#mine: jackson and cal

[forbescaroline]

MELISSA'S 225 FAVORITE SHIPS OF ALL TIME ranked by my followers 217. jackson marchetti and cal bowman - sex education “This is the first time I’ve felt calm in so long. Yeah. It’s quite nice, right?”

#jackson x cal #sexeducationedit #sexeducationsource #jackson marchetti #cal bowman #sex education #** #235ships #mine: sex education #mine: jackson and cal

[the-fabulous-51]

im almost done with this behemoth 😭 never thought I'd see the day

#mine #mind you this thing is just SETTING UP my cal + jackson storm au #im 😭 #it got away from me #ive already also started on the actual au stories #theyre shorter but ive got several ideas cooking

[castlesrp]

The Hudson Family

Hephaestus : Coal and Mining Extraction CONTENT WARNING: DEATH OF SPOUSE (ACCIDENTAL DROWNING)

Hudson Mining Company has been a staple of Wyoming since its inception in the early 1910s. When First Hudson (77) was old enough to take over the company from his father, he made the bold switch of moving their headquarters from Wyoming to the Big Apple, knowing that to maintain the success of the company, they needed to have their base of operations where the money flowed freely and paved the streets of New York. After working as CEO for many years, he recently retired to spend his golden years with his wife and former socialite First Hudson (77) - yet he still maintains a position of power as a very vocal Board Member. In his place as CEO is his eldest daughter, First Thorne (49), yet her authority faces constant scrutiny due to her father's looming presence on the board, prompting questions about the true extent of her decision-making power. She and her husband First Thorne (49) have continued the family legacy with one daughter.

The second born, First Hudson (46) works for the family company as an Energy Economist and Analyst. His wife tragically passed away from an accidental drowning when their daughter was ten, leaving him to have to balance his career and his status as a single father for the majority of her life. At the time of her passing, the family was marked by rumors that he had something to do with her drowning - of course, these were all fabricated, but ever since then, he has become a bit more guarded towards those outside of his familial circle of trust and the media who will spin anything for a good story. One of the few he has remained close to over the years is Hamilton (43), whom he met in undergrad and both share a passion for green energy and sustainable resources for the future.

First Prescott (44) is also part of the family business, serving as the Head of Human Relations for the company while her husband First Prescott (45) runs a private equity firm, providing a stable family life for their young son. First Hudson (42) and First Hudson (40) work hand in hand, with the former working as legal counsel for Hudson Mining Company and specializing in energy law to provide information to his sister, who serves as the Head of Public Relations, tasked with navigating the delicate balance between the mining industry and environmental activism. With him working behind the scenes and providing her with the information necessary to try and win over the public, her outgoing charisma and personality has done a good job of perfecting the image of the company to the general public.

The youngest son, First Hudson (38) has also found ways to support his family’s endeavors, working as a lobbyist with New York politicians to try and secure additional funding and ensuring that laws will not impact the ability of the company to continue in the coal mining industry for many years to come. With the same levels of charisma as his sister, he and his wife First Hudson (40) have a picturesque life together in the Upper East Side.

First Hudson: 77 Years Old, Founder and Board Member of Hudson Mining Company, Andre de Shields, Available + First Hudson: 77 Years Old, Former Socialite, Loretta Devine, Available

First Thorne: 49 Years Old, CEO and President of Hudson Mining Company, Danai Gurira, Available + First Thorne: 49 Years Old, Open Occupation, Sterling K. Brown, Available ----- First Thorne: 25 Years Old, Open Occupation, Megan Thee Stallion, Available

First Hudson: 46 Years Old, Energy Economist and Analyst, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Available + First Hudson: Deceased, N/A, N/A, Unavailable ----- First Hudson: 24 Years Old, Open Occupation, Tati Gabrielle, Available

First Prescott: 44 Years Old, Head of Human Resources of Hudson Mining Company, Lupita Nyong'o, Available + First Prescott: 45 Years Old, Owner of Private Equity Firm, William Jackson Harper, Available ----- First Prescott: 21 Years Old, Open Occupation, Caleb McLaughlin, Available

First Hudson: 42 Years Old, Legal Counsel (Energy Law Specialty) of Hudson Mining Company, Anthony Mackie, Available

First Hudson: 40 Years Old, Head of Community Relations of Hudson Mining Company, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Available

First Hudson: 38 Years Old, Lobbyist, Winston Duke, Available + First Hudson: 40 Years Old, Open Occupation, Kerry Washington, Available

#jcink rp #canon rp #bio rp #skeleton rp #jcink #canons

[isakatsu-isaac-uchiha9306]

Cars Challenge from Tumblr

Challenge by @ijustlovefiction

Ay here we go!

1. Lightning McQueen

2. Sadly none

3. Lightning McQueen

4. Chick Hicks

5. None

6. Mr. Sterling, Sir Miles Axelrod and Harv

7. Lightning McQueen

8. Lightning McQueen, Sally Carrera, Shu Todoroki, Mater, Jeff Gorvette, Luigi, Guido, Kabuto, Mack, Carla Veloso, Cruz Ramirez

9. Lightning McQueen, Sally Carrera, Shu Todoroki, Mater, Jeff Gorvette, Luigi, Guido, Kabuto, Mack, Carla Veloso, Cruz Ramirez, Doc Hudson, Finn McMissile, Lewis Hamilton, Cal Weathers, Bobby Swift, Danny Swervez, Flo, Ramone, Boost, Miguel Camino

10.

Lightning McQueen - His arc throughout the first film

Sally Carrera - Her Sass

Shu Todoroki - His Japanese Lineage (I'm a JDM fan)

Mater - His humor

Jeff Gorvette - He's basically based on Jeff Gordon a Nascar Driver

Lewis Hamilton - He's basically voiced by the GOAT

Luigi and Guido - Their commitment to helping McQueen

Kabuto and Boost - Their Nissan Silvia S15s

Flo and Ramone - Their Aunt and Uncle vibes

Cruz Ramirez - Her arc in Cars 3

Cal Weathers - His innocence

Carla Veloso - She's a Lemans car

Finn McMissile - His badassery

Miguel Camino - He's a Gran Touring car

Doc Hudson - He's the GOAT in the Cars Universe

Danny Swervez - Idk I can

11. I kinda have this knack of trying to be a show off... I like to go fast and many more... And Lightning is humble like me

12. Life is a Highway

13. McQueen and Sally's drive, Life's a dream scene

14. None

15. Lightning McQueen

16. Lightning

17. McQueen leaving RS, Mcqueen's crash

18. Episode 1

19. Salqueen, DannyCruz, HolleyMater, FloRamone, ShuCarla

20. McQueen/Mater, McQueen/Mater/Sally, McQueen/Sally, Finn/Mater/Holley, McQueen/Cruz/Storm

21. All

22. Eh...

23. Hiccups, Radiator Springs 500 1/2

24. Tokyo Mater

25. I didn't quite get that...

26. Cars the Video Game (2006)

27. McQueen and Sally

28. Jackson Storm

29. Car (1996 Toyota Supra 2JZA80 or 2023 Chevrolet Corvette C8 Z06)

30. Sally Carrera

31. Radiator Springs

32. I don't know actually

33. Radiator Springs

34. Yeah

35. Well... I'd say Sally Carrera... Idk...

36. Happier - Marshmello, Bastille (McQueen and Sally)

37. Finn McMissile

38. None... I don't like them

39. Nope... Trust me... I don't... Not to mention the maritime disasters like Titanic and many more.

40. More Salqueen content, WGP racers, return of older characters

41. Idk since my style is just generic

42. Both.

43. Lightning McQueen, Sally Carrera, Mater, Luigi, Guido

44. 100% As a kid I didn't really care much... But as I grew older and I saw how much Doc had an impact on McQueen's life made me change my perspective on him...

45. Lightning McQueen, Sally Carrera and Mater

46. A Cars Life (Don't me get started on the whiny pink Porsche... And the Shelby Cobra Lightning McQueen look a like)

47. (Art not mine... If the original owners saw this... I can tell you that I have no intention of stealing... I just saved these on my phone for fun that's all... Again I'm sorry if I reposted without permission)

48. Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine, John Turturro

49. When harv made Lightning leave...

50. Cars (2005) Teaser, Cars (2006) Trailer, Cars 3 Teaser Trailer

51. None

52. Let McQueen have a comeback... Show him have a family with Sally... And let him win one more time before retiring... Give everyone the comeback I didn't see in Cars 3

53. The General Grevious "Your [Blank] will make a fine addition in my collection" line quoted by Miss Fritter in Cars 3

54. Cars 3 More than new paint

55. I'd tell him, hey did you know McQueen is 7-time piston cup champion... And young me would blow his mind hearing that

56. Transformers and Cars

57. None... I just hate the Dream Stans that ship Sally with Quackity or Dream with Lightning

58. Cars... I grew up with it..

#Pixar cars #cars #pixar cars #cars fandom #lightning mcqueen #sally carrera #cars 2006 #cars 3 #cars 2 #salqueen

[azurecryofox]

For the cars side of my mutual lovelies! (1,000 post special!)

Task: In a separate post, start ranking random cars characters on a favorites list from 1 to 15 (1-4 being the best, 5-9 being okay, 10-14 being eh, and 15 being nah), then tag me to let me know, and then tag any of your friends or followers to try

Here's mine:

Cruz Ramirez

Lightning McQueen

Lewis Hamilton

Cal Weathers

Strip Weathers

Lynda Weathers

Doc Hudson

Jackson Storm

Jeff Gorvette

Francesco Bernoulli

Shu Todoroki

Raoul ÇaRoule

Ray Reverham

Gale Beaufort

Chick Hicks

Tagging my cars lovelies! Go ahead and give it a try.

@carsgeek24 @fishstickfeind @artist-fan146 @the-cars-memer @man-i-love-korn @anyone!

