#THERE WAS A TYPO.................AND NO ONE EVEN SAID IT...........................

[no1blacksapphirefan]

Wanna say, love the writing for the cookies! Recently started playing this game (within the last month) and it has a choke hold on me atm XD

Was hoping to request some HCs of the Ancient and Beast cookies, and Elder Fairy, Black Sapphire, and Black Forest cookie if possible, learning that the cookie they fell in love with, who has been bending over backwards to help the Cookie Kingdom and cookies everywhere, was originally a Witch that was cursed to become a Cookie because they rebelled against the other witches to try and protect cookie-kind

Hopefully I understood this correctly!! Sorry for the wait…getting back to requests now ^^

Small mention of 2 of my CRK Witch OCs 😋

((Wrote this a bit late at night so sorry for any typos))

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"So, how's it been? We know it takes some getting used too. And your situation is different to ours, we chose to be cookies but you? Forced..." Azalea Cookie asked, lifting the cup of tea to her mouth as she awaited your answer. It had been awhile since you got cursed to be a cookie. Not that you completely minded, sure you were lost of your original body but First Quartz Cookie had helped you settle in when he first met you. "Have you told anyone yet? You've been getting close to that one cookie right?" He said, placing a piece of cake by your plate. The two witches listened as you explain you didn't feel like you were ready yet. It was a big reveal and not one you wanted out, right away. (And depending on your cookie of choice, the reveal would be much more impactful than others) Unbeknownst to you, that certain cookie was listening in.

Pure Vanilla He didn't mean to eavesdrop! He swears, he wanted to collect flowers for you the next time you met. He had seen you eyeing some so he took the opportunity to look for some. That is until he heard your voice, he listened in and quickly covered his mouth. He didn't expect this. He's not exactly mad, he understands. He isn't mad at you, just concerned.

He doesn't bring it up with you, he would never. It's clear to him that you're not exactly comfortable just yet revealing it to him. He'll wait till you're ready. No matter how long it takes, even if you never do tell him. As long as you're happy, that's all that matters to him. He'll get his mouth shut for as long as he needs.

Dark Cacao He was just taking a stroll, wandering around for a bit and thinking. He wanted to see what's the best route for the next time you two decide to take a walk. Even find a place for maybe a picnic until he heard your voice. He listened in for a while, he didn't know what to think. He believed the two of you already told each other all your secrets. That you were truly that close but you seemed to be holding back one last secret.

He doesn't blame you, it's more so he thought there were no more secrets between the two of you but he was wrong, you didn't claim you told him everything so he can't be too mad. He gets over it, don't worry, he brings it up but won't ask for details. He just wants confirmation. If you tell the truth he won't pry, but reassure you that it doesn't change anything. I mean, you've done a lot for his kingdom and the such. If you lie he'd be slightly upset but won't dwell on it nor let it affect your relationship.

Golden Cheese She was looking for First Quartz Cookie, she wanted him to take a photo of both her and you. A perfect way to treasure special moments, once she contacted him she'd start planning said special moment. She didn't expect to find the both of you. And overhear something like that...she knew about First Quartz Cookie but finding out you were the same? Or...on a similar boat? Wow...

She makes her presence known quickly, she wants to confront you. Not in a bad way, more so she wants the details, the witches truly turned you into a cookie purely because you wanted to help them?...And you still continued despite the fact they were the main factor. She won't hold it against you, you weren't like the other witches but she may need just a bit of time to process that information, that's all

White Lily Oh!...Oh....oh

She doesn't know what to think, yes you weren't like the other witches. You'd never eat them, and hearing what the other two have said, what you all have talked about. You'd never bake them just to eat them, you truly cared about them, it's just...your associations with the witches. She can't get that out of her brain, she wants too, truly. And she'd never hold it against you. But she can't help but run off. Not because of fear, more so in slight surprise, she needs to process knowing you're a witch.

She'll keep silent, she'll talk to others about it. She won't directly mention you or even say anything of the details. She makes up a story that tells her feelings and still tells the general story. She'll get over it within a few days, deep down she always knew you'd never do what the witches at the Banquet would. She just needed time to process that information. She'll never bring it up again so long as you don't bring it up. She might accidentally reveal she found out though...

Hollyberry She's shocked, I feel like her finding out would be those 'accidentally walking in and finding out' She was just really happy to see you, she didn't think it would be bad to come up to the table until she heard you were a witch. Silence filled the air as she just stared at you, unblinking. Before Azalea cookie quickly stood up and ushered her out, she finally snapped out of it.

"Wait!! Hang on!"

She wanted to talk to you in private, reluctantly the other two left but stayed nearby enough so you could call out to them if you needed too. She's not mad, just surprised by the information and wanted to talk to you about it. She'll keep it a secret from your other friends if you so wish, or even help you start telling others and is at the ready to defend you.

Shadow Milk He's almost proud you were able to hide this fact from him for so long. He doesn't exactly hate witches. Not all of them, of course there's some he dislikes like the one who trapped him in the tree but you're different to the witches he has a disdain for. You're kind to him and Earthbread.

So he doesn't hold it against you, you've done a lot for the kingdom, you've made him feel a lot less lonely as well. In fact, he'd hold a bigger disdain for the witches that brought this on you. All you wanted to do was care for the cookies and this is how the witches treat you? Horrible.

Mystic Flour True to her "Light" she doesn't show much reaction to it, she doesn't care. Even though it's you, even though seemingly you're the only one who's able to get her to show more reactions and feelings than any other cookie. This information is nothing to her. You're still you, that's all that matters. Would it be different if you stayed a witch? Likely, but it'll be because the two of you could never properly hang out.

She'll ask about it over tea, she won't say more if you don't want to but she'll make it clear that she doesn't care if you were a witch, if she had enough power she'd make the witches turn back to flour. You're a kind soul doing so much for Earthbread despite the fact that, in a way. They were a reason for you being cursed.

Burning Spice He knew he'd never get bored of you, and this information he found out? Further proves this fact, you were filled with mystery. He also makes his presence known but it's easy to piece together that he finds this information more entertaining than distressing. That he in fact likes the fact about you rather than dislike it.

He doesn't talk about it much after, though he does ask a few questions. If or when he finds out the reasoning for why you became a cookie he'll be so happy to have another target for destruction.

Eternal Sugar (May be OOC) I don't see her accidentally finding out by accidentally listening in. I feel as though you would've eventually told her. She hums for a moment upon hearing the reveal before reassuring you that she doesn't mind at all. Your past is your past, plus you're unlike the witches she's heard about or the one who's trapped her.

If you didn't know better, you might wonder if you even told her you were a witch as she never brought it back up again after that. It's not a detail to you she likes or dislikes, it's just another part of you. She fell for your personality, you being a witch won't change your personality.

Elder Faerie He knew deep down I feel, he had a feeling. He's met a good few cookies who once were witches so he has a bit of a 6th sense. Similar to Eternal Sugar Cookie, I feel he wouldn't find out during that moment. In fact, I feel like he'd ask a week or two in of meeting you. He wants to put it straight that he doesn't mind.

It would be more so the reasoning for your cookie appearance that would be the surprise to him. He waits until you're ready to reveal it if you ever do and makes sure you're feeling better. Being forced to be a cookie, to be in a new world and navigate it, it's much more different than to watch over it and he knows it. So he makes sure you're settling in right and feeling better after it.

Black Sapphire He never thought he'd meet someone he'd never want to make a rumour of. But here you were, even when he's presented with information...information like this that would surely further skyrocket his show. He would never leak it, though he is a bit conflicted.

He talks to you about it, he makes it clear he won't leak it unless you want him too. It would be a quick way to tell everyone this secret, plus due to him sometimes spreading lies in the show, no one would know exactly if he's telling the truth or not.

Black Forest Cookie Oh my!! She felt so guilty falling in love with you after saying she'd marry the witches. But you're a witch? She feels a lot better. She's so happy, she admires you so, she needs to ask Wedding Cake Cookie to plan a wedding for the two of you right away!! She's fantasising about the wedding day so much she doesn't realise you're now next to her asking if she's heard anything.

She admits it quickly, but you quickly realise she loves it rather than is scared or anything like that. She tells you quickly she wishes to get married, you can't tell if it's because you used to be a witch or if she just liked you beforehand and this was the thing to finally give her the courage to ask you. But she truly did fall for you before finding out!! If you tell her who turned you into a witch, she'd immediately hate the witches who did it to you, how could they!!

[wosospacegirl]

breathing- alexia putellas

Summary: Alexia helps you study for a test, but really, she's more of a distraction

Word count: 1.2k

Warnings: (+18) fingering (r receiving).

a/n: this was not proofread!! And I bet it had a lot of typos so I'm sorry!!

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You were trying to concentrate. Really. But Alexia was absolutely no help.

It had all started innocently. You had asked her to help you study for your human physiology exam, and like the good girlfriend she was, she had agreed.

She even abandoned her half-finished protein shake on the kitchen counter to come sit with you on the sofa.

The sofa was filled with flashcards, highlighters and papers; you had your huge physiology textbook lying open in front of you.

You had memorised every single image from chapter 13, you knew how to solve every single medical case, but still, you needed an assistant to make sure you knew everything about the respiratory system and hemodynamics by heart. 

But Alexia had taken things way too far.

All you had asked was for Alexia to quiz you.

You just wanted Alexia to ask you a few questions, to read them out loud from your flashcards…maybe test you about muscles, their names, functions, or any other details you might have missed.

Right now, you were straddling her lap, your thighs practically caging her in the sofa next to the pillows, your shirt and bra were long gone. You could feel the warmth of her body pressed up against yours.

Your clothed pelvises were grinding slowly, and you knew she was doing it to tease you, to make you beg.

Alexia's mouth was on your neck. Her lips were wet and hot as they dragged across your skin alongside her tongue, which created a wet path from your earlobe down to your clavicle.  

