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Got angry about Ben Platt's DEH movie makeup again and decided to learn the entire history of movie makeup because of it
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dachi-chan25 · 5 years
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GoT S8, Episode 1: The Pointy End Recap Part 2.
-Once they are alone Tyrion muses about her title and she about his while throwing some shade at d, Tyrion says the last time they saw each other was at Joffrey's wedding, Sansa gives a half ass sorry for leaving like that and Tyrion is still salty about it (like fuck off) Sansa is like we both survived so... Tyrion makes a remark about how everyone that underestimated Sansa is now dead and she looks proud (damn right that is my girl) which in this case sounds ominious af for D. Then Tyrion proceeds to show how far he is into the lizard cult, by trying to sell Sansa Stark of all people that bs of Cersei sending the armies, and Sansa in not so many words calls him and idiot (my girl is not holding back her punches and I am here for it) and Bran is just staring at them probably enjoying the drama as much as I.
-Jon is on the godswood in front of the heart tree (you know what? ?? If aegony was real at all she would be there with him, he would like to show her the place where he grew up. he would be like i am really sorry about my people not wanting you here but you'll see they'll warm up to you once they see what a good queen you are or something along those lines, maybe even a kiss in front of a heart tree, a sacred place where you can't lie) but no Jon looks worried and fucking miserable
-Arya sneaks up on him, they banter playfully and can you believe??? He straight up casually mentions he died (👀👀) they hug and it's very heartfelt and brotherly (honestly no stark reunion has been filmed like the Jonsa one, ofc one can argue they were the very first reunion, but duuude the music, the snow falling softly around them, how they get a close up on both Jon and Sansa's face, the nuzzle, and how bloody long is that hug, as well as the fact that neither of them has had a follow up like just drinking having a good time together) they talk about Needle and Longclaw (like if you don't get how different are the Jon - Arya interactions played against the jonsa ones then idk what to tell you) Jon says something that really bothered me at first but then I really thought about it and I came up with why:
1) He is an asshole so far up D's ass he forgets Sansa is the one who really gave him a reason to fight for the living again, and that she literally saved him in the BotB, and that she made him a fur and called him a Stark, or that she has been doing an excellent job preparing for the war against the AotD , but this can't be, I would believe it if this was a season 4 or 5 or even a season 1 and I knew nothing about who Jon is and what he wants, and after seven seasons I know Jon enough to say he would never think this.
2) He is hurt about Sansa still not trusting him to protect her and their home,and is salty cause she really thinks he didn't listen to her when he did. I mean doesn't it remind you of that argument they had about Sansa undermining him, he was desperate to know that Sansa trusted his desicions (super unfair to sansa still cause she doesn't know anything about Jon's plans) he says sansa believes she is smarter than everyone, when he knows she is not seeing he listened to her and is appeasing D so they have a chance against the NK. And i believe this one because it doesn't destroy Jon's character.
Now he says this to Arya and not in the Great Hall (that would have been super shitty of him and would go along with number 1 case) because he and Arya used to poke fun at Sansa's expense when they were kids and he thinks Arya would agree with him and trust him, but she is totally on Sansa's side and defends her (yasss this is what we deserved after last season's shit show) that Jon wasn't expecting it (dude he was joking he doesn't say it with hate or anything like that) much less was he expecting Arya to say Sansa is just trying to protect the family (as if he wasn't) and we see number 2 is real when in a very vulnerable voice he says 'i am her family too' , like he really wanted Sansa's support and trust in the Great Hall and he thinks she is so angry and trusts him so little that she doesn't even consider him family anymore (i'll be crying in the corner excuse me) even more so when Arya makes that remark of not forgetting about that (like seriously we have seen this boy for 7 seasons like how could he ever forget about his family???) And duuude I can't even begin to imagine how sad and alone Jon felt. They hug again and Jon closes his eyes (important detail)
-We cut the scene to Cersei looking like the evil queen she is, smiling while Euron's fleet arrives with the Golden Company when Qyburn informs her that the Wall is no more, and she looks so pleased (dude also in the Recap at the beginning of the episode the really drove home that d was fire and the nk was ice, and i mean GoT starts with Robert's Frost poem about how ice and fire are destructive forces of nature) .
