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12pt-times-new-roman · 1 year

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I'm having....... Thoughts about the kid Frida and FCG saw. Because as much as it would be fucking hilarious and super poetic if they were actually Ludinus, I don't think that idea is very far from the truth.

Way back in C2E91, Essek posed a hypothetical about the beacon. He said that, theoretically, if a Luxon beacon were in the presence of thousands of consecuted deaths, but no children were being born within its radius (100 miles), all those souls would just be waiting there.

I think this disproves the idea that the Luxon beacons share a "network," so to speak. If they did, then those souls would get released from a different beacon that is near births, and Essek knows that -- he and the Dynasty both know that there are beacons scattered across the world. So because the souls would just be waiting in that specific beacon, this implies that souls are pulled into one specific beacon (probably the nearest one) and held there until a birth occurs within range.

But what I just realized is that Essek's "hypothetical" has happened before. What he described would have been exactly what happened during the fall of Aeor.

Aeor was researching at least one beacon, if not more. There is no indication that any beacons were removed from Aeor's ruins, so they're probably still there somewhere, buried under whatever's left of the Genesis Ward. I have no doubt that they -- a city full of extremely talented and selfish mages all trying to work out better ways to extend their lives and defy the gods -- figured out how to do the consecution rituals, and no doubt that thousands of them went through with it. So when Aeor fell, a Luxon beacon was surrounded by thousands of consecuted deaths.

Most of the details Matt gave us about Aeor in the Weird Magic arc of C2 make it very clear not only that there were (reportedly) no survivors of the fall of Aeor, but also that the gods made a very concerted effort to ensure that. Think about it -- there were no threshold crests inside the main ruin, they were scattered everywhere because the gods carved them off of the city so it couldn't teleport away. Teleportation magic is fucked up throughout Eiselcross, because of the wards the gods put around the city to make sure no one could teleport out. Cognouza had to bamf away before the gods actually attacked the city in full because otherwise it would've had its threshold crests destroyed (it got away, but they were destroyed by the psychic storm, so it couldn't get back).

If the gods put that much effort into ensuring that there would be no survivors, and assuming that the Luxon beacon(s) already contained consecuted Aeorian souls who had died in the earlier fighting, then the gods had to find some other way to ensure that no Aeorians would be reborn. Their only solution would be to prevent any births from taking place within 100 miles of the ruins, so what can they do? They crash it into the most remote place possible, they ensure that magic in general and teleportation magic specifically is incredibly unstable and erratic, and they make the surrounding landscape even more inhospitable than it already was, all so that no humanoid would give birth anywhere near that beacon.

So what if the kid Frida and FCG saw was a consecuted Aeorian who got jettisoned into their body because the beacon took their awakening as "close enough" to a birth? What if that child is a two-year-old consecuted Aeorian piggybacking on Frida's soul? FCG probably wouldn't have a "passenger" like this because they were woken up so far from Aeor's ruins, but Devexian might. And it's not like these people are a problem right now -- it could be well over a decade before either of them start undergoing anamnesis.

But it's possible. It's possible that a Luxon beacon still buried in Aeor's ruins took Devexian and Frida's awakening as "births" and put souls in their bodies because of that. It's possible that every other Aeormaton who Devexian woke up in the ruins has the same kind of passenger, and it's possible that Devexian knows that. Hell, it's even possible that the beacons and their mechanic of releasing souls into new bodies was how Aeormatons were created in the first place. And if this is the case, it really does look like Matt is setting this campaign up to be "long-game" in a way neither of the other two main campaigns were.

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letterboxd · 4 years

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Kid Detectives, Adult Problems.

As The Kid Detective becomes “a surprising darling” of a hit with our members, Jack Moulton talks to its Canadian writer-director Evan Morgan about broken projectors, the pressure of proving yourself, and what happens when precocious kids grow up.

“The premise felt immediately funny but it also felt immediately sad and painful.” —Evan Morgan

A growing number of indie films over the past decade recognize that ‘coming-of-age’ is not a teen-exclusive life event—indeed, that it often takes decades to work out who we are, versus who people perceive us to be. The Kid Detective takes that premise and steals off into the night with it, blending noir with indie slacker in an offbeat, genre-flipping tale of a washed-up, thirty-something private eye who was once a star solver of local mysteries.

Adam Brody (Ready or Not) stars as Abe Applebaum, the detective in question, who seizes a chance to step back into the small-town limelight when a young woman (Sophie Nélisse) asks him to help find her boyfriend’s murderer. Veep’s Sarah Sutherland also stars as Abe’s secretary, taking calls about lost cats and other inane mysteries.

Reviews on Letterboxd praise the “delicious premise” that explores “the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America”. They also appreciate Brody’s “phenomenally pathetic” performance, and the unexpected swerve in the final twenty, noting that “sometimes movies don’t recover from a shift in tone in the third act… but here it all [falls] into place”.

The Kid Detective is the directing debut of Toronto filmmaker (and Letterboxd member) Evan Morgan, who first received attention for The Dirties (2013), an alternately funny and upsetting micro-budget dark comedy in found-footage style, which he produced, co-wrote and co-edited. Morgan’s work is drenched in pop culture: Abe’s talent for deduction is demonstrated by how he digests movie narratives; The Dirties, too, has endless movie references. So we were chuffed to quiz Morgan about the films that have played an important role in his life.

What was premiering The Kid Detective at the 2020 Toronto Film Festival like for you, under the current conditions? Evan Morgan: We were in quite a rush to get the film finished for the online platform that they had made—I signed off on the final cut on Thursday and then I was reading a review of the movie by Saturday. I was still in that mode of trying to scrutinize everything and implement my final notes, and then all of a sudden the movie was done and I could never touch it again. It certainly was a surreal transition to make that quickly.

It was also extremely gratifying to see people respond to it for the first time. We knew that we weren’t making a movie that was for all tastes but when you’re reading the first response from the first person who’s ever reviewed it and they’re picking up on stuff you intended, you start to let your spine unclench a little bit. You can sort of finally say goodbye to the process of making something and enjoy the process of people interacting with it.

Have you been reading the Letterboxd reviews? Obsessively. I’ve been refreshing Letterboxd all the time. I’ve been joking with my editor and composer a lot about how people posting their reviews on Letterboxd, on their YouTube channel, or other little outlets would never expect the filmmakers to be instantly reading their reviews.

You’re also a member! How do you use Letterboxd? I’ve always been a big film nerd. Ever since I was a teenager I was making lists at the end of the year and obsessing over an order that would always change. A friend of mine, Matthew Miller, who produced The Dirties, recommended that I hop on Letterboxd and instantly I was going through the library rating and organizing everything, and it became a real slippery slope. I remember spending hours on it in the first week.

Now, after actually having made a movie that’s on a larger scale, I’ve found that my sensitivity has changed a lot in the last year. I’m less inclined to give a star rating. I’m happy just to catalog the film so I can reflect on it and just use the ‘like’ button. That’s been an interesting shift in my relationship with how I see movies after having finally completed this project.

