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Does Sam Reid know how many people he impregnated with his deep low baritone voice
#btw i'm one of them if you even care#also sam took those singing lessons religiously he sounds pretty good actually#better than some 'professional' singers i see out there#this cast is not only so talented but so dedicated and hard-working and always learning and finding a way to get even better#i'm so thankful we're so lucky
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Fresh from the oven: two kcd hansry mini comics (ft. Zizka and Hynek), one (1) portrait of Samuel (need to draw him more) and a bunch of Kettle Hat Henry doodles again, except this time we got more variety (And yeah, I did draw these because of tunes. again. Everybody say 'thank you Tunes!' >:) she says she is warming up to them but it is still funny to torment her with my henry's fashion choices)
#kcd#kcd2#kingdom come deliverance#hansry#henry of skalitz#hans capon#hynek of kunstadt#jan zizka#uhm.... suggested ziznek sooo...#ziznek#samuel of kuttenberg#dry devil#shoutout to my gf who has watched me draw most of these fjkhdjkfhsdkjfhdsjkhf best company I could ask for <3#I keep torturing myself with the angles I choose for my art. ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO HYNEKS FUCKED UP HAIR#i love drawing him.... he also tests my patience#anyway I thought it would be really funny to have them all be hypocrites in the devil's den. 'I'm different aand also the master of subtlet#'but what are YOU doing with that guy 🤨??'#If hynek cared enough for either hans or henry he would have pointed out that it probably doesn't matter since they are at the devil den bu#alas. hynek cares more about being zizka's guy. his little support beam. his ride or die. his rotten little soldier-wait no#his rotten little carrot :] sorry#also hynek's one speech bubble is meant to be read as unintelligible from where henry and hans stand but he is saying something along the#lines of 'any specific part that got soft with old age? you need a hand?'. and zizka's reaction is based on my obsession with him laughing#at hynek's jokes when they are alone or if he gets caught off guard by them. or if they are drunk of course. citing that one#'devil knows' 'no i don't' interaction. bet that one felt like crack to hynek. ANYWAY#the first comic is based on that defanged powerplay hans and henry love to engage in. it's funny to use these words now bc even though#they are originally from me i now can't help but connect them with tunes hdfghjsdgfhjsdgf go read tunes' takes btw!!!#and ougggh i need to draw sam more... he is literally one of my faves.... i have so many ideas for what to draw but i first need to get use#to drawing his face waaaaaa#okay. whatever. disappears cutely into the fog. love ya byeeeee
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no way she's alive ?? yea those mental health breaks because social media makes people suck are wild huh
#star wars#clone wars#star wars fanart#ahsoka tano#captain rex#anyway i bring you this a) because i'm going back to my tcw roots of late and b) because i miss them terribly#as you can see because i can't handle reality i put her in the novel design#cause wdym they split up after order 66 haha what no that didn't happen you're crazy#read it however you want idc ^^)b any interpretation of their dynamic is the best one i think#yea anyway in this amount of time i've gotten a lot better at anatomy and i don't really care about social media anymore#but i have like nowhere to put my art now so *shrug*#star wars the clone wars#artists on tumblr#i've wanted to do one of those post-type drawings and i am .-+ too lazy +-. to color it sooo#signature got cropped sigh. whatever#if you see a mistake no you don't. you know the drill#also i finally watched bad batch season 3 around christmastime and hewiutgeh.#singlehandedly took the show from a 4 to a 10 for me so thx dave filoni we love u as always >>>#lowk kinda missed it here *gazes fondly at the bot spam and screaming and cursing in my feed*#btw i have never used instagram in my life so if this is formatted wrong it's your fault. bye#someone tell me whether or not i should tag this as rxsk because i am very much debating#does tumblr even like them anymore ?? i know ao3 does they're still going crazy over there (>1k works God bless)#“bro's first post back and she's yapping her head off” cmon you know me by now anyway can we talk about season 7 ahsoka#i find no fault in her. she is perfect. she is the greatest version of any star wars character ever at all#no i will not be thinking about whether or not anyone told her about fives. no i will not be thinking about whether or not anyone told echo#ok that's enough bye i'll wait for this to get four notes at most and three of them being comments screaming at me#one more thing uhh suspend your disbelief since anakin liked the post. rots didn't happen and everything is fine !!#my art
