#but anyway the outtake is funny and i love it

[felixcosm]

But I didn't pick a long sleeved shirt to keep you warm. Like I care. Baka.

#woe.begone #wbg cannonball #wbg topher evans #i love how fast this episode can switch between funny and heart wrenching #like the beginning is so comical then it gradually gets darker and darker #until you have a drugged mikey mutilating himself at gunpoint; knowing no one is going to come save him #i always say episode 2 is incredibly lighthearted in comparison to this episode #its so fucked up /pos #but anyway the outtake is funny and i love it

[wannab-urs]

Outtakes - Non-smut Vol 1

AO3 | Kofi | Main Masterlist | The Spreadsheet Masterlist | Vol 2

Hi friends! Sometimes we want fics that are SFW or we just want to make ourselves sad or we need a little pick me up. I'm here with a list of fics that have no (explicit) smut as of posting! They may have smutty thoughts or mild allusions to smut, but those are marked in the warnings!

I know, me, posting non-smut fics.... but they deserve love too! Note that while many of these are rated T, they are posted on blogs that are 18+ so MDNI <3

Summaries and tags are, in most cases, provided by the author - please be sure to read them as some of these fics may have content you do not wish to read.

Updated 2/22/2024

Whiskey, Dark and Deep - Jack - @prolix-yuy

Summary: In the short time you’ve known Jack Daniels, he’s disappointed you three times. Warnings: M, violence, blood, injuries, gunfights, so so so much yearning, full on cowboy tropes.

A bearable weight - Javi G - prolix-yuy

Summary: New Years Eve is the holiday of new beginnings, and you take a leap to see if Javi might be one of them. Story Warnings: T, plenty of sweetness, more ridiculousness because I can’t help myself, some lightly spicy kisses.

One Hundred and Fifty Seven - Din - @theidiotwhowritesthings

Summary: Din fakes his death for some reason. They leave reader behind thinking he’s dead. Months go by and he returns but reader is like super not okay. Say she’s been super into spice because then she can see Din when she’s high. Anyway, happy ending but loooots of angst please! Also, can it be a bit between him returning and reader being okay with him being back?” Warnings: angst with happy end, drug use, drug addiction, mentions of death, brief canon violence, self loathing, anxiety, self doubt, boba adopts reader b/c i couldn’t resist

Bullseye - Joel - @softlyspector

summary: You never learned how to shoot a gun, Joel insists on teaching you. warnings: tensionnnnn, flirting and ✨touching✨, fluff

In an instant - Joel - @mishasminion360

Summary: Happy Birthday, Joel Miller... Warnings: Um…..😳🙄 (ed. note: I hate to spoil the story, but since this list is intented to help people avoid triggers, I must; Major Character Death (reader), angst, loss of pregnancy)

It would be - Din - @fuckyeahdindjarin

Summary (aka prompt I gave myself): ‘It would be easier if you just married him.’ Warnings: angst, jealousy, fighting, pining, yearning, no use of Y/N

Just Keep Breathing - Javi P - @swiftispunk

Summary: javi finds it harder and harder to keep up with the more physical aspects of his job. reader offers him some love and words of comfort. warnings etc: BODY REPRESENTATION <3 (reader is described as having thicker thighs, a belly, and crow’s feet), smoking + smoking related health issues, hurt/comfort, back massages, fluff, angst, bein in ur 30s/40s, established relationship. probably bad spanish (please correct me). NO USE OF Y/N.

Every Pilot Needs a Wingman - Frankie - @kikis-writing-world

Summary: You have been pining quietly over your neighbor for months. He hasn’t noticed, but apparently his friend has… Warnings: Smutty thoughts - grey sweatpants should be their own warning. Fleeting mentions of masturbation and sex toys. Swearing. Santi gives the reader tips on how to impress/pick up Frankie, I don’t know if that might come off as shady or triggering to people so I want to mention that.

Bucket of Bolts - Din - @toxic-seduction

summary: The dad and the dog he didn't want but its Din Djarin and a BD unit. warnings: Din being mean to BD. Man is so petty its funny

A girl walks into a bookshop - Ezra - @oonajaeadira

Summary: Set a couple of years after the events of the film. Ezra owns a bookshop. You walk in. Warnings: The coziest, softest romance. They do work up to intimacy, but it is sequestered in it’s own chapter–the “Interlude”–which can be skipped without losing any of the story. 

Breathe Through It - Joel - @ezrasversion

Summary: you have a panic attack. Joel helps. Warnings: Descriptions of mental health conditions (namely PTSD, but can be read as any anxiety based disorder with panic attacks) / graphic description of a panic attack / some adult language/ references to past trauma (nothing explicitly described but inferred).

A kiss before dying and in death we combine - Joel - oonajaeadira

Summary: When Joel becomes infected, you make the decision not to leave him alone. Warnings: Blood and wounds. Bodily character death. Loss. Love that hurts. Sex of course, but blurred to the edges. Playing fast and loose with the cordyceps and how fast it grows.

102 - Frankie - @tieronecrush

summary: every week, you and frankie meet up at the same spot at the same time to catch-up and share a coffee. you’ve been his best friend for years. through thick and thin, always there. thing is, frankie’s been in love with you for nearly as long as he’s known you and hasn’t worked up the courage to tell you. warnings: no use of Y/N, post-film timeline, au where frankie doesn’t have a kid, use of pet names (solecita, mi mejor), high school level spanish (mostly swear words), unrequited love, self deprecation, alcohol use/drunkenness, smoking

Safe in my arms - Ezra - mishasminion360

Summary: Ezra harbors a secret hatred for his absent arm, but his feelings come to a head when his newly acquired handicap fails to do the one task he vowed never to fail in: keep you safe from harm. Warnings: Language; light angst; feelings of insecurity; body dysmorphia; brief allusions to smut; hurt/comfort; fluff.

Leave Off Your Wandering - Joel - oonajaeadira

Summary: An area native, long-term resident and shepherd in Jackson, you prefer quiet and isolation and the company of sheep. It seems this new resident Joel Miller and his young ward might share your interests. Warnings: M (possible canon violence and language. most likely non-explicit sex further down the line.) (ed. note; no smut as of chapter 2)

Peace - Joel - swiftispunk

summary: jackson era, post-tlou. you and joel discuss what it means to die. warnings: angst and fluff, discussions of death and dying, discussions of sex but nothing too explicit, age difference implied but not specified (joel is older than you but the number of years is not relevant), established relationship. NO USE OF Y/N.

This is me trying - Joel/Ellie platonic!! - swiftispunk

summary: jackson. a flashback on a film reel sparks a memory. joel tells ellie how it feels. warnings: angst, discussions of child loss, discussions of grief and death, ig fluff

Epiphany - Joel - @jksprincess10

Summary: Your new neighbor is a war veteran with a lot of scars. (1k words) Warnings: AU where Joel is in the military, age gap, PTSD, anxiety, insomnia, allusions to smut, suicidal thoughts, sad ending. Beware!! 

Significant - Din - softlyspector

Summary: Din has been calling you riduur for months. You finally find out what it means, and get a little more than you bargained for. Warnings: pining, absolute FOOLS in love, bit of grumpy x sunshine, lil angsty, possibly incorrect lore, fluff, lots of Mando'a (translations for the Mando'a at the end

A pile of cards - Javi P - @undercoverpena

summary: it’s become a tradition. he presents you with a birthday card so you can collect his words, while he collects the expressions you share as you read them. warnings: javi through the seasons, narcos season two/three spoilers. cute, fluff. happy ending.

Fire - Din - jksprincess10

Summary: None Warnings: fluff fluff fluff, mutual pining, idiots in love, this is pretty short, mando still has the crest, canon divergent.

Honeyed - Joel - softlyspector

Summary: You hate being touched, but you might be willing to put aside your discomfort for a tattoo from Joel. Warnings: slow build, no outbreak tattoo!au, reader has issues with touch and is mostly touch adverse, tattoos and getting tattooed (the reader only has one tattoo that is described in any detail), description of a past abusive relationship and a bad experience getting tattooed, insecurity, anxiety, loneliness, implied undefined past trauma with men, Joel gets to have both his daughters in this, you can decide if this is game joel or show joel

The Art of Healing - Marcus Pike - @northernbluess

Summary: Marcus Pike was feeling lost—unfulfilled and unmoored. After a failed marriage, heartbreak courtesy of his ex-fiancée and relocating to D.C., Marcus knew that he needed more than the FBI. Seven years later, Marcus has traded in Special Agent for Doctor and is now a clinical psychologist specialising in art therapy. He combines his two loves of art and psychology, spurred on by his experience in art crimes, FBI psych courses and his own time in therapy. Josephine is referred to Dr Pike, having just been discharged from treatment for an eating disorder. While Dr Pike is fresh to his new career, he is knowledgeable, warm, kind and attentive. Over time, as she bares her soul to him, he falls for her and the bond between them ties both their heads in knots. As her therapist he knows it’s wrong but he begins to feel incapable of separating his feelings from his work. Before long neither can truly live without the other — if only she knew that. Warnings: (warnings will be specified in each individual chapter, however, please read these carefully) Art Therapist!Marcus Pike, eating disorder, therapy, mentions of disordered eating patterns, hurt/comfort, slow burn, lots of pining and tension, angst, age gap, strained familial relationships, so much softness and feelings, eventual smut (ed. note: no smut as of chapter 5 and worth the read up to that point)

The Man That I Love - Joel - @lumoverheaven

Summary: None (ed. note: Joel is an idiot who doesn't know what he has until he almost loses it). Warnings: None (ed. note: angst)

Not Strong Enough - Joel - @beskarandblasters

Summary: Fem!Reader and Joel are in an established relationship, having met shortly after the events in Kansas City. They’re living in Jackson, Wyoming together, post Salt Lake City with Ellie. Things are going well until an incident happens during patrol and Joel questions whether or not he’s good enough. Written in third person. Warnings: angst, feeling inadequate, canon types of violence, swearing, bar fight, Joel is an asshole :/

Halloween - Joel - beskarandblasters

Summary: You’re in a relationship with Joel and living with him and Ellie in Jackson, Wyoming. You met after their stop in Kansas City and started your relationship with Joel soon after. You stayed behind in Jackson when they left to find the Fireflies. When they came back from the events of Salt Lake City you noticed a change in Joel but whenever you question him he shuts down. Now it’s Halloween in Jackson and Joel has some confessions to make. Warnings: angst with a side of angst (I mean it’s Halloween what did you expect), Joel lying, swearing, drinking

Chinese Satellite - Joel - beskarandblasters

Summary: A look into your life after Joel dies and how you're coping Warnings: takes place after Joel goes golfing in the second game, nothing but pure angst, mentions of death, struggling with the ideas of religion, the afterlife, aliens and ghosts (I mean it's Chinese Satellite what did you expect), drinking, struggling with loss and grief, overexercising

Savior Complex - Joel - beskarandblasters

Summary: A few years after the events of Salt Lake City Joel finds the guilt of lying to Ellie eating him alive. The reader is torn between wanting to tell Ellie the truth but also making sure she gets to be a normal teenager. The reader finds herself struggling to keep the three of them afloat. Can be read as a standalone or a continuation of Halloween. Warnings: can be read as a gender neutral reader, angst with a side of angst, both Joel and reader suffer from savior complex lol, drinking, mentions of eating

Do You Love Me - Dieter - me

Summary: here is a fluffy (by my standards) little drabble in the A Ghost of You universe. Can be read standalone Warnings: There's just some kissing and no mentions of anything bad because I'd never do anything bad to D, would I?

