#is this a bad time to admit i was never a big george fan

[arson-09]

not all male mcyts but somehow always a male mcyt

#mcyt #wilbur soot #georgenotfound #goddamn is it that hard to be decent?? #George and wilbur turning out to be the actual shit people and not fully dream is so badly funny #if the rest of dteam knew i swear to fucking god #they probably did but oh well #i only trust the hermitcrafters now #and my commentary youtubers #is this a bad time to admit i was never a big george fan #minecraft youtubers

[cheriladycl01]

I cant do this anymore - George Russell x Wolff! Reader Part 6

Plot: You are the daughter of Toto Wolff team principle of Mercedes-AMG Petronas, you've worked your whole life to become an engineer. However, your dad has other ideas for you and doesn't want you to become a race engineer. You start to confide more in the Red Bull Racing Team Principle to help you get an engineering job, and see him as your present father figure.

Credit to russellius for the GIF

You'd texted your dad, just asking if he wanted to meet in The Luxor, it was a hotel that you knew none of the drivers would be in to interrupt and hopefully fans would be to a minimum as it was quiet an expensive hotel.

You thought it would be better, breaking the ice with your dad first before fully speaking to George. Your dad hadn't said anything as bad as George did, so you felt like now was the time to have an adult conversation with him.

So that's where you were right now, you were stood watching over the Casino's ground floor from the balcony. You felt a sort of shadow next to you, and it made your head turn left. Your dad walked up standing next to you, his arms leaning on the balcony banister pushing the cuffs of his sleeves up to his elbows.

"Hey Dad!" you smile looking over at him a soft expression on your face.

"Hello Barchen" he says softly, looking over at you with the softest expression you'd ever seen on his face. Tears welled in your eyes at the sweet little nickname he'd always used for you.

"Dad I-" you start but he places a large hard over yours, keeping eye contact with you.

"No, I'm sorry for everything I said to you. You deserved a place on the team, you've done wonderful things for Red Bull. And as much as i want you back in the garage I wont ask that off you!" he admits, your head swinging to look back over him as your gaze had travelled down back to the busy casino life.

"I, but what if I want to come back?" you ask, in shock. Did your dad not want your help?

"I know you don't want too, you've found a place in Red Bull that i wish i could have given you and I'm so so proud of you. I think I was just so scared about seeing my Little Bear grow up. I always want to protect you and I don't know, making such a big step and becoming an engineer in the team..." he admits.

"I thought, you didn't think I was good enough!" you say tears brimming in your eyes.

"Never, I'm always so proud of you, my beautiful beautiful daughter. I just fear that I'm loosing you. You've been such a big part of my life for the last 23 years that...I can't let go! You come everywhere with me"

"I know, which was why branching out was the hardest thing I've ever done. But it needed to be done. I love being the daughter of Toto Wolff, not because your Toto Wolff the Team Principle of Mercedes, but because your the man who drove me 3 hours when i slipped over in the garage and cut myself on some metal. Your the man who was there for me when i first ever had my heart broken, your the man who cheered so loudly when I collected my GCSE's because I didn't have anyone else to celebrate with, and most importantly your my dad. I love you, but I wanted to prove that I don't feed off your income, and that I can pave my own way. Honestly I don't think I even would have had the chance at Red Bull if it wasn't for your last name, but I still did it" you ramble, and all your dad can do is stare at you in awe at all the memories you recounted together.

He remembered when how scared he was when he heard a little scream followed by yells from all of his mechanics. He trusted them to look after you, and he knew it wasn't their fault but he was furious that you'd slipped and gotten yourself hurt. He made sure he stayed with you in the garage at all times after that.

He remembered holding you why you cried to him, picking yourself apart and asking him why you weren't good enough. Two hearts broke that day, as his did when yours did. Seeing his little girl, crying over such a stupid and insolent boy... Toto would make sure his changes getting into F1 were zero to none.

He remembered the day you went to collect your GCSE's from the nearest school to the Mercedes F1 headquarters in Brackley. You walked in, seeing loads of people that you didn't know all excited to see each other and showing each other what they got. Some were laughing some were crying for all different reasons. It kind of reminded Toto of the last race at the end of the season in Abu Dhabi. He cheered so loud the hall looked over at the pair of you when you presented him your amazing grades.

But recently since 2021, he'd realized how absent he'd been as your dad. In the process of wanting to keep you with him as his little girl all he'd been doing was just pushing you away. And he hated himself for that.

"I know - I know I've done a lot wrong, but I'd really like it if you could find it in yourself to forgive me!" he says, pulling you into a searing hug, so tight and so warm and you'd missed it dearly.

"You know, you guys cooked really do with my help at Merc" he smile, looking away from him and back down at the casino. You hear him chuckle from your side and he observes down on the gaming floor with you.

"Mmmmm? What would you suggest?" he asks. You laugh in turn.

"Ah, see you might be my dad, but right now you're my competitor. I can't be dealing in secrets" you admit and he looks over to you in shock.

"But I'm your dad!" he fakes his offence taken making you laugh a little more.

"I know, so technically this" you say gesturing between the two of you. "Is a conflict of interest! I can't be seen meeting you in secretive locations!"

"Well, maybe you'll consider coming back to Mercedes but I want to let you know just how proud I am of what you've helped them achieve at Red Bull!" he smiles, pulling you into a tight hug, one that you didn't want to get out of.

"So, I guess I'll see you in Abu Dhabi?" you ask.

"I was actually hoping you'd come home for a bit. The house has felt so empty despite George coming over most days in the off season" he admits, knowing he'd do anything to have you come home even if it's just for a day or two.

"Well, I think I'm needed in the Red Bull Centre on the 20th, but I'll stay with you for the rest of the week, and travel to Abu Dhabi with you!" you grin, knowing you would like to spend some time with your dad Suzie and Jack.

"You're coming home?" he beams.

"I'm coming home dad" you smile nodding.

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[leclerc-s]

big reputations - part five

series masterlist // previous // next

ASKING DANIEL RICCIARDO THE MOST POPULAR F1 FAN QUESTIONS

comments

user1 this interview further proves that max is daniel’s emotional support boyfriend.

↳ user2 was that ever up for debate?

↳ user1 no, but you get what i mean.

user3 oh, he’s got those stupid stars in his eyes again. this man is down bad.

user4 i love how he never brushes off questions about daphne. every single time he answers the questions about her

↳ user5 take notes joe alwyn. this is how you talk about mother daphne.

↳ user4 the shade towards joe. this fandom will never let him rest.

user6 these two are never beating the dating allegations.

↳ user7 i don't think they want to

↳ user6 oh for sure, these two want to know how far this whole thing is going to go

user8 even if they aren't dating it's such an adorable friendship

↳ user9 it'll be official when he meets ryan and blake. that's when you know they are actually dating.

↳ user8 or when she meets christian and max, oh wait.

↳ user9 that's actually a good point

user10 someone stop this man from being so down bad for daphne.

user11 i am loving that max is daphne and daniel's third wheel.

↳ user12 i'm living for max teasing daniel. you know this man does it constantly and never let's daniel rest

↳ user11 oh i know max has never given him a moment of peace.

george russell everyday i am reminded that daphne jones fans are a different breed.

lando norris i would ask why but i have been on twitter today. apparently dts is trending on netflix

alex albon charles, mate, you've got the daphne fans crying.

charles leclerc oh god, what did i do now?

fernando alonso season 1 episode 8 charles leclerc oh.

daniel ricciardo is that why we're trending? i thought old tweets of mine were found and i was getting cancelled

esteban ocon have you said things that’ll get you cancelled?

daniel ricciardo no, but it’s a genuine fear estie! max verstappen at the ‘girlies’ have joined in on our mutual hatred for zak (oscar and lando you saw nothing) oscar piastri never thought i would see the day max verstappen said ‘girlies’

yuki tsunoda added one person

yuki tsunoda speaking of daphne jones ARE YOU TWO DATING RICCIARDO??

george russell yuki who did you add??

unknown number hello, it's liam lawson. george russell oh cool.

daniel ricciardo i don't feel like i have to expose my personal life to you people. i already see you too much.

max verstappen stop being a pussy and ask her out.

daniel ricciardo how about you shut the fuck up for once?

charles leclerc in the words of arthur, 'uh oh, the girls are fighting'

logan sargeant arthur's chronically online so it doesn't surprise me that he knows what that is.

valtteri bottas have you asked her out daniel?

nico hülkenberg i have to admit this is the highlight of my year, have you done it yet ricciardo??

kevin magnussen yes, have you?

mark webber MAN UP RICCIARDO! FUCKING DO IT ALREADY!

jenson button no pressure or anything, but have you?

daniel ricciardo oh for fucks sake. i hate all of you.

liam lawson i'm so confused.

liam lawson i thought they were dating already? considering what ajdbfwei

max verstappen sorry, liam is currently out of commission.

george russell why is that so fucking threatening? what did you do verstappen?

max verstappen nothing. liam is just out of it for the next 20-30 minutes

sergio perez i have never seen max's body move so fast. i fear liam is unconscious.

carlos sainz what the hell is happening?

daniel ricciardo what the hell did you do to liam? is he okay?

max verstappen liam is okay. i pinky swear it.

daphne jones what happened?

max verstappen i was not going to let liam ruin the magnificent plan that i made. he had to be silenced.

daniel ricciardo you make it sound like you killed the poor guy

daphne jones he makes it sound like he's a mafia hitman

max verstappen i could totally be a hitman.

daniel ricciardo cat-dad verstappen could never be a hitman. mad-max however is a different story.

max verstappen i could be a hitman who loves cats. hitmen have many sides to them daniel.

daniel ricciardo do you think this man could be a hitman?