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slowly working through the list of things i'm mad about: i got a cameo from tim downie for my ex that i can NEVER watch again. the bastard took a chunk of my wallet AND a 4 minute video from tim downie away from me
#ramble#solution: get one just for myself#self care#the day i stop talking about this is the day you know i'm finally ok#i might make a list of all the things that have been ruined for me forever because of him#noah kahan and lord of the rings are some of them and that's UNFORGIVEABLE#btw whenever i post about this. advice is welcome i guess?? i have no idea what to do or how to even start healing
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annoying as fuck to see people acting like Madam Jin made excuses for Jin Zixuan and tried to pressure Jiang Yanli into marriage with him as if 99% of her scenes aren't her going "I'm sorry about my stupid loser son's behaviour Yanli dearest I'll make him apologize if it's the last fucking thing I do don't worry about a thing"
#yes she wants them to get married but it's so clear she cares so deeply about yanli and won't make excuses for her stupid son#she even sides with yanli against jin zixun in favour of wei wuxian!!! SHE LOVES THIS GIRL SO MUCH!!!! IT'S SO SPECIAL TO ME!!!!#YOU DON'T GET TO TALK ABOUT HER LIKE THAT!!!!! (they also bashed yzy but we never see her thoughts so that means nothing to me)#it's the failure to remember or think about what's actually canon that annoys me and unfortunately this is the mdzs fandom#people always seem to miss a fundamental aspect of yanli's character: SHE WANTED TO MARRY JIN ZIXUAN. SHE LOVED HIM!!!#THIS IS NOT A GIRL BEING TRAPPED IN AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE!!! SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH HIM THE WHOLE TIME AND HE EVENTUALLY GREW UP!!!!#it's literally one of the only things she has some agency over as a character. wanting to marry him despite EVERYTHING. show some respect!#it was a tiktok post btw so not a platform i expect to care about things like Canon or Nuance. didn't even bother engaging.#unfortunately that means you all have to watch me rant about it afterwards instead#madam jin#jiang yanli#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#the untamed#grandmaster of demonic cultivation#i'm saying stuff
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sss day my favorite national holiday WOOOOHHHH
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#pokemon#trainer lyra#rival silver#soulsilvershipping#timeskip tag#bao beis#i had so much more planned. but alas. college.#ANYWAY. sss my everything. ohh. always thinking abt them.#this is very obviously lyra's room! all the pink! massive bed to fit all her pokemon! the champion paycheck gets you that much at least#and plants!!! no. 1 horticulturist in johto#she's living somewhere around the base of mt silver... decently close to the league and her hometown#so i like to imagine her with a huge greenhouse so she can take care of plants even in the harsher climate#meanwhile silver has one of those decrepit malelivingspace flats in viridian. he's making it work.#i can only see sss properly moving in together liiiike in their late 20s#after they get to enjoy young adult independence for a while#but before they permanently settle down they should go on silly adventures again... just once. or twice. or#as much as i like to entertain the thought of them being homebodies i think they'd rather spend their lives travelling haha#since silver never got to fully experience it as a kid on the run#being a wanted man and all#and lyra is itching for the getaway#they deserve to be in nature and responsibility-free and *frothing at the mouth*#BTW i put my whole wyvussy into that wall decor#lisia signed poster... rosa's resemblance as mei(!!!) in the totoro one... bell tower + whirl island pics //#pokemon constellations... and those gen 4 mail templates that no one actually used. probably from dawn. champion penpals :]#i debated doing a lance poster because celebrity idol funny but nah she'd bin that immediately after moving out#oh yeah the drawover was um. inspired by the nonebinary neochamp fit. so happy for my son.#i'm glad i managed to finish the big piece in time otherwise i would've just posted that LOL can you imagine#okey bye happy sss day
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more phoenix wright situations
