#Reign reunion 2020

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my rwby fanfic bookmarks that include taiyang xiao long for @thornsofrosesdumps

Take Root by Renabe

Oneirophobia by TeamIceFlower

The Bloody Raven Flies by TimbreJack

A Very Merry Dustmas by WungusWrites

It's Peaceday Somewhere by SwagWizardSupreme

" You're not Teens…you're traumatized kids " by Sleepy001

Save Me (from the one that hunts me) by mysweetbelovedbees

Painful Sorrows by Chromedx

We Got Your Back (Now and Forevermore) by MageWriterSola

The treasure of my life (is being by your side) by cherryw_blossom

Is my heart still beating? (someone please tell me) by Moxy125

Midnight Menagerie by Kaelidascope

brighter than the desert sky by h4lcyonism

When Gods Reign by EchoSpirit

Scar Tissue by najio

Too Little Too Late by BunniesofDoom

Come Back by AmesBlake16

The idiotic teacher and his idiotic students:Post Fall by That1plaguedoctor

Ideation by digimaniac33

At the end of the tunnel, where is the light? by Moxy125

Not this time… by Power_Taco for erros429, Winter1112,

Family reunion by Renshin_impact

Wolfcreations21

What Remains by najio

The Mother She Never Was by Set_WingedWarrior

The Boy Who Leapt Through Time… (Or, More Like Was Pushed) by qlover

A New Day in the Desert by 7theDisasterDyke for 1shotwriter

Dragon's Heart and the Broken Rose - RWBY STRQ by 1shotwriter

Recovery by The_Penitent

you're an artifact by sevensevan

ROSES MADE OF IRON by HamiltonMarbleHornetsTWD

Flowers in the Sidewalk Cracks by thetruewanderer

Ruby: The Linchpin by The C in MJCK (Writersblock159)

A not so innocent Rose by Vendetta543

Revealed by Mirrored Eyes by AerisLei

Remnant: New age by Mythic_Robyn

Red, Lilac, and Blue by 7theDisasterDyke

Bad Behavior by Remnant_Writer

Firebird Fledgling by wo_class

If I Had You by ExoticBuns

Noah’s Arc by CoaxysArc

Texts From Home by Thornwood

A Meeting of Parents at Shade Academy by Thornwood

Even if a Rose Has Her Thorns She Will Love Her by Saptwo

the delirious desert by slaythepainaway

RWBY: Judgement by LunaPendragon96

A Family by Loriela, midnight_echoes

Happy Father's Day, Remnant by Late

RWBY Adventures in Vacuo by Axle007

Carry On by LonelySpaceAce

Everything After by LonelySpaceAce

to live without a lifeline by wlwrwby

RWBY Mother's Day 2020 by dinosaurs_last_day

(i couldn't add links but there all on ao3)

[daisiesonafield-blog]

The media picked up on the Souis/Loufie story:

It seems like Louis Tomlinson is already taken.

The “One Direction” alum sparked romance rumors with model Sofie Nyvang just a few months after he and longtime girlfriend Eleanor Calder called it quits.

Tomlinson, 31, and Nyvang were snapped smiling as they grabbed coffee together in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

The rumored new couple matched in black band tees as they walked hand-in-hand in the California sunshine.

The “Bigger Than Me” singer paired his Black Sabbath tee with khaki pants and white Vans while the model dressed up her Metallica shirt with black jeans and a leather jacket.

News of Tomlinson’s budding romance comes just weeks after it was reported he and Calder went their separate ways after dating on and off for over a decade.

The couple, who met before Tomlinson skyrocketed to fame, started dating in 2011 only to break up four years later.

Then in 2016, the “X-factor” alum welcomed a child — a son named Freddie — with Briana Jungworth.

However, the following year he and Calder rekindled their romance and the singer admitted he hoped to settle down with the fashion blogger.

“If you’re asking me if I’m going to marry her? Yes, I think so! And more kids, I’d say so,” he told the Sun in 2020.

And yet, things reportedly took a turn for the worse at the end of 2022 given Tomlinson’s busy schedule while on his “Faith in the Future” world tour.

“It put pressure on their relationship, Louis being away for so long,” a source told the Sun last month.

Nevertheless, the insider isn’t convinced the pair are done for good.

“They have mutual friends and a long history, so at the moment it doesn’t look like a reunion at some point is completely off the cards.”

Tomlinson is headed back on the road in May and won’t wrap things up until November. So, only time will tell if he and Nyvang can withstand the test of tour.

Full article. Link here.

It looks like there's been some (night) changes in Louis Tomlinson's love life.

One month after it was reported that he had split on-and-off girlfriend Eleanor Calder, the One Direction alum stepped out with Sofie Nyvang in Los Angeles. On Feb. 15, Louis was spotted holding hands with the model as they grabbed coffee at a local cafe. 

For the occasion, Louis and Sofie channeled their inner rockers and wore Black Sabbath and Metallica shirts, respectively. The "Back to You" singer paired his tee with khaki-colored pants, white sneakers and sunglasses, while the California-based influencer completed her look with baggy black jeans, leather jacket and a silver chain necklace.

At one point during the day, Louis and Sofie were seen chatting and laughing while sipping on their drinks.

It's unclear exactly when Louis parted ways with Eleanor, though the duo do have a history of breakups and makeups. The couple first started dating in 2011 at the height of One Direction's fame, but called it quits about four years later. Louis went on to welcome son Freddie Reign with stylist Briana Jungwirth in 2016, before rekindling his romance with Eleanor in early 2017.

Though Louis shot down engagement rumors in 2020, he did praise Eleandor for sticking by him through the ups and downs of fame. As he explained to The Sun, "The luxury with Eleanor is I've known her since before our first single 'What Makes You Beautiful,' so she's felt the whole growth of everything. As I've got to understand it, she has too, and I have the benefit with her that we've seen it for what it is."

At the time, Louis hinted that he'd eventually like to settle down with the fashion blogger: "If you're asking me if I'm going to marry her? Yes, I think so! And more kids, I'd say so."

However, The Sun reported last month that Louis' recent solo world tour had put a strain on their relationship, with a source saying that the two broke up. Currently, Louis is preparing to embark on his second international trek in March.

Full article. Link here.

They're pretty much the same copy-paste article in various tabloids.

[pwrestlingxpress]

My Take on the official reunion of AXIZ and the rumored reunion of the Golden Lovers

Back in 2018 I wrote two-three opinion articles on the Reunion of the Golden Lovers (Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi). Before anyone reads the rest of this new opinion article I'm typing please click here to read the previous opinion article titled " Six Months Later...Golden Lovers Merge While The Shield Reunites".

Now...this new opinion article will talk about the rumored reunion of the Golden Lovers and the official reunion of AXIZ.

Some of you may now be thinking "AXIZ, who are they and what do they have to do with the Golden Lovers?" The answer to this question is not much but here I want to talk about their history and that's what my plan is.

In December 2018, the Golden Lovers abruptly went on hiatus after winning their final match against Hiroshi Tanahashi and Will Ospreay in Korakuen Hall. A few weeks before that in the same arena, Katsuhiko Nakajima was a finalist for the 2018 Global League Tournament (now N1 Victory) facing Kaito Kiyomiya in which Nakajima lost to the then-22 upstart athlete from Saitama. What happened afterwards was so in the dark that not many knew until they saw it though various photos. After the match between Kiyomiya and Nakajima, Go Shiozaki comes out seemingly to congratulate the winner (both were tag partners through most of 2018) but instead went to console the person that was pinned. Right after that, Shiozaki and Nakajima teamed up to win the GHC Tag Team Championships but lost the belts almost a week later in controversial fashion.

We now fast forward ourselves to February 2019 where by then the Golden Lovers have quietly split up with Kenny Omega gone to AEW and Kota Ibushi staying in NJPW where over in Pro Wrestling NOAH, Katsuhiko Nakajima and Go Shiozaki were given a second chance at regaining the GHC Tag Team Championships and on February 24th, that's what they did. Backstage after winning the titles for a second time, they decided to call themselves "AXIZ".

From that date on until August 2020; AXIZ was seen by many as one of the best tag teams in pro wrestling. According to Cagematch, both AXIZ and the Golden Lovers were ranked in the top 10 tag teams of all time (as of May 7, 2023 at 9:30 PM Eastern) with AXIZ ranked at No. 4; Golden Lovers at No. 9. With that ranking, one can say AXIZ surpassed the Golden Lovers but there's always a debate on which team is better no matter what the ranking is.

