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nikakistos · 3 years

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The mindset of Eren Yeager: The reason he rumbled the World

The topic I will be analyzing this time is Eren Yeager’s decisions and motivations in the final arc of the series. Many words have been said about our main protagonist, especially after his appearance in the final chapter, which made many question him and his actions. Given the dialogue between him and Armin it is not really hard to understand why. Isayama’s word choices have confused many fans. So, here I am. Trying to explain to the best of my ability what was going through Eren’s mind. Of course, I might be wrong. There have been many interpretations of the character after all, not to mention that Isayama will be releasing a character book the next month, which might explain things better. But, seeing as I will be in the army at the time, I figured I should write this now and compare my view to Isayama’s later on.

To begin with, we have to answer a very important question. What was Eren wish and what kind of life did he want to live? This question can easily be answered just by looking at Mikasa and Armin, Eren’s two most beloved people. These two represent what Eren wants out of life. Armin is responsible for Eren’s desire to be free. The outside world for Eren is freedom. Mikasa on the other hand represents Eren’s desire to be loved. She is his home to return to. You see, these two desires perfectly correspond with the visions Eren shared with his two friends in the paths. He used the paths to see with Armin all the places from Armin’s book that they imagined back when they were kids and he used the paths to live with Mikasa the life they never had the chance to live in the real world. Eren himself says he doesn’t want to die. He wants to live with Mikasa and everyone else. This is the kind of life he wants.

But he couldn’t. And it wasn’t because of some supernatural force that guided his own actions and prohibited him from making another decision. No. It was because of his personality and the circumstances he found himself in. After Eren saw the future his attitude changed. He was by far more silent and sad than usual. He saw himself committing mass-genocide. He also learnt that the world was not what he imagined it to be. Eren wanted the world to be just like Armin’s book described. Empty of humans, but full of beautiful places. However, between himself and his dream stood enemies. Countless people who had never seen them, all wishing them dead. The outside world had betrayed his expectations. For him, all these people that stood between him and his dream were just like the walls in Paradis. An obstacle. This is why, despite knowing that the Rumbling went against the justice he was supposedly fighting for, he decided to complete it. Deep down, he hated this world and he wanted to burn it down. This is in part due to his idea of freedom. For Eren, freedom is living your life the way you want it to, without ever taking orders from anyone. Doing whatever you want. This is why he was surprised by Levi’s follower attitude towards Erwin. With all his strength, he expected Levi to be the freest person in the legion. A world that continued to chain him down and disappoint him was something Eren could not tolerate. And when he got the power, he just wanted to erase it. He was free to do so. It is no coincidence that the panel of his father saying to him “you are free” appears at the same time that Eren reveals his desire to destroy the world. This burning desire of his to erase the world contradicts his view on people being special because they were born in it. If this world makes people special just because they were born in it, then why the fuck would you completely destroy it Eren? Well, that’s exactly the point. Eren’s though process is entirely irrational. That’s true for all humans to a degree. Our deepest and darkest desires are irrational. The part of Eren that wanted to bring the Apocalypse, just because the world wasn’t like he wanted it to be is exactly that. Eren had to choose between what was just and what made him feel free. He chose the latter.

Moving on to the more rational side of his motivations for doing the Rumbling. That is the safety of his friends and his island. Eren genuinely cared for all of his friends. Mikasa and Armin were special, but he also cared for Historia, Jean, Connie, Sasha etc. He even cared for fucking Floch. And, obviously he cared for the island that he was raised in. He couldn’t just let the world annihilate them. This is like, the core of his ideology. If you fight, you might survive. If you just roll over, then you get fucked. Eren is not the type to get fucked. However, this did not mean that Eren wouldn’t opt for a different solution if a better option presented itself. After all, he did appear in the speech given by the Organization that protected the rights of the Eldians. The first problem here is that when Eren saw the memories of the future he had just 8 years left to live. Zeke had 5. Eren was displeased with this lack of time. The second problem was that he was stuck with a hilariously incompetent leadership. The leadership of Paradis failed spectacularly in finding a good solution and wasted half of Eren’s remaining lifespan. At the rate the Survey Corps were progressing, Zeke would have died and without him they wouldn’t be able to use the Founding Titan at all. Additionally, none of the solutions they tried to find were exactly great. The 50 Y.P. required the sacrifice of Historia and her line, without ensuring with 100% certainty the eternal existence of Eldia. Since Eren cared about Historia and the island, he couldn’t accept such a proposal. The rest of the Survey Corps felt the same way. Hizuru on the other hand didn’t help them at all and Hange’s plan to approach the Organization that wanted to protect the rights of the Eldians failed spectacularly. Eren was left out of options.

The biggest turn off for him though was the revelation of Zeke’s real plan. When Yelena learnt that the SC would visit Marley she approached Eren and told him all about Zeke’s euthanasia and how to contact him. From this point on, Eren really had no other option left to save Paradis. If the meeting with the Eldian Rights Organization were to fail then he would have no choice but using Zeke’s blood, especially given his brother’s limited lifespan. He would never get another chance to visit Marley, nor was it certain that Zeke and he would manage to make contact. Worst case scenario, Zeke dies before meeting Eren, Colt gets the Beast, the Global Alliance attacks Paradis and they get fucked. Or, the SC somehow manage to find a serum to turn Historia into a dumb Titan, have Mikasa and Levi alongside Eren restrain her and use the Rumbling anyway, while also having sacrificed Historia.

Things might have been different if Eren had actually decided to talk about the future he saw. Knowing what would happen if they didn’t try hard enough, might have made the Corps work harder. Of course, Eren just couldn’t predict the outcome of such a decision, so he decided to stay quiet, since, as established above, deep down he wanted to destroy the world.

Eren’s decision in the end came down to this: either he destroys the world or he says “fuck all” and elopes with Mikasa. He loved her enough to abandon everything and live his last few years peacefully with her. His dream about the outside world, Armin, Historia, Paradis, he was ready to turn his back to all of them just so he could selfishly survive with Mikasa. However, both he and Mikasa are incredibly shy people who can’t quite express their feelings easily. So, instead of telling her that he was in love with her, he left it all to her. To top it all off, he framed the question in such a way, that gave her the chance to pick an easy answer, without risking rejection. Then they got interrupted and the rest is history. He said fuck it and accepted his fate.

Attack on Titan’s world does operate under a fixed timeline. Destiny exists. Ever since Ymir became a titan up to Mikasa killing Eren was predetermined. They were meant to happen, exactly as they happened. However, the reason for that is not entirely supernatural. It is just that the personalities of each and every major character led to the result we saw. It is entirely because Eren cared about his friends and because he dreamt of freedom that he chose to rumble the world. It is his and Mikasa’s shyness that robbed them of a future together. Ymir had nothing to do with all that. It wasn’t Ymir who made the Santa Titan dumb enough to not bite Eren properly, nor was she the one who made the Azumabito clan greedy as hell or the Marleyans imperialists.

Eren knew what he would do and this of course played a major role in his decisions. But nobody forced him to do it. And, more than anything, he also knew why. Deep down, he knew. Eren decided Rumble the world, because he wanted his friends and island to be safe and because he hated the world. Eren accepted his fate, because he was left with no choice that he liked, time was running out and because Mikasa didn’t give him the right answer. The result? 80% of humanity dead, some of his friends dead, the ones who survived are mostly well, with Mikasa being the saddest one. The world is slowly marching to war, with the Yeagerists having regrouped and Armin and the co are trying to prevent this. The island’s survival is by no means guaranteed.

Was it all for nothing? I don’t think so. Eren saved Paradis for some time, giving the chance to Armin to save humanity. After all, he did tell him so himself. Eren believed that with the Rumbling leaving the world in the state we saw, Armin would be able to find a solution. The series seems to imply that this is what will eventually happen.

In the end, Eren acted just like himself. Just like he told Falco. His reasons are not that complicated. He kept moving forward, because he was seeing something beyond this hell. We know now what that something was. His actions make total sense. It is just that his deep desire to end the world is rooted in his own childish view of freedom and of the world. In a story about children who need to become adults, Eren remained a child. His two friends on the other hand didn’t. Armin accepted his role as the Commander of the Survey Corps and despite the world not being what he wanted it to be, still fought to protect it from the person he once wished to explore this earth with. Mikasa accepted her role as a guardian of humanity and not Eren’s, like she believed herself to be, and despite wanting to share her life with Eren, she killed him. Eren saved Mikasa and Armin. This is his legacy. A world without titans.

#Eren Mikasa Armin #Eren Jaeger #Mikasa Ackerman #armin arlert #hajime isayama #attack on titan manga #manga #chapter 139 #attack on titan final chapter #aot meta #snk meta #character analysis

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iamvegorott · 3 years

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Written by Shadowkitten:

Here’s my notes for my old Wild West au feel free to comb through it for ideas

outlaw au: Wild West au with dark the Sheriff of a small town and anti the outlaw head of an outlaw gang.

Town

Dark - sheriff

Wilford - deputy

Jackie- rookie who wants to be a law man

Jj - bartender at saloon

Google - runs the bank

Marvin- saloon performer/owner

Yan - works as a waitress in saloon

Bing and bim work at the general store

Edward - town doctor

Host- mayor/ runs an inn

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Anti- leader of the outlaws

[ anti is the leader of the outlaws, he grew up in outlaw life, orphaned at a young age anti grew up in a traveling band of bandits and swindlers, at 16 a heist went wrong and he got injured with his slashed throat. His old gang left him to die, he was found by chase and a young henrick who saved his life after he heals he stays with henrick and chase whom he finds out are on the run as well. In the years leading up to the story antis gang takes on other members, other runaways and swindlers even some kids. they tried living peaceful for the first few years but after being attacked multiple times by bounty hunters and rival bandits they earned a rather bloody reputation. Anti has killed before he prefers his knives over gunfights, he is skilled in knife throwing. Anti rides a grey and black mustang Named Altair, a wild bratty horse who bucks riders he doesn’t like, he likes anti the best a Robbie second best, he dislikes henrick and disapproves of dark at first.]

Phantom and mare - twin circus runaways who have a flare for the dramatic [ phantom and mare were con artist from the get go, they lived with a traveling circus for the first half of their lives, using the fact of being twins to their advantage phantom and mare would perform sideshow acts as well as main stage shows, the shows would consist of superstitious ‘twinsie’ acts (finishing each other’s thoughts, tricks, appearing to swap items etc) the twins also pickpocketed while they preformed, while one twin kept the crowd entertained, the other worked his way through the crowd snatching coin purses and jewelry. Unfortunately the greedy ringleader demanded most the profit from the performers so the twins were always strapped for cash. One night after earning(and stealing) a small fortune for themselves phantom and mare decided to disobey the ringmaster, almost instantly their money was taken and they were kicked out of the circus with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Angered about the treatment they’d been on the receiving end for the better half of their lives phantom and mare plotted revenge. The twins followed the circus to its next location and waited til nightfall, once they were sure the cost was clear, phantom and mare split up, phantom looted and stole almost all the money the ringmaster had as well as recovered their stolen property while mare poisoned the ringmaster in his sleep. The two then road off on two circus trained horses named ruby and cyclone. They became two notorious outlaws, robbing stagecoaches and bank cars, they had a code to never rob or kill the poor or innocent, but railroads tycoon were neither of those so they were often the twins target. One day they found themselves in a lot of hot water, wounded and running from a bounty hunter, they took a wrong turn and found themselves starring at a dead end below a tall cliff. As the hunter got closer they braced them selves for the end when a shot rang out. Opening their eyes they watched as the bounty hunter dropped dead in front of them. Looking above at the top of the cliff was anti, his pistol drawn and smoking. Soon the twins found themselves surrounded by antis posey, their wounds being tended to by henrick. After hearing their story anti offered them a spot in his band of runaway misfits and they excepted. ]

Phantom is a skilled illusionist and handy with throwing knives, he and anti often trade tricks and have contests between them. Phantom is a smooth talker and a well seasoned trickster he is an expert poker player even tho he cheats every once and a while. Phantoms strongest when mare is by his side

(Phantom rides a redish brown mare named ruby, a cocky horse with circus training, she is one of the fastest of the outlaw horses and the most nimble)

Mare is a gifted gunslinger and trick rider, he’s a fast agile acrobatic person with a gifted singing voice, mare often preformed music for the circus and now sings the best campfire songs. Mare is slightly stronger than phantom often doing more of the dirty work in their partnership but he is no less clever than his twin. He’s hard to catch and crafty in a fight.

