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jadedstephens · 4 years

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𝖏𝖆𝖉𝖊 𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖊𝖓𝖘

“doubling down in the face of imminent death? ballsy.”

aesthetic — sunflowers in mirrored vases. staying up late and sleeping in. off-key singing in the shower. the warmth of the sun on your skin. leather & lace. organized chaos. messy hair, don’t care days. standing outside during a thunderstorm. half finished bottles of whiskey. smudged eyeliner from the night before. oversized sweaters & ripped leggings. guilt warring with need. wanting to be better than you were before.

compare to : sybil crawley (downton abbey), ambrose spellman (chilling adventures of sabrina), alice cullen (twilight), ellie sattler (jurassic park), margaery tyrell (game of thrones)

— basics

full name : jade rose stephens nicknames : jade age : 18 (physical) // 29 (actual) gender identity : cis female, she/her pronouns sexual orientation : pansexual, but also ladies tho species : vampire occupation : research assistant in vampiric studies & first aid assistant family : amy stephens (mother), jason stephens (father), adam stephens (older brother), violet stephens (older sister) positive traits : hard-working, observant, charismatic, compassionate negative traits : regretful, stubborn, rebellious, lonely

— background (trigger warning: mentions of death & a car accident)

jade had a fairly typical upbringing, almost picturesque. she had two loving parents, an older brother and sister, and even a golden retriever to complete the picture of a perfect family. and for the most part, they were pretty damn perfect. they were sunday morning pancakes with her father reading the comics from the newspaper to the kids while her mother hummed whatever song came on the radio. they were family trips every month and game nights every friday night. her parents made it to every baseball game and recital and school spelling bee. there were the typical sibling arguments over dumb things, but jade remembers those times fondly, especially since she knows she won’t get those back again.

she was always the honor roll kid, the one who had top grades and obeyed every rule her parents gave her. her brother & sister were both in college by the time jade got to high school, and while it was somewhat difficult living up to their glowing reputations, she managed to have a pretty good time in high school.

her high school had a emt training program and she joined that as soon as she was able at 16. she’d always known she wanted to do something in the medical field, and her plan was to become an emt after graduating high school and continue her college education to eventually become a doctor. things didn’t happen the way they were meant to obviously.

when she was barely 18, she went to a party. it was one of the few she went to, but this one turned out much different than ones she’d been to before. she remembers getting in the car with her friends to head home. she remembers her friend screaming. she remembers a stranger offering her his blood. and she woke up in the morgue the next morning with sunlight burning her skin and nearly scaring the morgue attendant to death (though he didn’t survive very long either with her hunger growing). all she had on her was a phone number in her pocket that directed her towards the salvatore boarding school.

she spent a year there before the incident happened. jade had been doing fairly well, though she was more than a bit bitter about how her life had turned out. all her parents knew was that there’d been some sort of accident, but that jade had been given a scholarship that would take her far away from them. she hated what turn her life had taken and wanted to live a little more than she had before. in her mind, she’d always been just the good girl who would make her parents proud, and look where that had gotten her? dead.

it’s almost ironic that the two worst nights of her life was when she was branching out and going to parties. the first got her killed and the second ended with her killing the girl she was interested in and shutting off her humanity for ten years. the prison world was hell for her, and leaving it behind was nothing short of a miracle. she’s determined to be better than she was in the past, to try to move past her guilt over what she’s done.

in the missing year, jade was working on studying vampiric lore, but specifically focused on rippers and what makes them different. she wants to find something that explains the why and how behind it when it seems so random. she also helped in first aid when needed because sometimes using magic isn’t the answer, ya know. not that she remembers working on any of that now.

she’s more than a little pissed to have lost more of her life. in her mind, she lost ten years in the prison world, stagnant at age 18, but now she’s lost yet another year of her life that could have been spend on growth and bettering herself. she isn’t sure she knows how to move past that bitterness that clouds her compassion.

— personality

jade isn’t honestly entirely sure who she is now. she spent a decade of her life with her humanity shut off, being cruel and sadistic towards her friends and an enemy. with her humanity back on, she’s bitter of what she lost and the now eleven years that were stolen from her, but she’s grateful for another chance to be better than she was before. she’s hard-working and will always put in 200% effort in what she does; she enjoys working towards her own goals and the satisfaction that comes from finally achieving them. she’s kind and loyal towards her friends, but isn’t above using charm to get what she wants. she was rebellious after becoming a vampire, and that much hasn’t changed. she was fairly stifled in her human life (though she was never mad about it), but she released some of her more negative traits after becoming a vampire. her guilt over her actions has definitely stamped down some of her impulsiveness, but she’s still sort of wavering between wanting to just have fun and make up for lost time and wanting to make up for her actions over that time.

— connections

listen i’m horrible at thinking of wanted connections, but i’m down for almost anything. would love maybe some friends she’s made, vampires she’s bonded with over how much it sucks, maybe another ripper to commiserate with, some connections she made over the lost year and is now like wtf.

the one thing i would like to mention is that, like mentioned on the main regarding jade/josie, i’m not super comfortable with jade being interested in someone so much younger than her. while she did lose a huge portion of her life and is physically 18, i don’t see her ever being romantically/sexually interested in anyone significantly younger than her or someone she knew when they were a child. that’s just not it for me, ya know.

#☾ history. | not all those who wander are lost.#salvatore.intro

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bechloeislegit · 5 years

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PITCH PERFECT HORROR WEEK 2019

DAY 4 -MILK CARTON KIDS (#HW194)

Beca opened the door to her father's house and went in.

"Dad?" Beca called out. "Dad? Are you here?"

"Beca?" Warren Mitchell asked, stepping out of the kitchen. "Good morning, daughter. What brings you here this fine morning?"

"You act as if I never come to see you," Beca said.

"That's because you usually don't unless I guilt you into it," Warren said, laughing. "Seriously, though, what's up?"

Beca smiled and said, "I was hoping you were having breakfast. I'm starving and broke."

"You're in luck," Warren said. "I was just getting ready to scramble up some eggs. Come join me."

"Don't have to tell me twice," Beca said as she followed her father into the kitchen.

Beca sat and the counter and watched her father move around the kitchen. Warren went to the refrigerator and got out the eggs and milk. She closed the refrigerator door and turned toward the stove.

"Who's that?" Beca asked, pointing at the milk carton her father was holding.

Warren looked at the carton. "What?"

"There's a picture of a kid on the side of the carton," Beca said as she walked over and took the carton out of his hand. She read the information given. "Whoa! This says the kid's been missing since 1995."

"Oh, yeah," Warren said as he started cracking eggs into a bowl. "I heard they were bringing back the milk carton kids campaign."

"Milk carton kids?" Beca asked.