Her right hand had other plans, though; it was sneaking lower and lower each breath you took; her fingers were brushing under the hem of your cotton shorts, ones that were absolutely not sexy at all, but Alexia swore over her dead body that you looked hot in them.

Alexia had one of her hands splayed across your torso. Her (big) hand was covering your third rib, all the way to your seventh one.

Her hand was warm, too. Alexia was always warm, even in the middle of winter, even when she was shivering from the cold.

"What am I kissing right now?" Alexia murmured against your throat, her lips were sucking your skin gently, and her tongue was flickering over the mark she had just left.

It was practically impossible for Alexia to have her mouth on you without leaving any marks. She always had to do it. Always had to leave a bit of herself on you. You never complained, though.

You whimpered as Alexia pressed her pelvis against you. Your hips were rocking ever so slightly against her; you were just trying to chase some kind of friction, some kind of relief.  

"I asked you a question, amor," Alexia said in a deep voice.

You rolled your eyes, your mind was starting to get foggy, but you pushed through. You tried to think of her wet lips on your neck, and then picture the image on page 367, figure C.

"That's…uhnm," you rolled your hips against her fingers, they weren't even touching your skin yet, they were just over your clothes. "That's sternocleidomastoideus."

"Muy bien," [very good], Alexia praised. You could almost feel a thick layer of amusement in her voice. 

You might be distracted by her, but Alexia was distracted by you just the same. You knew how she felt when your pulse jumped beneath her mouth.

You knew you could have said anything, really… from infraspinatus to lysosomes, or even rotator cuff, and still, she would probably have nodded along, just the same. 

Alexia only knew the main muscles–the ones worth working on in the gym or the ones that were easy targets for injuries. 

"That's an important muscle, sí?" she asked, her voice filled with false innocence as her hand finally slipped past your shorts, her fingertips were touching over your soaked cunt, which was, of course, always ready for her.

"Ale, please," you moaned as you moved your hips to the right, trying to meet her hand. "More…I need more, please."

"No, princesa," she whispered sternly, but still sweet. "Tienes que estudiar." [You have to study.]

"I don't, not anymore," you shook your head, "I want you."

Alexia didn't give in, as expected.

"Concéntrate, amor," [pay attention, love] she said, as her fingers slipped through your wetness and pressed inside your cunt, very slowly and deliberately as if she knew you like the back of her hand. 

"Now, tell me about these muscles here–" The hand that had been on your rib cage was now tracing along the spaces between each rib. You felt a shiver running down your spine. 

You arched your back and gave Alexia better access to your torso, and because she was a very loving girlfriend, she rewarded you with a second finger.

Alexia could be very maddening when she wanted to.

She could make you lose your mind and focus with just a touch of her finger; that's how much power she had over you.

She slid her middle finger along with her index finger deeper inside your cunt, filling you up just right, just as you needed. 

You were so wet you could hear the sound of her fingers thrusting inside of you, it was a pornographic and very delicious sound.

You knew your underwear and shorts were a mess right now, but you still wished Alexia would take your clothes off so you could rub your bare cunt against her leggings, getting them all wet and smelling of you and your need for her.

"Intercostales,' you breathed (finally), her fingers curled inside of you, giving you the prize you so much deserved.

"Vamos," [come on] Alexia said, more softly this time, as if she really wanted you to get it right. "Dime el nombre de esos músculos." [Tell the name of these muscles]

You grabbed Alexia's shoulders for support, lifting your hip a bit so Alexia could have more room to move her hand.

"They, ugh, fuck…they control the breathing mechanism of the respiratory system," you said as you were trying to remember your damn flashcards (the ones that you spent hours working on) but it seemed like your brain decided to just not work anymore, as if it went on a vacation as soon as Alexia touched you.

"Y por qué son importantes?" she asked, her thumb was brushing very close to your clit but never quite touching it.

It was a dangerous move, and Alexia knew it.

Alexia hummed and then pressed a kiss on your neck. It seemed like she liked your answer. 

"Then why," she asked softly, "does it seem like you are having such a hard time breathing, bebé?"

Her palm then moved to the left, lying flat over your chest, next to your heart.

You could see her palm moving up and down with each of your irregular breaths. 

You could barely form an answer, your mind was still too dizzy, and Alexia had just found your G-spot, her finger thrusting so sweetly against you.

You only had one last breath, you just had one (accusatory) word to say before coming undone with an orgasm.

"Fuck–it's because of you."

Alexia smirked as she curled her fingers inside of you, her thumb rubbing your clit as you felt a warm feeling embracing your body.

You came, contracting against Alexia, your mouth was open as you moaned, feeling every single dopamine and oxytocin molecule running through your bloodstream.

Alexia kissed your forehead as you calmed down. She waited until your breathing was even again to take her finger off of you. You wished she would keep them; you felt closer to her that way.

When she came back, she did just that. She filled your face with kisses as she cleaned the inside of your thighs, kissing your cunt one last time before properly putting the shorts back on.

Maybe you said that out loud, you didn't remember, right now all you needed was Alexia, she knew how clingy you were after an orgasm.

She had left to wash her hands and bring you a warm cloth to clean you up.

You had completely forgotten about your test, or about anything really. Alexia was not the best study pal in the world, but she sure knew how to make you relax during a study session.

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a/n: This isn't one of my greatest works, and I don't know if I like it, but I wrote it down, and I thought I might as well share it here.

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[junnieverse]

LUCKY GIRL SYNDROME ➳ ENHYPEN

➙ the different ways the enhypen members show/give you princess treatment and girlfriend privileges

pairing: non idol!enhypen x fem!reader

genre: fluff

warnings: lowercase intended, may contain typos (lightly proofread)

a/n: i am finally done with exams and my first semester of the academic year, finally!! i hope you all enjoy my angels, xx (reblogs highly appreciated!!)

🖇️ — 양정원 ; JUNGWON !

↳ buys you flowers

you had once mentioned your love for flowers in passing on one occasion

jungwon had taken note of that and made a promise to himself to always make you smile, even through something as small as surprising you with flowers since that's what you loved

finding a new bouquet of flowers decorating your kitchen counter every other week was no new reoccurrence in your house

the only difference was that with each time you were gifted with a new bundle by your boyfriend, they were always different kinds of flowers

one week it could be white roses, the next you find pretty pink tulips, it was always a surprise

you had told him time and time again that he didn't have to keep doing this, but he had insisted

"Wonnie you really didn't have to get me more, occasionally is more than enough." you say with a small pout admiring the new bouquet of daffodils your lovely boyfriend was arranging in your vase

it was the small gifts like this from jungwon that truly made you feel like the most special girl in the world without him even realising

"I know, but I also know how much you love flowers and seeing your smile every time you see them displayed makes me happy. I would get you thousands each day if it meant seeing that pretty smile on your face." he responds coming up to wrap his arms around your waist and kissing your nose leaving you a blushing mess

🖇️ — 이희승 ; HEESEUNG !

↳ carries your bag for you

what started as a simple gesture carrying your grocery bags for you became what is you simply being bagless

according to your wonderful and thoughtful boyfriend, "God forbid you carry a bag when I can do that for you."

he could be carry ten bags all by himself and he would still somehow find a way to do it all on his own

all you were to do according to him is worry about what you wanted to buy next and he would carry it all, including your handbag

you thought holding your purse would 'bruise his masculinity' but heeseung was truly unbothered for as long as it meant you felt comfortable too and didn't mind and wanted his help

"Baby could you please just hold my bag for a sec, I wanna tie up my hair properly." he nods in agreement taking the small bag from your grasp as he patiently waits for you

upon finishing you reach your hand out and thank him expecting the bag, instead he places his hand in yours swaying them back and forth as you continue walking in confusion

"Don't worry, I'll carry it for you. You just keep being pretty right next to me." he lets you know throwing a wink at you before kissing the side of your head

🖇️ — 박종성 ; JAY !

↳ cooks for you

if anyone were to ask you when the last time you cooked yourself ever since moving in with your boyfriend, they would be stunned by the answer

in your defence cooking just happened to be one of jay's many beautiful love languages

and to make up for all the cooking, you offered to wash the dishes to which he told you not to worry about but you partially felt bad for not contributing even in the slightest and so you would atleast help to wipe and pack said dishes whilst he washed them

"What do you want for dinner tonight?" he asks as he ties his 'kiss the chef' apron you had gifted him for his birthday around his waist

"Mhm... how about that fettucine alfredo you made awhile back, that was really good." you suggest sitting across the counter on the island stool

sure jay did all the cooking but you (and he unadmittedly) didn't mind it in the slightest because it gave you time to quietly admire him looking dashingly handsome

what gets better than watching your boyfriend in his element, sleeves rolled up and focused on curating the perfect dish for his beloved

"How's the sauce darling?" he blows on the teaspoon before leaning in to feed you to taste test for him

nodding and clapping you proceed to give him a thumbs up, to which he only shakes his head as he chuckles at your silliness

"I think it's about time I make you my house-husband Mr. Park." you say wrapping your arms around his waist and laying your head on his back as he continues cooking already used to this sort of affection, very much enjoying it

🖇️ — 심재윤 ; JAKE !

↳ spoils you through gifts

when you got gifts from jake, there was just no telling what was next

sometimes it could be something as simple as buying you lunch on his way back home after getting groceries to that one tiffany & co necklace that you called pretty in passing a few days while you were both out

he has mentioned to you on multiple instances that whatever it is that you want, he would get it for you in a heartbeat and he has proved that to you time and time again

"Jakey, what's in the bag..?" you ask hesitantly as your boyfriend walks in to join you on the couch, four bags in hand

"Okay I know we put a monthly limit on how many things and how much you want me to spend on you love but I just couldn't resist-" he says with a sheepish grin scratching the back of his neck nervously as you sigh giving him a comforting smile

nodding to give him the go ahead, jake pulls out all the new gifts he got you, excitement etched all over his face

you would swear he gets more excited about getting you gifts than you do when receiving them

"Next time I'll work even harder to buy you the moon." he tells you with his infamous smile as he hugs you nestling his head between your neck

all you could do was giggle at his words knowing it was a joke since he couldn't actually buy you the moon... right?