#ace attorney tag#maybe i should tag this narumitsu or something. but i dont really care.#gearing up to rereading/illustrating bits of my fic i suppose...i think nick really is too dense to realise he's in love with edgeworth#without some scheming fop trying to intrude. i love villains like kristoph..villains can be fun..witnessing their pathetic folly..#or more like edgeworth would never have mentioned his feelings ever in his life if he wasn't sure phoenix reciprocates.#i want to see it this way because Falling in love during childhood with the person you're going to end up with. is not relatable#there have to be Situations that make you Realise.#as with orufrey i adore the idea of people not working out their romance with that person until their 30s+#but... i mean. even with orufrey i often think how alaira could be qifrey's ex. and oru having been pursued by noble fops through his work#there is that delicate sliver of time before orufrey start living together that such believable situations could have happened.#Then the relief of politely and amicably extricating themselves from those untenable situations#the idea of falling in love age 7 and saving your first kiss for age 35 or something is all very well but more relatable is#people realising how they really feel whilst trying something that ends up feeling wrong.#The comfort and joy of living with your dearest one as if it's platonic - much preferable to trying anything more with anyone else.#But i doubt i will ever portray that or mention it further. it is indeed very delicate to me.#and i really am an OTP FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! kind of person who can barely bear to consider this anyway...NOT a polyshipper i'm afraid !#so i wouldn't mind either if they do have their first kiss in their lives age 35 with each other either. I would not mind that at all.#i love bi/gay couples apparently... bi father figures & their grumpy gay men waiting for them to work it all out...#not used to using colour in comic-style drawings..or at all..so this is messy and awkward looking..but colour is refreshing#i imagine i will go back to witch hat art soon btw. my destiny in life.#i still remember writing my nrmt fic expecting to write their first kiss & then partway through twas like Umm No. They have kissed prior.#does that really line up with this comic though... i think i had their early dinner dates/first kiss BEFORE disbarment.#so i guess this comic doesn't line up with my ficverse.... No..... U___U Oh well. sorry kris! <3
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Wow, okay thanks a lot, now your making me GEEK OUT over characters I DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT!!! Because you post about them so damn much and now I'm associating them with YOU and this is ALL YOUR FAULT!!! BECAUSE NOW EVERY TIME THEY COME ACROSS MY DASH I THINK ABOUT YOU AND GEEK OUT!!! YOUR FAULT!!! YOU DID THIS TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
#/vvvvvvvvvvvvvpos btw btw#every time I see specific characters I end up thinking about my friends. Do you. What the fucj#Do you have ANY idea how. What. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HARD IT IS TO MAKE ME ASSOCIATE A CHARACTER WITH YOU OR ANYONE#WHENEVER I SEE THEM. OH MY G#congratulations you somehow managed to do this. To ME. WHAT#NOW I'M GEEKING OUT OVER THEM TOO WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OR ACTUAL INFO ABOUT THEM UNLESS YOU'RE YAPPING ABOUT THEM!!!#AAAAHHHHHHHHHH THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT YOUR FAULT YOUR FAULTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#/vvvvvvvvdir. WITH LOVE AND CARE ❤️❤️❤️#TO A VERYVERYVERY SPECIFIC PERSON. EVEN MORE SPECIFICALLY A MUTUAL WHO YAPS ABOUT THAT ONE SPECIFIC CHARACTER SO. FUCKING. MUCH!!!#But it's /vvvvvvvvvvvpos I'm not mad I love yaps ❤️❤️❤️ hELP#I read (present tense pronounce) your yaps cause I'm like “okay. Fine. For mutual's sake cause I care about my mutuals”#And now LOOK WHERE THAT'S GOTTEN ME. I'M INSANE#I should have a tag for my rambles huh. How bout...#nuclear bomb talks to the walls#oH MY GOD yeah that's perfect#All /vvvvvvvvvpos btw. ILY moots /p
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Happy belated Ace Day of Visibility! I should've posted something yesterday but I kept trying to wait until the boys got their paint before I posted anything with them in it. Unfortunately, the 2014 tumblr asexuality discourse has found its way to Twitter (in large part thanks to a certain disgraced author) and I had to turn my chair and make this real shitty overlay from a panel Monarch drew 90 years ago because she's too swamped for me to request a dedicated piece of her son. So, have her boy you haven't met yet (his name is Meter, he is lovely, and he is aroace) and a boy you have (Course is probably most like me of my sons, and therefore has inherited the asexuality umbrella). Bonus Myth in the background (not ace, but very supportive 😌).
For those curious, this likely takes place around chapter 7/8ish? It gets fuzzy with an intermission after chapter 6.