"The dairy industry started putting pictures of missing children on milk cartons," Warren said. "They figure most people drink milk so the pictures would be widely distributed."

"Huh," Beca said as she leaned against the counter next to her father. "Not a bad idea. I mean this kid went missing in Los Alamos, Texas, and now his picture is here in Barden, Georgia."

"The campaign ran for a number of years," Warren told Beca. "I don't remember when or why they stopped."

"I'm glad they're bringing it back," Beca said. "Maybe it will bring closure to families whose child has been missing for a long time."

"I'm sure it will," Warren said with a smile. "Now, sit down and eat. We need to talk about Christmas."

"Ugh," Beca moaned as she went to sit back down at the counter. Warren finished the eggs and plated their breakfast.

"You sound like Chloe and the girls," Beca continued as Warren poured her a cup of coffee. "Christmas is two months away and Chloe had us draw names for the Secret Santa today. We haven't even had Halloween yet."

"Who did you get?" Warren asked as he set a cup in front of Beca and took his seat.

"I'm not telling you," Beca responded. "If I can't keep myself from telling you, then I know I'll start blabbing it to everyone else. It's supposed to be a secret."

"Okay, okay," Warren said, holding up his hand in defeat. "But, if you need any help, just let me know. I can give you some ideas."

"Thanks, Dad," Beca said with a smile. "I'll think about it."

** PITCH PERFECT HORROR WEEK 2019 - DAY 4 **

"Beca, where are you?" Chloe called out as she walked up and down the aisles of the grocery store.

"Over here," Beca called back.

Chloe walked toward Beca's voice and found her staring at the milk cartons.

"Um, Becs," Chloe said as she stood next to Beca. "Whatcha doing?"

"Did you know that the dairy industry put pictures of missing kids on their milk cartons back in the '80s?"

"I did not know that," Chloe said, looking at the cartons. She picked one up and read it. "Wow, this kid went missing in 1989. He would be thirty-one now. And look." Chloe turned the carton toward Beca. "They have an age progression photo to show what he might look like now."

"I saw that," Beca said, picking up another carton and showing it to Chloe. "Laura Stephens. Doesn't this look like Jessica?"

Chloe looked at the age progression photo. "It does. But it also kind of looks like Amy, too. That's eerie."

"It says she was kidnapped in Australia at the age of eleven months and possibly brought to the United States. She would be about nineteen now," Beca said, looking closely at the photo. "Do you think it could be Jessica?"

"I don't know," Chloe said, taking the carton and placing it in the cart. "But we'll soon find out."

"What are you going to do?"

"Ask her, what else?"

"Do you think that's a good idea? I mean, if that is her, she probably doesn't even know she was kidnapped."

"Only one way to find out," Chloe said and started walking to the checkout.

** PITCH PERFECT HORROR WEEK 2019 - DAY 4 **

Chloe stared at the picture on the milk carton before sighing and placing it on the shelf in the refrigerator.

"You still going to ask Jessica about it?" Beca asked as she leaned against the counter with her arms crossed.

"Yes, I am," Chloe said. "It looks too much like her to be a coincidence."

"I think you'll be stirring up a lot of stuff that should stay buried," Beca said. "We should just leave it alone."

"What if it is Jessica?" Chloe asked, standing in front of Beca. "Don't you think she has a right to know?"

"I do," Beca said, sounding frustrated. "But, I also don't think it's your place to tell her."

"So, if you found a carton that had a picture of someone who looked like me, you wouldn't tell me?"

"No, yes," Beca snapped her mouth closed and let out a breath through her nose. "I don't know, okay. I'd like to think I would, but I'm not sure I actually would."

"What if you were on one of those cartons?" Chloe asked. "Wouldn't you want to know?"

"I guess," Beca said. "It would certainly explain a lot about my childhood."

"Maybe Jessica feels like something is missing," Chloe said. "This could help her answer some questions."

"Fine," Beca said. "You should tell her."

"We'll tell her," Chloe said. "She trusts and respects you. And we'll abide by whatever she decides to do about it."

"Agreed," Beca said, causing Chloe to pull her into a hug.

"I'm telling you that's Fat Amy," Emily's voice could be heard from the living room.

Beca and Chloe separated and went to see what was going on.

"What's happening here?" Beca asked as she and Chloe looked around the room.

"Ask them," Ashley said, pointing towards Beca and Chloe. "See what they think."

"See what we think about what?" Chloe asked.

"Go ahead, Emily," Stacie prodded. "Show them."

"Fine," Emily said and walked over to Beca and Chloe. "Does this look like Amy to you guys?"

Beca and Chloe looked at the picture on a milk carton that Emily was holding up to them. Chloe's brows furrowed and she looked at Beca. Beca's eyes were wide as she looked back at Chloe.

"Um, wait here," Beca said and ran off into the kitchen. She came back holding another milk carton. "May I see your carton again, Emily?"

Emily handed the carton to Beca and she held the two cartons side-by-side.

"Oh, my God," Beca whispered. "They're twins. Both kidnapped from Australia at the age of eleven months. Their birthdays are the same. And the age-progression photos look just like Jessica and Amy."

"You're right," Chloe said, leaning into Beca to look at the cartons side-by-side. "Everything matches up. They might be Jessica and Amy."

"If they are twins and both were kidnapped," Stacie said. "Why wouldn't they put them both on one carton?"

"I don't know," Chloe said. "I think we need to talk to Jessica and Amy about this."

"Can't we just talk to Jessica?" Beca said with a whine. "You know Amy will be a jerk about it. I don't feel like listening to her go on and on about how she's the better twin. Or how she'll teach Jessica how to wrestle crocs and dingos. Jessica is the cooler head and will be more pragmatic about it."

"I know you're right," Chloe said. "But, I really believe they both need to know. If it's really them on those cartons, they're sisters. Twins, Beca. Twins!"

"This is so exciting," Emily exclaimed. "I mean, what are the odds that seventeen years after being kidnapped, they end up at the same school in the same town? And that one of us would find their pictures on a milk carton."

"It is kind of exciting," Stacie said. "And, I think we should tell them. I know I would want to know if I had a twin sister out there."

"I'll text them and ask them to come home," Ashley said as she pulled out her phone.

** PITCH PERFECT HORROR WEEK 2019 - DAY 4 **

"So, what's the emergency," Amy called out as she entered the house. "I was really enjoying my time with Bum-, uh, my smoothie."

"Come in and sit down, Amy," Chloe called from her seat next to Beca. "We need to talk to you and Jessica."

Amy took a seat next to Jessica and looked around the room. She felt a bit uncomfortable when she noticed that all the girls were staring at her and Jessica. It was if they were examining them or something.

"What?" Amy finally asked.

"Yeah, guys," Jessica said. "What's going on? And why are you all staring at us like that?"

