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albiclalepsza · 8 months ago

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New York City in the Summer of 1979 - a foreword to The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concert on CD/DVD

I showed up in New York City in the Summer of 1979 and asked a friend who had a tiny apartment on West 90th Street if I could sleep on his couch for a few months while I try to pursue my dream of becoming a fillmmaker. He said yes but... he didn't have a couch. Luckily we found one down the block that was left out with the trash and we hauled it up to our 2nd floor walkup. We dubbed the apartment "the roach motel" and it would be my home for a little while as I set out on my journey. I was 22 years old and began looking for work as a production assistant.

Working on film sets of NY was how I learned my craft. The city looked very different back then. Abandoned buildings and vacant lots on the Upper West Side surrounded our "roach motel". NYC was in disarray but it was exciting and electric. In the Summer of '79, William Freidkin was shooting Cruising with Pacino in the West Village, John Cassavettes was making Gloria with Gena Rowlands, Brian De Palma had Dressed To Kill, Sidney Lumet was shooting Just Tell Me What You Want, and right around the corner from my humble apartment, Scorsese and De Niro were quietly making Raging Bull on Columbus Avenue and 89th Street.

In 1979, NYC was where art was being created 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Films were being made by a new generation of independents. The graffiti of Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiiat and many other artists was on every wall and subway station. Music from punk to disco was exploding in downtown clubs and out onto the streets, changing fashion, language and attitudes.

The city was a mess. It was broke, it was dangerous, but it was alive and filled with young people with a dream. It was a great time and place to be a filmmaker in training. After few day jobs as a production assistant on a couple of movies, I got a call for a position on a music documentary that was in the works. It sounded unbelievable - I was to be right in front of the stage during 5 sold out concerts at Madison Square Garden, on a headset, coordinating between a cameraman and the director. If that wasn't enough, I soon found out the headliner for two of the nights was to be my beloved home state rockers, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. And I was going to be paid 50$ a day for this! I had made it! Dream come true!

Our film crew had a meeting the day before the shows to try to map out who would be where. There were 8 camera crews, but only 2 would be in the pit in front of the stage. Each camera crew had an operator, a camera assistant and a production assistant. All crews were operating hand-held, 16mm cameras that needed to be slated to sync up with the separately recorded sound. Each roll of film was only good for about 9 minutes of shooting before rolling out and then needed a hand thread re-load. This was low tech, old school, documentary movie making at its most challenging. This was FILM. The decisive moment. No second chances. Get the shot or you've missed it forever. No digital cameras that never run out, no giant techno-cranes swooping in, no robotic cable cams flying across the stage, and of course no cell phones. the audience didn't even have still cameras. They were completely locked into what was happening on stage. In the moment.

We all were. This film was 100% hand-made by our crew. It was 100% discovered on the spot. The camera operators had to improvise every second. We captured the moment in its purest form. The music and the energy on stage told us where to go and what to shoot. And in the case of Bruce and the band that energy was almost impossible to keep up with. There are times in the film when the camera crew was either reloading or simply couldn't get to a solo in time (apologies to Stevie for not covering his brilliant guitar solo on "Jungleland"). Several times the action on stage was so fast that out cameras couldn't keep up.

The film you're about to see was shot over two nights. Friday, September 21, 1979, was the first live show for Bruce and the band in the NYC area since the Palladium and The Capitol Theater more than a year before. In 1979 the band was in the studio recording The River album, still looking for their first Top 10 single. There had not been ANY live peformances in 1979. There had never been a Bruce and The E Street Band concert captured live on film this way. It was all about to happen now in Madison Square Garden, the world's most famous arena.

Night two, Saturday September 22, was the evening leading to Bruce's 30th birthday. Magic was in the air. The energy on stage and from the crowd was beyond measure and description. I had been to many great Bruce/ E Street shows before and since but as you will see, that night in The Garden has to be at at the top of the list. Pure adrenalin. "That rush moment that you live for" was about to unfold. As Bruce turned from 29 to 30 years old in front of 20,000 screaming fans at MSG we witness one of the greatest live rock shows on the world's biggest stage.

My crew's position was in the pit, center/stage right, meaning right in between Clarence and Bruce. The Saturday night show opened with poet and songwriter Gil-Scot Heron, then reggae musician Peter Tosh in a cloud of pot smoke. Next a beautiful set by the great Bonnie Raitt followed by kick-ass Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.

But the crowd and the night belonged to Bruce. There was a short break to prepare the stage for Bruce and the band - Roy, Max, Danny, Steve and Clarence.

The anticipation was building. Chants of "BRUUUUUUUCE" had been filling the Garden all evening. We got our camera ready. The first few shots of the film are the Garden crowd. Then a close up of yours truly in the pit in front of the stage, headset on, big smile, ready to roll. This is not the language of a conventional concert film. This film is raw. Camera operators responding to the energy and emotion in the moment. True cinema verité. The best of documentary filmmaking. No rehearsal. No stage marks. No choreography. No plan. We show up and shoot. Whatever will happen on stage no one knows. There was magic in the room those two nights. I will never forget it. I'm so glad it's been rescued from the archives for all to share. Enjoy the show. And belated happy 30th birthday, Bruce.

All my best, Jon Kilik

#bruce springsteen #no nukes #sharing the booklet with all my fellow bruce fans #bruce lit

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angelg0r3 · 10 months ago

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so im like deeply in love with basement gerard (like who isnt?)

Anways ways hes this pathetic high school boy with no friends, joined the choir, and just straight up smells but of course your have the slightest crush on him cuz how can you ignore a cute face like that! Soon word got out about your little crush so gerard asks you if youd like to come over to his place after school, of course you agree because hes just a sad loser boy and it would crush his sad loser heart if you said no.

so your over at his house in his room (the basement) hes digging through piles of clothes, cds, and dvds so you can watch a movie together but unfortunately he never finds it (he did he just had other plans) so he grabs the goriest filthiest movie he owned and said “i cant find it, my brother probably stole it, we can watch this instead!” He was already so hard just from having you in the room and with him. When the first gore scene flashed on the screen he bucked his hips and groaned, you just ignored it thinking he was just trying to get comfortable, but one scene after another it happened again and again, soon a sex scene was displayed on the screen, gerard had a blanket over his lap and was was palming himself through his jeans hoping you didn’t notice him doing that, but of course hes wimpering and bucking his hip even more so you decide you needed a break for him so you say “uhm i need to go to the bathroom ill be back soon…” but of course your just wandering around the house trying to get a break. But when you get back gerards cock is out and hes jacking off the remote is in his hand its his hand and hes replaying the sex scene but specifically the part where the girls head gets cut off and theres blood spilling everywhere, his hand thats on his dick is going faster and faster, he cums and doesn’t even notic your int he room

~🦝🎸

im going to explode BASEMENT GERARD <33333333333

#g.w #🦝🎸 anon

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cattimeswithjellie · 1 year ago

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Stream Recap, ImpulseSV, 6/28/24

((Another slightly shorter one because there were no interactions with other Hermits, but it's always nice to listen to Impulse while he's building. He's also setting up his video prank, which is pretty funny in retrospect.))

2:50 Impulse opens the stream in studio view, playing the Hype Train noise. He is impressed with the way Chat keeps managing to time the hype train to right when he brings the stream live. Chat asks about Decked Out, but that is not the plan for today. It will be soon, though! First, he’s got to make a video. He fiddles with his audio settings and thanks subs and donos. IRL stuff with window replacement has put Impulse way behind on getting his new video done. He did do one thing yesterday, though. He asks chat if they want to see. Chat does indeed.

6:00 Impulse opens game view. He is standing on a glass AFK platform over an ocean. He shows off a massive quad-tower Gnembomb creeper farm that is pouring creepers into the kill chambers. He humblebrags that it is “Adequate” and “should do.” Chat declares it acceptable. He turns off the farm and talks a little bit about the building process for the farm. The farm has produced a large amount of gunpowder but stopped just short of overflowing the farm. Impulse is pleased. Chat asks if there’s going to be late-night Hermitcraft After Dark streaming tonight. Impulse admits that they were going to do it tonight but they blew it. They’ve all been so busy, they just didn’t plan anything. Chat is disappointed.

10:30 The build plan for stream today is to make a storage area for the farm that does not require swimming around underwater and is also big enough to allow for longer AFK sessions. Impulse goes to collect supplies. Chat asks if he can’t just do a conduit, but Impulse wants a cool glass tunnel. This stream will be a little short, he says, because he is going to see Inside Out 2 with the family. Chat tells him to bring tissue, he is upset by this news. Impulse must hide the fact that he is a big softie! Chat encourages him that real men aren’t afraid to cry. He thanks subs and donos and does the birthday you-yo for all the birthdays. He does not have enough glass, so it’s time to go dig sand.

15:30 Chat asks what Impulse needs all that gunpowder for. Impulse asks rhetorically if there’s possibly anything on the server that needs a lot of blowing up. Chat suggests Bdubs’ house but no, it is Magic Mountain! You can’t make a volcano without exploding a lot of TNT. Today is not for explosions though, just making TNT. Chat is disappoint. Impulse relents and says he will blow up at least one TNT today. As he digs, he talks with chat about 90s sci fi movies. He thinks there were too many Resident Evil movies. Many chatters have never heard of movie theaters that are also restaurants. Impulse shares memories of going to the dollar theaters with his mom as a kid, movies that were already out on video. Chat taunts him for being old, or commiserates with him about being old. Chat misses Blockbuster video.

25:00 Impulse misses picking up physical media and looking at the back cover to decide what to watch. He wonders what happened to all the people who wrote copy for the back of DVD and VHS boxes. Do they all write greeting cards now? Or maybe they still do the same thing, some DVDs are still being sold, right? VHS players aren’t even being made anymore. Impulse and Chat discuss converting physical media to digital formats, Impulse refuses to admit any piratical tendencies on-stream. Chat nostalgically remembers Napster. A chatter asks if Impulse likes WWE wrestling, he says he used to when he was younger but not so much anymore. If one isn’t into it these days, the whole thing can seem a bit cringe.

32:00 Impulse reminds chat that he is blowing up Magic Mountain for the sake of all his friends who are spending so much time digging. He hasn’t seen the results of the court case yet so can’t talk about it, but he wants to see Bdubs’ perspective very much. Impulse was too busy building the creeper farm to sit in the gallery, but he got some info from Skizz after the filming. They had stuff to talk about! Episode 100 of the podcast is coming right up and needs to be planned for. He reminds Chat that the second Joel episode of the podcast came out today. Impulse thinks Part 2s are even better than Part 1s, because everyone is relaxed and in the interview flow from the start and there’s no warmup period.

