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Zach: Just one pastry?
Oscar: Oi, Darien!
[Darien cursed under his breath, so much for a quick lunchbreak]
Oscar: Friend of yours?
Darien: No, Zach just enjoys mithering people.
Oscar: Kids are good at that-.. why aren’t you in school?
Zach: Why’re grownups so obsessed with school-.. god.
Oscar: Well, it’s pretty important to be where you’re supposed to be-.. and to learn.
Zach: [scoffs] Can I have one of those?
Oscar: Have at ‘em.. but since you’re here, have you seen this lady?
[Zach nodded; mouth too full of croissant to reply]
Darien: He’s not going to give you any cash just for ly-…
Zach: [muffled] I’m not lying!
Oscar: Where’d you see her?
Zach: She works at the laundromat with my friend’s mom-.. she’s nice, unlike this guy.
[Had he not been so busy scowling at Darien, Oscar might’ve laughed at that comment]
Darien: Why the hell would I have thought to ask him that? He’s just a kid.
Oscar: Kids have eyes too, idiot.
[Zach giggled, amused by Oscar’s insulting tone toward Mister McScrooge]
Oscar: Can you take us there?
Zach: You’re nice n’ stuff, right? Like.. she doesn’t owe you money or something, does she?
Oscar: At least you’re street smart-.. I promise I’m alright though, she’s friends with my wife.
Zach: You’re married?
Oscar: Uh-huh! Got a bunch of kids too-.. see?
[Zach took his time, stuffing as many pastries as he could into his mouth whilst scrutinising Oscar’s photos]
Zach: I guess I could take you to her-.. I have a penknife though.
Oscar: [laughs] Ahh, but now you lack the element of surprise.
[Zach blinked.. shit]
Darien: I’ve got to get back to-…
Oscar: C’mon, no one’s gonna miss you for an hour.
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Can we end the twink-ification of Adam Parrish??? Dude worked THREE jobs in high school while having perfect grades. One of them being a mechanic, dudes probably ripped!
He scammed rich Harvard students by doing fake card readings (when he could seriously do them for real)
and he is a psychopath, who framed his crush’s father’s murderer by creating his own crime. Hes killed a man. He’s not a fluffy, soft guy.
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My birthday was a couple days ago, and I got to see my bio dad for the first time in a while. He surprised me with the fact that I have a little half-sister, whom I've never met and who was adopted about two years back.
So, I wondered if any situations in BB mimic this or have a theme of "secret siblings" or "secret family"?
Sorry if this is a weird ask; this blog is honestly just such a cool little place and I love the way you approach the subject matter and take the flawed misogynistic foundation of the WC books and make them so much better (JUSTICE FOR BUMBLE!!!). I've also learned a lot about healthy and unhealthy relationships here and am really glad for your deep dives on Squilf and Bramble.
Thanks, Bones!
Not weird at all! I really like exploring all the little nooks and crannies of complicated familial dynamics. I think one of the untapped strengths of WC (that the writers seem to be unaware of) is how their MASSIVE cast allows them to present all sorts of unique dynamics. So I like to pick up on it, since they don't.
For secret siblings...
I'm pretty heavily leaning towards Ambermoon being adopted by Wildfur, as a surrogacy. Something feels correct about it. Especially since Icecloud is getting retooled into a post-Battle of the True Eclipse birth, and a major supporting character in AVoS-era stories as a friend of Alderheart.
Thinking about it, I should zoom in and expand this. Maybe have Icecloud, somehow, acquire forbidden knowledge that would invalidate the Queen’s Rights and he (transman) struggles with if he's going to use it to expose his parents as an excuse to help Ambermoon.
(Especially since Ambermoon and Icecloud are basically nothing alike. Amber is independent, bold, and vain. Ice is jessie pinkman big-hearted, disorganized, and deceptively meek if you look past his "chill" demeanor)
But that's wip-- there's also Breezepelt and the Three, who are going to have an actual friendship. In particular I can't unsee Breeze and Lion having a deep one. I know I commit the Cardinal Sin of borderline himbo-ifying Lionblaze in BB, but I can't help it.