daphne jones that man could never be a hitman

daniel ricciardo could max be a hitman?

charles leclerc absolutely not oscar piastri no fucking way sabrina carpenter i'm going to need context but the answer is no

max verstappen fuck you guys. i could be hitman.

daphne jones face it max, you could never be one.

sabrina carpenter however this version of max and charles could totally be hitmen

charles leclerc how the hell?

sabrina carpenter tiktok is a wonderful place.

daphne jones i thought it was the countless twitter tags asking if you had seen it already? sabrina carpenter oh no it came up on my for you page. it was a video called f1 quotes i quote on the daily. i, of course spiralled when i saw that specific part.

sabrina carpenter my favorite driver is kimi.

charles leclerc well he's retired. so who's your favorite driver on the grid right now?

sabrina carpenter fernando alonso

daniel ricciardo wow, that's so mean.

oscar piastri i would've said the same thing just to annoy you.

daniel ricciardo look who's no longer my favorite grid son

charles leclerc what the fuck? i'm a part of this group chat too.

daniel ricciardo you're on thin fucking ice until you tell xavi off or someone at ferrari.

max verstappen you can't seriously still be bitter about singapore

daniel ricciardo OF COURSE I CAN! HE WAS SACRIFICED MAX! LIKE A LAMB TO SLAUGHTER! I CAN BE BITTER IF HE WON'T!

sabrina carpenter i think charles has no choice but to enter his reputation era.

oscar piastri not yet, he hasn't hit rock bottom yet. charles leclerc and, in the rookie's opinion, what is rock bottom? oscar piastri dnf, dns, dsq max verstappen if at any point charles gets dsq'd i will be calling oscar a psychic. daniel ricciardo WHY WOULD YOU PUT THAT OUT THERE OSCAR??

sabrina carpenter so, mom, dad, are we going to qatar??

oscar piastri yeah, mom and dad, will you be at qatar?

max verstappen they went from being two strangers to mom and dad to three children in span of a few months.

charles leclerc he's only a few years older than me, how is he my father?

sabrina carpenter you dare argue with the twitter giriles?

charles leclerc no?

sabrina carpenter then congrats, you are now mine and oscar's older brother.

oscar piastri charles right now

max verstappen he should save that energy for xavi and ferrari

charles leclerc don't tempt me to crash into you max. i'll do it. then we'll have to wait another weekend to see you crowned world champion again

daphne jones THAT'S THIS WEEKEND? OH WE DEFINITELY HAVE TO BE A QATAR!

sabrina carpenter via air max?

max verstappen who told the pop girl about air max?

sabrina carpenter once again, tiktok is a wonderful place max verstappen once again, i hate you so much sabrina carpenter stay pressed sid. i'm their child and you are simply daniel's mistress. oscar piastri what is it the twitter people say? gagged him.

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¡leclerc-s speaks! can you tell i started rewatching dts now that the season is over? i actually do cry everytime i watch episode 8 of season 1. personally, i love suzuka, but i think the fia's choices with putting tractors on the track has given it a bad history. anyways, hope you enjoyed this, it's a little sad but i never write sad stuff so this is new.

¡disclaimer! this is in no way making assumptions about the people involved in this story, this is all fake. it is a fanfiction please don't take any of what is said seriously. this is all for entertainment purposes and as a creative outlet. enjoy!

#leclerc-s #big reputations series #daniel ricciardo #daniel ricciardo x female oc #formula 1 #formula 1 fic #fanfic #fanfiction #f1 #f1 smau #f1 social media au #f1 instagram au #f1 fic

[pookietv]

manager to missus | arthurtv

little social media au! arthur tv drabbly thing

first post! enjoy, sorry if it's a bit shit :3

liked by arthurtv, chrismd and 17,073 more

yourusername: turns out not being in london all the time isn't so bad, can actually see some stars in the sky

gkbarry: come back to london, i miss u x

↳ yourusername: i miss u more, ready for the podcast when you are

georgeclarkey: never thought i'd say this but please come back, chris cannot do anything without you sorting it out

↳ yourusername: afraid to tell you you will be stuck with chris for a little longer, suck it up

arthurtv: hope you're having a good time!

↳ yourusername: thanks arthur! will have to catch up when i'm back :)

↳ georgeclarkey: @/yourusername how come you're nice to him and i get told to suck it up ??

↳ yourusername: @/georgeclarkey thats because i like arthur more then you, glad we cleared that up x

chrismd10: slacking from work, typical

↳ yourusername: if you had to work with you, you would slack too x

liked by georgeclarkey, arthur tv and 23,803 more

yourusername: if i have to go to one more cold place for the sake of filming i fear i may actually kill one of the boys

faithlouisak: kill ethan if you want, i might get some peace then x

↳ yourusername: on it, i think i was debating it after he flashed his arse at the camera anyways x

maxbaledge: don't come back with them, life without george has been incredible x

↳ yourusername: i will try my best x

chrismd10: you have to admit i was the least annoying this time

↳ yourusername: i fear you are incorrect, you were easily the most annoying

↳ chrismd10: what ?? propaganda going on here

↳ yourusername: you literally almost smashed me in the face with a football

↳ chrismd10: was just trying to fix your face for you

↳ yourusername: and you say you're not annoying??

arthurtv: i am with you on this i do not want to be cold any longer

↳ yourusername: we should unionise against chris together x

↳ arthurtv: time and place and i'll be there

liked by arthurtv, bambinobecky and 25,930 more

yourusername: so apparently i'm twenty four now, not a big fan, feeling quite old. at least i got to get very smashed to ignore it! ps, thank you everyone for coming <3

bambinobecky: glad u had a good night, was so lovely to see you x

↳ yourusername: absolutely, you too! glad you were there to neck pints with me in solidarity x

↳ bambinobecky: anytime, what i was built for x

chrismd10: i will forever hate you for guilt tripping me into doing all those shots just because it was your birthday

↳ yourusername: don't lie, you loved it

arthurtv: couldn't have missed it, drunk y/n is one of the best things out there

↳ yourusername: glad to be of service

arthurtv: also the first photo is very pretty

↳ yourusername: going to make me blush mr television

↳ arthurtv: sorry but not

gkbarry: picking you up from the bottom of your own stairs after tumbling down them was a real bonding experience x

↳ yourusername: stop outing me on the main, i'm trying (and failing) to be classy x

georgeclarkey: glad you had a good night!

↳ yourusername: crazy that you're only nice to me when its my birthday

liked by arthurtv, georgeclarkey and 24,903 more. tagged, arthurtv

yourusername: well.. cats out of the bag ?

arthurtv: surprised it didn't come out sooner with chris' fat mouth

↳ chrismd10: hey i hid it for a while ! was getting bored

liked by bambinobecky, arthurhill and 32,048 more tagged, yourusername

arthurtv: to those who said i'd never go anywhere in life, i got a hot gf so

yourusername: clearly your biggest accomplishment

↳ arthurtv: too real it hurts

#arthur frederick #george clarkey #chrismd #arthurtv

[david-talks-sw]

An allergy to the Prequels

While I'm putting together a post about the evolution Lucasfilm's transmedia strategies, this part kinda turned into its own thing!

So I'm not sure if anyone else noticed, but, uh... there hasn't been that much Prequel content since the Disney sale, right?

'Couple novels and comics, some episodes... but nothing meaningful.

The more I look into it, the more it feels like a deliberate avoidance to touch on anything Prequel-related - beyond the required quota, that is - to a point where they'd rather tell stories set during periods that are Prequel-adjacent (Dark Times, High Republic) than something set around Episodes I, II and III.

On-screen policy: "pretend they never happened"

I mean, this one's no secret. When The Force Awakens had been announced, with J.J. Abrams at the helm, everyone sighed in relief. "Finally, George Lucas won't keep ruining the franchise."

When Abrams had been announced as the director of Episode VII, I remember this cringey animated video started circulating online, titled "4 Rules To Make Star Wars Great Again" or "Dear JJ Abrams":

“Star Wars isn’t shiny and clean... Star Wars is a western.”

If you ask me, those two things are not mutually exclusive.

'Cause Star Wars has always been both, for many Prequel kids. Both clean and dusty, Coruscant and Tatooine. There was never a disconnect between the Original Trilogy (OT) and the Prequel Trilogy.

Even the documentary The People vs George Lucas shows Prequel-hating fans begrudgingly admit their kids felt all six episodes tied seamlessly.

Abrams, on the other hand, said: "I think [the "Dear JJ" video] was right on." Later on, he also said:

he considered "putting Jar Jar Binks's bones in the desert" on Jakku, somewhere, and

he intentionally made the lightsaber fights "rougher", "primitive" and "more powerful" unlike the fast-paced ones in the Prequels.

Later, we found out he wanted to blow up Coruscant.

It's clear he wasn't a big fan of the Prequels.

But y'know what? Not many fans over 20 were, at the time. And when The Force Awakens came out, most them celebrated it as a wonderful love letter to the OT.

Star Wars is cool again. Mission accomplished 🙌 !

However movies keep coming out, and references to the Prequels - if there are any - are literally just that... references.

Sometimes in the shape of a cameo ("hey look, Genevieve O'Reilly from the Ep. III deleted scenes is playing Mon Mothma again!")

Sometimes in a name (Luke name-dropped "Darth Sidious"!)

But nothing set during the Prequel era, and nothing treating the events that happened in that period as relevant or impactful, beyond subtextual nods.