36:30 Impulse returns to his base and informs chat that his coffee is gone. He needs a hydration break because it is 110F outside and that is important. He plays Grian’s Work song for the break. After he comes back, he and Chat reminisce about all the awesome stuff that happened in Season 7. Chat remembers Impulse raising his whole base by one block. Impulse laughs about how he did it all between episodes instead of timelapsing the whole thing, what a weird way to do so much work. Chat suggests maybe he was just tired. Impulse admits they did go really hard in Season 7. Chat uses the idea of space volcanoes to try to negotiate for three TNT detonations this episode. They also remind Impulse that the first use of Proximity Chat was in Season 7, the episode where Bdubs revealed his barber shop. It was a very fun episode, and Proxmod has changed the way they do everything.

44:40 Impulse sends good wishes to Scar, who just had his surgery. He hasn’t heard anything yet but hopes for quick recovery. Scar is a real trooper, always keeping a positive attitude. Chat is in full agreement with all of this. Impulse stops by Bop N Go to repair his shovels and stays to play the Bop Song for Chat. Chat tells Impulse that Pearl is playing Decked Out again. He laughs and says she’s on her training arc, she’s definitely addicted. He goes back to his storage room and looks for sponges. Chat tells him to look in his Utilities Chest, he says that’s a nice name for his junk drawer.

51:00 Impulse heads back into the nether with his wet sponges, realizes he’s forgotten his hoe and turns right back around. Chat makes the expected jokes while Impulse searches through his chests and wonders if he even has a hoe. He may need to craft a fancy hoe. Chat thinks he gave the hoe to Skizz. Impulse creates a diamond hoe and enchants it, naming it iDaHoe. Chat likes it. He tries to sleep and gets the monsters nearby message. “No there’s not,” he says and steps through the waterfall door to be immediately shot by a skeleton. He shoots it back and sleeps. He debates putting Netherite on the hoe and decides against it, then goes out and finds a zombie with a fancy hat. Now he is really really ready to go do sponges.

58:00 Impulse goes back to his base to grab glass to use with his newly dried sponges. A Lupus Nocte song comes up on his background music and he talks about how he likes their songs this season for the cyberpunk vibe. He thought about using one for his timelapses, but Scar and Pearl are already using the best ones. ((Longtime watchers may recognize “Howling” by Lupus Nocte as Scar’s “Super-Fast-Build-Mode” music.)) He organizes his work shulkers as Chat asks what happened to Beefstick (Impulse’s cow) Beefstick is fine, he has wandered out of the base but is still in the cyberpunk city. He thinks a conduit would be good for construction but can’t remember how to do it. Chat tries to help him, but it turns out he does not have sufficient nautilus shells. He asks Chat if Grian or Gem would mind. Gem only has one nautilus shell. Impulse openly questions her commitment to fishing. He searches Grian’s chests, pretending he is looking for seven nautilus shells he put in a random barrel the other day. Chat is not fooled, but play along for the sake of the bit. They also remind him how to get into the secret room. He tries, but it is sealed up for some reason. Impulse sneaks in through the double-secret back way and finds a stack and a half of nautilus shells. The conduit is back on!

1:06:00 Impulse sees Beef online and sparks a conversation about TCG. He is excited about all the new cards but doesn’t know how much Chat knows already and does not want to post spoilers. A chatter tells him that his new card looks great, but they are one of the artists and got a sneak peek. Impulse is also excited about Beef’s impending fatherhood, which is very cool. He knows Beef is going to be a great dad. A chatter mentions how Impulse, Skizz and Tango have been grouped up as “The Arizona Dads.” Impulse acknowledges that they are, in fact, all dads who live in Arizona. Someone else points out that this makes ZITS “Three Arizona Dads and a British Guy.” Impulse acknowledges this is true and that he wants to whine about how Zed needs to come to the States for a visit, but he was here just a few months ago for the charity stream.

1:09:00 Impulse goes through the wrong portal because he is not paying attention. He doubles back to the creeper farm while talking fondly about the charity event and all the fun they had on the roadtrip. He’d love to do something like that once a year. He starts building the conduit, but realizes he did not bring enough prismarine. Chat tells him how to get the lesser effect from a smaller conduit so he doesn’t have to run home again. He starts building the underwater tunnel. As he works, he talks about how cool it is having guests on the podcast and getting to see the other side of a lot of streamers. He and Chat talk about the difference between streams and content made for YouTube. Lots of stuff that wouldn’t be “good content” for YouTube is available on stream for people who want to see more stuff. It’s nice that viewers get to have options. He sets up a storage system of twelve double chests per creeper tower, figuring that will allow him to AFK for 24 hours.

1:18:00 Impulse needs a biobreak, but is it risky to take one while standing underwater? He decides to try it, but make it a quick one with no music video. Cubito Impulse survives two harrowing minutes alone underwater. Chat is a little disappointed. He asks Chat if he should make a big glass platform underwater or a system of glass tubes. Chat wants tubes, so he starts making tubes. He doesn’t have good underwater enchants on, so it’s quite painful to make any mistakes and need to mine up the glass. He talks with Chat about how much it sucks to get sick in the summer, especially on vacation. He was doomed to get sick on his cruise. He tells Chat he is hoping to release his next episode Sunday, and there will be updates on a lot of things, including the tunnel to the bunker. He does some birthday you-yos and mines out the door he forgot to add to the tunnels.

1:30:00 Impulse is running out of glass and he still hasn’t made any TNT. A thunderstorm is causing a ton of noise, but chat likes the ambiance. A chatter asks if Impulse will make a TNT autocrafter. Impulse points out that TNT is shaped crafting that requires special timings, so it would be pretty tough. He hasn’t tried that kind of autocrafting yet. He tells Chat the Old Man Story of the Day. Impulse struggles with insomnia and sleep issues, so he went to a sleep expert to try and solve some of that. Apparently a lot of insomnia was caused by lack of oxygen to the brain, and he was diagnosed with sleep apnea severe enough that he was basically suffocating himself every night. He got a CPAP machine and has been using it for four nights. The first night was tough, the second night they stayed out late, but the last two days he has felt fantastic. He feels old having to sleep with the machine, but he can’t argue with the results. This could be a game changer for him! He feels a little dumb for not getting it addressed for so long. Chat reminds him that anybody of any age can need a CPAP. There are quite a few chatters who also have CPAP machines ((and a recapper! CPAP machines are slightly uncomfortable magical sleep devices.))

1:40:00 Impulse returns to his base for more hoppers and tells Chat they should be glad for all the dad jokes he tells. Dad jokes are good for everyone, he read it in a study somewhere. He goes back to the farm and tells Chat about the CPAP’s reporting system that sends sleep data to his doctor to prove he is using it. He places the last hoppers and begins sponging out the tunnels. He tells more dad jokes. Apparently a man who has more oxygen in his brain has a lot more mental acuity for dad jokes. Chat suffers. Impulse has lost his hoe again. He finds it and gathers up the wet sponges. He thinks Skizz has been secretly borrowing his hoes for unknown reasons. Chat continues to suffer. Impulse loves it.

1:48:00 Impulse checks over the creeper farm to make sure none of the water flow got accidentally sponged, but it looks good. He dries all his sponges and explains the TNT making plan again. He shows off his large amounts of gunpowder and decides to use froglights to make the tunnel look cool. He doesn’t have froglights. He needs to stock his ender chest with more actually useful stuff. He quizzes chat on how many shulkers of sand it will take to make a double chest of TNT. Chat really doesn’t know, but they say ten a lot. He agrees with ten, but in the time it takes him to get back to the farm, the chatters who know it is eight have won the argument. Impulse congratulates everyone on having given their brains a workout today. He adds long stripes of froglights down the ceiling of the tunnels and muses that maybe it’s not a good thing that Etho gives him free froglights. He cannot be trusted to make good froglight design decisions. Chat points out that Impulse hasn’t done very much advertising for the froglight shop yet. Impulse goes way out of his way to do the math on how many shulkers of sand are needed to fill a double chest of TNT. ((The easy math: 1 stack of TNT=5 stacks of Gunpowder, 4 stacks of Sand. 1 shulker of TNT=5 shulkers of gunpowder, 4 shulkers of sand. A double chest is just two shulkers, so 1 double chest is 10 shulkers of gunpowder, 8 shulkers of sand.))

2:00:00 Impulse heads back to his base, commenting “rude” on a self-kill notice from Beef. “tell me about it,” Beef replies. Impulse collects quartz stairs for his tunnels. Skizz is in Twitch chat and wants to know about Beefstick. Impulse looks around and realizes that Beefstick has actually made it out of the Cyberpunk city and is wandering around near the walls. Impulse makes a lead to bring him home. He stands in front of the fencepost his horse is tied to and complains he doesn’t have a fencepost anywhere, then clears his throat and claims he was just testing Chat. Chat is merciless about his Tango-esque powers of observation. Chat asks if Impulse is going to sue Keralis for the horse shenanigans. It was months ago now, but it still doesn’t sit right. He will think about it. He places the quartz ceiling stairs hastily, realizing that it has been two hours into the TNT creation steam and he has not created any TNT so far. Chat suggests adding a rocket factory to this setup, since the gunpowder is flowing so well.

2:09:00 Impulse collects 10 shulkers of gunpowder for the TNT. He needs a lot more sand but if he collects two more shulkers he can at least make one TNT shulker. Chat tells Impulse that Tango also needs tons of gunpowder for his TNT farm. Chat wants to buy sand from Scar, but he might be sold out. Impulse goes to check. On the way, he checks on his elder guardian leaderboard. Two days left and he is still in the lead! He buys a shulker of sand and is mystified by the fact that buying sand by the stack is much more expensive than buying it by the shulker. Chat explains bulk discounts. Impulse pays a massive amount to buy another shulker worth of sand, thinking that it will at least make Scar happy when he gets back. Chat is on board with that.

2:16:00 Impulse makes a shulker of TNT. He’s working quickly because he is running out of time before the movie! He tells chat that everyone needs Item Scroller mod, it is the best clientside mod he owns. He tells Chat he is feeling very “go big or go home” with this project and wants at least two double chests of TNT to use on Magic Mountain. ((Impulse is setting up his “big reveal” for the episode he will release two days later.)) For now, though, he has promised to actually detonate three TNT for Chat before the end of the stream.

2:22:40 Impulse flies up to the top of Magic Mountain and finds a nice flat place to TNT. Chat votes for one blast at a time, so Impulse places and detonates a carefully-chosen TNT blocks from the shulker. Chat is pleased to blow things up! He decides to stack the next two and blows a bigger hole, then tells Chat to imagine what he could do with a double chest, placed in Etho-method. Chat asks what the Etho method is, Impulse says “You’ll see.” Chat explains that Etho method involves autocrafting TNT minecarts and detonating them all at once for a BIG explosion. Impulse shows off his bunker tunnel but tells Chat they will need to watch the video to see more explosions.