🖇️ — 박성훈 ; SUNGHOON !

↳ carries you and opens doors for you

"My lady," your boyfriend quaintly bows as he opens the door for you letting you out as he reaches his hand out for assistance to which you kindly accept

for as long as you had known sunghoon, you had not touched a single door again around him

and if you even so much as tried, he would look at you with the most offended and hurt face

along with that, the boy has gotten into the habit (for lack of better wording) of carrying you if the situation deemed fitting

you had both come back from a beautiful date night and the elevator in your building was unfortunately not working, meaning you both had to use the stairs and you were starting to regret your choice in wearing heels tonight

"My feet hurt so bad..." you mumbled softly not having expected sunghoon to catch that up until you felt him sweep you off your feet... quite literally, carrying you in his arms bridal style up to your apartment up on the next floor without a single hint of struggle

"W-wait Hoonie it's okay, I can still walk, we're almost home anyway." you argue still feeling flustered by how easily he scooped you up into his arms

although he was quick to reassure you that he was more than capable, those gym sessions not going to vain, "It's all good princess, I got you."

and even then he somehow managed to open the door to the house alone with you still in his arms

quite the man you have there

🖇️ — 김선우 ; SUNOO !

↳ takes care of you

when i say this man pampers you, i mean pampers you.

sunoo will do whatever he can to make sure you feel good and always comfortable

you had once sent him a text while you were at work complaining about some neck pains and the minute you arrived home he had the body oil ready and he made sure to give you a soothing massage to relax the tension in your shoulders and neck

if he ever notices or hear you complaining about any discomfort he always make sure to help you in any way he can

period cramps? he has the pain killers and heat pad ready. feeling sad? he is at your door with your favourite ice cream tub and ready to cuddle and listen to your venting.

after a night out with your girlfriends, you sluggishly drag yourself inside and find your boyfriend watching youtube on the couch seemingly waiting for your arrival

flopping on top of him on the couch you only huff as he asks how your night out went

"C'mon pretty girl, let's get ready for bed then." he softly says ushering you into the en-suite bathroom where he directs you to sit on the counter as he helps you get unready

from wiping off your makeup for you to getting your skincare out and prepped for you to moisturise as he watches you fondly

"Wanna do matching face masks and watch some powerpuff girls together?" he asks as your eyes brighten at the suggestion nodding as you hop off the counter to hug your boyfriend

🖇️ — 西村 力 ; NI-KI !

↳ lets you wear his clothes

"hey baby have you seen where my... black zip-up is..." riki walks into your shared bedroom before his words come to a halt having come across you

there you were in bed wearing the very black chrome hearts zip-up hoodie he was looking for (looking much larger and oversized on your smaller frame)

"Oh did you wanna wear it, I'm sorry I just grabbed the closest hoodie in the closet." you quickly apologise about to take it off to which your boyfriend stops you

unbeknownst to you, your boyfriend actually loved seeing you in his clothes because he thought you looked so tiny and cute in his stuff

what never registered was the fact that riki sharing clothes with you was simply a girlfriend privilege only you had thinking he also shared stuff with his friends up until jake claimed otherwise

"Is that Riki's cap? I asked to borrow it last week and he said no to me. Talk about girlfriend privileges." he says as his jaw drops but quietly mumbling the last part as you shrug in confusion adjusting the cap in question on your head

if anything you had free reign over anything and everything in his closet you wanted, to the point where you stopped asking (after he so kindly told you to stop)

sometimes he would even go out of his way picking clothes out of his closet to give you to wear and you would notice his shy smile growing at the corner of your eye when you turned around to go and change

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"Quiet Gospel"

☝🏼MINORS DNI☝🏼

Pairing: Kwon Hyuk x Reader

Summary: He's a little too obsessed over the super rookie, you really don't like that.

Tags: Established RS, power dynamic, SUGGESTIVE, possessive! reader

A/N: I pulled this out of my ass lol and some ppl are asking if I write smuts...I do know how to write them, I just get shy posting them LMAO I'll try, though! Here's a little teaser of some future smut scenes instead! Also, might have some typos and stuff! Idk how to use docs on phone...bear with me :<

You’re not insecure.

Not usually, not even a little—Hyuk’s never given you a reason to be.

You're the one he calls when he’s slumped in the track of wherever he was racing, muscles twitching, head rattling from too much wind and too little food. Sometimes he doesn't say anything. Just leaves the line open. Just breathes, like hearing you breathe keeps his bones from rattling loose.

You’re the one he reaches for in his sleep—hand slipping blindly beneath blankets until he finds your fingers and threads them through his, not even fully conscious, just needing to know you’re there.

You’re the one he kisses on the knuckles. Like some kind of ritual. Like he’s sealing a pact between you two—bloodless, but binding.

And you’re the one he comes home to. After every race, every reckless turn, every flirtation with death, he peels himself off the bike like his soul hasn’t quite returned to his body—and he gives it back to you in pieces. Through a grin. Through the dirt he tracks across the floor. Through the heat in his chest that hasn’t faded yet.

You're his—and he’s yours.

That's the quiet gospel of your world—you don't say it aloud often, you don’t have to. It's built into every look, every touch, every time he slides his bike against the wall of your shared apartment like it's an extension of his body, then sinks down next to you with a groan and a grin.

No one touches what’s yours.

Which is why you don’t flinch when girls flirt. When they giggle and lean in close, hands brushing his arm, trying to dip into a story that’s already too far along for guest appearances.

You don’t react, because you know how his eyes always track back to you—like you’re the gravity he doesn’t want to escape, like you’re the only finish line he still dreams about.

But then—

“That rookie’s mine,” he says, voice sparking with a high you haven’t heard in weeks, eyes gleaming with something unhinged. “I’m telling you.”

It’s not just the words—it’s the way he says them.

Like a promise.

Like a claim.

Like something hungry curling around his ribs

You blink once.

The smile he wears isn’t for you this time.

It’s all teeth and madness—like he tasted blood and liked it. He’s pacing the garage floor, jersey hanging off one shoulder, still soaked from sweat and triumph. His thighs twitch with leftover effort, his chest heaves, and his skin gleams.

He hasn’t come down.

And that word—Mine—lands in your gut like an old bruise being pressed too hard.

You’ve seen that look before—that obsession, that fire—but it’s never been aimed at anyone else.

Only you.

Until now, apparently.

You don’t like how he said it—you really don’t like how he said it.

“Yours?” 

You repeat, voice low, flat, with that quiet, deadly kind of calm that lives in the space between lightning and the crack of thunder.

But deep inside—you’re him—you understand what obsession tastes like, but you just happen to wear it better.

He doesn’t notice the shift, too wrapped up in the memory of the chase. Wrapped up around the boy with the reckless turns and something in his eyes that made Hyuk itch.

“He’s fast. Fearless. Didn’t blink even when half the pack wiped. I’ve never seen someone corner like that and come out alive.” His hand rakes through his hair, flinging sweat. “I need to race him again. No—need to beat him.”

There it is.

Need.

You straighten from where you’re sitting—your spine rolling up slowly, deliberate. Your foot swings once, tapping the floor lightly, like a metronome—still calm on the outside, but there’s something in your chest that’s threatening to bare its teeth.

You watch him move like a wolf who just spotted a rival on the ridge—the way his muscles twitch under his skin, hands clenching and unclenching like they miss the handlebars already. You can’t tell if he wants to destroy the rookie or devour him—maybe both.

So you rise.

Not with haste—no. You rise like something dangerous being polite, unfolding from your perch with deliberate grace. One step forward, precise and silent, and you cut into his pacing path like a blade slipped between ribs. He stops short, nearly colliding with you.

His eyes flick up—surprised.

Still glassy from the race, still panting like the wind hasn’t left his lungs yet. There’s heat rolling off him in waves, his pulse loud enough to echo in the narrow space between your bodies.

“You’re getting awfully worked up over someone who isn’t me,” you say, voice low—not sharp, but clean and cold, like a knife drawn from velvet.

That does it.

He stills. Blinks. The electric buzz inside him begins to settle—coiling tighter, more focused. He tilts his head slowly, eyes narrowing. Then it comes—that crooked grin. Slower this time—like he’s adjusting to the shift in air pressure, like he’s leaning into a storm.

“A little jealous?” he murmurs, voice syrup-thick and laced with challenge. Eyes glinting like flint catching fire.

You step in, smooth and close, chest brushing his with the kind of calm that only looks effortless. Like you haven’t just swallowed back the same heat that’s wrecking him from the inside out.

“I don’t get jealous,” you murmur, gaze locked on his. Unblinking. Unshaken. “Maybe territorial.”

That really does something to him and he shudders—just slightly. The tension in him doesn’t vanish—it changes. Sharpens, like all that energy, that fire, suddenly has a direction.

You reach up, fingers tangling in the collar of his open jersey, yanking him down just enough so your breath ghosts over his mouth.

“You want someone to chase? Fine,” you whisper, voice low and lethal against his mouth. “Race him. Beat him. Hell, break him if you need to—but don’t confuse your prey with your home.”

That lands deep.

His breath stutters, sharp in his chest, like your words just kicked something loose in his ribs. Then his hands are on you—rough, certain, like he’s anchoring himself to the only solid thing in the world. Fingers digging into your hips like he’s staking claim, pressing flush against you, skin hot and damp from exertion and want.

He’s staring now, really staring, like you just ripped open his chest and whispered your name into the hollow. His pupils still blown wide, lips parted, whole body vibrating with an energy that has nothing to do with the race nor the rookie anymore.