Thunder Buddies - Joel - me

Summary: Joel comforting reader who is scared of thunderstorms Warnings: descriptions of a panic attack, Joel being adorable, cuddling, cuteness, a distinct lack of angst or smut - which is really weird coming from me.

Wash Day - Marcus P - @secretelephanttattoo

Summary: Some completely self-indulgent romantic fluff about Marcus Pike washing your hair. Warnings: none

Personal Best - Marcus P - secretelephanttattoo

Summary: This picture of Pedro holding a dog inspired me to write a fluffy meet-cute for Marcus Pike & Reader. I'm feeling 90s romantic comedy vibes, I don't know if I'll write anything more on this but we'll see if people like it. Warnings: none

Context and Perspective - Marcus M - @elvenmother

Summary: The newest member of the Heroics has gone missing and as one of the better-known Villains on the scene, you are blamed. Then your sidekick goes missing. You must go after the Heroic’s leader to try to get them back and clear your name. Warnings: Swearing, mentions of injuries, mentions of blood

A Very Furby Christmas - Joel - @proxima-writes

Summary: it’s christmas eve 1998 and joel miller thinks everything is perfect. well, until his brother admits he didn’t get sarah the one present she wanted - the furby. now, joel has to go out on christmas eve to find the year’s hottest toy that’s been sold out for months. turns out, you’re on the same mission. and you’ve both found the last furby in town. Warnings: pre-outbreak, no use of y/n, holiday/christmas fic, the last toy trope, no smut, age gap - not explicitly specified but joel is 31 and reader is mid-20s, the great miller gingerbread construction competition, operation get sarah miller a furby, some kissing.

The Haunting of Dieter Bravo - Dieter - @idolatrybarbie Summary: "ghosts aren't real, except when they are." Warnings: referenced substance abuse, mentions of alcohol, dieter is sober, one song-based joke (please get it plsplspls), reader is gender neutral, a good ol' haunting tale.

The Locksmith - The Thief - oonajaeadira

Summary: A Thief you’ve known for years and have conflicting feelings for brings you a gift. The gift is a not only a puzzle in itself, but part of a larger mystery, one only you can crack. Warnings: reader is an adult, reader is AFAB, no physical descriptions of reader

A Piece of Cake - Frankie - idolatrybarbie

Summary: It's been a long time since you've seen Frankie Morales. Warnings: Angst, discussion of addiction, mentions of cocaine, alcohol consumption, bowling

The Parents That Are Left - Joel - @frenchiereading

Summary: There weren't many patrol partners Joel Miller tolerated: his brother and Iris. On a cold January day, Joel pays her mother a visit and finds out you can bond over anything. Unfortunately. Warnings: canon-typical violence and language, heavy angst, talks/mentions/descriptions of death and dead bodies, heavy discussions/thoughts of feelings/grief/guilt, suicidal thoughts, alcohol consumption, Jackson-era Joel, no reader, no y/n, OFC, not a single ounce of romance

For the Love of Horror - Dieter - @coulsons-fullmetal-cellist

Summary: Dieter and you watch a scary movie. Warnings: No use of y/n, horror movies, euphemisms, fluff, suggestive language

Stages of Grief - Joel - @bonezone44

Summary: After a tense interaction with a family member who raised you when you were little, you spiral. Joel talks you through it. Warnings: Gender neutral reader, familial trauma, angst, grief, neglect, trauma, childhood emotional/physical abuse

The Riding Lesson - Jack - @bluestar22x

Summary: When you are hired at a ranch as a trail guide, the owner asks the foreman to teach you how to ride Western style. Warnings: Suggestive thoughts, sexual tension, equestrian terms

Frankie and Din - Frankie/Din - @avastrasposts

Summary: a one-shot with our favourite pilot, sweet Frankie and our favourite space boy, broody Din based on the line; "Go on then, space boy, fly this.” Warnings: none

Light Only Shows You Where the Shadow Are - Max Phillips - oonajaeadira

Summary: The only thing that can get rid of a minor jerk is a major jerk. Warnings: Non-consensual attention (not Max), stalker behavior (when there’s trouble, Max always seems to be watching from nearby), vampire violence.

It's always been you - Dieter - @alwaysmicado

Summary: After a year of dating Dieter Bravo, you are forced to face reality. All good things must come to an end, right? Warnings: angst, age gap (unspecified), swearing, brief mention of p in v sex, brief mention of disordered eating and suicide, mention of black eye, toxic relationship, drug use, reader's coping mechanisms are unhealthy

John Wayne - Joel - @ramblers-lets-get-ramblin

Summary: twenty years after the world ended, you find yourself face to face with Tommy Miller. The brother of the man who was your boyfriend at the time of the outbreak. Warnings: talk of attempted suicide, child loss, grief, angst

illicit affairs - Joel @chaotic-mystery

Summary: it’s my take on what illicit affairs means. Every time I listened to it I imagined Joel, specifically dbf Joel. I hope the swifties go *easy* on me and pls don’t say anything if you didn’t like it. Warnings: angst. And more angst. Swearing, forbidden relationship, arguing, fwb, alluded age gap but not specified. Use of nicknames (kid, baby……don’t look at me ok I didn’t do IT), reader is not physically described, no use of y/n.

Stay Close to Me - Jack - @alwaysbethewest

Summary: You're a rookie agent sent to work undercover with Jack as a married couple!Fake/undercover marriage! Statesman casefic! Warnings: A little romance, kissing, coarse language, very mild peril and hurt/comfort, and a splash of alcohol. Reader is a junior agent and has some muscle but otherwise no physical/age descriptions. As with any good Kingsman fic, my first step was to disregard half of canon, so this is either pre-movie or an AU.

To Know the Light - Din - @burntheedges

Summary: to go in the dark with a light is to know the light. Warnings: fluff, a teensy bit of angst, introspection, winter, food mention, reader has no description, gn!reader

O, Christmas Tree - Dieter - @covetyou

Summary: As PA to Dieter Bravo, you were used to the strange, unusual and downright weird. What you weren't used to was taking in a shipment of - what? And how many? Warnings: sex toys (so many butt plugs), Dieter being a menace to his PA, no smut, pure silliness.

In Fiction - Dieter - @sin-djarin

Summary: Dieter comes to bed. Warnings: Established relationship, mentions of self doubt, no physical description of reader, no dialogue, no use of y/n.

The Serpent Under It - Dave York - @brandyllyn

Summary: Dave is very good at his job Warnings: Canon typical violence. kinda dark yo, soulmate AU

I'll Leave a Light On For You - Max Phillips - oonajaeadira

Summary: Max has reservations when it comes to love, and for very good reasons. Warnings: Angst. Character death. Allusions to the atrocities of war and its lasting effects. Max is a vampire. Traumatic soul memory. Me assuming I know anything about French culture of the 1930s.

Cocoon - Joel - secretelephanttattoo

Summary: A short ode to Joel's coat. / a bath with Joel Warnings: Angst and intimacy. 1 reference to blood and allusion to canon typical violence (nothing is described)

Home - Frankie - @dancingtotuyo

Summary: Frankie always comes home to you. Warnings: fluff, angst, girl dad!frankie, recovering!Frankie, references to drug use, references to violence, trauma, healing.

Negotiations - Max Phillips - prolix-yuy

Summary: Max Phillips never found marketing to be all that helpful. Hell, running an ad on Facebook was easy enough. But then you walked in the door and he knew he had to have you, in all the ways he could. Warnings: T, descriptions of male and female bodies, some fantasizing and suggestive themes.

sweets for my sweet; sweets from my sweet - Ezra - @tinytinymenace

Summary: you are a cook at an exploration camp and one of the miners asks you about Earth and brings you a treat Warnings: Brief mentions of planet death (RIP Earth) and strained family dynamics but on balance this is soft.

Caught Kissing Santa - Dave York - @wildemaven

Summary: Alice saw you kissing Santa Claus Warnings: reader is married to Dave and stepmom to his kids, mentions of food and drinks, non-religious Christmas celebrations and Santa beliefs, alluding to sexy time but no smut, kissing, mentions reader is wearing pajama pants, fluff, soft Dave, one use of ‘good girl’.

Unwind - Dieter - @ramblers-lets-get-ramblin

Summary: Dieter helps you unwind when you get your period after an already long day. Warnings: established relationship, reader menstruates, drug use (marijuana), reference to past drug use, reference to bad horror movies, Dieter being our favorite trash panda, sweet, fluff, domesticity

One Night - Marcus P - secretelephantattoo

Summary: You get one night with Marcus Pike. Warnings: Implied/referenced smut but nothing is explicitly described. Smoking and alcohol. Angst because they only have one night together. Marcus is a flirty menace. House party nostalgia. Heavy petting in a stairwell

Lovesick - Joel - prolix-yuy

Summary: You've been greedy for Joel for too long. Warnings: descriptions of wound care and blood, allusions to dubcon due to drinking and drug use, no actual smut

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[aita-blorbos]

AITA for having an on-set fling with an actor in a film im acting in?

I [25 M] am playing myself in a movie about my dead roommate. T [24 M] plays my roommate in the film, with E [25 F] playing his girlfriend. There was a lot of outtakes with both T and E making out that weren’t being taken well by the director, so I had the bright idea: What if I kissed T? He was dressed up as my roommate anyways (we don’t need to touch on that), and it would be a funny way to piss off E, so why not? The director loved the idea, and it worked for him, and afterwards I went with T to his trailer.

T and I had this hookup afterwards, which I really only planned on it lasting as long as the movie was filming. However, both T and E rush in to see me while im being interviewed, and im like “ah ok, he’s in love with me isn’t he.” I break it to him that it was just a fling, and he starts crying about “sparks” or whatever, and then breaks down as he goes into his vegan portal. E is pissed off at me, and starts to fight me. I get my stunt doubles to fight her and her stunt doubles, until mine leave.

I don’t see what I did wrong? T is still obsessed with me even after the movie got cancelled, and I truly don’t understand what he’s going on about. AITA?

#aita #am i the asshole #unreality

[soft-and-exhausted]

Frozen Stage Musical thoughts 

December 2022 + October 2023  (because I forgot to make the initial post, so this is 2 for 1) 

disclaimer: Some of my 2023 additions are probably not really *new* but it's hard to remember everything... Anyway, here are the notes I took right after seeing the shows!  + This is neither coherent nor an analysis, mostly just reactions to a few things lol, not even going to mention the songs cause they ALL slap

ACT 1

- Sir Jörgenbjorgen! He's right there! But he's Anna's stuffie? What does that mean?? (also is Olaf frozen advenure canon again?) 