2:29:00 It is time for Impulse to wrap things up, but he needs a moment to stand and admire his tunnel at 30% brightness. He turns on shaders as well, Chat agrees that it looks very good. He wraps up the stream and reminds everyone to watch the video on Sunday, it’s going to be a good one! Impulse raids into Pearl and ends his stream.

#hermitcraft #stream recap #impulsesv #sorry i forgot the readmore at first that is my bad

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lol-jackles · 1 year ago

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Here's another article about the current contraction within Hollywood, this time focusing on the crew members. My question is, what will it take for Hollywood to break out of the current contraction, if it does, or is this the new normal?

Link. There will be a new normal, this is probably the 3rd new normal in my lifetime. Due to the boom era that culminated during the streaming decade, peaking in 2015, a lot of people moved to L.A and got into the industry. Now it's the bust era and there's a surplus of crew and a shortage of projects. A lot of people are going to get weeded out. Only some will be able to stay in the industry, others who aren't working will find other work while they bide their time, move to another city with more projects (and not enough crew), or leave the industry altogether. Eventually we'll be back at something closer to equilibrium, but with lot less crew members in the industry in LA. That goes the same for actors, writers, and producers.

Back in 19'70s, legacy studios were going belly up because people moved out to the suburbs and stayed home to watch TV instead of going out to see movies. Same problem today, covid lockout taught people to wait for movies to leave the theater and show up on their streaming services 80 days later. During the '70s, independent films took off, including something called Star Wars. Soon blockbusters were in and small quirky arty films were out and the "Hollywood Renaissance" era began. In contrast the Japanese own film industry never won their battle against tv.

The current tv landscape also reminds me of the 1990s when network TV struggling to regain an audience in the age of cable, the VCR/DVD, and satellite TV. Then they discover The Bundle. The cable-tv bundle was very lucrative because companies were paid twice: first by cable distributors, which shelled out billions every year to have channels like ESPN available for their subscribers, and then by advertisers, which opened their wallets to promote products alongside the hottest shows. Now that era is gone due to cord cutting so they're figuring out a new bundling scheme with streaming services.

But the current problem today is also started back in the 1990s when tech nerds started to take over Hollywood, they didn't understand show business and why tv and film budgets exploded since the 90s. That problem came home to roost in the 2020s, resulting in slashing production budgets by 60%.

Excerpt from the article:

Even the shows and films shooting in L.A. now have slashed many departments, he added, noting sets that historically employed 20 hairstylists now have just two or three.

Orion said “9-1-1” was a “very hard show,” noting that crew member Rico Priem recently died in a car accident after pulling a 14-hour overnight shift. “We were all tired, it was a very terrible thing,” Orion said after noting that hours on sets are generally “brutal and relentless."

Outside of the U.S., several countries, including the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia, are offering cushy tax incentives for studios, where they can bypass unions and pay crews lower wages than in the States.

#hollywood

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ithilien-writes · 3 months ago

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here have some fic about it actually

Would It? [Buck/Eddie, T, ~1k]

He keeps thinking about it, is the problem. It's like now that Tommy put the thought in his head, it just keeps bouncing around inside his skull, like the old dvd logo that used to show up when you paused a movie for too long. It's not even about Tommy though, not really. If anything, their last encounter just solidified the fact that he doesn't actually know anything about Buck. That he never cared to.

But Maddie, on the other hand.

It wouldn't be so crazy.

So it's his sister's voice, really, that's been echoing inside his head for weeks now. When he wakes up in the morning. When he gets off of a call with Eddie and Chris. When he finds something of Eddie's still mixed in with his stuff at the house. When he looks across the station loft for Eddie and finds Ravi instead.

It wouldn't be so crazy.

It makes him feel... angry, honestly. Not at Maddie, he doesn't think. But angry all the same. Because it would be crazy! It would be crazy. It would be stupid and crazy and... pathetic. Which Buck is not.

He's just pissed off.

"Well, sorry I'm not Eddie!" Ravi says, throwing his arms up when Buck snaps at him for the third time that morning about not sticking to Buck's system as they stock.

Buck feels his now constant, low-simmering anger flare up all at once, bright and hot, but before he's even managed two steps towards him, Hen is there between them, her hand on Buck's chest.

"Okay Buck, walk it off," she tells him. It's not a suggestion.

So Buck takes the stairs up to the roof three at a time and then paces under the early morning sun, quietly seething.

And that's, of course, exactly when Eddie calls him.

"I didn't expect you to pick up," Eddie's voice comes over the line, warm and soft in Buck's ear. "I would've facetimed. I thought you were on shift."

"I am," Buck says, shorter than he might have in other circumstances. "But we haven't been out on any calls yet."

There's a beat before Eddie responds, and when he does his voice is tinged with concern.

"Okay, what's going on?" he asks. "You sound- Is everything okay?"

Buck blows out a breath.

"Yeah," he says, running a hand through his hair. "Ravi was just being annoying earlier, it's fine."

Eddie snorts a little.

"Yeah, you sound fine," he says sarcastically.

"I have a system for a reason!" Buck explodes, hand coming out of his hair as he gestures frenetically, even though Eddie can't see him. "I've explained it like a hundred times by now. It's not that complicated."

"Well, it's a little complicated," Eddie disagrees with a small chuckle, his voice still warm. "Maybe give him a minute."

Buck deflates a little, stopping his pacing to lean back against the outer ledge of the rooftop. He lets out another heavy breath.

"Do you think I'm stupid?" he hears himself ask, after a beat. "O-or like. Pathetic?"

"What?" Eddie's voice comes back sharp. "Did Ravi say that?"

"No, no- I just. Maddie said something to me the other day, and I- sh-she didn't mean it like that but... I can't stop thinking about it," he admits softly.

Eddie hums over the line.

"What did Maddie say?"

"Just- it doesn't matter," Buck mutters. "She was just- Tommy said something and then she was sort of agreeing with him-"

"Wait, Tommy?" Eddie cuts in. "When did you talk to Tommy?"

Buck feels himself flush, suddenly embarrassed.

"A-a few weeks ago," he says. "We just ran into each other. At a bar. It wasn't like I planned it! But I was already a little drunk by then, and he was talking about how he'd been wanting to call me, so. I don't know. We ended up... hooking up."

"Why am I just now hearing about this?" Eddie asks. "Are you getting back together?"

"No!" Buck says quickly. "No, it was nothing like that. Or well- maybe it was starting to- um. He did bring it up, I guess, after. But then he said... the thing he said. And then I said some things too, and uh, yeah. I- I doubt I'm gonna hear from him again anytime soon."

"What did he say?" Eddie asks, the edge back in his voice.

Buck makes a motion to wave away the question with his hand, as if Eddie can actually see him.

"That's not important," he says again. "The point is, I told Maddie about it, w-what he said, and she asked if he was right! A-and then when I said of course not because that would be ridiculous, she said it wouldn't be so crazy."

"Buck," Eddie says, slightly exasperated, "you know I'm gonna need a little more context here."

There's just silence then, for a few long moments.

"It just sucks," Buck manages eventually. "You being gone."

"Yeah," Eddie agrees, voice slightly rougher. "It does."

Buck hears him clear his throat slightly.

"But that doesn't mean I can't still help," he says. "Come on, man. Tell me what's really going on."

Buck wonders if he knows how much it already helps, just hearing his voice.

It wouldn't be so crazy.

"Uh, I- I should go," Buck says, after a moment. "I left Ravi stocking by himself and I'm gonna have to fix everything he's done, so."

"Buck-" Eddie tries again, but Buck doesn't let him. Not this time.

"I'll call you later," he promises - lies, maybe - before hanging up.

He feels the ache in his chest - the one that's been there ever since he watched Eddie drive away - like it's suddenly pushing out against his ribcage. Something almost feral, gnawing at his bones, trying to escape.

But he can't. He can't.

"It would be. Crazy," he says aloud, stubbornly, to an audience of absolutely no one. Feels the shape of the words in his mouth. Listens to the way they sound in the early morning stillness of LA.

It's not particularly convincing.

no but seriously maddie's "it wouldn't be so crazy" is !!!!! like that's his sistermom. that's the person who knows him the best outside of eddie. and she is always so careful not to tell buck how he's feeling so she's not gonna literally say "actually i've always wondered.." but this was her basically saying exactly that!! like. that just happened. buck said he's not in love with eddie and maddie said well.. are we sure though?

#911 spoilers #laura writes #i did not mean to post this i was still editing 😭#oh well it was always gonna be rough anyway

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beeps-mess · 2 years ago

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Autistic Reader + NCIS Team (Part Two)

Once again, little drabbles of a gender-neutral reader with autism interacting with the NCIS team. This one has Jack, Ducky, Tony, Tim, Kasie, and Nick.

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Part One

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Jack had picked up on your routine and habits quickly. She knew what time you arrived every morning, she knew how you took your coffee, and that you had to have a specific lid on the cup or else the texture made everything taste horrible when drinking. This information came into hand pretty soon after she noticed it. You had stayed at the office with Gibbs, working through different paperwork, and Tim had tried to be nice by picking you up coffee. Unfortunately, you had worked yourself to the bone, too tired to speak up when you felt the gross paper lid on your lips. Logically, Jack knew you were most likely semi-verbal, if not nonverbal, and waited until you had left to go to the restroom to explain the preference when it came to lid texture. By the time you came back, there was a plastic lid on the coffee cup, one that didn’t make you want to spit the drink back out. You spun around the room, seeing blonde hair retreat into her office before you could even call out her name. A plastic reusable lid showed up on your desk the next week, fitting onto the cups from the nearest coffee shop that had the paper lids.

In your early days at NCIS, you avoided the morgue, finding the smell of bleach too overwhelming. As time went on, you got attached to Ducky, facing the strong smell to talk to the doctor. You would go back and forth with random stories, Ducky having heard so many of your stories that he started telling them when they related to a case. At some point, the conversations always made it to the topic of documentaries, a shared love between the two of you. Most days there would be a suggestion on a topic or feedback on a recommendation documentary. At one point, the two of you ended up bumping into each other when checking out DVDs at the same location, deciding it would just be easier to watch them together. It became the normal thing for the two of you to get together twice a month to watch a documentary, the host deciding which one. It was a constant in your life, something you appreciated very much.

