#PETE GODDAMNIT

[gay-little-axolotl]

ruth then proceeds to take the aux cord and turn on the spring awakening cast recording

[actual-goblinking]

I love Starkid because I’m sitting there bopping to the cool music and laughing at the humor and then there’s always that one fucking scene that has me openly bawling on my bed

[ffuckerstarker]

yikes random thing while I’m trying to get back into the swing of writing (aka I’m very very very rusty please be nice, but like constructive criticism is welcome and encouraged)

5 times Tony was told to wait, 1 time Peter was impatient.

The first time it happened, they were in the lab, like any other evening, like any other day. Working on their respective projects, occasionally sharing a word, or passing a tool.

Peter had stood up, grabbed his stuff, and said goodbye to Tony. Tony, per usual, asked if he needed a ride home.

“No thanks, I’m okay with walking.”

He just nodded in response. He wanted to say something. It wasn’t quite getting out. He was silent for too long and stared too much, but apparently whatever he wanted to say was being communicated loud and clear through his eyes because the next thing he hears is—

“Two years.”

A pause, Tony responds, a bit stunned.

“Wh… what?”

“Two years, okay?”

“…yeah. Two years, okay.”

—

The second time, it was after a patrol. Peter was being patched up (“it was just a stab!” “kid what the fuck”).

“You sure you’re okay?”

“I’m sure I’m okay, Mr. Stark.”

Tony nodded, and, once again, stared for too long.

“One year,” Peter said softly. The older man huffed, running a hand through his hair.

“Yeah, mhm… one year.”

—

The next was in passing, Peter on his way to the bathroom, Tony on his way to the lab. They said hi and Tony paused, like he was going to say something. But, again, it doesn’t come out.

“Six months-“ Peter starts.”

“-six fucking months yeah got it..”

—

The fourth, they were in the middle of a mission, well, more like the beginning of the end of the mission.

“Hey, everything alright?” Peter asked once he was close enough.

“Yeah- just… catching my breath. Old man lungs y’know or whatever you’d say.”

A small, shared chuckle, Tony’s mask flipping up to look at Peter.

“Three months?”

Peter nods.

“Three months.”

—

Tony walked up to Peter, quickly, with a purpose. But, Peter held up a hand. “One more week.”

“Are you serious.”

“Dead serious-“

“-goddamnit.”

—

This time, they were back in the lab. It was about 11:58 pm.

“So,” Peter hummed, “2 more minutes, huh?”

“You’re seriously making me wait two minutes? Y’know how ridiculous that is, Pete??”

“You can be patient, can’t you?”

One more minute.

Tony stepped forward. “Not for long.”

Fifty more seconds

“Well, you won’t have to wait for much longer”, the younger man said with an eye roll.

Thirty more seconds

“Still, way too long. I can’t believe I waited two years.”

Ten more seconds

“I’m glad you did.”

Nine seconds

“You are?”

Eight

“Yeah. It gave me time to… think, I suppose.”

Seven

“You needed two years to ‘think’?”

Six

“Some things take time, Tony.”

Five

They both glance to the clock.

Four

“Peter..”

Three

“Hm?”

Two

“Happy… Happy birthday.”

One

There was silence, each one waiting for the other to say something, before Tony eventually speaks up.

“So… uhh. Wanna maybe… go out for dinner?”

“Seriously? Two years and all I get is a date? I was expecting a kiss or something,” Peter scoffed.

“I’m not kissing someone who only turned 18… what… like a minute ago!”

“You almost kissed a 16 year old-“

“-THAT’S BESIDES THE POINT. Do you wanna go get dinner or not?”

“Yeah… yeah I do.”

[cormorant-red]

The long-awaited(?) VLR journal is complete! I was A LOT WORDIER in this one. And all the words at the beginning are hilarious to me bc I so clearly saved and quit in the middle of exposition and then sent Storm a bunch of messages from work the next day, completely forgetting what colors the next doors were, and completely clueless to the fact that the bracelets were going to change. Great job theorizing, champ.

I did eventually learn to use my colorful pens without causing so much bleedthrough, but not in time to save the title page. rip

Transcript below the cut:

Corrie: "so which colors would you mix to get magenta?" sorry what was that, zero? i heard "murasaki"

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Dio, K, and I gingerly lifted the woman up and carried her to the infirmary.

Perhaps he just didn’t consider himself one of the “boys,” or maybe it was something else… But whatever the reason, Tenmyouji only stared.

Corrie: me, averting my eyes from character tags: that’s some weird behavior, old man who i’ve never met before!

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Corrie: The astronomy theming is fun and I’m interested to see how relevant it becomes! I haven’t been spoiled in any detail but I have seen references to concepts such as “time travel” and “the moon”

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Corrie: girl you got the distributaries?

Phi: Time to see what the results are.

Phi: Maybe it’s different this time…

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Corrie: it's interesting that per the rules so far, unless something changes (and i hope it will), i'll never be in an escape room with K or clover, and i'll never be in one without phi

also quark and dio but i care somewhat less about hearing from them

Storm: you don't want to hear the magnitude of dio's wit? Impossible

Corrie: i'm surprised that zero said we weren't limited to three rounds or some other arbitrary number. if we all agree to ally we could just boost up to 9 for everyone no problem. but that's not going to happen is it

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Corrie: ooough they weren’t lying that thought experiment CAN dilemma. the smartest play is probably to stick with magenta doors for as long as I can and keep building up points with luna…but the most interesting play is to hear from as many characters as possible. also that strategy doesn’t account for the fact that people who betrayed in the first round have a head start to 9, and there’s no guarantee they’ll wait for everyone to catch up. the fact that there’s a second dilemma, layered on the first, in which you could ally by waiting or betray by opening door 9 asap is so goooood

Storm: yeah!!!!

and what's really fun is throughout the rounds you will see those varying situations, everyone stalled or trying to keep the top points people from getting to 9

just the mix of people and personalities alone ensures if it was just the A/B rounds and rooms in a vacuum it would already be fairly complex

Corrie: i loooove the choice to hold the first AB game without explaining the rules thoroughly. make the player (and characters) act on limited information and then scramble to salvage the situation

Storm: yeah

Corrie: that’s good game design baby!!