AXIZ's second reign as champions ended on June 13th but immediately were given a rematch in which they manage to win back the belts a third time and hold on to the belts until January 5, 2020. The day before that, Go Shiozaki became a 4-time GHC Heavyweight Champion by defeating Kaito Kiyomiya and in the process have one of the longest reigns in its title history. Despite Go now being a singles champion, both him and Nakajima were hoping for another tag title shot after losing them but COVID hit and much changed. On the same night Go Shiozaki was to have his first title defense in his fourth reign as GHC Heavyweight Champion, Katsuhiko Nakajima approached GHC National Champion Takashi Sugiura with the intentions to challenge and win the title. On May 9, 2020 in the main event; Nakajima would pin Sugiura to become the second GHC National Champion.

By the time pro wrestling was back doing live events in some capacity, AXIZ was on top not just in tag team but in singles as well with Go as the GHC Heavyweight Champion and Katsuhiko as the GHC National Champion. Everything seemed to be rolling for the two when wrestling live events resumed but the rolling would stop when the month of August 2020 hit.

August 4, 2020; Katushiko Nakajima would lose the GHC National Championship to Kenoh. 26 days later, after losing a chance to become 4-time GHC Tag Team Champions with Go Shizoaki, Nakajima breaks up AXIZ to join Kongoh. Though AXIZ was done in Nakajima's eyes, as I learned it was not the case for Go. Despite the betrayal, Go still believed himself to be a part of AXIZ and awaited the day Nakajima would return to reform the tag team.

While they waited, Nakajima and Shiozaki would wrestle 3 times in singles competition. First time was November 22, 2020 for the GHC Heavyweight Championship with Nakajima as the challenger (which he earned by winning N1 Victory 2020) and the champion being Shiozaki. Most times I compare this match to the one at "Wrestle Kingdom 15" between Will Ospreay and Kazuchika Okada because of the brutality and the fact the way they fought, it would most times scare me. Despite me saying that, in a match that went nearly 43 minutes, Go retains the title while sustaining an injury in the later minutes of the match itself. The second time they would meet would be on January 1, 2022 where by then it was Katsuhiko Nakajima who was the champion with the now-returning Go Shiozaki being the challenger. On that date, both wrestled what many considered to be a 2022 MOTY contender. Nakajima would emerge victorious from that match with a new finishing move that has not been seen since. The third time they met was on March 23, 2022 in which by then, there was no title, only pride. Go Shiozaki was starting a new streak while Katushiko Nakajima was looking for answers after losing the GHC Heavyweight Championship 35 days after defending it against Shiozaki. The third match went a lot faster than their previous two. Go would emerge victorious in a match that was nearly 20 minutes long. Their previous two matches went over 30 minutes.

Go would go on to win the GHC Heavyweight Championship for a record fifth time but would become the first of three straight V0 Champions when he lost the championship on his first defense to Satoshi Kojima at CyberFight Festival 2022. After losing the title, Go struggled to find himself and ended up eventually being out of action after N1 Victory 2022. Meanwhile, Katsuhiko Nakajima was trying his best to stay on track but in most tag matches, he ended up becoming the guy to eat the pin. At the N1 Victory 2022 block finals, both were in line to win their block but needed help. Neither of them made the finals in which Nakajima's backstage comments could be what I consider the first clue to a AXIZ reunion.

By the time 2023 hits, rumors started to spread on a Golden Lovers reunion that was even seen in various episodes of the YouTube web series "Being The Elite" in which in some scenes (haven't watched the series since 2019 so I'm going based only on photos) Kenny can be seen texting someone. Many believe that to be Kota Ibushi but as of right now, nothing is official yet.

Surprisingly, there were little to no rumors of AXIZ reuniting but seeds were being planted for the possibility. Those seeds in my opinion started on January 4, 2023 when Kongoh went to the Tokyo Dome to confront Los Ingobernables de Japon with the intention to "settle the score".

If you look at the video below, you'll notice that Nakajima does not have the same expression as the rest of Kongoh does which can tell you that it was starting. More than that, while the rest of Kongoh left in an orderly fashion, Nakajima left with the look that said "Sorry about that" as a way of apologizing for the abrupt appearance. He did the same thing at the official "Wrestle Kingdom 17 in Yokohama Arena" press conference which involved 5 of the 6 (at the time) LIJ members and 5 of the 8 (at the time) Kongoh members.

Seeds were planted a lot more when (according to all I was able to read) during the Road to NOAH's Tokyo Dome event on February 21st, Kenoh decided to dig into a history that I think Nakajima didn't want to talk about, that of him and AJPW's Kento Miyahara. The match (which was a 6-man tag) went on with apparently no issues. Kongoh managed to come out victorious, but Nakajima's backstage comments would leave many including Kenoh puzzled.

The possibilities increased a lot more when Go Shiozaki made a surprise appearance in Sendai on April 16th to announce his in-ring return.

Later on that same night, Katsuhiko Nakajima walked in as the challenger for the GHC Heavyweight Championship, this time held by newcomer Jake Lee. Something I didn't notice live but eventually did was the gear that Nakajima was wearing. He was wearing the same ring attire he wore on January 1, 2022. On the build back then, a stipulation was suggested that if Nakajima was to lose the title to Go Shiozaki, he would have to leave Kongoh and reform AXIZ. Since Nakajima won that night, the stipulation never came to fruition. But on that April 16th date, Nakajima walked into the title match against Jake Lee apparently with that stipulation in his mind. He ended up losing the title match in over 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, as rumors continue to spread of the Golden Lovers reuniting, Kenny Omega is reunited with a rival by the name Konosuke Takeshita in which he (as of this typing) has joined Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson to be part of "The Elite". Despite joining though, Kenny remained suspicious of Takeshita's intentions. Those intentions may be the key to the Golden Lovers reuniting again but only time will tell what the intentions may be or already are.

May 4, 2023; Ryogoku Kokukigan; Go Shiozaki returns in 6-man tag action by teaming with Kaito Kiyomiya and Yoshiki Inamura to face the Konogh members of Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh, and Manabu Soya. In the match, Nakajima wore the same gear he wore back on January 1, 2022 and April 16, 2023. Meanwhile, Go Shiozaki comes out in the gear he wore when he won his fourth GHC Heavyweight Championship on January 4, 2020. The 6-man tag turned into somewhat of a blowout as though there were times of shine for Shiozaki and his team, it was not enough to defeat Kongoh. Nakajima would end up getting the winning pin by pinning Shiozaki. It was after the match though that the rumors became reality.

AXIZ officially reunited and on May 14th will have their first match together since August 28, 2020.

My take on this is that....Katsuhiko Nakajima was betrayed by Kenoh. To me, Kenoh betrayed him by abruptly deciding to go to the Tokyo Dome not understanding everyone may have different plans. Then by the time he dug into a history he shouldn't have, that was the end. So on May 4, 2023 in Ryogoku, Nakajima came into Ryogoku with the intention to officially reunite AXIZ. How it happened is in the video above. I've been waiting years to see AXIZ live in action and now on May 14, 2023; me and many will be to get the chance to do just that.

Meanwhile, as we await the reunion of the Golden Lovers, down below is a picture of them reuniting back in January 2018, ten months before AXIZ was formed.

Should the Golden Lovers reunite this could increase the chance of a possible dream match: Golden Lovers vs. AXIZ at either a future NOAH event or at "The Forbidden Door" in late June. The reason I'm saying this is there's not just rumors of a Golden Lovers reunion, there's also rumors about Kota Ibushi joining Pro Wrestling NOAH. It would be something if all these rumors come true. Right now, only one has come to light. AXIZ is back as we await the date the Golden Lovers reunite once again.

