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#i have watched the finale kiss scene like 50 times at this point
zep-zep-blog · 2 months
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Im back from the dead yall. I got this idea from @timeslugarts ^^ Go give them a follow for their amazing art! Hope yall enjoy!
Vox x gn!reader
Genre:Fluff | Cw: death, car crash, hospital mention
☆Devilish Love☆
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Darkness. That's all you could remember until you wake up in this fiery hellscape. In reality, you were hit by a drunk driver and was in a coma back on Earth with family crying at your bedside, but your soul was trapped here. In the underworld of sinners that were repenting for their crimes.
You wandered the streets, looking around at the different sinners, demons, and other wayward souls. That is until you ran face first into someone, that being a tall man(?) if you could even call him that. He had a tv as a face for crying out loud. "Watch it." He said in a voice that was common in late 50's shows, his voice was sharp and boomed. Ofcourse you squeaked out an apology, but it wouldn't be the last. As you ran into him several times, even getting into arguements with him.
Over time, you did grow close. You stopped arguing with him less often and he offered to let you stay at his place. Soon his roommates, Valentino and Velvette grew to accept you and noticed how much romantic tension there was. You hung around him like a lost puppy, helping him with paperwork or his various shows he produces. This did lead to some issues though, as one day you had accidentally mixed up the scripts for one of the shows and you got into an argument. You and Vox had argued for almost 2 hours, but he finally cracked and impulsively kissed you on the lips.
That kiss had spiraled into you being his right hand, his assistant, his second half. You and him ran Voxtech with a iron fist, planning on taking over sinners and hell. He was also planning some ring options behind the scenes, asking Velvette for help on diamond size, band size, even the box color. Little did he know that the doctors in the mortal plane had other ideas.
You stood in the kitchen, messy hair from just waking up and only in one of Vox's more casual shirts and some underwear. He sat at the island, pouring you guys some cereal, you were about to take a spoonful when BAM your gone in a blink of an eye. Vox panicked, going absolutely nuts. Every tv, phone, camera, you name it was spent looking for you. He even went down to the Princess's hotel to demand an answer from Alastor.
"WHERE ARE THEY ALASTOR! I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL TURN YOU INTO VENISON BY THE TIME IM DONE-" He yelled, going berserk at the front door of the hotel. The door opened by Vaggie lunging at him with her spear, but was thankfully stopped by Charlie. "What's going on? What did Alastor do?" She asked with her signature smile. "He took them! I just know he did!" Vox screeched, pointing his finger at the clam and smiling radio demon. Every one turned their heads to look at Alastor, who looked a bit too calm for the situation. "Who?" His staticy voice came off as genuine confusion. "MY SPOUSE YOU STUPID FUCK!" Vox argued. "Who?-" Alastor was cut off by Angel, "Wait. Someone married you?" He asks, "Well, we were going to get married, but-but they just DISAPPEARED!" Vox says desperately, but not wanting to give Alastor any ammo he left. He returned to his office, giving annoyed huffs to Valentino and Velvette's questions.
Meanwhile, you had woken up to a heart moniter beeping and the warm embrace of your mom, hugging and weeping. The smell of hospital had made you more aware of the situation. Was..was that all a dream? You weren't exactly the perfect person, but having a dream about falling inlove in hell was a bit much for your human mind. Eventually, years had passed and you had lived a single life with a few pets for company, never getting over that dream until your death. Unfortunately, time in hell is different, while almost 30 years had passed since that car crash it had only been a few months for Vox. He had lashed out and never stopped searching. He spent all his time balancing finding you, fighting Alastor, and running Voxtech.
You had woken up in the same place 30 years ago, but it didn't look like that time had passed. You were shocked, it wasn't a dream all those years ago. You dashed through the streets looking for the familiar building of your long lost beloved. Soon you reached your destination, zooming through the lobby, but getting caught short by security. You caused a huge scene, cussing and yelling, begging for them to let you see Vox. Velvette alerted him to your outburst and he zapped through the wires to the lobby and froze. It was you, the person he still had the perfectbring for. The person he still made a plate for. The person he hugged a pillow at night to remember the touch of. He ran to you, shouting at the guards to let you go. He hugged you tightly, sharing a few tears as you hugged him back. You missed this, he missed this.
After being reunited he couldn't wait anymore, he eventually proposed with the ring he saved all that time. Sure he waited months, but you waited years and now you both could take over hell together.
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mchlgayser · 1 year
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ATTENTION WHORE!
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starring: neymar x female!reader
warning/author's note: mention of a bitch trying to look like u- this is OBSESSION, neymar being sooo pissed off, not at you ofcz you're his babygworl 🥺 heavy cursing???? almost a fight scene. P.M.G ALERT ⚠️ 50% angst and 60% fluff, (no shit) I kinda hate it bcs it was chaotic not proofread
extra note: none. have a nice day xx
song suggestion: copycat by billie eilish
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The call ended, you said goodbye to your boyfriend and he disconnected the call. Your head was against the pillow, eye boring on the dream catcher that hung outside your balcony, gazing as it sways left and right as the wind blew.
Just a minute ago, Ney woke you up from your beauty sleep with a call, he's practically reminding you about today's practice. He wants you to be there to watch him practice before a big game that was coming soon. After all you couldn't say no to him. You sat up stretching your joints and stood up to have a bath.
It was a long and warm bath, you had already readied a pair of clothing which is a black turtleneck along with a pair of oversized hoodies, you are wearing loose ripped pants and a G.A.P cap.
After five minutes, you are done putting on some light makeup and a pair of Nike air force. Finally, grabbing on your car key and left the room with your bag over your shoulder. One hand holding your phone and the necessity.
You get into your car and drive off to the venue where he'll be practicing.
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It was a twenty minutes drive, minus the traffic as it was week day and parked your car on the vip basement parking lots. A few securities is guiding the site and you, with leisure walk to the entrance, one of them immediately recognized lets you in without questions but someone beat you to it. A girl in her mid-twenties, probably around your age, with hair in 'blonde' color, wavy curls coils, shoulders bumping against you. Her sharp eyes was on you the whole time but so were yours 'Yes?' She started with a harsh manner
You simply rolled your eyes at her 'I'm here for my boyfriend.' You said, eyes challenging. She scoffed 'Guards please take this delusional woman away!' She ushered but none of them budged 'Are you deaf?!' Sh yelled pointing her index finger out 'Now--'
She was cut off by a familiar voice of your boyfriend, he was running towards your direction 'Neymar--' The woman's eyes went wide, mouth agape upon seeing Neymar with arms around your body, your head hidden by his broad chest
'Sorry, I was't late was I?' You said pecking both of his cheeks and one final kiss in his lip 'No meu amor, you came right on time... Oh I see you met our new assistant manager.'
You gave the woman a nasty playful glare and give your boyfriend an innocent smile 'Yes, Let's go anjo, I wanna meet Kyky!' You implied to your friend, Kylian and he bobs
What you didn't know at the moment was a nasty, horrendous plan had come up to the woman's head. A creepy smile crept to her angel-liked features as she strutted back into her office room.
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The next day, you came back again to the practice venue to see your boyfriend, you had also promised your friend, Kylian a fancy dinner with him today. You get in the lobby seeing a few staff eating brunch and some of them chit-chatting. You came upon your friend, Angela whom you meet months ago when she started working here and she was talking to the woman from last night.
They were intrigued with the talking until she sees you approaching 'Love, Meu Deus, how're you?!' She said, excusing herself and went to hug you, you gladly hugs her back 'Hello Angel, it's nice seeing you again!' The two of you broke the hug and the woman made her way beside Angela 'Nice meeting you again, miss Y/n' You eye her up and down and something, somewhere triggered in you. The way she's dressing. It was familiar, so oddly familiar.
Angela looks between her and you with wide eyes, she gasped 'Shit, haha Y/n, I forgot I got something to show you. It's regarding my sister's weds!' You get the hint obviously since Angela is an only child.
You hum and left with her 'You should've thinking what I'm thinking right now didn't you?!' Her voice is harsh and quiet, you half-shrugged 'Is it because she wears the same clothing I wore on your birthday party?'
She eagerly nods, you gulp the huge lump on the back of your throat 'It might be just a coincidence, I mean it can happens right?' She stopped you abruptly 'If going to your social media account to stalk you and copy you does it still means coincidence?' Your eyes was now on her, fully.
'How would you know anyway?'
She hid somewhere in the hall corner and whispered to you 'I sees her last night,' She backed away 'But she told me cus she find you pretty.' Now you didn't wanna come to any rushed decision and accuse her even though you know how shitty she was by the way she acted yesterday. You decided to set the conversation aside and just focus on today. Spending times with Ney and Kylian.
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The practice ended, and both Ney and Kylian are now in the changing room to shower and change attires. You waited outside on the bench playing with your phone
'You are so cute Neymar!' You heard a voice approaching, you tilted your head back seeing Neymar, Kylian and Alexandria who you get to catch name is. She had an arm loosely wrapped around Ney's arm and she was laughing while Ky eyed her the whole time. You witness Ney getting uncomfortable by her constant touches so you decided to step up
'Hand to yourself please!' It didn't came out serious but playful. You stare up at her as she slowly lets go and let out a short awkward laugh 'Awh party pooper!' She mocked you.
You didn't said anything after that and let her be, Kylian told you that he's and Neymar are ready to leave. He had already reserved a table for you three and now was finally the time to leave the venue. Alexandria perks her ears at this 'You three are having dinner together? Cool can I tag along!' It wasn't a permission but an order. She wanted to come along
Both Kylian and Neymar didn't wasted a second and said no but your answer is a yes 'Sure.' You shrugged. Ney shot you a confused look but you held his hand tighter.
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The food is placed down, and Alexandria is having her best time laughing and trying her best to get both Ney's and your friend's attention. Keyword, trying. Both of them didn't pay her any of that and instead acts like she doesn't even exist. You had to purse your lip most of the time to stop yourself from laughing out loud at her attempts.
'So Y/n what do you think if I dyed my hair (your hair color)? Do you think it'll suit me.' From the corner of your eye, you see Kylian uncomfortably shifting on his seat, you smile back at her, eyes creasing 'That'll look good, definitely!' She smirk and bobs her head up and down 'Great!'
The conversation goes on, and you unintentionally left Alexandria out of the conversation, joking around with your two best guys, some times eyeing her to see she's been playing with her food, head down and awkward.
'Don't remind me of that!' Ney complained at you, Kylian is laughing his ass off at the two of you 'That was legit hilarious! The fact that he, himself didn't notice it just makes it ten times funnier' He snorts.