He is even stronger with phantom by his side

( mare rides a blue roan mustang named cyclone, a brawny horse with circus training he is an athletic horse known for his jumping tricks and aloof attitude)

Henrick - is the unofficial doctor of the outlaws, [ loosing his parents at a young age henrick was sent to live with his alcoholic uncle, to escape the abuse henrick apprenticed at the local physician’s Office, there he found that he loved to heal people and decided to study medicine, his uncle however made it painfully clear he disapproved and often took his anger out on henrick, one day a man by the name of chase rides into town and gets a job cleaning the barbershop/doctors office, henrick befreinds chase over the corse of a month or so until one day he hears a a rumor that chase is actually a criminal, henrick goes to confront chase but finds him getting ready to leave town, he learns the truth about how chase was falsely accused by his awful ex wife and decides to leave his cruel uncle and continue studding medicine with chase. Henrick rides a white and grey pinto mare named nightingale

She is a fast motherly horse, she can be a great judge of character and very stubborn if she knows something is wrong ]

Mad- a inventor who travels with the outlaws

Chase- looks after the group and the two kids second in command [chase was a rancher who ranched horses and cattle, he had a wife and two kids. His ranch was located is a small western town called dry gulch, thanks to a drought and cattle Rustlers his ranch was going to be reclaimed by the greedy banker of the town and his wife was having an affair with the corrupt sherif, one day while he was tending the cattle his son was injured by one of the bulls and died from his wounds, chase was devastated. Stacy (his wife) blamed him for the sons death, she claimed he was a murder who sent the bull after their son (she wanted to get out of her marriage to him so she could marry the Sheriff) the corrupt Sheriff agreed with her and said for chase to leave by sundown or be arrested for murder. Chase packed his bags and hitched his horse up then road out of town for good, even though he did exactly as the sheriff said the corrupt sheriff put up wanted posters for his arrest. After leaving chase started to hop from town to town taking on what ever work he could find and leaving the moment any news would spread about him would surface. In one of the towns he worked at a barber shop/ local doctors where he met a young henrick who was apprenticing in the medical field and his abusive alcoholic uncle. Chase befriended henrick , helping him with patients and making sure he was safe from the uncles drunken episodes. One day just like the other towns rumors about chase started to spread so he got packed up, right before he left henrick confronted him about the rumors, learned the truth about chase and decided to leave with him to pursue his knowledge and one day become a real doctor.

Chase rides a chestnut appaloosa mustang named whiskey, whiskey is a gentle horse he lets just about anyone ride him but loves chase the most, chase raised whiskey from a colt back on his old ranch.]

Blank and Robbie, two kids they adopted into the group to get them away from a hard life

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Dark runs a small town in the western frontier, it’s just a place to pass through but everyone who stays finds it home. Darks reputation as a heartless bounty hunter and Wilford gunfight if skills keeps most the trouble out of town

#submission #shadowkitten #wildwest!au #THIS IS SO MUCH AND I LOVE IT

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theofficefantasyfootball · 4 years

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WEEK 3 - Wrap Up

Winning - it’s not a debate!

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Here we are in Week 3 of Fantasy Football, on the eve of the first Presidential debate, in the midst of a global pandemic and there is only 1 thing that you need to know is certain in your world right now...you create your own success and failure in this league. You either put in the time, do your research and find a way to win, find a way to bounce back or you slowly die a fantasy football death - as your players get injured and your confidence falls. Winning is not something that you can talk your way into...you either do it or you lose. So, don’t sit around this week arguing with yourself. Get out there, do your homework and put together a winning team that will get you into the playoffs! Maybe it will even make you the 2020 Champion!

USUCK vs HOWARD

Many people don’t know this but on January 19, 2013 Rob Howard and I went to our first Justin Bieber concert at the Gaylord Entertainment Center. It was pretty amazing...lazers and lights, multi-level moving stages and the most incredible LED walls you have ever seen. I was forever changed that night and I am sure Howard was too. What does this have to do with Fantasy Football and this weeks match up? Nothing really. I am just hoping that the memory of us jamming to Justin Bieber will put a smile on Rob’s face....since he is probably really down and depressed from losing to me and ending his perfect season. Great week Rob...I didn’t expect it - just like I didn’t expect to well, you know...love Justin so much.

TREE HUGGERS vs BACKDOOR BANDITS

If you haven’t watched the Netflix series Cobra Kai yet (and you were a fan of the Karate Kid movies)....it’s a must watch. It picks up with Daniel and Johnny - 30 years later...and explains a lot about the characters backstory you never thought about when you were watching the movies. The main message of the Cobra Kai karate school is still strike first, strike hard, no mercy and this week - Scott had no Mercy on Kyle. He made a bit of a mistake by playing Cam over Aaron Rodgers but even that wouldn’t have made a difference. Scott just came out strong - his only set back was losing Carson and Reed early to injury. Great win Scott. Sorry Kyle rough week for you all around...but I am sure you will find a way to fight back in week 4 when you face Dr. Bebo.

FUNK GUY vs BOOMER SOONER

I mean - what the hell is going on? For real! I mean it. Funk Guy called me in week 1 to tell me how bad his team was and now he is acting like he’s just getting lucky - but this lucky two weeks in a row? Huge weeks of crazy scoring? 25 from a kicker? 30 from Colts Defense? 22 from Keenan Allen...and oh yeah 48 from Mahomes tonight. The only question to me going into MNF is will Dana once again knock out TuPadre from the high point money again this week? Last week Tu Padre put up 144 and lost the $20 to Funk Guy....this week Gully put up 165 and it’s possible he will do it again. You have to read below to find out if he did! Great job Dana. Sorry Stu but no one would have had a chance against this scenario. You were as helpless as this kid against this cat. Dana moves to 2-1 but a very strong 2!

LONG LEFT BALLERS vs LANAKILA

Bebo said enough is enough this week! Going into the week 0-2 he was for sure not going to leave without a win...and by the end of the Sunday games he did just that...winning 133 to 109. Cliff made the mistake of sitting Brees for Minshew which I kind of get based on what Minshew has been putting up in the past few weeks but Brees vs Rodgers...don’t you have to go with that match up? Don’t you know from the history of teams like this that it’s going to be a highly focused offense match up? But, it’s another one of those - it was the wrong call but it didn’t really matter. Bebo was just ready for him this week. Congrats Bebo! Nice win...welcome to the 2020 season.

TuPADRE vs TRADE WITH ME

I liked this GIF because while I was searching for OOPS...this came up because of the song “oops I did it again” but it’s like Britney has a glitch. And if feels like Trade with me has that same thing...a glitch. I know what the glitch is - he lost CMC. He’s without his first round, number 1 pick and because of that he is lacking confidence and not thinking with a clear head. TuPadre on the other hand is doing just fine. Russell Wilson with a crazy 46 points, Kamara with 36, James Conner with 25 and the Buc Defense with 20 gives you a hell of a lot of points. Sorry Brett - but you have to do something about your situation or that first paragraph is going to be your story. Maybe make some trades? Maybe get on the waiver wire...not sure but don’t become that guy that pinned his hopes and dreams to one white guy running back. Nice win Andy!

MR. AWESOME vs MOOSES ON THE LOOSES

Gabe is 0-3. He came a long way this week - putting up 108 points but it wasn’t enough. The Moose is going to do what everyone else in this league would do...and take advantage of the match up...it’s cruel but it’s also reality.

Gabe continues to improve health wise as well. If all goes as planned he should be coming home on Tuesday. Still a long way to go but thanks to all of those that are continue to keep Gabe and his family in your prayers.

The Moose wins. I’m sure he is wanting a big write up but I just can’t give that to him. Why? Because even after he had already won - he was complaining because another Tight End besides Andrews got a TD. When I asked him why he needs more points...he already won and wasn’t in the running for high point - he said “for tie breakers and stuff”...greedy little selfish bastard.

SURVIVOR

Goodbye Kyle. Kyle picked the Falcons and the Falcons did not win - so he is out.

7 remain- Krippayne, Gabe, Dana, Breen, Rutledge, Howard, Gully.

HIGH POINT WINNER

This weeks High Point Winner is once again Dana Cappillino, putting up a staggering 178.60 points. Crazy! As is customary for the weekly picture prize we get to know another athlete - so, I am excited to introduce you to pole vaulting / track & field star Allison Stokke. In addition to being extremely athletic- Allison is married to professional golfer Ricky Fowler. You can learn more about Allison on her instagram @allisonstokke - tons of talent and very deserving of a feature in this years wrap up.

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firephoenix39 · 4 years

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Chapter 9: Natives?

July 3rd 6:00 am Adrian woke up from the dream he had and got out of bed, he took a shower to wake himself up a bit and when he was done he puts on a pair of black jeans, a red short sleeve cowboy button up shirt, a pair of black boots with spurs attached, and last he puts on his black cowboy hat . When he was done

He saw his satchel hanging on the door knob he went to it and grabbed what was inside,the first was his creature power vest and the gloves, then his translating device and the ear piece, and the last thing was his shock gauntlet. He decided he to take it with him, as he was putting everything back until he had a discussion to himself

Adrian: should I put on the double holster belt and take the pistols with me? It's not like I won't use it on the animals but Texas from what I know is still wild and there could be still some crazy people that might hurt me and my family. But then if you take them it might break the team's heart and they could take it the wrong way and you already know how Aviva got that other night about the coyote now imagine if you have blood on you and they see the guns they will assume the worst. Ok I'll take them but I keep them inside the satchel on the horse saddle as well as the ammo. So Adrian puts the two guns,the ammo as well as his phone in his satchel, he also puts his creature pod in his pocket and starts to head out to the hallway, he closed his bedroom door and was actually wondering who was sleeping where, The first door he opens was Martin and Chris's room across from his room,they were still sleeping as the bed was comfortable. as he closes their door he heads to the door next to his room, He opens it slowly and sees that Jingfei was sleeping so he quietly enters and kisses her in the forehead and whispers to her "I love you".

He leaves and closes the door behind him. He then heads to the last door, when he slowly opens it Aviva and koki were sleeping but it turns out that one of the girls was about to wake up, So he closes the door to not get spotted and heads down stairs. on his way to the kitchen he sees jimmy sleeping on the couch as he didn't want to have a room. In the kitchen Adrian was going to eat some banana and a granola bar till he sees his brother awake dressed as a cowboy like him.

Adam: morning baby brother.

Adrian: morning Adam you slept well?

Adam: you know it these mattresses are so comfortable aren't they?

Adrian: well it's a bit better than the one in corpus but I don't really mind on which I sleep on as long as it puts me to sleep.

Adam: hey want to go horseback riding today just the two of us.

Adrian: heh you read my mind big brother I was about to ask you that question of course I'm up for it.

Adam: alright than let's go shall we?

The Coronado brothers made their way to the medium barn and they went to their horses stables.

Adrian: good morning gold

The horse jumps up in excitement as he was happy to see Adrian. Adrian grabs a blanket and puts it on the horse and then he puts the saddle on top and ties it so that it won't get loose when he rides, Adrian climbs up the saddle and leads gold out of the barn as he gets out the sun was a golden color as it was coming up. Adrian takes out the golden pistols and starts to load them and puts them in his holster with the safety's on. He then sees Adam coming out of the barn with his horse

Adrian: well it took you long enough so where do you want to go?

Adam: well there is this trail that leads to a field for horseback riding we can head there.

Adrian: alright than, you ready gold?

The horse nods his head up and down.

Adrian: ok then HYA GIDDY UP!!

The brothers took off to the fields and on their way the horses were running in a medium speed and Adam wanted to talk to Adrian.

Adam: so how is the team been treating you so far?

Adrian: so far they have been nice to me and very understanding in a way. You know they are in a tv show remember that show I was watching when I was in elementary school?

Adam: yeah I remember Wild Kratts that was the tittle right?

Adrian: yeah your right and you know what that team back at the house that's them.

Adam: wait really that was them ? Wow I didn't really recognized them I knew they looked familiar but I didn't know it was really them.

Adrian: yeah but hey once you're around them for a while and get to know them they are really nice.

As the brothers headed to the field they slowed their horses down and decided to take a slow ride for a few hours

Adam: so you mean to tell me that the team in our house are that same team that are in that show?

Adrian: pretty much yes and that creature power suit if you watched the show is real I actually have the thing with me if you want to try it out.

Adam: wait you actually have it like they gave it to you?

Adrian: yeah they did back in corpus I met them at the beach and I helped them out when other people wouldn't and as a reward they gave me one of my own.

Adam was speechless and wanted to ask Adrian if he can see it till a old man appeared out of nowhere

Old man: hey you two can you help me out my friend needs help!!

As Adam and Adrian follow the old man five white bandits wearing black bandannas appeared out of a bush on horseback and pointed their pistols to the brothers as Adam put his hands up Adrian took out his colt 1911 and pointed back.

Adrian: now look we don't want no trouble we will just go ok?

???: shut up boy now put your pistol down and we won't hurt you.

Adrian: no you put yours down first and also what the hell is wrong with you do you get a personal pleasure of robbing teenagers ?

???: I said shut up now I ain't saying it again drop the damn gun you damn Mexican beaner.

Adrian got angry about what the man said and he shot three of bandits in the head

Adrian: RIDE !!!!!

Adam and Adrian buck their horse hard and both rode out of there fast but the bandits were on their tails

???: you done messed up boy now your going to pay you killed my friends !!!!!!!!

Adrian: ADAM LETS SPLIT UP !!!!

Adam went on one path while Adrian took a path where there is just desert. But Adrian had three bandits behind him and Adam was alone

???: come back here you little Mexican beaner I ain't done with you!!!

The bandits were firing at Adrian but lucky for him they were missing till Adrian looked back and had the revolver in his hand and managed to shoot two of them in the neck and then he shot the last one in the head.

