and scolding of not only that he didn't feed the hedgehogs but also putting on a wig and eye contacts.

But Riddle offered to listen to Ace's reason for putting on a wig.

After listening to him, Riddle decided to helped him with his studies.

Probably amaze by his silver eyes and thought that it was beautiful and unique.

And he never thought that Ace was a child genius(He got one from Ruby) and his actual last name was similar to his own (Rose and Rosehearts)

And freaked out when Ace talked about weapons and realize that he's pretty smart and a fast learner,(learn more here)

Not gonna lie but Riddle was jealous of Ace being raised in a loving household while he was raised in a emotional abusive household with his mother (Seriously where the heck is Riddle's dad?! And Weiss🤝Riddle: emotional abusive parental figures)

Ace would probably sing "Red like Roses" to Riddle when he stressed out.

Deuce Spade

He's the 3rd one to find out about it, I mean really.

Probably during winter break in chapter 4.

He was shopping for groceries for his single mom until he met Ace only without his wig and eye contacts.(Oh and he is also with his mother, Weiss)

At first he didn't know who the boy is until Weiss called his name.

'Wait... ACE?! "Deuce thought as he realized that the snow white with dark red streaked haired boy was the ginger haired boy.

After winter break he confronted Ace after his(Ace) basketball practice.

The scene revealed Deuce pinned Ace unto a wall in the locker room and taken off his wig revealing his snow white hair

"D-Deuce?!"

Like Riddle, Deuce also demanded explanation from Ace not realizing how freaking beautiful(yes he got that from Weiss) until when he got closer to him.

But he got flustered of how in the world Ace became this cute and beautiful?!

But after hearing his reason, he never thought that the quote-unquote "Dump" Ace Trappola or Ace Rose was a genius

Often offered his helps with his notes.

In return Ace talked about weapons to him and Deuce listen to it.

Trey Clover

He's the 4th one to find out about it.

It was during the preparations for the next Unbirthday Party when he noticed Ace was struggling to put on his wig in the bathroom.

"Ace?" Trey concern voice catches Ace's attention as he turned to the green haired third year and froze.

"T-trey-senpai?!" Ace stuttered shocking that Trey saw him at a state like this, he closed his eyes expecting to be yelled at but instead..

"You need some help?" The green haired third year asked

Of course being the Ultimate Big Brother(Besides Rantaro from DRV3) he would often helped Ace with his wig and eye contacts.

But he asked for an explanation from Ace as to why did he hides his hair and eyes.

After hearing his reason, Trey gave him an advice to show up to school without his wig and eye contacts.

At first Ace was against this because he was afraid that it might end up the same way as back in middle school with his ex.

But Trey assured him that everything will be alright but Ace still wasn't sure.

And would often listen to Ace talking about weapons

Cater Diamond

He's one of the last one to discover it.

He end up discovering it by accident.

Just before of the Unbirthday Party and Cater was searching for Ace until he finds him but this time without the wig and eye contacts.

"Oh, Ace-chan! Glad that I found y-"

And there was awkward silence between the both of them, both Ace and Cater until one of them broke the silence by..

"Want me to post it on Magicam?"

"Cater-Senpai! No!"

At first Cater wanted to post it on Magicam but Ace was against this because he hid his hair and eyes for months and He. Can't. Blow. It. Ever.

But Cater wanted to post it on Magicam because of cute and beautiful he is, but when the orange haired boy saw Ace's face he change his mind and didn't post it but still wanted to admire his hair and eyes. But he's still have some questions about him.

When Ace said his reasons, Cater decided to help him(like Trey) he also gave him an advice to show up to school without his wig and eye contacts.

At first Ace was against this because he was afraid that it might end up the same way as back in middle school with his ex.

But Cater assured him that everything will be alright but Ace still wasn't sure.

When he found out about Ace's love for weapons he made Ace a Magicam account dedicated to weapons and/or gun-like weapons..

Diasomnia

Malleus Draconia

Believe it or not he's one of the first ones to find out about it.

Probably in chapter 2 after Yuu got knocked out by Grim, he noticed Ace's ginger hair looked a bit crooked but it just his imagination or so he thought.

After his visit with Yuu, he was on his way to go back to his dorm only to meet with a slashing wind past him caught his attention 'it's from the sports field ' he thought, so he decided to check out what's going on, only to find Ace without the ginger hair and the red eye contacts and he was currently training with a gun like scythe named Raven Snow(Basically like Crescent Rose but replaced the reds with white)

'So it wasn't my imagination huh?' He thought, as he watches Ace training.

(Pretend that the Beowulfs wasn't there and he didn't use the gun parts)

As he watches Ace training his heart started beating faster'Why am I feeling this way is it because of him? 'He thought then he sigh and stepped out of the shadows.

"Trappola? Is that you?"

Ace gasp as he turned around and saw Malleus looking at him. And then silence between them.... Then..

"Who are you again?"

At first he was scared that Malleus was standing before him and away by using his semblance (Which is like Ruby's semblance).

Malleus tried to catch him but since Ace was way too fast to get caught, he(Ace) ran back to Heartslabyul. He sighs and went back to Diasomnia.

The next day Ace tried to avoid Malleus by hanging out with Deuce, Yuu and Grim and practicing in the basketball club with Floyd and Jamil(Well, he tried) until a voice yells.

"HUMAN!" A familiar loud voice catches his, Jamil and Floyds attention and it was Sebek at the gym entrance with an angry look on his face.

"Ace, did you do something tht made Draconia-Senpai mad?"Jamil ask with stern in his voice"Kani-chan, what did you do?"Floyd asked as well "Uh well... "Ace said tried to explain" HUMAN! WAKA-SAMA WISH TO SPEAK TO YOU!!" Sebek yells as he walked towards Ace.

Ace tried to run but Sebek caught him and carried him like a sack of potatoes "Hey Sebek! Stop, put me down!" Ace said trying get of off him but Sebek ignored him and walking out of the gym leaving Jamil, and Floyd alone.

"Uhh... "Floyd said but " What the heck that just happened?!" Jamil interrupted.

With Ace and Sebek, Ace tried to get off him but since Sebek was far stronger than him that he accepted being carried.

When they arrived at Diasomnia, Sebek told Ace to take off his wig and eye contacts, Ace against this but Sebek insist, eventually Ace agrees takes off his wig and eye contacts.

Eventually Lilia appears out of nowhere scaring Ace and he hids behind Sebek

"Sebek, your back and I see you brought Ace." Lilia said looking at Ace "Come on Ace, Malleus is waiting for you." Lilia said.

Ace was pretty scared when Lilia showed him Malleus's room and was even more scared when Sebek shoved him in.

And that's when he heard Malleus's voice called out to him.

Due to his bad memory, he quickly forgot about who Malleus is, pointed his wand at him as if it was a sword.

Malleus stepped out of the shadows of his room startling Ace still pointed his wand at him.

When he realizes that the Diasomnia's dorm leader, he immediately apologizes.

"D-draconia-senpai?! Holy oum, I'm so sorry! It just a habit I pick up!"

"It's okay Trappola, it's been a while since anyone pointed their wands at me. Now can we talk about last night?"

He asked for an explanation from Ace as to why did he hides his hair and eyes. He didn't know why would Ace hides such a beautiful appearance behind the facade of a trickster.

However as Ace explained a lot Malleus's feelings for him grew even more.

And in the end Ace promised to meet up with him every night, when everyone from both Heartslabyul and Diasomnia was asleep.

Malleus was often listening to Ace talking about weapons and how they work including his signature weapon which is a High-Caliber Sniper-Scythe known as Raven Snow, which his mom(Ruby) designed for his 15th birthday.

No one will know when Malleus confess his feelings for Ace.

Lilia Vanrouge

He just found out about it from Malleus. And now he needs to find that mysterious snow white haired with dark red streaks and silver eyed boy.

At first he thought it was Kalim, nah Kalim didn't have dark red streaks and silver eyes, he thought about Jack but like Kalim he didn't have dark red streaks and silver eyes.

However he began to suspect Ace, considering in Chapter 1(Heartslabyul Arc), he notice Ace's cherry red eyes looked a bit silver-y like and almost a lot of times whenever his eyes became silver-y like, they became cherry red again. (Can someone please tell me how eye contacts work?)

But this time Lilia manages to catch Ace without his disguise, when he's on a phone call with his brother.

After Basketball practise he just finished changed into his NRC uniform. He was currently on a phone call with his brother. Of course he's still in the Gym, without his disguise and was alone there.

"Only Malleus-senpai, Riddle-senpai, Deuce, Trey-senpai, and Cater-Senpai know it Knave.... No they didn't bully me why did you think that way Knave?........ No there wasn't any girls here...."

Meanwhile Lilia was listening to their conversation.'Did he get bullied when he was a kid?' Lilia thought, wanting to know more about Ace. Until...

"I mean, you're Knave Schnee-Rose AKA my brother, it could be anyone who only wanted to date me for your money! It just... It justs... I'm not ready yet!"

Now Lilia knows why Ace wasn't very comfortable when talking about girls because he used to date one.

Over the next few weeks Lilia continued to spy on Ace after his classes are over to find out more about.

No one notices him not even Ace himself..

Silver

Just found out about it through Lilia and Malleus.

Personally he never met Ace considering he's a second year and Ace was a first year.

So he only heard of him a lot of times(from the Chandelier accident to the basketball team), so he never seen him in person

Until after school he just wanted to sleep after a very tiring day at school(Boy same, I also wanted to sleep), that's when he heard slashing wind came against him.

His knight senses came in as he pulled out his wand/sword from his pocket.

However the moment when the wind went against him, the more he realized that it's more like a scythe fighting the wind.

He decided to check it out what's going on from the woods within the campus.

He noticed snow white coloured hair with dark red streaks and a silver eyed boy. Silver(Goddammit bard) never met anyone with that kind of appearance.

However the way that the hair was styled reminded him of the ginger haired boy, from when Sebek rambled about him last month.

But like Lilia he didn't confront Ace for personal reasons.

1. He knows Ace was avoiding Malleus cause, you know.

2. And he never met him, like ever.

When the silver eyed boy saw Silver(Like I said Goddamnit Barb!) He yelp and turns into a burst of red rose petals to escape from there.

Sebek Zigvolt

He just found out about it from Lilia.

And now he's demanding Ace for answers. Ace realized it and tried his best to avoided the light green haired boy

#twisted wonderland #twst #rwby #twisted wonderland crossover #ace trappola #deuce spade #riddle rosehearts #trey clover #cater diamond #malleus draconia #sebek zigvolt #twst silver #lilia vanrouge #heartslabyul #diasomnia #malleus x ace #malleus has romantic feelings for ace but too shy to confess it

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mewatchingstuff · 2 years

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I think Chip definitely assaulted Tabby he really seems obsessed with her especially after the newest episode he seemed so worried and panicked when tabby didn’t talk to him the whole class after he shot the rest of the class project for Tabby almost like he was scared she found out about him and we know nothing about him yet he’s so close to tabby… and I also think Chip got Imogen pregnant I also saw in the trailer that imogen and chip are about to kiss and when Karen was up on the rafters about to pour the bucket on imogen when everyone was pointing up trying to warn Karen about A behind her Chip kept looking at tabby like he wanted to watch her reaction to it almost like he was in on it

I think there's more to Chip than meets the eye. I feel like the other good boys (Shawn, Henry, and Ash) are pretty straight forward characters. Chip feels like he's hiding something.

There's a part in the episode where he and Tabby are presenting their scene concept to the class and the camera pans to Chip smiling at Tabby BUT there's a clear shot of the poster behind Chip and it's of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. He's hiding something. I just know he is! We're on to you, Chip!

Oh Chip is definitely the one who assaulted Tabby did you see how the camera panned over to show Chips worried reaction in episode 4 when Tabby was explaining the shower scene to Greg saying “she might have even slipped something into your drink” and then shows Chip looking guilty/worried and also Tabby has been recording videos in the guys locker rooms to see if any of the guys have scars on their backs that Tabby left when she got assaulted but she hasn’t seen anything yet I think when Chip has to take his shirt of for the Psycho shower scene that’s when it’s gonna trigger Tabby’s memory and maybe Chip will have a scar on his back from her scratches

I see remarks about Tabby being a peeping Tom because she's looking for body scars, but was that hinted at somewhere else? It makes logical sense but I've seen so many people immediately come to that conclusion that I thought it was a spoiler somewhere, lol.

#replies #pll original sin spoilers #pll original sin

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ava-candide · 3 years

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Poldark’s Aidan Turner on playing Leonardo da Vinci

The newly married heart-throb actor learnt to paint left-handed for his new role, and he’s still daubing now, he tells Ed Potton

Aidan Turner takes on the role of Renaissance polymath Leonardo

I’m trying to work out where Aidan Turner is Zooming from. Is it London, where he moved to in 2017 after his Ross Poldark became the drooled-over king of Sunday-night television? Dublin, where he grew up, trained as an actor and returned to spend the first lockdown with his parents? Or Rome, where he shot his new series, Leonardo, in which he plays a young Leonardo da Vinci?

