#4x04 promo

[renegadesstuff]

'We're not gonna find him alive are we?' 😭😭😭😭

[lonestardust]

OTP : eating cookies when their life is on the line

[imminent-danger-came]

Thinking about this promo from pre-season one′s release and what it says about Callum’s arc. “His bravery will be tested”—what an interesting way for the writers to introduce us to his character.

His courage, or his ability to do dangerous and frightening things for the people he loves, is definitely such an interesting aspect of his personality.

[violentdelightsandviolentends]

oh my GOD you guys look at these stills from 4x04

POLO SHIRT KENDALL I REPEAT KENDALL ROY IS WEARING A POLO

I know he's mourning (and it's breaking my damn heart man) but my god... he looks delicious

there's just something about seeing him out of a dress shirt for a little while... someone hold me back

also praying we see stewy in this episode. not getting my hopes up, but it would be real nice :(

[buddiebeginz]

Stranger Things S4 Posters by Butcher Billy

[promosbrasil]

911 Lone Star 4x04 Promo “Abandoned”

[winnie-the-monster]

is it just me or does Bonnie looked annoyed at Clyde?

[womenslive]

In The Dark 4x04 Promo "Hard Pill to Swallow" (HD) Final Season

[positivexcellence]

Walker 4x04 Promo "Insane B.S. and Bloodshed" 

[televisionpromos]

Walker 4x04 "Insane B.S. and Bloodshed" Promo - Walker's lies about the Jackal case finally catch up to him, testing his friendship with his old partner, Captain James. Cassie works a lead in the Jackal case alongside Detective Luna and learns a hard lesson. Stella makes a shocking realization. Also starring Keegan Allen, Molly Hagan, Mitch Pileggi, Odette Annable, Kale Culley, and Jeff Pierre. Ben Hernandez Bray directed the episode written by Casey Fisher. Original airdate 4/24/2024.

[raayllum]

Let’s break this baby down symbolically

Originally this post was longer but my draft didn’t save so I’m doing a quick notes version; if you want more thoughts or have a clarification question please feel free to drop them in my inbox, but hopefully everything will still carry across

Light and dark motif with Callum unintentionally / unknowingly getting close to the darkness, with Ezran and Rayla more in the light. The surface world does not seem to be particularly stormy, more so bright and happy, which is a departure from the previous promo art(s) really highlighting the storm, and how often storms in TDP foretell transformation and disaster (1x01, 2x04, 2x05, 2x07, 2x08, 3x01 when Ez comes home, 4x01, 4x04 before Aaravos possesses Callum at dawn, etc). 

The light-dark duality mirrors Callum’s worries of “What if I’m on a path of darkness” due to its associations with Aaravos: “In darkness, gaze upon a Fallen Star” and “already tainted with darkness, ad destined to play right into my hands.” 

Darkness = dark magic; octopus tentacles have associations with dark magic (Claudia) specifically being used to drag people down (the boys) or catch them (Viren) in terms of control; dark magic / octopus tentacles = control. Control is attached to Aaravos

This is doubly true with associations of water and destiny (“Life is like a river - don’t try to control where the river goes”). If you’re interested in more thoughts on that, check out this meta

Callum perhaps being lured in with curiosity or magical impulse, only to realize he’s in way over his head / being dragged down by something he can’t escape (tentacles having similarities to puppet strings) and/or mirroring his dark magic dreams from 2x08

Ezran being closer makes sense, as he is emotionally closer and currently more reliable to Callum than Rayla has been due to their separation. 

It’s also a nice parallel to Ezran saving Zym (another brother / soulmate) under the ice as well as Rayla and Callum then working to save him, as well, with now Rayla and Ezran working together to save Callum, especially since Ezran almost drowned and Rayla has a specific fear of drowning/water.

