#i’m not saying this in a girlboss way but a ‘that was incredibly hot’ way lol

[aardvaark]

love how many major fight scenes in The Boys are just women beating the absolute crap out of some evil fuck

#kimiko the boys #annie january #queen maeve #margaret shaw #the boys #the boys tv #maggie shaw #starlight the boys #dominique mcelligott #erin moriarty #kimiko miyashiro #karen fukuhara #karen fukuhara in the flashdance song scene IM OBSESSED #when they all beat the shit out of stormfront i just realised i’d never seen a fight scene that was all women. like a million all men ones #i’m not saying this in a girlboss way but a ‘that was incredibly hot’ way lol #q #wren speaks

[redflagshipwriter]

Hi, it's Tim (just Tim) chapter 6

Masterpost

San Francisco was a breath of fresh air. It would have been better if Dick wasn’t shepherding him there like the world’s most anxious and chatty herding dog. Tim halfway wanted to make a break for it to see if Dick would bark at him.

He nobly resisted the urge. He actually hadn’t gotten in trouble for going no contact. Incredibly, Bruce hadn’t noticed that he had been with Superboy. He must really be wound up about the Red Hood.

Speaking of- “What’s the Red Hood done that makes B think I’m the target to be concerned about?” Tim asked.

Dick looked a little ill. He clearly didn’t want to answer. “Well, he’s been pretty clear,” he said apologetically. “Very clear. A lot of metaphors about breaking off your wings that B is taking pretty seriously. It’s like English class all over again,” he complained. Dick scrunched up his face and gestured wildly with his long elegant hands. “There was this like, poetic reference that I didn’t get, but it was about stomping on a bird and crushing all their bones under your boot. B had to look it up.” He cocked his head to the side at the end.

…This guy was referencing poets B didn't know offhand, and they were meant to think he was some big scary thug?

“...So he’s, uh, well-read, then,” Tim concluded, adding it to the very short list of things they knew about the Red Hood. “Loser.”

“We shouldn’t say that,” Dick demurred, which meant ‘lol yeah.”

Tim gave the older bird a judgemental look for even trying as Dick typed in pass codes for Titan Tower. That was their whole thing as Bats. They took information and made deductions. This particular deduction made him feel cockier. While the big bad Red Hood had been wasting time reading, Tim had been studying the blade and uh, making out with a really hot guy. Heh. He couldn't hold in the self satisfied smirk. Hood was a loser. He could use his time much better than by reading moldy old books.

Dick stayed long enough to get Tim settled, but he was clearly anxious to get back to Gotham.

Tim was torn. On the one hand, he did not like essentially being benched. But… Well, he wasn't benched outside of Gotham, Tim decided, wandering through the shared kitchen and rummaging around for a snack. He could go on any Titans mission that came up. He opened the fridge and squinted suspiciously at something in the vegetable crisper.

He had always assumed someone really liked potatoes. But knowing what he did now, he wondered if those were Kon’s groceries. Did the guy just eat raw fruit like some kind of lunatic?

…Maybe no one kept potatoes there after all. He had thought it was weird since he never really saw anyone cook. Tim picked the suspect up and sniffed at it. This ugly thing was a fruit?

Well. He was brave and he was bold. Tim bit through the skin. His teeth sank in with much less resistance than he expected: not a raw potato. It tasted okay. This was Kon’s favorite flavor? Tim had another bite and mulled it over. It was alright. It wasn’t exactly bacon and artichoke pizza or sour cherry candy, though.

Huh. He shut the fridge door with his hip and made his way to his room, planning to drop off his travel bag.

A window opened and slammed shut nearby. Tim detoured to see who it was. His heart beat hard against his chest when he rounded the corner.

“Superboy,” he said casually, as if he hadn't been making out with the guy a couple hours ago.

“Hey, Rob.” Kon breezed past, obviously lost in thought. He stopped midair and frowned. “Do you smell mango?”

Tim hid the half eaten fruit in his utility belt. “No. Maybe you're just hungry.”

Gaslight gatekeep girlbossing worked, as always. Kon let out a “huh,” cocked his head, and zipped away to the kitchen.

Ah, hell. Tim realized he was smiling like a dope to the empty hallway. He wiped the expression from his face and hoped that no one ever reviewed that section of security tape. How embarrassing.

He hid away in his room for a while, letting tactics and plans stew away in his mind. He was hyper aware of the fact that Kon was somewhere in the tower. Was anyone else? He didn't know. He should check.

While he was at it, he should try and hack into whatever B was hiding about the Red Hood on the bat computer. Tim spun idly in his desk chair as he thought it over. Bruce was being twitchy. He wanted Tim so far away from the situation that Tim knew in his gut it would eventually be his problem. That was how this shit always worked; the most dramatic thing possible would happen.

He emerged from his room to find Kon in some kind of argument with Cassie. Tim decided to stay way the fuck away from that. He steered to the living room. Raven looked up from her book, expression flatly unamused.

“Robin.” She acknowledged. Then she looked away.

She was in a great mood, then.

He checked through the logs: it was just the four of them. As Tim watched, Cassie's status dinged to display ‘out of the tower’.

Just the three of them, then. And Raven wasn't going to come seek anyone out.

Tim went Kon hunting. Kon was sprawled out in his room, tossing something up and down. It glittered where it caught the air.

“Superboy,” he said, leaning on the doorframe casually. Did it look casual? Did it look douchey? Tim stood up straight before Kon looked up.

“Hey, Rob,” Kon said. He flashed his toothiest grin at Tim. Fuck, he was pretty. “Did you want something?”

“Yeah, I wanted to talk. Can I come in?”

Kon sat up on his elbows. “Come right the hell in, my dude.” He cocked his head to the side and a curl fell over his face. “Everything alright?” A smile tugged one half of his mouth up mischievously. “Come sit on my lap and tell me all about it.”

The thing was that Kon said shit like that all the time. He said it to Tim, he said it to Cassie, he said it to any number of civilians. Tim had thought that Kon was just being kind of a bitch to him.

“Thanks,” he said easily, and sat with his knees on either side of Kon’s thighs.

Kon’s mouth fell open. Tim waited, but no sound came out.

“I was actually wondering- you say things like that to me a lot,” Tim continued, feeling very smug. Haha, Kon hadn't just been needling him. He'd been pulling pigtails. He wanted Tim, what a loser. “A guy starts to get the impression that you're interested. And…” he dragged his gaze pointedly down Kon’s perfect body. “I'm not disinterested,” he finished coyly.

“Robin.” Kon swallowed visibly. “I uh. I'm really flattered.”

Ah. Fuck. Tim had a very bad feeling.

“I'm kind of seeing someone at the moment.” Kon’s voice cracked. “If- if I hadn't been, I would be all over this. But I am. So.” His hands hovered uselessly a few inches from Tim’s sides.

Well then. Tim slid off Kon’s lap. He didn't let howling frustration show on his face. He was cock blocking himself. “I see,” he said simply. “No worries. I'll see you around.”

“Right.” Kon’s voice cracked again. He shoved his hands in his pockets. His eyes were wild.

Wow. Okay, so life isn't fair. It was good to know. Tim sulked his way back to his room. Well no, actually, he hated this information a lot. But it was useful for his prediction models. He should have known better than to think things would work out.

On the one hand, Kon was apparently loyal to his flavor of the week. Tim could choose to appreciate that, since he was flavor for early September.

Or he could be mad that he'd apparently chosen the wrong ID to flirt with Kon under. He paced an angry circuit in his room around the pile of things he was going to eventually reconstruct. Hell. Fuck. This sucked. Kon had a crush on Robin, the guy he actually knew. What a wasted opportunity!

He calmed down enough to think.

Of course that was when sirens went off. Tim booked it to the landing pad, pulling up the alert on his wrist computer on the way.

They had a mission. Okay. Tim compartmentalized away all the mortification. He could deal with it after they got back.

#red just tim #timkon #tim drake

[juniperhillpatient]

ok I’m like… back to this. I do love that the coffin of andy & leyley is so brutally bluntly HORROR as in not pg 13 blumhouse ghost horror movies that shy away from anything too taboo but horror that’s meant to offend & upset. I like the way it sees shit you’re not “supposed” to talk about & goes as hard as it can like - I don’t think at this point it’s a secret to literally anyone who follows me or has ever discussed fiction with me ever that the controversial or daring are obvious draws for me in any genre but particularly my favorite genre of horror.

like an anon suggested this to me, I saw the words “cannibalism” “incest” & “botched satanic ritual” as soon as I googled & was ready to check it out BUT I think it’s worth noting that it’s not the dark concepts themselves that got this game its well earned hype or that ensure that it lives rent free in my head & the heads of other fans.

I think the writers have created really compelling & complex multilayered characters & a fascinating storyline with a lot of questions left unanswered about the nature of these demons & of human souls & the world these characters inhabit & I’m being so sincere here I also think it’s a really thought provoking critique or at least exploration of the american nuclear family.