“You’re so fucking hot when you’re like this,” he breathes, voice thick with reverence, laced with something raw. His eyes burn as they trail your face like he’s memorizing every angle.

You hum, slow and deliberate, lips brushing the corner of his jaw—barely a kiss, more a promise.

“Say that again,” you murmur, tone soft but sharp enough to draw blood. “Call him yours again. See what happens.”

He lets out a breathless, disbelieving laugh—low and loose around the edges—but his grip on you tightens.

“No one but you,” he says, voice cracking like he means it. “Only ever you.”

You don’t answer—just shove him back a step, press him against the wall, and kiss him like it’s a punishment.

A reminder.

You crash into him like you’ve been waiting your whole life for this collision—mouth on his, teeth scraping his bottom lip hard enough to make him groan into the kiss. Your fingers tangle in his damp hair, yanking just enough to tilt his head closer to yours, claiming him with your mouth like you’ve earned it.

He kisses back like a wildfire—messy, desperate, all tongue and heat and the sharp edge of need. But you take control, biting down on his lip again, dragging your teeth across the pulse in his neck before sucking bruises into the skin just beneath his jaw. One. Two. Three. You don’t stop until you see color—your mark left like a brand.

He gasps, hips jerking forward against yours, helpless beneath your mouth along with how your nails are raking down his back, blunt but firm enough to make him hiss—finally giving him what you’ve kept hidden behind your calm. 

You want him to feel this—to remember it.

You pull back just enough to look at him—flushed, wrecked, eyes glazed and mouth swollen. He looks at you like he’s ruined and grateful for it.

“This,” you murmur, voice thick with heat as your thumb swipes the corner of his lip. “This is mine.”

And when you kiss him again, it’s slower, deeper. Less fire. More possession.

Because no matter what road he burns down next—

He always ends up back in your arms.

Always ends up yours.

[aliza-sophie]

Another Bueckers

POV: Elize Bueckers

Word Count: 2,500

synopsis: paige's sister Elize has never liked the spotligt. she always went by another last name, but when she came to UConn it all changed when she went by her other last name. Bueckers...

this does not follow the right timeline so just pretend.

i just wrote this for fun, but let me know if you want another part ☺️

enjoy!

For most of my life, I was Paige Bueckers’ sister.

Not that anyone knew it, officially.

In high school, I went by Elize Dettbarn, using our mom’s second last name. Not because I was hiding — not exactly — but because we all agreed it was better that way. Cleaner. Quieter. Paige had the world’s attention, and I had no desire to have my phone blow up every time she dropped 30 points.

But now, I wasn’t just her sister anymore. I was a Husky.

And that changed everything.

It started with a single Instagram post.

Just a casual, clean white UConn graphic on a Tuesday afternoon:

“Welcome to the family, Elize Bueckers 🐺 Class of ‘25. Guard. Eden Prairie, MN.”

That was it.

No fireworks. No backstory.

But the comments exploded within minutes.

“WAIT. BUeCkERs???” “IS THIS A TYPO OR???” “SHE HAS A SISTER???” “WHY DID NO ONE KNOW SHE HAD A SISTER???”

I was in the car with Mom when it dropped. My phone buzzed nonstop for twenty minutes until I finally turned it on Do Not Disturb. She reached over and squeezed my hand on the gear shift.

“You okay?”

I nodded slowly. “I think I just broke the internet.”

Coach Geno called me later that night.

He was chuckling.

“You good, kid?”

“I think so?”

“You knew this was gonna happen, right?”

“Sort of. Maybe. Not like this.”

He laughed again. “Well, welcome to the family officially, Bueckers. About time.”

The truth was, I’d been around UConn for years. I wasn’t a mystery to the people who mattered.

Back when Paige was in college, I visited every couple of months. I sat behind the bench. Got late-night snacks with the team. Hung out in dorms, borrowed sweatshirts, even got advice from Aaliyah on my midrange game.

Coach Geno always greeted me with a hug and a knowing smirk. “We’ll get you in blue one day,” he’d said once when I was 16.

I thought he was joking.

But here I was, 18 and signed.

And everyone suddenly knew who I was.

The night the post went live, I got a call from Paige. She was in Dallas now, gearing up for her first season in the WNBA. I hadn’t seen her in person in weeks, but her voice still had that same warmth that used to crawl across the bunk bed frame when we whispered as kids.

“You good?” she asked.

“I think so,” I said, echoing my earlier answer.

She paused. “They’re gonna talk. A lot.”

“I know.”

“You ready for that?”

I thought about it.

The whispers in high school when people suspected something. The media people who asked subtle questions about whether Paige had siblings. The careful line I always walked between supporting her and staying out of the spotlight.

And then I thought about the way it felt when Coach handed me my offer. When I told Paige. When she cried.

“I think I’m ready to be seen,” I said.

She exhaled. “Then I’m so proud of you. You earned this, Zee.”

We talked for almost an hour — mostly basketball. Always basketball. She told me about Dallas, how different it felt from Storrs. How weird it was to lose so much, so fast.

“I miss winning,” she admitted.

“You’ll get there.”

She was quiet for a moment.

“I wish I could be there with you,” she added.

“You already are.”

She sniffed. “I’m gonna cry again, damn it.”

I smiled, lying on my bed, staring up at the same UConn poster she used to have in her room.

“You’re not the only Bueckers legacy anymore,” I said, teasing.

She laughed. “Yeah, well. Try not to break all my records first year, okay?”

“No promises.”

The next few weeks were a blur.

Interviews. Local press. Old teammates texting me screenshots of tweets. Random TikToks claiming I was “Paige 2.0” or “Baby Buckets.”

It was overwhelming.

But something else happened too.

People started asking about me.

Not just Paige’s sister. But Elize. Guard. 5'10". Fast first step. Lockdown defender. Quiet, but sharp. Different.

Not better. Just mine.

When I got to campus for orientation, Coach Geno met me outside the practice facility.

“Been a while since I saw your face around here,” he said with a grin.

I shrugged. “I missed the smell of rubber floors.”

He laughed and held open the door. “Come on. Let’s make some history.”

The first time I stepped onto the court for summer workouts, most of the team already knew me — either from my visits or from stalking my highlights.

Nika came by during an off day, even though she’d graduated. She gave me a giant hug and whispered, “About damn time.”

Amari smirked at me after drills. “Okay, Lil Bueckers. You got that spin move from your sister?”

I grinned. “Nope. I taught it to her.”

That night, I FaceTimed Paige.

“You crush it?”

“I held my own,” I said.

She smiled. “That’s all I ever want from you.”

We didn’t talk about the comments. The buzz. The pressure.

We just existed — sisters, across time zones and screens. Still holding each other, even when the world finally noticed both of us.

One week into training, Coach called me into his office.

I thought maybe I’d done something wrong. Or maybe something right. You never really know with Geno.

He pointed at the framed photo on his shelf — a candid of Paige, sweaty and smiling after a Final Four win.

“You think you’re gonna live in her shadow here?” he asked me.

I looked him in the eye. “I used to.”

“And now?”

I smiled. “Now I’m ready to cast my own.”

He nodded once. “Good. Because the name Bueckers? That name means something around here. And now — it means both of you.”

The season hadn’t started yet, but already I was learning: I didn’t have to hide to protect her legacy. And I didn’t have to outshine her to prove I belonged. We could both exist — fully. Loudly. Side by side.

Two sisters. Two stories. One name. And a whole lot of game.

[maybeitsapineapple]

Notes on the Les Misérables Proshot, Act 2

20th November 1985

RSC Archives at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Reading Room

Lyrics are compared to the audio I've heard from previews, which I'm pretty sure is on yt

I don't recall the original staging very well (or the current one, for that matter) so some of the staging I pointed out might be unnecessary

I assume the audience were told not to clap

There were typos everywhere in the prompt book

Act 1 here

Detailed thoughts under cut

I’m pretty sure I held in my hands the actual piece of paper upon which Trevor Nunn wrote the draft lyrics to "On My Own", originally titled "I Love Him" — "On my own/I feel him there beside me/On my own/I feel his arms around me/All alone I walk with him till morning/And when I lose my way I close my eyes and he has found me/In the rain the pavement shines like silver/All the lights are on the river/In the dark the trees are full of starlight/And there he makes a promise we will stay in love forever/And I know it's only in my mind/And I’m talking to myself and not to him/And although I know that he is blind/Still I say there’s a way for us/I love him/But when the night is over/He is gone/The trees are black and empty/And the river is sad and grey and lonely/And I am on my own until the darkness comes again/I love him. I love him. I love him/But always on my own"

After Eponine dies Michael Ball cries on the floor through the whole Drink With Me instrumental

After "A spy who calls himself Javert" Colm Wilkinson stares at Roger Allam until the attack begins

CW does not take RA outside the café

RA rolls the 'r' in "Take your revenge" (I think he rolled some others too but I didn’t write them down)

CW kneels behind RA to cut the ropes then tugs him up by the arm for "Clear out of here"

RA once again pointing at himself for "You’ll still answer to Javert"

At "If I come out of this alive" CW pushes the gun against the side of RA’s neck to move him. RA retreats so his back is against the café wall/barricade, and CW goes right up close to him and also keeps poking him with his, er, gun

In "Drink With Me’, before Marius comes in, the prompt book has a cut Valjean verse — "There's the thief who steals Cosette/Plucks the flow’r/Before it’s grown/If he dies she’ll grieve all her life/If he lives she’ll leave/And live as his wife/Leaving me once more alone"

Draft lyrics for "Bring Him Home". Alternative lines were written side by side; I’ve put them in brackets — "God on high/Hear my prayer/Give him rest (in my need)/Let him sleep Heaven blessed (you have always been there)/He is young/He’s afraid/Keep him safe (Give him rest)/Keep him near (Heaven blessed)/Bring him home. Bring him home. Bring him home/He’s like the son(g) I might have known/If God had granted me a son(g) (If You had granted me a son)/[The rest of the lyrics are the same as the official version]

You remember I said there was no clapping? Except there was a brief burst of applause after "Bring Him Home" lol

"Until the Earth is *screech*"

When Javert is checking the bodies for Valjean, RA is paused for a moment at the top of the barricade in a spotlight Enjolras-style, and then jumps down. IDK it was giving parallels or foils or foreshadowing or smith. Symbolism. YKWIM

"Dog Eats Dog" was longer in the prompt book

Longer instrumental after "Dog Eats Dog" including the original "Valjean’s Confession" tune played on … synth? Trumpet? Plus a lower brass instrument like the horn or something?