Corrie: for pete’s sake.

Sigma: Yeah, it did change… Mine changed from red to cyan.

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Corrie: I FUCKED UP

Dio: K! Goddamnit! Wait, you son of a bitch!

Storm: LMAO THERE HE GOES

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Corrie: sigma getting dizzy in the robot workshop. squints.

Storm: what have you been up to. where have you been.

Corrie: first round was the lounge with phi and luna, second was the rec room with K and alice, and now i've backed up one decision and am in the "gaulem" workshop with luna

i feel...overwhelmed with information! i have no guesses about murderers or motives yet. it's a little harder when all the completed doors are open to everyone, and i'm having a harder time keeping track of teams when bracelets change every round. the AB game makes the web of potential motives so complicated

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Corrie: so i take it there are one or more gaulems amogus

Storm: lots of possibilities there…

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Sigma: So let's choose "ally" and get the hell out of here together. Sound good?

Luna: Okay...

Sigma: Come on, why do you look so sad?

Luna: Well, it's just...There's a part of me that can't feel genuinely happy about that...

Corrie: hey my steady friend. what’s up with that

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Corrie: clover i'm on my knees. please don't axe murder my AB buddy

Phi: You’re going to make me repeat myself. I never said Luna was the killer.

Phi: Still, I have a feeling Alice thought she was.

Phi: Which would mean that Clover probably does too…

Storm: clover no!!! remember the bookmarks

Corrie: welp she’s dead. or is she? with all the nonsense going on I feel like I’m in danger of forgetting about really important details like the presence of the gaulems. the artificial skin is apparently very convincing…but does that extend as far as temperature and a pulse? presumably a muscle relaxant would have no effect on them. I highly doubt alice is playing possum, but luna could be, if the gaulems don’t have to play by the rules regarding bracelets falling off

----- Corrie: sigma gets woozy brain fog while they're poking around in gaulem computer caches. okay

this is exactly what i'm talking about! i'm forgetting important info like the weird plague newspaper!!

For just a moment I thought of Radical-6…But I didn’t want to worry Phi if I didn’t have to.

which everyone took bizarrely seriously considering they found it in a carefully staged puzzle room. guys please learn what a reputable source is

Storm: zero iii only provides the most reputable sources. come on.

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Corrie: hang on a sec. I’ve been trusting that the game is actually set in 2028, but my evidence for that is

it said so at the beginning

Clover is here

but

there could have been a sneaky time skip after the prologue

there are robots

so actually I’m completely untethered!

I’m imagining a scenario in which they actually rigged a model for the gaulems, and later you meet back up with luna in a new skeleton terminator frame that’s speaking with her voice and using her animations… but sadly I don’t expect that to happen or they would have used it for Golm

that would be so sick though. a girl can dream

Storm: god yeah ;;

Corrie: this also makes sigma suspect. I stand by my vote that it’s more fucked up to find out you’re a robot

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Corrie: new theory based on spoilers (the existence of ZTD): phi and sigma are both gaulems. they got…scanned? in 2028, released back into the wild, and reconstructed much later. the phi and sigma(? pretty sure) that I see in the ZTD cover art are the originals, not the ones I currently know

Storm: that's a good theory!

whether it is good (accurate) or good (extremely amusing)....

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Corrie: i love how they simply did not bother to put sigma in group shots

Storm: sigma yelling from across the room

he's shy of the fourth wall. doesn't wanna be seen.

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Corrie: ooooooh she's got the distributaries!!

Phi: Where…where are we?

Her voice was low and rough.

Sigma: Huh?

Phi: Ah, I see. Hm.

Phi: This timeline…

Corrie: "he must not have made this jump"??? do i get to be reality-hopping buddies with phi????

i didn't think the flowchart was going to be diegetic!!

Storm: oh are you far enough in now that I can ask for more character thoughts

Corrie: my character thoughts is. i love phi. let that girl be ruthless!

other character thoughts...hmm...quark is basically absent in these branches. REALLY was not expecting Dio The Eugenics Cultist. have a feeling this is going to be a "wellllll the plague was good because it Purged The Weak" type organization. even though phi had the opportunity to kill him in the cryopod, i now doubt she did because she needed info from him. it seems like she knows what's going on in other instances of the game, but not the context of the outside world

luna...i like her and really want to trust her but you know that lady has an Agenda. it might be a benevolent agenda though. unclear as yet

wonder who K's dad is. trying really hard to pretend i don't know who the senior citizens are

ride-or-die with phi. but part of the riding is saying "not now, ferb" when she wants to backstab people

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Corrie: it's a shame they mostly avoid showing sigma in key artwork, and that he doesn't get a voice. junpei felt like more of a character

Storm: yeah it's a very interesting choice that they decided to do that

Corrie: he certainly has personality! and character details like...being in a research cohort?? so it's extra weird to me that they show his face so little

Storm: I will say it's a conscious and thought out decision but now I must recuse myself on this topic. aiat

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Corrie: oooh three people were in cryosleep in the treatment center. my guesses are....clover and alice, but by my current pet theories, everyone else has something that precludes them

[18:13] another no-evidence spitball: assuming that sigma is indeed a construct recreated in the future, what if his organic self went on to develop some of the technology that’s critical to the game. it’s cool that he’s doing undergrad research(?) and i think this would be fun

lmao what if he’s K’s dad

this series rules. I’m just taking potshots bc nothing is off the table

[18:36] I’m seriously mulling this now. it’s tidy in a way I have come to expect

[21:56] ooooough I am hoping more and more that this is the case. I’ve been kind of foolishly proceeding as if sigma is some unlucky doofus who got dragged along for the ride, but that’s not really how previous nonary games have worked. and perhaps this way lies madness, but: neither junpei nor date was that. they were hopelessly entangled