#project crown#star wars#star wars clone wars#clone wars#the clone wars#course#clone troopers#tcw#meter#asexual#asexuality#international asexuality day#asexuality awareness#ace day#asexual day#not a story#not a lore post either#unless you count clone lgbtq awareness as lore#course is demi and bi if you care#myth is just bi#8ball is the one on the bunk btw#he's gay even if he doesn't know it yet#is it statistically likely for the majority of clones to be queer? idk but all i'm saying is when two queer people make characters#the characters are gonna be queer too#i've got an aroace jedi padawan as well but they probably won't ever show up unless I decide to throw in a cameo somehow#For a while early in Myth's development I rly considered giving him my autism AND my asexuality but I made him a lot more wide-eyed than me#and I didn't want to reinforce stereotypes too harshly. But Course? That's me. That's free money#Myth is poly tho. He had two hands.#and a very big heart#I wonder if any of you actually read the tags bc if you don't I'll just start putting blatant spoilers in them
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so it seems the poppy war has become my absolute favorite series so ofc i'm losing my mind comparing every scene with my other favorite series (red queen) and making an unfathomable amount of headcanons
#first off i think rin and mare would get along. maybe not at first but after a while they would#i think venka and evangeline would become the best of friends like the second they lay eyes on each other#AND evangeline would probably help venka realize that she's an absolute lesbian#i also think rin would get along with farley And with cameron especially#i think the cike (and kitay) would IMMEDIATELY adopt shade and kilorn and they'd have the silliest of dynamics. while being a menace#i think the cike wouldn't like cal at first but then they'd be chill about him#AND nezha and cal would also get along. btw. if you even care.#just thinking about rinezha and marecal interactions makes me dryheave i'm literally climbing the walls of my room right now#also qara and iris would get along AND hot take but i think she'd also get along with chaghan cause she'd be the only person he respects#imo#i also think jiang and mare would get along. tho he'd probably get on her nerves more often than not#i don't think altan and maven would get along with anyone lmao they're such freaks🙌#i like to imagine that altan would have INSANE one-sided beef with cal AND mare that'd be histeric#like they really dgaf about him it'd be so one-sided it'd be embarrassing for altan#maybe. MAYBE. cameron could manage him (cause they're both commited to being Haters yknow). but only for like 5 secs at most .#i also like to imagine chaghan and maven would have the biggest beef known to mankind i think they'd find each other insufferable❤️❤️#and evangeline and chaghan???? ohh chaghan's gonna find out how MEAN a mean lesbian can be alright. mlm/wlw hostility🤞🤞✨️#and what if rin and cal get somewhat along bc she understands the responsability the older sibling has over the younger one.#what if she completely understands his guilt WAAAAIT#ohh the more i think about them the more insane i get#this is just a snippet of the headcanons i have in mind rn#maybe i should make a more ''organized'' post about it#and not hide it in the tags😔#also the joy and whimsy one gets from making your faves hate each other's guts... it's so entertaining... peace and love on planet earth❤️#the poppy war#red queen series#red queen#also don't mind any grammatical mistakes i didn't check anything before typing this. and i don't have respect for the english language <3
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Why does Vassago already have merch, we haven't even met him yet
#Celtrist#cel rambles#I don't particularly care how abundant the merch is on shark robot#It literally feels like they'll take a scrap of anything and make it a pin#Like the Moxie Antartica pin Really sir and a bunch others where they're just a random frame from the show#I mean they're FUN frames at least but I swear I've seen some real random ones that don't even make sense to be a pin#AND I'M SORRY WHY DO THEY HAVE SO MUCH MERCH OF CHARACTERS THAT I CAN'T IMAGINE BEING THOUGHT TWICE ABOUT#Sallie Mae fine I can see why people like her and want merch#Chaz is pushing it especially seeing as he's pretty dead but fine I suppose he has his fans#Glitz and Glam? Okay you already fucked up not going with their beta designs but who really was looking at them and thinking “I want merch”#But fine. I'm sure they have their fans#BUT FREAKING MUFFY?? THE VET RECEPTIONIST? WHO TF WAS ASKING FOR A PIN OF HER? DID YOU EVEN KNOW HER NAME?#They do that shit all the time and it aggravates me. They seem to go by a “quantity over quality” thing.#Which their quality is great btw but the quantity of things they have for characters that don't even matter and are seen once is rediculous#Also when I was gonna look up when we were gonna meet Vassago I saw he was an overlord in the pilot#Curious if that's gonna stay. What's to say overlords can't be hellborns or goetia#Is he a goetia? Not sure.