When Tony heard you liked a good amount of Steven Spielberg’s movies he was excited, hoping you would like some other classics, but he was wrong. You liked the Jurassic Park movies the most, the Indiana Jones and Back to the Future movies following closely but that was really it. Jaws was okay, Gremlins wasn’t really your thing, and you had a strange distaste for the Goonies, something that made Tony explode when you told him. It was even worse when you said Shrek was a piece of art. All of his other films were too emotional or just didn’t catch your eye. To put it simply, Tony was frustrated, thus, starting a tradition. Once a month you would sit down with Tony and a bowl of popcorn to watch any film he deemed a classic. It was hit and miss, some being great while others just seemed plain dumb. You did appreciate his consideration when it came to the loud noises in the movies, knowing when to turn the volume down or warning you. After multiple movies though, you felt that you needed to share too, causing a rotation to start. One month, he would choose one of his classics, the next, you would choose a sci-fi movie you liked. You didn’t notice how much you liked the silly tradition until he became an agent at sea, which stopped the movies. He would try to throw out movie suggestions but you could never sit down long enough to actually start the film, something he was amused by when he eventually came back.

Tim had stumbled onto you and Tony bickering about movies one day, which piqued his interest. Only really doing so because the topic of the bickering was whether or not Han Solo was a douche. Tony was of the opinion that he wasn’t but you were convinced he was. Tim realized his mistake the moment he realized the topic though. Never walk into a room where two people are bickering especially if it was between you and Tony regarding films. He was immediately asked his stance, causing the conversation to end quickly when he meekly agreed with you. The topic of Star Wars wasn’t brought up again for a while, with work taking up the majority of Tim and your conversations. The topic was finally brought up again when you mentioned going home and being bored, Tim offering for you to come over and watch Star Wars with him. From there, your friendship expanded. Free time at work was spent chatting about similar nerdy stuff and scheduling movie get-togethers.

Kasie had taken up Abby’s tradition of making apparel for new NCIS agents but also added the tradition of making yearly sweaters or caps for the team. Every winter season they were handed out, a cap going to Nick while everyone else would get a sweater. It was a cute tradition and one that you loved until she tried out a new type of yarn. It was horrible. The texture was uncomfortable and you left the sweater in the box for weeks after you got it. Kasie didn’t know until the yearly holiday get-together. Everyone had shown up wearing their gifts except you, who chose to wear the one from last year. She had frowned, only figuring out that you might’ve disliked the yarn texture then. The next week, a new sweater arrived on your desk, the same design and the old one was nowhere to be found.

It was common knowledge that Nick wasn’t the best with words, often panicking when people are emotional around him, so it was surprising for him to sit next to you while you sobbed your ass off. You had gotten deep into a case, becoming horribly sad when another person fell victim to the killer. Nick just sat with you, explaining he didn’t do words but if you needed company he was there. When he tried to stand your hand reached out, grasping his wrist, making him sit back down. He sat with you for an hour in silence.

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perpetuelledaydreaming · 3 years ago

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18 | Chapter eight

summary: I got buffalo 66' on dvd. If you get the reference, you get it.

warnings: smut.

listen to: Closer - Nine Inch Nails | New Girl - Finneas (playlist here)

word count: 1.9

series masterlist + read the next chapter early on my ko-fi!!

Billy wasn’t exactly sure how it happened.

But honestly, he couldn’t care less about how it did.

Not when you were moaning his name like that as he watched his fingers disappearing in your core as his thumb stroked a delicate pattern against your clit.

“Billy,” you gasped and he shuddered at the sound of his name on your lips, falling from them like a prayer.

“You are doing so good,” he whispered before he leaned down and nipped playfully at your skin while your eyes continued to roll to the back of your head as he continued to fuck you with his fingers.

It all started when you were in Billy’s room for the assignment.

The day after your fight at Peaches, you’d come up to Billy asking him to make time for the project since you needed to come to the proposal soon, he’d told you that his house was free and you’d agreed to go to his place. No one was home thankfully and you didn’t protest going to his house for this. Billy let out a playful smirk as he watched you arrive in your cheerleader uniform while getting off your bike, you simply rolled your eyes and asked him to get his head out of the gutter. You’d said something along the lines of ‘In your fucking dreams, Hargrove’ you’d assured him as you sat on the floor of his bed and took out your book and notebook.

Billy didn’t really know what came over him. Maybe it was the way he read to you, he thought. He’d begun reading the chapter, insisting that he could do it better than you since he’d already had some notes in the margins, and after a few pages you were closer to him than ever before.

Billy hadn’t really noticed until he felt your finger trailing along his golden chain, looking down to examine it for a moment. He notice how you muse as you realized it was a medal of the Virgin Mary, he liked the way that you gazed at him and without giving it too much thought he kissed your temple sweetly as he watched you.

After that, it was all a blur. You were pulling him by the neck into a bruising kiss that sent a shiver down Billy’s spine. It was a proper make-out, can’t breathe, moaning mess kind of kissing. Billy quickly stepped away for a second, as soon as you’d let him breathe, tore his shirt over his head before he lifted you up around the waist and you secured your legs around his waist. He continued to kiss you, your hands moving up and down, moving, finding, touching, and discarding clothes.

Billy left you in your short cheerleader skirt only and he quickly tore your panties away as he lowered you into his bed and began pumping his fingers into you while kissing and nipping at your breasts. You were so responsive to him, to his touch, that Billy felt like his heart was going to explode.

It only got worse as he looked up to you through lust-filled eyes as he dragged his teeth gently across your hipbone before he dived between your legs and you moaned.

Loudly.

See, Billy had a couple of rules with his hook-ups. First, they were only hook-ups, he was clear to the girl that he’d chosen from the beginning and it was basically his code of honor. But there was another one, the one Billy often took pride in: He always would make the girl cum twice or more times before he finished, there could be no other way. Billy thought it might be the most gentleman-like thing he could do in such situations but he also selfishly loved to see girls come undone because of him, he loved to overstimulate them, he loved to see them squirm under his touch.

But with you? It was different.

Billy had something to prove. Billy had to prove in that moment that he was worth it, that he was worth being the guy you slept with, that he wouldn’t disappoint you.

That between all the guys that had his eyes on you, he was the one that could make you scream, that he was the only one in this shitty town that was worth your time, your touch, your mouth.

And he made sure that you knew it, especially by how he was fucking you with his mouth.

His name falling from your lips in breathy pleas was the jumping point for Billy. His lips wrapped around your clit and he sucked hard causing you to moan loudly. One of your hands quickly slid up into his golden curls as your head fell back against the bed. His nose pressed into your clit and his tongue teased your entrance and you couldn’t help but curled your fingers in his hair, tugging harshly at his roots, eliciting a groan from him.

It was everything Billy could ask for.

He had to press you down, hands grabbing your hipbones and stomach so you can stop squirming and your whimpers and moans filled the room as he continued to press his tongue against your core, he sucked and flicked his tongue against your clit and he could feel how your walls clenched around his fingers. You were so close and he was determined to bring you there.

You bucked your hips off the mattress trying to get him to go deeper and Billy chuckled, he chuckled because you are so goddamn impatient for him, even though, just a few days ago you’d kick him out of Peaches because of his dirty mouth.

Now, you were coming undone because of it.

You snapped and you were screaming, you squeezed your eyes shut, shaking from your post-climax high as Billy came up from your legs. He was dragging his teeth on your stomach and sucking your collarbones, leaving a trail of open-mouth kisses through your throat before he’s kissed you sweetly, he wanted you to see how sweet you taste.

“Open your eyes,” Billy whispered, “Come on baby, look at me,”

Your eyes fluttered open and Billy’d never felt his chest pound like this as if his entire body was pulsating. The vision of your lips part, your brows furrow, cheeks a light pink, and those big-doe eyes looking at him, made him want to come right there and then. Billy kissed your neck and your lips, peppering kisses all over your face as you hummed sweetly.

His delicate touch made it hard to believe that it was him, the guy you’d been trying to avoid for so long as the same person that was covering your body with his sun-kissed skin and muscled form, kissing your lips so sweetly that you could almost cry.

“Are you sure you want this?” Billy whispered as he noticed how you were looking at him. He was rock hard but as he always did, he liked to hear you say it.

But unlike other girls that were screaming for him to fuck them right there and then.

You simply swallowed hard, a hand coming to his cheek sweetly before you kissed him one more time for good measure. You kissed him slowly then, gliding your tongue along his bottom lip before slipping it into his mouth. He whimpered, he fucking whimpered at the feeling of having you right there and Billy’s not sure if he could take it as you’re both mouthing at each other until you’re both dying to breathe. Both of your lips were swollen and puffy from the kiss when you pulled away, but then you nodded at him feverishly, skimming your fingertips on his biceps, pulling him closer to you.

“Fuck me, Billy”

Billy complied. Your breath caught in your throat as you took him, while Billy was trying his best not to come right there and there as you clenched around him. In a moment, as he continued to push into you once he thinks he can, your eyes met and you both take soft breaths as he bottomed out.

Billy swallowed hard, glancing down between your bodies but then you press your lips to the side of his throat and his eyes close gently, pressing his lips to your jaw. Billy knew you could feel him throbbing inside of you and he felt somehow embarrassed because it hasn’t ever taken him this long to move when he’s inside of a girl. He was breathing, nearly hyperventilating, as you looked up at him while you whimpered.

“Billy,” you whined as you tried to rut your hips towards him but Billy hissed.

“Just,” he whispered. “Feels like you’re fucking made for me,” he murmured as he curled his fingers on the bedsheets before he begun to roll his hips forward. Rocking his hips softly and you whimpered while you tried to push yourself closer to him.

Billy panted and it became desperate as he drove himself deep into you, your walls clenching around him most perfectly that his heart is thundering in his chest so loudly that Billy could swear that you could hear his pulse. Billy became dizzied by you, the way you were touching him all over the place, tugging his hair, along his back, digging into the backs of his biceps, and dragging your fingernails along the ridges of his stomach, soft pink lines decorating his tanned skin.

And soon, Billy’s losing it. His thrust begun to stutter and it has never happened to him before but as he glanced at you, you don’t seem to be at the edge as he is. He knows when girls are close, he just knows but you didn’t seem anywhere near and Billy started to panic.

“Are you coming?” he grunted, pressing his lips to your jaw as he filled you over and over again until he decided that if he tooks one more look at your fucked out face, he was going to burst.

“No, not yet,” you cried.

Billy closed his eyes, leaning his head away from you as he tried to focus. “Come one,” he grunted, fucking you, but he was just right there.

“Now baby?”

“No, not yet,” you moaned as you began to drag your nails along his back while bucking your hips towards him. “Billy don’t come,” you whined as he continued to fuck into you but he was losing it.

And Billy felt like he might ruin it. He was going to come before you and he already felt it, the tight coil is going to snap and you were nowhere close.

“Fuck,” Billy grunted as he was unable to stop himself and he hated it.

“Billy don’t!” you screamed but he let himself go. Pleasure ran through his veins but the only thing he could feel was embarrassment and shame, washing over him and taking over the pleasure.

And he saw it in your eyes, the disappointment, your glare as you scream at him.

“Billy!” your mouth screams but it’s not your voice.