Storm: zero saw his outfit and was just "ugh I need to put this guy through the torment nexus"

Corrie: [12:19] help I’m really invested in this theory now shdjdksl. in that same flashback sequence sigma is like “boo hoo, why me, I haven’t tangled with organized crime or anything like that”

well sigma then the simple answer is that it’s not about what you have done, but what you will do, someday, in another life

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Corrie: WHAT

I lifted it slowly, carefully, to my neck, as if someone were guiding my hand with theirs…

…And drew it across my throat.

wait asldfksd. let's say one million people were to decide to do a handstand right now

Storm: THAT WAS MY FIRST ENDING

Corrie: clover’s comment about a more powerful esper being able to suppress her attempts to use the field, combined with the stuff in the first game about the power of suggestion, have me eying quark pretty suspiciously

everyone dies bc this kid’s dreaming too hard

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Corrie: WE’RE BACK BABY LET’S GOOOO

Zero: I have chosen two things of great importance to tell you.

Zero: First, I will tell you about termites.

WEIRD MONOLOGUE TIME

Storm: sigma forced into unskippable termites cutscene

Corrie: i want this to be future sigma soooo bad. mr uchikoshi please

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Corrie: jesus. when tenmyouji said "salvage business" i did think "post-apoc" but i didn't consider that it meant quark had grown up post-pandemic

Storm: remember when the pandemic was a prop,

Corrie: GOD. yeah.

Storm: I ran into the ending where everyone is brutally dead first and hadn't explored many other routes yet so I think I believed it fairly early... you being skeptical for so long was so different from my experience and really funny

especially since things are so ambiguous! sigma feeling weird during/after the gaulem bay... that's such a clever place to put a reaction

also to be fair a disease that puts you on fast forward is much weirder than... idk a secret robot having damaged processors

Corrie: in the gaulem bay he just feels dizzy for a second or something like that, but in the security office when they're looking through gaulem footage, he has the serious episode. so i was like "oh phi is poking around in his shared storage/taking up RAM without even realizing"

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Corrie: FUCK YEAH!!!!!!

Sigma: Wh-What….

Sigma: It’s…it’s my face…

MY LONGEST YEA BOI EVER

when i first proposed that sigma’s research would be relevant i was also thinking of cryogenics, robotics, AI development...but now i feel confident saying it's genetics huh

i am a little confused because i was predicating my theory on the assumption that sigma was a robot and therefore had an organic self who diverged. but i guess maybe we're dealing with multiple timelines?

Storm: the game is going to def do its best to confuse you further from here on

Corrie: for now i'm going to continue operating on the assumption that k's dad is an alt!sigma and say: the dissonance between sigma in the game and k's memories of his cold, detached dad is really striking. sigma could have said "dio's got the antidote, go dose yourselves while i go in a white door." but instead he got himself killed trying to save them

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Corrie: current thinking:

present-day people, no stasis: K, tenmyouji, quark, dio, luna (who i suspect of being a robot)

past (2028) people: alice, clover, sigma, phi (a mystery to me)

treatment center seems to indicate that only three people were in cold sleep, so i'm either wrong about one of those or there's a pod/other method of stasis that i haven't encountered yet. hmmmm

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Corrie: the crew quarters were not my favorite in terms of actually doing the puzzle, but i did appreciate how strongly everything was mirror/reflection themed. like the astronomy and alchemy i assume this will only continue to get more thematically relevant

Storm: oh good catch

Corrie: oh it's driving me wild that i haven't seen sigma's face except in flashback. YOU'RE torturing ME

he could look like the guy from the projector and I would have no idea (except that we have some rude bitches on staff and no one has said hey sigma what’s up with your weird eyeball)

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Corrie: I like the contrast between K and dio bc their demeanors are so completely opposite but as soon as they get in the AB rooms they’re playing for keeps

K doesn’t want to kill but that’s the only line

Storm: yeah

I do appreciate someone polite who is also very ruthless

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Corrie: i promised to meet phi at T-5 minutes to die together and then i spent too long talking to luna T.T

GTF-DM-L-016 is formatted like a gaulem designation and the unique part is what clover wrote in blood...but i have no idea who that could be. 016 looks like dio if you mirror it and squint but i don't actually think that's important, i'm just fully spinfoiled now

and now i see that the solution to the "you got injected" lock is probably going to be "amputation"

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Corrie: ohhhh i see why this is one of your favorite endings. lunaaaaaa ;;

we did get quite close to "luna reappears as a terminator." i'll take it!

"sayonara, doctor"? OHOHOHO

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Corrie: she’s so….

Phi: We’ll give the dead the closest thing to a funeral we can manage…

Phi: And when that’s done, we’ll start looking.

Phi: Even if I never leave this place, I’ll figure out why we were here. I swear it.

Corrie: i’m gonna weep

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Corrie: dio called me a senile old fuck and I thought well I don’t have time to unpack that but I can’t. I can’t ignore it. is zero NOT an alt!sigma? was he just regular sigma, now a secret second amnesiac?? what is going ON

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Corrie: trust…your partner….

Sigma: I promised. I said I’d choose “ally.”

Luna: Yes, but… Phi has 6 BP.

Luna: If she betrays us…

oh she's such a good character. i love her so much because i can't quite be sure

Storm: pressing my face to the glass

the teetering precarity of trusting phi but also. you know she could...

Corrie: and she did. we love her for her bright clear line…

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Corrie: realized it’s worse than I thought: not only will the game not let me see sigma’s face, it will only let me see the artificial parts of him

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Corrie: root structure as an analogy for interconnected consciousness is a really good visualization

elegant and i like it. also wise of them to put that root scanner in the reactor control so you just had to deal with cross-sections

i like that the hologram is explicitly from before the game but akane still says "the construct you refer to as zero jr." nice little touch

LET’S GOOOOO!!!!!! [new flowchart destination]

so could they go back...further? when this is all done, could they go back to a version of 2028 where they weren't put in cold sleep or whatever happened?