I know this idea had been gestating a while for you, what was the seed of the story? I’d written a short film in film school, which I never shot, that was about a child detective who was still a child and was solving grisly murders. I was obsessed with the first season of The OC and I thought Adam Brody was so funny. I was impressed with how he broke out of the formula of that show. I knew he was someone I really wanted to work with and we happened to cross paths at Sundance because The Dirties was premiering at Slamdance. It was clear to us that we shared a similar sense of humor and taste.

I was looking back on my old ideas and I saw an opportunity to re-conceive this one for him because I immediately identified with the protagonist. I’ve always known I wanted to be a filmmaker and thus had that sense of expectation where people would joke: “he’ll grow up to be the next Spielberg!” It’s incredible encouragement when you’re young but it also creates this unfortunate sense of pressure where you’re beholden to a future that you actually haven’t achieved or lived.

When I graduated film school, I was suddenly left in the space of my own apartment where now it was up to me to actually make this happen, to write and direct a feature film. The process acquires this unfortunate pressure because it’s not just about watching ideas unfold in front of me, I also have something to prove. I was at a point in my life where I was doing a lot of writing and not having great success in terms of actually finishing a script so this premise resonated with me and I saw an opportunity for people to connect to this character in their own way.

I revisited The Dirties after watching The Kid Detective and I finally understood why there were those huge The OC posters in Matt and Owen’s edit suite. I assume that was your idea? Yeah, it was. We were all big fans of that show. The cultural references they made were things that were important to us at that particular moment and we loved Seth Cohen [Brody’s character]. When I ran into Adam at Sundance, I shared a link to The Dirties, forgetting that his face was in the background of about twenty minutes of our movie. We were back in our hotel that night and it suddenly just occurred to us—“wait a minute, shit. We should probably warn him that his face is a big character!”

How did you conduct your research into detective work? What excited me about this premise was the character and not so much the genre. I think the genre is alluring in a sense that it’s so hallowed. The set pieces are so familiar in terms of the PI office, the receptionist and the glass of scotch. That stuff was all super cool and enticing, but I was never a big mystery person. I was intimidated by the process of writing because it felt very much outside of my wheelhouse.

The first thing I did was buy a bunch of Raymond Chandler books from the Philip Marlowe series. I read those super quickly and thought they were super funny. I also read a bunch of Encyclopedia Brown books. So, the world of The Kid Detective exists between these two realms. I started watching bad TV procedurals where the detectives try and find the victim within the span of 42-minutes just to absorb as much as I possibly could.

Here you have a whimsical directorial approach while the film reflects upon a cynical, changing world. In comparison, The Dirties also deals with young adult trauma but couldn’t be further from this in style. Can you talk about your use of juxtaposition this time around? There was no more fun experience than shooting The Dirties. It really was a film made by four best friends having an endless sleepover in their parents’ basement. That’s where the energy, the life, and the humor of the film comes from. We were always relying on the darker component of the dramatic payoff to provide us with a structure so that we could goof around as much as we wanted knowing that it wasn’t all for nothing. Those dramatic stakes would provide it with a different kind of technical legitimacy. We didn’t have any money to make it but it didn’t have to look like a big Hollywood film because it was made by the characters.

It wasn’t a conscious decision to recreate the same dynamic with The Kid Detective in terms of dealing with dramatic issues in a very light way. The premise felt immediately funny but it also felt immediately sad and painful. I wanted to find a way to wrap them together without forfeiting the humor or the reality of the characters. It’s interesting how a lot of people are responding to the way the movie reveals itself to be dark because, for me, this was always inevitable. If you’re going to tell a story about a stunted adult, like a kid detective who never really grows up, the only way for the character to grow up is to confront something that is so sinister that it would break them from their selfishness.

Which detective movies most influenced The Kid Detective? The biggest films that were in my head when I was writing this movie—and also in terms of our aesthetic—were Chinatown and Blue Velvet. Chinatown was a movie that I had more of a relationship with as a teenager than I did the older Humphrey Bogart movies like The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon. Blue Velvet also has a suburban setting that reveals this darker underbelly—two characters driving around in a convertible, interviewing people, and putting themselves in greater and greater risk. Those were the movies that we wanted you to be able to put the film on the shelf with.

Jim Carrey in ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’ (1994).

Which film made you want to become a filmmaker? This is an easy one for me. I was a very big fan of Jim Carrey when I was eleven and I remember seeing Ace Ventura: Pet Detective for the first time and having my mind blown. I didn’t even know what some of those jokes were referring to, but I was so delighted by his energy and the absurdity of that movie. It invited this ferocious interest in acting and consequentially, the world of film. I got really excited when I heard he was working on his first dramatic feature and that it was going to be directed by Peter Weir since I was already a fan of Dead Poets Society.

I remember going to see The Truman Show with my family on the first night that it played and the projector broke about an hour into the movie. I was broken—I knew that was I watching my favorite movie that I’d ever seen. I was absolutely blown away by the world and the story. After about 30 minutes, the theater staff came out and started offering vouchers to see it again but I wouldn’t let my parents leave—I said “no, we have to stay and finish it!”—and then I was rewarded with what remains my favorite movie ending ever.

That was the point when my interest shifted from wanting to be in front of the camera and the center of attention. I was kind of the class clown as a child. If you’d asked at the time, I’d say I wanted to be a comedian. This was the moment where I decided I wanted to tell stories and start writing scripts.

Which coming-of-age protagonist did you relate to the most as a teenager? Not super original, but I was obsessed with The Catcher in the Rye as a teenager. I don’t know if I necessarily saw my experience reflected in a movie—I’m sure it’s out there. Rushmore was another film that Adam and I used as a reference when we were pitching this movie, in how The Kid Detective exists between that and Chinatown. It’s also about a character dealing with his own expectations of himself and ultimately having to evolve out of his selfishness.

I think that there’s something about the coming-of-age genre that is very special to me and I continue to really appreciate and recognize it. I really enjoyed Adventureland, which came out about eleven years ago and it’s sort of underrated. I guess in its own way, Blue Velvet is a coming-of-age story too. Those are the ones that are the top of my list.

What are your favorite Canadian films that really could not be made anywhere else but Canada? It seems I should have an immediate answer to that question. It just proves how bad Canadians are at celebrating themselves. There was a movie called Monsieur Lazhar that stars Sophie Nélisse, who’s the leading actress in our film. It was her first film role at eleven and it’s an incredibly sensitive and quiet movie that was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars that year. That’s a really amazing example of Canadian filmmaking at its best.

If you’ve had time to watch any films this year, what is your favorite film of 2020 so far? This is another tough one for me because I was honestly so immersed in trying to complete The Kid Detective—we were editing intensely from the very beginning of the year and throughout the lockdown. I was so exhausted by that process that I lost track of what was happening in terms of new releases, so I watched quite a few old movies and there were a few movies I revisited.

The movie that probably had the biggest impact on me was Midsommar, from last year. I couldn’t believe the precision and how unshakable it was in terms of those images. It got me excited again in the way that sometimes you feel when you have to see a movie more than once in order to truly see it, because the first time you’re dispensing your expectations. Maybe you wanted to like it or maybe you didn’t want to like it, but the second time you don’t have the same anticipation, and as a result you notice things that you didn’t notice previously.