Adrian: Gold Stop!!!!

Adrian pulled the reigns to stop gold but gold stopped to hard that he bucked off Adrian.

Adrian flew in the air and landed on a tall cactus the right side of his face all the way down to his pelvis was punctured by the spines

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The pain was excruciating he was crying tears and blood.

Adrian: GOLD COME OVER HERE PLEASE!!!!!

The horse came close to Adrian he was able to get the reign with his left hand as the horse was pulling Adrian he couldn't come off it was like he was super glued to the thing. Till Adrian heard some thing cracking and he felt a downward jolt Adrian: NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO !!!!!!!!

Adrian fell to the ground with the plant on top of him the pain was unbearable he wanted to scream so bad but couldn't he then saw a truck about ten yards away from him and he had to do something to call them out

Adrian: HELP HELP I'M OVER HERE !!!!!

But Adrian passed out because of the pain and the right side of his body became numb but he was able to hear. He heard the truck stop and footsteps coming closer

???: it's ok kid we're going to help you Waya Atohi help me move this. Ok one two three pull

Again one two three pull.

Adrian felt the pressure of the cactus on top of him flow away and he felt that he was being lifted.

???: ok put him in the back we have to help him quick or he stays like this.

Atohi: papa what about his horse?

???: ok you and Waya get on the horse and follow me.

Meanwhile Adam made it to the house and hitched his horse on a post. As he stormed through the door he sees the team having a discussion in the living room.

The team: Adam what's wrong ?

Adam: I NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE MY BROTHER NEEDS HELP !!!

Martin: woah woah woah calm down you aren't making any sense just breathe

Adam was calming down and he saw Jingfei coming down the stairs hearing all the commotion. But he was crying and scared of what happened

Adam: so Adrian and I were horseback riding till this gang of white bandits came out and tried to attack us he shot three of them and we rode out of there as fast as we can till Adrian had an idea of splitting up and I thought they were chasing me but I looked back and saw that they chased Adrian I don't know what happened I just heard gunshots and I just rode back as fast as the horse can go. I just don't want to see him die he's all I have left.

Martin: shhh it's ok well help find your brother

Aviva Koki can you track Adrian's creature pod?

Aviva: were on it

As the girls were tracking Adrian's creature pod Adam was sobbing and putting his head down as he thinks it was his fault.

Martin: look it wasn't your fault Adam whatever happened happened but I promise you we will find him and make sure he is safe.

Koki: I've got his location he is a the border between Texas and New Mexico.

Martin: thanks Koki alright Adam do you want to come with us maybe you can help us lead the way.

Adam: yes I want to go but hey I've got the keys to my truck in the big barn we can make it there faster.

Chris Martin and Adam rushes to the big barn and the three of them got inside the turquoise truck.

But then the truck started to make noise as it wouldn't start.

Adam: No No No come on start don't you give up on me

than when Adam starts it the second time the engine came on.

Adam: yes thank you lord alright Adrian I'm on my way

Chris and Martin: TO THE ADRIAN RESCUE

Adam steps on it and drives fast to get to Adrian.

Meanwhile Adrian was still unconscious in his mind he just keep on hearing growling sounds till he sees a wolf coming closer to him and

He was scared and started to run but the wolf caught up to him and pounces on top of him and then hears the words.

"Choose"

He then sees the wolf run off and in front of him on the left he sees the golden gun and on the right he sees his shock gauntlet and in the middle the wolf and the creature power suit was in front of him.

Adrian was sweating and couldn't choose till he just walked into a crouching stance and put his hand in front of him and faced the wolf, the beast was growling at him like he wanted to kill Adrian,but then as he looked into Adrian's eyes the wolf's growling became quiet and then he lays down and then allows adrian to pet the animal the wolf then started acting like a house dog being playful. Than Adrian hears the voice again.

???: the spirit of the wolf lives within you Good Choice

5:00 PM Adrian wakes up inside a teepee in a shock breathing heavily at first he wondered why he couldn't see from his right eye till he sees that his shirt is off of him and hanging on a hanging post; his satchel was on top of a table on the right side of him,and that the right side of his body from his eye all the way down to his stomach area has been bandaged up but also dyed red with his blood. He then sees a teenage boy around his age coming closer to him.

Waya: hello are you ok? Stranger

Adrian: yeah I'm alright I'm still a bit sore and still in some pain but I'll be alright anyway who are you?

Waya: I am Waya I am from the Cherokee Native American tribe my name means the wolf. What's your name?

Adrian: I am Adrian I am Hispanic and so far it's nice to meet you are you the only child or do you have a a family?

Atohi: Waya did he wake up yet?

Waya: yeah he just woken up why do you ask?

Atohi: WE NEED TO ASK HIM QUESTIONS SO WE CAN KNOW IF HE IS NOT A REBEL TRIBE YOU IDIOT!!! god you are a dumbasss at times you asks the stupidest questions any way papa wants to talk to you now go.

Waya: WHAT THE HELL I ask you a simple question but you scream at me? you know if you get that arrow out of your ass we could get along fine.

Atohi: YOU BETTER LEAVE BEFORE I KNOCK THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF YOU SMARTASS.

Waya: whatever.

Adrian: huh me and Adam never talk to each other like that. He whispered to himself.

Atohi: I'm sorry you had to see and hear all of that

Stranger now who are you and are you ok?

Adrian: so far I'm still in pain and a bit sore but I'll be ok and my name is Adrian Coronado what's yours?

Atohi: my name is Atohi it means woods in Cherokee, so are you in any tribes like the Comanche, Apache, Tonkawa , or Caddo?

Adrian: no not that I know of plus I don't even know if I'm in any tribe all I know is that my ancestors are mayans the tribe in Mexico I'm Hispanic.

Atohi: oh well you aren't a rebel tribe ok well can you remember what happened today?

Adrian: well I remember that this morning my brother and I were horseback riding till we were about to be robbed by bandits I managed to shoot three of them with my semiautomatic pistol than we rode as fast as our horse can go, than I told my brother to split up and the remaining bandits were following me trying to kill me but I was able to kill them first but then as I told my horse to stop he stopped to hard that I flew into a cactus. Than I saw your truck and called for help than I passed out.

Wait where's my horse Gold ?

Atohi: he's outside the tent but don't worry we fed him some carrots and gave him some water.

Adrian: thanks for that so where's your dad I mean when I was unconscious I heard a voice of a man in his late 50s early 60s?

Atohi: actually now that you mentioned my papa he is actually coming.

???: Atohi has the stranger awaken yet?

Atohi: yes papa he's awake but don't worry he's not in a rebel tribe although he did say that his ancestors are Mayans.

???: good thank you for keeping an eye on him go Inside to help your brother please I'll stay with him .

Adrian: uhh hi there I'm Adrian Coronado I just want to say that I'm in no tribe so far I'm still in some pain and a bit sore and I would really like to know your name.

???: hehe ah straight to the point I see well I understand my name is Chief Wohali meaning the eagle and Adrian it's a pleasure to meet you

Adrian: so Chief Wohali your young son tells me that your all Cherokee Native Americans is that correct?

Wohali: why yes we are from that tribe as a matter of fact we were about to have a powwow happening tonight are you interested in joining us ?

Adrian: well yes sure I've always wanted to see a Native American powwow and believe me after today I do not trust those white devils. But is it ok if I can make a call?

Wohali: well yes you can it's always best to let your people know that you're safe.

Atohi: PAPA!! COME QUICK !!

Wohali: I'm on my way Adrian stay here and close the teepee if they come to attack you your weapons are on the table behind you.

As chief Wohali runs to his children Adrian hides in the teepee with his guns drawn to the entrance and he also listens for any foot steps and voices.

- Chief Wohali's point of view.

Wohali: what's wrong Atohi ?

Atohi: there is a turquoise truck in the distance coming near us should we attack?

Wohali: no not yet my son maybe they are here to take the boy home unless they attack first we attack back.

As the truck comes to a stop three people stepped out one with blonde hair, one with brown, and one with black hair.

Wohali: hello there what brings you here to my land?

???: we know that you have a friend of ours is he harmed?

Atohi: no he isn't we found him stuck to a cactus and we tried to help him out best we can to heal him and bandage him up, may I ask why do you want him?

???: he is my brother please I just want him to come home.

In the teepee Adrian recognizes those voices and knew that it was Adam Martin and Chris

So he unloads his pistols puts them in his satchel, after he puts shirt back on as well as his boots and hat and steps out of the teepee with his belongings.

But he wanted to be cautious about revealing himself to fall for a trap so he then spots Waya and tries to whisper to him

Adrian: Waya come over really quick

The young boy quietly walks to Adrian.

Waya: your suppose to stay in the teepee What are you doing out here?

Adrian: look I know that I'm supposed to stay in the teepee but can you tell me who those guys are?

Waya: ok I'll help you but go back in the teepee and I'll be there shortly.

As Adrian makes his way back to the teepee Waya peeks out to see the three men talking to his papa and brother. Then he makes his way back to the teepee.

In the teepee Adrian sits on the bed to waiting for waya. Then Waya comes in and gives Adrian The information.

Waya: there is three men one with blonde hair and blue eyes another with brown hair and brown eyes and one with black hair and dark brown eyes.

Just then the two teens hear footsteps and as Waya begins to hide Adrian puts his hand in his satchel to grab his gun but it turns out that it Chief Wohali opens up the teepee.

Chief Wohali: Adrian there is someone who wants to see you.

Adam, Chris and Martin Walks up to the teepee and when they saw Adrian all bandaged up from his right side it disturbed the Kratt brothers while it made Adam tear up wanting to hug him more.

He walks up to his brother with his arms out, but Adrian puts his left hand up to tell him to back away a bit

Adrian: Adam it's great to see you again but not trying to be mean but I am still in pain so please.

Just wait a bit.

Adam: YOU DON'T KNOW HOW WORRIED I WAS!!!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!!!!!!

Adrian: look as soon as we split up I shot the bandits that were trying to kill me and when I told gold to stop he stopped to hard that he bucked me off and I landed on a cactus then when I grabbed on to golds reigns to pull me off the cactus broke and it fell on top of me, then Chief Wohali and his sons helped me and healed me.

Adam was still upset that Adrian was hurt but he was relieved that his little brother was not lying in a pool of blood filled with gunshot wounds dead.

Before Adam was helping Adrian to the back of the truck Chief Wohali wanted to talk to the young Brother for a minute.

Adrian: what is it that you want to talk about Chief?

Chief Wohali: during your comatose I saw that in your mind you were in a confrontation with a wolf right?

Adrian: yes that is right how did you know?

Chief Wohali: I was viewing your mind to check if your alive and then I saw the eyes of the wolf in your mind. By any chance do you know the tale of the wolf spirit?

Adrian: yes I do in fact before I got here I told my friends about that tale last night but why are you asking me?

Chief Wohali: for many years we have been allies with the Comanche tribe and when my grandfather was young he was told by his father that who ever has the wolf spirit that he is to be given a necklace that resembles the wolf, a bow with a bag of 100 Arrows and a wolf mask that our wood carvers made centuries ago.

As Chief Wohali brings the items Adrian and Adam saw the mask that it actually looked similar to a wolf's face and has more vibrant colors.

Adrian and Adam thanked Chief Wohali for everything while Adrian grabbed all of his belongings Adam helped his brother on to the back of the truck as they were leaving Adrian let out a loud whistle and it caused gold to follow him while the truck was moving back to the Coronado ranch.

At the ranch it was 8:00 pm Adrian, Chris, and Martin went inside the house while Adam puts gold in his stable, as Adrian went inside the house Jingfei, Aviva,Koki, and jimmy took one look at Adrian and were shocked about his condition.

Jingfei: Adrian what happened to you??

Adrian: long story short gold bucked me off a cactus and I'm still in pain I'll be in my room if you need me.

Adrian went to his room the first thing he did was unload his pistols cleans them and put them away, he took of his clothes and goes to bed

A minute later Adam came in and gave him some pain killers and water.

Adam: hey baby brother how are you doing?

Adrian: well I'm still in pain but so far its not getting worse

Adam: I wanted to give you some meds to help your pain, look I'm sorry that I yelled at you it's just I don't want you do go your the only family I have.

Adrian: I totally understand I feel the same for you, hey if you want tomorrow I can ask Martin and Chris to teach you how to use my creature power suit.

Adam: you don't have to do that I mean you earned it and it won't feel right to me.

Adrian: look it's alright plus with the way I am right now the pain can spike at anytime so tomorrow you can use it alright.

Adam: ok thank you baby brother I love you and good night get well soon.

Adrian: good night big brother I love you too.

Adrian and Adam hugged each other and Adam left the room.

Adrian took the painkillers and water and fell asleep.

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Supernatural - ‘Moriah’ Review

"Writers lie."

Holy wow. Pun intended.

Did they just make God the ultimate final season bad guy? Did they really? How meta is that?

Before I get into the heavy stuff, let's start with the funny. That explosion of harmful truth at the facial recognition company was classic comic Supernatural from beginning to end – from the stolen yogurt to the stapler queen to the President's deal with Crowley. After all of the recent grimdark, I most certainly did not expect such hilarity to ensue. "I'm Dean Winchester and I'm looking for the Devil's son. This badge is fake." Liar Liar on steroids.

