#implied Rachel is a b****

[robinbuckleysfringe]

you are in love.

tom blyth social media au

pairings: Jacob Elordi x reader, Tom Blyth x reader

warnings: implied/accused cheating

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6

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2 months later

*yninstagram has posted*

liked by tomblyth, jacobelordi, zendaya, joshandresrivera and others

yninstagram bringing in the new year with some sun ⛱️☀️🌊

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rachelzegler happy new year love 💕

↪️ yninstagram happy new year rach 💕💕

tomblyth the sun and beach look good on you ❤️

↪️ yninstagram ❤️

hunterschafer gorgeous 😍

↪️ yninstagram says you 😍😍😍

user who's the guy in the first pic?

↪️ user I was thinking Jacob but she usually tags him so idk

↪️ user maybe it's Tom?? she's replied to him with hearts the last few posts

user y/n and Jacob have been quiet on social media. are they still together??

↪️ user I thought so but after her not tagging him in this l'm not so sure

↪️ user also he normally comments on her posts but he's only liked this one

user OMG STUNNING 😍😍😍

user how's she so pretty???

user wish I was you so badly

user can't wait to see what this year brings you!!!

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*tomblyth has posted*

liked by yninstagram, hunterschafer, rachelzegler and others

tomblyth 🏖☀️🍹

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yninstagram the sun and beach look good on you 😉

*tomblyth liked this comment*

↪️ user not y/n commenting the same thing Tom commented on her post!!

↪️ user did you see he liked her comment? and the wink emoji??!! 💀💀

user omg who's the girl in the first pic??

↪️ user she looks a bit like y/n. but it could be anyone. he didn't tag who it is

↪️ user truee. y/n's post looks like she was in a similar place and neither of them tagged who they were with

↪️ user isn't she dating Jacob Elordi tho?

↪️ y/nupdates can 2 friends not just go on holiday together without making it romantic?? let them have their privacy about who they hang out with

*yninstagram and tomblyth liked this comment*

↪️ user it's just odd is all. Y/N and Jacob haven't posted anything together since their premieres and then both Tom and Y/N post holiday pics with mystery people??

↪️ user like @/ynupdates said, just let them have their privacy. they don't owe you any info about who they choose to go on holiday with

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e!news after a speculation about the split between Saltburn star Jacob Elordi and Hunger Games actress YN L/N, Elordi has been spotted out with what seems like his new girlfriend. Neither actor has confirmed or denied the split, so we can only wonder what is truly going on between the stars. Is the relationship over, or is something else going on?

user not them implying Jacob's cheating on y/n-

↪️ user they've not said anything about them breaking up so maybe he is

user omg poor y/n, can only imagine what she's feeling over these photos

user she's low-key been flirting with Tom in her comments anyway, so what if her and Jacob broke up??

↪️ user can 2 co stars not be close friends??

↪️ user not if their commenting "❤️"s under every post

↪️ user y/n literally uses heart emojis with everyone. so what's your point??

user this makes me think y/n was defo not on holiday with Jacob

user he's defo cheating on y/n

↪️ user he's fumbled big time. imagine cheating on someone as gorgeous as her

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y/nupdates rachel posted this cute photo of y/n and tom to her story before quickly deleting it. seems like the pair are becoming quite close

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user ship them omg!! look how cute they are

↪️ user for real!!! 🥺🥺

user I want what they have!!! 🥰🥰🥰

user thought she's dating Jacob, no?

↪️ user didn't he just cheat on her?

user clearly Rachel took down the picture cause y/n and Tom are having a secret affair. I mean, just look at them

↪️ user she doesn't deserve Jacob

user omg so is she cheating with Tom??

↪️ user probs cheated when they went on that secret holiday together

↪️ user they never said they went together??

↪️ user it's so obvious they did tho

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seemed like you guys enjoyed part 1, so here's part 2.

again, feedback is welcome. just remember to keep it kind xx

#jacob elordi x reader #jacob elordi #tom blyth x reader #tom blyth #rachel zegler #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #social media au

[genericpuff]

Was the Hera×Echo thing for real?! Was it like planned??? It doesn't feel like it was planned! It feels like Rachel just wanted to queerbait to gather more new readers wtf

yeah it's exactly that tbh

FASTPASS SPOILERS AHEAD !!!

like what more realistically happened is she saw people headcanon'ing Echo and Hera and went "yeah sure I'll do that!" without actually writing the fucking relationship.

This was even a problem back in S2 with Echo's character as a whole, she's introduced as this mysterious 'double agent' character who's almost definitely working for Zeus-

-but then aside from two scenes involving Echo accompanying Hera to the motel to retrieve Persephone's things and Echo warning Daphne that Apollo clearly isn't 'over Persephone' (because he had, y'know, barged into Hera's office demanding Hera's blessing) the whole "Echo is a double agent for Zeus" thing was only confirmed after Daphne was turned into a tree and Echo said "FUCK YOU ZEUS, I'M NOT GONNA DO YOUR DIRTY WORK ANYMORE!" which ... huh? Where's the plot? It feels like there was an entire story there that just got dumped entirely so that Hades and Persephone could play golf with diamonds.

Like this was presumably where Echo ditched her obligation to Zeus, but it had nothing to do with Hera, it was because she heard (I'm assuming from Thanatos) what happened to Daphne.

After that we only ever see Echo again when it's implied that her and Hera had some kind of falling out. No idea what over, maybe it was Hera finding out that Echo was a double agent, maybe Hera called her a slur, we have no clue what. But it's sorta just tacked on during an ongoing monologue about how Kronos has affected her.

The only other 'hint' we got towards it was Ares calling Echo Hera's 'girlfriend' but that doesn't mean a whole lot when we've literally never seen these two have more than two scenes together.

So now Rachel making them kiss feels more like her taking credit for writing a plotline that doesn't exist and was fabricated entirely in the audience's headcanon. And this is something Rachel does a lot, she basically relies entirely on her audience filling in the blanks for her nothingburger plot and then of course gets to take all the credit for being a "smart and inclusive writer". Where? Literally where the fuck is the actual writing?

Imagine if we had gotten a proper B-plot showcasing the relationship between Echo and Hera. Echo is working for Hera as a double agent and doesn't want to blow her cover, while Hera is suspicious because she worries her husband is up to something. Over time they work together, grow closer, Hera realizes that Echo makes her feel a kind of happiness that Zeus hasn't made her feel in a long time, Echo realizes that she can't keep lying to Hera about why she was hired and decides she values Hera's loyalty and respect over Zeus' because she has feelings for Hera now. Maybe Hera finds out about Echo being a double agent, either by overhearing a conversation between Echo and Zeus or because Echo outright tells her, and eventually it resolves with them finally admitting their feelings towards one another and Hera realizing that she's felt trapped in a loveless marriage that's essentially serving the same purpose as her union with Kronos, sacrificing her well-being for the good of a King. They kiss and Hera confronts the original perpetrator of her trauma, Kronos, ready to end the cycle of her abuse once and for all.

Like, the plot is right fucking there but Rachel keeps dumping it in favor of focusing on the boring ass heterocis nightmares that are Hades and Persephone, who get SO MUCH FUCKING SCREENTIME of just telling each other how amazing they are and how much they're in love (meanwhile we didn't even actually get to see or hear what Hera wrote in the letter to Echo, we have to just assume) but still tries to take credit for writing queer stories by just vaguely hinting at a queer relationship that has had zero development or actual screentime. It's Hestia and Athena all fucking over again.

It also doesn't bode well for LO passing the whole "bury your gays" test because Hera is literally marching to what she's expecting to be her death. So she's established as a bisexual character, just for her to be sent to her death, while Echo will undoubtedly get shoved out of the plot again.

And, I shouldn't even have to remind y'all of this, but Hera has been racist to nymphs in the past and Echo was her direct subordinate, her personal assistant.

It just makes zero sense to me why Rachel would suddenly force in a queer relationship between two characters who weren't traditionally gay in the original myths (once again removing the queer aspects of CANONICALLY LGBTQ+ GODS AND GIVING THEM TO THE STRAIGHTS INSTEAD) when Hera's story had more than enough to work with through her trauma from both Kronos and Zeus and her loyalty as the goddess of marriage that's kept her trapped in a loveless and abusive relationship. So now instead of having a subplot that could have been about the goddess of marriage realizing that no one should have to stay in a marriage that's robbing them of joy and the "sanctity of marriage" isn't worth being miserable for life, we have a subplot where the goddess of marriage who is racist to nymphs routinely cheats on her husband and now confesses her love to a nymph who we never even saw her interact with outside of two instances where it was simply a working relationship.

#lore olympus critical #anti lore olympus #lo critical #ama #ask me anything #anon ama #anon ask me anything

[nottoxicfr]

This is, tentatively, Rize.

She is the combination of Nagoryuki (Guilty Gear) and Rachel Alucard (Blazblue). Relating to the concept of a data-Backyard, she has the role of a program meant to ensure the integrity of the physical world through Intervention. However, overuse of Intervention causes cracks in reality, therefore its use is controlled strictly.

