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amigosmercedes · 2 years

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Song Analysis of SWIFTGRON

For swiftgron only stan..

This is my theory why 1989 is an album about taylor and dianna love story, from start to end.. 1989 -taylor 1986-dianna

The album cover - taylor wearing a seagull- dianna said in one interview about a song called "lesbian seagull".. -they are both weird. they can communicate via songs. they had a lot of codes that just the 2 of them understands. -polaroid theme of 1989 is just swiftgron

Welcome to new york

in the liner note: we begin our story in new york. -im thinking about the "holy ground" is the empire state building. where taylor have a photo on the **floor and post it on her announcement of 1989, (she really went there to take photo to use for her 1989 announcement).. thats the 1st day and their story begins.taylor explained about the line boys and boys, girls and girls was inspired when the same sex marriage was legalized in NY, i think shes not lying about it. coz thats june 2011, im thinking they were official around oct or nov 2011. and the lyrics is parrallel to her song 22, when they met, they are both hearbroken, "making fun of our exes"..

New romantics

-this song similar to 22.. during taylors 22nd birthday, taylor celebrated her birthday, like a week long, and even worried that her neighbor will complain about the noise. "the best people in life are free".. sounds like she really having a great party with her new gf and friends. they share same circle of friends.. -dianna stars in a movie the romantics (2010)..

You are in love/wildest dreams

this song has a similar energy as everything has change and treacherous. the falling inlove stage, their sneaking out and early stage of relationship.. -YAIL was already recorded according to jack around 2013, even before the vsfs 2013.. -the wildest dream MV screams dianna to me. the lion is a dianna reference, "aslan" to be specific, shes a big fan of that book and even had a tatoo aboit it. the old holywood is very dianna.

Out of the woods

-"if life gets too good, darling it scares you", this is from taylors poem.. when their relationship is getting deeper taylor started to feel anxious or scared. esp both of them are the apple of the eye of media during that time.

I know places

same energy as OOTW, but taylor here is hopeful, that their relationship can still work coz she know places.. it can be interpreted that as long as they dont see doing PDA in public they are good and stays in the closet..

-blank space

-one way to protect her secret relationship was to beard. she bearded connor and harry. connor to cover their hyanis port and also connected on rhode island house, both dianna and taylor had meeting with connor grandma. i think the rhode island is a grand gesture of taylor for dianna, im sure dianna knows rebekah harkness/betty and her story, rebekah is one of the pioneer in ballet,both of them are book nerd. and dianna is a ballet dancer. dance teacher and instructor. both dianna and rebekah has a lot in common.even they look similar in some photos. and then the famous harry potter. joke.. 🤣

lyrics - "coz were young and were reckless"- the chorus is about dianna and some verse is about bearding.

This love

in Red album, theres a lot of ups and down in their relationship, like babe, better man, the last time, their relationship is on and off, their both busy, the distance, etc, and if your relationship is hidden or secret its probably complicated, i believe during their time OFF, dianna would hook up in "some other girl", but taylor dont like it, hence the babe and better man song. and taylor in "style" also admits she do the same. -she wrote this love after she came back from paris. obviously theyre back together.

-how you get the girl

in 1989 tour, taylor swift sing the lyrics "and you open up the door, and said I AM insane".. you can find it in utube, there is a 4k version and its very clear. taylor is the one who made a mistake this time and tried to win her girl back. both of them made mistakes in their relationship and its normal. what i mean normal is, even us normal persons, we had ups and down in our relationships, thats why i saw their relationship as real.. -this song was after taylor and harry ended their PR. and taylor go straight to dianna. january 2013

All you had to do was stay

like feb-april 2013, their relationship is getting more complicated, the twittergate on feb, the outing rumor, swiftgron is already loud at that moment. and both of their teams are stressing their relationship. you can see both of them are trying and trying to make their relationship work but, dianna was so fed up with taylors team and eventually gave up on april.. you can see on diannas old tumbler, feb shes still hoping, and accept that they will keep their love hidden. but her post in april, is a giving up post.

I wish you would

dianna bought a house in LA somewhere april 2013, they are already on break that time. taylor is mad when dianna gave up on her, but taylor said " i miss you too much to be mad anymore".. i think somewhere may 2013 up until oct 2013 they are still trying to fix things up.

Style

i think this was first inspired by just another girl MV that dianna starred in killers, the song tells how their relationship, on and off, both made mistakes and when they are crashing down they come back everytime. and also the instyle photo of dianna in james dean inspired photo shoot.

bad blood

i guess something big happened during nov or dec of 2013, base on the bad blood music video, theyre a team until selena(dianna) betrayed her and "take the money", and throws taylor out and crash in the "getaway car"... im still not sure what happen. but its always a rumor eversince that everytime taylor had a serious relationship, her teams allegedly doing everything to separate them. -im confused with bad blood, coz in the "getaway car " song taylor is the one who took the money and stole the keys of the getaway car...

Clean

obviously taylor is on 10 months sober.. maybe because for 10 months they both try and try to fix things but still not working. clean is a wistful song to me, she never said bad about their relationship in that song about dianna, it looks like the reason of the breakup is outside forces. -the lyrics "just because your clean, dont mean you dont miss it." soundlike she dont have any choice but to move on.. -the clean visual speaks a lot, there is the empire state, london, a visual with woods (im thinking big sur or a Loughrigg Tarn reference), falls, water, beach (hyanis port reference).

Shake it off

obviously the liner says: sHe dance to forget him... -and made a whole damn music video referencing dianna, im surprise she didnt add the trapeze. 🤣. but the trampoline to me really stands out, same as dianna when she jumps on her cheerleading outfit in glee.

Wonderland

last but not the least.. taylor is really unhinged when she release this one but thankfully she did, one of the best proof swiftgron exist. -wonderland is basically the whole story of 1989..

3 songs with " so it goes" connections, style - So it goes He can't keep his wild eyes on the road,Takes me home The lights are off, he's taking off his coat YAIL- you two are dancing in the snowglobe round and round. so it goes - the entire lyrics

all the "so it goes" are connected and i think happened on the same day. During winter, they went in the bar on a date, and went home, they move the furniture (crowded room), so that they could dance, and while theyre dancing, its snowing outside ( you two are dancing in the snow globe round and round).. thats the night they coudnt quite forget. same visual of the lover MV, theyre dancing inside the house while snowing outside..

DWOHT- i believe belongs to 1989, she already wrote the dwoht before the kissgate, seen in her polaroid pic with lyrics. taylor also liked a post in tumbler telling that dwoht has connection in one scene in OOTW when shes frozen and her one hand is tied up.. this is taylor pining and regrets, the whole song is her reminiscing the "night that they coudnt quite forget"..

many songs in reputation and lover are connected with red and 1989.. why??? you know the answer.. and the folklore and evermore is their journey from 2013 to 2016... Red to evermore is their entire story..

I do also believe Wildest Dreams about Kaylor. There is lyrics

He said, "Let's get out of this town

Drive out of the city, away from the crowds" = Big Sur

He's so tall and handsome as hell = Karlie is so tall

He's so bad but he does it so well = Karlie high maintenance

And for Blank Space, it is more about Taylor make fun joke herself about all the bearding she did/do to comments about her bearding. Like Eminem songs Stan, he try to comments on the criticism of Eminem song toward his fans action

The Taylor Swift Lyrical Universe - Swiftgron

Swiftgron

This post was originally meant to be an addition to this post called "Champagne Problems is about Dianna." from u/npeanutbutter43 as more "proof" that it really is about Dianna, but it went off the rails. Ever since I read this theory I couldn't get it out of my head and because I have been listening to a lot of Taylor lately, some theories started to click, so I will try to connect multiple Swiftgron songs into a storyline or something and we'll see how it goes.

But first, for this alternative universe I will take Cardigan, Champagne Problems, Betty and The 1 as songs about Dianna. Champagne Problems was already covered in the post and the 1 is already speculated to be about Dianna - "I hit the Sunday matinée".

Now, you may say "why is Cardigan about Dianna?". Here are 2 things that "confirm" it for me.

Dianna was "caught" listening to Cardigan on spotify. There were gaylors saying "she's crazy. That song is about Karlie", but is it though? I think Dianna would know if a song is about her and might hint at it. Plus, according to this comment, she was also listening to Wonderland. And we all know who Wonderland is about.

It is a sister song to Betty and this post from u/csl86ncco connects the two. Now, again - why is Betty about Dianna? Well, Taylor posted this on her birthday with the caption ‘iTs mY BiRtHdAY & I jUsT wAnNa DaNcE’ and if you only take the capitalized letters you get "HY DIANNA U R BETTY". Now, is this reaching? Absolutely. Do I care? Not really, because it works for my theory. Plus, if she wanted to make it "HEY" instead of "HY" she couldn't with that exact quote because there is an "E" less.

I also want to add that I see the songs from evermore & folklore as real feeling in fictional scenarios. So, for example, I see Betty as an entirely made up scenario of teenagers inspired from real life events and feelings.

Anyways, this post is going to focus on songs written after the break up and how they are connected. I went off a little bit while researching and fell into the Red rabbit hole, but if I were to add those songs as well I think this post would be way too long.

Abbreviations:I Wish You Would - IWYW All You Had to Do Was Stay - AYHTDWS How You Get the Girl - HYGTG Alternative Universe - AU Trains

What I'm focusing on here is the train as an object for leaving, but I will quote other mentions of trains as well.

You booked the night train for a reason

- Champagne Problems

'Cause I knew yousteppin' on the last train

- Cardigan

You can also count these Willow lyrics here:

You know that my train could take you homeanywhere else is hollow

but I'm choosing not to since Willow's train is (more) metaphorical.

I knew youYour heartbeat on the High Line

- Cardigan

The High Line is both a nonprofit organization and a public park on the West Side of Manhattan built on a - get this - historic, elevated rail line. Plus, even better, Dianna Agron was attending a party in 2012 in the High Line. (This is probably reaching as well, but I found it and I had to share)

ETA: Apparently "Don't Stop Believin" also known as "Midnight train" is the unofficial theme song for Glee. Do whatever you want with this information.Cars

Thanks to this poor gaylor on the main sub from 4 years ago, I got that, apparently, "Dianna was always out of Glee shooting late, and it was well known that she would go to Tay's house around this time."

It's 2 A.M. in my roomHeadlights pass the window paneI think of you

- IWYW

Midnight, you come and pick me up, no headlightsLong drive, could end in burning flames or paradise

- Style

Standing in your cardiganKissing in my car again

- BettyOn and off relationship

Taylor and Dianna were rumored to be on and off all the time according to stans (and some inside sources) and there are multiple verses that confirm that:

Makes you wanna run and hideThen it makes you turn right back around

- IWYW

Here you are now, calling me up, but I don't know what to say

- AYHTDWS

Say it's been a long six monthsAnd you were too afraid to tell her what you want

- HYGTG

It was months and months of back and forth

- Clean

It's been a while since I have even heard from youAnd I should just tell you to leave 'cause IKnow exactly where it leads but IWatch it go round and round each time

- Style

This love is goodThis love is badThis love is alive back from the dead

- This LoveDoomed from the start

We found WonderlandYou and I got lost in itAnd we pretended it could last forever

- Wonderland

Know exactly where it leads but IWatch it go round and round each time

-Style

We're a crooked loveIn a straight line down

- IWYW

They pretended everything was going to be fine, but deep down they always knew it would end. I would also like to add these lyrics from the 1:

But we were something, don't you think so?Roaring twenties, tossing pennies in the pool

They were in their twenties when they were rumored to be dating. They were also hoping that it would last - "tossing pennies in the pool" like when you make a wish. That's how I personally see it.Other women

But you'll find the real thing insteadShe'll patch up your tapestry that I shred /Your mom's ring in your pocketHer picture in your wallet

- Champagne Problems

Chase two girls, lose the 1

- Betty

I had this dream you're doing cool shitHaving adventures on your ownYou meet some woman on the internet and take her home

- the 1

I say "I've heard that you've been out and about with some other girl, some other girl"(s)he says "What you've heard is true but ICan't stop thinking about you" and II said "I've been there too a few times"

- Style

Tossing, turningStruggled through the night with someone new

- This Love

Slept next to her, butI dreamt of you all summer long

- Betty

And if my wishes came trueIt would've been you (not the other girl - reaching on my part)

- the 1Proposal as a way to try to save an ending relationship

This is the most important part and what ties the newer songs with the ones from 1989. In this AU, we will pretend that Dianna did propose to Taylor and Taylor said no :(.

Your mom's ring in your pocketMy picture in your wallet /You had a speech, you're speechlessLove slipped beyond your reachesAnd I couldn't give a reason /Sometimes you just don't know the answer'Til someone's on their knees and asks you

- Champagne Problems

And now you sayI want you for worse or for betterI would wait for ever and everBroke your heart, I'll put it back togetherI would wait for ever and ever

-HYGTG

Note: I feel like this song is about what Dianna did and lost the girl (Taylor) because of this line:

And that's how it worksThat's how you lost the girl

I knew youTried to change the ending

Dianna tried to save the relationship by proposing.

Peter losing Wendy

"Peter wants Wendy to stay forever, but she eventually leaves behind the fantasy of Neverland and childhood and returns to her real life, where she moves on and grows up."

Hmmmmm I wonder if there are any similarities in our situation. I feel like this fits perfectly with the idea that they thought they were going to last, but deep down they knew they were lying to themselves and eventually someone had to let go (Taylor).

It's all fun and games 'til somebody loses their mind

- WonderlandLeaving

I see the leaving from both - Taylor was the one who left the relationship and said no to the proposal, but Dianna was the one who physically left - the train metaphor.

You search the world for something else

"Dianna went traveling after the break up with people like Derek Blasberg" - from the original Swiftgron masterpost.