Beca stood and placed both milk cartons in front of Jessica and Amy, ensuring that the photos were facing them. She went and sat down next to Chloe.

Jessica and Amy looked at the cartons and then back at Beca. They turned and gave each other a look before returning their gaze to the milk cartons.

"Is that you?" Jessica asked Amy, pointing at one of the photos.

"Is that you?" Amy countered, pointing at the other photo.

They both reached to pick up the carton that had what they thought was their photo.

"This is what we wanted to talk about," Chloe said. "We think these missing children are you two."

"It says they're twins," Jessica said.

Jessica turned to look at Amy; Amy just looked back at her.

"I don't see it," Amy said.

"But that age-progression picture looks like you," Beca said. "Do you have any baby pictures? We can compare them to the baby photos on the carton."

"I do," Jessica said.

"I don't have any here," Amy said. "I'd have to ask my dad. But if I do he's going to want to know why. I can't ask him if he or my mom kidnapped me. That's just...I don't know, but I can't do it."

"You may have to," Jessica said. "That photo on the carton looks just like the one I have of me."

"I'm not your sister," Amy yelled as she stood up. "I'm not going to sit here and listen to any more of this. Twins are supposed to feel their twin. Or feel like something's missing from their life. I don't feel that. I'm not whoever that is in the picture."

"Amy, calm down," Chloe said. "Please sit back down so we can figure out what to do about this."

Amy looked around the room. Her usual boisterous manner was subdued and she quietly sat back down. Jessica pulled out her phone and pulled up a photo.

"It's me, Amy," Jessica said with a tear in her eye. "I'm wearing the exact same outfit. And the birth date matches mine; I mean matches ours. I need to call my mom and dad."

"Do you want to go to our room to make the call?" Ashley asked. "I'll go with you if you want."

"Yes, please," Jessica said.

"You two go on," Chloe said with a smile. "Come back down after you finish talking with them."

Jessica nodded, and she and Ashley got up and left the room.

"I'm not calling my dad," Amy said petulantly. She sat back on the sofa and crossed her arms.

** PITCH PERFECT HORROR WEEK 2019 - DAY 4 **

It was almost an hour later when Jessica and Ashley came back downstairs. Jessica was teary-eyed and Ashley had her arm around her shoulders as she led her to the living room.

"I'll get the rest of the girls," Beca said as she stood.

Beca left the room and knocked on Stacie and Emily's door. She let them know Jessica was back downstairs and the two leggy brunettes made their way down.

Beca sighed as she entered the attic room she shared with Amy. She was confused when she saw Amy sitting on her bed, wiping at the tears that ran down her face.

"Hey, Ames," Beca said, causing the girl to look up at her. "Are you okay?"

Beca stood in the middle of the room unsure of what to do with a crying Amy.

"I called my dad."

"Oh," Beca said. "Do you want me to get Chloe? She's so much better at this emotional stuff than I am."

"No, that's okay," Amy said. "What did you come up here for anyway?"

"Um, Jessica came back downstairs," Beca said. "We're gathering up all the girls."

"Can you give me a minute?" Amy asked. "I just want to wash my face before I come down."

"Um, sure," Beca said. "I'll let the girls know."

"Thanks, Beca," Amy said.

"No problem," Beca said and left Amy alone.

** PITCH PERFECT HORROR WEEK 2019 - DAY 4 **

Meanwhile, Ashley leads Jessica to the loveseat and sits with her. The other girls sit quietly, waiting for the other girls.

Stacie and Emily come in and sit, joining in the uncomfortable silence.

"Um, Beca should be down in a minute," Stacie said, breaking the silence.

"Thanks, Stacie," Chloe said.

Just then, Beca came bounding into the room. "Amy will be down in a minute."

"Sit here, Beca," Chloe said and patted the seat next to her.

Beca went and sat next to Chloe. Beca leaned in and whispered, "I found Amy crying when I went to our room. She said she called her dad."

Chloe whipped her head around to look at Beca. Beca moved back slightly but they were still very close.

"Did she say anything else?" Chloe finally asked.

Beca shook her head but couldn't keep herself from looking at Chloe's lips.

"Can we maybe-"

"I called my dad," Amy said as soon as she was in the room. "He said I wasn't adopted. So, that can't be me. Sorry, Jessica."

"It's okay," Jessica said. "My mom told me I was adopted. It was through a private agency. She's going to talk to my dad when he gets home and they are going to call the agency to find out more."

"We're sorry, Jess," Chloe said warmly.

"My mom said they were going to tell me," Jessica said. "But, they couldn't decide when was a good time."

"Now that you know," Emily said. "Are you going to try and find your real parents?"

"They are my real parents," Jessica said, glaring at Emily. "They raised me and I never once felt like I was a burden or unwanted. I love them and they love me."

"I'm sorry," Emily said. "I didn't mean it like that. I was just wondering if you were interested in finding your birth parents. I mean, they had you for eleven months and you were taken away from them. I'd want to know what happened to you."

"She's right, Jess," Ashley said. "They may have given you up for dead or something. It might be nice if they found out you were alive and doing well."

"Jessica," Chloe said, causing the girl to look at her. "You can look for your birth family and not have to tell your parents. You could just call the number on the milk carton. They may be able to get you in touch with your birth family. If you were kidnapped and sold, the police will be involved and they will want to talk to your parents. Think about it. We'll support whatever decision you make. Okay?"

Jessica swallowed and nodded her head. "Thank you. I'm going to go lay down. It's been a rather emotional afternoon."

"Wait," Ashley said. "Don't you want to know about Amy's call to her dad?"

"Yeah, I do," Jessica said, looking over at Amy. "What did your dad say?"

Amy looked around at the girls staring at her. Normally, she wouldn't mind being the center of attention. But this was very off-putting and she wasn't sure what to think about it.

"He, um, said that it couldn't be me on that milk carton," Amy said. "He then told me he met my mum when I was not yet a year old. They fell in love and he adopted me when they got married. The didn't tell me only because my mum said my real dad was a bad man and she didn't want me to be around him."

"Does he know your birth father's name?" Stacie asked.

"No," Amy replied. "And even if he did, I don't care. I don't want any parts of my sperm donor. My mum and dad loved me and never made me feel like I didn't belong to them."

"Amy," Chloe said and sat forward. "If you were almost a year old when your dad and mom met, you could still be that little girl on the milk carton."

"I'm not," Amy said adamantly. "My dad said so."

"What about your mom?" Emily asked.

"Her mom passed away when she was a little girl," Stacie murmured to Emily.

"Oh, my gosh," Emily said, looking at Amy. "I'm sorry, Amy, I didn't know. I'm sorry for your loss."

Amy waved her hand as if to dismiss the faux pas. Everyone was quiet for a moment before Beca broke the silence.