In fact, the trend of avoiding anything Prequel-related continues as the final film in the Skywalker Saga comes out:

The Rise of Skywalker has a secret Sith society that chants the name "Palpatine" instead of his Sith name "Darth Sidious",

the film pretends the Kaminoans never existed,

and neither TROS nor Trevorrow's Duel of the Fates script even try to bring Hayden Christensen's Anakin Skywalker back on screen. Let that sink in, we're talking about the Chosen One, Skywalker Senior, whose sins caused this whole mess... and his name isn't even uttered once in the final chapter of what Disney dubbed the *Skywalker* Saga (or the entire Sequel trilogy, for that matter).

But hey, The Clone Wars got renewed for one last Season! That's cool right? So many stories had gone unfinished and somehow the animation looks even better than befo--

-- oh. It's not 22 episodes? Only 12?

Four of which had already been shown to us, but hey! We need to set-up the Bad Batch series, so let's shoehorn those episodes in there, and forget Son of Dathomir, Dark Disciple or Crystal Crisis.

*sigh* Better than nothing, I guess.

In other mediums: "just not a priority"

Now this is something that I'll explore more in the transmedia post (and purely my interpretation), but the noticeable change between Lucasfilm's transmedia strategy *post-ROTS* and the one post-Disney sale is that:

Before, the games, comics and novels were the main content. After all, Revenge of the Sith had been released, so that was it, for the movies. Thus, a variety of other content was being cranked out to keep the Star Wars franchise relevant. There were comics set 100 years after Episode 6, comics set 25,000 years prior, games set in the Old Republic era, other stories in the New Republic era, novels galore, a couple of parody films and an animated show, The Clone Wars, which sometimes received its own tie-in comics, novels and games.

After the sale and ever since, most of the transmedia products have had only one goal: promoting the films & streaming shows.

So while in 2015 you won't see an abundance of Prequel content... you'll see an avalanche of OT books and comics come out.

Why? Because the heroes of that era will be in the Sequel Trilogy movies. It provided context to the kids who hadn't seen the OT yet, and reintroduced those films to a new generation of fans, while priming them for the Sequels.

A multimedia marketing strategy that ultimately proved successful.

However, it continued even after The Force Awakens came out.

Don't believe me? Compare how many comics there have been set during the Prequel era vs the OT era.

If they make comics about the Prequels, they're limited runs.

Case in point: before the current Yoda series, the best any Disney Prequel-set comic series ever got was 6 issues.

Note: it's worth pointing out that the frequency of mini-series aren't just a Star Wars-specific thing, it's a comic book industry thing. The readership for comics is dwindling, many people are reading scans online, and so no publisher wants to commit to a story that lasts more than 4-6 issues. My problem is: there absolutely would be readership for a Prequel comic series to warrant an extended run instead of a mini-series.

Let's talk books. There have been give or 64 canon novels published since the Disney sale.

Only 11 of them are set during the Prequel era. And even those stories only came out when the planets were aligned.

Almost half of them were released while being a part of some bigger multimedia push.

Example:

Before the Obi-Wan Kenobi series was being released on Disney Plus, we'd had one novel and like two comic stories about him during the Prequels... released between 2012 and end 2021. That's about three pieces of content in almost ten years.

Clearly a low frequency.

Then, when the series is around the corner, two books and a comic story comes out in the space of months, plus an anthology book with an alt cover with his face on it and a comic with a story of him and Anakin in the first issue, all in 2022.

My takeaway: short of there being a film or series that needs to be promoted, you'll rarely get any Prequel comics or books.

And this is OBI-WAN we're talking about. The character who even the Prequel haters love. Imagine how little attention the other ones get.

Gaming-wise, Battlefront had no Prequel content at all (again, 2015 was the year where OT content was shoved down the consumer's throats to prep them for Episode VII), and Battlefront 2 only released Prequel content a full year later.

All that being said, we did seen some Prequel elements here and there. After all, some actors got to reprise their roles, books and comics came out featuring Prequel characters... but there's a catch.

The stories they appear in are set in-between Episodes III and IV, a time-period known as "the Dark Times" or the "Imperial era".

"Dark Times" being used instead of the Prequel era

It's easy to see the appeal of this era. You keep the same threat from the Original Trilogy - the Empire - but redress it with Prequel elements... while also cherry-picking the best characters of both the OT and the Prequels and giving them a chance to shine again.

The situation is more clear cut, as opposed to the complex one in the Prequels. Bad guys are stormtroopers, good guys are anyone else. And the stories no longer take place in the shiny capital, you're back on the frontier.

But at this point... it feels like a cop-out.

When you consider how much content has been set during the Dark Times, it's nothing to sneeze at. Since the sale, we've had:

2 movies (Solo, Rogue One)

4 series set in that time-period (namely The Bad Batch, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Andor, and Star Wars: Rebels).

2 video-games (Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor).

17 novels (such as Ahsoka, Lords of the Sith, the new Thrawn books, etc)

And just a whole bunch of comic book series & mini-series (like Kanan, Princess Leia, various Vader-centric comics including Darth Vader: Lord of the Sith, many tie-in mini-series promoting Rogue One, Jedi: Fallen Order, Obi-Wan Kenobi, etc).

There's been so much content made for this time-period that it feels like an unwillingness to do the work and create something set something during the Prequel era, let alone something that follows its Jedi.

After all, why make a story set in the Prequels (disliked by vocal fans) when you can just take the characters in that story and put them in an OT setting (which will appease the Prequel-haters)?

Maybe these stories get relegated to the Dark Times because:

there seems to be a perception that anything set in the Prequel era won't sell?

or maybe the current SW writers weren't fond of Episodes I, II and III, and don't find those Jedi characters likable, thinking they're too righteous and dogmatic which makes it hard to craft a story around them.

Or maybe it's because they're under the impression that the Prequel Jedi are bad. Like, canonically, in the narrative. Not just in a "I don't like them" sense, but also in a "the story is all about them becoming corrupted" sense.

Let's expand on that last point.

Retconning the Prequels as the "Fall of the Jedi" era

Somehow the rare stories set during the Prequels that we do get seem to automatically be about how "the Jedi lost their way/failed".

The series Tales of the Jedi is explicit about it...

... and I already explained why it contradicts what George Lucas established here and here.

You also see it in Rebels and the new season of The Clone Wars...

... in comics...

... in games...

It gets to a point where the Prequels era has now been redubbed the "Fall of the Jedi" era by Lucasfilm.

You wanna know what that period was referred to before the Disney sale? The "Rise of the Empire" Era.

Because - and I'll never get tired of saying this cuz it's factual - the Prequels aren't about the fall of the Jedi, they're about the fall of the Republic and Anakin, and rise of the Empire and Vader.

So in addition to being overdone, the "Jedi lost their way" is not even the intended narrative of the Prequels (if one puts any stock in Lucas' words). It's a minor subplot at best, hardly the focus of the films, let alone a whole time period.

But dubbing it "Fall of the Jedi" implies that there's another era in which the Jedi were in their heyday.

Because Star Wars authors are in luck! Yet another alternative has presented itself in the shape of a new transmedia initiative, and it's even better than the "let's set it during the Dark Times" solution:

A new transmedia initiative: The High Republic

You wanna deal with the Jedi before the Empire, but for some reason you wanna avoid dealing with the ones seen in the Prequels?

Look no further. Meet the Jedi of the High Republic.

Noble, adventurous, inspired by the Knights of the Round Table, they're everything the OT kids dreamed about when they heard ol' Ben Kenobi talk about the Knights of the Old Republic.

That's more like it!

Note: the High Republic was created for other reasons and has many more upsides than the ones mentioned above. Namely, a fresh new spot in the timeline that allows for creative freedom and a beautifully-coordinated transmedia storytelling effort where retcons are non-existent. However it does seem evident that not having to deal with the 'unlikable' Prequel Jedi and their "fall" is one of those upsides.

Another perk that the High Republic era offers is more freedom in terms of storytelling compared to the Prequels.

In 2016, Pablo Hidalgo tweeted he still quotes to authors the following excerpt of West End Games' guide for aspiring Star Wars writers, from 1994.

You can't write "this was the best day in Luke Skywalker's life", for example, because another author may want to write a better day than the one you just wrote.

My guess is that a similar approach applies to how all characters from the movies are treated. They're massively iconic. So you can't write a book that drastically changes how Mace or Yoda or Obi-Wan are perceived overall.

The stories need to be self-contained, disregardable if necessary, because you'll have dozens of writers coming up with new stories for those same characters, and you need to leave them some room.

Examples:

Notice how in the book Dooku: Jedi Lost we never see how Dooku turns to the Dark Side and joins the Sith.

Same goes for crossover comic book arcs of the Star Wars issues, like Vader Down or Crimson Reign... the characters don't really change by much in those comics. You could stick to just watching the movies and you wouldn't really miss anything.

But with The High Republic, you indeed can develop these characters as much as you want.

All stories featuring Avar Kriss leave an impact on her, you can nail down who she is perfectly in one book or one comic arc, both being just as meaningful to her character.

The fact that she's not as iconic/famous a character as Mace Windu means that authors can go to town on crafting an interesting and nuanced character arc for her that'll have a beginning, middle and end... something Mace will never really get.

CONCLUSION:

Back in 2015... let's not kid ourselves. The Prequels were unpopular and Disney is a multi-billion dollar corporation. Opting to make as much money as possible is what they do.

It's the same reason they decided not to go with George Lucas' original plans for the Sequels, in 2012.

I mean, imagine you're Disney. You just dropped 4 billion dollars, with a B, on this franchise. Your next Star Wars movie needs to be worth the price tag. Now, you can pick between two options:

Option #1 is uncharted territory and it explores the midi-chlorians (the cursed word…!) and the guy who presented you with this option also openly admits that a big chunk of customers won’t like it, but he wants this to be done because it’s his vision.