Billy jolted awake with a start, shame immediately flooding his senses. He watched down at his boxers and he curses quietly before snapping his head towards the door, where Max’s screaming as she knocked at the door loudly.

“Billy!” She repeated, clearly annoyed. “We’re going to be late, come on!” she said before Billy heard her walking away.

Billy’d dreamed about you.

He was so fucked.

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author's note: so yeah, it's really not my best smut because I really wanted to focus on what billy was feeling since you know it was a dream but honestly I can't wait to see your reactions to this chapter. I'm dead, next chapter it's a bit mellow but the next one, so chapter 10?? IT'S GOING TO BE THE DEATH OF ME. I'm extremely grateful for all the support, really, like I can't explain how much your kind comments mean to me like they have really become the highlight of my year!! thank you so much.

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violettelueur · 5 years ago

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ITADORI YUJI + FUSHIGURO MEGUMI + GOJO SATORU + RYŌMEN SUKUNA || HOW THEY WOULD APOLOGISE TO THEIR MAD S/O

| featuring : itadori yuji + fushiguro megumi + gojo satoru + ryomen sakuna from jujutsu kaisen

| warnings : grammar errors and a lot of my side comments

| form : headcanons

| published : 27 november

| request : Hello! How are you? Hope you’re taking care of yourself :3 can I request headcanons for Itadori, Megumi, Gojo, and Sukuna making their s/o really mad for x reason and what they would do to make it up to them/apologize? Thank you have a great day/night!

| barista’s notes : hiya! this one was kind of hard for me to do since it was hard to come up with reason on why you were mad at them (some of them are really stupid in my opinion...ʕ ﾟ ● ﾟʔ) but this update is going to be the last one for the night since it is 12am aka midnight and i’m going back to school after being in isolation for 14 days!＼ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ／thank you so much for requesting for a cup of classic black coffee (jujutsu kaisen request!) and please come again soon!

ITADORI YUJI:

Itadori will be the most clueless boy ever and doesn’t even know that you are mad at him in the first place.

It might take a few days or a few hours at best for him to realise that you were mad at him - probably Fushiguro will tell him that you are pissed at the boy.

Once he FINALLY finds out that you are angry at him, he would try to think back on what he could have done to make you angry at him - and boy, does he think long and hard because once again to remind you: he is clueless.

Did he do something stupid again? Did he accidentally eat your food again? Did he forget something? DID HE FORGET AN IMPORTANT DATE?

Yes, when he tries to recall what he did that made you annoyed at him, he does tend to overthink it.

You know what you were mad at him for? He had indeed eaten something of yours by accident. The reason why you were mad at him was because he ate the last of your ramen that you were saving after the mission that you were set was finished.

Now since Itadori thought he was completely screwed, he would full-on plan a whole game/movie night with you.

Sukuna would lowkey mock the dude as Itadori was preparing his room causing our poor boy to worry even more since Sukuna was making him feel more nervous.

This preparation of his will include the game consoles set up, piles on DVDs on the table for you to choose for the both of you to watch and your favourite ramen that he brought from the closest store - that he also still doesn’t know he ate accidentally ate - cooked and set on the table for you guys to munch on.

Once everything is prepared, he would slap Sukuna’s mouth if he is still talking and would make his way to your room.

Now, this can go two different ways:

1. You are too stubborn to give in and refuse to leave the room that he would beg you and lowkey will physically drag you out of your room.

2. You would sigh and agree to follow him to see if he realises what was the issue and see what was going on because there was a lot of ruckus in his room from what you heard.

Once you see his room, you are generously surprised at what he had prepared since you didn’t think he would put this much effort to apologise to you - you generally just wanted a verbal ‘sorry’ but this was too cute to not forgive him.

Once both of you settle down and get into what YOU had chosen to do, he would apologize in a nervous tone since he STILL doesn’t know why you were mad at him.

“Yeah babe, I’m really sorry for what I did, well...I still don’t know what I did but I kinda notice you were mad at me and I didn’t know what to think since I thought I forgot a date that he planned or-”

This boy will ramble and ramble until you stop him by kissing him since you didn’t realise that he was overthinking it.

“Baby, don’t overthink it, I was mad because you ate the last ramen packet that I was saving but this whole thing really was a lot then what I expected, but thank you so much for preparing this whole thing! I love you!”

“Am I forgiven then?” - this boy I-

“Yes yes yes you are, I forgive you Yuji”

FUSHIGURO MEGUMI:

Fushiguro Megumi. Now how do I say this? This pretty boy will be between not realising that you are mad and realising instantly that he had angered you.

When he doesn’t realise that you are mad at him, he would notice the small behaviour changes that you express from a slight frown on your face or now you would give him short answers.

Short answers being: “yeah”, “alright”, “okay”, “nah” ect, with the longest answers being “that’s fine/cool” or “I’m not feeling it”

But! That was only towards him, with the other guys you would give more detailed answers to them, making him surprised since he probably asked the same thing.

Once he realised that you were annoyed, (like Itadori) he would try to wonder what he had done wrong and (unlike Itadori) he would most likely figure out what he had done wrong this time.

The reason why you were mad at him? You were angry at the pretty boy because he was hiding his feelings again.

Even though you knew that Fushiguro wasn’t one to express his emotions freely like the others, you both promised each other that you would go to each other when either one of you was having issues or problems that were bothering you.

And since you knew that Fushiguro held in his emotions, you allowed him time to come to you when he needed - but this time, you knew there was something that was bothering him extremely to the point where he was getting distracted during missions

Distracted to the point where he was nearly hit if you didn’t come to protect him and allow him to snap out of his daze.

Now that the reason was identified, Fushiguro would quickly try to figure out how to now apologise to you.

Since Fushiguro is a good listener, he would most likely buy a small bouquet of your favourite flowers since he remembered you mentioning that random fact from a conversation that you both had around when you and Fushiguro first met, trying to get to know each other.

He doesn’t apologise in front of anyone because this little issue was about you and him and not everyone else.

So when he found you somewhere in the hallways, he would lightly place a hand on your shoulder before shoving the flowers in front of your face - since he didn’t want you to see his flushed face.

Of course, you are really surprised since who wouldn’t be when a bunch of your favourite flowers just randomly appear in your face.

Once you take the flowers from his grasp, he would probably have a hand scratching the back of his neck - why was he nervous now when seconds before he was just fine?

“I’m really sorry…….for not telling you what was going on, I just didn’t want to bother you with my issue and all that,” - this would be said in a low mumble that you nearly couldn’t catch what he said.

“Mimi, telling me what is bothering you isn’t a bother, I want you to be okay, just please when you’re comfortable to come to talk to me, if you need a shoulder to lean on, I’m right here,”

There are times when Fushiguro forgets that you don’t mind him ranting off when he needs to and that you are a shoulder that he can lean on - he just used to keeping everything in until he met you.

“Also, you remember my favourite flowers, thank you so much, Mimi, you are forgiven, I love you,”

Just seeing you smile at him again after so long is enough for him to smile as well, knowing that you have forgiven him.

GOJO SATORU:

Mr Gojo ‘steal your girl’ Satoru.

Now this man will make you mad on a daily but not to the point where you are now.

And Gojo will notice INSTANTLY that you are mad at him because he is so used to making you mad due to his constant teasing.

But this time you weren’t mad at him because he took his teasing over the line. No, no, no, you were mad at him because he was late for your date.

Even though Gojo is known to be very handsome and the ‘perfect’ person to everyone on the outside of the shaman world, his lateness was one of his worst traits about him.

Sometimes you ask yourself if he does this on purpose - but in the back of your mind, you know that he attracts many curses and that he had to fight them - but this time, you knew that he was late because he was just late.

So while you’re waiting for him with a slight scowl on your face, you would constantly check your phone to see if he texts you or just to check the time.

Of course, he would send the usual ‘I’m going to be late’ with a cute emoji at the end - like that was going to make your anger lessen at all.

But when he does text you that he had arrived at the date location, you were ready to explode at him for making you wait - for like how many dates now?

However, once he arrives with his fashionably late safe, he would come prepares - Haha try to get mad at him now~

In his hands, there would probably be a white bag containing the souvenir that he had been wanting to give you after his mission but didn’t have the time to, or a white box containing your favourite cake from your favourite cake shop/cafe/bakery.

Damn it, this guy knows that food always solves every issue~

“Sorry for being late to our date honey~ I wanted to get you your favourite cake that I forgot that there was going to be a long line at this time, hope you can forgive me~”

THEN THIS MAN WILL TILT HIS SUNGLASSES GLASSES TO LET YOU SEE HIS CRYSTAL BLUE EYES - LIKE WHY????

Damn it, now you can’t stay angry at this man.

The fact that he dressed up so nice, got you your favourite cake and let you see his beautiful eyes made you realise that you can no longer be mad at him.

Like the boy put in the effort today…

Taking the cake from his hands, you would probably blush and say “thank you...but I’m still mad at you”

If you say this, be prepared for this man to cup your cheeks and continuously kiss you, trying to affectionately make you forgive him.

Okay okay okay, now he’s just trying to be very very cute.

“Am I forgiven now honey~ I’m sorry that I made you wait, please don’t be mad at me”

“Okay, okay! I forgive you!”

Expect that cheeky smile that he would give you after you forgive him - I mean like, you have to now.

RYOMEN SUKUNA:

Apologise? Would he? Does he even know what ‘sorry’ means? Do you think he would?

If he really cares about you, he would probably push away his pride and there would be a 50/50 chance that he would apologise, so don’t expect it much.

But if you were really mad at him and ignore him for most of the day, he would probably get very very annoyed.

Why weren’t you paying him any attention? Why weren’t you looking at him? Why weren’t you asking for him to shift with Yuji and let him have you all to himself? Why?

The reason? You were mad at him because he exorcised a curse that you knew you had the capability to do yourself.

Does he think you're weak? You were just angry at the thought of Sukuna thinking you were frail since you were an independent woman and he had no right to do your goddamn job.

Once he gets to his boiling point, he would demand Itadoru to switch with him and if his vessel would ignore him for your sake, he would continuously shout at the boy even when he is trying to sleep - poor Itadori……

Once it gets too much for the boy, Itadori would run to you and just randomly grab your shoulders to stop you from what you were doing and quickly explain what was going on.

“Okay, I’m going to switch with Sukuna and you are going to talk to him. He’s been annoying me ever since you stopped talking to him, please shut him up!”

Then before you would even get a single syllable out of your mouth, he would just switch quickly to let the both of you deal with your situation.

“Okay woman, talk to me! What have I done?”

You would probably just stare at with an annoyed look and tut at him before turning your head away like he doesn’t exist.

However, he doesn’t take this action of yours lightly and would probably grab your chin - gently since you are mad at him - and would just start leaving biting your neck.

“Sukuna! Stop it, the marks are going to show!”