"Ames," Beca said, getting Amy to look at her. "I'm not saying you and Jessica are sisters, but don't you think there's enough here to suggest that you might be? Don't you want to know?"

"I, um, I'm," Amy stuttered. "My mum's the only one who really knows. She's an only child and had no other family that she talked about. I feel like I'd be betraying her if I started questioning things."

"We understand that, Amy," Chloe said. "But I think that she would forgive you for checking into it. Maybe she planned to tell you herself one day. Maybe it is as simple as your dad said. But, those questions will haunt you if you don't at least try to find out the truth. And, hey, you could get a sister out of it. That's got to be worth checking into."

"Yeah, Amy," Jessica said with a wry smile. "I've always wanted a sister. It would be kind of cool if it turns out you and I are related."

"What if we both took a DNA test?" Amy asked Jessica. "I can decide to check into things further if the test shows we are related."

"I'm willing to do that," Jessica said. "We'll have to find a place that can do the test."

"I found a place," Lily said, startling the girls.

"When did she get here?" Beca whispered to Chloe.

Chloe shrugged her shoulders. "What did you find, Lily?"

"There is a kit you can buy," Lily said. "You mail it in and it will send you the results in about two weeks."

"Where do we get the kit?" Amy asked.

"You have to order them," Lily responded. "You should receive it in about five business days."

"Let's order them," Jessica said excitedly.

"I already did," Lily said. "As I said, you should receive them in about five business days."

** PITCH PERFECT HORROR WEEK 2019 - DAY 4 **

The DNA kits came about five days later. Stacie took the swabs of Jessica and Amy's cheeks and put the samples in the packet that was provided. The girls mailed them off and now they waited.

"It's been two weeks," Amy said, pacing back and forth watching for the mailman. "Why haven't they come yet?"

"Take it easy, Amy," CR said. "You're making everyone nervous."

"I can't help it," Amy said. "I've always wanted a sister and now I have the chance of actually having one."

"Amy, you may not realize it," Chloe said. "But you have ten sisters already. We are family and we always will be."

"Yeah, Amy," Beca said. "What she said."

"I know," Amy said. "And I love you all. But, I wanted a sister so I could have a best friend that knows everything about me."

"Um, according to you I'm your best friend," Beca said.

"You are," Amy said. "But I don't feel like I can tell you everything because you're also the Bellas Co-Captain and there are some things I can't tell a Bellas Co-Captain."

"Got it," Beca said.

There was a knock on the door and everyone turned to look. Amy shoved past Stacie and ran to the door. She opened it to find the mail carrier standing there.

"Here's the package you've been waiting for," the mail carrier said as she handed over the package to Amy. "I know you were anxious so I thought I'd bring it to the door."

"Thanks," Amy said and closed the door in the mail carrier's face.

"Amy!" Chloe squealed. "That was rude!"

"What?" Amy asked as she tore the end off the envelope. She pulled out the papers that were inside and started reading. "Oh, this one is yours, Jessica."

Jessica took the letter Amy was holding out to her. She started reading.

"We're not related, Amy," Jessica said. "But, it looks like I'm a match to the girl on the milk carton. They gave me a number to call."

"I'm not a match to you or the milk carton kids," Amy said.

"Wow, so I have a twin sister out there somewhere," Jessica said as she sat in the nearest chair.

Ashley hurried to her side and sat on the arm and gathered Jessica to her. "It's okay, Jess," Ashley said. "I'll help you through this. Maybe you should call the number. They might have information on the whereabouts of your birth parents and your, um, sister."

"I've said it before," Chloe said. "And it bears repeating. We are all here for you. You're part of our family and we love you."

"Thanks, everyone," Jessica said. "I think I'm going up to my room. I want to call my folks before I do anything else."

"Do you want me to go with you?" Ashley asked. Jessica nodded and they both left the room.

"How are you feeling about things, Amy?" Emily asked.

"I'm disappointed," Amy responded. "I was thinking it might be kind of cool to have Jessica as a sister. But, I'm also feeling okay, because I have all of you as my sisters. And that's aca-awesome."

** PITCH PERFECT HORROR WEEK 2019 - DAY 4 **

Jessica was sitting on the porch steps, staring up into the night sky. Ashley quietly made her way over to her and sat down.

"Penny for your thoughts," Ashley said.

Jessica gave a little laugh. "You know that song about there being somewhere out there? I was just sitting here thinking about the twin I have out there. At least I hope she's out there. And I imagine her looking up into the sky and seeing the same stars and moon that I'm looking at. I want to find her, Ash."

"I know," Ashley said, taking Jessica's hand in hers. "And I'll be with you every step of the way. That detective you talked to said your birth parents are still in Australia. If you were brought to the States, she may have been as well. We can find her.

"I guess," Jessica said. "My parents are coming here when my birth parents make their final arrangements. They want to apologize for raising me when they should have been the ones to watch me grow up."

"Your parents are the best," Ashley said. "If you weren't already eighteen I think they might actually give you back."

Jessica chuckled. "It's a good thing I'm of age then. I'd love to get to know my birth parents but I'm going to let them know I don't think of them as my mom and dad."

Ashley pulled Jessica into a side hug and sat next to her quietly staring at the stars with her.

Meanwhile, about two hundred miles away, another girl was outside staring up at the sky, cursing her bad luck.

"Why fuck did you do this to me?" the girl yelled up to the heavens. She guzzled down the last of the beer she had been holding and went for another.

"Come on, Laura," a guy said. "Slow down."

"You don't get it," Laura said. "I have a twin sister I didn't even know about. I also have parents; real parents that I was kidnapped from when I was barely a year old. A detective said my sister called to let them know she took a DNA test and it got a hit on the missing kids' registry. I took the DNA test over a year ago. This is the first time I feel like I belong somewhere because I have a sister."

"That's great news," the guy said. "Are you going to contact her?"

"Nope," Laura said. "I'm going to surprise her by going to see her. She's at Barden University about four hours from here. I should be able to recognize her because she looks like me. Who knows? Maybe I'll get rid of her and take over her life. Can't be any worse than the shitty one I'm already living."

"Won't that be a little weird," the guy asked. "I mean if she looks like you, wouldn't it be like killing yourself?"

"That's Plan B if this one doesn't work out," Laura said and walked away from the guy. "Look out Jessica Smith, here I come."