YES. YES. YES. YES. YES

Akane: You can inhabit your body in the past…or in the future.

Phi: We’ve done what Jupiter can’t.

Phi: We can find our lost opportunities.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Judd Legum at Popular Information:

For years, President Trump has dreamed of mobilizing the military against protesters in the United States. On Saturday night, Trump made it a reality, ordering the deployment of 2,000 members of the California National Guard — against the wishes of state and local officials — in response to protests against federal immigration raids on workplaces in and around Los Angeles. By the time Trump issued the order, the protests consisted of a few dozen people at a Home Depot. The move violated longstanding democratic norms that prohibit military deployment on American soil absent extraordinary circumstances. The last time the National Guard was mobilized absent a request from local officials was in 1965 — to protect civil rights protesters in Alabama marching from Selma to Montgomery. Trump strongly advocated for using the military to quell racial justice protests in the summer of 2020. He encouraged governors to deploy the National Guard to "dominate" the streets. "If a city or state refuses to take the actions necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them," Trump said. Behind the scenes, Trump was even more ruthless. According to a 2022 memoir by former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Trump asked Esper if the military could shoot at people protesting George Floyd's murder. "Can't you just shoot them?" Trump allegedly asked. "Just shoot them in the legs or something?" On another occasion that summer, according to a book by journalist Michael Bender, Trump announced that he was putting Army General Mark Milley, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in charge of quelling the protests. This reportedly led to a shouting match:

["I said you're in f---ing charge!" Trump shouted at him. "Well, I'm not in charge!" Milley yelled back. "You can't f---ing talk to me like that!" Trump said. … "Goddamnit," Milley said to others. "There's a room full of lawyers here. Will someone inform him of my legal responsibilities?"]

The lawyers, including Attorney General Bill Barr, sided with Milley, and Trump's demand was tabled. (Trump called Bender's book "fake news.")

[...]

Were there "violent mobs"?

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump's mobilization of the National Guard was necessary because "violent mobs have attacked ICE Officers and Federal Law Enforcement Agents carrying out basic deportation operations in Los Angeles, California." Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the National Guard would "support federal law enforcement in Los Angeles" in response to "violent mob assaults on ICE and Federal Law Enforcement." These claims were directly contradicted by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), which described Saturday's protests as "peaceful." [...] Trump's order, however, says the unrest in California is so severe it constitutes "a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States" that necessitates the mobilization of military personnel. Although any violence and property destruction is a serious matter, local law enforcement appears fully capable of responding to the situation. [...]

Trump's unusual legal theory

The Posse Comitatus Act generally prohibits using the military for domestic law enforcement without specific statutory (or Constitutional) authority. The most famous exception to the Posse Comitatus Act is the Insurrection Act, which permits the President to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement under specific circumstances. But, historically, the Insurrection Act has "been reserved for extreme circumstances in which there are no other alternatives to maintain the peace." It also requires the president to issue a proclamation ordering "the insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their abodes within a limited time." Trump, however, invoked a different federal law, 10 U.S.C. 12406. That provision lacks some of the legal and historical baggage of the Insurrection Act, but it also confers a more limited authority. That is why Trump's proclamation authorizes the National Guard to "temporarily protect ICE and other United States Government personnel who are performing Federal functions, including the enforcement of Federal law, and to protect Federal property, at locations where protests against these functions are occurring or are likely to occur." In other words, the National Guard is not authorized to engage in law enforcement activities, but to protect others doing that work. It remains to be seen whether the administration will respect these limitations in practice. [...] Trump's order mobilizing the National Guard, however, likely inflamed tensions — and that may have been the point. Federal and state authorities clashed with protesters in downtown LA on Sunday afternoon. Law enforcement "used smoke and pepper spray to disperse protesters outside a federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles," according to the Los Angeles Times.

The crisis that we’re seeing in LA the last few days was engineered by the Trump Regime’s obsession for control.

See Also:

The Status Kuo (Jay Kuo): Trump Wants A Police State

[junkiepunkie]

Peter was never going to be a best man. It was so obvious. James and Regulus had planned for Sirius and Remus to be theirs, and there was no doubt the Sirius would want James as a best man, and Remus would want Reggie. Lilly are Dorcas would have Mary and marlene on Lilly’s end, and Barty and Evan on Dorcas’. Even Mary and Marlene and Evan and Barty had other people to use. So you see, Peter would never be a best man. What he did become was a death eater, before Reggie joined officially and long before Barty would even consider it. Peter became a death eater because goddamnit he had 10 best friends and NOT ONE wanted him in their marriage party. It was the day before Remus and Sirius got married (they were the first to tie the knot), that Peter sold out the Potters hideaway. Telling Voldemort to “pay them a visit” in a week, after all the fucking weddings, when they’d be home. He had sold them out and put everything in place to frame Sirius in a fit of pure envy that had been building up for years. The dozen fucking weddings were just the cherry on top of a very tall cake. On the day of Remus and Sirius’ wedding it’s Remus who pulls Pete aside. “Pete, who do you want to walk down the isle first? Me or Sirius? We can’t decide who should be the one waiting”

Oh.

it was always a joke between all of the marauders, that James and Remus acted like mothers, but that it was Peter who always stepped up to play dad in a room full of kids who really needed fathers. But Peter had never considered…. It was a joke. He had always thought it was just a joke.

Pete walked all ten of his closest friends down the isle that week. He had cried like a baby for every one of them. Partially because of how much he loved them, but partially because he knew now what he had done. James and the surrogate mother of his child would be unprepared and in a house with no defense on Halloween and they were going to die there.

on Halloween Peter had decided his life was less important than he thought, he had ran halfway to the potters but he knew he wouldn’t make it. He found a pay phone.

“hello? Who is thi-“

“James… i-“

“Pete! Hey how are you I was just-“

”James! James! I- I’ve done something terrible.”