Alexandria huffs loudly averting the two attentions on her 'You guys left me out' She pouted, grumbling incoherent words to act naturally cute, Ney faked a silent gag at that and you pushed him giving him a stern glare. This time he pouts mumbling stuff
Alexandria soon leave, Kylian following suit ten minutes later. You and Ney are still walking, taking a breather together at the park, hands in hands gazing on a starry night atmosphere 'Has Alexandria been giving you hard times?' You eyed up at him and let a small toothy grin 'Nah, not yet.'
'It's been almost half an hour, wanna go home?'
'Please...' He wrapped his arm around your shoulder directing you to the car and driving to your both's shared apartment.
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Two days went by after that, and for that, you haven't come by once to the venue because of your hectic work. Ney is understanding so it wasn't much of a problem since you have already promised him to drop by today, your vehicle parked and you entered the place. It was empty only a few stuff passing by. The players must been practicing, you thought walking to the main field and as you strut you came across Alexandria. Oh how you felt like shit that day was. She had her hair in (your hair colour), wavy curls just like you did but it was slightly longer. You feel nothing but anger. Her heels too. She was wearing the same pair as you. The one Neymay got you on your birthday which is also the same date as you both anniversary.
She was smiling, walking up the tunnel towards you 'Oh what a coincidence, we look very similar today!' How badly you wanted to pluck those teeth of hers. That wicked smile never wore off of her face. That disgustingly beautiful hazel brown doe visions.
Two steps away from her and you scoff 'Aren't you looking stunning today? I hope you car got flat tyre in the middle of the wood.' You barked back at her intentionally bumping her shoulder against yours 'And, please... Stop being so fucking pathetic and go fuck yourself somewhere else, needy whore.' The sound of heels clicking against the floor clearly heard along with her rigid and fast breath. Her chest heaving up and down is a violent manner.
You saw Neymar doing two touches with his teammate as you seat on the bench and watch him practice, Alexandria came again taking a seat beside you 'Y'know, it was't so bad hearing you barked like a dog earlier, can't wait for it in the future.'
'What future? You'll get hit by a truck tonight.'
Never spare her a glance, you wave your hand at your boyfriend after making contacts, she swatted your hand down and Neymar who clearly sees everything are not exactly pleased by it.
You glare at her, taking her wrist in your arm and start squeezing it 'You really should stop pissing me off, I don't wanna get into a fight with a low life bitch like you.' didn't get the enough chance to dodge it, Alexandria placed a loud and hard slapped across your cheek 'Who's a bitch now huh?!' You exhaled a long sigh, putting your bag down and stood up towering over her small figure, your hand made its way to the back of hair as she yelps in pain, slapping your hands both telling you to stop but it all fell on deaf ears.
'I warned you. To stop. Being. A. Bitch.' Punctuated each words with an echoing slap. Neymar rushed to you pulling you away from her, she fell to her butt and cries, a few strands of her hair was on the palm of your hand, you cringed waving your hand to get it off 'It hurts you bitch!' She screamed, you scoff turning away from her, Neymar turns to her 'Now, don't call my amor that you filthy woman, I've keep up with you this whole time not for you to talk shit and call my girlfriend names, now even dressing up like her, dyeing your hair to look like her. You are delusional. You need helps.' Neymar bursted, eyes raging with pure anger and rage.
She sniffle, looking down on the floor 'You should just pack up your things and leave or we gonna make it harder for you.' Mbappe confessed in a playful state. She started scurrying like a mice bowing her head at you thousand times and left, running.
You moaned feeling relieved that she's finally left, right now all you wanted was to go home and rest. This is a long day after all. Neymar stay behind comforting you with kisses and hugs 'Do you wanna go home now minha princesa?' You gaze up on him 'Can't I?' Neymar did not wait a second and left with you afterwards.
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jun-of-love · 9 months
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kiss cam - lee seokmin
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summary: an extra ticket. a pathetic stranger. a kiss cam. what could possibly go wrong?
tw: none
words: 1.7k
genre: fluff
pairing: yn × dokyeom
a/n: dk is the cutest most precious talented man ever- i was overwhelmed with his sunshine and spontaneously came up with this. hope you like it :)
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It’s been a month or so.
A month since you saw your ex, who was once the light of your life, soundly sleeping in some other girl’s arms, butt naked at that. You grimace as the scene plays out in your head again, making you feel the same way it did the first time it happened. You had immediately cut off all contact from him to the point that you had moved to a new place, just so that he didn’t have any access to you. You wanted to see him grovel and beg for your forgiveness, or at least take excruciating revenge for wasting two years of your life, but you let it all go for your own peace and self-respect. All of these drastic measures, yet your stupid heart mourned the absence of the heartless man.
You looked the tickets on your table. You had gone through hoops to get a hold of them, the key to the best seats possible for the finals of the Ice Hockey tournament. While you personally had no interest in the game, your ex was super into the niche sport- the tickets were supposed to be his early birthday gift. You shook your head, trying to get out of the sobby mood. So what if he wasn’t here? You went above and beyond for these tickets, and you will have the best possible experience of the game anyone can have!
Easier said than done, you thought, as your loneliness pinched more with every couple or big group of friends passed by you. They didn’t have the best seats like you did, but they were surely going to have the best time with their friends and partners. You were seriously contemplating giving away the tickets and going home when you heard exasperated yelling by the ticket verification stand. It seemed like a man was throwing a tantrum, and the authorities were close to calling the security on him. The man turned away angrily, sniffling and wiping his tears.
You carefully approached the man, partly because you intrigued by his condition, and partly because he was hot. Everyone knows that stranger danger reduces by 30 percent if the stranger is hot. 50 percent if he is smoking hot.
“What’s the matter? Are you okay?”
The man looked at you. Even with his tearful eyes and runny nose, he had a certain charm about him. The kind that made you want to hug him till he felt okay. Pathetic charm, if you will.
“I got scammed. The agent I bought the tickets from sold me fake tickets and I’m obviously not able to reach him now-” He put his head in his hands. “I really wanted to watch this game, it’s the last game my favorite player is going to play before he retires.”
You take a look at his jersey. He supported the same team you were planning to root for- mainly due to the reason because that is the one that played opposite to your ex’s favorite team. You eyed the two tickets in your purse, feeling a flutter in your stomach- you might not have all that a terrible time today.
“You want to accompany me? I have an extra ticket.” You asked him, already knowing his answer.
“Are you joking right now? Are you another scammer? Please, I don’t have any money left, please don’t play with my feelings.” He seems so innocent; you resist the urge to pull his cheeks.
“I don’t know, do scammers give away tickets for free?” You say cockily, clearly enjoying this too much.
“For free?!?!?!!?” His eyes almost fell out of their sockets. “Why would you do that!?”
“Because I bought these tickets to watch the game with my boyfriend, but he decided to cheat on me and now he’s my ex and I’m at this game alone with an extra ticket in my hand.” You offer him the ticket, “do you mind being my date for tonight?”
“Date?” He asks, his eyes round and expressions eerily similar to a cute puppy.
“You know what I mean!” You cleared your throat. “Anyway, yes or no?”
“YES!”
The entire time you took to reach your seats, your date did not stop talking for even a minute. By now, you knew that he came from a family of four, his best friends were called Jeonghan and Mingyu, none of them had any interest in this sport which is why he was alone. He was not shy around people (evidently so) and his favourite colour was green. It did not get boring though, for some reason. It just made you want to know more about him.
Once you were settled in your seats, you decide to disturb your date from his awe of the view, “You never told me your name.”
“Oh, I’m so sorry, I’m Seokmin. You can also call me Dokyeom.” Seokmin flashes a smile that could soothe a crying baby.
“Why would I call you Dokyeom if your name is Seokmin?”
“It’s actually because my mom and my dad had differ-”
“Never mind, hello, my name is y/n.” You put your hand forward. “Nice to meet you.”
Seokmin smiles again, shaking your hand. You didn’t know the standard time duration of a handshake, but you were sure yours was taking a bit too long. You shyly remove your hand from his, and ask the most embarrassing question of the night, ”So before the game starts, can you tell me a little about the team we’re supporting right now? I know nothing.” You bite your lip, hoping he wouldn’t take offence at the statement.
Seokmin laughs a little, “I will try to let you know as much as possible, but feel free to ask questions even during the game if you want. I like to share my interests, you know.” And off he went, about the players and their positions, and who played the best and who was the weakest and his favorite player who was retiring- and you had to fight yourself to pay attention because all your damn mind could think of at the moment was how kissable his lips are and how endearing he looked with all his excitement. A month without any action and you were already losing your marbles. You nod along with him until the horn goes off signaling the beginning of the match. Seokmin jumps up at the sight of the players and cheers for them, leaving you to wonder how a person can store so much excitement in them.
Gradually, you started getting into it. The complicated sport seemed so easy now, almost too easy. You knew which players were reliable, and you found one or two that you would root for. Everyone around you felt like your childhood friends, cheering for your favourite team. You look at Seokmin, who shook your arm every time something exciting happened in the game, its been an hour since you both had been acquainted, and his wide smile had not budged even for a second. You feel warmth in your heart as you realize, you were having so much fun.
For the first time in thirty days, you were not moping around or crying, but actually smiling, ear to ear at that. Enthusiasm had to be contagious, because if not, why were you yelling at the top of your voice, clapping till your arms hurt and high fiving everyone around you? Maybe it was the atmosphere, maybe it was his beautiful smile, you felt a special fondness towards Seokmin, the kind that made you blush every time he grabbed your hand.
It was the intermission, and both of you were relatively relaxed since your team had been doing pretty well. You were explaining your exact job description to him, since he seemed so curious about everything in your life. Almost like it was his life’s mission to write a biography on you by the end of those three hours. You just noticed how he still hadn’t let go of your hand, when you were interrupted by loud audience cheers; it was the crowd’s favorite pastime: the Kiss Cam.
Personally, you loved things like these. You loved how couples were caught off-guard with their faces on the screen, and then continued to have their own little moment. Embarrassingly enough, you had pictured yourself getting proposed (by your snake of an ex) on one of such instances, where the kiss cam would focus on you both and then he would pull out a ring and-
A particularly loud cheer from people around you woke you up from your thoughts. A part of your imagination had come to life- you were indeed on the kiss cam screen. With Seokmin at that. You both meet eyes and you feel awkwardness seizing every nerve of yours. While he is busy calming down the crowd with hands, making the ‘X’ gesture and shaking his head politely, you wonder if this was an opportunity to do what you had been wishing to do all this time. As the crowds’ cheers of “Kiss him! Kiss him!” get louder (have people always been so nosy?), you grab him by his shoulder, whispering in his ear, “Can I kiss you?”