RA puts his hand against his head when he says "Well take him I’ll be waiting at the door/I’ve never known a man like you before/A man such as you"

RA momentarily blocks CW’s path and stands very close to him

RA struggled on "reprieved"

The bridge is on the ground. RA climbs over at "And does he know". Leans all the way forwards at "Even so". Looks back up at "stars". Stands up straight at "stare into the void". He says "There is nowhere I can go" where the prompt book says "nowhere I can turn" so IDK if he just made a mistake there. He falls with his arms up; the bridge rises; there is a whirlpool effect on the floor from the lighting

"Empty Chairs At Empty Tables" is delivered sitting down

The prompt book has different lines for the last verse — "Like the headstones of the fallen/Casting shadows on the floor/Empty chairs at empty tables/Where my friends will sing no more"

MB collapses into Rebecca Caine’s arms/lap at "Dear Mademoiselle"

[where-fading-princesses-live]

Monsters, Inc./ Monsters University Analysis- Pt. 1

(WARNING: LONG POST)

-> Part 1/ ?

[Part 2]

Y’all this happening on only the first week of pride 😭😭

I’m sorry i’m about to be a menace to everyone i know….. I don’t even know where to begin because I love these movies SO MUCH I was so obsessed like 10000% I used to eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner when I was a kid, no joke.  I was five when the first movie came out but I have so many fond memories…….

Call me delusional but I think Monsters, Inc. is Pixar’s greatest film, to date (as much as I love Toy Story, Wall-E, A Bug’s Life and Finding Nemo…. MI always takes the cake with the cherry on top….. it is a masterpiece). It was my main obsession in 2001, and it still is. It’s such a well-structured, multi-layered story with so many deep, dark themes that went way over my head as a kid, but I appreciate it that much more now as an adult…

We can’t forget Monsters University… it’s one of the greatest Pixar sequel/ prequels, just as good as if not better than the first film…… dare I say better than the Toy Story sequels, which I liked well enough but haven’t watched since they came out…. But MU? You wanna know how many times I’ve watched this BEAST since I first saw it on the big screen??? I can’t believe it came out in 2013, it feels like only yesterday. I must’ve gone to see it in theaters five times in a row because it was THAT good. I wanna go back in time and watch it for the first time all over again.

I’m not putting SPOILER ALERTS cuz this ain’t your standard review and I assume everybody’s seen it already, I mean the first movie is 23 years old! There’s no excuse if you haven’t seen it already! With the assumption that everyone’s seen it, I’m gonna just be combining my thoughts on both movies… cuz reasons… and I’ll try real hard to organize my thoughts because they’re all over the place……….

Without further ado………….

Let’s spill some tea, shall we?

Boy, have I got news for you, buddy.

We ain’t got just tea but the whole tea pot lol 🫖

It’s Pride Month, y’all! These monsters be comin’ out of the closet, you know what I mean?

!!THE STAR-STUDDED CAST

Before I jump into characters, let’s talk about how they absolutely COOKED with this casting.

John Goodman as James P. Sullivan—Broadway Legend and Coen Brothers Royalty. Wait, you mean Roseanne Legend, right? Right???? Hahaha. No, that was not a typo. Yes, you heard me right. BROADWAY legend. I’m talking the Tony-Award winning Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at La Jolla Playhouse in 1984 and on Broadway in 1985. Won the Tony for Best Musical. Goodman originated the role of Huck Finn’s abusive alcoholic father, Pap Finn, and his villain song (‘’Guv’ment’’) totally slaps. Nobody could’ve played Pap like Goodman…… Goodman being a Missouri native and all with strong ties to the Ozarks, born and raised in Affton, in south St. Louis County, brought up Southern Baptist……..he’s a literal Beverly Hillbilly, for a lack of a better word, and with Huck Finn being synonymous with Missouri, he was born to play the part.

Why is this relevant to Monsters, Inc.? It’s not. It’s just a super cool piece of trivia for Theatre Kids anyone who cares. I may have outed myself as a Theatre Kid….oops.

Quick story: I remember watching the 74th Academy Awards in March 2002 and seeing John Goodman perform live the Oscar-winning Mike and Sulley classic Broadway showtune love duet, ‘’If I Didn’t Have You’’ from the movie with songwriter Randy Newman singing Mike’s part because Billy was MIA for some reason and my mom said, ‘’Wow he sings really good I didn’t know he could sing!’’ like mom???? Hello??? This man got his start on Broadway, he’s a classically trained singer, OF COURSE he can sing =____=

But even now I’m surprised that so many people don’t know that………. Esp. cuz he sings in other movies and TV shows…… was everybody sleeping on this man????? This National Treasure??????…… but yes, he was the perfect choice to play Sulley based on that hidden talent…… plus his deep, grizzly bear drawl (I heard someone say, he doesn’t attempt to lose his Midwestern accent but lays it on thicker when he needs to, almost as a manipulation tactic when he wants to try and pull the “simple ol’ southern pastor” wool over someone’s eyes. He needs to talk like he is from Montgomery with Molasses oozin outta his mouth.)

ANYWAY, this man has a God-given, rich operatic baritone, can sing circles around bluegrass, country, gospel…..like………..Triple Threat.

Like…….. not to be weird or gross, but he can top me…….with that voice. Present tense mind u ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Seriously he may be SUPERMEGAFOXYAWESOMEHOT but I fall in love with him because of his voice :)

(And I secretly wish MI was made into a quasi-musical like the Disney Renaissance movies because Billy Crystal and John Goodman sure got some serious pipes, don’t they? Wigs were snatched.)

Even cooler trivia………Sulley’s original name was Johnson……. djjfjfhf my god.

I’m glad they changed it to Sulley…. So much cuter, right? Sulley was, in fact, named after Ed Sullivan of The Ed Sullivan Show. So, for anyone who knows the ‘’Ed Sullivan’’ song from Bye Bye Birdie? Yeah, *that* song. Paul Lynde. Pride Month, y’all.

Billy Crystal as Mike Wazowski—Broadway AND Hollywood Legend. Yes, another one of THOSE. 700 Sundays. Mr. Saturday Night and his showstopping self-aware fake Yiddish scat routine at the 75th 2022 Tonys that literally brought down the house! Yiddishists need not despair. You had ONE job, sir…. And you nailed it. A real traditional song-and-dance man. He’s a TITAN of musical theatre. My lovey dovey Manhattan-born, Bronx, Long Beach, and Long Island-reared Jew. I want to talk more about him later and why he was so perfect for Mike. But it needs its own post.  

(King Billy with the rainbow????? And why did he turn into Stephen Sondheim??? lord take me now)

Mike MIGHT be my favorite character deadass. Yeah 😅my character preferences are. they sure are predictable lmao

The fact that Mike was never *supposed* to be part of the original story, like that is MADNESS because I cannot even imagine the story working as well without Mike. He is the heart and soul of the franchise. He is the CINAMMON ROLL……and the rest of them are frosting. IS ANYONE GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW HE LOOKS ODDLY ENOUGH LIKE A WALKING TALKING MI COMPANY LOGO OR?????

…………………………………………………………………. OR WE WERE SUPPOSED TO FIND OUT THAT OUT FOR OURSELVES????

Em. Eye. It’s literally……..just an ‘’M’’. With an eye………. Like……… ‘’M’’ for Mike but………….if you just flipped the ‘’M’’….it would be a ‘’W’’…….. for ‘’Wazowski’’………… Coincidence? I think not.

So does that mean Mike is the unofficial mascot for the MI franchise????? am i hallucinating????????

So anyway, luckily they created a (Boy)Friend for Sulley…… but…….

The fact that they had the NERVE to consider Eddie Murphy for the part, like c’mon………….he was a good Mushu and a Donkey, but his voice does NOT fit Mike. Crystal was made for Mike………. With a name like ‘’Wazowski’’ he *had* to be voiced by a Jew, preferably a New York-accented Jew, and I’m not sorry.  (The only alternative to Crystal was *maybe* Nathan Lane, with his witty gay sass (Timon!!! My Love!!!)…….but Mike would not have worked as well if he was played by a non-Jew, and that’s just my opinion, my maternal grandfather was a Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi German-Jew, so it’s just something I need to get out of my system about why I love Mike—and Billy Crystal!!!!!—so much…….I’ll talk more about why later because it’s a big part of his character…….it was definitely a choice…..Billy Crystal understood the assignment.)

Of course, everyone already knows the story how he was the original choice for Buzz Lightyear…… Buzz’s early animation test used a sound clip from the famous ‘’THIS STUPID WAGON WHEEL ROY ROGERS GARAGE SALE COFFEE TABLE!!!!!’’ scene from When Harry Met Sally (1989). It’s funny as hell but……….

His voice honestly did not fit Buzz, bless his heart. It was just that Buzz worked better with a deeper tone, like Tim Allen………so Crystal politely declined, later regretting his choice when Toy Story became a smash hit (but he made the right choice, it be like that sometimes.) Well, they promised they’d find him a better part……………..

…………………………………and the rest is history.