#cars fandom #multi cannot shut up about cars 🚖 #multi's reblog tag games 👌 #I'm too lazy to add every character here lmao

[brookston]

Holidays 5.24

Holidays

Aviation Maintenance Technician Day

Battle of Pichincha Day (Ecuador)

Bermuda Day [if weekend, nearest weekday]

Brooklyn Bridge Day

Brother's Day

Camping with Barry White Day (David Letterman)

Commonwealth Day (Belize)

Culture and Literacy Day (Bulgaria)

Day for the Naming of Rocks and Planets

Dylan Day

European Day of Parks

Independence Day (Ecuador; from Spain, 1822)

Independence Day (Eritrea; from Ethiopia, 1993)

International Tiara Day

Little Lamb Day

Lubiri Memorial Day (Uganda)

Morse Code Day

National Aviation Maintenance Tech Day

National Wyoming Day

Night Baseball Day

Parking Meter Day

Play Kick the Can With A Kid Day

Sara the Black's Day (Gypsy)

Scavenger Hunt Day

Slavonic Enlighteners' Day (Macedonia)

World Schizophrenia Day

World Tarot Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Asparagus Day

Judgment of Paris Day

National Coffee Day (Brazil)

National Escargot Day

Yucatan Shrimp Day

Feast Days

Aldersgate Day (a.k.a. Wesley Day; Methodism)

Anna Pak Agi (Christian; One of The Korean Martyrs)

Donatian and Rogatian (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Hermes Trismegistus (Patron of Alchemy)

Jackson Kemper (Episcopal Church)

St. Jerome (Positivist; Saint)

Joanna (Christian; Saint)

John de Prado (Christian; Saint)

Mary, Help of Christians (Christian; Saint)

The Mothers (Celtic Prosperity Festival)

Sarah (celebrated by the Romani people of Camargue; Christian; Saint)

Slim Pickens Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Vincent of Lérins (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because I danced ‘cause I wanted to. I left my friends behind, because my friends didn't dance and since they didn't dance, they were no friends of mine.)

Premieres

Before Midnight (Film; 2013)

Faust, selected scenes, by Goethe (Play; 1819)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 144 of 2022; 221 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 21 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 12 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Huáiyuè), Day 24 (Ding-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 23 Iyar 5782

Islamic: 22 Shawwal 1443

J Cal: 24 Bīja; Twosday [24 of 30]

Julian: 11 May 2022

Moon: 29% Waning Crescent

Positivist: 4 St. Paul (6th Month) [St. Jerome]

Runic Half Month: Ing (Expansive Energy) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 63 of 90)

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 3 of 30)

#calendar #Holidays

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 5.24

Holidays

Aviation Maintenance Technician Day

Battle of Pichincha Day (Ecuador)

Bermuda Day [if weekend, nearest weekday]

Brooklyn Bridge Day

Brother's Day

Camping with Barry White Day (David Letterman)

Commonwealth Day (Belize)

Culture and Literacy Day (Bulgaria)

Day for the Naming of Rocks and Planets

Dylan Day

European Day of Parks

Independence Day (Ecuador; from Spain, 1822)

Independence Day (Eritrea; from Ethiopia, 1993)

International Tiara Day

Little Lamb Day

Lubiri Memorial Day (Uganda)

Morse Code Day

National Aviation Maintenance Tech Day

National Wyoming Day

Night Baseball Day

Parking Meter Day

Play Kick the Can With A Kid Day

Sara the Black's Day (Gypsy)

Scavenger Hunt Day

Slavonic Enlighteners' Day (Macedonia)

World Schizophrenia Day

World Tarot Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Asparagus Day

Judgment of Paris Day

National Coffee Day (Brazil)

National Escargot Day

Yucatan Shrimp Day

Feast Days

Aldersgate Day (a.k.a. Wesley Day; Methodism)

Anna Pak Agi (Christian; One of The Korean Martyrs)

Donatian and Rogatian (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Hermes Trismegistus (Patron of Alchemy)

Jackson Kemper (Episcopal Church)

St. Jerome (Positivist; Saint)

Joanna (Christian; Saint)

John de Prado (Christian; Saint)

Mary, Help of Christians (Christian; Saint)

The Mothers (Celtic Prosperity Festival)

Sarah (celebrated by the Romani people of Camargue; Christian; Saint)

Slim Pickens Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Vincent of Lérins (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because I danced ‘cause I wanted to. I left my friends behind, because my friends didn't dance and since they didn't dance, they were no friends of mine.)

Premieres

Before Midnight (Film; 2013)

Faust, selected scenes, by Goethe (Play; 1819)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 144 of 2022; 221 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 21 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 12 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Huáiyuè), Day 24 (Ding-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 23 Iyar 5782

Islamic: 22 Shawwal 1443

J Cal: 24 Bīja; Twosday [24 of 30]

Julian: 11 May 2022

Moon: 29% Waning Crescent

Positivist: 4 St. Paul (6th Month) [St. Jerome]

Runic Half Month: Ing (Expansive Energy) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 63 of 90)

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 3 of 30)

#Holidays

[ayoedebiris]

This is the first time I've felt calm in so long. Yeah. It's quite nice, right?

Dua Saleh and Kedar Williams-Stirling as Cal Bowman and Jackson Marchetti in Sex Education Season Three

#sex education #sexeducationedit #sex education spoilers #bbelcher #userstream #filmtv #cinemapix #dailynetflix #dailymoordale #userbru #userbecca #userava #userrachel #tuserchar #tuserdiana #cal bowman #jackson marchetti #cal x jackson #* #mine

[stemmefemme]

Cars 3 characters as different paparazzi photos:

Cal Weathers

Bobby Swift

Lightning McQueen

Cruz Ramirez

Jackson Storm

Natalie Certain

Chick Hicks

Danny Swervez

JP Drive

Bubba Wheelhouse

#there's a ten photo limit #Pixar cars #cars 3 #lightning mcqueen #cal weathers #bobby swift #jackson storm #cruz ramirez #natalie certain #chick hicks #bubba wheelhouse #jp drive #danny swervez #shitpost #i couldn't get this idea out of my head #paparazzi #mine

[percyxcalypso]

crybaby

@them-awesome-rarepairs PJO Rarepair Week 2021 (30 August 2021) Day 2 : Angst | Percy x Calypso | Fanfic | Time setting : post-BOTL pre-TLO | Quotes from The Battle of The Labyrinth are bolded and italicized. To show you how it is canon that Percy was fascinated by Calypso and how he thinks of her as his biggest what if. | This fic is inspired by crybaby, the italicized words are quoting the song’s lyrics

When I think of our untimely end

And everything we could have been

I cry.. Baby I cry

OK, so it’s five a.m. and I still can’t sleep… My mind drifts to that moment I keep.

I never talk about it to anyone and I never want to. Not Grover, not my mother, not Annabeth. It is a sensitive topic. The memories make me want to bottle them up all to myself.

Even if I do share them anyway, it doesn’t and won’t change a thing. It’ll always hurt me, she’s alone, stuck on that cursed island, broken hearted, and I can’t do anything about it.

When I went to sleep last night, I had that bizarre dream ability again. This time I saw Calypso on her island. At first she was tending her plants, then the vision started to close up to her walking towards the beach, and afterwards, I saw her crying. She mumbled something but I couldn't hear clearly. She put her hands together to her chest, it seemed like it was aching so bad. She knelt to the ground. I tried to reach out to her, but the more I wanted to reach her, my dream ended. I woke up with a heartache.

It's been a few months since I left that place but the dream made it feel like yesterday.

I couldn't sleep after that so I sat up and leaned onto the bedhead. Trying to steady my heartbeat.

When I feel better, I close my eyes. I’m trying to sleep again but it only makes me feel like I’m being pulled back to that time and place.

It seemed like a paradise. I can hear her sing, the most euphonic voice I’ve ever heard, magically healed me. How her tender fingers touched my face when she combed my mangled hair. And the way her strong arms wrapped me when I’m too weak to stand. The way she smiled, genuinely laughed at my stories and jokes. Her talent tending her beautiful plants. Even songbirds settled on her arms and chirped with such joy.

She’s remarkably more magnificent than the flowers and stars combined. I’ve seen the goddess of love herself but Calypso was a lot more beautiful, because she just seemed so natural, like she wasn’t trying to be beautiful and didn’t even care about that. She just was.

She was like a princess in those fairy tales, but the difference is, she’s real.

I remember how our eyes met and for a moment her almond eyes gleamed brighter, but shortly she got sad again.

She never talked much about herself, but that just made me want to know more.

One night, Calypso and I were sitting at dinner, and she looked beautiful in the candlelight. After I reassured her, she told me about her curse. She took my hand. Her touch sent a warm current through my body. Her voice trembled, I squeezed her hand tighter.

She said she was cursed to be prisoned on this island, and once in a thousand years, the Fates would wash up a hero to her. The kind of hero who she can’t help falling in love with. But they would always leave her behind, who can’t accept her offer to stay.

It took me a second to know she was saying that.. she was in love with me.

She offered me to stay there, once. I would be lying if I said I’m not interested, honestly. The idea of leaving seemed very hard.

But I can’t stay.

As I sailed on to the lake I realized the Fates really were cruel. They sent Calypso someone she couldn’t help but love. But it works both ways. For the rest of my life I would always be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if.

Back to the present I am. I open my eyes and look at the silver moonlace placed exquisitely on my windowsill. I promised her to plant it, to plant a garden in Manhattan. The least I can do is to fulfill that one promise.

My vision starts to get blurry.

I'm suppressing the tears, but they start to flow

What if...

What if I hadn’t left?

I could stay there forever, disappear from the Earth. I could live with Calypso, with invisible servants tending to my every need. We could grow flowers in the garden and talk to songbirds and walk on the beach under perfect blue skies. We could swim, build sandcastles, look for pretty seashells and fishing. Sipping lemonade as we watch the sunset. Eat candlelit dinner, listen to Calypso playing her harp, tell each other stories as we go stargaze, relaxing side by side underneath the idyllic stars with the heavy sounds of waves crashing the shores...

I rest my head on my hand. Look at me now.

I don't get no sleep, I'm up awake

Can't stop thinking of you and me

And everything we used to be

It could have been so perfect

Nothing but peace.

No war.

No prophecy.

No more taking sides.