- Idunas scarf from F2!! Also right there! She's wearing it and then wraps Anna up in it after she is struck by Elsa's magic (love that) 

- Iduna tells the trolls that she's Northuldra! She's the one who calls them to help Anna (setting up F2) 

- Grand Pabi is uh not so gran anymore huh & Bulda says they love kids (raised a few of them themselves), and to bring Anna and Elsa around sometime 

- It was a choice (neutral) to make the trolls hot 

- Update: Idunna says they'll search far and wide for magical answers 

- Update: Also, the gloves Elsa wears? They were Idunas!  

- Update: And it looked like Iduna wanted to reply to Pabi asking "born or cursed" when Agnar interrupts and says "born" (I might have seen that wrong, but it made me think this is setting up F3??) 

- Olaf actually asks about "Samantha?" When Anna and Kristoff hear him in the woods, wondering who's talking as he joins in on looking for himself... haha (Update: he asks for Samantha during "In Summer")

- Anna and Hans dancing! All the choreography is amazing and wow, but they do this funny bit of doing different (modern) dance moves together and it's pretty endearing 

- when Anna tells Hans "I'm not the heir. I'm just the spare" referencing the outtake song that helped develop her character!! (Update: this hit the West End audience way different post-Prince Harry's book "Spare" and was hilarious!) 

- Costumes!! HOLY SHIT, the details the materials the glitter in Elsa's ice, all of it is insane and regal and beautiful, and so well thought out I want a huge artbook with all the details, please 

- Anna (Stephanie McKeon) could totally play Galinda; very Chenoweth voice qualities??? (Update: I got Gabrielle from Xena vibes for some reason, idk (Anna was Laura Dawkes)) 

- Wow they are doing amazing with the ice and the million and one backdrops! Insane! Also with the lights?! It's magical! 

- Update: Oh my god Elsa (Laura Emmit) is so tiny and petite, the different statues of actresses always add a different flavour to the character design somehow? (Like it is so fun with Glinda and Elphaba and what their height difference will be each time) (I love everything unique an actress/actor will bring to their role) 

- Elsa is like 10x more regal? I can't explain it but she very much feels like she's living in a piece of historical fiction more so than a fairytale. but I love it, it's brilliant and adds some layers too, she's so poised in the first act and polite and nods at the court like that(TM) 

- more amazing dancing moments  

- The Duke of Weselton calls Elsa pretty in a weird way while asking her to dance and later calls her "just a little girl" and lets out some sexism that women are weak, which is very in character and another addition to how the stage musical feels more realistic in a way? Or at least caters more towards adults 

- he also says something VERY similar to Atohallen's memory of Elsa's grandfather; that magic is unnatural and uh I forgot the actual wording, but he essentially said the same thing = nothing good comes of magic (especially in the hands of a woman) (yes he says that) 

- idk if Sven is amazing, cute and perfect or uncannily creepy lmao but gotta love him! Olaf is obviously perfectly recreated! (Update: Sven is so cute oh my god) (also Mikayla Jade is the first woman to ever play the role! She's a really cool stunt performer!) 

- Anna is VERY flirty with Hans lmao, girl is so thirsty (the way she touched that statue's tits in "for the first time in forever" ahahaha) (Update: girl is so horny, all those adult jokes, did she actually get more horny this time? Bless her) 

- Update: They don't make blorbos like Elsa anymore, for real 

- Anna's snow outfit is so cute!!! With her hair open? And the hat and all that... 

- Still gagging at the dress change in Let it go!

ACT 2

- Bulda asks if Anna doesn't want to marry Kristoff because of how she raised him, further solidifying how the trolls are his family 

- PLUS when he joins the trolls dance! Because he KNOWS it! Wonderful moment (also wonderful when Anna starts joining in, all of her dances are so sweet and fun and Anna's love language is dance, I don't take criticism)

- child Anna's cast also played the baby troll during fixer-upper upper and it's the cutest scenes! 

- Weselton and Hans both actually said they wanted to kill Elsa! Like the word kill has been said twice (2), and I just didn't expect it because Disney movies do like to dance around that one- it's really intense 

- Elsa's pants and corset combo in the second act looked cool in pictures online, but seeing it irl? in the third row? Holy shit it's stunning! Her let it go dress too of course, but she looked amazing in this new outfit wow - the detail - (this is the part where I don't talk about how the corset, respectfully, she was just very stunning and wow Samantha Barks had the smallest waist ever known to man in that thing!) 

- God those costumes are siccccc, a lot of this musical feels like historical fiction and is so so well thought out! The dances and songs and ten thousand backdrops are INSANE 

- Instead of being knocked out by the falling chandelier, Elsa goes with the guards willingly, and they handcuff her on the spot (at the ice palace) Which is... a blow to my heart to say the least, but makes sense! She just asks to be taken to Anna, to make sure she's safe... being handcuffed and dragged off is perfectly reasonable for her! 

- Update: 

Weselton: "Even the queen is shivering"  Elsa: "I'm not cold"  Hans: "She's scared" 

- the entire scene where Anna freezes to death (that also resembled dangerous to dream with the ensamble lifting Anna up; as the spotlight of Elsa's attention) was phenomenally choreographed and I have no words!! 

TLDR: It's too mind-blowingly amazing for words, and so incredibly thought out! And it's a little more grown up too, adding some layers and fleshing out bits and bobs that I really enjoyed 

#frozen #frozen the musical #frozen west end #frozen broadway #west end musicals #babbling #queen elsa #princess anna #frozen elsa #frozen anna #frozen kristoff

[dodecademons]

Bottoms was good and funny. It's unserious and had some bloopers/outtakes at the end which I love about movies. The behind the scenes stuff. Is it weird of me to say I liked the violent parts? Something about bloody noses and lips just *chefs kiss* anyway there was like 7 people in the theatre and this older lesbian couple sat sorta close to me and i wont lie it made me soft and a little emotional. It was nice.

#just enjoy the movie and have a good time #it isnt groundbreaking or anything it's just silly and i liked that #not everything needs a statement piece ya know #Bottoms 2023 #Bottoms the movie #hope yall get to see it since it expanded to more theaters again #ruby cruz character hazel made me want to cradle her head and just protect her from all the bad #i truly did feel some sorta way about the blood parts #anyway #the older couple wanting to watch a movie with queer characters on the big screen because its a more recent thing #they were like 50s-60s #also the woman at concessions was flirting with me but the movie was starting so i got my icee and zoomed away

[danjaley]

How Matt and Alice got married:

Text-outtake and reply to @nocturnalazure

Actually I looked up the Wikipedia-article on Gretna Green to get an idea how elopements worked from the other side of the border. Getting married in Scotland wouldn't have been a problem for them, as they're both over 14 and 12 respectively. Apparently it didn't even have to be in a church (in Gretna Green is was a smithy). With Alice being rather traditional though, I imagine Jon asked a favour of some minister around Edinburgh whose church he had renovated.

There is a snippet of dialogue I wrote for the occasion, but cut for several reasons.

“Will you promise to love and cherish etc.”

Matthew: Yesh.

Alice: Yesh. - Er, Yes. Yes I do.

It would have meant building the church and introducing the minster as well as a second witness to the union. Also I had used a similar motive for Jon shortly before, where he calls Nicolas "Monshieur". I want to stress that I don't speak like Matt in the slightest (but we have a neighbour who does, which was a super funny idea of fate). But anyway, somehow it comes so naturally to me that I sometimes start writing other characters in that mode. I like the idea that Matt's friends sometimes subconsciously mimic him when repeating something he just said. Still it might have been difficult to get right with facial expressions - and you can't just use any stances in front of the altar too.

#mccarric extras

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hi cubeguy i sent u an anons a while ago that i dont use tumblr but i periodically check ur blog bcus it specifically rocks & im back. i listened to an album u recommended on here but im curtailed by the character lim to give a review so i typed out a real time extremely long reaction to the songs LOL definitely the logical nextstep. its @ pastebin.com/Ejd8E9VX idk if im allowed to link shit on tumblr?? anyway i hope to get around 2 other musiks u like bcus i lovedd this btw its get to heaven that i listened to THANK U 🎀🙇‍♂️💋💗💗💗

HEY YOU HAVE AN AWESOME WAY OF TALKING ABOUT MUSIC. GRINS SO MUCH. i’m glad you enjoyed gth it’s so so special to me genuinely the album of all time …. my favorite songs off it are s/s/w/d the wheel and blast doors Lways a joy to see someone go crazy about them

^ really fond of this descriptor here also i think it succinctly puts a lot of what i love about ee’s songwriting down into words…. the weird entanglement of love and hate and confusion and clarity it’s a very very special moodset

also YEAH the way you described the vocals…. the early everything everything albums play a lot with like. roughness and scratchiness and the kind of ‘animalistic’ register of the human voice. (honestly everything before raw data feel. this is literally because the singer just decided to learn how to sing in high registers without falsetto for the first time which is like cool but also AUGH i miss that old sound

OK SO the thing about this bit

absolutely YES the thing about get to heaven is that it’s literally just like. a complete album of bangers. going down through their other stuff is gonna be a little more rocky, you might enjoy the like once-per-album weird slow ballads you might not, even though i’m lazy about listening to some of their weaker stuff when i do go through the entire albums i still find a lot of quirks in the instrumentation or lyrics that manage to impress me. i’d recommend delving into either man alive or arc next those are basically on par with gth although a bit more weird and morose? if you’re feeling it id then recommend raw data feel which oscillates more around pop/new wave but still has some really interesting musical constructions, gets extremely electronic and synthy…. a fever dream is like a 50/50 split between really long slow songs which are just Fine and really fast heavy bangers. just go listen to notln, can’t do, desire, good shot, run the numbers and ivory tower LOL. uhhhh reanimator is arguably their weakest album probably the most unremarkable but it’s also like my second favorite right after get to heaven. it’s weird and glowy and flimsier than their other tunes. that enchants me i guess…. they’ve also got an upcoming album that once again seems to be more pop oriented, cold reactor is the best of the singles they’ve released for it yet. what else. there’s like a youtube playlist out there of demo/outtakes/non album stuff that you can find real easy, there’s some really good stuff in there. personal favorites are the come alive diana demo, even the dogs and dna dump

ok so the fucking thing about the “lore” of this album. there technically isn’t any and most of ee’s albums are a per-song thing usually revolving around like. modern social commentary. the genius pages for most of their songs have like. direct songwriting annotations by the band and explain the thought process behind them. however for gth there’s also like a small layer of overarching lore about this one guy called thomas silhouette as a character. he’s not so much the crux of any narrative or presence as much as he’s just like. funny anagram arising from a lyric in fortune 500 that gets alluded to in later albums because he’s loosely representative of a lot of themes that get tackled in ee songs like capitalism and dread and shit like that

#ask #ee #<- can go in there !

[f1-stuff]

What was the reason that made you start shipping Charlos? I love your work, actually your multichapter is my confort fic for this season of hell, and I'll love to know what made you think : Ah yes, romance material. Like some specific reason (actually no, if you want to give us all the reasons would be great) maybe? Because yeah, we all know their behaviour in public 😂.

Ohoho what a question 😂 I will try to be brief...

The first video of them together that I can remember made me insane was the jenga challenge and the outtakes, which inspired me to make my first f1 gifsets EVER! I'd been watching f1 races for about a year, and following Ferrari on social media, but hadn't really engaged with the content much bc of grad school...

