#Move over Michael

[eugeniedanglars]

the way i see it, colin has three options for handling the repercussions of kissing michael on the pitch in front of everyone:

gatekeep: by some miracle no one caught the kiss on camera so colin's sexuality is kept between him and any fans who happened to be on the pitch near him. the safest option.

girlboss: keeley gets the pr challenge of a lifetime handling the story of the first active premier league player to come out as gay. rebecca is tall and powerful and intimidating in the press room making it clear that richmond stands behind colin one thousand percent. the most realistic option.

gaslight: straight-up blatantly lying. not because he's ashamed or because he thinks he can actually convince anyone that the kiss didn't happen, but just because he refuses to let it be a big deal. acts like he has no idea what anyone is talking about if asked anything related to his sexuality. he doesn't claim to be straight, mind you, he just pretends to be extremely confused about why they're asking because he never kissed anyone in the middle of a football pitch at the end of an internationally-televised game? when presented with photo and video proof of the kiss he says that was some other richmond player named hughes who wears a number 12 jersey. you don't know him, he goes to another school. the funniest option.

[babyblue-mind]

*spn finale spoilers

just processed that when adam returned post 15x19 (and michael is dead) that he’d think he’d just left him. because all the people who were gone came back thinking nothing had happened. so it would be like he blinked and michael left.

[seventh-district]

i’ve just finished season one of TMA, and being someone who’s okay with spoilers is fun because it means i can peruse the wiki and scroll through the tag and i get to become privy to all sorts of weird, wonderful, halfway-out-of-context information that i get to look forward to understanding in the future

like. what do you mean Leitner’s in the tunnels?

what do you mean Jon eats the extinguished sun??

what do you mean it’s spelled Gerard Keay???

[discalmnected]

This will forever be one of my favorite photo shoots purely for how soft they look borderline cuddling on the bed

[ineffably-flynn]

id be pining for 6000 years too

[linusbenjamin]

Lost 3.19 | The Brig

[milkweedman]

Setting up the warp for some towels. Wanted something lower stress to figure out the warping board on, plus my mom is visiting in a couple weeks and ive been promising her more towels for ages now.

Far as i can tell i kind of just need to take this off and start another one whenever the board is full (as it is now). Maybe thats not the right way to do it, but i do not (as of yet) see any downsides to that, so it's what im gonna do. Idk, im used to doing direct warping and just walking the warp.

Warp is all millspun cotton, leftovers from the cotton stripey scarf i did on commission last year.

This is 62 warp ends and i need around 180, so i guess i need 2 more of these.

[ghost-of-you]

I've been trying to figure out why his hair gave me such a visceral reaction and it just clicked and I will be crying for the foreseeable future.

[ashpkat]

magisterium be more chill AU where constantine is the squip and— *gets shot*

[alsofullofflies]

Since loving James Lance as Trent Crimm I’ve been scouring his work on IMDB and as far as being type cast, apparently in the early 2000s all casting directors really looked at him and thought ‘yes, this man is a slut’ 😭

(Context: ‘Teachers’ season 3 and ‘Absolute Power’)

[evilhorse]

Justice League International #8

[and-stir-the-stars]

so in silent protector au mike posesses the golden suit, right? is there any scenario under which he'd have a form that's recognizably his? i'm curious what the kids would think of him looking just like their killer when they're aware he's 1. not like. A Living Night Guard and 2. a different dude.

ʸᵒ ʰᵒ ʰᵒ...

In this au, lost souls start out stuck inside the suits, with the suits acting as their new "bodies," before the souls eventually gain enough control to leave the suits and wander in their real forms. It would take Mike a long time to gain control, but eventually he would have the ability to wander outside of the suit. It's just a matter of Mike WANTING that, because for a long time, he wants to stay as far away from the physical world, the ghost kids, and his brother for as long as possible.

I can't see Mike willingly leaving the suit for a long time after his death. Once he and Evan actually start *talking*, though, I think Mike would have a hard time denying Evan if Ev asked him to leave the suit.

The question of how the other ghost kids would react to his actual form is an interesting one, because it actually hinges on a lot of moving parts.

Do the ghost kids actually know what their killer looks like?