Option #2 is very simple: a soft reboot, that plays on nostalgia that the same chunk of customers (aka the 'boomer and Gen-X fans who grew up with the Original Trilogy and now have kids, grandkids and MONEY) will like.

It's a no-brainer. They gave the customers what they wanted.

But time has passed, the fans who were children when the Prequels first came out have grown up, and grew up with characters like Yoda, Mace, Plo Koon, Kit Fisto and other Jedi as their heroes, aside from main characters like Anakin and Obi-Wan and Ahsoka.

Can we maybe expand on them, flesh them out more?

No, let's either ignoring the storytelling potential of these characters or reducing it to them being "righteous, arrogant and dogmatic".

God forbid we get a story showing the Prequel Jedi in a *gasp* more positive light? One where their POV is more understandable, instead of the same old "we brought this on ourselves" storyline.

There's a whole decade between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones... you're telling me there's no space to show us Anakin's training and how he formed bonds with the Jedi we later see in The Clone Wars? I tried my hand at it here:

Interesting or fun Prequel-set ideas from other pro-Jedi fans on Tumblr can be found here, here and here.

And y'know, part of the Star Wars intent is for fans to take the ideas in the movies and come up with their own stories. You're supposed to create headcanons.

What I'm saying is fans of the Prequels are being given less "imagination food" than the rest, and many of us who like the Jedi in particular are forced to rely on headcanons only. "Better than nothing" is no longer an acceptable standard.

There's a range of recognizable Jedi characters that have already been established in films and TCW, can we maybe expand on them, flesh them out more, instead of whole new ones?

#jedi order #star wars #sw meta #long post #meta #lucasfilm #star wars prequels #prequel trilogy #sw prequels #high republic #the high republic #dark times #imperial era #the clone wars #tcw #sw negativity

[lucienne-thee-librarian]

Tw: lesbophobia, bullying, petty bitching about the Mean Girls remake and a subset of OG movie fans:

I Know. I KNOW its a me thing. But I saw a post that broke containment about the new Mean Girls movie how OMG REGINA CANONICALLY SINGS ABOUT GETTING GIRLS IN THE END SONG and my first response was "oh god, really?"

Look, I was never wild about the whole "Regina George was secretly closeted and that's why she picked on Janis to distract from her own feelings and save herself" fan theory but at least it was JUST a fan theory. And I know the original movie ending where it turns out Janis isn't even really gay, she was Lebanese and Regina got confused, and see she dances with a boy at the end, it's all okay she wasn't ACTUALLY a dyke!!!! - yeah I rolled my eyes too. Yeah, that was dumb and a coward's move, but idk. At least the movie itself, even if it copped out at the end by not risking having two of the protagonists be ACTUALLY gay in a teen movie...at least it seems aware that homophobic bullying is bad??

The original movie, whatever else you can say about it, or how it handled that issue or any others...at least tried to take that shit seriously. Janis was an outcast years after middle school who flinches at the idea of Damian telling anyone new about what Regina said about her for fear any new friends would abandon her immediately over it. Even Regina herself (blithely, callously, of course, but it's meant to be that) admits that the bullying Janis got as a result of Regina spreading those rumors about her made Janis break down, cut her hair and have to leave school temporarily over the rumors. Regina said that. Herself. With no remorse but she said it. The movie is a comedy, but it doesn't shy away from how brutal bullying of all forms can be. That's kind of the whole point of the goddamn movie.

But idk if the fans of this theory haven't experienced that much bullying themselves or its just a coping mechanism I can't relate to...that theory of "oh Regina's a closet case homophobe poor thing" just completely (to me) softens the whole thing, these fans do it to by making Regina in a sense, another victim. They may not intend it that way, but in the few times I've seen a Mean Girls post and my nostalgia got me scrolling a bit I've stumbled on this. Seen it in various places online and it always made me want to hiss like a wet cat because it's always like "omg poor Regina comphet sucks <333" and. Hork. Im sorry, hork.

Sorry, but I spent too much time BEING on the receiving end of that shit in middle school, getting called names and treated like an actual disease up until I moved to high school with mostly a whole new set of people over the fact someone spread rumors I was a lesbian, to feel anything but frustration over that. Yeah. I was Janis. I'll admit I can't be "objective" here. I never did any of the shit she does in Mean Girls in revenge, I never had the power or inclination, it wasn't a former friend who started it, but yeah I'm biased because that character was me. I know what it was like to be her because I lived it. And yeah, it kind of sucked!!! Did get better, but yeah. Was what it was.

It's a big part of why I've never liked the trope in popular culture that the loudest homophobic bullies are actually closet cases. It's not that "right wing politician caught soliciting blowjobs" has never been a headline but come on. Most of the people who trash queer people do it because they just hate us. Its trivializing of homophobic harassment to act like that's 1) a good explanation for most cases 2) much less an excuse and that's how it can be used. It'd be one thing if a self-hating person's mindset was like. Actually explored with depth and nuance as part of a story. But otherwise, nah. Miss my formerly lowkey traumatized teenage ass with that dismissive cliched shit.

So even the idea that the movie might be lending any kind of weight to that theory about Regina, however subtle or subtextual, that is??? Yeah funny lol, such iconic, very Representation. Fucking bite me. My lesbian ass is tuning right the fuck out. I'm not paying movie ticket prices to see this, if I'm gonna basically get the sort of person who would've made my life hell as a preteen and tween get turned into One Of Us with the expectation that's going to make me freak out with joy. Even if allegedly they did actually make Janis a lesbian (which, good for them if they did).

Of course, it could just be fans blowing something out of proportion but. Like y'all are not making me want to see this movie MORE and I was at best lukewarm on it having never seen the musical and being lowkey burnt out on the idea of yet another remake.

#idk if these girls are just that detached from the reality of what it's like to bullied period or what. Must be nice #ignore me i'm just stressed and strung out for a variety of reasons I'm trying to distract myself #from a health scare im having lately and trying to get answers for by any means necessary #if that includes whinging about something petty #to partly let steam off about bigger things and also cheer myself up #in case anyone else agrees and wants to bitch with me so be it. kvetching is good for the soul sometimes #tho to be clear this fan theory and that trope has always genuinely annoyed me

[the1975attheirverybest]

How sweet and gentle Matty is with babies and animals tells me everything I need to know about his character. Lots of men aren’t like that. I can’t imagine how sweet he is as a boyfriend.

Not only is Matty gentle with babies and animals, he doesn’t talk down to children, he believes in teenagers and young adults, he knows when things are about him and when things are not.

Like, when meetings fans, he knows the moment isn’t about him. Even though one might argue that he IS the center of attention at moments like this. He understands that he’s not, really. Because for him, it’s an ordinary day where he happened to bump into someone who likes his work, but for the fan. It’s THE MOST SPECIAL encounter with the person behind THEIR FAVORITE ALBUM/BAND/MUSIC which they associate with personal things and have emotional investment in. So, even when he’s jet lagged, at airports, even when he’s surprised with giant crowds out side of his hotel, and even when Ross, Adam, and George have (rightly) walked away, he stays put. He never says “oh let’s make it quick cuz I gotta go.” He’s never like “sorry guys I’m real tired.” He will stay, and he will listen, and he will sign whatever you need him to sign, he will answer questions about Anti-Christ in an Australian airport, in 2023, while noticeably sleep deprived, even though he has explained, countless times, over the years, why he won’t perform the song again. When he hugs fans, it’s not a polite, obligatory, single arm around the shoulder before pulling away sort of hug, it’s BIG GENUINE TIGHT HUG with his hand around their back stroking/ rubbing it gently and smiling and listening to someone pour their heart out.

When seeing reluctant fans, HE WAVES THEM OVER to come say hi. When seeing someone in merch, HE approaches THEM to say hi.

He’s not afraid to cry in front of thousands of people (in a good way or a bad way), he’s not afraid to admit his flaws out loud because he knows that it makes other people feel better about their own.

He’s not afraid to talk about how much he loves his male friends (and tear up while doing so).

He’s is gentle, sweet, and supportive of the women that he has dated, and has never had any ego issues about being seen to he sentimental towards them.

He has TREMENDOUS empathy for other people and knows what it’s like to be a fan of something so he takes it into consideration when making fan-related decisions.

He’s not embarrassed about his own enthusiasm for his job or his nerdiness or how much he cares.

So, yeah, Matty’s a good person at his core with a big fuckin heart and a gentle soul.

All hail Matty Healy.

[wishitweresummer]

This is a concept I came up with earlier today and figured you'd find interest in it :)

Raspberries are Dream’s favorite, he would never admit it but he likes the lingering feeling you get after one and the nostalgia of it

Tickly kisses are Sapnap’s favorite, he likes the intimacy of it and affection mixed with the tickles

And Nibbles are George’s favorite, especially on his ears, he loves how quickly he can lose him mind when they're involved, mix those with regular tickles and he is on cloud nine

(Bonus thought, Punz is a big fan of back and scalp tickles. Both of which remind him of his mom so when his friends *cough" Foolish *cough* target his back or find out he has a tickly scalp, he just let's it happen, they're pretty bad spots but he loves them)

(You have no idea how happy receiving this made me 🥹 my first headcannon ask thing I see y’all do)

The jump from tickling with hands to tickling with a mouth is super exciting and I love it with the Dream Team, like they all fought so hard for so long to be together forever and we got to see them right away be like, super touchy. No boundaries I can see.

So, I headcannon that the first time one of them made that jump was so fast. (Definitely Dream to Sapnap with those loud tickly smooches)

Of course Dream with the raspberries, that goofball. He dishes them out like their nothing too, but he can’t handle them oof.