Hollyleaf ended up nabbing a bunch of his most violent roles to make her villainous descent smoother narratively, so BB!Lionblaze's story ends up being more focused on Ashfur's abuse, comic relief with cats in other Clans (something that the very serious Jay and Holly have a hard time providing), and the emotional fallout of the big reveal and Bramblestar's turn on them. Breezepelt slots neatly into that.
They were friends. Lionblaze's whole life came down around the reveal, everyone looking at him and his siblings differently, like they're suddenly something terrible. Why can't we find a silver lining, Breezepelt? Why can't we call ourselves brothers if the whole world is going to do it anyway? So much is changing, but THIS doesn't have to, we will take their weapon and turn it to armor, my ally, my friend, my brother.
(and when Breezepelt is lashing out at the three because of the Dark Forest's influence, Lionblaze is there, taking the blows and trying not to give in to the impulse to send him flying with a single paw)
There's also Harespring and Kestrelflight of WindClan and Owlclaw of ShadowClan. All of them are from a single litter between Whitewater and Mudclaw. She was going to raise the three of them alone as ShadowClan cats, but when the sire was smote, Whitewater felt they were cursed.
She was able to give the oldest two to their bio-uncle, Torear, but the weather was so bad that day and the runt was so sickly and small that it surely would have killed him. I don't think Owlclaw ever finds out why his mother always treated him with suspicion, but it did mess him up horribly.
Over in BB!DOTC, Thunder Storm is getting more half-siblings earlier. Clear Sky and Falling Feather had two daughters-- Pale Sky and Tiger Sky.
I want to explore the way that the various stages of Clear Sky's life acted on his kids. How any little curiosity Thunder Storm had about the life he might have had if he wasn't abandoned is crushed by seeing kittens who weren't. How Clear's favoritism of his oldest child set the trio against each other from the start. How this idea of "love" is toxic yet intoxicating.
It feels good to be the golden child. The power it gives you over his sycophants is satisfying. To know you, and you alone, have what someone else craves. Problem is, that's conditional, and it's cruel.
What Thunder Storm learns from his time with his biodad is that Clear Sky is not his father at all. He's taught him exactly what he DOESN'T want to be. There may be similarities-- in temperament, in physical prowess (though BB!Thunder is three-legged, he's still ripped), in taste and senses. But Thunder Storm's father is Shaded Flower.
(BB!Gray Wing died in the first book, rescuing Shaded Flower from being trampled by a horse. Xey're a patron of wisdom, Shaded Moss is taking the role of fatherhood to Thunder)
His sister is Rainswept Flower. His mom is Bright Storm. If there was a bond he could have had with Tiger Sky and Pale Sky, it dies simply and cruelly on the knife they used to cut each other out.
Pale might have wanted to mend it, she was the gentler one. But she dies in the First Battle along with her mother. Tiger Sky is too stubborn to accept any help, should Thunderstar offer it, and Thunderstar isn't in the business of begging for others to like him.
Naturally I'm lowkey obsessed with them lmao. I need to make a BB!DOTC overviewww
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Watching The Dead Don't Die and my son asking me where is Michael Sheen 😆 Idk why he thinks Michael comes out in every single movie we watch. Sir, I have other interest, like Adam Driver. Meanwhile, me showing my son Michael's filmography since he was a baby baby haha
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Writer's Guild Presents: The One Where Crowley and Aziraphale Adopt the Antichrist
Writers of After Dark Community ( @goodomensafterdark )
The One Where Crowley and Aziraphale Adopt the Antichrist
Summary:
Gather ye right close, good people. Come close until the computer screen near scorch ye, for I charge ye that all must see how the antichrist was raised by angel and demon. And let my insomniatic plot bunnies be a message to the archive. Gather ye right close, I say, and mark well the fate of all who meddle with such as they do not understand!
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Or: Crowley takes the extra baby from the hospital and raises him with Aziraphale. Only God noticed that he took the same baby that he came in with… but she's not telling anyone except the readers.
Excerpt:
God does not play dice with the universe; I play an ineffable game of my own devising. For everyone else it’s like playing poker in a pitch-dark room, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
Of all the players there have been few who have come close to understanding the game, though many have tried. Those who understand that fate and free will are one and the same, and the only way to win the game is to play it as though it was made for them.
Every game is different, no two players are the same in each round, no matter how they seem alike to those who played before, or after. Every game begins, and every game ends. This game began in a garden.
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