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Oh gosh, I’m so sorry these questions turned into essays D:

1. What was the first Marvel film you’ve ever watched?

The Avengers, and I didn’t like it lmao. I was like… seventeen maybe? A friend had worked really hard to get me to watch it and I found it boring. A big problem was Steve- I just found him boring and I had no context for Tony or the rest of the Avengers so I was like ok, superhero people do shit. Boring. When I got into it later (starting with the First Avenger) the film made more sense to me and felt less bleh minus Steve, but that’s because Whedon can’t fucking write him for shit not because of the character.

4. Who’s your favourite Marvel superhero and why?

Boi if you don’t know Tony Stark is my fav then I don’t know what to tell ya lol. But I’m assuming you asked for the why not the who. So as a general thing I don’t like heroes. They’re all ‘we do the right thing always because we’re The Most Morally Correct Always’. Its not relatable- I’m straight up not that good of a person, no one is in my opinion, and their stories all follow the same boring arcs (Steve Rogers fits this personality type and arc very well post skinny!Steve until the latest MCU movies. But Superman is another very good example, and to a lesser extent Harry Potter too).

Point is these characters don’t interest me because A- I can’t relate to being The Best Ever, B- they’re fucking boring and invite zero conflict or character development if they’re already perfect, and C- their villains tend to have way more interesting backstories, motivations, and character arcs. Also villains tend to be coded as minorities (ie, Ursula from The Little Mermaid being based of a drag queen) so between the more interesting arcs, personalities, conflicts, and minority coded status I’ve always preferred the villain. I can relate to Magneto, who has a terrible goal but for a heartbreaking and even understandable reason. I understand him in a way I can never understand a Superman type. He’s an anti-hero I know, but villains are always more interesting because their motivation isn’t always Its The Right Thing with no other explanation as to why or how its right, which could be compelling but isn’t ever written. And villains never start on a basis of perfection, effectively killing any and all development of character.

And then I watched Iron Man. Not only is Tony Stark a fucking disaster and a high functioning one at that, but he’s not always a good person. Its not that he means to hurt people, but he does, and then he learns. He makes mistakes, he sometimes doesn’t see it right away, and when he does he tries not to repeat his behavior to avoid making those mistakes again. Tony is the first hero I’ve seen that’s not supposed to be an anti-hero that does this. For the first time I got to watch a hero that isn’t perfect, but he’s trying to do good even when he fails at it. Then he tries and tries again. Heroes never get those arcs because they tend to be built on perfection, but Tony is what a hero would look like in the real world- he’s tangible.

Not only that but there’s so much about him that I find relatable beyond his general hero arc. He’s sort of an asshole because its easier to hold people at an arms length than it is to let people in, he has trust issues, daddy issues, mental health problems that people don’t necessarily see, and he hides his true nature under sarcasm and jokes. These are all traits I find in myself too, but ones I don’t typically find in heroes, not to the extent they’re written with Tony anyways. Again Tony is the first hero I’ve ever come across who has personality traits that don’t always translate to ‘perfect person all the time no matter what’. He’s a regular man with a real world personality trying his best even if he does have exaggerated traits (like his intelligence, especially, which is where most of his heroism extends from). And underneath all that he’s compassionate, caring, and generous not that he allows people to see that often.

TL;DR: Tony Stark is the first hero I saw with an actual personality you’d find in the real world and he isn’t always perfect, which i found relatable and compelling.

5. Who’s your least favourite Marvel superhero and why?

This is actually a pretty hard question. There are plenty of MCU characters I care about very little, and some I like a lot but hate the way they’re handled, and some that are just fucking irrelevant so I’ll list 3 for 3 different reasons.

1- Clint Barton. I read Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye (and some of his other work- check him out!) and loved Hawkeye. Then I watched shit ass MCU Hawkeye and he’s a fucking OC with Clint’s name. He’s an asshole, his motivations make no sense, I don’t like Jermey Renner as a person or an actor, and I fucking hated that family in Age of Ultron because it makes no sense and doesn’t fit into the rest of the universe. So I like Clint, but not fuckin MCU Clint because nothing about him makes sense.

2- Wanda. I love what she could be and her powers are so compelling and unlike most Tony fans I sympathize with her wanting him dead (but don’t understand why she chose him over the people who dropped the bomb, the terrorists in her country, or at least doesn’t hold blame in other wider structures that influenced her parent’s death like military personal, the POTUS, etc). Anyways- I like what Wanda could be, but not what she is. She whines and cries about being treated like a child while simutaniously throwing a temper tantrum, apparently doesn’t put as much or potentially even more blame on Viz for being complicit in Tony’s (shitty- no excuse for this) choice to keep her on the compound all because romance angle? And while I sympathize with her not wanting to hurt Viz in IW, that’s a horrible position to be in, I don’t understand why she didn’t at least try and feel out a solution to save him while also destroying the stone until they made Shuri do it. One person you care about versus half the universe? That’s fucking harsh, I’d never want to be there, but I’m certain I could never be that selfish. So I lose someone I care about, half the universe doesn’t get to feel the same way. That’s a win.

There’s a lot about her I do like though, and I’ll explore that again out of the context of World War Me, but as she stands her motivations and character actions don’t make a lot of sense to me and it feels contrived just for plot points. She gets the shit end of the stick and I’m convinced its linked to misogyny- its not like characters who aren’t women get shunted like that Bruce Banner aside (one time versus Wanda’s entire character story).

3- Steve Rogers. Now don’t get me wrong, in the recent movies he’s gone through some development- in CW he didn’t even have an argument, he dropped his shield for Bucky, and then when he shows back up his speech to Ross is such a fuckin asshole thing to say/ do and its so disrespectful (and the fact that I care what he says to ROSS is saying something, but that’s due to the wider implications and the fact that Steve would 100% say that to him pending alien invasion or no, not because its an emergency that influences why I even care). Anyways- his negative development is actually interesting! He is a character based in perfection and he’s gotten this amazing storyline that’s made him selfish and sometimes also callus and cruel. That’s compelling, and his motivations! Amazing!

There’s so much the MCU can do with a man who can’t adjust to the future, has PTSD, and doesn’t know how to handle being in a moral situation that doesn’t have a clear right answer- and it shows. To me these things are interesting, sometimes noble, and profoundly selfish in a way that actually makes a lot of sense considering the context and is a super interesting take on a character that’s usually Perfect And Right All The Time. But instead of actually exploring his motivations, actions, and negative character development the MCU AND the fans treat him as this perfect dude who can do no wrong. This is fucking stupid- the guy is on a downward spiral into who fuckin knows what and instead of exploring this loss of identity, morality, and sense of self he’s treated as the moral compass! Are you fucking kidding me! This shit is so much more compelling than just making the dude right because you’re too fucking lazy to actually write him an argument and a reason behind it. And not acknowledging his negative development and giving me an interesting story (finally) about a hero who’s always been perfect and just shoving him back into his Morally Perfect Always™ role instead of exploring him in new, compelling ways personally victimizes me. So fuck the MCU for that and fuck the idiot fans (god that’s bitter, sorry) who think he’s a true moral compass when at this point none of them are- and that’s ok. That’s interesting to explore, creates conflict, and creates story.