So I consumed all the content I missed, and just fell in love with their dynamic. They make each other laugh, and Carlos seems to really bring Charles out of his shell. And they're both so talented and hardworking, but I love Charles' almost boyish raw talent paired with Carlos' hardwork perseveres ethic.

I think, in general, just how touchy they are and comfortable in each other's space stuck out to me. I don't think I've ever seen such an openly tactile male friendship, especially coming from watching north american sports, where men seem a lot more repressed lol

On top of that, the fact they have the same name and somehow ended up teammates with Ferrari just feels like fate or destiny or something... (but if they were both called Carlos or both Charles, I don't think I'd read or write fic. I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face 😂)

I'm such a shipper tho - every fandom I've been in, I can't help it. I was previously a hockey blog, and in that fandom there were a looot of fics that really made me fall hard for pairings. Charlos was the opposite where there seemed to be sooo much actual content of the two of them interacting, where it almost feels like RPF watching it (I'm like, 'did they really just do/say that??'), but a total lack of fics. So I'm trying to remedy that �� (if you knew the number of fic prompts/ideas I have outlined that I haven't gotten to...)

They're the hardest pairing I've ever written for actually bc they're both very charming and funny (their banter is on another level fr), as well as multilingual, which adds another complicated layer. Fortunately, spanish and italian are two languages I'd been learning for years, but I'm by no means fluent, and I know almost zero French haha. Also, they both just have really compelling histories, and it very quickly inspired in me an empathy and love for them.

Anyway, thanks for this ask! (I'm sorry it wasn't brief.) But to sum it up, idk if I can list an exact moment where it clicked - it was just an overall impression I got right away...

((they make me so insane))

#'try to be brief' when have i ever been brief lmao #charlos #ask #queent09

[outerbankies]

new light outtake: coming home

the ooey gooey lead up to the rose and ward anniversary party that never was. would’ve taken place sometime in their spring semester at college! this has a few call backs that might not make sense this far out, but such is life. enjoy!

Hey sweet girl. Busy?

hi! baking for the boys rn what’s up

FT?

call whenever 🥺 miss ur cute face

Rafe’s contact photo—one you took of him on the Druthers last summer—pops up instantly. You wash your hands of the almond flour currently coating them, drying your hands to answer the call as quickly as you can.

Upon answering, Rafe has the camera held obnoxiously close to his face, but he’s pulling it back immediately once he sees you. Or rather, what you’re wearing.

“An apron?” he grins, and you know that twinkle in his eye. It’s that one he gets when he’s about to tease you. “What are you making? Should I dispatch the fire department?”

“Oh, very funny. It’s just bread,” you answer, leaning down on your elbows to crouch down into his view, where you’d set your phone up against the backsplash of Agnes’s massive kitchen. “Also. Hi.”

“Hi,” he says softly, smiling again, eyes roaming your features through the no-doubt grainy view he has. “Let me guess, it’s gluten free, vegan, dairy-free—“

“Vegan tends to imply dairy-free.”

“—and sugar-free, organic, fun-free.”

“Yes, to all of the above,” you giggle, swiping his face into a smaller square so you can re-check the Agnes-approved recipe again. Rafe hadn’t been far-off base at all; it’d be a miracle if this turned out edible, but you know the boys won’t care.

“Who’s around?” Rafe asks.

You furrow your eyebrows, craning your neck to check for two mop-heads in the living room, playing with their various Montessori toys. Barron does something that makes Beckham giggle, and you can’t help but smile. “The boys are both in the living room.”

“Good. Anyways, can’t believe the alcohol in Beau’s study could incapacitate an army but Agnes won’t let him eat eggs.”

“It’s called balance?” you try, but your eyebrows furrow, and Rafe’s expectant look makes you laugh. “It’s just like Figure 8.”

“Just like Figure 8,” Rafe echoes, his voice quiet all of a sudden. “Hey, speaking of…”

You enlarge the FaceTime square once again, and his expression is crestfallen.

“Baby,” you say, worried suddenly. “What’s up?”

“What are you doing next weekend?” he asks.

“Next weekend?” you wonder aloud, taken aback at the topic change. Rafe’s look urges you on, so you mentally check your calendar. “They’re taking the boys to one of the National Parks. And I think I have a social with my capstone downtown.”

“So you’re not going to the park with them?” Rafe asks.

“No,” you say, turning to pull a bread pan out of the cabinet behind you, still mindful of Rafe’s eyebrow line and voice inflections. “One of those, uh, what did we call them?”

“Ah. The parenting weekends.”

“Yes. They’re doing a parenting weekend in Utah,” you say. “Or somewhere. I don’t remember.”

“Is it selfish if I ask for a favor on one of your off weekends?”

You pause where you were about to pick up the bowl, ready to start pouring the batter, picking up the phone again. “Rafe, what are you talking about it?”

“I was thinking you could meet me at home,” he says, all at once on a quick exhale. “I’m looking at flights right now, you could be in OBX by Friday night, back in California by Sunday after—”

“Home?” you balk. “Like, home, home? What are you—what are you going home for?”

“It’s my dad and Rose’s wedding anniversary. 15th,” Rafe says.

“Rafe—next weekend, Rafe. Oh my god,” you gasp. You swipe his face back into the corner to start Googling. “Okay, I can call my mom’s flower guy, a week and a half out is fine. But gifts—I’m gonna have to get to the city this weekend, nothing else will ship in time—”

“Baby,” Rafe interrupts. “Take a breath.”

“Rafe Leopold, how could you not tell me—”

“Easy, easy!” Rafe says, and even when he’s pissing you off, you love that you got him to smile again. “You think I’d forget that? I put your name in the card and everything, sweetheart. Don’t worry.”

You pause, skeptical. “You did? What did we get them?”

“I’ll send you a link later, don’t worry about it,” Rafe says. “It’s all taken care of.”

“Okay,” you breathe.

“Okay?” Rafe smiles. You smile back, noticing the way his face starts to fall again. “The thing is… they’re having a dinner.”

“A dinner,” you nod. “Like, a big dinner?”

“Mm, hundred people,” Rafe says.

“Okay,” you laugh. “So, a party?”

“A party,” he sighs. “That’s all. I’ll probably only stay two hours, and I just thought—I think I’d feel better if I could just come see you after?”

“After?” you ask.

“Yeah?” he replies, looking confused.

“Rafe, I have to ask. And I don’t want you to lie to me,” you say calmly. “Did your dad tell you to not invite me?”

“What?” Rafe asks. “No, baby. No, I didn’t even think to ask because you wouldn’t… you don’t wanna come, do you?”

“Rafe, of course I’d go with you,” you say. “Why wouldn’t I?”

“You don’t have to, Y/n. Honestly, just having you out there is enough,” he says.

You pick the bowl back up again, finally pouring the batter into the pan. You refuse to look at him, but small smile on your face betrays you anyway. “Dress code?”

“You know Rose. Black tie.”

“Good thing I still have three colors of that dress to wear,” you continue. “What color is your suit?”

“It’s gray,” he smiles, catching on.

“I think the cream will probably look cute with that,” you say coyly.

“We’ll be adorable. Sweetheart. For real?” he asks, cheeks dusted red.

“Of course, Rafe,” you say, picking up your phone again. “It’ll be good to see my parents, too. Maybe I’ll even surprise them.”

“And Wilbur.”

You roll your eyes. “And Wilbur.”

“Have I ever mentioned how I am deeply, madly in love with you?” your boyfriend asks.

“Once or twice,” you tease. “Send me the flight you were looking at so I can book it?”

You glance at Rafe precariously, and now it’s his turn to roll his eyes at you. “You’d take off at 11am Friday and be back by 9pm on Sunday. Window seat?”

“Please.”

Rafe’s already typing in the background, pulling his wallet out of his backpack hanging over the back of his chair. He pauses, looking back down at you. “I love you.”

“Love you.”

“And I missed your cute face, too.”

—

“God, I am so sick of long distance.”

Rafe huffs the words out against your lips—breath warm in the cold night air—pulling back from where you’d essentially glued your own to his as soon as you saw him waiting near his truck for you.

His lips are swollen, a little bit of your chapstick visible on the skin beside his soft lower lip. Your thumb reaches out to wipe it off instinctively, but feeling his lip under your touch just makes you need to lean in again, Rafe letting out a pleased hum like some sort of wordless agreement that he also can’t keep his hands off of you.

He indulges you for a bit longer before he’s pulling off of you again. You whine, and Rafe just laughs, kissing you one more time before he’s letting you pepper kisses across his chin.

“Me too,” you agree, verbally this time, arms winding around his shoulders. Rafe stands up straight from where he’d leant down, taking you with him, and you can’t resist wrapping your legs around his waist—cheesy as it is. The dramatic airport and ferry dock reunions never really lost their power for either of you. “You look tired.”

Rafe smiles down at you, the droop in his eyes appearing again. You stroke a thumb right under his eye, pressing softly into the dark grey circle like you can will it away. “I am.”

“Hm,” you hum, fidgeting until he drops you from his hold again. “Work rough this week?”

“A little,” Rafe admits, putting your suitcase in his backseat. “Had to get everything sorted out so we can all take the weekend off.”

“How’s party prep?”

“Rose has it all dialed,” he says. “Seems like it’s gonna be really nice, actually.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah,” Rafe smiles, ushering you inside of his truck. “Especially with you there, of course.”

You smile, leaning in for another kiss before he shuts the door and circles around. “Should’ve invited Kelce, too. Honestly, I would’ve even taken Topper.”

He rolls his eyes, throwing the truck in reverse, a hand resting on the back of your seat. “Why? So you guys can get drunk and embarrass me?”

You had lent in to kiss his hand, but go for a soft bite instead at his comment—Rafe is unperturbed. “No. Is John B coming? Because you know we’ll do that anyways.”

He gives you a look.

“Teasing, baby,” you digress. “You just usually have other stuff to do, I get bored. Which is fine, I just—”

“This should be different,” Rafe interrupts, hand reaching to rest on your thigh. “Not really a business thing.”

You just nod, knowing in the back of your mind that everything with Ward is a business thing.

“And don’t worry, your little bestie Routledge got an invite too.”

#the party was going to feature john b heavily #they were going to combine their insider knowledge of figure 8 happenings and gossip all night. was going to be fantastic #but oh yes also the party was essentially just. an excuse for me to have someone #like an old friend #a few years older than y/n maybe only a year #kinda pressuring her about when she’s gonna marry rafe and have his babies #and then maybe some ward/rafe angst as usual #and then probably rafe dropping y/n off at home afterward only to sneak back over like hi i’m not spending one night on this island #when I know ur on it too #alone #end scene #new light hcs

[pleasereadmeok]

A Goode Year 2022

I’m doing this a bit early coz I won’t be around much over the holidays.  Every year I sit down to write these thinking - hmm - we didn’t see enough of Matthew Goode this year.  [NEVER enough]  But then each year I’m surprised by how busy he is. 

January was all about season 3 of A Discovery of Witches. 

