#mike smarts

[glitch-the-artist]

chapter 3: smile! your on camera!

[mercair-just-for-a-little-while]

Okay so, this one is gonna be a little different (cuz he isn’t a secret boss, but more of a stand in for noelle in my chapter 3’s weird route) but anyways, here’s Mike. Now how would your secret bosses react to this phone cat

Ok, i think this might be my first time seeing this guy, let's go!

Something tells me Woostern's hyper cheerful & cute attitude wouldn't mix well with a moody teenager, as it barely even did with Kris. Still, i think Woostern would try her best to be friends with his guy!

Bonslick. I don't think the both of them would get along... At all. Considering how Bonslick tries to act like a 90's cool teenager when he is NOT, Mike would probably point out how pathetic he is and... yeah...

Left-E! Same as always. Teenager's are allowed in the stablishment as long as they're not making trouble for anyone else! Also smile a little, you're at ICE-E's P"E"ZZA, my friend! Regarding the weird route... Yeah, he'll definitely try to kill Kris and Mike as soon as he sees them. Fire vs Ice.

Sonatta! She'd happily greet the young man, treat him as another one of Kris' friends. She's just a really good lady. Also C A T

Quiddo. Oh my god the annoying little kid bothering a moody teenager to death, i wonder what could happen. As for Quiller, it'll have no interest at all in the phone in a normal route, just another forgettable face in this world, hower, in a weird route, he'll definitely serve as another proof and justification for YOUR sentence.

Shikari... Fire powers for a phone is pretty unexpected, but very cool nonetheless. Still, don't mess with her.

[static-studios]

Ey look I don’t got much time here. This is Mike smarts from the creative alliance and I was able to steal rooks phone, I don’t know how long till he notices it’s gone. But that isn’t important, I gotta get this message out beforSHIT ITS THE GAURDS HE FOUND ME PH FUCKING A OH GOD THEIR BEATING UP TED, NOT TED OH MY GO

[p1zzaparty]

their asses are getting beat with a net constantly 🎈🎈🎈

[evilbookworm]

The real reason the duffers didn’t let Mike stay in Hawkins during s4 was because they knew he would’ve dismissed the others shit plan immediately and I stand by this

[glfry]

Can we agree that the "Thats two things" line from Mike was autistic as shit

[howtobecomeadragon]

i love when they

[bunabi]

Lordy I feel you wrt to Dragon Age craziness -- the last few days I've been chewing on the walls wondering what Mythal's reckoning, the reckoning that apparently would've "shake[n] the very heavens" was supposed to entail. What would that have looked like???? I guess we'll never know!!!!

Real. You can't have Flemeth scream "she was betrayed, as I was betrayed, as the world was betrayed" and not only avoid elaborating but make it seem so ? inconsequential.

Veilguard is all about characters succeeding where their mirror/foil/counterpart failed, I get that, but making Morrigan an exception to Mythal's influence was so silly.

Let me get this straight. Mythal's will was strong enough to bind Solas to her service. Strong enough to make Flemeth devote her existence to vengeance. But motherly love protected Morrigan. She's just. Completely unaffected. Like what do you meannnn. 😩

[glitch-the-artist]

Omg guys I found a canceled episode of the mike rofanni show.

mike smarts is owned by me

mike rofanni is owned by @mercair

[havepatienceandendure]

The parallel of donna calling a man she has been fucking for weeks ‘good boy’ when he does something she wants at work to harvey in literally episode two calling mike a ‘good boy’ when he does something harvey wants at work. Writers of suits explain yourselves

[static-studios]

To all of you folks:

Opinion on lemonade?

tenna: lemonade? Why not just lemons?? You all are a bunch of cowards.

mike: ya sure I like lemons

elnina: I much prefer water instead actually!

lanino: I prefer hot milk, sorry!

chariel: lemonade is a nice drink for hot days.. so yes I would enjoy it.

Billy: … no. I hate lemonade.

hoppy: HEY KIDS!! Billy hates lemonade!!!

filmso: I’m not allowed to have lemonade actually, all I’m payed with is mangos. Yep I hate my job.