“None of the above!” Turner says. “I’m in Toronto.” The enigmatic charm, feline eyes and gleaming locks that he deployed so mercilessly in Poldark, The Hobbit films and Being Human are all there. “My missus is working here,” he explains, and so is he. That’s the American actress Caitlin FitzGerald, his partner of three years, whom he met when they starred in the 2018 film The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot. At first I assume the “missus” is laddish affectation but it turns out that it’s official: Turner and FitzGerald, both 37, got married in secret in Italy in August after filming finished on Leonardo. You can almost hear the sighs of disappointment ripple around the world.

Turner won’t say any more — he is famously guarded about his personal life — but he looks insanely happy in the couple’s rented apartment. FitzGerald — whose grandfather Desmond was a CIA agent and organised several plots to assassinate Fidel Castro — is shooting a series, Station Eleven, in Toronto while her husband works on another project that he’s not allowed to talk about. In their downtime they’ve been watching I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, an HBO documentary series about the Golden State Killer, and, on a lighter note, Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles. They share the apartment with Charlie, an ebullient Norfolk terrier that Turner has to eject from the room halfway through our interview when he starts yapping. “I’m surprised he behaved for so long,” he says

Eight-part series Leonardo has been criticised for warping history

Like many of his fellow thesps, Turner has been doing a great deal of lockdown painting. “We have a roof garden here and the light has been really good,” he says. “I probably shouldn’t be saying this because I don’t know if the landlord knows. It’s not messy work anyway!” Unlike some of his peers — I’m looking at you, Pierce Brosnan — he has yet to unleash his daubings on the world. How would he describe his style? “I struggle to say abstract, but I haven’t quite figured out what it is yet.” Did it help with playing Leonardo? “I don’t know. If you saw my paintings, you’d assume very much not,” Turner says. He has a studied line in self-effacement, honed after years of “sexiest man on TV” questions.

Leonardo premiered in Italy last month and was watched by seven million, many of them doubtless keen to see Turner brooding in a succession of smocks. The eight-part series has been criticised for warping history, having the artist accused of murder and featuring an apparently fictional muse, Caterina da Cremona, played by Matilda De Angelis from The Undoing. Luca Bernabei, the chief executive of Lux Vide who produced the series, defended it stoutly. “Matilda De Angelis’s character did exist. She was a model Leonardo asked to paint,” he said. “We have been really careful in our research. But this is not a documentary, we are not historians and this is not a university history lecture.”

And if the history pedants are spluttering, the art pedants should be happier — the series goes to considerable lengths to make the painting look authentic. Each episode is themed around a different masterpiece, from the portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci to The Last Supper to the Mona Lisa, and the candlelit cinematography is often sumptuous. Turner’s research included a private view of a Leonardo exhibition. “I spent some time alone with the actual paintings, which was brilliant,” he says. “They’re just like high-definition photographs. I couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that a human had done this.”

Aidan Turner attended an artist’s boot camp before filming started

The series opens in Florence in the 1460s, with Leonardo a pupil of Verrocchio, played by the veteran Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini. Before the shoot Turner and his co-stars went on an artists’ boot camp (brush camp?) supervised by professionals. He says the hardest part was learning to paint, as Leonardo did, with his left hand. He compares it to learning to ride a horse for Poldark, which he pretended he knew how to do before going on a crash course when he got the part.

Brushwork was the same, he says. “I realised I had to get good quite quickly and look like I knew what I was doing with my left hand, which is more difficult than you would think. It’s keeping it steady — you find it just moves around a lot. Leonardo was very slow and precise — I think I got it down. After a few weeks you start picking up the brush with your left hand, it becomes natural.”

Leonardo was a vegetarian, Turner tells me, “and apparently later in life opened some sort of vegetarian restaurant”. He was also gay, something that, despite reports, the series does not shy away from. Was this Turner’s first time kissing a man on screen? He laughs. “Of all the things I was expecting you to ask next, that wasn’t one of them! In a lot of ways it was just another love scene. The fact that the gender was different — that was never a thing. No, it felt right. It didn’t feel any different at all. But yeah, to answer your question, that was the first time, which I’d never really thought of until now.”

What did feel weird, he says, were the Covid protocols. “Suddenly people are wearing masks and shields and hazmat suits. We had a big sanitisation machine as we walked in that would spray us. You take off the mask when you shoot the scene and it’s a bit strange for a second. Then you realise it’s the first time you’ve seen your co-star’s face that day. It’s not conducive to a very creative environment, for sure. But we made it work and nobody got sick.”

Turner spends a chunk of the first episode painting De Angelis, and both actors know what it’s like to be ogled. She has been asked endlessly about her naked locker-room sequence in The Undoing, just as he has been reminded of his shirtless scything scene in Poldark. Before that there was his lusted-after vampire in Being Human and his sexy dwarf in The Hobbit — branded a “dwilf” in some quarters — although that “definitely wasn’t the intention”, he says. “I think I just had less prosthetics on my face. My make-up call was 20 minutes and everyone else was sitting in the chair in the morning for three and a half hours. It wasn’t good to be around the other dwarfs in the mornings, that’s for sure.

“I get why people are interested,” he says of the ogling. “It’s just when it keeps coming up.”

We move on. According to a recent survey Cornwall has overtaken London as the most desirable place to live in Britain. Does he think Poldark played a part in that? He laughs. “Maybe we nudged a few people in the right direction. I think people forgot how beautiful that side of the world is. One of the first reviews of Poldark we read was like: ‘We can’t believe that this is our country, it looks like the south of France.’”

Could Poldark return, and would Turner be in it? If they stuck to the chronology of Winston Graham’s books they would have to leap ahead a few years. Maybe he could play an aged-up Ross Poldark in latex and fake paunch? “I don’t know if I’d be keen on the ageing-up thing,” he says. “It never really works. I don’t know whether they need to be too strict with that gap anyway. There’s the possibility someday, maybe. I enjoyed working with everybody on Poldark, from the writers right down to all the cast and crew. It really is like a family. So I’d be open to chat about it. But not for a while.”

Before that he will appear as the apostle Andrew in The Last Planet, the forthcoming biblical epic from Terrence Malick, revered creator of The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life. Well, he doesn’t know for sure if he will appear. Actors of the calibre of Rachel Weisz, Mickey Rourke and Jessica Chastain have seen their performances in Malick films vanish during editing.

“You want what’s best for the film. And if you don’t fit into it, you don’t fit into it,” Turner says in the tone of hair-shirt devotion that actors tend to use when talking about Malick. With a cast including Ben Kingsley and Mark Rylance as Satan, the movie is meant to tell the story of Jesus through a series of parables. Turner doesn’t really have a clue, though.

“You don’t necessarily know what you’re signing up to. You’re signing up to Terrence Malick,” he says. The director has “a great way of working. Everything is around ‘where is the sun’ at this particular time. That’s our natural light and it’s all we use. So things happen fast. There’s no trailers, hair, make-up, we’re just all together. You don’t know from day to day what you’ll be doing. It’s quite renegade stuff. That’s the way I always wanted to work.”

It’s closer to the immediacy of the theatre, which is where Turner started out. The son of an electrician, Pearse, and an accountant, Eileen, he represented Ireland at ballroom dancing before falling into acting. After studying at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin he acted in plays for five years and in 2018 he returned to the stage to rave reviews in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore in the West End. Rave being the operative word — his performance was bracingly unhinged. “I can’t wait to get back to the theatre,” he says. “That’s what we’re looking at probably next.”

Turner’s character in The Lieutenant of Inishmore was an Irish freedom fighter, but he is reluctant to talk about the prospect of Irish reunification (“So I don’t get shot when I get home,” he told one interviewer). Culture is safer ground, and his native country is going through a purple patch with Sally Rooney in literature, Fontaines DC in music and the likes of McDonagh, Jessie Buckley and Denise Gough in drama. “It tends to happen in waves,” Turner says. “Coming out of drama school, Colin Farrell was such a big thing. When these actors really make it you can feel some of their light begin to shine on the industry back home.”

Like Farrell, Turner is an international star, although it has mainly been in period roles: Poldark, Leonardo, Andrew and his breakout turn as the 19th-century poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the 2009 series Desperate Romantics. It must be something about the hair.

That could be about to change, though. Toronto often stands in for New York, which suggests that his current mystery project has a contemporary setting. Does he yearn to act in jeans? “Yeah, you’re right,” he says with a laugh. “After Leonardo, I think tights and knee-length boots are out for a while.” Many would beg him to reconsider.

#aidanpics

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captain-ross-poldark · 3 years

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Poldark’s Aidan Turner on playing Leonardo da Vinci

Ed Potton

Friday 2 April 2021

Aidan Turner takes on the role of Renaissance polymath LeonardoJUSTIN SUTCLIFFE/EYEVIN

Eight-part series Leonardo has been criticised for warping historyPA

Aidan Turner attended an artist’s boot camp before filming startedVITTORIA FENATI MORACE

With his wife, the American actress Caitlin FitzGeraldREX FEATURES

“I get why people are interested,” he says of the ogling. “It’s just when it keeps coming up.”

Turner with Eleanor Tomlinson in PoldarkMIKE HOGAN

Before that he will appear as the apostle Andrew in The Last Planet, the forthcoming biblical epic from Terrence Malick, revered creator ofThe Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life. Well, he doesn’t know for sure if he will appear. Actors of the calibre of Rachel Weisz, Mickey Rourke and Jessica Chastain have seen their performances in Malick films vanish during editing.

All episodes of Leonardo will be on Amazon from April 16

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/poldarks-aidan-turner-on-playing-leonardo-da-vinci-wnmqhxqxr

#Sunday times #aidan turner #Leonardo

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zendyval · 3 years

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Ted Lasso Season 2 Trailer Thoughts (Spoilery I guess between what is actually in trailer and what I think?)

Thoughts under the cut for those that care.

Today has been a day so in an attempt to focus on dumb shit, my thoughts:

- I doubt the trailer really touches on most of the actual storylines this season. The show is too secretive to give away bigger plot points in the trailer plus they have only filmed about half the season as yet. If you watched the S1 trailer you would have had very little sense of the actual plot lines from S1.

- Jamie is definitely coming back to Richmond at some point. That is his army man Ted gave him on the bar and you can see his name in the locker room in the shot where Rebecca is in the locker room and Sam and the players come running through the door. I could see Rebecca going out of her way to buy him back (is that the right language?) after feeling guilty about her role last season.

- Roy is clearly done but will he be a coach or taking some time away to figure out what’s next? Plus is he now a father figure to Phoebe?

- I’m fairly convinced Ted is heading towards a big anxiety ridden breakdown and I also think he has an alcohol problem that will be addressed. It’s not alluded to in the trailer but it is in S1.

- Seems like Sam (and probably Dani?) have way more to do this season? Lots of Sam in the trailer but like as an actual focal point. Love that for me. Give him all the storylines.

- I want the Christmas episode now! Everything about that looks amazing. I was sold on it before I saw Rebecca with a microphone plus the previous spoilers we have.

- Keeley has a more official PR role and she looks very professional and chick in all the business scenes.

- Big one. I know there is a lot of back and forth on the whole Ted/Rebecca thing and those that ship and those that think it’s a cop out. Which whatever to the latter but I’m not sure the trailer tells us much either way. Ted very likely won’t be in the headspace for a serious relationship this season (if the above breakdown happens) and Rebecca is still working her way through her own trauma. I don’t think it’s a bad thing that Rebecca is out there dating because it would be very unlikely anyway that the first guy she dates post Rupert, when she’s still working out her own baggage, is her forever person. She hasn't dated in a long time and has to newly figure out what works for her as she re-finds herself. But it also shows her growth from last season that she can even start to go there. I also don’t see it as a problem if she and Ted are comfortable talking “girl talk” with each other.

- Also funny to me that people on twitter are already trying to dreamcast Rebecca’s new beau. One, who know if she dates him long enough for us to even meet him because again, see above. Literally first man she has got on dates with in well over a decade. Also even if we do see him I don’t see the show stunt casting big names.

- The new Sarah Niles character. I already love her but I’m curious if she will only be working with the team or if she will also provide counsel for Ted. He needs it but also just in the sense that her character can’t really be friends friends with the people that she is seeing as clients so just if she’s providing counsel to most of the regulars, how does she fit in on the show socially?

#ted lasso #thoughts on season 2 trailer #and generally

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janesramblings · 3 years

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Nancy Drew 2x8 Review/Thoughts

Spoilers!!!

okay it took me so long to realize this was a flashback I’m blaming it on the fact that I’m watching this at eight in the morning

idk why Bess has married this guy but he’s both creepy and borderline abusive

okay good job Bess that was very clever

Aunt Diana is really just getting what she wants from Bess isn’t she

i wouldn’t be surprised if Bess isn’t really a Marvin

“stranger danger” oh Ace I adore you

I get why Bess is lying but Bess this is Ace! Your platanchor.

has Nancy ever actually worked at the claw or does she just use it as a safe space to solve mysteries?