-We get a glimpse of the Golden Company, and then we get a scene with Euron and Yara, Euron is being an annoying piece of shit.
-now we are in the throne room, Cersei welcomes the captain of the Golden Company (his name is Harry but I can't remember how to write his last name) but she is disappointed about not having elephants. Euron is disgusting again, Cersei is savage with him but he starts complaining and is so insistent that Cersei finally gives in and fucks him.
-Bronn is having sex with some prostitutes, the only intresting thing about this scene is the girls talking about the Loot Attack and the horrible deaths of the guys who fought there (apparently Ed Sheeran's character face got burnt off and if that is not an attempt to show D as a villian then idk what that is) Qyburn arrives and says Cersei is summoning him, she is willing to pay and give him a castle if he goes north and kills both Jaime and Tyrion (also I feel Sansa's kidnap plot is gonna happen).
-We get a post-sex scene of Cersei and Euron, and Euron is fishing for compliments but instead annoys Cersei.
-While Euron is trying to measure his dickin' abilities to Bobby B's and Jamie's my boy Theon rescues Yara, who decks him in the face for not fighting for her, but still they escape (I have so many doubts about this, like Theon went to Braavos and back or he just waited, and how did he know he was coming back to KL after he supposedly betrayed Cersei,and if he knew it was a ploy why didn't he warned D or Jon through a raven) Yara wants to take the Iron Islands (I don't believe she gives a fuck about D she just wanted to take back her home) but she knows Theon wants to fight for the Starks so she tells him to go, and it's a good scene.
-More refugees arrive at WF, and we get a sense of the camp and how big is this army, we get a glimpse of Alys Karstark (she is wearing something similar in cut and color to Sansa, and i do believe people are gonna think Sansa is dead at some point) then we get Davos,Varys and Tyrion talking while they watch Jon and D at a distance. Davos tells them the northerns are not gonna like D, Tyrion is worried, but then Dadvos proposes a marriage between Jon and D (duuude I said he was going for this since last season but he only says it until now, this ship is doomed) and this would be a pretty good idea if the people didn't hated her and feared her already but Davos is not a good politician cuz he wasn't raised for it, he is loyal and all you want but he doesn't know the north. Varys is like nothing lasts and I don't blame him cuz he has been unimpresed by D since Mereen, and now he gets to see Sansa's savvy politics and A+ administration while he probably thinks Jon is just another dumb asshole thinking with his dick.
-D and Jon are walking around, and who is brought up in this conversation?? SANSA fucking STARK! !! Even when no northern lord liked her D is just whining about Sansa not liking her (they really trying to sell this triangle when I know, I see I hear with everything Jon does that Jon has no romantic feelings for d at all) and Jon's deadass answer is "well she didn't liked me either when we were kids" (i call bs cuz whe sansa tried to apologize for this he said there was nothing to forgive so this is not serious) he was trying to joke to light the mood, direct the conversation to how alike he and d are instead of a "I'll talk to her don't worry bae" duuude D is really dumb, but she is annoying again implying that if Sansa doesn't respect her she'll do something about it, we don't get to know what but you can see when d is not looking at him that Jon is not happy about what she just said (but also I don't think jon gets that it was a threat cuz he hasn't seen d's uglier sides and I believe he think he has, and he thinks he can manipulate her not to do anything rash).
Some dothraki riders inform D that the Dragon's are barely eating :0:0:0 oh noes!!! If only someone hadn't burned food during the Loot Attack (idgaf about the lizards at all )
Jon and D go to check on the dragons, and D prompts Jon to ride Rhaegal (Jon while not as afraid as before is still weary of dragons) Jon doesn't seem to want to and says what will happen of Rhaegal doesn't want him to and d basically jokes about Jon dying which is not cute or flirty cuz Jon looks scared af. We get further proof D is flying by the seat of her pants and doesn't know shit about how to control her dragons yet she probably thinks Rhaegal likes Jon because they are meant for each other or some other self important bs.