In the S1 novelization, Ezran states that his mother’s spirit helped guide him through the darkness to find the glowing (light) egg of the Dragon Prince. Given that Sarai also helped guide Callum towards the Sky arcanum, Ezran possibly carrying / embodying his mother’s spirit while saving his brother would be really beautiful. 

As stated, Rayla being further away makes sense, but it does align her further with the light, and I do think her reaching for Callum (as opposed to a more generic swim pose) is purposeful due to Rayllum (and the show’s) consistent reaching motif.

Rayla’s fear of water isn’t literally about the water (after all, she saved Bait 1.5 days in when she and the glow toad had an immense mutual dislike of each other) but what it represents: shame, self-reflection, fear, guilt, trauma. Rayla left in TTM because she didn’t know how to love Callum and be scared to lose him at the same time in a healthier manner, leading her to majorly hurt both of them. Her swimming through the water could symbolize 1) helping to save Callum (per other foreshadowing as well) in addition to 2) her beginning to learn how to deal with that fear in a healthier way that also lets her stay and be/do what she wants to do. 

And as always, the foreshadowing that Aaravos’ specific prison (darkness, dark magic, tentacles, ocean, etc) is underwater and it will be found / we’ll get some answers about the cube in S5:

[kirayukimuraappreciation]

Kira Appreciation Week 2023 Roundup

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in Kira Week 2023! And a very special thank you to @momentofmemory for all of her lovely promo gifs for this event. We loved seeing all of your incredible works celebrating Kira this year! We look forward to future events, and in the meantime we're always on the lookout for new Kira content, so if you missed the week but still want to show her some love, feel free to submit content any time!

All works are compiled below, organized by prompt, and the KiraWeek2023 Ao3 collection can be found here. If you created something for Kira week that we’ve missed, please send us an ask and we’ll add it to the list.

Day 1: You Came Back / Fav Scene / Kira + Kitsune Attributes

Kira 4x04 scene - gif set by @silent-snake7

Favorite Scenes (all of them) - moodboard by @softranswolves

Fav Scene - edit & meta/thoughts by @sammi-phoenix

You Came Back - fic by @nightstar-appreciation

Kira Returns - gifset by @momentofmemory

Home is a person - fic by @invisible-storyteller

Kitsune Attributes - moodboard & fic by @jjsstars

The Calm Before the Storm - edit by @hemlocksandfoxgloves

Day 2: There's a Reason You Kept It / Poetry, Lyrics, Quotes / Significant Objects

Kira's Tail - gifset by @momentofmemory

Kira + Fox Tails 1 - edit by @hemlocksandfoxgloves

Kira + Fox Tails 2 - edit by @hemlocksandfoxgloves

Lyrics + album [1989 (Taylor's Version)] - moodboard by @jjsstars

Kira Yukimura, Killer Vibe (lyrics) - moodboard by @thiamsxbitch

Day 3: They Did Something / Color/B&W / Kira + Villains

Colors - edit by @softranswolves

Color [warm tones] - moodboard by @jjsstars

Kira Yukimura as Everything in its Right Place by Radiohead - edit by @sammi-phoenix

Void!Kira - edit by @hemlocksandfoxgloves

Day 4: Trickster-or-Treat / Trickster!Kira / Nerd!Kira

Nerd!Kira - moodboard & ficlet by @jjsstars

Day 4, Lightning bolt - edit by @hemlocksandfoxgloves

Day 5: What if Wednesday / Dealer's Choice / Lie-Ability

What If Wednesday (AU) - moodboard by @jjsstars

No One Can Steal Your Thunder (Dealer's Choice) - edit by @equallyloyalandlethal

Kira Yukimura: a character study (Dealer's Choice) - edit by @letthestorieslive

Day 6: History Echoes / Back in Style / Something New

Something Old With Something New - edit by @hemlocksandfoxgloves (feat. i want you on top of me like cherry - fic by @thiamsxbitch)

Day 7: It’s Alright to Cry / Hurt & Comfort / Parallels

It's Alright to Cry - moodboard by @jjsstars

Alt 1: Have you ever heard of something called a Kitsune?