He really tries though! His friends always have just the hardest time trying to collect up his scrambling limbs after delivering the first one cuz he is a messss

And if you tease him?? Poor Dreamie. The way he always curls up after a few raspberries with those pink cheeks and dumb little grin?? Unmatched. Those tingles afterwards definitely do get him so bad. With a tummy as ticklish as his it feels like they last forever. He’ll tremble an hour later when he remembers them suddenly.

And Sap. The sappiest Sap, my baby. Getting closer to the Dteam (and the feral boys) has really taught him all this touchy stuff is pretty fun. Dream and Karl pretty much smothered him with cuddles against his will right away until he gave in. Now he can admit a little more he loves the closeness. Gahhhh the cutie

Dream lived with him the longest and knows more than anyone how to melt him. Maybe little kissies along his wrists? Or ears? A sneaky one on the tip of his nose to make him laugh and shove him away. Cuz once Sap catches the giggles it’s overrrr

His voice goes soft and his protests slur together. The giggling is endless. His cute little hiccupy giggles my heart. The kissies on the tummy can kick him back to life sometimes, but the poor thing is always so flustered when he comes back to reality.

Smacking Dream, you idiot… he’s all huffy and red and trying to hide his face, but it’s too cute and the boys wanna see!!! The love is overwhelming sometimes okay?

Gogyyy I always headcannon him to be a little rougher than the others. So yes I agreeeee oh my god. The nibbles for George. And nibbles are so versatile?? They can be all sweet and cute, giggle inducing on his ears and neck and shoulders, make him squirm, but he’s okay he’s not going to die.

~~maybe maybe his blush is making him feel like he’s dying but he’s okay I promise

And the playful nibbles? The others will shake him silly and nibble at his sides and ribs until he’s losing his mind. Probably best to keep those playful ones down away from his neck cuz that boy can shrieeeek. Throw some regular tickles in? And some teasing??

~~Whatever, Dream and Sapnap are used to his insane cackling by now anyway

(I’m just imagining Punz face first on the ground while Foolish pretends to be a monkey grooming his hair, and grabbing all soft around his back while Punz is just on the brink of madness. Plus, Foolish’s laugh?? Imagine being tickled and the person tickling and teasing you is making that noise?? I’d pass away.)

#ty so much for bringing this to me I nearly threw my phone it made me so happy #wishitweresummer #sleepy-anon ask #mcyt tickle #dream smp tickle #dream team tickle #dteam tickle #georgenotfound tickle #sapnap tickle #dream tickle #punz tickle #foolish tickle #hc ask

[thephantomcasebook]

i truly dislike Sara snow as well and if she is included in the show, there’s no chance I’ll like her. She’s just unlikeable to me, it’s not even girl boss because she doesn’t do anything remotely useful or impressive?? She’s just… annoying

I'm not corning myself into saying that I'll never like her no matter what.

But they're gonna have to work hard to convince me.

I didn't like Arya in the books nor in the show, but at least her chapters were interesting because of the people she meets. My favorite character in the book series was Beric Dondarrion and so I was really interested in those chapters in "A Storm of Swords" but once Arya left the "Brotherhood without Banners" I got really tired of her.

I know Martin likes his tom-boy girls ... but I'm not a big fan in fiction or real-life. I like women being women, feminine, beautiful, smart, vulnerable, and clever. A woman wielding a sword and being 'full of piss and vinegar' is a tired and played out trope in Fantasy.

So I was already positioned to be rather prejudice against Sara Snow ... but you're right, she really doesn't add anything other than giving Jace shit and bossing people around.

Also, and I know that there's a lot of crossover between Sansa Stans and the Greens. But I'm really tired of the Stark Supremacy in the fandom, where everyone just automatically expects the Starks to be "The Good Guys" when in reality - in the "Dance of Dragons" - the Northern Army commits a lot of war crimes and act like savages.

They kill Criston in a dishonorable way and then Rhaenyra gives them his head to put above her banner at the battle of Tumblestone ... which was the last mistake she ever made.

Yes, give Daeron - who just burned an entire town to ash for murdering his baby nephew - more bulletin board material. You just gang raped his mother and big sister? I know, now put the head of the man who helped raise him on your standard. I'm sure nothing bad is gonna fucking happen ... I'm sure that it's not gonna piss off the most dangerous man in the realm with the fastest Dragon in the world ...

Nah, it'll be fine, Stark fam.

I mean, I literally pumped my fist at the part of the book when Daeron massacred "The Winter Wolves" and all of the northern forces at the Battle of Tumblestone. And though, I do love the superstition of that bad things happen when Starks go south being born from how the Northern Army was cooked alive by Daeron and Tessarion. I was still so fucking sick of the Northmen at that point.

And I'll admit that most of that has to do with the normie segment of the fandom.

People who read the books know that the Starks are a bunch of big-time assholes for a long time till Ned takes over. That even post Dance of the Dragons the Starks are kinda terrible - especially toward Aegon III. And Cregan Stark spends a majority of his regency flinching at shadows, Daeron's ghost and lingering presence living rent free in his head for basically the rest of his life.

So, yeah, I'm already suffering from being prejudice against Sara Snow and the Starks just based on fatigue from the fandom and George's same old tropes.

But I'm not gonna vow to never like a character, they could surprise me.

#House of the Dragon #Sara Snow #Cregan Stark

[mushiewrites]

Wake up brain is back

Tickly kisses are Sapnap’s favorite, he likes the intimacy of it and affection mixed with the tickles

Raspberries are Dream’s favorite, he would never admit it but he likes the lingering feeling you get after one and the nostalgia of it

And Nibbles are George’s favorite, especially on his ears, he loves how quickly he can lose him mind when they're involved, mix those with regular tickles and he is on cloud nine

(Bonus thought, Punz is a big fan of back and scalp tickles. Both of which remind him of his mom so when his friends *cough" Foolish *cough* target his back or find out he has a tickly scalp, he just let's it happen, they're pretty bad spots but he loves them)

YAY SLEEPY WAKE UP BRAIN 🥰🫠

I love love love when you say that they each have a different favorite thing! It's just so cute and it's so nice to think about them getting flustered by different things 🫠

tkly kisses ARE ABSOLUTELY SAPNAP'S FAVORITE - and not just when he's lee!!!! when he is lee, he loves lil tkly kisses on his spots!! he loves feeling them placed over his cheeks or on the sides of his neck or his ribs or his sides!!! especially when dream does it, since he has stubble!!!! and and AND, this is exactly why sapnap likes them as a ler too! because he has stubble, and he know's first hand how much more it tks when the one doing the kissing has stubble. he 100% uses this to his advantage 😈

of course dream is a huge fan of raspberries - they're most commonly placed on very very sensitive tummies!!!! just like his!! he does love the lingering tingling after raspberries are done, it keeps him giggling for minutes after. so he's all giggly and blushy ): he, much like sapnap, also enjoys using his favorite method of torture on other lees (: he makes sure to shake his head so the stubble adds on even more tkly feelings

kdnaldsnkl george with nibbles pls excuse me while i pass away 😵‍💫 and on his ears??? oh my poor lil kitten baby angel ): he would be cackling!! and kind of like with raspberries, it's more tkly when someone that has stubble does it bc it would be all scratchy on the shells of his ears! and paired with rib tks or side tks? oh my gosh he's squirmy and howling and he just is so floaty and feels so nice ): he loves giving nibbles too, but his favorite place to give them is on tummies or ribs (:

I AM SO FUCKING HYPE THAT YOU PUT PUNZ IN HERE OH MY GOSH MY SWEET BABY BLUE EYED BOY 😭🥺

I love the idea of Punz being sensitive to back tks....we all know im dream-has-a-sensitive-back truther #1, but i also have had this hc for punz for ages!! and the scalp tks ): one of those silver headscratchers would have him frozen up, shoulders to his ears and just giggling away while foolish brings it up and down slowly to keep him laughing. and foolish would be trying to give punz a shoulder massage one day bc of how his neck hurt from leaning in his chair wrong, and finds out that punz giggles everytime you touch the nape of his neck. then he finds the goldmine that is his back, and foolish spends hours tkling every single inch until he finds the most sensitive spot. and he would just melt into the ground or couch the whole time and try and stay still for foosh ): my sweet blonde baby puppy <3

#lee!sapnap #lee!dream #lee!george #lee!punz #sleepy anon #asks #SLEEPY #i love these so much ): #all of them would work for any of them but i loved this #and punz?!?!??! my beloved baby?!?!??! #that was such a pleasant surprisew #oops im not redoing that tag deal with the w #anyways #yes my babies ): #mushie concepts / hcs #mcyt tickle

[danielfeketewrites]

DOCTOR WHO TOP 10 - War Doctor

Alright, his best episode is clearly The Day of the Doctor, but that's actually 11th Doctor's episode. War Doctor's entire era is expanded universe material trying to reconstruct something that never existed. That's at the very least intriguing. In addition to this... John Hurt might be my favourite actor of all time. So yeah, I love the War Doctor. Here are my favourite of his stories.

10. The Shadow Squad

To be perfectly honest, I'm not a fan of the War Doctor Begins range. But this series of blogposts started out around the 60th anniversary and I intend to keep it a positive celebration of my favourite stories, so here's the one story from that series I actually really liked. The Shadow Squad is exactly what a Time War story should be like, with the Temporal Eradicator travelling back in time and changing the timeline, while Time Lords try to Dalek-proof the timeline. Good stuff.

9. Decoy

This is just an Engines of War encore, but it's pretty solid and I enjoyed it quite a bit.

8. The Enigma Dimension

The final War Doctor story with John Hurt in the role... I'm going to level with you - I have no idea what it's about. Right after I listened to it, I rated it very, very highly and then promptly forgot every single thing about it. So I have to trust my younger self, one year into the past, and hope he was right. I'll have to re-listen this one...

