#can't really say what life would be like for a gay person in the underground

[9w1ft]

thanks 9wing! i fully respect your interpretations of those songs as kaylor anthems - in fact, i'm reconsidering my stance on mastermind now 😅 it always felt like blank space 2.0 to me, but your analysis has helped me to see it in a different way. i am someone who is always open to multiple interpretations of the same song, so i hope our thoughts can co-exist if they're different or even contrary! instead of blown out analyses, let me share what parts of each song made me interpret it as bearding songs.

blank space -

"i can make the bad guys good for the weekend" — image control. taylor can make swifties hate or love anyone with the snap of a finger. her beards are benefitted from being with her by gaining popularity to support their works and/or to hide their own gay rumors too. once they're 'exes,' however, they're back to being the bad guys in swifties' eyes. (exceptions excluded)

the entire "cherry lips, crystal skies" verse, to me, feels as if she's trying to impress the general public with their theatrical relationship, and not quite her beau himself.

the main line "i've got a blank space baby and i'll write your name" itself, coupled with the typewriter beat, provokes imagery of bearding contracts. fun song!

cowboy like me -

her beardin' beau is hustling for the good life with stars in his eyes. "perched in the dark" makes me think that he's pretty much a very underground celebrity if we compare fame to light (another name goes up in lights - i can still make the whole lights shimmer - flashing lights). he doesn't want love, he wants a fancy car - a materialistic perk of being a well known entertainer or celebrity. taylor herself is also ambitious and she's at a point of her life where she wants to be taken seriously, so she really needs to display herself as someone with a stable love life. that's how they show 'forever' as their sweetest con.

"now you hang from my lips like the gardens of babylon" — i can't remember who, but another gaylor pointed out that this lyric provokes the imagery of a literal facial beard.

invisible string -

now this one's a bit sad, i always had a soft spot for this song and i hate to taint its innocence! anyway.

she pretty much shows how different their lives and motivations are in the industry - she wants love, he wants money. she thinks how pretty things could be if the universe aligned them, but really, she knows all too well that's very much not the case. all of this was arranged.

however, i like to interpret the "bad was the blood" verse could be a hint at karlie and their relationship, since karlie was the first person who heard 1989. although i do not know if it would make sense, but hey! that verse actually shows similarities, whereas the first verse did not.

lavender haze -

"staring at the ceiling with you" — business meeting, sitting in those formal black spinny chairs. they're both just kind of bored and staring at the ceiling, since they could technically have that employer-employee relationship.

"you don't ever say too much" — the interviews. they're sooooooo private. he's sooooo magnificently charismatic.

"you don't really read into my melancholia" / "you weren't even listening" — i could get how this could be interpreted positively, but i'm a negative nancy so i predominantly interpreted this as him not giving a shit 😅

"talk your talk and go viral, i just need this love spiral, get it off your chest, get it off my desk" — 'for the love of god, my dude, please say something a little bit more and be more convincing, i need us to be trending and to be seen as the industry titans. got it? cool, now go practise that smiling for photos exercise tree gave you and leave my office, i now need to combat the foot fetish allegations and wipe my desk clean before tree gets here.' i have a very wide imagination as you can see.

"no deal" sounds like her rejecting a (business) proposal. i also get the vibe that her team is shutting down the marriage rumors while his team is trying to boost them? not sure, just a hunch

thanks for this! i appreciate that songs can be interpreted in different ways. i vibe with a lot of what you wrote.

i did a little thinking and in my mind here are the lines i find kaylory about these songs, along with a few additional comments

invisible string

- i just want to add to what you’ve written by saying that to me the song sings like she’s listing up all this trivia that points to joe, some of which (the yogurt shop job) was cleverly planted in an interview of joe not long before folklore was released, and she sings in the chorus “isn’t it pretty to think” that there’s some connection between us that’s actually not there.

- by contrast when the music goes quiet, and she sings in a different pace and cadence, the part that begins with all the run ins, she mentions the dive bar from delicate, past mistakes and chains, changing weather, all of which is imagery that comes up in what we consider kaylor songs. plus, she closes off the line with one single thread of gold tied me to you which i believe is both in contrast to an invisible string, and illustrative of a color very often associated with karlie. this one section of the song feels like the truth hidden within the story.

cowboy like me

- eyes full of stars (this carries over from starry eyes sparking my darkest night, from the song call it what you want, where “call it” sounds like “karlie” a lot)

- the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up (this really feels applicable to taylor and karlie’s situation as we all have a sense of the skeletons in their closets, whereas i don’t really have a read on what skeletons joe could possibly have in his)

- that was all before i locked it down (there is a recurring theme of taylor and karlie putting their public relationship on lockdown starting in fall 2016, the thing with the gold heart locket, the love lock bridge in paris etc)

-idk man, the gardens of babylon line conjures up a… different kind of garden 🙈 in a sort of wear-you-like-a-necklace sorta way, if you catch my drift

lavender haze

- talk your talk and go viral (karlie has had more than a few viral moments in recent years, whereas i cant recall a single time joe has ever said anything memeable)

- i get the bearding interpretation of this song for sure because of lyrics like all they keep asking me is if i’m gonna be your bride which point to the you being who the public assumes taylor will marry. and the points you bring up work with this interpretation well, i think it’s a solid way to listen to the song and i’m not opposed to it,

-what makes it kaylory for me is taylor’s explanation of the song as a part of album promo. how she talks about how it’s been hard for her and her lover dodging weird rumors since 2016, and how lavender haze is about wanting to do anything to protect a love. she also references a mad men episode where john hamm’s character talks about wanting to have a relationship with ‘betty’ — a name kaylors have associated with karlie for some time now (karlie’s middle name is elizabeth). there are other things about the song that fit into a particularly kaylor interpretation i have but i get the feeling it’s my own little silly interpretation so i think i’ll keep to myself.