I already said this but I would’ve stopped caring pretty fast if andrew & ashley were not more than their archetypes which SURE are fun we love a quirky evil girlboss & her simp boyfriend brother but the fun archetypes are not enough on their own to keep me hooked. luckily, these are some of the least 1 dimensional characters I’ve ever seen. this got carried away talking about how good I think the game is & giving an obligatory disclaimer that yeah, I totally got into it initially for shallow & edgy reasons lol but I actually wanted to talk about the themes because I genuinely think it’s an incredibly well crafted story. anyway -

I think it’s really interesting that ashley is the one that is originally shown believing / hoping their mom hasn’t truly abandoned them. andrew discourages her from having hope in their mom or considering trying to find her until it’s about finding sacrifices for the demon & getting money. yet this initial dynamic is totally forgotten once they’re home. ashley just wants to kill these motherfuckers while andrew is busy playing mind games & - one might argue- playing house / pretending be a happy family. it’s andrew who is offered the olive branch. who we see considering sparing his parents or at least feeling conflicted about killing them. in the flashbacks we see that “andy” was forced to take care of “leyley” & she uses it against him “mom says you have to play with me.”

ashley is so depressingly achingly desperate for any hint of affection & it’s so obvious the reason she’s latched into andrew is that he’s the only one who’s ever chosen her. that’s why she’s so obsessed with calling andrew “andy” despite the conflict it constantly creates. andy helped her hide a body. a possibly hot take but I don’t think leyley was going “yay murder” in her child brain - I don’t think she cared that the girl died don’t get me wrong - but I do believe it was an accident. this is a happy memory though because it’s the only time in ashley’s entire life that someone has chosen her with that level of commitment. yet for andrew it’s horrific & traumatic & he wants to get away from it - or so he tells himself. maybe his parents were decent to him or at least not actively hateful how they were to ashley but it’s abundantly clear based on the fact the story’s premise relies on them leaving him to fucking starve to death that they do not give a fuck about him.

when mrs. graves tells andrew that there’s still hope for him & that she always cared about him the compliments she chooses are telling - they thought he was easy, quiet, a good kid - they thought they could have another (& hand her off to him to take care of). and ofc it’s worth noting mrs. graves only says all this to save her own skin & would never freely talk about caring about andrew.

so andy is living this cold not abusive but certainly empty & devoid of nurturing life & along comes leyley. she’s annoying & needy but she loves him with such reckless abandon. adult ashley’s words say it all. “If only you could love me with half the heart I love you with.” but he DOES he just doesn’t know how to show it the way she does. so he chooses her again & again & tries to make her happy with violence & bending to her will & showing her he’d do anything for her with everything he can except the one thing she wants which is simple affection.

as things get more & more dire ashley gets more abusive, controlling & manipulative embodying the worst aspects of her mother - a cold heartless bitch who never cared about anyone but herself - & andrew gets more & more apathetic just like his worthless father who’s barely even a person in his wife’s shadow.

it’s a really tragic story & I love this idea of characters on the run but they’re really running from themselves & that’s something you can never escape. how telling is it that the one thing ashley doesn’t want is to be buried in the same grave as her parents? but this story is about a grave it’s always been about a coffin in one way or another, they thought they escaped when they got out of the apartment but they’re still in it because they’ll always still be in it, you can’t escape from who you are at your core & there’s a reason ashley having tarred soul is such a glaring theme & episode 2 (in some versions) ends with andrew gaining a mark on his hand from the demon. they’re marked & there’s no escape. I’m sorry it’s just REALLY good horror. ok I’m done for now

#tcoaal #this might make no sense but like. it makes sense in my head ok #I really wanted to ramble about this game it’s like. filled my brain with worms #the coffin of andy and leyley #andrew graves #ashley graves

[chews-straws]

💭 Neon Genesis Evangelion Headcanons

Asuka

Listens to MARINA

Probably bullies Americans

Would make fun of blondes like some people make fun of red heads

Might listen to Mitski and then bully Shinji for listening to it, but she secretly likes it aswell

Her hair probably puffs up from humidity and will fight anyone who comments on it

Was teased for having red hair, until she beat them up

A literal girlboss

Mommy issues (I’m sorry)

She would use twitter just to make people fight online

Rei

Listens to Mitski because Shinji recommended it, now it’s all she listens to.

Asuka makes fun of her for it but she does not give one damn

Tried growing out her hair once

Has gotten the “of course you have blue hair and pronouns” comment once

A dry texter, would leave you on seen

Incredibly formal for no reason

Asuka tried curling her hair once, it didn’t go well.

Listens to Mitski with shinji for hours on end without saying a word

Kaworu

Listens to Mitski just so that he can listen to it with shinji

Asuka tried dying his hair once, but he decided to keep it natural

Tried writing shinji a love poem once

He has his own personal aesthetic of light colours, unless shinji recommends it he won’t wear dark colours

Probably a hot chocolate person, that or just plain water.

Goes over the top for anything shinji related

He has his own skincare and haircare routine that he sometimes does with Asuka.

Tried wearing contacts once. Then glasses.

Uses “:)” “<3” when texting shinji

Like Rei, he’s formal but in a fancy way

Shinji

Listens to Mitski religiously

Listened to Mother Mother once or twice

Wears matching outfits with kaworu

Says he wants to get his ears pierced but is afraid of the pain

Tried styling his hair better, but it didn’t fit him

Once his mother messed up his haircut and he had a bowl cut for a while…

Used ChatGPT to make replies for people who text him when he’s not feeling like texting back, unless it’s kaworu

Would go gazing at the moon with kaworu

Constantly gets bullied online by asuka </3

Therapy sessions with kaworu

Sometimes he starts to ramble a lot and apologizes profusely when he realizes what he’s doing (kaworu just sits and listens)

Probably got into astrology at some point

Bet you Lookism folks didn’t expect a NGE post mwuahaha,,,!!! My content is now a mixed bag

#nge kaworu #neon genesis kaworu #neon genesis rei #neon genesis shinji #neon genesis evangelion #neon genesis meme #neon genesis asuka #nge shinji #nge asuka #nge rei #nge meme #asuka #kaworu x shinji #evangelion kaworu #shinji

[cantfuckbracket]

Can't Fuck Bracket - Group Stage. Group 8: The Mysterious Benedict Society (TV) Characters

LD Curtain versus Jeffers versus Dr Garrison

[ID: The unfuckable pride flag overlaid with the "no bitches" meme. Over it are pictures of the contestants. They are all tanned white people. Curtain has hair slicked to the side and is shown pursing his lips and throwing his hands back; Jeffers has a moustache and is grimacing; and Dr Garrison looks like she's about to sneeze. Over them are sparkles and a heart with a butt, and in between them are peach emojis crossed out with the word "vs" in them. End ID]

Propaganda:

LD Curtain: "He's both a cringefail loser (See: 1. repeatedly beaten by a group of literal children, at one point even saying "they have proven to be my only worthy adversaries" (<- man talking about a group of eleven year olds), 2. screaming at a child, while visibly tearing up, "I AM NOT SAD! I AM *FINE!*", 3. genuinely thinking he can simply say no to having narcolepsy, 4. keeps little painted figurines of his brother and co and does magic tricks with them to intimidate an eleven year old, sincerely thinks this is an extremely cool thing to do), a bad dad (terrible both in the sense that he's emotionally abusive and in the sense that he thinks he's doing suuuuuuuch a good job and he very much isn't), and just like. evil?? but not in the sexy way. and also he's in denial about it which makes it even LESS sexy. Negative sexy if you will. "I'm not bad. who thinks that" sir you are standing in your mind control machine. "Sticky! Friend! Evil is a bit harsh!" sir you psychologically tortured him. anyway he does stupid little magic tricks and is a complete failure but somehow manages to convince everyone that he's charming and actually very cool. while obviously like, starting a cult or being just visibly a cringefail maniac two seconds from flying off the handle. anywya this got out of hand the point is: UNFUCKABLE."

Jeffers: "he's just. a sad little man. the biggest loser i've ever seen. [shrek voice] he can't even secure a perimeter! no but seriously the way he just like. fails at literally everything he does? he even annoys CURTAIN with his incompetence/general loseritude. if he tried to have sex i think somehow the bed would end up on fire and he'd have to leave literally with his head hanging. somehow his dick would just fall off and bounce on the floor like a sad little worm on a string. i'm so sorry for giving you that mental image and if you want to kill me for it i understand"

Dr Garrison: "Dr. Garrison is *the* representation for unfuckable insane women in STEM we’ve all been waiting for. She spends the entirety of the show conducting unethical experiments. To be perfectly honest, I’m not sure if she’s ever heard of the concept of “relaxing” or “having fun.” She has the energy of “someone who should’ve had a girlboss villain arc and had a midlife crisis instead.” Actually, that is literally what happens. She was fired and framed by her boss and she *should’ve* had her hot girl divorcee revenge arc; instead, she’s hiding out in a root cellar paying off a gang of teenage lesbians to kidnap a 7 year old that she needs for further unethical experiments. The last time we see her on screen, she’s sobbing collapsed on a table as the 7-year old her lesbians kidnapped administers what I like to call “malicious therapy.” It is important to note that she is wearing what appears to be a potato sack throughout this entire encounter.