This just makes me want to write a character study of Steve tbh. Maybe I will. He’ll actually get to go on a journey of his negative development then, and then come back from it in a meaningful way rather than just handed the Being Right Award that the lazy writers gave him.

Another TL;DR- Clint sucks because he sucks, but Steve and Wanda could have been so much more if the writers weren’t jackasses.

8. Who’s the strongest Avenger?

Wanda lmao. No argument there, the only one who even stood a chance against her is Vision and she put him down easily too. Which is why I think she’s so interesting, but no, she gets handed stupid contrived storylines based in a romance no one cares about instead of exploring her power, origin story, motivations, and further development.

But yeah, no arguing that she’s the strongest Avenger as far as raw power goes.

9. Any underrated Avenger? Any overrated Avenger?

Underrated avenger: Rhodey my dudes. First of all he’s a decently fleshed out, interesting character. Then you have this interesting background of him knowing the military isn’t really perfect but still maintaining his interest in the military and being complicit in some of its actions, which I think is super compelling and I’d like the MCU to explore that further. Plus you’ve got his intelligence in engineering, his strategical genius, his loyalty, his compassion- he’s just a great dude. He’s sassy too, which is always a plus. But then you get these weird moments in the MCU where they go back on his characterization- like in IM3 where he basically tells Tony to get over himself after a panic attack. That’s so OOC- firstly even if he’s never seen a panic attack (doubtful, in the military) he’s a naturally compassionate guy, and especially so to Tony. So where the fuck was that? You will never convince me that there’s a solid reason for that- he spent 3 fuckin months tracking his best friend down only to tell him to get over himself while having a panic attack? And what even WAS that scene in CW when Steve came back? And that scene where he was totes cool with Thor strangling Tony?

This poor man is so underrated the MCU contributes to his being underrated by using him as a plot device instead of an actual fuckin character (quite like Wanda, and they’re both minorities. Hmm). Anyways Rhodey does not get enough love, nor does his status as a hero outside of Tony get enough love, NOR does his friendship with Tony get enough love, and his potential romantic connections with Tony also don’t get enough love. His sass, compassion, and his interesting participation in a system he knows doesn’t always to the right thing, and occasional complicity in this, also doesn’t get enough love. And the MCU can eat my turds for ignoring who he is as a character just to use him as a plot device.

Overrated character- Ok this is gunna be so mean lmao I love him so much I swear but Bucky. Why the this is this bland ass white dude with 3 half personality traits and literally nothing outside of Steve’s character even liked? He is the male Sharon Carter and honestly that’s unfair to Sharon because she at least has SHIELD and spying as personal interests, what the fuck does Bucky have? HYDRA control, which is literally nothing. He’s almost never an active character, he’s barely even constructed as a character, and has nothing outside of Steve to make him compelling at all.

He is objectively so fucking bland that a couple days ago I realized that when I write Bucky I’m taking his 3 traits from the MCU and literally constructing an OC because Bucky is nowhere near developed enough as a character to even write. He’s also a plot device and used as motivation for Steve. Poor dude doesn’t even have interests outside Steve. How he got to be so massively popular, including to me, I have no idea because objectively speaking he is one of the least interesting characters in the MCU- its everyone else around him that makes his story interesting. Seriously. If Steve wasn’t his friend and Tony’s parents weren’t his parents would we even care about him at all?

A good character still stands if you take the people around them away- take that away from Bucky and his story loses all meaning because it isn’t important to Bucky, its important to the people around him. Like his story is sad, but the emotional impact of what happens to him doesn’t even come from us caring about him, it comes from us caring about the people around him. Granted people are overly attached to him so it worked out in the MCU’s favor and the writers won’t need to make him an active, interesting protagonist because people read into him finding things that aren’t there, and seriously I swear I love Bucky, but he really is a stale, uninteresting character if I actually examine him on his own rather than in the wider context of the events he’s a part of.

TL;DR- love Rhodey you heathens, and while I love Bucky I don’t know why because he isn’t interesting if you look at his story on its own due to its complete lack of emotional impact on him rather than the characters around him.

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ambient-god · 7 years

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Quick Summary: Clockmaker

SO I’m gonna give a quick rundown of the world building of the project I’m currently working on, which is the first book in a series that I’ve planned out (it’s on and off and I’m such an ideas person it’s hard to keep working). I’ve titled the series as a whole Clockmaker.

Clockmaker is in third person limited POV, and switches between my three main characters, Dante Gem, Skylir Vorona, and Akki Sasori. Set in a sort of cyberpunk North America after the Novapocalypse (pending title), the last event of the war a few decades ago, sent nuclear bombs raining down over the entire world. It turns out that the person who invented those bombs, the titular Matt Nova, didn’t actually create bombs. Instead, they seemed to increase the rate of evolution within their blast areas by a lot (weird science stuff), making the ground zeroes into unique landscapes with unknown flora and fauna and even people. Technology and development based off of new materials blossomed, leading to a highly-advanced society throughout the continent.

The fundamental problem that drives most of the conflict during the course of Clockmaker is a mutated social hierarchy. Before the war, wealthy families used their money to build private rockets and shuttles to take themselves and people of importance into space. Their reasoning was the seemingly imminent armageddon forcing them to save only those worth saving, a selfish action that made those who couldn’t leave Earth distrust them. The grounded people of the world were now left with only two options: dig or stay. Governments had built huge underground bunkers for people to stay in if the world went to hell, but even these had limited space, and money was required to get in. It was also not a very appealing situation, as waiting for the teams to clear the radiation on the surface to wear off could take the rest of their lives and their children’s lives. Finally, there were the people who either could not escape to space nor underground, or decided against it. These people were the ones caught in the Novapocalype. But they did not die. Instead, they gained what were know later as “Hypes”. Though the first generation did not have any obvious changed, slowly, their children were born with scaly patches or differently colored eyes or large fangs. Things that weren’t entirely impossible before , but were now much more common. Each blast area had its own traits. After a few generations, the people who escaped came back to the surface to find these new humans, which is where the conflict begins.

The wealthy and talented who escaped to space, leaving the others to die were called Astrocrats (again, name pending). Those who were able to get themselves in the miserable, cramped government bunkers were called Bunkers (appropriately). And the ones who stayed on the surface and gained unimaginable changes (Hypes aren’t necessarily good) were called Hypes. Without getting into too much world building detail, conflicts between these three groups escalated and became four distinct territories:

Nona Hora is a gigantic company that has swallowed any and all competition on the east coast, and is technically not a country. All of its territory is privately owned by the CEO, Miss Nuel. She’s a young business genius that expanded Nona Hora to ten times its previous size by setting up an extremely tantalizing offer: a guarantee of a job for anyone who worked in their territory. Their headquarters are centered in Apricum, a super-advanced megalopolis in where is now Florida, and one of the main settings of Clockmaker. The social disputes and battles reflect the rest of Nona Hora’s territory.

The Lawless area is a smattering of many different small states and companies, but it should be noted that most of these are contained to a single blast site in territory, Nona Hora’s offer much too appealing and leaving only those who could be self-sufficient. It has multiple different areas like the Desolation, which is slowly being taken over by Nona Hora due to its decreasing economy and the Speckled Plains, a more prosperous area. The territory next to the Great Lakes is also another named area but I haven’t come up with a name yet. The Lawless is one of the safest places for Hypes due to the wide diversity and lack of law oppressing them.