7. The Shadow Vortex

A rare example of War Doctor getting a historical romp. And Neve McIntosh is in this! Although she's not playing Vastra.

But I'll admit it - this one is on the list because War Doctor has to get inside a Trabant, which is the funniest shit ever to me.

6. The Eternity Cage

I have a soft spot for Sontarans. And this is a really good Sontaran story. Not much else to say, really. Except maybe that I remember really liking the core concept of this one.

5. The Third Wise Man

I've said it many times already - I love Dave Rudden, I love Twelve Angels Weeping. Again, not much else to add here. The chronology of the war is a bit wobbly in this one, but it can be explained away either by Gary Russell's short story The Stranger or by Russell T Davies' short story Doctor Who and the Time War. Or both, you know. It's the Time War. Oh, and we get an explanation of what "the Nightmare Child" is, so there's that.

4. The Neverwhen

A Dalek army and a Time Lord army are stuck, caught in a fucked up timey-wimey battlefield. Excellent Time War material.

3. Only the Monstrous

Putting the whole first boxset here, as it's basically just one story anyway. Only the Monstrous is simple. Deceptively simple. Which is strange, because I usually prefer weirder, more complicated stuff in my Time War, thankyouverymuch. Only the Monstrous is just Nick Briggs writing a WWII movie... IN SPACE! But it's really engaging and emotional in all the right places. And it's kinda open about what it's trying to emulate - if the Daleks represent Nazi Germany, what about their allies, the other fascistic aliens in the story? Well, they're called Talians. Talians. For real. No one is hiding this and I love it. It's ultimately a story about how appeasement is a bad idea and you can't negotiate with fucking Nazis, which is definitely a timeless, needed message. War Doctor is antifa. Also, the Daleks have yet another extremely silly plan involving planets, and this one is genuinely excellent and very, very stupid. Only the Monstrous deserves more love.

2. Legion of the Lost

While I loved Only the Monstrous, I think I still prefer the variety of Infernal Devices... Here, in Legion of the Lost, War Doctor fights Shadovar, a Technomancer played by David Warner. I'm not sure why, but something about Legion just feels different to me. It feels somehow... special. I really love it and it's my favourite War Doctor story from Big Finish.

1. Engines of War

What else could have taken the number one spot, eh? George Mann's excellent reconstruction of a non-existent Doctor Who era, also known as Engines of War, is a really fun Doctor Who book, a spectacular Dalek story and probably the quintessential War Doctor adventure (if one isn't counting The Day of the Doctor, of course)... I love Cinder, the War Doctor is written really well here and I just enjoyed reading this book quite a bit. It also tries to forge a bridge between the 20th and the 50th anniversary specials, which I think is kinda cute.

#doctor who #war doctor #john hurt #doctor who eu #60th anniversary #top 10 #dfpost

[thal-ent]

Actors AU random things that happen on set part 2 (I'll link part 1 in a reblog, and you'll find more of this AU on the "SMP actors AU" tag on my blog)

Ranboo wasn't meant to be in the story at first, bit everyone saw that boy with half his face painted walk on stage looking completely lost and just decided to keep him. He rolled with it in the end.

There's pictures of Tommy and Tubbo stealing Techno and Dream's accessories to joke a bit, but Tommy will deny the existence of those photos because he's too proud to admit he loves the big ass cape. And imitating Techno.

During the exile arc, Tommy was meant to have his two shoes until the end, but he lost one when moving too fast and that made him laugh a lot and they decided to keep him with only one shoe on for the last of the exile day.

Most of the SMP's guests just went on set, talked with everyone a bit, then left. It's always a fun time and people will always remember that moment where Corpse and Eret where talking to each other like... Wow.

Fundy once proposed to Dream on set. They weren't dating before ? Dream accepted ?? But act like it never happened ??? And Fundy act like Dream is the love of his life ???? But at the same time they don't spend that much time with each other, what ????? Nobody fucking knows about those two. Probably not even themselves.

You know those actors who are together out of the story but have such a chemistry together that even their characters end up with a good ship ? That's Dream and George, but they're not even dating or anything, they just naturally have those vibes of "No homo but I love you".

MotherInnit often come on the set to watch her son, and once she came in telling his name very loudly. They were in the middle of a scene where Tommy confronted the rest of L'Manberg about what he did. They couldn't stop laughing because Tommy just reacted so quickly to his mum.

During the blood vines arc, the hardest thing for Skeppy was to not hug Bad as soon as Bad started to feel sad. They're best friends and just often end up in big hugs after the camera stops.

Velvet often comes on set to talk with Ant. Because he loves him and he's happy his boyfriend is in such a big production but still wants his company a bit. They're the only one we are SURE they're really dating.

They like to read absurd theories from time to time. They laugh a lot, and sometimes one of them will like the theory to mess a little with the fans, because they can.

Eret is the type of guy to come on set with a coffee in hand, heelies on, and be like "hey guys." In the most chill way possible.

When Tommy refused to let go of Tubbo, the tall gremlin was taken off his best friend because they really needed to clean the scar makeup from Tubbo's face before the end of the day.

Fundy loosing all of his father figures is a gag now. They just accepted the fox boy is like Peter Parker and can't keep one for more than a day.

The amount of Vine reference is absurd. And the amount of Tiktoks from Ranboo just showing the absolute chaos on set is ridiculous but the public don't know it's like a third of what happens on the daily.

Tommy once leaked a part of the script. Techno still makes fun of him and "leak" the script every once in a while. Tommy hates it but honestly he deserves to be made a fun of for this, this was very dumb.

Fundy, Ant and Puffy often complain about how hot it is with their costumes on. Techno mock them a lot but he's just as hot as them with the red cape on. Nobody's fooled.

There is so much pictures and video of the Dream Team just sleeping on a couch together. Nobody knows how they manage to stay all three on that couch but they do. The height difference between Sapnap/George and Dream is funny for a lot of people, Dream looks like a giant next to them.

Dream is so fucking supportive of his friends during the interviews. He spends more time talking about how good they are as actors, how he's happy for the four youngest to have such an opportunity. Even when he was the one to win a prize he thanked his friends.

Niki has the most costume change just because her character moves a lot. She's like everyone big sister but she's like. So young.

Niki and Fundy often forget what English word is what they want to say, it's the multilingual problem. Wilbur once asked what "Yellow" is in German, Niki asked Fundy what it is in dutch before she remembered.

If you wonder where Tommy and Tubbo are, there's a chance they're under Techno's cape because they like to hide here and Techno just finds it funny.

Eret is still trying to have the heels added to her costume, she won't stop trying.

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Emmaaa❤️❤️ may I request a headcanon where the easy boys fell in love with a shy reader? Maybe with Bull, Tab, Luz, Speirs Babe and Malarkey? Thank you❤️ love you

Aaahhh Fran my dear, what a great way to start off my birthday week tysm for sending one in💓

Bull Randleman:

Bull is super protective of you, always has been.

He got 10 million times more protective when he realises he's head over ass in love with you.

He's always there, always got your back no matter what.

He likes that you're most comfortable when you're with him, makes him feel like he's special.

When he was stuck in that barn in Holland, separated from everyone, thinking about you was the only thing that kept his strength up.

Its then he decides he has to tell you how he feels.

He's pretty direct about it, he doesn't want to beat around the bush with this.

"Look darlin', I ain't gonna mess around here, because to be completely honest I'm head over heels in love with you."

You get all blushy and stuttery and he thinks it's probably the most adorable thing he's ever seen.

He can tell you're flustered, so he grabs your cheeks in his hands and rubs his thumbs over them gently.

"Can I kiss ya darlin'?" He asks softly

You can't even speak you're so surprised, so you nod and he leans in and kisses you slowly, not wanting to rush anything and ruin the perfect moment.

"Hell Bull," you giggle, "I've been hoping you'd say something for ages."

"And why didn't you say anything, huh?" He laughed.

"Because I was too scared you'd turn me down."

"Well," he sighed, kissing your forehead, "I just can't quite believe I ever gave you the impression I'd turn you down. Guess I'll just have to prove to you how much I love you from now on."

Floyd Talbert

Tab is a total flirt

He's all cheesy pickup likes at first and they make you blush like hell but you'll never give him the satisfaction of laughing at them because they're so ridiculous.

But he takes your blushing as encouragement so he keeps going for weeks until eventually he gets a giggle out of you and it makes all his efforts worthwhile because you have the most lovely laugh.

After that you start getting to know each other a little better, and you start to get closer.

He's delighted when you start to open up and share more with him.

It kind of hits him like a slap in the face that shit, he's in love love you.

He's a total softie with you

He's quite subtle about it at first. He does small nice things for you; makes you coffee, gives you half his k ration when supplies are low.

He's surprisingly reluctant to profess his feelings for you. He thinks there's no way you'll see him as anything other than a friend.

Chuck tells him he's an idiot, that you've clearly got feelings for him too and be should just tell you already.

So he does...in the most muddled way possible. It all kinda comes out like word vomit.

"So-I-Just-wanna-tell-you-I-think-you're-wonderful-and-I'm-a-little-bit-in-love-with-you."

You're dumbfounded, and you can't quite comprehend what he's just said.

"Wait," you whisper, "are you being serious right now?"

"Yeah," he laughs, "I've kinda got it really bad for you."

You giggle and blush like hell, and he grins like an idiot because he loves that giggle so much

"How about I take you out for dinner sometime?" He asks cheekily, and his grin widens when you blush harder and agree to go.

He saunters over to you and plants a quick kiss on your lips, before putting his arm around your shoulder and leading you off, pointedly ignoring Chucks wolf whistles when the two of you walk past him.

