#revival agents music

[harrisonarchive]

George Harrison, backstage in Philadelphia, PA, on August 16, 1966; photo by Bob Bonis.

“[George showed us] his music room, which has one wall covered with the famous Harrison guitars, his collection of Indian instruments and a small jukebox standing just by the door. I looked at the titles on the jukebox and there were very few Beatle songs amongst them. The Beach Boys, Mamas and Papas, Lovin’ Spoonful, the Stones were all well represented.” - The Beatles Monthly, January 1967

“George Harrison’s Fab Forty… George — like all the Beatles, incidentally — has his own juke box at his Esher home. It’s in his ‘den.’ Along with tape recorder, radio and record player. […] But back to the juke box. It’s a KB. Maybe you saw it in the film ‘Help’? Says George: ‘It’s so much easier to have all my favorite records on the juke box at once. It saves me going through piles of records to find the ones I want. Then when I get sick of them, I just throw them out and put some new ones in.” - Tony Hall, Record Mirror, January 1, 1966

George’s Top Ten… 1 “Harlem Shuffle” — Bob and Earl 2 “Good Things Come To Those Who Wait” — Chuck Jackson 3 “Be My Lady”/“Red Beans and Rice” — Booker T and the MGs 4 “Please Crawl Out Your Window” — Bob Dylan 5 “Baby, You’re My Everything” — Little Jerry Williams 6 “Back Street” — Edwin Starr 7 “Work, Work, Work” — Lee Dorsey 8 “The Little Girl I Once Knew” — The Beach Boys 9 “My Girl Has Gone” — The Miracles 10 “I Don’t Know What You’ve Got /But It’s Got Me)” — Little Richard (“[P]arts one and two — the second is George’s favorite.”)

The rest… 11 “I Can’t Turn You Loose” — Otis Redding 12 “My Girl” — Otis Redding 13 “I Believe I’ll Love On” — Jackie Wilson 14 “Plum Nellie” — Booker T and the MGs 15 “Everything Is Gonna Be Alright” — Willie Mitchell 16 “A Sweet Woman Like You” — Joe Tex 17 “Something About You” — The Four Tops 18 “I Got You” — James Brown 19 “Ain’t That Peculiar” — Marvin Gaye 20 “Turn, Turn, Turn” — The Byrds 21 “See Saw” — Don Covay 22 “I’m Comin’ Through” — Sounds Incorporated 23 “Don’t Fight It” — Wilson Pickett 24 “Bootleg” — Booker T and the MGs 25 “I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore” — The Young Rascals 26 “Respect” — Otis Redding 27 “Try Me”/“Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag” — James Brown (“instrumentals”) 28 “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” — Otis Redding 29 “All Or Nothing” — Patty Labelle and her Belles 30 “Pretty Little Baby” — Marvin Gaye 31 “Oowee Baby, I Love You” — Fred Hughes 32 “The Tracks of My Tears” — The Miracles 33 “Yum Yum” — Joe Tex 34 “Agent 00 Soul” — Edwin Starr 35 “Money” — Barrett Strong 36 “Some Other Guy” — Ritchie Barrett (“George’s ‘Revived 45’ list — he’s dug these since they first came out.”) 37 “It Wasn’t Me” — Chuck Berry 38 “Mohair Sam” — Charlie Rich 39 “Let Him Run Wild” — The Beach Boys 40 “Do You Believe In Magic” — The Lovin’ Spoonful

“George really knows his records. It’s always a pleasure to talk to him about them.” - Tony Hall, Record Mirror, January 1, 1966 (x)

George's "Fab Forty" playlist: on YouTube, and on Spotify.

#George Harrison #quote #quotes about George #quotes by George #Kinfauns #George's jukebox #1966 #1960s #1967 #George's jukebox feature #fits queue like a glove

[intoxicatingimmediacy]

Where Have You Seen Loki Season 2's X-5 Actor Before?

This post contains spoilers for the season premiere of "Loki."

"Loki" is back this week, and along with the return of Norse trickster god Loki (Tom Hiddleston), agent Mobius (Owen Wilson), and the rest of the Time Variance Authority, the show's premiere also sees the introduction of a few new key characters. Among them? Ke Huy Quan's helpful, tech-savvy Ouroboros (or O.B.) and X-5, a mysterious new TVA agent played by Rafael Casal. And it's the latter who is particularly intriguing.

So far, we haven't seen X-5 do much besides question whether jet skis are part of the sacred timeline, but the character already seems to be an agitating force within the organization. He's also quite possibly poised to become a recognizable Marvel villain. After all, a featurette for the second season had a couple bits of footage from behind the scenes that showed him in a TVA jumpsuit, as if he was being held prisoner. So that should be interesting to watch play out. But there's more.

As /Film's Sandy Schaefer pointed out back in July, the trailer for "Loki" includes a poster for a movie called "Zaniac!" which fans have tied to Casal's character via leaks and speculation. Zaniac is a noteworthy character in Marvel Comics, though he bears little resemblance to X-5. The character was an evil entity that possessed the man who would become Jack the Ripper, and later took over slasher actor Brad Wolfe.

Ahead of the show's premiere, Casal has been credited by several outlets as Brad Wolfe, not X-5, so it seems likely that he could play out some form of the Zaniac plot this season. Regardless of Casal's true role in the show, though, he's an excellent multi-hyphenate artist whose past works deserve attention.

If X-5 looks familiar, it's likely you recognize Casal from "Blindspotting," a fantastic 2018 musical comedy-drama that he co-wrote with longtime creative partner Daveed Diggs (yes, of "Hamilton" fame). "Blindspotting" was a labor of love for Casal and Diggs, who also produced the film about two best friends living in Oakland, California whose lives are disrupted by the broken policing system. As serious as that sounds, "Blindspotting" is also laugh-out-loud funny, and Casal is a totally charming standout as hot-headed Miles.

The performer reprised the role for Starz's "Blindspotting" TV show, which ran for two seasons and was recently canceled. A criminally underseen hidden gem of a series, "Blindspotting" takes place after the film and puts the focus on Miles' girlfriend, Ashley Rose (Jasmine Cephas Jones), as she parents the pair's young mixed-race son in a racist world, all while Miles is behind bars. Despite his character's incarceration, Casal still appears in the show frequently and his hilarious, soulful character is a fan favorite. If you're looking for a thoughtful, entertaining, dynamic watch – or just want to see what Casal's made of – you can't do much better than either iteration of "Blindspotting."

The performer has also made a name for himself in other projects, including several collaborations with Diggs. A poet and rapper in addition to his acting creds, Casal appeared on three seasons of "Def Poetry Jam" on HBO, released a mixtape with Diggs in 2010, and contributed to the soundtracks for "Blindspotting," including in the catchy (and foulmouthed, fair warning) song "Easy Come, Easy Go." He reunited with Diggs in the acclaimed 2020 miniseries "The Good Lord Bird," a wild historical fiction series led by a fiery Ethan Hawke. Casal and Diggs even started a public theater project called Bars Medley, which remixed classic literature into musical performances.

Other on-screen works of Casal's include a supporting role in the 2019 Hugh Jackman flick "Bad Education" (he played the love interest of Jackman's closeted character) and a multi-episode turn in the "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" revival. Casal played a ringmaster named Mr. Tophat in the reboot of the classic, kid-friendly horror series. Next up, Casal is appearing in "Wildcat," a biography of Southern Gothic author Flannery O'Connor that's directed and co-written by Hawke. The X-5 actor plays a character in one of O'Connor's short stories in the movie, which premiered at Telluride but hasn't been released to the public yet.

Whether X-5 is a frustrated TVA employee, a secret evil entity, a movie actor, or something else entirely, it's exciting to see an artist as talented and versatile as Casal take the stage in a major Marvel series. You can catch his next moves on Disney+, where new episodes of "Loki" stream Thursdays at 9pm ET.

#rafael casal #loki

[kiffenart]

Warning: Character's death.

Warning: This has nothing to do with the original Dalamar in the books and apparently, probably, has little to do with what the producers/actors intended to convey. This is just my headcanons about what had happened to Dalamar in the musical, since I've realised he just disappeared after his aria, and only returned in the Abyss under a much more twisted appearance.

I myself has several different theories about this, one of which includes my logic in how Nightmare-Dalamar was not the real Dalamar but only a hallucination of Raistlin that came true. However, in this post I'm talking about another theory of mine, which is that he was revealed to either side (the Conclave or Raistlin) to be a double agent, and thus he was punished for what he did - highly chance by the Conclave, and then ended up in the Abyss.

Click below to read my logic in what happened to Dalamar in the musical. Based on his appearance in the second act.

Yarik!Dalamar (revival 2018): Burned alive.

When you burn a human body for too long, all that's left is the bone. Everything else is gone. This Dalamar had half of is body a skeleton from the beginning of the musical. Apparently the producers wanted to convey his duplicity, but I took it a little further so maybe this Dalamar had been burned once, before his very first appearance on stage, probably from his Test given by Raistlin where he had to fight with a dragon. When appeared in the Abyss, his skull-like side of his face was even more distorted, while the other side of his face was smeared with black ink/soot - could be interpretted that he was exposed to heat. And his hair was unravelled, more straw-like, as if it had been burnt. Yarik!Dalamar (revival 2021 - 16.05): Eyes torn out.

Excluding the possibility of Raistlin punishing his student, because on Stairway stage they seemed to have a good relationship and Raistlin had departed for Istar before Dalamar sang his aria. So there's only the chance of Dalamar being executed by the Conclave for being double-sided. In that day's specific performance Dalamar was wearing Raistlin's clothes (his black robe), so he could be considered to "have seen too much". His both smearing eyes like crying black tears could be interpretted that his eyes were torn out.

Ruslan!Dalamar (revival 2021 - 12.12): Clawed.

The 4 scratches on this Dalamar's face when he showed up in the Abyss looked like scratches from some kind of wild beast. When an animal scratches, it usually leaves 4 lines. A beast capable of killing an elf like Dalamar could only be a dragon or a similar mythical creature. Apparently this Dalamar was left stranded with neither power nor weapon before he was devoured alive.

Pavel!Dalamar (revival 2022 - 10.04): Mouth slit.

This is the only Dalamar on stage (in Stairway production) who had 5 marks left on his chest, all of which apparently were caused by Raistlin - either directly or not. This Dalamar intentionally showed these wounds for Raistlin to recognise him in the Abyss. According to Raistlin's plan, Dalamar had to lie to the Conclave. His bloody mouth when he re-appeared in the Abyss showed that he could have been revealed to be helping Raistlin and the Conclave decided to slit his mouth. All of which fuelled his desire to revenge Raistlin in the Abyss.

Pavel!Dalamar (revival 2022) : Burned alive.

Similar to Yarik!Dalamar 2018, but with 5 marks on his chest and according to the logic above it could be interpretted that he was burned as a punishment.

Gradusov!Dalamar (2023): Skinned and dismembered.

The Etherius stage had a scene where Raistlin actually eliminated his own student, so it was obviously confirmed that the new Dalamar was killed by his shalafi. However, this scene was quick and quiet, so maybe his death was actually a quick one, and what happened to his corspe was left unknown. When he appeared in the Abyss, he showed fragments of skull and teeth from both sides of his face, but also his face muscles. So he was not burned, but skinned. Among characters that appeared in the Abyss, he was the only one who walked like a puppet. So I suspect his corspe was dismembered before he was assembled again - probably by Takhisis - like a rag doll.