#P-point is I like their merch and the new batch seems to mostly be uniquely made to be merch and I like that#But the amount of “garbage” (that's mean but best way I can put it) merch that has a character little to no one would care about#Or is essentially JUST a screen grab from the show is annoying and just pointlessly fills the shop pages#And while I see from a business perspective why they'd put Vassago out especially since some already like him#I also just think it's silly for him to already have merch when we haven't seen his character other than in the trailer#Surprised they don't have merch of satan out yet lol#Okay but I would've approved only so they could make a krampus joke with him#Granted I don't care about Helluva as much as Hazbin#But can't help to be more critical of it when it has a lot of problems Hazbin has aside from pacing#But absolutely NO excuse or leeway for the reason of the sloppy writing that's present#Lemme reiterate my good ol' phrase here:#You're not in the Sonic fandom for like 22 yrs and don't learn to be critical of the media you enjoy lol#rant
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I LOVE WOMENNNNN 🔥🔥🔥🔥
#this game is just one big metaphor for having ocd I'm ngl#LIKE IM NOT EVEN JOKING WITH THIS 😭 like when I saw that post (still haven't read it yet but going to) I was like hmm#but the “rituals” for smth to come true to prevent the “bad thing from happening”#“smth terrible will happen if you say this” a number of compulsions Siffrin does to calm himself down#literally TRAPPING YOURSELF IN YOUR OWN TIMELOOP TO PROLONG YOUR SUFFERING WITH NUMEROUS INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS#AKA THROUGH A “WISH” AKA AN OBSESSION THAT YOU WONT LET GO OF LIKE THIS IS JUST RUMINATION LMAO#And the thing that breaks the loop aka the “compulsion” is just fighting against looping itself#Seeing Sif eventually break down throughout act 5 (my fave act btw I love it when things go so wrong) and just not care anymore#about maintaining the compulsion of continuously looping back to get things right and have them be perfect#them fighting against a manifestation of those very thoughts they've been afraid of for so long??? like brilliant fr cause#that is the real true struggle of ocd is well “breaking that loop”#not even sure if this is intentional but regardless it really fits that criteria so well I might as well have been looking in a mirror lmao#oh time loop stories you never fail me#I love the subversion here ngl I am so here for it#I'll give my full thoughts once I try and get the rest of achievements and anything I might've missed#did I mention I love women#my posts
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#I'm still waiting for the formal offer letter but let me tell you how i got this job#a hiring manager reached out to me on LinkedIn asking if I'd be interested in the team he's building#so i was like yeah I'll throw my hat in#i had an easy coding screen with him (valid palindrome lol)#then i had a screen with another manager around QA practices#then i went through four more interviews as part of a 'final loop'#one was a more difficult coding question. one was design a test framework. one was QA-behavorial#and the other was communication + collab behavorial#each of those six interviews was a 45 minute video call btw#this all took like. three months lmfao#then a week after that i heard back that they didn't want me for that role#but that one of the guys i interviewed with is a hiring manager on an adjacent team and he really liked me#when i looked back at my notes sure enough that guy is the one who ended our call with 'i hope i get to work with you!' lol#so they wanted to put me for this other slightly less technical role#and i was like yeah sure why not i liked that guy too lol#so the next day i had one final interview with a senior leader asking about my priorization and conflict resolution skills#which makes sense since this is a more cross-functional communication role with lots of talking to developers#and that guy was awesome and definitely someone I'd work for#so a few days later i got the verbal offer!#i will also add that during all of this i also went to the final stage for a different team at the same company#but was plain out rejected from that one lol#plus i did beginning screens for two other roles as well and didnt make it as far#all this to say i did like... over a dozen interviews with this company since October lol#and i studied like CRAZY. i spent hours on leetcode and hours putting together stories from my experience#i worked very very very hard and it finally fucking paid off!!!!!#back in october i said to my wife 'i want to get a job at (company). i think that will be my goal now.'#and she was like lol ok. but i kept getting interviews and studying for them#working harder than i ever did in college even lmao. and she was like oh wait you're really serious#and then she helped me sooooo much by taking care of the kids while i studied and stuff like that#but yeah i did it. i put my mind to it and i fucking did it!!!!!