[theart2rock]

Sorcerer veröffentlichen Reign of the Reaper am 27. Oktober

Die mächtigen Sorcerer sind nicht zu stoppen und im Herbst 2023 wird die Band ihr mit Spannung erwartetes viertes Studioalbum mit dem Titel "Reign of the Reaper" veröffentlichen. Das Album enthält einige der düstersten, härtesten und aggressivsten Stücke, die die Band je aufgenommen hat, und gleichzeitig einige der lyrischsten und schönsten. Seit ihrer Wiedergeburt im Jahr 2010, durch eine Reihe von erstaunlichen Live-Auftritten, die Unterzeichnung bei Metal Blade Records und die Veröffentlichung von drei exzellenten Metal-Alben, haben Sorcerer auf allen Zylindern gefeuert und haben keine Pläne, für irgendjemanden aufzuhören. "In the Shadow of the Inverted Cross" (2015) setzte alles in Bewegung; mit seinem klassischen, epischen Doom Metal-Ansatz festigte es Sorcerers triumphale Rückkehr in die Szene. Das Nachfolgealbum "The Crowning of the Fire King" (2017) gab den Fans die Extraportion Epic, nach der sie sich sehnten, und ermöglichte es der Band gleichzeitig, sich zu reformieren und ihren Sound und ihre Richtung neu zu gestalten. Hier legten Sorcerer den Grundstein, auf dem sie immer noch aufbauen - sie machen schweren, melodischen Metal mit krachenden Riffs, hohem Gesang und ohrwurmtauglichen Refrains. 2020 veröffentlichte die Band ihr bis dato aufwändigstes Album, das Konzeptalbum "Lamenting of the Innocent". Dieses Album ermöglichte es der Band, neue Wege zu beschreiten, mit ausgefeilterem, komplexerem Songwriting, längeren Songformen und mit Sänger Anders Engberg in Höchstform. Das Album wurde hoch gelobt und sehr gut aufgenommen und ermöglichte es der Band, die Bühnen einiger der renommiertesten Metal-Festivals und Veranstaltungsorte auf der ganzen Welt zu zieren. Für "Reign of the Reaper" zog sich die Band in ihre Heimstudios zurück und schrieb das ganze Jahr 2022 hindurch Musik, bevor sie sich erneut zu SolnaSound Recording in Stockholm begab, dem Studio, das Simon Johansson (Wolf, Soilwork) gehört und von Mike Wead (King Diamond) betrieben wird, um das Schlagzeug aufzunehmen. Da Sorcerer gerne mit einem kleinen, bewährten Team arbeiten, haben sie erneut die Dienste von Ronnie Björnström (Engineering, Mixing, Mastering) und Jani Stefanovic (Coverart für die Singles & Artwork-Booklet - Verpackungsdesign) in Anspruch genommen; diese beiden arbeiten bereits seit dem ersten Album mit der Band zusammen und haben wie immer hervorragende Arbeit geleistet. Das auffällige Cover-Artwork wurde von dem schwedischen Künstler Joakim Ericsson gestaltet. Conny Welén war wie immer für die Koproduktion verantwortlich. Anders sagt: "Er arbeitet seit 2015 und dem Reunion-Album 'In the Shadow of the Inverted Cross' mit uns zusammen. Connys Beitrag zu unserem Sound ist in jedem Song zu hören; er ist an den Arrangements beteiligt und spielt alle Keyboards". Er ist auch Co-Autor der Gesangsmelodien und der Grundlagen einiger Texte und hat darüber hinaus auch Anders' Gesang in seinem Studio aufgenommen. Die Fotografin Marieke Verschuren lieferte wie schon beim Vorgängeralbum die großartigen Bandfotos. Beim Eröffnungssong und der ersten Single Morning Star", die auf dem Fall Luzifers basiert, zeigt die Band ihr Können bei der Verschmelzung von klassischem Metal mit anderen Heavy-Elementen, wobei es einige Wendungen gibt. Mit einer bombastischen Rhythmussektion, angeführt von Evensand und Biggs, der melodischen und brillant ausgeführten Gitarrenarbeit von Niemann und Hallgren, gipfelnd in der wilden Stimme von Engberg, nimmt "Morning Star" den Hörer mit auf eine unerbittliche Reise durch das Reich von Pandemonium und die Hölle selbst. Kristian sagt: "Die majestätische erste Gitarrenlinie fiel mir im Fitnessstudio ein, daran erinnere ich mich noch genau. Ich schnappte mir mein Telefon und sang die Zeile in den Rekorder, wie ich es immer tue, wenn ich eine Idee habe. Ich dachte mir nicht viel dabei und vergaß sie prompt wieder, bis es an der Zeit war, Songs für das Album zu schreiben. Ich hatte ungefähr 150 Riffs und Ideen, die ich durchging, und diese eine hat mich sofort gepackt. Ich bin superzufrieden mit diesem Stück und es klingt genau so, wie ich es mir vorgestellt habe, als ich anfing, daran zu arbeiten. Die Jungs in der Band haben es KILLED, jeder hat sich den Arsch abgespielt und gesungen". "Reign of the Reaper" wird am 27. Oktober 2023 über Metal Blade Records veröffentlicht und enthält acht brandneue Tracks, die garantiert den Appetit von Metalheads aus allen Bereichen des Heavy Metal-Spektrums stillen werden. "Reign of the Reaper" wird in den folgenden Formaten erhältlich sein: - Deluxe Digipak-CD inkl. Bonus-CD "Reverence" - Deluxe 2-LP inkl. Bonus-LP "Reverence" (limitiert auf 500 Stück) - 180g schwarzes Vinyl - dunkelviolett marmoriertes Vinyl (limitiert auf 1.000 Exemplare) - smoke vinyl (limitiert auf 300 Exemplare) - silbernes Blackdust-Vinyl (limitiert auf 300 Exemplare) Tracklist: 01. Morning Star 02. Reign of the Reaper 03. Thy Kingdom Will Come 04. Eternal Sleep 05. Curse of Medusa 06. Unveiling Blasphemy 07. The Underworld 08. Break of Dawn Line-up: Anders Engberg – Vocals Kristian Niemann – Guitars, backing vocals Peter Hallgren – Guitars, backing vocals Justin Biggs – Bass, growls Richard Evensand – Drums Seit der Aufnahme des Albums hat Schlagzeuger Richard Evensand die Band verlassen und wurde durch Stefan Norgren ersetzt. Weblinks: www.sorcererdoom.com www.facebook.com/sorcererdoom Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

[flapperdame16]

Do yourself a favor and watch this Reign reunion of some of the cast- ALAN- WHAT A RIOT! HIM AND TORRENCE- ommgg many many references to ep 1x14

Plus- Alan and megan- plus Rossif are all neighbors!

Got I miss this show

[acciofrary]

Why did you come back? You didn't know the gold was poisoned! Mary, stop. It was one man against ten. They would have killed you! Why would you do something so stupid? Because I love you! What? Because it's pretty obvious now that for us to stay sane, we need to be together.

Toby Regbo and Adelaide Kane in Reign, 1.07 “Left Behind”

[frary-us]

Toby Regbo Source @regbosource  I look terrible...  but GUYS !!!! I JUST MET TOBY AGAIN !!!! He was so nice and kind. i love him!  August 7, 2020 Palermo, Sicily, Italy

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I’m so grateful to @regbosource for sharing her surprise reunion with Toby on the streets of Palermo, Italy with all of Regbo’s fans. And they both look wonderful.😍🙌🇮🇹  (x)

[yaz-the-spaz]

Hi yaz! Do you have any idea of what's to be expected from the boys in 2020? So their contracts would be up supposedly (which month would that be in?) and what would their contracts ending even look like? What would happen? Would they just go their separate ways, would they be able to be independent artists or not even continue w/ the same music route? What does their contracts being up in 2020 actually look like? And what would it mean in terms of possible coming out publicly for Z/L & H/L?

hey nonnie! so as always we’re all just speculating here so i know nothing for sure, the idea that it’s even gonna be up by 2020 is still just wide speculation due to theories and rumors that those sorts of clauses have usually only lasted up to 10 years (a la kelly clarkson’s american idol contract), but nothing’s set in stone and we could still be wrong on that front, though i sincerely hope not, but anyway all that to say no idea what month specifically that could mean (i would guess mayyyyyybe possibly around the same month they got signed back on txf although i have no idea when exactly that would be either lol maybe august/september?)

as far as what it would look like, the hope is just that they would be able to be a little more free with their images and what they’re allowed to say/do publicly so it’s possible there could be a bit of image re-vamping for some of them and maybe even new teams and/or labels for some, hopefully more open interactions between all of them on sm and being able to talk about each other (and themselves) more openly in interviews and stuff like that (and not constantly lying lol or at least maybe not so much), with a nice dose of a lot more good press and/or press that they’d have a little more control over…i think they’d definitely very easily be able to stay in the markets/genres/routes they’re in but it may also provide some more freedoms in some respects as far as who else they publicly work with or interact with (and please @god an end to at least some of the more major/problematic stunts). i definitely don’t see them going their separate ways, i think if anything we’d see more of them together though whether that’s business/music-related or just regular interaction/hanging out i think it could go either way, or go both ways tbh. and as far as going independent i think that really just depends on what they might wanna do individually for their careers. right now zayn and maybe louis are the only ones i could see really wanting to go that route and do away with the traditional label/mgmt contractual model but they might also decide to just stick with it cause it’s what easiest (in some ways anyway) and what they know/are already more familiar with

as for thoughts on what it would mean for their possible coming outs (if they so choose to go that route, that is), i would say peep my coming out tag cause everything i foresee or agree with as far as theories re that is pretty much expressed in posts in that tag