Peter didn’t need to elaborate. James just sort of knew.

”oh Peter…”

The door. Peter heard the Potters door though the hum of the phone.

“Peter. I forgive you.”

Pete cried. He cried for three hours in that phone booth that was half way between his house and the Potters. When he finally pulled himself together, he couldn’t do anything apart from wonder aimlessly to the Potters. He could turn him self in, be put to death, end this shell of a life. He deserved death.

But of course, Sirius had to be there. Peter almost broke down seeing his friend cradling a baby boy in the midst of a tragedy. Sirius looked up at Pete and sat harry on the Potters doorstep.

“Pete…. How could you..?” He wasn’t angry yet. He was still in shock. In a moment of horrible clarity Peter remembered his plan. Sirius saw the spark in Pete’s eye, it was the look he got when he was in charms, or even just reading about them. Peter was always the best at charms.

“Pete! No-“

“RICTUSEMPRA!”

[onlyonewoman]

It's damn nice both KP and LITA showed condoms and especially the fact that it seemed to be a given for both Vegas and Payu. Like, YES, safe sex ftw! We also love to see some damn good kissing and moanining (and a big shoutout to Kinn and Porsche for one of the best handjob scenes in the history of LGBTQ+ shows, goddamnit!) But as someone who likes anal sex every once in a while, THE LACK OF LUBE makes me roll my eyes so far back they're about to tumble down my spine. Look: just show a damn bottle along the rubbers, okay? We're entering some damn sensitive territory here, you know and while fingering isn't necessary, especially Rain is most definitely an ass virgin (sorry for not recalling Porsche's or Pete's cases) and while we love some face to face fucking, the position is just NOT PRACTICAL, PAYU! (Yes, it's hot and I adore it, but ffs, the actual, physical gymnastics here isn't realistic.) At least Pete's legs were up and resting nicely in those chains (good job, Vegas!) but what the hell was Kinn doing by that window? Porsche's legs were about as wide as a Chan's at ease position and we all know how relaxed HE was! It takes some fucking effort, you know! Porsche needed to bend some, at least and once again - where. was. the. LUBE!?!?? (Sure, we can all ASSUME it was there, but that's not the point!) The point is: It's perfectly good, fine and doesn't "ruin" the mood/scene to grab a bottle of lube or adding five seconds of adjustment to the position!!! Just because fingering (mostly) isn't needed, it doesn't mean you're all the way in within two sec, especially not with an ass virgin! There's no natural lube there, it can hurt. Show off the lube, make it a little real here, it's DRY down there and now that we've passed the "somewhat dangerous/mean/socipathic/violent/etc guy at least cares about consent and not spreading the clam" milestone, can we please add some much needed lubrication and perhaps a position that fits the occasion? All that aside, this old ass queer loves to see couples who have chemistry, who cuddle, grabs hold, kisses, moans, lets go and doesn't look like they're doing an assignment. I love the handholding, the pillow talk, the spooning, the way they really touch each other while fucking - and outside it. (Yes, vegaspete is a bit of another story, but the hospital scene was really cute!) Just... my dear, horrible, obnoxious, criminal, stupid, stuck-up, kinky, self-loathing, violent, scheming, over-the-rainbow-gay-or-bi sons: Stop. Tearing. Your. Lovey's. Assholes. Okay? /Love from an old auntie who knows what she's talking about

[thekidsare-not-alright]

pete wentz and the "you're gonna fucking have fun goddamnit" tour

[ingapotejtoo]

PETE ON VH, THE WORLD NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD HAPPEN AGAIN :D

and then the disaster struck.

goddamnit man :(

[that-demigirl]

Born To Die - Chapter 8

Chapter Summary: can everyone really make it out of this mission alive?

A/N: Only two more chapters after this

Allison and Erin had finished all their pre-flight checks and were getting into their aircraft when Erin noticed Bradley and Pete talking. She hoped they would figure everything out, that after this maybe everything would be okay. Nothing like facing death head on to make up for lost time, right?

“We’re making it out of this alive,” Allison told her, every ounce of her tone confident and assured of the outcome.

“Damn right we are,” Erin agreed, “Nothing we haven’t been able to do yet, right?”

“Right,” Allison smirked. They would be okay, she had to believe it.

“Dagger One up and ready on Catapult One,” Pete’s voice came across the radio as their canopy closed.

“Dagger Spare, standing by,” Jake chimed in.

“Dagger Four, up and ready,” Allison checked in, a determined look settling across her face.

“Dagger Three, up and ready,” Natasha’s voice came through.

“Dagger Two, up and ready,” and lastly Bradley checked in. Then soon enough they were sent off. Four jets racing through the air, all aiming for one target. Later, after the mission, Allison would recall the flight to the target as the worst part of the mission. The part when the fear was allowed to bubble up and nothing to distract it.

Pete gave instructions as they all flew and Allison answered to them without question. She assumed her place behind Bradley’s aircraft and followed the lead of everyone else. As they approached Erin looked up to see the first SAM site overhead.

“Looks like we’re clear on radar, Mav,” Natasha communicated.

“Let’s not take it for granted,” Pete instructed the team.

“More SAMs! Three o’clock high!” Erin called out.

“We got two minutes to target,” Robert reminded them all.

“Copy,” Allison responded, “We’re a few seconds behind, Rooster. Let’s move.”

Then they were informed of two bandits near their location. Their team back on the carrier informed them of their location and their heading.

“They’re headed away from us, they don’t know we’re here,” Bradley said.

“The second those Tomahawks hit the air base, those bandits are gonna move to defend the target,” Pete responded, “We have to get there before they do. Increase speed.”

“We got you Mav, don’t wait for me,” Natasha told him as they both sped up. Bradley didn’t, leaving both him and Allison flying behind schedule. 

“Bradley, we have to move, speed up,” Allison called out. 

“Bandits are moving to defend the target,” one of the members back on the carrier informed the Daggers.