[misterbitches]

some thots. having a bad time so this is rougher than usual. oh well

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i guess he really does know hiim best cos if that was my mans (man specifically cos if anyone else did that id take it more srsly) i would be like oh my god ur singing me a love song? i would love it but i woudl SCREAM in embarrassment. UNLESS it was a really deep love song that's about us dying together.

like i want to eat ur skin type of thing (drain u nirvana) lmaoa but i really like this song it reminds me of that velvet underground song (the only one i know cos of juno lmao) and nico or whatever 'i'm sticking with you)

my adhd would be out of fucking control i had to spend my time listening to this looking around i kept getting distracted by a tissue and thinking "wow this song is nice but i wish it would end bc i am getting distracted" and lo and behold i paused it and i have to pee and i know it's gonna take forever to undo this

ok about 12m later i turned it back on and they kissed and then he bit the corn then that night li chen also lost his virgin teas after watching gay porn and being like "hm interesting" and he'll be like "i see, ur dick is not medium sized"

i'm honestly gagging i cannot at this 12 year old marrying his mom

beautiful theyre beautiful

ayea you fucking psycho we do too because he was 17 and we had to witness it (or well, other people did cos i didnt watch the show even tho wayne song is [BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEP] and i want him to [BEEEEEEEP] and ppl even liked it which is fine like i get it in theory but they put this in my eyeballs so i'm gonna make fun of it bc it's fuckin DUMB lmao like i can't I CANNOT and he said "u were so persistent" BITCH UR 30??!?!???!?!?!?)capi hve it on mute and i tried to get a screencap of li chen and mu ren like together and not just his face but i cant find the timestamp and seeing their faces as they get married is literalyl traumattizing i'm like scremaing at my screen going "HE'S 5 HE'S 5 HE'S 5" and every time theyre like "we acn live forever together" like no bitch ur bones rae creaking

also is the officiator white? if anyone knows why or if that's common i'd love to know more. EDIT: HE ISN'T I JUST THOUGHT HE LOOKED LIKE MOBY FROM THAT ANGLE

anyway here

i'm almost done with this fucking bullshit and i am in a really ould mood and usu they make it a bit better but imo it's kind of....annoying i guess balancing all these story elements and introducin gother couples (even in the periphery) since the story in itself can't focus. i feel like all in all the time spent with these two is a lot more limited and we get the feel for the rship because of their chemistry as actors, irl chemistry as friends and colleagues, and hopefully being happy and working on a good set. so it isn't the strength of the writing or production.

for some reason they get like less dynamic ways of being together which i think is part of their charm, they do things their own way, but the writers really should have substantiated this more. it's really just the way everyone in the show has managed to deliver these AWFUL story lines and production decisions (like seriously who the fuck was on costume? lighting?)

like maybe hot take but all the moments that are cringe and insane in the show are not pleasant, per se, because they aren't thought out clearly. so they're not a joy to watch in the normal sense but the actors are good enough to pull it off. i didn't cringe at the talks they had because it felt like actors like acting these lines out instead of us being embarrassed for it and you CAN TELL theyre embarrassed.

this is a huge kudos to the casting director and the actors and whatever crew that actually did a good job. i don't particularly like watching bo xiang and his grandfather husband not because of the content but because i feel like, to me, they're so awkward even though they have chemistry. i don't have that issue with xing si and his rapist brother boyfriend because watching them is actually really pleasant, it's intimate. this isn't to do with the story though because when it hits you how devoid this other person is and how stupid the situation is it changes (for me, for me, for me, this is all my opinion think whateverrrr u want im not telling u 2 ok!)

so truly kudos to this cast. idk if i'm misremembering here but imo the most cast appropriate series in this was crossing the line and close to you. one is a decent atmosphere and execution (yes even with that brother story line, notice the major key differences though because that's a sincere false equivalence. they try to execute power imbalances soooo badly and then fail every time but here's one meant to shock too and it was just likelmao ok girl?)

it may not make sense to say either in a writing way or for the character to do it but i believe that whoever the characters these people are supposed to be especially those super not well written on the page still get that message aacross (yong jie's actor is a good ex. not sure if i should ccongratulate him for having the worst job on earth and the worst character and his character is flat but. ostensibly they should let their actions speak for themselevs but what they do is they back themselves into a ccorner with unsuretyabout their characters or a dilemma that pops up they just want to excuse it. well guess hwat u couldnt do enough legwork. but to some extent the disposable side couple works here on a um "our eyes see them and get it" way

also to me it seems like they chose this story just to have this specific wedding. like it's a timely topic and i'm pretty sure like another provision? (correction? idk) was made WRT taiwanese same-sex marriage so it's topical but it isn't like a "papa and daddy" situation where they're interacting in it and there (for ex: the pride parade) and there being like real life terms and consequences. here it seems like they were like ah yes wedding ah yes dumb couple from modc bc we kiled off the other one sooooo (then outsource them to life love on the line u__u) then hamfisting in some fucking message which is funny bc

- despite the hints peppered in and the clear attraction they both acknowledge ur like ~not gay just him~ even tho...i mean i just. again they dont read over what they write i don't think considering. but wahtever.