Once again these are just my headcanons based on the actors' make-up and ways of acting. Feel free to share your own ideas ;)

#the last trial musical #the last trial #dragonlance #dalamar #yaroslav bayarunas #pavel stukalov #ruslan gerasimenko #evgeny gradusov #headcanon

[princesssarisa]

Sleeping Beauty Spring: "La Bella Dormente nel Bosco" ("The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood") (1922 Italian opera by Ottorino Respighi)

Name any famous story, and it's almost certain to have been adapted as an opera, whether or not that opera is often performed. Here we find an Italian operatic Sleeping Beauty, with a libretto by Gian Bistolfi, and music by the renowned composer Ottorino Respighi, best known for his tone poems Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome, and Roman Festivals. It was originally conceived and performed as a marionette opera, with the story enacted by puppets while the singers sang from offstage. While rarely performed today, it does have occasional revivals, some with singing actors performing the roles onstage as in any other opera, and others with marionettes. One complete sound recording is also commercially available, as is a filmed performance from the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari.

Divided into three acts, but fairly short at an hour and forty minutes long, this opera follows the familiar plot of the fairy tale, yet with interesting creative embellishments. Act I opens with an atmospheric nature scene where a nightingale, a cuckoo, and a chorus of frogs sing their evening songs, before the King and Queen's ambassador arrives in search of fairies to attend the newborn Princess's christening, and seven fairies heed his call. At the christening, the villainous Green Fairy curses the Princess to prick her finger at age twenty rather than fifteen or sixteen (some productions of Tchaikovky's ballet make the same change), and not to die, but to sleep forever. Twenty years later, in the old spinning woman's tower, the spindle itself is sentient and sings, as does a cat: the Princess dances a cheerful dance with the two of them, but when she pricks her finger, the spindle gloatingly reveals itself as an agent of the Green Fairy. The following scene begins comically, with pompous doctors trying to diagnose the sleeping Princess's "illness," but then gives way to lamentations by the King, the Queen, and their court. That is, until the kindly Blue Fairy arrives to put them all to sleep as well, and only now does she alter the curse so that it will break when the Princess receives "the kiss of love." In place of the traditional briars or thick forest surrounding the castle, giant spiders weave an enormous web around the castle to protect it.

Act III reveals an especially unusual and quirky change from traditional versions of the story. The Princess and her court have slept for three hundred years rather than just one century, and the action now takes place in the 1920s of the opera's premiere. The entourage of Prince Aprile (yes, his name means "April" – the libretto is full of springtime imagery) includes a club of rich Americans led by the comical "Mr. Dollar Cheque," who resolves to buy the sleeping Princess after they learn her story from a woodcutter. But Prince Aprile takes a more romantic approach and battles the last of the monstrous spiders, causing the web to fall away, and then wakes the Princess with a kiss. After the lovers sing a romantic duet, the newly awakened court joins the modern world in a playful dance finale, which starts as a minuet and ends as a foxtrot.

Respighi's music lacks any particularly "hummable" melodies, but its beauty stands out all the same, with a tone of shimmering fairy-tale Romanticism balanced here and there with moments of humor. The influence of many great Classical and Romantic composers can be heard, particularly from Wagner, but with a welcome lighter touch than the famous German composer brought to his operas. The "modern day" final act also includes passages of ragtime and jazz, which somehow never clash with the rest of the score's Romanticism.

Ultimately, this opera's blend of gossamer beauty and quirky playfulness give it a unique charm. Whether or not it's anyone's favorite opera, or anyone's definitive version of Sleeping Beauty, it most definitely deserves to be performed more often. At any rate, as both an opera lover and a fairy tale lover, I'm glad to have discovered it, and I plan to listen to it again before long.

@ariel-seagull-wings, @thealmightyemprex, @faintingheroine, @reds-revenge, @thatscarletflycatcher, @comma-after-dearest, @the-blue-fairie, @paexgo-rosa, @autistic-prince-cinderella

#sleeping beauty #fairy tale #sleeping beauty spring #opera #la bella dormente nel bosco #ottorino respighi #gian bistolfi #1922 #italy

[stephy-gold]

Fic Ideas (some im working on and others are just things that came to mind and I write just to revisit them some day)

Agents Miller, Einstein, Mulder and Scully go undercover as a family in a cult 

agents Miller and Einstein / others, are the new generation leading the x files

Mulder discover TikTok 

Agent William Mulder is paired with a short temper and reckless Agent Astrid Vega; scully and mulder doesn’t like Astrid because she put Will in danger but he trusts her with his life. 

The colonization happened; mulder and scully fought and then stay behind as leaders to plan strategies; 17 years old William found them and take the lead, they didn't like the idea. 

Domestic MSR. They gave 3 kids, Emily 25, William 18 and Sophie 15. 

Domestic MSR. Mulder and scully deal with the most difficult thing they ever encounter their own strong will, very intelligent and reckless teenagers (Emily, William and Sophie). They never saw that coming. 

Mulder took scully to a lana del rey concert because he thinks she is a witch. (It’s a dump idea. Disclaimer I love lana) 

William took his girlfriend to Taylor Swift Eras tour. Scully discover Taylor swift music.

AU Time travel. Grown Emily visit her parents before william was given, to stop her mother. 

Baby #3 (revival baby) learn to drive 

Mulder take scully dancing for her 60th birthday 

Will is a professional baseball player 

Senior agents mulder and scully go undercover they get kidnapped and younger agents are sent to save them. Generations battle between the agents

Case fic. They come to san Diego for some sightings of what happens to be an apparition (la llorona) of some sort that kidnaps children from Mexican backgrounds 

Uncle Skinner likes to give mulder and scully kids a free pass whenever they come asking for help

AU melissa didn’t die so when scully is about to put william for adoption she change her mind and sends him with her sister instead. 

Mulder wants to do a sappy TikTok with scully 

MSR now live a very normal, boring American middle class life much to mulder dismay. 

mulder discovers Reggaeton (bad bunny, arcangel, something like that) scully isn't a big fan when they look for the lyrics translation

feel free to use them if you like :)

#fox mulder #dana scully #txf #x files #msr #ao3 fanfic #msr fanart #msr family #im working on something #some fic ideas I thought or like #currently working on some of them #writting is fucking hard #walter skinner #some ideas aren't mine #mulder and scully are swifties

[artemiseamoon]

Preview: A light at the end of the tunnel

Ezra x ofc , ft Cee

Words: 3,140

December entry for Artes’s Year of Whump ( and fluff) @yearofcreation2023

Summary: As Ezra struggles post recovery, Cee plays cupid and finds his lost love.

Warnings: recovery, depression, loss of a limb

An: This is the official end of Arte’s Year of Whump. It was so fun, thank you yearofcreation! I know I missed some months, but glad I could close out December. I love this story so much, it’s open for later expansion. More notes at the end…

Preview below, read in full on A03 (account holders)

Sunlight peeked through the curtains, sending rays of light across the bedroom. This might be the first time he’s woken up before sunset in weeks.

His eyes settled on his new arm. It was still a strange feeling, having a robotic limb. But it did provide a small comfort as the loss of his arm, on top of everything else, sent him into the darkest place he’d been in years. Ezra told himself, he didn’t need a replacement, he would learn his way with one arm, and be just fine. He’s a man who weathered many storms. But he found his phantom arm haunted him. His mood, his self-esteem, and his sense of purpose all plummeted.

Ezra sat up with a groan and followed the scar on his torso with his eyes. Sometimes he could still feel that jab, sometimes he woke up in a sweat thinking it was happening all over again. He’s endured worse, he’s gone toe to toe with no hesitation with some of the meanest, more dangerous men and beasts one could face. Still, the events on the Green haunted him the most. Sometimes he could still hear that disturbing music in his ears.

Ezra died twice on that noxious moon; when he lost his arm, and when he was stabbed. But he was revived too. Cee, bless her heart, dragged back some version of him to civilization, a shell of him he didn’t recognize. The price of that job was the highest he’s ever paid; one he was still paying for now.

Ezra coughed as he rummaged the surface of the nearby table, then he found it, the recent letter from Cee.

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About this year long challenge:

Works from this challenge that have more to come:

1. Is this how it ends? Turned into a full fic, we are on chapter 4 or 5 now and it's ongoing.(TF, dark Santi, ofc)

2. Dial up the Jack, Dim the Whiskey will have a part two. (Agent Whiskey, ofc)

3. The thing about second chances will have a part two.

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#Ezra #Ezra x ofc #ezra prospect #cee prospect #artes year of whump #year of creation 2023 #fic: a light at the end of the tunnel

[timetravelersdoctor]

Can Tfp Autobots And Tfp Human Kids And Tfp Human Adults (Only Julie And Agent Frowler Not With Silas)React To Terrans And Their Two Step Human Siblings Traumas During Events Of The Earthspark

Twitch Malto - Leader Of The Terrans And Who Is 9 To 12 Years Old And Who Is Techno-Organic Hybrid And Her Alt Mode Is Flying Drone And Want To Keep Her Terran Siblings And Her Human Family To Be Safe Just Like ES Bumblebee And Who She's See ES Bumblebee As An Big Brother Figure And Father Figure And And She's Mad About Thrash And Other Terrans Siblings And Her Human Siblings For Taking Anything Seriously About Their Training But She's Snapped And Vented About The Fears She Has If One Of Her Siblings Were To Die After All The Close Calls They've Had And Thrash Comforting Her And Apologizing For Not Realizing How Much Pressure He Unknowingly Put On Her But When She's Finds Out About The News About ES Bumblebee On The Run From The G.H.O.S.T On His Trail To Keep The Terrans Safe Away From Them But Twitch Malto Was Really Upest About ES Bumblebee Had To Hiding From G.H.O.S.T And Had To Be On The Run For It And Twitch Is Broke Down About For Not Being There For ES Bumblebee And Literally Cries And Blames Herself For Not Saving ES Bumblebee From G.H.O.S.T And She Had Put Alot Pressure On Herself To Be The Leader For Her Responsibility To Protect Her Terran Siblings And Her Human Family And The People That She Cares And When Her Human Family Gets Eaten By The Sharkitcon Minicons That She And Her Terran Siblings Were Desperate That They Lost Them During The Last Hope Episode

Thrash Malto - The Racer And Fighter Of The Terrans And Who Loves To Race With Someone For His Speed And His Alt Mode Is Motorcycle And Sidecar And Who Is Techno-Organic Hybrid And 9 To 12 Years Old And Loves Music And Wanted To Start Band Alongside With Hashtag And Jawbreaker And Who Sometimes Broke The Rules But Would Have To Follow The Rules And Have Some Trust Issues Because Of ES Swindle Who Manipulated Him And Trick Him And Mo When They First Meet Him And Have Sometimes Don't Trust The ES Decepticons But Still Trust The ES Decepticons And Still Have Second Chance To Change But The Only Decepticon That He Doesn't Trust Which Is ES Swindle And Shields Twitch In Front Of Her From Behind And Gets His Energon Level Drained From Mandriod Death Towner During The Last Hope Episode And When Twitch Saw Thrash Gets His Energon Level Gets Fully Drained Twitch Was Crying Emotionally Seeing Thrash Energon Level Gets Fully Drained But Thrash Gets Revived From Robby And Mo With Their Cybersleeves Of The Emberstone Powers From Using Their Healing Powers To Revived Everyone Back From The Dead

