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antimattercontainment · 8 months

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🩷🩵💔 - for the TMNT ask game!

Thanks for the ask! I'll be drawing from TMNT 2003 and Rise to answer these, as those are the two iterations that I know best. So! In no particular order:

🩷 - Top 3 moments that warm my heart:

TMNT 2003 S02E25: The Big Brawl (Part 3)

Donatello: "Don't even think about touching him!"

At this moment, Donny still suspects that Usagi was the one who poisoned Leo, so he's pretty prickly with our favorite rabbit samurai. I love this scene because it's a great example of Donny being protective of his family. Plus, there's just something about the turtle who's generally regarded as the weakest fighter of his family fiercely protecting the one who's regarded as the strongest.

See the rest under the cut vvv

Rise of the TMNT: S01E15a: Mind Meld

Raph: "Is it my skate-hawks idea? You see, they're hawks! That we strap to ourselves! And then--!"

Leo: "You say the word, I'm ready to go wrangle some hawks!"

This is obviously a silly little moment, but I love that Leo is just immediately ready to support Raph in his plan. Leo really was an excellent right hand man to Raph before he was thrown into leadership (and Raph was thrown out of it).

TMNT 2003 S01E03: Attack of the Mousers

Raph: "This is it! It's been fun, guys."

Mikey: "Even me, Raph?"

Raph: "Even you, Mikey. Especially you."

Raph and Mikey bicker all the time, but their love language for each other is razzing each other. When it comes down to the wire and it looks like they might not make it out alive, Raph is honest in the fact that he is so damn fond of his baby brother, no matter how much he drives Raph crazy.

🩵 - Top 3 moments that make me laugh:

TMNT 2003 S02E25: The Big Brawl (Part 3) (again)

Raph: "WILL! YOU! SHUT! YOUR! TRAP!?!"

Mikey: "Why? Does my talking bother you? Am I distracting you somehow? Making you lose focus? Messing up your concentration?"

What can I say? This episode has The Range. This is just before Mikey defeats Raph in the Battle Nexus, by irritating him badly enough that he gets sloppy. I love how Mikey weaponizes his goofball behavior like this. He is 1000% aware of what he's doing to Raph, and I love it. Especially since Raph went into this fight absolutely certain that he was going to beat Mikey.

Rise of the TMNT S02E02a: Man vs. Sewer

Mikey: "Someone could get really hurt on this."

Mikey: "LET'S SEE HOW FAR IT SWINGS!!!"

I mean... just look at it. It gets me every time 😂

TMNT 2003 S03E02: Space Invaders (Part 2)

Mikey: "So, do these work like Earth grenades?"

Mikey: *pulls the pin on one of the Triceraton's grenades and runs to cover just before he explodes*

There's just something inherently ridiculous about the comic relief character cracking a joke and then grusomely murdering an invading alien soldier. This Triceraton blows up off-screen, but just barely.

💔 - Top 3 moments that make me cry:

TMNT 2003 S04E14: The Ancient One

Leo: "I'm sorry. I did the best I could. I did. The best. I could! There WASN'T! ANY MORE! I COULD HAVE DONE!"

This moment--where Leo is unknowingly fighting a physical manifestation of his guilt--is the amazing resolution to Leo's season 4 PTSD arc. In the previous season's finale, the only way he could think of to keep the Shredder from leaving Earth and going to conquer the stars was to blow up his ship... with his whole family still on it. The Utroms saved them at the last second, but for 13 episodes, Leo has been struggling with the guilt of not being good enough to win at an acceptable cost. This scene is the first time we see him start to forgive himself for that--to recognize that he had done everything he could, and that the fact that there were forces outside of his control wasn't his fault.

Rise of the TMNT: The Movie

Yeah, yeah, obviously when the portal to the Prison Dimension closes, but I mean this exact second. When the camera pans from the New York side of the Technodrome explosion to the Prison Dimension side, the music suddenly gets all quiet. Gone is the gravitas of the deep low brass, and all that's left is a drawn out note by the strings. Yes, they've beaten the Krang, but that doesn't mean that they won. Not in a way that is worth the cost.

TMNT 2003 S03E21: Same as it Never Was

Donny: "My brothers... my poor brothers. This world... this future... it's a nightmare.

I couldn't make a list of top 3 TMNT moments that made me cry without "Same as it Never Was". The part immediately after Donny kills the Shredder always gets me. It should be a triumphant moment, but all of Donny's brothers are dead because of his plan. It isn't anything except solemn. I'm pretty sure SAINW was the original "bad timeline where everyone dies" of TMNT. And Sam Riegel's voice acting here adds so much to it.

#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #tmnt 2003 #answered asks

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servicereward · 4 months

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Do you have any top favourite scenes from the show/comics?

First, anon, thank you for your patience while I thought long and in-depth about this. I love the show so much, it's easy for me to come up with 30 different examples of moments I love but that's not very exclusive ^^;

Some of my top scenes, in my rewatch of season 1 I'm undergoing at the moment, have been the little character-building moments between the Manhattan clan. For all of it's behind-the-scenes production struggles, "Enter Macbeth" has some very nice character interplay between Lexington, Brooklyn, and Goliath. "Sorry I was too busy WRITHING in AGONY to notice," and *DISTANT ROARING* "Looks like Bronx found Goliath," come to mind as moments that make me smile.

Another of my top favorite moments, (putting aside all OwenPuck scenes because otherwise this answer would be all about him, lmao) is the scene where Coyote and Dingo break The Pack out of jail. Fox reading Jean-Paul Sartre. "Nietzsche's too butch and Kafka reminds me of your little friends over there." The excellent sequence where Dingo breaks into the building with his powersuit and unleashes high-key horror imagery on the prison guard. It all fits so neatly together, and is such a well-paced scene it feels so luxurious in what it gives you. It's a top-tier scene for a season opener.

I've talked previously about "Kingdom," and what a great episode it is - I think what it really comes down to for me for "favorites" is how lived-in an episode feels. There's a lot of great character work in Gargoyles, which is one of the reasons people keep going back, in that it feels like a tangible world. When Matt comes back home to his tiny little apartment and loosens his tie and then gets startled by Broadway waiting for him. They way the clan collects Cagney to take care of back at the clock tower once it's apparent Elisa isn't coming back (an small but important detail not to forget, from a writing perspective - she's got a cat!) The dramatic but relatively domestic drama of the mutates in the Labryinth (oh no, someone in your underground collective is a major asshole!) Owen also sitting at David's desk with his jacket off and his tie loose. The little details like this make the show feel less like a cartoon where someone opens their closet and has ten of the same outfit as a gag, but like a world that belongs to the characters who live in it. If that makes sense?

Truly, the list does go on, but I'm going to transition to the comics now :)

I need to read the SLG run again; I've read it multiple times, but sometimes the more disparate quality of it's narrative and artistic elements distract me from forming a coherent opinion. But I adore the following moments:

Owen and Delilah bring Free Will to the Table

This is an interesting little interplay that frustrates me on the whole because I'm not entirely sure the Goliath / Thailog part of it is earned, but it does develop Delilah's sense of personhood in the narrative and also gives us a window into Puck's code-of-ethics-as-Owen. Goliath makes a mistake (girlfriends can be won like a prize) but Owen says essentially "Aren't you going to ask her what she wants? Doesn't she have free will?" which is a fascinating conk-on-the-noggin for the faerie-stuck-as-a-mortal-and-is-your-part-time-nemesis to deliver to the protagonist of your story.

And it does deliver in that Delilah says, "Fuck all this" (i wish she literally said that) and ends the party without being hitched to either Goliath or Thailog. She itches something in me because she's claiming some agency. She didn't ask to be here (who does, tbr) and was created from the DNA of two very complicated, very different women (who were unwilling donors to top it off) for the purposes of satisfying Thailog's desire for a romatic partner. NOT OKAY! What does Delilah want? For so much of her existence, what she's wanted has been a foregone conclusion (in that, it doesn't matter) and any move she makes in the narrative on her own agenda is one more step towards actualizating her sense of self. That being said - I would like more Delilah.

Shari = Shaharazade

Shari is such an interesting, stand-out character to me, and I wish she'd been around in the show because I'd love to see her animated. She's mystery wrapped in mystery - her motives are so opaque! She's a high-ranking Illuminati member who has presumably been alive for thousands of years - and she's helping Thailog for some inscrutible reason. I get really excited when she shows up. I'm also interested to see how Thailog and Shari pose as narrative foils to Xanatos and Co in the future, given their parallel but opposing structure.

Mary, Finella, and Brooklyn's timedance adventure begins

I think the last two issues of the SLG run were the strongest, and the content in them literally made me shriek when I read it. For one, you've got delicious interplay between Brooklyn's existence in the narrative. He's from the past in the future in the past in the present. Mary and Finella's relationship is great (and for the part of me that reads with shipping goggles - gay, please? they can bond over missing their kids and then kiss about it....a fine lady and her handmaiden, nothing to look at here boss, no sir!) Truly I want more Mary, Finella, and Brooklyn adventures. I think the beginning of their story was the best thing to come out of the 2006 comics run. Also, "You named the horse Magus?" "Something about his face...." (Magus confirmed horsey face🐴✨ ✊😔)

As for the new runs, I'm soaking it all in. I'm very excited for Quest - I don't have a "Top Favorite" scene from it yet, though I very much enjoy the fact we're getting a fleshed out picture of the NYC world of organized crime as it exists in Gargoyles. I like that they're all scared shitless of Uncle Dracon and I want him to show up more, he's been a very interesting player in the plot. I also really like the sequence where Renard says his goodbyes to his friends and family, even if it does implode ~10k words of unpublished fic I have on my Google Drive. But that's what the canon non-compliant tag on AO3 is for 👍! This is the short way to say I think Titania should be scarier. Like, shit-your-pants scary. I love women.

I love them so much, I married one! *ba-dum**tiss* 🥁🎶

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yaboirezzy · 10 months

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Good time of day. I'm sorry if I'm distracting you, but could you tell me more about your universe so that I can better convey what is happening in the form of a manga/comic (of course, with clarification of you as the author of the idea)

G'day mate, and no not at all I am more than happy to tell ya!

Like I said in the reblog with @belivinginyourselfistherealmagic, LWA Shuffle is a hybrid au where all of the rgb team switch roles and personalities, but not entirely since they still exhibit some of their original counterpart's personality and even family background. Kinda like the undertale au 'Inverted Fate'.

Most of the events in the au are pretty much the same as canon with a few changes here and there -mostly in character interaction/relationship with one another-. The major changes happens with the character-centered episode(s).

For example, Jasminka -who takes the role of Diana- also has to leave Luna Nova to go back home, but instead of an issue with her family like Diana's, she has to come back home due to almost losing control of the Hunger Faery within her since she fear that it would put the others in grave danger, the Hunger Faery itself being much more dangerous and menacing than it was in the original, and it takes more than just Lotte to defeat it.

Another example would be Hannah -who takes the role of Lotte-, as I said before, throughout the au Hannah slowly tries to rebuild her friendship with Barbara and Diana due to a falling out between all three of them before their start at Luna Nova. This comes off as a huge challenge for her, since whenever she tries to set things right with her old friends they would either ignore or refuse to talk about it (Barbara) or change the conversation and act like everything is fine (Diana), and because she adopts OG!Lotte's shyness/nervousness she doesn't have the courage to tell them "No! We need to talk about this NOW!". Eventually as the au goes on and all time spent with Lotte and Amanda, she would finally get enough motivation to finally reconnect with Barbara and eventually Diana.

Now with the others I'm not too sure where to go with them yet, since there's so many different things that could be done with them. So I guess this will have to do for now, I'll probably finish every changes that happens in this au eventually...eventually, but this is everything for now.

I hope this somewhat answer your question, I apologize if I haven't got everything out, but until then keep it peazzy!

(also belivinginyourselfistherealmagic I apologize if you're bothered by the tag, I will remove it if you wish for it)

#little witch academia #lwa #au #shuffle au #swap au #role swap au #lotte yansson #jasminka antonenko #hannah england #amanda o'neill

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marionluth · 22 days

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Not What We Used To Be

A tag to the episode Jack and Jill (S3E6).

Brie is taking Xanax. Brie is sleeping with Brady. Jack finds out about one of these two facts and he’s not particularly pleased with the information or the fact he missed it. Unresolved angst. One-shot based on a reddit prompt. Might continue this if anyone reads and enjoys it. Not romance-centric. Revolves around the Sheridan siblings’ relationship.

A/N: Short one-shot that leaves things unresolved. Might continue this if there’s interest. It bugs me so much that the whole xanax and alcohol issue is simply dropped like it never happened and we suddenly see Brie not taking any more again or struggling from cutting them cold turkey. Her and Jack never talking about it. His not digging for answers on what has his sister so upset and scared enough to run away.

It’s also all over the place with Brie and Jack, like their relationship isn’t really explored or given any depth. One minute Brie’s like you’re a stranger and the next they hug it out casually with Jack never really trying to figure out what’s going on.

This one-shot doesn’t explore any of the above for now. It’s just where the muse took me for the dialogue prompt. But if there’s interest I’d consider exploring all these with a few more chapters.

So, if you enjoyed this and would like to see more... Well, let me know 😃

Brie walked to the first-aid station, her smart outfit standing out in the sea of flannel shirts and denim. The air around her was filled with the sweet aroma of freshly baked goods, mingling with the scent of pine and sawdust. Laughter and chatter surrounded her from every direction, a stark contrast to her inner turmoil.

"Oh, you came!" Mel called out with a big smile when she saw Brie approaching.

Glancing down at her outfit, Brie chuckled self-consciously, feeling slightly out of place. "Yeah! And it seems like I missed the dress code memo," she quipped.

"Well, they do sell fake beards in one of the tents, so you could always blend in," Mel teased, eliciting a genuine laugh from Brie. The idea of her donning a comically large, fake beard seemed both ridiculous and oddly tempting.

"You're sure you're up for this?" Mel asked, concern creeping in her tone, as she noticed the faint traces of weariness in Brie's eyes and the lingering paleness on her cheeks.

"Nah, I'm fine," Brie assured, mustering a smile. "Plus, I promised Jack I'd help around.”

"Well, I promised Jack I'd saw down a tree with him," Mel said with a sheepish smile, having a hard time believing she actually uttered those words.

"You must really love my brother," Brie softly chuckled, smiling warmly at the redhead.

Mel's eyes sparkled with affection as she nodded. "That, I do," she confirmed.