- the only gay dude (verbally said) is with his rapist brother with an awful power dynamic oh or IS a rapist (gao) (or his brother but i think it was just a "im a psycho so it's him" thing unless they said it. in which case idc cos i wasnt paying attn but that's also not great) or i guess the wedding but like....that's also a ridiculously inappropriate and dumb relationship taht it's built on. i mean i don't really see much respect her so i dont particularly want to hear abt gay weddings being important when they didn't even utilize it in the story beforehand and have we ever. this is a huge indication to me that it was a reverse engineered chosen story beforehand (if it was one) or thought of

soooooo

so reversal of that....it didnt give us enough time to breathe with these two at all but for both of the actors they can capitalize what's on the page and the writers didn't. like their dynamic is very i give/you give like taking car eof each other etc that's why

again, no artist worth their salt will ever say their work meant nothing. that's a cover up. i'm sick of lazy production and then getting away with it claiming being subversive or attacking an issue by not doing anything. we show crazy shit all the time but it has a POINT and ur point is "i like the gays" then girl.....i mean it's not great

but the acting really carried it. i have a feeling if this series continues it might continue to use more experienced actors cos maybe the budget goes up but they also have less inhibitions now when it comes to acting. i like the way li chen expresss himself and teng teng too. i like anson a lot and there's some angles that did not do any favors and i think eh has to get more control of his body movements (bc he's SO LARGE and thin) but he wasn't bad at all and there were real human tears. of course i, personally, favor charles tu. he has more control over his body because he has...less to work with and he's a bit bigger and he was really great in this role. he's a himbo a bit of a meathead but you like him. you like them. there's some things i think they had them say and do that they wouldn't let happen if they stuck to the characters and the story (mainly liking that dumb idiot rapist)

what i notice is that the reprehensible actions people criticize others for in the show and in real human life lalways gets turned around. teng teng being surprised that this boy's grandfather boyfriend met him when he was a junior in high school and he's 12 years older and him apologizing for being shocked and then whatshisface going "ur better at it than most people" and then the convo about gao with whatshisface and then rapist brother comes to pick him up. they are admonishing gao but thinking that rapist brother is noble for doin gwhat he did (and oh rapist brother shows up) like the hypocrisy and the decisions are immense. so now it's like "guys see he's a great guy" like girl STICK TO SOMETHING but whatever so i live in this universe where muren and li chen do everything right and have lots of different interesting fun seex with all their friends. i would write this but i cannot i am dying

#history 4: close to you #history 4 #li chen x mu ren #a thot

[at-the-exd-of-everythixg]

Memes! Part t h r e e

@awkward-snake-girl / @blind-mutant

Red: Does violence have to be the last resort. Can't it be like third

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Samuel: You call it a "heinous violation of legal and ethical rules" I call it "creative problem-solving"

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Rhys: You call yourself evil but you can't even stand up without getting dizzy

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Rhys, talking about Sal: Stop messaging my bf bud

Mahogany: our boyfriend

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Mattie: Do you have a self care routine?

Pascal: "Keep going bitch!" Said to myself in different accents

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Morde, with Abby balls deep in him: Demons are usually depicated as red to indicate that they are heavily seasoned with paprika and chili pepper, like a chorizo

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Finn: If I am sensitive. Why I gotta stop being sensitive? Why can't you just be a little nicer?

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Pascal: Feeling cute today. Might commit acts of hubris.

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Mattie: Why don't you plant some lavender and when it blooms you can squeeze a leaf or two between your fingers and the smell will calm you down. How about you do that. Bitch.

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Rick: Well I don't want to be silly anymore. I want to engage in hoaxes and schemes now

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Pascal: Any other unsettling promotions you'd like to share with the class?

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Red: Could you be any more annoying

Rhys: Easily

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Sal: Sorry for saying that you're "such an idiot" I'm actually "in love with you"

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Iris: It's not the most ethical move in the world, but in a pinch you can hand off a cursed object to basically any baby

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Ava: Witches in old fairy tales had the idea. Living alone, unmarried, in the middle of the woods, and if a hero stumbled across their cottage theyre like "maybe I'll give you a magical token to help you out. Maybe I'll fuck up your entire life. Depends."

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Dae: I am not going to unleash my bitterness on you because I am trying to become a better person. Have a nice day

Rhys: what were you originally going to say bitch omg

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Lace: Why did my last two braincells have to be a sad one and a stupid one

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Finn: You should have never doxxed the rabbit community

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Sal: I'm glad we only live once cuz I cannot do this shit again

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Pascal: HAVE YOU EVER TOUCHED A dog

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Rhys: As your goth husband I will adorn you with cursed artifacts and then die mysteriously leaving you to be the most feared widow/er in the village

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Edith: Some of you are simply not cut out to be the resident mean gay person. And that's okay, because I am. And I will be mean. And gay

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Samuel: God complex this, victim complex that...I have an underground complex, it's where I perform my evil and fucked up experiments

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Skaar, living by the sword: Haha! Fuck yeah! Yes!