This relates to the thematic idea of her character as “the Observer Who Averts Her Eyes." Nago's long meditation after the events of the Crusades combined with Rachel's nature as an Onlooker, cursed not to intervene in events, resulted in Rize's fitfully slumbering nature. Rather than Observe the events of the world, she wishes to sleep until the world has no need of her and is cursed by nightmares of terrible memories and future possibilities. Her story is about finding meaning in Observing individuals, rather than viewing the world as a single disastrous story.

(I'll talk more about her personality and her design below the cut)

I had a really hard time creating her! Honestly, I really didn't want to anything mess up. I feel happy with this art, but I want to draw her more and really get a grip on who she is. She looks really elegant, but I think there's more to her than that!

I mentioned before that fighting game characters are adjective filled, with Nago and Rachel being no exceptions! Rize is more focused on Rachel's style than I originally intended, but I hope parts of Nago still shine through. His older appearance is why I designed her around the age of 20, rather than sticking with Rachel's younger look. I'm not super comfortable with the type of character that is very old, but still looks young!

She's a gothic, lolita-inspired vampire, but I had more of Nagoryuki's "noble" personality in mind when I drew her. I imagine that she would offer advice to the people she meets, but sometimes the advice might be, "Don't wake me up from a nap." She can be a bit thorny, which draws on Rachel's "rose with thorns" tsundere motif to reshape the kindness both vampires possess.

There are parts of her that seem very childish in my mind, like the idea that she can sleep until the world ends or her grumpy reactions to others, but her deeper personality indicates that she's incredibly guilty about the events she witnessed and simply at a loss in what else she can do. It seems most of her childishness comes from a lack of sleep more than anything else. Her eyes are Nago's Blood-Rage mode, which implies she's also pretty hungry.

Originally, she was going to be named Arisu (Alice), with Bloodedge (Baiken x Ragna) being a Cheshire leading her to the source of the plot's problems. If this was a real game, I think that would still be the case as a relationship. However, with a different name, the allusion isn't nearly as prevalent...

Instead, Rize comes from Riza, from E-riza-besu, an homage to Elizabeth Bathory. It's supposed to be from romanji so it calls to mind the idea that it might be a translation she preferred. That’s not how you convert Eliz-a-beth into romanji, but I thought it was an acceptable break from reality for style. That’s the running idea for ArcSys, generally.

Rachel has servants named Nago- which was ironic- and Gii, who frequently take her wrath. Rize's servants are Tama (Ms. Umbrella in the art) and Chester (Mr Plushy next to her). Chester is a stuffed creature in the form of a Jester, meant to put her in a better mood after a nightmare. Tama, as mentioned in another post, is a joke about how you can take the first syllable of Excalibur, Ex, and say it as Eggs (Tamago). It's a really stupid joke, but it indicates that Tama is actually the sword of myth simply transformed and given sentience via old age. I don't think she takes her short temper out on either of them, but if she does then it's probably Chester. Lots of people punch pillows to feel better, so I don't think Chester minds as long as someone fixes him should he be damaged. She also has another servant, but they aren't created yet.

Gameplay wise, she'd be difficult to balance. Every small movement would inch her closer to a true Blood-Rage, which would significantly drain her health. To get around this, the player would have to use Rachel's Wind Drive to maneuver either Rize or her opponent into her range. To offset the difficulty of that, she has quite a lot of power. It might actually end up making her a grappler-type of character. Rize is the kind of character who changes the color palette of an anime when she shows up. Super strong, y'know?

Anyway, this is probably my favorite of the "ArcSys Singularity designs" that I made. I also tried out Slayer and Rachel as a combination, but it wasn't quite as fun. I feel very excited with Rize! I wanna draw her more.

#toxic talks about #guilty gear #Blazblue #Rachel Alucard #nagoryuki #rize

[arcadiabaytornado]

To be honest with you, Rachel’s death continues to haunt me after all of these years. It may sound silly since she’s a video game character, but she was one of my favorite life is strange characters next to Max, Dana, and Kate. It could be due to the matter of her murder, as well as her being so young, and not being able to achieve her goals of leaving Arcadia Bay.

Am I crazy for feeling this way?

No, you're right, because EVERYTHING about Rachel's death is tragic.

A: She never got to escape Arcadia Bay. All she wanted was a chance to escape her small town and make it LA, but she never got there.

B: She was so ambitious. She wanted to do so much with her life and she was so confident she could do it all. The fact that she never even had a chance is devastating.

C: She was only eighteen. I'm 20 years old and I've changed so much from who I was two years ago, the person I was at eighteen doesn't exist anymore. Rachel never had this chance to look back at who she was at eighteen and only find a ghost looking back.

D: She was photographed by her teacher who groomed her, and then was murdered using drugs from a man who has been implied to be interested in her when she was fifteen and he was in his thirties. She couldn't escape being victimized by these men even in her death.

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E: IF (and that's a big if) we believe what Mark tells Max, then Rachel was never even meant to die in the dark room. Nathan overdosed her on accident. She could have lived.

F: She never got to say goodbye to Chloe. Or Steph. Or Mikey. Or anyone who cared about her.

G: She likely didn't find peace in death, because it's implied that she comes back as a ghost deer. And while she does fade away once her body is found, she was still not at rest for six months.

H: The girl who loved the spot light was thrown away like trash and no one could find her for six months. The curtains were called and she didn't get that final bow.

So you consider all of that and her death is one of the most tragic in fiction. I don't even know how they could make Rachel's death worse because every aspect of what happened to her just seeps with tragedy.

#life is strange #lis #rachel amber #asks

[nobodysdaydreams]

What's going on with Daniel Jacobi and the ducks. does he have a duck for a nemesis like me and the turkey. please I need to know

Words cannot express how much this question delights me. I apologize in advance for the ensuing rant.

Let me give you the backstory.

So first off, a little about the man in question, Daniel Jacobi. (Disclaimer, I have not consumed all Wolf359 content so this is just based on what I got so far).

We don’t know much about his background except the following:

He specializes in making bombs, weapons, and in his words “things that hurt/break other things” especially humans. He feels little to no remorse for this

He at one point was in the army but never served and so far it’s been implied something happen there that he doesn’t want to talk about that might have involved blowing up a hospital and disappointing his Air Force father (he has severe daddy issues)

He agrees to work for an evil company that kills people knowing full well that they are an evil company that kills people (even and often their own employees). Not everyone working for the evil company knows that they are working for an evil company that kills people, but Jacobi does (because he does a lot of the killing). Like most who are in the know about this, he believes that the evil company would either A) never kill him or B) that if they did kill him, it would be okay because his work would be used for the greater good (though Jacobi is more option A here. Hilbert, who you may have seen me rant about before, falls more into the B category).

More facts about Jacobi later, but first, a word about the evil company and what he actually does for them. The evil company (Goddard Futuristics) focuses primarily on evil shady space exploration that involves killing all the crews they send up when they’re done using them (and for some reason, no one on earth seems to find this suspicious at all. I mean, they do choose people with criminal histories and/or people who don’t have a lot of friends or family who’d miss them, but still someone should have caught on by now). Goddard Futuristics also does a lot of AI development, where they create AI with fully human consciousnesses, personalities, and pain responses, only to enslave them to serve their evil purposes, even forcing them to torture the human crews they’ve come to consider their friends. The folks who run the company also seem to enjoy torturing the AI and their human employees for fun. For context, the company is run by an evil smooth talking business guy and his behind the scenes evil science girlfriend. Think Curtain and Garrison but if they were more evil, sadist, cruel, and the nature of their relationship was 50x more weird and confusing. They run the company like an evil pyramid scheme, with everyone thinking they’re essential personal who are in the “inner circle” and don’t have to worry about getting killed off (but that the people below them on the pyramid do) OR they understand that they are expendable but are in way too deep to back out now, so they keeping doing what their bosses want so they don’t get killed or because they delude themselves into believing their murderous bosses actually have good intentions that couldn’t be accomplished without all the murder.

Directly below evil business man and his evil science girlfriend in the pyramid of evil are Rachel, evil business man’s mean assistant back on earth who I don’t like, and Jacobi’s boss Kepler, who is somehow even worse. All he does is monologue about Whiskey and act like an ominous supervillain (even though it’s clear he doesn’t know what he’s talking about half the time and his bosses are intentionally keeping him out of the loop).

So by now you’re like: “okay Bods, so why does Jacobi kill people for this evil guy Kepler, who is also on his own level of this evil murder science business pyramid scheme? And what does any of this have to do with your passion for torturing Jacobi with ducks?” So glad you asked. After Kepler sweet talks Jacobi at a bar, he agrees to work for Kepler and the evil company he represents because Kepler entices him with an offer he can’t refuse: a chance to have a job where he gets to make things go boom! for a living. While at the company, Jacobi befriends someone on the same level of the evil pyramid scheme as him: Dr. Maxwell, who was enticed by Kepler into working for Goddard with a similar offer he gave Jacobi: a chance to have her dream job working on AI for a living. To Maxwell’s credit, unlike other characters, she treats the AI as human equals. Unfortunately, Maxwell doesn’t treat a lot of the human characters very well so this doesn’t mean much, and when some of the humans and AI turn on Kepler (for justifiable and obvious reasons), Maxwell and Jacobi don’t hesitate to betray, hurt, and enslave the AI and attempt to kill the humans.