The New United States of America, or N.U.S.A. (pronounced new-sa) is ironically most of modern day Canada. The government is similar to modern day U.S.A, but due to multiple anarchist factions against the rich Astrocrats that take up many positions of power, is an extremely war-torn country. They have considerably more tolerance for Hypes than Nona Hora, but their mindset leans more towards tools to wage war.

Finally, there is Scorp. Technically Scorp is a company that is located within NUSA, but due to being far more technologically superior, struck up a deal for NUSA’s safety in exchange for being left alone. Scorp’s territory is very tolerant of all types of people, most likely because of the company’s origins. It was started soon after the return of the Astrocrats to Earth, when an Astrocrat and a Hype from the Mt. McKinley blast site got married. With wealth and acceptance of the Hypes that ruled the land, this family established Scorp. Since then, the company has been said to be the only one that could hold a candle to Nona Hora, though seems to be involved in many a shady business.

These four groups aren’t the complete set of sides I have, as some make alliances and are neutral. There are also more narrowed “sides”, such as the Apricum slum rebellion and Novacultists, but I think this is enough for now. I didn’t even get through a lot of the world building, just geography and stuff, but I hope this piqued your interest. If you read all of this, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

tl;dr After the war went down, new social classes were created and North America is split into different groups with different agendas that come into play during Clockmaker.

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Iron Fist Rant

Alright, so, the more distant I get from having watched this trash fire, the less I liked it, and even though only maybe 3 people will read this, I’d really like to rant about it at length.

WARNING: This rant is long as hell and full of spoilers.

Many of my problems with the show revolve around the characters. This is an especially heinous grievance since the other Marvel Netflix series have such strong, well-written characters (more often than not). In this case, there is only one character who is entirely consistent throughout the entire series, and it’s Joy Meachum. Joy’s decisions are the only decisions that make any real sense. Everything she does has a reason, even when she’s willing to betray Danny for the sake of her father. She has, after all, just found out that her father has been dead after she saw him die of cancer when she was 13 years old. Oh, and there’s Claire Temple, who has her own issues, but everyone else is a shitty character who is not consistent in any way at all.

We can start with the man himself, Danny Rand. So in the first couple of episodes, Danny is super interesting. Like, yes, there’s this problem with a white dude being raised by monks and using Eastern Mysticism to save the world in his own white way. Honestly, whatever, they give story reasons for him to be a white guy raised in a monastery. When he starts out as a barefoot, fish out of water monk in New York City who is often mistaken for a homeless guy, he was way more interesting. Honestly, this is probably a very Buddhist thing for him to do (forgive me, I don’t know as much about Buddhism as I should to make this claim, but I feel that his philosophy carries over somewhat with him in these beginning few episodes). I do know enough about Buddhism to know that his temper tantrum over not getting his half of Rand Enterprises isn’t in line with the philosophy he was supposed to have over the last 15 years or so. I know that his very sudden transformation from bare-foot, innocent, wide-eyes martial artist in the city into wealthy business man who buys an Aston Martin and lives in a penthouse apartment is extremely unrealistic. Sure, we see him making business decisions based on what is “right” and “good” and “just” or whatever, but there’s no fish out of water transition here. He has been gone from the world for 15 years in an inter-dimensional monastery. Granted, I don’t know what kind of technology was available to him there, but in his flashbacks we don’t see any of it. Yet he has no trouble adjusting to any recent technology, he has no trouble having to wear shoes, he has no trouble at all transitioning to CEO and majority shareholder of probably a Fortune 500 company. We see him shirk his duties often to go fight for justice, but there are no real consequences for this. Sure, the Meachum siblings get a bit salty, and he’s fired for like 3 episodes, but nothing lasts and he doesn’t really seem to care beyond his own white privilege birthright or whatever.

Then there’s Colleen. Boy do I have a problem with Colleen. As one of (arguably 3?) poc cast members, she seemed really shoehorned in. So we see this salty Chinese(?) lady putting up flyers in Central Park (or wherever) and Danny Rand immediately does the most racist thing he possibly can and starts speaking to her in Mandarin. Like?????? Fucking really???? And she was like “It’s been a really long time since I’ve spoken that, I speak Japanese these days!” Or... something. Honestly I didn’t go back and watch it, the show seemed really confused about her ethnicity. It’s as if the show writers were a bunch of white people who were like “She’s Chinese, or Japanese. Whatever, they’re the same thing, right?” and just went with that. So Danny asks her for a job, and she says no, and then she leaves. Then he goes and SEEK HER OUT like some creepy stalker weirdo, but we as the viewer are supposed to think this is okay because he’s our barefooted white hero. She, admittedly, is not okay with this at first. Colleen is this amazing martial artist who tries to give kids from bad neighborhoods structure and discipline. She, at this point, is extremely protective of them and loves what she does and is worried about losing her dojo because she can’t make rent. She tells Danny off, she is a good enough actress to make it clear that she wants nothing to do with him. I was convinced, we were all convinced, but he KEEPS. COMING. BACK. This is NOT OKAY. Listen, boys who might be reading this, if a woman wants you to go away, just fucking go away. I promise most women aren’t going to be the subject of weak writing and eventually decide they’re in love with you have have sex with you because you keep coming back to them. We kept seeing Colleen after this, there wasn’t any point until one time he returns and she just gives up ever getting rid of this asshole white guy. We find out she’s training Claire Temple to defend herself. Colleen decides she’s in love with Danny for some reason and they have sex-- even though he tells her all about his vow of chastity (another thing he just fucking stops having because what does philosophy matter for a fucking monk anyway, right?). I don’t have a problem with romantic subplots in shows. I like them if they’re well done (many these days are not, but still). This one was not well done. It really seemed like the original intention was for Danny and Joy to get together, they had a lot more chemistry and history. Colleen’s interest in Danny comes with a complete and random change of heart. She goes from being this badass, protective martial arts mom to the damsel love interest who didn’t know she organization (spoilers, it’s the Hand) she’s been apart of forever had a goddamn murder dungeon on the complex.

Let’s talk about that, shall we?

So, we meet Colleen’s sensei, a Latinx dude named Bakuto who is coded as villainous from the very beginning. To no one’s surprise, he is the leader of a splinter faction of The Hand who opposes Madam Gao’s way of doing things, it’s not important to this rant. What is important to this rant is that Colleen has been a part of this organization for an indeterminate amount of years and she INSISTS that this faction of The Hand is Different. She swears that they don’t like Madam Gao, that they don’t do stuff quite as shady as she does, that they all have normal jobs and they help people! To no one’s surprise (again), we find out about the murder dungeon: we find out about it through Colleen’s former students. There is nothing that could have convinced me that Colleen is the only member of this faction of The Hand who didn’t know about the shady shit that was going on in that house that NO ONE was allowed to go to. Really? You’re trying to sell me this badass, intelligent martial arts lady and she doesn’t know about the bad shit even her Different faction of The Hand is doing? She needs white goddamn privilege Danny Rand to show her? Give me a break.