I'm a Kitsune (You know...a Japanese foc spirit) - moodboard by @sugareey-makes-stuff

Alt 2: I Printed It Out

The Birth of a Lacrosse Legend - gif set by @letthestorieslive

Alt 3: My Family and I Moved Here Three Weeks Ago

Kitsune Bonding - fic by @softranswolves

Kira's Childhood - moodboard & ficlet by @jjsstars

[shit-before-the-shovel]

ok, things are about to get really bad

at first i thought roman would never actually follow up with gerri's firing since logan is dead right? right??

but now i realize that what gerri is saying in this teaser trailer for season 4:

...isn't about roman's items. it's about, as roman put it, “logan being unhappy with how long it took for you to settle with the DOJ” (lol) and “you can go legal if you want but we're gonna stuff your mouth with so much gold--”.

and here's gerri saying, fuck you, i will sue and i will go public (i don't believe she will, i don't even believe she has a choice tbh, she'll get murderdered by the whole company if she does so cos nothing's fair in the world of waystar, is it).

but what's fucking with me the most is, yesterday someone posted about roman feeling guilty about “killing dad” and becoming this closed off robot of a person and i have to agree? we see it in the promo for 4x04:

i don't think he's fucking with her just for the fun of it here. i think he's genuinely thinking that this is what he has to do but he's really awkward about it, because it's not coming from a professional or objective point of view. it's coming from hurt about logan's death and gerri's betrayal for the lack of a better word.

and then gerri's like:

she sees right through him and she knows what this is about and quite tragically she tells him that logan has his paws all over them, even in his death. you cannot win. he'll wash all of you away in a sense. now, do i agree with her? not sure, i guess we'll have to see.

and then we go to gerri completely losing her shit like never before:

these three words are filled with so much meaning in the context of their relationship that i'm getting light headed even thinking about it.

in a way this is the first time their connection is acknowledged openly and seriously. knowing gerri's personality she would never go off on someone like this in a professional setting. now, if this was shiv or even logan saying this, yes, she'd get angry, but she wouldn't be like this with any of them. so her saying we're over is her acknowledging that they were more than colleagues, they were more than mentor/mentee.

now, it's pointless to define their relationship, because as we've seen in kieran and j's interviews, even the actors are confused about it. they try to make sense of it but always come up short. so let's just call it a connection.

so, gerri saying we're over in the promo really tells us that roman just will keep fucking up because he's hurt. and she's gonna have none of it, because she's hurt too. and i don't think they can come back from this.

an interviewer asked j is gerri in a place that she would have chosen for her to end up by the end of the season? does it feel like an ending that’s suitable for the journey that she’s been on? and j answers:

i know the actors can't reveal anything and in a normal world j's answer doesn't mean anything much, but this isn't a normal world, this is war and j replying with “it makes sense” not “yes” makes me absolutely feral. she could've gone with “yes”. but she went with “it makes sense”. those two are completely different things.

anyway,

[rafaelsilvasource]

RAFAEL SILVA as CARLOS REYES in 911: LONE STAR’s new 4x04 promo

[tarlosislove]

We just had a four episode story arc for Carlos and next week we're getting storylines for other characters now, 4x05 specifically is about Marjan and Grace but because there's a possibility that Carlos might not be in it (Idk why he wouldn't be but we know nothing about him in ep.5) people aren't excited..

Remember we didn't think he'd be in 3x12 and then we got that promo of him passing out..

Can people please be excited for any characters that aren't Tarlos?? Like everyone complains about Owen getting more screentime than everyone else (I get it) but now we're getting Marjan/Grace/fiery explosion rescues and now people aren't excited because we don't know about Tarlos's involvement in it.

Watching an episode only if you know Tarlos is in it is not going to get us renewed and therefore no more Tarlos. Too many people in this fandom only care about other characters when Owen is on screen. Care about them every other time too please.