This is where things get interesting. During this uprising, the rebels win and Jacobi and Kepler are taken hostage. Maxwell is killed. Jacobi does not take her death well. Jacobi starts freaking out and slowly puts together a ton of obvious stuff we already knew: Kepler is a bad leader who only looks out for his own self interest, he actually doesn’t know what he’s talking about 90% of the time, he was stupid enough to gamble the life of their AI expert and doesn’t care at all that she’s gone, and Jacobi and Maxwell were expendable the whole time just like everyone else at the evil company.

So he has a whole crisis about that, but I know you’re dying to know: what does any of this have to do with ducks?

Honestly, not that much.

You see, one day, the crew finds out that the evil company knows oddly detailed deeply personal embarrassing and incriminating information about all of them. One of these personal secrets is that Jacobi, Mr. Murder Man, Mr. Explosives, Mr. Bomb Expert, Mr. “I kill for a living and don’t lose a moment of sleep”, is highly afraid of ducks. They never explain why he has such an intense fear of ducks (to the point where he freaks out if people make quacking noises) and it’s never brought up again, at least not so far. So I have no idea if he has a specific duck nemesis like you do with your turkey because the show never addresses or explains it.

So then why do I mock him relentlessly for something mentioned so briefly that has little or no bearing on the plot? Well, I’ll tell you, Milk. You see, despite discovering the evil company is evil and losing faith in his horrible boss for letting his best friend get killed, Jacobi STILL doesn’t decide to join the good guys and even insists that Goddard has “done some good things too” and that there really is no good or bad just “progress” and that people like him are necessary so people like Maxwell can do their jobs. The redemption arc is right there for the taking, the bar is on the floor, but instead he decides to completely overlook the very obvious facts that no, actually, good science can in fact be done without murdering tons of people, and being okay with murder until it’s you and your friends that are getting murdered is hypocritical, and I don’t care how much good the evil science company did for the environment, if a successful environmental activist was found guilty of murder, they would still go to jail. You don’t need to do bad things to do good things, and doing some good things once doesn’t give you a free pass to kill whoever you want. In addition to this highly frustrating failure to see the obvious and conscious choice to bury his head in the sand (though to be fair, he’s not the only character that does this), Jacobi also followed his boss’s orders and murdered my favorite character: Blessie, aka The Blessed Eternal aka Specimen 34, aka The Plant Monster aka Percy the Plant aka a bunch of other names. He was iconic, a legend, likely the biological son of Commander Renee Minkowski (and we love that for him), and now he’s dead. He was born in the darkness of space and built himself a night light because he didn’t have any sunlight. 🥺 All he wanted was to go to earth so he could see the sun and plant himself in the soil, where he could live with the other plants. Now he can’t. 💔 Oh. And also, Blessie at one point took over the mind of a Russian scientist, named himself “The Blessed Eternal” and tried to enslave the entire crew, but that Russian scientist did some evil messed up stuff and also it’s okay that Blessie did that, because he was just scared and it was funny and he apologized for it later in his own way so we forgive him 💕 (also God forbid a mutant plant monster does anything 🙄).

The point is: For his crimes, most notably the execution of Blessie’s murder, his lack of remorse, relentless stupidity, and intentional rejection, suppression, and mockery of any feelings of empathy or compassion, Jacobi must pay. So I have decided that an appropriate punishment is to mock him and his fear of ducks relentlessly whenever the opportunity arises.

I hope this explanation is sufficient, sorry to rant so much about the evil murder science company’s pyramid scheme and backstory, but I hope you enjoyed it!

#daniel jacobi #Bods answers #bods wolf359 reactions #wolf 359 #wolf359 spoilers #wolf 359 spoilers #wolf 359 podcast #Blessie #the blessed eternal #specimen 34 #w359 #w359 spoilers #alana maxwell #renee minkowski #warren kepler #rachel young #ducks

[sgiandubh]

Jottings: Season 7, Episode 4. Well then, best not die

As Tom Christie would say, "the Lord does answer prayer, you know": this week has been indeed bigger, better, brighter and more. Tissues might or might not be needed - it's up to you to decide (fun fact, I almost did), but ice cream is a must (steamy moments ahead, ahem).

Back at Lallybroch the pixies broke the alarm clock-cum-radio, while someone is wiping his nauseous mouth with the Declaration of Independence in Wilmington. And there can be no greater contrast when it comes to casting, than the one between SS and Vandervaart. She is trying, bless her heart she does, and it shows a lot. Yet no matter how hard she does it, she will never overcome, I am afraid, that stilted delivery and that genuine uneasiness that make you feel alternatively dismissive and sorry for her. In the economy of Outlander, SS is more than a waste: she is a casualty, because she managed to unwillingly kill Bree, a character with a difficult, often unsympathetic design to start with.

For his first substantial on-screen appearance, Vandervaart passed my scrutiny with flying colors. Now I might be biased, because I am a documented victim of this particular Boston Brahmin charm, that screams old money and boat shoes and Ivy League and effortless sophistication. But it's more than this, of course, and I suspect solid brains and a great deal of preparatory work. This kid has managed to impress me, with his subtle nods to the mannerisms of JAMMF and LJG. The scene with Young Ian and Rollo is flawless. The diction is perfect. He cares for William enough to become William and this is something to behold and applaud.

Both Hunters are quintessential. There is a sort of steel butterfly quality to Rachel and Denzell Hunter's kindness could melt my B&J's Chocolatey Love A-Fair bucket on the spot. Their likeability index will probably increase with time, and not only in this fandom, but also in the silent majority of casuals.

Which brings me to Tom Christie brilliantly showing us that, as my beloved Wilde once said with perfect clarity, "every saint has a past and every sinner has a future". This is the moment when I almost reached for the tissues, because I once was Tom Christie, and I know how damn hard is to keep your dignity in a hope against hope situation. And I could have done without that burlesque kiss altogether: but that is just me.

We've been waiting for this one since the trailer was released or even since I Am Not Alone. At last some bedroom maneuvers that are not: a) scampered; b) implied; c) muted and faded to cheesiness. I didn't even ask for much, did I?

Spoiler: "The thing about Tom is he wants you. Badly." That golden light. That serene grace. That perfect dialogue of bodies and souls. That cheeky raspiness. Not about Tom and not exactly JAMMF. I almost shivered, it was just like the good old times. And then, BAM!

A PLAGUE ON YOUR HOUSE, INTIMACY COORDINATOR VANESSA WOMAN, WHOSE NAME I DO NOT EVEN BOTHER TO GOOGLE AT 03:55 AM LOCAL TIME.

YOU SET OUR HOPES HIGH, PUSHED US TO THE EDGE AND THEN HAD THEM FADE TO THAT TOTALLY CLICHE MIRROR TRANSITION. HELLO? YOU FEEL OK WHEN YOU LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR, WHILE YOU BRUSH YOUR TEETH?

Enough said. And the next lost soul who darts out of Mordor with rumors of body doubles can go directly to jail, not pass GO (heh), not collect $200.

Is next week the Singapore (Sling) one? Lucky I am still in town, then. That is a mystery in the waiting. Onwards.

(Gif taken from @divineandmajesticinone, credits given accordingly - great work!)

#jottings

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Please tell us more about a town it sounds great. (Also, Jordan and Sarah probably watch that. I can just imagine Rachel's reaction to suddenly getting it after being forced to watch half an episode one afternoon with no context)

Okay, so! Other headcanons about A-Town, the shitty postwar sitcom based on Jake Berenson's life (to Jake Berenson's eternal annoyance):

The love triangles have love triangles. Trina (the main character's cooler and more competent cousin) is constantly dating Liam, only to cheat on him with J.J., only to start dating J.J., only to cheat on J.J. with Liam. Jordan's of the opinion that girl should just get herself two boyfriends, but of course then the show would run out of plot.

Gina, Liam's stepsister and the Ax stand-in, is so friggin weird if you pay close enough attention. It's probably just a side effect of bad continuity, but at various times she a) implies she's over 300 years old, b) has various lines that imply she's an andalite in morph c) has various lines that imply she's a yeerk in morph, d) apparently killed a visser off-screen through means so horrifying they can't be described, e) can reprogram computers by licking them, and f) may or may not have eaten Liam's aunt, depending on how ironic certain lines are meant to be.

Sort of like Batman and Robin having exposition-conversations as they walk up the side of a building, most episodes will have a scene with the actors doing a voiceover overtop footage of two or three pigeons sitting on a power line. The most popular clip of the show on YouTube is the one where the "Crystal" pigeon visibly takes a shit midway through a tearful love confession to "Brandon." (Spoiler alert: she cheated on him with Liam.)