And Jon is not thrilled dude he almost falls off (you ruined horses for me is bs) and we get Varys, Davos and Tyrion see him on the Dragon. Tyrion looks worried.
Jon somehow takes the lead and takes D to some waterfalls, and she is like we could stay here forevaaaaa and he is like we would be too old (the romantic interactions are still at 0 the chemistry is again flat, Jon's responses are awkward and not romantic) he practically tells her she doesn't belong in the north and she asks him to warm her, they kiss (bland passionless) Jon opens his eyes to stare at the dragons, d is like don't be silly darling, he kisses her again and then fucking turns her around so he can stare at her dragons while kissing her. Peak romance amirite ?? Lmaoooo Pol!Jon is real sorry not sorry he had to stare at the dragons while kissing her making the dragons and not the kiss the focus of the scene. I do believe this was just to appease her and keep her happy and commited to the cause after everyone treated her like she deserved.
Gendry is working at the forge, and Arya enters, the Hound is being a cunt, and tells Arya she is a cold bitch for letting him to die and Arya couldn't give less of a fuck. She and Gendry flirt hard like pls make this canon, and pls don't let d burn my boy.
K Imma need a part 3 cuz the Jonsa scene!!!!
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Proven Innocent Season 1 Episode 1
Being a crime drama, this review discusses suicide, murder, drug use, and the murder of a child.
Before I begin my review, I'd like to preface it by stating that a few years ago, there was another show with a similar plot based around a Project Innocence theme. It only lasted for one season, but I really rather enjoyed it while it lasted.
I also love crime dramas, and true crime. So obviously, this show is perfect for me.
Anyway...
Met our main character, Madeline Scott. She's a lawyer, who goes to somebody's house late at night. She has a court order for a DNA sample, but the guy isn't exactly eager to give Madeline anything. He has a gun, although Madeline is quick to tell him that if she goes missing or is injured, then cops will come to get the DNA sample... and to find out what happened to Madeline. However, the man turns the gun to himself instead. Madeline calls 911, but instead hangs up. She takes a blood sample... and the guy's dog.
But Madeline hasn't always been a lawyer. Before that, she and her brother, Levi, had been convicted of killing their friend, Rosemary, and sat in jail for 10 years before the court overturned the ruling and said that they were innocent. After that, Madeline went to Harvard, where she graduated top of her class, and went on to go work for the man who'd helped her, who now runs a Project Innocence-like organization.
Some time later, Madeline goes to court to defend a man who'd been wrongfully convicted. The prosecutor is the same man who put Madeline and Levi away, so when he comes into the courtroom, she has a lot of traumatic flashbacks involving the day that she and her brother were convicted. Madeline goes up to start arguing her case, but before she can, the prosecutor steps up and says that he's withdrawing the case, and he believes that he made a mistake in putting the man away.
Later, the law firm holds a fundraiser. They might help those that they believe to be wrongfully convicted for free, but they need to get money from somewhere. Rich donors is a good place to start. At the mixer, Madeline talks to a reporter. He seems intent on going on a date with Madeline, although it seems as though she's always brushing him off.
Finally, the prosecutor announces that he's running for... some sort of fancy office. This understandably ticks Madeline off something fierce. So she brings them a case: Gothic Child Killer. And... that name says enough, don't you think? But here's a few problems: first off, the lady had been a pastor's wife, and she dressed accordingly in literally all old photos of her that they could find. Second, she insists that something was done to her in the ambulance ride, which leads to a missing toxicology report. Talking with her in prison reveals that she doesn't know why she confessed to the murder, and she barely remembers that night at all. Madeline's boss isn't exactly happy about the entire affair.
Meanwhile, while Madeline has been making quite the name for herself as somebody other than “Rosemary's murderer”, Levi has been struggling. He has a job coaching kid's soccer, but he's one day confronted by two of his former “friends” who don't like that their conviction was overturned. They come back to beat him up after practice is over; Levi tries to talk him down, and reminds them that you could face upwards of ten years in jail. But that doesn't matter, hit with baseball bat.