Then there’s the huge plot hole in the form of Claire Temple. Now, I like Claire a lot. She’s cool, she’s capable, she is fairly well developed, I see why she has the following she does. However, Colleen and Danny decide that they’re going to go to China and take on The Hand at its source. Whatever, I don’t have an issue with that. What I do have an issue with is that Claire has Matt Murdock, the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen, on speed dial. Matt Murdock HATES The Hand. He is the reason that Claire even knows who they are. What I’m wondering is why she didn’t go “Hey, I know DareDevil, let me call him up and he’ll come with us. We probably need all the help we can get to take down this giant international organization.” And you know what would have happened? Matt would have picked up the phone, and he would have been like “The Hand? I’m already here outside of their compound, what’s taking you so long?” Like, I get that Marvel wants to give each Defender their own introduction, but it causes a lot of confusion as to why the one link between them, Claire Temple, seems to refuse to call one or a few of them up for help. Hell, even if she TRIED to get Matt on the line and it kept going to voicemail it would at least acknowledge that she tried and that we are, in fact, in a continuity here.

As far as Harold Meachum is concerned, the writers seemed like they were going for depth and complexity and just ended up with a clumsily written pseudo-villain. You start out thinking he’s on the side of the angels, because he wants Danny’s help to oust the Hand from Rand enterprises. He made a deal with the devil and he wants to try to trick the devil out of it. Fine. But then he mistreats his assistant and his son to a degree that we aren’t sympathetic with him. We probably shouldn’t be sympathetic with him, we think he’s working for the good of everyone, but then he’s this selfish person who wants what’s best for himself. Which, fine, but it really wasn’t played that way at all. His motivations came off as confusing, he was erratic and strange and not in any really convincing way. He waffles back and forth and many of his choices don’t seem to be consistent with... anything. Ward, his son, is the only person besides members of The Hand and, later, Danny, who knows that Harold is still alive from the majority of the series. We are supposed to believe that Harold has gaslighted his son into obeying his every command. Ward weakly tries to rebel against him to no effect. Ward is also erratic and strange, with many of his choices not being internally consistent with who I think he was supposed to be as a character.

Granted, some of the strongest scenes in the series are between Ward and Joy, but it isn’t enough to save it from all of the confusing random bullshit that happens as filler in the middle. Not only are the characters not all that well done, but man does this series get BORING in its middle episodes. Even season 2 of DareDevil kept me mostly interested throughout, and no one liked season 2 of DareDevil. I powered through to the unsatisfying ending, though, and after a few weeks of thinking about it, decided that I fucking hated the Iron Fist. It was bad. Don’t watch it.

#Iron Fist #Spoilers #Rant #Ugh

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Julie Plec Tells Us How Hope's Finale Twist Will Affect Legacies in Season 2

[Warning: The following contains spoilers for the Season 1 finale of Legacies. Read at your own risk!]

Legacies did the unthinkable in its Season 1 finale, and now we're not sure whether Hope Mikaelson (Danielle Rose Russell) is dead or alive or hovering somewhere in between!

The finale saw the Salvatore School under attack from Triad Industries, and the confrontation eventually left Josie (Kaylee Bryant) in mortal peril. After she jumped in front of a bullet made from Malivore mud intended for Lizzie (Jenny Boyd), the poison slowly started to eat away at her. Only Hope's blood managed to save her, but we're wondering whether or not that will end up being a great thing considering she found a magical device in Alaric's office that could eventually release a pretty huge baddie — more on that later.

As for Hope, after facing off against this week's monster (a headless horseman, of all things), Ryan Clarke (Nick Fink) got the best of Hope and Landon (Aria Shahghasemi) and threw the final artifact into the Malivore pit, raising his father from banishment. Knowing she couldn't allow the monster-eating golem to return to Earth and use Landon's body as a meat suit, Hope killed Landon (temporarily, obvi) and threw herself into the pit along with Landon's brother. As the tribrid of the three species that created it, Hope realized she was the only thing that could destroy it, finally giving her loophole existence a purpose. Girl, you are too noble for your own good.

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So, is that the end for Hope, especially now that no one even remembers her? And what does her "death" mean for everyone else but especially Rafael (Peyton Smith), who might now have to remain a wolf forever? TV Guide spoke to showrunner Julie Plec about this huge finale and where we go from here when Season 2 picks back up.

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So Hope is officially erased, but are all traces of her really gone? Or can we hope to stumble across some clue to remembering her and getting her back in Season 2? Julie Plec: There is hope, and there is an actual pitch for that, so your brain is in the right place, creatively.

Is Malivore dead now or did she just prevent him from rising? Plec: That is the question, I think, that we're left with at the end of the season, which is — technically if she had destroyed him, would she be destroyed in the process? Maybe not. So the fact that no one remembers her might mean that there's still a blackness out there that is keeping her captive. And since we've already seen a glimpse of how s---ty that is, I hope that's not the case.

Can we expect to see a Hope-shaped hole in the lives of everyone left in Season 2? Plec: That's exactly what we can expect to see. What's fun about it, and sad about it, is we'll be able to realize just how much impact Hope had in these people's lives without them even realizing what they're missing. And just understanding that they all feel individually like there's something that doesn't feel right and that they're struggling with this feeling of not being complete somehow. It just feels like such a universal experience, especially for teenagers. I'm looking forward to having each of those characters act out on that feeling.

If feels like Raf is the one most affected by her loss, since he's kind of stuck as a perma-wolf? Plec: Yeah, Raf is screwed. Raf is a perma-wolf. Look, when Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) on The Originals was turned into a wolf all that time, that really did a number on her, and Raf is a new werewolf, who is still a teenager. So to be stuck in your most primal and feral state for God knows how long, if he's ever even able to get out of there, that will be catastrophic.

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Landon did learn that he was intended to be a "meat suit" for Malivore to let him procreate, but does he even remember that? And if not, is that still a looming threat in Season 2? Plec: I think that's a good question. What, if anything, of his experience and all the information that he learned about Malivore will he remember? Even more so, what does it all mean now that Malivore doesn't appear to be functional anymore? So Landon is going to have a lot of questions moving forward, and a Hope-sized hole in his heart, as you've said.

I love the chemistry between Hope and Landon! Every time they're on-screen together, you just can't help but go, "Awww!" Plec: Thank you! It's so pure; I think that's why I love it so much. It just feels really innocent and honest and pure in a way that you don't get a lot in relationships in movies and television. So I think that's why I really like it.

Will Triad Industries play a role moving forward, considering most of their staff was just killed or consumed by Malivore? Plec: We may have seen the last of Triad for now in that I think M.G. (Quincy Fouse) made it very clear with his mother what role he expects her to not play in his life moving forward. I certainly don't think the organization is going anywhere, so they will be out there lingering in the shadows and maybe our heroes will cross paths with them another time.

The twins seem to have found the Ascendant, which The Vampire Diaries fans will recognize as the key to a prison world. How worried should we be about a visit from evil Uncle Kai (Chris Wood) if they start messing with that? Plec: I think when a key that would open the lock that is keeping evil Uncle Kai imprisoned shows up on your screen you should always be afraid ... and also super, super psyched — which, by the way, is not me saying that Chris Wood has agreed to come back because I have not gotten any answers out of him yet, but I would love nothing more.