He smiles softly, putting his warm hand on your neck, “I was hoping you’d ask.”
He closes the gap between you two by putting his lips on yours, pulling you in by the back of the neck. You could hear the crowd react, but you didn’t care- your senses were overloaded by his expensive perfume and how good his lips felt on yours. You deepened the kiss, your hands around his neck, playing with his hair. He puts an arm around your waist, pulling you closer than possible. His body feels hot and perfect to yours it feels to good to be true. That is until a middle-aged woman coughed loudly behind you, forcing both of you to pull away.
People were now minding their own business, looking put off even, by the overboard of affection portrayed by you. These were the same people that put you in that spot in the first place, you scoffed at the thought. You turned to Seokmin, who was already looking at you with the most doe-eyed gaze possible. You giggle, “What is it? What do you want to say?”
“Would you go out on a date with me? Like officially?” He bites his lips, as if he doesn’t know the obvious answer.
“Sure,” you smile cockily, “but you’re paying.”
“I’ll pay for every date ever if it means I get to kiss you again.”
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nerdyvocals · 9 months
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Final round of episode quotes as @look-at-those-niceass-rocks and I finished our final watch party. Once again, the cast and crew are in the house, so @saveourpinks, please enjoy. (You can find previous posts with more unhinged quotes here and here)
Honorable mention from before we actually started, them waking their husband up with: wake up, it's time for me to see gay shit
Second honorable mention, a conversation had while I struggled with my audio: Them: I tried to show [Husband] Merely Players last night but he was too tired Me: I can't believe your husband is homophobic Them: I AGREE Husband, distantly: I don't deserve this!
(about Buddy) God his shoulders, he's built like a Dorito
(this is specifically in reference to episode 8 but honestly, this was said multiple times throughout our watching) Me: WHAT DOES ANY OF THIS HAVE TO DO WITH COMMUNISM??? Them: It's the 50s! If it ain't American, it's communist!
Me: I love that Buddy's dad's name is Dick Them: It was a choice
(In reference to Blandiels) He makes me SO uncomfortable. Like I know that that's the point but he's so slimy-NO NO STOP, STOP KISSING HER, FUCK-!
(roughly three minutes of us screaming over Lydia's Woman Scorned (tm) dress, followed by another three minutes of us laughing at the faces everyone was making when I pause the video)
(about Susan's mom) Me: Heinous fucking bitch Them: What. A raging. CUNT.
(after we both spent a Hot Minute thirsting over Cynthia dancing on the car) Them: I talk a big game but if I was within five feet of this person, I would be just staring and stammering Husband, distantly: We know honey Them: SHUT UP
(both of us wheezing over CGI!Richie)
Cops: *show up* Us: *John Mulaney voice* SCATTER
Them: NOT THE LINE I'VE LOST THE ONE I LOVE THE MOST AS SHE PICKS UP OLIVIA'S JACKET Me: They are simply In Love
Them: He's gonna do something stupid, I can feel it. Me: You don't know the half of it! Them: He's gonna propose to a teenager! (okay maybe they do know the half of it, fuckin' prophet)
Me: *reading off episode titles as it starts storming where I am* And this one is called You're Dropping Out of Rydell- thank you dramatic thunder???
(honorable mention, me being unable to tell what was real thunder and what was from the episode)
Them: I'm not emotionally ready for this Me: Me neither and I've seen it like eight times already
Nancy: *dramatic exit* Them: She's so dramatic and I respect her and only her
Me: I love you singing along to a theme song with no lyrics Them: Sometimes I just gotta make funky little noises!
(About Nicholson) I am going to break that man's ball sack with a driver.
Them: It's giving pouty little bitch Me: Which one? (referring to Buddy and his dad) Them: Yes
Cynthia: *walks in in Richie's Jacket* Me: Hello my name is Single and Gay Them: I am not single but I am gay and I think... I don't think, I have no thoughts, head empty
(About McGee, then the scene transitions to Daniels) Them: The only adult in this school I respect- I AM GOING TO KILL HIM WITH MY BARE HANDS! Me, wheezing: What about your human hands? Them: THOSE TOO
(said in the most disgusted voice I've ever heard) Of course he likes Walt Whitman
Them: [Husband], I'm killing the pedophile, wanna help? Husband: Let's be honest, do you really need my help? Them: Someone's gotta drive the car.
Them: "Feelings central?" I bet you were feeling sensual when you were making out with Olivia-LYDIA on your couch earlier Me: ...You good there? Them: The names are too close
(Face to Face begins) Ah, dramatic acapella is my gender
Me: Once again, love how much you hate Buddy Them: He's had so many chances to earn my respect and he has done nothing!
Guardian Demon: *appears* Them: What. The fuck. Is happening? Me: BEAUTY SCHOOL DROPOUT BABEY
(@ Buddy) Them: He's not a total ding-dong. Just like 80% Me: He did just thank her (Susan) for having sex with him Them: ...85%
(About the Red Sox analogy) Cynthia giving me Gender Euphoria with one sentence
Nancy: *talking about love stories, mentions Shy Guy* Both of us: *Cackling at the full-body never mind Cynthia does*
Nancy: Tell anyone of my vulnerable nature and I will deny it until the day I die! Them: FUCKING MOOD like I know I was literally also just crying but we're gonna move past that, I'm a bad bitch again
Me: Finale time! Any thought or predictions before we get started? Them: Leonard gets arrested and as he's being taken away, he gets hit by a semi truck- Me: What is this, Mean Girls??? Them: Yes! McGee punches the principal in the face and defeats him in blood combat and cements her place as principal- Me: *slowly dissolving into horrified laughter* Them: Cynthia gets to kiss Lydia again, which is all I really need to be happy, and terrifying CGI Richie comes back and does the Macarena! Me: *can't start the episode for five minutes because I'm laughing too hard*
(Ten seconds in) PAUSE THIS I HAVE BEEF THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY OF GETTING MARRIED THAT QUICKLY IN A CATHOLIC CHURCH
(after rant) Me: Yeah but the tensions wouldn't be as high if they had six months to stop the wedding! Them: ...there are two wolves inside of me, one says valid, and one is formerly Catholic and Upsetti
Me: I want a shirt that says "I have two wolves inside of me, one of them is Catholic" and nothing else Them: *WHEEZE*
Cynthia: He's just. Some guy. Both of us, in sync: HIT HIM WITH YOUR CAR
"Old Soul" is groomer for "Fuckable"
(@ Gil climbing in through the window) Me: On the one hand, I'd fold, on the other? Terrifying! Them: YES! Me: Although I guess if I had the rapport with someone that they have?? Maybe?? Like good in media, bad in real life. Them: Gil? Yes, absolutely. Edward Cullen? Fuck no! The two genres of climbing through my window
(after the drag race) YET ANOTHER THING BUDDY DID NOT EARN
Me: Hey, do you have tissues? Them (afraid): ...should I get some??? Me: Maybe Them: I don't think I have any in the house??? Me: Ah! You're fucked!
*ten minute interlude of us crying over the Coming Out Scene, discussing what it means to both of us, and how furious we are of future generations not getting to see the best queer rep of our lifetimes if this show doesn't get saved. On that note, sign the petition if you haven't already.*
THEY STARTED BY STEALING A CAR THEY WILL SAVE THE FRIENDSHIP BY STEALING A CAR
Oh someone please hit hi- YESSSSS!!!
(at the start of All In) Me: She (Cynthia) is going to cry Them: I'm going to cry Me: I'm already crying
Me: Lydia is stronger than I am I would already be on my knees. (note I use a cane and sometimes a wheelchair, if I am on my knees I Will Not be Getting Up)
Me: Hopelessly Devoted walked so this song could fucking run Them: I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THE SAME THING
Pink Ladies: *Offer Hazel a jacket* Them: *aggressively close to the mic* That sounds very gay I'm in
Them: I cannot take my eyes off Jane. Like they are all very beautiful right now but there's something about her- Me: It's the bisexual energy Them: ...Dammit, you're right
Rizzo: We'll start our own gang! Them: With blackjack and hookers!
(Introduction of Frankie Zuko) Them: I'm sorry, HUH???
(As credits roll) Me: So, how we feelin'? Them: Normal, I am so normal, I am feeling so fucking normal about this. Me: Thoughts? Them: *incoherent screaming*
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Still trying to collect my thoughts after watching the final episode, but here’s some stuff I’ve been thinking about while watching it.
(spoilers, obviously)
I really, really loved Hawk and Tim’s dynamic in the 50s scenes (and 80s scenes too, of course, but we’ll get to that). I feel like this was also a point in their lives where there was at least a slight chance that they could’ve made it work – until Hawk screwed it up again. They’ve both clearly grown (especially Tim), their relationship appears quite well-balanced and there wasn’t that much baggage between them yet.
Looks like they kept a good amount from the book. Hawk did report Tim, preventing him from getting his dream job as well as barring him from government work altogether. Similar to what I suspected, Lucy was pregnant and Hawk realized that he needed Tim out of his life. It was overall awful but not as bad as I expected – though maybe only because I already knew it would happen.
It’s heartbreaking how Tim has realized time and time again that he needs to let Hawk go – including writing that letter to him, which I guess Hawk never found out about. Tim even told him that there were no expectations on his part, yet Hawk desperately wanted him in his life, only to push him away in the most horrible way shortly after it.
At least Tim did know the truth and, surprisingly, Hawk let him know himself (through Mary). I really thought Tim would find out about it sometime before ’86. It makes a lot of sense though, considering the scene of Tim in the hospital, watching baby Jackson. Tim clearly realized himself that he doesn’t have a place in Hawk’s life. This explains why Tim was constantly urging Hawk to be there for his family, but also why he wasn’t as hostile towards Hawk as he should have been. I mean, there was definitely some resentment on Tim’s part after ’57, but it wasn’t as big as I expected it to be after Hawk’s betrayal – which is why I always assumed Tim didn’t know the truth. But while Tim might have felt betrayed by Hawk’s actions, he probably did understand his reasoning in the end. Which makes it even sadder, because Hawk could have easily talked to him – perhaps Tim would’ve left by himself, realizing that working together would not end well for either of them.
Now, the 80s … I really love how we finally saw more affection between Hawk and Tim. I got teary eyed (while simultaneously having the biggest smile on my face) when Hawk lay down next to him in the hospital bed – this was so sweet and I was hoping for a moment like this. As I said before, I don’t mind that Hawk never told Tim that he loved him – even though I’ve been hoping it would happen at some point. But I feel like there wasn’t a point where a love declaration like this would have fit in, and Hawk kissing Tim publicly was a way better confession of his feelings than any “I love you” could have been. Tim was clearly at peace with himself, and I also believe that he knew that Hawk loved him – which is the only thing that matters in the end.