A comfortable silence lingered for a few minutes before Brie's stomach growled, reminding her of her hunger. "Hey, I'm starving. What's good around here?"

Mel's eyes lit up with excitement. "How about we go raid the baker tent?"

"I'm in," Brie nodded eagerly, grateful for the distraction. She waited for Mel to wear her cozy sheepskin jacket before they started walking side by side towards the mouthwatering aroma wafting from the baker tent.

“I’m sorry about last night,” Brie blurted out after a few silent seconds.

“Oh, no problem! I’m just glad I was there to help make sure you were alright!”

Brie noticed Mel’s answer was reassuring and she was thankful the woman didn’t seem to want to probe. Still feeling bad and wanting to make sure nobody was worried enough to start asking questions, she continued with what she hoped would pass as a solid excuse. “I think I just ate something that didn’t agree with me.”

Mel pulled her hair out of her jacket as she turned to look at Brie with an uncomfortable expression. “Um… Brie… I saw the Xanax,” she trailed off, watching Brie’s expression shift from confident to defensive.

Shoving her hands into her coat’s pocket, Brie asked in an accusatory tone, “You went through my purse?”

Mel could read the younger woman like an open book in that minute. Until the night before, she had chalked the whole incident up to anxiety from what had happened to Jack, but now? Now she could tell there was more to this than she initially thought.

“No,” Mel immediately clarified, her voice gentle.. “No, I didn’t. You knocked it over as you passed out, and everything spilled out… Jack found the bottle and asked me what they were.”

Eyes enlarging, Brie’s gaze left Mel’s face and turned upwards, her expression growing even more worried. Great. Jack knew. Just fucking awesome. Her first instinct was to be worried about this. But then she realized Jack wasn’t the way he used to be, where she was concerned. He had grown distant and he probably wouldn’t sweat too much over this. Brie wasn’t sure if that made her feel better or worse.

“So, how much are you taking?” Mel asked conversationally.

Brie considered lying but didn’t think there was a point. She felt uncomfortable not knowing how Jack would react to any of this, but then again, he hadn’t reacted to anything or bothered to check up on her in an awful long while, so…

“Well… One isn’t enough for me, you know?”

Mel looked at her, her gaze reflecting no judgment. Just understanding. She did know. She had been there. “Have you been mixing it up with alcohol?”

At Brie’s surprised glance, Mel added, “I noticed an empty wine glass last night, and I wondered…”

Unable to hide anymore, Brie let out a sigh. “It’s just that sometimes I need them to work faster. But I know it was a mistake. Definitely won’t happen again.” Her eyes glanced at Mel, hoping that she’d believe her.

She didn’t.

Mel carefully weighed her options, understanding the delicate balance between offering support and giving Brie space. If she called Brie out in that moment, she might push her away and lose any chance of learning what was eating her to the point of self-medicating. And she had grown to care deeply for Brie, not just because she was Jack's little sister, but because she was slowly but surely becoming her friend. As the bustling crowd surrounded them, Mel searched for the right words to handle the delicate situation.

“Well, both Xanax and alcohol depress the central nervous system functions like breathing, so… you know… they can be fatal," she finally spoke, her words hanging in the air, causing Brie's expression to shift to a mix of guilt and fear.

“Yeah, ugh… I was just having a bad day, I guess,” Brie trailed lamely, not knowing what else she could say. She felt annoyed with the knot that was forming in her throat as well as the one in her stomach. Possibly fatal behaviors didn’t sit well with Jack and she knew this first hand. Yet he’d turned a blind eye too many times now. That thought instead of easing her nerves drove her even more on edge. What the hell was wrong with her? She was an adult and yet she was bitter that her older brother had finally started treating her like one?

As Mel turned her full attention to Brie, her eyes conveyed empathy and understanding, devoid of any judgment. “Look, I get it. After Jack was shot, I had some bad days," she said softly.

Brie's eyes welled up with tears, and she shook her head, feeling a sudden urge to open up to Mel. "I started taking Xanax before the shooting," she admitted quietly, surprised by her own willingness to confide in her.

Mel's concern deepened as she observed Brie's fragile state. "Oh, Brie, I'm sorry… Do you want to tell me what's going on?"

Brie fought to keep her voice steady, her eyes growing distant. "I was dating a guy in Sacramento… He, uh… He was an attorney. And it ended badly. Really badly. So, I quit my job."

A million alarm bells went off in Mel's mind as she processed the information, trying to understand what could have led Brie to leave her job, her home, her whole life and run to hide in Virgin River.

"Did you work with him?" she asked gently, hoping to gain more insight into Brie's situation.

"No. But if I stayed we'd stumble upon each other. I just couldn't stomach the idea of seeing him in court," Brie responded with a nervous chuckle.

Mel nodded, recognizing that there was more to the story than Brie was revealing at that moment. And also that Brie wasn’t willing to share any more with her. "I'm so sorry, Brie. You know… You should talk to Jack; he's really worried about you."

"Oh, I don't know. We're not as close as we used to be,” Brie managed through a half-hearted smile, her uncertainty evident.

Mel understood the complexities of sibling relationships, especially with someone as guarded as Jack. "Well… Now that you're both here, maybe you could change that. I know he cares so much about you. And he looked really worried last night."

"He did?" Brie asked, trying her best to hold back tears. At Mel's nod, she took in a shaky breath. A moment of silence passed between them before Brie regained some of her usual confidence. "So, the baker's tent… Do they have cinnamon rolls? 'Cause I'd so dig some cinnamon rolls right about now…"

Mel smiled warmly. "The best you've ever tasted."

Jack’s heart was pounding as he rushed through the forest, desperately calling for Christopher. The weight of the world seemed to bear down on him, every worry and trouble crashing over him like a relentless wave. His life felt like a chaotic mess, with Mel's talk of having a baby, the Todd situation, the suspicions about Brady, his sister struggling to the point of Xanax and alcohol cocktails, and everything in between left him breathless, exhausted, and drained. Christopher going AWOL on Preach was just the final straw, pushing him to the edge. It felt like the cherry on top of a shitcake, a bitter taste of life's unfairness.

In the midst of this whirlwind of thoughts, he spotted Brie strolling in the forest.

"Hey! Have you seen Christopher?" he urgently called out to her.

“No,” Brie shook her head, her brow creasing with concern as she noticed Jack's distressed appearance.

“Please, keep an eye out, will you?”

"Sure," Brie nodded, her gaze following Jack as he walked away. But before he could go too far, she found her courage and called out, "Hey, Jack!" When his blue gaze locked with hers, she awkwardly blurted out, "I'm really sorry about last night. I'm just dealing with some stuff and..." She trailed off, unable to find the right words to explain her struggles.

Moving closer, Jack's gaze softened with genuine concern. "I just wanna help you, Brie," he said sincerely

"Thanks, but I don't need help," she responded confidently, even as her eyes told a different story.

Jack didn't back down, his worry driving him to press on. "Why are you pushing me away?" he asked, yearning for an honest answer.

"I'm not,” Brie scoffed and shook her head slightly, but her emotions were too raw to hide completely.

"Okay then, talk to me!" he urged, his head tilting to the side as he tried to understand her.

"Why do you care?" Brie retorted with a hint of disbelief.

"Why do I care?" Jack repeated incredulously. "You're my sister, Brie! That's why I care!" He couldn't bear to see her in pain, and he wanted to be there for her, no matter how difficult it might be.

As he looked into her weary eyes, his concern deepened. "Come on. Hey! Whatever's going on, I can handle it, okay? I can help you! I am here for you!"

The bitterness in Brie's mouth intensified as she heard his words, but she tried to maintain her composure.

She shrugged, simply saying, "It's personal."

"So what?" Jack responded, refusing to back down.

"So what?" She fired back. "So, Jack, before the shooting… When was the last time you called?" Her expression revealed frustration and hurt.

His heart sank with the weight of her words, but he refused to be sidetracked. "And? You're keeping me in the dark about something that has obviously upheaved your life because I didn't call enough?"

"No, Jack, not because you didn't call me enough. But because you haven't given a shit in too long. Because you've been a stranger," she confessed, tears welling up in her eyes, revealing the pain she had kept hidden for too long.

“Brie, come on! I love you!" Jack's heart clenched with anguish, desperate to bridge the growing divide between them.

"I love you, too, Jack. I just don’t know how to be around you anymore. I don’t know how to talk to you or what… what to expect from you! You haven’t cared about what’s been going on in my life for too long. Why should I believe you care now?"

With those heart-wrenching words, she turned away, storming off, leaving Jack standing there with a lost look on his face.

With a sour expression etched across her face, Brie stood atop the hill, gazing at the breathtaking landscape stretching out before her. The majestic mountains painted a scene of serene beauty, yet her mind was restless. Just then, she heard his voice calling out to her.

“Hey! What are you doing alone up here? Hiding?”

Her smile blossomed at the mere sound of his voice as she turned to watch him approach, looking handsome as ever.

“I just had a thing with Jack and needed the space,” she replied as he strolled next to her, taking a seat on the wooden bench beside her.

“Oh. You want me to leave you alone?” Brady asked, his face and tone conveying that he wouldn’t be offended if she did.

A soft smile formed on her lips as she shook her head and playfully bumped her shoulder against his. "No!"

"You okay?" Brady inquired, his eyes searching hers.

"Yeah, just… Siblings stuff," she waved it off, not wanting to burden him with the details.

Eyebrows arching, he simply nodded. “So, I was thinking about taking the bike out. Wanna go for a ride?"

Brie's interest was piqued, and her eyes sparkled with curiosity. "Where?

"Well, there’s this cool little Italian joint in Grace Valley."

"Oh, Grace Valley… Yeah… Isn’t that like two hours away?" Brie asked with a smirk.

"Mhm. Why? Got somewhere to be?" Brady inquired, his brow creasing between his eyebrows as his eyes squinted and his lips twitched in a half-smirk that made her heart skip a beat.

Brie pondered for a moment. Yes, she had somewhere to be. She had a conversation to finish with Jack. She knew he wouldn't let this go until they figured out a way to move forward. But right now, she didn't particularly care about what Jack wanted. It felt like he hadn't cared about her wants or needs for so long. Why should she?

"Not that I can think of," she finally answered.

"Good," his smile widened, his signature dimples forming. Brie stood and followed after him, a sense of wild freedom sparking inside her. Not knowing what tomorrow would bring and, frankly, not caring, she jogged behind Brady and took the helmet he offered her. Putting it on, she mounted the bike, her heart racing in her chest as the engine roared beneath them. Wrapping her arms around his waist, she closed her eyes as the cold wind kissed the exposed parts of her face.

She couldn’t remember the last time she'd felt so free.

The end

#fanfiction #virgin river #siblings #family drama #jack #brie #mel #brie needs a hug #jack needs a hug #unresolved tension #let me know if you want me to continue this one #reddit challenge #angst #minor jack/mel

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sarah-dipitous · 10 months

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Hellsite Nostalgia Tour 2023 Day 229

Dark Dynasty/Flatline

“Dark Dynasty”

Plot Description: a familiar tattoo leads the brothers deeper into the world of the Styne family, and Castiel plays referee between Charlie and Rowena

(The second half of that sentence interests me greatly)

Would I Survive the First Five Minutes??: I won’t even monetize my hobbies, I’m not gonna do shady medical studies where my eyes might get gouged out for a little bit of money

Stop yelling at her, Sam!! She’s trying to help you and you chained her up

The Styne family is so uninteresting to me. I hope they don’t have a lot of significance in future seasons

Sam, you are wholly unconvincing in your lying about where you’ve been sneaking off to.

And Dean randomly deciding to research the Stynes because he’s a little bored is just…too convenient

I FEEL Charlie’s exasperation with the brothers. The CONSTANT secret keeping and going against the other’s wishes. It’s a lot to deal with

You know…I think I would watch a show with the nerd, the witch, and the angel…

Sam knowing that Cas literally has nothing else going on right now. He doesn’t have to save or overthrow heaven, he’s not even allowed there

Oh Cas. Oh Cassyyyyy, “if I’m going to referee I should know the rules.” I love that even though he knows cultural references now, he still doesn’t get commonly used phrases

Cas didn’t know that Dean doesn’t know they’re doing this?? How many times does Sam need to be told that this won’t end well??

Charlie and Cas bffs 5ever

You can’t truly expect Rowena to be in this “for Dean.” She barely knows him, they’ve tried to kill each other, and all his friends have her locked in some abandoned warehouse

I’ve missed Crowley

How good are these security cameras? They’re not even this good on cop shows. There’s no way they should be able to get that clear of a visual of the guy’s tattoo after zooming in that much.

Castiel coming in with snacks while Rowena and Charlie snip at each other is quite comical….I take it back, they’re a little bit bonding. Once they get past the difference in aesthetics of their way of decoding things, there are some things in common after all

Well, Charlie doesn’t want to see the similarities, but that doesn’t make them nonexistent

It’s…weird when the boys are the least interesting part of an episode, but that’s chasing after the Styne family for ya

Sam, I’m so sorry for calling you an unconvincing liar. The real crown for that goes to Castiel. He calls Sam’s phone, Dean answers. He tells Dean that he’s just staying in touch…like he does. Then that this call is pointless and ends with “my ride’s here” and hangs up

Oof, now Dean’s suspicious…that can’t be good

SHE LEFT HER PET COVEN LEADER???

Why can Crowley talk to hamsters? How does that make sense? Is it because she’s really human underneath that?

You boys really don’t want to be messing with this Winchester, I promise you that

*presses pause* No…they can’t be doing this. Not even supernatural can do THIS (and I say this knowing there’s still a scooby doo episode in my future). So. This dude Dean captured, part of the Styne family. He just revealed that they’ve been harvesting organs and enhancing their own bodies (adding extra hearts and other organs and muscles) with said body parts. Turns out this family had to change their name a couple hundred years ago…in the 1800s. I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL SUE THE CW IF THEY ARE INSINUATING THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE THE FRANKENSTEIN FAMILY *presses play* I’M CALLING MY LAWYER (does not actually have a lawyer)

Oh nooooo oh no oh no oh no. While Sam is distracted with a phone call from Cas about Rowena and Charlie constantly fighting, Dean’s now found out that the Book of the Damned CAN’T be destroyed and is piecing together that Sam’s been lying to him this whoooooole time

I never saw 127 Hours…did the guy rip off his arm or leg in that? If arm, this Styne has 127 Hours’d himself out of the bunker’s dungeon. When he called each of his family members expendable, he meant it

Casssssss Cas Cas you can’t leave her in an unwarded room all by herself. I love her but she’s gonna get the fuck out of there. WHERE DID CHARLIE GO???