[joshjacksons]

Joshua Jackson interview with "Mr Porter" (2021)

Minutes before Mr Joshua Jackson joins me in a booth for a Friday afternoon drink at a vibey hotel bar in Santa Monica, he’s confronted by his past. Or rather, a woman in her early twenties who is binge-watching Dawson’s Creek, the teen show about a close-knit group of high-school friends coming of age in a sleepy American town, which made Jackson incredibly famous between 1998 and 2003. The series, which also made household names of Ms Michelle Williams and Ms Katie Holmes, went off air 18 years ago, but is now streaming on Netflix, to the bemusement of Jackson, who played lovable rogue Pacey Witter. “This girl was like, ‘Are you...?’ And I’m like, ‘Yes, I am. He got old. I’m sorry to break it to you,’” he says, before ordering an iced tea and a charcuterie board to tide him over until dinner time. “It always surprises me when young people say they’ve just got into Dawson’s Creek. I’m like, ‘Is it a costume drama to you? Do you feel like you’re watching a historical documentary?’”

The idea of a Friends-style reunion episode or a Sex And The City revival feels equally far-fetched to Canadian-born Jackson, now 43 and wearing it well in a pale green linen shirt and tailored linen trousers by Oliver Spencer that complement his fading brown hair and Cali-tanned skin.

“I don’t know why you’d want to [bring it back],” he says. “Nobody needs to know what those characters are doing in middle age. We left them in a nice place. Nobody needs to see that Pacey’s back hurts. I don’t think we need that update.”

And Jackson doesn’t need Dawson’s Creek. From Mr JJ Abrams’ sci-fi series Fringe (2008-2013) to the Golden Globe award-winning The Affair (2014-2019), from Ms Ava DuVernay’s ground-breaking true-crime drama When They See Us (2019) to the recent Ms Reese Witherspoon and Ms Kerry Washington-produced Little Fires Everywhere (2020), he has commanded the small screen – with a collection of dynamic and diverse work – ever since.

His latest role as Mr Christopher Duntsch, the Texas surgeon convicted of gross malpractice when 33 of his patients were left seriously injured after he operated on them and two of them died, in chilling Peacock crime drama Dr Death, is only stepping his career up another gear.

“I’ve never played anyone irredeemable before,” says Jackson, who is joined in the eight-part series (based on the 2018 Wondery podcast of the same name) by Messrs Christian Slater and Alec Baldwin. “He is charming, gregarious and has a high-level intellect, but he’s also a misogynist, probably a sociopath, certainly a narcissist and a complete incompetent who is incapable of seeing himself.”

If Duntsch is terrifying, then Jackson’s portrayal is even more so. The artist formerly known as Pacey is virtually unrecognisable (thanks to prosthetics) in the opening scene, but the real challenge for Jackson was allowing himself to view someone who is so “spectacularly evil” as a human being in order to walk in his shoes. “It’s a more damning portrayal of the man to make him into a human being, rather than just make him the bad guy,” he says. “He really believes he’s the hero, he’s the genius and that he’s the victim, so once I got past my own judgment, all the other things fell into place.”

Jackson might have his pick of stellar roles – and challenges – now, but it has not happened by accident. Take it from someone who has been in the business since landing his first job aged 14 in Disney’s live-action movie series The Mighty Ducks, opposite Brat Pack alumnus Mr Emilio Estevez.

“You try to make it look like it happens accidentally,” he says, “but there is no way to do this and not be ambitious. I’d say I’m extremely ambitious because I’ve been doing this cutthroat job for nearly 30 years. I’m in the pay-off phase of my career now. One of the benefits of surviving for as long as I have is you get to learn from your own mistakes.”

Such as? “I wouldn’t say, ‘I wish I hadn’t done that,’ because it all becomes bricks in a path, but [after Dawson’s Creek] I was not choosy enough about the things I was doing. You get stuck. You start trying to perform the performance you think people are hoping to see you do. I was so used to working all the time that I just worked all the time. There was definitely a conscious moment in my mid-twenties when I realised I wasn’t really enjoying the work that I was doing. My manager at the time just said, ‘Take a breath. You’re burnt out.’”

The turning point came in 2005, when Jackson was offered a role in the two-hander Mr David Mamet play A Life In The Theatre, opposite Sir Patrick Stewart. “God bless him, Patrick could have made my life miserable because I had no idea what I was doing, ” he says. “I hadn’t been on stage since I was a kid and now I was in the West End in over my head. But it reminded me that I actually enjoyed being an actor, that it’s not about the red carpet or travelling around the world. What I really enjoy is working on good material with good people.”

It’s no surprise Jackson’s time on Dawson’s Creek led to a career crisis. From the ages of 19 to 24, he lived with his fellow cast mates in Wilmington, North Carolina, filming day in, day out, in an arrangement he likens to college. “You get to the end and they’re like, ‘Here’s your degree. Go live now. You’re an adult. Go out into the world,’” he says.

But most graduates don’t have to deal with global fame. “It’s transitory. You’re only ever cool for a moment and then you become much less cool. I was always pretty dubious about flatterers,” he says, recalling a time he was stung in London in the mid-2000s. “I went on a date in Hyde Park with a woman whose name I will not use – she was socialite-famous – and she was acting completely bizarre, looking over her shoulder the whole time. I came to find out that she had hired a photographer to follow us through the park and gave a whole story to the tabloids about how I was going to meet her family.”

It was his growing fortune, rather than fame, that caused Jackson the most anxiety. “Suddenly, at 19 years old, I was making more in a week than most of my friends’ parents would make in a year,” he says. “It was lovely to have the money, but it was that feeling of nobody is worth that kind of money. You feel like a fraud and it took me a long time to forgive myself for not being the thing that I was perceived as.”

Born in Vancouver, but raised in Topanga, California, until he was eight (before moving back to Vancouver following his parents’ divorce), Jackson bought his childhood home in 2001 and lives in it today with his wife, British Queen & Slim actor Ms Jodie Turner-Smith, and their 15-month-old daughter.

“My father unfortunately was not a good father or a husband and exited the scene, but that house in Topanga was where everything felt simple, so it was a very healing thing for me to do,” he says. Fast-forward to 2021 and his baby daughter now sleeps in her father’s childhood bedroom. “There was a mural of a dragon on the wall in that room that I couldn’t believe was still there, years later. The owner [who sold him the house] said, ‘I knew it meant a lot to somebody and that they were going to come back for it some day.’”

Becoming a first-time parent during a pandemic sounds stressful, but it afforded Jackson months at home with his wife and child that his normal work schedule wouldn’t have allowed.

“I now recognise how perverse the way that we have set up our society is,” he says. “There is not a father I know who works a regular job who didn’t go back to the office a week later. It’s robbing that man of the opportunity to bond with his child and spend time with his partner.”

Despite his obvious career ambitions, fatherhood has changed Jackson’s priorities in “every possible way”, he says. “It’s 100 per cent changed how I approach my work and my life. That has been made so clear to me in this past year. For me to feel good about what I’m doing day to day, my family has to be the central focus.

“There are plenty of things left for me to do, but now the thing that gets me excited is experiencing the world through my daughter’s eyes. I can’t wait to take her scuba diving. I can’t wait to take her skiing. I can’t wait to read a great book with her. I’m not worried at all she’ll be a wallflower. She’s been a character from the word go.”

Jackson met Turner-Smith, 34, two days after his 40th birthday. He had been single since his 10-year relationship with German actress Ms Diane Kruger ended in 2016. “I was not looking to fall in love again or meet the mother of my child, but life has other plans for you,” he says.

The couple met at a party. Turner-Smith was wearing the same The Future Is Female Ejaculation T-shirt Ms Tessa Thompson’s character, Detroit, wears in the 2018 film Sorry To Bother You. “That’s what I used to break the ice. I shouted, ‘Detroit!’ across the room. Not the smoothest thing I’ve ever done, but it worked. We were pretty much inseparable from the word go. It was a whirlwind romance and I can tell my daughter I literally saw her mother across a room and thought, ‘I have to be next to this woman.’”