#pitch perfect horror week #Pitch Perfect Halloween week #Halloween #HW194

#pitch perfect horror week #Pitch Perfect Halloween week #Halloween week #HW194

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cerullos · 5 years

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this isn't really in line with the meme but what would a Good series eleven have been like? or how can series twelve turn it around/be better?

hm…………………………re: eleven, the only aspect of eleven’s personality i would change is his needless misogyny, because i don’t think that’s necessarily a “component” of eleven, so much as it is…moffat. and really this would be mostly solved by just eliminating all of the creepy, unsettling scenes where rory and the doctor are mutually possessive over amy or collude somehow in treating her like an object (e.g. vampires of venice when rory thanks the doctor for being needlessly cruel to amy and patronizing her like a child, or when eleven is supposedly only allowed to hug amy for a certain amount of time with rory’s permission lmao and don’t even get me started on the girl who waited). i wouldn’t change some of eleven’s worst tendencies (like his constant, prolonged lies–keeping the ring and rory’s existence from amy in S5, the doppelganger and mystery pregnancy fiasco in S6, etc.) or eleven’s selfishness in valuing amy at least in part for how much she blindly adores him, or even “never let him see the damage. and never, ever let him see you age” and all the kind of hideous implications that come with it. i don’t think eleven is…a good man, and i find that interesting, especially in relation to ten (although the 50th imo horribly wasted that dynamic, which had so much more to give). i like the basic concept of ten in his endless compassion, burdening himself with so much pain that the doctor regenerates into a man who is as equally as selfish as he is loving, who does his best to forget and bury his mistakes instead of acknowledging and atoning for them.

my issue is literally just that amy isn’t treated as an equal of eleven’s! even putting aside the obvious power imbalance of amy idolizing eleven from childhood, their basic, everyday interactions are weighed so heavily against amy it’s almost painful to watch at times. one way to solve this would be to emphasize and acknowledge the flaws (eleven’s) i mentioned earlier. eleven’s selfishness is alluded to in episodes like the god complex, but always in a way that empathizes with him and absolves him, rather than highlighting amy’s perspective and the ways in which his selfish actions negatively effect her. even when eleven feels pain it isn’t the same as when, say, ten does because eleven always has a loophole…he’s always a hundred steps of everyone else (amy included).

i mean, look at pandorica opens/big bang…rory is furious (rightfully so, obviously) when eleven basically implies amy’s life doesn’t “matter” in the grand scheme of things, but we later find out he’s only saying this because he’s traveling from a future point in time when amy is already alive again and fine. even when he “dies” at the end of big bang, we later learn he knew all along that amy would be able to remember him back into existence. there are no stakes for eleven, he’s too absurdly smart for any to exist. one of the only times he faces consequences is when he loses amy permanently in angels take manhattan, and that’s telling enough in itself.

compare this w/ clara who’s constantly given teachable moments with twelve even opportunities to outthink twelve! an episode like, say, flatline could never exist with eleven and amy, the dynamic as it is couldn’t support it…eleven beholden to amy, amy acting as undisputed leader. and i’m not saying that amy isn’t smart because she is, and there’s tangible proof of that–but not smarter than eleven–never, not even for a second. that’s the conceit of eleven as a character, untouchable god “the doctor in the tardis, next stop everywhere.” eleven doesn’t defer to amy because it would literally break his character to do so and that imo is the greatest failing of their dynamic.

the other, obviously, is that amy isn’t given the means to fight back when eleven disrespects or belittles her…and this is just another side of the same coin. amy’s anger is deliberately framed as kind of…impotent. moffat likes the idea of amy as a “spitfire,” but when push comes to shove it’s always expected that she’ll fall into line when the doctor demands it. it’s played for laughs that amy ignores him and does as she pleases (and she does, when the two of them are on friendly terms–like in vincent and the doctor when eleven orders her not to follow) but in life-or-death moments when amy’s life is at stake, she isn’t even allowed to question the doctor’s authority. it’s supposed to be funny when the doctor tells amy to shut up when she says she’s afraid she’s going to die. if rory were to pull that on her, can you imagine how she would react? but moffat deliberately declaws amy around the doctor, and the implications of that are…really unsettling, if you would rather not just attribute it to virulently misogynistic writing (which it also is, of course). clara and twelve have big blowout fights and yet this is pretty starkly absent from eleven and amy’s relationship…she may snipe at him from time to time, but overwhelmingly amy is expected to roll her eyes and huff and storm off and listen. eleven is barely given reason to feel guilty on these occasions, let alone confront or regret his actions. because, again: eleven cannot be wrong. and a doctor that cannot be wrong…inherently has no need of a companion. i mean, think of what donna says to ten: "i think sometimes you need somebody to stop you.” how many times has amy been empowered to successfully “stop” eleven from doing anything, ever.

the tl;dr on this is that amy needs so much more agency in their relationship than she was given (but what else is new, she needs more agency throughout her run in almost ever aspect of it). i think…there are elements of something really beautiful in their relationship–and amy does love him without qualifications, which is more than can be said of rory, obviously, even if it’s largely because of what eleven represents for her. i think there are moments where eleven regards amy with a kind of reverence, which we see similarly with twelve and clara later, and it’s…touching. if they had expanded on that thread, it might have grown into something that equaled amy’s childhood adoration of eleven–maybe into something that would prompt eleven to value amy’s input a little bit more than he ever seemed to in canon. there’s a lot there that’s good (the basic template is peter and wendy, and i could not possibly love that more if i tried), but the execution is…really poor, really deeply tainted by moffat’s misogyny and it favors eleven to a ridiculous extent. there’s always that sense of discomfort, like the whole relationship is skewed by how imbalanced it is and how frequently amy’s suffering is exploited to fuel eleven’s rage and grief despite the fact that he can’t seem to bring himself to even respect her as a person half the time.

#asks #so uh. woo ok there you go...i guess!#i did talk about how i think thirteen's eps can improve though so i can link that...when i find it #Anonymous

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Thoughts on “The Penderwicks at Last”

All right, there’s been enough interest from the (so sadly tiny) group of Penderwicks readers on here, so here are my semi-coherent thoughts on the last book, At Last, because, as previously stated, I have Thoughts. Spoilers ahead for all the entire series.

I’m going to start by saying that I am not the intended audience for these books: I’m in my twenties. That being said, I’ve waited over a decade for The Penderwicks At Last, and I reread the entire series to prepare. I read the last one in a few hours, and ugly cried through the second half.

Fair warning: my parenthetical comments waged a territorial battle and won.

PROS:

Everyone gets a happy ending. I think, over time, I’ll feel less conflicted about At Last because, in the end, everyone is happy, and does it matter how they got there?

Skye, particularly, is so much happier. The events of the fourth book clearly had an impact, and Lydia has grown up with a much less fearful, hurting, angry, or traumatized Skye.

Batty’s memories of Arundel being mostly patched together from stories her family has told felt incredibly realistic to me, and I enjoyed watching her rediscover the estate.

Ben is great, and I’ve always loved the Penderwick children’s dedication to their chosen obsessions/careers, so I’m glad he’s got that. I also loved when he told Jeffrey he’d marry him, but not if he was broke. (The humor in these books!)