George Luz

George is the biggest flirt around, and he makes no secret in the fact he likes you.

He goes out of his way to compliment you; tells you that you make Rita Hayworth look plain, that you make sunshine look dull.

The more he makes you blush, the harder he tries. He knows he can crack your shy shell and find the gem underneath.

He's a big fan of cheesy movie quotes, which you adamantly refuse to indulge him with, but he keeps trying nonetheless.

He's tried them all, so he decides this time to pull out all the stops and be as direct about his feelings as possible.

"See that's what's wrong with you," he starts smoothly, "you should be kissed, and often. And by someone who knows how."

He pauses for a second to judge your reaction, and when he sees you smiling he sweeps you into a dramatic dip and kisses you passionately, Clarke Gable style.

He quite literally swept you off your feet, and he knows it too.

Once he knows he's successfully gotten your attention for real, he softens. He dials down the flamboyant flirting and instead he just talks to you and gets to know you for real.

He loves to cuddle you in close and have whispered conversations for hours.

He's very affectionate too, always has to be holding your hand or have his arm around you.

He brings you out of your shell, his enthusiasm and fun nature is so infectious you can't help but be swept up by it and join in on the fun.

Ronald Speirs

Ron is incredibly different when he's with you, much to everyone's surprise.

He laughs with you, like....a lot.

At first you were very cautious with him. You'd heard the stories and weren't too sure what to make of him.

But when you get to know him you realise that he is totally different to what everyone said.

You found that he is really easy to talk to, and he has a wicked sense of humour.

He liked that you were a bit more quiet than others, it made you much easier for him to talk to.

He tells the most brilliant stories, and the two of you usually end up talking for hours about all sorts; history, movies, music, anything and everything.

Its obvious to everyone but you that he has feelings for you.

He thinks you must surely know, that it was completely obvious he'd fallen in love with you. I mean he spends all his free time with you, and he never talks to anyone else the way he does with you.

Lipton eventually realises that no, you don't actually have a clue how Speirs feels about you, so he tells him that you're oblivious.

Naturally Speirs is all action and matter of fact, so he decides to just tell you how he feels and see what happens.

He's kinda nervous despite outward appearances, but he'd never admit it to himself or anyone else.

So he literally just comes out and says it one day; no frills, no fuss.

You're disarmed by his straightforwardness. You'd hoped that he might return your feelings but you'd thought there was no way.

You've never seen him smile brighter than when you told him you returned his feelings.

He wasted no time after that; he wrapped an arm around your waist and pulled you in to a passionate kiss, his other hand cupping your jaw.

Everyone was delighted you'd mellowed out ole Sparky a little, but of course nobody was brave enough to say it out loud in case he found out.

Babe Heffron

Babe....is a bit of a mess around you.

He tries to act all cool and smooth, but he's really a total disaster because he's so distracted staring at you.

When you first start getting to know each other he does most of the talking. He's nervous as hell around you so his mouth just keeps going.

Lucky for him though you find it endearing, and it helps you feel more comfortable with him so you start to open up too.

After that he prefers to listen instead of talk, because he's fascinated by everything you tell him.

You're two peas in a pod, and everyone thinks you're a miracle worker because you've managed to get Babe to stop talking for 5 minutes.

Its clear to everyone that the guy is totally in love with you, they're just waiting for him to do something about it.

So of course Bill is the one to tell him to get his act together.

"Get your goddamn head out of your ass Babe and stop acting like a lovesick puppy. Go tell her you love her and get the goddamn girl."

It takes him awhile, and he really has to gear himself up to do it. He's attempted to say it so many times but he keeps chickening out.

One night you two are hanging out just the two of you and he manages to get it out.

He stutters like hell, but you think it's seriously adorable, and you're grinning like an idiot by the time he's finished.

"Well, don't leave me hanging," he says nervously, "do you feel the same or...?"

You say nothing, instead leaning towards him and kissing him sweetly.

You're both blushing like two cherry tomatoes, but you're smiling so much your cheeks hurt.

Then you're even more inseparable. Bill thinks you're joined at the hip or something.

You're really cute together though, always holding hands or cuddled up.

What you don't see is that Babe rarely takes his eyes off of you, and he still looks like a lovesick puppy but honestly he couldn't care less.

Don Malarkey

Don tries to act all cool when the boys are around, but when he's alone with you he's much quieter.

It's those quiet moments alone together that you enjoy the most.

He's a great listener, and he has a gentle way of pushing you to open up and be yourself with him.

You guys grow close pretty quickly, and start spending more and more time together.

He finds himself getting lost in conversations with you, and getting distracted staring at you.

He realises one day when you're telling a funny story about your childhood and he hears your wonderful laugh that he's totally in love with you.

He doesn't say anything for awhile, thinking it all over. He contemplates if he should even tell you or not because there's a chance you'll laugh I'm his face and tell him no way in hell.

Eventually he decides to screw it and just tell you. But he's not gonna just come out and say it, he's gotta do some kinda gesture. But nothing too overly dramatic because you wouldn't like that.

So he turns up to meet you with a bunch of flowers he picked himself, and he's been trying to fix his hair for the last goddamn half hour.

He's got a speech prepared and everything, but he's pretty sure he's forgotten half of it.

"Look I...I don't know if you feel the same or anything but...I just want you to know that I am head over heels in love with you. And I don't expect you to return the feelings or anything but I'm hoping you'll give me a chance."

You could tell he was nervous about the whole thing, and it was quite possibly the most endearing thing you'd ever seen in your life.

You took the flowers from him and placed them on a side table quickly before jumping into his arms and hugging him tight.

"Woah," he chuckles, "I'm taking this as a good sign then."

You pulled back your head from his shoulder and looked into his eyes happily, nodding your agreement.

He eyes crinkled when he smiles and he leans in, pressing his lips against yours firmly.

Its clear to everyone how perfect you are for each other; you calm his wilder side and he brings out your more outgoing side.

Well there you have it! Hope you all like it and ilysm Fran thanks so much for such a fun request to kick off the birthday week fun💕

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[ruby-whistler]

So recently I just saw a Take (it wasn't really that bad but. It did include some stuff that kinda put a bad taste in my mouth) and then I saw your analysis on the idea about c!Dream cutting his attachments so that the people he cared for didn't have to get hurt. So then it gave me a lot of thoughts and I hope it's okay if I throw them to you.

I do think it's fair to admit and concede that c!Dream didn't really handle his relationships with his friends like c!Sapnap and c!George the best. Like, I do get that c!Sapnap and c!George made the choice to leave him, but considering some of the actions that c!Dream has done at that point I don't think you can really blame them? Like, c!Dream may not have meant it when he said he didn't care about anything but the discs, and was just saying that to intimidate L'Manberg (which I think could be a possibility) but if you were in c!Sapnap's shoes, I don't think it would have made it any less hurtful to hear. If you think actions speak louder than words then I think it makes a lot of sense that c!Sapnap decided that c!Dream must not care about him, regardless if that was actually true or not.

But what does rub me the wrong way is when people try to claim it as a definite part of c!Dream's characterization that he truly doesn't care, because I just don't think that's true?

You've got his whole conversation with c!Punz and their planning to make it LOOK like c!Punz is no longer on his side so he won't be targeted. You've got him admitting that he's WORRIED to c!Punz. He's the one to say that he thinks their relationship has gone a little beyond just paying him. You've got him being the one to negotiate with c!Tubbo when c!George griefed L'Mantree, the one to give back the materials. You've got him clearly thinking about the time c!Techno killed c!George for being king, mentioning it among his reasons for dethroning him. You've got cc!Dream liking a tweet on his alt implying that he did care for c!George - but that he was so set on it that he didn't pay enough attention to what c!George really wanted, and as a result lost him. You've got him writing thank you notes to Bad and Sapnap for visiting him - wasting two of his books just to thank them. You've got him saying he named his clock, and still mentioning it even after it's gone. You've got him asking c!Tommy if he could keep the prison cat, and mentioning it after it died.

Heck, I don't think ultimate power was always his goal in the beginning - regardless of whether or not you agree with his actions during the L'Manberg revolution, I don't think his reasons for disliking it were really farfetched? AND EVEN THEN, when looking at why he desired ultimate control in S2, his reasons for this was that he wanted things to go back to where they were - no sides or nations or conflict, one big happy family. It's not an inherently bad motivation, heck, c!Ranboo has even agreed with parts of this motivation! He's has been saying some of this rhetoric!

c!Dream's done a lot of things wrong, but no matter what it will never really stick to me that he never cared. I just think that taking in his character as a whole, that that interpretation just doesn't work. I think about that one tiny interview with a fan that cc!Dream did, about how DSMP is morally gray, and how perspective very much matters (something something, cc!Dream saying that his lack of POV is what made c!Dream an effective villain, something something cc!Dream now wanting to do lore from his own POV), and about how the story is full of people who do good things for bad reasons, or bad things for good reasons, or how he insinuated that c!Dream was an "ends justify the means" type of character, and implying that his "big happy family" line wasn't just a lie.

I don't mind people criticizing others for downplaying or reducing c!Dream's wrongdoings and trying to make him a shallower character as a result but... Whenever I see the same people claiming that c!Dream never cared or that he just wanted power for power's sake I can't help but wonder: By insisting that he is just a villain and that he never had any good traits, aren't you doing the exact same thing?

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#no genuinely this is such a good way to put it #thanks a lot for the essay anon #this is so well-worded #my asks #anon #c!dream #dreblr #dream smp

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Ten Reasons Why I Will Always Hate TROS

10. it demonised Rey. No, really. Rey had such potential as a great heroine. She had to raise herself from age five, was outwardly tough but inwardly vulnerable, longed for a family, for belonging. She had great chemistry with Kylo, a good friend in Finn, and was an immensely likeable heroine. Most of all...she was relatable.