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Favourite Fleet & Clara quotes from High Vaultage
(Page numbers from my Goldsboro special edition, I'm not sure how they line up with page numbers in other versions. Spoilers for all of High Vaultage.)
p27: Clara had met Fleet only weeks before. She had just arrived in London and started work as a crime reporter, and pursued a murder case alongside Fleet despite his repeated objections, until he eventually conceded - as Clara had known he would - that they were making a good team, and furthermore proposed - as she hadn't a clue he would - that they go into business together.
p51: "There you are, Fleet. Where have you been?" / Fleet paused, made some confused looks between Clara and the room he had just left, and finally pointed at the door. "Isn't this the waiting room for detectives whose partners have run off? They were quite a few of us in there. Quite a lot in common." / Clara suppressed a grin into something more disapproving. "You're not as funny as you think you are, Inspector." (More below the cut.)
p70: [After Clara successfully sneaks into the Iron Bridge Club] [Fleet] should have known Clara would make it in. Her tenacity had been clear to him since she had first left the police roping at a crime scene of his. It was one of the things he admired about her, even if she didn't always check whether there was somewhere to land.
p76: [After Clara's business card strategies work on Cosgrove] Fleet glanced at Clara. She grinned back, eyes wild with pride, before tapping her bag and mouthing the word 'Posner'.
p116: [After Professor McCabe says “Top marks, Miss Entwhistle”] Clara beamed, and flashed her eyebrows at Fleet while elbowing him in the ribs.
p132: "Don't think you can shake me off, Inspector. I'll come with you." / " I'm not trying to shake you off. It's just late, Clara.” / "You're always trying to shake me off. Ever since we met. Despite my constant usefulness." / "I'd say occasional usefulness," replied Fleet, maintaining a straight face. / Clara, with some effort, twisted her grin into something approximating outrage. "Frequent usefulness, surely!" / "No, but I'll agree to "regular usefulness"." / "Deal.” / “And I asked you to join me in business, Clara. If I'd wanted to shake you off, that's a poor way to go about it."
p154: [From Fleet's POV] Clara really was the sort of person - indeed the only person he knew - who could find genuine joy and wonder in a building site.
p172: [When Clara fears for her life at the display of the Lanterns] She thought of her brother, her sister, her parents... Her ridiculous detective.
p176-178: Clara without her usual pep was almost unrecognisable. [...] Normally that sort of reply would at least elicit some playful scolding. Fleet grew concerned. [...] "Do you want to talk about it?" [...] " What do you want to talk about?" [...] He tried to think of more options. Not talking about things was Fleet's speciality, but for Clara this signalled a worrying malaise. Things were dire. He was going to have to resort to small talk. "Would you like to hear about my day?" A brief pause. "Yes," she replied, with a note of hope [...] Fleet remembered the mess he was in before he switched to the task of cheering up Clara.
p184: When he saw her, she noticed his eyes were shining with a rare zeal, and he appeared bursting to explain whatever he was thinking.
p187: Fleet had, after all, taken her under his wing, even if she did have to thrust herself there initially. She thought about the door plaque he’d had engraved with both their names on it as his way of inviting her to be his business partner – typical Fleet, refusing to tell her so much as his favourite breakfast food and then to go and do something like that. It was the nicest thing anyone had ever done for her.
p201: [After Fleet sees a magpie get electrocuted] Fleet looked at Clara, who thankfully had been facing the other way.
p214: [After Fleet falls into the frozen river] Clara, removing her cape and placing it over Fleet's shoulders
p225: [Clara] had read several books on the subject - Surreptitious Sleuthing, Introduction to Ingression, Undetectable Detection, to name a few - but she always seemed to pick up more from her partner, whose years in the police had left him full of [useful tricks].
p235: [While navigating the Brunellian tunnels for the first time] "I still think my way is more fun." / "Escape, Clara. Escape and then fun." / "That's a promise, Fleet. You've promised it now.”
p259: “That's too much topiary,” said Fleet [...] Clara's eyes lit up at this rare revelation of a personal opinion from her colleague. “I didn't know you had such strong views on topiary, Fleet.”