Sounded like a perfect permanent vacation.

🌊✨🌕

#percalypso #pjorarepairs2021 #percy jackson #calypso #perlypso #percypso #percy x calypso #pjo #fanfic #first. I barely can write angst. but I tried for them :) #second. I know this fandom is like : un-merry. but I still deliver anyway 💅🏼 #THIS MISTREATED OTP OF MINE POOR YOU T.T #JUST LOOK AT HOW PERCY THOUGHT OF CALYPSO #NO WONDERS THE CANON SHIPPERS GONE MAD #CAL'S A FCKING MORE-THAN-A-GODDESS LEVEL #THEY FEEL THREATENED #HHSJSHDKHH /JK #or am I? #kudos to mariah carey and snoop dog and derek jeter for inspiring me <3 #I'd be listening to it and thoughts went ... percy?? who is on a 'grey' relationship with annaB but he thinking bout Calypso. #maybe I'll make another one #where they are matured up mortal. and calypso was the 'best thing he ever had' but also 'the one who got away' #and he be like on his tippy toes at 5 am so annab won't know he still crying over cal. crying over all of those what ifs. dududdu dudu'um🎶 #pxc post #rj post

[peachy-keann]

The next gen racers play among us together, pass it on

#cars pixar #pixar cars #pixar cars 3 #cars 3 #jackson storm #danny swervez #cruz ramirez #flip dover #nik hicks #jp drive #chase racelott #next gen racers #social media au #sort of #mine #cal weathers

[clumsyclifford]

HELLO BELLA PROMPTS?? YES!!! how about “I don’t know what that means” for cake? <3 molly

hello molly i am jumping ahead to post this before valentine's day officially ends. some vday office cake for you :) also if you're not a marvel person then i am so sorry in advance.

read here on ao3

-

It's taped to the frame of his desktop when he sits down.

To: Calum From: Your Secret Admirer I’d trust you with my heart, Valentine.

Calum blinks at it. Blinks at the picture on the card, of a circular contraption of some kind that reads ‘PROOF THAT TONY STARK HAS A HEART’. So it's a Marvel-related valentine. For Calum. From a secret admirer.

“Luke,” Calum says, pushing out his rolly chair to speak to Luke in the next cubicle over, “can you tell me what the fuck this means?”

Luke has already been here ten minutes, and he pauses mid-task to look over at Calum. “What what means?”

“Someone left this for me,” Calum says, offering the valentine. “I don’t get it.”

Luke takes the card and frowns. “What do you mean, you don’t get it? It’s Tony Stark’s heart.”

“I don’t know what that means,” Calum says. “I don’t watch those movies.”

He might as well have just punched Luke in the face. “You what?”

Calum shrugs. “I like the DC movies. Never got into Marvel.”

“Seriously? You’re the last human being on the planet who doesn’t like Marvel.”

“I know, I’m not like other girls,” Calum says, rolling his eyes. “Are you telling me this metal…thing is this man’s heart?”

“You seriously don’t know?” Calum shakes his head. Luke looks appalled. “I can’t believe it. You’re going to offend whoever this secret admirer is.”

“Well, I don’t know who they are,” Calum says. “Give it back.” Luke does, and Calum folds it in half and rolls back into his cubicle.

“Probably someone in this very office,” Luke says over the wall. “Aren’t you curious?”

Calum shrugs, though he knows Luke can’t see. Honestly, Calum’s got no interest in being secretly admired. He’d much rather be openly admired, specifically by one Luke Hemmings. And there’s no way the secret admirer is Luke, because he’s pretty sure Luke’s dating that Michael guy who picks him up every day after work.

If it’s not Luke, Calum doesn’t want to know. He sets the valentine aside and responds, “If they wanted me to know who they were, they’d have signed the valentine. I respect their decision not to reveal their identity.” It probably means the valentine is a joke, anyway.

Luke hums but doesn’t say anything. Sighing, Calum logs on and pulls up yesterday’s work.

-

Samuel L. Jackson with an eyepatch smirks at him from a pink page, surrounded by hearts.

To: Calum From: Your Secret Admirer I’ve got my eye on you.

“Seriously?” Calum says, to no one. He’d been in the bathroom not even five minutes.

“What?” Luke asks. “Did your computer crash? Mine did earlier.”

“No, there’s —” Calum unsticks the valentine from his computer and leans over the cubicle wall. “Look.”

Luke takes the valentine and reads it. He grins. “How romantic.”

“Is this another Marvel thing?” He’s pretty sure it is. He’s pretty sure Samuel L. Jackson is in the Marvel movies. “It’s a bit creepy, don’t you think?”

“I think it’s great,” Luke says. “Wish someone would give me Marvel-themed valentines.”

"So tell your boyfriend to get them for you."

Luke frowns. "My boyfriend?”

Calum pauses. "The guy who always picks you up? That's not your boyfriend?"

"Who, Michael?" Luke laughs. "No, Michael is my housemate. I don't have a boyfriend."

"Oh," Calum says, like his entire universe isn't doing elaborate skateboard tricks and throwing him out of balance. No boyfriend? This six-foot-four blueprint of a man is single?

On Valentine’s Day?

"Well,” Calum says, “Uh, you can have mine. The valentines. I don't need them."

Luke shakes his head. “No way. You’ve got an admirer, Cal! You're not even appreciating the effort they're going to to let you know they care about you! That they’ve got their eye on you.” Luke waves the valentine in Calum’s face. Glancing around conspiratorially, he whispers, “I suspect Annie.”

“It’s not fucking Annie, Luke, she doesn’t swing that way.”

“What? Seriously?”

“You didn’t know Annie’s a lesbian?”

“I…” Luke squints. “Did not.”

“Well, now you know.”

“But I maintain it’s an inside job,” Luke says firmly.

“Obviously it’s an inside job,” Calum says. He holds out a hand and Luke obligingly returns the valentine. “Again: I don’t care.”

“I can’t believe you just…don’t want to know.”

“Believe it,” Calum says. “Alright, nice talking to you. Back to my cubicle of shame now.”

“I’ll miss you terribly,” Luke laments as Calum ducks back into his own space, and Calum is glad Luke can’t see the blush that rises as he smiles.

-

To: Calum From: Your Secret Admirer Are you set to Instant Kill? Because my heart stopped when I looked at you.

The new Spider-Man stares out at him with Tom Holland’s face. Calum’s forehead hits his desk.

“You good?”

“Look at this!” Calum springs to his feet and rounds the wall to Luke’s adjacent cubicle. It’s so much homier than Calum’s own one. Pictures of people Calum assumes are Luke’s family and friends decorate the inner walls, and a framed photo of him with two young men who look uncannily like him is propped up beside his computer. Luke and his brothers, Calum figures. They’re quite a handsome family, though in Calum’s opinion Luke is far and away the most attractive of his brothers.

Luke takes the printed paper out of Calum’s hands and laughs as he reads. “That’s good,” he says. “That’s a good one.”

“I don’t fucking get it!”

“Oh, the new Spider-Man’s suit has an Instant Kill mode that—”

“No I get the joke, Luke, it’s pretty self-explanatory, I meant I don’t get why I’m being targeted.”

“Targeted? You’re being courted,” Luke says. “Someone’s heart stops when they look at you and they want you to know.”

“Nah, I don’t think so,” says Calum. “I think it’s a prank.”

“Oh, come on. Who in this office would be pranking you?”

That’s a fair question. Nobody here is really the pranking sort except…

Wait.

“You,” Calum says suddenly. “Alright, give it up. This is you, right? Having a laugh at my expense?”

“Seriously, you think I’d do that?” Luke looks hurt. “You think I would prank you into thinking you had a secret admirer? I’m not a monster.”

“Well, I don’t think anyone here is a monster,” Calum says, sighing. “Which means it’s probably not a prank. So someone here fancies me but doesn’t want me to know who they are. What the fuck am I supposed to do with this information?”

“I’m saying,” Luke says, “launch a fucking investigation! Full-scale Sherlock Holmes the shit out of everyone. Alibis, handwriting checks —”

“The signatures are typed, it wouldn’t matter—”

“— lie detector tests! I bet we have a polygraph somewhere in the building.”

“Lie detector test,” Calum repeats, grinning. “That’d be hilarious. Imagine we get everyone in a room just to ask if they’re my secret admirer.”

“I mean, whoever it is, I can’t say I blame them,” Luke says conversationally. “You’re the number one hottie in the office.”

Record scratch. “I’m what now?”

“When you rank everyone in the office,” Luke says. “By hotness. You’re number one.”

“No,” Calum says, then, “What?” He shakes his head. “What? Who’s ranking everyone in the office?”

“Me,” Luke says. “What, you think I sit here all day doing work?”

“Yes?”

“Then the capitalist pigs have gotten to you,” Luke says somberly.

“Okay, where are you on the list then?”

“I’m not on it,” Luke says. “It wouldn’t be fair. I can’t objectively rank myself.”

The very nature of ranking hotness is subjective, but Calum has bigger concerns at the moment. “Well that explains that. You’re the actual number one office hottie.”

“Not according to the official rankings,” Luke says.

“You’re bullshitting,” Calum says. “I don’t believe you actually did this.”

Luke narrows his eyes. “Why? You don’t think you’re the hottest in the office?”

“No I do not, but it’s also just…poor form to rank people like that.”

Luke sigh-groans. “Fine, you got me. I didn’t rank everyone.” He shrugs. “I put you at the top and the list ended there.”

“Alright,” Calum says, swatting his shoulder. “Enough of that. I’ve already got one secret admirer in the office, I don’t need another.”

“Hey, I’m not being secret about it,” Luke says, with a winning smile. Calum feels all his internal organs melt. “Let me know if you do decide to launch that investigation. I could be your John Watson. Or we could do Good Cop/Bad Cop! But if we do I call being the Good Cop, I’m absolutely awful at being intimidating.”

“Don’t think either of us are cut out for the police life,” Calum says wryly, “but I’ll keep it in mind, thanks.” He accepts the valentine when Luke returns it to him. “How soon is lunch?”

“Half an hour.”