I guess that Tim’s “wrenching decision” really was a red herring of sorts. Love that they had him fight until the end, and also that we never really saw his death. We all knew that he would die, and letting the audience know through the AIDS quilt and Hawk telling his daughter that he loved Tim was perfect.
Also, Jerome? My sweet baby … that scene between him and Marcus in the gym made me bawl my eyes out. “You’re innocent” – “I’m innocent” … kill me now please.
Also, I’m so glad that I was right about Lucy leaving Hawk. She deserves to find happiness.
Hawk’s storyline was definitely something I was looking forward to the most (and I could probably write entire essays about his character). But I like that they still have him trying to protect his family, ready to leave if Lucy wanted him to. It just makes more sense for his character than to have him suddenly blindly choose Tim. At the same time, he did everything he could for Tim. I never expected Hawk to come out, but I love how he clearly found comfort within his love for Tim – getting him into that gala, confronting that guy (forgot his name, I think it was Dave?), kissing Tim publicly and confessing his love for Tim to his daughter. It was all a bit too late, but also not really – Hawk making the decision to fly to San Francisco and to then stay with Tim definitely helped him grow for the better. He lost everything in the end, but maybe he can finally find peace as well. Perhaps it even needed Tim’s death for Hawk to come to terms with his love for Tim. It’s sad but their story was always meant to end this way.
I’ll probably make a million posts about this show – I have so many thoughts and can’t wait to rewatch it all.
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I watched Pretty Woman with my roommate today, 50% because she wanted to show it to me and 50% because of Very Important FL&H research I felt compelled to do. You can’t imagine how shocked I was when I found the movie doesn’t even take place in New York! And that there is an actual Piano Scene! But that just goes to show what an incredible job you did merging these two stories together so seamlessly, it continues to feel impossibly elegant. And it’s also just really nice to compare all the plot points and characters knowing both versions now.
I’m still a little salty you won’t finally give us that godforsaken kiss, even Vivian and Edward kiss earlier in the story than where we’re at now in FL&H. I am waiting and waiting patiently though because I have trust in you.
Also, I am still, still hung up on that one fucking paragraph you shared on Tumblr even before chapter 11 came out. I think I even wrote an ask about it at the time, but it kept circling around in my head and so I put an almost pathetically abridged version of it (due to lack of space) on this board I have with my favorite quotes. It didn’t come out as well as I hoped it would—which is 100% on my lack of artistic skills—but now it’s up there wedged right between a MDZS quote and RWRB quote, which feels like a good place. Just please know that you ruined by brain with this paragraph, it’s so fucking beautiful.
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You put it next to WHAT and WHAT
What if I told you I’m gonna print out this picture and tack it to MY bulletin board because it’s so lovely and the little drawing of the iron rails and the raindrops and akshsjsksjshajksjd
Omg and I’m so happy that you watched the movie! I’m having a blast meshing the two worlds together and inserting a metric ton of minor and major Easter eggs at every opportunity. (Tbh I have no real reason for switching the AU to NYC except that a) I fking hate LA and b) those pics of Apo in NYC 😭)
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As for the kiss…. soon…… 🔫🏊‍♂️🎹😴
But seriously this is all so incredibly lovely of you to say and I’m gonna be kicking my feet about it for the foreseeable future 💖💖💖💖
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more Beyoncé and Tim. My two loves 🤭🤭🤭and ur my third if u do it 🫡
I care
I ❤️ Beyoncé
I’ll take any excuse I can get to write while listening to Beyoncé, anyways stream break my soul by Beyoncé. Also, is this classified as a song fic? Inspired by 'I Care' by Beyoncé.
paring: Older!Tim Drake x Fem!Reader
genre: angst with a happy ending
summary: reader cares for her and Tim's relationship, he doesn't, or does he?
word count: 2.1K
warnings: toxic relationship? drunk tim, bad grammer
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This is the fifth time this month that Tim has ruined a date. The first four times were just him forgetting them and not showing up, but this time was much worse. Tim had promised he'd show up to this one. Technically, he did keep his promise. You got all dolled up, Tim got home early from patroling and you both left the house together, so he couldn't bail on you. You had planned to tell him how his missing all your dates affected the relationship and you did tell him.
"-I mean, c'mon how can you not see that we're drifting apart. A relationship is supposed to be 50/50 not-" You noticed that he wasn't even looking at you. He was looking at his phone.
I told you how you hurt me, baby
"Tim! are you even listening?"
He hummed in response, while still focused on texting whoever he was texting.
"What did I just say?" You asked sternly.
He finally looked up, "What? Sorry, I gotta go. Duty calls!" He chuckled and then kissed your cheek. "Bye, love ya, I'll see you at home!" and with that, he turned and left.
"Wait! Tim how will I get home!" You shouted at him, but he had already left the restaurant.
but you don't care
Not only had Tim abandoned you but he left you with no way to get home and no way to pay for the food. So here you were, washing dishes to pay for the meal, that you didn't even get to finish. See how this is way worse than Tim just bailing on you?
"You missed a spot sweet cheeks" A cook tells you.
"Yeah well sorry" You say with an attitude
"Hey don't blame me for your date ditching you"
And with that down came the tears.
"Oh god please don't cry, it's bad for business. Look consider your debt repaid, now leave!" The cook says with a jersey accent.
The cook pushes you out the back door and you slip and fall onto the muddy gravel. Great now it's raining, your brand new dress is ruined, your makeup is running, and your heels are killing your feet. Worst date ever. How the hell are you supposed to get home. You could get a taxi but you have no money and plus half the taxi drivers in Gotham are pervs. You walk around the building to get to the street side.
You notice that there's a fire in the distance and police sirens, that's probably why Tim had to go. Still doesn't make it hurt any less. You walk down the sidewalk till you find a bus bench. That’s when you finally let yourself cry. How could you be so stupid? Of course, something would come up and Tim would have to leave!
now I'm crying and deserted, baby
"Jesus Christ, Y/n, you look like shit!" You hear a familiar voice.
You look up and see red hood, great Tim's brother.
"Tell me about it" You mumble
"Do you need a ride home?" Jason asks
"Why aren't you over there?" You point to the sirens in the distance.
He shrugs, "Gotham's petty villains tend to strike in the shadows when one of the rougues causes a big scene"
You give him a look
"Okay maybe I got into a fight with Batman and he told me to go. Tomato, Tamoto."
You hum in response.
"Let's get you home"
...
As you open the door you're greeted with Tim, watching tv and sipping coffee.
"What took you so long?" He says not even looking up
but you don't care
"Wouldn't you like to know?" You say as you start walking to the bedroom.
He finally turns around and gets a good look at you.
"Jesus Christ, What happened? Wait. Is that Jason's jacket?"
"Is that seriously what you care about right now!" You shouted as you walked into the bedroom locking the door.
"Y/n talk to me," Tim says as he tries to open the door.
He's met with the sound of you turning on the shower.
"Well fuck you too!" He shouts.
ain't nobody tell me this is love
When you finally get out of the shower you hear Tim talking with someone. You quickly throw on some pajamas and walk out of the bedroom. You see time talking to a blonde girl, who looks oddly like Tim's ex.
"Who are you talking to?" You ask as you walk over to Tim.
"Oh! You must be Y/n! I've heard so much about you!" The girl runs over and hugs you.
You end the hug abruptly.
"Sorry I've kinda had a bad day" You utter
"Oh it's fine I totally get it! I'm Stephanie by the way! But you can call me Steph all my friends do!" she holds out her hand
"I'm Y/n" You smile and take her hand.
Tim coughs. You both turn to him.
"As much as this is delightful, I believe Steph was just leaving, weren't you Steph?" Tim gives a look to Steph.
"I guess, oh wait Y/n, do you have Jason's jacket? He asked me to get it for him which was a huge mistake because I'm gonna dye it pink!" She chuckles.
You grab the jacket and give it to her.
"Thanks!" she turns and leaves but not before saying "If Tim is ever mean to you, call me!"
When she shuts the door Tim walks over to you and hugs you.
"I'm sorry you had a bad day"
"Don't worry about it"
when you're immune to all my pain
He pulls away and kisses your forehead, "Well I've had a long day, I'm gonna go take a shower and go to bed." He then walks away.
What a night.
...
"What the actual fuck is wrong with you!!!" Tim screams at you
You two were just at a Wayne gala. Ubenost to you there was a drug lord that the bat family had been trying to catch for months. The plan was that they would each try to get evidence of him talking about his drugs. The person was talking to Tim and you and you noticed he was reaching for his gun holster. So you 'accidentally' spilled your drink on him, causing him to go home.
"I was trying to protect you!" You shout back in between sobs.
"Newsflash y/n, I don't need protecting! You compromised the mission. Now we have to wait another month till we can finish it! God you're so fucking useless"
"I'm sorry, okay! And if I'm so useless then maybe we shouldn't be together!" You manage to say.
"yeah maybe." Tim mumbles and walks away
I need you to tell me this is love
"Hey Steph, I need a place to stay for a while."
...
You start packing your bags. Tim walks out of the bathroom and notices.
"What are you doing?"
"Leaving."
"Why?" He pushes
"There's no point in me being here." You turn to look at him.
He notices your bloodshot eyes and tears stains. His eyes almost show remorse. For a split second, you almost think he's going to fight for you.
"If that's what you think" He says then turns to leave.
"Why don't you ever care?" You say under your breath.
You know he hears you because he flinches but he doesn't respond.
you don't care and that's okay
...
Staying at Stephanie's wasn't ideal but it will do. Plus you already knew her roommate, Cass.
"So get this, the whole time Tim was dating this girl, Ari, he was also dating me! And I didn't find out till after we broke up!" Steph shouts.
Cass shakes her head in disappointment.
"I never pegged Tim as the cheating type." You say
"Ehhhh, he's definitely changed since he's been with you."
Cass nods her head in agreement.
"You think? He acts like a huge dick sometimes. I think he secretly hates me."
"Tim's not good with expressing his emotions, non of his family." Steph shrugs
"I guess, should I call him?" You say grabbing your phone.
Cass slaps your phone out of your hand.
"Absolutely not," Cass says.
"Agreed it's only been 76 hours, 12 minutes, and 34 seconds," Steph says.
"Have you been timing me?" You question.