Hashtag Malto - The Master Hacker Of The Terrans And Who Is Techno-Organic Hybrid And Who Is 9 To 10 Years Old And Who Is Movie Maker And Tech Savvy And Media Savvy And Her Alt Mode Is G.H.O.S.T Surveillance Van And Who Gets Mind Controlled By Mandriod And Mandriod Manipulated Hashtag In Her Mind While She's Being Mind Controlled And Forced To Hurt Her Terran Siblings And Her Human Siblings And Mandriod Telling Her That She Don't Belong Here By Using Human Holograms To Manipulate Her But Gets Free From Mandriod Mind Control And After That Event For Hashtag That Her Optics Glows That She's Gets Flashbacks About Mandriod Mind Controlled Her And Hurts Her Terran Siblings And Her Human Siblings While She's Being Mind Controlled But Had To Act Happy So No One Never Worries About Her And When She's First Meet ES Starscream And Confront Him About Him And ES Megatron Of How ES Megatron Treat Him In The Past And Saves ES Starscream From ES Megatron From Trying To Hurt Him And Her And ES Starscream Became As An Daughter And Father Duo For Each Other

Jawbreaker Malto - The Big Heart Strong Terran And Who Is Kind And Gentle Terran And Who Is 9 To 10 Years Old And His Alt Mode Is Stygimloch Mode As An Beast Mode And Have An Parent Figure Name ES Grimlock But ES Grimlock Have PTSD Flashbacks About Mandriod Who Captured Him And Mind Controlled Him And Gets Out Of Control From His Anger And When Grimlock Optics Glows Red He Gets Into Rampage And Almost Destroyed Witwicky But Jawbreaker Who Is Had No Choice But To Have To Fight Grimlock But Grimlock Gets Back Normal

Nightshade Malto - The Protector And Scientist And Engineer Of The Terrans And Who Is Techno-Organic Hybrid And Who Is 9 To 10 Years Old And Who Is Nonbinary And Their Pronuns Was They/Them And Who Used To Have An Parent Figure Named Tarantulas Who Is Both Decepticon And Predacon And Helps Him To Makes Some Inventions For Them And Him And When Tarantulas Wants Nightshade To Come With Him For The War But Nightshade Refuses Because They Have More Things To Do And Tarantulas Kidnapped Dot Malto And Alex Malto To Use An Ray To Erase Their Memories Of Nightshade But Nightshade Stops Him And Saves Their Parents And When Tarantulas Finds Out That Nightshade Who Is Hiding From G.H.O.S.T And Tarantulas Sacrifices Himself For Nightshade And Their Terran Siblings And Their Human Family To Made G.H.O.S.T To Chase Him Instead Of The Terrans And Their Human Family And During In The Last Hope Episode That Mandriod Who He Have Stabbed Nightshade On The Chest With His Spear

Robby Malto And Mo Malto - Robby And Mo Were Both Step Human Siblings And Human Allies Of The Terrans And Have Cybersleeves On Their Arms And The Powers Of The Emberstone Were Inside Of Them And Robby Malto Is 13 Years Old And Mo Malto Is 8 Years Old And Robby And Mo Almost Lost Twitch And Thrash That Were Their Energon Level Drained But The Energon Don't Work On The Terran To Be Fueled But Only Water Of Course And During In The Disarmed Episode In That Inactive Recroom That The Terrans And Their Human Siblings Encounters An Holographic Past ES Megatron That Mandriod Created And They Fighting Him And Robby Unleashes Of His Powers From The Emberstone That He Called Quintus Prime And He Begins To Fight Him But Something Happened To Robby After He Defeat Holographic Past ES Megatron That Robby Was Laying Down On The Ground But He's Fine But The Terrans Can't Feel Robby Anymore And When Mo Malto Seeing Robby Like This She's Worrying About Him And She's Facing Off Mandriod In Her And Robby And Dot Malto And Alex Malto Dream But Did Defeated Him And Robby Was Now Back To Full Health And During In Episode Last Hope That Robby And Mo Sees Twitch Crying Over Thrash Has His Energon Level Gets Drained And The Rest Of Everyone In The Last Hope Episode But They Uses Their Healing Powers From Their Cyber Sleeves With The Powers Of The Emberstone And Revived Everyone Back From The Dead From Calling Quintus Prime With Their Cybersleeves

(Try To Make This Faster For This And This Is An Fixed Version From The Mistake One Of Course)

Hi, thank you for the ask, but I haven't actually finished watching Transformers earthspark, and I would like to finish it first before answering deeper questions. At the moment, I don't feel confident enough to answer this question. I hope that's okay. Have an amazing day!

#maccadam #macaddam #i got an ask!

[ursaribbon]

PnF Revival Episode Title Predictions PART 1

The new episode titles just came out, so I'm gonna start making predictions about the new batch (some more outlandish than others just to get more of a laugh if they turn out to be true). I'll come back later after watching the episodes to see how I did.

Summer Block Buster - Something about making a movie, probably. I got nothin.

Cloudy with a Chance of Mom - This one sounds interesting. Possibly a Meatballs reference? Some sort of mom storm? Moms falling from the sky? Might be figurative for a mom getting angry? Perhaps a mom who is also a meteorologist? Badass mom thing. Let's go with that.

Appetite for Adventure - This brings back Remains of the Platypus memories (the cheese thing with Monogram). This has to be a joke about figurative versus literal appetites. Eating contest again, perhaps?

License to Bust - Candace gets her driver's license? Candace gets some sort of license. Or someone gets a license. Candace gets a license to kill, I dunno.

Dry Another Day - Drying. Dry ANOTHER DAY? Rainy day?? So it'll be dry? Another day???? Somebody goes to the dry cleaners? Phineas and Ferb start a dry cleaning business? Clothesline ziplines???

Deconstructing Doof - Either exploring his character more in depth, or literally deconstructing him somehow. At the molecular level, perhaps.

Tropey McTropeface - Everybody turns into an anime trope except for one person who's just watching it all go down, confused as hell. Either that or it's just a really corny plot.

Biblio-Blast! - Baljeet gets book-themed superpowers. Or somebody studies a lot.

A Chip to the Vet - Squirrels go to the vet. Perhaps Perry goes to the vet and has to hide his beeping watch and stuff the whole time. Maybe an animal has a chipped tooth.

More Than an Intern - Carl's epic story. Like Delivery of Destiny, but with Carl. Carl gets a weird musical number to go along with it, perhaps?

The Aurora Perry-Alis - Perry has a mission to help Santa in the North Pole and basically becomes an elf for a day. And/or Phineas and Ferb recreate the Aurora Borealis and make it go into all kinds of different shapes in the sky somehow, like you could draw an image of Perry with the northern lights.

Lord of the Firesides - Like in Lord of the Flies, the Fireside girls get stranded on a deserted island. Perhaps a Fireside-focused episode like Bee Story and Temple of Sap?

Agent T (For Teen) - Stacy helps out with OWCA somehow AND/OR day-in-the-life of Vanessa at her internship.

The Haberdasher - A Haberdasher is a "dealer in men's clothing" according to Google. We already had a fashion episode in season 1, though... Maybe we get more of the fashion designer from that episode? Or, for a crazier idea: The Haberdasher turns out to be some kind of Drusselstinian urban legend, like the Kinderlumper. The Kinderlumper episode was called "Der Kinderlumper", with "der" replacing "the", so maybe The Haberdasher is like the Kinderlumper's anglicized alter ego. Maybe the Haberdasher doesn't have anything to do with fashion at all!

Out of Character - Either everyone's personalities flip, everyone's personalities flip except for Candace's, someone's personality is explored on a deeper level and it has nothing to do with personality flips, or it has something to do with the second dimension.

Favorite episode prediction: Out of Character

Phinabella counter prediction: 13

Song/jingle counter prediction (not counting D.E.I.): 10

Laugh-out-loud counter prediction: 8

Let's see how this goes!! I'm excited!!!

#ursa.txt #phineas and ferb #pnf #prediction #text post #predictions #episode titles #pnf revival #phineas and ferb revival

[undergroundbillions]

Raggedy Ann musical fandom is THRIVING today :,) i love seeing more fanart!

Seriously seeing people enjoy the musical makes it all worth it. We've been in kindof a slump for the last year as the hype began to wear off and media became harder and harder to get our hands on. But seeing new people discover it and getting to share all that we've found with you makes the whole thing feel a lot less pointless.

You will always have someone who loves to hear you talk about the musical, who reads all your ramblings about it and falls in love with all your fanart, because we will be here! And we are just as obsessed going on three years solid.

And, for those who don't know, there is an active effort to revive the musical! We have access to scripts and early production material, and have made contact with estates and agents and things are moving forward (if slowly), and in the meantime we need those people who keep the love for the show burning, who will prove to those decision-makers that it's worth investing in. And someday we'll need people buying tickets to come see it!

-𝕸𝖔𝖉 𝕲𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖑 𝕯.

#raggedy ann revival effort #raggedy ann musical #rag dolly #raggedy ann broadway #rag dolly musical

[girldraki]

We Have A Canon URL Actually Masterpost

we are very annoying on here about the “alto clef multiple personalities” thing but we want you all to know we are discussing something that legitimately exists on mainsite, even if its presence consists of quite literally three tales and a bag of corn chips. details under the cut, including a bunch of direct pull quotes

preliminary notes:

if you don’t know what a system means in this context, it’s a word for “multiple people in one body“, best known in the context of dissociative identity disorder/did or formerly multiple personality disorder; a short explanation including most relevant terms we’ll be using can be found here

did specifically, since it’s relevant to clef’s plurality per the wiki and isn’t explained in detail in the last link, is a form of systemhood associated with trauma that involves maladaptive dissociative symptoms including amnesia (aka time loss) and depersonalization/derealization (dp/dr)

none of these are exactly unilaterally “good rep“, tbh, but they’re on the wiki and are therefore some degree of “official” canon

scp-4231

most popular of the tales to do this by far

portrayed with did: • francis is shown or described as experiencing dp/dr with increasing intensity throughout the skip (notably in the “december 2nd, 1998” and “document scp-4231-2-a” segments). • -b is verbally described in “the curious case of scp-4231-b” segment as having an unspecified dissociative condition. • their non-dpdr symptoms (switching, time loss as seen in the “greyhound” segment) imply a did diagnosis

The breakdown is fast and complete. He sits on the floor of the phone booth at a dingy greyhound station and sobs through a mixture of panic and grief, and then just like that the announcement for the next bus comes over the intercom and he switches back from one person to another. 

[...]

Francis stops crying so abruptly it hurts. Agent Ukulele stands. It's a moment that his brain blacks out of his memory. He walks out of the phone booth more bored than anything...

questionable/unclear intent regarding the delineation between clef and francis specifically in some places:

Certain traits about B become more solidified as time goes on, when he goes about adapting an entirely different personality to combat the trauma; the new B is eccentric, flamboyant, even bordering on inflammatory towards others. The deep mental distress and accompanying physical illness that keeps him bedridden in the two weeks immediately following his extraction from SCP-4231 disappear. The new B knows nothing, or, at least, appears to know very little about what has transpired to put him in this situation. He no longer inquiries about the child, or about A, or the town of North Access where he has lived all his life. The signs of body dysphoria stemming from the Montauk Procedure are either gone or deeply hidden.

vs (both from “the curious case of scp-4231-b”)

His radical transformation into a new personality appears to be less of a worsening of his dissociative condition and more of a transition into a being so blatantly disrespectful and infuriating that staff interaction results in only frustration.

classical revival

the earliest tale(s) to make clef a system and apparent inception of francis as a character in general, published in 2012

portrayed with apparent/functional did explained in-universe through the application of “outdated soviet combat conditioning memetics” to create constructed personas

• Francis Wojciechoski - b. 1967 - A graduate student who always seems to get the short end of the stick. A lover of music in all its forms: can play alto saxophone and ukulele. A reality-bender.