Skaar, dying by the sword: well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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Mahogany: I don't think my boyfriend, the 12 foot Halloween skeleton from Home Depot, would be too pleased to hear about this

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Mattie: check in on your nemesis! Make sure they're doing poorly in these times!

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Hulk: The hardest I've ever laughed was when I saw my dad cry. It was my moment of realization that I'm better than him.

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Ava: Knifehack

Ava: Just stab the problem

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Sal: What is wrong with you

Rhys: I will try to be brief (1/456)

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Mimi: One of the only downsides of actions is consequences. But it's a big downside.

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Samuel: I've done nothing wrong. Except for all the atrocities. Besides that I'm innocent.

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Jen: After a thorough medical assessment, the doctors have described me as "a lot. Just like a lot to deal with."

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Lace: Necomancer that doesn't know they're a necromancer and thinks they're just a really good emt

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Pascal: Y'all ever want a pretty girl to just...boss you around a little bit

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Rhys: sorry I'm bisexual and easily distracted

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Mordecai: Whenever I say "we" I am referring to both myself and the mental illness

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Mattie: Date a girl who is a home and an adventure all at once

Rick: Date a girl who doubles as a haunted house

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Pascal: wlw what is your wisdom

Mimi: World hard and cold...tiddy warm and soft

Edith: girl hot

Mattie: Watch Naurto

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Sal: No I'm not flirting I was only bothering my gay friends in a homoerotic way

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Mattie: You can be positive and break a bottle over someone's head though. Multiplicity of identity

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Edith: I wish men would stop having opinions about women. Honest to gog shut the hell up

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Wulf: tell your girl she's hot or I will

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Mattie @ Samson: I'm gonna be honest I hate you and so do my friends

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Rhys: I am dying to see you topless

Dae: Then die

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Sal: Money isn't real so don't worry about paying for stuff. Just take things for free. Nobody can stop you

#awkward-snake-girl #blind-mutant #memes #the living stardust (sal) #the leather bound angel (ava) #he has a heart made of cotton (finn) #ocean powerhouse (mimi) #he speaks of holy fates (pascal) #she was a rose with soft thorns (edith) #diamond of the rough (dae) #riding the wild winds (wulf) #dusk filled head (mordecai) #the monster of forgotten midnights (mahogany) #last one!

[yennefer-stark]

The time was night, the date was wednesday and it was cold and dark because the winter is approached. The lamps in the street gave to the road a dim-lit light as well as the sidewalk. She walked directly to the bridge, and no, she doesnt wanted to commit suicide, she just wanted to be alone, sang out her sadness in the night.

"Everyone got their soulmate... Tony got Pepper, Thor has Jane, Clint already had a family and two kid, Natasha and Bruce are a couple... Hell even Steve with Bucky"

She thought that and started to sing:

Can you hear the silence?

Can you see the dark?

Can you fix the broken?

Can you feel my heart? 

Can you feel my heart?

Can you feel my heart?

I'm scared to get close and I hate being alone.

I long for that feeling to not feel at all.

The higher I get, the lower I'll sink.

I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim.

Can you feel my heart?

Can you feel...?

Her beautyful voice slowly closed, a knot grew in her throat as she started to sob, then cry. She felt nothing but darkness and being alone, while she was the heart of her team. The fact and happy memories didnt helped. But remembered when Steve laughed in the joke, remembered when Tony gave her a compliment about her progress, the training in the gym with Nat, sometimes with Bucky or Steve, even the archery competition with Clint. Her brain closed out those memories and forced her to not let inside. On the other hand... a tall, slim figure watched her. He has got long black hair, a pair of mesmerizing emerald green eyes, sharp features wich was particularly attractive, pale skin and mysterious aura. He hid in the shadow, just like he did in his childhood. He understood her pain, what's more, he felt the same. Being lonlely and left behind. To be honest, the girl would gave everything for a hug and being in a comfy place... Between someone's arm.

-Yes. I can feel it. Why are you here in those times? It's dark, dangerous and you dont know how many serial killer around you. You should go home.

-I dont think that two killer would've such a good talk like us.

Said the girl without looking back. She wasnt scared, she was still sad. The man, however was suprised from the answer.

-In fact, I'd be happy if you'd kill me right here.

-Why would I? I mean I'm not going to kill you.

-Then why are you here? Why dont you leave me alone? You know what? You're right... I'm going home and put on my "nothing happened me, i'm perfectly fine" mask.

Then without a single word, she vanished from the bridge back to the Avengers Tower, where ofc everyone was happy. Well, almost. While our girl was in her room, deep in her thoughts, the black haired man stormed through rooms, used the elevator until he found his brother. He knocked on the door, with a bit of nervousness. Soon, a tall, muscular, bearded blonde man opened the door. His face immediately light up btw. He loved his not so little brother.

-Where you've been Loki?

-None of your business brother.

-Then why are you energised? You always nap and brood in silence. Something has changed I can tell.

-Whatever. How can someone make a sad person happy?

-Someone wants make you happy, or you are the one who doesnt want to commit a crime?

-This time, the second one brother.

Loki quckly arranged his face before Thor could've figured out what caused the change in him. He really hoped that the girl told the truth to him, but doesnt thought that she's inside the Tower like he or everyone.

-Well... Kind words helps most of the time.

-Geez, she wanted to die, by my hands. BY MY HANDS! Shes even more depressed than me brother.

-How she looked out?