I reached for youBut you were gone (Dianna went traveling)I knew I had to go back home (matches the Peter Pan metaphor, Taylor=Wendy)

- Wonderland

I never was ready, so I watch you go

- Champagne Problems

I knew youLeavin' like a fatherRunnin' like water

- Cardigan

Tell her how you must've lost your mindWhen you left her all alone and never told her why

- HYGTG, this matches my theory that the song is about what Dianna did.

Betty, I won't make assumptionsAbout why you switched your homeroomBut, I think it's 'cause of me

- Betty, metaphor for leaving

Betty didn't want to see James, so as 17yo all she can do is avoid and try not to see her.Outside forces

We can't pretend that this relationship had perfect conditions. From Taylor's perspective, there was her reputation on the line. Let's be honest for a second - if she came out in 2013/14, she never would've become this big. That's the sad reality. We can pretend people are accepting, but they are not. So, these are some lines that hint on other forces influencing the relationship.

Skies grew darkerCurrents swept you out againAnd you were just gone and gone, gone and gone

- This Love

Didn't they tell us don't rush into things? /Haven't you heard what becomes of curious minds? /But there were strangers watchingAnd whispers turned to talkingAnd talking turned to screams

-Wonderland

And when you are young, they assume you know nothing

- CardiganWhat if? Overthinking, regrets & missing Dianna

Overthinking

Ten months older, I won't give in

- Clean

She's tempted and is thinking about going back.

The more I think about it now the less I knowAll I know is that you drove us off the road

- AYHTDWS

Regrets

I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs

- Cardigan

Taylor isn't sure whether that was the right decision and definitely has some regrets about how it went down and how it could've gone differently. Years later she still wonders whether maybe Dianna was "the 1". Basically the whole song is a big "what if", so I am not going to quote it here and instead I am focusing on the other songs:

Wish I'd never hung up the phone like I did /I wish we could go backAnd remember what we were fighting forWish you knew thatI miss you too much to be mad anymore

- IWYW

But if I just showed up at your partyWould you have me? Would you want me?Would you tell me to go fuck myselfOr lead me to the garden?

- Betty

Missing someone

I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifsThe smell of smoke would hang around this long (ETA: Dianna is a smoker)

- Cardigan

But I know I miss you

- Betty

And I wish you were right here, right nowIt's all goodI wish you would /Wish you knew thatI miss you too much to be mad anymore

-IWYWIt's not entirely over?

I'm basically crazy at this point and this part might make you a little sad, but if these songs (from the last 2 albums) truly are about Dianna (which, let's be honest, is questionable) then there are definitely hints that Taylor is open to the idea of going back to Dianna (and vice versa).

I knew you'd miss me once the thrill expiredAnd you'd be standin' in my front porch lightAnd I knew you'd come back to me

- Cardigan

In my defense, I have noneFor never leaving well enough alone

- the 1

She's thinking of reflaming the old relationship. For those who are not native English speakers like me, "leave well enough alone" means to allow something to stay as it is because doing more might make things worse. But Taylor never does this, so going back is probably a bad idea, she knows that, but she's not leaving this relationship alone (which we see with evermore and folklore really well).

I guess you never know, never knowAnd it's another day waking up alone

- the 1

I wish you knew thatI'd never forget you as long as I'd live

- IWYW

If you read all of this, thank you so much. I spent a lot of time connecting the dots. Don't be afraid to add clown emojis in the comments. After all, I probably deserve them. I look probably like this and honestly that's how I felt when I found some things.

#taylor swift #dianna agron #swiftgron #gaylor

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tyy7654 · 3 years

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Saliva//Anakin

Type: Smut/angst

Readers position: receiver

Characters position: giver

Kinks: Softcore BDSM/Blood

Description: After Padme comes to Ani accusing him of his vicious crimes, seeing the deranged mental state she called to have him arrested. Being his lover, and last remaining friend, he comes to you for comfort.

xxxxx

"Anakin," You wrap your hands around his waist from behind him.

"She betrayed me," He shouted. Moving away from you sitting on the edge of his bed. You sit next to him and lean on his shoulder grabbing his hand. "You'll follow me, won't you?" He pleads, "You don't belong anywhere else."

"I-" You squeeze his hand, "I will." He turns to you and kisses your cheek.

"The empire I'll build will protect you, I'll protect you," he comforts pressing his face against your cheek, "There's no need to be afraid."

"As long as I'm with you," you assure.

"You're still crying," he accused turning away, "Don't tell me you're scared." You don't respond just yet, you watch him struggle for a moment.

"I-I just need you, nothing else."

He grabbed your arm in a sudden manner. You feel a little shocked, letting out a little gasp. He places a hand on your face and kisses you. You were afraid, he had become too unpredictable. But you trusted him not to harm you.

His grip on you became tighter biting your lip. You squirmed and grabbed his waist pulling him towards you. He pulls away and kisses your neck, you place your hand on the back of his head. He pushes you back and pins you to the bed grabbing your wrists. He starts to grind against you.

He opens his mouth and sticks his tongue out, you furrow your brows in slight confusion. He takes his hand and forces your mouth open, letting the saliva in this mouth drain into yours. The sudden urge to gag and spit it out was cut off. He closes your mouth and unties your shirt. He throws it to the side and aggressively takes his off. Revealing his chest, a large cut striped across his chest. He unzips your pants and pulls them down and off. You swallow his spit and reopen your mouth taking in deep breaths. He smiles and pulls his belt off.

He puts your hand in his mouth and bites in breaking the skin. With one hand he held yours, the other pulling down his pants. Your eyes focused on his face, he was feral and deranged. So focused on him you almost didn't notice him enter you. You gasp, him grabbing your sides and aggressively pushing himself in. The whole bed shook, all his anger was being taken out. His nails broke the skin on your sides, you yelled in pain. He covered your mouth gripping your face hard. You kept hard eye contact. His teeth were clenched moaning angrily between breaths.

He moved his hand from your face to your neck, squeezing the sides. His moves were so mean, disrespecting your body elegantly. You moaned as your skins slap together. You took a deep fulfilling breath when he moved his hands from your neck to your arms.His hand could be considered very gentle.You could not even feel him touching you, all you choose to feel was his aggressive length pulling in and out of your body.In your heart, you felt his strength his intense focus, but the expression was nor anger nor pleasure.

He yelled and hunched over you, panting like a dog, letting his slobber get all over your stomach. He moved himself out and stands up pulling his pants up. You lay for a moment, letting some sort of reality set in. You smiled and sat up. Anakin stood by the window. You get up too and stand next to him placing a hand on his back.

"We're leaving for Mustafar tomorrow," He said turning to you, he grabs you into a hug and strokes your hair. "I have important business there," he darted away and stormed out the room grabbing his robe on the way out.

You stand alone and suppress the urge to break down. You hug your bare body trying to remember the warmth he used to have. Turning back to the window you cover your mouth with a cold hand.

You close your eyes, it was time fo forget your old life.

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#star wars #starwars #anakin #anakin skywalker #anakin one shot #starwars oneshot #star wars one shot #star wars smut #anakin smut #lemon #anakin lemon

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mythic-mythologies · 3 years

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So, it’s our favourite blue loving boys birthday today.

BUT.

It’s also his and Annabeth’s anniversary. So here’s how I think their wedding would go..

Percy: Leo, what are you doing?

Leo, in a short white dress: Annabeth asked me to be her co-bridesmaid.

Percy: What?

Piper, in the same dress: LEO GET YOUR ASS IN HERE! IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SUPRISE YOU IDIOT

Percy: What

✨The getting married part (im so sorry, i have no idea what weddings are like)✨

chiron walks annabeth down the aisle and annabeth is wearing a gorgeous white dress with a bit of blue in it since they get married on their anniversary (aka percys birthday) and percy just straight up starts sobbing and grovers sobbing with him too.

Chiron: something something blah blah blah i dont know something something. Percy, do you take Annabeth to be your lawfully wedded wife?

Percy: Annabeth, with all my love, I take you to be my wife. I will love you through good and the bad, through joy and sorrow. I will try to be understanding, and to trust in you completely. Together we will face all of life's experiences and share one another's dreams and goals. I promise I will be your equal partner in a loving, honest relationship, for as long as we both shall live.

Cut to Sally smiling so widely because she’s been waiting for this moment forever

Chiron: And Annabeth, do you take Percy to be your lawfully wedded husband?

Annabeth: Percy, I take you to be my lawfully wedded husband. Before these witnesses, I vow to love you and care for you as long as we both shall live. I take you with all of your faults and your strengths as I offer myself to you with all of my faults and strengths. I will help you when you need help, and I will turn to you when I need help. I choose you as the person with whom I will spend my life.

Chiron, almost close to sobbing too: You may now kiss the bride🥺

the cute kiss scene✨✨

Percy: Before we go to eat cake and party till midnight-

Annabeth: Midnight?

Percy: Yes, Estelle needs to be asleep by then. Anyway, I would like to make a toast to Annabeth Chase.

Annabeth: Chase?

Percy: I thought we agreed on me taking youre last name?

Piper: What

Percy: Anyway. It’s been about 20 years or so since I’ve met you. I definitely didn’t know what to think of you in the start but then realised that a feeling was there. A romantic one. And honestly I was really dumb back then since I didn’t understand those emotions. I just kept calling you my bestie and not looking much into it. But now look at us. Married. In the place where we first met. I’m not great with words but I know that, I’ll love you no matter what. And I mean that. I’ll love you forever. Even when my body is underground and only the ghost of me is there to love you. I truly and deeply love you, Wise Girl.

Annabeth, smiling wider than Sally with tears in her eyes: Well now I think I should make a toast.. Percy Jackson, we’ve been best friends for a long time. A super duper long time. Now I know it isn’t like me to not write something to say twenty four hours ago but I know one thing. And that thing is that there’s a bomb.

Everyone: *panic noises* (what? i knkw nothing. sue me, I dare you.)

Annabeth: You’re butt is da bomb.

Percy: WAS THAT A BROOKLYN NINE-NINE REFERENCE?

and then yeah, they eat blue cake made my Sally and Annabeth so its super tasty and looks super cool. The design is New York and on top is the Empire State Building and on top is Percy and Annabeth kissing. Kapow.

Also they play Taylor Swift at their wedding.

And they get married on a beach.

#percy and annabeth #percy jackson #percabeth #pjobooks #marriage #annabeth is supreme #brooklyn 99 #amy santiago #HAPPY BIRTHDAY PERCY

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frostios · 3 years

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Tell me abt freedon and barnaby’s relationship pls.., and tell me abt everyones relationship with eachother? 🥺

Very wordy response under the cut but i hope you enjoy learning more about them!!

OKAY so me and emmy set up our characters mostly as jokes in the beginning because it was also when we were both in peak brainrot mode SO their stories are basically us plucking a few things we like from half life and punching them into fantasy setting as best as we can.

Freedon and Barnaby are partners (not currently romantic but that is absolutely the end goal) They met each other during a war in their empire and grew close during it, but circumstances caused Freedon to fake his death and go into "hiding" without telling anyone what his plan was, not even Barnaby. Twenty years pass and the start of the campaign happens and suddenly Freedon and Barnaby find themselves as a team again. Freedon doesn't give him an explanation as to where hes been and Barnaby is too happy to care for the moment, and then they are thrust into their new jobs along with the other party members and the whole twenty year separation thing is pushed to the side for a moment. They fall into their old rhythm and are practically joined at the hip once more. Barnaby canonically acts as Freedon's interpreter to the members of the party that dont know common sign. Theyve had multiple moments throughout the campaign where something pushes them to teeter into getting into an actual romantic relationship (at one point freedon tells barnaby he loves him, but barnaby doesnt pay much attention to it because freedon had be charmed at the time. A more recent thing was the entire party about to go their separate ways when forced to take a six month leave from their job. Freedon was going to go off by himself before Barnaby told him that he needs him and asks him to come live on his farm with him) but something is in the way. CURRENTLY Barnaby believes that he and Freedon are in a romantic relationship but Freedon isnt on the same page because neither of them ever explicitly stated it. (My friends want to throttle me for it) also they share a bed because having someone that they each have total trust in be close is the comfort they both need in order to get a good sleep. Also because they love each other Heres the run down of freedons relationship with the other party members!

He and Cranberri mutually respect each other and have become close. He trusts her and will stand by her side and back her up when she needs it. Freedon also enjoys gently ribbing her and joking around freely because she is one of the ones that can understand his jokes without need for a second translation. He likes her

Freedon originally saw Nami as young and naïve and in need of protection, and he was right at first, but hes now proud of her and trusts that she can handle herself. That desire for protecting her has changed from the viewpoint of "weak, naïve" to more of a fatherly worry (that he entirely blames on Barnaby rubbing off on him)

Literally the most recent session Freedon stated that he doesn't think he can ever trust Joemin again. Something pretty bad happened with Joemin regarding being possessed by some evil thing and never telling his teammates about the incredible danger that he posed. So Freedon now doesnt let Joemin be alone with anyone. Freedon's angry with him.

Freedon doesnt really know what to think of Kilgon. He doesn't fully trust him yet but he does respect him and his abilities. His out of nowhere jokes always seem to knock a laugh out of Freedon. Barnaby is more often than not annoyed by Kilgon so Freedon keeps his distance and doesnt really know how to approach him.

Freedon doesnt know much about Kisia and Kisia hasnt been too inclined to share much, but she has shown care and kindness to the group and is an excellent companion in battle, so Freedon is beginning to relax more around her. As for everyones relationships with each other:

- Cranberi and Nami are basically sisters now

- Barnaby unconsciously tries to act fatherly towards most of the crew. Nami appreciates it and has even told him that he's everything she ever wanted her own father to be. Cranberi doesnt appreciate it but still likes and cares for Barnaby as a comrade, just doesnt want him treating her like a child

- Barnaby does not trust Joemin at all and is pissed off about the possession thing. Joemin has been acting very volatile and unpredictable, and Barnaby believes that to be extremely dangerous

- Kilgon is very closed off about his true emotions towards things, as he thinks someone is going to use them against him. So instead he controls situations by acting in ways where he knows what the response will be, and builds up an image in the others minds so theyre too annoyed to try to look closer at him. The only player character he's let his walls down slightly for is Nami

- Joemin loves Cranberi (platonically) as shes the one of the only ones that continuously reached out to Joemin after she first noticed something was up. Cranberi and Nami are the ones who helped Joemin control the curse when it finally revealed itself, even though they both got hurt in the process.