p293: [When Crowe increases how much he'd be willing to pay them to investigate on his behalf] Fleet knew his answer, but felt he had to see whether Clara was still in agreement. He looked to her, only to be met with an expression of astonishment that he had taken even this long to respond.
p337: [After their falling out] Where do you even begin, she thought, let alone end, with someone you've worked with so closely?
p338: [After they squash the scone Fleet brought Clara as part of his apology] "You want me to eat an exploded scone!" cried Clara, stifling laughter.”/ “I think it says a lot if you refuse.” / “Fine,” she said, grabbing the bag, pulling out the crushed scone and taking an enormous bite. / The corners of Fleet's mouth twitched. Clara was sure he almost laughed.
p341: [Before they go into the Church of the Mechanical Man to look for Helena Evans] Clara smiled, and punched him in the shoulder. / "Ow! What was that for?" / Clara realised that in her excitement at Fleet's plan she had landed her friendly thump with rather more power than intended, so she clarified: "You're a good one, Fleet.”
p371: [After Fleet gets shot in the shoulder] Fleet thought he heard Clara scream his name, but he couldn't be sure. Suddenly she was next to him, checking his shoulder.
p371-372: Clara turned to Fleet. “Now I have an idea.” / “What kind of idea?” / “A terrible idea. Just the worst idea I've ever had.” / Fleet looked towards the distant exit, which could barely be seen beyond the fire, and then back to Clara. “I like it.”
p373: [As they anticipate an oncoming wave of molten metal] Fleet felt a sensation he did not recognise. Something like calm. Then Clara took his hand and turned him towards her. For some insufferable reason she was smiling again. He couldn't help but return it. [...] Fleet realised Clara still had his hand firmly in hers, and she seemed to be saying something at him that he couldn't hear. He tried to listen, but she stopped speaking, shook her head, threw her arms around him and hauled him down onto the ground.
p375: [When Clara won't tell Fleet whether she knew they were going to be saved by Helena Evans] “And you don't think this might affect how likely I am to trust your plans in the future?” / “Does it?” asked Clara. [...] “No,” said Fleet. “It doesn't.”
p381: Clara stiffened her posture, as though she might salute. "Archibald Fleet, I challenge you to a battle of business." / "We're partners, Clara. We're on the same side." / "A point for whoever solves a case first! More for trickier ones!" / "But we work together..." / "Let battle commence!" she cried.
#High Vaultage#Victoriocity#Clara Entwhistle#Archibald Fleet#There's just so much care and affection and trust and respect and understanding and humour between them#in the midst of all their differences#One of the nice things about the move to book format#is the chance to see more inside the characters' heads and to know more about their body language#And you can really tell the attention they pay to each other#like all of the times one of them looks over to the other to check in or to express a feeling#Almost all of the times Fleet smiles or almost-smiles in the book are at something Clara says or does#I had a system of pencil symbols for annotating as I was reading#e.g. an asterisk for every bit that made me laugh#a little heart for the sweet moments for character dynamics#so this is a good chunk but not even all of the lines with hearts next to them#Btw I'm in the process of writing a long ass post about the potential to read Fleet and Clara's dynamic through a QPR lens#which I'll post after all the S3 episodes are officially out#I guess lmk if you would like to be tagged in that#Inspector Fleet#Clara & Fleet
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wait, why can’t a decent amount of the members in proto-thunderclan not hunt?
A lot of them have serious physical disabilities! It's enough that it poses a logistical problem, which they are committed to overcoming together.
Thunder Storm's three legs makes him slower than his companions. He's ferociously powerful, but like a male lion, he has to rely on his "lionesses" to slow a large animal.
Bright Storm has asthma from her heroics trying to save SkyClan cats from a fire. She's taking that from Gray Wing, who is famously the first major death now. Like her son, she has a difficult time with chasing prey.
Bumble is dyspraxic. She's a terrible hunter and fighter and struggles with self-worth because OTHERS used it to dehumanize her, and continues to, even after an entire society forms out of love of her.
Sunlit Frost has permanent nerve damage in his arm from the fire, and ends up working so hard that it makes his disability worse. A bite on the good paw from Snake becomes infected after he refuses to sit out from digging graves after the First Battle; I am planning a chunky B-plot about Sunlit coming to terms with the fact he has to retire early.