"It's for a science experiment. I want to see how long it takes Tim to make the first move. It took him 3 months to get back with me."
"Are you saying it's gonna take 3 months for him to make the first move? I'm calling him."
Well I care
"Don't you dare y/n," Cass states
Just as you're about to call Tim, you get a call from him.
"New record!" Steph yells in triumph.
You quickly hush her and answer it.
"Put it on speaker" Cass whispers.
You oblige.
"Heyyyyyy y/n/nnnnnn" He slurs
"Are you drunk?" You quickly question.
"Pffft. Nooooo."
Steph gives you a look.
"Tim, what do you need?"
"You. I mean like because you're the best thing that's ever happened to me and I took that for granted, y'know? I don't know. I don't know anything anymore. All I know is that I want you." Tim says more composed.
"You're drunk." You say again.
Stephanie interrupts, "drunk words are sober thoughts".
"who's there? is it Steph? I bet it's Steph. Steph quit trying to take y/n from me. She's mine. I found her fair and square."
"Shut up Tim. First of all, she's not an object. Second of all, as if I would ever have your sloppy seconds. No offense y/n."
"Non-taken?"
"Y/nnnn." Tim slurs again
Cass can barely hold in her laugh.
"What Tim?"
"I'm coming over," Tim states as a matter of fact.
"No, you're not, I'm coming over."
With that, the line goes dead.
"Great."
"Well, what are doing here? Go get him, tiger!" Steph shouts as she pushes you off the couch.
You let out a groan and leave the apartment.
...
knock
knock
"Tim, you in there?" You shout through the door for the millionth time
I know you don't care too much
You really didn't want to use your key because you felt it was an invasion of privacy, but given the circumstances, you had no other choice.
"I'm coming in!" You shout as you walk into your once shared apartment.
The smell of cheap beer instantly fills your nostrils. You look around and notice all the blinds are closed and barely any light seeps through.
"Tim!" You call
You hear a groan coming from the couch.
"For the last time Dick, I am fine" Tim says as he sits up.
"Wait, y/n!!!!" He gets up and runs over to you.
"Hey" You utter
Tim grabs you to hug. He then pulls back to meet you eye to eye. You get a good look at him. He looks like shit. Eye bags. Five o'clock shadow. Blood-Shot eyes. He grabs your face.
"I can't believe you came back! I'm so sorry. I promise to never miss a date again. I love you so much!" Tim says in between breathes.
"I love you too"
Tim goes in to kiss you but you stop him. He gives you a puppy dog look.
"Tim, you look like shit, smell like shit, and probably feel like shit. Let's get you sober then we can talk." You state.
"So you don't love me anymore?" He looks at you with a heart broken face.
"Fine. One peck,"
His face lights up as he gives you a quick kiss. You then drag him to the bathroom and get him to take a shower. While he's doing that you clean up the apartment. When he's done he lays down in the bed and begs you to cuddle with him. You do.
...
You wake up intertwined in Tim's arm. Instead of leaving to go make breakfast or something, you look at him sleeping. It's probably when he's the most peaceful.
"Are you just gonna continue staring at me or what?" Tim mumbles.
"Ehhh, I think I'm gonna leave and go live with Steph and Cass for eternity," You say back and you get up to leave but Tim pulls you back.
"Y'know everything I said last night I meant," Tim whispers into your ear.
"I don't remember what you said. Please do repeat it," You say with a smile.
"Well if you must know-" kiss "- I said" kiss "that I" kiss "care" he said in between kisses.
"Well, I care too" You whisper.
I still care
...
This is probably bad but idc. I wanted to so badly end this on a bad not but then I was like "I would feel like I need to make a part 2" so then I was like "what if I had the reader end up with Steph?" but then I was like "eh that wasn't the request" so you get this.
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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤️
As I said on my first fic rec post, I have written very many fics and I love almost all of them, so I can't pick FAVORITES so much as CATEGORIES, and this category is going to be "Fics Joanna Made Me Write Outside My Comfort Zone Because It's Good For Me Or Something"
Whenever I view the moon on the battlefield This was the FIRST fic I wrote outside of ANS fandom, and if that was not already out of my usual groove enough, it's also from the POV of one of the minor characters in Hakuouki, Shimada Kai. The concept was originally conceived while I was streaming a playthrough for the obiyuki discord-- Yamazaki (our best boy) and Shimada are both spies and spend quite a bit of time off screen, so we kept running into scenes and being like "how AWKWARD is it for those two to be watching this right now?" And so when it finally came time for me to throw my hat into the yamachi ring...Joanna asked for THIS to be the fic. You know. Instead of one where Yamazaki and Chizuru actually kiss or whatever. Sigh.
The Most Perverse Creature in the World Listen. I know there are people out there who LOVE xReader fics. I'm happy for you, truly. I am not one of them. But after answering the fandom fuck/marry/kill game (otherwise known as only one bed/slow burn/enemies to lovers) with small littler blurbs about the kind of story I would write for the older gentlemen in ANS (Shidan, Lata & Haruka), SOME PEOPLE got very invested in Haruka's little enemies-to-lovers blurb. Some people made puppy eyes. Some people made puppy eyes and then got very sick after, and I AM A GOOD FRIEND and wrote ONE CHAPTER and have never known a day of peace since. Six years later it's up to thirteen chapters, has a very complicated plot involving the politics of taxing oral sex, and I've learned how to effectively write in 2nd person.
don't speak boyshit I cannot properly explain how absolutely in our heads the Maria/Kamitani pairing is, but like. It's good okay?? Joanna did not so much force me to write this one so much as like...emphatically encourage its existence, to the point where I have a very complicated outline and she routinely reminds me I'll finish it when i'm like. 50. But this is certainly the gateway fic to the OTHER fics for this pairing she DOES want to twist my arm over, SO ON THE LIST IT GOES. I am one of TWO authors in this ship tag, and also one of TWO fics...and yet this is one of my most popular non-ANS fics 🤣
If the Mind Is Willing This is a fic Joanna will HAPPILY admit to being the main driver for, since, as she puts it, "there is no one else who could possibly ever write this fic." Taking TWO very niche concepts (LARP and a SURPRISE FOR LATER) and a very niche pairing (yamachi) would perhaps not have been MY first choice...but Joanna asked for the first chapter as a birthday gift a few years back and here I am, learning a whole new tabletop system and really giving my FBI agent something to talk about at the watercooler.
He Who Studies Evil Of all the niche fics Joanna has convinced me to put to paper (or at least, word document), this is probably takes the top spot. A prequel to my obiyuki Star Trek AU, this covers events about 10 years previous, with Haruka taking over DS9 and immediately being thrown into a political nightmare when he is informed that the Cardassians are in possession of a missing human child. This took...an INORDINATE amount of time to research and write-- I hadn't seen DS9 since I was in high school, and I watched through nearly half a season just to get the timeline right-- but I still REALLY love how it came out. Which is good, because it is definitely one of my least read fics 🤣
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Top Tarlos Scenes
Tagged by @strandnreyes ❤️
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and this is where I've ended up for now (we'll see if it changes once I do a complete rewatch):
The Engagement Scene in 3x18
This is simply the scene for me. In the first 24 hours after it aired, I think I watched it at least 50 times, and then averaged about 10 times a day for the next few weeks, then at least a once a day for months. Every single aspect of the scene is perfect. TK petting Carlos' hair to wake him, Carlos and his lizard trauma, the way Carlos starts out confused and sleepy and we can see him gradually realize what's going on and what it means (especially the moment when he kind of sits up and takes a breath--like he's realizing this is serious, it's really happening!), TK calling Carlos his husband before he even proposes, the abundance of soft and affectionate touches between them throughout the whole thing (don't even get me started on TK playing with Carlos' earlobe I will cry 😭), the tears dripping down both their faces, "TYLER CAN I SAY YES NOW", the forehead touch, that KISS...I could go on and on, but I'll stop.
2. The Soulmates Scene in 4x16
Before season 4 started, I assumed that the wedding would end up being my favorite of the season. But that was before I saw the soulmates scene! It's another scene that couldn't be more perfect and is so beautifully acted by both Ronen and Rafa. With the potential of a Huntington's diagnosis, TK is so scared (for very good reason), but what bothers him most is the thought of Carlos having to face it all alone. I love the way the scene progresses. First, Carlos is clearly very concerned and just trying to wrap his mind around what TK is telling him. Then, TK tries to give him an out and Carlos doesn't even get what he means at first. It's so far from anything he would ever consider. Once Carlos sees what TK is getting at, it's almost funny to him that TK would suggest such a thing. Nothing could be more ridiculous. But Carlos knows exactly what to say. This moment is such a perfect encapsulation of the Tarlos journey in season 4--the way they choose each other again and again with so much unconditional love. If he has to, Carlos will introduce himself to TK every day: "Hi. You're TK. I'm Carlos. And we're soulmates." 😭
3. The Wedding--specifically the vows--in 4x18
The one thing I truly wanted from the wedding was to see the vows in their entirety. We got that, and it honestly exceeded my very high expectations. The vows could not have been more perfect. (In fact, I love them so much that I'm currently spending weeks cross stitching them!) I adore so many lines throughout, but my favorite is "I vow to be the caretaker of your wild heart." They both ended their vows with heart 😭
4. The Decision to Postpone the Wedding in 4x18
This scene is the one I'm most obsessed with from the finale. I could not stop watching it in the days after it aired. It's a short scene, but it had a huge impact on me. The way it starts off with TK asking Carlos to come back to bed and offering to rub his back still makes me want to sob. Then we get a "Tyler," and TK knows what Carlos is going to say, and knows how hard it will be to say, so he doesn't make him be the one to say it. The part that gets me the most is Carlos' voice breaking as he says, "You better not," followed by the forehead touch that mirrors the one in 3x18. Even though it's such a sad scene, it's permeated with so much love throughout. It's truly one of the most beautiful scenes.
5. Coma Wakeup->Loft Scene in 3x04
Since these scenes are back-to-back, I've always counted them as one. It seems fair to me, especially when it's already so hard to narrow Tarlos scenes down to a top 5. At this point, "Hey, baby...breathe," is pretty iconic. Waking up from a coma to tell the love of your life to breathe is definitely soulmate level behavior. And then the loft scene just elevates it all. Seeing them so happy together in their home heals all wounds of the breakup and then some! My favorite moment is when TK looks around the loft and you can see him realize that this is real...he really gets to have this. He got scared and blew it up, but in the end that didn't matter because his soulmate, the love of his life, his future husband is there with his unconditional love, prepared to choose TK over and over again, just like TK is prepared to do for him.