Madeline goes to get her brother out from jail (which we don't see). But as she goes into the courthouse, she runs into the wife of the guy, one of her former “friends” as well. The lady says that a lot of people still think that Madeline and Levi should never have gotten out, because they killed Rosemary. Madeline turns the tables and says that she's certain that Heather killed Rosemary. That seems to shut her up, at least.
Later, one of the lawyers comes back after having poked around the firehouse for a while. He says that the fire captain said that the year of the fire, it was a “charcoal Christmas”. That it to say, there was a production of cheap Christmas lights that set a lot of fires on Christmas trees that year. And while nobody can say for certain that the lady had bought those lights, it sure raises a few questions.
Madeline and her boss, Ezekiel “Easy” go to talk to the EMT. She says that she didn't give the lady anything, but drew her blood, because that's standard procedure. They know that the toxicology report is missing... doubly so because Madeline found a copy of a report with a staple in it, and it said “see attached report”, but there was literally only one page. They ask the EMT if she could get the report for them. She's reluctant, but comes through in the end. The report says that the lady was suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning, which among other things, puts people into a highly suggestible state.
Finally, the lady had said that her husband said all of these things about how awful and cruel that she was. However, his testimony was in English, and do you want to guess what language that the man barely speaks? English. Bodie, the investigator, is sent out to find the man.
First, Easy tries to get the prosecutor to make a plea. However, he kind of refuses... until Easy mentions “Oh gee, what a shame it would be to your career as a politician if these missing toxicology reports were released to the press...”
Madeline and Easy go talk to the lady in prison. Easy just wants the lady to agree to child endangerment, where she'll be let out for time served. However, upon prompting from their client, Madeline gives an impassioned speech about wanting to do the right thing, even if it's not easy. She wants to go to court. Easy reams Madeline out over this, stating that she's manipulating the client. Madeline however, views it as emphasizing with the lady, because she was once in her shoes. Although, I personally feel like she's walking a thin line between the two.
Bodie eventually comes back from having found the now ex-husband... who beat poor Bodie up because he was scared that Bodie was ICE. Anyway, this leads them to the conclusion that they need to look into the translator who'd provided the transcription for the husband.
And because we also have the season/series wide question of “who killed Rosemary” (her killer never having been caught), Levi calls up Madeline after being fired from his job. He confesses to his sister that he and Rosemary had been together romantically. Madeline had been certain that Levi had only just found Rosemary's body, but now she's not quite sure if that's the case.
She's also got quite a wall of evidence about Rosemary's murder going in the little office where she sleeps. (And the dog she stole from the guy at the beginning of the show is there now, too.)
The judge had previously just about thrown out their case the day before, before Bodie had shown up. However, the next day, they bring in the translator... Who has been arrested for having mistranslated so many statements, all according to what HE thought was right and wrong.
The judge is rightfully horrified over this, and almost immediately sets the poor woman free. The prosecutor, in the mean time, in an effort to try and save face, says that he's going to look into some of his past cases to try and find out if this particular translator might have affected any other cases. However, the judge doesn't exactly seem very thrilled with this idea.
I was kind of looking forward to what this show could offer, and I have to say, I'm not disappointed in the least. The scene when the old man was freed, and then again when the lady was freed had me in near tears. The on-going mystery of who really killed Rosemary is interesting. Madeline is a sympathetic character (the same could not be said of the main character from the other drama series). And the cases are realistic; I could be watching this unfolding on my local news.
Overall, a great first episode, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the season.
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Curious Conundrum (Part 1)
Prompt: You’re John Watson’s sister. One day you decide to visit your brother for lunch, only to meet the infamous Mr. Holmes...
Word Count: 1600
Warnings: language, flirtation, sexual innuendos (maybe? idfk), murder/crime/case related stuff, angst...
Notes: THIS TOOK FOR FUCKIN EVER TO WRITE. But it’s done. Anyway, this is the longest series I’ve ever written (Yes, longer than inexplicable fate, and longer than Who Will Win). It started out to be a one shot, then i needed background, so i was like “well maybe five parts will do....” but here we are... Beta’d by @carryonmyswansong Not only did she beta, but I literally couldn’t have written half these scenes without her help. She contributed majorly, even wrote some parts of scenes. I am forever in her debt. 