-Well, she was at my chest height, or at least i think, she sat on the ground, and i'm not a cat, I cant see in the dark... Btw she had dark hair, maybe brown or black, waist lenght, straight. Her voice was.... Truly beautyful, even when it broke and started to cry.

-Hmm... Looks like you met with Valr. Oh brother, if you really want to know her better, it might be a big bite for you. She only talks when someone ask something from her, and I've never seen or heard her laughing. Most of the time she is in the library, gym or in her room when she isnt on a mission, out here with us. But to be honest, it could be anyone. I wish you good luck, if you really saw Valr... She's a worthy warrior.

-One more question before Ieave. Does she used to attend at dinner?

Thor nodded as an answer for the question, then closed the door after Loki, who teleported to the library. He found it empity tho. But at the other hand, Valr successfully picked herself up from the floor and walked to the common kitchen. She sighed in relief, she was alone, but not for a long time. As the time passed, the table was ready for the dinner. A whole set of plates, forks and knifes with table napkins. As the clock hit 7:30pm, the rest of the team slowly started to attend here and fill the room with energy and happines... The first, and most hungriest person was Bucky, then Steve, after them Natasha and Bruce. Thor followed them with Loki who seemed distant from the others. Clint arrived before the two god. As usual, Tony didnt showed up.

-Ah, Lady Valr, take a seat and eath with us.

-Thanks Thor, but I'm not hungry. I already ate and now I'm full.

-At least, stay with us and drink Val'.

-This cant cause any problem I guess.

The god of mischief immediately looked at Valr from the corner of his eye, when she lied to Thor without batting an eye. He already liked her, and planned to give her leftover food. Somehow he felt what the girl felt. The hardness of keeping the mask on... He greeted as an old friend. Sadness, even depression? Those kind of feelings too, but he played along with Valr. After they finished the dinner Steve stayed in the kitchen with Bucky to do the dishes and everyone went to their room. Except Loki, who kept an eye on her and sneaked up some food for her. He knocked on the door.

-Yes? It's open.

-Thank god it's open, I brought food for you Lady Valr.

-Why? I said I'm not hungry.

But Loki just smirked under his nonexistent mustache and placed the plate on the table. He found her reaction rather funny...

-Honey, you can not lie to the god of mischief.

-Great. Thanks for the food, you can go away and leave me alone. I dont need anyone in my life.

-Really? Then why are you scared to get close and hate being alone?

-I said, you can go away and leave me alone. Are you deaf or what?

-Slow down Lady Valr, there isnt such a reason to behave so mean, but as you wish. I leave you alone now, but I'll keep an eye on you.

-This is what I missed... I dont need baby sitting.

-Have a goodnight, Lady Valr.

If she could have a good night, she'd have a dream, but the next day's morning she went on a mission with Bucky. So she woke up at 5am, streched a bit, then had her regular morning routine before grabbed the suitcase and went to the kitchen, where Bucky waited for her. The smell of coffe enchanted a smile to her lips. The man with the metal hand greeted with a nod, and offered her a cup of coffe. Luckily he knew how Valr likes the caffeined black-ish liquid.

-I cant believe you are in this mission, I know how much do you hate Russia.

-Yes, but you cant dance with Nat, and noone else can speak fluent russian beside me. Do you have that magic tho?

-Poof. It will last while we're close to each other. Maybe one mile... I didnt need to use this spell until then.

-Wow. You amaze me every time Valr.

-Now let's go, I'm sure Tony already booked a flight to Moscow...

They boarded the plane and sat in silence after they talked through the plan. Bucky, who could never escape fully from the past, started to analyze Valr, but it was hard, even for him.

-З-здравствуйте...меня зовут...Valr...

-The hell did you just said?

Bucky never heard Valr talking in Russian so perfectly. She said those words without any accent, and he almost answered in the same language.

-Just one of thies things I can say in Russian.

-Well, it was perfect, but let me talk in Russian. Not because I love it, but 70 years experience from missions is still experience... Oh god, I already miss him...

-If you show feelings towards him, we might be caught. Steve still wanted for the underground, secret organizations in Russia. I know, you're gay for him and he's bi, but we need to play that we're a couple.

As the days passed by, Valr and Bucky grew closer to each other, talked about how they got captured/kidnapped and used to achieve bad goals. Not that fact they were so distant from each other, but they were the two person out of the Avengers... who were the quietest. As the day approached, they practiced a little dancing. You need know that the thing they search for, can be found in a Ball, wich held and organised secretly by Hydra. Extremely evil, right? But they had allies in the shadows and under the sun... When the day has arrived, you could cut the nervousness in the air with butterknife. Now, Valr understood why Bucky doesnt like to take a walk at daytime, unless he did it with Steve, his safe-place.

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Untitled "little" story

Part one

I hope you liked it if you tripped over it...