“it hasn’t come up in conversation” oh George repression is unhealthy

Nancy’s hair styles are always so pretty

I know Ryan says he’s got this but something tells me he hasn’t got this

“Nancy’s here? Right now? Did she say anything about me?” i feel so bad for this man

Really bold of Nick to say that Nancy will talk when she’s ready after dumping her because she didn’t talk to him

“Ryan I see you stop being so weird” I LOVE THESE TWO

also his head sticking out of the door scared me so much

whoa I just saw Ace in the back of that scene just staring at Nancy as she runs out. He doesn’t even look concerned

Bess’s mom threw her out? Can someone hug this girl?

okay manipulation is bad but manipulating BESS is just wrong

FINALLY thank you Bess for telling Ace

I don’t trust this line cook. nothing has convinced me to not trust him except that he’s in the show and he’s new

aunt Diana has an ulterior motive and i really want to know what it is

Ryan and Val are gonna end up together that’s my conclusion from this

sometimes I forget that George is Nancy’s boss until she says stuff like “this is a wage advance”

yikes please don’t kill George... again

lol Ryan and Nick as best friends

“The woods, they speak to me” god I love Ace

“okay well I’m trying to rationalize and you’re not letting me”

if I didn’t ship Nancy and Ace so much I’d definitely be on board with Nancy and George

“Have you seriously been thinking about flatlining me?” “Not seriously” Queens I tell you QUEENS

wow this guy really just kidnapped George and Nancy didn’t he

I hope he realizes that he mad a bad decision

Bess looks so cute

Just tell Diana Bess

of course Nancy knows about knots

George (Odette?) is making some good points here it does always involve Nancy

WHO, ACE???

OH HONEY DARLING WE ALL KNOW THAT YOU STARE AT ACE BUT NOW YOU JUST ADMITTED IT

i love how chill Nancy was about that she was just like “oh cool a husband”

i love the sarcasm George and Odette are one and the same

“yes he left us detailed instructions and a warm breakfast” “oh am I still here? what hilarity”

I said this earlier but reporter lady (Val?) and Ryan are going to be a couple and also Ryan is NOT down-to-earth

OH NO OH NO REPORTER LADY HAS A HUNCH ABOUT RYAN’S DAUGHTER

(also she and Nancy would get along so well)

oh crap Bess is making a bad decision

how many existential crises is Nancy gonna go through?

“ugh him again” odette is kind of growing on me

oh my god thank you Ace I was so scared for a second there

lollll Ace giving a history lesson while explaining how to undo the knot

oh my gosh of course Odette would get scared by that

Also George is going to have so explaining to do isn’t she?

Bess please get out of the road

Yikes this is going to be bad isn’t it?

oh my gosh poor Bess just wanted a family

Nancy and Ace are sitting very close together

I hope nancy knows that she can sit in chairs and not on the arm rest

Did Ace just tap Nancy’s leg?

oh no val is going to make things very hard for Ryan isn’t she?

milk and cookies do solve every problem very wise Ace

the music in this show is so good

was a locker really a good hiding place???

seems questionable to me

okay trailer time

Nancy and Ace are very close to each other

ooo who’s nancy talking to? who’s warning her?

Ace and Amanda are sitting too close to allow Nace to happen

just saying

okay Nancy spinning infront of Gil while saying “do you trust me” also doesn’t seem to be allowing for Nace to happen

wow okay I have so many questions

#cw nancy drew spoilers

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midsummerevening · 4 years

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Alright so I thought I’ll share some of my thoughts on certain scenes of Love, Victor. As I said in a previous post, I don’t think Victor was ever attracted to Mia. He might have thought so, but he never was. To me, Victor was never meant to be bi. He’s gay but was in denial and did not want to accept that part of himself yet. That’s a hot take, I know that some people won’t agree and may criticize the series for its bi-erasure or even for being misleading with their trailer + the series in general. This comes from a girl who is bi herself so I understand why you may feel this way. You may or may not agree with me, and that’s okay. Feel free to add anything if you want to!

Okay. I thought I’ll do this episode by episode. At first I wanted to do it in one single post then it turned out that even in the first episode there was plenty to say so (warning: it’s pretty long)… off we go!

Episode 1: Welcome to Creekwood

Starting with the beginning. What struck me (besides the whole intro where Victor basically lashes out at Simon for having it easy), was a line said by Pilar. “if you had a girlfriend, you would understand” right there. See that face Victor’s making? It felt familiar to me, as it may too to other people. People including family assume you’re straight.

Pilar assumed Victor would have a girlfriend. There’s no wrong in assuming, but Victor probably feels like he can’t be anything but straight. Being gay isn’t presented as a “possibility” and it means he would have to come out, and that’s a lot harder. Especially knowing where Victor comes from. Texas, yes.

I found the little flashbacks scenes very revealing on his character and why he would deny who he is, and what is his sexuality. In Texas, there was “no place to be different” so Victor, to be accepted and included, fitted in. And I don’t think I’m reaching if I say that this has built up his internalized homophobia throughout the years. It’s no wonder he wouldn’t want to be gay when all he saw or heard was negative. His own father was mocking that man in the church, assuming he was gay because of his behaviour (and maybe he is). My point is, the vision that Victor always had of gay people is limited, and only draw criticism and judgement.

Victor is so afraid of not fitting in that he would rather stay in the closet, push down those thoughts than admit it, and assume who he really is.

When he arrives to Creekwood, meeting Mrs Albright made him realize he could finally be himself. Who he knew he was but never “dare” to be. When he learns about Simon’s story, he looks so relieved. If you look closely you can even see that he releases the tension he had at first. He had so much expectations about coming to a new school. New life, new me? Right. And then Mrs Albright made his dreams come true.

But even with that, Victor’s still afraid, which is understandable. And he falls for the safety net saying there’s no girl back at home and confirming the assumptions that he’s straight.

Now Felix has been the most accepting and the most wonderful best friend Victor could have had. I love his character a whole lot! There was just this sentence that did not sit well with me. I don’t think Felix ever meant any harm by saying it. I think though, it did not help Victor to embrace who he is.

First Felix assumes Victor has a crush on Mia after he talked to her for five minutes. Okay, why wouldn’t he right? He doesn’t know anything much about Victor yet, and as I said, there’s nothing wrong about assumptions. However it is hurtful to Victor, as again, gay isn’t presented as a possibility for him.

Focus on Victor’s reactions which, to me, are pretty telling on what he thinks about what Felix is assuming to be a growing crush on Mia:

“you’re blushing too – no I’m not”

“you’re falling in love!”

Then what’s striking is the first scene with Benji. Do I really need on expand on that? When he appears, everything disappears. The sound fades. Victor has only eyes for him. If you were taking the music out I’m certain you would hear his heart beating sO fast. It simply looks like Benji took Victor breath away. His first scene is faaaaar different from the first scene with Mia. That speaks volume to me. This scene reflects on what attraction looks like. I could even say love-at-first-sight, because honestly, I’m pretty sure Victor fell for him the second he saw him, but that’s for another conversation.

Though I think Victor have chemistry with both of them, the way he looks at Benji is different.

Back to Felix. You may have noticed what he said after that marvellous scene. “Benji’s chill. Also, he’s gay. Just so you know.” When he says this, Victor appears so frightened of what Felix might say next. You can see that a million thoughts are already spiralling in his head. Then when Felix proves to be accepting/supportive, Victor relaxes a bit but for a short while as Felix continues by saying, probably unconsciously and without knowing what effect it will have on Victor: “You don’t want people to get the wrong idea.” You can tell Victor is affected by it, but tries to save face, and then his smile falters shortly after Felix goes away.

This, combined with the fact that he couldn’t bring himself to say he is figuring things out to Mia and Lake, crushes his dreams of coming out, whatever he may have thought after Mrs Albright’s speech is gone. And it continues to weigh on him during the whole fricking day. In the locker room for instance, where again, being gay seems to be the object of mockery. Or when outside, later on, as Benji reaches out for his hand to help out, there’s that stupid guy who shouts “get it new kid!” which, of course, panics Victor and pushes him to go far away from Benji. He fears he may be associated to him, I guess, and doesn’t want people to label him as gay as gay is apparently not really accepted here.

The scene with Isabel is interesting as well as it entails that Victor’s family especially her mother relies a lot on him, so coming out would break that stability (or apparent stability, as it will break sooner than expected) and Victor, as the fixer of the family, doesn’t want that. Instead, he’s holding back on his true self. “Pretending is exhausting.” That’s the key line here. Victor knows damn well what it means to pretend. But to protect his family from exploding, because he is “the strong one” he would rather continue doing so, even if that crushes him deep down, and gives him so much pressure. Sooner or later that pressure will make him crumble.

All that culminates in him choosing Mia over Benji at the Winter Carnival: as hurtful as it may sound, it’s easier to try to be with her than to be with Benji or any boy for that matter. As much as being straight is a lot easier than being gay. He won’t face hatred or judgement if he dates her, however if he dated a guy, that’d be another story. It is therefore no surprise, seeing where he comes from, and seeing that first (eventful) day at school, that Victor would go for this possibility. Why, he wouldn’t want to accept that part of himself yet. He would rather stay in denial than face the possible consequences of being who he truly is. From his family, his friends and people at his school.

(If you made it until the end, I thank you a lot. Didn’t think I had sm to say just for one episode but here we are.)

#love victor #lovevictor #victor #victor salazar #victor x mia #victor x benji #venji

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petertingle-yipyip · 4 years

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Why - Sweet Pea

//Absolutely not requested. I was half lucid listening to Shawn Mendes when this happened. Be nice.//

//Tags: @lover2448 @chipster-21 @southsidearchive // Warnings: Suggestive content, mild language, angst//

Pairing: Sweet Pea x Reader

Word Count: 2, 013

Summary: Y/N and Sweet Pea have a complicated relationship that doesn’t make sense to either of them. Y/N just wants to know Why.

Your nails down his back. His grip on your hips. Your legs hooked around his waist. His hips rolling against yours. Your pleas and cries, whining his name. His moans and pants, mumbling how much he wanted you.

“Hello?” Jughead sighed, waving his hand in front of your face. “Y/N? You there?”

You snapped from your daze, tearing your eyes from the pool table. You didn’t know why you couldn’t look away from him, why you couldn’t stop thinking of him. You had wanted him since you first met him, and you got him. For one night, he was yours. He was putty in your hand, eager to make it last. But now… Now it was like he never met you.

“Sorry.” You nodded, focusing on your friend that was sitting on a bar stool next to you. “What were you saying?”

“You were staring again.”

“I was not.”

“Just tell him something and get it over with.”

“He’s gonna act like he just met me because he does that every time.” You rolled your eyes, turning your body to face Jughead. “It’s not worth it.”

“Toni!” Sweet Pea said, his words slurred slightly as he approached the bar. “Two more, yeah?”

“Almost sounds like you had enough.” You commented into your drink with an eye roll.

Sweet Pea was a lot of things. You had come to understand that. He was brooding, dangerous, intimidating, bold, smart, and incredibly sexy. But he was also a boy, which meant he was demanding and rude. Despite it all, you wanted him. Your body craved his, to be pinned beneath his weight as he kissed down your neck to your chest. You wanted to watch as his lips travelled lower… And lower…

“Do I know you?” He answered with a drunken laugh.

“Nope.” You said with finality, your lips making the ‘p’ pop. “Let’s keep it that way, yeah?”

You stood from your seat, grabbing your jacket from the countertop. You quickly put it on as Sweet Pea continued to try to convince Toni to give him more beers. You shook your head in disappointment, disappointed that you had allowed yourself to give in to him. Disappointed that you thought it meant something to him. Disappointed that you knew you’d do it again.

You left the bar, walking down the familiar roads to Sunnyside. You let your mind wander, drifting to the one place that it never left. Sweet Pea.

Before you knew it, you were in your own bed. You were changed, under the covers, and ready to go to sleep when your phone rang. There was no name on the contact, just a snake emoji.

“Do I know you?” You repeated his question from earlier that night.

“That’s not what you were saying last night.” He teased.

“You’re drunk, Sweet Pea.” You sighed.

“I am not.”

“What do you want?”

“You.”

“No, you don’t.” You countered. “You want someone that you don’t have to commit to. You want someone you can call and not have feelings for. Do you even know my name?”

“Y/N.” He said clearly, as if his slurred speech earlier was an act. “You’re Y/N.”

“You wouldn’t know it if you were sober, would you?” His silence was the only answer you needed. “You’re still drunk. Bye.”

The next day at school, you tried to act normal. But the night before, that conversation with Sweet Pea haunted your dreams. Everywhere you turned, he was there. Saying your name, leaning in closer and closer until his lips ghosted yours.