“Not until you tell me what I have done wrong woman”

“Sukuna! OKAY! You think I’m weak and I hate the fact that you think I am, I can exorcise curses myself you know!”

Ha? You were mad at him for protecting you? Sukuna thought that it was ridiculous that you were mad at him for that reason - but will just go with the flow because even though you were just a powerful sorcerer to him, you being angry was a slight fear of his (Sukuna fears Oh my….)

“Idiot, I was protecting you”

“I can protect myself dickhead”

“Ha? I apologise, then, there done, do you forgive me?”

Sukuna….what type of apology was that?

If you say no, he would just continue to bite on your neck to make you forgive him since he really wasn’t going to take ‘no’ for an answer.

“Sukuna! Stop it!”

“Not until you forgive me little one,”

Ah, that nickname always gets to you, doesn’t it? - Girl, I don’t blame you….

“FINE FINE FINE! I forgive you, just stop biting my neck”

Looking up at you and looking you at dead in the eyes, he would literally say, “I don’t think so, I was actually having some fun marking your neck, let me continue little one”

I-.....go ahead…….

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honeyslow · 2 years ago

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was tagged by @shaunajackie to post 8 shows to get to know me better! disclaimer alert i haven't watched a ton of tv but that's fine! tagging @milfcoded @thenelse if u wanna and anyone else who sees this and wants to :)

friends: everybody has a sitcom! this is my sitcom! my older cousin had all ten seasons of friends on dvd and in my kid mind i was very impressed and thought she was so mature watching this show about all these grown up people in new york! and then when i watched it later i thought oh ok so that’s what adult life is going to be like! except it wasn’t it’s been a lot lonelier so far! so friends is kinda bittersweet for me but also 1000% my comfort show it’s childhood and hope and imagination and ok i'm shutting up it's literally just friends. whatever.

yellowjackets: we’re only a season and a bit in but i’m sure this is one for the books... is there another show about women/girls/girlhood/femalerage/soccer/cannibalism/deathbyhomoeroticfriendship/hope/faith/trauma/eareating

derry girls: genius, endlessly rewatchable comedy

mindhunter: Quality TV (thanks mr. fincher), anna torv lesbian (thanks ms. torv), etc. gone too soon but never forgotten

big little lies: welcome to milftopia! and i mean it is also a very very good drama

dark: genuinely such a well-crafted show and amongst other things (such as making my brain explode about time travel) it also managed to slay despite being german so big shoutout

the 100: please appreciate how honest i am being right now by putting this on this list i really wish it wasn’t here but alas it was 2014 and i was gay

htgawm: again, it was 2014 and i was gay. i watched this in entirety as it aired from start to finish so it has a special place in my heart for that… was it stupid? very. but also so much fun! and i will still turn up to cry about annalise any day of the week

#honorable mention to got of course but. it's complicated

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broadway-sollux · 2 years ago

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666writingcafe · 3 years ago

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No One Catches MC Sleepwalking This Time

I'm in the void again. The voice beckons to me to walk towards it, and I follow its instructions. The white light returns, and this time it envelops the void.

I now find myself in front of a door. There's holes that allow me to peek in, and when I do, I see someone sitting on the floor on the other side.

"Finally," the person--a male--says. "I knew you were the one person who'd be able to find me."

"Who are you?" I ask.

"Who am I?" the man repeats. "That's a good question. I forgot the answer long ago, myself." Great. Whoever's lured me here has become loony.

"What sort of being are you?"

"I'm a human, just like you." The words send shivers down my spine, and I immediately become nauseous. Just then, I recall what was said in the seventh volume of the TSL DVD series, and just like that, everything in my body calms down.

"Drop the act. You're the seventh brother. Lucifer imprisoned you, didn't he?" I expected him to be angry, so it surprises me when he laughs.

"I must say, I never would have thought you would be capable of seeing through me. But that doesn't matter. MC, you've got to get me out of here."

"Why? You've betrayed Lucifer." I'm just spit balling based on my TSL knowledge, but I seem to have hit a nerve.

"I should have known he would have gotten you before I did. Well, if you're not going to be cooperative, then I'll guess I'll make you release me." Those words make me crumble to my knees. I feel the knife in my p.j. pocket, but I doubt it's able to help me with whatever is happening to me. An arm reaches out to me and pulls me closer, forcing me to stare into the demon's eyes.

"The moment you wake up, you'll be under my control. You will do what I say or suffer the consequences." He lets me go, causing me to fall back. Whatever he's done to me has made me incredibly dizzy and sick. Did he put a spell on me?

"Now," he states calmly, as though nothing happened. "You can't open this door. Neither of us are capable of that because it's sealed with a very powerful sort of magic. In order to break the seal, you need the consent of my brothers. But, as you probably know already, it's not like all you have to do is ask politely and they'll lift the seal for you. However, you have the power to bend demons to your will. Use that ability to make pacts with my brothers--all of them."

"And what if I don't want to?" As soon as I ask that, an excruciating pain explodes in my head at what feels to be at the very root of my skull.

"My dear MC, you don't have much choice, unless you want to keep being tortured like this." The pain immediately dissipates, and the seventh brother continues,

"Now, you've already got Mammon and Leviathan under your control, so doing the same to the rest of my brothers will be just as easy."

"Right. It'll be easy-peasy." I really don't want my head to start hurting again.

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What did I just get myself into?

#obey me shall we date #obey me mc #obey me belphie #obey me belphegor #obey me brothers #obey me beel #obey me beelzebub #i thought it would make things more interesting if belphie essentially possessed mc and forced them to make the pacts #rather than mc willing agreeing with him to release him without any agruement #after all he is meant to be the villain of season one #but as always #let me know what you guys think of it.

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popculturebuffet · 3 years ago

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Daria Tom Arc Retrospective Part 1: “I Kissed Your Boyfriend”, a look at Jane’s Addition, I Loathe a Parade, Fire!, Dye! Dye! My Darling! and some assorted Tom Bits

Hello all you happy people and welcome to my look at a true classic of animation.. and the arc that continues to divide anyone whose seen it to this day.. and where I came into the franchise over 12 years ago. It’s an arc i’ve wanted to talk about since I started this blog, paticuarlly the movie Is It Fall Yet? and this year I finally had the room in the summer for it. So i’ts time to talk about some heartbreakingly brilliant television and a fandom breakingly contriversal kiss along with the greatest multi media project of all time, the glory of jake morgendorfer, parade floats that sadly don’t include daffy duck’s faviorite mode of transportation, cyber stalking played off as wacky comedy because late 2000′s, and one of the most crushing half hours of tv ever penned. Join me won’t you?

This is Just Where I Came In

So before we can talk about Daria we have to talk about why this arc in paticular means a lot to me. See back in the late 2000′s I got into Daria in a very late 2000′s way: Via a fansite and reviews on said site. See back then it wasn’t exactly easy to find shows that weren’t avaliable through legit means online and the show had yet to be released in full on dvd. So instead of finding it via watching episodes, I found out about the show via tv tropes, then glommed onto the historic Daria Touchstone Outpost Daria. While the site sadly went down in 2013 a rebirthed version with all the old content is avaliable RIGHT HERE. Worth a look.

So naturally when I was able to actually find some of the show on dvd I exploded with glee. At my local FYE I found the dvd for the film “Is it Fall Yet?”. It’d also be where I later got the dvd for “Is it College Yet?” the series finale movie we’ll be taking a look at sometime in the future. So it was through “Fire!” that I was introduced to this great toon and the following masterwork of an ep, Dye Dye My Darling! and the stellar movie.. with the terrible Allison plot we’ll get to next time that has aged like fine cheese hit with a croquet mallet into a flock of seagulls.

It’s a show near and dear to my heart that despite having ended twenty years ago, still feels incredibly relevant. But for those of you reading this who have no idea what Daria is..

Here’s a quick refresher to catch us up to where our story begins

Surviving Stupidity on Sarcasm (And Pizza)

Created by Glenn Eichler and Susan Lewis, Daria is the story of Daria Morgendorfer, who began her life as a supporting character on beavis and butthead, serving as a sarcastic foil to the two loveable dipshits for most of the shows run.

So naturally with the show coming to a close soon, MTV wanted to cash in and to get that sweet sweet female demographic, so they approached Eichler , B and B’s series editor to make a pilot, they bought it and Mike Judge agreed as long as Beavis and Butthead were kept out of it which MTV agreed to.. then planned to jam them in there should the show not be a hit.

Thankfully that didn’t happen as Daria quickly became a hit and for good reason as Glenn clearly got how to make a good spinoff: He kept Beavis and Butthead’s social satire but wisely reframed it in a new package to fit a diffrnet protaganist: instead of two idiots constantly stumbling into adults who were way too trusting and tolerant of their BS and showing just how ludcrious society is that way, Daria instead followed a character who very well knows everything sucks and will gladly snark about it and is instead often forced into said nonsense by school, parents or bribed into it. It also takes a diffrent approach to the supporting cast: while many of them are foils to daria like b and b’s cast are to them, their strong enough to support their own subplots which sometimes are the best part of an episode> It’s a show that rightfully gets how to make adult comedy: it’s in the characters and setups and while you can go places kids show can’t, you use those well instead of just screaming I’M AN ADULT LOOK AT ALL THE SEX I CAN WRITE. It’s why the show holds up so well despite being late 90′s/early 2000′s as hell:it’s clever, hilaroius and well characterized and it’s worth your time if you haven’t seen it.

As for what the shows about, it follows Daria and her family: workaholic lawyer Helen who tries to push her daughter out of her shell with predicable results, equally workaholic deeply traumtized manchild Jake who is a geninely loving father who also happens to scream dammit a lot and is geninely frustrated at the world, and Quinn, Daria’s sister who dosen’t want anyone to know that fact and is her opposite: while daria is intellegent and is a outsider by choice Quinn only wants to fit in, go on dates, and wear cute clothes.

The family moves to Lawndale where Daria thankfully finds a fellow bastion of snark in a sea of idiots: Jane Lane. Jane like daria is deatached, loves horror movies and mocking th eworld around her, but is a diffrent type of outcast, a painter who is a bit more socially savy and is a bit more willing to get out in the world than daria.