And I totally did not expect Chuck to show up, even after the set-up of Castiel's prayer not that long ago. At first I thought this was a good thing, of course, because Chuck showing up is usually a good thing. Not this time.

Yes, we've been told over and over that Chuck is all about the storytelling. He's the one that writes paperback books in his underwear. It's funny (interesting, not funny ha-ha) how Dean, Sam and Castiel had pretty much had it with Chuck, all at the same time. Note their exasperated expressions as Chuck did everything he could to sell his new magical plot twist gun that could kill anything but would also kill the one who pulled the trigger. Everyone remember the Colt?

But what gave me chills was when they were all in the cemetery ("Swan Song," anyone?), Dean was standing over a kneeling Jack with that gun in his hand, and Chuck had this absorbed little grin on his face. As I said in the opener, holy wow. The Winchesters aren't real people to Chuck, after all. They're just characters in his favorite show. We sort of knew that, without really considering the implications. Archangel Michael told us that Chuck tosses worlds away like failed versions of a book, and he wasn't lying. How about that.

God is their showrunner. He has literally been playing with Dean and Sam their entire lives. They're chess pieces to him, and nothing more. Chuck actually offered to bring back Mary if Dean killed Jack, like, sacrifice your knight and pawn, I'll give you back your queen. When Dean refused to kill Jack and Sam (understandably) lost his temper and shot Chuck with the magic gun, that was it. His squirrels were fighting back. How dare they.

Story's over. Welcome to the End. That final scene as the darkness fell, the monsters rose from hell and the dead from their graves was set to the song, "God Was Never on Your Side." I thought this conflict over Jack would blast Dean and Castiel apart, with Sam in the middle, but instead, this episode ended with the three of them back to back to back, ready to fight off the dead together. So at least there's that.

With the last season approaching, I've been thinking lately that the perfect end for the series would be for Dean and Sam to knock on Mary's white door and join their parents in their special heaven (there'll be peace when you are done). But is Heaven even a thing any more? Will it still exist when the series ends?

If this world of Supernatural isn't what we've been led to believe, what about the Empty? That last shot of Jack was with Billie and the Black Cloud of Lucifer (was that Lucifer?) who made the creepiest smiley face at Jack. Does Billie have the answer to all of this? We've been told that Death can reap God. Can she?

Bits:

— Title musings and various names: "Moriah" is the place where Abraham was supposed to sacrifice Isaac, like Dean was supposed to sacrifice Jack. That cemetery looked a lot like the apocalyptic season five finale. Chuck wanted to name the gun Hammurabi, or The Equalizer. And Amara is in Reno playing Keno.

— Mirror Universe, the name of the facial recognition software company, was just about perfect: a reminder of all of Chuck's discarded universes, as well as all of the alternate universe characters we've been meeting these days.

— Note that Jack was never a threat to Chuck. Jack also didn't kill his grandmother.

— Castiel was thinking that Lucifer's cage might contain Jack. That's actually a pretty good solution.

— Yet another mention of souls. Why is Chuck powerless to change or restore them? Must be important.

— Poor Celine Dion. She's the punchline of a joke, much like Barry Manilow.

— I loved how Chuck critiqued season seven with the Leviathans and season twelve with the British Men of Letters.

— "God Was Never on Your Side" is by Motorhead. Last week, Dean, Sam and Castiel were agents Kilmister, Clarke and Taylor.

— The reference to Crowley and the universe of squirrels reminded me of Moose and Squirrel. Is Crowley in the Empty, too?

— Rob Benedict's credit was at the end. Gold acting stars for Mr. Benedict, by the way. Or possibly "God acting stars." Playing God isn't exactly easy, especially when he's become such a complicated character.

Quotes, the Mostly Chuck edition:

Dean: "Nerds." Sam: "Takes one to know one." Dean: "What?" Sam: "You. Come on, man. You're always calling me a geek, but you know every word to every Led Zeppelin song backwards and forwards, you can discuss in detail every major rock drummer between '67 and '84 and… you watch Jeopardy every night." Dean: "Yeah, okay. But I'm nothing like this gaggle of Zuckerbergs."

Dean: "I'm Dean Winchester and I'm looking for the Devil's son. This badge is fake." That made me laugh like a loon.

Female newscaster: "In what was supposed to be a speech on farming subsidies, the president instead spent more than two hours disclosing his entire tax history, his deep ties to Russia and North Korea, and the, quote, demon deal he made with someone called Crowley. Back to you, Chet. Chet?" Male newscaster: (looks directly at her) "I love you. I have always loved you."

Dean: "When people can't lie, the internet gets real quiet."

Chuck: "I'm a writer. Lying's kind of what we do."

Dean: (to Chuck) "Where the hell have you been?" Dean may be the only person I can think of who can look God in the eye and say something like that.

Chuck: "So! How's things? Okay, look, I get it. I'm the deus from the machina, and you have questions."

Sam: "Where have you been?" Chuck: "It's hard to explain. Everywhere and nowhere. Edge of the universe and beyond. And I saw Springsteen on Broadway. Man's a genius."

Newcaster: "… and it's been confirmed: the Queen of England is, in fact, a lizard." What episode is that from? I can't remember!

Chuck: "Look, the point is, the kid did all that with two words. What's next? He sneezes, and whoops, there goes India?"

Chuck: "Ugh. Billie. I liked the old Death better. He was all about fried pickles and tickle porn. This new Death, she's always sticking her scythe where it doesn't belong." Echoing the fans again.

Sam: "So how many are there? How many other worlds or universes or realities, or whatever?" Chuck: "I don't know. Kinda lost count. Most of them are boring, one's in reverse, in one there's no yellow, one of them's just all squirrels." I'm thinking a world without shrimp.

Sam: "Do you watch us? When you're not here, are you watching us?" Chuck: "Yeah. (Sam gasps) I mean, you're my favorite show."

I could write a few more pages about this episode, but I think I'm done for now. And I am totally impressed. Four out of four squirrels, and what did you guys think?

Billie Doux has been reviewing Supernatural for so long that Dean and Sam Winchester feel like old friends. Courageous, adventurous, gorgeous old friends.

#Supernatural #Dean Winchester #Sam Winchester #Castiel #Chuck Shurley #SPN #Supernatural Reviews #Doux Reviews #TV Reviews

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Did you know any real-life cowgirls out west?

YOU BET I DID! And they were just as great as the dime novels said they’d be.

The ones I knew best were Maggie Randall, the ranch owner’s daughter, and her best pal, Florence Hurtado. (Don’t even THINK about callin’ her Flo!) Maggie’s a little older than me, and Florence is my age, but she got married when she was seventeen, so by the time I met her she’d been married for two years already. I asked her for lots o’ advice about Sarah, ‘cause back then I didn’t know what I was doin’, and Florence had her life together real well. (Gettin’ married meant her last name changed from Griego, which means Greek (which is great an’ all, but I didn’t see any chimeras or Trojans in Santa Fe) to Hurtado, which she said means TO ROB OR STEAL. Can ya blame her for wantin’ to take that name as quick as possible?! Talk about a dime-novel handle!)

But just ‘cause Florence was married don’t mean she hung up her spurs to cook and clean all the time. Heck, no! Her husband, Jerónimo(ISN’T THAT ANOTHER GREAT NAME?!?! And it’s his birth name, too. Some folks got all the luck.) is the foreman o’ his pop’s ranch, and even though Florence makes a mean carne guisada, she’s just as likely to saddle up an’ ride out after stray calves or break a new colt. (One o’ the best Sundays I ever had was when Florence faced off against Maggie’s cousin Flash, who’s a rodeo cowboy, to see who could ride broncs the best. And guess who won? OUR GIRL FLORENCE, THAT’S WHO!!! Even Flash had to admit it–and makin’ Flash Randall admit defeat ain’t an easy task, even when everyone else sees it real plain.) In fact, Florence said one o’ the conditions o’ marryin’ Jerónimowas that he wouldn’t stop her from doin’ whatever she wanted to do. She’d grown up helpin’ her thirteen brothers (YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT! THIRTEEN!) with all sides o’ the ranch, she said, an’ she wasn’t about to stop just ‘cause of a ring on her hand. (Florence was real big on talkin’ things out before marriage.)

Maggie, on the other hand, doesn’t have any brothers or sisters, so she grew up with a bunch o’ cowboys. So she don’t got a problem holdin’ her own–she’ll give ya what-for if ya do somethin’ dumb. (I got what-for a lot, but she helped me out a lot, too. Sometimes girls are better teachers than boys are–’specially when every guy out there can’t imagine bein’ born without a gun in his hand and a bronc underneath him. Maggie’s who taught me to shoot a pistol so I could take care o’ rattlesnakes.) She’s nice, though, when she ain’t throwin’ punches–which is also true about Sarah, and’s prob’ly why they were such great pals when we went out west for our honeymoon. Puttin’ up with dumb boys gives girls lots to talk about, prob’ly–an’ also Maggie gave her a pattern for a split skirt, which Sarah thinks is a real good invention, and they had lots o’ fun explorin’ the ranch while I tracked down an’ caught up with every single horse that’d been in my string.

Maggie ain’t married, an’ she ain’t sure she wants to be–right now she’s in line to inherit her pop’s ranch, an’ that’s the height o’ fame and fortune. (Also, if ya get married, you’ll prob’ly have kids, an’ there comes a point when some ladies get too big to get in an’ out o’ the saddle. Florence told me it happened to her too, although only when it turned out she was gonna have twins–with her most recent kid, she was able to keep ridin’ right up to the mornin’ she was born. Florence ain’t easy to hold back.) So that’s an important thing for a girl to consider.

But maybe you’re wonderin’ about all the romance that shows up in dime novels, an’ if it’s possible to mix characters like a smart, capable, beautiful rancher’s daughter (Maggie) an’ a charmin’, darin’, handsome stranger (me) without sparks flyin’ just like they do in books. So I’ll tell ya: yeah, it is. ‘Cause all Maggie an’ I ever were is pals.

I meant to tell ya this story a long time ago, but I think I forgot, so I’ll tell ya now. When I was gettin’ ready to leave for Santa Fe, me and Sarah knew there was somethin’ between us–we even knew we loved each other. But I didn’t know what’d happen after I got out west, and Sarah didn’t know what would happen in New York, and one mornin’ while we were takin’ down the laundry on the roof, Sarah asked if I’d rather be free to court somebody out west.

And when she asked that, I thought she was sayin’ she might rather be free to find a new, better guy in New York.

That was a real hard conversation for both o’ us. (We coulda used Florence’s help, that’s for sure.) ‘Cause we both loved each other real well, but sometimes lovin’ somebody means lettin’ ’em move on to better things, and we both were afraid it meant maybe not us.

But I didn’t want nobody other than Sarah, and there’s nobody better, and we ended up agreein’ to stay together with the condition that if later on either one o’ us decided we wanted to take a break, we had to say so. But that didn’t happen. Santa Fe made me even more sure I wanted to marry Sarah, and Maggie always just treated me like a kid brother. And even though Sarah coulda found someone a lot better than I was, or am, she didn’t want to. And I sure ain’t complainin’ about that.

So, that’s the story o’ my two favorite cowgirls, but all the women out there were amazin’. Maggie’s ma, who was born in Texas back before the Civil War and knew all sorts o’ stories about cattle drives, once shot a mad wolf who was tryin’ to get in the cabin while her pop was away. She was ten years old when she did that. And her ma, who came from the same part o’ Ireland as Pop’s folks did, went completely blind after catchin’ a fever, but still managed to cook and sew and manage a ranch just as good as if she’d been able to see. (Hoosegow’s a good enough cook for us boys, but it weren’t a real party unless Margaret McClintock was cookin’.) And all the ranch women were like that–all worthy o’ their own dime novels, ‘cause ya can’t survive out there if ya ain’t.

But just in case ya don’t live out west an’ are givin’ up hope o’ ever seein’ a real live cowgirl, don’t! ‘Cause ANNIE OAKLEY came right here to New York, and she’ll show ya the talent, beauty, an’ brains o’ Western cowgirls from the comfort an’ convenience o’ your own home state.

(But, I mean, if you get the chance to go out west, do that too. Annie’s great, but she can’t bring mountain air an’ desert sand with her.)

#Jack Kelly #Santa Fe Stories #4DR Maggie #4DR Florence #Flash #asked and answered

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la-anarchy · 6 years

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fuck my life this took forever

1: Name - Luis. yall aint getting the rest lmao

11: What do I miss - i miss being down south

12: What time were I born - im not sure

13: Favorite color - purple

14: Do I have a crush - you could say that

15: Favorite quote - i have a lot but “ Its a blessing fora man to have a hand in determining his own fate” & "Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you."