• Agent Ukulele – A constructed personality designed to both use and limit Francis’ powers. Essentially a cartoon character with limited characterization, used to destroy or subdue incredibly powerful entities.

• Alto Clef – A secondary constructed personality, designed to allow Francis to operate as a normal human being. Currently a field agent of the GOC.

despite the fantasy framing, this (kind of bizarrely) does seem to be an attempt to specifically portray did; clef is depicted having a severe dp/dr episode during upswing of disorder:

Clef sliced a man’s throat open with a razor, and subsequently came to the realization that he had no idea why he had a straight razor in the first place, or how he was still moving. Some part of him was dimly aware that there was significantly more lead and significantly less blood in his body than there normally was, and that this was a bad thing. His body was retreating, but this seemed to be a lot less important than observing all the pretty patterns on the floor and walls. The brief moment of realization faded away into the background. He was somewhere else, somewhere far away, watching the scene acted out around him from some mental Laz-E-Boy. Just faces on a screen. Like a movie. Like a cartoon.

“Holy shit! Did you see that guy? Just went and offed himself! I mean, my breath isn’t that bad!”

The commentary seemed just as natural as the violence on the screen. It passed in a blur, the voice taunting and cheering and jeering and laughing, the bodies dropping to the floor, the splashes of red. The world blurred together with runny watercolors.

the great site-87 bake sale (s&c plastics canon)

microaggression tbh

described as having “[reality bender status induced, secondary] psychosis”; practically speaking based on how they’re handled, seems to be mislabeled plurality?

Francis- or something very much like him- [...] Francis- or rather, the thing that looked like him- [...] Francis— no, Clef...

rep is kind of muddled because the author is visibly not doing this on purpose

Weiss, for her part, produced a syringe from her pocket, grabbed Clef by the shoulder, and jammed the needle into the largest vein she could find. The plunger went down, and a reality-restoring drug entered his bloodstream.

Francis Wojciechoski dropped his ukulele and hat, rubbing his shoulder and neck. "…couldn't you have done that earlier?"

#txt #scp #scp foundation #dr clef #alto clef #francis wojciechoski #agent ukulele #this is a goddamn novel on mobile jsyk. sorry

[ofpantheons]

robyn jordan, better known as agent prometheus has been with cerberus corp as an eo since 2015 and is LEVEL II. cerberus corp should consider the fact that their last mission status was almost a complete disaster due to a hiccup with her powers when giving out the next one. 

001.  GENERAL

name  Robyn Fang Jordan nicknames  RJ, Robbie age  31 date of birth  November 1st 1991 zodiac  Scorpio place of birth  San Diego, California current residence  A three bedroom apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn gender  cis woman pronouns  She/her sexuality Bisexual languages Cantonese, Mandarin, English, occupation Mostly full time agent/also a part time mechanic

faceclaim  Chloe Bennet height  5ft 5 tattoos  A magnolia branch that wraps around her upper left arm and a cricket on her right wrist piercings  Lobes pierced twice, a double helix piercing on her left ear and a tragus piercing on her right. distinguishing features  Has some small scars on her body from injuries over the years, her dimples positive traits  Easygoing, resourceful, inventive, hardworking negative traits  Guarded, impulsive, secretive, stubborn labels / tropes  Broken ace, workaholic, amateur detectivelikes lego, taking things apart and putting them back together, cars and motorbikes, ancient history, picking up new skills the old fashioned way dislikes  Being touched, shoddy work/craftsmanship, rainfears  Being experimented on, dying alone hobbies  Making music, playing games, working on her motorbike habits Cracking her knuckles before she's about to work on something/use her powers,

002.  EXTRA ORDINARY

near death experience…  Growing up, Robyn’s dream was always to follow in her father’s footsteps and become a doctor. Studying and learning new things had always come easy to her, but being the the dedicated student that she was, she found herself spending most of her time in the library even though she didn’t necessarily need to. It was on a seemingly regular day in her first year at med school at UCLA, that she found herself searching the aisles of the library for a reference book. Without warning a small earthquake hit LA and while it didn’t cause much in the way of damage, the bookshelves she was standing between to tip and land on her, burying her in books and pinning her down. For just over and hour she was trapped and barely able to breathe. Robyn was eventually freed, but not before she lost consciousness and her heart had stopped beating. Several rounds of CPR later and Robyn was revived, but she found that other than her new appreciation for life, there were some other additional changes as well. 

power…  Robyn was granted the power of intuitive aptitude. This means they absorb information from everything they touch. Take the example of a computer. If Robyn has contact with one, she not only knows exactly what parts it has in it, but also what those parts are made of, how old they are, where they were most likely made, and all of the connections running through it. She can instantly tell if anything is wrong with it. She’s used this power in the past to fix up cars and bits of tech. If given a book however, she won’t absorb the knowledge in the book. At least not yet. She will only know what the book is made of and things like how many pages it has.  Touching people is a thing she avoids because of some severe side effects of her powers, but from the couple of times she has, she’s managed to pick up some skills she didn’t know before, such as martial arts so it’s possible she could learn other things from people, but it’s not something she’s about to try again or let people know about in fear that it might get abused.

drawbacks / vulnerabilities… Unfortunately for Robyn, she is unable to filter the overload of information when touching new things and her power is constantly active and not limited to just touching things with her hands. This is particularly a problem with complex things like living organisms. This causes her to get nosebleeds, searing headaches and occasionally pass out. Another issue they have is that if they touch people they can see their cellular makeup and everything going on inside and this makes them able to see any potential illnesses or genetic mutations that someone might have. This was actually how Robyn found out about her power. After waking up in hospital, her boyfriend at the time went in to kiss her and she was almost immediately knocked out again. Data about every atom in his body came coursing through her lips and overloaded her senses. She also learned that he had chlamydia and that was the swift end of that relationship. Between the info overload and knowing more than she can handle, she always wears gloves and avoids touching people. 

cerberus corp…  With her dreams of becoming a doctor all but destroyed, Robyn dropped out of medical school and started working as a mechanic. She had always had an interest in cars and motorbikes and the work was easy for her and gave her a chance to practice her powers in a controlled environment where no one paid much attention to her. Her parents were confused, but she kept her new powers to herself, not wanting anyone to find out. She avoided their calls and lied to them about why she’d dropped out.

Robyn had no intention of auditioning because she didn’t really see herself as a hero or particularly useful to society, but that didn’t matter as fabián benoit himself approached her directly to come and show off her powers to the other founders.

She doesn’t spend much time in the field but she’s been a vital part of helping ensure mission success when it comes to inventing new gadgets, ensuring all equipment and vehicles are fully functioning and also helping parse any information or examine any artefacts collected during missions. The few times she’s been in the field it’s been to examine crime scenes or scope out weaknesses in buildings and security. 

codename…  Robyn doesn’t think highly enough of herself to give herself the codename Prometheus. After all he is the sculptor of mankind and the one who gave humanity the gift of fire, in the form of technology, knowledge and civilisation. But the founders thought it was appropriate what with his name meaning forethought and his status as a master craftsman. 

003.  HEADCANONS

Robyn doesn't just wear gloves, she covers up as much of her body as the weather allows. Her Agent uniform reflects this

Likes to produce music

Works part time at a local mechanic but mostly because she misses the work and not because she needs the money

Chose her apartment based off of it's parking arrangements rather than the apartment itself

Has become something of a history buff because she's handled a few ancient objects in her time at Cerberus Corp and she wanted to know more beyond what her powers can tell her

Still has a very strained relationship with her parents and they don't know what she does for a living and she'd like to keep it that way

Despite pretending she's okay keeping everyone at bay she's actually very lonely

Has several party tricks she is capable of because of her powers, like lockpicking, being able to perfectly tune instruments and finding hidden objects

004.  POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS

Her ride or die - the person who manages to bring Robyn fully out of her shell and almost make her forget about her powers - taken by omar @ofrepeat

Agent friends - people who come to visit Robyn just to see her and not because they want something from her

Partner in Crime - Robyn has a lot going on in her head and sometimes she likes to silence that with alcohol. Or just someone she gets in trouble with who gets her out of her head and they sometimes talk about personal shit idk

Someone that annoys the fuck out of her cause they never respect her boundaries (probably to try and get a rise out of her)

Fellow musicians - someone she can jam with

Fellow petrolheads - Robyn adores working on cars and motorbikes so anyone she can talk shop with is amazing

Someone Robyn accidentally touched - and now she knows something about them she wishes she didn't chiara @extrordnys

Childhood friend - someone who knows the Robyn before she put up all her walls

A mentor/partner - someone her powers align with and she works alongside them when it comes to supporting missions

Roommate - she doesn't particularly want or need one but her therapist suggested that it's good for her

A therapist cause she needs one taken by sera @godenvy

#cc.intro #intro: robyn #there is very little left of me and it's never coming back

[jgroffdaily]

In theater, chemistry is crucial, particularly in a musical about deep, long-lasting friendships. Fortunately, the stars of the highly anticipated Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along are filled to overflowing with admiration for one another and for the show they’re bringing to vibrant life at the Hudson Theatre after a sold-out 2022 Off-Broadway run. As they navigate the reverse chronology of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s portrait of three mixed-up people, Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, and Lindsay Mendez draw the audience in with empathy and immense talent.

Groff nabbed a best actor Tony Award nomination at age 22 for Spring Awakening and went on to TV’s Glee, Looking, and Mindhunter, as well as a juicy role as Agent Smith in the most recent Matrix film.

During a lighthearted rehearsal-break chat with Broadway Direct, the stars referred to themselves as “theater nerds” thrilled to be sharing the stage for a second time in Merrily We Roll Along.

“The three of us have a very similar sense of humor and outlook on theater, which we love,” Mendez begins. “Jon and Dan are incredibly gifted actors — so complex, so present, and so fun to play with in every moment. It’s the biggest honor of my acting life to do this with the two of them.” Radcliffe praises Groff’s truthfulness and likability in the notoriously difficult role of composer-turned–film producer Franklin Shepard, and calls Mendez “one of the most ferociously talented people I’ve ever worked with.” Not to be outdone, Groff says that Mendez “has this backbone, this inner strength, that lifts the entire company. Her skill is off the charts.” As for Radcliffe? “Dan is like Beyoncé,” Groff declares with a laugh. “I’ve never met a person more passionate about acting. It’s an inspiration to be around him every day.” Laughing, Mendez concludes, “Our friendship will never fade!”

This mutual admiration is key to director Maria Friedman’s thrilling production, which invites audiences to identify with Franklin and his friends Mary Flynn, a novelist-turned-critic, and Charley Kringas, a lyricist-turned-playwright. In scenes that begin around 1980, we see the painful effect of Mary’s unrequited love for Frank over the prior two decades and Charley’s disappointment at the fracturing of his and Frank’s youthful songwriting partnership. “It’s a complicated show about a really simple thing,” Radcliffe observes. “It shows the complexity of relationships over time, which, in some ways, is an intimate story, but it’s also the biggest subject in the world.” Adds Mendez, “It’s rare to tell a love story about friendship, not to mention telling it backwards, which is a fascinating exercise for us as actors. Normally in a show, you carry everything you just did into the next scene, but here, you’re letting it all go [as the characters get younger]. That’s been hard, but also really fun and freeing — it forces us to stay absolutely present at every moment.”