Ugh. “Alright,” Calum says, dragging his feet until he’s back in his own seat.

The valentine — or more accurately, Tom Holland’s grave expression — stares at him. Calum stacks it on top of the others and rolls his chair in, thinking about Luke calling him the hottest in the office without a trace of insincerity.

-

Every Monday is the same routine: Calum and Luke get lunch from the Einstein Bros. Bagels in the lobby, and then bring it back upstairs to eat together in the office kitchen. Luke always insists he won’t make a mess this time, and Calum snags extra napkins for when he inevitably does. It’s truly remarkable, how Luke manages to get cream cheese on every available surface.

Lunch with Luke is Calum’s favorite part of every day, but he likes Bagel Mondays the most.

“I was thinking,” Calum says.

“Always a dangerous endeavor, but go on.”

Calum gives Luke a look. “Listen, okay. I was thinking. Not that I care or want to know or anything, but I’m starting to think Cam is behind these valentines.”

Luke hoots triumphantly. “You so wanna know! I knew you’d cave.”

“I don’t—!”

“It’s okay, Calum, there’s nothing to be ashamed about.”

“I’m not ashamed, I just don’t want to know!”

“Ah, shut up, of course you do,” Luke says, waving him off. “So…Cam?” He casts a look around as if Cam will have materialized in the kitchen in the last fifteen seconds.

“Well, okay, her cubicle is close to mine, so, proximity,” Calum says, holding up a finger. This is so stupid, but whatever. “And she would be able to see when I get up to go to the bathroom and could move quickly.” Luke nods. “Second, I know she’s interested in men, which…is not true of most of this office, so the suspect pool is already pretty narrow to begin with.” Another nod. “And third, I know she’s single, which, again, many people in the existing suspect pool are not.”

Those are all circumstantial reasons,” Luke says. He rolls his eyes. “What about, you know…she likes you?”

“But how could she like me? We barely talk outside of work reasons. I barely talk to any of these guys outside of work things apart from you.” A realization strikes. “Wait a second. Wait. Your cubicle is right next to mine! You must have seen someone putting these on my computer.”

Luke blinks. “Nope,” he says. “I didn’t see anyone.”

“You know who it is,” Calum accuses him. “You’ve known this whole time!”

“Hey! That’s a big accusation.”

“I can’t believe you’ve just been lying to me,” Calum huffs. “Trying to throw me off the scent by suggesting Annie? I bet you even knew she was a lesbian.”

Luke laughs. “I promise you I did not. And I didn’t see anyone putting these on your desk, and I’m not lying. What, you don’t trust me?”

Calum stares, but Luke stares back, unflinching. Eventually Calum yields. “Alright. Fine. You’re not lying. They’re just very stealthy.”

“Maybe it is Cam,” Luke says thoughtfully. “I bet she has a crush on you, anyway. She’s always seeing what you’re doing.”

“You’re so full of it.”

“It’s because you’re the hottest! Hottest in the office, I am telling you.”

“No, stop it, and I’m pretty sure we agreed you’re the hottest in the office.”

“I would never have agreed to that.”

“Because you’re biased.”

“Um, I’m pretty sure you’re the biased one, Calum Thomas.”

“Um, I’m pretty sure you are, Lucas Robert.”

“Name’s not Lucas.”

“Well, it should’ve been.”

“Well,” Luke says, leaning across the table, speaking in a voice that’s so low it’s almost a whisper, “your mum.”

Calum laughs over his heart making a car-crash noise. Complete with meowing cat and clattering objects of questionable origin.

“I win,” Luke says, springing to his feet. “Back to work! Will you throw this stuff out? Thanks, you're the best, see you on the floor, soldier!”

And he’s gone before Calum can even agree.

Calum gathers all the trash and tosses it in the bin as he heads out. He approaches his desk with a sense of dread. They’ve spent all of lunch stowed away in the kitchen; something tells him that will have been plenty of time for the secret admirer to make their next move.

Sure enough, taped to his computer is a valentine with a picture of what Calum is pretty sure is Thor’s hammer.

To: Calum From: Your Secret Admirer Are you Thor? Because I’m only attracted to you and Captain America.

This time he laughs. Luke pops up before Calum can even summon his presence.

“Did you get another one?”

Calum hands him the latest valentine, and Luke giggles. “That’s a good one. This one’s my favorite so far.”

Calum inclines his head. “You know what? I have to admit, they’re growing on me.” He pauses. “Okay, I’m a little curious now.”

“Oh, now you’re curious.”

“I’m going to solve this,” Calum decides. He takes the valentine back and takes his seat, examining it as if maybe the secret admirer will have left some clue in the way it’s been cut.

Luke peers down at him. “Good luck,” he says. “Let me know if you need my help. I’ve seen every episode of BBC’s Sherlock and I watched the RDJ film, so I’m basically a pro.”

Calum chuckles. “Noted, thanks. I’ll call on you if I need a second opinion.”

Luke gives him a salute and then disappears into his own cubicle, presumably to draw up a ranking list for ‘Most Likely To Be Calum’s Secret Admirer.’ Left to his own devices at last, Calum leans back in his chair, closes his eyes, and runs over all the evidence.

It’s almost embarrassing how quickly the answer jumps out at him.

-

If he were a more mean-spirited person, he’d stage an exit to catch the perpetrator in the act, but he doesn’t want to publicly humiliate them, so unfortunately that’s out of the question. Instead he just quietly mulls over the epiphany, arguing and counter-arguing with himself. On the one hand, there’s no way it’s who Calum thinks it is. On the other hand, there’s no way it’s not.

Five minutes to five, Luke knocks on their shared wall.

“Yes?”

Calum spins his chair and sees Luke roll into his line of sight. “Well?” he says. “Did you figure it out?”

“Oh yes,” Calum says with a self-assured nod. “Once I set my mind to it, I figured it out very quickly. I mean, it’s fairly obvious when you consider all the evidence.”

Luke waits. When Calum doesn’t continue, he says, “And? Who is it?”

Straightening up, Calum says, “It’s Cam. I’m sure of it. I don’t see how it could be anyone else.”

Luke blinks at him. “Really? You’re sure?”

“Positive.” He glances around and then rolls his way closer to Luke. “You think I should ask her out? She’s clearly kind of shy.”

Luke looks conflicted. “Um…do you like her?”

Calum hums. “Well, see, that’s the problem. I’ve actually got my eye on someone else.” He raises an eyebrow at Luke. “Any guesses who?”

Luke crosses his arms as a grin slowly forms on his face. “Using my elite Sherlock Holmes-esque powers of deduction, I have one guess.”

“I know it’s not Cam, you idiot,” Calum says, fondly shaking his head.

“Oh thank God,” Luke says. “‘Cause no offense to her, but I am not having her taking credit for my very hard work.”

“But here’s what I don’t understand,” Calum says. “Why would you continue to give me Marvel-themed valentines after you knew I don’t watch those movies?”

Luke laughs. “Cal, I already knew you weren’t a Marvel fan. But I am.”

Pause. Gears turning. Reasoning becoming clear. “You devious little shit,” Calum says. He gets to his feet and pushes his chair back in. “You gave me valentines knowing I wouldn’t appreciate them just so I’d bring them to you?”

“I’m an evil mastermind,” Luke says, spreading his arms. “And I’m proud.”

“You did throw me off the scent, I’ll admit,” Calum says. “When you said you didn’t do it and you didn’t know who did.”

“Ah-ah-ah, I said I didn’t see anyone put them on your desk. Which was true.” Luke also stands to return his chair to its position. “And I said I wouldn’t prank you with them, which was also true. None of this was a prank.”

“I mean, it was a little bit of a prank.”

“Nope. One hundred percent genuine.”

“It had elements of a prank,” Calum says. “The deception, the scheming…”

“It wasn’t a prank!”

Calum sighs and smiles at the same time, a feat he’s mastered since meeting Luke. He takes the stack of valentines and flips through it. “So you mean all of this? I make your heart stop? You’ve got your eye on me? You’d trust me with your heart? You’re attracted to me?”

“And Steve Rogers,” Luke says, straight-faced. He nods. “But yes. All true.”

“Then I have a very important question to ask you,” Calum says, pocketing Luke’s valentines. Luke tilts his head as if to say hit me. “Will you, Lucas Robert Hemmings, be my Valentine?”

Luke beams. “Calum Thomas Hood, it would be an honor.”

It’s the first Valentine’s Day Calum hasn’t absolutely hated, but he has an optimistic feeling that it won’t be the last.

#calum hood #luke hemmings #cake #cake fic #5sos #5sos fic #fic #my fic #finding a title for this took me almost an entire hour GOOD fucking lord #i HATE titling prompt fics #especially because i couldnt find a good lyric from yknow the 5sos SONG called valentine #i tried guys #i really did #anyway molly here you go #it's still vday for another half hour so #i hope you appreciate this

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Disorganized Thoughts on Sex Education Season 3

I binge watched the entirety of season 3 on Friday, and after sitting with it for a couple days, I have composed myself enough to offer some thoroughly disorganized thoughts on what I’ve seen. 

     While I did enjoy many things about this season, I don’t understand the people who claim it was the strongest. In fact, I believe that it was the weakest. I don’t know what exactly happened during the delay, but I swear they have to have lost staff. Writers, perhaps editors? Whoever usually reins things in a bit, keeps the show grounded, and everyone in character. Whoever had that job, they’re either gone, or they’ve just stopped giving a fuck which, while relatable, is unfortunate in regards to this show. Now what do I mean by that? Let me elaborate:

1. This season was gross. And I don’t mean in general, like I didn’t like it. No, I mean that the writers decided that being sexually explicit wasn’t funny enough and decided to add just a fuck-ton of fart jokes and toilet humor. And I get it, okay? This show prides itself on being crass. But you can be crass without being disgusting. I acknowledge that this comes entirely down to personal preference, but I can’t stand toilet humor and I feel like this season really ramped it up. Every episode was someone farting or talking about shit, or that god forsaken thrice cursed bus scene. Sex doesn’t gross me out, talk about sex all fucking day I don’t care, but I don’t need to watch an extended scene of someone digging their own shit out of a bus toilet in a sock and chucking it out the window onto someone’s car. And even just smaller things, like Aimee talking about the flour constipating her or her taking a massive shit in Jean’s toilet when she and Maureen were there. Those scenes weren’t necessary for the plot in any way, which leads me to believe they were just there because someone thought they were funny and if that’s you’re thing go off, but it most definitely isn’t mine. 