“Rooster, where are you?” Pete asked.

“Come on, Rooster, bandits are inbound,” Allison spoke over the radio, “We have to make up time now, let’s turn and burn.”

“Hey, we’re falling behind,” Erin finally spoke up, “We have gotta move, now.”

“If we don’t increase speed right now, Rooster, those bandits will be waiting for us,” Allison sounded almost scared yet still firm. Then after a moment he rapidly sped up, “Damn, all right then. Let’s get it, Rooster.”

“All right, let’s go,” Bradley told Allison.

“Damn, Rooster,” Erin said in surprise at the amount of speed increase, “Way to scare a girl.”

“Watch your heads,” Bradley instructed as they neared a bridge.

“Goddamnit,” Erin exclaimed as Allison turned quickly to move in between two bridge supports.

“Medusa, you with me?” Bradley asked.

“I’m right behind you,” Allison confirmed, a smirk playing at her features. She silently cheered as she heard that Pete had got the target.

“We’re almost there, Mav, almost there,” Bradley communicated with their lead team, “Alright, Tinkerbell, where’s my laser?”

“There’s something wrong with it,” Erin exclaimed fearfully, “Deadeye, deadeye, deadeye!”

“Tinkerbell, we’re running out of time,” Bradley said, “Get it online!”

“I’m trying, Rooster, I’m trying,” Erin continued to work at it but nothing was working.

“Come on, Tink,” Allison encouraged yet still nothing was working. 

“Nearly there,” Erin communicated, the laser almost on the target finally.

“Come on, Tink, get it online,” Allison continued to encourage her WSO.

“There’s no time, I’m dropping blind,” Rooster informed them. Erin tried to argue but it was no use. Bradley dropped the bombs then he and Allison were pulling up for the steep climb out.

“It hit!” Erin exclaimed just as the Gs really started to get to them. By the time all four of them were out, the SAMs were launching and all four of the pilots were defending. It was a chaotic mixture of exclamations and callouts trying to help their teammates. Allison struggled to defend against all the SAMs, but there was no way she was going to get her or Erin killed that day. They were going to make it out alive. 

It was just Bradley left with Sam’s on him and he had run out of flares. Erin fearfully listened over the radio as Bradley was unable to shake them off his tail. Pete tried to instruct him but it was no use. So instead, Pete flew in and got the SAMs off Bradley at the cost of getting hit by one.

“Mav!” Erin screamed, seeing his plane split in half.

“Dagger One is hit! I repeat, Dagger One is hit!” Allison called over the radio, “Maverick is down.”

“Dagger One, status,” Bradley’s voice came through the radio, “Status! Anyone see him? Does anyone see him? Dagger One, come in.”

“I didn’t see a parachute,” Allison informed the other Daggers.

“We have to circle back,” Erin pleaded.

“Bandits inbound, single group, hot,” Another voice came over the radio, “Recommend Dagger flow south. One minute to intercept.”

“All Daggers flow to ECP,” were the instructions that came, “You have bandits headed for you.”

“What about Maverick?” Bradley asked.

“Dagger Spare request permission to launch and fly air cover,” Jake requested over the radio.

“Negative, spare,” was the response.

“Dagger, you are not to engage. Repeat, do not engage.”

“Dagger Two, return to carrier. Acknowledge.”

“Rooster, those bandits are closing,” Allison tried to get through to him. Erin had accepted that they wouldn’t be flying back for Pete, yet it still hurt to lose him, “We can’t go back.”

“Rooster, he’s gone,” Erin spoke up, her voice breaking at the words. They were all flying back to the carrier when Bradley broke out of formation, “Rooster! Bradley!”

“Dagger Two is hit, Dagger Two is hit!” came over the radio, causing Erin to sob behind her mask.

“We have to go back! We have to rescue them!” Erin begged Allison.

“Tink, we can’t,” Allison refused, “I’m not losing you as well today. We follow Phoenix back to the carrier, that is what we do.”

“I lost them both… I lost them,” Erin struggled to cope with the reality of losing not only Pete but Bradley as well.

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[magnificentwolfface]

KINN HAVING HIS OWN SCALE OF DRUNKENESS A LA AMY?? he isn't probably that big of an alcoholic in this au compared to canon, which would make him adorable tbh. like, four shots in and he is on porsche's lap and grinding on his dick and making him motorboat his tits in the middle of a casual bar. porsche WILL take him to the back of the bar. eventually. once he comes to terms with his feelings for mr. dorkpanyakul, shut up pete

(BOTTOM KINN FTW?? i sadly don't do bottom!kim but bottom!kinn is IMMACULATE, and i have to say i like the canon kinnporsche dynamics but i definitely prefer bottom/omega!kinn content more, it's def my jam)

vegas wants to see what a six drink kinn is, only to end up finding six drink kinn is a melancholic lil baby and vegas is weak for kinn's puppy dog eyes, okay? goddamnit

eight drink kinn is a bad equestrian, and nine drink kinn speaks perfect italian before throwing up, ofc

kinn and tawan date while porsche finds himself a similar vibe baddie except he yearns for that dork who gets excited about math and new binders and shushes people like a librarian ('like a sexy librarian?' '(aroused) like a regular librarian')

porsche freaking out about tawan having a bigger dong and that's why kinn dated him for so long (kinn has to reassure that porsche is the biggest he ever had, to his chagrin bc saying it in public is embarrassing also he is now horny). kinn getting proposed to repeatedly by tawan, including at his own wedding to porsche

kinn doesn't give a shit about bikes and ong-bak films (replacing die hard here) but he will listen and learn bc he loves porsche <3

ooh, maybe gun, vegas and macau come to the family meeting, along with kim and tankhun, and they find out gun was into porsche's mom when they were at uni together but she definitely hates him, tankhun has to stop kim from stabbing macau with a fork bc he won't stop hitting on chay (to annoy kim more than anything but hey, chay is cute!), and vegas helps porsche and kinn find the right alcohol to serve so shit is less awkward while snooping around for blackmail material (affectionate) <3

if we get mpreg involved, maybe kinn is the one who is apprehensive about children ala jake instead of porsche bc he is starting to really come to term with korn's bad parenting and he is terrified of being a bad mommy papa for his and porsche's babies now

also the episode with jake and amy trying for a baby was funny and i can see porsche grumbling about kinn wanting to go straight to babymaking and saying he isn't like a faucet you can turn on or off, and kinn just shows his tits and oh, the faucet is on!