“Why do you put each other through hell?” Fangs asked, leaning on the lockers near yours. You closed the door partially to see his face. “Just tell him you like him!”

“He acts like he doesn’t know me, Fangs.” You told your friend. “Why bother?”

“Because he’s an idiot and doesn’t know how to talk to people!”

“No one will break first.” You shrugged. “He wants to pretend he doesn’t know me? That’s fine. He doesn’t want to acknowledge my existence? Whatever.”

“Why can’t you just get over yourselves?” He groaned.

“Ask him yourself.” You winked before slamming your locker shut and turning down the opposite way. It wasn’t even the way towards your class, but it was away from Sweet Pea.

Later that day, you found your friends in the student lounge. Jughead, Fangs, and Toni were seated together, laughing about something. You happily joined them, easily falling into their conversation. You sat on the couch next to Fangs, and you were so caught up in your laughter, you hadn’t noticed Sweet Pea sit next to you.

He was silent, just listening to you talk. He noted the concealer on your throat, covering the marks he knew he left. He glanced down at your hands, your perfectly manicured blue nails. He remembered how it felt when you ran them down his back and chest, the way they dug into his arm. He remembered your fingers tugging on his hair, your head thrown back to expose your neck. The whole night was burned into his memory, a night he never wanted to forget.

Sweet Pea wanted to be with you again. He wanted to spend another night with you, offering you pleasure so he could hear his name fall from your lips. So he could hear you beg and plead for him. He just wanted you. But you never spoke to him in public, acted as if you two didn’t know each other. He figured two could play that game.

“So, Y/N.” Toni looked at you with a devilish look. “Why are you still single?”

“Oh, jeez. Really?” You laughed.

“Yes, really.” Fangs joined in.

“I know this boy, but he’s like a curse.” You began explaining carefully. You had to stay vague, vague enough that she wouldn’t know who you meant but detailed enough that she’d be satisfied. “He’s everything a girl wants, and everything a girl doesn’t. He’s tall and sexy and hot as hell. But he’s also kind of a dick.”

“So why do you like him?” Jughead scoffed in amusement. Jughead and Fangs were the only ones who knew of your interest in Sweet Pea. They knew you were attracted to him, figured you only wanted him in the physical sense, and not the romantic sense. That’s what you thought too, until you finally got him.

After that night with Sweet Pea, you wanted more from. And not just sex. You wanted to wake up next to him. You wanted to call him just to hear his voice. You wanted to stay up late messaging him. You wanted late night rides with him. You wanted to go to dinner with him and make him laugh. You wanted to be with him, more than just physically. But knowing Sweet Pea, and the way he acted towards you, there was no chance that would happen. So, you tried to get him out of your head.

“I tried finding someone new.” You defended. “For so many nights… They don’t mean anything compared to him.”

“So, what?” Toni pressed. “Is he a Serpent or a Bulldog? Please tell me he isn’t a Ghoulie.”

“He’s definitely not a Ghoulie.” You laughed. “It doesn’t matter what he is, honestly. If you ask him, he doesn’t know who I am.”

“Maybe he’s not worth it then.” Toni said gently.

“Yeah, you’re probably right.”

Days passed before you heard from Sweet Pea again. He didn’t call or text or acknowledge your presence anywhere. He showed up at your trailer at two in the morning. You were still up working on your lines for the play Kevin roped you into when he knocked. You opened the door without looking, still reading over your script. When you finished the scene, you looked up and saw him standing in your living room.

“What are you doing here?” You asked simply.

“I wanted to see you.” He shrugged.

“You see me at school and at the Wyrm. I don’t need you coming to my place whenever you want someone to suck yo-”

“It’s not about sex, Y/N.” He cut you off.

“Excuse me?” You laughed. “It’s only about sex with you. You don’t give a damn about me or what I want. That much you’ve made perfectly clear.”

“What do you want?”

“Doesn’t matter.”

“Tell me.”

“No.”

“Why not?”

“I’m not gonna say it cause you’ll just brush it off.” You snapped. “You don’t care! You’re gonna act like it means nothing at all.”

“It means something to me.” He said softly.

“You’re lying.” You laughed nervously. “I can’t tell you what I really want because you’re going to laugh in my face.”

“Y/N, I wasn’t re-”

“You’re gonna say you weren’t ready? You weren’t ready!?” You said loudly, throwing your hands to the side in a grand gesture. “That makes everything better, right? Cause you weren’t ready.” You laughed in disbelief. “You think you can come here and say you weren’t ready to commit to anything and that’ll make it okay? All that means is that you just wanted sex and you knew I’d give it to you.”

You paused, waiting for his response. You threw your script onto your coffee table and crossed your arms. He didn’t say anything, just wiped his face in frustration. Sweet Pea had come to tell you that he wasn’t ready to commit because he was afraid, afraid that he would get hurt again. When Josie left, it hurt Sweet Pea more than he showed. He knew he was in the wrong for using you the other night. But that was the only way that he could act on what he wanted and be okay after.

You wanted to push him away, to shove him out of your trailer and out of your life. You wanted to forget that Sweet Pea ever existed in your life, turn into complete strangers. But your heart wouldn’t let you do that. You cursed yourself for having such a soft heart. You figured this was the only chance you had to let him know what was really weighing on your mind, so you let yourself say all of it.

“You want to know the worst part?” You said with a shake of your head. “I would’ve slept with you again. I would’ve let it happen again and again. Want to know why? I’ll tell you anyways. Because I wanted you, Sweet Pea. I wanted to be with you but you pretend like you don’t know who I am. You pretend like we haven’t known each other for years.”

“Can I say something now?” He said finally.

“So you do know how to talk!” You said sarcastically. “By all means, go ahead.”

“What I did wasn’t right. I didn’t go about it the right way, and for that I’m sorry.” He began honestly. You weren’t convinced he was being honest, but coming to you in the middle night had to mean something. “I know you’re pissed and I know that you don’t care what I have to say right now. But I need to say it.”

“So say it and go.” You shrugged in defeat.

“The other night… The sex, it was the only way I could have you without having you. I didn’t think I was ready to commit to you and you deserve commitment. After Josie left, I was hurt. But you were there, checking on me and it really meant a lot to me.”

“You sure didn’t show it.”

“Yeah… I was wrong, Y/N.”

“When people ask about us, about why we treat each other the way that we do… You just brush it off. You act like I mean nothing at all.” You said softly. “If I’m what you want, why?”

“I thought if I pretended I didn’t care, eventually I wouldn’t.”

“You really hurt me, Sweet Pea.”

“I know and I’m s-”

“You’re sorry, I know.” You interrupted. “But it’s just not fair to ignore me until you need something… I’m sorry, but you need to go.”

#beaconfalls riverdale #riverdale #sweet pea riverdale #sweet pea imagine #sweet pea angst #sweet pea x reader #sweet pea x you #riverdale imagine #southside serpents #serpents imagine #southside serpents imagine #riverdale serpents #sweet pea fic #sweet pea x yn

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lgbtyrus · 4 years

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Definitely

A Tarty fanfic? In October of 2020? You bet!!! This is a gift for @delicatesleeper who deserves the world’s most patient person award <3 Enjoy!

Words: 3068

High school was fun because you saw a lot of different things. Kids chanting Lick it! Lick it! to another kid going to lick a weird stain in the science building. An artsy kid having a break down in the middle of math. TJ Kippen fighting another boy in the locker room.

“TJ is fighting Carson!” Marty’s best friend, Tony, announced to him in one corner of the locker room. There was dozens of voices echoing throughout the stuffy place, and Marty could feel his heart slam against his chest every step he took towards the scene. But by the time he got there, their PE teacher had already separated the two. TJ seemed to get in a good hit as Carson hid his blood nose under his arm, not realizing blood was already dripping down at his chin.

“What in the fucking hell were you two thinking?!” their PE teacher’s voice boomed over them. “You’re both going to get kicked off the basketball team.”

“He started it!” TJ yelled, looking furious. His face was read. Marty didn’t know TJ that well, but he knew he wasn’t violent. Sure, he had a temper. But dating Cyrus Goodman for a while had to have done something good to him. Then again, break ups completely reprogram a person. Marty would know. He’s been through five.

Marty was sitting in detention, leaning back on his chair, balancing a pencil on his nose. It was him and the other kids who were regularly in there. Marty tried not to get detention so much he got kicked off the track team, but he also didn’t like doing his homework.

The teacher who looked over detention wasn’t in the classroom yet, so everyone in there was just talking and scrolling through their phones. They only looked up when someone came in, but it was usually someone they all recognized or knew pretty well.

Then TJ Kippen walked in and the pencil fell into his hand. Marty watched him walk inside the badly lit classroom, look around, and sit in the desk next to him before realizing he hadn’t stopped staring. TJ raised an eyebrow at him, making Marty panic and look away, pretending his pencil was the most interesting thing. He felt like if slightly turning his head would kill him.

Mr. Rosas walked in, whistling with a book and paper under his arm like usual. “Alright, people. Phones away. You can take them out after thirty minutes of homework.” He went to the front and put his book at the empty desk for whoever was overlooking detention. The room was in a trailer lot in the corner of their school, and it was hard to find if you never got in trouble. Mr. Rosas started reading the names of the roster, some kids saying here, some kids being recognized by him.

“TJ Kippen?” Mr. Rosas looked up. Marty turned his head and saw that TJ raised his hand. He had a heavy frown on his lips. “Aren’t you in basketball?”

“Not anymore.” TJ sighed, leaning back into his chair.

“Oh. You’re one of those two basketball players from today, no?” Mr. Rosas asked him. TJ nodded, looking embarrassed that everyone knew. Marty had been hearing everyone talking about TJ and Carson all day long, and it was making him really curious to know what happened. Nobody knows what happened. The two went inside the locker rooms laughing and then TJ threw the first hit.

Mr. Rosas finished taking attendance, and Marty realized that Carson wasn’t there. That usually meant an extra two days of detention. Marty forced himself to stop thinking about TJ and Carson and pulled out his algebra homework. Some kids were chatting with their work out on their desks, and Mr. Rosas didn’t seem to mind. He was in a good mood that day which basically meant they could do whatever they wanted. He said he always had a soft spot for misfits because he basically lived in detention in high school but had a good director that helped him get into college.

“Hey, Marty,” someone called out. Marty turned around the room, looking for the voice. “Right here, dude.” Marty made eye contact with TJ who was holding up a piece of paper. It was their homework. “Can you show me how to do four?” Marty looked at him, in shock for a bit. “Your name is Marty, right?”

“Um, yeah,” Marty said. He cleared his throat and looked down at his homework, trying to remember his steps while a storm brewed in his brain. “I dated Buffy freshman year.” Really? That’s what you say? Dumbass.

“I know who you are.” TJ told him. Marty didn’t know how to reprogram himself to work, but he cleared his throat again and held up his math sheet to him.

“Let me walk you through it.”

TJ only needed help on two other problems after that, and Marty gladly helped him even when he was done with his homework. His moms had gotten mad at him for not taking AP classes, but he didn’t like to be challenged in academics. They weren’t interesting enough.

Mr. Rosas stood up and shut his book. “All right everyone, you’re dismissed for the day. Don’t come back.” Without hesitation, everyone scrambled out of their seats and made their way out of the classroom in a line. Marty’s track practice started at 4:30 because his coach knew a lot of the kids on the team had a knack for getting kept for detention or they had other clubs besides sports. Marty just had detention.

He made his way towards the locker rooms by the gym and track field, and after walking for a moment, he noticed TJ was right behind him. Marty decided against walking faster and instead met up with TJ who gave him a head nod in acknowledgment. “Where are you of to?” Marty asked him.

“I’m not sure. I’ve never left school this early.”

“You should go to Rita Donuts. She has student discounts on Wednesdays.”

“Good to know.”

“So,” Marty said. He cleared his throat. He didn’t know how else to keep the conversation going. “What happened in the locker room.”

“What have you heard?” TJ asked him.

“Honestly, everything.” Marty crossed his arms, walking a little closer to TJ who was now heading towards the school gates, opposite of the locker rooms. Instead of saying anything, Marty continued to walk besides him.

“He said something homophobic. I punched him. That’s that.” Marty couldn’t figure TJ out. He was stoic and saying everything like he hadn’t just gotten kicked off the basketball team- the one he was captain of as a junior.

“What?” Marty asked. He had heard many things except that. Something like that wasn’t even a possibility at their high school. “And you’re both off the team?”

“He’s suspended and maybe expelled. I just got off the team because of the no tolerance policy. They said they’ll make sure I can play next year, though.”

“Well, I guess that’s kind of good?” Marty said, still not understanding how the school worked.

“Yeah. Honestly, it’s fine,” TJ admitted to him. “I can focus on actually getting good grades for now. I’m scared I’m not going to pass algebra.”

“I can tutor you,” Marty said without second thought.

“Really?” TJ smiled at him. Marty blushed crimson and nodded dumbfoundedly. “Thanks. I have you on Snapchat, no?”