- Kisia just vibes

#frosti talks dnd #ask #if anyone wants to know anything else i am sitting here so politely #Anonymous

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ehlihr · 4 years

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I would love to hear more about the teen TMA au!! I'm losing my mind about it your art for it was amazing!! Do you have any cool ideas in particular about it??

okay ive gotten a few of these so i will Try To Type Out Some Ideas, which are going to be under a cut cause theres a lot

starts in 2000, but its sort of a fusion between them being aged down fifteen years and the timeline starting way earlier, SO

2000-most of season 1 (jon-13, martin/sasha/tim-14, georgie/melanie-15, basira-17, daisy/gerry19)

2001-most of season 2 (jon-14, martin/sasha/tim-15, etc)

2002-most of season 3 (jon-15, martin/sasha/tim-16, etc) --> jon hits his growth spurt over the summer because thats literally the funniest shit.

2003-most of season 4 (jon-16, martin/sasha/tim-17, etc)

gertrude and jons grandmother are both still alive, as well as gerry and maybe some other characters

in terms of vibe - jon definitely is becoming a monster, and theres still trauma and the fears and no love entities, but i think the stakes being as high as they are and them being kids means that. the punishments for fucking up (in order to maintain the pjo/artemis fowl vibe) are like. kind of lower? but not much? i just feel bad about being like. yeah tim fully explodes when he’s 17 lmfao but then i remember that ethan nakamura fully fell off the empire state building so! it be like that i guess for them

in terms of how everything happens. tl;dr - jon is five years out from mr spider, and in my mind he would be like absolutely fixated on it.

some changes to canon, maybe elias figures gertrude out way earlier, actually looks into her head, and is like fuck me i gotta get a new archivist. and then he runs into jon somehow and is like Oh A Gift From The Web (like an idiot) and is like :) hey kid would you like to know more about mr spider and jon is like uh yeah of course?

and then he starts sending (feeding) jon statements that implicate gertrude as a compatriot of leitner’s. so jon believes gertrude to be like the bbg wrongly.

maybe theres a confrontation!!! maybe gertrude seriously contemplates just Getting Rid Of This Kid!!! Who Knows!!!!

obviously im doing a lot of timeline shifting and bending just to make this all work bc. i do what i want. also they’re all in london bc. i do what i want.

i think everyone is friends. maybe people get mad at jon but like. he’s not their boss man, he’s just a kid. so yeah tim gets a bit mad but they’re still friends.

ah the unknowing. maybe it goes down exactly as og. maybe not. in the maybe not, jon tells everyone he uses his knowing powers (theyre kids man imagine how stoked theyd be to learn their friend has powers) and lies and says the threat is actually outside, so they all leave. he knows he’s not quite... right. detonates, coma, but tim is still alive. so there’s that!

daisy is still a hunter but she and basira aren’t cops. daisy is the oldest at 19 (other than 30-40yo elias, 50ishyo gertrude, and jons teta), gerry a close second also at 19, and basira is 17. daisy maybe has some weird vigilante monster hunting thing kind of like canon, maybe she still tries to Get Jon, but after the buried (do i really wanna make 16yo jon go into the buried. Yeah) they have like a very sibling like relationship!!! ;;

also gerry!!! older brother vibe gerry!!! yeeeaaaahhhhh!!!!

georgie isnt jons ex but they ARE childhood friends maybe jon had little a crush on him :’0

martin and jon i think would have a better start, but jon would still be a really snarky kid and martin would have an even worse starting self esteem. i think he would just be really hard to get in touch with bc of his home life but he still does retcon and b&e for the squad dksjfhdskjh anyway same timeline as canon

obviously the adults have a more malicious presence when they interact with straight up kids. i dont know how i feel about that but i havent thought about it extensively

most of this came from excessive amv choreography to mob psycho 100s OP sdkjfhdskjhf. theres more but thats a solid bedrock i think!

#tma teen au #long post #tma #weehaw!#bare1ythere

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The Argument Against and Defense of Hetalia

Let me preface this by saying that I have not watched the show or read the manga in a few years now, and thus I am working mostly off of memory and what fan content I see these days, which is not a lot. Also, I am a gentile, and I don’t claim to know a lot about the Jewish community or traditions. I am, however, a writer and I have plenty of practice analyzing and criticizing works of fiction from multiple angles. With that in mind, this essay is an attempt to explain everything that is wrong and not wrong with the show, the comic strips, and the fandom.

I’m putting this under a read more for sheer length, this was 11 pages on Google docs.

Let us start with the list of grievances assembled largely from one post, the majority of which I had to go digging for as the original person in this post who mentioned Hetalia said, and I quote, “i dont feel the need to link a source for [hetalia] because…” and then listed two things, one of which is incorrect entirely. But I digress, I will address each one at a time. The list of grievances is as follows:

It is called ‘Axis Powers’ Hetalia

One of the main characters is a personification of Nazi Germany

The entire point of the series is:

Advocating for eugenics

Racial fetishization

Advocating for fascism

Nazi sympathizing/propaganda

The entire franchise is terrible due to rape jokes, racism, and Holocaust jokes

Hetalia fans are all terrible due to rape jokes and other issues

Death of the author cannot apply to this fandom

There may be more that are in other reblogs of the post in question, and I may add addendums further in this essay, but for the time being, I will address each of these grievances and explain the validity or non-validity of each, from a position understanding of both fans and of non-fans. Thus, in order:

‘Axis Powers’ Hetalia

When people talk about Hetalia, they usually are referring to the anime due to its widespread popularity. However, Hetalia began as a series of strip comics posted on a forum by Hidekaz Himaruya (and I spent a while trying to actually find the original comics, but I can’t, there are links to his blogs there in what I’ve provided). It later was formatted into a manga, and then later became an anime. While it was originally titled Axis Powers: Hetalia and the first two seasons of the show are named as such, it usually is only referred to as Hetalia. The anime seasons after said first two seasons have all been ‘world’ focused: Seasons three and four were titled World Series, season five was titled Beautiful World, season six was titled World Twinkle, and the upcoming season seven is titled World Stars.

For the purposes of tagging everything, I tend to see the tags ‘hetalia’ and ‘hws,’ which is short for Hetalia: World Series. This name of the third and fourth anime seasons is the most widely accepted and used name for the series as a whole. While it is true that, years ago, people referred to it as ‘aph’ for Axis Powers Hetalia, the fans and the series have put that behind them, for good reason. It is understandable, even righteous, to not accept the title ‘Axis Powers.’ It does draw focus to the WW2 era, and place the fascists and nazis as the ‘main characters,’ or even, ‘the good guys,’ which is not the case. Obviously, the Nazis were terrible and the entirety of the Axis Powers did horrible, unspeakable things during the war.

It must be noted, to anybody who has not seen the show or read the manga, that the first one to two seasons do have a ‘focus’ on the WW2 era, per se, but it largely talks about interactions between countries, as they are the personified party, and makes extremely few allusions to the war itself, and none to the Holocaust. I will address that in a later section. For now, the point to make is that after these original two seasons, Hetalia branches out into a much wider worldview, adds several more characters, and focuses more on said characters in individual arcs and offerings of historical facts - as generalized as they may be. Nobody claimed that Hetalia was correct in everything it said, but it aims to play out some historical information in a simplified and humorous way. This is due to the fact that the characters are all singular people meant to personify entire countries, which leads us to point two.

The Personification of Nazi Germany

This is the second complaint of the strand of the post in question that I was presented with, quoted as “one of the main characters is a personification of nazi germany.” This is an entirely incorrect statement. ‘Nazi Germany,’ as people call it, is the state of Germany during the era leading up to and of World War 2. The country is still Germany, the people were still German, the Nazi part comes from the political regime in power, a real world nightmare. In the Hetalia series, the characters are called by their country names, because that is who they personify. This may change at times. For example, the character now known as Turkey was previously called Ottoman Empire. They come to be when civilization starts or a colony is introduced to a place. This can be seen in the strip or episode where China ‘finds’ Japan as a small boy and begins to teach him reading and writing - and Japan thereafter invents hiragana. It can also be seen in the comic where a young child, Iceland, questions who he is and why he knows his people are “different beings” than him. The country that speaks to him (I only have the comic here in my likes in that list, the name isn’t mentioned and it’s been a while, but it might be another of the Scandinavian countries) explains that he is Mr. Iceland, they don’t know why he is Mr. Iceland, but they know he is.

What I am attempting to explain with all of these other examples is that there is no ‘Nazi Germany’ character. There is a character called Germany (or Mr. Germany), and all of his adult life, he has been called Germany. He is never addressed by anything else. He does, however, look remarkably similar to a childhood friend of Italy’s, Holy Roman Empire (or just Holy Rome), but as far as it has been explained in canon, Holy Rome went off somewhere and, later on Germany and Italy met as strangers. The general consensus is, due to the area where the Holy Roman Empire used to be is around-ish Germany, the characters are the same. But never, in any of the comics, anime, or movie, is Germany referred to as Nazi Germany. I don’t believe the word ‘Nazi’ appears at any point in time, even, though I cannot claim I have seen every shred of content, so I may be wrong. But I doubt that very much, as it is not in the nature of the series to do such a thing. Moving on.

Advocating for Eugenics

I will start and end this section by saying that Hetalia was, in the original post, roped in with Attack on Titan, of which (as far as I know) the author advocates for eugenics - or the idea that certain people should not be allowed to produce offspring due to their race or other factors. There is no example of Hetalia content wherein this disgusting opinion is ever mentioned or supported in any way. This is at worst a flat-out lie, and at best lumping Hetalia in with a much worse show that does do this (but I won’t get into that, I have never seen more than a few episodes of Attack on Titan and I don’t care to see any more of it. Throw your opinions or defenses elsewhere, I care 0% about it entirely). I have no more need to prepare a more detailed response to this accusation. It simply is not true.

Racial Fetishization

This particular accusation is a difficult one. Fetishization may be a strong word, as the series is largely a comedy. Everyone gets their turn in the spotlight, so to speak, so I find it hard to plainly state that any one character is fetishized or displayed as the most powerful. There is, of course, Rome, who only appears in small segments as Italy’s grandfather and is, in the series, touted as an amazing empire who had it all. I do not believe this is what the accusation is referring to. This accusation seems to be some sort of insistence that the show and creator believe that white people (or possibly just Germans/Nazis/the Aryan race?) are touted as the most powerful and nobody else can compare. I can confidently say that while that is never said anywhere, there are a few issues. Hetalia, particularly the animated series, had (and may still have) a longstanding issue of whitewashing countries that should not be white. This includes Egypt and Seychelles (who both later got a darker skin tone, probably still not dark enough though) as the worst offenders, and even Spain, Turkey, Greece, and Romano (southern Italy), and so on. Yes, this is a big problem. There is no defense against that. It should not be the case. These characters obviously should have darker skin. I will note, however, that many fans are already completely aware of this, have been complaining about it since the beginning, and tend to draw these characters with more correct skin tones in their fanart. This is a case where yes, the original content is not good, but the fans make their own fixes. If you are angry at Hetalia for whitewashing, good. You should be. But I do not believe this should reflect on the entirety of the content and the fandom (And note that I am not linking any particular fanart here, because I want nobody to go attack any fans).

It is also important to note that yes, a large majority of the series builds upon stereotypes. No, stereotypes are not good. No, you should not assume that the personifications of the countries encompass all citizens of said countries. The entire premise of the show is one person = the embodiment of a country, and that person changes and adapts with the times in terms of uniform and personality. It is extremely hard to do this without stereotyping. Most serious fans are aware of this, and do not in any way believe that these characters represent everyone from these countries. It may be true that much younger fans used to, and it may be true that people do not want to watch the show because stereotypes are, arguably, bad. But do remember that this is a comedy, and every character is picked on. Every one. And it is understandable if this branch of humor is not for you. I, personally, don’t like Family Guy or South Park or any shows like that for their humor. I also don’t attack the people who do. I ignore it.

Advocating for Fascism

This is another area wherein I believe the accuser is simply lumping Hetalia in with the original poster’s subject, Attack on Titan. Again, I will not defend or attack that show, as I do not care about it at all. However, regarding Hetalia, I can confidently say that it does not advocate for fascism. While the first two seasons are (sort of) set in WW2 era, as previously mentioned, the fighting is not really a big part, and nobody is touted as correct - only struggling in the conflict. For example, there is a scene where Germany, post WW1, is shown making cuckoo clocks by hand and lamenting the fact that he has to make so many thousands in order to pay back France. This is by no means painting fascism as a good thing, or explaining anything about how poverty and other struggles lead to the formation and rise of the Nazi party. It is simply a scene where we see a man frustratedly making cuckoo clocks and complaining while France’s big head jeers at him in his imagination. The surrounding scenes and the end of this one are making note of how Italy keeps coming over to his house to try and be friends and Germany keeps kicking him out because Italy is annoying and whiny. The episode further goes on to mention that Germany is attacking France again, and Italy has suddenly become his ally, and he is not happy about it for the aforementioned reasons. Again, this does not in any way paint Germany as being ‘right.’ The purpose of the segment(s) is/are to show him disliking the annoying Italy (whom the show is named for) and trying to get him out of his house before eventually giving up and accepting that they can be friends. Is it all 100% historically accurate? No, not by a long shot. Does it paint him as sympathetic? Sort of, you feel bad for the guy making a thousand cuckoo clocks, but only in the sense that he is one person doing a lot of work, a completely fictional situation. But Italy - and the audience - obviously know that attacking France again is not a good thing, so does it advocate the Nazis or fascism? Also no.