~THE BIG WAZOWSKI~

Btw, what the hell is a ‘’Wazowski’’???? It’s funny, because Boo has a nickname for Sulley…. ‘’Kitty’’……. His real name isn’t hard to remember or pronounce; she must hear Mike calling him ‘’Sulley’’ but she always calls him ‘’Kitty’’ because that’s what kids usually do…….. but then the great irony of it all is she has no special pet name for Mike. She can perfectly pronounce ‘’Mike Wazowski’’ without missing a beat! It’s just funny, because it’s not like an easy to pronounce, easy to spell generic name like ‘’John Smith’’ esp. for a kid who’s still learning to talk, it’s like the most longest, most sing-song name you can possibly come up with, like it’s a mouthful……. BUT it wouldn’t be funny if Mike had a simple John Doe name. ‘’Wazowski’’ is just funny to say. And everybody in the movie wears it thin, stretching it to its last syllable……to a point that NONE of the kids in the audience watching this movie for the first time were EVER gonna forget *that* name. I remember in grade school all the kids chanting Boo’s ‘’Mike Wazowski! Mike Wazowski!’’ down the hallways in perfect unison, just a chorus of little kindergarteners starting their own Monsters, Inc. fanclub on the playground, like…… the animators knew what they were doing. They brainwashed us.

My ten-year-old cousin LOVES this movie to death and Mike of course is her favorite character (bitch, me too, the fuck!). Yep, it was love at first sight for me, too, kiddo. She’s going through the phase! With a name like that, how can you NOT?

When this movie first came out, my older cousins and I were so obsessed that we would re-enact every scene from the movie, we took turns playing all the characters of course. We used a baby doll for Boo. But our favorite game was the ‘’Wazowski Game’’. My older cousins and I used to imitate Randall insulting Mike, like literally *all* the time…………… we used to call each other’s houses and purposedly not pick up the phone so we could leave insulting voice mails. Our answering machines were literally full with all kinds of messages like: ‘’SHUT UP, WAZOWSKI!’’ ‘’CAN IT, WAZOWSKI!’’ ‘’YOU’RE KILLING ME, WAZOWSKI!’’ ‘’KISS MY LIZARD BUTT, WAZOWSKI!’’ ‘’IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE, WAZOWSKI???’’ ‘’DO YOU THINK I’M STUPID, WAZOWSKI???????????’’ ‘’DID YOU EAT MY SANDWHICH, WAZOWSKI??????????????’’ ‘’IS IT BECAUSE I’M FAT, WAZOWSKI????????????????????????’’ ‘’FUDGE YOU, WAZOWSKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’’ in our best Steve Buscemi impression (it wasn’t very good, but it was fun to do……. Like, go home, Randall, you’re drunk. =__=

Cut us some slack, we were only five for Pete’s sake……… of course we drove our parents bonkers).

So why give Mike an ethnic Polish name like ‘’Wazowski’’ and not something like ‘’Crawford’’ or ‘’Davis’’?

Mike's name was inspired by Frank Oz's Dutch-Polish-Jewish father Isadore "Mike" Oznowicz…….. Frank Oz of course was the famous puppeteer who voiced Miss Piggy in The Muppets, and he provided the voice of Randall’s assistant, Jeff Fungus.

‘’Wazowski’’ sounds like ‘’Wachowski’’ a Polish surname originating from the village of Wachów, Poland. It also sounds like ‘’Warszawski’’ from Warsaw.

And naturally, ‘’Wazowski’’ rhymes with ‘’Jeffery Lebowski’’ from the Coen Bros movie The Big Lebowski (1998) and it was no accident (the movie stars both John Goodman and Steve Buscemi in a small part)…… ‘’Lebowski’’ like ‘’Wazowski’’ is of Polish origin, probably derives from ‘’Lebow," a town in Poland. The two main characters in The Big Lebowski were hinted to be Polish-Americans in a beach side town (John Goodman’s character, Walter Sobchak (from Sobczak), was a Vietnam vet, originally Polish Catholic, but converted to Judaism when he married his wife, then divorced wifey, and decided to stay as a Jewish convert and took his religion very seriously, hence hilarity ensues).

Interestingly enough, ‘’Wazowski’’ isn’t terribly common in America OR Poland. There are fewer than 100 people in all of Poland with this surname. That’s Wild. The actual pronunciation, of course, is NOT ‘’ Wuh-ZAW-ski.’’ That’s just the anglicized pronunciation of the Polish version, pronounced like ‘’Vasovski’’ because the ‘’w’’ in Polish sounds like a ‘’v’’ (just like German). there’s also no “wow” sound in “-owski.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UisQy0LFyK4&t=390s

Anyway. There’s an episode called ‘’The Big Wazowskis’’ in Monsters at Work, so………… Pixar knew what they were doing. Oh, they knew EXACTLY what they were doing……….👀

You see what happens, Larry? You see what happens when you find a stranger in the alps?!

Sorry, I couldn’t resist. XD

Steve Buscemi as Randall Boggs—Hollywood Legend. Coen Brothers Royalty. Star of Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014). Born and bred Sicilian-American Brooklynite. Also reared in East New York and Long Island and attended school in Manhattan.

(Of course he's not just a versatile character actor, but he's also done a lot of behind-the-scenes work. He's a brilliant filmmaker too who's written and directed some highly-acclaimed Indie film festival darlings like Trees Lounge; 1996 and Animal Factory; 2000.)

I know he's type casted in gangster flicks and he plays pretty convincing villains, but he's actually a genuinely nice, sweet and down to earth person off-camera (which made him the perfect pushover Nice Guy for College!Randall... a nice change of pace for him I'm sure). It's a wonder he turned out so nice cuz he grew up in a pretty tough working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn infested with gang violence.... once as a kid he had his bike stolen from him... while he was riding it! 😭 Once he even stopped a drunken brawl between two guys in a bar and got stabbed in the process.... and ended up in the hospital.... like he was always the Nice Guy peacemaker in a world fraught with turmoil, like he is too good for this world.... 😭 But Buscemi is something of a local hero, too.... a month before Monsters, Inc. was released in theatres in November, the sad tragedy of 9/11 occurred.... Buscemi was a former firefighter before he became an actor and he was one of the volunteer firefighters that helped rescue survivors from the wreckage.... well naturally the event traumatized him and he developed PTSD that he battled for years, but this man literally threw himself in the line of fire and laid down his life to help his fellow citizens and the city he loved... like this man played Randall Boggs for crying out loud, who's supposed to be the villain.... but in real life, he's a Hero, a National Treasure. Thank you for your service. 🫡

Billy Crystal is of course the eldest of the three, nine years older than Buscemi……. Goodman’s the middle……Buscemi’s the baby between the three of them, but I think it’s funny that Crystal and Buscemi were fellow countrymen on the same side (or similar side) of the tracks here, both being native New Yorkers.

Well, By Golly Gosh! So was Mike and Randall within the context of the story………….. (they were roomies) doesn’t it make sense they both have Cawfee Tawk dialects????????? (I can’t explain Sulley’s Inland North St. Louis twang, but there it is…. Wouldn’t it be funny if that was just part of Sulley’s species? In general?)

Do you think it’s funny that both Mike and Randall have thick Noo Yawk accents? Cuz I do. Like, why are monsters speaking like New Yorkers with New York City English? I know there's not one single, monolithic NYC accent but Randall sounds like an Italian mobster…… and he even did the Italian hand gesture 🤌 when he was interrogating Mike with the third degree…. ‘’Get the picture? Are you screwing with me? Che vuoi? Capice? Leave the gun take the cannoli! Fuhgeddaboudit!’’ Like I can’t even.  😂

“Now listen here Mikey, we’re gonna make this guy a fuckin pizza, and it’s gonna be the best God damn pizza he’s ever had! Or so help me God Mikey, oh! so help me God I’ll just whack ya myself! Now get ya fat ass in the kitchen and figure out how to use that fuckin pizza oven!”

🤣🤣🤣

(someone at Pixar was definitely watching Goodfellas…. If they couldn’t get Buscemi to voice Randall, Joe Pesci would’ve been the next best thing, imo…. They should’ve made Randall Italian once Buscemi was casted, what a missed opportunity… I mean wtf is even a ‘’Boggs’’? Give him a Sicilian name for crying out loud… I mean if Mike can be Polish, then Randall better be Italian, specifically Sicilian cuz that’s the ‘’don’t f*ck with me’’ Italian…. Can ‘’Cc'è la luna n menzu ô mari’’ otherwise known as the ‘’Che La Luna’’ TikTok trend please be his official theme song? Things that just makes sense?? This is seriously taking me out.)

Actually, it makes perfect sense that Mike and Randall talk like New Yorkers and Randall was obviously based on mobster stereotypes because Monsters, Inc. was named after the 1960 gangster flick, Murder, Inc. which starred Academy Award nominated pre-Columbo Bronx-born Peter Falk as the real-life Jewish mobster Abe "Kid Twist" Reles. The movie is based on the real-life Murder Incorporated, an organized crime outfit which included both Italian and Jewish mobsters that operated in Brooklyn, NY between 1929 and 1941…... Like you can’t make this shit up. That explains SO much about the setting of Monsters, Inc…. and the overall post-WWII vintage neo-Noir feel. And why Randy Newman went with 30s-40s Big Band/ Swing era jazz music for the score, like-

Now if only they had a Humphrey Bogart-esque Maltese Falcoln detective in the movie, privately investigating the corruption within the MI power plant at the same time that Roz is working as an undercover agent, it would have been GOATED.

But yeah seriously, it was no accident that Mike and Randall were voiced by a Jewish-American and an Italian-American, from NY of all places... since the movie title is literally based on Jewish/ Italian mobsters.... like....... NOTHING in this movie was an accident. Every little tiny detail was meticulously planned by Pixar, it's brilliant storytelling and doesn't get enough credit.

But I love the diversity in Monstropolis…… with all the different American regional dialects, it mirrors the human world because they’re all different species and it’s brilliant, like gee, Monsters aren’t that different from Humans.