Basically, her cringe fail swag combined with her “never heard of the concept of fun” energy as well as her impending midlife crisis combine to create an incredible aura of unfuckability. (However, I am a fool. I could fix her <3)"

#the mysterious benedict society #mysterious benedict society #mbs #mbs tv #ld curtain #ledroptha curtain #jeffers mbs

[catierambles]

Demon

Pairing: Syverson x Unnamed Female OFC

WC 595 (just a drabble)

Warnings: OFC has depression and it hits her hard and Sy can tell. Mentions of depression and dark feelings.

@liecastillo , @kmuir1 , @ms-betsy-fangirl , @kebabgirl67 , @themanfromu , @duckymomo-26 , @identity2212 , @mis-lil-red , @7eamfantasy

"Hey, doll?" Syverson's voice called through the apartment, "You seen my wallet?"

"Kitchen island." She responded immediately and he came out from their bedroom, seeing it right where she said it was.

"What's up with you?" He asked, having recognized that tone of voice.

"Nothing, I'm fine." She said, her voice flat.

"No, you're not fine. That's your "I'm not fine but I'm puttin' up a front" voice." He said, going up behind her at her desk. "Babygirl, what's wrong?" He put his hands on her shoulders but she shrugged out of them. Nope, not fine, not fine at all.

“Really, Sy, I’m good.” He spun her chair around, leaning over and bracing himself with his hands on the arms as he looked at her. There was a slight furrow to her brow and her eyes were clouded and serious.

“I know that look.” He said, “That’s your “I’m in my own head” look and we both know that’s a dangerous place for you to be. Talk to me babe, what’s goin’ on.”

“It’s just…”

“Just what?” He asked and she jut her thumb behind her at the computer screen. Looking over her shoulder, he read the words and sighed. “Baby, you got a demon in your head and it likes to make a fuss every now and then, but you know none of it is true, right?” She didn’t answer him so he reached out, tilting her face up to him with a finger under her chin. “Right?” Still no answer and he sighed. “Baby, you are not stupid. You’re not dumb. You’re not useless or worthless, and this world would definitely not be a better place without you in it. What you are is smart, beautiful, capable, and strong. The fact that you have this shit runnin’ through your head and yet you still can make people feel good about themselves is incredible all on its own. You’re not a burden on me or anyone else. Your mind blows me away. The way you think and see the world is on a whole ‘nother level. Why the hell you’re with a grunt like me makes no damn sense, but I’m happy you are. You love me better and more than anyone else ever has, and I thank my lucky stars every day I wake up and see you with me.” She didn’t say anything, but he could tell he was getting through to her. “Now, that demon in your head? You gotta tell it to shut the fuck up.”

“I try, but it doesn't work.”

“Then imagine me telling it to shut the fuck up like it’s some Boot fresh out of basic who thinks it’s hot shit.” He said and she snorted, a small smile pulling at her lips. “There you go! Worked, didn’t it?” She gave a small nod and he smiled before leaning in and pressing a kiss to her forehead. “Now, what you’re gonna do is get up, put on one of your girlboss femdom playlists and go lay down. I’ll be in in a bit.”

“Sy…”

“Woman, I will sushi roll you in a blanket and then dick you down good and hard, make you a happy little sushi roll if I gotta. Probably going to anyway.”

“I never should have shown you that meme.”

“I’m glad you did, now get up.” He said and stood as she got up from the chair, pulling her into his arms and pressing a kiss to her hair before she moved away, walking away and down the hall into their bedroom.

#henry cavill #captain syverson #demon #my writing

[lesbianrobin]

The only real complaint I have is about Nancy and, well, as strong as she is shown to be, not only has she not progressed, because cutting your hair and getting a perm and shooting a gun is not indicative of progression, is her need to be in a relationship or the romantic center to some man. Season one can be excused with her not breaking up with Steve. Also, her cute moment at the end of the final episode with Jonathan can be excused. In the second season we see Steve trying, being uncomfortable at Barb’s with her parents but being there and supportive. We see he and Nancy have a cute two moments before the drunken bullshit confession. Arguably the biggest dick move he did was leave her at the party, though he assumed correctly that Jonathan would take her home. We don’t see whether or not he said anything to Jonathan, or am I not remembering. They had a fight. Steve did not break up with her. She cheats on him, and only seems regretful when they talk when they see each other again but allows him to take the entire blame as though he was the one who was wrong. His character then continued on to be in love with her and heartbroken with no catharsis, because had he known that she had cheated on him he would have been able to move on readily.

For all the Girlboss bullshit we are supposed to believe of her character, again cutting your hair and getting a perm and learning how to shoot does not make you a strong character, she still has an issue of not being connected or romantically paired with a male. Season four cemented this, in the third season how did she act around Steve? It wasn’t romantic and granted they were going through some things but in season four they are also going through some things that are a little bit more dangerous. And she has no problem with giving him the moon eyes, speaking softly to him and flirting as though to give him some sort of an indication that there is a chance now that Jonathan is out of the picture. Jonathan‘s return? She drops Steve like a hot potato. Again, he is in love with her and Robin and Eddie are pushing for him to make a move, he’s still in love with her because he doesn’t know that he did nothing wrong in their relationship and that Nancy cheated on him with someone who I will assume has become a good friend of his that he thinks he can trust. It just irks me because the writing for her is so abysmal. She is the exact same way she was in the previous season with a haircut and with a fascination for owning multiple guns. That’s it. She is still bratty, a know it all, rude, and a little bit self involved. I say self-involved because of what she said to Jonathan and her little Oliver twist metaphor towards him, being completely tone deaf to the fact that she comes from a middle-class family. Middle class family with two parents and a father that has a good job whereas Jonathan comes from a family the struggles. And she does not apologize for that either. I’m really hoping they let some new writers in the writing room for season five. Because Steve was able to develop, the kids were able to develop, the adult characters were able to develop and yet somehow our main teenage female has not developed at all, and from what I see is becoming increasingly I guess I could say the character that most people like to analyze and drag on because of her annoying personality. From the get go she was not incredibly likable, even to Barb she was a bitch. You don’t invite a friend to a party, a party where they tell you they don’t want to go to because they don’t like the people there. And then you throw them out because you wanna have sex. She told her and begged her to come and then told her, rudely, to leave because instead of her friends comfort her new boyfriend took priority. You see what I’m saying? And she has remained that way, I did like the fact that she wants to avenge Barb for what happened, but how much of it is because Barb was murdered and the monster did it and how much of it is Nancy trying to move on from the guilt in her part in it, or so she believes.

And I would love to see her growing up, and actually showing it in her admitting the things she did wrong because she realizes that she has to admit it to move on. Has she seen a vision of Barb the way that Max saw the vision of Billy? Apologizing to the vision of Barb and admitting that she had a part in that, because she had she respected Barb’s boundaries and not begged her and then tossed her aside for Steve, then Barb would not have died. She deserves her own catharsis and that way would be her owning up to her shit. Also, her breaking up with Jonathan. I have nothing against Jonathan, I don’t dislike his character, Nancy just deserves to be single. Growing up is realizing that you are more than the guy that you’re dating. And it seems she understands that but at the same time her bouncing back-and-forth between her ex and her current, cause she did she was flirting with Steve and giving him the Google eyes and then Jonathan shows up as she bounces back to him, shows how little they wanted her character to mature.

She has goals but she’s being weighed down by the writers insistent need to have her paired off for the sake of being paired off, I’m gonna assume that Jonathan is there a little self insert in the show, and that’s why. In all honesty it would be better if she went off to college single after everything was said and done because she was actually moving on from Hopkins as a whole. Not getting back together with Steve, because at this point I think it’s pretty obvious through all of his character development and personal growth that he’s too good for her. I really would love to see her admitting what she did and apologizing though, because I feel like that’s the only way he would move on from her and actually meet someone and give someone new a chance because he’s not chasing her. I’m just saying, I love what Nancy could be, I love the development she should have had because she’s falling back so hard, and ultimately I am annoyed by the chances the writers refused to take. The actress is brilliant, it’s not like she couldn’t do the progression it’s just that the writers have this thing where they want to keep her in a specific place. They are trying to convince the audience that she is progressive and strong character because she can shoot a gun, she’s not progressive, she was a strong character to begin with even before the gun.