Nazi Sympathizing/Propaganda

I pretty well covered this in the previous section, but I will expand. I have alluded to the first two seasons as “focusing” on WW2, in a way, and also mentioned that this is a generalization of sorts, so here I will attempt to clarify. The first few episodes do, indeed, touch on ‘the way they all met’ in a sense; Germany is starting a war and he reluctantly becomes allies with Italy, and less reluctantly becomes allies with Japan, who examines both of them and decides he is content with this situation. However, none of it is very serious, and these ‘formalities’ give way easily to more humorous personable interactions, such as Italy hugging Japan without warning and the touch-anxious Japan pushing him off and getting flustered, Italy petting a cat and then freaking out when he is licked because a cat’s tongue is rough, the two of them ‘training’ by doing your regular old exercising and jogging and Italy being late, etc etc. Stupid, personable jokes.

On the flip side, the show covers the Allied Powers quite a bit too. A lot of this is the five big ones - America, Britain (/England/UK), France, Russia, and China - all meeting around one table and squabbling about various things. I fondly recall one scene where China arrives late and has a bunch of workers suddenly building a Chinatown in the meeting room because he was hungry and wanted his own food, and the others protesting. They are then offered food and become okay with it, because food. Other such nonsense plays out in other, similar meetings. There is also a segment where the Axis powers are all stranded on an island for… some unknown reason… and they set about attempting to survive via campfire and fishing and such. Twice (three times?) the Allied powers ‘attack’ them on this island via China whacking them each with a wok and, as the three of them are in a sad heap, something interrupts the scene to make the Allies retreat. One time, it is Rome’s sudden and also unexplained entrance across the sky singing a song, and another time, it is England’s preoccupation with a cursed chair. Also, at one point, Austria is playing a piano. Does any of this magic logical, real life sense? No. It’s stupid and funny and has nothing to do with war. These are just personable characters thrown into weird situations so they can be funny, with some extremely mild historical context along the way.

I will note again that WW2 is pretty much completely dropped after these two seasons, with the war hardly addressed at all, and future seasons focus more on other characters. The Scandinavians get to all have fun together, the Baltic trio is mentioned, there is a lot about Switzerland taking care of Liechtenstein (wow I spelled it right after all these years, go me) and being stiff and formal with Austria. There is also plenty about people mistaking Canada for America, and England and France squabbling throughout the years, and Spain finding Romano cute but also very grumpy, etc etc… This series is largely Eurasia-focused, yes, and it can be criticized for not being as diverse as it should be. But boiling it down to ‘Nazi propaganda’ is outright, obliviously false.

I don’t know if this is the best place to put this particular note, but I couldn’t think of anywhere else to place it, so here it will go. I would like to mention that in the series, some characters, like Germany and Russia, express outright fear of their ‘bosses’ in certain points in history. It is important to realize that Germany, Japan, America, etc… these characters are not the actual, real-life humans in charge of these countries, but people of a fictional, separate species than humans who grow up as the nation grows and have lives that are affected by these world leaders (we even watch in the show America shooting up from child to young adult as the colonies expand, and England comments on how quickly he grew up - but not as quickly as his people, of course. We’ll get to Davie later). The president of the United States is America’s ‘boss,’ and naturally, that boss changes every time the president changes. The emperor of China is China’s ‘boss.’ It follows, thusly, that at one point, Hitler was Germany’s ‘boss.’ The terrible person himself was alluded to, as far as I know, exactly one time, not by name, and no face was shown. In a very brief scene, Germany laments that his new boss is scary and he was just ordered to go force Austria to come live with him. Said boss is shown as, I believe, an evilly laughing shadowy figure. That’s it. That’s the scene. There is no other mention of Hitler, nor is there any mention of the Holocaust anywhere. One could argue that the show is then trying to say that the Holocaust didn’t happen, but I think such an accusation is frankly absurd. It’s a comedy, it was always a comedy, and what in the fuck would be comedic about a mass genocide in any way? Nothing. None of it is funny. Of course it is not brought up in a comedy.

Rape Jokes, Racism, and Holocaust Jokes

While I did somewhat address racism already in the section about whitewashing and racial fetishization, I have another clarification to make, especially regarding the jokes. A lot of people complain that there are rape jokes throughout the series, and that there are two Holocaust jokes. I will begin by saying yes, this is all true, those things did happen during the course of the show. However, it is important to note that all of those things happened in the English dub of the animated show, and none of these terrible jokes exist in the Japanese/subbed version, or the original comic strips.

The English dub is, on all accounts, pretty terrible. Everyone has an over exaggerated accent, there are the aforementioned jokes, there are name changes (England referred to as Britain, among them, very confusing), and the voice actors themselves make mention in commentaries that their goal in this job was, to paraphrase because I haven’t listened in a while, ‘to be as offensive as possible to absolutely everyone’ (and one of the English dub voice actors is even a convicted sex offender, but that’s it’s own mess). Not the most glamorous or noble of goals. One could say ‘at least if it’s everyone, it’s not really racism, is it? Just humor?’ There is a case for that. Many comedians will say that they poke fun at everyone to avoid singling anybody out as inherently superior. It cannot be said to be the best way to make humor, but it cannot be said to be the worst way, also. Overall, I don’t like the English dub, I don’t watch it, I prefer the subs. And yes, the subbed version has a few issues of its own, but I can say that at least, no, it does not make any Holocaust or rape jokes. Are those kinds of jokes excusable? Fuck no. They’re completely inappropriate. Should you judge the whole series and fandom based on the grossness of the English dubs? Also no, the people who did the English dubs have zero to do with the original creator, the animators, and the fans. Screw them.

The Fandom Being Terrible

I must again preface by saying I was never super active in the fandom at large. I had my own little niche of friends and I stuck to them and I didn’t often branch out. I did, however, go to cons back in those days, and saw plenty of cosplayers. The main complaint I see regarding the fandom is that most of the fans are completely rabid, make a bunch of rape jokes, and even dress up as ‘Nazi Germany’ (iron cross and red armband and all) and pretend to shoot up synagogues. Now, I have not seen cosplayers do the nazi solute or do such photoshoots, but I can believe that people have done it. I have seen plenty of rabid fans, and some of the OCs created for Hetalia, especially many interpretations of individual states (or Antarctica), were extremely cringey, racist, and overall just not good. And yes, these things are undeniably bad. They are very bad things! Those people should be ashamed. They should know better, regardless of their ages or anything, for fuck’s sake. The nazi salute is not a thing you do jokingly, pretending to shoot people is not a joke. Everyone is aware of this. The people who did, or maybe even still do, those things need a serious sit-down and to be woken the fuck up, because they are acting terrible.

However, it is extremely unfair to paint all Hetalia fans in the same light. That is a very stereotypical thing to do, no? As I mentioned earlier, I stuck to my little niche friend group of fans, and while we all had our own flaws and were younger and kinda dumber, we never did things like that. I never did things like that. Rape jokes were never funny, I never liked them, I never accepted them. I have people I still know who still like Hetalia and they never made those kinds of jokes either. I think, as the years have gone by, a lot of the more rabid fans have died out of the fandom. They’ve either grown the fuck up or they’ve went off to pollute some other fandom. Recognize that, especially in the beginning, the anime was low-budget and had a lot of that old and gross queerbaiting and stuff like that, so it was undeniably a magnet for crazy yaoi fans. But the majority of fanart, fanfics, and just overall fan stuff that I see these days are nothing like that. Overall, the fandom has seriously calmed down. A lot of the focus is much more on taking these characters and applying them to other historical events with more accuracy than the show might give. The history in these fanfics and fanarts may also be of questionable accuracy at times. I personally once wrote a fic where I made allusions to the death of Joan d’Arc and, later, the death of Elizabeth I, but did I add much historic fact? No, do I look like a history major spilling all this? The point of the fic was England - the character - maturing through starting to love one of his rulers and recognizing a terrible thing that he did before. It’s not the best piece of work out there, and maybe someone could point out a few things I did wrong with it, but for what it’s meant to be, it’s harmless. Takes on characters not actually in the series, like Ireland, Scotland, etc etc are generally pretty mature from what I see, fanart tends to just be the characters in various poses and styles. The overall love the fandom has, I think, is in the better character designs and in the very concept of the countries as people who laugh and cry and live through war and peace for thousands of years. And here is where I address the final grievance that I personally saw in the notes of the post which started this whole thought process and essay.

The Death of the Author

A lot of people might not fully understand what ‘The Death of the Author’ means. The death of the author is a belief rooted in the 20th century that the personal intentions, beliefs, and prejudices of the authors of certain works can have no bearing on their produced content, because once it is out in the public, every reader may then have their own interpretation and belief system. By publicizing the content, the author ‘dies’ and the reader is born.

There are some scenarios where this cannot apply. One example is JK Rowling, a very special case of a very problematic woman who happens to be so powerful, and so rich, that consuming any type of official (or even unofficial) Harry Potter anything can and will give her that much more power to spread her TERF bullshit. Let me be frank: Any time that consuming a product is allowing a bigoted or problematic person to gain extra money or extra power that they then use for evil, the death of the author cannot apply. You cannot use it as a moral justification. You might perhaps use it as the reason why you struggle to let go of a fandom near and dear to you, as Harry Potter is to so many people, but you absolutely must recognize that purchasing the books, the movies, or any other official content is outright supporting a TERF.

That in mind, there are dozens of other cases where the death of the author absolutely can apply. The easiest, of course, is with authors who are actually dead, such as Lovecraft. Lovecraft was a complete bigot and racist, an overall terrible person, and his works are saturated in that racism. But he is dead, and his work is very popular, and there are ways to take and use his work that do not contribute further to racism and bigotry. All you have to do is slap a non-racist cthulhu on a page. Make that cthulhu eat everyone equally. That’s a good cthulhu right there, a nice, safe cthulhu.

So where does Hetalia fall in this spectrum of can or cannot have death of the author? I believe it leans more to the side of yes, you can apply it. For one thing, you can definitely find the show for free in some places, and watch it without giving Himaruya a single cent. The comics are also available online for free, and while you might be giving your ‘support’ by being a viewer, I think overall, that’s not only negligible, but does not contribute anything bad? The author of Attack on Titan has many charges levied against him in the post which prompted this, and arguably, giving him any money is bad. But as far as I have seen, while Himaruya might have started out with a flawed premise and may have some whitewashing issues, I have seen nowhere that he funds any kind of racist, nationalistic, fascist, etc anything of any kind. This is not like Chick-Fil-A, where offering any kind of patronage is (or maybe used to be) sinking funds into terrible organizations. This is not supporting literal Nazis, as the complaints claim. This is a largely mediocre series with good parts and bad parts and zero ties to horrific organizations or ideals. Consuming good fan content does not make someone a racist or a bigot or a nazi sympathizer. Even rewatching some old favorite scenes or checking out the new season doesn’t make someone that. By all accounts, the show is flawed but not a means to fund nazis.

The Bad Anything Else

I will now take some time to talk about some other problems Hetalia has, because no, it is by no means flawless. I already discussed the whitewashing and stereotypes and the mess of the English dub, but there is more. I made mention of the fact that battles and seriously bad events such as the Holocaust are not mentioned, and this holds true throughout pretty much all of the series. There are certain points where ‘battles’ of a sort are seen, but only flash moments. One scene in particular that I really enjoyed as a tween and can now see the problems with is the whole revolutionary war scene. This was a scene split into two episodes (for some weird reason, even an unrelated episode in between, like, what? Why??) about a particular (unnamed) battle in the American Revolution where England faced down America, they each had a gun with a bayonet, and England charged America and his bayonet deeply scratched America’s gun, and America declared he was no longer England’s little brother, and the whole thing was played out as an extremely emotional scene. England is lost in the past of seeing America as a cute little kid he took care of, who has now grown up and is being reckless and stupid, and America is all righteous and independent and proving he’s a grown up, it’s all very emotional, I cried, other fans cried, there was much fanart.

This scene is problematic in a way. Boiling down an extremely nasty conflict following lots of really bad laws and protests to this one scene doesn’t do history any justice. It says nothing about the struggles of the American colonists, the struggles of the British empire, the awful things the colonists did to the natives, etc etc. It is one small scene and it focuses on these characters as humanoid, with feelings, and completely ignores the complexities of history. And yes, in a way, that is bad. But it is bad in the sense that nobody can - or at least should - take this show to be the end-all be-all of history. It is not. It is not often entirely correct, and it picks and chooses what points in the past several thousand years to play with, and trying to use it as a map for history is a bad idea. However, this focus on the countries as human-like and struggling can also be a good thing.

It is also important to note that there have been other problems. The portrayal of South Korea, for example, is extremely controversial, and while I do not know all of the specifics, I believe that it was banned in Korea due to this, and the character was entirely removed from the anime, among other things. Obviously, a bad take, a bad character. There are also just straight up not great characterizations in certain cases. I don’t, for example, like anything about how Belarus is portrayed as a crazy psycho constantly begging Russia (her big brother) to marry her? I think that that is ridiculous, and I know nothing about Belarus as a country but I am pretty darn sure that that is not how one ought to go about portraying the country. There are a few other examples, but my purpose here was not to pull up a list of every country and explain what is correct or incorrect about each characterization. It is enough to say that some characters were not portrayed perfectly. But with that in mind...

The Good Anything Else

It is the most important to remember that this, all of this, is fiction. This is a silly, silly fantasy series. The countries are not humans, they are some weird semi-immortal species that share a universal language and know they are not human and are referenced by humans as ‘those people.’ They are fictional constructs. But the good out of all of this is that they explore human emotions. The American Revolution scene should not be taken as how the revolution was, and who might have been right or wrong. But it is a very emotional story of a big brother unable to accept that his little brother has grown up and wants to make his own choices. That, right there, is a heartfelt scene that I’m sure plenty of real people can feel something about. And there are plenty of other scenes that really grab you by the heartstrings, especially given how crazy, stupid, and humor-oriented the rest of the show is. And I will take a moment and enthuse about some of the more popular scenes that I think are, in fact, pretty good.