Oh my god, drunkenness scale Kinn is now my entire existence! 😂 Four-shot Kinn turning into a clingy lap-dancer and Porsche trying to stay composed (but failing because he’s, well, Porsche) is absolute GOLD. And Vegas thinking he’s clever by testing six-shot Kinn, only to end up soft over his puppy-dog eyes?? Chef's kiss. Honestly, melancholic six-shot Kinn needs to happen, Vegas secretly doting included. 😭

Eight-drink Kinn being a bad equestrian?? Nine-drink Kinn throwing out fluent Italian before immediately losing it?? ICONIC. This is a Kinn I’d pay real money to see!

And let me just say—bottom!Kinn supremacy is life. Omega!Kinn? YES. The contrast between his canon suave and confident exterior and how soft and sweet he’d be as a bottom or omega is everything. Porsche finding himself in an absolute spiral about Tawan’s dong is peak comedy. Kinn having to awkwardly reassure him is hilarious but also so endearing. Like, sir, we get it—Porsche is all you’ve ever wanted and more.

Porsche's sexy librarian line had me on the floor. ("Like a regular librarian?" 😂) That one really paints the perfect KinnPorsche dynamic in this AU—Porsche being chaotic yet hopelessly into Kinn's dorky ass, and Kinn being embarrassed but still horny for his husband. Love that journey for them.

Gun being into Porsche's mom at uni?? HA! That’s such a messy, delightful twist, and Tankhun having to keep Kim from fork-stabbing Macau for being Macau is just perfect sibling chaos. Vegas snooping for blackmail material while actually being weirdly helpful is so on-brand too.

Mpreg Kinn being terrified of turning into Korn?? YES, PLEASE. It’s so compelling to see Kinn wrestling with his fears about parenthood, even as Porsche is hilariously grumbling about not being some baby machine. But of course, Kinn being Kinn, knows exactly how to "turn on the faucet" (and damn does Porsche love it). The Jake-and-Amy baby episode vibe fits SO WELL here.

You’ve literally handed me an entire new world to obsess over, and I am so grateful. Thank you for this absolute masterpiece of new ideas! 🥰💖

[redactedwriting]

fuck. goddamnit. still in cock drunk joe world. godfffffnfndjdjxndj. he would just look so GOOD on his knees with his mouth open and his tongue out and his hands tied in pretty ribbon. so hazy and dreamy and happy where he is. i am imagining one of fall out boy but you can imagine whoever cooing to him so so softly that this is his place, on his knees, ready and willing to let his throat be used. and hes so so subby and out of it (/pos) that he doesn’t even care that no ones touching him or inside him (unless hes plugged. fuck. fuckfndndjejej) he’s just gazing up at them and smiling with drool shining on his chin. joe pleasecall me .

– 👒

this is pete coded. to me.

joe being plugged and tied and on his knees for pete, with pete standing above him and jerking himself, the tip of his cock teasing joe's bottom lip. he knows not to take more than he's given, but god, he's drooling so pitifully and giving pete the prettiest "pretty please?" eyes that pete's ever seen.

joe's so subbed out, so hazy and willing and needing to do whatever pete asks of him, whatever pete wants him to do, he will do it all. if pete says bark, he says how loud. if pete says suck, joe says how long. he is the putty in pete's fingers, and he knows it, and thats part of why he's so cockdrunk in the first place.

[no-goodbyes-no-regrets]

Personally I would find it funny if Robert came back from prison, moved himself and Seb in with Aaron, set the date for their next wedding, and just picked up from where they left off (idc about rossbecca, to me they're dead and Pete Barton's been looking after Seb).

Aaron just goes with it because of course his life's better with Robert in it. Sure he's an arrogant prick, and they'll argue and have to deal with the last 4-5 years (and fauxbert), but Robert's his husband goddamnit! And Seb remembers him!

(and John just watches his brother settle into a life with a fambly, but he's all alone and upset in comparison).

(and Andy & Adam both come home...just because I miss them)

I'm here for it!

we can give John a bf though.

or maybe a long lost husband and kid of his own (since ED love to bring in long lost relatives/partners).

He and Rob can bond over hating Jack, he and Andy can bond over Complicated™ family life, Adam can finally meet his uncle Mack! and deal with the fact his bff is bffs with his uncle.

[deathsmallcaps]

Anyone who argues about being labeled as culturally Christian in America, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY CAME FROM A CHRISTIAN FAMILY, can’t self reflect.

I mean, just look at your curse words/reaction phrases!

Jeez/Christ/Jesus Christ/Jesus Harold/H/Christ on a bike/cracker/(I say pogo stick)/sweet Jesus - Jesus

Jesus, Mary & Joseph - the whole fam

Good Lord/Oh Lord - Christian god

God/I swear to God/goddamnit - Nobody but Christians really say that

Damnit/damn - derived from the longer term seen above

Fucking hell/Bloody hell/blerry hell/Hell/heck/how the hell - the Christian evil underworld

For Pete’s sake - for St. Peter’s sake/soul

Jesus wept - expression of incredulity in specific reference to the Bible (this Wikipedia page about English Curse words, which has a whole bunch of other funny ones, says that it’s a new addition, which makes it even funnier. Thanks tumblr! I’m pretty sure it started as a memey reaction here or on a similar older internet site)

Holy cow - may have come from a general awareness that cows were sacred in other religions, and therefore did not involve swearing upon your own (Christian) religion. This one is sort of by negation.