[📷 Sky]

Sadly it was a shorter season due to Covid but we got to see Matthew Goode back in the suit and cashmere for Prof Clairmont once more.  And he held babies.  😁

Stop animation ‘The House’ was released on Netflix - 

[📷 Nexus]

...  and we all watched and wondered what the hell it was all about.  Matthew played this guy called Raymond - 

Coz you just look at Raymond’s felty face and your first thought is ‘Matthew Goode’? Nope.  Anyway this got quite a following from the stop animation fans and won some noms and awards so all goode. 

Also in January we got our very first glimpse of Matthew Goode in ‘The Offer’ when this little teaser dropped - 

[📷 Paramount +]

There he is - BOB!  

More promos appeared later in January including this gem - 

[📷 Miller Mobley]

February gave us more of Matthew Clairmont in his sharp jackets and cuddlesome cashmere. 🤤

We also got the amazing trailer for ‘The Offer’ and all of our hopes were fulfilled when we got our first look at Matthew’s awesome portrayal of Robert Evans. 

The best thing was that other people noticed it too and at last Matthew got some love for his acting skills from the critics.  

In other news - The Wine Show moved to it’s new home on AcornTV AND Matthew surprised us by attending the London Premiere of ‘The Duke’. 

He was obviously excited to be there and we loved seeing him in the flesh again. 

‘The Duke’ was just what Brits returning to the cinema needed - an old fashioned Brit comedy drama.  Matthew shone as ‘star’ barrister Jeremy Hutchinson and he was so convincing that he’d definitely be the one I’d call if I needed representing in court - 

 In March we said a final farewell to ‘A Discovery of Witches’ 😢 but not before we got to see some adorable Matthew outtakes - 

Meanwhile Matthew was clearing out his wardrobe and putting a lot of goodies into the ‘Auction for Ukraine’.  It wasn’t until later that we found out that the idea and most of the organising had been started by Matthew and that he roped in some high profile friends to help. 👏 

April was wall to wall ‘The Offer’ promotion.  We haven’t seen Matthew do so much promotion for a project since 2014 so this was heaven for Goode fans -

 So many funny and engaging interviews to enjoy but I swear if I hear him say ‘timbre’, ‘cadence’, ‘YouTube’ and ‘wormholes’ ever again I might have to scream.  

Better still - Matthew attended the LA premiere for ‘The Offer’ so we got another red carpet interview and even more new pics of him - 

[📷my edit from Extra TV youtube]

When ‘The Offer’ premiered on the 28th April - OMG Matthew was incredible as Robert Evans.  A stunning performance in every way. 

The Bob show continued through May and we got more goode interviews and articles to enjoy.  Just going to highlight this one in the LA Times - https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-05-05/the-offer-paramount-cast-matthew-goode-robert-evans   coz of the gorgeous pictures by Dania Maxwell

[📷 Dania Maxwell/LA Times] 

Matthew and Sophie were also invited to the London premiere of ‘Top Gun’ - presumably by Miles Teller?  Anyway - he gave us a little wave on red carpet TV - 

[📷 screenshots from Red Carpet TV and Tristan Fewings]

At last we saw Matthew do another chat show!  In June he was a guest on NBC's ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ and joked about getting into American Football and trying to get X [R] rated movies from his local store as a kid ....  

Matthew attended the New York Premiere of ‘The Offer’ the next day - 

[📷Michael Loccisano/Getty Images]

Paramount + launched in the UK later in June and Matthew introduced ‘The Offer’ to the audience - 

[📷 Mike Marsland/Dave J Hogan] 

Matthew’s amazing work on the Auction for Ukraine was finally revealed in a fun guest appearance on The Chris Evans Radio Show.  We also got the first hint about his next project - with an acting hero 🤔  

[📷 Virgin Radio]   

One of the top auction lots was a lunch hosted by Matthew and friends at Hide restaurant - 

[📷 Hide Restaurant]

Before Matthew headed off for his summer holidays in July he found time to guest on ‘This Morning’ with Alison and Dermot.  

He talked about how he nearly missed out on getting the part of Robert Evans due to visa issues 😱 and he confirmed that acting hero he would be working with was indeed Anthony Hopkins!

Matthew headed off to Greece for a family holiday but found time to take a selfie with some fans - 

[📷 Paul and Kerry Hulme - cropped for privacy] 

July also brought us the official trailer for ‘Medieval’ and we got to see Matthew swaggering about in lavish cloaks and that glorious ginger hair - 

Matthew turned up with Hugh Bonneville at a Coldplay gig at Wembley arena in August - 

Medieval was released in September so we saw more of Matthew’s spectacular costumes and THAT hair - 

What happened in October?  Not a lot but in November we did get confirmation that Matthew would be working with Anthony Hopkins on the movie ‘Freud’s Last Session’.  

The movie will be based on the play by Mark St. Germain and Matthew will play C.S. Lewis.  

So I think that brings us up to date.  It’s been a Goode year for showcasing Matthew’s superb acting skills with his perfectly crafted role as Robert Evans in ‘The Offer’ and watching him actually enjoy promoting a show has been a highlight for me.   But if I have to choose the best part of the Goode year - Matthew’s work in getting together the Auction for Ukraine needs a special mention - coz he sure won’t mention it.  He obviously worked really hard on calling in favours and getting things moving and as a result the Auction raised £838,900!  So well done Matthew and all of your friends who helped! 👏

#matthew goode #matthewgoode #The Offer #a discovery of witches #adow #Medieval #The Duke #Freud's Last Session

[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

Okay, I was too busy yesterday to watch this episode, and today I have shit to do this evening, so I unfortunately can’t spend ages on the Taskmaster episode like I normally do. I normally do giant posts where I screenshot like half the episode, but that makes watching it take several hours, and unfortunately I do have a modicum of a life at this point. So I’ll still write down thoughts as I watch, but there will be fewer of them, and I won’t accompany them with screenshots, which should save a lot of time.

Anyway, I’m really excited for this episode either way. Thoughts on Taskmaster s15e04, written as I watch it:

- Excellent start. Alex’s horsefly pun got a proper laugh out of me, the Italy anecdote was exactly the sort Alex Horne-style “just drop this bit of talking into the air and pretend like it makes sense” that I enjoy, and then there was Hitchhiker’s Guide reference. And a fun prize category, with lots of room for different interpretations. Well done all around.

- That was way too short an exchange about Mae’s prize. Please tell me more about why they have a blowup doll of themself and think that would be fun to put on your head. I will be disappointed if we don’t get that in an outtake.

- Look, Frankie’s prize is not in a frame! It also has absolutely nothing to do with the remit, probably one of the most egregious examples ever of a constant just bringing in some shit they wanted to bring in even if it has nothing to do with the category. I wouldn’t have expected Frankie to play this any other way.

- More references to classic Britcom from my childhood, with Ivo Graham not messing around, bringing in something that perfectly fits the remit, a turkey. An item famous – famous worldwide, if we are to believe James Acaster’s Cold Lasagne claims about everyone in the whole world being into Mr. Bean – for being funny when it’s worn on a head even though you’re not supposed to wear it on your head. I didn’t know Friends did it too, though.

I mean, if I wanted to be pedantic, I could point out that a turkey on the head is funny to everyone else, but isn’t exactly a fun thing for the person wearing it. But I enjoy the joke enough to let that go.

- I swear I wrote the above point before I saw Frankie Boyle say “I don’t want to be too pedantic here, but…”, and then made pretty much that exact point. Not sure he has enough high ground for pedantry with his prize, but he’s got a point, as Ivo instantly admitted.

- Obsessed with the level of thought Jenny put into her pitch for her prize task, and the enthusiasm with which she delivered it. Also, I assume she didn’t make that herself, so did a member of production have to knit that? Was it the same person who made Jamali’s sweater?

- Absolutely wild over-scoring of Frankie Boyle there, what are you doing, Greg?

- I immediately love the instructions on that first task. That is so much fun. Like the season 8 bouncy ball task, but updated for a bigger budget. Too bad Frankie couldn’t find this thing during the “recreate musical instruments” task.

- Haven’t seen much of it yet, but my first thought is to take the drums and cymbals off their stands and put them all on the ground next to each other.

- Sort of like what I just watched Kiell do, but I feel like you could take it farther than that.

- Jenny, I would never call you a silly cow. I am really enjoying her energy.

- “You counted to seven but you only hit five” is somehow a problem Kiell has already had on this show, with the barge task. Why is Kiell not able to count to five?

- Okay, I’ve been calling the team of two “Franko”, but Alex got in his No More Jockeys reference by calling them “a big IF”, and I think I’m going to need to re-name the team to that from now on. Team Big IF.

- There, that thing Frankie’s doing, that’s what I’d do.

- Delightful to watch how much Frankie’s enjoying this. Ivo might be overthinking. I mean it’s amusing to include the Greg statue, and I do think overall Taskmaster has been underusing that thing, but it doesn’t really help.

- Honestly, I could watch Frankie Boyle drop a ball down a row of drums and then giggle all day.

- Ivo’s last idea would definitely be cheating, as it said one throw of a ball and of multiple balls at once, but it didn’t work anyway so it doesn’t really matter.

- Again, Drum March/April/Mae – solid pun. Alex is on form this episode.

- Love that Mae is not even pretending to not have watched all previous seasons and be using that for ideas. No messing around by trying lesser strategies and then coming up with this new one, just going straight for the Lou Sanders approach.

- Hang on. Hang on. What the hell are they arguing about in the studio? This precedent has been set. Okay, here are the wording of two different tasks:

Season 8 task: Bounce one of these balls so that it lands in that bin. After propelling the ball, you may not touch or strike it on its way to that bin. You must use the ball you touch first.

Season 15 task: Strike the most drum skins and cymbals with a single throw of a bouncy ball.        

In season 8, Lou Sanders had her attempt count when she tied it to string and bounced it over and over. Yeah, “propel” and “throw” are different words, but they’re close enough. They both involve releasing the ball and then not touching it again, which neither contestant did. That precedent is already on the books, this should definitely be a win for Mae.

- There, according to Alex, the definition for “throw” says “to propel”. Meaning “throw” and “propel” are the same thing, those tasks should be considered equivalent, the precedent should be considered relevant, therefore Mae wins.

- Okay, Kiell’s argument was bullshit, you can absolutely drop something and throw it at the same time, that’s just throwing it downward. Ivo’s masturbation joke was quite funny but irrelevant. Frankie… might sort of have a point with the “casting” thing, about whether the moment they jerked it backwards, the first throw was over. That could be up for debate, if this were five years ago. But it isn’t. Season 8 has aired, the precedent has been set. You have to honour the precedent!

- You are not letting them get away with anything, Greg, you let Lou Sanders get away with it already and if you didn’t allow this we’d have anarchy! But that was enormous fun, that whole exchange. I did say I wouldn’t screenshot the whole episode again, but Greg’s right, Kiell’s face is pretty good.

- Bridges for potatoes and boats for eggs. Ordering things with restrictions based on letters of the alphabet. I like that some of the tasks in this season feel like classic Taskmaster.

- What the fuck are you going to do with a golf ball, Kiell?

- Power of suggestion’s pretty strong here, isn’t it? They all hear the word “boat” and then three of the five choose B as their letter.