A lot of media that I've seen depicts William as wearing the Spring Bonnie suit during his murders, so. Did William wear the suit for *all* of them? If he did, does that mean the only "face" the children have for their murderer is Spring Bonnie? Or maybe as ghosts they saw their killer's face when he took off the suit after killing them?

Do some of the ghost kids know what their killer actually looked like, while others only have "someone inside Spring Bonnie" clocked as their killer? Or did they all see William’s face as their killer at one time or another, either while they were alive or as ghosts being forced to watch him kill others?

I've already decided that the spirit possessing Foxy (Fritz) is the most inquisitive of the kids and the spirit possessing Bonnie (Jeremy) is the most reluctant to accept change, thus explaining their more aggressive behavior in the games.

Jeremy, I think, would go out of his way to avoid Mike if Mike wandered outside of the suit. Snide comments get thrown around about how ALL of them have been more on edge since Mike left the suit, and maybe it'd be best if Mike would just go back in, or at least cover up his face.

Fritz is unsettled by the reminder that the person he has been "befriending" (in a way) has had the face of his killer the whole time. There's discomfort there, but he tries not to let it get the best of him. Mike has no more control over his appearance than the rest of them have control over the disturbing wounds warping their ghostly bodies. Like each other's fatal wounds, it's just something he-- all of them-- will have to get used to. But Fritz does have a version of his killer built up in his mind (assuming he never met William in person; maybe William was the type to mingle in the arcades and whatnot, talking to all the kids as he chose his next victim). And i think Fritz would ask Mike a lot of questions, try to learn more about him, learn more to help separate Mike’s face from the killer Fritz has built up in his head and prove to himself that they're not actually one and the same.

Based on what we know about Suzie from pizza sim, Suzie would probably be one of the kids William targeted from walking around the pizzeria, though whether he lured her while inside or outside of the S Bonnie suit could probably be debated. Like Fritz, Suzie tries keeping her negative thoughts about Mike’s appearance to herself because she knows it's not Mike’s fault, as unsettling as the situation is. But mostly, she tries to keep from rocking the boat because she's never seen Evan this... happy isn't the right word, but free, maybe. There is no wondering why he had to die anymore, no more wondering why he wasn't good enough to deserve his brother's love. Evan finally has what the others lack: answers and an opportunity to heal. Suzie feels guilty for treating Evan so harshly when they first found out Mike’s spirit didn't move on. And Suzie knows that Evan needs love and support and the chance to heal as much as the rest of them, and that she and the others didn't give their Protector nearly as much of these things as HE gave THEM. If Evan can get these things from Mike, too, then she wants that for him.

That just leaves Gabriel, who I haven't put any characterization into at all, if I'm being honest. Inside Freddy, he's the star of the show by day, but by night, he almost fades into the background amidst the antics and aggression of the souls possessing Bonnie, Foxy, and Chica. He's not as active, and when he is, he tends to sit outside your door and FORCE you to use up all your power like he just wants this to be over. Like he doesn't get as much fun out of this as the others. Maybe that's what his music box is: a way of celebrating, almost. Of saying "there's no more power. You have no way left to fight. This is over now, and we can finally have some time of peace and rest before we're forced to do this whole thing again without you."

Maybe Gabriel sees Michael outside the suit, and there's a sense of hope because this has never happened before. This is DIFFERENT. Maybe they won't have to spend the rest of eternity locked inside this senseless routine of being surrounded by seas of faces night and day, all of these faces being people who cannot or refuse to help them. But this is just me spitballing ideas so I at least have something to say; this characterization isn't set in stone and I'm liable to change it if I stumble across something more interesting.

I'm very intrigued by the first thing you pointed out, about Mike looking like their killer while not being a "Living Night Guard." I haven't actually put much thought into the fact that Mike looks like the kids' killer or how they would react to him while he was still alive until now. I still haven't decided yet whether Evan knows his father was a killer in this au, but if he doesn't know, then I'm incredibly intrigued by the idea of Evan hearing the other kids whisper "that's the face of our killer" only to look and see his own brother. Michael heartlessly killed Evan; maybe it wouldn't be too big of a stretch in Evan’s mind to imagine Michael killing other kids, too. Maybe the reason Evan is the one to kill Mike isn't just vengeance against his own death, but vengeance against the other kids' deaths, too, because Evan is under the impression that his own brother went on to murder them.