No pressure tagging @autistic-lesbian-story-lover @bubblesandroses8 @maxbegone @three-drink-amy @fitzherbertssmolder @lonestardust @wtfuckevenknows @tarlosislife @valerileygreen
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thedragonagelesbian · 3 months
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Baldur's Gate 3 Tav Ask List also multiples of 10 for Cyrus <3
:DDD (answering for Pallybarb Cyrus since he's the one I've finished the game with)
BG3 Tav ask list
10. What was your Tav like as a child?
Cyrus was the joy of his parents' lives as they struggled to raise him on the run from Malcolm's archfey warlock patron. He never fussed or complained even as they were constantly on the move up and down the Sword Coast. At 16 (still very much a child by elf standards), he even took his father's death in stride, steeling himself against his grief so he could provide for himself and his mother.
20. Finally, what does your Tav feel as the Nautiloid crashes? Are they scared? Are they thinking of a way to survive?
In Fantasy High, there's a wizard with a frog familiar described as having exactly two moods: 'happy to be here gang' and 'mm i'm not sure about this'. Those aren't Cyrus' only two moods, but he's pretty unflappable so long as no one else's life is on the line, so even as he's like. ostensibly hurtling to his death, his attitude is one of 'well this isn't ideal...'
30. Who does your Tav think of when they go to sleep at the goblin/tiefling party? Or are they lucky and do they get to spend the night with the person they want?
He breaks up with Astarion, flirts with Gale, and chats with Karlach about how desperately they want to fuck each others' brains out. Cyrus maybe has enough wine in him to try touching her anyway & gives himself some third degree burns just to hold her hand for a heartbeat.
(He would've flirted with Wyll too, but Karlach's scene wasn't triggering if I didn't keep the Wyll interaction strictly platonic)
40. Did your Tav agree to kill the Guardian or did they go talk to them instead?
This version of Cyrus had absolute unwavering faith in the Guardian up until the negotiation with Raphael in Sharess' Caress and the Emperor forcing the truth of their agreement from his mind afterward.
50. Does your Tav save the tieflings & gnomes?
Yep! I savescummed so hard to get them all out but yes.
60. Did you clear Moonrise Towers of the shadow curse?
Yes!! I've mentioned this briefly before, but rescuing Thaniel and Oliver is the very first thing Cyrus does after breaking his oath. The scene I have in my head is Halsin feeling like Cyrus losing his oath is yet another casualty of the shadow curse, another good thing lost to his mistakes. But Cyrus promises him that they're going to fix it right now together, and in the portal fight, he debuts his new oathbreaker channel divinity where you can make an undead creature your ally. For him, it's a moment of realizing that he hasn't lost as much as he thought and that these new powers can still be used for good, despite knowing he'll carry a shard of this shadow in his soul for the rest of his life. For Halsin, it's a moment of profound hope and potential. The mists parting for the first time.
I wish they could kiss about it right then and there but they get around to it eventually.
70. Does your Tav make a deal with Raphael?
Yes. 8 wisdom strikes again, Karlach was understandably very pissed with him when she found out.
80. Does your Tav free the slaves from Steel Watch Foundry? Do they side with the Gondians or with Wulbren?
Cyrus was really on team 'blow everything up' until meeting Zanner, at which point the plan became 'save the Gondians and THEN blow everything up'. Sorry, Wulbren, the Ironhands are Barcus' now.
90. Do they betray the Emperor/Orpheus/their companions for the Absolute?
Nope, and like I get why that option is there but it does feel a little silly how many times the game presents you with the thought during what is more or less a strictly lawful good run sdfoijapfsd
100. Did Karlach get upgraded? Did she turn Illithid? Did she return to Avernus? If so, did Tav join her, or Wyll, or both?
Yes, Karlach got upgraded, no Cyrus never sold or let go of a single piece of infernal iron after meeting her (DID sell a scrap of it to Volo for some health potions before recruiting her and felt absolutely awful about not realizing how important it was).
After all is said and done with the Netherbrain, on the docks of the harbor of their hometown, Cyrus is 100% ready to let Karlach go. It's hard and it hurts, but if there's anything that breaking his oath taught him, it's that you have to let go sometimes, and he can't bear to ask her to return to Avernus just to spare his feelings, and he's prepared to rage and hold her through the whole thing.
...And then Wyll makes one last plea for her to come to Avernus with him.
Cyrus hesitates. Assures Karlach that he would follow her no matter where she goes, and Karlach chooses to go to Avernus.
In my head, there's a quick & passionate goodbye to Halsin before Cyrus, Karlach, and Wyll all rush off to the House of Hope as Karlach realizes that what scared her most about returning to Avernus might have been the possibility of being alone again-- and that her husband and her best friend aren't going to let that happen.
...That being said.
There's a lot else that's scary about Avernus. And I have a /real/ axe to grind with in-game (and, to a minor and very petty extent, fandom) presentation of this ending.
Like. There's a Zariel statblock in Descent into Avernus. We know exactly how powerful she is-- and it's powerful enough to grind three unprepared level 12 adventurers beneath her flaming fallen angel heel. The way the Avernus ending is presented, especially now with the epilogue, Karlach's fear of being forced back into the Blood War seems unfounded, because the worst thing that happens to her, Wyll, and her LI is they have to spend like a year fighting fiends nonstop. Which still sucks as a way to live, but the game is much more interested in it being BadassTM and CoolTM than lingering even on this milder form of sucking. In my opinion, it completely rips all the stakes out of the choice itself, because Karlach dying is less of a legitimate narrative choice if the alternative is just... Yeah you have to kill a bunch of fiends, but you literally find the magic solution to everything in fucking six months anyway, so??????
Hells, I was kind of hoping for Halsin to have some negative and unresolved feelings about Cyrus ditching him, just so there would be some sense of consequence for the decision.
And I realize that the narrative complexity I'm seeking won't fit into the minuscule square hole labeled 'ending cutscene & epilogue dialogue' but maybe Larian should've kept working on the game long enough to make fixing Karlach's heart part of it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So. I'm making my own consequences. In my version of things, Karlach, Cyrus, and Wyll have the House of Hope as a safe haven, but only to the extent that it can be protected, defended, and kept hidden from Zariel, which is further complicated by Wyll still being in a pact with Mizora. I need to keep marinating on the details, but some broad ideas are (a) Cyrus getting exposed to demon ichor and dealing with the consequence of that (growing a tail); (b) rescue mission after Karlach gets kidnapped to be taken back to Zariel; (c) I want Dammon to give SOMEONE an infernal iron prosthetic limb... probably Cyrus. Infernal heart + infernal hand??? I think it's cute at least; (d) trying to get Wyll out of his pact (again) (given our average of 11 int and 10 wis, this can ONLY go well)
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(Pure fangirl impressions) Ch 115
Haha a new subtitle of ‘pure fangirl impressions’ because i have too many thoughts to organize right now
I’m really happy with how they adapted these chapters for 115. I feel they serve to ENHANCE and even surpass the novel version at some point (!!!)
Yeah hi Papa Felipe, barging in and dropping off the remnants of Lari’s diary. (Novel detail only: he noticed Lari was gone and asked if that was why Rupert looked like shit lol)
Novel detail: Lehan remembers him because he was out wandering and randomly taught the troops chemistry one day (chap 86)
Novel detail: the page were burnt into crumbs, but in the manhwa some pages were left intact, but damaged. I prefer this because Rupert actually has more info to glean from
I LOVE RUPERT’S EXPRESSION OF SHOCK AAAA. Haha he forgets lehan was standing there for a while and finally dismisses him
Rupert finally figures out the inexplicable part of Lari: things make sense because she regressed.
The heartbreaking thing is he see her words (manhwa only) that include: [ It’s horrible. I don’t want to beg to live like this]. [I won’t die like that again] and… [I returned from death].
he then has a flashback to their first meeting and during the gun scene and recalls how he knew from the start how fake she was, to pretend she was bubbly and clueless but the moment he turned around she would give him a look of pure hatred and fear, and felt as if if he let his guard down she’d stab him in the back. But eventually he forgot because she said nice things to him and he felt comfortable around her, and eventually those feelings grew to the point where he wanted to grab her and kiss her
The manhwa changes the wording a bit - while in the novel it’s like [i want to kiss her], the manhwa says [like a beast, i wanted to kiss her] (or something like that - but the important thing is AS OF CHAPTER 78, PER THE MANHWA, HE IS THIRSTING FOR HER SO STRONGLY ALREADY!!!
In the novel, it doesn’t give readers a specific timeframe of when he started developing feelings - so I expected a random scene. But NOOO they used Ch 78.. so then by Ch 78, if he feels this strongly.. then that slightly changes how one would potentially see the entirety of S3, because it would change from “Ah his feelings are growing slowly and steadily” to “wait he’s loved her so much this whole time? So in this moment…” Omggg!!! I’m re-reading some scenes and having so much fun with it ><
THEY DID BETTER THAN I IMAGINED FOR THE SOFA SCENE.
yes, they included a panel of her saying he should upgrade his furniture, but also a few panels of her being around the room making random comments and calling out to him while smiling. He misses her calls that muchhhhh T_T
Ah the tori scene in the last third. Instead of making her give a weird fake smile, they left her emotionless. But she still mimicked Lari’s hug, to which Rupert gently distanced her away.
We get a nice flashback to how Tori was created, with poor Rupert hiding behind Eva while watching Tori beg for her to stop.
This is such good paneling to end the chapter, because it makes the reader think “Oh no, with lari gone, he’s in despair he only has Tori (Eva) left, he’s shackled down again… will he become a tyrant again??? and the answer is no, Rupert is approaching his “black bread stalker guy” phase HAHHA.
In terms of what they’ll adapt next week in 116, there’s a 50% they’ll give us a Rupelali reunion. It’s hard to say because there’s a lot of skippable filler content with the backstory of Lari’s village life // and Lehan + Rupert antics.. BUT IT INCLUDES THE LEAF SCENE… but again, is skippable stuff. The next few chapters is essentially the same scene as well, with Lari’s POV first, then Rupert’s POV.. (like Ch 97/98) so will be interesting to see what they do.
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how was the fnaf movie?? 🎥🍿
Quick answer? 3/5 - I had a good time!
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Short answer?
It was alright. Not great, but still pretty alright. It was clearly trying hard to do its best to make a love letter to the long-running fandom while also being accessible to new viewers, which makes up for some of its shortcomings. The real standout is the visuals - they are *wonderful*.