As an extra cool piece of trivia, John Goodman pushed for Buscemi to get the part of Randall. They were developing Monsters, Inc. as early as 1996, the year Fargo came out, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, which starred Buscemi, of course, in a career defining role. Goodman and Buscemi have a track record of appearing in more Coen Bros. movies than any other actor, and they shared the screen together in The Big Lebowski in 1998, just a year or two before they were casted in Monsters, Inc.

Though the Pixar people were fanboys of the Coen Bros. (obviously, with all the easter egg references to their filmography), John Goodman was surprisingly not the first choice for Sulley. Bill Murray, was in fact, the first choice, but he never returned the call after testing for the part, so they went with John Goodman as the next best thing, mainly because David Silverman (one of the co-directors) saw Goodman in other Coen Bros. flicks, Raising Arizona in 1987 and Barton Fink in 1991. They also knew his work on Roseanne and Big Lebowski was playing in theaters at the time they were casting MI.

So, once Goodman was casted, they were having apparent trouble finding a good Randall, and Goodman happened to suggest  ‘’a guy I worked with on another movie.’’ Goodman and Buscemi became casual friends after shooting The Big Lebowski so Goodman recommended they go watch said movie (The Big Lebowski) and Fargo if they hadn’t already. ‘’I think you’ll find your Randall.’’ So, they did………..and sure enough, they found him in Fargo. (Not Fargo TV series btw…. Original Fargo).

(LET RANDALL SAY ‘’F*CK’’.)

…………..and then you get the door shredder/ wood chipper inside joke that only people who saw Fargo will understand (SPOILER ALERT: Buscemi’s character, Carl Showalter, personally gets put through the shredder at the end of the movie.) That’s what they *should* have done with Randall, but that’s……….

………………..moving on.

!!THE ROLE REVERSAL

.....it was interesting that, in Monsters University, there was the total role reversal between Mike and Sulley, where Mike was less the comic relief character like he was in Monsters, Inc. and actually he played the straight man in the prequel and became, in Sulley's own words ''the heart and soul of the team''.

Actually I just love the Role Reversal between the three lead characters. Like I said in another post, I love how Sulley and Mike go from being enemies to friends and how Mike and Randall go from being friends to enemies... like it's more interesting than just repeating the same dynamic they had from the first movie. We know how their story ends so it's interesting to see where it begins and how it's going to become the familiar relationships we know. Sulley is the protagonist in the first movie; Mike his loyal sidekick; Randall the obvious villain.... but MU said, ''Nah forget everything you know about these characters'' and they flip it on its head. Our heroic Gentle Giant Sulley from the first movie is basically the antagonist at the beginning of the new story...more extroverted than the introverted humble guy we saw as the Top Scarer but even though he's a douchebag for 90% of it (a facade to mask his inner fears) he becomes something like an anti-hero and slowly transforms into the Sulley we know and love. Mike of course is our central character, more introverted here than his extroverted older self...and Randall becomes his sidekick for the first half (and much more timid as well)........... it's completely unexpected in a good way.

one of my favorite things about their dynamic is that Sulley finds Mike’s goofiness and dumb (affectionate) remarks genuinely endearing and charming as opposed to annoying…. Like yeah, Sulley could get it.

Mike and Sulley are #FRIENDSHIPGOALS.

Mike and Sulley are #POWERCOUPLE.

🎵 Our friendship goes beyond Your average kind of bond

But not because we're gay

No, not because we're gay

We're close, but not that way The only man that I love is my dad

Well anyway! 🎵

(don’t mind me dropping references nobody knows)

How to talk to short people: MU edition!!!!!!

I LOVE how Sulley the Stud Muffin leans down to talk to Short King Mike like I AM NOT NORMAL ABOUT THEM OK

stopppppppp this is so vile…… screaming crying throwing up…..

Jesus Christ what type of yaoi cocaine are they giving these writers?????? And can I have some???????? i'll have what they're having!!!!! I'm pretty sure Dan Scanlon took one look at the script and went "holdup, we can make it gayer!" give them MORE save me doomed yaoi save me toxic doomed yaoi I'M BEING FED THAT'S FOR SURE

Move over, GELPHIE, this is my OTP right here…. These freaks…….first off it's about the Themes™/dynamics/potential……. They make me go insane I love them so much, ugh…… they’re Pixar’s answer to Timon and Pumbaa…… the Jew and Gentile (Boy)Friends. *giggles over them…….dying inside* Happy Pride Month to these babies! 💙💚 Blue goes good with green, or no?

They’re married, your honor!

Oi. They absolutely wrecked me…The amount of delusion coursing through my bloodstream at the moment...

Do y’all see the vision??????

MICHAEL ‘’MIKE’’ WAZOWSKI

(Bright eyed, bushy tailed….. ready to conquer the world…… Someone serious…Someone lawyerly……Someone who wears black when nobody's dead! Cuz college is for boring, ugly, serious people! And you, Button, are none of those things!)

MIKE WAZOWSKI THE ICON THAT YOU ARE

MY BEAUTIFUL DARLING BOY WHO HAS DONE NO WRONG

AISUDJEANS OMNG OMG IT’S HIM IT’S MY BOY AKHSIDJNDJUBDIJ

I LOVE HIM SO

I MISSED

HOIMALKNDOIDHOIWNSLKNDOKENOAKNDOKFNOKENA

IM LOVE THIS

MAKEOKNDOJENKJWBSKJBDIJBDUFHBYGFUYFGGUSKJAJNJNKNAAUAAFGGGGGHAAUUUUHGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH

gjkgopdhrjiosod why is Mike so flippin’ cute I literally can’t stand him ugh he’s so darn squishy like a jellybean and would you look at his little retainer??????? you can’t do this to me, PIXAR, you can’t! Mike has NO BUSINESS being this mf cute!!!!

My son!!! <3 <3 <3

*heavy breathing*

(Mikey’s backpack being twice his size is making me laugh idk why alfkskfkdk)

Forgive me im going to be insufferable…..

Mike is the most misunderstood character in MI but people aren’t ready for that conversation……….

I can’t believe Mike INVENTED Pixar and no I will not be taking questions at this time.

I feel like Mike in the first movie is the right amount of goofy, he’s so endearing but not to the point of being overly annoying and obnoxious. Maybe he’s a lovable jerk but he does grow as a person. In the second movie, Mike is played completely straight and serious in MU, he's more quiet and reserved than the extroverted personality he becomes later... he’s a competent hero who stands up to his oppressors who are twice his size….them showing Mike’s softer/more vulnerable side and using his sarcasm as a defense mechanism versus the first movie just making him snarky for the sake of comic relief has to be one of the BEST changes they’ve made for the films…..

Billy Crystal’s line delivery won 10 Oscars in my house like if it’d been anyone else in this part it would have come across insincere, but I feel like Billy Crystal found a perfect balance of being genuine while staying true to how Mike leans into comedy when he feels vulnerable……………. Like Billy is the perfect actor to juggle comedy and drama, like he’s very disciplined when it comes to finding the sweet spot between the two, he’s not just funny he can be incredibly sad when the story needs to take us on an emotional roller coaster…….It reinforces what I thought of Crystal’s performance in these movies, especially in MU; that he delivered the comedy with nuance and a knowing sense of more going on beneath the Mike Wazowski artifice. This line reading is just his nailing that perfect balance again. he absolutely ATE 🔥🤌😭😖❤️‍🩹 (is this enough emojis to show how I feel ?!)

I’ll talk more about it later, but here, he's the same Mike, but with more intelligence, subtlety, and restraint than what we saw in the first film, and even for a college freshman, he's very mature and reflective, in fact he's the most mature member of Oozma Kappa. He’s focused on his goals. He’s organized. He’s a bit of a workaholic. He’s a born leader. He’s also very young and impressionable and naïve and easily affected. He's a very deep and three-dimensional character here. I mean there was so much to unpack in that little one-eyed beach ball, who probably weighs 90 pounds soaking wet...

You’re not scary my darlin’ Mikey Wikey not even a little bit but LOVE the optimism

(!!!!!! That big doe eye of his…. IM DEAD)

OK, Captain Obvious, your job here is done.

I said it before in another post, but Mike is one of Pixar’s greatest protagonists, imho. But what really makes Mike SO great of a character is the opposing characters he faces throughout both movies.

Sulley may be the central protagonist of the first film, but Randall is his only main character foil. Sulley pretty much has an easy, laid-back, retiring personality that makes him well-liked and popular with his superiors and co-workers. He’s a big softie. Of course, Boo causes a conflict between him and Mike in the second act, but it’s quickly resolved. In the second movie, he has more conflict with the dean, Mike, and Johnny Worthington, president of RΩR, the premiere campus fraternity, but otherwise, his conflict with these characters is not nearly at the same magnitude as the conflict Mike faces head on. Basically, he’s got Main Character Syndrome. He’s the Golden Child who can do wrong.

Mike, even though he’s the secondary deuteragonist, he’s the one which the character foils mainly bounce off of. Where Sulley compromises with the other characters (even Randall, who he tries to be polite with if nothing else), Mike creates conflict in almost every interaction with the other characters. Mike does not compromise. He confronts and challenges them. For example, Roz, the receptionist and key master and administrator for Scare Floor F… Randall, naturally. Even his girlfriend, Celia, poses a minor conflict. He tries to smooth talk his way out of trouble and it usually backfires….In Monsters University, Mike doesn’t just confront and challenge his enemies; he bargains with them. He sets the bar so damn high, that not even a ten-foot giant can jump clear over him. For example, he bargains with Dean Hardscrabble that if he wins the Scare Games, he can be accepted back into the Scare Program, under one condition; if he loses the tournament, he must voluntarily drop out of college altogether, which has potential long-term implications for career prospects and financial well-being…… like did Mike shoot himself in the foot or does he drive a hard bargain? He’s got some serious balls, I’ll say, well I guess cuz he *is* one…. Giant ball… but that’s beside the point…….. I mean champion negotiator over here; he should’ve moved his ass to the debate team! Ran for office or something, Idk……..and in MU he has to jump over even more hurdles with a whole village of character foils……. Which brings me to my next point.