Rafael is still around. We don’t see him, but we know he’s still friends with Ben. Other Penderwick friends have fallen off the map between different books (Anna, Keiko, Molly, Mercedes), and it was good to see someone stick around.

I liked Wesley. He felt like a red-herring (I can’t be the only one who was desperately hoping Batty was going to decide she wanted to be with him after all), but he was a delightful character. He’s kind to Lydia and Alice, makes himself helpful around the house/with wedding prep, loves Hitch, and respects Batty’s boundaries. He’s a good person. And the mobiles!

Cagney’s family is adorable. And Skye teasing Rosalind about her childhood crush on Cagney is a dead-on sister thing to do.

Mr. Penderwick and Iantha are still very much in love, and still very much adorable and loving parents.

“Jeffrey, no one wants to marry you!” (Okay, this is was a laugh-or-you’ll-cry moment, but I did laugh!)

Also in the bittersweet category would be Mrs. Tifton’s talk with Jane in the carriage-house. We won’t talk about the fact that I really, really wanted Mrs. Tifton to be right. What we will talk about is Jane rage-sewing, being a good older sister, holding it together, and refusing to sully her honor (I love that Jane has maintained her bizarre approach to honor that includes even hypotheticals). Thinking about it, this scene mirrors the one with Skye and Mrs. Tifton in the first book (with Lydia standing in for Batty here), and I like that touch.

CONS:

A lot of the issues I had with At Last are really my own problems, not shortcomings in the book. One instance of that is how I felt about Lydia as a narrator. The first four books mature in tone as they go along, due to the seriousness of the issues facing the characters, making them compelling reading for someone older than the intended audience. I liked Lydia, but she felt much less mature than her sisters at similar ages, and wasn’t facing comparable difficulties. And she wasn’t nearly so interested, or involved, in her sisters’ lives as I would have liked. (Which is understandable, given the age gap, but frustrating as a reader who cares mainly about Rosalind, Skye, Jane, and Batty.)

Technology is weirdly handled? I’ve always liked the timeless quality of the previous books, and all the texting and general cell phone use threw me. (And, really, how many eleven-year-olds have access to cell phones and use them exclusively to text their brothers?)

Jane gave me a kind of dispirited, hollow feeling. She’s twenty-five and still hasn’t sat down and written a full novel. She has two abandoned books and one in the planning stages. I don’t mean I wanted her to be published, but it felt very flighty, especially for someone who’s been serious about writing since she was younger than ten. (I kind of wanted more of Jane in general, actually. How was college? How is she managing to keep a waitressing job she’s terrible at, and why wouldn’t she work in, I don’t know, a bookstore or library instead?)

This leads into my next, larger but vaguer upset: Everyone’s happy, but I was still dissatisfied. I know that most of the time life isn’t glamorous, but aside from Skye, the other sisters don’t seem to have done much? Rosalind has taken fifteen years to marry Tommy, Jane hasn’t finished even a draft of a novel, and it seems like Batty’s going to graduate college and start a music school in western MA (which is fine, but also, where are her years touring in Europe and her own career in music?). I don’t know. I think I just wanted to believe, for 256 pages, that adult life could be more exciting and adventurous, and live up to childhood expectations.

Honestly, I like Lydia, but she’s not why I wanted to read At Last. This goes back to me not being the target audience, but it’s the older four I care about, and I felt like frustratingly little was said about them. And I’ve read interviews with Jeanne Birdsall, where she talks about this book being the point she was writing toward, and I’m just having trouble wrapping my mind around the idea that, if this was the endgame, middle-grade novels were the best format for the story. (Am I biased here? Definitely. Did I love these books as a child and teenager? Without a doubt. Would I, right now, prefer to have read a literary fiction novel where the older sisters’ adult lives were given as much weight as their childhoods? I’d be all over that. Again, I acknowledge this as my own bias, not a shortcoming with the book.)

SKYE:

(Because, let’s be honest, this is where I fell apart.)

I’m so, so happy Skye is working on her doctorate. As someone else who didn’t want to date at seventeen because I wanted to “soak up the universe,” I appreciate the fact that she’s out there, doing just that. But it also made me so sad. Because her family loves her, so they put her on speaker phone during important family meetings, and they miss her when she’s gone, and Lydia doesn’t know her, as a person, the way her other sisters and Ben (sort of) do. And this is very much tied to my own life, as I look at likely moving to a different country, leaving behind parents I love and a whole host of younger siblings.

So I’m glad she has the life she spent her whole childhood wanting, but I also wish we’d gotten to see more of how she grew, and healed, and changed post-In Spring. Because the Skye we see in At Last isn’t the Skye from the other books, and that’s good, it means she’s less hurt (and also almost ten years older), but it also means I didn’t feel like I knew much about her anymore.

I have almost no thoughts on Dušek and agree with the opinion other people have voiced that he seemed to be there mostly to squash all doubt about Jeffrey. He seemed sweet, but I didn’t know, or care about, him. (And I think the lack of Skye contributed to this: I didn’t know her, so I didn’t feel invested in him.)

THAT ROMANCE:

I feel like noting that I’ve read Little Women more times than I can count, and I willfully ignored not only that, but also the blatant Penderwick-universe foreshadowing (like Batty saying Jeffrey could marry her, after he saves her from the bull all the way back in the first book). Because Birdsall did deviate from Little Women in other, large ways, for example: none of the sisters die. Did I suspect Jeffrey would end up with Batty? Yes. Did I fervently hope that he’d actually end up with Skye? Also yes. Does it make me seem incredibly shallow that this is what occupied a great deal of my brain for twelve years? Probably.

It’s worth pointing out that I’m a sucker for childhood friends who fall in love and get married (Anne and Gilbert, Meg and Calvin, Ella and Char, Miri and Peder, don’t get me started on FMA … I’ll cop to having a problem), but also that I’ve never been bothered by Laurie and Amy. They make sense together, and Jo’s opposition to Laurie is based on legitimate concerns that just don’t exist for Skye and Jeffrey, thanks both to the fact that they live in the twenty-first century, and that Jeffrey doesn’t have Laurie’s hot-headed argumentative steak, stubbornness, or laziness.

And it’s not necessarily that I think Batty and Jeffrey wouldn’t be good together (other than the fact that, unlike Skye, Batty did, at least while younger, consider him not an “honorary Penderwick” but an “honorary brother”), but we never get an explanation for how Jeffrey feels about Skye now, or how/when he got over her (because, when you think about it, that must have been a Process. According to Jane, circa In Spring, Jeffrey’s been in some form of adoration/love with Skye since a few weeks before he turned eleven, and at least until he was eighteen, which is seven years. He’s twenty-five in At Last, which means, in the span of time the series covers, he’s spent just as much time in love with Skye as not. And seven years is a long time - more than a quarter of his life. And that’s a conservative estimate, since the last we hear of this is that he and Skye fight about this at his graduation, but that likely wasn’t the exact moment he fell out of love with her. And the jump from Skye to Batty is more difficult to swallow, given all of this, than Jeffrey going on to marry a non-Penderwick. Though, to Jeffrey’s credit, it’s heavily implied he’s going to marry Batty, but this is conveyed strictly through Jane; he’s not out there himself, desperately trying to win nineteen-year-old Batty’s affection in order to replace her sister).