Long answer? (Long answer is long) (No spoilers)
The plot was solid and fairly straightforward - a nice, simple entry to the series if you don't know anything about the franchise (and considering the franchise includes multiple main games, several side games, a book trilogy, a semi-separate book series, and several guide books... all which contains information that conflicts with each other in one way or another... yeah)
The overall/ general writing was alright, but some of the dialogue was confusingly... sub-par? There were some awkward spots where it was clear that the actors were doing their best with what they had, but it still felt clunky. Some plot points were unnecessarily repetitive, some character decisions questionable, and, overall, it probably could have been trimmed down a bit, but at least it didn't *feel* like a long film.
Speaking of actors, they're... again, alright. Matthew Lillard was the only real stand out of the cast for me. Possibly the best scene with him comes early in the first act, a sort of double-take reaction that is done so well, giving those who Know in the audience an early hint of the secret that comes out in the third act, and generally is just fun to watch; he's just so great. I almost hope the sequel happens just so we can have more time with him.
But we're not going to a PG-13 horror movie for plot or writing, we're going for the not-too-graphic graphics. The effects. The characters that show up on all the posters... the Core Four (well, six) (seven, now that the cupcake seems to be doing its own thing)
The animatronics. The animatronics were fan-Freddy-tastic! Apparently, they used a combo of full-on actual animatronics (I'm guessing for close-ups), puppets/ puppeteers, and actors in suits... and it looks amazing. The practical effects are just... mwah! Chef's kiss. Beautiful. Tangible! Huzzah for practical effects and costumes! For me, it was def worth the ticket price to see the larger than life characters on the big screen.
For a franchise 50% build on jumpscares, they were surprisingly sparse. I can only think of five, total? Maybe? And three of those are just a repeated joke scare. There are some scary scenes, some tense moments, but if you've seen the trailers, then you're pretty prepared for what to expect.
As for the kills... really, it's pretty mild. Def holding fast to keeping that PG-13 rating. There's some minor character/ side character deaths, of course, but they're all done either off screen or in shadowy silhouette, so nothing is ever too bloody or gruesome. You do see some blood (actually, there's more injury-related blood than death-related blood, tbh) and you do see the bodies later, but it's more the suggestion of their demise than anything else, and, really, that's fine. I can respect a film that knows where the lines are, knows it's probably gonna get kids as young as six in those seats, and stays in its own lane.
Final notes?
Really, other than seeing the animatronics come to life, seeing the lengths the filmmakers/ prop makers went to fleshing out the main set was possibly my second favorite part of watching the movie. The details! And all the easter eggs! Getting to see Sparky/Fetch finally made into a real animatronic suit was fun, spotting Chica's Party World Rainbow as the icon for the mall's ice cream shop made me smile, and I nearly teared up when a certain iconic song started playing over the end credits; there's just so many winks/ nods to the many, many, *many* details from the franchise, I don't know if there will ever be a 100% complete list of things to spot (maybe as a bonus feature on the DVD? lol).
Conclusion:
If you're going in not knowing much about FNAF other than "it's a thing", you won't be lost and might find yourself enjoying a fairly mild horror film.
If you're going in as a FNAF fan... well, you're already gonna be going, no matter what any reviews say (lol).
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You’ve probably already talked about this, but your opinion on how Josh and Donna finally happened?
I have but I'm always happy to talk about it!
I'm like... 50% satisfied with it. I am very glad it happened and I'd be upset if it didn't happen at all.
I don't like the whole season 6 arc at all and I do feel like the main purpose of it was to keep them apart because the show had written itself into a corner where it made no sense for them not to get together. I think the natural time to do it was season 4 and if not then definitely the beginning of season 6. Ultimately I think it was a casualty of the conventional wisdom at the time being that the main couple had to stay will they/won't they as long as possible. I much prefer organic storytelling and there's more room for that in today's television landscape.
As it stands, it feels like the moment passes, and when they do finally get together Donna is such a dramatically different character it doesn't really feel like the culmination I've been waiting for since season 1. I absolutely hate that awkward period where they're sleeping together but it's not defined. That doesn't feel like them to me. I think they'd know right away. You could maybe get a storyline out of them both knowing but having trouble actually saying it officially, but that's not what we get. I also feel like they kept flip-flopping the situation to prioritize taking Josh down a peg over anything that actually made sense.
First, Donna is the sexual aggressor. Okay, slay! Along with that, Josh immediately recognizes the significance and is anxious about being romantic enough, while Donna is cool as a cucumber and worried about winning the election. That does make her his ideal woman, but I don't think the scene entirely plays that way as written, that's just me reading into it to try to make it work. It's cute to see him pining for a change though. Then, Josh is the one who can't commit. That just makes no sense with what we just saw two episodes ago. Josh basically tried to start a relationship on election day, he's the one who kept saying they should talk and wanted to do it when he was able to concentrate because it's important to him, while Donna kept setting up booty calls, and then he says he doesn't know what he wants from her? Of course he knows.
All of this makes sense if you think he's anxious about balancing a relationship and his work and doesn't want to mess it up because she means so much to him and she's vulnerable and trying to protect herself, hence the boundaries, but that does not really come across in the show at all. It's just oh he's not sure he can commit, she give a deadline, he learns a lesson about being a workaholic. I think it's just a casualty of the show at this point having way too many characters and extant storylines to wrap up in very few episodes, but they spend so much time on Santos and Vinick, who, while interesting, are really plot devices as much as characters. The final arc should have spent more time on the characters we've been following since the beginning and the relationship that's been such a huge part of the show. It's just rushed.
That's what I don't like. Here's what I do.
I love their first kiss. I think it's perfect. I love the polling data thing. The awkwardness at that point makes sense! It's just very them and I love it. I love that they have sex on election eve and watch coverage in bed and I wish they had let it be less awkward and more mutual! I love it being incredibly obvious to Will. I love Matt Santos being the only person who doesn't realize they're sleeping together. I love their vacation, actually! Josh taking Donna with him on the vacation he's forced to go on is a really nice bit of growth for him AND them. Just take the four week deadline out of it. I love the scene where they wake up together on inauguration day. It's a nice parallel to the times we've seen him wake up before, only now Donna is there! He's not alone! He's grown so much and he's going to be healthier and happier because they're in it together.
So in the end, it works well enough. I'm just glad it happened. And I can gloss over the bumps for my Santos admin headcanons that have a bit more of a season 4 Josh/Donna flavor.
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csqweer · 2 years
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Killing  Eve Finale Thoughts
There’s been a lot of polarizing takes on the end of Killing Eve.  At a certain point in the season I realized it was just going to be chaotic and let go of the outcome, which has allowed me to get some space from the finale. It turns out that I really related to the end of Eve and Villanelle’s relationship.
They came together in such a beautiful way throughout this episode.  The kiss sequence was honestly everything I could have hoped for.  It was passionate, intimate, vulnerable and playful all at the same time.  It also had the perfect amount of tension...only four season’s worth for a real fucking kiss to show up.
When I saw the final scene where Villanelle saves Eve’s life, I was not surprised.  We knew someone was going to die, hence the death card in the tarot.  However, it wasn’t until they both accomplished what they set out to do together.  Eve’s chilling scream as she comes up from the Thames was pure pain.  She finally got what she wanted, and it was ripped away.  I saw myself in this episode.
I’m 28 now, but when I was much younger I relied so much on media to see myself.  I grew up in a small, conservative town, and I didn’t think I’d live to see the end of my 20s.  Until I was able to remove myself from that environment the only queer joy I could experience was on tv.  The VillanEve kiss has been no exception.  I’ve probably watched around 20 times.  It is just too well done, and to be honest it is the best kiss I’ve ever seen from a wlw ship.
This moment took me back to my younger self getting to kiss the straight best friend I had a crush on in high school.  All the innuendo, all the hours of conversation, all the fights we had about other friends taking our precious time away from each other, all the hugs that we hung onto longer than we probably should have .  Although I never got to do this, I imagine the journey to getting to that moment would have so much built up emotion that I would never want to let go of that instant.  Much like I did not want to let go of Eve and Villanelle’s pure bliss.  I cannot let go of the chemistry of the moment, the music choice, the camera work.  I want to live in this moment for the rest of my life
As we all know, life does not work that way.  There was no way Eve and Villanelle could both survive this battle with the 12.  They weren’t ever meant to exist in the doldrums of domestic life.  It just doesn’t fit the chaos of their relationship.  Much like the probable eventual let down of a true first love, not a not a forced relationship with a man.  When Eve emerges from the water and screams, that’s when I realized I had to let go of living in these kinds of perfect moments.
Survival as a queer person has often meant returning to the same shows, scenes and stories again and again to feel the connection and love I really want to feel.  In the extreme, I dissociate into the shows in my mind, like a fantasy.  I can pretend that this euphoric feeling will last forever.  I can just skip back to 24:50 in the S4E8 of Killing Eve to get my fix.  But at the end of the day, I still need to go out and actually live life.  Dissociation is a protective device, but it is one I am hoping to let go of as I continue to grow older.  The high of living in these moments cannot be understated for an addict like me, but it cheapens what I can actually feel in reality.  The ebb and flow of life just is.  There’s no controlling it.  There’s no rewind button, and if there was it would be terrifying (see Black Mirror S1E3).  Reality is not always kind, but I’m learning to live with it.  Just like Eve, I’ll  keep doing my best to pick up the pieces of a life that has been broken time and time again.
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My dad just had me watch The Abyss and I have many thoughts (both my dad and I are somewhat experienced rec divers (70+ dives)) and I really enjoyed this movie although my mom did accuse us of being divers who liked to watch stories about horrible things happening underwater and made fun of us
Anyway thoughts below
- very first shot of Lindsey, we see her stiletto touch down on the deck of this ship with perfect balance good for her
-mustache navy man so afraid to admit a woman knows more then him that he hides symptoms what could go wrong
- the entire exploring the downed sub sequence my dad and I are arguing about wether or not they are using a line for navigation because we can’t see it
- finally spot the line they are using and I’ve never dove a line before but I know enough to know they are doing it poorly
-also why does it look like a fancy curtain pull no wonder it broke
- alien thingie shows up and all the equipment loses power(?) or malfunctions and this means the sub crashed because of one of them
- if the guy who fucked up his mix didn’t get hurt in the initial convulsions he’s probably going to be fine
- there’s a storm coming and the navy guys fucked off to fuck around with nukes fuck them seven people died because you wanted to play with a bomb (6ppl on rig +guy in crane)
-this situation would be less stressful if someone turned off that goddamn music
-“raise your hand if you think that was a Russian water tentacle” single best line in the film
- Lindsey should have been allowed to slap him in the face
- man with psychosis has gun and nuke all signs point downhill
-the plan is to nuke the aliens genuinely can’t tell if he’s delusional and expects them to survive this or if he just doesn’t care anymore
- SUBMARINE FIGHT!!!