The alien controlling Daisy, Brandon's sister, is named Zeptron 420. One of the stranger B plots involves Zeptron falling in love with a banana slug, carrying it around, writing it bad poetry, and eventually trying to stuff it into the ear of a cow so that they can be together forever. The slug falls out and the cow accidentally tramples it; Zeptron is heartbroken, at least until the post-credit scene where we now see her falling in love with a freshwater eel.

#animorphs #postwar headcanons #a town #animorphs crack

[frracturedjaw]

hi! I'm super excited to see a new slasher writing blog! :D do you think you could write just something fluff/comfort with Vincent taking his mask off in front of his s/o for the first time? thank you!! ♥♥

baby steps (vincent sinclair + reader)

🔉so my darling (acoustic) - rachel chinouriri

summary: vincent is learning to be comfortable in his own skin with reader's help.

warning(s): none

an: house of wax anons coming out of the woodwork... ily, thank u for the request :)

as much as Vincent wants this, the idea still makes him nervous. he knows you'd never pressure him to take the mask off, you have more grace than that. and patience. god, you are so patient with him. it only makes him feel all the more guilty that he's taking his time with this. he can only try to reassure himself that you understand, maybe not entirely, but enough.

you keep your eyes shut -- just like you promised -- when he opens the bedroom door. light from the hallway illuminates the familiar shape of your body, one he'd lovingly memorized. now he would allow you the same privilege.

you feel the bed dip and creak as he crawls in beside you. his eyes adjust to the darkness quickly, your silhouette turning to face him. your legs curl around his as they usually do when he settles into bed. then, your hand splays over his chest. it's bare now. having shed his thick sweater, he permits your hands on his body.

Vincent finds himself suffocatingly aware of how utterly exposed he feels. even in the privacy of his own home, his own room, under the blanket of his own bed, he feels a thousand eyes on him. even when the only ones watching are his own.

"you okay, Vinny? you heart's beating a mile a minute." you whisper. he hums affirmatively, just a little too quickly to be convincing. "we can stop if you want. I don't wanna push--" his fingertips press against your lips, and he murmurs a 'no'. "alright, then." you acquiesce, pressing a kiss against his open hand, which curls to cup your jaw.

your hands continue across his collarbones, the delicate pads of your fingers flat against his skin. the darkness is thick and all-encompassing, and you can't tell much difference if your eyes are open or shut. Vincent knows you can't see him, but his heart thrums insistently nonetheless.

"you've got freckles?" it's more a statement than a question. Vincent hums again, unsure of how to respond. your fingertips rub gently across his shoulders, as if there was something written there. "you're so goddamn beautiful, Vince. I'm falling in love with you all over again." he feels heat rising in his skin, taking an intentional deep breath. he reminds himself that this is only a small step. he can stop whenever he wants. you'd understand. you'd understand. "you talk about yourself like you're a tragedy. I'll never understand you in that sense, I guess."

"sorry." if you weren't so close, you wouldn't have heard him. his voice is a hushed rasp, and his breath tickles your face. he can just barely see your lips pull back in a reassuring smile.

"aw, Vincent. I don't mean it like that. it makes sense, why you think the way you do. I just don't think I could ever see you as anything but pretty."

"...pretty?"

"yeah, pretty. gorgeous. divine, even. you remind me of an angel, Vince."

"Mmh." he mulls the words over in his head, allowing your hands to slide up his neck. he's never felt anything as pleasant as the way your fingers glide over the base of his skull, carding through his unkempt hair and raising goosebumps in their wake.

Momma never called him ugly. he'd been called names in the schoolyard, but nobody that mattered to him had told him there was anything wrong with the way he looked.

it was always implied, though.

"this is your face, now, Vincent. we're gonna take good care of our face, right?" she'd told him, pressing the edge of the mask down against his hairline. he never saw Momma scared (until the end), but he recognized the shrill note of horror in her voice whenever she caught him without it. the way their father would bring him into the office to gaze intently at the whorled flesh under lamplight, a persistent frown tugging at the corners of his mouth. he'd always say something under his breath before sending Vincent away. he learned that what laid beneath the mask was not his face. it was a mistake. like how broken arms and facedown paintings are mistakes. they can get fixed, but are never quite the same as how they should be. a tragedy, he thought.

your nails scratch gently at his scalp, occasionally drifting down the length of his hair. his breathing deepens, and his eyes fall shut. the rise and fall of cicada song is pleasantly loud, the sound filling his mind and leaving no more room for memories.

"can I touch you, Vincent?" your lips brush against his skin when you speak again. every inch of you -- as much as possible, anyways -- is already pressed against him. he can feel your pulse in his fingertips, the flow of his breathing matches yours. you may as well be tangled into one person. but his face was different. like it was separate from the rest of himself. in the bed was you, Vincent, and his face. you notice his apprehension. "I'll wait as long as you need."

you're about to tuck your head beneath his chin just as you always do before sleep when he leans into your hand. your fingers graze smooth ridges of scar tissue. you gaze up at him in the dark, blindly searching for some reaction, some reassurance that this is what he wants. he doesn't move to stop you when your hand moves lower. two fingers trace between his eyebrows, along the bridge of his nose. you find the dip of his cupid's bow, fingers passing over soft lips before settling against his cheek. your other hand rises to cup his face.

"hi." he mumbles and you feel a small smile spread over his features. a giggle slips out of you, and he catches it. the bed wobbles with shared laughter.

"hey," you reply, thumbs smoothing over his cheeks. your hands explore his entire face, his hands resting loosely at your forearms. he can feel every ridge of your fingerprints on the sensitive half of his face. it tingles strangely. he himself never really touches it. "thank you for letting me... y'know."

he doesn't respond, only nuzzling into your hands further. his eyelashes tickle against your skin as he lays butterfly kisses across your palms. for once, he finds himself lavishing in the attention instead of shrinking from it.

"I love you," he rasps.

"I'm glad I get to love you back."

#slasher x reader #slashers x reader #slasher fanfiction #vincent sinclair x reader #vincent sinclair #house of wax

[twistedtummies2]

Top 5 Portrayals of Irene Adler

The past three lists I discussed some of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson’s most notable allies: Mrs. Hudson, Inspector Lestrade, and Sherlock’s brother, Mycroft. However, no detective and his sidekick would be able to function without cases to solve…without villains to conquer. While Professor Moriarty is the most famous and recurring Holmes antagonist, Holmes solved many, MANY other cases, and faced many other rogues, aside from the Napoleon of Crime. I think it’s time to give some of the more noteworthy criminals Holmes went after their fair due. Just to warn you, these lists will be simple, quick Top 5s rather than Top 10s, and once again, the descriptions will be brief. This is typically for one of three reasons: a.) there just aren’t that many versions of the character out there to begin with, b.) all the versions after a certain point sort of gel together in terms of my personal preference, or c.) a bit of both. With that said, let’s start with arguably Holmes’ second greatest adversary: Irene Adler, the Mistress of Disguise. In the original story “A Scandal in Bohemia,” Adler is actually one of the few criminals to escape and thoroughly outwit Sherlock Holmes. Notably, she is the only woman to outsmart the Master Detective, which is one of the reasons Holmes refers to her as “The Woman”: a sign that she is, in his eyes, the finest of her gender. It’s heavily implied in the original stories that Holmes is in love with Irene, or, at the very least, she is the first lady he has come truly close to loving. He loves Irene not so much in a sensual or physical way, but more for her incredible wit, daring, and mystique. While Adler is an antagonist in the story, on that note, she’s not by any means the worst of Holmes’ opponents. In short, Adler is the original Femme Fatale: the alluring, morally ambiguous, dangerous female who both entrances and hinders her hero. The Catwoman to Sherlock Holmes’ Batman, if you will. Various adaptations and reimaginings since have toyed with this idea, and especially latched onto the romantic overtones, ever since. There are lots of versions of Irene Adler; she’s one of those characters who falls into Point B, as I mentioned earlier: after a certain point, a lot of them just sort of gel together for me. However, picking my Top 5 was fairly easy; it’s just harder to do any number beyond that. With that said, let’s waste no more time: The Woman is waiting. Here are My Top 5 Portrayals of Irene Adler!

5. Anne Baxter, from Masks of Death.

In this made-for-TV movie, Peter Cushing and John Mills play an aging Holmes and Watson on their final case before retirement. Anne Baxter appears as an equally “advanced” Irene Adler, in a relatively small but important role in the story. It’s primarily the uniqueness of this Adler that gets her in my top five: Baxter was a great choice in casting, her interactions with Cushing as Holmes are fantastic, and the idea of these old adversaries re-encountering one another in their twilight years is an interesting one indeed.

4. Gayle Hunnicutt, from the Granada Series.

It’s largely due to Hunnicutt’s “scene partner” as Holmes - the unmatchable Jeremy Brett - that nails her placement on the countdown. Granada’s adaptation of “A Scandal in Bohemia” was actually the very first episode of the Brett series, and it serves as an excellent first impression for the show as a whole, with Hunnicutt playing a very book-accurate take on the character. (Albeit with a different pronunciation of the name from the usual, with an accent at the end of “Irene,” so that it is pronounced “Ee-Rain-uh” instead of “Eye-Reen”...unusual.) While Hunnicutt’s calculating, cunning Adler is phenomenal, I personally feel other versions that go “beyond the books” make her even more interesting.

