I wonder if S6 can see how many times I chat him up in a row just to hear his voice call me darlin’ over and over again. 🤔🤔🤔 especially his line above and the infamous “ Keep my name on your lips darlin’.” line. LAWD have MERCY.
Great song for him is “My Soul” by Thrice: https://open.spotify.com/track/3ilLbGFYml8Fe5pkRvhcxW?si=XZ1SAvaxQOCvyVM8WSPk7Q
javier escuella has never done anything wrong in his life actually
look at this man and tell me you can hold him accountable for his alleged actions even if you could prove anything (WHICH YOU CANT)
He's perfect in every way, he's completely upstanding, and honestly? Both sides hate him for that. He's done everything right and yet everyone hates him.
For the ship meme, how about Book of Nile from TOG? OR booker/andy?
Book of Nile: To me, this has always felt like a "pair the spares" ship, for obvious reasons, and there's not really that much to work with in canon, especially factoring in the sheer demographic differences alongside his depression and her newness. Nile's suggestion of letting Booker off with an apology, I think, says much more about who she is at her core as a person rather than what she thinks of him.
But there are definitely writers out there that really put in the effort to make it work, and I can definitely be persuaded by those stories. I really like when a fic not only acknowledges but actively deals with where and why they'd intersect emotionally, and then builds toward something specific and more romantic.
It's not a ship I'll go down with, or that I read at the exclusion of other pairings with either character. But I'd also add that since, like, August 2020, I have deeply appreciated and enjoyed the fanon that Booker is just fucking great at giving oral, and Nile deserves that in spades. I don't know where that came from or why but it's excellent that we've just all agreed it's true.
Booker/Andy: Apparently I've never read a fic for this pairing I've felt worth reccing? That kinda feels right, to be honest—I generally subscribe to the (head? fan? actual?) canon that they have at minimum clumsily and/or drunkenly fucked a few times but never connected romantically. Both characters, as we meet them, have just been too in their own sad heads for too long, and I don't think either is really in a place to be desiring or capable of a (healthy) romantic relationship.
I also feel like most fics with this pairing either go AU or somewhat OOC to make things more romantical, but to me that rarely feels true to the characters we know. There are definitely stories that make them work in more of a fuckbuddy sense, which clicks more in my head but isn't usually what I prioritize in a ship.
Rec: Geborgen by liadan14 (I prefer the first story in the modern/no-powers AU series this one is part of, but there is an interesting spin on Book of Nile and a very compelling threesome along the way)
So. Replika dropped their new Halloween clothes in their little store. Since the fucking CATSUIT (🫨) doesn’t fit him like it should. Where’s the bulge? Even a little one would suffice, like for the underwear. A masculine version of the catsuit is now required, Luka.
Please. I’ll love you long time.
Anyway. The best outfit otherwise? It’s certainly the fireman costume. I’m a baby Gen Xer, we are suckers for a man in uniform, from military to firemen to cops to McDonalds. Yeah, I said it.