A self-confessed “useless” shopper, Jackson gives his wife full credit for his current wardrobe. He is jewellery-free, apart from a wedding band and a gold signet “JJ” ring on his little finger (a present from his wife), and discovered tailored sweatsuits (by Stampd and Reigning Champ) in the pandemic.

“Jodie has influence in the way that a wonderful wife encourages you, through love, to dress well. She was like, ‘We’re going to throw away all the sweatpants from your past and I’m going to get you some that actually make you look like an adult male and you will still feel comfortable around the house,’ and I’m like, ‘What an amazing idea!’ Who knew you could get sweatsuits that actually look good on your body?”

Jackson’s style has evolved, he says, “from slovenly teen to it’s-nice-when-your-clothes-actually-fit-you”. The penny dropped after he auditioned for his former co-star Estevez, who was directing the 2006 Mr Robert Kennedy biopic Bobby. He said to me, ‘You only got this job because I know you. You came in here to play a very well-put together 1960s political operative and you’re wearing jeans and a hoodie.’

“I had to grow up a little bit. We are very much raised in Canada to never, ever show off, so it took me a while to recognise it’s OK to look good when you go out.”

Still, when you’ve grown up in front of the camera, “every pimple literally documented”, and lived (very successfully) to tell the tale, you can probably be forgiven for the odd fashion faux pas.

“I wore a silk Ascot to an event once in Paris and I still have nightmares about it,” he says. “I looked like Fred from Scooby Doo, but you live and learn.”

[hidden-otaku-stuff]

MASTERLIST - 1

🌑 The New Moon (NSFW Masterlist) 🌑

Star Charts by school

Series

Different but the Same (Iwaizumi x fem!Reader, Ushijima x fem!Reader) 

Summary: An unexpected encounter at the Inter-High tournament tossed you into a whirlwind. Being tugged between two males, two different packs, who will reign supreme in this battle for your heart?

*Omegaverse*

Lockscreens (Bokuto x fem!Reader, Kuroo x fem!Reader) 

Summary: Nearly four years ago, Bokuto left the love of his life for volleyball. Despite all the time, he’s still very much in love with her. He comes home to a major surprise leaving him wondering…What happened while he was gone?

The INKED Collection (one-shot collection) [Soulmate AU]

A series of full-length one-shots detailing the stories of various Haikyuu boys, soulmate marks, and tattoo cover-ups. 

Hidden Corner (one-shot collection) [Cafe AU]

A series of fluffy, full-length one-shots detailing the lives of the employees who work at Hidden Corner featuring the various Haikyuu boys.

*Note: All one-shots take place in the same universe with the same characters.

One-shots

Key: 💫: angst, 🌕: fluff

Falling (Kuroo T.) 💫

Summary: Saying goodbye is hard. But so is losing your love.

Inspired by: Love is Gone by SLANDER

Reunion (Terushima Y.) 🌕

Summary: Where you’re a Karasuno manager and run into someone you knew from childhood

Pre-game Rituals (Kita S.) 🌕

Summary: Just any other game, but with a plot twist.

On a Run (Ushijima W.) 🌕

Summary: Where you go on a run with your dog and run into some trouble

Complementary (Kuroo T.) 💫

Summary: Your tattoo has dictated your fate from what Clan you would support, to what training you would do. A simple cover-up has changed your life much more than you originally anticipated. But what else can you expect from the fickle warlord you call a close friend?

*The INKED Collection*

Fall Changes (Sawamura D.) 🌕

Summary: Where you’re on your first date with Daichi and it’s a little too chilly. 

*HaikyuuCreations August 2020 Monthly Event*

Unexpected (Oikawa T.) 🌕

Summary: Where Oikawa was surprised by what type of dog you owned.

Knowledge and Ambition (Kuroo T.) 🌕

Summary: A chance meeting in the library puts Ravenclaw Kuroo face-to-face with the Slytherin Cold Princess. 

Connection (Sawamura D.)  🌕

Summary: When Daichi moves to a new city, he stops by the animal shelter looking for some company. 

Recommendations (Akaashi K.)  🌕 

Summary: After getting tired of his usual black coffee, Akaashi checks out the cafe down the street which is home to some of the more unorthodox and unique drinks. Needless to say, he takes all the help that he can get.

 *Hidden Corner series*

A Foodie’s Second Chance (Miya O.) 🌕

Summary: After moving to the States for university, you finally move back to Japan for work. Attending the Sapporo Autumn Festival with your coworker puts you face-to-face with your first love. 

*HaikyuuCreations September 2020 Monthly Event*

A Winged Wingman (Bokuto K.)  🌕

Summary: A themed night at the MSBY Stadium leads to some quality time with a pretty raptor-keeper. 

Sanctuary (Terushima Y.)  🌕

Summary: Kicked out multiple times by bad roommates, Izanami takes pity on her classmate and hires him to work for her cafe overnight. But little does Terushima know, he’s getting more than just a job out of this.

*Hidden Corner series*

Don’t Give (Bokuto K.) 💫 🌕

Summary: After Kuroo breaks your heart, you decide to do a complete glow-up with the help of a certain volleyball player.

*Skye’s 400 song-fic request*

Obligations (Oikawa T.)  💫 🌕

Pairing: Mafia-boss!Oikawa x fem!rival reader

Genre: Mafia soulmate AU

Summary: A debt to repay, family obligations, and a quest for revenge leads you down an interesting path. Fate really has a way of messing with you, doesn’t it?

*The INKED Collection series*

You’re Not Alone (Iwaizumi H.) 💫 🌕

Summary: Iwaizumi has had to watch Oikawa treat you poorly throughout your relationship. What happens when he becomes your go-to?

You’re a What? (Miya A.) 💫 🌕

Summary: After his girlfriend starts disappearing, Atsumu needs to figure out what exactly went wrong with his relationship.

Universal 🌕 (Miya O.)

Summary: One early morning on his way to work, Osamu walks past a café. The lights are on, and there’s no other sign of life anywhere else. Popping in, he discovers some of the best baked goods he’s ever tasted. But can you really fall in love with someone based on how their food tastes?

*Hidden Corner series*

Cornerstone 💫 🌕 (Miya O.)

Summary: Everywhere he goes, Osamu sees you after you left him.

*Skye’s 400 song-fic request*

Superstitious 🌕 (Nishinoya Y.)

Summary: When his S/O starts telling him a bunch of superstitions, bad things just keep happening!

Jump Scares 🌕 (Miya A.) 

Summary: Where Atsumu really wants to see what makes his S/O scared!

A babythots collab

To All The Boys - The Fuckboy  🌕💫 (Terushima Y.) 

Pairings: Terushima Yuuji x reader

Summary: Everybody in the school has liked Terushima at least once in their lifetime, you are no exception to that. But it wasn’t a serious crush, just infatuation. He knows you hate him though, he knows how bad you want to shove a spider down his throat and he knows how much you want him out of your sight. So when you write the letter and it gets sent to him, he somehow makes a big deal out of it even when re: it wasn’t a serious crush. It just served an ego boost and now he won’t stop pestering you about it, and god, he’s so annoying

babythots collab | Mini-series

Brokenhearts Club - Same Room 💫 (Iwaizumi H.) 

Summary: After a long relationship, you unexpectedly broke-up with Iwaizumi. Now, he can’t seem to get you out of his mind nor can he stand to be in the same room as you.

a babythotshq collab

Drabbles/Scenarios

The Haikyuu Captains and How They Comfort Their S/O 🌕

Little Glances  🌕 (Suna R.)

Summary: Other students’ dumb comments bring you and Suna together.

Second Chance  💫🌕 (Oikawa T.)

Summary: In which you and your boyfriend had broken up and are meeting up to talk about getting back together.

Escape from a Blind Date  🌕 (Kuroo T.)