16: Favorite place - i love being by the water at sunset or sun rise everything is mostly still, all the colors fill he sky and its just beautiful

17: Favorite food - Chinese food or BBQ

18: Do I use sarcasm - all the damn time

19: What am I listening to right now - the sound of my bedroom fan and the distant turbine of a passenger jet

21: Shoe size - 10.5 / 11 depending brand

31: How I feel right now - eh im okay i guess kinda hungry kinda horny but

41: Have I ever kissed the last person you texted? - no but id freakn like to haha

51: How often do I wear a fake smile? - prob a lot more than i should lol

61: What was the last lie I told? - “im doing pretty good too thanks”

71: Do I spend money or save it? - as of late spend for sure and i hate myself for it lol

81: My top 5 blogs on tumblr - ohhhhhh thats not fair all the blogs i follow i love

91: Kissed a boy? - i mean i kiss my dad on the cheek sometimes does that count ?

100: Did drugs? - yea

101: Smoked cigarettes? - yea

102: Drank alcohol? - lmao is this real life

103: Am I a vegetarian/vegan? - fuck that shit

104: Been overweight? - still am lmao

105: Been underweight? - yea when i was born lmao

106: Been to a wedding? - a few

107: Been on the computer for 5 hours straight? - ........maybe

108: Watched TV for 5 hours straight? - do movies count ?

109: Been outside my home country? - yea

110: Gotten my heart broken? - more times than i would care to admit

111: Been to a professional sports game? - a few

112: Broken a bone? - yurp

113: Cut myself? - i have

114: Been to prom? - 4 times lol

115: Been in airplane? - yea

116: Fly by helicopter? - yea

117: What concerts have I been to? - ive seen Colt ford, Kid rock, FLGAL, Kane Brown, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, Justin Moore, Jason Aldean, A thousand horses, LMFAO, Tyga, Chris Brown, DropKick Murphys, Cole Swindell, Scotty Mccreery, Smithfield, Korn, Rob Zombie, Granger Smith, im prob missing a few

118: Had a crush on someone of the same sex? - nope

119: Learned another language? - eh tried

120: Wore make up? - yea i used to work for a haunted house ! best job ever

121: Lost my virginity before I was 18? - yea

122: Had oral sex? - its been a while but yea

123: Dyed my hair? - i was young and dumb

124: Voted in a presidential election? - yea

125: Rode in an ambulance? - yea

126: Had a surgery? - nope

127: Met someone famous? - yup

128: Stalked someone on a social network? - hahahahah

129: Peed outside? - all the time lol

130: Been fishing? - ohhh yea

131: Helped with charity? - i have

132: Been rejected by a crush? - hahah yea

133: Broken a mirror? - yea

134: What do I want for birthday? - idk really i never ask for anything

135: How many kids do I want and what will be their names? - id like 2 or three and ive always like the names Lyla, Jamison, Camron, Blare, Alexis, ect..

136: Was I named after anyone? - my grandfather though im a “III” me, my dad, and grandfather have the same name lol

137: Do I like my handwriting? - sometimes

138: What was my favourite toy as a child? - anything guns and or power rangers

139: Favourite Tv Show? - right now i dont watch too much TV but i love NCIS, The Ranch , King of the hill, Family guy, Shooter, Animal Kingdom, The office

140: Where do I want to live when older? to be honest ill prob end up where i am now but i do wanna travel and live down south or out west for a bit

141: Play any musical instrument? - i plaid the trumpet and am trying to learn guitar

142: One of my scars, how did I get it? skateboarding

143: Favourite pizza toping? chicken bacon ranch, buffalo chicken , supreme, veggie 144: Am I afraid of the dark? - na

145: Am I afraid of heights? ehhhhhh sometimes

146: Have I ever got caught sneaking out or doing anything bad? - hahhah maybe

147: Have I ever tried my hardest and then gotten disappointed in the end? - yurp

148: What I’m really bad at - math lol

149: What my greatest achievements are - Becoming Marine

150: The meanest thing somebody has ever said to me - i dont wanna bring it up sorry

151: What I’d do if I won in a lottery - pay for my lil sis’s college and grad school, buy a house for myself and one for my mom, invest, go on vacation lol

152: What do I like about myself - i try to make people laugh all the time/ im always there for people

153: My closest Tumblr friend - ummmmmmm thats a tough one

154: Something I fantasise about - a lot of things prob more than i should but oh well

155: Any question you’d like? - idk bruh

@pagesofpaiigess damn you and your questions lmao but here ya go lmao

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Carson Wentz Surprises Eagles Superfan Giovanni Hamilton During Zoom Call PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia Eagles superfan Giovanni Hamilton got quite the surprise during a Zoom call Thursday. His favorite player, former Birds quarterback Carson Wentz, popped up on the call Giovanni was having with Wentz’s AO1 Foundation. hey guys carson and the guys over at the @AO1Foundation got me so good yesterday. i had no idea carson was gonna pop on the zoom until he did. READ MORE: 3 Injured After Elderly Woman Crashes Car Through Flaherty Shoes Store In Bucks County this phone call meant everything to me guys and i can’t thank u enough for calling me to talk before my PT💚 pic.twitter.com/ig3VkHHUVB — Giovanni the Philly Sports Podcaster (@realsjsgiovanni) February 25, 2021 “I had no idea Carson was gonna pop on the Zoom until he did,” Giovanni tweeted. “This phone call meant everything to me guys and I can’t thank you enough for calling me to talk before my PT.” Giovanni revealed the new Colts QB is going to bring him out to Indianapolis for a game. He also said he’s going to keep the rest of the conversation he had with Wentz private because “it is really special to me.” hey guys i know every body wants to see more but im going to keep the rest of the video for just for me, it is really special to me. Carson said he’s gonna bring me out to Indy for a game and i will get some pics then to share and his kids camp too💚 — Giovanni the Philly Sports Podcaster (@realsjsgiovanni) February 25, 2021 READ MORE: Philadelphia Police Searching For Three People Believed To Be Involved In Mass Shooting That Wounded 8 Giovanni, who has a genetic disorder and has undergone many surgeries, first met Wentz in July 2019 during Eagles’ training camp. After Wentz was traded to the Colts, Giovanni posted a tearful goodbye to his hero. just woke up and heard the news i love u @cj_wentz always ur fan brother 💚 pic.twitter.com/w01Fy7EBYg — Giovanni the Philly Sports Podcaster (@realsjsgiovanni) February 18, 2021 MORE NEWS: Philadelphia Man, James Chandler, Charged With Robbing Postal Workers, Kidnapping “You’re still my hero, you always will be,” Giovanni said in a video on Twitter. “Colts fans, you really have a real one.” Source link Orbem News #call #Carson #carsonwentz #Eagles #Giovanni #giovannihamilton #Hamilton #philadelphiaeagles #Superfan #surprises #Wentz #Zoom

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J2 ChiCon 2017 Main Panel

*Reminder: if possible, watch the panel videos for full context/info.

Boys make their entrance and do their jump onstage.

The dick tweet from last night is brought up. Rich, Rob, and Jensen are all teasing Jared lol. Someone in the crowd yells, “Size doesn’t matter!” Jared: Yes it does! Jensen to the fan: That’s just what people say who don’t have it.

Jared: I got my phone stolen last night. Well, it wasn’t stolen, I gave it away like an idiot. Jensen: After you tweeted something very personal. Jared laughs and jokes: Oh crap, I hit send here hold this! Everyone cracks up. Video

Fan sneezes. Jared: Chuck bless you.

ChiCon is special since it was the first convention that started it all. Jared: It’s where we started realizing what this family is.

Fan: You’re the Power Rangers. Jensen: Wrong show. That’s down the hall.

Jared: I’ve watched more Power Rangers in the last 2 months than my whole life. Jensen: Why? Jared: ‘Cause Tom and Shep... Jensen: They don’t watch. You MADE your kids watch that.

Jared: Never had anyone yell “You’re Power Rangers” at me. Jensen: Why would you? Jared: They just did! Jensen: THEY ARE IN THE WRONG HALL.

Jared to a fan: What are you wearing? Fan: It’s a blanket. Jensen: It’s a serape.

Fan: Most difficult thing about raising twins? Jensen: Our four-year-old. The twins aren’t moving yet. Jared (behind Jensen) freezes like he’s not moving with his arms in the air lol.

Jensen to Jared: I can see you on the screen! Ain’t my first rodeo.

Another tweet: Jared imitating the twins not moving. Jared: Oh you can see me on the screen? Jensen: Yeah I can! *busts out laughing*

Jared: Someday JJ is gonna see these videos and be like “Hey!” Boys are cracking up.

Jared: What if in 15 years kids see these videos and are like WHAT DO YOU MEAN I WAS THE DIFFICULT ONE?!

Jensen says Bram is a mini him and Arrow is a mini D.

Jared says favorite brotherly moment to film was the end of Sacrifice.

Likes “I got your back” episodes. Jared will always be proud of defining brother moments.

Jensen: When we took the pickaxes to the wall at the end of last season. It was a cool moment for the brothers and me and Jared when we broke through the wall at the end of s12. Fun for them.

Jared: It was a poignant moment, the brothers talking about their legacy and it could have been me and Jensen [talking about themselves] on SPN.

Jensen: Because we’ve lived with these characters for so damn long, it’s hard to tell us apart sometimes.

Jensen: In Baby arguing about the burrito wasn’t scripted, that was me and Jared alone in the car.

Fan apologizes for how she’s asking her question because of her anxiety. Jensen: You’re doing great so far.

Jensen: People don’t usually try to prank us out of fear of retaliation. The hell we will rain down on them.

The only person who never feared pranking them was Kim Manners. He did things like dump freezing water on them in that manhole in s2. Crew came up to them with elaborate excuses about why they needed to take J2′s phones before that because they knew what was coming.

Lots of teasing happening (lots of references to the dick tweet lol).

They were talking about sit-ups and push-ups in scripts, etc. Jared: I have a pretty long torso- Jensen: So that’s where that length went.

Jared changed it to Sam doing pull-ups not sit-ups. Jensen: So you’d look all elongated *rimshot*

Jared teases back: In all the Days of My Life- Jensen: I was a child! Not a man responsible for my actions!

Jensen chooses middle of the road success and win an Oscar when he’s 50 lol. Jared teases him about his age: Gonna win an Oscar last year?? *mic drop*

Cutest things kids have done? Jensen: Exist.

Jared about Odette: “My girl is perfect.”

Tells a story about Tom and how he picked up a habit of saying, “That’s what I’m talking about” from someone at school and it cracks Jared up.

Jared talks about how Shep looks up to Tom so much.

Jared: Tom, what was your favorite thing today? Tom: Walking in the park with you. Shep: Me too! Jared: You were home napping lol.

Jared to fan, clarifying info she’d mentioned: You have one kid? Her: just one. Jared: That you know of!!

Fan asks about their favorite monster to kill. Jared says the one he ended up marrying lol. Talks about how that will be awkward with the kids in a few years: “Why is Uncle Jensen holding mommy while you stabbed her??”

Jared talks about killing Death. Jensen. I did not like killing Death. Jared: Cause he’s awesome. Jensen: Well yes, he is awesome, but, those types of scenes are technically difficult to shoot. Jensen likes to kill monsters with guns ‘cause it’s easy.

Jared is sitting backwards on his chair with one of his legs hoisted up, showing off his flexibility lol. Jensen talks about how Jared sits like that at a nice restaurant, will use his knee as his plate :P

A fan starts to ask the question: How different are you in real life to your characters? There’s a pause and then she adds: Musically? Jared: Wait, what? Jensen: Answer the question in song. Jensen sings a bit. Jared jokes about being thrown off by the pause in the question lol.

Jensen: What’s your favorite Bieber song right now? Jared: All of ‘em.

There’s a song Jared has been listening to a lot lately that reminds him of Gen but is having a hard time remembering the name. Thinks the band’s name is Skyline. (Possibly the Austin-based band Skyline x).

Jensen: Dean likes classic rock. Nothing else is playing in his ears. Jensen loves classic rock, some country, some hard rock, a little bit of everything. Whatever he’s in the mood for.

Fan says her sister is obsessed with Jared. Jared: She’s awesome! Fan’s question is for Jensen though lol.

What advice would Jensen give Beyonce about twins? Jensen: B, let me talk at you real quick...Jared: What advice did you give her? Jensen: Let me check my texts lol. Jensen says to sleep when you can, mentions that duct tape is handy because it can fix anything, including your children lol. Jensen’s advice for Jay-Z would be to ask B: “What can I do for you?”

Jared starts quoting lyrics from Destiny’s Child’s song Bills, Bills, Bills: pay my bills, pay my automobills, maybe we could chill.

Favorite pie? J2 are arguing over the pronunciation of “pecan” lol. Jensen says Dean likes sweet cherry pie ;) Jensen’s favorite is banana cream.

Jared’s favorite is pecan. Say Sam has a favorite and starts reciting Pi off the top of his head.

Pet peeves about each other? Jared: I don’t waste gum!

Jensen goes off lol. Talks about how “we hang out with each other a lot” and when Jared will come to his trailer every time he’ll take his gum and put it on Jensen’s counter and walk to his fridge to get a drink. Then when he’s done, he picks it up and puts it back in his mouth. Jared: I don’t wanna waste gum! Jensen used to call him out on putting gum on surfaces that aren’t the trashcan. Jared: The gum’s still good! Jensen: There’s no excuse!..Drink your drink with your gum in your mouth. The crowd says eww. Jensen: Oh, that’s ew?!

