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still insanely obsessed with rebecca and cams dynamic. rebecca coming back to her hometown after god knows how long like “wow… you look pretty hot in your uniform…. i didn’t know you were a cop now… wow i really like one cop all of a sudden….. i’m sorry about what happened between us… i want to help you with your murder investigation… let’s get dinner and hang out afterwards ;) ;)” luring cam in like a frightened horse with a carrot and cams like (worlds saddest pretties wet brown eyes ever, looking at rebecca’s reflection in the bathroom mirror) “rebecca…. please stay out of this.” as she’s undoing her belt

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you bottle Miette??

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Abolish the comic book industrial complex 🙂

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32 for rebecca x cam?

32. “do you ever regret it?”

Cam's never been good at talking things through.

You see, the problem with talking things through is that these sort of conversations require you to reach definitive words -- no vague descriptors or noncommittal physical gestures would suffice for the kind of conversation which aims to explain something. And Cam has very little that she's capable of explaining, is what she's found.

Her brother asked her once if she felt lucky. Her dad asked her once if she felt loved. Gabe asked her once if she loved his sister. Rebecca never asked her anything. She made it easy to be with her by never asking Cam anything. And it was good, until it wasn't.

Because she also never asked Cam if she wanted her to stay. Never told Cam she was going to leave. Never asked Cam if she wanted to come with her. And Cam is grateful, because she wouldn't have had the answers, and now she gets to be mad, indignant about Rebecca falling off the face of the earth when the truth is she felt a little relieved when it happened.

For a while.

Until it sunk in that she wasn't coming back.

Until she found out that missing Rebecca might be just as difficult as having her near.

Like right now, when Cam's hair is fanned on a pillow and Rebecca is kissing down her chest bone. Sometimes that feels as impossible as talking things through. But Rebecca's good at navigating her. Good at making it feel like no question at all.

Cam threads her fingers through Rebecca's hair and pulls a little to signal her to come back up, and Rebecca goes, kisses her softly. Then again. And again.

She has this way of looking at Cam when they fuck, like she'd be damned to look at anything else. And Cam sometimes thinks she'd be damned if Rebecca looked at her like that even a second longer. Sometimes, though, it opens something deep within her chest, and she can speak.

Rebecca's thumb is drawing circles on Cam's hip and Cam asks, "Do you ever regret it?"

"Leaving?"

"Coming back."

"Both," Rebecca's voice is barely above a whisper.

Cam nods. Closes her eyes while Rebecca kisses southward and then opens her legs for her, sinking deeper into her body, a body which requires no explanation.

Not for Rebecca.

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Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone as Rebecca and Cam Under the Bridge (2024)— "Blood Oath"

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fascinating that when you tell people "you have to learn the rules to break them" when talking about drawing/painting etc everyone nods and agrees but the second you say "you have to read books if you want to write better" there's a horde of contrarians begging to be the wrongest people ever all of a sudden

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Tara Hardy, from “Salt in the Wind”, My, My, My, My, My

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The current state of pop girlies is so funny like

Ariana Grande: getting dragged for homewrecking with the guy who played SpongeBob in the SpongeBob musical

Taylor Swift: dropping her worst album in years about how deeply obsessed she is with Matty Healy

Billie Eilish, for some reason:

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not to be controversial bc I know this is like…not in line with shifting opinions on fanfic comment culture but if there’s a glaring typo in my work I will NOT be offended by pointing it out. if ao3 fucks up the formatting…I will also not be offended by having this pointed out…

‘looking forward to the next update’ and ‘I hope you update soon!’ are different vibes than a demand, and should be read in good faith because a reader is finding their way to tell you how much they love it. I will not be mad at this.

‘I don’t usually like this ship but this fic made me feel something’ is also incredibly high praise. I’m not going to get mad at this.

even ‘I love this fic but I’m curious about why you made [x] choice’ is just another way a reader is engaging in and putting thought into your work.

I just feel like a lot of authors take any comment that’s not perfectly articulated glowing praise in the exact manner they’re hoping to receive it in bad faith.

fic engagement has been dropping across the board over the last several years, and yes it’s frustrating but it isn’t as though I can’t see how it happens. comment anxiety can be a real thing. the last thing anyone wants to do is offend an author they love, and that means sometimes people default to silence.

idk where I’m going with this I guess aside from saying unless a comment is outright attacking me I’m never going to get mad at it, and I think a lot of authors should feel the same way. ESPECIALLY TYPOS PLZ GOD POINT OUT MY TYPOS.

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Sabrina the Teenage Witch – 2.21: Fear Strikes Up a Conversation

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Seinfeld – 8.04: The Little Kicks

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it's crazy to me that with lena & nia cwsg had 2 characters who are little sisters with difficult relationships with their older siblings, mothers who died (which they blame themselves for not preventing), magic powers which they inherited from their mothers, etc. so basically the perfect foils. and then they had a couple scenes together in s6 and that was it. go cwsg give us nothing!

Hahaha right? And especially given how Lena and Brainy were such buddies, why wouldn't she and Nia interact more.

Maybe if there was less tunnel vision in the writers room about Lena's post-reveal storyline having to go a certain way, with her in total isolation and Lex playing such a prominent role (again) ... dragging the whole thing out until the season finale.

We could have gotten more of this, and sooner ... sigh.

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My take on a super suit redesign (c/o TurboStunK on Twitter) for Kara

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Abbott Elementary – 3.10: Ava 2 Fest

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this video has been going around for a while but the English subtitles didn't match the energy of the spoken French at all. i had to fix it.

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