There is one episode in season 5, Beautiful World, where an American woman visits France (the place). This woman, Lisa, is blond and bears a striking resemblance to Joan d’Arc. While visiting some historical place somewhere or another in Paris, France (the person) spots her and rushes up with an odd look. When she questions him, he apologizes and offers to give her a tour of the area, which she accepts. He then proceeds to lead her around and explain some history and show off some beautiful sights, and he mentions some stuff about Joan d’Arc. She butts in and lists off some stuff she knows, he beams and looks proud and says yes, she’s right. The end of the scene has the two of them standing alone somewhere and him commenting how young Joan was when she was killed, and that he always wished she could have had a better, nicer life. He then states that he is very happy that she got it, while giving this American tourist a gentle smile. She looks away for a moment, distracted by something perhaps, and when she looks back to ask just who the heck he really is, talking about a historical figure like he knew her, he is gone. It’s a very emotional scene in a quiet sort of way, because the watcher/reader understands that he took one look at this woman and instantly believed that she was, in fact, Joan d’Arc reincarnated into a totally different and totally average life, and he is so genuinely happy that a woman he saw as a hero gets this chance to live normally. Whether or not you may personally believe in reincarnation, and regardless of how often other times in the show France is shown as an obnoxious sexaholic, this is an extremely tender scene that lots of fans seriously love. It is very ‘human.’ And I feel like this is what the series as a whole strives to offer. These human moments. They may be peppered in a sort of lackadaisical style in the anime, but they are far more prominent in the comic strips, so it is important to realize that that kind of scene is more of what the creator likes to focus on.

Another very popular and touted scene is the Davie scene. I don’t remember if it was put in the anime or not, I read it as a comic. It was a scene set in colonial America, where the man himself was just a very small child. Little baby America was hanging out in a field with a rabbit and sees this boy, who introduces himself as Davie. Davie brings America to his house and opens up a botany book and points out a blue flower (possibly a forget-me-not) that he wants to see but that isn’t in the New World. America assures Davie that he will find him one of those flowers, and goes off to do so. He fails his search and goes back to Davie, who is older now, but Davie looks embarrassed and turns and walks away. Distressed, America runs to England and explains about the flower, and England says the flower is not there, but they do grow at home, and he will bring some the next time he leaves and comes back. America happily waits, and when England returns with a bouquet of the blue flowers, America takes them and runs off to Davie’s house. He is let in by a boy who looks just like Davie and presents the flowers, and the boy then puts them on (or maybe in) a coffin of an elderly man. America, smiling, does not seem to understand what is going on, and hopefully calls the boy Davie.

This entire scene, in the comic, has very few words. Davie’s name is repeated a few times, but most of the rest of the ‘dialogue’ is in images. The flower, England saying it is not there, etc. This makes the scene extremely poignant, and when we reach the end, we, the audience, realize suddenly that while baby America was fixated on finding a special flower for his new friend, years and years went by, and that friend grew up and got married and had children and eventually died, all while America remained looking the exact same age and understanding the exact same things. Look, folks, I don’t know about you, but that is some angsty stuff right there. I cried. We all cried. We all miss Davie. Mention the name to fans and you will get sobs. We love you, Davie.

Which brings me to my penultimate point, that this series is heartfelt and, while it avoids a lot of the bad of history, can be very poignant about what human nature is like. Human lives are long, very long, but also so very short, they fly by. Some lives end in tragedy, others are mostly peaceful, and maybe we get second chances if you believe in reincarnation, maybe not. Maybe it’s good that our lives are so short, maybe the fate of living forever and watching people you connect with die is tragic. Or maybe it would actually be really fun, having friends for thousands of years that you may squabble with at times but ultimately care for. Maybe nothing is simple and life is about finding joy where you can, and everyone needs to sometimes take a step back and realize that everyone is flawed, and there might be good and evil but the vast majority of people are in a grey area, trying to live their own lives and do what good they can for whatever reason they might give. I want to end with one last topic, one I have not yet addressed this whole time. The big white alien in the room, if you will.

Paint it: White!

There is a Hetalia movie, folks, if you didn’t know it, and it’s called Paint It White. This movie has just as many silly parts as any other Hetalia thing, but it also has a plot! In this movie, strange, all-white aliens are starting to invade the Earth. They arrive and anything they touch, they turn into completely identical white humanoid blobs, even the country personifications. With this scary and seemingly-unstoppable threat, the main eight - America, England, Russia, China, France, Japan, Germany, and Italy - all try to infiltrate the alien spaceship in frankly hideous uniforms to find out more and figure out a way to defeat them. Hijinks and disaster ensues, and at the end, each of them is fighting a mob and gradually being defeated. Italy is the last one standing, and as Germany is slowly being transformed into a blob along with the others, he tells Italy to smile. Italy then finds (or has? the plot isn’t great, it’s just there) a black marker and he suddenly starts going around drawing ridiculous faces on everyone. He draws fitting faces on each of his friend blobs, like a stern face on Germany-blob, a deadpan face on Japan-blob, etc etc. The invaders suddenly stop. They look at each other, marker-faced, and start to laugh. Then their leader of sorts comes out and is basically like “wow, we thought you were all stupid and you have wars and stuff, but this? This is beautiful. Wow. We all look exactly identical on our world, and these faces are cool and new and unique. We’ll turn everyone on your planet back if we can have this magical thingie you’re holding.” And of course Italy hands the marker right over, and everyone is put back to normal, and crybaby, scaredy-cat, useless Italy saves the world.

The plot is, obviously, not super great. It’s not going to win anybody any awards. But it has a very poetic premise. The strength of humans is that they are all unique. Every human has a different face, a different body, a different life. Our differences may cause conflict, but they are also something to celebrate. At the end of the day, Hetalia is an okay show that can get you hooked on history and tries its best to teach you that we’re all only human and there might be war and conflict and bad things, but you have to reach for the good things and find yourself good friends and have stupid laughs and enjoy life, however long or short it may be. I think that that’s a pretty decent message to send out to people.

The Bottom Line

In the end, this is a fandom like many others. Hetalia has its flaws and its cringe moments, and it certainly had its fair share of awful fans. But I truly believe that painting it overall as nazi propoganda and one of the most problematic and harmful shows out there is a blatant lie and disregards… just about everything of the actual content. I think it is difficult for someone to concretely say anything is super good or super bad without seeing at least some of it, or doing some research, and this business of blithely going along with what everyone else says just because they use big danger words does not do anybody any favors. Spreading misinformation is, I’m sure, the exact opposite of what most people want to do. And make no mistake, I am definitely not saying that everyone needs to like, or even watch, the show. If you never ever want to watch this show in your life, that is absolutely fine. Go forth and never watch it. But mindlessly following the herd and yelling overgeneralized, unsupported opinions about it is not a good thing. I beg of you, do research on the things you want to form or share an opinion on, think critically, and for the love of God, do not swipe a giant paintbrush to forsake every single individual fan of a show as a terrible, awful person. By all means, hate nazis, they are pieces of shit. Boycott things that support genocide and fascism, yes, fight for equality, yes. But do not go accusing without thinking, and do not overgeneralize. I leave you with the words of my old laptop bag that I bought years ago at a convention:

Make pasta, not war.

Thank you for reading.

#I wrote an essay #I could probably source this way more #but I've been working on it for hours #Just take it

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dr-stoneworld · 5 years

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Hi there❤️just discovered ur blog ❤️i ll support you❤️ I have a request if you don’t mind Could I get A Tsukasa and Senku hc or scenario with a chubby s/o who has her litte insecurities and want to help them to rebuild the world but feels she/he is usless and not a big help to them? 😊 I hope it s ok and take your time to thanks ❤️

WARNING: Mentions of insecurities, self hatred and some more sensitive words.

Genre: Angst with fluffy ending, headcannon.

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Tsukasa:

• He revived you not so later after he started his empire. You never knew reason of your revival.

• You both started dating recently and he loved you do dearly. At some point you thought he was just lying but then that wasn't true because he always proved his loyalty towards you.

• It confused you, it always confused you. Yes you're very thankful for everything he does for you but why you? You aren't goodlooking nor were you are talented, that's what YOU always thought.

• You were reaching your breaking point and that night was it. You broke down in tears thinking you're not perfect, you're not able to help your dearly boyfriend Tsukasa build the empire.

• You were quitely sobbing in your den that's when Tsukasa came and noticed your pain. Oh god, fear took over him as he immediately went to you before caressing you

• "Y/n, my love, what's wrong? Why're you crying? Please tell me if you're hurting- I- Is there something you want? Did anyone do anything to you?" He asked with a worry laced voice. It hurt you even more.

• "No its nothing, no one hurt me but tsukasa why do you like me? Why me? Why do you stay with me? Why did you choose me?? Like look at me, I am so chubby. Not at all like the other people here who look perfect and are way stronger me.... so why me? I just am so-" before you spill any negative words about yourself anymore he cut you off by placing a gentle kiss on your lips.

• "No you're perfect just the way you are. You help me so much in so many ways. I don't understand why do you think about yourself in such a negative way, in my eyes you're just so amazing, so talented and so very strong. Thats why I fell for you, also you have been always been there for me, you're kind, funny, understanding and personality is what makes me like you even more. Also" he paused as he sofly pulled you onto his lap before pointing at the things, the tools YOU created "look at all the things you made? They require so much skill and hard work. Thank you creating them, they help me alot LOT. I don't think I would have felt so safe going into wilderness without them. You're already helping me build the empire too much. Understood??" He finishes before looking at you

• Oh- you were utterly left speechless, he loves you so much and is so good with words. Thanks to him you feel so much better.

• "Oh and from next time don't accumulate your feelings, please allow me carry your worries too. Annddd if you really wish to get physically stronger too then let me teachyou everything I know even though I want to be the one to protect you" He said before pulling you into a hug.

• "Tsukasa, thank you so much, I am so speechless right now and all I can do is thank you right. Also yeah get me stronger! Btw my lion king, I love you so much" You finished before hugging him tightly.

• "Let's and I love you so much more"

Senku:

• "Uhm guys have you seen, y/n? I haven't seen her for hours..." Senku asked worriedly as you have never left his side for such a long time.

• You went into woods a while ago to clear your mind and get rid of the negative thoughts bothering you. Honestly, they've always bothered you but for you they weren't wrong.

• "Oh I think I saw her going into the woods?" Ginro said.

• Shit. Senku was now terrified, did something happen to you? Were you hurt? Why weren't you returning back?? He dashed into the woods faster than the speed of light, trying to find you every possible place.

• That's when he sees you on the river side, crying. He could feel a sting in his heart to see you in such a state.

• He frantically rushes to you before hugging you tightly and then observing you looking if you were hurt

• "Y/n, what happened?! Why're you crying? D-did I do something wrong? Shit baby I'm so sorry-" he says while wiping your tears.

• "No, it's nothing d-dont worry!" You try to smile widely while wiping your tears, that's when senku stops you.

• "Please don't lie to me, I know something is wrong... so please? Atleast let me help you" he says softly, holding you close to him and patiently waiting for your answer.

• You decide to give in because you being quite will hurt both of you, "Senku, it's just that... that I dislike myself, look at the way I look, I dont like it, being so chubby meanwhile rest of the people look so better than me. I also feel like I am of no use to you, I'm not strong enough and helpful enough to protect you. I just think I shouldn't have exi-" before you could spit any negative comments about yourself more Senku cuts you off by kissing you so delicately, making you feel a little better.

• "Honestly, I don't understand why'd you EVER think about yourself in such a negative way. For me and in my eyes, 10 billion percent good looking, you're the strongest and you're honestly way smarter than these people. You being with me helps me so much. Also, you always, ALWAYS help me with my work, without you it would've been really hard for me. So please don't think badly of yourself, and atleast don't suffer alone. Let's work in making you feel better as we develop the world because you're my hope and you're one the the reasons I would like to push myself even more to make everything better.... like our old times. So..." he pauses while resting his forehead against yours "..let's get back to our modern age, together. Okay?"

• His words and closeness makes you feel comfortable. Getting rid of your insecurities completely within a second is not possible but you'll remember this, for ever. His words will always help you. "Yeah, let's, also thank you for everything Senku. It means a lot means a lot to me. I love you so much"

• "Kukuku I see you're feeling better, that's great. Please always remember that you're the first one to made me feel such a way. You're the first person I have ever loved, romantically. Y/n, I love you 10 billion times more" he chuckles before kissing you.

• Also, please expect yourself to get an lecture from Senku on how bad it is to store up your feelings and how it causes so many problems.

• You'll regret hiding anything again from him.