Jensen talks about how whenever he and Jared go out to a restaurant, bar, etc, there will be either paper coasters or napkins and Jensen watches in amazement because while Jared is talking Jared, without noticing, has ripped the coaster and/or napkin into little tiny balls and had made a pile and eventually pushes it onto the ground. Jared: Multitasking. Jensen: What is that, though? Jared is just smiling.

Last question: Fan starts talking to Jared, turns, sees Jensen on the other side. “Oh, hi!” Jensen: I’ve literally been here the whole time lol.

Four things the colt can’t kill? Lucifer, God, Amara, and the Winchester Brothers. Jared: Wouldn’t that be cool?

This video from the last question shows Jared looking up in the air while standing next to the fan because he felt water on his arm. Jensen notices and without Jared saying anything he tells Jared that the fan is flicking water from her cup (because she was gesturing around in excitement lol) and Jared collapses laughing on one knee saying, “Oh, God!” Jensen: “Jared thought it was raining”- Jared: I was like, what is going on here?!

J2 share their traditional fist bump and thank the fans <3

Info via: Fangasm, Cherie, Carry On, Kristin, Adina, iwinsoiwin, Becky, Christina, Sil’s livetweet list, Audio

#j2 #jared padalecki #jensen ackles #chicon #spnchi #panel sum #long post #shpost

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The Den Fantasy League Weekly Recap: Playoffs Round 2

Fellas,

What a turn of events. We now have two teams who are on the lower-side of seeding getting to the championship game. How did we get here?

Mixon It Up v. Wilmore Cinderella

I thought it was our year, Rob. In this battle of two teams who had their ups and (definitely) downs this year, we saw a real-life version of the ever-popular Paul Rudd gif: How did we get here? Rob, whose team seemed to plummet midway through the season, found himself in the semi-finals with a lot of hope a very little confidence. We know Rob’s at his lowest point of confidence when he throws out outrageous bets. A desperate man, indeed. To put it plainly, Rob got embarrassed on the field, nearly losing by 50 points. However, you can’t really blame him. Even though JP had an incredible week, Rob struggled. Only having three players in double figures, two of those actually had good games (Mixon and Higbee). Other than that, a sad effort. Yet, as previously mentioned, JP’s team was a force to be reckoned with. A team, who at the beginning of the year didn’t provide a lot of confidence, turned it on at the right time. JP’s success was attributed to some key players:

The ever-faithful Thomas

His beloved James White

Carson (rough trade, Gabe)

Finally, the rollercoaster known as Jameis Winston

JP’s squad is firing on all cylinders and now he goes into the final game looking to keep the champions into a very prestigious club. Now the question is: who would he play?

Team Timshel v. Debbie Rowe

Only one word can accurately portray my thoughts of last night’s game: heartbreak. I think we all thought Jake would be the team to beat. I, for one, was very serious when I picked Jake to win it all during the regular season. However, the poor kid just hit bad week when it mattered most. As a friend, it was tough to see Jake’s soul depart from his writhing body. There was hope that he could hold out but soon that glimmer of hope disappeared with a deflating touchdown on the Colts’ last drive. Unfortunately for Jake, the celebration of Brees left his defense and Doyle sitting on the bench, unable to get meaningful touches. Jake actually had a good week overall, but Mike’s week was better. Coming out of nowhere, Mike found his way into the semis. He’s consistent and it finally paid off. Mike’s regular crowd of Gurley, Kenan, and Andrews continued their success. However, a few standouts really propelled him to victory.

Mike found glory in a connection between Tannehill and AJ Brown. The two Titans combined for 41.56 points on the weekend, continuing their surge as of late. However, the real backbreaker for Jake was Buff D. Jake, a notorious Steelers hater, was brought down in more ways than one when they fell apart down the stretch. Duck threw two of his own kind for late interceptions that added to the Buffalo D’s 19 points. Mike’s best week came at the right time.

Championship Preview

Wilmore Cinderella v. Team Timshel Mike has overcome plenty of odds as of late and this will have to be his best effort to date. Can he continue to see incredible returns on his Titans? Can the rest of his cast step up at the most crucial point of the season? Only time will tell but JP’s time is looking invincible right now. Not only is his team firing on all cylinders but he’s got a new acquisition that could alter the outcome of the weekend. Let me be the first to congratulate JP and his bride on the birth of their daughter, Avery Polson. JP now has dad strength and for that, it may seem impossible for him to lose.

Predictions

E: JP

Gabe: JP, lock of the century

Jake: JP, dad strength 116-98

Robbie: JP

Vinny: JP

Dylan: It’s Mike’s year

Scott: Mike. Eff JP.

Cabana Boy: Cinderella gonna complete his story

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atomic monsters

SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT AND TW FOR DISCUSSION OF CONSENT ISSUES / ASSISTED SUICIDE

so I managed to avoid all social media for the past 24 hours and then my fucking google news feed spoiled me thanks to fucking TV guide which PROUDLY PROCLAIMED "on the return of becky and sam's death!!!!" in its goddamn headline so fuck that, I guess I am going into this knowing the plot sort of, thanks! thanks assholes, thanks so much

also I'm not actually happy to see Becky because the last time we saw her she drugged Sam and tried to rape him so fuck off

oh we're off to a good start with gunfire in the bunker

I did see a clip of Jensen doing the choreography for some of this and it was very impressive, he directed this one, yeah?

dean looks good with the scarf/bandana thing going

benny? :V hi benny

we bring everyone back just to kill them

I'm glad ty olsson got paid. it's good to see his face again even if it's only briefly

he has demon-killing bullets but it's not the colt, maybe I missed something?

oh poor sam :( these nightmares are not fun, please just rest

I'm so here for whatever dark timeline bullshit is happening though lmao even if it's a bit of a gimmick it's intense and I like how Jared does this justice

"after sioux falls" immediately had me like OH NO

seeing sam wake up in a panic has me glad I already had plans to write more sastiel hurt/comfort

prayer circle for sam to be free of nightmares like, once

I feel like if I were Jensen and I were directing this, I would also set up a scene where I got to eat a piece of perfectly crunchy bacon as often as it was required

"the meat man" jesus christ

sarah mclachlan isn't even a vegetarian anymore, dean

I'm 1000000% not cool with dean controlling what sam is or is not allowed to eat or even have in the bunker

sam's barely left his room :(

"look man i get it, with jack, and rowena" don't say cas' fucking name, you're not allowed to have his name in your fucking mouth anymore, dean. actually don't say jack's either, the last time you saw him you wanted to execute him so fuck you.

sam's mug is really cute

the sheriff urged citizens to "travel in packs" so I'm like where are werewolves in this episode

I don't like how he hit him, sam like. flinched.

I had to actually pause the show from sam flinching that hard, and this is not unintentionally like these are extremely talented professional actors, this is deliberate and OOF

"that's real bacon, dean" "you're damn right it is."

oh that's fucking foul. glad I put a warning for consent issues right at the top! what the fuck. what a fucking asshole.

I said to my partner that dean should go to hell and he said "again? he didn't learn enough last time" and I'm like "yeah. he should go back. check back in, I hear they have a lot of vacancies" "they check into hell like it's fucking rehab" except it just makes dean worse but then somehow the show never brings up alistair? I was glad belphegor referenced that at least

I'm glad sam stood up for the deceased

"if he doesn't get in it'll be the end of the world!" "uh no, the END OF THE WORLD is the end of the world" thank you.

oh boy it's becky.

is becky... luring sam winchester to her house???? while her husband is out with the kids?????

oh there's chuck.

hm. feel a bit bad for assuming the worst of becky but given her track history idk

I'm glad vice principal bailey called dean out on the fucking fetish comment

I do like becky here as a creator in her own right. she's made her own world

okay glad too that we acknowledge what she did to sam was fucking hideous beyond words

I am here for them sitting around and doing laundry and talking.

I see a funko pop in the background, incredibly cursed

turning a profit / turning a "prophet" ha ha

chuck's really still going hard on the leviathan plotline lmao

"three AU fic deadlines breathing down my neck" bless

I do love rob benedict "they're just like TEETH FACE!"

"You don't need me. No one does." thanks god, I agree

this does make me want to write

I like that the guy in the mascot fursuit is named Toby and I feel like there's an opportunity for dean to also put on a mascot outfit

"it's like a piece of my heart is gone" is she literally like... using her heart in a spell or something? she keeps saying this line and we thought the other girl was not genuine but maybe she was right, this girl's full of shit and is just saying that

it's been years and i still don't like understand what lacrosse is so I have looked it up at long last and

**The game was said to be played "for the Creator" or was referred to as "The Creator's Game."**

that's especially interesting in a chuck-related context

ghost orchid, very specific

there's also the "holy ghost orchid"?

this is just a little too well scripted

she has braces. hm. saved by orthodontia.

oh this lady's a wine mom, thank god.

WOW THAT IS A LOT OF BLOOD

lmao is this the same garage set they used in the season premiere but with slightly different shelving

I like the handmade crowley and cas here

writing's writing, damn fucking right that fic is writing

god is he using her computer, mannnnn leave her laptop alone

I have this cas plush right me as I'm watching this because i'm sad about him lmao and he's SO CUTE I'm gonna get the sam and dean to go with my cas and crowley

these maquettes are pretty impressive, I like the website they made too

sam and dean showed up in plainclothes/hunter clothes to confront this guy so they know he knows they know

god, thank god for sam trying to actually "save the people" instead of the focus on "hunt the things"

oh i see so becky's feedback leads to chuck deciding to up the ante and kill sam? hm.

chuck tortures his OCs

:( this situation sucks, when they said there was no resistance i was kind of worried about something like this

bury them under the peonies. I think peonies like bone meal/blood meal, don't they

mmmmmmmm asking dean about if he has kids I'm still like do not fucking speak about jack, dean, you don't deserve it, don't even think about him

he sure did reintroduce some classic rock elements, I'm pretty stoked for jensen's album honestly

I'm like... not actually cool with this? I guess if that's really what he wanted then fine I GUESS, I'm not opposed to assisted suicide in theory but especially after seeing Benny earlier in this episode is this really the only way out?

hmmmmmmm. god sure is arrogant.

I'm glad to see emily perkins get like some serious range with the character

I've been pretty bad at predicting this episode lmao I guess davy perez got me

"we would've done the same for jack" says sam "yeah we would" says dean, with absolutely no right to say that

"dean... I still think about jessica, i can't just let that go" god sam sweetheart I'm so fucking sorry

I think becky even noted that chuck "didn't even mention castiel" and indeed

:( sam.

so I guess he didn't die in this one? wtf TV Guide you gave me weird expectations for this episode

chuck sitting surrounded by his own characters' soulless funko bobbleheads sure is thematically heavy

well i guess that's it for this one

#s15e4

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Tom Brady and the Cinderella Patriots are the underdog story the NFL needs

The Patriots are riding a wave of disrespect(?) into the AFC Championship Game.

The New England Patriots, America’s beloved underdogs, know you don’t believe in them. But a young upstart named Tom Brady is ready to change all that.

This. pic.twitter.com/9xosabF1V6

— New England Patriots (@Patriots) January 14, 2019

“I know everyone thinks we suck and, you know, can’t win any games,” Brady told CBS’s Tracy Wolfson after pushing his 11-win team to a home victory over a 13-win Chargers squad. “So we’ll see [about next week’s showdown against the top-seeded Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC title game]. It’ll be fun.”

Brady was beaming in the moment. He’d shaken off the ignominy of merely being named a Pro Bowl quarterback in 2018 and turned the narrative he slowed down this fall onto its ear with a 343-yard, one-touchdown performance in a rout over Los Angeles. The fans in New England responded in kind, rising up to sing the ultimate underdog anthem, led by a regular kid from New Jersey, as the sun began to wane in the second half.

LIVIN' ON A PRAYER Stadium sing-along with @jonbonjovi#LACvsNE | @GilletteStadium pic.twitter.com/MMYKDWfiZj

— New England Patriots (@Patriots) January 13, 2019

That crowd motivation was the boost that turned a 41-14 Patriots third quarter lead into a 41-28 victory. And now this cast of lovable underdogs is just one win away from its first Super Bowl trip since 2018.

The shade is real, but New England isn’t listening

The Pro Bowl quarterback wasn’t the only Patriot to bathe in the worldwide disrespect that drenched a game in which New England was favored by more than a field goal — the 69th straight Brady start in which the Pats were the favorites.

“We’re still here, we’re still going,” wide receiver Phillip Dorsett, once cast away by the Indianapolis Colts but now a member of New England’s rag tag receiving corps. “We know it’s going to be a challenge next week so we have got to get in and have the same focus we had this week on the game plan and all the details.”

“We were going to prepare and be ready to go, whether you pick us or you don’t pick us,” safety Devin McCourty said. “But, we see it. We see our quarterback’s too old, we’re not good enough on defense, the skill players aren’t good. We see it, but it doesn’t affect how we prepare. We love practicing and we love playing with each other, preparing.”