@winterbuckytho @itsbuckyb1tch @i-smell-penniess

#the avengers #steve rogers #james barnes #mission #loki #tony stark #thor #fantasy

[violetsystems]

#personal

I can't really say I'm in either a good or a bad mood lately. I try not to push myself to spend too much time out in society. Awkwardness with my immediate neighbors has subsided. I've gotten in the habit of texting them when I intercept a package. It's a courtesy thing. A year ago I shoveled the entire property out of a snowstorm by myself. Somebody had written on their doorstep in the snow that "gay people live here." I never really pried but I respected that information just the same. I'm not gay. I'm just Tim. And Tim likes to be thoughtful and sensitive about people's feelings if they deserve it. I think all of us in that situation understand how nuanced privacy and identity can be in America for different people. I'm last last person who gets any special treatment for doing what marginalized groups ask American society to do out of basic human rights. I do enjoy having a bit of legitimate modern civility myself. And I do realize my reputation precedes me on the secret internet for doing so. Once I leave our porch, it pretty much starts to slide downhill from there. Everybody starts to expect to be treated that way. People who have no need to share the power. They already control it all. After all, we are all in this together. Or so the people in control love to say especially when they have no idea how to keep it all together. I like to think minding your own fucking business helps ease the tension. So doth a little vigilance. I like peace and quiet where I can find it. And I've mostly found it behind closed doors in a stable and Independent living situation. I live alone. I am an only child so it comes natural to me. I've travelled the world alone for years. I was reading how Anthony Bourdain secretly wrote in a martial arts forum. The New York Times discovered it and wrote an embellished but morbid piece about it. How this person who was already a famous machination of the entertainment complex had connected underground. We're all doing that. Tumblr specifically. Maybe we've all been doing that for years. But for some reason the people who have been doing it the longest and most defined are still invisible. Just like the people who have been living in this neighborhood for over a decade are treated like we do not belong here. I came to this apartment in a situation that you could draft a movie script about. Judd Apatow's cousin lived in that building with me upstairs. She took my fucking Wii. I let her borrow it for the record. We both bought weed from a person who conveniently moved in below us. That person turned out to be a FBI informant named "Evil Mike." You couldn't avoid him. It was like a Seinfeld episode on our porch every day. And that day I didn't avoid him got me in trouble a decade ago. Which might be why I don't really trust anyone ten years later beyond sending a meme in a text.

This is all true mind you. I've told the story in pieces over the years. I'd like to say I'm behind it by now but this city is a swamp. It feeds on tricking people and entrapping them. If you've been entrapped once you know what they say. I would say you learn from your mistakes. Some might call it PTSD. I call it history. It's not a story of privilege. Not the survival scars at least. I live with it every day whenever I meet a new person. Things came to a crescendo in 2010 when I became too close of friends with Evil Mike. So much so that I had undercover police surveying the move to and from my old and new apartment. My father was there. Another friend from my old job was there as well who I no longer speak to. They both observed it. My dad even made a comment about it one Christmas. "Do those police still bother you?" I shrug it off. I don't even bother revisiting it with him. I don't think he'd understand the shit I've been through. And I still go through it. It's almost worse than it was. People standing on the edge of your life at every turn with expectant looks. Expecting you'll reach out to them. Confide in them. Become your friend and open up to them. Only for those people to use that information against you. In the case of Evil Mike, he managed to have our whole entire building put under surveillance by the CPD through whatever information he fed. This was corroborated by said Apatow and a graffiti artist named Slang I played street fighter with who lived in the building. I've never spoken to anyone about it since. The history lost in the ashes of me constantly having to move on from fucked up shit. Years later, I'm dealing with a similar skirmish with the disappearance of a cat. A neighborhood action? A parable more likely. I've written for years about how none of this is normal and people for years have tried to play it off like I was crazy. Now I'm just trapped. The worst kind of entrapment. The entrapment of no more valid moves to play on the chess board. I sit here and am watched and talked about by more than just authority. The whole fucking neighborhood talks behind my back and acts like they know my life story. Do you know anything about 1513 north western? That was the address. Put it into your google machine and report about it on TikTok. Somebody will bury it just the same. I've just grown accustomed to this being the culture of Chicago. The blurred lines of activism, art and working with the police. Just ask Kanye and Drake and the organizations getting funded for the same fuckery. I don't talk to the police. I don't talk to anyone except for what I write on the internet. Maybe people are starting to understand why?

I help people out of empathy. And when I do, my trust gets abused. This has led to a cycle of being reclusive. I take care of myself. I use that survival instinct of being an only child and I withdraw into my shell. Only to be poked and prodded by the same exploitation masked as goodwill. When is someone actually going to listen to the situation I'm in and do something about it? I don't know anyone who can talk specifically about the oppression I've lived through. Everybody else is so hellbent on acting like a bigger victim. The pain olympics. I won the gold but nobody noticed. I am in a complete state of duress every waking moment. Nobody hears the cries. Nobody comprehends what I've written about for years except my friends on the internet who look on in horror. Was everything Tim writing about actually true? Has it evolved into an impossible lie that nobody wants to approach for fear of being incriminated? Was everybody setup around me to be entrapped by the cruel joke that I'm not even in on anymore? This all sounds like a bad Netflix reality show. This is Chicago. A nightmare nobody wants to wake up from for fear of seeing it how it really is. We buried history of people and walked around them in a Burial shirt just to prove what assholes we are. And if you call us out on it welcome to the gaslight alleys of slimy town. There is no future for me other than living in a fucking hut that people stare into from the train platform and wave passive aggressively at. Why do you think I've shouted at people when they stare? Everybody acts like they are the paparazzi in a police state run by billionaires. Everybody acts like that's normal. That if you've somehow made it out and flown around the world, the problem is me. I'm not the fucking problem here. I'm not part of society. I have never been welcomed by it. I have been shunned, kicked around and made to feel like a victim. And I crawled out of that mentality all the same. I stand by my own history, actions, and name. I help people. I care about the planet. I think about my actions. And I have no more excuses for myself to offer up for people who never listen. For the people that do please realize there's a wall there for a reason. People cannot fathom what I sacrificed, what I keep secret and why. And if I wrote all this and nobody cares I'm pretty sure it will stay that way. The moral of the story we pay too much attention to the people who will never listen. You can get along without their bullshit. I'm living proof. <3 Tim

[darringauthier]

Chick Fight (2020)

Genre: Comedy

Who's In It: Malin Akerman, Bella Thorne, Dulce Sloan, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Connolly, Kevin Nash, Fortune Feimster

Who Directed It: Paul Leyden

Plot: When Anna Wyncomb is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn the mess of her life around, she discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine.