Also, this starts AFTER Season 2, episode 1. I don’t follow all the episodes (in fact i try not to, really) but it does follow the timeline and hit some major events : )
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Walking up the dreary, sunless London sidewalk, you knocked on the address your brother had given you some time ago. With work and life though, getting around to seeing his new apartment and his “new” flatmate had been a bit of a task. But now, after one and a half years, you had finally promised yourself, and him, that you would spend more time with him and informed him you would be coming by the flat to meet Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Not to mention, giving your big brother some well deserved teasing for his new place.
You knocked with the large, crooked hanger on the door of 221B Baker street, only to stand there for a long moment before an elderly woman opened the door.
“Can I help you, deary?” she asked kindly.
“Ah, yes, I’m looking for John Watson, is he in?”
“Yes, I believe he is,” she sweetly informed as she turned and guided you up the stairs. “John! John!” she sing-songed as she came up the stairs to an apartment with two opened entry doors. “You have a visitor!” she called out.
“Mrs. Hudson, please stop talking,” a tall man with dark curls requested as he stood staring at the wall.
“Oh, hush, Sherlock. Where’s John?”
“How should I know?” he quietly responded, his eyes never leaving a wall filled with pictures.
Mrs. Hudson rolled her eyes just as John came down the hall and into the living room. A rather...dusty living room. It was an organized mess. It wasn’t dirty, or filled with clutter, per se, but it could certainly use a bit of TLC.
“Y/N?” John breathed when he saw you and you smiled at your big bro.
“Hey, John,” you greeted with a large grin. He immediately pulled you into a quick embrace before introducing you to Mrs. Hudson, before she had to leave quickly to answer her phone downstairs.
“Hey, so glad you’re here. Do you have time for lunch or…?” he asked as he smiled at you.
“Oh, yeah, sure.”
“That’s fantastic. Well...Uh, unfortunately, we’re in the middle of a case, so I don’t have too much time...But I can take you down to the diner downstairs for some fish and chips maybe?”
“I’d love some,” you informed.
“Great. Let me grab my jacket and we’ll go.”
“Alright,” you said before turning to the strange man again, watching his lips hum as he spoke quickly to himself, his eyes scanning the images. “Wonder why he did that?” you murmured as you looked at the photos.
“Did what?” Sherlock asked with a trace of irritation.
“Placed the bodies facing a mirror. It’s like he wanted them to watch their final moments,” you said.
The man turned and faced you, now that you saw him fully he was rather handsome, in an unconventional sort of way. Tall, lean, dark curls, pale skin, eyes that were a strange hue of blue-green-gray. He took your breath away as he stared at you as if you had a codfish on your head.
“What did you just say?”
You gestured to the pictures with a nod. “It is a murder case, correct? Multiple homicides? They’re all facing a mirror. Why did he do that?”
“I hadn’t even...I didn’t even see that. How did you see that?”
“From the other pictures of the room,” you stated as if it were obvious. You laughed at him for a moment. “You see, Mr. Holmes, but you do not observe.”
He made a peculiar face at you. “Funny...Usually I’m saying that to John or Lestrade, it’s rarely ever said to me,” he remarked, his tone as if he were working out a complex equation in his head. His eyes trained on you, trailing up and down your body.
You nodded casually. “All of the pictures of the room, the way the furniture is oriented, the way the bodies are facing, towards a mirror.”
“I--What an excellent observation.”
“Thank you,” you mused before your brother stepped back into the living room.
“Ready to go?”
“Who is this?” Sherlock asked outright to John, gesturing to you with his eyes.
“My sister, why?” John questioned.
Sherlock made a surprised face quickly before wiping it away. “Hmm.”
“What? Is that a problem?”
“No...You’re just much more useful than him, I wouldn’t have assumed as much,” he commented and you felt slightly offended for your brother.