In Friedman’s production, Franklin is the linchpin whose memories set the musical in motion, a framing that works because of Groff’s quiet magnetism. “He finds the truth in what Frank wants and never judges his character,” Mendez explains of her costar. “We all know people who bend the way the wind blows, but Jon does it with this incredibly huge heart and soul that no one can resist or say no to, including myself and Dan.” Groff modestly turns the conversation toward the show’s opening sequence, when every cast member — including wives, ex-wives, collaborators, and hangers-on — take the stage to sing “How did you get to be here?” during the title song. “We’re looking to the audience and encouraging them to track our journeys from the 1970s to the ’50s,” he says, “but we’re also asking them to reflect on their lives and how they got to be where they are. We’re inviting them to see themselves in all of us on stage.”

The miracle of Merrily, which had a disastrous Broadway debut in 1981, is that it includes some of Stephen Sondheim’s loveliest songs, including modern classics “Old Friends,” “Good Thing Going,” “Not a Day Goes By,” and “Our Time.” “It’s such an interesting Sondheim [score] because it is so hummable,” says Groff. “The songs are so tuneful, and yet the stories are so thorny; I think we ache for more musicals like that. This show is 42 years old, but it feels ahead of its time. It’s thrilling to deliver big scenes and complex characters and adult themes in a musical. It’s inspiring to young writers to be able to say, ‘You can write a show this complicated, and it can be on Broadway.’”

From the first note of the overture, Merrily We Roll Along is a deeply satisfying, emotional ride for both the stars and their audience. “When the music begins and the people start cheering, I’m thinking, ‘Oh my god!’” Radcliffe says with a laugh. “There is nothing better than doing a show you know people are excited to see.” Echoes Mendez, “We’re going nuts too, because it’s such an honor to be in this, and I’m happy we’re getting to share it with more people. This is what we all dreamed of when we moved to New York: a Sondheim musical on Broadway.”

#jonathan groff #lindsay mendez #daniel radcliffe #merrily we roll along #merrily promo

[jammie3132]

Fandom: Glee Pairing: Blaine Anderson & Sebastian Smythe Summary: How Sebastian and Blaine met their daughter 10 Days of Seblaine 2023 Day 5: Parent AU Part 1 of Poppy's Little Angel Dedicated to @seblaineaddict

Back during the Great Warbler-New Directions Show Choir Feud of 2011-2012, if you asked Sebastian Smythe if he hated Kurt Hummel, you’d never receive a straight answer. He’d say something about how dogs within a 10-mile radius of Hummel singing need noise cancelling earphones or it was animal cruelty.

Or, how Hummel constantly looked constipated.

Or, Hummel should learn to count to 8 so maybe, just maybe, he could pretend to know how to dance.

However, he’d never say he hated Kurt Hummel because he didn’t. The boy fascinated him. What the hell kind of voodoo fairy magic did the guy possess to get someone as amazing as Blaine Anderson fall for him? It was impossible to understand…much like Hummel’s wardrobe choices.

Then in 2013 Sebastian Smythe watched Blaine Anderson propose to Kurt Hummel. That’s when he began to hate Kurt Hummel.

But today, almost a decade later, Sebastian Anderson-Smythe hated Kurt Hummel more than he had ever hated anything, including his father when he threatened to disown him for dropping out of Columbia. The SOB (Hummel, not his father…this time) had Blaine in court with yet another frivolous attempt to get money…aka, make their lives miserable because they had the audacity to get married when Blaine was his soulmate.

Yet he, Blaine’s husband and true soulmate, wasn’t allowed to be in court to support him. So, what if the first time he saw the delusional asshole after reconnecting with Blaine, Blaine and Sam basically had to tackle him so he didn’t punch him and get arrested? Although, watching Brittany smack and then verbally humiliate Hummel in front of a nightclub full of onlookers with cellphones was almost as satisfying as if he’d done it himself.

Last he checked Beautiful Blonde tells off friend’s jealous Ex had almost 2 million views.

Sebastian walked to their bookcase and picked up their wedding photo. It was hard to believe it had only been 5 weeks. As he put it back on the shelf, for the first time he realized what Blaine else put on the shelf. The items told the story of how they got to this point.

Their wedding photo was front and center. Next to it was their Tonys for West Side Story along with a photo of the two of them looking dapper in their tuxedos.

It was unusual for an actor in revival to win Lead Actor in a Musical, but he’d known for years Blaine was the perfect Tony. There was never a doubt in anyone’s mind he would win.

His win was the polar opposite. An actor from a revival winning Featured Actor? You didn’t win unless you were a Hollywood actor slumming on Broadway. At least that’s what one of the guys he beat was screaming at his agent during the afterparty. Let’s just say those in the theater community didn’t take the term slumming well.

On the other side of the wedding photo were two others. One was from the first time they met. They looked so young…him in his Dalton uniform, Blaine in the infamous grey striped cardigan. Thad gave it to them as a wedding gift. He said he knew from that moment they’d wind up married someday.

The other photo was his favorite (except the wedding photo, of course). It was a picture from the first day for the entire cast. While they were mingling and introducing themselves, the director came to him and asked him to come with him. He wanted his Tony and Riff to begin working on their dynamic.

He hadn’t taken three steps when he heard You’ve got to be shitting me! followed by Blaine running across the stage, jumping into his arms and knocking them both to the ground.

The actual photo was the two of them sitting on the floor laughing. At some point they held it together long enough to tell the rest of the cast and crew they’d known each other back in Ohio. Also, that while Blaine was friendly (like a puppy), he wouldn’t be tackling anyone else…at least until he knew them better.

Instead of getting to know each other, the director sent them off to get reacquainted. There was a lot to talk about but he thought it best to get through the hard stuff first.

Blaine Anderson? Not Anderson-Hummel or worse, Hummel-Anderson?

Nope, Kurt always said hyphenating our names wouldn’t work for Broadway marquees.

I’ve got to ask. How freaked out is your hubby going to be about me being Riff to your Tony?

Sebastian, the universe has a wacky sense of timing but sometimes you have to trust everything will work out how it’s supposed to.

I don’t understand.

(Blaine pulls his phone out of his pocket and smiles) Today the universe decided to bring you back into my life at the exact same time

I had Kurt served with divorce papers.

No shit?

Oh, it gets better. Since Kurt was throwing one of his temper tantrums and wouldn’t speak to me unless I gave up Tony, which I obviously didn’t, my attorney suggested I wait 30 days to file so I could serve him with legal separation papers at the same time.

Did it work?

The text I received was from my attorney saying mission accomplished. That means Sam, Santana and Brittany are taking me out tonight to celebrate. Want to come?

As a date?

No, but not as a fuck you to Kurt either. We both know I did a shitty job hiding my attraction to you back in high school.

We both did, but it’s nice to hear you admit it.

Well, we’re about to spend A LOT of time together. If things work out in ways I hope they might, I don’t want you to believe you were a rebound or worse, I was using you to get back at Kurt.

Blaine

Yes, Sebastian

I would love to go out and celebrate with you and your friends tonight. But could you do me a favor?

What?

Warn Santana so I don’t get a drink thrown in my face.

I can try but she’s been plotting her revenge against you for years.

When he heard the key in the lock, Sebastian quickly straightened the shelf then hustled to the couch to make it seem like he hadn’t been waiting. Seeing the man he loves walk into the apartment looking completely exhausted but wearing a smile, allowed him to (somewhat) relax. “Everything went ok?”

Blaine took off his blazer and tie as he sat beside him. “As ok as things could go when dealing with Kurt. The judge threw out his claim for half my stake in the musical as well as his renewed claim for spousal support.”

“So, in other words, a colossal waste of time?”

“Yup. However, he will think twice before filing for another obvious cash grab, the judge’s words. Kurt was ordered to pay all my attorney’s fees.”

“About fucking time! Damn it B, you’ve been divorced from his sorry ass for a year, and you were legally separated from his gay face for 8 months prior to that!”

“Bas…”

“We’ve been married 5 weeks, 5 fucking weeks! We lost half our honeymoon because you had to come back for this bullshit!!”

Blaine kissed his love then went to their bedroom. Less than 15 minutes later he was back wearing lounge pants and an NYU t-shirt, while carrying two beers. “Feel better now that you got that off your chest?” he asked as he rejoined his husband.

“No…maybe a little. I, I just can’t stand the thought of you alone with that asshole, and I’m assuming Berry.”

“Don't pull the alone card. You know Santana was with me. Brittany would’ve come too, but you know, the restraining order.”

Nothing came from Brittany and Hummel's viral moment. It was months later when things went off the deep end.

Sebastian, Brittany, Sam and Santana all took the day off for Blaine's divorce hearing. They were there for support, but ready to be rebuttal witnesses if necessary. When Kurt took the stand, for reasons unknown to this day, he was stupid enough to go on a verbal diatribe on how he backed into a corner and forced into getting married in a tacky barn, in a tacky suit, with tacky guests he never would’ve invited. He wouldn't stop with the tacky-tacky-tacky…bitch-bitch-bitch…until Brittany ran to the witness box went all MMA before the bailiff could pull her off. Kurt refused to press charges but was awarded a restraining order.

“Did Santana have to take the stand?”

“No, but Benj made it back from LA in time to testify.”

“How did that happen?”

“One of the investors asked where I was and Benj told them in court because Kurt was going after half my stake. Long story short…meeting went from three days to one but the by time he and Justin made it to the airport it was past midnight here.”

“Is that why he didn’t call?”

“Pretty much. I would have won without him, but since Benj was part of Machiavelli the Musical from the beginning he could refute all Kurt's claims he contributed to songs I wrote. You should have seen Kurt's face when my attorney asked him to sing one of his contributions. He…” Blaine ended his explanation when Sebastian’s phone rang (and he ignored it) for the fourth time during their short conversation.

“Aren’t you going to get that? Someone seems awfully determined to speak with you.”

“It’s my Aunt Marie. As much as I love my cousin, I couldn’t deal with any of Penny’s drama. Today my focus was you and what was happening in court…which I wasn’t allowed to attend.”

Blaine rolled his eyes before pulling Sebastian down until his head was in his lap. In the 18 months they’d officially been together (he was legally separated!), he’d learned running his fingers through his (now) husband’s hair was the best trick to calm him down.

Their sex life was anything but calm.

“We already covered this…at nauseam. The reason you were asked not to attend is because you, my big…strong…incredibly sexy husband, cannot control your disdain for my former husband. Your protective nature is one of the many, many reasons I love you.”

“But…”

“A huge portion of our strategy was to demonstrate how irrational Kurt truly is. My attorney was able to get him to throw a tantrum on several occasions. He was even able to get Rachel to corroborate several points of Santana’s testimony on threat of perjury.”

“But…”

“Bas, my love, my day in court with Kurt went better than expected with him having to pay my attorney fees. The judge also laid into him on how a finalized divorce, unless it involves children or fraud, means final…closed…the end. Move on!” Sebastian’s phone rang again, but this time Blaine could reach it. “Talk to her. While you’re doing that, I’ll call for pizza. I’m starving.”