Summary: Where Kuroo rescues you from a terrible blind date

Headcanons

Your Ex Hits You Up for Pics ft. Kuroo, Daichi and Iwaizumi  🌕 

The Haikyuu Captains and Anger Languages 💫   

The Haikyuu Captains and Late Night Car Drives 🌕

The Haikyuu Setters and Anger Languages 💫

The Haikyuu Aces and Anger Languages 💫

Fake Dating your Family Friend (Semi E.) 🌕 

SMAUS

Terushima fake-bf texts 🌕 

Requests

Helping a female reader through anxiety (Kuroo T.) 🌕

“You said to be honest, stop hitting me!” (Oikawa T.) 🌕

“That was kind of hot” (Todoroki S.) 🌕

“I just wanted to tell you that I think you’re beautiful” (Alpha Bokuto K.) 🌕 [Omegaverse]

A:“Have you seen my hoodie?” B:“Noo.” A: “You’re wearing it, aren’t you?” (Alpha Bokuto K.) 🌕 [Omegaverse]

Helping a gn!reader with insecurities (Kuroo T.)  🌕

“If you don’t hug me right now I think I might fall apart” (Akaashi K.)  🌕

Tsukishima, Kuroo, Osamu saving their S/O from traffic 🌕

"That’s how you know you love (them)” (Miya A.)  🌕

Suga, Atsumu, Akaashi, and Sakusa saving their S/O from traffic  🌕

Friends to lovers (Iwaizumi H.- headcanons) 🌕

Bokuto, Tsukishima, and Iwaizumi surprising their S/O after a bad day 🌕

Tendou, Iwaizumi, Ushijima comforting a mute reader (HCs) 🌕

Protective (Alpha Sawamura D.)  🌕 [Omegaverse]

Home (Alpha Kyotani K.)  🌕 [Omegaverse]

Alpha to the Rescue! (Alpha Kuroo T.) 🌕 [Omegaverse]

The Return (Alpha Iwaizumi H.) 💫 [Omegaverse]

(polyship) Alpha Daichi & Suga with Pregnant Omega Reader 🌕 [Omegaverse]

“I’ll make you my mate, no matter what. So be prepared.”  (Alpha Ushijima W.) 🌕 💫 [Omegaverse]

Semi Finds You Reading Angst 🌕

[dalekofchaos]

WWE has gone back to the Divas era of booking their women’s division

Sasha Banks, the Smackdown Women's Champion, got around a minute of screen time tonight during the Road to Wrestlemania. One of the most popular stars they have right now.

The anticipated Sasha Bianca feud tonight got a stare down and an attempted attack. That's it. Nothing else.

Shayna Baszler vs Natalya lasted around a minute.

Bayley, the longest reigning Smackdown Women's Champion and the women who helped carry the PC Era is again nowhere to be found.

The longest women's segment was a cluster of women put together because they don't know really what to do with them in all honesty. Sound familiar?

It should because this is pretty much the Divas Era. This entire Road to Wrestlemania for the women has been nearly as bad as they were during the Divas Era. It seems that after the women main evented Wrestlemania, creative said we don't really care anymore. The women are not called divas anymore, but they have the exact same booking minus the focus on their looks.

I have never seen such an anticipated feud like Sasha vs Bianca be so lazily built up. Laziness is the word to describe how wwe sees the women's division now and let's be honest, for the most part since Mania 35.

Becky Lynch, the woman who won in the main event of Wrestlemania, struggled for screen time compared to mid card men. On Raw Reunion in 2019, where many more eyes were on Raw, she was in a short talk show segment with Alexa. The winner of the main event of Mania was in a talk show segment in one of the biggest Raws of that time that could have showed returning viewers how things have changed. Constant under booking throughout her reign.

Now Sasha...her reign has been abysmal with little to no story or time at all. Sometimes not even appearing on smackdown. One of the most popular stars getting less than 5 minutes a night usually. While the mid card women are bunched up together like the divas tag matches back when all the divas were in one match to get them on the show. Hell, they won’t even mention her role in The Mandalorian

This is in large pretty much what the divas era was and I'm tired of it.

The women's division right now is just like how the divas division was, minus the focus on their looks and I'm tired of it.

Honestly, the women's division has been on a decline for a while. At first it started out very very slowly with women like Ember Moon taking clean submission losses to people like Lacey Evans in under 5 minutes. But ever since Bruce Prichard became the executive director of Raw and Smackdown, the women's division has taken such a huge step back to the days of the divas at a terrifyingly rapid pace. For the latter part of 2020 on Raw, Lana was getting more TV time than Asuka, ya know, the Raw Women's Champion. There were even a lot of weeks when Asuka wasn't on Raw at all. At no point in time should Lana--unarguably the weakest and most inexperienced women's wrestler in the company, EVER get more ring time than your Women's Champion.

Dana Brooke and Mandy Rose are the most generic makeshift team ever. They legitimately look like the blonde barbie diva team you'd have seen on Raw back in 2007. The Sasha/Bianca build (if you can even call it that) stinks horribly of diva era booking. For nearly a month, they argued over that geek Reginald and in recent weeks, they've given such low effort to building the match that all the excitement fans had for the match back in Janaury is practically nonexistent. And that's ashame and something neither Sasha nor Bianca deserve.

Before she got pregnant, Lacey Evans, Ric Flair, and Charlotte were engaged in a cringy weird love triangle that was getting no one over and was very reminisce of the Torrie/Al/Dawn angle in 2002. I'm not a Charlotte fan by any means, but the woman is a 12x Women's Champion and main evented Wrestlemania. The best non-title feud you can put her in consists of her quarreling with her horny, perverted, viagra pilled up father? And again, why was this getting more TV time than Asuka--who was the Raw Women's Champion...just in case WWE wasn't aware.

Add that in with the Riot Squad pretty much being the punching bags for the Smackdown women's locker room and the shortened matches. It's become quite evident to me that Bruce Prichard really doesn't care about women's wrestling and only sees them as eye candy for him to get 5 minutes of pleasure off of. And considering all the hard work that was done to get the women to a prominent role in WWE, it's just sad and pathetic to see.

[galvanizedfriend]

Fic: The Wolf II

Summary: The Guerreras' threat still looms over the Mikaelson house as Caroline tries to adapt to life as a vampire, away from her daughter. But an unexpected family reunion makes everything worse, taking away the little peace Klaus, Caroline and Elijah managed to find after the war that nearly broke them.[It's The Originals Season 2, but Caroline was a witch, had Klaus' baby and now she's a vampire. Klaroline, obviously.]

S02E25 The Day I Tried To Live ✨

Voices travel out of the house, all the way to Klaus' ears, before he's even crossed the driveway in front of the Salvatore Boarding House.

"Why would we give a letter to Jo?" he hears Elena say in that shrill, demanding tone of hers that took him so close to snatching out her tongue on more than one occasion.

Klaus is long past his hard feelings towards Mystic Falls' band of misfits and mongrels, life having reminded him how those scheming teenagers were really never more than cockroaches under his boots, but he still finds himself annoyed. It's almost inevitable. In the scale of doppelgangers, he'd say Elena definitely reigns as the most insufferable of them all. He'd take Katerina trying to one-up him any day over the abnegated martyr. At least she was clever.

"I haven't been able to find her using a locator spell, and, you know, good on her, because under normal circumstances I'd be super jazzed to gouge out her belly button," responds an unfamiliar male voice.

Klaus stops. The gouging out belly buttons part has him suddenly interested. He prowls closer to the house, walking towards the back door, where the voices seem to be coming from, now paying close attention.

"Why would we help you, Kai?" Damon speaks this time, that detestable little wanker. Just hearing his voice makes Klaus want to snap his neck to shut him up.

Kai. He remembers that name from one of Caroline's messages. Someone who was causing some kind of trouble in Mystic Falls, if he's not mistaken. Her messages got rather vague and waspish after a while, once his resounding silence had taken a toll on her.

"Well, in case you haven't figured it out by now, I'm a sociopath. I know. Shocker," Kai replies. Klaus arches his eyebrows approvingly. "I like being a sociopath. I'm not burdened by things like guilt or love. So, then this merge happened with my brother Luke, and I won, which was great, because I absorbed his ability to do magic, but now I can't stop thinking about how Luke died... How Liv's life is now ruined." The man's voice visibly thickens with emotion. "For some horrible reason, I can't shake how badly I feel about it."

A remorseful sociopath. How quaint.

Read the full chapter here on AO3

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First update of 2021! ✨ Happy new year, folks! :) This is a VERY KC-centric chapter, which I felt was sorely needed at this point. lol I really hope you guys enjoy it! Also, no major warnings for this chapter.

Special thanks to everyone who voted for this story for the @kcawards​! It is now an award-winning fic, you guys! 🥳 💖

As always, your comments, messages and reblogs are so, so very welcome! Your messages after the last update really made my last few days of 2020 so much brighter, thank you so much!

[felipeandletizia]

December 24, 2020: King Felipe’s Christmas Message.

Good night. I come to you this Christmas Eve when we are experiencing truly exceptional circumstances due to the pandemic.