Nancy is the most insufferable and annoying character because the writers refused to give her a personality, because it doesn’t feel like she has a personality or she only has a personality that compliments and clashes with whatever character she is in a scene with. It’s very annoying and I’m sure that the actress is probably sick and tired of that shit, specifically this season her flirting with Steve and Steve entertaining the thought of still being in love with her was an insult to both their characters. Nancy’s character should move forward not fall behind just because her boyfriend is in California and because they’re having problems. Because all it shows is that her character is willing to hurt other people. And for what? To feel good about herself and her self gratification in that? Seriously, had Steve’s character had an actual girlfriend this season she would’ve been nasty and mean and rude, remember how she spoke to Robin when she saw her the first time? The and who are you with a stink face as she jester towards her jealously? Because I remember that and I was really annoyed by it. This went on way too long but I’m right I think. The writers should be ashamed of themselves for taking a character that should’ve progressed with everyone else and holding her back and trying to tell people that because she has a gun in her hand that she’s progressive. Again, you are not progressive and you have not developed character development if you don’t change any part of your personality and you only cut your hair and wheeled a gun. That’s just my opinion.





goddamn

#appreciate you sharing your thoughts! there's just kinda. a lot here that idk how to respond to rly #long post #asks

[khaloymes-a]

Chris Klemens Starters !

Sentence starters inspired by this Chris Klemens video. Feel free to change wording or anything else to fit your needs!

“Can you tell that I’ve been crying all morning? I’ve been crying all morning.”

“No, we’re fine, guys. We’re fiiiine. We’re fiiiiiine.”

“That house was literally so dark, there was no fucking light. It was like a log cabin in a horror movie.”

“Food is something I take too seriously.”

“Never has anyone ever been so excited to not collect a check.”

“Girlboss Mode Activated!”

“What the fuck is good, Kyle?!”

“I can barely remember what I did yesterday, let alone what someone said in a 2014 Vine.”

“I have Takis, I have jalapeños, and I have real ass cream cheese.”

“Do other people have this much trouble, or am I just extra Caucasian?”

“I have this hollowed out and we’re just gonna put some laxative in.”

“That was so sad, from start to finish. That sentence was devastating.”

“Hey Houston? We have a fucking GINORMOUS problem.”

“My mouth is watering, it’s like ‘Give me more, bitch!’”

“What the fuck are we doing here?”

“Well Philly Cream Cheese, we meet again.”

“I don’t like it, but I need to try it because I need answers.”

“It’s a dead watermelon, why am I so fucking scared?”

“It’s like when I lived in New York and it struck midnight: I’m doing two lines now.”

“Oh my god. At first I thought I was eating a hot dog, then I was like it’s cold and it’s also watermelon.”

“Fuck, and I mean FUCK, whoever came up with this.”

“Next up on this nonstop thrill ride, we have nacho Dorito chips dipped in marshmallow cheese sauce.”

“Yep, yep, yep. Wow!”

“I got laxative number two of the day: Cheese Whiz.”

“This is a sight I never thought I’d see in my lifetime, let alone yours.”

“I hope this microwave doesn’t give me radiation and I just drop dead on the spot! That would suck.”

“Nothing screams party like putting marshmallows in queso.”

“Can you believe I gave this any sort of optimism?”

“It’s not even gross, it’s just off-putting.”

“I’m done giving my energy to this!”

“I love peanut butter and I love pickles. What I don’t love is this bullshit.”

“I have pickles in my fridge, but I really like those ones, and don’t want them ruined, because no offense to that man, some fucking idiot on the Internet.”

“I’m not proud of this, but when I was younger, I used to drink pickle juice.”

“I was gonna say I had hope for this, but look where that fucking got me.”

“What in the Jimmy Neutron? Gotta blast!”

“Hello? Is anybody there? Where is everyone? What the fuck was that?”

“You will never catch me dead with a pickle and peanut butter. If you do, that’s the saddest way I went out.”

“I am sorry to the person in the Tiktok who I called an idiot, you are not as big an idiot as the fucking watermelon person. Unless you also came up with that. In that case? Idiot.”

“I think I’m making a mistake, but my hopes are incredibly high.”

“I’m a blue raspberry bitch!”

“This is gonna take out a tooth.”

“Oh yeah, I’ve always wanted a lollipop in the shape of a foot!”

“We’re gonna take some of these crack rocks and-“

“Ew, it has like wig hairs coming off of it. Okay bitch, me too!”

“It has some terrestrial vibes. Like, Saturn who?”

“Oh. Oh! Ow. Oh?”

“That was enjoyable.”

“If I wasn’t so scared of becoming Jack Sparrow and losing three teeth, that’d be a 10 out of 10.”

#( memes. ) #FEEL FREE TO RB <3

[ludling]

I know I said I would wait...but Hacks s02e03 and 04 thoughts under the cut...

Look, it definitely gets a bit better than the first two eps, and there was quite a few moments where I really laughed out loud...but they were like little boats (ships lol)  in a sea of unfortunate continued okay-ness

The Good

1. I fucking love Weed so much. I hope she’s not gone for good, because I feel like her character has been chiefly played for laughs, without the opportunity of real depth every other side-character got last season. She ate some of D’s night cream cause she thought it was dip. COME ON.

2. The lesbian cruise was inspired and holy shit LPJ have been reading our fics...it’s embarrassing..but also... there were so many moments I actually hollered out loud. DEB GIVING AVA A MANICURE?!!!!??? I mean I don’t wanna say queer-baiting, but if that’s how they’re gonna do it, I’m fine with it. I liked how it all went well for Deborah, until her internalised misogyny bit her in the ass. I like that she wingmanned for Ava and considered where she stands sexually with Ava’s help. Loved that for both of them.

3. I enjoyed the moment where D turns the bus around and then gets in the dumpster with Ava. Like you can’t even pretend you hate her for longer than five minutes. That’s true love baby.

4. Same with how she essentially flirted with the young female comic to make Ava jealous. ‘What beautiful hands you have’???? I mean COME ON.

The Bad

1. The pacing continues to be whack. Like everything feels like it’s been condensed to the barest emotional beats. One minute they’re in the dumpster kind of okay again, the next they’re at the grand canyon? I feel like a little more emotional warm-up would have made that moment so much weightier.

The first season was this lovely slow immersion into Deborah and her Vegas world. Everything took time, and felt incredibly earned. Nothing in season two has felt like that so far, and honestly that is my biggest issue with it.

2. I loathed it when Deborah started singing, and the cruise audience sang along with her. It feels like another tedious example of Girlboss!Vance, and not like something that would organically happen.

3. Damian should have more scenes.

4. Marcus should have less scenes. I think he’s fine, but I think the writers give his boring-ass character way too much screen-time, when they could be focusing on Weed, or Damian, or DJ, or literally anyone else. But then, historically, I am a Marcus-hater so this point might truly be personal.

Anyway, those are my thoughts, I’m not going to even pretend that more hot-takes aren't coming next Thursday.

The one nice element to all of this is that the second season being this mediocre, actually makes me feel like getting back to work on my multi-chapter Hacks WIP, which I thought S2 would make completely obsolete. So there is that.

#hacks hbo #spoilers #ava x deborah

[moonlarking]

So I’ve seen the latest Cinderella movie, and as it is my favorite fairy tale, I’m gonna say a few things about it:

First off, this is not really a “Cinderella” movie - Ella isn’t the typical kind and forgiving and gentle girl you see, and while that’s a character choice I didn’t like at first, I came around and now I see that she has those traits, she’s just also funny and awkward and headstrong, and those traits overshadow the traits that make a Cinderella. In most other adaptations of fairytales, this “girlboss” characterization doesn’t work, but it fits very well in this one.

There’s also no real abuse or servitude at the hands of her stepfamily besides half a scene and a couple offhand mentions, and no emotional trauma because of it. If you’re looking for either of these two things that typically characterize Cinderella movies, 2015 Cinderella did it best.

I see a lot of people screaming “girlboss!” and “fake-woke” and “Mary Sue!” And yeah, I get that, but it works. I have a couple things to complain about Billy Porter’s character, but as far as the Ella-entrepreneur thing goes, I like it. Again, for the millionth time, this doesn’t really explore the typical themes of a Cinderella movie. It’s not really a fresh take, premise-wise, but it works. Also, this Ella is not a “not like other girls” character - she performs femininity and is still a strong character.

This is a POP JUKEBOX MUSICAL. I did not know that coming into it, so on the first watch I was underwhelmed.

The costumes and props for extras are all over the place period-wise, but you just gotta get used to the chaos and let it be.

The song choices are also all over the place, and you just have to sit back and let it happen. It ends up more or less working.

I loved the original songs; Million to One was very generic, but lovely nonetheless. Dream Girl stole the show for me - I’ll talk more about it later, but it was incredible.

Somebody to Love was either Queen heresy or simultaneously the most flamboyant, hilarious, and sexy thing I’ve ever seen. I can’t decide.

Really, this movie has some good points to make, but really it’s just a fun movie that’s not to be taken too seriously. Again, if you want that kind of Cinderella movie, go watch 2015 Cinderella.