- Title drop from Kiell, and it’s a good one. He does seem to be bad at both basic counting and working out whether things are heavier than water/air, given the time he through he could move a golf ball by blowing on it.

- Look on Ivo’s face when he broke the egg was some solid comedy.

- Ivo’s studio banter has been strong all episode.

- Okay, I haven’t seen them all go yet but having seen them made, I think Mae had it the best. Frankie making it out of paper seems like a bad idea, what with water tending to compromise paper’s structural integrity. No idea what Jenny made, and I think she just wanted to be able to say “bra” a lot, which to be fair, was funny. Kiell’s balloon was a good idea, Ivo’s multiple balloons were better.

- Well, I was definitely wrong about Mae’s boat. But that was actually really good, I think that worked better than I expected. Nice little editing with the music over Mae’s boat at the end. That was an enjoyable watch. And my apologies to Frankie Boyle, I underestimated the power of a little plastic to protect the paper.

- Oh no! Oh no! I am glad my roommate’s still out of town because when they showed the egg fall, I may have involuntarily called out “Oh no, Frankie!” before realizing I was saying it out loud. Oh no, Frankie! It is possible that you do, after all, need more structural integrity than paper with a little plastic coating.

- Ah, well done. Greg pretending to let Frankie go just to fuck with Kiell. This is fun.

- I’m really enjoying how genuinely nervous Mae seems. Which might be a weird thing to say, it’s just a sign of their extreme competitiveness that they look constantly on edge, expecting some surprise, trying to look for any loopholes. Funny, also highly relatable. I mean, I realize I’m biased by Mae Martin being one of the most attractive people I have ever seen on a screen, but I think they’d be one of my favourites even if they weren’t that.

- Love that they put the task where Kiell has to drag a bin full of water right after the egg boat task. How heavy is the water now, Kiell?

- Kiell is not wearing shoes, guys.

- I’m absolutely fine. I mean, I just thought the words “Damn, Mae scrambling to do math in their head is hot”, and then wondered if I should write those words down, and decided I will. But I’m doing fine.

- The obvious thing to do with bubble wrap is to rip off one bubble, put it to the side, and then crush the rest all at once with a book or something, right?

- Oh my God they took twenty minutes on the bubble wrap. Meticulous Mae. I love them.

- I’m not sure the banana sign is the same as a banana, is it?

- Could have been just editing that made it look this way, but I love that it appears that Frankie instantly knocked the bin over to spill the water on the ground, after Kiell had tried to carefully empty it into the bath.

- And then Frankie forgets that he can open the gates instead of trying to throw a large bin over them. Nice.

- Jenny shouting in all four rooms of the house had some strong “essence of Taskmaster” energy.

- The John part is pretty funny, seeing how long it takes them to work out that they have to call someone and John isn’t just in the house.

- Oh, it took me a moment to realize Frankie was burning the bubble wrap to complete the tasks. I thought he’d already popped all the bubble wrap so his task was completed, and he was so annoyed about what he’d had to do that he gathered up all the tasks, put them in a bucket, and burned them for no reason.

- Glad Frankie Boyle got to set some shit on fire, though. I always say people don’t realize there’s a strong intelligent and well read and thoughtful and politically informed side to Frankie, he’s not just what you see on Mock the Week compilations! But, you know, if you’re going to get Frankie Boyle on Taskmaster, you want to have a bit of bringing in pornography and setting shit on fire. I hope all five of them set some shit on fire this season.

- Okay, one screenshot and that is it for the whole episode. I just… I just need to take that picture of Mae Martin being petty about the definition of “throw”, and then coyly acknowledging the hypocrisy. For personal reasons, I need to show people that image.

- Really enjoyed Greg and Frankie yelling at each other about the definition of a banana. And I want Frankie and Jenny to be right, I really do. But a sign that says “banana” is not, in fact, a banana.

- Well, that whole sequence with Ivo was brilliant. He seemed to figure out that you’re allowed to pass on a task that’ll take too long, which could have been a smart strategy, if it weren’t for the fact that he had a complete breakdown and did every singe thing wrong. Mistaking the caravan for the shed is classic. Also forgot that the gate opens. I’m remembering what Nish Kumar said on the podcast before this season, that he thinks it’ll be fun to watch because he knows that Ivo Graham falls to pieces as soon as anyone puts the slightest bit of pressure on him. That was very funny all around.

- Really enjoyed the live task, too. Kiell trying fancy things, Frankie seeming to genuinely get into the art therapy side of it, Mae playing it too safe and meticulous, the look on Jenny’s face when she broke the stream for a second. And Ivo just had a solid strategy. Well done.

- Well, obviously I wrote that before I saw the ending. Good stuff. Classic Taskmaster. I do love it when they stick to the rules to the point of making it a ludicrous result. Also really enjoyed Frankie’s petty comment about the episode being  a journey through language and meaning – he’s had a few of those throughout this episode, seeming to be fine with outcomes but then bringing it back later to complain. Which I also enjoy. I love some pettiness in a Taskmaster contestant.

- Aw, Jenny Eclair won an episode! A good one for her to win, too, as she seems like the one who’d have the most fun putting things on her head.

- Good stuff, I really really enjoyed that, and this is by far the fastest I’ve ever done one of these Taskmaster liveblog posts. Great episode, great season, I would watch Frankie Boyle narrate literally anything, did I mention how hot Mae Martin is enough times? Okay I have to go do actual things now, but that was a really good one, best episode of the season so far, I think.

[ecofinisher]

Funny Sims meme I made - Part 2

This can happen in other cases too. I think this was actually a mod.... (Ah yes, River is dreaming of something)

Talking about River, during the years I don't remember seeing River in many gameplays of other Simmers. I know Holly and Lisa were common. Bebe sometimes too.

I found the eyes funny 🤩

I'm probably capable of remembering half of my classmates' names. With pictures it's probably easier for me to identify them from professional school back to 3/4th grade maybe? All Sunset Valians of the base game I can list them down without needing pictures.

The images look hideous the ore I look at it. (Gotta love seeing Lisa with those firecracker things inside the house. It's totally canon 😆)

Most of the drama I do contains random "vanishing" Sims or ruining Sims' love lives.

Why is there even a cheerleader outfit?

If she wasn't eating, I could sell this as Mermaidman's invisible car.

Who needs to carry a stool anyway? (Eco, you idiot they have a backpack capable of fitting 30 cars, 20 drumsets, 10 books and a Italy. It's the equivalent of a boy's pocket)

This is literally the truth, most of the jeans for women/girls have decor pockets, because.....they're useless I guess.

Nah I wasn't over yet. I just realized, I should have left this in the previous post, but it's alright. (Bonus question: Can you recognize the SIms behind the costume? 😎It's probably too obvious 😐)

Well, I heard this from comments on Youtube under the Simlished Song "Na Na Na" I would do the same, if I were able to sing.

So beautiful 😍 But my heart belongs to Xander Clavell with Ayesha Ansari 🤠🥺

OH, I read this theory on the Sims WIkia and actually......it would make sense, eventually? Or not eventually? My head also hurts and I think I wrote nonsense here, but there is a theory of TS2 Kaylynn being the daughter of Parker Langerak.

VIDEO CAPTION: Me picking a teenage girl to play with.

Alternate titles:

Me looking for a love interest

Me looking for a main superheroine protag

Me looking for someone to piss off

Me looking for someone to give the life she deserves

Me looking for a cameo to use in fanfics

Ok actually that was meant to be the last meme, but as this clip of Greg's diary is going around Instagram, etc. I have my outtake 😂 This was me after returning to Sims 3 after the pandemic started.

EDIT: I forgot these two pictures 🤣

That moment reminded me of specific scenes from iconic movies.

#ecofinisher #the sims #the sims 3 #tumblr memes #funny memes #memes #river mcirish #parker langerak #kaylynn langerak #mortimer goth #xander clavell

[adultswim2021]

Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! #27: “Jazz” | September 8, 2008 - 12:30AM | S03E07

Hey, this is a good one. Alright? Perhaps less-than-classic. This one has a runner where Tim & Eric are Jazz musicians who smugly tell meandering stories that make them sound like a coupla stupid dopes. I like these segments mostly! Ending the show with the smug delivery of “online? What like WAITING online at the BANK??” is just great. To me. I keep forgetting to say “to me” after all my opinions, sorry! There are a handful more segments in the deleted scenes of these two funny funny jazz men. 

The cold open is James Quall doing Ronald Regan, probably originally shot as part of the season two sketch. This seems slightly like they are scraping the bottom of the barrel, but it turns out they’re setting up a strong sketch in the middle of the episode. More on that… LATER!! Anyway, this sketch references David Stockman, which is an ancient reference. He worked for Regan and may or may not have tried to list ketchup as a vegetable in some school lunch legislation. It is hilarious that this is where his mind goes. Tim & Eric sorta acknowledge the weirdness of the reference by putting up a bogus, likely unrelated portrait of the supposed David Stockman as if it explains anything.

Maria Bamford! For some reason I fail to think of her as a member of the Tim & Eric family even though she is maybe one of the best guests ever. That is not a dig on Maria, Maria is such a singular entity that it’s hard to think of her being part of anything else. Even me periodically thinking about how she’s the funniest person in the world, possibly, is to vastly underrate her. She fits in with the Tim & Eric universe really well, I THINK, TO ME. Here she’s a host of a show about cleaning up after your cat. The little belly crawl towards the litter box in the opening makes me laugh, and I realized that this imagery used to pop into my head everytime I had to scoop my cat’s litter. Lucy. Her name was Lucy. She has passed.

There’s a fairly good Doug animation in this one, too featuring funny guys and their funny hats. This leads into a Beaver Boys sketch that is exceptionally brainless. The Beaver Boys are up to their old tricks!! They are on a sex-having date with freaking TWINS, but they blow it by not being able to control themselves and gorging themselves on shrimp and white wine being served at the table next to theirs. It’s very stupid, but I see the Beaver Boys as some kind of meta commentary on the nature of very specifically-premised one-note recurring characters in various forms of media, especially on sketch comedy shows. Their return is the joke. I also just like this sketch, despite there not being much to it. There is something funny about the stereotypical way the girls get up and leave, angry, as though what they are doing is typical guy behavior and not the product of a serious brain disease, which is what these boys must have.

Probably the best sketch is a fake trailer for a James Quall biopic where Quall is portrayed by Saturday Night Live’s Bill Hader. His impression is immaculate, and he’s very funny as Quall. There are some charming outtakes from this one, including one where David Liebe Hart (who shines as himself) ruins a take with indigestion, and one where we see the real James Quall watching Hader work his magic and laughing like crazy.

Everything outside of the Quall trailer feels a little dashed off, but I found most of it funny and the episode worked for me as a whole. I think a lot of what made this episode great is the editing, which I think this show should have won an Emmy for. 

I forgot to mention the guy who wants to make sure his condo has enough room for his boys. Dang it. I love that guy.