This music while Dean is confronting Sam about the book is INTENSE. It is STRESSFUL

It’s a powerful image, the Styne guy just banging on the door to Charlie’s motel room with what’s left of his left forearm. He could use his whole right one but no

OHHHHHH DEAN’S RIGHTEOUS ANGER. It’s been a while

I knew it would eventually come but I didn’t know it was today. I didn’t WANT it to be today…RIP Charlie 😭😭😭

“Flatline”

Plot Description: Clara goes against an enemy beyond human perception

I’ll tell ya one thing. Having an episode named Flatline right after my beloved Charlie died is CRUEL

This is a weird af episode. Not only are people being turned 2D, but the TARDIS has shrunk to toy size

Ok ok ok ok but Clara pretending to be the Doctor because he’s stuck in the TARDIS is a fun move

Thing is Clara’s found herself a companion for the episode. It’s amazing

There’s so much lying going on in these shows today. Everyone was lying to Dean, Clara’s lying to Danny about where she is and what she’s doing

I’m…kind of over the Doctor monologuing to…I guess it might actually be soliloquizing in the TARDIS

It’s verrrryyyyyyyy interesting how well the Doctor has (consciously or not) trained Clara to be just like him. Danny will SEETHE when he finds out just how alike his girlfriend and the man he can’t stand are

It’s an extra weird episode. The Doctor’s there but not really, Clara’s feelings toward him seem to vacillate between thinking the worst of him while shoving that in his face and the same blind loyalty as ever, and that’s on top of the aliens from a 2D universe turning people 2D and studying them…but there’s too much of the last part…and it’s the least interesting part. It’s visually interesting but…I take it back, there’s too much emphasis on the special effects. THAT’s why this episode is bad

Is watching the Doctor Addams Family Thing the TARDIS off the train tracks worth the rest of this episode? I don’t know but it’s probably going to be the highlight of the episode for me

Oh thank god, Clara. You’re on your own, kid. And I’m glad you’re taking charge and not asking what the Doctor would do no. It’s up to you to figure out what YOU would do and are going to do now

Why was he able to monologue at them, sonic them with the screwdriver, and banish them?? Why couldn’t anyone else monologue and sonic them????

#hellsite nostalgia tour 2023

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My theory about the fake Pietro (WANDAVISION SPOILERS)

So I have a theory about this fake Pietro that I would like to share with you guys (I posted this on Twitter but it’s in Spanish lol). It’s quite long, but I’m sure I’m onto sth.

I strongly believe that this “Pietro” is not Mephisto nor Nicholas Scratch or any other demonic creature, he’s just Peter Maximoff from the X-Men universe (controlled by Agatha). And here’s the evidence:

First, let’s talk about why most people are sure he’s Mephisto. At the end of episode 5, Evan Peters’ Quicksilver appears. Many people think it’s kind of suspicious that he shows up just when Wanda and Vision were discussing: he realises that something’s off, and she recognizes she’s not controlling everything. It’s like he arrived to distract Wanda and defuse any tension.

Besides, in the comics Mephisto is an important part of Wanda’s history, Tommy and Billy are fragments of his soul (coincidence that the twins were born on the previous episode, and then in episode 6 “Pietro” and the twins create a beautiful bond). In episode 6, “Pietro’s” behaviour is suspicious, his memories are not the same as Wanda’s, he avoids answering her questions, and jokes about his death and Vision’s, making Wanda angry. He’s amazed by Wanda and her abilities, he doesn’t tell her that what she’s doing is wrong, he encourages her behaviour. Until now, the theory of him being Mephisto makes sense. He can shapeshift into anything or anyone he wants, but if he wants to distract or hurt Wanda by shapeshifting into his dead brother, wouldn’t it be easier to choose Aaron Taylor Johnson’s Quicksilver? Why would he choose Evan Peters’?

This can’t be just a nod to fans or an easter egg, because Marvel knows the fans and how we desperately want to see the X-Men in the MCU. Disney is now owner of the X-Men characters, and we have Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness coming next year.

The theory that “Pietro” is Mephisto loses credibility.

Now moving to the theory that “Pietro” is Agatha Harkness’ son, Nicholas Scratch. On the post credits scene of episode 7, Monica Rambeau (now Photon) is about to go down Agatha’s basement, when “Pietro” interrupts and says “snoopers gonna snoop”.

I have to admit that my first thought was “damn it this is not Peter”, but then I realised he can’t be Nicholas. Why? Because in the “Agatha all along” bit, we clearly see how Agatha was behind all of the chaos in Westview, she was the one who brought this “Pietro”.

See “Pietro’s” back with the purple halo? Agatha’s clearly controlling him. If he was Nicholas, it wouldn’t be necessary to control him, Agatha can just tell him about the plan. And if he was Mephisto, Agatha wouldn’t be able to control him since he’s a powerful demon. He’s literally the Marvel version of the Devil.

I believe Agatha wanted to distract or cause Wanda even more pain (now the line “ultimately give you grief” said by “Pietro” makes more sense). She needs Wanda to be even more vulnerable so she can control her.

More facts to keep in mind:

The Nexus. Remember the commercial of the pills called Nexus? According to this, the Nexus is basically a door to open the multiverse. Again, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness is coming soon, and Wanda will be part of it. Agatha brought Peter from another reality.

Pietro’s powers. Even though Agatha’s a powerful witch, she can’t give anyone any power or ability (at least that’s what I know from the comics).

The alarm. When “Pietro” arrives at Wanda’s house, the alarm of SWORD starts ringing, indicating someone got inside/got out of the Hex (Peter entering this reality).

This is all the evidence I gathered so far, let’s wait until the next episode next Friday. I don’t know if this is me being realistic or me denying the fact that Evan Peters could be playing a villain and not Peter lmao, I just love his Quicksilver so much and now that we’re getting the multiverse, there’s a big opportunity to introduce the mutants.

I’m sorry if my English is bad, hope you get my point and I’d love to read your opinions!

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hunterartemis · 3 years

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Media Bias (Avengers X Alien!Reader)

It was a request from anonymous reader and since I have limited experience with tagging, I am going to quote the person’s request here:

“ Hi can you please do Avengers x reader where the reader is like Starfire from og teen titans (but the reader is green and the blasts are blue) and the Avengers go on a talk show and the host is being very mean to her. Thanks”

So, dear anonymous. I hope you enjoy!“

Words: a whopping 4100

Y/n, open the door” I heard Sam thudding away on my door as I buried myself in the layers of blanket and put the air condition humid enough to cause a mini monsoon.

“Go away Wilson and leave me alone--” I bellowed on top of my voice.

“Y/n it’s been more than 7 hrs, you got to come out... whatever happened in the morning you gotta let it go--”

“I don’t wanna let it go... I am a national embarrassment--”

You must be thinking, what is the situation you’ve been dragged into. Let me pause there and rewind 17 hours back to give you a complete understanding which lead to this complete mess.

People think our story ended and sealed with Thanos never got to see what we go through in the New York penthouse. With the ongoing Pandemic on board, people are desperate to see us even more, as if it is the new Thanos and we are to defeat it. There is no greater sense of helplessness than playing the puppet of courage without doing anything. So whoever wrote that “after the defeat of big bad, the heroes rejoice” was a big idiot.

And thus, I found myself awake after hours, sitting alongside the broad glass panel that showed the completely stopped-in-time, shining in the dark cityscape of once bustling New York. A fleeting sense of desolation plagued me as I remember my own world in the verge of extinction. My breath almost stopped in the great worry of my fellow living being in this planet; the one who saved me from destitution--

“y/n, is that you?”A calm and concerned paternal voice broke the train of my thought. I sharply looked behind my shoulder to see a disheveled figure of man standing in the dark. By the tousled curls and the slouched hem of the sweatpants, I knew was Bruce.

“Urh, you startled me!” I said with a dismissive voice. I felt almost embarrassed to realize what I was thinking moments ago. I took a deep breath and tried to compose myself.

“It’s you who startled me y/n, what are you doing up so late?” Bruce said with a groggy voice rubbing his eyes rather irritatingly. “We have an important event to attend tomorrow first thing in the morning” he slowly moved towards from the shadowy part of the room to the path of dimmed light from the glass panel and spared a long glance at my face. The way he looked at me sometimes irritated me, because it was an inalienable fact that he fell into the same category of humans who express an unhealthy obsession with my kind: a scientist.

“It’s not like I enjoy staying up like you Lowly Human...I am as stressed for tomorrow as you are!” I tore my face from his ken to express my displeasure. In reply, he sighed disappointedly, which sounded patronizing in my already agitated mind.

“I wish you’d stop insulting my specie whenever you get upset...” he gently put his hand in my shoulder, but soon he withdrew and stepped back. “And what is that god-awful smell?”

Any female whether she is human or not is very sensitive to criticism, especially about how she appears, thus Bruce’s comment was not only offensive but hurtful as well. I could not restrain my anger and annoyance anymore, and I stood up sharply to face him “I just happen to wet myself in the rain yesterday at my detour downtown and it turns out it has too much sulphuric acid and it is peeling my skin away... right before when I am about to go up close on television.” My hand subconsciously moved up to my cheek, where flakes were forming in my otherwise jade smooth skin. “And you are telling me to stop insulting your specie... I will when you unicellular cretins will stop ruining your own environment—“ I folded my arms defensively, gazing away from Bruce’s face “--as if I don’t get ridiculed enough for my chrorophyllic skintone, and now I am shedding like a common reptile.”

“Alright alright I am sorry...” Bruce threw up his arms defensively, and his small paces back and forth showed his discomfort more than anything, “do you want something for your skin, CeraVe or something? I can fetch you some ice if you want?”

His apologetic gesture made my whole effort defeated; but my pride disrupted me from being apologetic “Forget it... as if those human manures would work on my skin—“ I heaved a sigh and looked at him again “must we do the thing? I mean I am not the only alien that set foot on earth in this decade, why must I be walked around like a showdog in front of all the people?”

For some moments Bruce did not answer me. I almost thought he was ignoring me, but then I realised that he must be contemplating on every word he wanted to say and every word that was running through his brilliant mind. Out of anyone in the team, Bruce was the visual hole, the less than heroic material: even with the Hulk. And for this, the society made sure that he would be self conscious for the rest of his life for his other identity. My annoyance almost melted to sympathy when I heard him speak in a rather frustrated voice.

“Y/N, I know that you are stressed about this and frankly I hate this stuff too, but this is very important for the people: for your people as well as ours. Not all things that come from the space are benign and people need reassurance that you are not hostile. I hate this too, but it is for the greater good!”

“Greater good, greater good... it is always for the greater good!” The same old daily whining of lofty agenda made me sick “I am sick and tired of these Brucie, I don’t want to do this anymore... I am tired about people asking me weird questions and cretins posing as scientists trying to push probes on me the first chances they get-- I wish I could just disappear with the portal that brought me in this cursed place!“

Bruce came closer and grabbed my shoulders gently “Don’t say that y/n... otherwise we wouldn’t have the means to counterattack all those aliens—“ my silence might have given him the cue that he wasn’t doing a very good job at convincing. His wavering eyes fixed on my face once again as he spoke “okay, here is a deal: how about it is the last time you appear in public, hm? Once you satisfy them that you are part of the team, I swear people will leave you alone... they left the Hulk alone too once they understood that he is one of the good guys!”

“No but...“

“No ifs and buts... go, and have some sleep. Let me look in the lab if we have some squalanes and peptide solutions lying around—“ he said with a paternal affection and disappeared into the dark passage which lead to his room

“Thanks Brucie you are the best—“

I couldn’t help but to smile a little. Humans!

...

“This is a bad idea I am telling you--“ I told Bruce with an hushed tone as the makeup artist went on with a puff on my face for the millionth times. The rest of my team was behind me, getting the same attentions to their dismay. I could tell Bucky was downright uncomfortable as his makeup artist had a hard time getting not distracted by his bionic arm; and Wanda was downright glaring at the man who kept flicking the brush on her nose.

“relax y/n, you are smart and you are friendly, you are going to ace this and trust me people are going to love you--“ Bruce said with gritted teeth to make sure no one could tell what he was saying. He almost flinched as some of the powder made into his nose and the makeup artist followed him up with a q-tip.

“My face is itchy...“ I whispered again, trying not to gouge my face out with my nails as the powder sat on the flaky part of the cheek. If this wasn’t a studio I would have scratched my face like a lunatic and ended up as someone who was attacked by a bear in the mountains. And I was glad that I was standing beside Bruce who knew how not to go overboard with the things. Clint would have brushed them off, Wanda and Bucky would have panicked, and Sam’s gestures no matter how genuine would have made me laugh.

“Wanda already told the makeup artist to spray you with Squalane, your face isn’t half as bad as it were yesterday night“ Bruce then went on politely gesturing the makeup artist to spray the stuff Bruce brought from the lab in a clear bottle, and the look on the Makeup Artist’s face was between annoyance and bursting into tears.

“Brucie...“ “I don’t wanna mess it up--“ I said nervously as we walked into the couch and settled with the others.

“Trust me you won’t... “ Bruce graciously consoled me.

The cameraman cued and we were all gestured to look into the main camera as the lights in front of us adjusted accordingly. Within all hustle and bustle, the host walked in like a royalty, and by the looks of his face and those following him with makeup and refreshment, he had a really bad morning.

“We will go on air in 3, 2 and 1”

“Good Morning America, this is your host Justin Fallon and welcome to another episode of The Early Show. Today we have with us some really special guests. You might know them from News, the murals, the comics and the Merchs please welcome our own global superheroes: The Avengers. Welcome to our show” the host said with an uncomfortable friendliness and turned towards us.

"Thanks for having us with you" Sam answered graciously, with a little awkwardness. I could understand why; it was always Tony, Steve and Natasha who spoke in public. After such a terrible loss, he is struggling to fill up their shoes for the sake of our public image. He had been wrapped up into a pretty bad controversy recently for succeeding as Captain America and it had a pretty bad toll on him—to the point his speech kind of went from cheerful to composed in an unnatural way.

"It’s been way too long since our morning couch looked so colorful and it surely brightens up the day.” The host said with an obligatory politeness. Although the term was innocent enough but it seemed not so—I instantly froze up and million things started flying inside my head: was I looking good enough, is my patches showing under the layers of power and squalane. Turns out it was not me alone. From the corner of my eye I could sense the tension behind me from Clint and Bucky and I know it was different than mine. The host must have wanted the old team, and looked like he was stuck with the mediocre leftovers.