Blaine went to the kitchen to call their favorite pizzeria and then Sam to answer any questions he might have about what happened in court. He assumed Santana had already called him with her version (he was right). It was almost 45 minutes later until he rejoined Sebastian on the couch with their freshly delivered dinner. He was still on his phone and speaking in French, but not with his Aunt Marie.

“Grandmother, this is a lot to ask…But…But…Yes, Ma’am…Yes, Ma’am…No, Ma’am…I’ll talk to Blaine…Yes, immediately…I promise…Yes, I’ll call Aunt Marie…Grandmother, Blaine is here. I’ll call back soon. Bye.” Sebastian ended the call and asked “How much of that did you understand?”

“You really didn't say much. What I don’t understand is why you were talking with your grandmother.”

“Aunt Marie she thought Grandmother was the best person to tell me what’s going on.” Blaine reached for his hand to give him an anchor. “Whatever it is, I’m right here.”

Sebastian kissed him, hard, and then put their foreheads together. “I love you so much. I love the life we’re building so much. I…”

“Bas, you’re beginning to scare me.”

“Sorry, it’s…Penny had her baby this morning. She’s decided to put her up for adoption. Since this wasn’t her original plan, she hadn’t vetted any potential parents and she doesn’t want to hand over the baby to strangers. B, Penny wants us to adopt her.”

“The baby is a little girl?”

Sebastian pulled back and stared into Blaine’s eyes. He didn’t look confused...or crazy. “Yes, but you heard the part of how Penny wants us, you and me, to adopt her…right?”

“It’s not up to us.”

Huh? “Then who the hell is it up to?”

“The baby.” Blaine grabbed a piece of pizza before getting off the couch. “You start packing while I call Benj and Justin to tell them I’m going to Paris for a while. I’ll book plane tickets for first thing in the morning but could you pull our passports out so we don’t forget them? And call your Aunt Marie or Grandma to tell them we’re coming, but don’t want to see anyone until we’re settled. I’ll arrange…”

His husband kept rambling but Sebastian had stopped listening at The baby. “What the hell do you mean adopting a baby is not up to us, it’s up to the baby?! She’s not even a day old! Don’t you think this is something we should discuss?”

“That’s what the long-ass flight to Paris is for. And trust me on this…in the end, the decision of whether or not we’re about to become Daddies is up to that little girl.”

“Papas.” Sebastian’s response stopped both of them in their tracks. For the first time he didn’t sound like he was in freak-out mode. “She’s French. We’d be her Papas.”

“You’re right but let’s go ahead and put it on a list of things to discuss on the plane.”

Blaine turned to leave (again) but Sebastian stopped him (again). “You don’t think this is crazy? We’ve only been married 5 weeks!”

“Oh, I think this is completely insane, but what did I tell you the day we reconnected at West Side Story?”

Sebastian immediately knew what he meant. “The universe has a wacky sense of timing but sometimes you have to trust everything will work out how it’s supposed to.”

“Last time, the universe brought me you on the day I served Kurt with divorce papers. And I promise, I’m keeping an open mind on all this, but after what I went through in court today…”

“Maybe the universe decided to get a little more wacky to make up for your ex being delusional.”

Blaine took a bite of his pizza and then walked out of the room before Sebastian could interrupt him yet again. It was his turn to be overwhelmed.

Why the hell did he say It’s up to the baby to decide? He was barely into the process of developing Machiavelli the Musical into a full-blown Broadway production and for some unknown reason had agreed to star as Machiavelli. This was going to take a massive amount of his time for the foreseeable future. Sebastian was fully onboard but…

A baby?

Yes, his partners were ubertalented and more than capable of holding things down if he was in Paris for longer than he anticipated but…

A baby?

He took a few deep breaths, devoured his pizza, opened another beer and got to work on what needed to be done. As much they were still wears his heart on his sleeve Blaine Anderson and overly self-confident Sebastian Smythe, this time Blaine Anderson-Smythe had to be the levelheaded one.

A little over 36 hours later the potential fathers were in a private waiting room at the hospital. They had met the head of Child Services and the attorney Blaine’s father arranged for them. There was only one more person left to meet.

Blaine was sitting on a small loveseat while Sebastian was pacing the room, little pink blanket in hand.

They’d agreed not to get ahead of themselves by running out to a store and buy a bunch of baby stuff to take with them. When Blaine got back from meeting his partners, he found out he agreed.

Sebastian called Brittany and they bought out the baby girl section at Macy’s. After an hour of But Blaaaaaaine, he agreed to bringing two outfits and the little pink blanket but…

“I thought we agreed to leave the blanket in your suitcase for the time being?”

“Hospitals are so cold. What if she’s cold?”

Blaine sighed then stood and wrapped his arms around his husband. The pacing was getting annoying. “Bas…”

“B…”

They both froze then turned to face the door as the wails of a distraught baby filled the room. “Mr. and Mr. Anderson-Smythe, I’m Margot from Child Services. You spoke earlier with my supervisor. This is the child you’ve come all this way to meet. I’m sorry but the nurses report she’s been like this for as long as she’s been with them. The doctors insist she is perfectly healthy…”

Blaine let go of Sebastian and pushed him toward the transit crib. “Maybe she’s cold.”

He’d been holding it together for so long, it took Blaine everything within him not to burst with happiness as the man he loved wrapped the tiny girl in the little pink blanket then instinctively cradled her in his arms. “Are you cold, Angel? I brought you this blanket from NYC. My friend Brittany went to the store with me to find it. I’m glad she did because I wouldn’t have known to wash it first. Or that they make special detergents for babies. Or…”

“Bas” Sebastian reluctantly looked up to see Blaine holding his phone. After he took a picture, he asked “Do you realize she stopped crying the moment you wrapped her in the blanket?”

“She did?”

“The adoption lady was so shocked she left to talk to the nurses. We’ll probably see one of them soon with a bottle. Let’s go sit down. I’m kind of amazed you’re still standing.”

It was only a few moments after they were settled that the expected nurse and bottle appeared. She began a tutorial but, once again, Sebastian was a natural. “I take it you’ve done this before?”

“Never. She was just hungry. Were you hungry, Angel?”

“Alright, but when she’s finished…”

Sebastian handed the bottle to Blaine and began to gently rub the baby’s back, quickly earning him the desired results. “Are you ready for the rest of your bottle, Angel?”

Blaine gave the nurse a wink and promised if they needed anything they would use the call button. It wasn’t long before the bottle was discarded and the three of them were cuddled together on the love seat.

“I think she likes us B.”

“I think she likes you.”

It was only then Sebastian realized he hadn’t given Blaine a chance to hold the baby. “I’m sorry…I didn’t realize. Here you go, Angel. There’s someone else who really wants to meet you.”

They both quietly giggled after Blaine let out a sigh of relief. He’d been worried the once cranky baby wouldn’t take to him in the same way she did with Sebastian and start crying again. “Hello, little one. My name is Blaine.”

“But you can call him Daddy.”

Blaine kissed the baby’s forehead, then his husband. “Daddy? Not Papa?”

“If she calls us the same thing it would get confusing.” Sebastian leaned over and returned Blaine’s kiss. “You were right. She had to be the one to decide if she wanted to be our daughter. The fact she’s sleeping so peacefully must mean she knows she’s safe.”

“Safe?” Blaine questioned the wording because it wasn’t the one he expected.

“I thought you might get freaked out if I said love so soon.”

“Bas, new mothers talk about the overwhelming feeling of love they feel when they see their baby for the first time. I’m sure it’s natural for fathers too.”

Sebastian didn’t ask, just lifted the baby back into his arms. “Are you sure? Because I don’t know if I could let her go…”

Blaine answered him by beginning to sing to the baby.

One look at you My whole life falls in line I prayed for you Before I called you mine

Oh, I can't believe it's true sometimes Oh, I can't believe it's true

I get to love you It's the best thing that I'll ever do I get to love you It's a promise I'm making to you

Whatever may come, your heart I will choose Forever I'm yours, my forever is you

I get to love you I get to love you

By the time he finished, Sebastian was a blubbering mess. “That’s the song you wrote me for our wedding.”

“I remember. It was only 5 weeks ago” Blaine jokingly replied. “But seriously, are we really going to do this?” He held up his hand to stop an immediate response. “Getting the musical up and running on its own will be time consuming but I also agreed to play Mach for the first year. I mean, hopefully it’s a big enough hit we get to worry about my handing over the role. What I’m trying to say is, we agreed, if we do this, we don’t want her raised in daycare. That means for the next 18 months to 2 years, if not longer, you will be her primary parent…some days more like a single parent. Are you ready for that?”

“With the exception of you, I have never wanted anything more.” Sebastian looked down at the baby and asked “Angel, are you ready to go back to NYC and have fun with your Poppy while your brilliant Daddy works to win some more Tonys?”

He lifted the baby’s arm and began to lightly shake it while saying in a high-pitched voice “Yes, Poppy. As soon as the doctors say I can fly I want to go to NYC and have lots of fun with you and Auntie Tana and Auntie Britt and Uncle Sammy. Daddy will sing me songs and I will always know how much he loves me. And when Daddy’s new musical wins lots and lots of Tonys, everyone will cheer his talent and proclaim him to be the most talented Daddy in the whole wide world.”

It was Blaine’s turn to cry. “Then there is something the three of us better do soon so we can share our news.”

“What?”

“We have to help her choose her name.”

From Blaine: *attached photo* Sebastian and I are pleased to announce Miss Angelica Penelope Anderson-Smythe chose us to be her Poppy and Daddy. Of course, we emphatically agreed.

From Sebastian: *attached photo* Poppy’s Little Angel

NOTES:

The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli 1513. Original title: De Principatibus (Of Principalities). I see this parody along the lines of A Very Potter Musical.

I Get to Love You: Bronleewee, Matthew; Eckford, Margaret 2016

It might seem like there is a bunch of unnecessary backstory (especially the Kurt/court stuff), but it pays off in the final entry.

#10daysofseblaine2023 #day 5 #Parents AU #seblaine fic #blaine anderson #sebastian smythe #seblaineaddict #Poppy's Little Angel

[2bhankfan]

 Hey Guys , Today tobpic; 2bhank

I will assume everything anything in the main series, Project Nexus 1 and 2, and anything Krinkels has said is canon. ONE IMPORTANT NOTE: Krinkels has stated “Relationships aren’t really a thing in Nevada” but that’s stupid, and this is the same man that keeps making Sanford and Deimos make out and be valentines day posters etc. etc. even if it’s for fan service I don’t really care and I don’t think anyone else does. Anything I talk about will be referencing canon, with some speculative thoughts.

Generally their situation is so ... strange to me ?!?? I’ve really looked for ways they could be heterosexual I have but nothing they do makes sense to me. Hank is trustworthy enough of Doc to live with him (and more importantly, Doc is able to live with Hank and survive,) Doc is close enough with Hank to have known Hank’s “soft side”, curiously “considering how much he stitches him up” meaning they’ve both spent a decent amount of time together and that Doc does... something medical? with him. more on that soon

Let’s lay out some basic character traits. Hank is a murder machine, entirely defined by his violent behavior. He’s easily irritable (Killing Boombox Guy for having annoying music?) and always looking for a reason to slit someone’s throat (”Yeah? Because between you and me, I was hoping it would come to this.”) They don’t yield very well to being good with people, described as uncooperative and seems to be much more antisocial as the only characters in the entire series that don’t outright hate him are Sanford, Deimos, and Doc.