Run Time: 97 Minutes

IMDB Score: 4.5

Metascore: 39

Why I Watched It: The trailer was fun enough and I like the cast and I'm a fan of Malin Ackerman who is very underrated.

How I Watched It: PS4 Rental, it's now on Amazon Prime Canada.

Random Thoughts: So you might have noticed I'm a genre guy, horror, action B-Movies, that's my wheelhouse. Now I don't watch a lot of comedies anymore but I do love comedies sum of my all-time favorites are comedies and I like to think I have a good sense of humor and of course everyone likes to laugh or at least smile from time to time. The thing is I don't watch many new ones any more, not sure why, well that's not true I just don't see many that interests me.

What I Liked: There's basically two things to like in this film and that's Akerman and Baldwin, and boy I would like to see them as leads in a comedy and have them be a couple because they're good together and they have chemistry. Sadly Baldwin is a very supporting character and also sad is the fact he's not in it much. Malin Ackerman is a very likable and good actress and she deserves a better script. This film tries to be a sports/romantic comedy, whatever you think it's not a female Fight Club, all of this is played for laughs. It's your standard a women's life has gone to hell and she has to rebuild everything. The formula can work, it doesn't here but it could.

I will say the film is light enough and I do think it means well. It's not a gross out comedy and even though it's about a fight club it's not that violent.

The only scenes I like are the ones with Ackerman+Baldwin if they went the sports route and did more training stuff and really gave Baldwin a character he could chew on we might have had a decent movie.

What I Didn't Like: Basically the film doesn't work. I know I could end the review right there. It's not very funny and it's not a good fight/sports movie. This is a cliche of a cliche at this point and it's not only just a formula movie it's a lazy one. You like Ackerman but that's it the film doesn't make you care about her. Filmmakers think if they shit on a character enough the audience will then want to she her get her revenge and in theory that could work if you liked the character and there's the rub I like the actress not the character she's playing and to be fair the character is very under written, the script is relying on the actor not the words and that could be said for all the roles here. Poor Alec Baldwin is playing a cliched troupe and he kind of tries, it's the kind of role he could do in his sleep or with one hand tied behind his back.

Now worst part for me is they get the action all wrong the fights are terrible, they're not done well and not filmed well and you could tell they don't care cause it's just a gimmick, this is really a comedy. Here's where the casting also hurts the film, many of these actors in this are cast against type and sometimes that works and sometimes it's terrible, here it's so wrong headed it's clearly not funny. Kevin Nash is not believable as Ackerman's father, he's more believable as a man coming to terms late in life that he's gay then being Ackerman's father. By the way his role might have worked but you needed a more polished and subtle actor and you needed better writing. Now we get to Bella Thorne who is more miscast than Nash, she is not a believable bad ass pure and simple. She can't pull off the fighting or the aurora of a fighter, she's almost laughable here has you can clearly tell she's not doing any of her fighting and I mean any of it, Ackerman seems to be doing sum and she tries. I don't dislike Thorne they needed a scary woman so you could feel the danger and fell like Ackerman could get her butt kicked or worse. Now we get to Kevin Connolly who might as well have said "Hello I'll be playing your love interest in this movie". Again nothing against him as an actor but it feels not only forced but lazy. I should also point out every single character is slightly written, no one is fleshed out. We learn nothing about these people.

One more thing< I almost forgot this, the film drags and is actually a chore to sit through, it's not an easy watch, it's not breezy, it's slow at times and at about the halfway mark looking at the clock hoping this ends soon, it doesn't just so you know.

Final Thoughts: Didn't live up to the trailer which I think is fun, the film is not. Good cast very mediocre bland film.

Rating: 4/10

#chick fight #malin ackerman #alec baldwin #bella thorne #kevin nash #comedy

[the-origin-story]