Mr. Rook: combustible lemon

raily: I DONT NEED ANY <<darn it!>> LEMONADE!! I ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH <<adult soda>> IN MY SALOON!!!!! HAHAHOHO!

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike thinks Michael is dumb as hell

[phoebepheebsphibs]

Rise August: Disco

DISCO GIRL!

COMIN' THROUGH!

THAT GIRL IS YOU!

@sariphantom

[gayofthefae]

Extrapolating the full Mike and Nancy scene from that one screenshot: cinematography analysis

Just posted this then realized I have not lived up to it so let's go. We have one and only one to my memory actual camera shot of a potential Byler scene as opposed to a leak (though I could try to decipher from camera position itself for pics from afar).

And I haven't done my job to its fullest. So here we go.

This shot is MIKE'S POV. It is a dirty OTS. I have established that when he turns he looks a bit sad. He is aware of her eyes on him. She looks sad for him, obviously, so we can gather that he is feeling sad about something but trying to hide it from her. In this shot, he is hyper-aware of her being able to see him, which explains him turning away and supports that it is to hide his face and not just for whatever task he is performing off screen.

It is also an OTS shot, but a lingering and silent one. We know that something provoked this is her so it is clearly not the beginning of the scene. New information is gained at the end and withheld or coded to start and she has clearly just learned or realized something. The OTS is pertinent, though, because a shot for non-casual dialogue. Less intimate dialogue is often shot wider - think Steve and Robin in 4x08 talking about Nancy before it shifts to Robin's fears of dying, think Mike and Will between talking about Mike and El's fight and talking about the party's heroism.

There is also something called a "reverse shot" which refers to doing the same shot you just did on person A on their scene partner when you cut to them. Because of how it lingers on her here, I would assume the scene itself is in her POV and it being a dirty OTS shot may speak to Mike's awareness but not his perspective in the overall scene and is more likely just a reverse shot of her previous dirty OTS. I would also assume that based on this visibly being a point of gained knowledge - the value having changed in the scene (this means if you start feeling/knowing one way it's gotta end up something different or you should cut the scene) - this is the end of the scene, this scene for being for the purpose of gained knowledge setting UP a future scene with the purpose of a conversation on it, but those are two separate scenes. If she immediate said what she noticed, there would be no need to focus on her while he's looking away here any more than Will needs to silently pine for Mike in the van scene like he did in the junkyard - a shot you'll notice IS absent in that scene as I just noted because the same information is provided in other ways. THIS seems to be the sole source of the information here. So it is likely the end of the scene.

From that, we can gather that they were already in OTS's and not wide shots, which are the shots most used for one on one dialogue that is meaningful to the characters. They are having a dialogue that is already intimate or important to them, unlikely a simple strategy brainstorm. I didn't feel the need to mention but will anyway as this reminded me: this seems to be only a dialogue with no other participants or witnesses present. Back to the dialogue, though, this actually is different than what I previously thought because looking down makes it look like he's working on something, which would bring a more casual tone to their conversation. But he could have also just now resumed that activity, having stopped to talk seriously. I also might be simply wrong and he's just looking down, not at anything specific.

We also know, though, from my earlier point of Nancy not yet acting on this information that, though Mike is aware of being witnessed, there is no confirmation that he knows she knows etc. The information she gained is unspoken. For example, he didn't slip up and confess his feelings for Will. That would be undeniable. Here, he is able to at least pretend she doesn't know and turn away, continuing with something else, rather than trying to correct the situation in any way. Most importantly in defining this: whatever Nancy just learned - to Mike's awareness (whether he noticed her realization or not), he is still safe. Notable by the fact that his reaction is avoidance, not desperation. At best he is oblivious, at worst he is anxious, but he is not desperate. This is not as high stakes to him as we have seen before when it comes to personal information.

All this information helps us start to put together a scene:

In a scene in Nancy's POV, Mike and Nancy are alone together. They have a serious conversation. In it, Nancy learns something about Mike, but the information is unspoken. She looks at Mike thoughtfully. He seems to be aware she is looking at him. The scene ends without further action on the topic.

[evilbookworm]

Thinking about this cause this was actually crazy to do

[i-wanna-show-you-off]

this shit is so funny to me