The two spend their days dealing with the high school hurricane around them: Greedy, selfish asshole and average school Principal Li, constantly stressed out teacher Mr. DiMartino who ACCENTS every OTHER world WITH rage FOR valid REASONS given the IDIOTS he has to PUT UP WITH, Mr. O’Neil, Daria’s overly optmistic teacher who unlike her previous overly optmistic teacher is oddly selfish, out of it and tries badly to reach his students positivley despite ti working never times. Their class includes Kevin, the kind and personable but completely braindead QB , as he’ll tell you, Brittany, his cheerleader girlfriend whose also kind and also kind of stupid, Upchuck, a sleazy nerd no one tolerates, Jody, a bright young overachiver, one of the only black kids in the class , and someone whose both popular but also bright and aware of things, and thus is one of Daria’s only real friends outside of Jane, her boyfriend Mack who isn’t given that much promience given his va’s keep switching. We also have the Fashion Club, Quinn’s friends which consist of Alpha Bitch and Rival Sandi, loveable anxiety ball Stacy and spacy moron Tiffani, as well as Joey, Jeffy or Jamey, three interchangable boy band rejects who go out with Quinn reguarly and do her bidding.

Finally we have Trent, Jane’s brother and one of the best characters in the show, a spacy moron who fronts the band Mistik Spiral (their thinking of changing the name), is constantly late to rehersal, talks slow and drawn out, sleeps a lot and is still the only one in Jane’s large family she can actually count on.

Trent is important to this as up to our first episode here today, he was Daria’s crush, something she regretted as while he’s a cool indie guy, she constantly is nervous and embarassed around him and incidents like getting a rash because of her crush and getting a piercing because he said he’d like it really bother her. Thankfully despite being a legal adult it’s fiarly clear Trent isn’t intrested, but does see Daria as anothe rsister, likely not saying as much in the first three seasons as he dosen’t want to hurt her feelings. This started to fall apart with the episode Lane Miserables, where Daria imagines a future with Trent and realizes they just arne’t compatable. Granted the crush resurfaces at the end but it was clear the cracks in the crush fantasy were starting to form... and this is where they crumble.. and where Daria’s first actual love intrest comes in. After avoiding thrusting our main character into romance for most of the series the creators decided she needed to date, but realized Daria wouldn’t really seek a guy out. He’d have to be someone she knows.. so they made it intresting by making said guy START as Jane’s boyfriend first. And fans were not pleased. Which I get with The Daria and Jane shippers; the two have great chemistry and thus our story begins...

Jane’s Addition

It’s project time again and this time Mr. O’Neil is trying to reach the kids which for once dosen’t end in tears specifically his, but is an actually GOOD idea: A multimedia project. Naturally Daria and Jane partner up: Jane’s grades need a liver transplant and Daria dosen’t like interacting with anyone else so it works.

So to encourage Daria’s crush on trent for whatever reason, torment, bordeom, a love of statutory, Jane suggests dragging him into this and the two go to Mystik Spiral perform. They naturally sing a song with the chorus “Hey mr normal, it was you!”

Jane ends up meeting Tom, a rich kid who nonetheless has the right amount of sarcastic wit and the late 2003 look to charm her. Though we won’t see said sarcastic wit for a bit as the episode frames him well: At first we don’t get to really KNOW tom, we just see him looking at Jane sideways party on tilt, and they end up going off together. We see him from Daria’s perspective: as this guy on her perphriy whose invading her comfy life: hanging with her best friend, snarking at everything and having one person she can count on to always be there. The show’s explored Daria being Janeless in the past: Season 2′s See Jane Run had Jane become part of the track team and Daria struggle at her best friend being gone a lot. But that was a one off thing.. this... is more permant and Daria reacts with hostility and bailing. She DOES get trent to agree to the project, but she goes home right after and when Tom shows up the next day when she goes to talk to Jane, she leaves again and we find out Jane ends up being busy most of the week: Jane gets her part done.. but days after Daria got her script done and everything ready. Trent of course is nowhere having anything because it was a terrible idea to include him. I mean he is the best, but he’s also Trent. The fact he’s survived this long is a minor miracle.

So the two have a night as usual planned, with Tom busy with his friends we never meet and i’m convicned don’t actually exist. Case in point he shows up to Pizza and Daria is pissy about it despite him trying to be nice. Granted tom’s reaction to her sarcasm is to storm off after a while, and while he’s right to call Daria out, leaving.. isn’t going to fix this. Neither of them are being at all mature but it’s Daria who gets all the blame.

Naturally Jane calls Daria on it the next day, and to the shows credit Daria ISN’T being at all resonable. It also shows off something I like about the show especially as it goes on: Daria.. isn’t infallible. She’s often right in her criticsim of the world.. but the show often takes time to poke holes in how far sarcastically holding everything but maybe one person at arms length is going to get her. Just up to this point in the series we’ve had the various trent episodes show us she’ suspetable to a hopeless crush on someone too old and too irresponsible for her as any teen who isn’t ace, Monster had her ALMOST crush Quinn with a documentary before realizing just how much harm that would do her sister and that it was a step too far, Write Where It Hurts shows her being so cyncial even in her writing makes it hard to actually write at times, and by being more hopefull.. she writes something wonderful: a calm happy future for her and her family, and the Misery Chick has daria and jane wishing someone dead sarcastically.. actually happen and her dour front making it seem like she isn’t phased to Jane. She is and simply dosen’t want to treat the guy like a hero as he was indeed an asshole and even if it was sad he died, he still shoudln’t be glorified just because he’ sa corpse. Daria being a three dimensional character allowed to make mistakes while still being one step ahead of most people in her life is what makes the show for me. It disects her edgy, late 90′s cynisim while still acknoleding she has a point at times.

As for this situation, Daria is sympathetic as she is wrong: You get where she’s coming from especially given her speech later in Dye Dye My Darling!

“Because I moved to this town and I immediately knew i’d be a total outcast, and in the one moment of good luck in my entire life I met another outcast I could be friends with and not feel completely alone, and then you came along and screwed the whole thing up!”

She tries to push tom out of things.. because she NEEDS Jane. She’s her support system, the one person who truly gets her in the whole world. Her parents love her, but often struggle to understand her, and Quinn is... Quinn. Her only other friends are Jodi who while someone who she truly respects is isn’t really on her wavelength being someone who fits in more and tries harder and somehow Brittany and Kevin, who are more loose aquantices with one braincell between them. And of course Quinn is Quinn, so no sisterly help. They all care about her, but only Jane GETS her and dosen’t judge her for being herself. The only times Jane ever calls out daria is when daria really has stepped out of line. So it’s understandable that when someone else shows up that takes up all Jane’s time and leaves Daria basically alone, she lashes out at him. It’s understandable.

What it’s not.. is fair. Jane should be able to have boyfriends and since her and Daria sadly aren’t happening , at least until any revivials, Daria simply needs to adjust to this new reality. And ultimately the only thing that gets her to confront it.. is said reality pulling up to her. Tom pulls up in his old junker, a bit of rebellion against his parents as we’ll find out and has an honest talk with Daria. Daria feels she’s being replaced.. and Tom makes it clear no she is’nt. Jane talks about her all the time, and she’s still important to her. But Tom makes the same point I did: Daria can’t and really shoudln’t stop this and a point I did’nt: he’s not the bad guy. He’s just a guy and a charming one too: he’s cyncial like our heroes, and is kind enough to make this effort because he WANTS this relationshp to work and to be with jane means beign welcomed by her only friend.

And so Daria does. Granted this only lasts the end of the episode.. but when Tom shows up... she welcomes him. Granted Jane isn’t happy they have in jokes, but she is happy their getting along. This... won’t last long.

As for the project, our heroes do pass with the wonderful lifecycle of a high school student, which is truly hilarious.. as is frankly most dialogue in this episode, but as a reviewer I gotta gloss over that. It maps it to the stages of grief with anger just being them getting some dialouge from poor Mr. DiMartino and acceptance being college acceptance. The other videos are also a treat, from Brittnay and Kevin’s crudely drawn hilariously half assed video on school spirit and the utter glory that is Upchuck’s assignment that makes me want to worship him as some sort of god before slapping myself upon remembering it’s upchuck.

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All in all the episode is excellent and deftly sets up the story arc. And Tom wouldn’t go away either: he’s in a good chunk of season 4 to the point I did watch most of his apperances, though I remembered his apperances in a tree grows in lawndale and psycho therapy well enough I didn’t have to. While i’ll only be focusing on the four biggest eps in depth, I’d be remiss if I didn’t cover

Some Assorted Tom Bits

Partners Compliant starts the season off with Daria back on not being really happy about Tom, though she accepts it it dosen’t mean she’s on board with him in her life and it leads to Daria and Jane having diffrent partners, Jane being stuck with Brittany and Daria partnering with Jodi and learning a lesson from it about her own hubris. Honestly I could and shoudl do a Jodi article. She’s the best.

A Tree Grows in Lawndale has Tom save the day by suggesting Kevin become a motivational speaker. I love that my job is writing sentences like that.

Psycho Therapy has one of Tom’s best apperances as Jane sets up a 24 hour web cam as an art experiment and dosen’t tell him. So he shakes it for the camera unaware he’s being tapped and understandably pissed when he finds out as his girlfriend you know, didn’t tell him. Gee I can’t imagine why they have relationship issues later. The punchline is also great as Tom calms down.. till he starts getting fanmail.. from inmates.

Finally we have Mart of Darkness, where tom accidently eats some Gummi bears Jane had sorted for a project. So Jane goes to get some from the new big box store while tom goes to do the same and ends up saddled with Jesse and Trent. It’s one of the few times Tom gets to do something besides be a love intrest and it is great. Sure it’s jane adjacent, he’s going there to make up for his mistake, but it’s fun seeing someone else have to play only sane man with these two doofuses and Tom is a lot less patient with them. It also underlines the issues that are forming in their relationships: Jane is into her art and tends to fly off at tom for it, and while Tom is understanding he really dosen’t fit in her world at times. Granted these last two take place after our next ep

I Loathe a Parade

This ep starts simply enough; Jake is out of TP, Helen and Quinn have left, so it’s up to Daria to get him some in 15 minutes for a bribe. Which would be an easy enough task... if it wasn’t also the homecoming parade, something I relate to as not only is said parade right down the street next to my house, but I live next to mainstreet, where the local fair happens once a year and thus makes traffic, even if I can’t drive I stil lhave to get places, and walking around a living nightmare. So Daria having to naviigate similar nightmares speaks to me.

She runs into Jane whose taking Photos for her own amusment and trying to find tom. Naturally all the usual players are here and ‘tis part of why I spotlighted them, the other being they all have their own plots in the movie: Kevin is on the homecoming float with some.. pagent girl, I don’t know, which pisses brittany off, not helped by Kevin’s skeezy behavior in one of his less sympathetic apperances.. I mean he’s not creepy but he does end up putting his hand on her butt without presumibly asking and you know WHILE HIS GIRLFRIEND IS DIRECTLY BEHIND THEM., Mrs Li is trying to prevent a lawsuit, Quinn has a float with the fashion club who balk at one point when the parade stops and Upchuck of course has a bachelor’s club car with two dolls in the back and hits on our heroine. We also get a nice tiny subplot with Jodi and Mack, as Jodie and Mack are elected homecoming king and queen.. and both are ENTIRELY and annoingly aware it’s a stunt by the school to try and prove how woke they are. I do like how the show tackles racial issues with Jodie while not making it her entire character: there’s more to her than being black but her race and how it effects her isn’t ignored either. And the solution is heartwarming: Jodie almost gets off.. but notices a young black girl waving at her and gets back on. It’s geninely sweet.