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Paul Wesley Reunites With Matt Davis to Direct Legacies in Exclusive Photos

Will we be seeing more of Penelope in Season 2? Plec: Penelope was a very successful character for us, and we always love the villain that ultimately finds a way to redeem her wicked, selfish, evil ways over the course of the season and leave us all crying and wanting more. Certainly my hope is that she remains in our universe and she, in spite of being in Belgium with her family, may make an appearance again. I can't make any promises, but I certainly would love to see her.

Can we also hope for the return of Clarke? Because I was really digging the revival of the whole supernatural brothers thing! Plec: There's going to be a hole in the marketplace right now for supernatural brothers. We have not necessarily seen the last of Clarke. Certainly wherever Hope is, it seems to be that he is there as well. It depends on where that is and what that looks like and if we want to tell that story.

So if we want Hope back, we might have to get Clarke? Plec: Exactly. Two for the price of one.

Are you looking to introduce a new big bad for Season 2 or are you hoping to stay invested in this Malivore storyline? Plec: We are going to take a page out of Harry Potter and hope that Malivore can be an ongoing threat, much like Voldemort was able to be over the course of all the books. That is the goal and we will see how long we are able to do that.

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And are you planning to keep the monster-of-the-week format or lean into more serialized storytelling. Plec: I think our emotional and character stories will always be deeply serialized like The Vampire Diaries, but the structure of the monster of the week or a monster that can span a couple weeks has been a lot of fun for us, and we've really enjoyed it. So we'll definitely be continuing down that road.

Are there any plans to return to monsters we've seen and spared before like that gorgon who was getting flirty with M.G.? Plec: There's absolutely opportunity for any of the monsters that we've seen before to come back again. I know my personal favorite is the necromancer. We've got some competition... people who loved the dryad, the gorgon — if we can figure out a way to make snakes cost less in visual effects, [it] has a better shot at coming back when technology can catch up to what we want to achieve. That was a "learn the hard way" kind of character.

Alaric's (Matthew Davis) position at the school has been left up in the air, so what can you say about the impact of potentially removing him as headmaster if that's how the council votes?Plec: I think that for a man whose last decade-plus of his life has been committed wholly to his daughters and this school, if he wakes up one morning and is no longer the headmaster, that's going to be a big dramatic shift for him and I'd wonder how he would make it through that.

Season 1 of Legacies will be streaming on Netflix starting Friday, April 5.

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Ep. #9: “Tonight My Game Came Crumbling Down”- Connah

After the instant tribal, the rocks worked in Jessy’s favor to give her alliance the numbers. Connor ended up winning Immunity and was the clear swing vote between the two alliances. He was trying to decide whether to vote Jessy with MJ, Connah and Josh or vote out Josh with Jessy’s alliance of Allison and Scott. Jessy was pretending to have a hidden immunity idol that she would use on herself which may have helped lead Connor to vote for Josh and Josh was sent home 4-3.

it annoys the fuck out of me that people like connor and allison are most likely getting to final 3 after doing completely nothing in this game. i’ve worked my ass off since the first swap of this game to build solid relationships and alliances with people and i think after tonight my game came crumbling down. i guess i’m relieved that myself, mj and josh are all still here by a miracle but right now we’re a group of 3 against a group of 4. i think the go from here is to continue socializing with people in order to advance each round, but there might be something in the works with connor. i don’t wanna put all my eggs into the connor basket but he’s all i really have at this point. i think my best bet at the end would be to have myself, connor and josh in the final 3 in order to get myself the win it’s mostly when i’d want to take mj out. do i wait until 4? or do i try and make the move earlier? because i feel he’d beat me in the end and after calling with scott today, it’s apparent that people think i’m mj’s goat which isn’t even the case as i’ve probably put more effort into the past few votes than mj has and have taken the time to actually consider all my options. idk i think mj needs to go at final 6, 5 or 4

[28/06/2017, 4:39:12 PM] Josh: me and connor are going to america [28/06/2017, 4:42:27 PM] connah. i guess.: me connor [28/06/2017, 4:42:30 PM] connah. i guess.: or other connor [28/06/2017, 4:42:37 PM] connah. i guess.: oh wait hes already in america fjdjdjjdd

Connor played my conscience like a fiddle and used it against me. I take back feeling sorry for lying to him twice.

So yeah…. A lot of shit went down last night, and a lot of shit is going to continue to go down. So to recap, Matt Summers was decided on the person to go for like the past 2 hours. Then at the last 30 minutes Jessy gets uncomfortable with the fact that Connah/Josh may not flip so she purposes that we all just switch our vote to Sam. Connor doesn’t want to, but Jessy makes a chat with Allison and I and is like “this needs to happen” and honestly, I had no idea if Sam was trying to save me on the other side just because she kinda left me out to dry while I was still trying to look out for her. Like I told her I was down to vote for whoever she told me to if she wanted to make a move, and kinda gave me the cold shoulder. I don’t get why she was so upset with me for getting out people who voted out her other closest ally, but thats just me. So at that tribal, Jessy reveals her vote steal and takes MJ’s vote which gives us the majority. Turns out Connah/Josh lied to us, but the fact that I was about to have a fighting chance had me super excited. We find out Sam leaves, she directs her plea at me and I just didn’t think I could save her. Did I lead the charge to get her out? No… But if I wanted to stay, I had to take the risk of making this move. I know she’s upset with me cause she removed me from every social media, and I don’t blame her. I hope we will be able to put this behind us and move forward, however I’m not getting my hopes up. Afterward, Trevor revels we’re having an “instant tribal” (SURPRISE)

So after the surprise announcement, we have to decide quickly on what to do. Our side just decides to vote Connah, they vote me (shocker) and it ties. I’m like shitting myself cause I need to make sure everyone’s going to rocks for me. Luckily they all did and Matt Summers got rocked out. This was what needed to happen to give us majority. Now it’s just MJ/Connah/Josh in the minority, and we have full control of this game if it all works out. The reason why I saw full control is there’s less then 24 hours for the next tribal, and if they didn’t play an idol at that rock tribal, chances are they still don’t have one to play at this upcoming tribal. Which is good, except Jessy isn’t sure where Connor is at and that he may want to flip to get her out. I plan on calming that situation down by calling Connor and really explaining the importance of us sticking together. I also want to pitch a F2/F3 deal with him to ensure he’s good. Now that we’re like getting towards the endgame, I finally see myself having a plan moving forward with all of this. I feel like its best at this point to have MJ/Connah/Josh be 5th/6th/7th cause if any of them get to f2 they will win this game and I can’t risk that. I haven’t exactly thought of plans after that. One idea was Jessy 4th, Connor 3rd, and Allison/I in the final 2. Another possibility is getting Connor 4th, Jessy 3rd, and Allison/I still in Final 2. I just think that the jury won’t see the game I played if I’m not with Allison in the end, and they won’t respect the game I played. Which I don’t blame them cause I’ve played a very selfish game as opposed to my previous times playing.