This buzz permeated through the New England locker room as the Patriots’ opening -5 line slid all the way down to -4 as the Chargers prepared for their trip to Foxborough, stretching from the team’s stars to its role players.

“You do hear things like that,” Rob Gronkowski, the tight end whose inability to play a convincing safety helped push Sunday’s AFC title game to Kansas City said. “But you’ve got to ignore it in a way where it doesn’t ruin your preparation, ruin what you’re trying to do, ruin what you’re trying to accomplish that week. So, if you take it in, if you take it for motivation, that’s great. But other than that, you can’t let it get you down. You’ve just got to keep on preparing how you’ve prepared every week.”

“Any motivation that you can use when it’s playoff time,” fellow receiver Chris Hogan told reporters after a three-catch, 13-yard performance against Los Angeles. “It’s fine, people can count us out. The guys in this locker room, we believe in each other. We believe in ourselves and our abilities. We’re just going to continue to work hard every single week.”

That belief will be put to the test now that the Patriots are actual underdogs

The Patriots will be actual underdogs when they head to western Missouri for what may be an absolutely frigid game Sunday night against the Chiefs. ESPN’s Football Power index gives New England the worst odds to win this year’s NFL championship.

Chance to Win Super Bowl, per FPI: - @Chiefs: 34% - @Saints: 33% - @RamsNFL: 18% - @Patriots: 15%

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 14, 2019

Oddsmakers were a little more bullish on the Pats’ chances — but not by much.

Odds to win the Super Bowl

New Orleans Saints: +175 Kansas City Chiefs: +275 New England Patriots: +325 Los Angeles Rams: +350

But these Patriots aren’t letting that or what’s merely their eighth straight appearance in the AFC Championship Game get to their heads. After all, only slightly more than half those games have ended in Super Bowl appearances, a fact not lost on head coach Bill Belichick.

Bill Belichick on 8th straight AFC Championship appearance: “Honestly I don’t really care about that right now.”

— Chris Mason (@ByChrisMason) January 13, 2019

Belichick isn’t going to play the “just happy to be here” game, because he wants more for his underdog team. Smart. But someone probably should have told special teams ace Matthew Slater about that narrative before Sunday, as he crashed New England’s underdog party with a sobering dose of realism and perspective after beating the Chargers.

“We’ve been extremely blessed over the last eight years to be a competitive football team,” Slater replied when asked about the Patriots reaching the AFC title game. “I think there are a lot of reasons for that, but I don’t know, the good Lord keeps giving us some good opportunities and we try to take advantage of them.

“We’re humbled to be in this situation. Love this group of guys, love this locker room. Hopefully we can keep it going.”

Those sound like the words of an underdog. And that’s not going to fly for America’s team on Sunday.

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SPN 5X9 the Real Ghostbusters

...oh mORE META?

oh HELL YEAH Actually this might not be good, but let's do this

oh yeah never mind this is going to be a mess

the bb flashbacks tho, they were so small

Chuck...said come...uh oh

B E CK Y

nope nope I'm muting this oh my goD KILL ME

he's..is Chuck dating Becky

nothing makes sense anymore

the leather jacket again? oh?

...hey wasn't last episode also emotionally raw?

also cuz the jacket is recognizable I think

the FUCKING SCARECROW FROM SEASON 1??

thEIR REACTIONS TO THE MERCHANDISE LMAOOO

theY'RE SO TALL COMPARED TO HER

I cannot believe that they just said "frightened little boy(Dean)" and "the homoerotic subtext of supernatural" what the FUCK WAS GOING ON HERE

listen I wasn't in the fandom then I don't know what's happening what is happening what the fuck

great so God's a terrible public speaker

nothin makes sense anymore

"Where'd you come up with the characters" *stares directly at Sam and Dean*

their technique is getting critiqued lmaO

Sam's like "fair enough," Dean's taking it personally

Becky what the fuck

"Dean goes to hell what happens"

Dean in the back of the auditorium: wow I SURE WONDER

dang now I want a yellow eyed cooler

God is actively trying to date a Samgirl

I...just...typed that what the fuck

"I'm not a good writer" THEY FUCKING WARNED US

ah they're roleplaying I see ok

"who gave you the right to our life story" and "our lives aren't for public consumption" are raw ass fucking lines tho

aw Dean doesn't know what LARPing is yet

they got the badges too with the stupidfucking FBI agent names

oh god they actually show up

oh my god it's a Tulsa isn't it

B L A I R WALDORF?

oh it wasn't her

it doesn't work cuz they think it's them

I think they should lose a look alike contest I think that would be funny

oh it's...actually authentic oops

lmao he said the actual thing oh my gOD

oh god they think it's part of the game but GUYS IT'S NOT

the role-play hurts me

no NO THOSE ARE ACTUAL CLUES OH MY GOD

hey I have a shirt the same color and pattern as Sam's

god this kid is actually terrifying, as is this episode

Becky what the fuck

ah Dean has the parental issues ok

ah and they found the other guys

thEY MAKE SAM AND DEAN BE RUFUS AND BOBBY AHAHHAAHAH

yeah fuckers have fun getting therapized by NERDS

"why choose to be us" oh gOD THAT'S HIS DAMAGE WAIT

"Their pain is not for your enjoyment" :(

Sam saying he takes it seriously oh my GOD AHAHA

hey wait in the meta plot line does that mean the fans like the character versions and not the writers? Is that how that works?

wow I just cannot tell what is happening anymore

ah he takes the Dean Shot that's neat

"we read the books" LMAO

"and screw you very much" LMAOOO

ah it's the lady

ah jeez not the kid

wait who did it? the kids??

oh good it is the other kids

the mom was trying to protect him

"invasive questions" seriously

the angels lmAO

'lapping" dean

oh they were only scared of Letiticia and the...larpers

oh that's so neat

"we got to do something, even if we're terrified"

the story gives them strength aw

I'm so sad they stopped making him say sweetheart that was sweet

oh shit the ringtone

it almost worked

enough to buy them time ig

these kids are so fucked up omg

Chuck has gone to the Worst Stories oh my god

this is gonna be fun

HEY CHUCK GOT TO BE A HERO!

yes it's a bit self congratulatory it was still cool

Rob Benedict is fun

lmAO WE SHOULD PUT THEM ON A BUNGEE

they don't believe him

it was a GOOD LINE Though

they get to be the escapism for people! they get to have a family that would die for them!

that's so good though

are they..

no they seem just friends

if they snuck in w//nc//st I was gonna be very confused

ah good here's the Becky plotline I have fun

he'S SO TALL COMPARED TO THEM

sAM YOU CHEEKY BASTARD

yes go and date Becky God

"no not really we have guns and we'll find you" AHAHAHA

oh my god

oH MY GOD THE WRITER CLAIRVOYANCE

HOLY FUCK WAIT OH MY GOD THAT'S SO GOOD

cROWLEY! C R O W L EY !? C R O W LE Y!!

aW DEAN

THEY JUST FORCED HIM TO SAY SHIT LMAO

THEIR REACTIONS TO CHUCK’S EMBARASSING STORIES LMAOOOO

1 the good fan portrayals! look..yeah ok there was some stuff that was weird, we weren’t supposed to see them as like..the Ideal. but the whole thing of like…family that cares about you and that you care about and saving the world? they did understand that part of the appeal at least, they were just wrong about their target audience. The majority was sad teens, but…I think…I think they had the right vague Idea. It wasn’t AS unsympathetic as I thought.

2. the bad whatever the FUCK they were doing with Becky. Like…oh wow. Some of the convention stuff was clearly made to be mocking. Actually a lot of it. I’m honestly surprised at ANY good. Jesus that was cringe for like 80%. Like I’m glad in the end it…tried, but OUCH it was…Listen I get it wasn’t your target demo but you still have fans guys for FUCK’S SAKE

3. the reactions listen…Sam’s lil “ah yeah this is kinda funny in places, we can make this work, I can hide it” vs Dean’s “WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE”…like idk Sam at least feels like someone who has let himself be weird and nerdy, Dean hasn’t, so he knows the vibe. Also I feel like Dean hates himself and his life a lot more than Sam does, regardless of how much they pretend it’s the other way. Like it reads as everything Dean wanted not to be, or was told not to be, and like…yeah ok there’s a metaphor in there. Whereas Sam the Protagonist is just kinda more chill. Also that one scene at the end was unironically funny(no chuck abort was very good)

4. the meta/self congratulatory ok as far as meta: they did take advantage of the fact that we the audience know shit the characters don’t to like…actually find the colt! like that was a very good use of meta! using the lady as the matron was also good use of meta! and yeah it’s self congratulatory(nerdy underdog niceguy writer gets the girl that’s a fan of his work)(hey if chuck’s a stand in that’s really fucked up guys) but that scene with Chuck was actually cool, and yknow…he’s not that bad right now. I know he will be, but he’s just kinda fun and funny

5. actually really good set up and payoff this episode like the shot glasses, the lady, the “they all think it’s a joke” hell even the fucking colt and bela and crowley. I just thought it was neat

6 hbo supernatural. Ok so…every single thing that was a bit Lighthearted ended up dark and vice versa. I think that they’re straddling this line a lil bit here, because they clearly wanna tell darker stories, but the CW is forcing them to stay peppy and they’re…not fantastic at integrating it. Like changing channels has two COMPLETELY separate vibes. I think that actually the curious case did it better, but both are good. Once again, the straining against circumstances that makes this fucking show so compelling, even if it’s not good

7 BELAAAA FINALLY A NAMEDROPPPP!! YES THAT'S ALL IT WAS BUT I MISS HERRRR

and that was our meta section of the season peeps!

#pawswatchesspn #5x9 the real ghostbusters #I cringed a bit too hard for this to be a comfort ep #but it was like.surprisingly nice in places #obviously not always but I don’t think it didn’t try?#just not very hard #yeah that sounds right

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Feature: Breakup Revisited

What does it mean to be a fan of a Sports team? How does one breakup with their team? Two years ago I asked these questions in a prolonged blog of grievance. I started with an analysis of fan loyalty I thought was pretty thoughtful at the time before launching off into a diatribe about the awful year of 2017 American Soccer had and New York City Football Club. Quite a bit has changed since then and well I don’t feel inclined to get back with my Ex I think what I wrote is worth revisiting.

Fans and their loyalty

What it means to support a sports team comes down to loyalty. Or at least that’s the first core principle I underlined in my original diatribe. Loyalty in fact works in a few different ways. While we do shun folks we believe are bandwagon fans, unless your parents raised you from childhood in the lore of your team everyone starts out as a bandwagoner. For those of us who are not bred into supporting a team our loyalty is founded on something or someone we’re being loyal to. My family is a great example of this. We grew up solidly in Buffalo Bills territory, but we weren’t indoctrinated as children. My father was a Kansas City Chiefs fan going back to the late 1960s and my mom supported the Indianapolis Colts then the Denver Broncos because she loved Peyton Manning. For us supporting each of those clubs was allegiance originally founded by loyalty to a player or a set of memories associated with a club. When it’s not loyalty to a club you were raised to support it’s loyalty to a person within a club or a set of memories associated with that club.

Then of course there is comradery. In the example of my family my dad didn’t seek out other Chiefs fans locally as much as he looked for other NFL fans to talk about the Chiefs with. My uncle supports the Oakland… Las Vegas Raiders? …never mind, we’ll come back to that. My dad loved pitting his Chiefs against his cousin’s Raiders. That was the fun they had with it. That was the comradery that sports gave them. This is a different comradery then the kind that pulls dozens or hundreds of American Liverpool supporters into bars and pubs to cheer on a team on another continent. For them the comradery is very much about coming together as fans sharing a team. That kind of comradery is why Buffalo Bills fans sing in the midst of the snowstorm games: it’s everyone together supporting the same team. It’s something of a campfire experience. The differences between these two kinds of comradery do exist and have cultural roots but for the way they affect the underlying loyalty they’re not really important here.

This section in my original breakup had one more point: representation. This is where I think the cultural roots and the distinction between kinds of comradery do become important. Let’s go back to the example of my dad. He loves Buffalo Wings. Whenever he visits me in Buffalo he looks for a place to eat Buffalo Wings. He has said to me that he likes that Buffalo is associated with Buffalo Wings more than he likes that Rochester, New York, the City he grew up in, is associated with this dish we call the Garbage Plate. Take that how you will but it’s an interesting example of representation, in this case concerning food. Pretend those two foods are sports teams (like the local baseball affiliates actually did recently) and you have my dad yearning to be a fan of the team an hour down the road over his hometown. If that were the case would we consider him a bandwagoner who betrayed his home team? While the easy answer is Yes I’ve learned since the original blog post here that there is a strong case for No.