3. Rachel McAdams, from the Guy Ritchie Films.

Conan Doyle fans seem polarized about McAdams’ take on Irene Adler. For me, I personally think she’s an excellent, albeit somewhat different, interpretation of the character. This version heavily ups the romantic side of her relationship with Holmes, and really plays up the moral ambiguity, as she helps Sherlock out almost as often as she gets him in trouble. Using the earlier analogy, she’s at her most “Catwoman-esque” here. It’s eventually revealed - SPOILER ALERT - that Irene is working for Moriarty, although it’s not altogether clear why. She is seemingly killed off early in the second movie, when Moriarty feels she has become a liability. Sad.

2. The Version from Moriarty the Patriot.

This is a rather weird one, to be honest. It’s hard to talk about this version of the character without giving away some MAJOR spoilers for the series as a whole, but I will do my best. Irene first appears in an adaptation of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” entitled “A Scandal in the British Empire” (which borrows some minor influence from “The Bruce Partington Plans”). Weirdly enough, she’s actually EXTREMELY book-accurate here, and the way Holmes’ relationship with her is showcased is equally so: the two aren’t depicted as being romantically involved so much as being, I suppose, “flirtatious best friends.” This is fitting, since the strong romantic overtones in THIS series go between Holmes and Moriarty…but that’s another story. Speaking of, after this initial story arc, Irene’s character goes into some…UNEXPECTED territory, but it does nothing to make her character any less interesting.

1. Lara Pulver, from Sherlock.

Once again, much like the Guy Ritchie version, Pulver’s incarnation heavily emphasizes the romantic tension between Adler and Holmes. Also like the Ritchie version, this take on Adler ends up embroiled with Moriarty, although things end rather differently in this interpretation. This Adler, I felt, hit a good balance between a proper villainess - and a very fine one, at that, able to prove a solid match for Holmes - and the more sympathetic love interest at the same time. 

#list #countdown #best #favorites #top 5 #actors #acting #sherlock holmes #film #tv #movies #animation #irene adler #adler #irene #sherlock #moriarty the patriot #masks of death

[bluedalahorse]

So I wrote a little something about the RWRB movie, particularly the erasure or diminishing of some other queer characters’ (not Alex or Henry’s) identities. I’m cutting it so you don’t have to read it, but of course you can if you would like to. Not going to tag it for now, just for peace of mind.

So overall, there were parts of the movie I found charming and enjoyable, and I think things really picked up in the second half. I did find the whole thing kind of uneven on a writing level. I know changes have to be made and things have to be cut when you go from a novel to a two-hour movie, and I sort of like looking at how the adaptation process works. After a second watch I can probably pin down some of the writing issues and appreciate what did work. I don’t know if I will or won’t post about it.

Really, right now, the thing on my heart that I want to discuss, is the representation issue.

I actually think they did a good job representing Alex and Henry’s relationship mlm onscreen, once it got going. The tender moments were tender, the spicy moments were spicy. You didn’t get actors looking at one another like “oh god I have to be in love with a man now” and we didn’t cut away from the intimacy scenes like we were ashamed of them.

But—sigh. The way they cut or diminished every other queer character in the story. Obviously I knew Luna and Liam had been cut out, so I was ready to adjust my expectations there. I’m glad Amy was played by a trans actress, although I also wish we like… knew Amy was trans and sapphic? Maybe there was a line about Amy’s wife that I missed, but I don’t remember one. 

My biggest feelings of frustration, though, is how they handled Nora, who is very much bisexual and Jewish and a statistical analysis nerd. I get combining Nora and June to streamline things for the movie, but I do not understand why you wouldn’t make Nora bi? You can keep roughly the same number of scenes with her and Alex, and just rewrite their interactions to sound like two queer friends talking instead of a protagonist and his Black Best Friend archetype the protagonist says things to because he needs to say his internal monologue externally. Rachel Hilson did bring great energy to the role, so I liked seeing her onscreen. I just wish the script gave her more to work with and didn’t erase her bisexuality. Like there’s a certain audacity to the script saying that the B in LGBTQ isn’t silent (an important line to have!) when the film is either very much silent about a key character’s bisexuality or has written it out completely.

(Although, the part where Nora was obviously playing a drinking game over political debates? Loved that, excellent example of DC behavior right there, I did cheer at that scene. I am 100% serious.)

Also. There’s just… something. About implying that the gay Mexican journalist character was the one who leaked the emails, instead of the Republican Party. There’s something about writing that storyline in an America where gay people, Mexicans, and ~the media~ are regularly demonized. At a time when the actual Republican Party IRL is literally out here trying to do a genocide on trans people, and Florida’s Don’t Say Gay ban is on the books, and everything. I get that Prime was probably trying not to piss off the actual GOP and draw their ire, but like, conservatives are not going to watch this or like this anyway? I get changing the antagonists, maybe, but maybe we need to go in another direction with that. Hm.

One more thought, as far as overall vibe. Washington DC is statistically the city in America with the highest LGBTQIA+ population. Queer rights are visible in our city’s culture—maybe in a nerdier way than some of the more “hip” US cities but it’s still there if you know where to look. The West Wing/federal government are a bit removed from DC’s broader culture, depending on the administration, but Ellen Claremont is a liberal Democrat with a diverse staff, so she’s more likely to have an open relationship to DC’s queer culture than say, a conservative Republican president. So… idk. Let Alex move through scenes that reflect this culture, is what I’m saying.

Tl;dr I think the RWRB movie worked as a gay romcom in the Netflix Christmas movie sense. It reflected an mlm relationship and did it well enough. At the same time, Casey McQuiston writes books about queer community, which has always been one of the reasons I gravitate toward their work and come back to it. I feel like this movie chose queer individualism over queer community, and that makes me sad. It especially makes me sad in a time where we’re getting tons of mlm-themed things released but every other aspect of LGBTQIA+ identity has been ignored or diminished.

For comparison, RWRB is about the length of half a season of Heartstopper, and even half a season of Heartstopper depicts a range of LGBTQIA+ identities and knows how to write queer community, even when centering the story on a main mlm relationship. And yes, Heartstopper is different, different things need to be considered and so on. I do think the People Who Make Heartstopper looked at what the comic said, went “oh, one of the things this comic is about is about is queer community” and created a show that reflected that, even if they couldn’t adapt everything from the comic. I wish the People Who Make RWRB had looked at Casey’s book and done the same.

I hope we can simultaneously hold the competing truths that like, 1. it’s okay if the RWRB movie isn’t groundbreaking art, because some LGBTQIA+ movies are just allowed to be mid romcoms, but also 2. it didn’t do right by the queer community themes in the book, and it erased the queer women especially, and this feels like part of a larger pattern when so many mlm releases are happening all at once.

Anyway I’m done, for now. More thoughts later? I mean who knows.

Who’s looking forward to Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe?

[raedshadowlegends]

LO hot take:

idk if I was writing a story about Greek mythology I would a) do actual research first b) not make it about Hades and Persephone cause the original myth to my understanding contains some pretty heavily implied SA and c) if I was still going with the modern theme Rachel’s going on I would commit to it fully, set it in actual Greece (again, doing research) and have the Olympians live in a skyscraper instead of a mountain

also I wouldn’t make the gods neon

I feel like it would be more interesting to write a story about, say, Hephaestus and his struggle to fit into the Olympians, or play with the themes of how power corrupts or how the Olympians attempt to navigate their complex family relationships while trying to stay true to original myths

but yeah there are a ton of super cool myths in Greek mythology and a lot of them are really epic stories with important details like the fatal flaws of heroes, the earning the favor of the gods, anyway I feel like they shouldn’t be reduced to cotton candy looking smut with a barely held together plot

I agree with everything you're saying here.

Now I am by no means a mythology expert but I'm pretty sure that the original myth was about the grief of Demeter and not a fluffy uwu smut story.

It's honestly kind of disrespectful to be slandering a myth this much. Yeah, retellings have always been around and they always will be. But I'd expect a retelling to treat it's source material with respect, y'know? LO is far from respectful in my opinion.

I remember seeing a while back that if LO characters just had normal oc names, nobody would give a shit about it. And yeah. That checks out.

But you're right, there are dozens of myths to choose and retell in unique (but respectful!) ways. I genuinely think LO would be much more appealing if it were a collection of mini stories. Each one could take on a new myth in new ways/ Maybe add some original twists and turns. And get creative with the designs too!! That way Rachel and her team wouldn't be handcuffed to the Persephone and Hades myth and they could have fun experimenting.

Shit, if they had a myth they had fun retelling then they could expand upon it later down the road.

I dunno, I just would have preferred to see that version of Lore Olympus.

It's sad that Greek culture is kinda being slandered like this. It feels pretty disrespectful to me but I'd love to hear more thoughts about it.