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Not our usual Senku because a fluffly and soft sided Senku was needed here. I hope you like it @ayumiinuzuka 💕

Taglist: @nia-writes-bnha

#senku headcannons #dr stone senku #ishigami senku #senku x reader #senku #senkuishigami #tsukasa x reader #tsukasa shishio #tsukasa #dr stone #dr stone tsukasa #shishio tsukasa #tsukasa headcannons #dr stone x reader

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crowsent · 3 years

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the man hasnt even started the stream yet and his chat is spammin “technolate” truly the best and most supportive fans

amazing

i have to make my own fences like a loser

“tommy is this your credit card? let me read the numbers aloud tommy”

“they keep dying on my thorns”

then fucking remove your armour mr technoblade??????????? you have the option to remove your armour

i know you have trust issues and that the last time you removed your armour tommy tried to kill you but like

you can remove your armour, find someplace else for your zombie villagers to be in, and then put the armour back on

you have options mr blade

you can make unenchanted armour for the purposes of moving your damn zomvillagers out the way if you really dont wanna be armourless

you have the materials

you have the opportunities

fucking seize them

mr blade: “my sleep schedule is terrible”

my dumb ass, waking up at 10pm on a monday after falling asleep on a 6am the same monday, after not sleeping for 2 days on sunday and saturday: “damn right your sleep schedule is terrible”

i have good self-awareness

mr blade: “im not stalling”

proceeds to stall:

• “happy new year! i forgot that happened”

• reads donations

• begins to try and cure his zombie villagers

• makes fun of skeppys “clickbait” title (it is clickbait by the way. the video is not structured like an actual manhunt vid. totally not a technosimp but techno was a fantastic hunter in the skeppy v techno manhunt. yep. techno was v fair about the entire thing go watch it if you havent hes great and skeppy was also there /lh)

• talks about chess

• talks about the Gifted Child™ Syndrome without ever saying the words Gifted Child™ Syndrome

• DONT DISRESPECT CHESS

(hes a fucking athena kid. im fucking TELLING YALL HES AN ATHENA KID and if i have to fucking write a goddamn academically cited paper to prove it with actual fucking receipts i goddamn will)

• even when tommy came on stream, techno immediately proceeded to discuss the Kings Fianchetto opening

• “i dont know what kind of science textbooks youve been reading, but youve spent too much money on them. those are trash. those are TRASH”

exactly mr blade. exactly. see? athena kid. hes smart. he went to college. he knows the score. mmmhmmm. yup. checks out mr. blade

• types “You’re talking sounds” -tommyinnit (genius)

• into the mc chat

• “Tommy, you’re talking words, but the only universal language: is sounds”

IF SBI NON CANON WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS READ AS AN OLDER BRO MAKING FUN OF HIS YOUNGER BRO EXPLAIN MR BLADE

Techno fucking lists out languages that do not have sounds like: sign language, written language, braille

and then fucking thomathy “tommyinnit” minecraft hits us with “and russian”

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST FOLKS

RUSSIAN IS A CATEGORY OF NON-SOUND LANGUAGE

and for a good few minutes, mr blade and associate tommyinnit talk about crimes and the fbi and using it to farm views. big brain moved here today

(and then tommys alexa turned blue when he said fbi and then they both freaked out it was great)

new york-ian

mr blade and tommyinnit just IMMEDIATELY trying to pander to new yorkers once they realise the population size. they out here fucking complimenting the statue of liberty (even tho its in new jersey), the empire state building, the bronx, queens, fucking SPIDERMAN

if they arent brothers

why they have this energy

prime to tommyinnit

sub to technoblade

yall

my heart

i love these two terrorists so much

(for legal reasons, i am obligated to say that they are video game terrorists please and thank you)

tommy, about music he wanna sing: its from nintendo

mr blade: nintendo copyrights EVERYTHING tommy they got like SUPER COPYRIGHT

tommy: well, technoblade, every last one of my videos uses nintendo music

mr blade: DUDE YOURE GOING TO DIE. nintendo will KILL you

“new york is not canon in the dream smp universe”

mr technoblade over here just fucking ruining every new yorkers day huh

yall hear that? new york is non canon

you want cock to join the revolution

tommy out here trying to be intimidating but hes stuttering, knocking himself off of things...

its great

i love their dynamic

im spawning the wither, somebody get me my sword

techno “one-liner” blade ladies and gentlemen

techno using the wither to vandalise lmanberg is very poggers of him

amazing mr blade

tommy is such a delight in this stream

“i dont know this man”

“why would you bring this near me im WEAK im FRAIL im LIKE AN OLD LADY”

thank you mr innit

if i had gotten this stream live yall bet your asses i would be chanting “blood for the blood god” with chat

chat is BLOODTHIRSTY

chat is feral

chat is amazing

thank you chat for being the chaotic fucking bastards yall always are

“lookit muh muscles. BITCH”

tommy

i love him

so last stream, techno and tommy waterboarded a hostage who died by a spider immediately after he was released

THIS stream, techno and tommy waterboard an orphan fox until he cries

good times

fundy drowned

canon?

wait

i just remembered

FUNDY GOT DROWNED BY HIS UNCLES

TOMMY AND TECHNO ARE FUNDYS UNCLES BRUHHHHHHH

these two fuckers legit said “what if i waterboard my nephew to the point where he drowns”

i find it really funny that techno is the one fanon portrays to be this remorseless out of control entity when the entire time during the fundy waterboard torture, techno is the one holding tommy back and saying that hes going to far

and last time, techno is the one chiding philza when philza just casually murders and slaughters his way around the map

bruh

techno has more of a moral compass than fandom gives him credit for

where is my "techno is actually the moral compass of the sbi” fanfic

the only dirt we have on dream is his dirt shack amiright? eyyyy hes homeless

techno

so funny

“useless, annoying, loud, british. you know. the worst combination” techno says

then he fucking makes tommy weapons, gives tommy the helmet, makes tommy weapons and tools and armour...

yeah.

“i will not rest until that entire country has been completely obliterated for what it did to me and phil, tommy”

ME AND PHIL

technoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

bruhhhh

mr blade please

LMANBURG IS MY UNFINISHED SYMPHONY

tommy what the fuck

what the fuck

tommy

what wait tahgjkjxbglsjbnouafsfv

WAT

“you could actually be, dare i say it, a friend” TECHNO

TECHNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

BRUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

“technoblade ill join you”

ANTARCTIC ANARCHIST COMMUNE POG

YES BITCH

SBI

“this bodes poorly for the eventual sbi meetup”

shut up

shut the fuck up

i cant handle this

i can handle the dream sapnap meetup conspiracy

but i CANNOT handle the sbi meetup conspiracy

techno please shut up

i cant

dont do me dirty like this man

you know how tommy keeps saying that hes weak and shit but like

he fought in wars

he has fucking armour, weapons, potions, gapples

he can hold his own in a fight

do you think tommy keeps calling himself weak bc DREAM calls him weak? like. his self-confidence and belief in his abilities is just eroded by dream so tommy thinks hes weak even if he isnt?

“we have sand at home”

at home

at HOME

bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

techno literally out here singlehandedly giving me serotonin

beak on

bless you

one of us

#salt liveblogs

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fuckmexicanlmanberg · 3 years

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THE THING ABOUT LIVONIA

SO. LIVONIA. NONE OF YOU ASHOLES PROBOBLY EVEN KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THIS PLACE IS. AND FOR GOOD REASON. IT EXISTED FOR LIKE WHAT 2-3 HUNDRED YEARS BACK IN THE MIDDLE AGES? AND WAS ALSO PRETTY POWERLESS?

AT LEAST ITS WIKIPEDIA PAGE IS PRETTY LONG.

BUT YEAH. SHE HAD TO WRITE AN ESSEY ON THIS THINGAMAJIG FOR THE PLACE SHE GOES TO WHEN SHE LEAVES HOUSE AND I HAVE A FEW THINGS TO SAY ABOUT IT.

SO FIRST OF ALL. HERES LIVONIA.

IT WAS CREATED BY GERMAN SOLDIERS WHO INVADED THIS LAND AS A PART OF THE CRUSSADE FOR TERRA MARIANA (OR THE THE LIVONIAN CRUSADE) IN THE 13TH CENTURY. TERRA MARIANA IS WHAT THEY CALLED THE BALTICS BCS THEY WANTED TO ‘CONQUER IT FOR MARY’. (THE FIRST TRIBE THEY CHRISTINSED WERE THE LIVONIAS WHICH IS WHY THE COUNTRY THEY FOUNDED IN THIS LAND LATER WAS CALLED LIVONIA)

THE REASON THEY CHRISTINISED THE LIVONIANS FIRST IS BECOUSE THEY LIVED BY THE SEA, AND SINCE THE GERMANS CAME ON SHIPS, THE LIVONIANS WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE THEY CAME ACROSS.

(HERES A MAP FOR REFRENCE. IT ONLY SHOWS THE BALTIC TRIBES THO. AND LIVONIANS WERENT BALTIC. BUT THEY LIVED BY THE SHORE LINE. SO ABOVE THE CURONIANS, SEMIGALIANS AND THEN BY THE LATGALIANS.)

THE FIRST BISHOP THAT CAME WAS CALLED MEINARD AND APEARANTLT HE WAS A PRETY NICE OLD MAN AND SINCE HE WAS AN OLD MAN LIVING IN THE MIDDLE AGES HE FUCKING DIED. LIKE REAL QUICK.

HE DID MANAGE TO TALK SOME LOCALS INTO ‘ACEPTING CHRISTIANITY’ THOUGH. THE PROBLEM WAS THAT THEY LITERERY DID NOT FUCKING CARE ABOUT THE RELIGION AND JUST SAID YES BECOUSE HE SEEMED NICE AND THE MOMENT HIS BACK WAS TURNED THEY WAHSED THEMSELVES IN THE RIVER TO CLEAN THEMSELVES OF CHRISTIANITY.

MEINARD ALSO MADE THE FIRST MASONRY CASTLE IN THE BALTICS, WHICH IS KINDA STILL INTACT TO THIS DAY. (ITS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE ONLY BUILDING THE GOVERMENT OF LATVIA - THE COUNTRY WHERE THE BUILD IS NOW - PRESERVES. SINCE ALL OF THE BALTICS CARE ABOUT IT SO THEY POOL THEIR MONEY TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE IT STAYS SOMEWHAT INTACT)

BUT YEAH. MEINARD DIES. AND IN HIS PLACE SOMES BERTOLD, WHO ALSO DIES. BUT THIS TIME BECOUSE THIS FUCKER DIDNT KNOW HOW TO RIDE A HORSE SO NATURALY HE GETS ON A HORSE IN THE MIDDLE OF A SCIRMISH AND THEN GETS FUCKING STABBED BECOUSE THE HORSE JUST KINDA GALLOPS INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE BATTLEFIELD.

(BERTOLD COMES WITH CRUSADORS, SO THE BALTIC TRIBES AND THE GERMANS START HAVING SCIRMISHES)

AFTER BERTOLD COMES THE GRAND FUCKER HIMSELF - BISHOP ALBERT. (OR Bishop Albrecht von Buxthoeven) THE ONE THAT HISTORY ACTUALY CARES ABOUT.

THIS FUCKER ACTUALLY MANAGES TO SURVIVE. HE FOUNDED RIGA, WHICH BECAME A CENTER OF TRADE FOR THE BALTICS.

THOUGH. FOUNDED IS A STRONG WORD.

FOUNDED IMPLIES THERE WAS NOTHING THERE BEFORE. BUT THERE MOST DEFINETLY WAS. IN THE PLACE OF RIGA WAS A SMALL VILLAGE, WHERE LIVONIANS LIVED.

(IM GONNA PUT ANOTHER MAP HERE, SO YOU CAN SEE WHERE RIGA IS)

BUT YEAH. RIGA WAS FOUNDED BY THRETHNING THE LIVONIANS WHO LIVED THERE WITH GROUSOME DEATHS. WHEATHER OR NOT THE LIVONIANS WERE ACTUALLY MURDURED I DONT KNOW.

SO ALBERT FOUNDS RIGA. THEN HE BUILDS THREE CHURCHES IN IT (FOR PETER, FOT JEKAB AND FOR MARIA) THAT STILL STAND TODAY (KINDA, THEY WERE REBUILT A MILLION TIMES APEARANTLY).

HE THEN PROCEEDS TO FUCKING PUNT THE BALTIC TRIBES (EXCEPT THE LITHANIANS) AND JUST TAKES OVER AND FORMS LIVONIA.

(THE LITHANIANS AT THIS TIME ALRADY HAD A KING LIKE PERSON SO THEY WERE FAR TOO ORGINISED TO TAKE OVER)

THE CRUSADORS TAKE OVER THE TERITORY OF MODERN LATVIA AND ESTONIA (PART OF THE BALTICS, BUT NOT PART OF THE BALTIC TRIBES).

AND THESE MOTHERFUCKERS FORM THE MOST BROKEN FUCKING COUNTRY THEY CAN. IT CONSISTS OF THE LIVONIAN ORDER THE ARHCIBISCHOPRIC OF RIGA AND A FEW OTHER BISHPROPICS AND LET ME TELL YOU. THESE FUCKERS JUST FIGHT OVER RIGA FOR THE ENTIRE TIME LIVONIA IS A THING. THEY FIGHT OVER THIS ONE CITY FOR LIKE 2-3 CENTUIRES.

AND THEN IN THE 16TH CENTURY THE FUCKING RUSSIAN EMPIRE SAYS : “YEAH I WANT THAT TOO.”

SO THEY GO TO WAR.

AND THIS WAR, ITS CALLED THE WAR OF LIVONIA. BUT DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG LIVONIA PARICIPATES IN IT? HUH? DO YOU? LIKE ONLY FUCKING 3 YEARS. THEY DECIDED TO DISOLVE THE LIVONIAN ORDER IN 1561 AND THE WAR STARTED IN 1558.

SO THE REST OF THE WAR THAT ENDED IN 1583 IS FOUGHT BY THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE, THE SWEDES AND THE LITHANIANS&POLES.

AND YOU KNOW WHAT? WHAT ONE OF THE REASONS LIVONIA WAS SO VERY FUCKING WEAK WAS? (NOT COUNTING ALL THE INFIGHTING WHICH WAS THE MAIN REASON)

ITS BECOUSE IT WAS STILL A THEOCRATIC STATE. EVEN THOUGH. IT. WAS. FUCKING. LUTHERAN.

WHY WAS IT THEOCRATIC?????

THEY WERE LUTHERANS.

WHAT THE FUCJ HWAT THE DHIT???/

SO YEAH. THIS WAS A CALL OUT POST FOR LIVONIA BY SOMEONE WHO KNOWS SHIT ALL ABOUT HISTORY.