[poebrey]

gonna write a whole thing someday about how characters of color who clearly have a history of trauma or mental health issues aren’t given consideration or acknowledgement in the fandom imagination

[normalbrothers]

the thing about polly and tommy fucking michael over is that polly did that mostly to satisfy her own jealousy, they set michael up to fail that test but he had to choose her!!!

[nevergonnasimpyoumikey]

ahhhh your fic was amazing thank you for recommending it i loved it!!!! i haven’t played bury the hatchet in like 2 years but i think i mostly remember how it goes down lol. i have this hc that trevor watched the shootout go down from outside the cemetery after he took the keys from michael’s car & thought about stepping in (because if you’re like me mike defff got shot a few times trying to get to that car lmao) but decided not to & left him once cheng’s men caught up with him. it’s an idea i’ve been tossing around but i know i will never probably never write anything for it haha. but if you ever wanted to write something with that idea….. omggg i would be eternally grateful <333

Thank you so much!

Delicious idea... so I did a short oneshot. Hidden because of NSFW in the end.

Snake

It was the first time Michael had ever shot at him, and vice versa, although that realization only sank in much later.

At the time, he merely escaped through the gate and docked behind the wall of stone to be safe from the bullets — although before he had made the conscious decision to do so, he already found himself locking the gate after him. 

See, there was something salacious in the thought of a snake slithering towards freedom, tasting the dust of the ones it deceived, only to be thwarted by the ones it crossed. In that moment, Trevor was Eve, deciding to take matters of revenge into his own hands, to crush the serpent’s head before it could escape the garden, just as his kind had been burdened to do. 

This is what you get when you fall for a snake. You have to be the one to end it.

Except he couldn’t, now, not with the small army worth of men storming the graveyard; he needed to get the fuck out before they’d get him too. But he made his way around the site, hidden by the fence, wading through the snow towards the car he had stolen, and he heard the gunshots and Michael yelling back at the men, although the exact words were lost on him; he was attracted to the sound like a moth to a flame, imagining Michael getting hit and bleeding out in the snow — for real this time, not smoke and mirrors. His life spilling out for Trevor to enjoy.

If Michael was dying, he needed to see it. He deserved to see it. Watching Adam crushing the snake must feel equally as good as doing it himself, right?

He came to a gate at the side of the cemetery and risked taking a peek. He didn’t know if it was disappointing — by this rate, Michael would make it out alive — or exhilarating to see him taking out man after man, the skill he’d honed during years of crime and depravity, on full display. He didn’t linger for longer, continuing his way to the car. More attackers came in vans, which was why the one and only Sedan stood out like a sore thumb. It must be the car Michael had arrived in. 

The opportunity for sabotage was too delicious to resist. 

And so he stayed despite the risk; from his hiding place, he watched Michael run toward what he must have believed was safety, except he didn’t see what Trevor did — two more men in front of the church, guns trained at the corner behind which Michael would soon emerge, destined to hit.

Trevor could have stopped it. He almost did, mouth already opening to shout a warning, but he didn’t. If Michael was so adamant about not needing him, he would handle this as well, right?

One of the men wasn’t terrible at aiming, but Michael barely even flinched when he was hit, adrenaline undoubtedly making him immune to all pain. Trevor only had to imagine the red seeping out, Michael’s face as he aimed and killed the guys, but the delicious shout of pain rang in his ear even after Michael was taken from his car and dragged into one of the vans, clutching his arm. 

The wrath of betrayal mixed with the rush of escape mixed with the satisfaction of revenge — it was no wonder Trevor found himself leaning one arm on his plane, the other vigorously jerking his cock that didn’t even get fully hard in the cold, let alone the effort it took to actually cum. But rubbing one out while thinking of Michael getting hurt was worth it, one last middle finger to the king of snakes. 

[deardarlingdevil]

OH MY GOD MR. WINCOTT PLAYED AS ROCHESTER FROM JANE EYRE????