Also the neon colors fucking suck.

I'm not a big fan of having my retinas fucking obliterated each time I look at Persephone's horse face. Dear god I wish Rachel had reference sheets and the colors didn't gradually become blinding. Honestly sad.

But I can imagine that the bright colors draw in younger readers. They see the pretty pink lady on the cover of a book and they go for it. Not good. Don't let kids read LO.

Anyways thank you for the ask, I agree with literally everything you said. I wish we got to see a more fleshed out LO like you suggested </3

#anti lore olympus #anti lo #lo critical #lore olympus critical #unpopular lore olympus #unpopular lo

[panlight]

The most annoying thing about the whole 'wolves can theoretically be immortal' thing is that it's so clearly JUST for Renessmes sake. It's another I'm a long list of times the wolves are used just for Bella and Edward's narrative rather than a thing in their own right! Like, there has to be at least one wolf who decided to live long enough to see the current pack, hell she even gives us one, Taha Aki was implied to have run off and become a Wolf! And yet! This is never used in any way outside of the renesmee scenario!

Like come on, not even it being part of the angst of 'holy shit I am genuinely Not Human' meyer tries sneaking in here. Like, it is actively weird that they think of themselves as monsters the way they do considering everything, but it's even weirder potential immortality isnt a part of it.

For real, I just don’t see how they are monsters at all. Their whole purpose is to protect people FROM monsters! And they transform into giant wolves, not like, grotesque monstery wolf-men like the Children of the Moon or more Classic werewolves. 

Jacob’s whole “I guess I’m not the right kind of monster for you” thing is just like, sweetie you aren’t even a monster. You don’t have Horror Hunger, you don’t go feral in wolf form, you don’t have a grotesque appearance, you just have a magical ability to take on the shape of an overly large wolf. That’s a shapeshifter, not a monster. 

And yes, word, if she were going to be all “btw they are functionally immortal as long as they keep phasing!” then it should be more relevant than just ‘yay Jake and Nessie can be together forever!’ (which is something literally no one wanted. Team Jacob didn’t want him to imprint on Bella’s half vampire daughter and Team Edward certainly doesn’t want him in E/B’s life forever, either). It would be so cool if Taha Aki were still out there. 

Take Sam, for example. The canon is that he was so freaked out when he phased for the first time it took him two weeks to calm down enough to return to human form. What if instead, Taha Aki or some other shapeshifter who had decided to go full time wolf was out there and found him, explained things to him, and Sam was gone for two weeks not because he couldn’t phase back, but because he lost track of time because he was so amazed by this secret history and magic he was learning from like the OG shapeshifter? 

My favorite explanation of imprinting is that it exists to tie the shifters to mortality. Sam will have to stop phasing to grow old with Emily. Likewise Jared with Kim and Paul with Rachel. Without those ties, maybe more wolves would be tempted and corrupted by the potential of immortality, of superhuman abilities. They’d lose sight of their purpose (protectors) and could veer down a dark path. It’s human nature, right? Power corrupts, and being basically invincible and immortal should be a corrupting force, but the bonds of love and family keep them human so they don’t become like vampires and see themselves above the garden-variety non-shifting humans. Don’t get me wrong, I still don’t like imprinting as a concept and imprinting on children is still something that makes me very uncomfortable no matter how much she’s like “it’s not like that!!!” But imprinting existing to remind shifters of their innate humanity and place in the cycle of life and death makes it almost work in my head--otherwise you’d think a lot more of them would opt out of the mundane human existence to be invincible superheroes forever. 

#asks

[genericpuff]

The confirm timeline makes everything  and makes Demeter a lot more sympathetic to see her daughter do something so stupid 

oh man seeing the confirmed timeline back when it was still being updated thru S2 was when the cracks started to form for me because I couldn't fucking BELIEVE the first season took place over the course of a week. It's weird because on the one hand it tries to imply that time has passed (like with Persephone's grades slipping) but on the other it keeps writing the story event to event, often consequentially (as in, Event C happens because of Event B, which happens because of Event A) so like, the conclusions these timelines come to are pretty simple in and of themselves - these events often all happen in one day and couldn't have been separated by weeks.

For example, on March 15th, Persephone reveals to Eros that she was SA'd. She stays the night at his place so she can have a safe space away from home where Apollo often comes and goes. That's something that would reasonably lead into March 16th's events which are also all pretty condensed because it's when Minthe slaps Hades which happens the day after she stands him up. And then Hades ends up at Hera's place where Persephone also shows up for inexplicably no reason. Of course, Hades and Persephone both aren't home at this time, so it makes for the perfect opportunity for Thanatos to break in to both her room and Hades' office. And that turns into the Hades and Apollo argument after Hades drives Persephone home.

So there's no way the order of these events are being 'mistaken' for a shorter timeline, because every event interlinks so seamlessly. It undoubtedly works for people reading week to week when there's real life time passing in between each episode to give you the illusion of time passing in the comic, but when you really take these events and lay them out end to end in their most sensible order, it's ridiculous how little time has passed. It's why I laugh when people tell me LO is "better binged", like no it fucking isn't, it's worse because when you binge it, you realize just how little time is passing and how much Rachel covers every minute detail of every hour of every day.

A more recent example? Hades and Persephone are already engaged 4 days after Persephone said she wanted to take it slow.

Don't believe me? Hold on tight, because this is about to get dicey.

Day 1 (Ep 207-208) - Hades and Persephone are tended to by their friends/relatives following the battle with Kronos. Persephone has her punishment lifted by Zeus, Zeus and Hades make up. P x H have their "taking it slow" conversation and decide to be boyfriend/girlfriend. As Persephone curls up in bed with Hades, she feels like she's "forgetting something" (i.e. Demeter).

Day 2 (Ep 209-214) - Hades wakes up from a nightmare, which includes hints as to what happened to Thanatos while Hades was being possessed, leading into the start of the next day with Persephone comforting him. They get to work "fixing" the Underworld by doing a Steven Universe dance. During this time, Demeter is looking for her daughter and finds out from Artemis she's in the Underworld, so she decides to go find her. We get the flashback sequence showing Demeter's backstory with Hades and why she was never made Queen of the Mortal Realm. Meanwhile, Hades and Persephone are checking out "Elysium" (which just seems to be a few trees and a river in the Underworld lmao) and start splashing around in the river. Demeter intervenes right as they're returning from their outdoor excursion, still dripping with river water. Persephone and Demeter reunite while Hades talks to the dog but it's a short-lived conversation as she refuses to go back to the Mortal Realm with Demeter claiming she "seems to still be in love". Persephone sends Demeter on her way, who's spotted by Minthe and a few other nymphs. Minthe claims she "has something to do" and walks off, with the heavy implication she's about to approach Demeter. This leads into the Minthe flashbacks depicting her backstory with her own mother and showing what happened to her after her plant curse was lifted. The day she tried to get back to the Underworld, she finds a lost child who she returns to nymph preschool, where Minthe ends up getting a job as a substitute. Right after that, she's summoned to a conversation with Persephone, who reveals to her that the realms are cut off and she's been a plant for three years. Back in present day, Minthe ends up in a conversation with Thetis (who's now married and the mother of a baby Achilles) where she effectively tells Thetis to fuck off. Minthe continues forward, making it to her real destination, which is her job teaching nymphs life skills like making a resume (effectively making the Demeter cliffhanger pointless clickbait). Day 3 (Ep 214-223) - Hades is preparing breakfast (literally a single donut) for Persephone, during which he thinks back to the conversation with Demeter where Demeter asked Hades how he could let her make the deal with Erebus (this goes nowhere). Hades insists Persephone should take the day off. Hades meets with Hecate, revealing to her that he's ashamed his realm is in such bad shape for Persephone. Hades wants to speak with Kronos, but Hecate convinces Hades it would be a bad idea to go down today. Instead, they opt to speculate on how he could have returned, and decide the only person who would know what happened is Hypnos.

Thus begins the most pointless fetch quest in all of LO *deep breath*:

Hades and Hecate have no idea where to find Hypnos, so they decide to go seek his brother Thanatos for help, but Thanatos doesn't want to talk to Hades because Hades treated him like shit and fired him; despite this, Daphne lets Hades in anyways where Hades and Than have a shitty 'make up' conversation that solves nothing between them; we also get flashbacks of what happened between Than and Daphne during the time skip; Hades finally asks Than where they can find Hypnos; they pick up boba tea for Daphne and then drop her off; Thanatos guides Hades to Hypnos' location which was under his nose the entire time, in the HR department of the Underworld Corp; they find Hypnos, who reveals how Kronos was able to take advantage of his powers; Hecate takes Morpheus under her wing as an apprentice of sorts; Hypnos reveals that Kronos has taken a child captive; despite saying they weren't going to talk to Kronos today, Hades and Hecate head down to Tartarus to speak to Kronos, but they can't access it because Kronos has the doors locked and won't open them for anyone but "his Golden Traitor" (implying Hera). This whole fetch quest ends up being useless btw when we find out later that Kronos has been able to talk to Hera the entire time.