The main bulk though is Daria trying to navigate this madhouse and instead finding Tad Gupty, a kid she babysitted/deprogrammed in season 1 whose lost. It also shows Daria’s character: She may be annoyed by the inconvience and lost of bribe but she dosen’t take it out on Tad and does her best to find either his parents or an officer. She may be cynical, detached and constantly done with this shit... but when an innocent kid needs her, she helps.

She ends up finding Tom who was at the wrong drugstore and teams up with Daria both out of the kindness of his heart and to find Jane. The two end up bonding as they’ve read similar books, have similar natures and Tom shows his own nature, a bit more outgoing than either of his girlfriends, and a bit more proactive, deciding to get on a float to look and taking tad with him, wtih Daria getting on once the child begs her not to leave him.

Said float ends up being the Fashion Clubs and they just so happened to be looking for someone to make over. Daria has to blackmail quinn to get out of it and while our dynamic duo can’t find the gupty’s, they do manage to loose Tad once they get back to ground. Things only get worse when they run into lawndale’s obnoxious mascot, some dope in a lion costume who won’t leave Daria the hell alone till Tom gets him to step off and later overheats, with daria pulling the mask off to reveal Mr. O’Neil. And he woudl’ve gotten away with it too if it weren’t for thos meddling kids. Soon after the guptys show off as it turns out Tad found his parents who are greatful and Daria gives a rare genuine smile and talks with Tom a bit, the two really hitting it off.. almost a bit TOO well. Jane naturally shows up and both look at each other as they seperate.. with both clearly conflicted about what they both now realize they might feel. It does feel a bit fast on that part, but otherwise I loathe a parade is a solid episode. Also if you were curious the Brittany subplot ends with her getting mad and storming off and the parade ending in disaster, while Upchuck gets beaten up by the police. So at least Daria gets that, even if her dad dosen’t get TP for his bunghole.

Fire!

And now we’ve come to the hard part of this. And not in terms of quality: unlike the last time I spotlighted a tom with my Tom Lucitor retrospective, the episodes here are excellent and the breakdown of a relationship well handled versus

But it dosen’t make it easier to watch. Honestly it reminds me of a late season episode of Tuca and Bertie: there’s still a joke or two here or there but the pressure that’s built up all season is about to explode, but isn’t QUITE there yet. It dosen’t help that the comedy b-plot meant to help ease said tension is not really funny but instead deeply disturbing.

The episode follows the morgendorfers as the inevtible happens: Jake nearly burns the house down trying to make himself some warm milk. Look I love the guy but the fact it took four seasons for the house to nearly burn down is a miracle, as is the fact he didn’t pour gasoline on the fire to put it out.

Helen is pissed about this but thankfully Jake’s connections from work get them a nice hotel. And while Helen and Jake get to be happy and relax, for once, Daria is stuck in hell aka other people aka her sister. Ten minutes with her is all it takes for Daria to pack up and head for Janes and all it takes for Quinn to not squeal is Daria almost talking to her friends on the phone.

So getting this terrible b-plot out of the way a bellhop at the hotel romances quinn, giving her complemntary stuff and Quinn loves a boy whose attractive and gives her stuff. Sandy brings up the idea he’s a creepy stalker.. and turns out to be right hence why this isn’t all that entertaning. If you don’t know the twist it’s just a stretch of quinn and the fashion club, who I do find entertaining but just don’t get anything funny to do in this subplot, and the “Joke” that a guy was stalking her is just.. creeepy. The actual joke that Quinn is more upset the guy was a computer geek than you know STALKING HER is kind of funny but this was obviously written in an age when stalking was taken way less seriously and it shows.

Thus the main plot is that much more tense: See when Daria calls Jane and Tom are having issues: their just not really meshing, something that was hinted at earlier but now painfully comes to the fore: While Tom clearly dosen’t mind the splatterfests jane enjoys, his attempt to have them see an art house film goes nowhere. Tom just has some diffrent intrests.. ones Daria shares as she recommends the film, and the fact the two are talking irks Jane.

It dosen’t get better as Jane procedes to get passive agressive as heck, telling Daria she could contact Jane thorugh tom which is a rather red flag and then working on her art rather than enjoying that her friend is here, passive agressively working the drill. She only gets angrier when Tom shows up but since Jane’s busy he goes to talk to Daria, and they talk.. for hours about litreature and stuff. Look if you want to know how many times an x-man died or about the red planet Arakko, i’m your guy. I’m not into classic literature so outside of knowing about the Prince, the book Daria was reading, i’m out of my element here. Jane gets pissy again. And Tom and Daria DO have genuine chemistry. While jane and tom had some i’ts clear the two ar ejust way more comfortable than Jane and Tom were and click better: their both bookworms, they both have overacheving families, and their both outsiders just for being themselves, tom for not wanting to over endulge in his riches and Daria for being well. .Daria. As much as the fandom HATES this paring.. I think it works to a degree. The two do work together. How it happened is more questionable, and there are issues with Tom’s character i’ll get into, but you can see why Daria likes this guy once she lets him in.. and why Jane is loosing her shit

Daria eventually confronts her, it being her turn and Jane reveals she’s jealous, that it’s been hard with Tom and Daria makes it harder by things being so .. easy with the two of them... and concedes it’s not their fault. But while Daria dosen’t THINK she has feelings for her best friends boyfriend, Trent points out Tom.. probably does “guys can tell when guys are into a girl”.... which is macho bs in how he phrases it but as oblivious as Trent can be I DO think when it comes to relationships he knows what he’s talking about. He has an on and off one and in these episodes is a geninely good friend and council to both girls. And he can play the guitar pretty well and as we’ll see in the movie can write a REALLY good song on occasion, so he has some talent he just dosen’t have drive or common sense.

So the episode ends with Daria’s angry parents picking her up, and Daria starring whistful. Anjd now we’re going from it boiling up.. to boiling over... but first I nearly forgot to mention Stacey had a cowboy hat this episode. It’s both early 2000′s as hell, I also saw them on sex and the city on occasin, and delightful. To the pain!

Dye! Dye! My Darling!

So we’ve come to this. The kiss that made a fanbase go nuts, changed the show forever for a second time and is still divisive to this day. We’ve also come to the second best episode of Daria, the only one topping it in my eyes being the final episode (Not the finale, that’d be the movie), Boxing Daria. It’s painful, tense and amazingly acted and animated. Despite the shows stylized animation not being one for heavy expression, the expressoins here and the acting, esecpailly from Tracy Grandstaff, is phenominal.

So we open with Jane at the Zoo starring at a tiger

Turns out she’s planning to paint tiger stripes in her hair, the lady or the tiger, and wants Daria to do it. And this is where the deep episode long discomfort starts. Unlike last time there’s no attempts at levity via wacky cyber stalking. There’s no real break. It’s just one long slow motion sprial of pain. This is a bojack penultimate episode level of emotional agony.. and i’ts just as quality.

See Jane wants Daria to dye her hair and while Daria tries to quip her way through it she also repeadtly tries to back out, pointing out she has no idea what she’s doing, she dosen’t want to do this and Jane being passive agressive any time daria DOSEN’T want to help. It boils over in the actual application as Jane accuses Daria of trying to steal tom passive agressively.. then when Daria, SHOCKINGLY botches the job because she has no idea what she’s doing and said repeadtly she didn’t think she could do this, just outright accuses her and throws her out, not going to school the next day.

And then.. it happens. Cue the proper music

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Tom pulls up wanting to talk things over, and Daria gets in the car while the audience, both those watching this for the first time and those of us who know all too well what’s about to happen scream no at the screen like Tom’s a slasher in a horror film and Daria is his unsuspecting victim.

The two talk, with Tom at his wits end with Jane, and Daria giving the rant from above, mad that some guy has driven a wedge between her and her friend, while Tom rightly points out he just went out with a girl, though she was cool and it didn’t work out. The two agree they aren’t attracted to each other, huff off with a fine.. .and then...

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It’s an incredibly well done moment: from Tom impuslively deciding to kiss her from it being clear she reciporcates.. to the second kiss where both fully let it sink in how fucked this is. And the reason this works so well, especially when certain other shows have tried and failed at a plot like this is the show never once forgets how fucked up this is: Ther’es clear passion there but the second that’s over just pure guilt, pain and shellshock.l And tom’s “I liked it too” and daria’s rare, impassioned dammits just undersell it: He liked it.. but his tone shows just how bad the timing was while Daria is pissed off in a way we rarely see her and runs out afraid. And she can’t get anyone to help: Quinn just dimisses out of hand she’d do the same and Helen is busy with work. In the end all Daria has going in to telling jane is pure guilt

The scene where she tells her.. is also just pure hurt. Daria looks miserable, guilty, and broken, and it’s clear from minute one she’s going to tell her friend.. it’s just a question of how and when Jane finally notices how upset she is we get one of the best deliveres in the series “I kissed your boyfriend, I kissed tom”. Daria makes no justifactions, no excuses.. and compared to other cheating storylines tha’ts why I like it. It makes the lead sympathetic, daria really is confused by these emotion.. but it dosen’t undercut what she did and neither did she. Daria destroyed her friendship and knows it and all she can painfully do is cry “I’m sorry, i’m sorry” at jane and then run off.

The resulting confrontation with Tom is no less painful with Jane opening up with a “Hi.. go to hell” before lighting hitting tom who more than deserves it and once her anger subsides a little she ends her rant with “How could you! How could she!” and tom admits it was an accident.. but it was wrong.

The two then have a more emotional breakup on the swings, with Tom admitting things weren’t working and Jane forced to admit it to, and Jane making it clear she’s intending to end her friendship with Daria. And again to his credit tom points out both how much they need each other and how Janes anger at being possible third wheel is hypcoritical given she asked the same of her. It’s not exactly the same but points for effort

The ending is still soul crushing though: Daria and Jane talk and while Daria both apologizes and has no intention of dating tom it’s clear their friendship is on life support at best as Jane leaves.. and Daria gets a call from tom. It’s painful and while the ending music isn’t bad, the origianl ed music which I looke dup after hearing about it on tv tropes... god

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God I love cake and this.. just perfectly accentuates the ep.

This ep is damn near perfect, painful and an excellent cliffhanger.. and sadly where we leave off for a few weeks. But prepare because in two weeks we look at the followup, what this was building toward as we as the question “Is it Fall Yet?”. Hope I see you there, thanks for reading, follow me for more and considering joining my patreon campaign

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