“Yeah,” Marty nodded again. He couldn’t say much of anything else. He wasn’t even that good at math.

“Cool. I’ll hit you up,” TJ told him.

“Yeah,” Marty said. He looked at the time on his phone. “I’m gonna head to practice now. See you.”

“Later.” Marty smiled at him once more and ran towards the gym with his heart slamming against him like he wasn’t a trained runner. Math just got interesting.

Marty didn’t know what he was doing, why he was nervous, or why he even had a brain if it wasn’t going to work and save him from humiliating situations. TJ was going over to his house on Saturday to get help for their test on Monday, and Marty wasn’t exactly a wizard. He got in his shower after his six mile run from that morning and dressed in eight different things until deciding to wear a track shirt and jeans.

He didn’t have time to do his hair when his mom called from downstairs that TJ was there. He slid across the second floor in his socks and ran downstairs, TJ waiting for him at the door. He was smiling and talking to his mom, wearing a plain white shirt, basketball shorts, and slides. Marty definitely felt overdressed.

“Hey,” Marty waved at him.

“Hey,” TJ said, bringing his backpack higher on his shoulder.

“You can wait in the dining room,” Marty said, pointing at the entryway. “I need to get my backpack.” TJ gave him a thumbs up and walked over as Marty ran back upstairs, his heartrate a complete mess even when he ran back down.

“Do you run everywhere?” TJ asked him when he sat down in the chair next to him. Marty nodded, taking in counted breaths.

“It’s faster. You should try it.”

“Maybe when I’m back in shape.”

Marty stifled a full laugh. “You’ve only been out of basketball for like four days.”

“I breathe hard when I go up the stairs now. Four days was all I needed.”

“I run at least six miles every.”

“You’re addicted to track.”

“Sounds about right,” Marty smiled. He took out his binder and homework.

He didn’t know how he did it, but he got TJ through the course work and got him ready for the test. Marty had never studied that much on his own before since math was just a regular subject to him. Studying with TJ was fun, though. Whenever he tried to study with Tony, they ended up messing around and playing video games because they got bored.

But everything about TJ kept him grounded, like he was scared he would miss years of his life if he looked away for even just a second. It was too much for Marty to try to process sometimes, and he often tried to rub the heat away from his cheeks.

Marty and TJ hung out more outside of tutoring. TJ had a lot of time on his hands, and his friends were still going to basketball games so Marty would invite him to hang out with Tony and a few other boys. Tony raised his eyebrow one time when Marty was sad TJ wouldn’t make it to bowling, but when Marty asked him what, Tony just laughed and shook his head. That’s how Marty knew he was fucked.

TJ was in that stage months post breakup where he wasn’t gloomy about it anymore and he was back to functioning like normal again, but you could tell he had put a barrier up. There were times when TJ would almost talk about his home life or his family or even how he felt about certain things, but there always something blocking him. Like if he remembered he would only talk about those certain things to a certain someone who broke his heart.

Marty approached TJ with as much caution as much as he threw himself at him. He felt delusional and crazy, but there were times he felt like TJ was starting to like him, too. The proximity in which they would walk side by side seemed to close in even closer every week, and Marty wasn’t the one inching next to him. But even though they were becoming good friends, Marty knew there was going to be a lot more walls to break down.

One day at the park, Marty broke down the first obstacle and asked TJ why him and Cyrus had broken up. “We just didn’t click anymore,” TJ said. “He broke up with me, and I just said ok.” Marty watched TJ fiddle with the basketball in his hand for a moment, about to speak up before TJ started talking again. “I wish I would’ve asked him to stay, though. But… I could tell that he just didn’t want me anymore.” Marty didn’t know what to do with that, so he just patted TJ on the back.

“Sorry, bud.”

“That’s just the way it is.” TJ threw the ball at Marty, and they got up for another game. The entire time Marty wondered if TJ would go back to Cyrus if he could.

Marty figured he had nothing to lose and asked, “Are you over him?” In that moment, TJ stood still with the basketball in his hands. He stared at Marty, making his breath hitch for a second as those green eyes looked for something. “Yeah. I basically am.”

Basically. Basically am. What does that mean? Marty asked himself that over and over that night, and it was starting to drive him insane. So much, he just gave in and called Tony at one in the morning.

Tony was half-asleep when he answered. “Hello?”

“Okay,” Marty jumped right into it, “you know how I like TJ right?” There was a few seconds of silence.

“Yes.”

“So, I asked him if he was over Cyrus, and he said he basically was. What does basically mean? Like he doesn’t want to say he is because he’s lying or he is in the process of fully forgetting him?”

“Um.” Tony yawned into the mic, hurting Marty’s ear with the buzz. “Both?”

“Tony that’s not helping.”

“Dude just tell him you like him.”

“I can’t do that.” Marty’s head was filling with air at just the thought of doing that. “It’d just ruin our friendship.”

“Hmm, I don’t know, man.” Marty knew that tone.

“What do you know?”

“What do you mean?” Tony repeated back. He was cornered.

“What are you keeping from me?”

“Nothing,” Tony’s voice got louder which meant he was lying.

“Just tell me and you can go to sleep.” Marty heard Tony sigh. It didn’t take that long to get him to crack. “He told one of the guys who told me that he thinks you’re… cute.”

“Cute?” Marty didn’t know what to do with the information.

“Yeah. Goodnight.” Marty didn’t even get to say it back as Tony hung up, leaving Marty with the most explosive words he could’ve left him with.

TJ always asked Marty to hang out before he had gotten the cute bomb dropped on him, so Marty told himself not to act any different or to pick apart every little thing TJ did like a fetal pig. Doing so was starting to give him a heartache. But when him and TJ were doing homework in Marty’s kitchen, there was just too much gut to not pick at.

TJ had lightly bumped his foot into Marty’s and then just kept it there. He told Marty he had nice handwriting (a lot of people told him that, though). He told Marty his hair looked nice, and Marty didn’t know how to react so he just ran his fingers through his hair and accidentally ruined it so TJ could jokingly say never mind. And at one point, TJ took the ring he had on his hand and slipped it on Marty’s finger, his race redder than it had ever been. TJ noticed it.

“Why is your face so red?” TJ asked, still holding Marty’s hand on the table. Marty looked between TJ’s face that held a sneaky smile and their fingers that were grazing on each other.

Marty hid his face with his free hand and said, “I think it’s just allergies.” Dumbass! Dumb! Dumb! Dumb boy. Allergies?!

TJ chuckled and pulled his hand back slightly. “I didn’t know allergies did that.”

“Yeah,” Marty tapped his ringed hand on the table. “My moms say the doctors don’t know what to do with me.”

TJ looked Marty in the eye as he whispered, “I don’t know what to do, either.” Marty looked at TJ with his eyebrow raised. It was his turn to make him spazz out.

“Are you trying to kill me?”

TJ raised an eyebrow, a smile twitching on his face. “What kind of doctors are you doing to?”

“I think they’re vampires. It works out so I don’t have to miss track practice during the day.” TJ rolled his eyes but not in a rude way. In a you’re not that funny way. But he was still smiling warmly. Marty looked at TJ, realizing how close he had him and how his green eyes were just diamonds on his face. His face was full of sharp features, and he wanted to run his finger on all of them. He reached out and touched TJ’s hand again, making him look at him with wide eyes. Marty was about to retreat his hand, when TJ grasped it, fully holding it and tapping on of his fingers on his ring.

“Do you like me?” TJ asked him. Okay so this is happening now!

“What do you think?” Marty said, showing him their hands. TJ laughed a little.

“I think you do,” TJ said quietly, looking at him with a small smile.

“I know you think I’m cute,” Marty couldn’t help but say. “A little birdy told me.”

TJ had a victorious look on his face. “I knew those two would snitch. I planned it out like that.”

“What?” Marty asked. “You told someone you thought I was cute so that they would tell Tony to tell me?” They both laughed after Marty tried to piece it together in the air.

“I don’t know how Tony got involved, but yeah. Something like that.”

“Why not just tell me?”

“Just in case you didn’t like me.” TJ shrugged. “Can’t really know if someone really wants you despite their words and actions that say they do.” Marty’s heart seemed to sigh as he realized what TJ was talking about. Marty stood up and go closer to TJ, leaning down to kiss him. TJ kissed him back, his hand squeezing his harder.

Marty pulled away and pressed his forehead against TJ’s, their eyes in each other’s worlds. “Well I definitely like you. A lot. And if you’re willing to, I’d like to take you out sometime.” TJ gave him a small kiss.

“I’d like that.”

#shoosh star #stars writing #andi mack #tarty #tj kippen #Marty from the party

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Falcon and the Winter Soldier series commentary.

It’s currently 07.28am on Friday the 19th of March 2021, and the first episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier is now on Disney+. For WandaVision, I re-watched the series for a review when it ended, but for this one, I’m going to go as I watch them the first time.

This isn’t going to be run-down, or a play-by-play, just any comments I happen to have. I’ll give some context, but this will generally make more sense if you’ve seen the show.

I’ve actually avoided most of the trailers for this show, but it follows Sam Wilson (AKA Falcon, played by Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (AKA the Winter Soldier, played by Sebastian Stan) after the events of Avengers: Endgame, after the (death?) of Steve Rogers, the original Captain America, who passed the title to Sam.

Let’s get into it.

Episode One: ‘New World Order’ I hate this title, and I’m scared. This episode is 49 minutes long, and I’m expecting the series in total to have roughly the same six-hour runtime of WandaVision, but that’ll be in fewer episodes because WandaVision started in a comedy format, with shorter episodes. Let’s go.

Cue the Marvel intro.

No, no, no, no, no, no. He’s dressing for a funeral. Fuck.

Nope, no funeral. At least not right now.

And he jumps out of a plane with no parachute. Steve Rogers who? I mean, at least he has wings. Steve’s just an idiot. Where’s Bucky?

Okay, this plane break-in is a really fun sequence. Yes, shields, thank you. Sam’s already smarter than Steve. He’s rescuing a Captain Vascant, and I honestly thought he said Captain Croissant. It would make sense. The people on the plane French.

This sequence, flying through a gorge, really reminds me of a game I used to play at a bowling alley arcade. These damn swerves. They’re so satisfying.

I can’t get the WandaVision episode three theme song out of my head. This show was meant to come before WandaVision, but I saw a chronology timeline that claimed this takes place after it.

I’m really not into huge action sequences--I find them to be the most boring part of any superhero movie, but this is a good one. It is, however, ten minutes long. Still no Bucky.

Ahhhh Rhodey!!! Rhodey’s here! (From Iron Man, but then he’s also in the Avengers movies, so you should probably know who he is.)

Oh, Sam’s giving the shield to the Smithsonian.

Excuse me, he chose not to become Captain America??

Welp, there’s Bucky. Being murderous. EXcuse me??? What did he just say???? Fuck off. I thought the Wakandans helped him :(

Never mind. It was a nightmare. So he’s meant to be being a law-abiding citizen, and failing. He’s in therapy, and she is calling him out.

Bucky just asked out a girl, and it feels so wrong, but that just shows how immersed I am in the #stucky ship.

So Sam’s widowed sister is trying to get a bank loan, and they’re real idiots. The bankers, that is. They’re having a go because Sam didn’t have any income in the last five years--gee, I wonder why.

Sam just got a text from Torres--a member of the air force, who he’s working with--and the text ends with ‘#important’. I get the feeling the writers don’t understand no-one uses hashtags in texts.

Newsflash, and the mayor’s announcing a new Captain America, and it’s... show me the face. Show me the face. Who the fuck is that?

Alright, well, and cut to seven minute-long credits. Well. I have questions. A good episode, though nothing exceptional. And just like the early WandaVision episode, no credit scene.

Episode Two: ‘The Star-Spangled Man’ Released March 26th, this episode also has a 49 minute runtime, and the title is clearly referencing the ‘new’ Captain America. I say ‘new’ because even though I don’t know who this guy is yet, fuck him. Anyway.

There’s a guy in some kind of locker room, who I’m assuming is the new Captain America, who was apparently a football player. I just want to know if they pulled more super soldier shit. The captions say his name is John Walker.

Cue the Marvel logo... with some weird-ass music. Okay, it’s just a... dancing marching band, at the Captain America presentation. They’ve given him a new symbol, like an A turned into a five-pointed star. Apparently he’s the first person to ever receive three Medals of Honour, run missions in counterterrorism and hostage rescue, and he has some fancy-ass physicality. This guy seems alright, but I’m just mad they didn’t tell Sam what they were going to do with the shield. At least he likes Steve.

God, Steve would be pissed. Ay, Sam and Bucky are finally in a scene together!

My favourite trope: ‘I’m doing this with you!’ ‘No, you’re not.’ [cut to them doing the thing together].

Bucky followed Sam on a mission to Munich, Germany, to do with the Flag Smashers, a free border organisation mentioned in episode one. They’re just glaring at each other, and I love it. God, I love their dynamic.