2. Ruby and Otis. And more importantly, what was the point of Ruby and Otis? Now don’t get me wrong, I like Ruby as a character and I found their relationship interesting. And I think that it would have been even more interesting if the writers had devoted more time to properly developing it- Ruby was getting better as a person but she wasn’t there yet. I liked it once Otis started standing up for himself more, and demanding respect in the relationship and as she started to actually care for him she did come to treat him more respectfully. I think with more time they could have been really good. But they didn’t get that time- she said she loved him and they didn’t even work through that fiasco before he was kissing Maeve at a gas station. Overall it had a lot of potential but the way they played it left me just sitting here like...why? Like from a narrative standpoint what was even the purpose? Because from where I’m sitting it really only served as yet another roadblock standing between Otis and Maeve and even though I shipped them like CRAZY in season 1 and 2 the constant unnecessary roadblocks are getting a little old. Which leads me to my next point...

3. Why was Maeve and Otis so unsatisfying? That’s not actually a rhetorical question, I can tell you: Because the writers put so little effort into what is supposed to be the main couple on the show. I feel like they put more effort into keeping them apart and then when it comes time to put them together they’re just kind of like NOW KISS, they only talk like once after and then they ship Maeve off to America. Now I’ve heard rumors that Emma Mackey might not want to return to the show for season 4 so if I had to guess at all of this I would say that both this point and the last was a sloppy attempt to cover their asses in the event that they can’t get her to sign back on. If she does return, they can explore the relationship between her and Otis in season 4. If she doesn’t, they’re probably going to put him back with Ruby. But they couldn’t just write her off without at least touching on the relationship they spent the past 2 seasons building, even though Otis and Maeve barely interact in this season, which is frankly another reason why it felt so shoddy. They spent exponentially more time talking to other people and then half the time when Otis was talking to her he was super cringe. 

     Overall, despite loving their relationship initially, the characters have changed so much from their original dynamic, and have interacted so little, that I really don’t even know what’s pulling these characters together. It’s disappointing to admit that I’m kind of over it but honestly even the writers don’t feel invested. it kind of feels like they put them together because the audience expected it and after 3 seasons of anticipation the payoff was generally underwhelming. 

4. Otis. Just...Otis. I understand that Otis was introduced as being a very nice helpful character in season one. He was the quintessential good guy. And then in season 2 he got to explore being a douche for a bit- which is fine. He is a teenager and he was going through some shit. But I really felt that by the end of season 2 he should have resolved that particular plot point. And he was a little better in season 3 I guess? But he didn’t really progress until the end of this season and from a writing standpoint I feel like they really dragged that out for too long. 

5. What’s with this show and it’s hard on for cheating? Like seriously, why does almost every relationship have some kind of infidelity. Like, were Otis and Ruby officially broken up when he kissed Maeve? Maeve certainly hadn’t broken up with Isaac, and this was almost directly on the heels of their very emotional sex scene. There was the issue with Jean and Jakob last season, and Eric cheating on Rahim with Adam. And then Eric (for some reason) cheating on Adam this season with random Nigerian dude whose name I can’t remember. Just...why is this a thing? 

     But also can we just talk about how weird the break up was? And out of left field? Like they literally spent the whole season developing their relationship, and then they get to Nigeria and after hiding the whole time he is subtly able to talk about Adam to his grandmother. And he sounds so proud, and so nice when he’s doing so, and not at all like he’s planning to end this wonderful relationship he’s describing. And then when he gets back, guilty after cheating on said boyfriend (like he should be) he asks Adam, seemingly as a test, if he would go out to a club with him. And Adam says no because that isn’t his scene and like...Eric knows that isn’t his scene. But at the same time, I feel like if Eric had sat him down and been like “You don’t have to wear makeup or dress outlandishly, just come to the club with me because it’s important to me” I really think Adam would have gone. And if the clothes and make-up were a dealbreaker like...why? You know who you’re dating. And while wanting him to tell his mom isn’t an overwhelmingly outrageous request, when you start getting into his physical appearance then that’s just actually trying to change him as a person and that’s just a really shitty thing to do. 

6. I promise there will be some positives in this list at some point but before that...what the fuck Eric? Like, I understand that Eric wants to get out there and explore his options, find someone more comfortable doing the things that he wants to go do. That’s realistic I guess, your high school relationships don’t work out and just because Adam came out for him he still isn’t obligated to stay in a relationship with him. But from a fictional narrative standpoint? What the fuck is this? Adam and Eric were one of the most popular ships on the show. They have been foreshadowed since season one, and had so so much effort put into developing them both as characters. Adam has come such a long way. They have brought him so far out of him comfort zone that Adam in season 3 is almost a completely different person to Adam in season 1. They spent so much of this season further developing the relationship they established last season, and for what? To break them up at the very end? WHY? 

7. Following on the heels of point 6, Aimee and Steve. They didn’t need to break up. I understand the direction the writers were taking this- Aimee wants to be single for a while to fully process her trauma and get to know her own body again. And that’s valid. I just don’t like it because I very strongly suspect that she will have a new love interest next season and that all her stuff about being single isn’t going to be shown. It will all happen off screen during whatever time skip they employ between seasons and then they’re going to use the fact that she is single to introduce a new more dramatic love interest for her since golden retriever boy Steve wasn’t interesting enough for them. Maybe that’s just me being cynical but if anyone can come out of season 3 NOT feeling a little cynical it would probably be a miracle. 

8. A positive! Finally a positive! I love the relationship between Adam and Rahim. Do I want them to date? Not particularly. I wouldn’t be mad if it happens, but I really just like them as like awkward begrudging friends. Some of my favorite scenes this season were the interactions between the two of them (Once again, the disgusting bus ride notwithstanding) I like Rahim a lot more when he isn’t interrupting my ship (which is a habit of mine. I liked Ola a lot more once she broke up with Otis) 

9. I don’t think Viv was out of character. Some people have been saying that she was, but I don’t think so. She has always been ambitious and even Jackson understand that about her in the show. And even when she was working for Hope and carrying out her rules, she was never an antagonist because she never gave up her personal morals to do it. For example, when Hope had them divided into boy and girl lines, Jackson asked her where Cal should go. She told him that boys went to the left and girls went to the right but as soon as Cal was like “Im not a boy or a girl,” Viv was immediately like, “ Oh! Right! Let me ask Hope.” She approached the situation in a way that made it clear that she recognized this issue as a legitimate problem and when she went to Hope it wasn’t framed like “This person is being an issue refusing to choose,” but instead like “We didn’t account for this possibility, that was our bad. How should we fix it?” Later on, on the class trip, Viv even lied to Hope and told her everything was fine because she didn’t want to get anyone in trouble. Viv took the opportunities presented to her, but I never interpreted it as her being an antagonist in any way. 

10. I love that Viv and Jackson remained friends, and I love that Viv has her sexy long-distance boyfriend who sexts about wheat XD Her sexting was one of my favorite scenes- well written, laugh out loud hilarious. No complaints. Sexy boyfriend was indeed very sexy and honestly, Viv absolutely deserves him. 

11. Mr. Groff better apologize to Adam next season, or at the very least have any kind of fucking conversation with his son at all or else why the fuck did I watch SO MANY scenes developing him as a sympathetic character? They could have spent that time developing ANYONE, but instead we were focused on him so like...I’m going to need some kind of payoff. Make it relevant

12. I want more bonding scenes between Adam and Maureen. I love Maureen- I love her friendship with Jean and I love how she always chooses her son over  her estranged husband (as she should) I especially love her very loving and supportive relationship with Adam, even though Adam is terrible at communication. It’s a self indulgent wish, I’d just like to see more. 

13. Isaac. I made many posts after the season 2 release, about how much I despised Isaac. Unlike Ola, I find that I didn’t have a complete change of heart but I don’t hate him AS MUCH as I did before. I still don’t like him though and while you might think “Yeah but you hate anyone who stands in the way of Otis and Maeve” no. This is historically accurate and yet, this season? Not true. For example, I don’t hate Ruby. Do I think her inclusion in the story was handled poorly in a way that made the entire plot point unnecessary? Yes I do. I also feel that way about Isaac, but less so because I feel like the relationship between him and Maeve deepening was better foreshadowed and was kind of the natural conclusion given the events of the previous season. As a character though, I still don’t really like him, and after 2 seasons of him I don’t think it has anything to do with him interfering with Maeve’s relationship with Otis- I just legitimately don’t like him. And I don’t like him with Maeve. I think the biggest irritant this season was the way that, after confessing about deleting the message he was like “yeah I fucked up but only because I like you so much, just forgive me” And then at one point I believe I remember Maeve apologizing to him for her reaction to everything. But then when he found out that she kissed Otis (admittedly a shitty thing to do) he got so mad and like, held a fucking grudge about it. And I get it, he has a right to be mad, but also boy you were the one groveling like 2 episodes ago get over yourself. They both fucked up in different ways but he acts like he has the moral high ground all the time and it gets really annoying. I don’t know, maybe I’m letting my general dislike of the character color my perception of events, but this show has managed to change my opinion on characters before but it still hasn’t made me like him so I think it’s just not going to. 