*heavy breathing*

Anyways, while all this is going on, Persephone is in Olympus, enjoying her day off, when she's intercepted by Daphne (remember, she had been dropped off by Hades/Hecate/Than!) who's met up with Eros; Persephone reveals she and Hades haven't "done it yet", Eros reveals that he's married with kids now and has to run off to tend to them; Daphne and Persephone leave the restaurant, where they spot a presidential campaign ad featuring Apollo; Persephone and Daphne go to the bank where Persephone runs into her old classmate Tori and acts like a huge Karen to him just because he gossiped about her once 10 years ago; she finds out through Tori (as he works at the bank) that she has an account that's accrued a shitload of money which allows her to buy an apartment that same day, we KNOW it's the same day because it cuts to Hades who's thinking about everything that went down and wondering how he's gonna tell Persephone; he meets her at her new apartment where they proceed to have Chinese (???) takeout. Hades talks a little about how things went but doesn't go into detail, he doesn't tell her about the child deity. We suddenly transition to Persephone at Hades' house where Persphone's packing up her things to take to her new apartment. They end up having the sex conversation, spurred on by Eros/Daphne questioning her about it earlier. Ares shows up that night drunk and looking for Persephone. Hades goes out to comfort him while Persephone stays behind in the bedroom. It's revealed that Aphrodite has left Ares. Hades finds Persephone in his personal theater, where they proceed to watch a movie from 1920's post-WWI Germany and it's heavily implied they have sex during this (*they do not). Ares texts Aphrodite, who's in bed with Hephaestus.

Day 4 (Ep 224 onwards) - The next day starts with Aphrodite/Ares/Heph flashbacks revealing why Aphrodite left Ares, and with a "first meeting" between Heph and Aphrodite. Back to present day, Aphrodite blocks Ares on her phone and meets up with Psyche for coffee. Persephone and Hades are getting ready to leave for work when they find a note left by Ares, which we later find out is urging Persephone to meet up with him to talk about her fertility goddess powers. More Heph / Aphrodite flashbacks. Hades finally mentions the child deity to Persephone. Hera shows up at Hades' work where they proceed to info dump the Kronos/child deity stuff on her. Persephone gets jealous of Hades calling her 'Bunny'. Hera wants to plan Persephone's coronation. Persephone decides she'll be the one to talk to Demeter about her coronation. Hera leaves, this is where it's revealed Kronos has been living in her head for an undisclosed amount of time. Psyche and Hephaestus speak in private, where Psyche reveals she's stolen a pen drive off Apollo for Hephaestus to investigate. Kassandra is revealed. We get some Psyche flashbacks showing how Psyche became a goddess for the purpose of spying on Apollo on Zeus' behalf. Heph gets Psyche to track down Kassandra through Eros/Aphrodite. Cut back to Hades, who's on his own (while Persephone is spending her first night at her new apartment) and is trying to create an engagement ring for Persephone, while reminiscing on their conversation the night before about "the hegemony of virginity". He's summoned by Persephone, who immediately bursts into tears about how upset she is that she got jealous of Hera (not that Hades called her Bunny lmao). This happens in the same day because Persephone says "I got jealous today." More TherapySpeak where Hades makes it all about him. Persephone reveals she's going to meet up with Ares, so Hades decides to accompany her in moth form. Persephone goes to the Mortal Realm to meet with Ares where, according to him, it's "after evening" (w/e the fuck that is, it doesn't look like night time though). This meeting is also counting as her obligatory "date" with him. Ares shows her an old temple with statues in it depicting the fertility goddesses. Ares is barely able to give her any extra info on it that Hades couldn't have already told her. Persephone touches the depiction of Metis and is immediately Avatar'd into the nth dimension where she meets with Metis. Metis tells her about Gaia and how fertility goddesses are a part of the Ouranos lineage. Persephone wakes up from her Avatar state (it's actually visibly night at this point) to find Ares has ditched her. Hades reminds her that she had a visit with Demeter already planned and shouldn't forget it. Demeter sabotages their visit with the whole TGOEM purity club intervention, during which she cages Hades. Hestia lets Hades free, and he immediately proposes to Persephone. Hades takes her away to the Underworld.

WOW that was a lot. But my god, I do not blame the creators of that timeline in the slightest for calling it quits (from the looks of it, they haven't updated it since Season 2). It's absolutely insane how crazy the timeline is. I'm almost half-tempted to finish what these folks started, especially if they stopped due to some kind of divine intervention from Rachel (tinfoil hat theory, but it wouldn't be the first time Rachel's sabotaged a fan project).

This only covers the Free episodes of course, but SPOILER Hades and Persephone end up having to get married literally the next day due to an embargo Demeter's placed on them under the rules of xenia (according to Zeus).

So. Yeah. They've been officially together for 4 days and got married on the 5th.

Peak romance fiction, y'all. They totally got back at the haters who said they were rushing shit.

#lore olympus spoilers #lore olympus critical #antiloreolympus #anti lore olympus #lo critical

[duggardata]

Introducing The Wissmanns!

Part 2.  The 2nd Generation Couples.

[ Click Here If You Missed Part 1 ]

As promised, here is a quick rundown of the Wissmann Couples, starting with Wissmann #1 (Rachel)...

Rachel (Wissmann) + Alan William Busenitz

Alan proposed to Rachel on December 16, 2011, after knowing her for just 13–14 Weeks.  (Doing the math, they must have met in September of 2011.)  They married on June 30, 2012.  On the Wedding Date, Alan was 39, and Rachel was 30.  Initially (for ~3 Years) they struggled with “unexplained infertility,” and eventually tried fertility drugs and even IUI.  Rachel implies that they ultimately conceived ‘naturally,’ however, and they’ve now had 3 Children—

Kendrick Alan Busenitz   b. January 26, 2016  (Age 6)

Autumn Joy Busenitz   b. October 7, 2017  (Age 4)

Justice William Busenitz   b. July 12, 2019  (Almost 3)    

Since Justice, Rachel has unfortunately had two back–to–back 2nd–Trimester Losses.  She miscarried John Matthew at 19 Weeks Along on January 8, 2021, then Faith Elizabeth (at 17 or 18 Weeks Along) on August 4, 2021.  Rachel also had an early miscarriage in September 2018, between Autumn and Justice.

So far, Rachel + Alan’s Procreative Pace (PP) is 628 Days with an ESOQ of 8 Children.

Rachel’s Husband, Alan Busenitz, is 1 of 6 Children.  His family is from Potwin, Kansas, and Rachel + Alan now live in his hometown.  Alan makes his living as a farmer.  Rachel is a stay–at–home wife and homeschooling mother.  Rachel + Alan are members of Emmaus Church (Whitewater, KS)—“an evangelical Bible church with Mennonite roots.”  (Statement of Faith.)  (Duggar Data figured this out by comparing the church shown on Rachel’s June 2022 IG Stories re: VBS to churches in the Potwin, KS area.)

Ruth (Wissmann) + Ryan James Bourlier

Ruth + Ryan met on December 20, 2015.  He proposed a mere 13 Weeks Later, on March 25, 2016.  They got married on July 30, 2016, He was 34; she was 32 (Almost 33).  So far, they have 4 Children (All Sons)—

Lee James Bourlier   b. June 21, 2017  (Just Turned 5)

Jerit Daniel Bourlier  b. October 3, 2018  (Age 3)   

Judah Loren Bourlier   b. November 28, 2019  (Age 2)

Kaleb Terry Bourlier   b. July 3, 2021  (Just Turned 1)

Currently, Ruth + Ryan’s Procreative Pace (PP) is 491 Days (16 Months)—the fastest of the 2nd Generation Wissmanns—and their ESOQ is 11 Children.

The Bourlier–Wissmanns live in Kimball, Kimball County, Nebraska.  Ryan is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), with a degree from University of Nebraska, Lincoln.  Ruth is a mother and homemaker, and also sells Plexus.  (Yes, that’s the same ‘Plexus’ that J–Rod sells.)  Duggar Data isn’t sure where they attend church, except they probably don’t go to East Fairview Mennonite Church, as none of the church bulletins mention them.

Josiah + Abi Lyn (Rehm) Wissmann

Their Love Story was posted on the Wissmann Blog, but Duggar Data stupidly failed to screenshot it before the Wissmanns locked the blog down.  However, they probably met via Millard Alliance Church (MAC); the Rehm and Wissmann Families were both members.  At any rate, Josiah + Abi wed on September 20, 2008, at the very first 2nd Generation Wissmann Wedding.  Josiah was 23; Abi was 21.  They had the very 1st GrandWissmann (Joanna) in February 2010 and now have 4 Children Total (2 Daughters, 2 Sons)—

Joanna Praise Wissmann   b. February 24, 2010  (Age 12)  

Asher David Wissmann   b. November 30, 2011  (Age 10)  

Jenifer Lee Wissmann   b. May 17, 2016  (Age 6)

Andron Michael Wissmann   b. October 11, 2019  (Age 2)

Josiah + Abi’s current Procreative Pace (PP) is 1,172 Days (~3.2 Years), and their ESOQ is 6 Children.