That's FOUR major members of a small group with physical disabilities that make hunting hard or impossible. They have a lot of logistical problems that I will actually be exploring solutions to.
#One of the solutions will probably be a hog hunt which I'm excited for#As there's a bunch of things each person can do to help with that#It's really such a shame that canon is so hyperfixated on disabled cats feeling like they 'need to be useful' in a very well established--#Society where they CAN just be comfortably cared for#It frustrates me that the series keeps portraying that as a Good Thing and not either a tragedy of self-worth OR an exploration of--#SOCIAL ableism.#So for BB!DOTC I'm going to try and take aim at both#Ok then; let's TALK about a small underdog group who needs its members to contribute#And let's talk about how even THIS little group INNATELY values its members. How that is good and natural#And how there's NO excuse for the bigger group to be so cruel. It's not neccesity. It never was. It was spite.#Thunder Storm says 'The point of having a group at all is to care for each other. NOT to have it serve you.'#Man really comes out here like FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY. TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEED#And I am trying to think of how to stress how MUCH food SkyClan has. Like how I'll show that...#I'll definitely need to make sure to set up a lot during the time Thunder Storm is Clear Sky's acolyte.#Btw does that sound like a good word? Trying to figure out what Tribe cats call their apprentices#Because fuuuuck no I'm not calling them To-bes
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Ok brainstorm. Tank and Ripp are kindergarten aged. Buzz and Lyla are fighting, not for the first time. Lyla goes to "visit her parents" for a few days, turned a few weeks, and during this time Buzz gets abducted. Lyla eventually comes back, and notices that something's off about her husband, but just figures he's feeling sheepish/apologetic for how he acted towards her, and it's wounded his pride, so he's being weird.
Buzz, meanwhile, is having the worst time of his life & has no idea what's going on with his mind or body. He thinks he's finally snapped and has just lost his mind completely. He starts becoming hostile towards the neighbors, even more of a workaholic, and suddenly obsessed with making sure their sons can "defend themselves." Lyla is completely skeeved out at this point and is like ok buddy I think you need to go "visit your parents" for a little while.
So Buzz is temporary kicked from the house and he finds himself going down a rabbithole researching alien activity and reports of abductions. ENTER: Glarn Curious. Buzz finds out about this guy who was supposedly abducted like a decade ago and, luckily enough for him, still lives in Strangetown. He tracks down an address and shows up uninvited at Glarn's house and is like you have GOT to help me because I feel like I'm going completely insane here and you might be the only person who can understand. And Glarn feels for him, because he was in this position once, and there was nobody around to help him.
Anyway, what I'm trying to get at here is that Glarn Curious performs an alien mpreg abortion on Buzz Grunt sometime between 1993-1995. And this whole... experience is why Buzz is so hostile towards Mr. Retired-Pollination-Technician Smith specifically
#I'm not saying Buzz was abducted BY PT9 btw.. doesn't work with the timeline#anyway as Johnny would've had to have already been born ergo PT9 would already be retired#and I don't think he (or even Glarn) knows that PT9 is the one who abducted Glarn#Buzz just sees PT9 going around still calling himself fucking ''Pollination Technician no.9'' and manages to connect the dots about#his former profession#...#also I think in the beginning#Buzz and Lyla's fights mostly revolve around how Lyla feels trapped in the house taking care of the kids while Buzz works all the time#and Buzz thinks Lyla is being totally selfish and unreasonable- SOMEONE has to take care of the kids#and he was lucky enough to land a job that pays well enough to support the family. If they switched now#they would be putting themselves at a huge disadvantage bc Lyla has this gap in her resume and no college degree and no network and would#be making significantly less money than Buzz. and how does she expect to support them like that?#and Lyla thinks they could BOTH be working. Or she could go back to school now that the boys are older and starting elementary school#themselves#and Buzz thinks that's just a swell idea#why DOESN'T she go back to school then?#And Lyla thinks how the hell am I supposed to juggle schoolwork on top of the kids and the house and YOU when YOU are ALWAYS working#and NEVER interested in helping me with anything#and Buzz thinks good fucking lord how can you be. so selfish and unreasonable#and so you see how this goes round and round and round again#later on their fights skew more towards Buzz's instability and erratic behavior.. but this is still the skeleton of it all#Strangetown
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