The running sea monster gag was hilarious. Honestly? Most of the jokes hit their mark. This is a funny, feel-good movie.

The image of Pierce Brosnan screaming “GET OFF MY DAD” is now burned in my brain. I love it.

The whole sleazeball Thomas plotline doesn’t have enough screentime, so it doesn’t have much emotional impact.

Also, why is Ella lying on the bed and being really depressed??? I think in that scene she was supposed to be feeling that way bcs Vivian had just told her the prince was gonna marry that other princess (who is DEFINITELY a lesbian) but that just didn’t play out in the scene. Girl you got a hot queen to go meet and a future to chase!!!

QUEEN Tatiana is the hottest one in the movie. I take no criticism.

“Your Highness was the man whose blood I spilled to take this crown” ICONIC

I will wax poetry about Fra Fee and the definitely totally 100% canon relationship between Fra/Hench and Wibur

Honestly, you can tell that everyone on this movie just had fun. Half the time the background characters, like Robert’s posse, are just straight up vibing, and Camilla and Billy Porter really play off of each other. You can just tell that everyone making this was having a good time. Really living their best lives

I like Gwen a lot. Like, she was played off for laughs, but you connect with her as a character far more than you’d expect, just from the few lines she has in Am I Wrong and whatever other songs she’s in. I wish we had gotten to have more of her, and more interactions with characters that weren’t jokes. I especially wish we could have seen more of her interacting with her brother

I like her line “don’t let them control your life” in Am I Wrong - she says it to her brother, who is waking up to the realization that his life is mapped out by people that want to control him, and he doesn’t want any part of it. This is what she’s lived with for years and years, always being told to sit down and shut up and be a decoration, although she has meaningful contributions. She’s telling him to rebel, because that’s what she’s been doing; she understands how he feels, and she’s encouraging him. Gwen’s a chiche character, but those few lines she has in Am I Wrong give her more characterization and meaning than either of the stepsisters.

Honestly… Billy Porter was advertised as a “nonbinary fairy godmother,” but really he just plays the Gay™️ character, and Corden refers to him with he/him pronouns (obviously not all nb ppl use they/them pronouns, and many use he/him but I still feel like it was false advertising). Fab G was fun nevertheless, although VERY stereotypical gay with a capital G (I mean his first onscreen word is “Work!” Seriously. I’m not kidding. Ugh.) and his costume was absolutely GORGEOUS. Honestly all the characters’ costumes were incredible, and although I wasn’t a fan of the stepfamily’s floral prints, generally all of the costumes were beautiful. Which is fitting for a movie about a dressmaker.

Queen Beatrice was incredible and the dynamic between her and Rowan was just great. I’ve been tired by the “queen is either always dead or just a silent witness there to be nurturing and motherly, and occasionally a plot device with no characterization” trope. So I was so happy to see that Beatrice was an actual character! And can we talk about her rant at Rowan?? “Do you know how hard it is to just sit at your side and smile endlessly, like a decoration? My voice, completely silenced?” Up to that point, she’s only broken out of the “nurturing and motherly silent witness” type that I expected going into the movie with a few lines here and there. But this is where she tells Rowan, and the audience, that she knows what we expected of her, and she knows what she was doing. This is another subtle way the movie uses the stereotypes of a Cinderella movie against the audience.

One line that stood out to me in a very random place was Robert saying “you’ll be dressed by the finest dressmakers!” And Ella saying “I am a dressmaker.” It’s not the fashion she cares about, it’s getting to do what she loves.

Ok now I’m gonna talk IN DEPTH about Vivian, the stepmother

She’s a harsh, stern woman, but she also manages to be dynamic and stereotype-breaking— we’ve all seen the “villain has a tragic backstory” narrative before, but this pulls it off very well.

I really loved how they changed the Stepmother - like, throughout the movie, you keep waiting for her to do something just… needlessly cruel, but she never does. I’ll admit, the scene where she forbids Ella to go to the ball gets pretty close, but that just seems pretty in character for her, plus emotions are running high.

And even in that scene, you can tell that she expected Thomas to choose one of her daughters, not Ella, but she needs the money and security (it’s heavily implied that they’ve fallen on hard times after Ella’s father’s death), so even though it’s a blow to her and her daughters’ pride, she accepts.

I think that’s the beauty of it - you think Vivian is a manipulative, scheming monster, because that’s what you expect of the Evil Stepmother. But you come to realize that Vivian is just a hardhearted woman who’s been exploited and hurt, and she was being genuine throughout the film. When she told Ella she was sorry she hadn’t told her about the betrothal earlier, she meant it. That’s not to say she’s a good person, or that any of these things are excusable; it’s just to say that this film used the stereotypes against the audience.

Not to mention how, when she discovers Ella was the girl at the ball, she begs her on her knees to marry the prince! She’s not angry or jealous, she knows Ella will be happier and they will all be infinitely better off! I noticed how she immediately started being more tender with Ella, calling her family and such, subtle manipulation, and although I found it slightly out of character, because she hadn’t been *actually* manipulative anywhere else in the movie, I don’t think she meant it maliciously or even selfishly.

She admits that she was foolish to think either of her daughters could compete with any of the other princesses, not in a deprecating way towards the stepsisters, but in an “how could they ever compete with such riches, nobility, beauty, and talent in a world they were not born into” way. Also, no one ever makes jokes about Malvolia’s weight, which is something I appreciate, although I would appreciate not having a fat Ugly Stepsister at all, even if they deliberately cast out the Ugly part.

She doesn’t deprecate any of her daughters about things like their talents or looks, only their work/husband-catching skills

Can we talk about how Dream Girl???!?! How harsh and stoic she is in it, and then how close she is to breaking down as she lets everything out on the piano????

“The treasure you found: bury it. The only way out: marry it.” I like how this film highlights that the only (accessible) way out of poverty, abuse, and bad situations for women is to marry out of them. Of course, Ella proves that there is another way: women can make their own way, but it’s worth noting that Ella couldn’t do it on her own, and without her example, other girls probably wouldn’t ever be able to either.

“All that hope, and that pride/It’s a waste, it’s a lie”

“You’re so blind, you’re so green/You’ll give up, just like me”

“The wings are ornamental/They have no intention of letting you fly”

Man those lyrics hit

Anyways I think that’s it if you read all this way thank you idk how to do cuts or I would’ve spared you all this

Have a good day/night y’all

#cinderella #cinderella 2021 cast #cinderella 2021 #camilla cabello #billy porter #fuck amazon #but this was pretty good #4/5 stars #it’s a feel good movie #amazon prime #movie review #idina menzel #cinderella adaptations

[breadharmskoi]

wherever you go, there you are

- this one hurts even more!!!  gonna start by prefacing that FINALLY MY BRAIN CLICKED oluwande saw jim in their room and i went “oh no they’re kinda cute and also hot aw FUCK”, as if i wasn’t already in love with too many characters on this goddamn show

- everyone who wanted mary to get her happy ending was so fucking right.  she’s a legend.  her ponce of a husband up and left and she went “ok cool i can work with this” and then she did.  absolute girlboss, doug’s a lucky man

- was highkey SO mad at stede for the first half of the episode.  like why are you acting like such a MAN.  why are you bothering mary go back to your crew and apologize to ed and kiss him.  pls my guy

- lucius being the relationship counselor and just having the best breakup advice always.  ed highkey going through it.  he’s literally writing sad awful breakup songs PLS

- lucius walking in on oluwande and jim i’m DEAD

- where’s that one post that says izzy’s whole problem is that he’s in love with blackbeard because like uhhh.  yeah.  he fucking hates ed because ed isn’t the same brutal fearsome man and then he says stede’s name and then suddenly he is, he’s ready to kill him

- and the transformation back to blackbeard is so god awful to watch.  tossing lucius overboard bc he saw him weak and also just bc it’s funny (don’t worry, we all know lucius isn’t dead.  probably), feeding izzy his own toe, leaving the crew on the island

- jim and frenchie being recruited intrigues me.  like obv the reasoning behind frenchie was stated to be just so he could sew the new flag (which was dope as hell, by the way), but if you think about it, jim and frenchie have been the most pirate-y skillwise.  jim’s good at fighting and stabbing and frenchie’s a natural bullshitter.  I Have Thoughts

- and even with all this, all the incredible cruelty and kraken paint and leather, the last scene with blackbeard isn’t him but of ed, sobbing

- did i mention i’m not okay

- returning to stede bc i’m ending this shit on a happy note.  the fact that this man got his shit together so quick once mary attempted to murder him.  mary not even minding that stede was in love with a man,, we knew she was a queen from the beginning

- and the final beautiful plot of fuckery, executed absolutely brilliantly.  ed taught him well.  shoutout to the leopard jungle cat, get her some more chicken

- parallels of the last episode ending with ed on a boat, alone and forlorn, and this one with stede on a boat, determined and finally sure of where he needs to be