“Thank you...“ Sam replied.

“So here you guys are after averting the big wipeout crisis, in the quiet and chilling, so how does it feel to be in the pensive from being hyperactive all the time?“

“Well, at first it did feel kind of boring and lack luster, but slowly we are adjusting to it. With the ongoing Pandemic crisis I think we just have to adjust to the situation. In a way, I think we are all helping each other by staying inside and recuperating.” Sam answered diplomatically.

“That’s so nice” the interviewer said quite curtly and then changing the topic he sharply turned to Doctor Banner “I know of all you people Dr. Banner will find this Lockdown Leisure slightly more comforting, isn’t that so Doctor Banner?”

Wait, what was that? Was that even normal? Sam was sitting in the front and after him Bucky, then Wanda and then Bruce. Should not he come gradually? Breathe... maybe I am reading too much into this. Keep a friendly face, don’t think too much... the entire nation is watching... this is the one time I have to do things right! It’s for me, my team who housed me and my people.

I had to give props to Bruce for managing things calmly despite his claims about public speaking. He politely replied “Well theoretically it should be but it’s not like causes of anger cannot exist within the so called peaceful environment if you think about it, but I am glad you showed your concern” and like a pro, reached out to the glass in front of him to sip some water—like some real celebs in talk shows.

“Isn’t that true! So Solaris, how does it feel to be surrounded by the icons of the earth?”

I wasn’t really ready for the sudden attention. For a second I blanked out completely and gaped my mouth like a complete idiot. My stupefied face must have been quite prominent because the host tried to laugh it off lightly to divert the attention. I am still wrapping my head around the fact how some humans work so beautifully under so much attention—If I could choose between blasting off alien armies and speaking in talk shows, I will take the aliens instead.

“I..I--It’s quite fun... there is never a dull moment with them--“ I manage to utter, and thankfully it wasn’t a gurgling sound from a deep abyss.

“The thing is, being the most newest member, you sort of have a mystery around you, the kind of a Blue Comet sort--“

“Oh thank you— “ great going me, like a real talk show celeb—keep it up!

“So why don’t we break that down... Solaris, is that true that you came from a whole another galaxy which is not Milky Way?” the Talk show host asked, reading from a small piece of card.

Finally, something I can talk about all day: stars, planets and galaxy. I will have to slay this, I chanted inside and replied after drawing a breath “Yes that’s true. I am from Planet Auriga from Pleiades system. Our Sun is Alcyone, the second brightest star right after Aldebaran. You people call our system Taurus Constellation--”

“--so much astrophysics, take notes kids they might ask you at the NASA interview.“ the talk show host interrupted. It annoyed me greatly because I could finish the words I worked so hard to speak confidently. So that’s how Bruce must feel all the time when people interrupted him when he explains things. However the host went on as if nothing happened “For a near human creature in this planet, do you identify more with the Professor X’s troop or with the Avengers?”

Near human creature? My race is literally the most Superior in all of galaxy.

“I don’t really understand what you mean...” I said as politely as I could manage.

“I mean isn’t it hard to fit in when you are the only alien in the group--“

The flippant remark was rude and I tried not to wrap my head around it. I recalled Bruce’s words to keep cool and maintain a neutral face replied : “I mean I am not the only one, Thor is also not of the earth and he is a darling to be around. Alien or not I think I have learned a lot about myself and the ways of earth by spending time with this wonderful people?“

I could hear the audience clapping and cheering with my reply. A surge of pride swept across my chest and I smiled slightly at the audience.

“How sweet--“ the host said, keeping with the cheerful mood “as the outer world people are coming into the planets, we think a lot of things are shifting, do you find it hard to cope into the earth from where you come from--“

Finally, a thoughtful question, I made a solid eye contact with the host and replied “No, the atmosphere is pretty much the same in Auriga, but I think humans can do a lot better taking care of the environment. I know for a fact that millions of planets and their lifeforms were extinct because of excesses I see on earth.”

The thoughtfulness of the host was only for so long “The girl’s been around... if you know what I mean—“ he commented with a little wink, and from the audience’s laugh I knew he didn’t mean something polite or mildly positive. After the laughter subsided, he turned again to me “I dig the midnight blue hair... it is so contradictory and yet it works“ he complimented “because you know scale and hair are not something we see very often in our planet--“

Excuse me, what was that supposed to mean?

“--so tell me are the lapis cascades all natural? I mean they are not dyed at all?”

“No they are not... the special keratin bond that reflect the blue pigment of the natural light but they are actually transparent—“ I added objectively.

“So that means in the right lighting you don’t need to mow the bush—“ the host said with a curved smile on his lips, and the audience went on laughing in the same manner they did moments ago.

Even under the blowing airconditioner, I started t feel really warm around my neck “I really don’t know what you mean; you are making any sense at all! Do you guys need special light to mow the bush, do you do in the solstices or during the eclipses—“ this time I didn’t hide the fact that I was annoyed.

“--she is really really funny you guys--“ the host again smiled and acted like I was a stone wall and my reaction didn’t register in his mind at all. “So you are saying you don’t mow your bush at all?“

“I live in a New York Penthouse, there is no bush--“ honestly if this wasn’t a dumb talk show, I would have taught this impudent human a lesson.

The host looked a little uncomfortable as our eye contact lasted for several seconds. He cleared his throat and went on “Okay you guys, she just clarified that there is no bush, so let’s move on to your...your look... I am so fascinated by it, it’s so reptile chic--“

What’s your fascination with cold blooded animals? Are you asking to die like one?

“Um, thanks...?!”

“So how do you manage to maintain this--“

That was honestly the last straw. This host is impolite and rude and he leeches off the discomfort of his talk show host. When this realisation hit, all my self-control and self preservation went out of the window. The vacuum was replaced by the sheer annoyance towards the host who deliberately mistreated us since the beginning.

“Do you think that’s how I live, maintaining my skin and mowing the bush--“ my pitch rose from my previous composed tone “I mean what kind of questions are these?“

The host was still wearing his phony smile on his face, but I could see the colour slightly draining off his face “No I was just asking, because the audience wants to know--“

“I think the audience is smart enough to understand that they cannot get the green skin on natural blue hair, so can you move on to a more sensible question?“ I answered heatedly and defensively at the same time, and as I spoke I felt the aura of tension shifting from discomfort to sheer panic.

“Y/n... don’t do this--” I heard Bucky whisper very faintly from above.

“Solaris, don’t get me wrong, but we don’t always get a green-skin hottie on the morning couch, don’t be offended!” he said while he gestured covertly to cut the camera on the other side. I have to give this man an applause , I could tell he had busted all his courage but he kept the face of nonchalance too good to be true—no wonder he sat on this chair for so long.

“What’s your obsession with the skin colour?—“ I said heatedly as I stood up from my seat “Don’t you dare cut the camera... don’t you dare! Do you think you humans are the epitome of beauty from which point everyone in the galaxy should confirm? I am sick of this... Everyone, I am so sorry for your wasted time but no more of this!”

“Solaris--“ this time it was Sam’s voice that implored me from the sides. For a split second I felt bad for him, because as Captain America, he would have to take the heat from the public. But I was at the point of no return. If I back out now, I would be called a pushover and I would have to endure that image for the rest of my life in the earth.

“You know what, as you are so obsessed with my looks, I would love to show you another thing of mine that is blue--”

Blast

So long story short, Solaris goes to a morning talk show, Solaris encounters a rude host and Solaris blasts him with her Blue Sun Beam. Biggest disaster ever!

The thudding outside the door would not stop, and honestly their over attention was getting on my nerves “honestly, why don’t you go away... what are you, my royal nanny?”

“Very funny Solaris... now come out and get some food--” this time it was Bucky who spoke. Although he was the shortest to reply, but it made me well up. He had the shittiest history amongst all of us: hunted, betrayed, manipulated and now sidelined—how can I see my problems bigger than him.

“How can I... I ruined everything, all the reputation you built throughout the year, I blew it up within 3 minutes, how can I show my face to you guys! I was supposed to be the superior being--“

A moment of silence followed. But then the old familiar calm voice spoke from the other side

“y/n... It’s not about superior or inferior, you were just very very honest with your feeling! sometimes it’s good for the public, sometimes it is not. I mean look at me--I have struggling with my anger all my life and god knows the stuff I have wrecked in Hulk state. It’s okay to make a mistake... no one blames you!”

“Ha ha right...“ I replied sarcastically, feeling mad about how well Bruce understood my situation.

“Honestly, the way you acted today... Tony would have been proud!”

I could not hold myself anymore. All the feeling that has been plaguing me until now: embarrassment, guilt, confusion, sadness... all came down like a thundering rain with that one statement. I rushed and slammed the door open and jumped on Bruce to embrace him into a tight hug. At first I could tell Bruce was taken aback, but soon his firm arms snaked under my back to hold me tightly.

“I am so sorry... I ruined you all--“ I hid my face in Bruce’s shoulder. Suddenly I felt a gentle pat on my back, I straightened up and looked, it was Sam. His awkward cautionary expression was gone and he looked cherry as the old days “As Captain America, I cannot condone your behaviour, but as Sam... well, that jerk deserved it--“ he reached for his pocket and took out his cellphone “and hundred thousand people in New York agree with you“

I looked at him with a curious expression as he gave me his phone. When I looked at it, it was a tabloid video that had the clip of me blasting the host and it had—

“Stars in galaxies!... 100K likes?” I exclaimed

“And look down, there are comments too--” Bucky scrolled down from behind my shoulder to descend to the white space.

That jerk deserves it, he was literally harassing her...You go Solaris #MeToo

Solaris is so cool, I wish I was as cool as her.

Ugh, I hate that morning show host, if I was in her place I would have thrown him off the stark tower, #SunQueen

Racists never change, and We stan our color positive hero #SolarisRocks

Humans...

...

Okay, that took a lot of time because at first I didn’t know how to work on the request, then I had to go back and forth and rewrite most of it two times because I wasn’t convinced it was good. So I sincerely hope it’s good because I am freaked out as hell.

I also gave reader a name because she is inspired by an alien character in TeenTitans called “Starfire”. So I call her Solaris, and was constantly reminded of Solar of Mamamoo (TMI)

I don’t hate on Fallon, I just used his name because it is recognisable by American public and I also had to see a lot of Jimmy Fallon’s show to write about the Talk Show plot. I was also greatly inspired by Naomi Campbell, RDJ and Nicki Minaj’s interviews.

#avengers x reader #alien reader #skin color #teen titans og #starfire inspired #yay I got a request #rude talk show imagine #avengers x reader imagine

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sometipsygnostalgic · 3 years

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adventure time wizard city liveblog

well here we go

my last adventure time liveblog, i havent actually done one of these in MANY years... probably not since 2014

this takes place at the same time as obsidian?

DID-- DID CHOOSE GOOSE JUST DIE

DID BUFO JUST KILL CHOOSE GOOSE

yeah i know that’s bufo, they only made it enormously obvious, tsk tsk

@spaceacepearl joked about us seeing choose goose get sent to hell but i diDNT EXPECT IT TO HAPPEN

This music is i assume by one of the many musical artists Adam Muto listed on twitter, it rocks. It’s not as hardcore as Obsidian’s intro, but it’s suitably chill for the scene.

“get offa my bus kid”

Those wizards in the left and far right groups appear to be new!

OH MY GOD--

HELP?????? NEW PROFILE PIC TIME

HAHAHAHAH

THE MUSICAL CON DID ME GOOD, I DID REALLY LOUD AUDIBLE LAUGHTER

i bet hanna and co had fun making these signs

my favourite is the cat with “FAMILIARS HAVE RIGHTS”

cadorka..... wow

We’re not even four minutes into the ep and peppermint butler has already killed someone in front of a large group of witnesses

“this smells of DARK MAGIC” “yall kids know thats illegal right” peps watches the other kids nod before later joining in, LOL

i cant believe pep started the great gum wars and got killed by golb

SOMEONE has been playing Overwatch...

i-- i still cant believe choose goose is fucking dead

how long was he stuck in hell for, or was that recent to together again after new death showed up

i have to admit im not a big fan of spader, too perfect, and not in that funny way either. i hope they give him some characteristics that make him stand out.

im getting flashbacks to OK KO and Owl House here...

Cadebra using music is a reference to Abracadaniel’s love of interpretetive dance in Play Date.

“they only laugh because youre different” “i know” “SO STOP BEING DIFFERENT” oh my god it’s like talking to my own parents cadebra is actually... a LOT like me, less in her hyperactivity but more in her nonchalant enthusiasm and almost acceptance of the inevitable bullying because it means more time in people’s consciousness

ahhh - it’s quietly revealed here that she is responsible and a skilled magician, she is just bored of magic! i like that she parents abracadaniel instead of being downtrodden by his ramblings.

PEP NO--- oh i see the problem, he hasn’t got his Bug Milk... sorry Martin Olsen fans, no Hunson today. At least we get one more Phil Face for the road!

candy people in their natural habitat

Ahhh that’s Doctor Calidoneus! The voice actor was at the recent Distant Lands panel alongside Pep and Blaine’s actors.

“pretty sure hes just trashcandy” - i like you, sassy antler lady

the mystery of how he gets clothes

and once again spader is proving to be the most irritating distant lands character of the lot, there is no subversion here. where is the subversion?

NANI

what is going on here? are pep and peppermint the same person or not? im sure they must be, but there is something going on here with peppermint butler’s soul being trapped in the body of his child self who hasn’t got the same memories.

OH, HYNDEN WALCH DID A NEW LINE yes this is what im here for, special over

peppermint butler cursed himself... of course he did - Shado was correct!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHAT THE FUCK

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

ROCK STUDENT, BLESSED ROCK STUDENT, WAS THAT POOR GUY WHO LOOKS LIKE A JAWBREAKER

love the reference to astral plane, of course pep cant astrally project because cursed pep is still inside of him

wow, blaine, wow

they have a crush

LITTLE DUDE! COLE SANCHEZ!

i love the dynamic between cadebra and abracadaniel, imo so far it’s the heart of the special. im not really gripped by peppermint butler’s school troubles. i imagine someone else probably will be but i want to run past that shit as far as possible.