14. What the hell were they trying to do with Hope? Like legitimately, what? Because I can’t quite figure it out. And that’s mostly because I feel like they were trying to make her a nuanced and sympathetic villain, but they broke a cardinal rule- To make a villain sympathetic you must also ensure that nothing they do is inherently irredeemable. For example, principal Groff. He was a grade A dick for the past 2 seasons but I still feel that, now that we have a sympathetic backstory, if handled properly he could still come back from this. He can see the error of his ways and if he works really really hard to make amends to his family he could perhaps have his character turned around. In Hope’s case however, I would argue that they did makes her nuanced, but failed to make her sympathetic because as a character she went too far. If they had stuck to her just being a general tyrant of a headmaster - enforcing strict rules and regulations but doing so out of insurmountable pressure from her own bosses -  and then softened us towards the character by showing us her willingness to help Maeve get a scholarship, her troubled marriage, and her inability to conceive, it could have worked. The trouble is when they brought in her racism and general bigotry. Those weren’t flaws brought on by stress, those were deeply rooted character flaws that the character isn’t going to overcome because by the end of the season the character hasn’t even admitted them to herself. The issues were addressed by others, but not by Hope herself, leaving me to believe that the character herself still views them as a nonissue. I would be very surprised if she even appears in season 4 and moreso if they manage to even half-way redeem her. I’m relatively certain we won’t see her again, which makes me question the effort put into her character development. 

15. I like Jakob as a character, I don’t like him as a love interest for Jean, but I LOVE him as a father figure for Otis. It’s very conflicting because I want him to stay in Otis’s life, but I don’t like him as a romantic interest for Jean. also it’s pretty clear he isn’t Joy’s father so that’s going to be an awkward fucking conversation. If she even tells him. The way the show is going I kind of feel like she won’t, or will at least put it off for as long as possible. 

16. I want more interaction between Otis and Jean. Positive interaction, not just her being intrusive or Otis being a little bitch. I like their mother-son dynamic when they’re getting along so I just generally want more of it. 

17. Adam. Adam has become my favorite character in this show and I just generally want more of him and his relationships with others. I love his relationship with his mother but I want more if him and Emily, and him and Ola and now him and Ruby. I want to see him and Ruby discussing the Kardashians. I want him to train Madam and enter her in more competitions and just ultimately grow his social circle. Get all the love and support for god’s sake this boy needs it. 

Im sure there are plenty of things I’m forgetting and you can ask me about them if you like but for now it’s late and I’m tired. 

#sex education season 3 #sex education season 3 spoilers #sex education #otis milburn #eric effiong #adam groff #jean milburn #maeve wiley #Aimee #I don't know Aimee's last name #My bad

[maxineswritingcenter]

You Saved Me - Derek Hale x fem!reader part 25

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2005

It was the semi-finales for girl’s lacrosse. Miraculously, I was made captain as a freshman. Which meant, for some reason, people were offended and thought that I should be picked on more. Fact of the matter is that lacrosse is a game of strategy. Together; with the help of my teammates, we would play to win. Being captain wasn’t a choice, Finstock made me captain and the role was a big shoe to fill. But here we are, semi-finales.

As we made our way out to the play, I looked at the stands. Mom, Dad, Uncle Noah, Stiles, Scott on one end. Laura and Derek on the other side. 

There were fifteen minutes left in the game, the score was tied. We needed to make one more goal to win and get to the finales. For this next play, I was face to face with the other team captain, waiting for the pearl to be thrown. 

“You don’t deserve to be captain.” The girl glared, her eyes looked like they wanted to melt through my helmet and into my brain. 

“Excuse me?” 

“You heard me. I worked my ass off for four years to be captain. What makes you so special?” 

I blinked at her, a little confused as to where this hostility was coming from, “I’m just playing a game.” 

“A real captain knows the lacrosse is more than a game.” She smirked, “When we win this, I’m getting a scholarship to So Cal, so why don’t you just do what freshman do best and lose.” On one hand I felt bad for her. She probably had parents that pushed and pushed for her to be the best. And I also felt bad because I knew we were gonna win.

The ref blew the whistle starting play. And everything was going according to plan. That was until I was passed the pearl. I ran with it, tossing it to another player. Meaning that it was completely unnecessary for me to be tackled and would be considered aggressive. But that didn’t stop the other captain from using her entire body to slam me into the ground. One minute I was standing and the next I had was on the ground. My chest felt tight, like I was straining to breathe. When I opened my eyes, I saw her face over mine, smirking down at me. 

“HEY!” I heard Finstock’s booming voice, “Ref! Aren’t you gonna call that?!” No whistle, either the ref hadn’t seen it or he was allowing it. But Derek wasn’t allowing it. I heard multiple shouts and then watched the player who stood above me get shoved away, Derek replaced her. He knelt down, placing a hand on my shoulder. 

“Derek, what are you doing?” I groaned. 

“Can you get up?” He asked, trying to help me sit up. I hissed at the movement. 

Derek turned back to the bench, “Get a medic!” And only then did the whistle blow. The girl had given plenty of excuses, but they still gave her team a three minute penalty that made them lose the game. Looks like I had been right. 

I was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a concussion but I would be fine just in time for the finales. The whole time in the waiting room, in the room itself, and even when we got home, Derek had been right beside me, holding my hand.

- 

I had grown to hate hospitals and everything about them since the last time I had been to one I had been stabbed. The gowns with the open backs that were way too open to the public. That smell that was a cross between cleaner and the latex and rubber of gloves. The beds that were as hard as a rock and were covered in paper that would crinkle and make noise even if you weren't moving. That apprehensiveness that would build up in your stomach every time you heard footsteps coming down the hallway.

Thankfully, I didn't have to go through any of that. Since I was a pregnant werewolf, going to the hospital in Beacon Hills was a definite no-no, so the next best option is Dr. Deaton, a veterinarian and a makeshift supernatural doctor. Not to mention a full blown druid in this day and age. But from what I've learned in the past couple years, old magic was very much alive. 

I was sitting on the metal table used for the animals, swinging my legs back and forth, waiting for Deaton to come back from getting my medical records emailed to him by Melissa. He could have gotten them himself, he just figured it would be less illegal if he got them from a nurse. 

Thoughts were racing through my head for no rhyme or reason. Since I became a werewolf, every scar or scratch on my body had become only a memory. My stab wound, the acid burns on my legs, the cuts on my face from being tortured all those months ago which really felt more like a lifetime. It had been a different life, a life fabricated through magic and spells. A life that almost didn't feel like mine anymore.

"Sorry, for the wait, (Y/N)." Deaton walked into the room, his eyes scanning over the stack of papers in his hands.

"You're alright, Doc." I smiled, leaning back on my hands, "So how am I looking?"

“Very pregnant.”

"Nothing gets past you, huh?” I smirked. To be fair, I was approaching the three and a half month mark. Deaton smiled, taking my vitals and a vial of blood. 

“So I’ve been made aware that Mr. Hale is the father.” He said, pressing a cotton ball to my skin after removing the needle, “How's that going?"

“About as well as you can imagine.” 

“So not at all?” He asked. I nodded, shrugging my shoulders. 

"Everything looks normal," He smiled as he wrote everything down on his clipboard, "Just need to get a look at the little guy." He looked up, "You said it was a boy, right?" He asked, moving over to get the sonographer that I’m sure had never been used on a human before.

“Unless the baby’s sprouting a third arm. That'd be cool." I smiled, “But yeah, that’s what the ultrasound tech in Scotland said.”

He chuckled and shook his head, "Alright, lay back and lift your shirt up." I laid back on the table, lifting my shirt up. The jelly he put on my stomach was cold and reminded me of the goo that had encased Jackson when he was a lizard person. He moved the sensor over my stomach and looked into the monitor. Ultrasounds were usually a little hard to see anyway, just like a fancy warschak paintings. And the fetus? Kinda like a funky jellybean.

“There we are.” He grinned, “Little werewolf.”

Craning my neck, I looked up at him, "You can tell he's a werewolf?"

"No.” He took the monitor off, handing me a paper towel so I could wipe off my stomach, “But odds are since his parents are both werewolves, it would make sense that the child would be also. However, you had the dormant gene, maybe your child will too." He turned off the sonographer.

“Have any names picked out?”

"I have a few... I liked Jacob, which Derek hated because it was too ‘Twilight’. Then there's one other but I don't know about it." The name that Derek loved more than anything for some reason, "Nicholas." And damn was it good. 

"What about Nicholas Jacob? Just use both of them." 

"Or I could name him after Stiles" I smirked to myself, "Mieczyslaw Nicholas.”

"Maybe that would be a little too much."

“Stiles is a little too much.” I smiled to myself

-

"So Nicholas?" Sheriff looked at me from across the table, a cup of coffee in his hand. I hummed and nodded, sipping my hot cocoa.

"Nicholas?” He asked again.

"Mieczyslaw?" I raised my eyebrows at him.

He raised his eyebrows, "It was his mother's father's name." 

“I remember Grandpa Mitch, trust me." I smiled, holding my mug in both hands, “I was thinking maybe Nicholas Noah.” I avoided looking in his eyes. Emotional talks were never really his strong suit, especially after Aunt Claudia. I wanted to honor him somehow.

He smiled, blinking a few times, “Sounds pretty good to me.” After a moment he asked: "What are you going to do now?"

I finished my drink and stood up to put it in the sink, "My plan, right now at least, is that I'm going to stay here to have the baby... Then...” I washed out the mug, “Then I'm not sure. I don't know if I want to go back to Scotland or stay here." He stood up as well and pulled me into his arms for a tight hug. I wrapped my arms around him, blinking my own tears away. 

Uncle Noah stroked my hair and kissed the top of my head, "Whatever your decision, I'll be there for you. Whenever you need me. I'll always, always be there for you." 

-

My pajamas had taken a turn for the worst. No more t-shirts and shorts, it’s moo moos and nightgowns from now on. I pulled my night gown over my head, smoothing out the skirt. Did I look like I had raided a grandmother’s closet? Absolutely. I looked down at my stomach, rubbing my hand over my bump.

"Are you a little alien?" I smiled after a moment, listening deeply to his little heartbeat, “Nice.” I glanced over at my desk, then pulled back my blankets to get into bed. I stopped, my head snapping back towards the window where there were red eyes staring back at me. 

 Now, if this was two years ago I would be losing my mind over the fact that there were red eyes staring at me. But since I've gone through emotional Hell, I was feeling rather annoyed by some alpha that just thought they could mosey around my house, around my window, and around my goddamn personal space. I stalked over to the window and slammed it open. 