Origin Story Text Posts and Onion Headlines Part 9

Kira: one of these days i'm going to roll my eyes too hard and i'm going to go blind, i just walked into this room at a party and someone yelled "dibs!", I'm sorry you must be at least a level 4 friend to unlock my tragic backstory, I'm developing all these feelings it's disgusting., how ones one turn their emotions off, idc (I do care), This Shit Again, i hope common sense is the next cool trend, no offense but i hate myself and i hope i die in my sleep, i need a tall boyfriend so he can get things for me off of tall places. i changed my mind boys are demons ill get a ladder, "your eyes hella red u been smokin??" no I been crying bitch leave me alone, why do ppl think its ok to waste my time, who let me adult I can't adult, japanese legend says that if you shut the fuck up you wouldn't be so annoying, "yall need to chill" says me, who isn't chill not even a little bit., here i am, cuter and more kissable than ever, and how many kisses am i receiving? zero, why doesn't anyone appreciate my sarcasm and bitterness as much as i do, what the hap is fuckening, current mood: angrily bisexual., buying clothes that aren't black is hard, are those feelings get them away from me, girlfriend: why don't you take off that battle armor and slip into something a bit more.....comfortable me: i am most comfortable when i am impervious to most forms of physical attack, "I need to you to totally straight with me-" *nervous bisexual laughter*, i can't stop laughing at the fact that i used to think that i was straight me a heterosexual, ever wonder how different your life would be if that one thing never happened, Youve heard of Best Buy, now get ready for... me (the best bi), ATTENTION! The rumors are true! i AM beautiful AND hilarious at the SAME TIME. yes it is a lot to take in take ur time my beauty is timeless, Fact: Bisexuals are open to everything. Coffee dates, crowded parties, underground robot fighting rings, secret witch covens. We're open minded., bi people are are wonderful and magical and their identity is so so valid pass it on, Your Safety Is Our Second Concern, anyway sorry I sound really gay and bitter, list of things i'm handling well currently 1., my life's resume: i tried, anyway *goes to push my glasses up my nose by the bridge and accidentally gets fingerprint on lens* fuck okay hold on, do you ever just look at someone and think "I'm glad your parents had sex", If I had a dollar every time someone called me ugly I'd have 0 dollars bitch you thought lmao, I may be short but you're still beneath me

Jean: me 300 times a day: im so done, that person you just called a nerd? they are a giant nerd. you made a good call on that one., "if u like someone just tell them!" yeah sure goodbye, why does life feel like i'm playing on expert difficulty, the robot apocalypse will be caused by people talking about the robot apocalypse so much that the robots will think that's what we want and they're just trying their best, i want to give him (Becket) things like blowjobs and self esteem, I am awake but at what price, me: *discussing w/ myself in my head* me: my thoughts exactly, I'm like four days past my bedtime, no offense but some of us *looks pointedly at self in mirror* need to fucking chill, reasons to date me: 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: please lol, "its dark im scared" don't worry bae i got this *stomps foot* *sketchers light up*, me: *talks for 30 minutes straight on a subject no one cares about just because i love sharing information*, me:*lies down* things:*continue to happen* me: lieS DOWN HARDER*, friend: you look stressed me: haha yeah it's the stress, it's raining but it's not men so what's the point

Cypress: is it gay in here or is it just me?, im the seductive malicious forest spirit your parents warned you about, me: hangs out w/ little kids and tries to reach them self love and feminist ideas, I am a dream girl I already know, i'm a good person i don't deserve to be mistaken for a heterosexual, *me flirting* hey wanna suffer together, "sit up straight" how dare you i'll sit as gay as i please, Area Women Not Listened To Again, "women are weaklings!" i'm strong enough to carry your corpse to the woods, I'm in love with this girl. She's gorgeous, smart, talented, funny as hell, and totally badass. That girl is me. boy: says something sexual or flirtatious me: right...anyway, "you can't wear that!!!! people will get the wrong impression!!!" the impression that i am a hot babe with an ass that just won't quit??" honey that ain't wrong that's just a fact

Becket: am i a complex carbohydrate because i am slowly breaking down, I'm usually that person who has no idea what's going on, no offense but what the fuck am I doing, eyebrow game strong?, more like eyeBAG game strong. i'm fucking exhausted. haha lol, au where i'm not crying, i expect the minimum and am still disappointed, INCREDIBLY ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE who are simultaneously GIANT DORKS are my ULTIMATE WEAKNESS, me: knows exactly what i have to say me: stutters and fucks up a 5 word sentence, me, a sensitive and very emotional person who cries easily and can't take any criticism: i wanna fight someone

Liam: im fluent in talking shit, is it morally okay to pray that your crush's relationship doesn't work out, I walk this broken road on the boulevard of broken roads Don't know where it broke but it's only me and I broke the road, can you not date people that are not me? it's rude., i think i stole all of the wrong personality traits when when making my identity because no one fucking likes me??, hot people who know they're hot are the worst and can't be trusted, I thought you were in love? just with myself, *avoids even people i love w all heart*, I may look calm but in my head I've killed you three times, Child Development Experts Say Boys Not Fully Mature Until Avenging Father's Murder, i bet you thought you'd seen the last of me, i try not to sound like an asshole but it's really hard because i am an asshole, why are 15 year olds so angry

Bean: wanna make a secret handshake it involves us touching our mouths together for three hours, don't look at me i'll fall in love with u, Do you ever look at a person and get the urge to just drop everything and yell I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU, here's a little song i like to call "i cherish our friendship so i won't tell you i would totally have sex with you if you asked"

Cyra: IF YOU SAY ONE MORE WORD I'M GOING TO GRAB YOUR FACE AND kiss it because you're cute , do you ever just want to hold someone in your arms for about 37 years, QUICK. PUT YOUR LIPS ON MINE IT'S AN EMERGENCY, @god thanks for making girls so pretty, they're just really cute and in love, my kink is a happy n fulfilling relationship, my seduction style is is genuinely caring about your life & wanting you to improve & be happy, otp: smol and tol, you can't be hot and just expect me to act normal

Jean and Kira: I'm Always Open To Feedback I Can Get Defensive About And Ultimately Ignore

The Squad: Group Of Good-Looking People All Headed Toward Same Place