TRDGFYGHJH

WE MADE A PREDICTION THAT WAS JUST LIKE THIS

PEPPERMINT BUTLER GETTING TURNED INTO THE FOUR COMPONENTS OF PEPPER MINT BUTT LURE WAS IN THE WIZARD CITY PREDICTIONS ART DRAW THAT HASNT BEEN POSTED YET

ILL SHOW YOU WHEN NICK POSTS THE VIDEO and then ill tell you who made the prediction because i... think it was nick himself, insanity

who plagiarized finn’s signature???

turns out pep really DID take over wizard city!!!!

i love this band

i understand your pain peps

you probably have a bit too much in common with your mother, and i imagine it isn’t easy being turned into a kid and not being able to do stuff that came so easy. you’re disappointing yourself! (he’s literally disappointing himself)

I’m less than halfway through the special, what the fuck. I wasn’t wrong when I said Wizard City had a lot on its plate. It’s noit that I’ve been particularly gripped up to this point, though to be fair I didn’t pause at all during the other specials barring Obsidian.

that... that poor kid is still a rock

and then the preview happened and bufo casually revealed to the audience that, yes, he killed choose goose

i dont know whats happening with pep but it seems he needs to be exorcised of... pep. which is a shame. i hope they learn to coexist.

i have to say the background work in this special is really good! like, really damn good.

WHAT

DID SPADER JUST DIE

IS THIS WHY PEOPLE THINK PEPBUT KILLED HIM

oh thats right - abracadaniel is cadebra’s uncle! this must be abracadniels sister. sorry, folks, he doesn’t fuck.

Where are they? Is this anywhere near Wizard City? It’s an unpopulated prewar wasteland.

THESE ARE JUST HUMANS

OF COURSE SHE WANTS TO PERFORM TO MILQUETOAST HUMANS

my child

is this an art style choice or did they get the people from that one studio to make this

HANNA FINALLY GETS TO FULFIL HER DREAM OF INSERTING KANEDA INTO ADVENTURE TIME

the red jacket he wears and his head pill shape is a big kaneda reference actually, which i suppose makes sense considering he’s a rival to our protagonist, but it’s a bit on the nose

bufo killed one of his own students? but why????

“MY UNCLE’S A COP”

“no one likes a rat”

i actually really like blaine, though im confused. did their VA change halfway through the special?

HOW NATURAL, NO WASTE, IT IS AN ENDLESS CHAIN

did doctor caledonius steal the trophy,,,?

EVIL SNAIL EVIL SNAIL

MONMSTER HUNJTER DISCOVERY NOISE, this time it’s a tetsucabra

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I HAVE QUESTIONS

god i wish this is what this special was about, i miss adventure time

these remind me of the comics with their art style :) i wonder who designed them? the one on the right with pb and pep, in particular, very comics-y.

fdgfhgf because he’s like 500

“pep can be kind of a jerk but he wouldn’t kill anyone”

sorry, cadebra, i have news for you

is doctor calednoius the true villain? if bufo’s out of the picture, she MUST be,

ANTS

oh no, he might gbe stuck in wizard city :(

HELP

the writing on the wall...

SPADER LITERALLY FUCKING DIED OH YM JESUS CHRIST

PEPPERMINT BUTLER’S OWN CULT????

THIS IS JUST OK KO NOW

okay im not surprised all the teachers at wizard city are cultists in worship of peps, maybe they killed spader and bufo because they bullied peps T_T

wait no, they thought spader had the potential, but sadly not

HE FUCKING KILLED HIMSELF

sorry, i was distracted by the pretty dope fight sequence and now the special is over????

fucking jesse, hes probably at least partly responsible for the cult nonsense

This credits art is by Maya Petersen!!!! Holy shit it’s adorable!

LRETGFDRGTFGMHGFHFG

LEAF MAN

DO YOU THINK THEY PUT HIM IN RETROSPECTIVELY

DO YOU THINK MAYA PETERSEN DREW THIS AND ADAM PUT IT IN THE EP RETROSPECTIVELY

HE LIVES

MAYBE THIS IS WHY CHOOSE GOOSE WENT TO HELL

okay, it’s over :)

first thoughts out of the way: not a big fan of this special. it’s like watching a completely different show. it’s not got the PZSHAHH of the normal wizard city stuff and there weren’t a lot of funny jokes or even hearty moments in the thing.

it suffers from a lack of invested character interactions, much like BMO did. there was not a single main cast member in the whole thing! and like i said before, much of peppermint butler’s character in the show is based on his very sweet relationship to his mother, princess bubblegum, so when they showed a single (hilarious) photo of them together it made me sad we didn’t get any scenes with them together. it would have STOLEN this episode. and they teased the hunson golf photo, and death!!! and jake appeared in a photo T_T last jake appearance.

it also suffers because Peppermint Butler is clearly not himself, imo he was way more entertaining in the Together Again special, where we seem him back to his “normal” self.

i dont think peps being a dark wizard was something to “kill off” exactly. i wonder what was going on there? was that actually peps, or was that a spirit he cursed himself with based on himself? we at least know in the future he does become a dark wizard again, and even princess :) this special didn’t answer those questions but lol.

THE GOOD STUFF, because yes, there was a lot of good stuff!

God, I’m with Aracle and Maya on this - I LOVE Cadebra and her relationship to Pep. I wish she was even in more of this - I would love to watch the adventures of Cadebra and Pepbut in their first year of school, like in the end credits.

That, imo, is where the heart of the special lay - Peppermint Butler’s attempts to impress himself, versus Cadebra’s self acceptance and desire to follow her dreams of being a goofy goober, no matter what other people thought of her.

It turned out that Cadebra is a responsible student and family member. I really liked that. Her scenes with Abracadaniel were, somehow, my favourite in the entire special!

I like that theres a lot of cool magic towards the end of this special, and a lot of HORRIFYING DEATH. It wouldn’t be adventure time if you didn’t randomly kill off child characters. Poor Spader, I hated you but damn, what a grim fate.

I like that Bufo and Caledonius had this crush/hatred thing going on, but they were part of the same cult in the end.

I didn’t like the giant peps scene at the end, the monster was extremely milquetoast compared to the madness we usually get in AT. Obsidian, for example, had the awesome Larvo design. Nemesis had some INSANE dark magic!!!! I wish they drew more from that episode.

Considering how much Steve Little appears in this special, I do feel bad for Mace (little Peps). He said he would have really benefitted from coaching, but recieved none. He had to re-record his lines 3 times! Judging from his description of events, Wizard City was a hard time for him.

The wizard school did remind me, heavily, of both The Owl House and OK KO. Personally I was hoping AT would offer me something more insane, but I do love both of those shows, and I know Wizard City was on a really tight schedule.

I think they should have spent less time on the school bullying plot, and skipped straight to MURDER.

We did have a cold opening, not on par with Together Again’s at all, but damn!

I am wondering where I would put this in the watch list? I do think it should sit after Obsidian as the third special. The intro scene makes it clear this takes place at the same time as Obsidian!!!

Well, that was it, the last ep of AT for the next few years at least T_T

i think together again was the better finale, definitely. but wizard city feels pretty detached from AT for me, despite the familiar characters it tonally isn’t like the show other than the awesome brutal death scenes. I thought the last 11 minutes was easily the best in the special! Which, honestly, is how it should be, though I do wish it gripped me more. Maybe I’m just not the target audience for Wizard City? It feels like something I would find very compelling if I was a bit younger!

#adventure time #wizard city #atimers

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masonscig · 3 years

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wayhaven summer fic #5

pairing | nate x ramona

word count | 2.1k

warnings | mention of sex, an innuendo

author’s note | i tried to figure out how to get around nate’s aversion to water, and i hit a wall so... i dug around it and decided to write an actor!au !!!! i’d seen a comic months and months ago by @/pvnkvampr and another one that i can’t seem to find again, but i wanted to take that and apply it to nate and ramona! nate’s the type to fall in love with his costar after years of working together and you can’t convince me otherwise. also, to clarify !!! the beginning of the fic is supposed to be like nate x ramona’s romance route so any of the exposition centered around their relationship being fleeting/him being deeply in love with her is nate the character rather than the actor! (you’ll see lmao i’m definitely overexplaining) this is a bit of a stretch bc they’re on the water... and ramona drinks water. but whatever it works !!!!!

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She was standing on the edge, looking out at the glimmering water, the sun, high in the sky, skipping off of each wave like a smooth rock.

The wind whipped her hair, tossing her short curls until they were unruly, and she was smiling.

Her grin was wide, eyes closed, as she inhaled, drinking it all in – the sunshine fueled her.

Half of Unit Bravo were under the deck, quietly stewing in annoyance. They’d given up complaining to Ramona, though. Frankly, she didn’t care.

Farah was passed out on the floor underneath a sliver of shade at the top of the yacht, chest heaving as she slept soundly. Ramona had taught her how to swim earlier, and she’d used all of her energy flailing around determinedly in the relentless July rays.

Nate watched her as she held her arms out to her sides, fingers outstretched, chin tipped towards the sky.

She was unbridled joy held together by the strings of her bikini, and she radiated a warmth that could rival even the summer sun itself.

So unrestrained that changes didn’t phase her – most conflict rolled off her shoulders in a way that startled Nate, a being who’d existed for hundreds of years and had seen the best and the worst of it.

Nothing baffled him more than this part of his existence.

The way love fell into his lap and he didn’t have to try anymore.

But despite it all, he’d deluded himself into thinking it was permanent – they were permanent. And they weren’t. And that was okay.

“Oh, you’re back!” She grinned, stretching her arm out until her fingertips grazed his bare arm, her palm warm against his skin. “I was wondering what you were up to.”

“I had to do a quick wellness check of our crew –”

“– Oh my god, are Adam and Morgan still seething down there?–” She asked, cutting him off with a laugh.

“– Very much so, I’m afraid,” he said, his mischievous smile betraying his tone.

“I thought a tiny little shindig would be better than a huge shebang, you know?” She turned in his grip, back against the railing, his arms curled around the bare skin of her waist.

“You’re still trying to stump me? Give it a rest, love,” Nate laughed into the thick mess of curls at the top of her head, pressing a kiss to her sun-warmed strands.

“I will say a phrase you don’t know and then you’ll owe me some juicy Agency secrets,” she giggled, snaking her arms around his neck.

“Like what?” He asked, lips straining at corners, his grin threatening to falter.

“Like how the hell does Morgan wear jeans and no underwear? That’s something I can’t for the life of me wrap my mind around,” she all but shuddered.

“That’s an answer you’ll have to coax out of her, unfortunately.” He said, a bit distracted.

“You know you can keep your Agency secrets, mister secret agent. I have no need for ‘em,” she stuck her tongue out, still stained bright red from the margarita she’d finished hours before.

He must’ve looked puzzled, because she continued, inching in closer until he could feel her everywhere and it wasn’t in the least bit appropriate.

“We both know you have even juicier secrets to spill,” she said, before leaning in to whisper the last bit, her fingers tangled through his hair.

“And I’ll lap up every last drop of ‘em,” she murmured, kissing his earlobe.

The pads of his fingers were sunken into the flesh of her hips, and he tried desperately to anchor himself to spare the others, but he couldn’t get a grip on anything but her warm, warm, sunkissed skin –

He blanked.

His thoughts were scrambled and he couldn’t form words. Couldn’t recall the words he needed to say. But he could see the paper so clearly –

“Line?” He mumbled, feeling her go limp with disappointment in his arms.

Farah groaned from across the deck.

“Cut!” The director yelled, and all but stormed over to him. “What happened out there? You were on a fuckin’ roll! The chemistry was insane. God, I wish you could’ve been watching –”

“Don’t make him feel like shit over it, Craig,” she gently warned, stepping forward just a bit until she’d angled her body between them. “I flubbed my lines all last week and he was so patient with me.”

Craig sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose, the wrinkled skin between his brows crinkling even further. “Alright, alright, I get it. Not gonna hound you over one take, but I need you to get it in gear, man. We’ve only got a couple more hours of sunlight in this godforsaken shitheap, and we’ve gotta wrap this part up so we can film the sunset kiss –”

“I understand. I won’t mess it up this time,” Nate promised, glancing over to his co-star with an apologetic smile.

Ramona shrugged, waving his statement away. “It’s fine, seriously. I’m totally okay with running that again.” “Speak for yourself! I’m dying out here,” Farah called from across the deck before turning back to the hair and makeup people, pursing her lips for more lip balm and sunscreen. “Please get it right this time, Agent Sewell.”

“That’s just the name of my character –”

“I’m well aware of that,” she yelled, cutting him off. “Method acting. You get it.”

His co-star shook her head, patting him on the back. “Don’t mind Miss Hauville. She’s just upset she was dragged out here to lie down on a hot sundeck like a dead body for half of an episode.”

He laughed at that, relieved that his co-star was keeping things light.

Truth be told, he’d had a rough time getting his on-screen family to cooperate with him, much like the character Nate Sewell.

Adam’s actor was a notoriously nice guy, but he had a knack for intense method acting, so he’d been a stoic asshole for months – there was no getting through to that guy when he was in filming mode. Morgan’s actress was a bit of a wildcard. She was fucking the executive producer and everyone except Craig knew it.

Farah’s actress was arguably the biggest success of them all – she was constantly booked and busy and effortlessly making headlines. And it was becoming increasingly obvious that she was only there as a favor, not because she wanted to.

She was a film star who never touched TV, but hell, she was half the reason millions of people tuned into the pilot episode.

The Wayhaven Chronicles wouldn’t be the same without her, or Ramona’s actress, the fan favorite. Yeah, she was the protagonist, but the cast, crew, fans, and everyone alike loved her.

And he had a bit of a crush.

He was aware that on set romances usually fell apart before they could really begin, but he couldn’t help it.

Not only did he spend nearly all of his free time with her running lines and hanging out in her trailer, but to make matters worse his character was canonically falling for hers, and… he found himself enamored with her, too.

He’d never admitted it out loud, and probably never would, but it was getting harder and harder to push those feelings away when they had to share an on screen kiss.

Season one wasn’t too bad, considering they were just testing the waters to see who the fan favorite love interest was out of the four of them, but by the end of it, social media had all but rioted to lock in the “Natemona” romance plot.

And there they were, well into season two, a handful of kisses shared (a lot more than that considering the reshoots and the practicing) and a plot decided.

And he was into her – way more than he’d like to admit.

The rest of filming went pretty smoothly. He got over his nerves and kissed her like a champ, and they got patted on the back for their realistic chemistry by all the execs and producers on set.

When they finally broke for a quick food break, she followed him to his trailer.

“People are gonna eat this episode up, huh?” She asked, closing the door behind them and grabbing a water bottle from his fully stocked mini-fridge.

“Surely they will,” he agreed, stepping around her to grab his salad from the fridge. “If they were rallying for the relationship before, they’ll be vindicated this episode.”