This has ‘What’s our plan of attack?’ ‘The plan? Attack’ vibes. And Bucky just jumped out of a fucking plane without a parachute. Steve Rogers who? (I think I made that joke in my episode one commentary about Sam. They take so much after their father.)

Sam made a joke about Bucky becoming White Panther after Wakanda, and apparently he’s now the White Wolf. I’m pretty sure that’s a comic book alias, but this is its first MCU mention.

OOOOh, the action sequences in this are fun. And there’s a kid in the back of the bad guys’ truck. Why’s she smiling?

And she just blasted Bucky out onto the road. Wonderful. She’s also a Flag Smasher. Yes, Sam! Yes!

Maybe don’t drive your lorries side by side in the same direction on a two-way road? Just a thought?

And roll in John Walker. You’d think they’d be having a harder time staying stood on lorries travelling this fast.

And Captain America has a fucking gun. No. No. Steve just used a frisbee! Don’t do this, Walker, you bastard.

So apparently the Flag Smashers are all super soldiers. That doesn’t bode well. I don’t think Walker is, though.

And this suit does nothing for his ass. It just isn’t America’s.

So they all rolled off the lorries, and the bad guys got away. Walker rolled up beside Sam and Bucky in a military vehicle, and they’re just refusing to get in.

‘Just ‘cause you carry that shield, it doesn’t mean you’re Captain America.’ THANK YOU.

‘You ever jump on top of a grenade?’ ‘Yeah. Actually, I have. Four times.’ You fucking what? Why? That doesn’t sound like Steve’s dumbassery, this sounds like genuine heroics. Disgusting.

And they finally got in the car. So the Flag Smashers want to put things back how they were during the Blip.

‘Does [Bucky] always just stare like that?’ ‘You get used to it.’ !!!!!!

‘I’m not trying to replace Steve.’ Really? Because it sounds like you are.

I hate that the subtitles are calling him Captain America. He seems like a fine guy, but really?

So apparently there was a super soldier in the Korean War.

Great. Police racism, demanding to see Sam’s ID but not Bucky’s, until the other policeman points out they’re Avengers. Wonderful. And they’re now arresting Bucky for missing his court-mandated therapy.

Also, I didn’t even acknowledge the fact Bucky got a haircut somewhere before the show stars. I was conscious of it, but I didn’t even think to say anything because I’m just used to seeing Sebastian Stan with short hair.

So John Walker got Bucky out. And Bucky’s therapist is forcing him and Sam into a session. HA, she’s giving them couple’s therapy. This is intense. She made them do some soul-gazing shit, and they started having a staring contest!

AND they’re going to go see Zemo, the villain from Captain America: Civil War. I knew he was in this show, but they’re just going to willingly have a conversation with him?? And again, no credit scene.

This was definitely a better episode than the first--the first honestly felt kind of unnecessary, and I think they just wanted to put the new Captain America at the end of an episode to build tension as a cliffhanger, which is a little annoying but does make sense.

I’m going to be constantly comparing this show to WandaVision, but it’s a lot less mysterious than WandaVision. Mystery isn’t necessary for a show to be good; there’s just a stark contrast between the two shows in that aspect.

Episode Three: ‘Power Broker’ Released April 2nd, this episode has a 53 minute runtime. We open with an ad for the Global Repatriation Council, apparently an organisation focused on helping those who were Blipped reintegrate, though I’m really confused what this has to do with anything--it’s not like the ads in WandaVision, because this is the first we’ve had. I guess the GRC must show up in this episode, but I don’t really think the ad is necessary.

I don’t want to give a rundown of this show like I did with WandaVision, so I’m just going to mention which scene each comment is for.

They’ve really given Zemo an atmospheric cell. Also, this bitch, saying the words that turned Bucky into the Winter Soldier. This bitch and his audacity. Now he’s sorry? That’s hilarious.

Why in fuck’s name does Bucky want to break Zemo out??? I’m really with Sam on this one. What is Bucky’s point here?

And now they’re breaking him out. Wonderful. Nope, never mind, just a... imagining? Nope. He did it. Zemo’s out. This seems like a bad idea. He’s going to betray them. That’s just how stories work.

Ah. Snake gut cocktail. Lovely.

I hate that Bucky’s pretending to still be the Winter Soldier. Hate it. And now Zemo’s trying to sell him. No. Good writing, sure, but still.

Love the ‘kill them’, then gets shot. Love it.

SHARON! YAY! I don’t even like Sharon that much, mostly because her romance with Steve was weird, but yay!

Sam: *takes off his shirt* Sharon: Much better.

‘The bionic staring machine.’ I mean, Sam’s not wrong, but still.

I can’t tell if this song, where they’re walking through this place with pistols, is just background music or actually playing, but I love it. Okay, it’s real. It has Umbrella Academy vibes.

Nope. Zemo has his mask. I don’t trust this. There he goes. Wait. He didn’t betray them? Why? It might just be poor comprehension, but I’m confused.

‘You’re not gonna move your seat up, are you?’ ‘No.’ Bucky gets his revenge on Sam.

So a woman showed up at the end, head shaven, and, according to the subtitles, spoke Wakandan. I think it’s the woman who came with T’Challa in Captain America: Civil War, but i’m not completely sure.

But, hey, that’s episode 3. I didn’t enjoy it as much as episode 2, because, mad as I am they replaced Cap, so far, I quite like John Walker’s character, and I think it’s a really interesting plot line. This was still better than episode 1 though, which just felt like set-up.

Episode Four: ‘The Whole World is Watching’ This episode was released April 9th, this morning, with a 53-minute runtime, and I’ve already been told John Walker does something unredeemable in this episode, so I’m scared. Let’s go.

And we have an explosion, kids. It’s a previously on, never mind. I don’t remember the explosion, but it’s fine. Okay, yeah, the woman at the end of the last episode was the woman from Civil War. I need to look up her name.

Oh, yep, her name’s Ayo, and she’s a member of the Dora Milaje. Lovely.

Jesus, we’re in Wakanda. Why am I scared? Six years ago. Bucky in Wakanda. Right. With Ayo. I hate seeing him cry, God.

Back to present day. Of course she’s mad about Zemo. I’d also be mad about Zemo. I am mad about Zemo. She gave him a time limit--I think time limits are fun. Build tension. They’re great.

God, Zemo walking down a street full of children singing Baa Baa Black Sheep is so... 80s. Maybe don’t offer sweets to children you don’t know?? Like?? I mean his tactic’s working. Unlike Sam’s. This bitch just turned the children against Sam and Bucky. As you do.

And they have more serum. I’m going to be honest, the supersoldier thing’s pretty elitist, unless they intend to make everyone in the world a supersoldier. I can’t help but see a capitalist versus socialist metaphor here, but then I find those in literally everything.

I do like Walker’s character--he’s entertaining--but as a person, no thank you. I also really like the fact Karli Morgenthau is British, but not quite in the way most British characters in US shows. I fit the stereotypical accent, but you don’t really see other English accents in American shows.

Walker you little bitch, you said he had ten minutes. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don’t guilt-trip Bucky, you shit. And here we go.

I hate the fact this episode mean’s we’re already 2/3 of the way through the series.

And Zemo’s absolutely going to take that serum. Nope. He’s smashing it. I mean, that’s one way. Not the way I expected, but still. And he missed one. Walker’s going to take it. I know he is. And he pocketed it. Yep.

Okay, I would absolutely take the serum if I were offered it. I bet Walker’s going to take it at the end of the episode, though. Who has a bow??

And he’s the Dora Milaje. Pff, it wasn’t even an arrow; it was a spear. I’m with the Dora Milaje in this scenario, absolutely. Love that Sam and Bucky are just stood there, doing nothing. What’s the point of Lemar Hoskins? He doesn’t do anything.

Don’t unbolt Bucky’s arm, you ass.

And Zemo’s gone. Now, who could’ve seen that coming?

Why the hell is Karli calling Sam’s sister??

Sharon put a tracker on Walker? Smart.

Well, we found Zemo. God, I miss Steve.

Did Karli just kill Hoskins??

And Walker just smashed this guy’s head in. Lovely. What a Captain America thing to do. Ooh, the bloody shield’s kind of a vibe though.

So that’s episode 4, and oh my lord.

Episode Five: ‘Truth’ 16th April, and... crap, it’s 07.26, of course, the episode’s not up yet. Will return in like half an hour.

Okay, it’s past 8am, and the episode is...up. Lovely. It’s 60 minutes long, and I’m terrified, because someone told me about a theory that Bucky was going to die in this episode.

Lemar does seem to be dead, which is disappointing, because that would mean his entire character existed solely to motivate Walker to kill that guy, which isn’t very satisfying. Lemar Hoskins is a comic book character though, so who knows.

I mean. At least murderous Captain America is in anguish. He deserves it. Serious credit to the actor, by the way. Wyatt Russell got a lot of hate about his character, and I get why people don’t like the character, but he’s hugely interesting and Russell plays him so well.

So Lemar Hoskins is not dead. Doesn’t exactly put Walker in a good light. He’s obviously not going to give Sam the shield, for God’s sake.

Bucky just looks amazing with the short hair and the blue coat. It’s great. Love it.

And now Walker’s trying to kill Sam. Great idea. Did he take the serum already? Because that would explain why he’s become so brutish. Hold up. No, I don’t think he has. But who knows. Clearly not me.

Yep, trying to choke Sam. Very Captain America of you, John. And he tried to smash his head in. Thank God for Bucky. And Sam got the shield. Good.

There’s cat hair everywhere around me right now.

Well, that intro was very, very fun.

Did Sam just give up the wings...? Why...?

Glad, at least, that Walker’s no longer Captain America. Yep, yelling in a courthouse. Great way to warrant lenience. It’s the good-man-perfect-soldier balance again: Steve was always a good man first, where Walker’s first a soldier.

So Walker did take the serum. That makes sense. It exaggerates personal qualities, so Walker’s anger and... vengefulness.

Is Bucky actually going to kill Zemo? No. No, the gun’s empty. I’m not sure I get why Bucky would take out the bullets intentionally, but alright.

Hope Zemo has fun with the Dora Milaje.

This storyline with Sam’s sister is so wholesome compared to the rest of the show. So Bucky brought Sam something in a case, and I just want to know what is is. He said is was a gift from the Wakandans, so obviously tech of some kind. New wings?

I’m really confused as to whether or not Lemar Hoskins is dead. He seemed dead. Walker thought he was dead. Then this woman said he isn’t, but now Walker’s going to his family, so... yeah, I guess he is, and I just have really poor comprehension.

Sam’s nephews playing with the shield is adorable.

Aww, Sam’s learning how to use the frisbee. I know it’s more intense than that, but it’s literally a frisbee.

Soooooo the Flag Smashers are attacking the UN. As you do.

Credit scene! Credit scene! Walker’s hammering, making... something. A shield. Great. Wonderful. love how he thinks he can make a better one than Tony Stark. Sure. And that, my friends, wraps up episode 5, and marks us as 83% of the way through the show.

Episode Six: ‘One World, One People’ It’s April 23rd. And the last episode is up. Just going to finish the chapter of my audiobook first.

This title is very exciting, and the episode’s 51 minutes long. Let’s go.

Honestly, I’m not huge on shows this intense, but I am enjoying this, which I think is because a) I know the characters, and b) it’s only one episode a week.

Oh, hell yes. Falcon America. Honestly, costume looks kinda dumb. Awww, the subtitles are calling him Captain America.

This show hasn’t been nearly as exciting as WandaVision, because it lacks the mystery aspect. It’s definitely more for Marvel fans than the other series. What’s next? Loki? Yeah. I just googled it, and Marvel’s really putting out a lot this year. Which is probably because we had a year of nothing, but we’re getting four shows (WandaVision, FatWS, Loki, Hawkeye--which doesn’t yet have a definitive release) and four movies (Black Widow, Shang-Chi, the Eternals, and Spider-Man 3, which I wasn’t expecting until at least next year).

I feel like I just don’t have much to say about what’s happening, because it’s basically just a battle, which I’m never hugely interested in. I’m not really an action person.

Oh, and apparently Ms. Marvel’s this year, too.

Going through a list, clearly, and you mean to tell me we’re not getting Guardians Vol. 3 until six years after Vol. 2??

And fuck. Hey, Walker. In a costume that isn’t yours. Christ, Karli.

Honestly, I’m really fidgety because all I want to do is watch Shadow and Bone, because the entire series has been out for nine damn hours--I could’ve watched it all by now--but I’ve been busy, and I promised I’d watch it with somebody, and godddd.

We got a far-out shot of Walker dressed as Captain America just then, and I honestly thought it was Nebula. Anyway, offended that Walker dares to think he gets to wear that costume and follow up Steve Dumbass Rogers. Uh-uh.

GOD I just want to watch Shadow and Bone. Christ. I’m desperate. it’s on my Instagram, it’s on Tumblr... that’s it, but oh my God. I so hope it’s good. If it’s bad I’ll literally be distraught.