(REALLY DONT FUCKING TTRUST ME MOST OF THIS WAS OFF OF MY HEAD I JUST WANTED TO DUNK ON LIVONIA)

#historical inaccuracies #im sure there are many #HERE WE GO #THIS IS FOR U CLOWN ANON

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mrsjokerphoenix · 4 years

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CHAPTER 2- ONE KISS LESS

ARTHUR/JOKER x YOU

Summary: you’re a rouge CIA psychiatrist who is also involved in arms dealing.hired by Jokers right hand man, Gary, to break him out of Arkham. You go undercover to as a state psychiatrist after Quinn steps down as lead DR but still works under you on his case even though she never shows much interest and leaves during the meetings.Its been a year since you got to Gotham and have everything prepared for Arthur to escape but both of you have fallen in love and he asks you to runaway with him. Now you have to decide between the love of your life or building your empire.

A/N: i know it starts off slow but I have big plans for chapter 3 which might be the last who knows. Any feedback or constructive criticism is welcome! Hope you Enjoy 😊

“Turn the headlights off so we dont draw attention” you advised the driver as he pulled up the warehouse.

You had stayed up all contemplating if leaving with Arthur or Joker as he is known, would be a good idea.You wanted to rip your hair out thinking of all the what ifs. “Fuck it.” You said as you went into your closet to get your suitcase. Your heart was racing a thousand beats a minute and you couldnt stop smiling. Euphoria rushing through you like lava jumping and dancing hardly containing your excitement. “Had you ever been happier in your life?” You questioned. You packed just the basics you could always buy stuff later on. Ringing up the driver letting him know to pick you up at 8:00 on the dot. He had taken you to the warehouse before when you were looking for spots where Arthur could go and leave undetected.

“We’re here ms. L/N.” You were shaking and felt your hands get clammy. So much adrenaline occupied your body, but it would all be worth it. Finally getting your happy ending and building the future you and Arthur had talked about and planned all year. Reaching to open the door you saw the black SUV pull up in front of the warehouse. You had parked beside one of the abandoned buildings so no one could spot your car just incase. One of the doors opened. Watching intently, you knew once you saw him it would give you all the courage and reassurance you needed and that you were making the right decision.

“No , it cant be.” Disbelief washed over you as you witnessed the scene taking place in-front of you.

Cold. An ice cold wave washed over the glorious warmth you were feeling seconds before. In disbelief you saw Dr.Quinn get out of the SUV followed by Arthur. He had his red suit on and face paint perfectly applied. His once salt pepper hair was now green and slicked back to perfection. He looked just as beautiful and alluring as the videos and pictures you had seen. You couldn’t process what was going on. Your mind went straight into shock. If only earth could swallow you whole right now.

“Take me home now! GO!” You screamed at the driver, rage filling your voice.

Was this some sick joke? This couldn’t have possibly been Arthur, your sweet caring Arthur. Maybe it was and he just had to pull a Joker on you? God you had been so naive. Were they in on this together? Is that why she didnt want anything to do with his case? Was she pretending the whole time? Nothing made sense, so many questions flooded your mind. Not moving an inch the whole ride back all you could do was stare at the seat in front of you, snapping out of it when your driver opened the door.

Finally back at home. The atmosphere was dark and lonelier than you remembered. Heading straight to the bar pulling out a bottle of vodka. Maybe alcohol will kill everything you felt for him and erase the memories but all it did was make the numbness more palpable . You weren’t going to shed a tear for him ever again you promised yourself. The cold hard exterior you were known for was coming back.

The ringing of your phone woke you up from your alcohol induced sleep. “Shit” scrambling to find the loud device. Arkham had been calling all morning. 15 missed calls. “They probably know Arthur is missing by now and found his stand in you thought .”

“Hello?” You answered the phone trying to sound professional and not like you were still drunk from last nights bottle.

“Hi Dr.L/N, sorry to bother i know yesterday was your last day but we have an emergency Arthur Fleck seems to have escaped. We need you here ASAP.” The voice on the other line was the chief of psychiatry. Trying to yourself from puking as the memories of last night decided to make an appearance all at once.

“Ill head out right now.” Giving him your best concerned voice.

You had practiced this before, you knew exactly what to do so why were you so nervous? “Get it together.” You told yourself out loud. Getting ready in record time out the front door you went.

You walked into the board room. It was full of panicked staff and cops. “God I need some coffee.” You thought to yourself while rubbing your temples. Spotting the coffee station you walked over. Maybe this well help this horrible hangover and muster up a convincing performance.

“Thank you all for being here.” The chief expressed bringing the room to a hush. “ it seems that Arthur Fleck has escaped Arkham with the help of Dr.Harley Quinn.”

You almost chocked on your coffee. “How would they know he left with Dr.Quinn,” Confused you attentively listened.

“Somehow a look a like was put in as a double to throw the staff off and we don’t know how long he has been gone or if he is even in Gotham. We would like for everyone to cooperate with the police so we can get to the bottom of this.” His voice stern. One by one everyone was being called into the Chief’s office.

“Well stay in touch and call you if we need further information.” The officer smiled as he lead me out of the room. “Yes please do, ill be back in D.C. but please don’t hesitate to call if anything comes up.” giving him a slight smile and handshake.

They made copies of your year long notes on the case and you managed every question flawlessly. Everything worked out better then expected. Harley had signed off for every session that was done and you had even typed up her own notes so it would appear that she was present for all of them. There would be no suspicion that you were involved. Your job was done and now it was time to head back to D.C.

You called your assistant to get your bags and the plane ready. we’re heading back home. “Empires don’t build themselves!” You jokingly told her. Your smile vanishing as you hung up. He still managed to occupy every space in your mind. There was no escaping it. Would you ever see him again? Deep down you hoped he finds happiness even if its not with you.

The driver pulled up to the plane awaiting to take you home after a long year. The familiar knot tried to fight its way back into your throat but you wouldn’t let it. Climbing up the steps you stopped before walking into the plane and looked back. For such a grimey city it sure does have beautiful sunsets.

“Goodbye Gotham, Goodbye Arthur.”

#joaquin phoenix #joker 2019 #joker movie #joaquin daddy phoenix #joaquin pheonix joker #arthur fleck #joker x reader #arthur fleck x reader #joker fandom

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I hope you’re ready for this long response because I’m so glad you asked. I’ve been itching to write about this boy and now you’ve given me an excuse to spill my thoughts. Sorry in advance for the volume of stuff I have to say.

Some general differences:

-TALL. I’m talkin’ Chahut-sized. Also, decently buff— not bodybuilder-level or anything, but definitely has some noticeable muscle. Could pick you up with one arm, no problem. (comparatively, my cerulean Mal headcanon is around 5’5” and about average build)

-Still has the same chill attitude as Mal, but a little faster to lose his cool when something bugs him.

-Even more flirty than normal Mal. It comes off as quite intimidating given his stature and his big ol’ teeth, though.

-Has a deeper, more gravelly voice than cerulean Mal.

-His long fang is gold.

-17 piercings total.

-His weapons of choice are spiked knuckle dusters.

-For the most part, really dislikes faygo– it ruins his mental clarity, which makes him anxious.

Some deeper ideas which I’ve written some analysis for:

-He has slightly stronger rebel beliefs than Cerulean Mal.

-Despite this, fears what would happen to trollkind if a rebellion were to rise up (mass extinction courtesy of the Condesce’s lusus)

-The combination of these things leaves him in a state of anxiety and indecision about the right thing to do. Doesn’t join the rebellion. Still rescues a lot of lower-blooded trolls from danger, though, and gets attached to them as soon as he starts getting to know them.

-Fiercely protective of his friends; not afraid to kill for them.

-Emotionally volatile; little things tend to cause big reactions in him (could really benefit from a moirail to give him a good shooshpap when he gets riled up)

I’ve written a bit of an essay explaining the thoughts behind these... It’s 3 AM and this is total stream of consciousness stuff so it’s not totally organized, but it’ll give you some insight to my thought process about his character if you’re interested in that kinda thing. Analysis under the cut!

I see him as different in a lot of ways, to be honest. When I do bloodswaps I really like to lean into their new caste and think about how growing up with those expectations and that culture would change the character. The differences in the culture of the purple caste are pretty drastic as compared to the others, so my purple Mallek is also pretty dissimilar from his cerulean self.

For one, he has a lot of pressure put upon him to do things he feels are unjust. As we know, Mallek doesn’t approve of the subjugation of lower blood castes. As a cerulean, he feels that he has neither the power or the energy to do anything about these injustices. It’s likely different as a purpleblood, though.

Interestingly, it’s implied here that chucklevoodoos may hold a certain power over all lowbloods– planting fears within their minds, amplifying their fears through dreams, etc. It’s unclear whether this is only “lowbloods” in a strict sense (typically those gold and under), or if it simply means “those lower than purples”. For my purposes, I’ll assume that they hold effects over all blood castes beneath purples.

If we assume this is true, it’s certainly possible that this chucklevoodoo influence is one of the things holding our beloved cerulean Mallek back from feeling that he has the power to change Alternia. Purple Mallek would be without this influence. Being in the purpleblood culture, he’s also forced to see a lot of violence firsthand that could more easily be avoided as a cerulean, probably giving him stronger beliefs in the injustice of the system. Considering these fact combined with the power that comes with being a purpleblood, I feel that he would grow up with stronger beliefs in rebellion.

However, there is a problem with this idea. While purplebloods are physically and psychically powerful as all hell, this leads them to be kept on a very tight leash by the seadwellers. In Marvus’ route (who, by the way, is the same dreamer+aspect combo as Mallek, assuming the sign we’ve seen associated with Marv is actually his sign. This may not be relevant, but it’s pretty interesting to think about…), he says, “…the only reason we dont ri$$$e up and rip the fins of their slimy lil faces iz an enternitys of religious persecution and culturally immutable precedent..” Though Marvus acknowledges these influences, it just clarifies the undeniable power over purplebloods that keeps them from rebelling against their controllers. Homestuck proper states that the Condesce controls the purplebloods with the threat of her lusus’ ability to exterminate millions.

It’s because of these two opposing ideas that I see purple Mallek as a very conflicted individual. He knows he has the physical and psychic strength which would give him leverage against the empire, but he is haunted by the thoughts that his resistance could invoke the wrath of the Condesce– which could end in her lusus invoking a mass killing. He knows that his ideas, trying to change Alternia for the better, could end up with mass death instead, and this keeps him from acting against the empire outright. He really feels the pressure the closer it comes to his departure from Alternia, though. Would rather do just about anything than become a subjuggulator— he can’t stomach the idea of killing on that scale.

He does, though, have his own ways of rebellion. These are pretty typical for him, going off what we’ve seen of his character so far– he does what he feels is right, helping out smaller and weaker trolls (invited Diemen to live with him, makes Tirona feel better about her strengths when she’s afraid her weakness and small stature could get her culled). He tends to rescue a lot of lowbloods from dangerous situations; though it’s mostly friends and friends of friends– it stresses him out to think about saving every lowblood possible.

His murderous impulses can come out when he is angry, but this is most frequently directed at perpetrators of injustice, and he avoids killing for the most part. I say for the most part, because I don’t see purple Mal as exceptionally emotionally stable. Cerulean Mallek already reacts very emotionally to what’s going on around him. Think about how enthusiastic and energetic he is when reader chooses to tell him they’re an advanced robot, versus how despondent he is when they choose to admit they were lying. Also, consider his sudden anger when he believes reader has led the drones to him (understandable, but still a dramatic shift from his previous demeanor). Cerulean Mallek never shows any intention towards hurting the reader, even when angry with them, but purplebloods have a tendency towards the… violent. My purple Mal’s emotions are made even more volatile because of his internal conflicts previously discussed. I think purple Mallek would have a great deal of control over murderous impulses, but it’s possible they could get the better of him if he’s particularly angry. I could picture him tearing apart someone who is about to hurt one of his friends, for sure.

Anyways, that’s all the analysis I have the energy for right now (and you’re probably sick of reading my wall of text) , but I might right some more about him later if I think of stuff to add! Feel free to request more information if you want; I like to write about him (in case you couldn’t tell…).

#mine #asks #anon #bloodswap #purple mallek #homestuck #hiveswap #hiveswap headcanons #homestuck headcanons #mallek adalov #mallek #long post #it's real infodump hours i guess #sorry anon lmao

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ironwoman18 · 4 years

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The Worst Third Date Ever part 14

Chapter 14: New Year

When the December thirty-first arrived. Max was in their bed, wearing his shirt and underwear.

She looked at him and smiled. He looked so cute when he was sleeping and she could not help but fall more for him.

When they went back to DC she will miss waking up next to him every day. She wanted to propose to him the moving in together but it was still to soon.

She was the one who set the 'take things slow' and she already break it. Their first kiss happened because of her after Catherine's kidnapped her dad and sister, their first time making love happened because of her after him been so sweet and gentleman and caring with her family that she could not resist.

This travel happened because of her, so now she realized that her plan was an excuse for not open up to him, but he was so... him that she could not help herself but to open every window, door... everything to him.

But this... moving in was a big step even for her. She ran her hand gentle into his hair, she was careful not to wake him up.

She wanted to wake up like this every day but was not sure if that would be possible with his job.

She remembered talking to Kristy and Kristall at the Christmas party at David's house.

David took his male friends for a friendly round of poker, he and Matt knew Spencer would will but the funny thing will be watching the others getting surprised by that.

At the only people left there were a couple sitting at the living room talking and the two wives of her boyfriend's coworkers.

"So how is it like to be marry a FBI agent?" Max asked to break the ice.

"It's both exciting and terrifying" said Krystall with a smile.

"Same" said Kristy "and I would add that it makes you terribly worry but then when they come back and hug you, it's like the first time" add her "that's why we have five children" they laughed.