"Listen, pal, you have about five seconds to get out my yard or I swear by all that is damnable, I will put you through so much pain that your great-grandchildren will be sore."

The eyes came closer, revealing a familiar crooked jaw, "Nice to see you too." 

"You could have just come through the front door, ya know? If Stiles can make a spare key to your house, then he can make you one for his." Scott only looked at me seriously. It was like the kid from three months ago was gone and all there was left was a battle hardened man. 

"Can I please come in?" I stepped away from the window, watching him crawl inside and stand up.

"I've been great, Scott, I've only been in Scotland for months, crying and wondering why none of my friends or family were contacting me. How have you been?" Was it petty? Absolutely, but the hormones were raging. Even if Derek told everyone to stop talking to me, what hold did he have over anyone when Scott was around?

"I'm sorry about that, I really am. But I came to-"

I cut him off, after finally connecting, "Who did you kill?"

“What?”

"To become an alpha, who did you take it from?" 

"I didn't kill anyone!” He said in an exasperated voice, “Why does everyone ask that? Not killing people has been my thing since Peter bit me." He ran his hand through his shorter hair, it suit him.

It then dawned on me. The one thing that had little to no documentation of. Even the Lunar Circle had just the basics. It was the stuff of legend, a hear say. I didn't think it was possible. 

"A true alpha." He stared at me for a second and blinked a couple times.

"You're a true alpha." I grinned, "Oh my god, Scott, this is unbelievable." I grabbed his shoulders and gave them a slight squeeze, "Tell me everything. I wanna know how it happened and what situation you were in. How were you feeling? Were you hurt? Was your body under so much stress that it just happened?”

Scott grabbed my hands and placed them by my sides, "(Y/N), maybe another time I came here for a reason."

"Oh, right, of course." Probably looking ridiculous, “What’s on your mind?”  

"I really don't think it's safe for you here." 

"Here we go agai-" 

"Will you just listen to me before you start whining?" He growled. That certainly shut me up. I raised my eyebrows at him, but I guess I should hear him out. I motioned for him to continue.

"I'm not so much worried about you.” He said, “I know you can take care of yourself. I'm worried about..." He paused, "Uh..." 

“Nicholas.”

"Yeah, I'm worried about Nicholas." He sat in my computer chair and leaned forward, "The pack we're facing don't care who they kill or why, all they want is to hurt us. You're my friend, (Y/N). I don't want anything to happen to you. And I don't want anything to happen to your kid. Please." He rolled forward and took my hands in his, "Please, go back to Scotland. I promise you, you won't be in the dark. You don't deserve to be left out. I'll call myself, and if not me, Stiles will. It's not safe for you.” I looked down, gnawing on my lip. Scott was right, he was completely right. It wasn't safe. I couldn't be a tough alpha when I had so much to live for. Keeping this kid safe is my top priority. As much as I wanted to stay home, it wasn’t safe.

"You'll tell me when it's safe to come back?" 

"You have my word." 

I sighed, looking up at him with a half-smile, "I may be stubborn as hell, but that doesn't mean I can't admit when someone's right. And you're right, Scott. I'll go." 

He closed his eyes, like a huge weight had been lifted off his shoulders. He dropped my hands and rolled back, "I'm so glad you agreed with my first speech, if you hadn't I would have been improvising for my life." He chuckled.

Shaking my head, I grinned at him, “It’s good to see you again.” 

“It’s good to see you too.”

- 

"So you're going back?" Uncle Noah looked over his coffee with tired eyes, spying my luggage that had only been unpacked for two days. It was a new day and another plane ride.

"It's not safe for me. It's not safe for any of you." I rested my head on his shoulder, "But I know that will never stop you from helping the ones you care about." 

A small smile pulled at his lips, "You're way too good at reading me." 

"Well, I've only known you my whole life." 

He set down his coffee and hugged me tight, like this was the last time he would see me. I know he was worried about me and Stiles, it was in his nature. This was the best option for me. As much as I wanted to stay and fight. I couldn't fight if my child was kidnapped and hell knows what would happen to him. 

Giving him one last squeeze, I pulled away, the honking outside meant that Stiles had pulled in and was ready to drop me off at the airport. 

"I'll call you when I land. Or text you. Depends on the time." I kissed his cheek, "Bye Uncle Noah." 

“Goodbye, sweetheart. Stay safe." I kissed his cheek. My head held high, I grabbed my bag and my rolling luggage and went out the door. Stiles grabbed my bags, opening the back of Roscoe to throw my luggage in. That was until a familiar black Camero pulled into the driveway, blocking Stiles in. 

"God. Dammit." I muttered to myself. My life was just going swell, wasn't it? I looked down at my stomach and sighed. I felt the burn of acid reflux in my throat, my child showing obvious discomfort as well. Me too, little man. Me too. 

There was no way around it, I couldn’t leave without talking with him. Not that I should have to begin with. I sucked. 

Derek got out of the car, coming around quickly and standing in front of me. 

“Derek, I don’t think you should be here.” Stiles stepped forward. Very sweet, but realistically Stiles wouldn’t be able to do a damn thing against Derek. They stared each other down, the air just filled with masculinity.

“Stiles...” I said, grabbing my bags, “If he wants to take me to the airport, let him.” 

Stiles eyes widened, “You’re really giving him the time of day? Really?” 

Sighing, I pulled Stiles into my arms and hugged him tightly. He hesitated, but hugged me back. 

“I know that this seems like a bad idea, and most of my ideas are bad, but I got this. Trust me.” I smiled and kissed his cheek, “I love you.” He pulled away, looking between Derek and I. 

“I love you too. Scott and I will let you know when it’s safe to come back.”

“You better.” I turned back to Derek, trying to keep up the attitude I had to keep Stiles at ease. I held out my bags. He took them without a word and we both started the trip to the airport. It was hard to get a read on him at the moment. He emotions were dull, nothing that stood out. He still looked as tense as ever. His brows were knitted together and his piercing green eyes looked hard. 

“So...” He said after a while, “What are you going to do about...” He trailed off. 

“Him?” I looked down at my stomach, “I’m just preparing and getting ready for him. I picked a name too. Nicholas.” 

A small smile pulled at his lips, but he hid it, “Hmm.” 

“Derek....” Now or never, “I just need to know why?” 

He inhaled deeply, “I wish I could tell you. I don’t even remember it happening. Like I was under a spell and I couldn’t break out of it.” So he had experienced what I had when I was under Matt’s control. In this situation, in Beacon Hills, there was no reason not to believe him. His heart told me it was true. 

“I’m sorry that I hit you.” 

“I don’t blame you.” He glanced over at me, “If I felt the same thing you did, I would probably lose control too.” 

“I’m tired of people taking advantage of you. If I see that bitch-” I hadn’t realized that my eyes had turned red. 

“(Y/N)...” He reached over his right hand, placing it on my knee, “Calm down.” I took a deep breath and leaned back against the seat, closing my eyes. Just the simplest touch could calm me down and it was something that I missed. 

“Nicholas, huh? I like it.”

Happiness welled up in my chest, “I sure hope so since you picked it.” 

“I didn’t think you liked it.” 

I sat back up and opened my eyes, “What are you talking about? I’ve always liked that name.”

“Riiiiight.” 

By the time the conversation ended, we were at the airport. I reached for the handle to open the door when he reached over to stop me. 

“I let you leave alone last time, I’m walking you in."

We got inside and checked in, the only thing left was for me to board. Maybe it was a good thing that he didn't take me to the airport last time, because now that he was here, I didn't want to leave him.

"How selfish would it be for me to ask you to drop your life here and come with me?" I leaned on his arm.

"Very. Trust me, the thought crossed my mind. I'm needed here. I have to be here for Cora."

I smiled slightly, "We're gonna get through this. Soon we'll be together again and we can have that big happy family that you deserve. That we deserve."

Derek sighed, resting his head on top of mine, "Is it cliche to hope that this all ends tomorrow?" 

My smile faltered, "Don't believe in miracles, Derek."

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Waitress - Broadway (Previews)

March 30, 2016 | SunsetBlvd79’s master Format: VOB, with smalls

Cast: Jessie Mueller (Jenna), Keala Settle (Becky), Kimiko Glenn (Dawn), Drew Gehling (Dr Pomatter), Nick Cordero (Earl), Dakin Matthews (Joe), Eric Anderson (Cal), Christopher Fitzgerald (Ogie) Notes: Beautiful capture of this stunning Broadway transfer. This is the performance where the set broke and Sara Bareilles came out while it was being fixed. She sang (a cut song from the show and Part of Your World) and talked with the audience, which is included. A

Waitress - Broadway

June 14, 2016 | SJ Bernly’s master Format: VOB + smalls

Cast: Jessie Mueller (Jenna), Keala Settle (Becky), Kimiko Glenn (Dawn), Drew Gehling (Dr. Pomatter), Christopher Fitzgerald (Ogie), Eric Anderson (Cal), Dakin Matthews (Joe), Nick Cordero (Earl) Notes: Fantastic performances from the entire original cast. Jessie’s voice fits beautifully with the score, and she gives a gut-wrenching performance of She Used to Be Mine. Drew, Kimiko, Keala, and Christopher are each hilarious and endearing. Nicely captured with just a few quick dropouts and no major blackouts. There is one head on the left that can occasionally be seen, but it never blocks the action. There is some slight washout in some of the wider shots. It’s filmed in 16:9, with a mix of wides, mediums, and close-ups. The sound is excellent. Includes curtain call and playbill scans.