As of 2022, Josiah + Abi live in Milford, Seward County, NE.  It’s unclear what they do for work.  They attend Hillcrest Evangelical Free Church (Seward, KS).  (Statement of Beliefs.)   

Bethany (Wissmann) + Daniel Trust Beasley

Bethany’s Husband, Daniel, also hails from a Millard Alliance (MAC) family.  His father (Phil) is actually one of the church elders.  Dan is 1 of 9 Children.

Bethany + Dan started courting on March 26, 2009.  He proposed on June 29, 2009.  They tied the knot on December 19, 2009.  At the time, he was 21, and she was 23.  So far, they have 5 Children, more than any other 2nd Generation Wissmann Couple—

Arianna Mae Beasley   b. April 25, 2012  (Age 10)

Caden James Beasley   b. February 3, 2014  (Age 8)

Everett William Beasley   b. December 1, 2016  (Age 5)

Gemma Lynne Beasley   b. September 18, 2018  (Age 3)

Felicity Anne Beasley   b. January 28, 2021  (17 Months)

They also suffered a miscarriage prior to Arianna.

To date, Beth + Dan’s Procreative Pace (PP) is 800 Days (~2.2 Years) with an ESOQ of 11 Children.

Daniel is a lawyer.  He graduated from law school in 2012.  Since then, he has worked as an attorney at the Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)—a non–profit, which advocates parents’ right to homeschool.  (Fun Fact:  The HSLDA is the organization that assisted The Romeike Family with their asylum case.)  Bethany is a stay–at–home, homeschooling mother.  Currently, they live in Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia.  They worship at Fellowship Bible Church (FBC) in Shenandoah Junction, WV.  (Their Church’s Doctrine.)

Andrew + Kori Jane (Knuth) Wissmann

She is from Florida, is 1 of only 2 Children, and her family isn’t as conservative as the Wissmanns.  (But, they’re definitely still conservative.)  She and Andrew met in 2002; started dating in 2008; got engaged on the 4th of July, 2010; and married on March 5, 2011.  Andrew was 23; Kori was 22.  They didn’t become parents right away, and experienced at least one miscarriage.  (Their Firstborn, Wyatt, is apparently a “rainbow baby.”  See Also.)  They now have 2 Sons—

Wyatt Andrew Wissmann   b. June 25, 2018  (Just Turned 4)

Jaxon Richard Wissmann   b. June 11, 2020  (Just Turned 2)

Their Procreative Pace (PP), which is based on their only non–Firstborn Child Spacing (Wyatt–to–Jaxon), is 717 Days.  Their ESOQ is 5 Children.

Drew + Kori live in Winter Garden, Orange County, Florida.  Duggar Data isn’t sure what they do for work.  They might attend Beulah Baptist Church (Winter Garden, FL) (Statement of Beliefs), since Kori “likes” it on Facebook.

Matthias + Michelle Ruth (Kingery) Wissmann

Matthias + Michelle went public w/ their courtship on June 18, 2017.  He went on to propose on August 29, 2017, and their Wedding Date was December 30, 2017.  They are fairly private, recently waiting until birth to announce their 2nd Pregnancy / Child.  As of 2022, they have 2 Children—

Adalynn Michelle Wissmann   b. March 22, 2019  (Age 3)

Titus Ezekiel Wissmann   b. June 7, 2021  (13 Months)

To date, their Procreative Pace (PP), based on their only non–Firstborn Child Spacing (Adalynn–to–Titus), is 808 Days.  Their ESOQ is 7 Children.

Michelle hails from Minnesota, from a large “singing family.”  (The Wissmanns are also a “singing family,” so that might be how she met Matthias.)  She’s the 3rd of 8 Children.  As of 2022, Matt + Michelle live in Seward, Seward County, Nebraska, close to his parents. He works for his father’s company, Wissmann Enterprises, while she is a stay–at–home wife and mother.  They are members of East Fairview Mennonite Church, where Matthias sometimes preaches and leads bible study.

Hannah (Wissmann) + Jeremiah Robert Duggar

They hardly need this Introduction, but here goes...  Hannah + Jeremiah were married on March 26, 2022.  He proposed in Late December 2021—the exact timing is discussed in this Post—after going public with their relationship that October.  No Children yet.

Obviously, Jeremiah hails from the very well–known Duggar Family.  He is 1 of 19 Children, and half of Michelle’s 2nd and Final Set of Twins.  He is 5 Minutes Younger than his fraternal twin brother, Jedidiah.

After their wedding, Hannah moved to Jer’s home state of Arkansas.  Duggar Data doesn’t know exactly where in Arkansas they’re living.  Duggar Data also isn’t sure where they go to church.

Nathanael Wissmann + Katrina Hope Sahlstrom

Finally...  Wissman #11 (Nathanael) is in a relationship with Katrina Sahlstrom.  He is 20 (DOB October 28, 2001).  She’s 19 (DOB June 28, 2003).  Apparently, they began dating on June 28, 2021.  Nathanael went public with the relationship on Instagram the next day.  They’re not engaged yet.

Katrina is the 7th of 10 Children.  She still lives at home in Tracy, Lyon County, Minnesota.  Nathanael is, likewise, still living at the Wissmann Family Home in Milford, Seward County, Nebraska.  He works full–time for the family business, Wissmann Enterprises, and is also a licensed pilot.  It’s unknown what Katrina does for work.  She is a homeschool graduate.

#wissmann family

[arcadiabaytornado]

As much as I like Before The Storm, what made me not enjoy it as much was the contradictions in Rachel’s backstory. Don’t get me wrong, I think DeckNine did a great job writing her character. Kylie Brown, who was her voice actor, also did a fantastic job as her too. However her father, James being a district attorney doesn’t make sense to me. It was implied that Rachel did come from a wealthy background in Life Is Strange, so I can see why they made him have an occupation that earns a high salary. But, considering how the police practically gave up on finding Rachel, I can assume that he had a successful career as a doctor or something, yet he doesn’t have the authority to demand the police to find his missing daughter.

I doubt that DontNod had intentions of making a gameplay about Rachel, but it would’ve been a little better had they did since they were the original creators of her character. Your thoughts?

I agree. I think making James the distract attorney was a weird choice. It heavily contradicts the first game in a way that I don't think a prequal should.

If the DA's daughter vanished into thin air it seems like A: Her disappearance would be thoroughly investigated because of the risk that she was politically kidnapped. B: James had enough power to get the cops to look for Rachel with a snap of his fingers. The idea that he wouldn't is kind of absurd considering he's willing to kidnap and drug and woman based off the idea that she COULD hurt Rachel. Do you know how many things could rhetorically happen? I could unlock hidden power and magically turn into a goldfish, but that doesn't mean it's at all likely to happen. To kidnap someone on a possibility is insane.

And yeah like you said, I think it would have been better if they just made Rachel's family wealthily without them having political power that would majorly change an investigation. I honestly feel like James being a doctor or an engineer would have made more sense.

I'm fully with you that Rachel had a weird backstory. Also…does James being a DA contribute that much to the plot? Let's say he was a doctor for a second; they could still have him tangled up with Damion because he treated him at the hospital and helped him smuggle some illegal stuff out of the building before the cops showed up. In exchange, he asked for a favor later down the line that he cashed in when Sera came back. You can have basically the same plot without him being the DA, so I think it was an unnecessary detail to add that only served to make the first game more confusing. Which...is true for a lot of Before The Storm tbh. (I still love the game though. Episode 2 my beloved.)

#lis #life is strange #before the storm #rachel amber #james amber

[mothermass]

Here's why I desperately need a season 3 of The Wilds :

- I need Rachel Reid to get her revenge. I mean, HELLO?! She lost a whole hand! And had to go through the grief of losing her sister, despite...

- I want Gretchen Klein to go to jail for all that she's done, and for the kids to get the justice they deserve. Besides, that whole "and you almost got my number" to Leah implied so much... It was so dark and perverse, and the second time she made sexual "jokes" about TEENAGE GIRLS.

- I NEED SETH TO DIE.

- I want to see where Sarah Streicher & Amy B. Harris were gonna take the relationship between Fatin and Leah. Like, it's visceral at this point.

- I want to see Martha and Kirin happy, and maybe find LOVE.

- I couldn't wait to discover how the girls and the boys would've interacted. I mean, Fatin was already appearing extra protective over Leah in the last episode of season 2!!

- Lastly, I was already ready to get emotional over Rachel and Nora's reunion, and Leah and Nora's confrontation. Whatever Nora did, I felt so sad for her because Gretchen's manipulation game is top-notch, and she lied to literally EVERYBODY.

The whole experiment reeks of nazism, and I want to see it get crushed.

#avp sucks #gretchen klein #rachel reid #nora reid #leah x fatin #leah rilke #kirin #kirin o'conner #kirin o'connor #the wilds #tw fandom discourse #martha blackburn #seth the wilds