John had told you about Sherlock. He had told you he could deduce nearly impossible things from the shape of a man’s tie, the color of a woman’s nail polish, the state of a child’s shoes. Though he ran a blog about their lives that you could read, you never did. You read their first case together, but that was it. You wanted to save your first impression of Sherlock to a face to face encounter. So far, he wasn’t disappointing, but he wasn’t exactly living up to the hype your brother had given him either.
“Well...thank you, I think,” you said with a funny expression, turning to John. “Shall we go?”
“Go? Go where? You can’t go. You need to come with me. We need to go to the crime scene of the latest murder. I need your deduction skills,” Sherlock said, sounding urgent and nearly insisting.
“Sherlock, my sister is not assisting us on a case. We’re going downstairs to have a quick lunch, then you and I will go to the crime scene and--”
“Does it get boring, being an attorney?” Sherlock suddenly asked, clearly ignoring everything John had been saying.
“No, why?” you casually responded. “How...did you know I was an attorney?”
“Your suit. It’s from only one shop in London. It’s pressed, neat, not a thread out of place. Rather expensive. Too much for a realtor, your long nails and polish suggest you aren’t a doctor, and politicians don’t dress as glamorous as you. Your shoes are barely scuffed, but your comfortable in heels. Your feet show little sign of strain from said heels which means you wear them a lot, but you’re not on your feet all day, so you have a desk job, for the most part.”
You laughed and Sherlock gave you a funny look.
“I’m sorry,” you apologized, shaking your head and waving your hand to dismiss your outburst. “It just occurred to me that John probably told you at one point or another, I was an attorney.”
Sherlock frowned. “No...Don’t believe it came up.”
Your eyes went to John and he shrugged. “I don’t think I ever told him what you do. I think I’ve only said your name once, as well.”
“You mean to tell me you go on and on about Sherlock to me, but I can’t so much as get a good word in from you?” you teased.
“You try talking to him about something other than himself. It’s incredibly difficult,” he informed with a tease and a nudge of your shoulder.
“You don’t believe I deduced that,” Sherlock insinuated.
“Quick one, aren’t you?” you remarked with an eyebrow twitch.
“Okay, fine. You...you’re…you...” he stammered, seeming to restart his sentence a few times. He was staring at you as if you were a puzzle. “I...better get back to looking at these crime scenes. Murders and all that,” he said as he spun to face the wall.
You gave him an amused expression, although he couldn’t see it, and you and John made your way downstairs to the cafe.
“I thought you said he could deduce anything,” you commented once the two of you gathered your food.
“He can. I’ve never seen him clam up like that,” he responded as the two of you sat down at a table. “When we met, he had deduced Harry’s drinking problem and even marital problems, just on a phone.”
“Yes, you told me. You’ve told me he can tell if someone’s spouse is cheating and with whom, what they had for breakfast….Yet, he couldn’t get any further than me being a criminal attorney? A little disappointing don’t you think?” you inquired with an eyebrow raise.
“No, it’s a breath of fresh air...Let’s me know he is human, beneath all that…”
The two of you smiled at each other before digging in.
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You ascended the stairs and noticed that the photos on the wall were now strewn across the coffee table, floor, and makeshift desk.
“Have you caught your left handed murderer yet?” you inquired to Sherlock as you entered the flat, curious to see how he worked.
“Not quite. I just need to find what ties these people together,” he murmured. “Left handed you say? How?”
You came over and pointed at their heads. “Their hair and faces. The bruising indicates more force from the left, all of their bodies are planted so that they are looking left, and their hair is dramatically more mussed up on the right side, indicating he stood over them and used his left hand to situate them.”
Sherlock’s eyes slowly rose from the pictures on the floor to your face. “You must’ve gotten all of the deduction skills in the family. Certainly John didn’t,” he remarked.
“Thank you,” John sarcastically remarked.
“Well, I must be off,” you stated, getting to your feet.
“What? No. I need you here,” Sherlock insisted.
“Maybe another time, Holmes. I’m sure you can crack this one on your own,” you said with a coy smile before going over and hugging your brother.
“What a delight,” Sherlock mumbled as he stared after your descending form on the stairs.
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