Oh, thank god. It has 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. Good.

No. Christ. God, I just want to watch it.

Screw it. I’ll finish this episode tomorrow. Byeeee.

Okay, I’m back. I watched all of Shadow and Bone. Let’s keep going!

So I did get about halfway through, yesterday, bar credits, so there’s that.

I love the symbolism of the new Falon/Captain America costume, but that doesn’t stop it from being really, really ugly.

Appreciate the speech about society being screwed up.

Why are they showing the prisoner transport? Something’s clearly going to happen. Did they just blow up the prison van??

And Walker got a new costume. That’s concerning. Give me the name, honey. US Agent. That’s bullshit.

So it is apparently his actual comic book name, but it’s still terrible.

And it said Captain America and the Winter Soldierrrrrrrr. Which is already a film. I mean, the film doesn’t have ‘and’ in it, but still. Anyway. Positive symbolism. Shall we check for a credits scene?

They’re pardoning Sharon. Huh. Nice.

There’s something ominous at play here. Great, so Sharon really is a villain here. That’s fun.

And that, my friends, wraps up Falcon and the Winter Soldier. I didn’t enjoy it as much as WandaVision, partly for the mystery, but mostly for sheer tone--this was much more your typical darker action film, where WandaVision was more light-hearted, even towards the end.

Regardless, this was a really interesting addition to the MCU, though may not be worth it if you’re not already invested.

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tsunami-socks · 4 years

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storytime, again!

ok so apparently people liked the first one because...reasons. here’s another one!

this was much more recently. last year maybe? mid-2019?

at this point, i am a full-blown malora shipper. i ship them so hard they might as well end up halfway across the world by the time i’m done with them, shipping costs not included. i’ve wrote fanfiction, made fanart, doodled all over every notebook i own. it’s SERIOUS. anyway- since this is mid-2019, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil has not yet come out yet, but the trailers are everywhere.

i like to watch youtube when i should be doing other more important things. but somehow, by some unbelievable miracle, i hadn’t really seen any trailers or ads for this movie yet, even though AFTER the events of this story happened, i saw them on youtube all the time. keep that in mind while i tell this story. i have no idea what happens in this movie.

i think i was at school when it happened. it’s the end of the school day, everyone’s packing up and going home. i get my backpack and stuff from my locker, walk to the front of the school to wait for my mom. as i’m going over to the area where i normally get picked up, i see a person who i’m going to call Oblivious Olivia. here’s the scoop on Oblivious Olivia. i know her...like, we’re classmates, and i’ve spoken to her before, but i wouldn’t really call her a friend.

on with the story.= i see Oblivious Olivia and i go over to say hi. she’s watching youtube on her phone. we exchange hellos, then it’s an awkward silence between us as i wonder why my mom is always so late to pick me up. out of pure boredom and curiosity, i try to subtly see what she’s watching but don’t recognize it right away. hmm. naturally, i ask her: “hey, what are you watching?” she tells me it’s the trailer for the second Maleficent movie and I’m like, oh hey, cool! i’ve heard of it, but never seen trailers for it! Olivia then angles her phone to show me a little bit of the trailer. the sun is feeling very sunshiny, so there’s a ton of glare and i can’t really see, but i just go with it.

another thing- she had the volume very low, so i couldn’t really hear what was going on either. again, i just went with it, thinking i could just watch it later on my own time and actually get a good idea of what the movie’s going to be like. we’re both watching the trailer together, and i remember it being one of the longer ones, so just picture a bunch of short clips and parts of scenes that are going too fast for me to really catch anything. the only- i repeat, the ONLY- scene that i actually got a good look at was this scene, the one where Maleficent is walking Aurora down the aisle:

as you probably already have guessed from my last story, when i am shown any image that has the slightest hints of two same-gender characters being romantically involved, my brain is immediately just like “GAY. GAY. I SMELL GAY. IT’S GAYYYY”

and as i’ve already mentioned, malora is one of my all-time favorite ships. also, i’m hopeless when it comes to non-canon relationships. yes, maybe they have no chemistry in canon material, and yes, maybe the author has explicitly said that they are NOT in love, but somehow, some way, my brain will find a way to make it happen.

all of these facts considered, the FIRST thing i thought of was: “OH MY GOD ARE THEY WALKING DOWN AN AISLE?!??!?!”

i really don’t know why. firstly, i suspect that i probably was not in a very stable mental states because hello, malora has taken over my life, what is this sleep you speak of? secondly, even though i watched the first Maleficent movie like a billion times and i know FULL AND WELL that there is no canon relationship between them...i will still jump on anything suggesting they might be in love because that is the nature of the fangirl.

so here i am, freaking out internally while Oblivious Olivia over here doesn’t seem to notice a thing. she goes back to watching youtube. i reaaaally wanted to know what that scene was about, even though (again) logically, i knew that they couldn’t be getting married because their bond is mother-daughter, phillip is the one for Aurora, blah blah blah.

as CASUALLY as possible for someone who has no subtlety whatsoever, i ask Olivia, “hey, was Aurora in a wedding dress or something at one point in that trailer?” and she goes, “i don’t know.” and so i try again. i’m like, “i think it was a wedding dress, now that i think about it. do you think she might be getting married to phillip?” and again, she’s like, “i don’t know.”

like, COME ON, Olivia! a little help would be nice! i’m out here GRILLING her like a burger patty, trying to see if she knows anything about this scene that is probably not gay but is totally gay in my mind, and she’s just sitting there like a rock. a very unhelpful rock. i’m not exactly sure but i think my mom pulled up just then so i left (slightly irritated).

after i went home and looked up every trailer for the movie i could find, i pretty much determined that the wedding is indeed between Phillip and Aurora. yuck. oh well. bummer, but fan-content exists for a reason. ;)

tl;dr: my malora love was once again rekindled by a scene in a trailer for M:MoE where it looks like Maleficent and Aurora are getting married.

lol. top reasons why people start shipping malora;

-misleading movie summaries

-oblivious rock people and their phones

-confusing movie trailer scenes

#storytime #true story #it happened #this happened too #irl #malora #maleficent #aurora #maleficent x aurora

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jjmaybankx · 4 years

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WHY DO I STILL » STILES STILINSKI » ONE

MASTERLIST

TRAILER

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BEACON HILLS, CALIFORNIA.

A town within Beacon County with a population of roughly 30,000 people. A town in a valley area of hills with suburban homes, high rise urban areas, but with more wilderness than the city scene people think of when they imagine California.

It was like something straight out of a movie: asshole jocks, the outcasts, the pretty popular girls with their small clique of friends.

There was just something else there, under all the normalcy of the town, past the focus of lacrosse games, Bobby Finstock's yells, past the sound of Roscoe driving on the road, Haven Salazar waiting out on the front steps of her porch for Stiles Stilinski and Scott McCall so they could start their another day of another year of high school.

To Haven's surprise, there was a lack of a certain cute, uneven-jawlined-boy in his usual place in the passenger seat of the beat up blue Jeep Wrangler as the Stiles Stilinski and his buzzcut pulled to a stop outside of her house. She got up, swinging her back over one shoulder and hopping down the two steps and sliding right into the passenger seat, throwing her bag into the backseat where she would normally be seated.

"Where's McCall?" she asked.

"Gee, good morning to you, too, Haven," Stiles said sarcastically as he drove off, a smile on Haven's face as she rolled her eyes. "I'm doing just fine, thank you for asking. Yes, I am wearing a new flannel, can't believe you noticed."

She glanced at his attire.

"That looks like the same exact flannel you wore when I saw you yesterday."

"Doesn't mean it's not new," he sassed.

"Anyways, you didn't answer my question."

"He wanted to ride his bike to school," he shrugged. "I, personally, think he's just spooked over what happened last night."

"What the hell happened last night?" Haven asked, puzzled.

——

est. 1941 BEACON HILLS HIGH SCHOOL

"Okay, let's see this thing," Stiles told Scott, all three of them wincing when Scott pulled up the side of his shirt to reveal a large gauze-like bandaid, blood seeping through from the other side.

"Gross," Haven said as Stiles went to touch it, and she swatted his hand away from Scott, glaring at him. "I can't believe you two are so stupid—Actually, I can believe that. What I can't believe is that you guys didn't take me with you while you were being stupid."

"Stiles didn't want to bring you out that late, in the dark, in the woods," shrugged Scott as he put his shirt back down. "It was hard to see much, but I'm pretty sure it was a wolf."

"A wolf-bit you?" Stiles asked.

"Honey, wolves haven't been in California for a long time," Haven chimed in, the three of them falling in a line as they walked towards the doors to our school.

"Yeah, not a chance," Stiles said.

"I heard a wolf howling."

"California hasn't had wolves for like sixty years," Haven said.

"Really?" Scott asked, and Stiles and Haven nodded.

"Well, if you guys don't believe me about the wolf, then you're definitely not gonna believe me about when I tell you I found the body," Scott added.

"You—Are you kidding me?" Stiles asked, getting excited.

"A dead body. I am friends with two idiots who get excited over finding dead bodies. Yup, this is definitely not the life I signed up for. I would like to retract whatever contract I signed—" haven started to rant, but she only trailed off when she realized neither of them were paying attention to her monologue as they continued to talk about the dead body.

"—best thing to happen to this town since..." Stiles himself trailed off, staring at something behind her, and Haven turned to see the Strawberry Blonde queen herself walking towards the school door. "...the birth of Lydia Martin. Hey, Lydia... you look..."

She kept walking, not even noticing Stiles.

"...like you're gonna ignore me."

"You're the cause of this, yanno?" Stiles accused Scott. "Dragging me down to your nerd depths. I'm a nerd by association. I've been Scarlet-nerded by you."

Scott just kept nodding and saying, "Uh huh," to Stiles as the bell rang, the three of them making our way into the school building, Scott in the middle of the two of Stiles and Haven with the girl's arms linked around the McCall boy's arm.

"Also, you can't retract whatever contract you signed," Stiles said, glancing over Scott to look at their girl friend, showing her he actually had been listening to what she was saying. "You're stuck with us."

——

In English, everyone was practically spacing out from how boring it was, but thankfully, Haven had that period with Scott and Stiles. Her eyes were glued to the McCall boy in front of her, who was fidgeting more than normal in his seat. There was two things Haven knew about her friends: Stiles was the one with ADHD and Scott had asthma, yet Stiles was sitting almost perfectly still and Scott looked ready to run out of there on all fours.

The Principal came inside with a girl, introducing her as the new student, Allison Argent. When she sat in the empty seat behind Scott, he picked up one of his pens and handed it to her, not even saying a word when he did it.

Haven furrowed my eyebrows at him, but his lovestruck gaze said it all. Homeboy had a crush.

And suddenly Haven's mood was turning sour.

——

At their lockers, Haven watched as Scott stared at Allison, who was talking with Lydia.

Great, my two best friend's crushes are now friends, Haven thought as she slammed her door shut, getting Scott's attention at the loud noise, which also made Stiles jump.

"Easy there, tiger," he said, a small laugh following. He frowned when he noticed her unreadable expression. "What's up, Hav?"

Haven didn't speak, and was practically saved from spilling her brains when a classmate of theirs asked, "Can someone tell me how New Girl is here all of five minutes, and she's already hanging out with Lydia's clique?"

"Because she's hot," was Stiles' response. "Beautiful people herd together."

Before wandering off, the same classmate said, "Then why is Haven here with you two and not with Lydia and Allison?"

Haven stifled a laugh, that comment actually making her smile as the girl beamed at her and walked off. She looked at her two best friends, Stiles glaring at her for finding the insult to them funny.

"So... you coming to watch practice?" Stiles asked Haven, but she was too busy watching Scott watch Allison with a smile to pay attention to anything he was saying.

Stiles looked down while pressing his lips together in a line, knowing what was probably going through Haven's mind watching Scott.

He grabbed her arm, catching her attention this time.

"Wanna put your things in my car for now?" he asked, earning a confused look from her. "I'm giving you a ride after my lacrosse practice, right?"

"Oh, y-yeah," she nodded, shaking her head as she caught on to what he was talking about. "Yeah, that'd be great."

"We'll be back, I'll meet you on the field," Stiles told Scott, who nodded absentmindedly as his two friends walked away.

Haven was walking in front of Stiles, who had a hand on her back as they maneuvered through the crowd of students. When they got to Stiles' car, he opened the trunk for her to throw her backpack into.

"You okay?" he asked.

"Yeah, yeah, of course," she brushed it off.

"Bullshit, Hav," Stiles shook his head.

She sighed, turning to face him after closing the door, leaning on the car. "What do you want me to say?"

"That it hurts you," Stiles said. "Seeing him have a crush on someone."

"Sometimes I regret telling you I like Scott," the girl mumbled.

"That makes two of us," nodded the boy in the plaid shirt, and Haven glared up at him. "What? I have to sit here all of the time wondering why do you still..."