- anyway i’m GAY i’m SAD when’s SEASON 2 OUT

#ofmd spoilers #it's so late this is barely coherent but oh well #our flag means death

[waynedunlaptheorgandonor]

watched s11ep1

i will provide you with a quick review before i disappear back into the ether of twd avoidance

lots of spoilers under the cut. also i wrote way too much and i worked all night and haven’t slept so i didn’t bother to reread literally any of it, so it might be completely nonsensical, tho if you don’t expect that from me by this point idk whose blog you’ve been reading

enjoy:

hokay, first off, i’ll start by saying that i enjoyed it more than i expected to. i’ve been avoiding any sort of discussion about stuff, but my google algorithm is so fucked at this point that i still get recommended articles and stuff every now and then, so i was already pretty aware of what i was walking into, and was expecting it to be eh, but actually i prob enjoyed it more than i enjoyed the finale

(don’t get too excited tho, the finale was rly boring lmfao)

anyway

episode starts off with a tense scouting mission

it takes .005 seconds into the episode for caryl to exchange a look of longing, establishing that they are still having weird conflict and are both too fucking stubborn to do anything about it even tho they hate it desperately

i imagine that will continue for a while

rosita, kelly, carol, maggie, what’s her face with the bad hair, and lydia (i think that’s everyone?) lower down to some army bunker or something, where a bunch of walkers are taking a snooze, and the girls are very respectful of walker naptime, and do their best not to wake them up

obviously they eventually wake up, but i’ll get to that in a sec

as they’re tiptoeing through the walker tulips, there’s this split second where carol spots a machine gun, and looks at maggie with a face like, “can i plzzzz, i am mad horny for that machine gun,” but maggie tells her no. (i 110% expected her to defy orders and accidentally wake up all the walkers, but she actually behaved herself for once. well. mostly)

never fear, tho, after the girl gang collects a bunch of MREs they go back to wait for the dudes waiting up top to pull them up, and bc men ruin everything, one of the ropes break, and daryl catches it before it falls, but then a slow motion drop of blood falls on a walker’s face, and just like that, walker naptime is over, and carol uses her bow and arrow for two seconds before she is like “fuck this” and whips out the machine gun

yes, she is super hot using it

yes, daryl watches her do it

anyway, all the other girls get rescued, and carol is about to be pulled up, but bc she is a #girlboss, she first makes a beeline for one more crate full of MREs. daryl covers her while she gets the loot, and when she gets back up top they have another charged moment as carol hands him back his knife

just fuck already, jfc

titles!

cut to alexandria where everything is still not smilestimes

BUT, we do get to see uncle daryl run and hug rj and judith (and dog), and FUCKING HERSHEL JR, LIGHT OF MY LIFE is also there

istg, they could not have casted a better child, i a d o r e him

oh, and some friends of maggie’s show up too, idk

cut to a staff meeting where everyone is like, whomp whomp, we’re all gonna starve to death unless we figure out something quick

cue maggie going, “oh, i know where food is, but it requires me to tell you my tragic backstory, in case anyone didn’t watch my bottle episode”

she tells her dramatic backstory about all her friends getting slaughtered by the reapers for no apparent reason, and then she’s like “anyway, let’s go back there!”

no one thinks it’s a great idea, but a group of people decide to go anyway, including daryl and gabriel. rosita is super pissed that gabriel is going, and carol doesn’t go, probably partly bc it’s a shitty fucking idea, and also bc they have to keep caryl apart bc otherwise they’ll fix their problems ahead of schedule and they won’t be able to drag out the needless angst

daryl looks kind of annoyed that carol doesn’t volunteer to go 

bitch, i thought you wanted her to stop putting herself in the line of fire! make up your damn mind!

moving on

cut to a thunderstorm, where, if you look closely, you’ll notice daryl is wearing the STUPIDEST hat i’ve ever seen. just get an umbrella, jfc

for some reason negan is with them, bc ig he knows his way around washington dc, and no one in six years has bothered to figure out how to get around the city and/or get a map, and he is like “hey guys, maybe we shouldn’t try to walk in this fucking hurricane,” and everyone is like “FUCK YOU NEGAN, YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF US!!!” 

this will be a common occurrence 

but eventually daryl is even like “actually, it’s rly unpleasant out here, and my hat is mad stupid, can we go inside plz?”

so they go inside an old metro station, which is actually a rly cool cinematic choice. i rly like the idea, and they executed it rly well

speaking of executions

there are some fucking RULL CREEPY walkers. idk why they bothered me so badly, but they were what they at first assumed were corpses wrapped up in tarps, but turns out none of them had been properly put down, so they go through killing these rotted bodies that had supposedly been there since The Fall, and it’s very gross and cool

this entire time, btw, negan is like “hey, i know i’m a shitty person, but i have some rational arguments about why we shouldn’t be doing this right now,” and everyone is like, “FUCK YOU NEGAN, YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF US!!!” and he’s just like “god fucking damnit”

(i forgot to mention that at one point, when they’re headed into the metro station, negan is trying to warn ppl of the potential danger, and everyone is ignoring him, and he tries to talk to daryl, and daryl is like “fuck you, you think we’re BUDDIES?” and negan is like “oh, ok, so you’re gonna be like that too? fanfreakingtastic” and it’s very funny)

anyway. a fat monster zombie escapes its tarp at one point, and tries to eat some npc, and negan saves him, again is like “hey, anyone else realize that this is a FUCKING BAD PLAN?”, and everyone is like “we don’t care, you’re still shitty and we’re not listening to you, and you don’t actually care about random npc i would literally not be able to pick out in a lineup bc his face is so generic, you’re not the boss of us!!!”

it’s at this point that negan finally is like, “why am i even here? bc i know how to get around washington dc? do none of you have a map?” and i was like, “right?! that’s what i said!” 

it’s then revealed that maggie only brought negan along to murder him under the guise of “oops, he got hurt in the line of duty, it wasn’t my fault,” and daryl has this look on his face that says, “i seriously need to stop hanging out with lethal women bent on revenge bc it’s gonna give me high blood pressure,” and maggie has a badass moment where she points a gun she has for some reason at negan and is like “i have like, one shred of human compassion left inside of me, and if you keep pushing me i will fucking kill you without a second thought, so shut the hell up”

(in her defense, negan had just dropped glenn’s name to purposely antagonize her, which was rude as hell)

(for the record, i’m completely on maggie’s side here, but negan still is right that trapping themselves in a metro station is a bad call)

anyway, moving away from that briefly

i think this jump cut happens sooner, i don’t actually remember, but whatever who cares, point is, we get to the part of the show that actually matters, and that’s anything involving my love, juanita “princess” sanchez

and also eugene, yumiko, and ezekiel

they are being asked increasingly invasive questions by commonwealth ppl, some of which i wish they actually would of answered (what do they use to wipe their asses with?? surely toilet paper has long since become extinct)

zeke, who is so much more tolerable as a character now that he’s not larping as a king, has this incredibly weird and sort of sexually charged moment with a dude in an orange stormtrooper costume, where he’s like, “i bet you were an asshole cop back before The Fall, you stupid fascist, #fuckthepolice, mb literally? idk, this moment has a lot of pent up aggression that could easily translate to hate sex, it might just be the intense eye contact, but w/e, let’s just move along,” and then he has a coughing fit to remind the audience that he’s currently dying of cancer, and orange stormtrooper is like “lolz, loser, drink some water you dumb piece of shit”

cut to the wholesome foursome sitting at a picnic table in a guarded courtyard eating gruel, and yumkio, who finally has a personality, and princess are like “hey, this place fucking sucks, can we leave?” and zeke is like, “yeah, i met this orange stormtrooper who i think might be dtf and/or murder, so we should probably bounce”

but eugene is like, “but i want some hot stephanie ass, and also some bullshit excuse about how mb commonewealth will save alexandria” which, they left before things went super downhill, right? idr. it was after hilltop fell, but they don’t know alexandria got fucked either, if i recall? w/e, not important

two seconds after he says this, they talk to some people who are like “we’ve been here for four months, or maybe it’s been nine, i don’t actually remember, i’ve stopped processing the passage of time,” and the wholesome foursome takes this as a bad sign, tho that’s just the life i’ve lived as a night worker during a pandemic, so i was like #mood

but then they watch some guy get dragged away screaming to get “reprocessed” and eugene is like “ok, nvm, let’s bounce”

(my theory on what “reprocessing” is, is that they’re stuck in a room and have to watch hours and hours of customer service training videos on vhs from the 90s)

i definitely got my jump cut scenes mixed up bc i think the negan accusing maggie of a murder plot thing happened in between this scene and then the next commonwealth scene, but w/e, i’ll just finish what happens in the commonwealth arch

the wholesome foursome are trying to hatch a plan to escape, except princess, my love, is distracted watching some stormtroopers flirt, and the other three are like “wtf, dude, how can you even tell any of them apart?” and princess then tells them every stormtroopers backstory bc she is brilliant and pays rly close attention to shit, and the other three are like, “this is useful information, thank you for being an insane person”

their plan involves yumiko and eugene dressing up as stormtroopers and leading princess and zeke out of the place, which works fine actually, except on their way out they come across the Depressing Wall of Probably Mostly Dead Missing Loved Ones

they’re about to leave, when princess is like, “wait, yumiko, you’re on here, that’s weird huh?”