My dad feels Buffalo Wings more closely emulate his food tastes, therefore his preference for Wings over Garbage Plates arise. To be fair my dad can throw back a Garbage Plate like nobody’s business but he’s not a disloyal turncoat for preferring Buffalo Wings. Now I realize the metaphor breaks down a little bit when you consider sports teams literally need your money to survive and foods rarely go extinct. We’re blessed in these United States of America to have access to a wide range of top-level sports; more so than any other single nation on earth. We have top level athletes and organizations in all of Basketball, American Football, Baseball and Hockey to just name the most obvious. That’s a unique situation that allowed my dad to support the far-away Kansas City Chiefs back in the 1970s without being chastised by his local peers. This North American uniqueness in sports and the financial dependence of sports teams on their fans places the matter of representation squarely in the hands of the consumers in these parts. As a sports team you craft what your unique taste is. Often that taste involves flavors of the local; but if you grow big enough you’ll inevitably turn into a buffet with fans from far and wide coming to fill up. Even in Europe where Soccer has long been king of the hill there are the super-teams that have managed to grow into sprawling international buffets: Juventus, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Barcelona and yes: Liverpool.

Every sports team dreams of growing to be a buffet that represents I diverse group of people if not for any other reason than to get all their money. The decision always remains in the hands of the consumer when it comes to this growth. Representation, or the degree to which a sports team truly represents you, is up to you. In the age of the internet it’s super easy to try out other tastes. I think some of the angst in my original piece was anger directed at NYCFC and or MLS because I didn’t quite grasp that the Rochester Rhinos are my soccer taste regardless of the fact they are based in the City I was born in. I couldn’t separate those two facts and now I can. The Rhinos are my visual aesthetic on top of historically being in the Top Ten greatest sports underdog stories of all-time. I liked the Rhinos deep down with or without the Rochester part. That’s the deeper reality of the representation point. I’ve also found comradery with other Rhinos fans as well as harboring a real sense of loyalty moored in both being raised on that team and really loving Jochen Graf absolutely chip the ever-loving daylights out of goalkeepers the USL over. Call me cocky but I think I’ve figured out the dynamics of fans and their loyalty a whole lot more since my first sports team Breakup.

Branding: Franchise Issues

That said, NYCFC can still pipe down. I don’t need Nazi-loving smurfs downstate telling me what good soccer is. Five Boroughs this Five Boroughs that, we’re the team that actually plays in New York City. All that crap can disappear right out of my life for all I care. Another part of the original Breakup piece was loosely connected to the representation piece we already discussed. In this case regional rivalry comes into play. Part of what fueled my breakup with NYCFC was something everyone born and raised in this State north of Yonkers can relate to: hating New York City. The joke is when you tell someone from out-of-state you’re from New York they immediately think of Midtown Manhattan. I am not from Midtown Manhattan. I don’t know the difference between Soho and Greenwich Village. I grew up in the Finger Lakes where you’re probably closer to an epic hike than a slice of New York style pizza.

Of course the regionalism in New York State is more than Pizza and Wine, it’s politics, taxes and government. Those palpable differences always made my feelings for NYCFC kinda awkward. Regionalism isn’t the sole reason we broke up but when that club hammered home at every available turn that they cared about the five boroughs of NYC and those five boroughs alone it made me feel a lot less guilty pulling the trigger on the breakup. It’s funny because there were moments following NYCFC felt really authentic. Somethings about the branding didn’t piss me off. The logo in particular is flatly appealing to me. My late grandfather was a very avid New York Yankees fan after growing up in Connecticut. Being exposed to that logo so much as a child may have predisposed me to the way NYCFC put together their badge.

But I don’t need to get into my childhood psychology to nail down why I don’t regret breaking up with NYCFC. In the two years since my breakup they’ve continued to lose in the early rounds of the playoffs and fail to look like anything more than a colony franchise for Manchester City. Those are the competitive realities. The supporter realities are that long before Major League Soccer was cracking down on anti-fascist signage NYCFC was failing to kickout neo-Nazis and their evil chants. That shit is unforgivable. For how long this section was in the original piece I guess the branding issues that pissed me off originally are a foregone conclusion now. Every discussion of soccer in this state has an acute chance of going into the inauthenticity of the two Major League Soccer teams downstate these days. Look at that! I was ahead of the curve!

Aloof: League Issues

Unlike my resolve against NYCFC only becoming firmer since the breakup, my feelings on Major League Soccer are still very conflicted. To say the Rochester Rhinos are in the desperate straits they are now just because the MLS of 2006 decided to play hard ball with owners who were in over their heads financially is a half-truth. Yes, when you spoon feed your supporters MLS berth as an inevitability for a decade then they’re going to be pissed when it doesn’t happen. That miss will always sting. But those owners were in fact in over their heads financially. History is pretty clear on that. In spite of what some may tell you Rob Clark coming along didn’t revitalize the organization. The Rhinos didn’t fall to where they are today because they weren’t fun to watch. Save for 2011 they were in championship form pretty much non-stop. If the Rhinos don’t survive long enough for my kids to be fans as well they’ll always live on as the best professional soccer team in American history to me.

Nonetheless I think Don Garber and the folks who have been running Major League Soccer since the late 90s are guilty of jealousy and being downright uncreative. The jealousy of the National Football League, a league whose owners also own several MLS franchises, has caused the league to have a single-minded focus on a model that works a whole lot better when you’re the only game in town. The NFL has all the best American Football talent and its not even close. NFL is one of the most profitable entertainment products in the world in no small part because of that monopoly on talent. Except for four franchises whom are all being attended to by the Shield, an NFL franchise is guaranteed money. Not a single MLS franchise is making nearly NFL money. We can talk about growth trajectories and demographic shifts all day, but I don’t have an MBA and I don’t do well debating numbers.

MLS has created an environment in soccer in this country where what happened to the Rhinos is the standard. Let me tell you, that shit sucked, even from a distance. If you’re lucky enough to be a top 50 growth market population wise that may work well for you but over the next two years we’ll watch St. Louis FC, a USL club with a whole culture and history unto itself gets buried underneath an avalanche of plastic, ready-made MLS branding that will be viewed as superior by the American consumer just because it’s MLS. Sacramento too. If you’re a soccer team outside of the desirous gaze of MLS in this country your days are numbered unless you’re a two side and in that case what the hell are you really? It all feels very plastic and that’s before we even talk about how even the better MLS organizations still need to speak out of two sides of their mouth because of the ever-present neo-conservative thought police running the league. If MLS isn’t ruining authentic American Soccer than it is certainly making it work hard to keep breathing.

The MLS is uncreative. I believe that. But: I love soccer too much to climb into a hole and ignore the domestic topflight trying to give a shit about the UEFA Champions League. I’m trying really hard to get interested in English Premier League right now but no amount of Christian Pulisic is going to make me care more about the EPL or Serie A or Bundesliga or the friggin Barcelona-Real Madrid La Liga than what’s going on domestically. The MLS product is as exciting as a middle-of-the-road coaches’ challenge in the National Hockey League. That’s mildly rousing at best if you’re not familiar with the hockey reference. MLS is trying so hard to be NFL and appeasing plutocrats with tax incentives that it would never dream of using one of the things that makes the sport of soccer unique: promotion and relegation, to make its plastic ass summer league vastly more interesting! While I don’t think the Save the Crew situation that prompted a lot of this section in my original breakup article is truly a matter of social justice like some Pro/Rel diehards would have you believe, that wrapping up the way it did didn’t help my opinion of Major League Soccer. Just because the NFL can move the Oakland Raiders... *checks Wikipedia* three times, does not mean that it’s the ideal business model. Building loyalty, comradery and representation among a group of potential fans can come across fake very easily. Just ask any fan of Soccer in North Carolina right now as they read rumors of MLS coming to their neck of the woods.

My issues with MLS as a league remain just like the shame I feel as an American Soccer fan about the non-qualification for the 2018 World Cup. There isn’t a neat through line between domestic soccer issues and the national team. I didn’t realize that two years ago when I originally wrote this. Funny enough, the US Men’s National Team hasn’t looked much better while the Women win another World Cup only to be denied equal pay by the same federation. Supporting any club within a league with as many issues as MLS is hard but the old club over league saying cuts both ways. While the Pro/Rel advocates seem to think franchises and clubs cannot be mentioned in the same breath the functionality from a fan perspective isn’t different enough to really matter. Therefore I’ve come to a point of acceptance with MLS, especially this year. While the overall league will continue to be revolting in many ways if the right club *cough* *cough* franchise comes along, I’ve grown open to a new MLS relationship after my breakup with NYCFC.

Breakup: Insert Taylor Swift lyric here

This final section was the briefest in the original Breakup. While my breakup with NYCFC remains Taylor Swift’s “We are never ever getting back together”, there is a new song that you could insert into the header here, this time for a new relationship. This time it’s not a Taylor Swift song at all. It’s Wonderwall. I already listed all the specifics of breaking up with NYCFC, wished them the best and what not like a polite breakup. Now it’s time to talk about how I’ve decided to be happier.

The Rochester Rhinos are... not in great shape. While a second year of haitus was frustrating a third year stands to be outright fatal. The only real example of an American Soccer team going on haitus and coming back better for it is Montreal. Yeah, I know that’s not an American side, but that club went on haitus for a year around the turn of the millennium and came back. Eventually the Impact would find their way to MLS. That hiatus was one year. Most soccer clubs go on haitus before selling or folding. No club has come back from a multi-year haitus like this and been better for it (and no I’m not counting the New York Cosmos and Tampa Bay Rowdies because those are the same organizations in name only). That’s just the history of the sport in this country. I’m very open to the Rhinos coming back into my life. I write a monthly blog about soccer in the City of Rochester after all. I have a place carved out in my bank account for that revival I keep being told will happen oh so soon. But the proverbial afterlife of that club I love so much is also a distinct possibility. As a loyal fan I’ll help usher this club into that afterlife if that’s what it comes to. In that scenario I’ll be carving “greatest soccer club in American history” into the tombstone.

But, and this is a huge but that I was not mature enough for two years ago: I’ve also decided to be happy with domestic soccer for once. I’ve been keeping tabs on several clubs and building memories that could help form the foundation of loyalty. I made a goodwill power ranking that went through 35 iterations this past summer. While I’m not becoming a full-fledged supporter of any other club until I get a death certificate on the Rhinos, some of the points of fondness that made me love the Rhinos are informing the memories I’m building with other clubs. Indy Eleven felt quite alluring but my heart just isn’t there. Certainly the Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC having Bob Lilley and half a dozen other former Rhinos provides for a nice trip down memory lane. But the intangibles that go beyond anyone group of players ring even louder for me: the difficulty of this American Soccer journey, the way soccer up here in the North is more fun as a summer sport because I want to watch Hockey in the winter. The way a good soccer story involves a whole lot of chance and, in it’s purest form, depends on supporters who sing win or lose. The story of a club, the aesthetic of a club, the culture of it, the message of it and well frankly the struggle of it informed where I would go for my next relationship. If I wasn’t such a patriot Hamilton Forge FC of the Canadian Premier League would be an absolute layup in all the categories I’ve described today. But no, the club that’s checked all my boxes is from the States.

In case you didn’t pick up the Wonderwall connection earlier my new MLS club, if I become open to a new relationship, is Minnesota United FC. Ultimately the benefits wrapped up in regional representation fell null with the nearest pro clubs being two to three hours away at best. The closest American Pro Soccer team is the aforementioned Pittsburgh Riverhounds and maybe they’ll find their sugar daddy and make it to MLS one day but as we’ve established that’s not an important criteria for me. Nostalgia wasn’t going to drive my next relationship, that’s part of what misled me in my first breakup. Moreover comradery with Pittsburgh isn’t something that comes naturally to me due to a real hatred for their other sports teams. My taste for representation in a sports team is melodramatic if I’m being honest. The imagery of the dark clouds of MNUFC, the history of being up and down barely surviving as an organization for ten years to then somehow finding a way into the topflight, the near deification of greyness of living in the north while also singing Wonderwall, a melancholy song with very palpable strands of hope; it just all spoke to me on a very visceral level. The mix of gray and blue and black in their aesthetic was more appealing than I remember first seeing them come into MLS when I was a NYCFC supporter back in 2016. All that and Loons are a beautiful, yet annoying animal and I feel that somehow represents me: an annoying bird who is mighty melancholy in his soccer life right now, just looking to flock together with other melancholy Northern Birds. In case you didn’t know, Minnesota sports is full of melancholy.

Right as MNUFC came onto my radar earlier this year they held NYCFC at bay at the opening game of their new stadium Allianz Field. A couple months later they thrashed FC Cincinnati 7-1, a club I had developed a real hatred for when they played the Rhinos in the USL. Then, as if they knew I had started watching, they went on a wicked tear that landed them in the top two of the MLS Western Conference, a feat the club had never come close to in their MLS days. They were then courteous enough to lose the Open Cup Final, look mighty ass down the home stretch to the playoffs and bow out in the first round to the hated LA Galaxy. That sounds like the emotional rollercoaster of a team I support!

But let’s not stray from the meat and potatoes here: MLS is something I do not want to support with my money even after my Rhinos are pushing up daisies. Well that’s part of the benefit of being a fan so far away. I don’t go to games and I don’t buy merchandise. The jersey I got was free through a friend. That said I know through stream and other ways MLS will somehow still benefit from my following of MNUFC. You can’t win all the battles, but I’ve found soccer love again and if my first breakup taught me anything its that you have to grab onto that soccer love while you have it or you may lose it. Our soccer lives are somewhat like real life: messy. And that’s okay, I’ve decided to be happy with messy.

Thanks for reading.

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