TROS turned her into someone I didn’t know, couldn’t relate to....and sadly, ended up despising. I couldn’t reconcile this arrogant, fanatical, and frankly heartless woman who didn’t even weep for the supposed other half of her dyad, couldn’t be bothered to reveal his sacrifice and stood smirking on his family’s grave with the girl who touched hands with him on Acht To, defended him to Luke and went to him bravely all on her own - walking into the lion’s den so to speak.

TROS altered Rey so much she seemed like a different person. I loved Rey Nobody.

I hate Rey Skywalker.

9. It demonised Leia. Forget the #notmyLuke movement...Leia was not the Leia Organa we all loved in the OT. Leia as we know her was a strong passionate woman who gave her everything for the cause...and it cost her her husband, and her son.

But..that Leia was human. she made mistakes. She admitted it. 

TFA and TLJ Leia dearly loved her son, but along with Han, she was scarred by her history with Darth Vader - and made a terrible mistake. She sent her son away. She thought her brother could do a better job of training him as she wasn’t a Jedi.

TROS Leia was a trained Jedi....but chose to train someone else instead of her own child. Someone who may very well could have ended up killing him.

#notmyLeia.

8. It treated Loan Tran like dirt. Her fledgling romance with Finn was scuppered before it got of the ground. Her character was reduced to a one line walk on. She could have easily gone on adventures with the Trio, but no, they opted for a bipedal caterpillar instead. Then they had the cheek to blame it on Carrie’s death.

7.It robbed Domhnall Gleeson of what should have been his triumph as ‘the’ big bad of TROS. You don’t have to have the Force to be a great villain. As Lord Marshal, with access to whatever experiments Snoke was carrying out in the Unknown Regions he could have been amazing. Instead they kill him off after giving him a ‘plot twist’ that was an insult to the character, and replaced him with...an older version of him.

6.It threw away everything Rian Johnson had done to develop Finn and Poe as characters. The hate Finn fans have for TLJ never ceases to bewilder me. Finn had a great story arc, gradually maturing from ‘man who wanted to run’ to committed rebel. He killed Phasma. He was all set to start a stormtrooper revolt, taking down Hux’s First Order from within. Instead he spent the film chasing Rey. 

Poe meanwhile was ripe for taking over Leia’s role as General and leader of the Resistance opposite Hux. Instead they cannibalised Carrie’s deleted scenes to give her time to train Rey and as a result, Poe ends up as a third rate Han wannabe, instead of the genuinely interesting character Rian turned him into in TLJ.

5. It retconned TLJ. I felt genuinely sorry for Rian, whose wonderful masterpiece, which had all the heart and soul of the OT together with a fresh new take on SW which would have set up future material, was butchered in favour of a tired rehash of ROTJ. How he kept his dignity is beyond me.

4.It threw away romance. Romance was the heart and soul of the OT, but TROS threw that on the scrap heap as well. Finn/Rose....erased. Reylo....sacrificed to appease the wokesters and antis. 

The end result ...a soulless and unsatisfying finale to a soulless and unsatisfying film.

3.It was an insult to George Lucas. It killed off all his characters and their sole descendent and gave the victory to Palpatine. God knows what his private thoughts on it are.

2 Ben Solo.Or, Kylo Ren. The importance of his character to a family saga that is built around the ties of blood doesn’t need justifying. Yet he was treated as an afterthought. His screentime was reduced, his character regressed into a Darth Vader wannabe...ironic as Abrams stated in TFA that he was anything but...and in the film’s final scenes it was as if he’d never existed. No funeral, no FG, no mention. No dialogue either.

Looking at the scenes where ‘all the Jed’ urge Rey to rise, including Anakin, that fact that hammering home ‘Rey is your hero, not Ben’ by the filmmakers couldn’t have been more obvious if they’d tried.

I also loathed the way film makers and novelists glorified suicide. - especially they way they more or less advocated throwing away your damaged child in favour of a ‘pure’ substitute.

1.And finally ....the way SW, an uplifting tale of love conquering hate, has been completely destroyed for those of us who loved it for the Skywalkers/Solos. Our heroes are all gone, the son their blood would have continued through gone. And the enemy they believed vanquished returned...and achieved his aim in erasing the lot of them.

SW had gone from inspiring to depressing. What a way to end it.

[griffintail]

I'm not sure if you do headcanons or small scenarios, it's really up to you, but I've been rewatching some zombie apocalypse movies, so if you're comfortable with that could I request Dream, Wilbur, Sapnap and Sam just.,.,generally surviving with their s/o? If you aren't comfortable with that type of content I understand and absolutely feel free to ignore and have a great day/night!

I don’t know much about Sam--

I don’t want to write anything about him without knowing anything about him. Sorry. BUT! I hope you enjoy the rest of the guys :)

I also do a bit of both it depends on how I can work the ideas--

I used the zombie outbreak in Last of Us like the nerd I am.

The Survivors

Pairings: Wilbur, Dream, Sapnap x GN! Reader

Warnings: Zombies, Violence against Zombies

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Dream

Dream is the main protector of the two. You might think that he might have slower reflexes because he plays video games all day, but he’s a trained speedrunner. This man has great reflexes. He knows how to think fast on his feet.

The whole thing started when he had been doing a recording with the usual team of George, Bad, and Sapnap when (Y/N) had screamed about an attack going on in the street.

His first instinct was to go break it up but when he saw the strange illness on them from all over the news, he knew it wasn’t good. Before the internet went out from being overloaded from use around them, he managed to get a message to Sapnap and Bad to meet up and wishing George luck.

From there, he had dragged (Y/N) into the car with essentials in both of their arms, Patches included.

After, they drove cross country for a handful of weeks to meet up with Sapnap and Bad. Usually, it wouldn’t be so hard but with the clogged roads and the zombies of people, it took much longer.

(Y/N) was the fast runner to get whatever they needed when they scavenged while Dream protected her from all harm, grabbing things only when all was guaranteed safe, which it never really was.

When they managed to finally get to their friends, everyone was safe and made Sapnap’s house more of a safe house than it already was from his previous work.

If they’d ever needed anything outside their safe spot, Dream and Sapnap tended to go out instead while Bad and (Y/N) stayed to tend to things at home such as the garden and rain catchers and Patches.

Since Dream was the main protector of both him and (Y/N) along with the group, he tended to just constantly have his guard up which stressed him the hell out.

(Y/N) tried to help him relax as often as they could.

        “Hey.” (Y/N) muttered, seeing Dream still on guard duty even though it was Sapnap’s turn. “Go wake up Sapnap, it’s his turn.”

        “No, I’m alright.”

        “Dream.” They pulled his sleeve, making him look up to scold them but his face softened to see their smile. “You’re already doing so much, it’s fair if you sleep.”

        “…Yeah alright.” He muttered, going to wake Sapnap

Needless to say, if forbid disaster struck or if (Y/N), or even someone else, got hurt, he’d blame himself for not being more on guard.

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Sapnap

Sapnap would have been less prepared, having not kept up with the news of the strange illness. So, when Dream messaged him that they were going to meet up at his place and he couldn’t send any more messages, he was in panic mode.

Luckily, (Y/N) was wiser and had known enough to know what was going on outside their walls.

With a goal in mind, meeting up with Dream, they gathered what they needed and had their makeshift weapons ready as they bolted for the car.

From there, they drove to their goal but struggled a bit more being in a more crowded city. They had to leave their car and worked together to move across the country.

Sapnap tried to always be the big man of the two and protect his S/O but everyone needed help.

        “Duck!” (Y/N) shouted, crushing the skull of the runner that Sapnap almost go blindsided by with their bat.

        Sapnap’s breath hitch before letting out a puff of air. “Thanks…that was kind of hot.”

        (Y/N) pushed back their hair. “Not the time babe.”

It really was hot though.

Dream was insanely happy to see the pair when they finally arrived well over two months after everything started.

They joined their group again and helped to build up their new home. If Sapnap ever went out, he tried to play tough that he didn’t need (Y/N), but most of the time, he took (Y/N) with him because he got blindsided more than he’d like to admit…

(Y/N) was his eyes and ears, but he had the muscle to help protect them.

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Wilbur

Wilbur had kept up with the news, so he was ready just in case disaster struck, advising his friends to do so well.

So, when shit started to hit the fan, a plan was ready to be enacted and everything was ready to go with (Y/N).

He wasn’t the strongest man, but he did whatever needed to be done to protect himself and (Y/N), (Y/N) standing beside him. They both shared responsibility for each other as they too traveled across the country to meet up with their friends.

A plan had already been set to meet up and they met up with all of Wilbur’s friends and their families. With a big group of capable people, they were able to rotate people with ease to who’d go out for supplies.

Wilbur and (Y/N) always went out in a pair, always working in perfect sync as they did.

        “Hey, do you have any…?” Wilbur asked as he was searching behind a counter when he stopped seeing (Y/N)’s hand twitch for their bow.

        He stood up carefully with his bat, moving over to them carefully before they both reacted. (Y/N) notched an arrow with speed and let it lose into a runner that came at her as Wilbur cracked the bat against a clicker that came up behind them. When they were sure they were in the clear, Wilbur leaned on his bat as he looked at them.

        “So, do you…?” He grinned as (Y/N) smirked holding out a flashlight. “And that’s why I love you.”

        “Damn well better.”

They didn’t ever mind being the two to go out as they knew each other and could protect each other or just know that the other would be ok.

They had been couple’s goals when they were dating before the literal apocalypse and nothing had changed during it.

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