I mean look! There's a fire! In a firefighter show! With a Marjan storyline! Let's be excited!

(Might I add that Owen got 6 minutes of screentime in 4x04 and Tarlos got a combined 20 minutes.)

[carlos-in-glasses]

Fic Rec Friday Fun

Thank you for the tag @irispurpurea @reyesstrand @rosedavid @strandnreyes @iboatedhere @chicgeekgirl89 @catanisspicy - you're all so fantastic and I need to catch up on the ones in your lists I haven't read yet! A treat for me 🥰

So wanted to get some hiatus rec lists going and encourage some self promo in my friends so how about sharing your top fics no matter how big or small - give us the links to your wonderful words with the Most hits/Most kudos/Most comments/Most bookmarks /Most words/Least words

For me the above means it would only be split between two fics and then a third for least words, so I'm going for the next-most for comments and bookmarks.

Most Hits: When Soulmates Swim - Sparks and splashes fly when TK and Carlos each take up swimming while they recover from workplace injuries. I'm going to go ahead and say this is probably the funniest fic I've written based on feedback! There's angst of course but also TK and Carlos bring out each other's fun side and I'm so happy with it because of that.

Most Kudos: Chasers - A 3x13 coda. While TK is alone with Cooper, Carlos is alone with his thoughts. Both recall times they’ve chased the next high, other men, or each other. When Carlos arrives home, TK still has something important to say – and it's something he didn’t tell Cooper. I'm amazed and so grateful for the love on this one-shot. I loved delving into their backstories and featuring Alex who, fun fact, is based on my ex-boyfriend lol. Not me mining my most painful memories and emotions for content! ANYWAY this Cooper is in my current WIP so he'll be back soon...! Also Carlos goes for a swim and it's where the idea for the gym pool in When Soulmates Swim originated.

Most Comments: The Heart Behind the Shield - Bad Call (2x08) meets Abandoned (4x04) when TK and Carlos attempt to understand what they’ve been through and realize certain old wounds are bleeding into the new. They have both been held captive, faced death, made it home. Secrets, moods, hot messes – they love each other more every day. And they both still need their parents. I'd wanted to write a 2x08 coda for ages but couldn't figure out my angle until 4x04 came along with such blessed parallels. Like Chasers this also goes into backstory and I'm really happy with how those parts came out. Also just want to say that this has a particular scene between Carlos and Gabriel, which I'm very glad I wrote given what happens in 4x17.

Most Bookmarks: The Ruins of Wonderland - A divergence/re-imagining of Carlos and TK getting back together after their breakup. The severe winter storm doesn’t happen as forecast and Austin receives a manageable snowfall – without TK plunging into a frozen lake. Nancy’s 126 hang goes ahead. TK attends, but so does Carlos… This wasn't the first story I wrote/posted, but it's the first idea for a Tarlos fic I had and I have such a soft-spot for it. Important features: bed-breaking sex, slipper socks and a giant pretzel.

Most Words: When Soulmates Swim - 53k. The next is The Heart Behind the Shield at 34.4k. My longest one-shot is Man to Man at 14.6k.

Least Words: The Light of Our Life - 2.4k. After an awkward conversation, Carlos buys TK a bearded dragon and fears it may be a parting gift (Coda for 4x12). I took a long lunchbreak, wrote this, and posted it the same day. I've never done that before or since, and I honestly don't understand what happened to me...

I'm a little late for this so apologies if you've already done it and I haven't seen, but if not and you want to share, I'm tagging: @cold-blooded-jelly-doughnut @heartstringsduet @paperstorm @goodways @bonheur-cafe @lightningboltreader @chaotictarlos @theghostofashton @bubblesandroses8 @noxsoulmate @freneticfloetry @taralaurel @never-blooms @ladytessa74 @lemonlyman-dotcom ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