Anyways, this isn’t to call out anyone. It’s just somewhat funny to me how Christian ‘general’ English, especially American English, really can be.

Please add in the tags what you say if it wasn’t mentioned, or if you just realized something you say (doesn’t have to be in the list!) was religious, or if there’s a common phrase in your dialect of English or your language that is directly related to your religion/the majority religion in your country. I’m curious.

[ourflagmeanslegos]

MEET THE CREW

left to right, top to bottom:

lucius, stede, ed, izzy

buttons (and karl), jim, oluwande, frenchie

the swede, roach, black pete, wee john

mary, evelyn, fang, ivan, calico jack

pics of everyone individually under the cut!

lucius

our favorite scribe, holding a notebook and quill so he can keep track of all the takes! (<- that was a typo from "tales" but tbh i like "takes" better.)

stede

looking prim and proper with his little teacup. this is actually more like his s2 hair, and i'm looking forward to updating him with some new clothes, since i'm not a huge fan of the outfit i was able to put together.

ed

i love his little beard so much and it's a shame it will not be forever. we can always look at the old pics, though. his little one-armed jacket is so fun and i wish i had the fine motor skills to give him some tattoos.

izzy

pretty sure this is the angriest face i own lol. i love his one glove, i think that's a nice touch. i also have an update ready for him for s2 ;)

buttons

i do not have a "balding on top" hair unfortunately, but i was lucky enough to find a seagull at a lego convention earlier this year, where i also found a number of other pieces for this project.

jim

complete with knife, of course, and featuring optional hat. best shirt i could find has an ammo belt though lol.

oluwande

my beloved. comes with or without orange hat, which i also found at that convention.

frenchie

speaking of things i found at the convention, A LUTE!! before i got that, he had a fucking electric guitar because that was the closest i had lmao.

the swede

i know his shirt is totally the wrong color but it was the closest i had in terms of design. he's got some orange juice too, so he doesn't lose any more teeth.

roach

wish i had a butcher knife or something, but instead he has a lovely pie.

black pete

i don't have much to say about him lol. he is bald and silly.

wee john

of course i had to give him FIRE. also i love this head's facial hair for him. it came with a pirate ship set i got recently, as did this shirt.

mary

she is ready to paint and to murder her husband. i love this hairstyle for her, even if it's a bit lighter than real mary's hair.

evelyn

was very happy to find a feminine face with an eyepatch at the convention, and it's even on the correct eye! i wanted to give her maroon sleeves too but the only shirts i had with that color sleeves broke when i tried to remove the arms lol. they were from a harry potter set i got over a decade ago though so i don't care <3

fang

i love his jacket, even though it's not quite accurate for him. and you know i HAD to give him a dog, he deserves it goddamnit.

ivan

i LOVE this hair i was able to find for him, and the surprisingly accurate shirt that i happened to already have.

calico jack

my garbage boy <3 i had this whip from an indiana jones set, and i found the bottle at the convention. i wasn't originally planning on making him but when i came across this face i knew i had to.

[gilmores-glorious-blog]

oh boy oh boy it’s episode six time!!

- the only context i have going into this is that my friend who already watched the episodes said they made her upset so i am. Afraid.

- gorgeous opening shot with the lighthouse ngl

- ned who the fuck are you and also stay the fuck away from my boys

- okay but the line “my love, i’m still a musician at heart” goes so hard

- uh oh izzy and ed interaction

- y’know this is as close to closure as they’re gonna get tbh

- archie’s insane i love her

- fang sipping tea and being bitchy <3

- sad that the party was a lupete wedding :/

- godDAMNIT the twink is back

- god i love this crew so much

- lmao ed giving children knives (also taika’s daughters!!)

- “we own an inn” WHAT IF I SOBBED AND CRIED AND LOST MY MIND

- “minor prince, pirate queen who conquered all of china” i love her so much

- OH MY GOD WEE JOHN AND IZZY DRAG BONDING 😭😭😭

- i love that they’re all chill with ed now

- they’re all so hot and fun and goofy and i love them

- FUCKING SLAY KRISTIAN

- ngl i was very scared when izzy first came on singing but OH MY GOD.

- i forgot how good of a singer con is i am LOSING MY MIND

- oh my god oh my god oh my god

- the polycule dancing!!

- NO DONT INTERUPT IZZY >:(

- ed immediately pushing stede behind him at the first sign of danger 😩

- i love stede’s face when ed says “i only hang out with cool pirates”

- AHKSTKGKSJAJKSJS PROTECTIVE ED

- “no no no it’s me you want it’s me you want” what if i lost my entire mind

- “whatever this is it’s just going to turn me on” season one izzy could NEVER

- lmao didn’t even process that pete and lucius weren’t there they were just off fucking i guess

- “twenty four hours of freaky uninterrupted love” good for them.

- ed and izzy’s reactions to torture are so nonchalant what if i just. *psychoanalyses them*

- “i’m just doing it for the lolz” OH MY FUCKING GOD

- “maybe we just tell their stories.. and in a way isn’t that the best revenge?”

- please can these pirates mutiny against ned

- hellkat maggie my love <3

- stede being badass we love to see it!!

- “where’ve you been?” “we got engaged!” “aww i love that for you!!”

- okay i hate ricky but also he serves so much cunt

- lmao this ned plotline ended quickly

- this is the sexiest stede has ever been holy shit

- ed you gotta fuck him now

- oh my GOD did stede just refer to ed as his “friend” i—

- listen i know ed doesn’t like this and now stede has trauma but god that was badass

- they’re gonna fuck now i feel it in my bones

- AHAKFKYJSJSKD YES STEDE GRAB HIM BY THE COLLAR AND PUSH HIM AGAINST THE WALL ITS WHAT HE DESERVES /pos

- not the fucking cut to black 😭😭

- the crew singing along to izzy in the credits <3

- lmfao fang has a goat now (but he finally got a pet!!)

- god that episode was PERFECT. oh my god. i’m just. oh my god.