sure enough, yumiko  is on the wall, with a note from ig her sister 

the scene ends with yumiko going, “guys...i can’t leave...i have tragic backstory to unveil”

tragic backstory to be continued ig

back in murder metro town, npc and some other npc have stolen all the supplies, there’s a train blocking the track, and a horde of walkers are coming towards them, so things are not going fantastic

they horde is too big to take down, so they start to climb on top of the train car to get away

but dog runs away!

and daryl, being every pet owner ever, is like “gotta go get my dog, guys, try not to get killed while i’m gone, c u soon!” and he ducks under the train and disappears

#priorities

the episode ends with maggie climbing up the train car but getting grabbed by a walker and dangling off the edge, and negan is there and they have a lion king moment where maggie is like, “scar! help me!” and negan is like “long live the king, bitch” and walks away into the shadows, leaving maggie to a potential death

which, while i know isn’t actually going to happen, would be a really fucking funny move on the writers’ part

like, “look, lauren’s back! and now she’s dead, bet you didn’t expect that!”

anyway

my assumption is negan will actually end up helping her up or something, continuing his ambiguous morality bullshit that actually isn’t ambiguous bc he BEAT GLENN TO DEATH WITH A FUCKING BAT WRAPPED IN BARBED WIRE IN FRONT OF HIS PREGNANT WIFE

the maggie/negan arch is kind of dumb, but whatevs, i’ll tolerate it, as long as my boy glenn gets justice in the end

anyway, cue credits!

final assessment: good episode. i’m much more interested in commonwealth than the reapers, tho i am hoping that daryl’s personality-less ex turns out to be a monster killing machine with no conscience, that’ll be fun. princess is a gift from god. hershel jr needs his own tv show. needs more carol (and caryl)

the end! going back into my walking dead free chamber! see you next episode!

-diz

#i didn't mean to recap the entire fucking episode lol #sorry #it's to make up for my lack of content lately #or something #anyway #caryl #twd s11ep1 #twd s11 spoilers #dunlap tp

[dilfsanchez]

just watched s5e5 here’s my thoughts:

-okay this was my favorite episode this season so far

-let’s get it out of the way. hell rick and beth are so fucking hot.

-FUCK bruce honestly

-“if i die in this car i’m killing myself” i literally talk like this though.

-rick saying he loves beth i’m sobbing. he’s so soft this season i love it.

-TROY BAKER WAS IN THIS EPISODE???? WHATTHEFUCK

-the hell portal is absolutely a vagina.

-ricks car is a girlboss

-beth tracks jerry LMAO

-“touch my shit and die”

-“rick can smell adventure”

-i love the jurassic park reference

-NEXT EP ALSO LOOKS AMAZING

-10/10 episode. incredible.

#r&m #rick and morty spoilers #rick and morty #spoilers #review

[saintobio]

Saint, first of all thank you sm for giving us this amazing chapter even after that whole entitled and awful anon episode. It’s not at all easy writing such an intricate and compelling story (that requires a lot of research, no less) on a deadline. To think you do it all for free, in-spite of your own ongoing commitments, work and life outside, and people still have the audacity to call you names and say shit on anon like WTF. I’m glad that now you don’t have to fret each week about an update because we value your time, well-being and craft more.

The legal details on your latest chapter are crazy, no doubt you must be drained after hours of research on that one. So please get some rest, do things that give you serotonin and be really proud of yourself for finishing such a great chapter! You really went ahead and gave us everything here!

What do I even begin with? Toji’s flirting gave me LIFE. No kidding I was giggling like a mad woman when I came to the “I just wanted to hear your voice” part. He’s a breathe of fresh air on an otherwise tense chapter. And he’s was friends with Gen’s husband? WOW. I see how it is. All the hot people are friends here xD. Legit Gen, Toji and Ian are my favorite characters now. I can see why my favorite girlboss fell for this mighty fine prosecutor now. The way you wrote their small moment in court gave me butterflies. I would legit love to read a fic centered on those two and how they got together (if you decide to do one, no pressure though). They hella cute and whatta power couple!

Coming to Eula… oh that jailrat. I knew she was gonna fuck shit up but this was LOW. I have to hand it to you Saint, she’s one of the best written antagonists I’ve ever read! Props to you. She may not be the sharpest tool on the shed but this was one hell of a move. And I am living for this drama! My poor child Yuta needs therapy for sure, but I’m glad Gojo and him are getting along. Speaking of which… whew Satoru, karma’s a bitch eh? Boy, I really loved his redemption in the last few chapters, but he had it coming. I do not forget Iceland and all the shit that happened till Chapter 8 that easily. I pray for the faint heart of Y/N and munchkin and all the readers for all the whiplash you gave us this chapter and what’s to come. You have an incredible way of knocking us dead with the last few words or lines each chapter, like it’s a punch in the gut (but in a good way, if that makes sense?) Especially this chapter, the last lines, starting with the moonlight thingy I legit got chills. Reminded me of the ending of The Godfather book where the last lines were “prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone”. Saint you should take a master class on writing man! Love ya. Take care and thank you for your amazing work and time! ♥️

CRYINGGG thanks sm for taking the time to write all this <33 🥺 it’s rly nice to hear ur thoughts abt the last chapter !!

#saintobio.asks #series: sincerely not

[vermillionbones]

I'd love to hear more of your Phobditor HCs!!

ohoho thank you for enabling me anon i am going to kiss you directly on the mouth /pl

also slight warning for spoilers to the new(??) ending of project nexus!! i don't talk explicitly about what happens in general, but the stuff involving phobos is mentioned in the very first hc so for those of you who don't wanna be spoiled you can just skip that one lol. grab sum popcorn lads this one's a long one snbcnkcnvmv

Phobditor HCs!!

rbs very much appreciated 👉👈

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so i hc that phobos didn't actually get banished at the end of MPN, but he did get his ass handed to him to the point where he was so injured and drained of energy that he couldn't use most of his abilities. he went into hiding for a while and eventually found the AAHW, which he proceeded to join since he didn't really have anywhere else to go. after he'd healed and returned to his full strengh the auditor recognised how potentially useful he could be as a second in command, but ofc he'd have to earn her trust first. normally i don't try to make things make sense like this but since the auditor isn't actually in MPN i thought i'd at least try lmao

the auditor: ruthless girlboss by day, feral spouse-adjacent shithead by night

phobos is basically the same but instead he's manipulate mansplain by day and malewife manwhore by night /hj

before they got closer they'd never really physically interacted w/ each other, so phobos kind of assumed the auditor would be at least slightly painful to touch [cuz yknow. she's made of fire lmao]. plus he'd witnessed her setting things and people on fire with her bare hands before and he'd rather not get turned into a walking bonfire, thanks. the closest she'd ever been to touching him previously was like flicking the antenna on his helmet to piss him off

but like way, WAY later he finds out that audi can actually manipulate the temperature of their flames to an extent, so when they touch his hand for the first time he's really surprised when they're just like. pleasantly warm. kinda like the fuzziness you feel after you drink something hot but on the outside of your body

however this has also resulted in phobos using her as a mobile safety blanket lmao. sometimes if it gets too cold in the office he'll wander up to her and bug her until she folds a wing around him and tucks his head under her chin

when he's being a shithead sometimes she'll just pick him up by the back of his jacket and drag him off like a disobedient kitten lmao

They don't really have a super crazy height difference normally [i hc that audi is around 6'3 and phobos is 5'10 if he's not slouching] but sometimes she just morphs herself to have a several-foot height advantage just to fuck with him. like she'll appear in his office as this 9-foot-tall behemoth and he'll just be like "?? excuse me?? ma'am?? you can't do this to me???"