She laughed into the rim of her bottle before chugging it. “So why were you frazzled today? Something at home?”

He eyed her, raising a brow.

She held her hands up in mock surrender, before plopping onto the couch across from him. “You don’t have to answer, dude, I’m just lending my ear.”

He chewed thoughtfully, trying to choose his words wisely. He swallowed, took another bite, chewed.

His mind was just as blank as the deck scene.

He shook his head before setting his food down. “I’m sorry I’ve been off today.”

“I don’t care if you’re not feeling like yourself. It’s normal to have an off day. I just wanna know if you’re okay,” she said with a tenderness that he’d never heard from a co-star before.

“To be quite honest, you’ve been distracting me,” he admitted, timidly.

She pursed her lips. “What can I do to fix it?”

He squirmed in his seat. God, this was a lot harder than he thought it’d be.

“It’s, uh, nothing you can really fix. It’s all me.”

“Well, what can I do to help?”

He shook his head again, glancing away from her.

“Look, I know Craig’s been rough on us this week, but don’t let it get to you. We can practice more –”

“It’s not that, I promise.”

She waited, sensing that he had more to say. He took a deep breath, then continued.

“It’s something I don’t want to admit to you. It’s embarrassing.”

“Honey, my last job involved waxing places that would make your grandmother gasp. I promise nothing phases me,” she joked, running a hand through her hair.

“There’s… quite a few lines Nate says this season that I’ve resonated with,” he started, trying to figure out what he was gonna pull out of his ass.

She sipped her drink, waiting.

“Things like… ‘I care for you, Ramona’ and, uh, ‘You’re important to me’,” he said, twisting the ends of his summery button up shirt between his fingers.

“Yeah, same here. We’ve become really close –”

She stopped abruptly the moment she noticed the look in his eye. And the subtext hit her like a truck.

“The things Nate feels for Ramona… I find myself feeling for you,” he admitted, hesitantly, looking anywhere but her face.

“If you don’t feel the same, that’s okay. I’ve just developed a bit of a workplace crush that I can’t quite shake, and that’s my fault –”

She stood from the couch, and he glanced up at her, finally, nervous to see how she’d taken it.

And before he could register what was happening, her lips were on his – a sweet tender kiss.

One that, scarily enough, felt exactly like the last time they’d kissed. And the time before that. And the time before that. And the time before that.

When she pulled away, she cupped his cheeks with the softest touch in the world, gazing down at him with an expression like she’d gotten the best news of her life.

“Those kisses weren’t just practice to me, either,” she whispered, stroking the pad of her thumb across his stubble. “I just wasn’t sure if you felt the same.”

He blanked. Again.

He couldn’t find any words, so he did what Nate would do. What he wished he’d had the courage to do for over a year.

Gently enclosing his arms around her waist, he tugged her down to the couch with him, planting kisses across her face, cheeks, nose, lips, over and over and over, revelling in the broken giggles that erupted from her.

Maybe allowing the essence of Nate Sewell and how he loved pervade his life over the past year and a half of filming was the right step. It’d gotten him the girl, after all.

#the wayhaven chronicles #twc #nate sewell #twc detective #my fic #wayhavensummer #nate x ramona #detective ramona guerrero

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deanisridingapolarbear-blog · 3 years

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Ok time to write down all my current WandaVision theories (spoilers ahead)

This are purely for fun and probably off the rails but if you are trying avoid all spoilers skips this posts.

1. The Twins: and by the twins I mean Billy and Tommy, not Wanda and Pietro. So before today I had two options, the other one where Wanda would have "borrowed" someone else's kids, turned them into babies and that's why they were/are aging fast is out the window now. My current theory (and hope) is that they will indeed go with some sort of version of the reincarnation of the twins souls. Monica said that the boys are Wanda's so they are not anyone else's and I doubt they'll let Wanda happily keep them when all this blows up. As noted by one of my mutuals (@bladorthin) the boys currently have similar coloured hair just like in the comics, so Tommy is missing his distinct white hair. With reincarnation they'd probably give this characteristic to him and it would be more belieavable than a sudden change now. Also they haven't yet properly shown any signs of powers. Think this follows the pattern of the comics too. Hopefully this means we are getting the reincarnation and our actual Billy Kaplan and Tommy Shepherd because let's face it if the boys have happy childhood together they won't turn up the way they do. Also Wanda's "You are always brother's" speech would fit into this storyline better. But how would they then suddenly be teenagers when needed to be? Well with all the realities and timestones I'll hold to my theory where the boys souls end up back in time and are born again as babies in early-mid 2000's which would make them teenagers now. (So odd to think kids born then are teenagers/adults now when comicbook Billy and Tommy are probably born same year or earlier than I?!)

2. Mephisto: yes from the twins we get to Mephisto. I think it's very likely he will be involved afterall (doubt this is operated by Hydra). Ok very likely is a strong expression, I think it's still possible. This would ofc. help to go through with the reincarnation stuff. This is supported by the fact that Vision was able to break from "spell" in today's episode and Wanda is not as fully in control as we have believed so far. Think it could have easily been some sort of a deal that she gets certain thing but there are rules. Might explain the missing of all the children. Could it even be that all those living around them would actually have some powers too? I think Wanda making a deal and now having to follow certain rules to have what she wanted (which probably is lovely family life with Vision) would explain why she said she is not able to bring people back to life and seemed so surprised/shocked by Pietro appearing behind her door. She is not able to do it herself (properly at least) or if she is she's not aware of that. In some video I watched a reaper was mentioned too? So if not Mephisto maybe that?

3. Pietro: oh I have many theories about Pietro now. Links with the previous part of Wanda not being able to bring people back to life. I think Pietro is not real/old Pietro (possibly not even a Pietro from another reality) but either S.W.O.R.D.'s con man or Mephisto's (or someone else's who is controlling the show) disguise. With S.W.OR.D. I'd explain it with the scene where Wanda came out of Westview/Hex perfect distraction to get someone in right? Also Monica brought up that Wanda alters anything that doesn't fit the scene but if someone seemingly could fit in it doesn't happen. So disguise someone as her brother. She might think that for some reason she was given Pietro back after all? Looking a bit different because of changing looks and all that? She certainly didn't do it herself. Mephisto idea then is that he is able to manipulate Wanda so that even though he doesn't look like Pietro he can mind control Wanda to think he is and thus gain spot in their daily lives. Why to look like Quicksilver at all? Because that would trick the "viewers" to think it's Wanda and she "recasted" her brother. Whoever is behind Pietro/Quicksilver though isn't really him imho, he was some what too self-aware looking to me (might just be Evan's Quicksilver though) he know's himself he is not real deal. Also the leak we got before would support that theory as well.

4. Agnes: Love her charisma. But she knows way more than others. Like way more! She knows about Wanda's powers and I think killed poor Sparky on purpose, maybe to see what Wanda can do? Not sure if she is good (another witch just caught in there) or bad. Whoever is behind this might want her powers as well. Would explain why she at the same time supports Wanda but is kind of sending mixed signals/cautious with her.

5. Whoever is behind this: Is in my opinion behind Wanda getting Vision's body. They need that body for something. Someone thought Wanda herself wanted to protect Vision's body/will but I think if Wanda doesn't have all the strings someone behind this thing wants the corpse for their purposes. This might exclude Mephisto and make Hydra etc. more plausible. Not sure they would be after the infinity stones (as presented in one video I watched) if so I'd say Vision might even be brought back to life properly might explain how he is suddenly becoming even more aware and out of Wanda's control.

So those are my current theories/views. Sorry for the long post especially if no-one really cares what I think. If you want to hear my theories/opinions related to anything else just ask and I'll answer for sure.

#wandavision spoilers #wandavision #headcanons #theories #billy kaplan #tommy shepherd #vision #wanda maximoff #thanks for my lovely mutuals for bouncing all the ideas with me

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dreaming-of-assclass · 3 years

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Do you have any science project group headcanons like for groups like Nagisa, Kayano, Maehara, and Kataoka that were grouped for science class like in season 1 episode 5 (Assembly Time)

Oooooh! Love asks like these!!! 💚

And thanks to this post by the awesome @/greengargouille, we know all the canon groups!

Itona and Ritsu aren’t in official groups, so I put them in where I thought they’d fit in best!

1. Isogai, Mimura, Nakamura, Okano

Wow...I forgot that Nakamura and Okano were ever in the same group

But I love it because I HC their friendship to be a casual but hella fun one

Isogai and Mimura are old friends from last year! I imagine there’s slight awkwardness on Mimura’s side given that they’re in different friend groups now. But Isogai is very friendly and aware, so it passes pretty soon

Nakamura is one of the biggest causes of Isogai��s headaches lmao. But hey, at least they’re on the same wavelength academically.

POOR OKANO. SHE IS A JOCK SURROUNDED BY ACADEMICS.

Well at least she’s interested in science and it’s her best subject. She still feels bored unless they’re dealing with physics, then she’s completely on top of her game.

Nakamura and Okano are the chaotic half. Isogai and Mimura are the ones who wanna get shit done. Unless the girls manage to drag poor Mimura into doing dumb stuff

Have I ever told you guys that once in my Chemistry lab, one of my friends and I managed to break the sink faucet? Like we destroyed it lmfao

That is Nakamura and Mimura friendship energy ngl

Okano is one of Isogai’s most dependable close friends, but she also loves to annoy him for no reason sometimes.

So she’ll ask obvious questions with a smug smile, trying to watch his patience explode. But jokes on her because Isogai has an infinite amount of patience sadly

2. Kurahashi, Yada, Takebayashi, Kimura

They’re a...fairly productive group lmao

Tbh I don’t think Kurahashi is the type to really pay attention to any science outside of biology like me

So she’ll be a BEAST when it comes to that and get 100′s on everything. But like in chem and physics, she’s not as great

Yada is the best at design and organization, so she always takes that job. Making colorful presentation slides? She got it. Need to type up the final report in a google doc? Yep, she’s your girl

Kimura is a gremlin, like I always say. He’s the clown of the group lmfao and will spend more time stalling and messing around than doing actual work

He also tends to lowkey distract Kurahashi with unrelated convos. He tries to talk to Yada too, but she goes into girlboss mode and ignores him

Guys, everyone give it up for Takebayashi. King is hard carrying this entire group

He’s the one who stays the most focused but on occasion can be distracted by Kimura bringing up topics they’re both into, like certain comics or something.

Kurahashi and Yada also can get caught up in their own conversations since they’re besties. Also they will roast the boys all they want, if they feel like it.

All around, they’re kind of a mediocre group haha

3. Nagisa, Kayano, Maehara, Kataoka, Ritsu

Woah I LOVE this combination of students

I couldn’t help but add Ritsu here hehe. I also like the idea that she’s kind of attached to Kataoka in the beginning, considering all their moments together in canon.

Nagisa and Kataoka act like parent friends, as usual. They’re the ones who wanna work diligently and just get things done.

Maehara and Kayano are the more lenient ones haha. They’ll claim that they have low attention spans. Both Kayano and Maehara much prefer labs and getting to do cool science stuff, at least.

Also!! It’s good that they’re in this group because they’re social types who can reach out to other groups and get help/answers from them ^^

Kataoka, sighing: “Well, Maehara, at least you have a talent for networking, I guess.”

Ritsu is in between the lenient side and the diligent side. She’s very good at science and can do her work very well!! But sometimes she gets swayed by Maehara and Kayano’s fun attitudes and doesn’t concentrate haha

Kayano keeps getting flustered whenever she’s sitting right besides Kataoka haha. Bonus points if their arms brush or she has to lean over her or something.

Also best believe there’s lots of Big-brother-Maehara and Little-brother-Nagisa moments

4. Kanzaki, Hazama, Yoshida, Muramatsu, Terasaka

So...this is basically just AU where Kanzaki joins the Disaster Squad lmfao

Hazama, Yoshida, Muramatsu, and Terasaka are already besties, we know this. They’re probably totally used to working together.

Enter Kanzaki. A newcomer.

Lmao I don’t think she’d be totally friendly at first. I think she’d be polite but distant, and barely speak up unless they were discussing.

Sgsjhakdj who thought putting the squad together was gonna lead to productivity, they’re probably gonna create so much chaos lmao

Something definitely explodes at least once.

They’re dealing with an acidic chemical and literally the whole class manages to not get burned, except for Terasaka.

Yoshida voice: “dude you had ONE job”

After a couple classes, Kanzaki breaks out of her shell more and more, and she gets pretty chill with them.

She’s closest with Hazama, and they like to roast the boys at times. Also have random literature discussions that drive Terasaka crazy. “Can y’all not? Like this is literally physics class?”

The squad teasing Yoshida about his crush on Kanzaki whenever he blushes or stutters talking to her

Idk why but I really like the idea of a Kanzaki and Muramatsu friendship

5. Hayami, Okuda, Karma, Chiba, Okajima

AWKWARD

THIS IS SUCH AN ODD GROUP LMAO

My bestie Nao made a post on them before which I love

And yeah...I don’t have much to add lol.

Chiba and Karma definitely join forces to insult Okajima at some point

Okajima kind of constantly digs himself into a grave with stupid comments. He almost dies after pointing out how Karma and Hayami act like cats

Okuda doesn’t have to carry the group that much since they’re all fairly smart for the most part. But if you want verified answers, then yeah definitely check in with her

6. Sugino, Fuwa, Hara, Sugaya, Itona

I think this is a really cute and funny group

Sorry, couldn’t resist adding Itona mainly because Hara is in it, and I would love their interactions in a schoolwork-group setting

Tbh?? None of them are very sciency lmao, so they’re that one group you always see in irl class that are very lost. And they’re super vocal about how confused they are adjkhjda

Sugaya, yelling across the room: “Can someone help us? Please?”

Hara takes the reins as leader but more in like a “getting everyone organized and harmonious” way

Sugino takes the charge in the actual lesson work and lab stuff, but he really shouldn’t lmao. I love the boy, he’s a talented genius in so many ways, but he leads them to chaos

Fuwa surprisingly isn’t as vocal in these groups as she usually is. In fact, it’s a little concerning how quiet she- WAIT FUWA ARE YOU REALLY WRITING FANFICTION IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR LAB

#fuwagotexposed

Itona, as usual, is around to make blunt and sarcastic comments that are in no way helpful. If you voice this to him, he will insult your intelligence even more while still looking adorable

He especially comes at Sugino and Sugaya, who feel very attacked. Like?? WHAT DID I DO TO YOU ITONA?