Doc is a calm and collected professional working as S.Q.’s communications and possible shadow leader. He takes a lot of care in his words to get all the details laid out to give you simple commands to follow and play out whatever mission you’re assigned however you can, as long as the job gets done and done well. His professional facade comes off as soon as he’s alone or with people he trusts, such as Deimos. He’s more of a crude arrogant asshole, signing himself off with “Big D(issenter)” and swearing “God damn it, Deimos.” He jokes the same as the rest, probably thanks to his background in the AAHW.

First thing that caught my attention was the house they both lived in, I made a chart you can refer to as well. (Edit: In the middle of making this post and looking at twitch clips, This fucking comes up, so money can’t be a motivating factor for anything he does.)

So, an Ex-AAHW agent invites the single man his operation was against to live in his home, and somehow that man agrees. Hank, if he was after something like his house, could just easily kill him and take it for himself but it seems Doc provides something that Hank can’t get all for himself, he needs Doc. It’s likely that most of the reasons he began living with Doc were circumstantial, from Madness Combat 4 and earlier Hank would of been able to revive (and even stitch himself back together?) himself without Doc’s help, he isn’t getting paid to stay, and there are no other canon known reasons as to why Hank would even trust Doc enough to live with him. I genuinely cannot wrap my head around this, PLEASE add your thoughts if you have any. Sadly I don't think there's even enough information on Doc in general to get any more than "He thinks Hank's revival ability is whipass and wants to check it out."

Hank's trust in Doc might imply a deeper relationship, like history with the other before coming to live with him. Doc is able to get Hank to do a LOT of different things, contracts to suppressing his violent tendencies to living in his damn house.

(A note reading,

"Hank, Pretty please

1, Rescue Noobs

2, Acquire hardware

3, Destroy Nexus

4, Proceed")

The first image is purely speculation, but considering the language used ("Rescue noobs") as well as Sanford & Deimos' only known alliance to be with S.Q. and Doc working as the shadow leader/communications for jobs like these, it is pretty safe to assume Doc was the one who wrote this message to Hank.

In Project Nexus 2, he asks him to do the same thing as he did in Project Nexus 1 (The timeline for this series is a little weird, so that's for another post) and even ends up giving him the rocket launcher he asked for during the SOMEWHERE IN NEVADA flashback. There is atleast somewhat of a mutual relationship with this, Doc gives him all the tools and a goal while Hank gets to kill anything to his hearts desire.

(Doc stopping Hank from pulling out his sword and stabbing Jebediah by only raising a hand.)

The second image shows that Hank, faced with the man who'd killed him twice, was about to kill him only to stop himself when Doc raised his hand to him. His natural response to most situations is to simply murder, shown in both Madness 6 and 9.5, and most of the characters have trouble dealing with that trait including the Employers. Doc, however, is the only character we've seen able to control and reason with these urges while others have failed pretty miserably leading to SOMEONE'S death.

It's incredibly odd to me how Hank's personality switches up entirely in every case he's interacting with Doc, where he goes from an unstoppable murder machine to a decently-mannered soldier who allows himself to be vulnerable. He isn't even getting paid.

I'll make a second part for Doc / 2bdamned , but this is what I have for Hank rn. I might edit this later as well.

#madness combat

[d-criss-news]

A Very Darren Crissmas

December 10 2023 Sunday evening at 7:30pm Fisher Theatre Detroit, Michigan

Award-winning actor, singer, and songwriter Darren Criss (Glee) performs songs from his holiday album, A Very Darren Crissmas, with music ranging from big-band Christmas classics to novelty tunes to modern-day folk-pop ballads. A Very Darren Crissmas showcases his kaleidoscopic artistry and delivers both thrillingly unpredictable moments and a timeless sense of Christmas magic. 

A VERY DARREN CRISSMAS Comes to Denver in December

Kicking off the Christmas season, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Darren Criss will perform songs from his recent holiday album, A Very Darren Crissmas in a national tour coming to the Fisher Theatre December 10. His first ever full length project includes a wildly eclectic collection of songs from big band Christmas classics to novelty tunes to modern-day folk-pop ballads. Made with Ron Fair, multi-Grammy nominee and producer of numerous GRAMMY-winning hits, A Very Darren Crissmas showcases his artistry delivering both thrillingly unpredictable moments and a timeless sense of Christmas magic. Darren Criss will perform at the Fisher Theatre on December 10, 2023. Tickets go on sale Friday, July 28 at 10:00 a.m. online at BroadwayInDetroit.com and in person at the Fisher Theatre box office starting at 12:00 p.m.

Since bursting onto the pop-culture landscape from Fox’s hit show Glee over a decade ago, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Darren Criss has embodied the kind of kaleidoscopic artistry that’s entirely uninhibited by form or genre. The multi-hyphenates illustrious career spans television, film, music and stage.

Criss is widely known for FOX’s massively successful musical series Glee, from which many of his performances of popular songs would lead to several Billboard-topping records. In 2015 his songwriting also landed an Emmy nomination for Best Original Music and Lyrics, from penning the song “This Time” for the show’s series finale.

As an actor, Criss is a veteran of the stage whose Broadway credits include the titular role of Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2015), How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (2012), and the most recent 2022 revival of David Mamet’s seminal play American Buffalo alongside Laurence Fishburne and Sam Rockwell. In 2018 his work in Ryan Murphy’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story received wide critical acclaim, earning him a Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Critics’ Choice Award. He was also recently seen starring in Netflix’s hit series Hollywood, for which he also served as executive producer.

Tickets are available now for groups of 10 or more by calling Group Sales at 313-871-1132 or emailing [email protected] Performance schedule, prices and cast are subject to change without notice. Broadway In Detroit uses Ticketmaster as its sole, authorized ticketing agent. Individual tickets purchased from a ticket broker or “third party” ticket reseller involves risk and may not be authentic, sold at box office prices, or with correct performance and venue information. Broadway In Detroit box offices cannot verify tickets sold through a third party or ticket reseller. Broadway In Detroit is also unable to contact third party purchasers with pertinent updates or changes regarding performances. For more information on Broadway in Detroit, subscriptions, group sales and more, please visit www.BroadwayinDetroit.com

#darren criss #broadway world #avdc 2023 @ detroit #press #upcoming events #july 2023 #avdc 2023

[jimblejamblewritings]

little situation | part 7.

Summary: For years, HYDRA had been trying to use the samples of Steve’s DNA to make another super-soldier. They finally succeed and when S.H.I.E.L.D. breaks her out, Cap is forced to come face to face with his kid and figure out parenting on an Avengers’ lifestyle.

Warnings: maybe potential childhood trauma but nothing really

Pairing: Steve Rogers x blackdaughter!reader, avengers x child!reader

Word Count: 3.3k

Previous Part | (Series Masterlist)

It was late when you and Steve got home from seeing Peggy. You saw your neighbor with a load of laundry as she just got off the phone.

“You know you’re welcome to use our machine. Least we could do for all your help.”

“Oh, no problem. But I’ve already got a load in downstairs plus these scrubs have been to the infectious disease ward,” she laughed as Steve held up his hands. “Oh, I think you guys left your speaker on.”

“Oh, right. Thank you.”

Steve waited till she walked away, telling you to stay outside. You could both hear the jazz music coming from inside the house. Steve went back downstairs and snuck in through his window. He sighed when he saw it was Nick and stomped over to the door to open it for you.

“I don’t remember giving you a key.”

“You’d really think I’d need one? My wife kicked me out.”

“Didn’t know you were married.”

“A lot of things you don’t know about me.”

“Yeah, Nick. That’s kind of the problem.”

Steve went to turn on the lights and when he did you both almost gasped at the sight of Nick. He held up a finger telling you both to be quiet before clicking off the lamp closest to him. Nick typed up something on his phone for Steve to read: Ears Everywhere.

You screamed as the first few bullets stormed through your house and hit Nick. Steve threw you the shield while he dragged Nick to a safer spot towards the back of the apartment. Nick slipped something in Steve’s hand.

“Don’t trust anyone.”

Steve looked over as the door clicked open.

“Captain Rogers.”

You and Steve looked in confusion as your neighbor came in with a handgun.

“Captain, Sarah. I’m Agent 13 of S.H.I.E.L.D. Special Service.”

“Kate?”

“I’m assigned to protect you.”

“On whose order?”

“His,” Agent 13 said as she knelt over Nick’s body.

She pulled out a walkie talkie. “Foxtrot is down. He’s unresponsive. I need EMTs.”

“Do we have the shooter in custody?” the dispatcher asked.

Steve took the shield from you. “Tell him I’m in pursuit.”

You watched your dad jump from your apartment building to the one across the street while you stayed with Agent 13 until they whisked Fury away to a hospital. Nat came bursting into the waiting room where you and Steve were, watching them operate on Nick.

“Is he going to make it?”

“We don’t know,” Steve said.

“The shooter.”

“He’s fast. Strong. Had a metal arm.”

You tensed up. It didn’t go unnoticed by Steve and Nat. Steve pulled you in, cradling your head to keep your vision away from the window.

“You shouldn’t be watching this.”

He tried to shield you even more as they tried to revive Nick, failing in the end. Steve told you to wait in the hall while he and Nat mourned. Maybe it was pointless but he didn’t think you needed to add Nick to the alarmingly long list of people you’ve seen die in front of you. You looked up when Nat stormed into the hall with Steve hot on her trail.

“Natasha.”

“Why was Fury in your apartment?”

“I don’t know.”

“Cap, they want you back at S.H.I.E.L.D.” Rumlow interrupted.

“Sarah…”

“They want you now.”

“Okay.”

“You’re a terrible liar,” Nat said before walking off.

Steve looked around for a moment, his eyes landing on the vending machine, before turning back to you.

“Sarah, let’s go.” His hand was on your shoulder, guiding you out as you followed Rumlow and the STRIKE team back to headquarters.

~~

You and Steve were walking to the elevators when you saw Agent 13 in an office suit. Steve was about to leave on a mission and wasn’t sure what to do after talking with Nick, he didn’t feel comfortable leaving you with anyone he wasn’t sure of at the moment. Agent 13 spotted you guys since she was headed in the opposite direction.

“Captain Rogers.”

“Neighbor,” Steve said before his mouth hardlined.

You offer Agent 13 a small smile because Steve was more stubborn than you. But you kept walking with him because a part of you felt betrayed as well— you thought people were done lying and tricking you. A man stopped you two.

“Captain. I’m Alexander Pierce.”

“Sir, it’s an honor.”

“The honor’s mine. My father served in the 101st. Come on in, it’s nice to meet you Sarah. Will you wait outside while your father and I talk?”

You didn’t want to leave. Especially after last night, you were already struggling to let Steve go on his latest mission. Steve seemed to sense it because he grabbed your shoulder. You took out your hearing aids and handed them to Steve. Pierce swallowed but seemed to accept the compromise and you followed him into the office.

You looked out the window as they spoke, knowing you’d be able to read Pierce’s lips. When Steve stood up so did you and you followed him back out, almost knocking into him when he stopped suddenly after Pierce called his name.

One of the things you liked about S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters was that the elevators at the very end of the halls were glass and let you see the outside world. You and Steve looked out the glass as he commanded the elevator to take him somewhere. He turned around and so did you, now seeing that the elevator hadn’t started to go down because Rumlow and the STRIKE team was entering. Steve greeted them and you went back to looking at the window.