EPHEMERA CORNER

Space Ghost Coast to Coast: From the Kentucky Nightmare DVD (aka Volume 5) (September 11, 2008)

The final DVD release of Space Ghost Coast to Coast… EVER! This was a two-disc set that included the final Cartoon Network season and the first Adult Swim season. This was the first time I ever saw the uncut Fire Ant. The extras included the colonial man ending of Snatch, which before I’d only seen in a very low-quality internet vid, Table Read Extra, the Conan and Busta Rhymes Raw Interviews, and two nice videos of George Lowe and, C. Martin Croker’s audio recording session for “Kentucky Nightmare”. George’s in particular is fun to watch, because he loves to josh between takes. There’s also easter eggs, but I forget what they are. 

This is a GREAT release and like Volume 4, it was only available through the Adult Swim online store, and is considered very rare. At one point, it sold out and they repressed it and put it on the store for $15 and you could get a copy of Volume 4 for $5. Imagine! Paying a combined $20 for volumes 4 & 5 of Space Ghost Coast to Coast! I came perilously close to selling both my volume 4 and 5 DVDs when I was jobless, but was able to pull them off eBay when I made some money sucking dick.

#adult swim #adultswim2021 #tim and eric awesome show great job

[soranihimawari]

Hopelessly Safe

Inspired outtake from Dancing on my Own.

For @multi-fandom-fanfic (🐹) & @m0nstergeneration20xx who wanted to know what happened between Mei and Atsumu

Blurb pairing: miya atsumu x (mei) x hint at platonic!yn by end

Rating: 17+ language!

Notes?: I like to see Miya witness how much Mei was temporary while when looking at yn & Suna, he regrets not seeking you out after going pro. Photo link is a suggested pose, not necessarily the actual outfit for the NYE party mentioned.

They say it’s impossible to forget about first loves. Surely now at the ripe age of thirty does Miya Atsumu’s metaphorical heart ache. There amongst his possessions on the counter from the cleaning lady is a wedding invitation of one of his friends from high school. Close enough to be brothers, the pudding cup blonde glances down at the formal kanji next to Suna’s name. To say it preceded with the abbreviation ‘doctor’ has him impressed. He scoffs as he checks the attending box. Don’t get it twisted, Atsumu really does care for you, he has a fucking shitty way of showing it, but he does. He comes to all your post-practice meets since Suna has asked him to and together you bond over onigiri. You rarely bring up Mei when impromptu meets happen like this and though Suna does arrive at Samu’s shop, Atsumu blends into the background, but when he hears you tell Suna you were just there to keep an old captain company, Atsumu nearly bursts into tears.

“He thinks he doesn’t deserve your kindness, yn,” Suna holds your hand. “Or whatever amicable friendship you have now.”

“Well, that’s too bad then,” you shake your head. “I was really hoping to ask him and Samu to stand behind me when you call me your wife. Girls are so damn dramatic.”

Suna laughs, asking if you had a concussion lately. You wave him off with a just kidding look, but you focus back to the door where Atsumu had walked you through.

“Hmm, I wonder if one of my colleagues might be interested in going as his plus one?”

“What was that?”

“Nothin’ Suna,” picking up an umeboshi rice ball, you stuff his mouth with it. “Don’t worry about it.”

Memories he has of the fiancé with fierce eyes encased behind glass tears at Suna’s house burns bright in his mind. You were highly upset at his now fling of an ex, Mei’s words, not his. Now dating Mei wasn’t a big mistake, sure he could have done without the hooking up or the popularity gossip in his friend group, yet Atsumu learned to be a reckless lover too. Mei was everything you were not: bold, funny, put Samu in his place as a joke, but one night right before he was to leave for Osaka, he discovers just how unfair Mei was treating their fragile relationship. Caught being seen leaving the movies with another “bad boy”, even going so far as to lie and say she was single is when Atsumu saw red.

He gives her a brief text, the photo was damning evidence. The argument blew up his phone until she sent a rolling eye emoji with the attached, “whatever loser. who chases dreams of professional athleticism anyways? you’re not even that great.” He walks down the busy collegiate street by the university he didn’t know you’d attend. Breezing by a cafe on the corner, he hears your familiar voice, it’s bit more distinct than he remembers. The words cut into his psyche and his shoulders are slumped impossibly low, even for a six-foot tall volleyball rookie. He’s angry, alone, and hurt, you can tell who it is as he walks by with watery eyes. Two years they dated on and off, you remember because Osamu would feed you hints about an impending break up soon. How soon. You didn’t think it would be before the month ended, but here you were running after the setter like you did in the hallway of Inarizaki.

“Atsumu?…” he doesn’t turn around. “Hey! Miya Atsumu!”

When he does, his ochre eyes see you in jeans and a shirt he doesn’t recognize right away. It has an anchor on it as well you typically are the anchor for the 4x4 swim relay. A couple seconds go by before his feet move on their own to bury you in a bear hug. You’re both nearly twenty by now and you don’t mention how his shoulders shake when he chokes out a childish, “Ah shoulda listened t’ya.” You understand almost immediately, and those coworkers of yours are curious why the handsome stranger hugs you so close. One offers to cover your shift because it is perceived he was an old flame who must have came to his senses.

“Let’s get out of here, yeah?” You whisper, running your fingers through his undercut. He nods, drying his eyes on his sleeve.

If there is one thing you learned about being with either Miya is that no matter what, they can be pretty self-destructive. Osamu, you learn, averages three to four hours a night since his restaurant took off after launch. Atsumu? Atsumu found refuge in bottles. He doesn’t develop a problem persay, but you throw away the full cases he bought with his first few signing checks the more you frequent his house. Even on three occasions, you’ve come to the bar post victory, at the behest of Meian. Atsumu is too far tipsy and not sober enough to get him home, and he’s whining about his ex. Again. For the fourth time that week.

“He’ll listen to you,” is all Meian says. “The boys can’t seem to pull him out of this funk.”

You sigh, agreeing with the observation by his captain. The guys make way for you to walk to the couch where his lamenting pauses when you crouch down, looking up at how far an Icarus could have drowned.

“Miya fucking Atsumu,” your tone is deliberate and irate. “Get your shit together. Don’t wallow and waste away here in some bar. Show that bitch ass ex-girlfriend, my worse toxic friend, you’re better than what she said. You hear me?”

You slap your hands to cup his cheeks and the team flinches at the sound. It seems his sobriety started then. His eyes grow wide with fear or adrenaline, you can’t decipher until you choose to do something no sane person would do. It’s something not even Suna knew about and this was a good two years b e f o r e you two started dating.

You shock Atsumu, the person whom you thought you had feelings for back when you were eighteen, by taking none of his bullshit excuses when your lips close on his own. The kiss is harsh, riding, and stone cold. Neither of you process what happened, just knew that it did. His arms wrap around you as he leans into your surprise display of affection; it ignited something carnal within himself, and by default, you. For whatever reason, Atsumu’s eyes shut tightly, committing the way you feel, taste, and when he does return your act, you gasp, slightly chuckling into his agape lips. He has to have known you have moved on away from him and you’ve aligned yourself with his middle blocker friend from high school. And though it was a fatal blow as his lips pressed against the corner of your mouth again, Atsumu pushes you away, panic induced features written all over his face when realized what he had done. Tanned brows furrow as his eyes raise to meet yours, you who sat on his lap now, his breathing a bit rushed—you hum with a nod whispering, “it’s going to be ok,” whilst waving away the rest of the team to give you both some space.

“Why?”

There is a child like and yet embarrassed nature to the way he asks you. His grip on your clothing never ceases. You hush him with tracing your hands over his white knuckles on the edge of your coat.

“I loved you first,” you tell your truth, cupping his cheek less harshly than before. A soft smile graces your lips as you press a gentle peck on his brow.

“‘tsum, I think it’s time you know,” you sigh a you tilt his face to see you Mei just copied everything from me. Everything you liked down to arcade games, I liked them too. So please, don’t destroy yourself because you had received the wrong kind of love.”

He nods, thanking whoever watched his shoulders gave him a sturdy wall of a friend like you.

“Promise?” you tease holding up your pinky.

Atsumu links his with yours and gives it a shake.

“Swearing on mah life,” he says.

“Good. Now let’s get you home. What d’ya say?”

You stand up, turn around slightly and extend your hand to him. An olive branch of years worth of forgiveness exchanged for a good natured soul to encapsulate his learning one is worth the years of friendship afterward.

And so nothing transpired from this kiss or event. Miya goes on to reserve tickets for you and a nurse colleague and when he feels up for it, your friend asks him to sign her jersey with his number. Eventually, life goes back to the balance that he knows: season opener, Olympic qualifier, worlds qualifier, off seasons filled with cheat days with you and the boys™️, etc.

Presently, it’s practically six years to the date, his calendar alarm goes off with little party hats as text chime goes off. The sealed envelope of his RSVP is ready to be hand delivered to Suna tomorrow night. Sure Atsumu thinks it’s the best honor to have been part of your journey in falling for Suna, even going so far as to act like a spy when Suna was dead set on marrying you. You may have mentioned you liked stackable jewelry one day when you were hanging out at Onigiri Miya.

“Think Suna thought about askin’ ya to marry ‘im?” The blonde teases, a slap to his arm makes him scowl. “The hell was that fer?”

“Ya ain’t slick Tsum!” You hold up his phone conversation with Suna. It goes back to the start of this year. “And what I tell ya about using my birthday as yer passcode?”

“But yer mah best friend! Can’t I use it to deflect creeps at the bar?”

“Does Suna know?”

“He thinks it’s fucking funny.”

You groan, laughing a few seconds later with Atsumu who comes around to finally being his old self again. Crude, annoyingly loud, but the best adult friend after his brother in arms to you ever. He loves you, more than you’ll ever know, but when you saw him at his lowest, you lent a hand in his healing journey and his family couldn’t be anymore grateful. Osamu and mama Miya especially. Suna was never jealous, by the way, he always forewarns his old captain, “yn liked me a lot longer after you made the worse mistake when we were still young brats.” Atsumu reluctantly agrees, yet when he sees Suna slip the ring on your finger it shines just as brilliantly as you did that misty morning in the wildflower field.

Reflecting back at your best moments in your steady friendship with him, Atsumu notices you sent a text and as it stands, his heart learnt to feel hopelessly safer when you’re rooting for him on the other side of the line.

【Ｈａｐｐｙ　ｓｅｖｅｎ　ｙｅａｒｓ　ｓｏｂｅｒ　Ａｔｓｕｍｕ！

— attached 1.jpg】 XX—yn

Attached is an old photo where he’s kissing your cheek at 12:01 AM at the MSBY!NYE party dinner. The team is grateful their setter has a ‘found family’ friend in you; it’s clearly written on the smiles of the surrounding teammates at the party. And you? You’re laughing at the camera because for all the trouble being associated with the Miyas (and after one year of being with Suna then), you’re proud to have loved them the best way you knew how.

//

Brief Mei update:

Currently a stay at home single mom from one of the ,any one night stands she had post breaking up with Atsumu. She recognizes her mistakes and lives with regretting everyone has had their chance at happiness. Hers eventually comes at reconnecting with her child’s father when their kid turns six. They reconnect over grocery shopping, eventually putting the pieces together as to why Mei might have ran after she confirmed she was ‘late.’ As far as anyone knows, Mei lives abroad now, last known update was a family photo taken in New Zealand via instagram. Will Mei’s child ever know of their mom’s horrid nature? Maybe not yet since they are too young to understand, but best believe when they are a little older, Mei comes to terms with her misdeeds when she teaches her child cheating and pretending you’re something you’re not is wrong. However, when asked about her first love, Mei is quoted as saying she once loved a boy whom her first ‘real’ friend loved too.