before he got to know her better, phobos had no idea the auditor preferred she/they pronouns over they/it like the agents around him seemed to think. he never made a big deal out of it and never explicitly brought it up, but he remembers to switch it up for her every now and then. plus whenever audi overhears him doing that she gets all fuzzy inside sfbfnckvj

phobos really likes her wings. he actually might be a little jealous of them, but he'd never tell her that sfvngk

ever since audi found out about this, they tend to subtly unfurl them and use them to gesticulate more when he's around. occasionally she'll use the claws at the peaks of her wings on touchscreens in place of a finger n stuff. she's also [gently] swatted him upside the head with a wing a few times when he was being a dickhead, but it doesn't really hurt him lol

she also lets him pet them when they're not busy. contrary to what he'd assumed, it doesn't actually feel like a whole lot to her - she's described the feeling as something similar to how it feels to have someone tracing their fingers along the back of your hand

phobos stims sometimes!! he has a bad habit of masking while he's working since a few of them are vocal and he doesn't want to distract anyone, but if he's just hanging out with audi he's totally chill. one of his more common ones is when he thinks out loud, either quietly narrating his current train of thought or saying unrelated words - usually confirmations like 'yeah' or 'mhm' - out loud cuz he thinks they're fun to say. occasionally he'll start humming low in his throat kinda like a microwave cuz he likes how his voice feels in his chest

also when he's standing idle sometimes he holds his arms closer to his chest and fidget with them

the auditor doesn't stim, but to people who know them well their wings are like big signs that can wordlessly describe how they're feeling [which is like my favourite thing to write cos wing emoting is really fun skdjbknk]. occasionally they might subtly flutter their wings when they're very pleased or receive good news, or flare them out when they're irritated/stressed

i always forget that phobos is actually like super powerful in canon so i hc that audi does too lmao. like it always slips her mind that he can teleport too so she'll dramatically disappear after telling him off for doing some dumb shit and fuckin scream when he somehow appears in the same room as her less than a second later

phobos has a red and black lava lamp in his office!! he'd never admit it but he got it cuz it reminds him of audi :]

phobos loves watching audi in combat for some reason. i mean he already likes watching them do stuff so he can backseat drive, but he's also quietly admitted that her fighting style is interesting to watch

he can't really put it into words, but it's because the way they fight looks incredibly effortless and fluid, mainly due to them having so much time to adapt to and understand their powers [both their original powers and the ones granted by the halo]. when phobos' own abilities started to surface he was incredibly unstable and struggled to properly harness them for months, so he thinks it's nice to watch someone who actually knows what they're doing for once.

much to the auditor's surprise, phobos is actually a bit insecure behind all that confudence, particularly about scars. after being close to her for a while, phobos came out of his shell a bit and explained how he managed to grant himself his powers/abilities, which is something i'll absolutely go further in depth with later [via a longer hc that i'm gonna post eventually lol] but to summarise he basically infused himself with raw madness in what he's eloquently dubbed 'the incident'. Of course, doing that to himself didn't come without consequence, and he's permanently scored with a variation of lightning & burn scars on his forearms, thighs, and most of his torso.

for the longest time, the most casual thing he'd wear even around just her was the long-sleeved sweater he wore underneath his trench coat, and he refused to change even if he was literally overheating. though eventually after he told her about what happened he felt way more comfortable and now whenever they're in their shared room audi practically has to throw a shirt at him to get him to wear one sbkcjcnk

the auditor has a sort of subspace/pocket dimension where they can store different items and recall them at will. normally it's pretty empty, but ever since she grew to like phobos she's started keeping miscellaneous things in there for him. sometimes she pulls out a drink or snack that he likes, sometimes she pulls out a little water gun with phobos' name scrawled on it and shoots him with it when he's being a shithead

they are both,, SO fucking touch-starved. like they will not let go of each other [at least if they're not currently in the middle of something or around agency employees] cuz internally they're both just going "wow!!! that's a hand i'm holding!!!!! there's a hand holding my hand!!!! wow!!!!!! i love this!!!!!"

having one eye isn't exactly the best thing for depth perception, especially when you're really tired, so sometimes audi has to hold phobos' hand and guide him around in the mornings because he can [and has] walked into walls and counters

even since before they became a thing, phobos had been a little envious of the auditor's halo and the powers it granted her. he used to subtly try to yoink it from her, maliciously at first but far more playfully later, where he'd like lightly grab it and give it a gentle spin above her head like a mobile. but his infatuation with the halo kinda died after she decided to let him borrow/try it out once by allowing him to link with it

by linking i essentially mean like wearing it, but the halo is so powerful that you can't just 'wear' it without letting it bond with a part of you

long story short, he went into it with far too much overconfidence & cockiness and the halo violently rejected him, kind of like how it rejected the auditor once. he wasn't at all prepared for the sheer amount of power that surged through him the moment it started to link with him, so it essentially short-circuited his brain and knocked him unconscious for the better part of a week. when he woke again, the auditor told him he was lucky his head didn't explode and calmly suggested they never tried that again, and he felt inclined to agree.

of course, he still toys with the halo while the auditor's properly linked with it since he knows it can't link to more than one host at a time. and despite his seeming ease and "it's in the past" sort of mentality about the whole event, if someone mentions the concept of him actually taking the halo and linking with it again, he'll shudder and shake his head, saying it's not his place to do so.

the auditor has no doubt it delivered a pretty harsh blow to his ego [being rejected by the thing that would make him a god would prolly do that], but knows he's too prideful to admit that.

audi likes listening to phobos when he goes off on super long monologues, especially if they're like those super cheesy villain monologues. like he could literally be talking about anything and she'll sit there to hear him out, especially if it's less related to work and more about himself

the auditor is super deliberate in the way they pronounce things and they tend to casually drawl their words out to further cement their cool, unbothered boss persona. however the way she talks doesn't really intimidate phobos anymore since he's also been next to her right after she's been woken up, when she's mumbling quietly & slurring some of her words together. he knows the big scary boss side of the auditor is just a persona used for everyone but him, so he feels a lot more at ease with them even when they're trying to be scary

even after being together for a while, phobos still has no fucking idea what the auditor is made of. like he's admitted to her that he's genuinely clueless, and if she lets him he'll spend like 99% of their downtime quietly interacting with her flames [read: curling his fingers through them and petting them] while he muses about his hypotheses for how stuff like her liquidy-shadow form works. they were a little suspicious of his motives at first, but after they relaxed they realised he was just genuinely curious and willing to share his concepts to see if he was right

they have like. the smoothest banter anyone at the agency has seen. like it's super cheesy back-and-forth stuff that wouldn't sound out of place in an 80s sitcom, but it just kinda flows out when they're both comfortable. and ofc they'd deny it if anyone mentioned it but they literally banter like an old married couple lmAO

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#madness combat #madness auditor #madness phobos #phobditor #this ended up being way longer than i anticipated but writing this was the most fun i've had in months /gen #oh and sorry if the formatting is a little fucky lmao #i tried to keep related hcs closer together while setting different ones apart if that makes sense?? #gfnsbkjck i had to refrain myself from writing more about certain hcs like audi's wing emoting or phobos fucking up his link with the halo #if anyone wants me to elaborate on those i won't shut up about them ever LMAO #still tysm anon this was very very fun /gen #gel.txt

[mrs-cameron]

obx characters ranked? 💛

bet 😚 i went all out huh, even came up with the categories

congrats pussy, you’re officially her bitch - kind of self-explanatory, i’m whipped for them

pope - loml, i get butterflies when he is brainstorming;

rafe - i mean, are we surprised? just look at my blog. the suspense he brought this season is UNMATCHED, i was genuinely afraid of his next move the whole time. perfect villian and i’m a whore for drew starkey;

sarah - i will not stand her slander!!!! she’s my princess and my baby and must be protected;

jj - breaking my silence… i was never a jj girl :* that being said he’s an incredible character with good backstory (that was completely ignored in s2 and FOR WHAT) and i want him to thrive with his boyfriend pope;

CLEO CLEO CLEO - season 3 main girl, i’m obsessed! i wonder how old she is in show tho

heyward - did i put a parent above other pogues? damn right i did. he’s so supportive of pope and that’s the father figure we love to see.

low hanging fruit bro - i like them, close to faves but not quite

barry - hilarious dude, i’m so invested in what the cameron family will do to him since he ratted them out?? he’s no one from the cut and he did them dirty, you know. revenge when;

john b - loved him more when they focused on pope lol, he’s okay and i don’t particularly dislike him, but will make fun of him every chance i get;

kiara - they simply did her wrong by giving up good storyline (aka being the outcast in the kook academy) and put her back to school with the boys for what? 2 scenes? they’re lazy when writing for kie and it shows.

i love the rooster - they’re okay, i say i like them then switch my attention to someone else and forget them (girlboss category oop)

rose - i want her to scheme more next season, she’s so sneaky and i love that for her. ward’s ride or die he doesn’t deserve this woman;

peterkin - rip girlboss, you would’ve loved seeing ward blow up on the druthers.

love the idea of me, don’t love me - i could write the characters better that the creators, i jus know them like that 🙄

john a - baby STAY DEAD! if the clip at the end of the season isn’t a flashback i’ll be crying and screaming and throwing up;

topper - beam me up softboy, i love the simps as much as the next person but him stalking sarah doesn’t sit right with me;

wheezie - get behind me love, we’re getting you out of this mess IMMEDIATELY. the way the don’t show her struggles in the house of psychopaths is ridiculous, hello, she’s a child??? trauma for life;

kelce - gets more time in my fic rather than the actual show, he’s hot and i want more of him.

i think we should kill em all - fuck them 😌

#feel free to comment on my ranking #i mean i’m always right but just in case #i’m open for a convo 😛☝️ #outer banks #obx