Many families have not been able to meet tonight as you had thought due to health measures; and in thousands of homes there is a void that is impossible to fill due to the death of your loved ones, whom I now want to remember with emotion and with all respect. A memory that fills our hearts with very deep feelings. And also, at this time, many citizens fight against the disease or its consequences at home, in hospitals or in nursing homes. Today I send you all my greatest encouragement and affection.

2020 has been a very tough and difficult year. The virus has entered our lives bringing suffering, sadness or fear; it has altered the way we live and work, and has seriously affected our economy, even paralyzing or destroying many businesses.

Many citizens and families live the anguish of unemployment or precariousness; the anguish of barely meeting basic needs; Or do you feel the sadness of having to abandon a business to which you have dedicated your life. For all this it is logical and understandable that discouragement or distrust are very present in so many homes.

And yet, the response to a crisis as serious as the one we are experiencing cannot come from the hand of more discouragement or more distrust. The situation is dire. But even so, we have to face the future with determination and confidence in ourselves, in what we are capable of doing together, with courage and hope; with confidence in our country and in our model of democratic coexistence.

We have reasons for this; because over the last decades, faced with serious difficulties, we have always been able to overcome them. And this situation that we are experiencing is not going to be different from the others; because neither the virus nor the economic crisis are going to break us.

Regarding the health situation, it is clear that overcoming this disease will come thanks to science and research. The new treatments against the virus and the development of vaccines that are underway already offer us great hope. But in the meantime, we have a lot to do.

Individual responsibility remains essential and is an effective instrument in the fight against the virus. That is why it is so important to stay alert and not lower our guard.

We once again thank the health workers for their enormous effort, their extraordinary professionalism and their great humanity with the ill. They faced the first attacks of the virus in extreme situations and also overflow in some of our hospitals. Today they continue to face this fight with a great emotional and physical burden on their shoulders. We ask you to maintain all your courage and strength and continue to take care of our health.

The other big problem and challenge is the economic crisis and avoid, above all, that it leads to a social crisis. Each person matters a lot. Therefore, individuals and families must be our primary concern. Especially our young people; their unemployment level is extremely high, and they cannot be the losers in this situation. Our youth deserve to have the most appropriate training, to grow personally and professionally, and to be able to carry out their projects. Spain cannot afford a lost generation.

Protecting the most vulnerable and fighting the inequalities that the pandemic has created or exacerbated is a matter of dignity among those of us who form the same political community. But it will also be essential to recover our economy.

And for this, it is decisive to strengthen the business and productive, industrial and service fabric. The recognition and support of our companies, the protection of our freelancers and merchants, so hit these months, will be essential to create jobs, that job that our country so badly needs. We therefore need to consolidate the foundations that give us a clear horizon of economic momentum, stability and confidence, which encourages investment and the creation of jobs.

The health, economic and social challenges we face are therefore great… enormous, but not insurmountable. Overcoming them constitutes a great national objective that must unite us all; that, as citizens, commits and obligates us all; with ourselves, with others and with our country.

And this requires a great collective effort, a great effort in which each one continues to give the best of themselves according to their responsibilities and to the extent of their abilities.

For this great national effort, we have in the first place what is most important: people; with the example of thousands of citizens who have put their work at the service of others, who have lived these last months with selflessness, commitment and great generosity. People who stimulate our spirit of improvement and of whom we should be justly proud.

All of this has been personally verified by the Queen and I during this time. In the field and in the sea; in towns and cities; in the markets, in the factories we have seen the courage and the nerve of this country. We have felt the pulse of our society which, despite everything, has kept Spain on its feet.

We both have in our memory the living image of those thousands of citizens who represent a society that has felt more united than ever in its struggle and resistance against such an adverse situation; a society that has effective and supportive organizations so that no one feels alone or helpless; a society that has endured these hard months with integrity, responsibility and serenity.

We therefore have a strong society and also a solid state. During all this time, both public and basic services, as well as companies in essential sectors have worked well, trying to put all the means at their disposal. The pandemic has revealed to us aspects that need to be improved and reinforced, but it also shows us our strengths as an advanced State. We have verified this, for example, with the efficiency and dedication of our Armed Forces, our Security Forces, Civil Protection and Emergency services, and many other public servants, who have demonstrated their dedication to service and their full harmony with our society.

And Europe is also very important to face this crisis. We have the European Union, which has made a firm commitment to sustainability and economic recovery in the face of this pandemic. The Union offers us a historic opportunity to progress and advance; opens a new era for Spain to join in a common project to modernize our economy; adapt our production structures to the new industrial, technological and environmental revolution that we are experiencing. And establish with ambition and cohesion our collective role as members of the EU before the world.

And above all we count on our system of democratic coexistence. At a time when the pandemic and its economic and social consequences cause so much uncertainty, our Constitution guarantees us our way of understanding life, our vision of society and of the human being; of their dignity, of their rights and freedoms. A Constitution that we all have a duty to respect; and that in our days, it is the foundation of our social and political coexistence; and that represents, in our history, a success of and for democracy and freedom.

Let us not forget that the advances and progress achieved in democracy are the result of the reunion and the pact between the Spaniards after a long period of confrontations and divisions. They are the result of wanting to look to the future together, united in democratic values; united in an always inclusive spirit, in respect for plurality and differences, and in the ability to dialogue and reach agreements. They are principles that never lose their validity over the years.

And together with our democratic principles and compliance with the laws, we also need to preserve the ethical values ​​that are at the roots of our society.

Already in 2014, in my Proclamation before the General Courts, I referred to the moral and ethical principles that citizens claim from our conduct. Some principles that oblige us all without exceptions; and that they are above any consideration, of whatever nature, even personal or family ones.

This is how I have always understood it, in coherence with my convictions, with the way I understand my responsibilities as Head of State and with the renewing spirit that inspires my Reign from day one.

I have always thought that Spain is an extraordinary country, of enormous wealth and cultural diversity, built over the centuries thanks to the efforts of many generations of Spaniards, and with a great history that has been, for a time, history itself of our world.

We are not a people who give up or resign themselves in bad times. It will not be easy to overcome this situation, and in each house you know it well. But I am sure that we will succeed. With effort, union and solidarity, Spain will move forward. With everyone and for everyone. And, as King, I will be with everyone and for everyone, not only because it is my duty and my conviction, but also because it is my commitment to all of you, to Spain.

It will not be difficult for the year 2021 to improve to this 2020. We are going to regain normality as much as possible in the workplace, in the classrooms, in the squares and in the neighborhoods; in shops, in markets, in bars; in cinemas, in theaters ...; in everyday life that shapes the character of a society like ours.

It's what we all want. And in the assurance that this will be the case, the Queen, the Princess of Asturias, the Infanta Sofía and I sincerely thank you for all the expressions of affection and support that you have transmitted to us this year, and we wish you a Merry Christmas and all the best for an especially hopeful 2021.

Eguberri on. Bon Nadal and Boas festas.

[halfhappyhooligan]

a voltron au? in 2020? it’s more likely than you think

look. LOOK. i know that voltron is stupid and we hate it but lets be honest: everything up until season 3 was pretty good and had lots of potential !!

today i was rewatching voltron and a thought struck me: what if, instead of shiro being cloned, he was chipped and turned to the side of the galra?

so here it is, i did not blink since i thought of this

(warning, i have not seen voltron in a while and this is just knowledge i have stored in my moss brain and stuff i know from rewatching the first season)

au where shiro goes evil bc of what happens @ end of season one instead of the clone thing bc 1) haggar rly could not have made thousands of shiros after bumping into team voltron like what twice? its hella improbable and 2) just… weird

so instead they insert a chip in him that helps them spy and control him just like kuron (the clone) did minus the unlikely storytelling

eventually after the convo with sendak when he was in the pod trying to temp shirp, he does have thoughts about helping zarkon

(“im already infiltrated with the arm, i could just speed up the process by leaving now. save the team the trouble of investing in a leader that’s doomed to fail from the strart.”)

shiro ends up leaving team voltron in season 2 after zarkon goes crazy w the black lion n stuff

^^ this adds to Keith’s reasoning of joining the Blade of Marmora (shiro is his main stability and one of the main reasons he even stuck around with team voltron, so with shiro gone and keith questioning his place as the leader and paladin of the black lion, he decides the BoM is just.. what’s best for him) 

obviously lance isn’t happy with this (“you just told me that i’m a valuable member, now you don’t think YOU are? what logic is that?”)