I feel like...while the group descends into confused chaos, Itona just watches with blunt criticisms. Then in the very last seven minutes of class, he takes over and finishes the assignment with 100% accuracy

Sugaya: “YOU LITTLE BASTARD GENIUS-”

Sugino: “WHY DIDN’T YOU DO THIS EARLIER?”

#assclass #ansatsu kyoushitsu #assassination classsroom #headcanons #3-e #shdkfhsdkas i didn't expect to enjoy the last group until i started writing them #now im obsessed with this dynamic haha #they give me sitcom vibes

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Does Grievous get any actual backstory in The Clone Wars itself? Because I'm partway through season 5 and still know basically nothing about him. Granted, I haven't been giving the show my full attention, but I don't think I've been THAT distracted.

Oh, boy. *puts on nerd glasses* Sorry in advance for the long (and tangential) answer. Okay, so in The Clone Wars, I’d say the CLOSEST thing we get to any amount of depth regarding Grievous’ character and backstory is in the 10th episode of Season 1, “Lair of Grievous”. Mostly a throwaway moment where his surgical droid is musing about the whys and wherefores of Grievous’ cyborg body and Grievous is basically like “I CHOSE THESE IMPROVEMENTS”, which is meant to be a sort of vague non-answer that doesn’t conflict with either his canon or Legends backstory (because maybe he did choose ‘em, or maybe he thinks he did). If you’re expecting more Grievous AT ALL in TCW, uhhh, bad news, he pretty much gets the boot after a couple of S5 eps and a single, 1 second appearance in an INTRO in S7. :/

BUT if you’re looking for more of his Legends backstory (the superior backstory), ahem, ahem *adjusts nerd glasses* I recommend reading Labyrinth of Evil by James Luceno, a Legends novel that takes place immediately before the events of Revenge of the Sith and pretty heavily features Grievous. There’s two great chapters that cover his life as an organic and cyborgification, one from his perspective, the other from Dooku’s. PLUS there’s the kidnapping of the Chancellor, which is a bit different from the 2003 Clone Wars depiction. MORE delicious backstory can be found in Star Wars: Visionaries, which is a collection of comics created by concept artists who worked on ROTS, and includes one called The Eyes of Revolution, which specifically covers Grievous’ downfall (the crash of the Martyr, San Hill and Dooku’s involvement in his reconstruction, freaking Sifo-Dyas’ blood, etc.). If you want an actual canon comic that still depicts Grievous’ organic appearance (and doesn’t conflict too badly with Legends), check out the Age of Republic issue General Grievous. Good art in general (pun unintended).

Additionally on the Legends front, and this is where things get tricky, there are two articles that were released back in 2006 as a part of the Star Wars Insider magazine (one in the mag, the other online). Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous and The Story of General Grievous: Lord of War both go into a LOT more detail of Grievous’ Legends backstory, going as far back as his childhood and including the mention (and only official art) of Ronderu lij Kummar. I had to SCROUNGE to find these, lemme tell ya. Super worth the read if you can get a hold of them. Otherwise, Wookieepedia is your friend.

(Oof. This is why I’ve set out to work on this backstory project. Grievous deserves his WHOLE story told in one place, not scattered piecemeal across a bunch of media. Even—especially?—if it is Legends.)

#Inoni Answers #signalfirefly #General Grievous #Star Wars #The Clone Wars #Legends #Labyrinth of Evil #The Eyes of Revolution #an excuse to ramble about Grievous' backstory sources lol

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BATIM THEORY!!!?

(WARNING: Quite Long Theory Ahead!!!)

(WARNING 2: I wrote most of this when I was exhausted out of my mind on a trip home, so I'm sorry if its a tad bit confusing.)

PART 1- The Good?

Okay, so I know the big theory is that Henry may actually be the Good Bendy, but think about this...

Bendy according to the wiki and cartoons, seems to be and I quote:

*"Bendy is a borderline troublemaker, but is rather impatient and easily startled or timid, yet justifiably cheerful, fun-loving and mischievous "*

ANDD ALSO

*" Bendy is also attention-seeking and is easily distracted; he is never hardworking or courageous."*

NOW think about this. In the studio, who is the first person who comes to mind when you think of these qualities...

Rather *impatient*,*easily startled or timid*, *yet justifiably cheerful*, *easily distracted*, *never hardworking or courageous* 🤔

WALLY FRANKS.

Wally is described as "somewhat absent-minded", "felt confused and worried about some situations within the company" (towards the leaking Ink Machine and his angry fellow employees).

In terms of his social behaviors, he is described to be "friendly and easy to get along with" and towards the end of the game Wally himself notes that he is "surprised Joey remembers him, since Wally was not especially memorable among his co-workers."

He also seems to be "impatient" with Thomas and "easily distracted" or "absent-minded when working on the Ink Machine as seen in the audio logs.

(I know this is from the wiki, but alot of the storyline if this universe is quite confusing. Until we get clear answers or I dont agree with the facts on this site, I will be using references from there.)

PART 2- The Weird?

So that had me thinking, its kind of weird that Joey specifically remembered a JANITOR among his co-workers. Joey seems to have a history of only sending letters to people if they are important or fit his "story" (such as Henry, Allison and Tom), as seen in his apartment at the end of the game.

(Example: Allison became "Allison Angel", Tom became "Good Boris", Henry was the main character of BATIM [a may show up in BATDR as a secondary main character role], and Wally could be "Good Bendy" + Audrey of course who we really don't know yet.)

But what if that was the plan? He's trying to make his story "come to life" and his ideas seemed to have "semi-worked" for now. As well as he only sent letters (as we can see so far) to Henry, Allison/Tom and Wally. So, what if Joey thought Wallys personality, best fit what Bendy would be like if he was to come to life?

With this evidence as well as the fact that:

> Thomas and Wally are the only two characters to have a shared voice recording with each other (seemingly giving more of an insider on the way they act and their personalities).

(Sort of like how Bendy and Boris were seen together in the comics and most of the episodes revolve around them getting into mischief.)

> Thomas later becomes some version of "Tom" Boris we see later on, or at least his personality could be based on Thomas.

> Tom and Thomas seem to share many qualities, such as their seriousness and focusing on a task. Seeming harsh but well meaning etc. (Of course lol)

> Wally's whole "I'M OUTTA HERE!" catchphrase, in which sounds like something a memorable cartoon character would say. As well as his cheerful and loud demeanor.

(I mean, really think about it, its honestly too perfect...)

> ALSO as a note, Wally is the "attendant and designer" of the said Ink Machine. Which raises some intresting flags when you remember how Allison (Or Susie, which is funny cause she's another version of Alice Angel) states, that if you not careful, the ink will pull you back in.

(If Wally does turn out to be some version of Bendy, this may have more importance in BATDR when it comes to sides and Wally being the "Good Bendy" controlling the ink in some way...)

I feel like these small details between Thomas and Wally were put there for a reason. And who knows, maybe Allison being "scared" of the Ink Demon (Bad Bendy/ Good Bendy) in general, may come into play later on. They are supposed to be the cartoon TRIO after all.

(Also I would love to point out that Wally thought Susie Campbell or Corrupted Alice, was pretty. Maybe a parallel to a secret Bendy and Alice dynamic we have yet to see, perhaps from Nathan's version 👀?)

PART 3 - The Evil?

That leaves one question then...Who is Bad Bendy?

We've gotten a Bad Alice, "Bad" Boris, but who is the the Ink Demon we've seen throughout the chapters, roaming the halls in dark ink and looking to hunt for his prey, making your heart beat in your ears throughout BATIM (and now possibly BATDR)?

I think it might be Joey Drew.

And I know what your thinking.

"AHH BUT JOEY ISNT IN THE STUDIO, HE WAS IN HIS HOUSE SAFE and OLD , reMemBEr???"

Okay so, correction... i didn't say it WAS EXACTLY Joey Drew. At least his physical self we saw....

I think the Bad Bendy/Ink Demon may be a collection of all of Joey's regrets and insecurities of his life. In the ending of Chapter 5, he seems to be regretful of how he lived his life and saying that he "took and worst path and forged a "crooked empire". He then tells Henry to come back to the studio, because he has something to show him.

Perhaps this is the Evil Bendy we will see is a collection of all of the remorseful and angry feelings he sees about himself, comparing himself to the villian of the story and drawing himself as such in this story he's created. Its for some sort of closure, but it doesn't seem to be working. That's why he wants Henry to come back to the studio, to help him feel better and to live the rest of his life happy. Henry is one of the heros of this story....

Where Audrey, Tom, Allison, maybe Wally, Sammy and the other characters come into play in this theory is a complete mystery for now, but my guess is that most likely, they will ALL also be the heros to this story in some way. None of the characters are particularly "bad guys", just people who made mistakes and had failed dreams. They will also probably help Joey to erase the darkness from all of their minds, hearts and to truly "set them free", meaning helping them to get out of the studio, as well as move on. It is a combined effort and now most likely Joey/ Evil Bendy has to work with them to achieve such.

(Last Quick Note: In the end of Chapter 5, there is a table, and on this table there are storyboards of the events that transpired through the BATIM story so far, such as Ink Bendy. BUT THERES also events that haven't been seen, and perhaps we'll see in BATDR??Just wanted to point that out. 😉 Look at them VERY closely!)

[I am NOT smiling at some of the concept art on those storyboards, like Sammy getting CRUSHED by "Bad" Boris. Nope not today...🙃But, Sammy and Boris playing music together tho 🥺])

(EXTRA)- PART 4- THE...CAKE IS A LIE?

So a few weeks back, the Meatly uploaded this picture on his Twitter:

A Chocolate Cake. Specifically used to celebrate Bendy's birthday in February.

It is also seen in the most recent trailer, while we are going through the Employees Lounge Area/ Break Room/ Café. But why is this SO DAMN IMPORTANT?!

Because take a look at this:

Freakin Wally ate the cake. Not only due to the fact that he is so laid back that he may or may not deserve this cake after all (Bendy personality parallels?) but he found the cake, just sitting there.

As if it was left there waiting for him to make his rounds, and knowing what he would do, was a trap. That cake looks to be full of ink. And we already know the effect ink has on people...

This cake may have been a test to see what he would do in that situation, and if he failed...well... maybe the consequence were more "devilish" then we thought and he didn't actually make it "outta there".

Poor Wally, all he wanted to do was relax, "do his job", stay out of trouble, eat his chocolate cake and leave.

(We aren't EVEN going to talk about the fact that Thomas and Allison got married and Allison loves to cook and gives JOEY DREW recipes. That may be the reason why Wally got that cake in the first place, how Joey/Thomas knew he would be a good fit, and how so many employees got infected, but that would make this longer than I wanted and I will save it for another time.)

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Part 5- Thankyou!

Anyway, this is just another "Theory Thought" that I wanted to put up here! Its just for pure speculation and fun. These are just thoughts. I'm sorry if you may not agree and you doing so is valid. Just dont send hate due to you not agreeing, thankchu!

P.S I want to thankyou all for all the love on my account lately. I have more stuff coming, I promise, Im just SUPER swamped with school! 💙

#batim #bendy the dancing demon #bendy and the dark revival #bendy and the ink machine #joey drew #sammy lawrence #batim alice angel #batim boris #boris the wolf #henry stein #batim theory #game theory #dont kill me please #this is just for fun and thought #im not good at this sort of stuff #batdr #theory thoughts #starryresponds!

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Masklophobia: Chapter 6

Karl's Paradise- 02x04: My Webby Valentine

Now onto the 4th episode of the 2nd season. It's a... ...god damn Valentine's Day special. As you can tell by the title. Anyways, let's dive right in, shall we?

The episode begins with that hillbilly lizard, who's at the start of every episode, taking a nap by the "Welcome to the Paradise" sign. He then awakens, yawns, then a cartoon bee flew into his mouth. He choked for a while, then eventually spat it out. Next, the show pans to the Paradise town, festive in Valentine's Day decorations. We witness a lot of heteronormativity coming from the stock puppet characters. After that, we cut to the Paradise Critters.

More random puppet characters are fishing by the lake, when Fins popped up, holding a bouquet of roses, saying "HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! *Chuckles*" The fisher puppets come to take a closer look at the roses, and sniff them, but then water had sprayed out. She laughed, then presented them with real roses as a "No hard feelings" apology.

Cut to Junior; He was in school, where his classmates were having a card exchange. A female student (named Shirley) was two seats away from him. Shirley was a dog puppet, with pigtail like ears, and she appeared to be checking Junior out. Ughhhh, forced romance on eight year-olds. She stared at Junior as she watched him sort through his box of cards, just carelessly shuffling and making himself a mess. The mammoth stopped as he picked something up: Chocolate candies with a card attached. Shirley seemed to be fullfilled, implying that it came from her. Unfortunately, Junior crumbled up the card, tossed it aside, then ate the candies. Shirley was left heartbroken. "Boys..."

We then now cut to the Happy Belly Diner. Yum-Yum was placing a bunch of Valentines Day treats, including a punch bowl, on the counter. Barkstone and Saxxo stared in awe. Mama LongLegs was in the background, hovering over a bowl of soup. Back to Yum-Yum, she said that King Karl had chosen her to be the caterer for this year's Valentine's Day ballroom party. She let Saxxo have a sample of one of them. After trying one, he commented with glee.

"Mmm, mmm mmm! This some hearty, heart filled goodness right here, Yums! Although... Maybe ah should try another batch-"

"Don't you dare, honey! These are for the Lovers Ball! But... ...if you're still hungry, I whipped you up a special Valentine gift."

Yum-Yum presented Saxxo with a small gift box. Inside the box were Valentine's Day sugar cookies, shaped like hearts.

"Aw, mama, this awfully SWEET of you. Wish ah had the time to make you somethin'."

"No need for that. Just keep up with them soothin', jim-dandy melodies."

"Oh! Perhaps ah can treat you to a personal, live performance. You gonna dig this tune! Ah wrote it specially for the Lovers Ball!"

"Interesting. Do you have a name for it?" Asked Barkstone.

"Yes indeedy, man! It's called 'Gonna Take Super Sticky Glue To Keep Me Close To You!'"

While Saxxo played some smooth jazz on his saxophone, the next segment transitioned. It was a beautiful, pencil drawn animation, with a harp score, about a cupid helping a sad, lonely boy cheer up by hooking him up with a girl. ... Apparently, romance is the key to find happiness. Good animation. Bad message.

We're back to the Happy Belly Diner scene, except it's filmed from the outside, with Van Goose coming up. Before she enters the diner, she ran into Mama LongLegs coming out.

"Hahppy Vahlentine's day, Meess LahngLegs!"