Waitress - Broadway

April 19, 2017 | SunsetBlvd79’s master Format: VOB, with smalls

Cast: Sara Bareilles (Jenna), Charity Angél Dawson (Becky), Molly Jobe (u/s Dawn), Chris Diamantopoulos (Dr. Pomatter), Christopher Fitzgerald (Ogie), Eric Anderson (Cal), Dakin Matthews (Joe), Will Swenson (Earl), Anastacia McCleskey (Nurse Norma), Stephanie Torns (Francine Pomatter), Molly Hager (Mother), Matt DeAngelis (Father) Notes: ​​Beautiful HD capture of the new cast change as the composer, Sara Bareilles takes over Jenna. Her performance of "What Baking Can Do" will knock you onto the floor! Terrific and fresh cast with a ton of exciting energy! A

Waitress - Broadway (Audio)

November 19, 2018 | Unknown’s master Format: m4a

Cast: Nicolette Robinson [Jenna], Tiffany Mann [u/s Becky], Lenne Klingaman [Dawn], Drew Gehling [Dr. Pomatter], Alex Wyse [Ogie], Benny Elledge [Cal], June Squibb [Joe], Ben Thompson [Earl], Tiffany Denise Hobbs [s/w Nurse Norma], London Skye Gilliam [Lulu], Stephanie Torns [Francine Pomatter], Molly Hager [Mother], Dan Tracy [Father] Notes: June’s first as Josie.

Waitress - Broadway

July 2019 | StarCuffedJeans’ master Format: MP4

Cast: Alison Luff (Jenna), Dayna Jarae Dantzler (u/s Becky), Caitlin Houlahan (Dawn), Mark Evans (Dr. Pomatter), Noah Galvin (Ogie), Benny Elledge (Cal), Richard Kline (Joe), Ben Thompson (Earl), Arica Jackson (u/s Nurse Norma), Everleigh Rottuno (Lulu), Stephanie Torns (Francine Pomatter), Molly Hager (Mother), Dan Tracy (Father) Notes: Beautiful HD capture of a lot of new and old cast members, including newcomers Alison, Mark, and Noah, along with Caitlin’s return to the role and Richard’s short temporary residence in the Broadway company. Dayna is absolutely hilarious as Becky. Act One starts shortly after Earl's entrance. Please do not post screenshots of this video on Twitter ever. Gifs on Tumblr are okay after the NFT date, but don’t go linking things to actors and shows.

Waitress - Broadway

November, 2019 | StarCuffedJeans’ master Format: MP4 HD

Cast: Jordin Sparks (Jenna), NaTasha Yvette Williams (Becky), Caitlin Houlahan (Dawn), Drew Gehling (Dr. Pomatter), Christopher Fitzgerald (Ogie), Benny Elledge (Cal), Al Roker (Joe), Ben Thompson (Earl), Dayna Jarae Dantzler (Nurse Norma), Sophia Rodriguez (Lulu), Stephanie Torns (Francine Pomatter), Molly Hager (Mother), Dan Tracy (Father) Notes: Good HD capture of Jordin’s brilliant take on the main role. Act One starts right when “The Negative” begins. Act Two begins just a few lines into the Act. There are a couple of dropouts throughout the show but none lasting more than 10 seconds, with most being significantly shorter than that. Some very slight wandering as the master changed camera angles or focused on someone taking photos of the show with an iPhone. Please do not post screenshots of this video on Twitter ever. Gifs on Tumblr are okay after the NFT date, but don't go linking things to actors and shows. Trader’s notes: Jordin is my favourite Jenna ever so it was amazing to see her take on the role! The capture and audio are both amazing, and I love it a lot <3

Waitress - Broadway (Revival Audio)

17 October 2021 | smokeline’s master Format: mp3, tracked

Cast: Sara Bareilles (Jenna), Drew Gehling (Dr. Pomatter), Anastacia McCleskey (u/s Becky), Ashley Blanchet (Dawn), Ben Thompson (Earl), Christopher Fitzgerald (Ogie), Eric Anderson (Cal), Dakin Matthews (Joe), Gerianne Pérez (u/s Nurse Norma), Nora Lincoln Weiner (Lulu), Molly Jobe (Mother), Matt DeAngelis (Father), Stephanie Torns (Francine), Tyrone Davis, Jr., Henry Gottfried, Curtis Thomas, Nyla Watson Notes: Sara, Chris, and both Lulu's last show! A little overloaded during loud applause or particularly heavy bass, and the person sitting next to me was (understandably!) audible with laughter and appreciation several times. Huge, extended applause during and after She Used To Be Mine, as Sara Bareilles got too emotional to finish the song. Includes the speeches after the curtain call.

Waitress - Broadway (Revival Audio)

11 September 2021 | smokeline’s master Format: mp3, tracked

Cast: Stephanie Torns (u/s Jenna), Erich Bergen (Dr. Pomatter), Maiesha McQueen (Becky), Ashley Blanchet (Dawn), Ben Thompson (Earl), Nik Dodani (Ogie), Eric Anderson (Cal), Dakin Matthews (Joe), Olivia Lucy Phillip (Nurse Norma), Olivia Webber Olesen (Lulu), Molly Jobe (Mother), Matt DeAngelis (Father), Emily Koch (u/s Francine), Tyrone Davis, Jr., Henry Gottfried, Curtis Thomas, Nyla Watson Notes: I was close to a speaker, so the audio is a bit loud in some parts, but overall pretty good. This show had a lot of random bloopers - Stephanie dropped a cherry and a banana, Ashley dropped one of her wooden spoons in front of the diner counter right before the drumline, and Olivia didn't have her stethoscope during the heartbeat scene so they had to mime it. Probably the only blooper you can hear is that Nik fell at the end of Never Getting Rid Of Me; he had to repeat the last line so he could get up and jump into the chair. Then he ad libbed about falling a few times in the following scene. She Used To Be Mine was unreal. She had to stop before the last verse for applause.

Waitress - Broadway (Revival Audio)

November 13, 2021 | juniper47’s master Format: mp3, tracked

Cast: Stephanie Torns* (u/s Jenna), Erich Bergen (t/r Dr. Pomatter), Maiesha McQueen (Becky), Ashley Blanchet (Dawn), Ben Thompson (Earl), Nik Dodani (Ogie), Eric Anderson (Cal), Dakin Matthews (Joe), Olivia Lucy Phillip (Nurse Norma), Olivia Webber Olesen (Lulu), Molly Jobe (Mother), Matt DeAngelis (Father), Emily Koch* (s/w Francine), Tyrone Davis, Jr., Henry Gottfried, Curtis Thomas, Nyla Watson Notes: Beautiful clear stereo audio. A very supportive audience for Stephanie's last scheduled show as Jenna. Lots of well-deserved cheers for her entrance and a huge ovation after SUTBM.

Waitress - Broadway

December 4, 2021 | TheatreCouple14’s master Format: mp4 (with tracked mp3s too)

Cast: Ciara Renée (Jenna), Maiesha McQueen (Becky), Ashley Blanchet (Dawn), Joshua Henry (Dr. Pomatter), Tyrone Davis Jr. (Ogie), Eric Anderson (Joe), Andrew Fitch (Cal), Olivia Lucy Phillip (Nurse Norma) Ava Kacey Thomas (Lulu) Notes: 4x3 Wide-shot phone boot shot from the mid orchestra. Minor head on the left hand side, but doesn't cover anything important. Most of the action is captured. Act 2 is somehow darker than Act 1. Joshua is probably the best Pomatter I've seen. He plays the part so adorably and his voice is like pure butter. Great performances from literally everyone in the entire cast. I forgot how FUNNY this show was.

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Waitress - Broadway (Audio)

December 18, 2021 | smokeline’s master Format: mp3, tracked and untracked Cast: Ciara Renée (Jenna), Maiesha McQueen (Becky), Ashley Blanchet (Dawn), Joshua Henry (Dr. Pomatter), Tyrone Davis Jr. (Ogie), Benny Elledge (Cal), Dakin Matthews (Joe), Matt DeAngelis (u/s Earl), Olivia Lucy Phillip (Nurse Norma), McKenzie Melia Calderon (Lulu), Stephanie Torns (Francine Pomatter), Cherise Thomas (Mother), Andrew Fitch (u/s Father), Grace Stockdale (Ensemble), Henry Gottfried (Ensemble), Curtis Thomas (Ensemble), Mark Christine (Ensemble)  Notes: Some of the audience members around me talked a bit, and there was a medical emergency in the audience right before When He Sees Me (someone yelled for a doctor and there was some chatter afterward - hope they're okay!)

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Random Thoughts on Sweet Magnolias

****Warning: Spoilers****

This is one of those shows that is pleasant to have on in the background. Not jaw-dropping or cliff-hangery. Just a little slice of life drama that’s pretty heavy on the romance.

Of the three main women, Helen is probably my favorite because she’s so smart, strong, and supportive and Maddie’s my least favorite just because she’s a little bland and boring. Dana Sue can be annoying at times especially when it comes to Annie, but I have an emotional temperament similar to hers so I get it.

Of the main men, Ronnie is hands down my favorite. I like his redemption arc with Dana Sue plus man can rock a shirtless scene. 🤭 Erik is incredibly sweet and I would want a guy like him in real life, but he’s a smidge boring. Cal is OK, but his story lines don’t match his temperament. He’s super chill but we’re supposed to believe he struggles with anger issues? I’m usually all about high school sweethearts but Ryan can go.

The accents and the cutesy phrases. Southern folks don’t talk like that. Dana Sue’s accent in particular I was like are you trying to be from New Orleans?

Wardrobe is very hit or miss. Maddie dresses a little too floral. Dana Sue isn’t always dressed for her body type. They pick some really lovely colors for Helen’s complexion, but that short/shirt combo from earlier in the season was hideous.

Bill is no favorite of mine but Maddie blowing her top when he told her Isaac was his son was too much. It didn’t make sense. He was a teen when it happened and he didn’t know. Slow your roll.

I wanted more Peggy and Jackson/Annie. Peggy intrigues me with her backstory and her relationship with her mom. Jackson/Annie are just cute. They’ve got a strong Nathan/Haley vibe so I’m digging that. (Although I read somewhere that Annie/Ty are end game in the books. I’d be OK if the tv show tweaked that ending. I think Jackson/Annie are cuter).

Noreen kind of grew on me. She was really annoying in season 1 but after she apologized to Maddie I started liking her a lot more.

Do I spy another secret baby story line with Frances and older guy who was pining for her? Why’d she give Dana Sue all that money and not to all 3 of the women?

Kyle was a little tiresome at the beginning but seeing him get into the whole video game project really brought back his likability.

Mary Von is the true villain.

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