When he didn't finish his sentence, Haven said, "Wondering why do I still? What? Like him?"

"He has an uneven jaw line," Stiles said, putting emphasis on every word.

"C'mon, you're gonna be late for practice," she said, moving between the small gap between the car and Stiles.

He grabbed her wrist, pulling her back for a hug.

"Okay, now we can go before I'm late for practice," he said, making her laugh as they made their way to the locker rooms so Stiles could change into his lacrosse uniform.

TWO >

#jjmaybanks;why do i still #stiles stilinski #stiles stilinski imagine #stiles stilinski fanfiction

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oceanivoxjoquainx · 5 years

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Let's talk about Eric Effiong

Let's be honest Eric's storyline and characterization is one of the most appealing out of all the characters in Sex Education periodt. A true gay, fierce, Drag QUEEN and I feel like ranting about this amazing force of nature. (Spoilers. Duh.)

When I saw the trailer for Sex Education it didnt even hit me that Eric was gay until I read the synopsis. Was just like "Oh I wonder which one of these three mains are the gay one people keep talking about" even after I saw him in drag like a dumbass 😣😂. Personally im glad we've reached a point where gay guys aren't overly feminine and even the brightest colours won't differ a character from the rest (unless I'm just a blind bish and he was obviously gay from the trailer) ei 👏🏾 ther 👏🏾 way; his character was refreshing when I started watching the show. I immediately clicked with him and knew what every look he gave or hand gesture he did meant. Felt nice. When Adam pushed him into the locker for the first time and started with the heterohomoerotic bs I knew that Adam had a raging boner for Eric and was another internalized homophobic bully™ and wasn't really excited for what was to come but I knew it was coming and tbh I liked it in the end.

Eric and Otis' friendship is so pure. Like?!? Get me a straight supportive bestie lilke Otis? Ik they fought but even then Otis was respectful and kept his boundaries and let Eric go through the motions before immediately belting into an apology at the first chance he got. Their dancing scene?!? Iconic. The fact that Eric sees Otis' house as safe and another home?!? Iconic. Otis going drag with Eric to watch an LGBT+ movie as a TRADITION (meaning they've done it numerous times)?!?! Iconic. The fact that Otis was straight up ditching Eric and Eric STILL tolerated him and let him do his thing without too much pressure!?! The most iconic of them all. Just pure love and respect all around.

I am so proud of Erics growth over the course of the season starting from a naive and scared gay doormat to facing homophia and getting beat up by those assholes on his birthday no less to losing his best friend and becoming depressed to channeling that anger into defending himself when people tried him to getting his sparkle back and coming back more fierce that ever before.

Speaking of him getting his sparkle back lets talk about that and why that scene is so important. A random guy asked Eric for directions and Eric noticed his nails were polished and the guy was wearing earrings and he was a big ole black dude. He was like Eric. When Eric noticed that the guy was out, loud, glamorous and proud he immediately switched back into the bright colourful and wonderfully gay Eric we all know and love.

THIS IS WHY REPRESENTATION MATTERS!!!!

It shows people that its okay to be who they actually are and inspires those who are lost to find or return to their true selves. Representation isn't just some offhand thing to throw on a character last minute. And even if you can relate to other characters who arent like you, it is always an amazing feeling to have a character that IS like you. It turned Eric from a popularity seeking doormat into a hurricane with 6 inch heels who was ready to straight up beat down a bully he's had for 4 years. It even inspired him to go back to church and rejoin a community that he closed off. That's exactly how it feels to have someone successful in the media and your life to look up to. Eric only interacted with that man for a few minutes but those few minutes changed his life for the better. So that's a lovely reminder for all who love to bash representation.

Back tracking to Eric's dull colourless period after the attack and his fight with Otis. It was saddening to see one of the brightest characters go dull and even the school felt it. He turned from a guy who rarely stood up for himself and what he wanted into the sass master he reserved only for his friends. All of his built up anger was released causing him to explode on Mr Hendricks (who is adorable tbh and just trying to do his best) and Anwar (I was proud of that punch you go glenn co co) and he even sounded off on his dad who he's usually passive aggressive to at worst. Just goes to show that the happiest faces can harbor the biggest pains and can snap. Moral of the story? Protect the happy few.

Eric also has a great family. Like that obviously know Erics gay and wears dresses because its all right there in his room which his parents enter at their leisure and while it seems that they're a bit homophobic its revealed that they (Erics dad at least) just wants Eric to be safe as he's already a target for being black and apart of an immigant family. He accepts Eric for who he is and what he does he just doesnt want anyone else to give him shit for it and if that's not one of the sweetest things in this world idek what is. Eric and his dad was probably one of my favorite dynamics in the show and watching his dad slowly fully accept that his son was strong and able to stand for himself he was able to become stronger too. This dynamic is important because I never see any gay black characters have a close relationship with their fathers and it was very heartwarming to watch.

Now onto Erics love life. He has a crush on the highschools other only gay guy Anwar who's the typical mean sassy gay we've all come to expect in highschool dramas. Otis saying that Eric doesnt have to have a crush on the only other openly gay guy at school was such a mood as its commonly shown that any gays in close proximity should get together. When Eric punched him I internally went "Finally!" Because all those jeers were becoming annoying. I'm glad Anwar got to come out to his mum over it though. And straight up told the audience that Eric didn't like feminine guys (alluding to him and Adams eventual clean up scene as of we didn't see it coming already).

Moving on to Adam tho, like I said we all been knew that this

was indeed coming and even though I hate the bully x bullied trope I still ended up liking it and hoping that Adam would change. The building up to that kiss was long awaited from episode 1 straight through to 8 with all the longing looks that Adam kept side glancing Eric with and the face cupping and the growls and the lingering touches. I just kept going sthdjksksbslaldbd when one of those moments happened followed shortly after with disgust because gays falling for their abuser is washed up but then immediately going back to jajaklamabsldkd because im shipping trash so 🤷🏿. Eric stepping to Adam in at the ball was one of the most iconic scenes of the show (along with the "Its My Vagina" scene) and the exchange between him and Adam gave be actual chills. The tension was THICCCC. Erics OUTFIT to the ball gave me chills 😭😭 dude came to slay and had everyone at that school proper shook and I honestly could NOT be more proud. I was hoping Adam would become a better person over the course of the season but nope so hopefully they cover all the issues that Adam has in season 2 and properly give him a redeption arc cuz he's still a trashy pos he's just a disaster bi on top of it. (Adam immediately going to suck Eric off is confidence I can only dream of achieving 💀💀) The lab scene was also cute but made me mad because how could Adam look scared, confident and still be a douchebag all in the span of a few seconds was beyond me. A+ acting on Connor Swindells part. I can see why Adam would have to stay in the closet and keep their... relationship?? a secret because it seems like Headmaster Groff would be a homophobic piece of shit and would add to the ever growing list of things Adam did wrong. Even so it doesn't excuse the fact that Adam is in fact a bully and Eric deserves much better. Was sad seeing Adam being driven off from Eric in the end tho. Eric thought that Adam didn't want to see him at all and was probably heartbroken and probably thinks Adam left because of him (my poor baby 😭😭). I feel bad for Adam too because he was just starting to express himself and was at the beginning of a redemption arc when he was just wisked away from the boy he's loved for what seems to be a very long time. I just want my boys to be happy and non toxic and I wish their relationship and them all the best in Season 2.

Eric Effiong is my favorite character in the show and I really want to thank Ncuti Gatwa for portraying him so well and for the shows writers who gave him a very fleshed out character with an amazing storyline and conclusion. His growth was incredible and his strength is immeasurable. I'm 100% certain that he will be a character the community remembers for years to come. Patiently now waiting on what's to come in Season 2 💙🙌🏾.

#eric effiong #ncuti gatwa #adam groff #connor swindells #adam x eric #sex education netflix #sex education #netfix #lgbt representation #lgbt characters #lgbtq

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dahvangogh · 5 years

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Let’s rant a bit about Friday because i literally start shaking every time i start thinking about it. This will be a bit long, so forgive me for that.

This Monday we got a very stressed Eleonora who literally smiled and relaxed when reading Edoardo’s message. Her walls are down, that Friday night changed everything for them and she likes him now, period.

We all know that.

Then today, Tuesday, we get the scene with Eva and we find out about the raffle. The Villa Boys trashed the Eur bar while Edo and Ele were chilling back at his villa. The damage is of 5.000 euros (i almost fainted when i saw that number lmao because that is A LOT of money) and of course they are doing a raffle.

But the big prize is hooking up with Edoardo Incanti.

I’m 90% sure he didn’t offer himself but his friends announced it first and after the tickets started selling, then they told him. Edoardo is a loyal and good friend. We all know that. He basically interrupted his date (with the love of his life) and ran to help them, he was probably mad for days after that night because he wasn’t there for them and they got beaten up. So probably when they told him he would be the prize, he thought himself responsible that shit went down while he was away and so agreed to do it.

We are talking about Edoardo Incanti, the most popular guy in the whole school, and of course girls are going to pay a lot of money to hook up with him (insert here a very desperate Silvia buying 10 tickets).

So either the guys offered him as the prize before he knew of that or asked him personally to help in that way and he, after a bit of convincing and because he is a good friend, agreed to it.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, we will get the equivalent of the locker scene with Edo and Ele. She will be jealous and very closed off. She will use the refugees as an excuse for her being mad, just like Noora, and even though he knows she is jealous, he will also understand that by agreeing to be the prize, he fucked up and now she thinks he was playing with her that night. Perhaps Ele will go as far as saying how because the Villa Boys did that, he is just as irresponsible and stupid as them. He will be his usual cheeky self, trying to soothe things, but she will be so mad that she will leave him there. Her words and coldness will hurt him.

Until Friday night, perhaps Thursday with a clip of the girl squad talking and Silvia asking the girls to lend her some money, we might get Edo sending a text to Ele saying that a % of the profits they earn at the raffle will be sent for the refugees only if she goes.

THEN FRIDAY. Eva will be jealous as fuck of Gio and Sofia, perhaps Ele and her are talking at the party while looking at the couple talking and being sweet, and Ele will be also checking what Edo is doing and if he is talking with any girls. Silvia comes all excited talking about how they will announce soon who the winner is. She will get anxious and mad, leave perhaps for a refill or to talk to him. She is alone, then Edo comes into the scene.

“Aren’t you tired of playing this game?”

“What game?”

We heard and saw a bit of the scene on the trailer (click in trailer to rewatch it if you don’t remember that) for this season. He sounds a bit tired, worried and perhaps he will cover it with one of his charming smiles, like almost joking, but he is not.

He will ask the question and as we all know, she will answer that she doesn’t like him.

Edoardo will be left broken hearted, perhaps he will nod a few times more for him that for her. To accept the fact that the only girl he has been in love with doesn’t like him back and probably hates him.

It will hurt him like a bitch.

And so he will leave the party, fuck everything, he needs out so he can lick his wounds and so if he crumbles down, he can do it alone in his house when no one will see him that vulnerable and broken.

But don’t worry, Ele will see through that.

She will see that she hurt him with her words and actions, so she will go after him. It will be dramatic, she will go after him in the pouring rain. When she sees him from a far, she will call him.

He will turn around, perhaps waiting for her to twist the knife in the wound, and because I’m sure he sees himself beneath her, seeing Eleonora Sava as someone worthy a ten of him, he will stand there waiting for the fatal blow.

She will yell at him, how he doesn’t have the right to get mad at him. How selfish, narcissistic, egocentric and violent he is. She will point out every single reason we she shouldn’t like him, all his flaws.

He will nod, the wound deep and hurting. All his flaws and shit making it even clearer how he doesn’t deserve her and how he will never have her.

“That’s it? Are you done?” almost on the verge of breaking down in front of her, trying very hard to remain strong. At least until he is home.

“No!”

“Anything else?”

And Eleonora will step up, almost unconsciously, her mind and heart battling each other.

Edoardo will take a step back, just like we see in the teaser.

She will think i am loosing him for good when she sees how he steps back. From her.

So, Eleonora Sava will go to him and he will go to her, and they will (FINALLY!) have that kiss. Finally, after a year of push and pull, Eleonora will be the one to take that important step and they will kiss.

And we all have seen how Edoardo Incanti kisses random girls.

He gives it all.

Well, imagine with Eleonora.

A not so random girl, but his love. His girl.

She will be grabbing his cheeks, on her tip toes because he is too tall, perhaps even go a bit far from that and grab his coat towards her. He will embrace her by her waist, kneeling a bit because compared to him she is so short, and maybe he will caress her cheek oh so gently and loving.

They will both feel finally at home.

And they will break the kiss, the first or second to many to come, and embrace each other because it’s been a long time coming and they need to be together.

#NEEDED TO GET THIS OFF I AM SO SORRY #MY BABIES #incantava #eleonora sava #edoardo incanti #skam italia #edoardo x eleonora #skamit

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