#🌻— flying around collecting pollen—queue #sora scribbles 2022 #miya atsumu x (mei) x platonic!yn

[listentothelittlebird]

Hey remember that time I wrote a crossover oneshot for Young Justice TV and the og Teen Titans show? Yeah I forgot too

(it’s called It’s a Small World did i forget the title of my own oneshot pffft nooooo)

Anyway here’s the outtake with Kaldur

Word count: 1149

Garth turned to his friend, grinning widely. It had taken a week’s worth of pestering his companion to convince him to finally accompany him to the surface. He had unfortunately missed the main titans gathering - the party that stretched well past midnight - but had still agreed to visit in the days that followed. 

“Welcome to Titans tower!” Garth crowed, throwing out his hands as the doors to the common room slid open. 

There were still remnants of a party scattered around the room - the faint smell of chips and snacks clung to the air like leeches. The floor had yet to be rid of crumbs and juice stains - most of which was likely from the toddlers. There was a suspicious mark on the one-way window that could be anything from a handprint to slobber.

“Don’t mind the mess,” Garth smiled sheepishly, “The remaining Titans are meant to be pitching in the next few days to clean it all up. I promise, the base is usually… cleaner than this.”

“It is alright,” his Atlantean friend assured, “I am not adverse to the mess. In fact, it makes it… homely.”

“Well said, brother,” Garth grinned. They were not family by blood, but they had practically grown up under the same roof. “Come, now; I promised some of the Titans I’d introduce you!”

-

Robin yawned as he trudged into the common room. It had taken more than a few years to get to this point - where he allowed himself to let down his guard around his team, enough to start blending his Robin persona back into civilian clothing.

He still preferred wearing his Robin costume, an armour that had become like second skin. Currently, though, he was wearing a gag gift from Beast Boy - a red-and-yellow letter jacket that had been custom-made, replacing a school logo with his Robin symbol. “Titan” was written behind, with the number “01”.

It was stupid, and childish. He loved it.

A blur of yellow-red whizzed past him, and Robin held out his hand just in time for a cup of juice to be pressed into his palm. The blur went back and forth through the door behind them, sliding to a stop just as Robin stepped away and the door slid closed. 

“G’morning,” Kid Flash grinned, the cup of juice in his own hand already half-drained, “You look like you actually slept, for once. I’m surprised.”

“I know what sleep is, Kid,” Robin huffed, rolling his eyes under his mask, “It’s B who has trouble telling night from day. Serves him right for setting up his base in a cave.”

“Like your man-cave is much better,” Kid Flash snarked, and ducked under Robin’s half-hearted swing, “Dude, your room is literally a dump. Like, how do you even find anything in there?”

“I have my ways,” Robin grumbled. They ambled towards the kitchen area as the door behind them slid open once more.

“Kid Flash! Robin!” 

The two looked up to see Garth pacing cheerfully towards them. He stopped mid-pace, then turned and grabbed someone, dragging them out of the corridor. 

“There’s someone I want you guys to meet,” Garth grinned, hand still tugging his friend along by the arm. Robin assumed this was one of Garth’s Atlantean friends - he was wearing a turtleneck, a hoodie pulled low over his face.

“You didn’t mention you had some fishy friends,” Kid Flash teased. Robin resisted the urge to groan as he elbowed his long-time friend. 

“Ha-ha,” Garth deadpanned, “Very funny.” He turned back to his friend and said something in Atlantean. The person shrugged in response. 

“Alright,” Garth started, clearing his throat hesitantly. Robin tilted his head encouragingly, Kid Flash straightening from where he was leaning on the kitchen counter. 

“The reason I’ve never talked about this friend is because he’s been deep undercover for the last few years,” Garth stated quietly, “He was practically infiltrating the shark’s mouth, the right-hand man of the operation. He only finished his operation last month - with his help, Atlantis was able to bring into custody several of the higher-profile fugitives of Atlantis.”

Robin raised an eyebrow. “Your point?”

“Well,” Garth fumbled, “Look. My friend over here, he’s a great guy. I trust him with my life. I just wanted you to know that. Some of the Atlanteans, they… still don’t trust him. And I want to make it clear that I, as a Titan, trust him.”

Robin and Kid Flash exchanged stoic glances, before breaking into warm smiles. “We got it,” Robin assured, and addressed the still-hooded figure, “If Garth trusts you, then so do we.”

Robin moved forward then, as Garth stepped aside. “I’m Robin,” he said, offering his hand with a friendly smile, “Welcome to Titans tower.”

Garth’s friend clasped his arm in an Atlantean handshake, and Robin only had a moment to identify the man’s darker skin tone before a familiar voice had him freezing in place.

“Kaldur’ahm.” As he spoke, he flipped down his hoodie with his free hand. His smile was just on the side of smug, “It’s my honour to meet the leader of the Titans.”

Robin gawked, blinking dumbly at his old friend. When Kaldur made to pull away from the handshake, Robin snapped back to himself. He tightened his grip on his friend’s arm and pulled him forward, bringing his free arm up to trap the ex-Aqualad in a clumsy hug.

The sudden weight at their sides nearly unbalanced them, but Robin was too used to Kid Flash’s sudden appearances to truly be surprised. “Kaldur!” Wally babbled happily, “Kal, dude, what is up! It’s been fucking ages, you fishhead!”

“My apologies,” Kaldur chuckled fondly, “Indeed, it has been far too long. If I was able to, I would have come far earlier. As Garth said, it’s been scarcely a month since I’ve returned.”

“You’ve been free for a month and you still went and missed the party?” Wally whined, “Dude!”

“Lay off him, Kid,” Robin laughed, reluctantly releasing Kaldur from the hug. The three stepped away and grinned at each other for a moment, content to remain in the moment.

“It’s good to see you well, Kaldur,” Robin grinned, feeling the remnants of his younger, childish joy slipping through. 

“I feel the same.” Kaldur’s smile was smaller, but no less real. He glanced warmly between the two younger heroes, “It’s a shame that I’ve missed so much, but I’m all the more glad for how much both of you have grown, from when we last met.”

Behind them, a throat was cleared.

“Uhm,” Garth was blinking confusedly at their reunion, “I think I’m missing something?”

Kaldur smiled sheepishly, “Apologies, my brother. I befriended Robin and Kid Flash during my time spent on the surface.”

“During your time as Aqualad,” Garth realised, smacking his forehead, “Odin’s beard, I should’ve guessed! You knew who they were all along, didn’t you?”

Kaldur's answer was a smirk.

#Young justice tv #young justice animated #teen titans #kaldur #dick grayson #wally west #I still have denial over wally west not being alive #Straight from the trash doc #well technically it’s from a doc titled “bruh” #The other half of the doc is wally west but like the yjtv one being the same as the jla one #It’s a mess down there

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YEAR IN REVIEW | 2022

I probably say this every year, but oh, how weird was this year. Looking back this time has been strange. You can really see the ups and downs throughout my posts. While 2022 left me with quite a few scars, I also achieved a lot. So, without further ado, let’s journey through what happened this year.

Note: like last year’s review, SNTM gets its own section.

The Highlight

I was not very consistent this year, but the most constant was the Emerson Legacy, even if that was about one post a month. I focused on them because they are my comfort story, a way to soothe myself. They are so close to my heart, and I really hope to continue their story. But I do believe it’s okay to take my time with it. They will come when they’re ready, and when I’m ready too.

My favorite post per Month

Well, then, these are my favorite post for each month. Just to clarify, however many notes they got does not influence the decision to include them. I was not very active except for SNTM, especially in the first half of the year. But slowly things get better.

January | This was a slow month. I did work on SNTM, and finished the makeovers. This month feels like a continuation of december last year, so it’s seems fitting (1 2 3 4). I did share a lot about my personal life, so most original posts are text. Wanna hear something funny? I posted the blind vote here, and closed the poll on November. Meaning I had the poll up for almost a year (lol).

February | If January wasn’t exciting, February takes the cake. Too many things happening all at once. I talked about it a lot and you guys listened. No original posts that month, but we did get trending a lot.

March | This was a rough month. Only 3 reblogs total. This was my lowest point. It’s odd to look back and think how badly I felt, and how everything seemed to be falling apart, in contrast to how good things are looking up now. It’s getting better, and I’m so glad.

April | Things were better in April. I was mostly using Tumblr as a distraction. But I worked on my comfort story, the Emerson Legacy. Slowly getting back to it.

May | May was a mixed bag. I continued working on the Emerson Legacy, and did a moodboard for it. But my favorite post was an edit of Saffron. I love making graphics like these, gotta get back to it. IRL, I started working on my thesis.

June | Small things, but nice things. I was channeling my energy into things I could control. I so wanted to make edits for pride, but all I got was a lousy icon. I did a couple more moodboards (1 2) and continued the Emerson Legacy.

July | Had another dip this month. I was overwhelmed with finals, so only two original posts. I tested some poses for Caroline (chef’s kiss as always) and made little graphics (if you can call them that) with the screens. Also, I started working on SNTM again.

August | I don’t know if I told you this guys, but I had a breakdown mid-exam. It was a real wake-up call. After that I started therapy, and even in the first session, things were so much better. On simblr, I got a new icon, and did some edits for an ask game (1 2). That was fun. Also, I was in full gears making SNTM.

September | I edited some outtakes, and that was all. I was really busy making SNTM, and got really close to finishing. Also, a funny thing happened while filming the show.

October | I continued the Emerson Legacy, and SNTM was back after months. I didn’t participate as much as I wanted for simblreen, but I had fun anyway. Also, October feels like a million years ago.

November | Only one Emerson Legacy post, and SNTM continued on a steady path. In real life, I finished the year’s internship, got an offer to continue doing summer work with one of my tutors, and finished my thesis (with an A, the highest grade possible). I still can’t quite believe it. What a month.

December | Not much happened. I was obnoxious about the Wold Cup (still can’t believe we’re champions 🇦🇷), and dedicated the rest of my time to prepare for the holiday special. SNTM kept going until the holiday hiatus. Things are going well.

SNTM

These are the statistics this year. We had a major hiatus from January, and returned on September. Since then, we’ve mostly gone uninterrupted. I am quite happy with it overall, especially considering I almost shut it down. But, at the end of the day, I love this show. Let’s hope we can continue it next year. As for my top pick, my favorite video of the year, the fight between Vivi and Iman, takes the trophy, for the sheer drama and potential.

Thank you!

Truly, I will remember this year forever. The truth is I’m proud of myself, and I have earned the right to say that. I worked a lot on myself, and can honestly say it was worth it. For 2023 I want to be kinder to myself, to allow me the moments to breath, grieve or rave, and to give myself the credit I’m due. I want to enjoy life, because it’s so short. And it is my sincere wish that you guys can do that too. I love you all.

Goodbye 2022!

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