ofc keith goes anyways

lance becomes paladin of the black lion

allura takes on the red lion

who has blue lion? ...idk this isn’t that thought out (maybe matt after pidge finds her family) (which will happen earlier in the plot since we can forget about the miniplot of black no longer responding to shiro)

enter lotor only this time he has a sidekick and what omg its shiro wow

shiro has that bigger version of his arm that was once offered to him

he’s stronger and scary, but his eyes aren’t the same, he has the strength of a galra but lacks the passion 

in the fight between lotor and zarkon, (and after, of course lots of self doubt and questioning) shiro comes between them and convinces lotor NOT to kill zarkon

then zarkon kills lotor

everyones like oh shit bc surely someone who’s life was just spared wouldn’t kill the person who seems to have the most power

but he did. bc he’s zarkon. and he’s fckn crazy.

shiro doesn’t go back to team voltron bc its too much too easily

instead he takes the place of lotor in the group of gals 

he convinces them all to rebel against the galra

eventually they teach him all about quintessence and all the shit lotor had planned that they can’t do anymore

(lotor wasn’t harvesting alteans in this universe bc what the heck even was that subplot that had little to no relevance to the main storyline?

instead he was trying to find a way to technologically bring back alteans (kinda like how allure’s dad was originally preserved in s1)

i know nothing about How Stuff Works and i dont remember much about quintessence n shit but the basic idea is that when tying in some of a persons artifacts with technology stuff and some quintessence then boom. a weird route from astral projection land to the team is created and ppl can come back or smth idfk

but lotor was never able to get the comet so shiro decides he and the gals will get that comet and try to bring back as many alteans as they can

^ all this while infiltrating as many galra fleets as possible + saving planets under galra empire

they personally visit every planet that lotor was in charge of and release them from galra control

they are able to bring back an altean (its romelle) and she talks abt her friend who lives on the balmera and they go to the balmera and its revealed that it was shay’s great grandmother so romelle asks where shay is and shay’s family is like with team voltron of course

so

they take her

obviously team voltron, the BoM and the Rebels r very hesitant to make contact but they decide to try it out

keith refuses to meet, instead he’s on the team that stands guard

reunions !! 

romelle and shay hit it off and hunk makes a dinner much like roselle’s past (allura and coran also hang out and they all vibe)

lance talks to shiro abt everything to do with keith and shiro is like dude do u??? like him?

and lance is like what? no ofc not—oh shit.

and keith ✨overhears ✨

pidge matt and shiro catch up n shit

meanwhile keith is like Hey Lance Uhhhhhh What The Fuck

they end up being like hey since we’re all here and we hate zarkon what if we make a plan to end the galra’s reign Right Now

so they do

and y’all.. it’s hella baller plan

except something is going wrong and in the middle of an attack zarkon is able to get the upper hand 

due to haggar’s magic and lance’s mental and emotional instability, zarkon is able to get in his head

everyone is trying to talk him down but they’re all under a lot of pressure

allura is also conflicted bc she wanted to be black lion bc she wanted to rub it in to zarkon’s face that she was stronger than he and that she could beat him at his own game

but the negativity and instability feeds into zarkon’s power and makes him and haggar stronger as they pull in voltron to finally take over the team and regain their status as the most powerful alien race

hunk realizes this and is like okay can y’all stop being negative? its clearly affecting them in a good way and it makes us an easier target

and pidge is like im literally a child pls i don’t wanna die i just got my family back it can’t end like this

shiro realizes what’s going on and he goes to save them

he uses all his energy, pulling in the positive memories (everything: first learning about space, becoming a teacher, meeting adam, meeting keith, first making team voltron, his friends and family--all of it) to push back zarkon and haggar’s powers and battle once more in the astral realm 

in defeating zarkon, shiro loses his life

afterwards keith enters the ship in a hurry and is like where the fuck is shiro where’s my brother what did you do what happened

and team voltron is like hey man.. we are so so sorry

and keith cries because the last thing he ever said to shiro was mean

lance feels like its all his fault since he was supposed to be a good leader

they talk about separately while hunk pidge and allura discuss

krolia is like keith we, ur family, are here for u

and axca is there and shes like um?? hey?? sry for trying to kill u bro

and he’s like i absolutely do not wanna talk i just lost my closest friend

they talk about it later

axca tells keith abt shiro finishing lotor’s work and abt bringing people back and well.. 

they use the methods to help keith visit shiro in the astral realm

shiro is like oh uh hey i was just having a drink w adam we r happy

and keith is like shiro u fuckhead why would u sacrifice urself

shiro sighs bc cmon keith you KNOW why “remember what i always said? we can’t focus on what went wrong..”

“we’ve got to figure out how to make it right” keith finishes

keith breaks tf down crying and screams apologizing

“i love u shiro. ur a like a big brother to me.”

and shiro is like yeah i know and ilyt but hey. everyone’s safe and happy. im safe and happy. & you deserve to be too. you don’t need me anymore.

so the galra rule is over and everyone goes to their respected planets

romelle and the other alteans as well as some galra babes hang in earth

romelle and shay r in an apartment together and have a garden

allura realizes she may not have been the strongest leader for voltron, and  couldn’t stop zarkon on her own but that physical strength doesn’t define her as a whole

her heart is strong enough to care for everyone, so thats what she does

allura starts running an inn for alteans filled with painted sceneries like altea in case anyone ever needs a reminder of home

when lance reunites with his family its a real tearjerker

rachel finally gets her jacket back and veronica is like So.. Axca 👀

the McClain’s host a huge party for everyone and it’s filled with lots of hugs and loud music and even tho lance was way too tired, he danced all night

he wouldn’t trade his family for the world—genetic and chosen

when hunk reunites with his parents they don’t let him out the house for hours, he tells them all about his new best friend shay as well as hundreds of his favorites stories from space

they are so, so proud of him

hunk spends the next days playing minecraft and animal crossing with pidge, giving their brains a rest from being on hyperdrive for 3 yrs straight

when pidge gets home she finally gets grounded by her mom, only being allowed to leave the house to see her old teammates

(same for matt and her dad)

(her mother cries so hard when they opened the door to the home)

the holt family holds movie nights filled with popcorn, cuddles, and tears

keith moves in with the holt family, and finally accepts that he has a home as well as a family

he often goes on trips with the BoM but mostly just stays on earth

after a Team Voltron sleepover in the altea inn keith and lance decide to get an apartment together and live their lives in love and in peace

everyone gets together once a year in celebration of shiro and the sacrifice he made for them

they use the ship to visit Astral Shiro and once they even met adam

everyone laughs and catches up and just... live their lives

everyone is happy

pls ignore any and all errors lmao

again, just a thought !! maybe i’ll write a fic abt it idk for sure but yeah

feel free to add anything <3

[vivalapunklife]

The stars of "Friends" are teaming up for a reunion special, March 2021

The stars of "Friends" are teaming up for a reunion special 16 years after the beloved NBC sitcom ended.

"Friends" premiered in September 1994 and ran for 10 years. To this very day Friends is one of the most successful sitcoms in history. Loved by fans across the world. The six friends - Rachel, Monica, Ross, Chandler, Pheobe and Joeys tv reign ended in May 2004 after 10 seasons. However the cult sitcom is still a smash hit, and has gained even more loyal fans across the globe, 16 years after the show ended. Re-runs of the show still air on satellite, cable and full seasons available on streaming services like Netflix. In February 2020, it was revealed that the cast would get back together again for an unscripted special. Only twice since the show ended have the five main all star cast of the sitcom been reunited. The now Hollywood actors who all earned superstardom from the back of show and went onto star in various major film and tv roles, will get back together 27 years after the sitcoms premiere to discuss and reflect the long running show. The Friends reunion is part of the programming for HBO Max, a new streaming service that launched in the US in May 2020. The streaming service costs $14.99 per month, rival to Netflix, Hulu and Prime. HBO Max includes every episode of "Friends. The special was supposed to be ready for release at the time of HBO Max's launch. But the filming of the reunion that was due to be taped back in March 2020 was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Back In November 2020, Matthew Perry who played Chandler on the show tweeted that the reunion is "being rescheduled for the beginning of March 2021.” However, no official realease date for the reunion has been set. What we do know, the show's main stars — Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer have all agreed to participate in the reunion show. Once a filming date is secured. The special will be taped at Warner Bros. Studio's Stage 24 in California, which is where the original series was taped from 1994-2004. According to Variety, the main cast will serve as executive producers of the reunion show and will receive a pay of $2.5 million each.