"Ohhhh, *Stomps foot down* bah humbug!"

The spider storms away angrily, leaving Van Goose confused. As she entered, Saxxo stops and greets the bird.

"Ees eet just me, or ees LahngLegs up een seex ahrms?"

"Mm. It ain't just you, babeh. She has been quiet around this room, sittin' all by herself while lookin' so gloom." Said Saxxo.

"I'll say. She ordered herself some soup, and told me to hold the fly." Said Yum-Yum.

"Fortunately, there is a basis behind this tale. The poor lady arachnid is faced with another lonely episode on the most romantic day of the year! The day where she once believed she had a chance to find the love she's been yearning for, but now accepted the fact that it would just turn out the same dull way as always. Well, it's not her fault for being so unattractive." Said Barkstone.

Saxxo and Yum-Yum both smacked the blue dog for that last statement. The four fell into a discussion on how they wanted to cheer Mama LongLegs up. Barkstone suggested that they let her be. Yum-Yum suggested that they find a man for her, who won't be repulsed by her looks. (Maybe a literal blind date) Saxxo suggested they each give her a gift to make her feel better. Suddenly, a lightbulb appeared over Van Goose's head, indicating that she had an idea.

We pan to the outside of LongLegs's cottage, then inside of her cottage, where we find her knitting webs. She made herself a sweater, complained about how ugly it looked, then dealt with the fact that she might as well wear an ugly sweater, since she would never catch true love anyways. The doorbell rang. LongLegs threw her sweater on the floor, then marched angrily to answer the door.

"Can't a lady go through an emotional state in peace?!"

Nobody was there. Well, something was there. On her doorstep, there was a basket, which contents were a bouquet of flowers, a heart shaped box, and an envelope sealed off with a heart sticker. She took the basket inside. The flowers were an assortment of different colors and varieties, and smelled like a breezy garden. Inside the box were chocolate covered grasshoppers. They looked yummy, and tasted like they came from an expensive candy store. The letter was a romantic poem.

"Each passing day and each passing night, I wish I could keep you in my sight. With your stellar talent, I knew you had broke the mold. All six arms of yours I wish to hold. Let's reprise Miss Muffet, add in a little twist. Whereas instead of running away, it ends with a kiss. You are the spice providing the flavor. I'd like to meet you sometime later. With love... ...your secret admirer."

Mama LongLegs was so delighted, she began to break into song. I am not gonna recite it for you. It's pretty forgettable. Anyways, it was about her wondering what her secret admirer is like. Is he tall, short, fair, or dark? Is he slender, or a brawny champ? Is he an elegant duke, or a wild bad boy? Throughout the song, we are taken into her cartoon visualizations. She imagined her man to be another spider of some sort. Marvel Comics' Spider-Man was deemed the "brawny champ" of the song.

"I don't know what he is, or what he looks like. All I know is that I finally found someone who admires me deeply. Wait, 'I'd like to meet you sometime later.' *Happily squeals* Ohhh boy! Ohhh girl! I betcha he'll be there at the Lovers Ball! Oh, but what shall I wear? I can't be seen in this old thing on a special night like this! How's my breath?! My hair is way too uptight!"

Meanwhile, watching from the window outside;

"'I'd like to meet you sahmetime lahtair?' ees zat whaht we wahnted hare to believe?!" Van Goose snapped.

"I'm sorry, babeh. Ah was runnin' low on time to tell a rhyme, so ah improvised. Is that a crime?" Saxxo replied.

"What if we just tell her that the Lovers Ball is probably not the time her secret admirer had in mind?" Asked Yum-Yum.

"Because zen she'd question us on how we knew zat hare secret ahdmeerair wahnted to meet hare sahmetime lahtair. eet just gives eet ahll ahway."

"You have a good point. What do we do now?"

Unfortunately for Barkstone, he had plans.

"I'd love to help you untangle out of this WEB, but I have to get ready for the Lovers Ball tonight. I have a date with a purebred Maltese!"

The magician dog disappeared in a puff of smoke. The three other Critters coughed, and started fanning away the smoke.

"Why, I don't believe him! There's only five hours away till the ball, and he just gave us the bum's rush! Boy am I surprised he managed to land himself a date."

Yum-Yum's complaint gave Van Goose a new idea.

"I sink I cahme up weeth a new nahtion!"

"Sink is right. We sure sunk."

"No, Saxxo, no! Sink! Sink! Idea! I mean I've gaht a new plahn!"

"New plan? Well, why didn't ya say so? Lay it on us!"

"You see: LahngLegs ees hahpeeng fahr hare secret ahdmeerair to be ze perfect mahn, right? Hut whaht eef we try to cahnveence hare zat he's naht whaht she'd expect?"

Yum-Yum and Saxxo liked the plan, and they slapped both of Van Goose's wings a high-five. We cut to the next skit, where it's a humorous cartoon that tells the tale about animals "expressing their love" in different ways than humans. I'm pretty sure that's what animals do before they mate. Of course, kid shows shouldn't let kiddies know that the animals fuck.

Now we're down to the LabRat segment. Same opening with the eerie enterance and organ music, blah blah blah. Pan to LabRat. It appears he is working on one of those chemical setups. I don't know science, sorry. All the chemicals are then transferred into this cologne bottle, then the rat seals it. Eger appears, and he has a potted flower on his head for no reason.

"Hello, master!"

"Why hi, Eger. How has- Eger, you have a potted flower on your head."

"Ohhhhh, that's funny! So do I! Anyways; Happy Valentine's Day, master!"

Eger gives LabRat a Valentine card, where it said "You blinded me with science."

"Awwwwww, Eger, you shouldn't have. Really."

"So, what did you get me?"

LabRat panicked for a moment, and searched around his labcoat to find something. He then pointed to a fake distraction so that Eger would turn his head. LabRat grabbed the potted flower, and gave it to him.

"It's lovely! Now I have a match for the one on my head! So, what have you been cooking up, master?"

"Oh, it's a device that will put an end to all loneliness."

"An ever-lasting pet rock?"

"No! Even better! *Turns the bottle around to reveal the labled name* A love potion!"

"Love potion? Love potion, master?"

"Yes, love potion! By just applying a small dose of this highly concentrated pheromone, the scent will lure in the love of your life!"

"Master, I don't think it's a good idea to force love on someone like that. Love takes time."

"Love takes forever. (Or in my highschool case, love takes never)"

"But master, it doesn't sound right! Love is too precious to mess with! A girl has a life of her own, you know? Why not just use the basic steps to winning the female species?"

Damn, this is probably the only time Eger had some decent sense. Also, I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear the term "female species." Eger then brought out a presentation board with all the steps.

"Try being nice to her, like she were a person like you. Talk to each other to find out what you like in one another. Give her some pretty flowers. Then that's it! You don't need no stinkin' love potion."

"You have pointed out some very good details, Eger. But with my pride, the heck with it! I need a date to the Lovers Ball!"

Dismissing Eger's advice, LabRat told his assistant to stand by the door. He dabbed himself with the love potion, only at his arms and behind one of his ears. Then he told Eger to release the test subjects. Eger opened the door, to let in a couple of female puppet characters. If they were standing outside of the cellar this whole time, how come we didn't see them in the segment's intro? LabRat freshened his breath with breath spray and he put on a bowtie.

One of them approached the rat. Instead of giving him affection, she slapped him across the face. Another one came over, and stomped on his foot. The third one pushed him over. Finally, they all joined together for a good rat beating. Can't say he didn't deserve it. When they were done, the ladies exited the cellar in disgust. We pan to LabRat lying belly down on the floor. Eger hovered over him. When LabRat asked Eger to help him up, he just hit him on the snout.

"Bad master!"

Eger left to join the ladies, leaving LabRat alone in his lab. Groaning in pain, the rat picked himself up, using the nearby counter for support.

"Ya know, I've truly learned something from all of this."

You may think he has learned his lesson on not to probe a woman's feelings, but no, he decided to relabel his new invention as "hate potion."

The last animated skit of the episode, we watch yet another lovely animation (stop motion) about candy hearts forming the word "Valentine," then into a beating heart. We then transition to the night scene, outside of the Lovers Ball. Pan to inside, everyone is having a ball. Dancing with their partners, eating, drinking punch. Saxxo was performing on stage. Slouch was the security, but currently sleeping on the job.

Barkstone was wearing a black tuxedo, Yum-Yum wore a skirt and some jewerly, Saxxo wore a sequin suit, Van Goose wore a white tuxedo top, and Mama LongLegs had a red dress, pearl necklace, and her hair tied in a ponytail. Speaking of Mama LongLegs, she was sitting at a table for two, all by herself. Van Goose was at the buffet table, getting herself some punch, while watching the poor spider await for her Prince Charming. A pig puppet approached her table.

"Is this seat taken, ma'am?"

"Yes!"

"By who?"

"My dreamboat, that's who!"

"Where is he?"

"He'll be here, eventually!"

"Has he arrived yet?"

"No, but he will!"

"Mind if I warm up this chair for him while you wait?"

"TO THE MOON, PORKCHOPS!"

Mama LongLegs raised her voice, causing the pig to scurry. Van Goose went over to Yum-Yum, who brought over another tray of hors d'oeuvres, and told her to act now. The bear came up to LongLegs' table, helping herself to a seat. LongLegs was confused at first, because she was expecting a man.

"Hey, LongLegs. How have you been, hun?"

"Ahhh, I've been doing fabulous now that I've found love on this day to celebrate! Heeheehee. Now please get out of that chair before he gets here and thinks I gave his seat away."

"Oh, you met someone? I'm very happy for you! What's this fella like?"

"Well, we didn't exactly met, but we're expecting to meet here, at the Lovers Ball. He implied it in the letter he sent me. *Gives letter to Yum-Yum* Along with some chocolate covered grasshoppers and fragrant flowers. Now, may you pardon yourself-"

"*Pretends to read note* Oh my goodness. Uh-uh, oh my goodness. Tsk tsk tsk."

"What is it?"

"Hun, I think I recognize this handwriting. I don't know his name in particular, but I do know who this came from. This dude dropped by the Happy Belly Diner a few weeks back. Gracious, I've never seen such a messy eater in my life. He slurps his stew, shoves his entire plate clean in one bite, and digs his face, literally, into his dessert. Talk about animal manners. Messy, messy, messy."

"Ooooooohhh, sounds like he has the appetite of a real predator! I like that in guys."

Well, that failed nicely. After being politely asked to move from the chair one last time, Yum-Yum excused herself. She then broke the news to Van Goose, on how LongLegs was excited to know that there's someone who eats more disgustingly than her. Van Goose decided to ask Saxxo next. Meanwhile, Yum-Yum found a sad, lonely old man. ...dog. Drowning his sorrows in punch.

"You seem under the weather there, Barkstone."

"Well don't rain on my parade."

"Had trouble with your date?"

"Like that's any of your business!"

"Okay-"

"She left me for this feeble, puny little Chihuahua. I'll never understand women."

Elsewhere, Saxxo was playing the tune he showed us earlier in the episode. Suddenly, Van Goose called him from behind the red curtains. The show still had to go on, so Saxxo put someone else in his place. A rabbit puppet that played the spoons. Saxxo went behind the red curtains, then came out covered in roller bandages, and walked with a cane. King Karl witnessed the whole affair, which got him to be suspicious. The tiger limped as fast as he could to Mama LongLegs.

"Oh jeez, Saxxo! What happened to you?!"

"That fella... Your secret admirer... Earlier that day, Ah was just all cool, playin' mah music to go, when ah bumped into HIM! He a bad dude! I'm not talkin' bout the good kind of bad!"

"HE did this to you?"

"Uh-huh. I wanted to pass by, and forget the whole thang ever happened, but this man got issues! He battered me to a pulp, and was well aware that ah was uncapable of defending myself. Look at dis body and say otherwise!"

"Golly! He must be such a strong, sturdy hunk! (I think I'm in love!)"

"What about me?!"

"Well, you did bump into him without saying 'excuse me.'"

That plan backfired as well. The only option left was to tell Mama LongLegs the truth. Before Van Goose got to say anything to LongLegs, Barkstone made a dramatic entrance with a puff of smoke. He was now sitting in that chair, wearing a ridiculous spider costume, and a false mustace.

"Sorry I'm late, madam! My limo needed repair. Might I introduce myself: I am John George Henry Lewis Raphael III! Owner of the largest oil company in the Paradise, and The First National Kidney Donor Bank!"

Van Goose tugged Barkstone by his false mustace and whispered into his ear.

"Bahrkstahne, whaht ahre you doing?"

"Helping out, of course. You owe me big time in this, by the way."

The dog continued to chat with LongLegs. You couldn't tell by her face, but her tone showed that she wasn't falling for it. ...and ready to kill.

"My, you sure are lovely on this fine night! Did anyone ever tell you that you look better in the dark lighting?"

"Barkstone... ...what is this?"

King Karl appeared and asked "Yes, what is this," but in a lighthearted manner. After Van Goose painfully tore off the false mustace from Barkstone's face, she explained everything. Since LongLegs' bad mood and losing hope in Valentine's Day, Van Goose decided to make up a fake admirer so that LongLegs knows that she is loved. Barkstone provided the flowers (magically), Yum-Yum made the chocolate covered grasshoppers, and Saxxo wrote the poem. Van Goose guided them.

She also explained that they never intented to have this secret admirer meet Mama LongLegs, but had no choice because Saxxo got carried away in the rhymes. King Karl lectured the four Critters. He told them that it's never okay to fool somebody's feelings, and quotes that love is too delicate to mess with. There are many alternatives to making your friends happy, especially on Valentine's Day. Van Goose timidly stepped up to Mama LongLegs, and apologized for all that has happened.

"We're ahll equally sahrry, LahngLegs. We just wahnted to mahke you hahppy, ahnd breeng your speerit een Vahlentine's Day bahck, because we cahre fahr you. We nevair meant to breeng such hahrm."

Mama LongLegs hesitated for a moment.

"As much as I want to be mad at you, it's just impossible knowing I have friends who love me so much. I guess the best Valentine a woman can ever have is her own friends."

Van Goose and Mama LongLegs hugged things out. The others joined in too, even Barkstone, only because the moment was too heartwarming to ignore. Before the episode ends for good, and the credits roll, it's Paradise Fun-Time, which Van Goose shows us how to make crafty Valentine's Day cards. Seems more relevant than any of the hacks from 5-Minute Crafts. Catch you later, loves!

#The Banana Splits Movie #remake #horror #Masklophobia #original characters

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