So currently, I am being promised final 4 by two different groups of three. Both of these groups have called me, asking for my vote. I have no idea which of the two groups I am going to go with. Please kill me.

if connor’s actually gonna vote with us i’m gonna have renewed hope in this game. if not then i’ll guess i’ll just die.jpeg

Dear Mj, Josh, and Connor. I am sorry that I lied to all three of you. The thing is, it really was better for me in the long run. Josh and I have had trouble lining up our votes from the beginning and, as you both know, made this game rather difficult for me to push and pull my way through this game. I told you both I wanted to work with you and was with you for this vote. And I am. That’s why you didn’t get, or shouldn’t have been, voted out. If you did, some how, I’m sure you have already literally torn me apart in ponderosa because there is no way I will make finals if either of the two of you (MJ/Connor) got voted out. My game plan is to take Jessy out at six. She should be playing her idol this round, but she didn’t need to, so the idol will be flushed. We, or mostly everyone, can vote Jessy. There is no reason for Connor or MJ to try and pull a move on me because there is no way they can do anything if I’m not in this game at 5. With Josh out now and jessy out at 6, it puts me in the power position at 5. Scott and Allison will both want my vote, MJ and Connor will both want my vote. They both know that, and neither of those two groups will try and take me out because of that. The only other option is me going out and five and them going to fire at four. This really is the best possible move for me to make. It’s best for me in the long run, and really, if it works out, I think I have this game. Sugar, we’re going down swinging.

#torchsnuffers

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Dominant Girlfriend: The Pros & Cons of Dating a Woman in Control

Most people think the guy should be the one who wears the pants in a relationship. But there are pros and cons to having a dominant girlfriend too.

Fifty years ago, it was commonly accepted that the man had more power when it came to relationships. But times have changed a lot.

Women are have careers now, and they aren’t required to stay at home with the kids and be the perfect little wifey who waits at home for her man… and has the house all clean and dinner on the table.

No, that’s not how things work anymore.

However, even though it’s great that women have more equal power in the world now, that kind of confuses things in romantic relationships sometimes.

The middle of last century, the gender roles were clear. The man worked, did the outside and handyman work, and the woman stayed at home and did the inside work. The dad made the decisions, and the mom went along with whatever he said.

I grew up in a family where my mom was the dominant one. To me, it was normal, because it’s all I knew. Because of that, I followed in her footsteps and became a dominant girlfriend in my relationships as I got older. While I thought that’s what I wanted, as I got older, I began to question it.

Why? Because all the men I tended to attract were weak men. I slowly realized that I became the dominant girlfriend because I had to – not because I actually wanted to.

But regardless, being *or having* a dominant girlfriend has its pros and its cons. Let’s take a look at some. [Read: 16 abusive relationship signs of a devious lover]

The pros of having a dominant girlfriend

Strong women are wonderful. They are capable, and they do it all. In fact, the terms “super woman” and “super mom” were coined because of the kind of women who are strong, dominant, and feel like they can set the world on fire. So here are the pros of having a dominant girlfriend.

#1 She’s a leader. I don’t think anyone likes it when two people sit around and go through this scenario: Person A: “What do you want to do tonight?” Person B: “I don’t care, what do you want to do?” Person A: “I don’t care either. You decide.” Person B: “No, that’s okay, you decide.” Person A: “No, really, you decide.” And it goes on. This kind of banter doesn’t accomplish anything.

A dominant girlfriend will make the decisions. In fact, she may or may not even ask your opinion on it. She might just tell you what you’re doing, and then you don’t have to think about it. It takes the pressure off you because she’s a natural leader. [Read: 13 words of advice to date a fiercely independent woman]

#2 She has passion. A dominant girlfriend is not wishy-washy. She knows what she wants. She has goals and dreams and is determined to make them come true. She loves life, she loves her career, she basically just has a lot of passion and energy. She’s not boring, that’s for sure! Girls who are submissive just sit around like a blob. Who wants that?

#3 She knows what she wants. And when I say this, I mean she knows what she wants in all areas of her life – especially in a man. Because she tends to be confident and self-assured, a dominant girlfriend doesn’t settle.

She doesn’t settle for a man who is beneath her, she doesn’t settle for a crappy job, and she doesn’t settle for anything else that doesn’t meet her standards.

#4 She’s a planner. She has the weekend all planned out for you. You know that you’re having dinner with Matt and Sue on Friday, you are going to a movie on Saturday afternoon, followed by a Maroon 5 concert that night. Then Sunday, it’s church and hanging out with the family.

She also knows where you’re going on vacation 6 months from now and how the holidays are going to play out this year. She has it under control, because she’s planned every detail. [Read: 20 glaring signs of a control freak you just can’t ignore]

#5 She does all the work, so you can be lazy. Now don’t get me wrong… lazy isn’t a great quality. At least I don’t think it is. I’ve been with several men who were lazy and it drove me crazy. So just keep in mind that your dominant girlfriend might hit a wall and go bat shit crazy on you if you are TOO lazy.

But it’s okay to let her do the work, kick back, and enjoy it. However, don’t get so lazy that you don’t even shower all weekend. That will disgust her, and soon you won’t have a dominant girlfriend anymore – or any girlfriend at all *if you know what I mean*. [Read: Signs you’re a lazy boyfriend who needs to change right now!]

The cons of having a dominant girlfriend

Okay, so yes, dominant women are great. However, there are some down sides to them too. While the list above might have sounded great, let’s look at some of the cons of having a dominant girlfriend.

#1 You don’t have a voice because she is so controlling. When you are dating a dominant person, sometimes she can be very controlling. She might leave you “honey-do” lists and expect you to have them done before she comes home from work.

Because of this, you might feel more like a child than her boyfriend. But listen up here – a dominant woman doesn’t respect a man she can walk all over. In fact, she secretly likes it when her man stands up to her and doesn’t let her push him around. So, keep that in mind. [Read: 15 questions to reveal a controlling personality instantly]

#2 You lose yourself. Because she’s so dominant, you might not even know who you are anymore if you don’t speak up and try to take some of the control. If you find yourself always going out with her friends, doing what she likes to do, and watching TV shows she wants to watch, well, where is your own identity?

Be careful. It’s fine to go along with what she says, but not at the expense of losing sight of what you really want and need. [Read: Selfish people – 15 ways to spot and stop them from hurting you]

#3 You might feel like less of a man. Since the cave man days, men have had the instinctual, primal need to be the provider. To be needed. To be respected. Women needed them to drag back an animal they killed for dinner.

But in modern times, we don’t need that anymore. So that makes some men feel like less of a man. Like he has no place in his woman’s life anymore. You don’t want to feel like that, do you? [Read: How to be dominant – 15 calm, assertive ways to be a real alpha]

#4 She might have unrealistic expectations. When a person is dominant, they sometimes lose sight of a lot of things. They might not know how their behavior is negatively affecting you – or other people.

They could get so caught up in their own selfish desires that their expectations of you might become very unrealistic. If that happens, what you will have to do is to gently remind her that what she is asking of you is simply not within the realm of what is really possible.

[Read: Types of toxic relationships to watch out for]

Having a dominant girlfriend can be great, but it can also spell a recipe for disaster if you don’t keep your eye on her behavior – and yours. As long as you keep these pros and cons in mind, you’ll be just fine.

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