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Cursed with the sudden image of Jon, mid season 4, utterly miserable, in a moment of pure weakness, going to ChatGPT and ChatGPT going "It does seem like the best thing you can do right now for yourself and your mental health is eat some people's trauma, Jon. You should do it."

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Do we think alt!Alice is going to do the trick for Error to become more of themselves? Will it take more? Will they not attack because Sam will get right in between Alice and them as a pure reflex, Alice taking a sharp breath and holding him tight, Error stopping because they didn't kill Sam before, Sam is...one...of...theirs(?). BETTER YET WE KNOW THAT GEORGIE IS NOT UTTERLY IMMUNE TO EYE POWERS, will Error get to HER instead??

Will Georgie spill it all and then Error and her will stare at each other and Georgie realizes, both with relief and aching, that it's not him it's not him it's not him it's not Jon-

and while Georgie is stripped for a second of her role of HardCore Chief of the People or whatever, will alt!Alice JUMP at the opportunity of making her a bed, and more tea, to have Sam stay here, or will she turn to Error and go "can you help me? can you-- can you really get me back there?" and Sam will say "Alice no." and Alice will stare at him, all miserable aching lost eyes and go "I'm sorry, I just-- I just miss you so much. I can't breathe without you, Sam and you're not-- you're him but you're not, you're not my husband-" (Would Sam panic. Would Sam go "I could be" in terror of Alice, any Alice actually dying, or would he keep quiet and watch Error gently put Alice to sleep forever. Would THAT break him. Guys. GUYS.)

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He's your hero, forever your son

He's not here

I am here

NEXT TO NORMAL (2024) - Wyndham’s Theatre

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| Superboy and the Invisible Girl

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do you ever think about Natalie who doesn't see Gabe but can feel his touch... because she has never met him yet she's all too aware of the immense grief looming over her family... she doesn't know who he is but she knows he's there...

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If the Narrator does come back from the big heavy blow Leon threw at him in Season 5, I DO need him to actually miss Leon. Btw. I know he's all evil but I need him to have gotten used to Leon being difficult enough that sometimes he misses a beat coz he expected Leon to be there and he's NOT and it BOTHERS HIM A BIT.

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Also I'm so very glad and proud of Michael for all the work he's done on himself to get him where he is at the end of S4. But also: kinda hot to be so addicted to the way your dead best friend planned life and thought about things that when your minds melt into one another you just can't let go and is willing to let your whole self erased to be more like him. sorry. I love it when people are a mess.

Michael, staring at Gemma holding the crystal ball in a Totally Normal way, clutching at his thigh real tight:

Louisa: hey Michael you're okay

Michael: i'm so fine right now. I'm so good. But you know. Maybe. If I could have a chat. With Leon-

Gemma: he says 'no'

Leon: Gemma, I said perhaps we could try again. Maybe I can help. Maybe I can -

Gemma: Michael says no too. Not that I don't know about bad decisions, but I can see a bad decision in the making.

Louisa: how and why is this my life again.

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Greater Boston is the fandom where Im like. I'm talking to me for me. Im pretending the "somuchbetterthanthat" who made those tumblr posts six months ago is not the same "somuchbetterthanthat" that I am so we can eagerly yell at each other about the Stamatis every six months or so.

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OK BUT AU WHERE MICHAEL BRUSH A HAND OVER THE CRYSTAL BALL AND BETWEEN HIS GENUINE HOPE AND IMPROVEMENT AND ALL THE CHARACTERS BEFORE HIM LOVINGLY DANCING WITH LEON, IT JUST BREAKS THE BALL AND SUDDENLY LEON IS. RIGHT THERE. STARING AT THEM ALL BAFFLED. AND. MORE IMPORTANTLY. ALIVE.

love suddenly being reminded of Michael and Leon and thinking...those guys could actually not be reunited at the end of S4... their powers of goodness combined would just be too strong... condamned to never embrace your dead best friend with your mind one last time because you might accidentally bring him back to life by pure sheer hope and love in your heart

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anyway. remember that time Leon had to listen to his brother learning in real time that Leon had been dead for like a year. And Leon was like "i wish you weren't alone"? I do. Im actually crying about it remembering it right now.

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I understand that Michael and Leon were not together in the podcast, I do. But here and there, I think of them up to season 3 and I'm like. But what if they kissed a little. What if they kissed a lot. What if they did the thing where they've been platonically married for years and one day stare at each other and go "wait a minute. we can add kissing to that."

(Not that I don't FIRMLY believe that Leon had anticipated this might happen and had laid out years ago what it would be like to be Michael's boyfriend, only discarding that once it APPEARED that this would not happen and they had settled in a very lovely long lasting platonic friendship.)

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Here and There I suddenly think of the Stamatis and family bonds and this big old house they grew up in that they might have sold once their mum died to allow for financial ease; it's the pragmatic choice, they all agree to do it; Dimitri nudges Nica's shoulder telling her it'll allow them to get into SOME fancy hotels when they live for their Adventures, and Nica says "sure" but she daydreaming of making her flat maybe more... of a home, and putting more hours into her performances, and Leon is merely thinking this way they'll all have financial security if anything should happen to them.

It all makes sense, and they empty the house, and they sell the house - Leon handles most of the gritty admin details, Nica deals with the contractors for the little fixing work they do, Dimitri charms the hell out of the future tenants.

They all go to the restaurant afterwards; it's a nice time! They all go along, at the end of the day, they all love each other. At the end of the night they hug one another and they all go home.

Nica stares into her flat - filled with stuff she brought back from the house and she feels her breath get a bit short, so she shakes her head and takes her computer out and tries to workshop a way to make little sketches of all the stories those objects remind her of.

Dimitri goes back to his current place: he's just renting from a friend of a friend, it's not home or anything, and well, it's fine, he can have a home later, right? It's okay. Not to have a -- His siblings are home, he doesn't need a specific home, anyway, and, well, if he impulsively decides to leave early and spends the night finding the most random train ticket to book for the next morning, who cares. He'll just send a text to Nica and Leon once he's gone.

Leon comes home and Michael is frowning at a game on the couch and looks up and says: "Hey - you're back early, aren't you? Everything went okay with the house?"

and then Leon's face crumbles a little. and Michael goes. "Oh. Oh man. Ok. Okay." and just gets up and throws his arms around him and pats his back and says: "Just breathe me with me and we'll cry together and it'll be super manly, okay?" "Thank you, Michael." says Leon and starts to cry not long after.

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jon being silly-goofy for so much of season 5 ("methinks the spider doth protest too much," playing I spy, etc) but it's because the eye is in full power and pumping him with so much dopamine that he actually has the energy to goof around. he's full of energy and endorphins but it's all because he's powered by everyone else's suffering. makes you think.

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Daredevil - 'Into the Ring' - S01E01

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I think there exists an au version of s4 somewhere where basira sorts jon firmly into "us" instead of "them" and consequentially gets pretty on board with him forcing statements from strangers. maybe in a world where she was elsewhere on the boat when he slorped floyd matharu's brain and only sees him use his powers on breekon and manuela, so when she gets the tape from martin her reaction is "...you should be more discerning about your targets and keep to the monsters, but I'm sure you only did what you had to do."

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dogs might look like their owners but cat people always have a cat with the same mental illness as them