"I don't need that much children" said Max laughing "I'm scared, Spencer and I just started dating and I'm already worry when he told me about a case"

"I understand, Matt was part of a different team a couple of years ago. With this team he had to go further than with the BAU. Because they had to go out of the US"

"Wow that must be terrifying"

"It was, but we survived it and I dont think anything would break us. I think after Catherine Adam's face off, you will also survive anything"

"I'm agree. I mean Dave isn't that young anymore but this is his life. He loves this job and this unit and I will support him always"

Max smiled at them, that was what she did, she support him and she will keep doing that "I love Spencer and I want what is best for him. Did David and Matt get hurt?"

"Oh yes honey" said Krystall "David got shot, broke bones, got a little PTSD after Everett Lynch's attack. And I couldn't protect him but I can make sure he recovers from that"

"Same with Matt, he had been shot a lot of times, got hurt, broke bones but like Krystall said, we can't protect them. He is mine and our kids hero"

"Dave told me what he thinks its necessary to keep me informed but not to worry. I know there are more stupid things he does but I kept my mouth shut" Kristy laughed.

"Yeah Matt wrote a book with his adventures but I'm pretty sure he didn't add some details so he won't scare us"

"Spencer still didn't share his work life, not even the light events" she looked at them "I know some things he shared, especially after Cat"

"Don't shut him up to much. He will need you and if he knows he can share something to you, he will. You just have to hug him and ease the pain. Matt and I have a plan if something happens to him. I know its may sounds like to much but I learned that this job is a huge responsibility and they risk their lives for us"

Max nodded and sighs "don't be scared Max, is a cold headed man. I would be more worried about Dave" said Krystall making both women laugh "trust him"

"I do. I did since he helped my nephew when he had a panic attack" she looked at them "it just... I'm so into him that I wouldn't resist if something bad happened"

"You will. That was something I thought myself when Matt told me about what he does for a living" Kristy held her hand "I'm sure when that moment comes you will be ready" Max nodded and smiled at the blonde woman in front of her.

Max wanted to believe her but everytime that thought crossed her mind, her heart skip a beat. Her fingers were into his hair stroking it gently.

After some more minutes she stopped and softly managed to stood up without waking him up.

She headed to the bathroom to take a shower. She was thinking about tonight. Where they will spend the last couple of hours of 2019.

They had a few options one was the Empire State Building where they can enjoy the fireworks, second was Central Park and another was a ferry towards the Statue of Liberty.

She will ask Spencer when he wakes up. When she finished her shower and got dressed.

She put back on his and a fresh underwear. Then Max walked back to the bedroom and Spencer was awake "good morning handsome. Did you sleep well?" She sat next to him.

"Good morning beautiful. Yes it was a great sleep" he smiled and kisses her gently "I will go take a shower, then we can eat and plan what to do tonight"

"Sounds great. I will get out the bread, cheese and butter then you can make coffee"

"Perfect" he smiled and stood up then walked to the bathroom.

Max walked to the kitchen and made some sandwiches for them. Then called her dad.

"Hey dad, how are things going?"

"Great, Michelle planned a barbecue and we will go there tonight. How is New York?"

"Amazing, Spencer has been a gentleman with me. We were in the museum, then eat pasta in the Little Italy, yesterday we were on tour in Manhattan. Today we want to go somewhere to watch the fireworks but we haven't decided yet"

"I'm happy you found such an amazing guy, sweetheart, you were one of my daughters I was more worry about. Since you and Mike broke up you stopped to trust in people but now with Spencer you seem so happy"

"I am dad" she smiled with some tears "my only worry now is... his job. I know he has been doing this for years but it's so dangerous"

"Darling he will be fine, he is smart and knows what to do if things get bad. Also he has something years ago he doesn't... you. He has a girlfriend now and he will want to stay alive for you"

"Thanks dad" she said cleaning her tears and turns to see that Spencer walked in the room "well dad I will call you tomorrow, have a great celebration. Love you"

"Love you too Max" then they hung up then she waits for him to get ready.

Max looked out the window. They had Central Park in front of them, so maybe it could be a nice spot to watch the fireworks without moving to far.

She was so focused that she did not realized Spencer was behind her until he hugged her.

"So what is in this beautiful head?" He asked looking down at her.

She chuckled "well I'm thinking what we will do tonight, sir"

"And what did you think?"

"We can stay in this area of the city, then goes to the park and watch the fireworks then return home. How does it sound?"

"Sounds great, I like that plan" he looked at her as she turned in his arms.

"That's great, and if you have any other idea tell me so we can do something we both want"

"I didn't have ideas. So I like yours" she laughed and wrapped her arms around him.

"Ok then. That's what we will do" she stood on her tiptoes and kissed him softly "let's go to the kitchen and make coffee kind sir"

He laughed and walked to the kitchen. She followed him to toast the sandwiches.

Then they both ate and drank coffee watching an old Christmas movie on TV.

"Spencer" he looked at her "do you want tonight's dinner here or out?"

"Here could be nice. Why?"

"Because I can cook it for us. Something my mom always did for New Year's eve"

"Ok I would like it but do you have all ingredients?"

"I bought them some days ago. I was thinking of doing it some other day but since we both decided to stay here, then I can make it"

"Ok need any help?" She shook her head.

"No I want it to be a surprise" he raises his eyebrow "go read books or check out the parks for good spots"

"Max..."

"Just do it, ok? Trust me"

He just nodded "ok I will go to check the park. If you need something just call me, ok?" She nodded "good" he stood up and walked into de bedroom to put on his shoes.

Meanwhile Max walked to the kitchen to start to cook. She gets out some ingredients and turned on the stove.

She watched as Spencer walked away "see you later honey" she said smiling at him. He just smiled and left the apartment.

Then she started to cook. She was making lasagna. Her mom used to make it every year because it was a family tradition.

Her mom has Italian heritage so they liked to cook that kind of food. Michelle and herself learned dishes from her.

When Spencer arrived she finished the ground meat and the white sauce, now she was cooking the pasta.

"Hey Max, I checked the Central Park. Close to the monument to John Lennon the have chairs to watch the fireworks show. By the way, did you know that his murderer was a huge fan of the band but got mad when Lennon compared the Beatles with Jesus? That must be his trigger" he said fast as he walked in the kitchen.

"Spence I love you but those aren't the kind of facts I like to hear"

"Sorry" he looked down ashamed.

"It's ok" she patted his chest softly "is it free?"

"Yes, so we will need to go early to find seats"

"Ok I'm almost done here and the dish I'm making just need to get in the oven to grill the cheese"

"Ok, do you want me to buy something else?"

"Is there wine?"

"Yes so don't worry. As I said I bought everything. I used my credit card plus my last payment of December to pay it"

"Ok" he smiled at her "you could ask me to pay it"

"No, it was my surprise to you" she smiled and hugged him.

He hugged her back and then she returned to cook.

When the night arrived they both ate and shared some wine. They decided to take down the champagne and two glasses to celebrate the New Year with a it.

They put on their jackets and went down to the park. He led the way to the place the celebration was. There were some free spots so they got one of those. There were tables and seats.

They gave them some hot chocolate and put music on. The night was fun, they met new people. At midnight they all wished a Happy New Year, the couples kiss and the fireworks show started.

After that the rest of their time in New York was relaxed. They visited museums. Spencer threw lot of facts when they visited the American Natural History Museum and the New York Zoo.

They returned to DC on January Third, ready to started a new year.

OOooOOooOO

Hope you liked it. This one was hard to write, don't know why but here it is.

The next one will have a time jump to episode 9 of the show. Maybe some days after episode 8.

I have some plans for it and I hope that work out.

We will read soon. Stay at home and be safe.

#spencer reid #criminal mind #maxine brenner #maxcer #fanfiction

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sights-on-the-scifi · 5 years

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THE COMPLETE SIGHTS OF SCIFI STAR WARS REVIEW PART 1.

In this first part of my series ill be covering the select prequel entertainment to the original STAR WARS trilogy, this is not just a review of the prequel film trilogy directed by George Lucas. It is also a review of the media that takes place chronologically between the events of REVENGE OF THE SITH and the 1977 classic STAR WARS otherwise known as a A NEW HOPE. I must again stress that this is not a review of every TV show or book available, also some of this media I will include in my review is no longer officially recognised as franchise canon anymore.

What this review represents is a personal preference based inferred chronology of games and movies. Unfortunately I cant cover THE CLONE WARS animated show, at least not yet as there is just too much of that stuff to cover consistently.

THE STAR WARS PREQUELS.

I must admit that i’m not the biggest fan of the prequel trilogy, this is also the case for a lot of die hard original trilogy fans out there. But in light of the fact JEDI FALLEN ORDER takes place directly after them, I saw it fit to return to these movies with a fresh perspective and to refresh my memory... See what works and what does not, perhaps see if they are as bad as I recall.

THE PHANTOM MENACE 1999.

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What really stood out to me immediately upon returning to this first movie is its bold and colourful production design, to this day it is still quite incredible to behold... To see just how much art has gone into this new vision of Lucas’s universe. The aim it seems was to craft a more complex galaxy in terms of architectural design and contrasting cultural aesthetics, turning back the clock to a time of diverse fashions and cleaner technologies. While it is not always fully consistent especially given the fact it stands in direct contrast with the original trilogy universe we all come to expect, today I can understand the logic of this creative direction.

We are seeing the galaxy in a time that is for the most part unfamiliar with any recent large scale galactic conflicts... A time of relative peace for this republic though we do get a lot of hints throughout nothing is all quite perfect. Based on the fact that the Trade federation does not compose an army of its own civilian subjects, it is also safe to assume that most of the fighting in this galaxy is carried out by automated infantry units whenever a show of force is required to settle disputes.

It is very interesting visual world building.

Unfortunately the movie outside of this beautiful art direction is still, even years later... A complete and total mess in terms of tone, story and some technical aspects. There are fascinating ideas and politics at play here dont get me wrong, but the way in which the story that surrounds this stuff was executed still leaves much to be desired.

The acting is very monotone, the characters very bland (Sometimes incredibly annoying) and the stakes virtually non existent as we are mostly told, not shown the apparently dire events of this plot. What little plot there seems to be anyway as for the most part it can be boiled down to this [COUGH], the dark lord of the sith is scheming in the shadows... Creating an elaborate proxy conflict that’s escalating problems will facilitate his rise to power within the political ranks of the republic’s democracy. This manufactured crisis involves many different parties both human and alien who dont really get developed that much, and for the most part they all have no idea what is actually happening, which is the point I guess “The phantom menace”... But its just not an interesting enough mystery as it should be at first.

We get introduced to a young Anakin who gets some decent character development as he should. Discovering his compassionate side and knack for piloting in the exciting pod race sequence, but after this he pretty much fades into the background... Same with other franchise essential individuals like Obi Wan Kenobi who spends the majority of his time following orders and waiting on a fancy ship complaining that nothing is happening.

Who can blame him... Overall the first movie in this prequel trilogy while fascinating is still ultimately a boring experience. Thankfully the Attack of the clones will prove to be a lot more interesting!

ATTACK OF THE CLONES 2002.

Taking place just a few years after the events of the PHANTOM MENACE we find ourselves discovering the more fascinating intricacies of the sith lord’s plot to take control of the galaxy and build the empire. All the while Anakin gets tangled in complications relating to his relationship with a major senator that will eventually result in him falling to the dark side, seeing his inner darkness finally become externalised. Like with the first movie, this film also unfortunately suffers a lot of those same issues related to structure, stakes and pacing. Production design has also seen a few regressions as most if not all of this movie is rendered in a computer with exception to the live actors of course... But overall Attack of the clones is a lot more focused and competent when it comes to exploring its political subject matter and scifi concepts.

As the film progresses we discover the secret plot of the sith lord, as separatist factions rise up in opposition to the republic and a ethically questionable clone army is ordered in secret to combat this proxy threat they pose. This peaceful, democratic republic is thrust into an all out conflict as the Jedi order is eluded to the true implications of these strange political and military developments, becoming willing pawns in this meaningless war which will serve to be their undoing.

The clone soldiers in this movie are a very interesting scifi concept that I heard are explored more in animated TV show, but what I see here is still fascinating regardless. This is essentially an army of obedient, docile and expendable human beings who like the battle droids serve only one purpose, which is to fight for a cause they may not even be fully aware of. The willing usage of this army by the republic is a clear sign that the values that hold their society together are being corrupted in the name of ensuring security, you could even consider these clones indoctrinated slaves. Charging into battle and dying by the thousands at the command of the Jedi warriors, they are an entire army born to fight and eventually die doing so... It is quite terrifying once you really start to think about it.

I enjoyed ATTACK OF THE CLONES for the most part, its interesting to see how this peaceful republic gradually starts to turn into the fascist empire we are all familiar with in the original trilogy.

As always it could of been executed better, but that just was not to be case... So we make do with what we have here even if its imperfect.

REVENGE OF THE SITH 2005.

The final movie in the prequel trilogy, REVENGE OF THE SITH takes all of the gradual political developments of the first two movies and shows us their ultimate consequences. The Jedi order loses its way and is then destroyed by the clone army through order 66 while the survivors go into hiding, the separatist leaders are wiped out, Anakin falls to the dark side becoming Darth vader, and the sith lord rises to become emperor of the newly established galactic empire.

As the title of the movie states, the sith have their revenge.

Its a very dark movie and for the most part it is well executed in that department. There is not much else to say about it other than it being the expected conclusion of this storyline... Great music, some interesting concepts and scenes same with the rest of them. Seeing the tragedy unfold is very intriguing, even if there is a lot of missing context between Clones and this movie that water down its overall emotional impact somewhat, unfortunately most of that is in the animated TV show I have yet to watch.

To be honest upon re-watching all of these movies I would say I have grown to develop a small but noticeable new appreciation for em. They are still pretty bad in a lot of ways that will always be a annoyance, but i will admire the novel effort.

In the next part of my review series ill be covering the next four pieces of media that serve to fill the narrative gap between REVENGE OF THE SITH and STAR WARS 1977.

So stay tuned for BRIDGES TO A NEW HOPE.

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