Mostly, while reading, I felt misled, because if there was creeping Batty/Jeffrey foreshadowing, the Skye/Jeffrey foreshadowing was burst-into-your-music-room-and-tell-you-off strong. Jeffrey asks Skye if she ever thinks about them getting married all the way back in the third book. And Skye never shows similar inclinations toward romance, but the whole plot of In Spring makes it seem like this is due to being traumatized by the circumstances of her mother’s death. She isn’t interested in romance as a teenager, but she does love Jeffrey as a friend, and since the purpose of the events of In Spring is to make her less terrified of relationships, and because it’s Jeffrey she originally opens up to about this, there’s a lot, thematically, implied here. (I feel like the argument at Jeffrey’s graduation is maybe meant to show that she’s never going to be interested, but given both that she states that she wants to prioritize college over romance, and that the fight happens off-stage and is only summarized, this isn’t really clear.)

I do feel like this is where Little Women has the advantage: Jo doesn’t love Laurie, and she also has practical reasons why marriage wouldn’t work for them. We never see that from Skye. We see her afraid of love, and fighting with external factors, but we never actually see her not loving Jeffrey for reasons that are related to him.

So I think my main issue here is that their relationship felt very unresolved. Are they even still good friends? And why was it necessary for Jeffrey to fall in love with her in the first place? The fraught conversation in In Spring could just as easily have been Jeffrey or Jane pressing Skye about why she wouldn’t date Pearson.

(Skye and Jeffrey are previously so earnest, and At Last feels like the death of a friendship. Not in a final, we’ll-never-speak-again way, but in a quieter way that makes me think they haven’t really been close since Skye left for college, and that just makes me sad. Where are my “Friends forever” as sworn by the Penderwick Family Honor? Because, yes, yes, everyone grows up, but I didn’t want them to grow apart.)

IN CONCLUSION:

Has anyone actually made it this far down? Was a dissertation called for? Am I a little obsessive/ridiculous/insane?

What might not have come across, but what I do strongly feel, is that At Last is a good read. Lydia’s likable, the return to Arundel is well done, there are a lot of sweet, funny scenes. And none of my criticism really is to do with the material. My disappointment stems almost completely from my own expectations. Will I go on to reread the first four books and then pretend I’ve misplaced the fifth (while imagining it’s told from Rosalind, Skye, Jane, and Batty’s perspectives; and, possibly, that it has a different ending)? Who knows. Maybe, once I’ve sat with the fifth book for a bit longer I’ll like it more. Maybe it doesn’t matter. Maybe those twelve years when I speculated about what would happen in At Last, that decade that the characters kept me company, matters more than whether or not I liked the end.

#the penderwicks #my ramblings #sort of conflicted posting this because i really do believe in the book as a book it just didn't conform to my expectations #and that feels like a very selfish (and anti-literary) view to take #but it's also been a long time since i was this invested in characters while reading #(the downside to literary fiction i guess is that i tend to be more critical of style and story and iffy on the characters #whereas here all i wanted was more of the characters)#anyway #ignore my ranting #(also: i'm sorry if the format still doesn't work? i'm having difficulties)

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My opinion of new series Doctor Who

Top Doctor

I love all the doctors in the new series, but I still prefer Peter Capald, even reviewing every episode. While I really like the ninth doctor,As he stayed only one season had no way to stay on top of the others, comparing how many different situations the other doctors suffered. The tenth and eleven were the most difficult to decide the positions, I love both, plus the tenth has several negative characteristics that I hate

1) 12

2) 11

3) 10

4) 9

Top Companion

Some characters surprised me as how much I liked. I did not remember that Rose was so fun and even with her various faults until I liked her more than I remembered, Donna I thought I would be better positioned since she has the best and More amusing relationship with the tenth doctor, but had forgotten how incredible Martha was, in several episodes she had to act alone to survive and save the day even with the tenth doctor treating her horribly and condescending several times. Rory and Amy did I did not remember how much I liked their relationship, and how beautiful it was Amy's relationship with the Doctor was, I liked her more than I expected. Clara I already knew that would be in first place, I love your relationship with the doctor, its complexity, its flaws, is the most complex and developed character of the new series (Clara, we knows that she loves stories, she sees the life of her parents as a fairy tale, loves and wants to take care of children she has an authoritarian personality and tries to take control of the situation (I'm not just talking about their several episodes of the eighth season about this, but also looks to the end of The Bells of Saint John different from the other companions that when the Doctor are invited them to Tardis instead of jumping inside the Tardis she sends him come back the next day, she takes control of the situation and it shows that it will do the thing of traveling with him on her terms, she takes control of the situation instead of the Doctor who let her travel with him is the Doctor waiting to know if she will travel with him). I hate it when they say that Clara is too perfect, when she is the companion with more defects being quoted and who are important for the stories and their development, this does not make sense. Clara is my favorite companion of the new series and the most of the people completely lose the arc point of the Impossible girl: The whole point of her season 7 arc was The doctor realizes that he was wrong and she is only a normal person who later did something incredible, like Rose and Donna. Initially she tried to balance her normal life with the life With life with the doctor, And as Danny died it was as if there was nothing else that bound her to Earth, she saw herself as a protagonist of a book, she and Doctor were the heroes who could always save the day and escape the danger, of course it ended Being so equal to the Doctor who ended up dead, plus she and the Doctor forged such a deep bond and he this season (the ninth) was already tired of letting people die (Ashildr's bow, the girl's death in the bow of the underwater base ) and did not want to lose anybody else and with desire of revenge against the Time Lords he ended up going too far and breaking the laws of time and he brought her to life, plus what could end up breaking the universe, but he with his selfish did not want Give up saving Clara, so he had to erase his memories of her, and you can notice he learned the lesson that everything has to end an hour, that nothing is forever, in the at the The Husbands of River Song. Clara of course would return to Gallifrey, her final arc was a critique of the trope of killing of female character and that any person can be the Doctor, that he is not just a being, but an ideal that anyone can try to be, Idea that has several Moffat scripts, like Extremis, The Zygon Inversion, The Witch's Familiar and several others. . Bill, while I quite liked her, she was very simple, and I sincerely liked the others more than hers.