The elevator stopped not on your floor and more men piled in. Steve grabbed you and shifted you in front of him and closer to the doors as the elevator began to get packed. He looked over at the man next to him and watched a bead of sweat roll down his face. The elevator stopped once again and three more large men were standing there waiting to get on. Steve put your hearing aids back in.

“Sarah, take the next elevator.” He started to push you out of the elevator, not really able to follow with all the bodies.

“Come on, Cap. No one would ever think about it,” one of the men said.

“Can never be too careful, nothing personal guys. Four floors down, Babydoll.”

Steve signed as he spoke. But the words didn’t match. No one else would know but you were confused.

“Four floors down, Babydoll. Operations Room, got it?” Steve repeated with the same wrong signs: Don’t go home. Understood? Home. Don’t.

“Okay, Dad. Operations Room,” you said as Rumlow pushed the button for the elevator doors to start to close.

Steve carefully signed very close to his body so that no one else would see it.

Run.

You heard the crack of a taser wand the minute you sprinted. You looked behind you with wide eyes as you saw the men turn on Steve but you didn’t stop running because he told you to go. There was another STRIKE team about two floors down that were standing in front of you. You threw all your weight into the emergency exit stairs and ran before they could do anything. Less of the STRIKE team was following you, Steve being number one target. The plan was to use you as leverage because everyone knew Steve wasn’t going to leave his kid. One man got close until you turned and grabbed him, slamming him into the railing and then throwing him into the next closest agent.

Your lungs burned because even as half super-soldier, you chose not to stop until you were in a location where you felt you could hide in the crowd which pushed you past your limits. Steve said not to go home. Because they knew where he lived but where were you supposed to go. And how were you supposed to find him? Your phone was missing. You had chucked it at the security guard’s neck, the only space not covered, and never stopped to pick it up as you left S.H.I.E.L.D.

You ripped your hearing aids off, not even wanting them on, as you tried not to hyperventilate. No one seemed to notice or care as you crouched in the grass trying to think. You stood back up, put the aids in, and looked around. You knew this location. You walked, more like ran, with deliberation to the brick building.

“Baby Rogers! Where’s running ma— Sarah, are you okay?” Sam’s joking tone turned to one of concern as he saw you enter the VA building.

“Dad. They’re trying to kill my dad, he told me… I didn’t know anyone else to trust.”

“Okay, hey Sarah, you’re good. Alright. Do you know where he is now?”

“No! My phone, I lost—”

“Sarah, sweetheart, calm down. Do you know his number?”

Steve told you not to go home but now you weren’t picking up his calls. He didn’t have time to panic, he had one place to stop before starting a manhunt for you again. Steve checked the vending machine where he hid the flash drive Nick had given him. The machine was empty but he saw the reflection of Nat in the glass as she popped a bubble out of the gum she was blowing. Steve turned around and shoved her into an empty room and up against a wall.

“Where is it?”

“Safe,” Nat said.

“Do better.”

“Where did you get it?”

“Why would I tell you?”

“Fury gave it to you. Why?”

“What’s on it?”

“I don’t know.”

“Where’s Sarah?”

“Sarah’s missing?”

“Don’t bullshit me! Where’s my daughter?”

“I’m not. I only act like I know everything, Rogers. I don’t know what Fury said but I’m on your side.”

“I swe— hello?” Steve answered his phone. “Sarah?! Babydoll, are you okay? You’re not hurt are you?”

“I’m okay, Dad. I’m at—”

“No names, they could have the phone tapped. Hint, Babydoll.”

“…On your left.”

“My left… alright. I’ll find you okay. Stay on your left, three days.”

“Three days, promise?”

“Promise and I won’t call, I’ll be right there. Okay? I’m with you, Babydoll.”

“Till the end of the line?” You asked, remembering the Smithsonian visit. You felt like you needed extra reassurance and Steve seemed to say that a lot when he was Captain America in the 40s.

“Unh-unh. I’m with you past that, Sarah.”

“Three days. Love you, Dad.”

“Love you, too.”

The phone clicked off. Steve would’ve liked to hear those words under better circumstances and not said because you thought you actually might not hear or see him again. Steve turned back to Nat to press her for more information on what she did know.    

~~

The knocking on the door alerted Sam who was in the kitchen drinking orange juice after having just come from his morning run— you didn’t budge, having not heard a sound with your hearing aids on the table. He rolled up the blinds on the second glass door to see a dusty Nat and Steve.

“Hey, man.”

“I’m so sorry about this.”

“She’s in the kitchen.”

Sam moved aside for Steve to race past him and into the house. Your back was to them from where you were sitting at the table. Steve reached over you and knocked on the table. Immediately flying up from the chair, you hugged him in a death grip. After an eternity, you let go of Steve and hugged Nat before letting them both clean off in Sam’s bathroom.

“I made breakfast. If you guys eat that sort of thing,” Sam interrupted Steve and Nat’s talk.

“So the question is, who at S.H.I.E.L.D. could launch a domestic missile attack?” Nat asked.

“Pierce,” Steve answered.

“Who happens to be sitting on top of the most secure building in the world,” Nat retorted.

“But he’s not working alone.”

“Zola’s algorithm was on the Lemurian Star so was Jasper Sitwell.”

“So how do the two most wanted people in Washington kidnap a S.H.I.E.L.D. officer in broad daylight?”

“The answer is, you don’t.” Sam plopped down his old file in front of them. “Consider this a resume.”

“The Khalid Khandil mission,” Nat said, looking the file over. “That was you?”

“You didn’t say he was a Pararescue. Is this Riley?” Steve asked.

Sam handed them a second part of the file. Steve opened it, looking at the pictures inside.

“I thought you were a pilot.”

“I never said pilot.”

“I can’t ask you to do this, Sam. You got out for a good reason.”

“Dude, Captain America needs my help. Last one of those is in Fort Meade. Guarded heavily.”

“Shouldn’t be a problem,” Steve said as he dropped the file reading EXO-7 Falcon on the table.

Steve sighed. He now had to confront something he had been avoiding for months now. Steve looked at you.

“I’m taking you to your grandparents.”

“What? No!”

“We can’t risk you going to Clint’s. I found Elise’s parents, their house is on the way to Fort Meade. You’ll be safe wi—”

“No! I’m not going with them. You’re not leaving me again!”

“Sarah, it’s another mission. We’ve done this before, just once more and I’ll quit, okay?”

“No.”

“Sarah.”

“No! This isn’t another mission, it’s about S.H.I.E.L.D. I don’t want you to quit. I like my dad being Captain America but you’re not leaving me this time.”

~~

“Stay in the car,” Steve said as they left to go get Jasper Sitwell. “Don’t even argue. The car, stay here.”

You shut your mouth and sat back in the seat. Steve cradled the back of your head for a moment before he closed the car door. You couldn’t see where Steve and Nat had gone but you could see Sam sitting on the bench in front of where the car was parked on the curb. You were uncomfortably sandwiched between Jasper and Nat as the car sped off.

“Insight’s launching in sixteen hours. We’re cutting it close,” Nat said as she leaned over.

The window was suddenly smashed and Jasper was pulled from the car. Nat pushed you down and then launched herself into the front seat, maneuvering her body to cover Steve while pushing Sam to the edge of the car as much as possible. Steve shoved the gear shift into park. The car lurched forward and a man was thrown from the car.

You were about to get up from the floor of the car when a large Jeep slammed into the back, jostling you back to the floor. Nat attempted to find the gun that had fallen by Steve’s feet. The man used his metal arm to rip the steering wheel out of the car. He jumped onto the Jeep behind you guys before Nat could properly shoot him. The car began to swerve and hit other cars. The Jeep pulled back and rammed into the car again causing it to start to flip.

“Sarah!” Steve yelled.

He couldn’t reach you as the car flipped. He, Sam, and Nat fell out on the broken passenger’s side door. The door was sliding along the freeway and while Steve couldn’t see it, he had horror written all over his face as he imagined the car flipping over multiple times. Once the sliding stopped, he quickly stood up but didn’t have time to try and reach you as the metal armed man pointed a large grenade launcher at them. Steve shoved Nat and braced himself with the shield. The impact knocked him over the overpass and into a bus.

You heard the gunshots and stayed where you were in the car— partially because you felt very banged up. You groaned in slight pain as your right hand reached around gently for the hearing aid that had fallen out, trying not to cut yourself on glass. When it got quiet on the overpass, the only noise coming from the cars, you slowly and carefully slid yourself out of the car. You could see Sam shooting at the people below. Sam was relieved as you approached.

“Where’s my dad?”

“Going after the dude with the damn metal arm.”

“Metal arm?!”

You looked over the bridge, seeing Sam had gotten all but two. Two, that wasn’t so bad. Only four or five gunshots at the most maybe. You stood back and then ran at the overpass. Sam screamed your name but you ignored him, landing on one of the overturned cars before speeding off. Sam cursed as he went back to shooting before the two men could aim at you.

The sound that rang out when the metal arm of the Winter Soldier hit Steve’s shield was damn near deafening. Steve was kicked off the car and had to quickly use the shield to block his body from the shots. The metal arm had thrown him and was starting to give him a run for his money. But also because Steve was only half-focused on the fight.

The other half of his mind was stuck on the overpass where he wasn’t sure if his daughter had survived the car flipping over or not. His wandering mind caused him to lose the shield as the Winter Soldier threw it into a van. He flipped out a knife and Steve was now holding his hands inches away from his face.

“James! Soldat. Jamie!” you yelled as you ran into the street.

Steve and the Winter Soldier turned to you, confusion in both of their eyes. Steve snapped out of it first and kicked the man to escape. You ran in between the two of them as James’ fist almost connected with Steve’s face. You hissed at the pain from when you blocked it. You knew he wouldn’t hit you. Would he do anything to get around you and get to Steve? Probably. But he would try his hardest not to hit you… even if you attacked him. So you hit him in the face and pulled the mask off his face as he staggered back.

“Bucky?” Steve gasped.

“Who the hell is Bucky?” He began to stalk forward again.

“Jamie.”

He looked over at you. “It’s a mission, little doll.”

“He’s my dad, please Jamie.”

Bucky stopped. He ripped Steve’s shield out of the side of the van and shoved it back into Steve’s chest.

“Go. Before they take you back.”

“Come with us, we can help.”

You watched the recognition he had slowly get clouded again by something else.

“You said we’d escape together! Jamie…”

Sam kicked the Winter Soldier out of the way and then a grenade from Nat was thrown and after the smoke cleared, James was nowhere to be found.

“No!” You screamed as you looked around for him.

Black vans surrounded you. The four of you found yourself being forced to your knees by large men with guns. The only thing stopping your death was the news helicopter that suddenly appeared and Rumlow realizing how bad it could look. They stood you all up and you found yourself being taken to a separate van. Steve started to fight, struggling with the weird handcuffs he was placed in. You were being contained by multiple guards.

“Sarah! Sarah! Where the hell are you taking her? That’s my kid! Rumlow, that’s my fucking kid!”

“HYDRA wants their pet back.”

Sam, Steve, and Nat watched in horror as your body slowly went slack when Rumlow started speaking in Russian: Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, Freight car.

“Ready to comply?”

“Ready to comply.” You turned to follow the soldiers.

“Sarah!”

“001.”

The guard called when they all noticed you turn around at Steve’s words. Steve called your name again and the recognition reappeared until the guard said 001. Before Steve could say another word, your hearing aids were ripped out and crushed. You were pushed into a separate van.

(Part 8)...

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