- if they had normal regulators instead of those stupid full face helmets they could have buddy breathed back to the rig just fine
- Lindsey I know your plan involves drowning but you coulda swam halfway back with the time you spent underwater kissing jfc
- fun fact apparently a guy survived for like forty minutes in a similar condition to what happened to Lindsey and came back fine
- I am so fucking mad with the scene where they are trying to revive her they try for like thirty seconds and give up and nobody was doing compressions for the first part of the scene and then THEy TaKe thE OXyGEN OUT??? When they think she’s dead??? It’s been like thirty seconds and there is no reason to take it out? Even if she’s dead there’s no way it could make the situation worse and if she’s alive it’s kinda fucking important?????
- then there’s that tender conversation and all I can think about is where they got dry clothes from because you know everything on that rig is now damp and salty and also curly hair is a bitch to dry
- now bud is going down in the liquid gear which has made it’s reappearance after being mentioned once an hour ago
- the worst part about the whole descending sequence is that there’s not even anything to be mad about because it’s a terrible idea but there is literally nothing else that can be done there is no better option
- I do love the bit with the colored wires tho because it is seriously hard to differentiate color at depth and it was super relatable
- but he literally just guessed because at this point why the fuck not 50/50
- and then he’s dying and I’m crying and it’s very sad but it’s also okay because he did what he needed to do to give everyone else a chance and he’s made his peace with that but somehow that’s the saddest part
- and then alien
- I love the aliens stupid little blinky eyes so cute when they blink
-was worried that at the very end when the alien ship brought them up and I saw the hatch to the rig open that that were going to just explode because of the pressure differential
- glad that didn’t happen must have been alien magic *shrugs*
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Movies I watched this Week #122 (Year 3/Week 18):
One Fine Morning, my 4th by Mia Hansen-Løve, and the 15th starring Léa Seydoux. It’s lovely spending a movie with these two, luxuriously living through a sad romance in Paris with pretty young widow Seydoux and her daughter, watch her cry a lot, get naked & have sex as always... But there’s really no other point in this story, is there? 5/10.
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2 Versions of Sebastián Lelio’ Gloria:
🍿 Gloria, my 11th film from Chile and my 3rd drama from Sebastián Lelio. An unusual treatment of a grown-up, older (58) divorcee, independent and free-spirited woman looking for love, sex and relationship without stigmas. The film belongs to the tremendous Paulina García (who was also great in Ira Sachs' film, ‘Little Men’), who deals with the challenges that life throws at her by dancing to the music. It's the 5th highest film with 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, judged by largest number of reviewers (129). 8/10
🍿 5 years later, Lelio remade Gloria for the American market as Gloria Bell, with Julianne Moore and John Turturro. As much as I loved the original, I hated the remake passionately. I could barely stand 15 minutes of it before having to turn it off in disgust. (Julianne Moore committed the same offense in ‘After the wedding’, one of my all time favorite Danish film, whose American remake I could not stomach either.) There were other film directors who re-made their own films (Haneke’s ’Funny Games’, Hitchcock’s ‘The man who knew too much’, Ozu’s ‘Floating weeds’...), but this one seemed so unnecessary.
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Kurosawa's late-career Dreams, different from his usual narratives, an anthology of 8 unrelated ‘magical realist’ episodes. It includes ‘Crows’ whereby a Japanese art student enters the physical world of Vincent Van Gogh, played (in English) by Martin Scorsese. The dream tableaux were serene and contemplative and beautiful, but the whole experience was tedious, like hearing somebody else’s describing their dreams, very slowly. 3/10. (Photo Above).
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The Old Man & the Gun, my second by David Lowery (after ‘A ghost story’). 82-year-old Robert Redford’s last leisurely film role before retiring. A low-key, old-fashioned tale about a gentlemen bank robber who’s a compulsive law-breaker. 7/10.
(And I still don’t get Lowery’s ginormous mustache trademark... What’s up with that?)...
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Why am I so addicted to the twisted noir A simple favor and watch it again and again? I love this slick & sophisticated popcorn mystery, and I’ll probably watch it many times more. It breezily starts one place, on naïve, suburban mom-vlogger Anna Kendrick. But it quickly pivots to many unexpected directions, and each surprising detour makes it darker and funner.
The script is actually tightly-structured into classic story arcs, each turning point happening exactly 10 minutes apart, like clockwork. I jotted down when all the plot ‘pinches’ popped:
@ At exactly the 10 minute mark, the happy-go-lucky, ditzy suburban mom discloses that she’s actually a widow, and that her husband had died in a car accident.
@ 22 minutes - the Brother-Fucker scene.
@ 32 - She’s starting detectiving in NYC, confronting Dennis Nylon, and learning to say she’s not sorry.
@ 40 - Emily’s dead!
@ exactly at the 45 minutes mark (usually a movie’s mid-point), she kisses and fucks the husband for the first time.
@ 51 minutes - There’s the shock of the $4 million life insurance policy.
@ At 1:00 exactly: “Move in with me - I love you”
@ 1:10 exactly - Emily’s a psychopath and her real name is Claudia.
@ 1:20 - Disclosure about the fire-death of the father.
@1:30 - There were twins who set the arson!
@ 1:35 - Emily murdered her twin sister.
@ 1:40 - Confession
@ 1:50 Final conclusion: “America’s hybrids: You fuck with one of us, you fuck with us all”.
It’s a perfectly calibrated comedy - 10/10 again.
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The National Film Registry X 7:
🍿 These Amazing Shadows is a lovely PBS-style documentary about the National Film Registry. I was not aware that the NFR was established as a backlash to Ted Turner buying the MGM film library and starting to colorize old black & white classics. Also that, especially in recent years, the board is trying to choose more diverse films for preservation, and not just the popular evergreens that used to define the American film experience. For example: In the late 1910s/early 1920s, women counted for the majority of all writers, producers, and directors in the film industry, and more than half of the films made at the time were directed by women. Also, more than 80% of all silent movies disappeared without a trace. So it’s an interesting topic.
I took a small, random dive into some of the 850 films from the list that are mentioned in the documentary:
🍿 Added to the registry in 2012: The Kidnappers Foil, the Most Remade Movie in History. Director Melton Barker was a traveling filmmaker (“itinerant filmmaker") who went town to town between the 1930s to the 1970s convincing everyday folks to pay him to be in his movie “The Kidnappers Foil” - hundreds of times. He used the same script each time, with an all local cast. A fascinating bit of Americana and cinema history.
🍿 “...Do you know a man by the name of LaFong? Carl LaFong? Capital L, small a, Capital F, small o, small n, small g. LaFong. Carl LaFong...” It’s a gift, an incredibly funny W.C. Fields film about a henpecked grocer who moves to California, hoping to get rich growing oranges. It includes classic routines of the customer who wants his kumquats, as well as the “Front porch” number. 9/10.
🍿 Added to the list in 2005, H2O is an abstract cinepoem from 1929. A debut short from avant-garde photographer Ralph Steiner, it’s a wordless meditation about the wonders of water. One of the earliest US art films.
🍿 First watch: John Ford’s bleak The grapes of wrath, with ‘Everyman’ Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. An unusual Hollywood adaptation of a somehow-leftist ideology that did not depict labor politics and the fight for economic justice as unthinkable communist propaganda. The realistic adaptation of Steinbeck’s message book about poverty, dispossession and helplessness of the small-time farmers was surprising to see.
🍿 Added to the registry in 2001, an historical portrait made by an amateur couple, Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther. It’s a fascinating 14-minute home-made documentary, observing their German-American small farming community of Cologne, Minnesota (Pop. 350). It includes a surprising scene of turtle soup cooking at a local pub, and incidentally ends on September 1, 1939, the day WW2 started.
🍿 John Huston’s Noir The Asphalt Jungle was smooth as polished wood. A heist gone wrong, a tragic ‘hooligan’ who can’t get a break, a dame in love, corrupt policemen in an unnamed mid-western city, terrific pacing and Mise-en-scène. Also young Sterling Hayden (actually 34) and an early Marilyn Monroe role. 7/10.
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Why are there so many modern Korean thrillers about corruption in rural police precincts? Going by the book is another one, an indistinct, stupid story of a lowly traffic cop who is very conscientious about his job, and who is asked to participate in a faux-bank robbery training exercise. Inspired by ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ maybe, but not as good. 2/10.
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Ma Belle, My Beauty, by Marion Hill in her first time feature. There aren’t too many films dealing with polyamory (’Jules et Jim’? ’The Dreamers’?), so that’s refreshing. A young woman visits her former lovers who had since got married and moved into a gorgeous country house in the south of France. The magnificent countryside of the Loire valley, and the jazzy editing and score of this light plot are delightful, but the unique relationship was shallow and unresolved. The director has a good cinematic eye (and ear) though. 3/10.
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Groucho Marx X 2:
🍿 "Be open minded but not so open minded that your brain falls out.”
Here He Is... The One, The Only... Groucho is a standard 1991 documentary about Julius Marx, the original rebel and inspiration to Bugs Bunny. The comedy of the Marx Brothers, was actually the impetus that made me love the cinema; I never heard of them before 1974, when I lived in Paris and discovered their 13 movies at La Cinémathèque française.
🍿 ...”You can have any kind of a home you want. You can even get stucco. Oh, how you can get stuck-oh!...”
The Cocoanuts, the Marx Brothers first feature film (which survived): A thin story about Florida land swindling which allows them to engage in their famous routines. The auxiliary plot is lame and out-dated, but their anarchist madness is as enjoyable as always.
All of their comedies can be viewed on Internet Archive!
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Primal Fear, a tired, unoriginal courtroom drama, with all the worst 1990′s cinematic clichés of arrogant lawyers, Chicago politics, police procedural, abusing clergy, schizophrenic murderers, legal shenanigans, and 10 other topics. Worst film of the week - 1/10.  
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John Mulaney’s old “What’s New Pussycat?” number was hilarious, but his new Stand up special Baby J was a self-centered snooze fest. The room where it was played was spectacular, but I had enough after 15 minutes.
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2 short YouTube compilation essays:
🍿 The Camera and the Mirror, A Love Story, about mirrors as a tool for visual storytelling. By some guy with a strange accent and a deep voice who has many other terrific shorts. (From).
🍿 Cake on film, a sweet supercut of people indulging in cakes, pies and other desserts, from ‘Marie Antoinette’ to ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’, and a few others in between.  
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(My complete movie list is here)
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