1) Clara

2) Rory

3) Martha

4) Amy

5) Donna

6) Bill

7) River Song

8) Rose

9) Nardole

10) Captain Jack

11) Mickey

Top Season ( The best to worst)

Top Season Finale

One thing I prefer in the Moffat season finale is that it focuses on the characters' relationships with each other and their developments, how situations are dealt with, and are centered on the dialogues between the characters while those in Russell T Davies are more focused in action, how the situation affects the characters and their choices. In RT Davies are situations that are increasing, threatening the Earth or the Universe, while Moffat is the opposite, starts with a great threat, with several villains to become small situations, with only a few characters in one place, talking between they, in Davies the characters struggle with the external situation, in that of Moffat they struggle with their interior.

1-Face the Raven/Heaven Sent/Hell Bent

2- World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls

3- The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang

4- Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords

5- Dark Water / Death in Heaven

6- Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

7- Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

8- The Name of the Doctor

9- The Wedding of River Song

10- The Stolen Earth / Journey's End

There are no episodes that I did not like, for me, every episode goes from good to great. Actually it was very difficult to do the lists, because several episodes were good and great, so some positions were decided not only how much I liked, but by elements of the episodes.

SERIES 1

10º — The Long Game

9º — The End of the World

8º — Rose

7º — Boom Town

6º — Father's Day

5º — The Unquiet Dead

4º — Dalek

3º — Aliens of London/World War Three

2º — Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

1º — The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances

Series 2

10º — Fear Her

9º — The Idiot's Lantern

8º — Tooth and Claw

7º — Love & Monsters

6º — School Reunion

5º — New Earth

4º — Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

3º — The Girl in the Fireplace

2º — Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel

1º — The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit

Series 3

9º — The Lazarus Experiment

8º — Smith and Jones

7º — 42

6º — Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks

5º — Gridlock

4º — The Shakespeare Code

3º —Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords

2º — Blink

1º — Human Nature/The Family of Blood

Series 4

10º — The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky

9º — Partners in Crime

8º — The Unicorn and the Wasp

7º — The Doctor's Daughter

6º — The Stolen Earth/Journey's End

5º — The Fires of Pompeii

4º — Turn Left

3º — Planet of the Ood

2º — Midnight

1º — Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead

Season 5

10º — The Vampires of Venice

9º — Amy's Choice

8º — Victory of the Daleks

7º — The Beast Below

6º — The Lodger

5º — The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood

4º — The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone

3º — The Eleventh Hour

2º — Vincent and the Doctor

1º — The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang

Season 6

11º — Night Terrors

10º — The Curse of the Black Spot

9º — Closing Time

8º — Let's Kill Hitler

7º — The Wedding of River Song

6º — The God Complex

5º — The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People

4º — A Good Man Goes to War

3º — The Doctor's Wife

2º — The Girl Who Waited

1º — The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon

Season 7

13º - Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

12° - Hide

11º — Cold War

10º — Nightmare in Silver

9º — The Power of Three

8º — The Bells of Saint John

7º — The Angels Take Manhattan

6º — Asylum of the Daleks

5º — The Name of the Doctor

4º — Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

3º —The Crimson Horror

2º — A Town Called Mercy

1º — The Rings of Akhaten

Season 8

11º — Kill the Moon

10º — In the Forest of the Night

9º — The Caretaker

8º — Into the Dalek

7º — Time Heist

6º — Deep Breath

5º — Dark Water / Death in Heaven

4º — Listen

3º — Robot of Sherwood

2º — Flatline

1º — Mummy on the Orient Express

Season 9

6º — Sleep No More

5º — The Girl Who Died / The Woman Who Lived

4º — Under the Lake / Before the Flood

3º — The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion

2º — The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar

1º — Face the Raven/Heaven Sent/Hell Bent

Seasn 10

10º — Knock Knock

9º — Smile

8º — The Pyramid at the End of the World / The Lie of the Land

7º — Empress of Mars

6º — The Pilot

5º — Thin Ice

4º — Oxygen

3º — The Eaters of Light

2º — Extremis

1º — World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls

Chistmas Specials

12º — The End of Time

11º — The Next Doctor

10º — The Christmas Invasion

9º — The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe

8º — The Return of Doctor Mysterio

7º — The Runaway Bride

6º — Voyage of the Damned

5º — The Snowmen

4º — The Time of the Doctor

3º — The Husbands of River Song

2º — Last Christmas

1º — A Christmas Carol

Regarding the list of episodes of cybermen and daleks, one can notice that the list are not only of the ones I liked the most, but also how well I found them to have used these villains in history

Top Cybermen Episodes

1- World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls

2- Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel

3- Dark Water / Death in Heaven

4- The Next Doctor

5- Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

6- Closing Time

7- Nightmare in Silver

Top Daleks Episodes

1- Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

2- The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar

3- Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

4- Dalek

5- Asylum of the Daleks

6- Into the Dalek

7- Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks

8- The Stolen Earth / Journey's End

9- Victory of the Daleks

Top Episodes of Russel T Davies

12 - Gridlock

11 - The Stolen Earth/Journey's End

10 - The Runaway Bride

9 - Partners in Crime

8 - Voyage of the Damned

7 - Aliens of London/World War Three

6 - Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

5 - Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

4 - The Waters of Mars

3 - Turn Left

2 - Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords

1 – Midnight

Top Episodes of Steven Moffat

12 - The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances

11 - The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon

10 - Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead

9 - Blink

8 - The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar

7 - Extremis

6 – Last Christmas

5 - A Christmas Carol

4 - The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang

3 - The Day of the Doctor

2 - World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls

1 – Heaven Sent/Hell Bent

Top Episodes of Mark Gatiss

1) Robot of Sherwood

2) The Crimson Horror

3) The Unquiet Dead

4) Empress of Mars

5) Cold War

6) The Idiot's Lantern

7) Victory of the Daleks

8) Night Terrors

9) Sleep No More

I love Robot of Sherwood, I think it's a really funny episode, Clara was great, I loved the Doctor's dynamics with Robin Hood and had a great message about heroism and inspiration and fiction from the heroes. The Crimson Horror, I like to focus in the Paternoster gang, mostly in Jenny, and I loved Winifred Gillyflower and Ada, they were great characters. As of Cold War, the episodes for me are just regular. Victory of the Daleks and Sleep No More are not so bad episodes, both have good ideas and scenes, in Victory I liked the story of the scientist, the fact that nobody believed in the Doctor and in the end the daleks win, already in Sleep No More sincerely not I see what's so bad about this episode, it has a good idea, a good mood and a good ending, of course there are several things I would do differently, but there's nothing bad about the villan. The only one I do not like, that I hate is Night Terrors, I hated the kid in the episode and had several things that I think did not made sense. Overall I like Mark Gatiss, he did not write my favorites of the seasons but he is not such a bad roter as people say.

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