(I have so much more to say about Mike, but we’ll come back to him in another post, I promise……………)

!!THE VILLAINS

Yes I know. People have always loved villains. I feel like writers know a good villain when we see one. People love a good antagonist. Psychos are fun sometimes. These are FACTS.

Villains make the heroes heroic. If your villainous character can't either make you love to hate him, or make you hate to love him, your heroes won't be much. That's why some of the best characters in fiction are villains…….

And MI is populated with great antagonists.

This is so weird and cringe but yeah, sure, MI has not one… but two villains. One's a red herring, and one's a ''twist villain.'' Don’t @ me, they were doing it before it was cool.

RANDALL ‘’RANDY’’ BOGGS

Randall is the obvious villain from the moment he pops up on screen...

(lol it always bugs me that Mike is looking around long after Randall already revealed himself like Homeboy are you farsighted??? maybe yes cuz he wears a giant contact lens... oh Randy and Mikey, the two blind mice ;-; they make one helluva pair and that's where the comedy comes in)

Like, Randall has an insane Face Card.

Like…….. he is specially designed to be LETHAL.

Like………. How is Mike’s bisexual ass surviving? Mike is NOT leaving that room in one piece.

Someone’s lying.

Not to be that person, but…..sexual tension being an elephant in the room makes it soooooooooooo........... uhm sorry i forgot what was i going for mid-sentence

You’re not wrong…..

I’m jk……. But like……… no, they were roommates you cowards……….. which makes this scene (and *every* scene they have in this movie) that much more sexually tense…….. cuz they were (ex)BoyFriends……. Like, wouldn’t you strap your ex to a chair too and torture them to death????????? Just me?????? Okay then……..

……….if this is not a satire then I might have to drown myself………… if i had to see this so will you……

Am I weird for thinking that Randall is proud and probably gets off of the idea of "scaring Mike straight" and doing it in public in front of his best friend to humiliate him? or am I too woke? Be real.

no such thing as ‘’too woke’’. you can always be woker…..

Guess we’ll find out in this drama we call life…..

Ahem.

Back to the point. Though I think MI is written exceptionally well, and is better than the average family flick, Disney/ Pixar is very formulaic in how you can tell right off the bat who are the Heroes and who are the Villains even before they open their mouths to speak. Well, keep in mind, these movies are targeted for children, even if they can be enjoyed by adults and contain loads of adult humor… but character types are not thinly disguised…… they pretty much spell it out for us. The villains always have this clear-cut design that you can spot a mile away… beady eyes, sinister smile… a darker, shadier coloring… certain voice inflections… like gee, that’s definitely NOT the bad guy.

Now, wouldn’t it be funny if Mike… who’s a brightly phosphorescent green googly-eyed avocado, turned out to be a villain? Or Sulley, who looks like a jumbo, life-sized huggable lovable fluffy cotton candy panda bear? No, of course not! It’s obviously Lizard Boy. Sleazy, slimy, stereotypical reptile…. Wdym oversized garden gecko who looks like a cross between an iguana and a chameleon is actually a real piece of work? No, I bet he’s a Big Misunderstood Softie underneath all that sly, stealthy, cunning secrecy. I bet he’s got a sobbing tragic backstory that explains why he’s so- Yeah, no, it’s def. that guy……………

Now, if they gave Randall the nerdy, adorkable Harold Lloyd horn-rimmed glasses he wears as a twinkie teenager, it would have made him far less obvious… he could’ve easily blended into the background, making us think he was some sweet, shy, techy twink nerd who was the smallest monster on the Scare Floor and not nearly half the Scarer Sulley was but loved his job just for the hell of it whether he was good at it or not………. Actually, maybe he loves his job *too* much….And maybe kissed Waternoose’s ass once in a while, maybe let people walk all over him like a doormat, but otherwise was never gonna be anybody’s idea of Teacher’s Pet or Employee of the Month, because he’s just another face in the crowd, content to be where he is…. With a total lack of ambition or ego……Would never be more noticed than he ever was before…… not a Superstar like Sulley….a smart little cookie, maybe a genius whose talents go unrecognized because he's……invisible. Literally and metaphorically speaking. Nothing special. Just the Average Joe……sure, maybe in another life……… or another movie. (I never liked Surprise!Villains anyway…… classic Disney villains are more entertaining. I like Randall cuz he’s an evil little shit and he doesn’t hide the fact that he is. No surprise there. 🤣… tho he doesn’t have a tragic backstory, he did start off as a *nice guy* so that was a little bit of a surprise.)

!!!!!look at his squishy jellybean face look at those big green bambi eyes jesus christ……

Like when your mom dresses you and tells you what a handsome boy you are………..HES SO CUTE !!!! ;-; I love College!Randall btw…Randy has me gagged! Fuck ass glasses and a dream! Mad respect.

Wait………………….

He looks like somebody I know…….

dork ass glasses 😭You can’t tell me that Harold Lloyd’s ‘’Glass’’ character wouldn’t make a convincing live-action Randall. Watch THE FRESHMAN (1925) and you’ll see why.

Like wow omg ur soooo cool and ironic and jaded YAWN

There he is. Mike’s first (Boy)Friend! The Cupcake Monster! The giant Florida Dog. A good scale boy. This is.... the sweetest dangerous boy.... ever.... is this Mike’s ex???? It cannot be smiling...can it???

Because this is deeply unserious…….. Now if only he came into kid’s bedrooms looking like THAT, ‘’Hi kids I baked some cupcakes! Be my friend! I love you!’’- then Boo would’ve been his number one fan instead of…… the creep ass kiddie napper we got….. like how did he go from loving everybody and wanting to be everybody’s ‘’best chum’’ to the psychotic freakshow kidnapping / experimenting on/ and suffocating innocent children to death with a literal torture device and spitting on the whole world and wanting to kill Mike and Sulley for petty, self-serving reasons??? How did he go from Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer to neo-Nazi killing machine??? How does it get worse???? And why the fuck does he look like Strawberry Shortcake!? This is a hate crime! 😭How could they massacre my baby like this?? I am going to strap a bomb to my chest, holy shit PIXAR.

(*stares but not in a gay way* be my doll, you say? What the hell sure.)

This Randy can carry a tray of pastries without spilling a single-

you'll never work at Hooters again....

Like……. This is NOT the same guy. Not Dino Boy. Why is he so damn happy all the time??? Is it normal to be *that* happy?? That whole aura of absolute contentment is GOALS. My man, you have nothing to smile about in your sad pathetic life……… baby boi, what happened to you? Why did you become so evil???? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PIXAR ?????? ohhh im jumping off a cliff

Can I just say he is the absolute most perfect character, jokes aside. He looks genuinely terrifying in MI and yet we’re supposed to believe this is the same character???? The child kidnapper???? The cradle robber???????? The baby killer?????????????????? The Phantom of the Freakin’ Factory?????????????????????????? He’s our problematic fave for a reason, he’s a hot mess…………………………………………………………………

 I just can’t picture how they were able to make such a sweet innocent looking bespectacled little swamp puppy into the complete prehistoric Jurassic Park dinosaur Randall becomes. Can we not domesticate the apex predator? Huge well done to the Pixar animation team, and to Steve Buscemi for kindly lending his vocal chops and embodying him so perfectly! The voice is so different as Randy, did anyone notice? You can literally hear him *smiling* through the microphone, he’s so boyish sounding and positive and upbeat? It’s not the thin, reedy, bitter snarl he uses in MI????? Like……….the voice and everything is different??????? whyyyyy Pixar whyyyyyyyyy????? I’m clenching my fists and frothing at the mouth and hyperventilating oooooooh my gooooooddddd screaming and crying

In an alternate universe, he could’ve been some kind of Elphaba Thropp, who’s wrongfully accused of wickedness just by the mere fact of good deeds gone bad…….. like maybe he really *did* believe in the good of the company, and didn’t want to *really* harm children, but he ended up doing all the wrong things for the right reasons…….. morally righteous reasons??? No Good Deed Goes Unpunished reasons?????

Like what if Randall’s entire character arc is how nothing he can do as a social outcast/ marginalized monster in his society is good enough btw??? So he embraces his label as the wicked witch??? Like he fails everyone he loves and every action he takes and every inaction, regardless of his intent or his trying to be good, was seen as wicked no matter the outcome??????????????????????????

……..but no, unfortunately, Randall is not a Misunderstood Villain, he’s just a Draco Malfoy/ Death Eater ghoul, plain and simple. Nothing morally grey about him………..He’s the quintessential Wicked Bitch of the East and his intentions are NOT good. He *may* believe he’s doing a morally good thing for the company during the Energy Crisis *maybe* by proposing a New Energy Plan aimed at transitioning to a more sustainable and renewable energy system by investing in renewable energy sources, reducing reliance on manual scream fuels, replacing monsters with machines, and promoting energy efficiency, and lowering energy costs……..

… like it makes him that much more scary, because he honestly believes this is a *good* thing or a *necessary* thing for the monster world to continue to survive…. Desperate times call for desperate measures….Like, he really thinks this is noble and heroic. Like this is genius. Yeah, on paper that sounds great, Randall. IN THEORY. But the way in which he approaches aforementioned plan is anything *but* moral. His Scream Extractor is a brutal and radical social engineering experiment. His ideology of racial supremacy of monsters harvesting the inferior species of human children for their screams and his aggressive pursuit of industrial expansion will lead to widespread death and destruction. His reasons for abducting these children and human trafficking and torturing these children to death by slow and painful Asphyxiation is a politically motivated execution. It’s genocide. That’s evil work. That’s Nazi shit! (why yes, when you put it that way, children have *every* reason to fear the bogeyman in the closet… irrational fears? NOPE. This movie gave me *nightmares* when I was a kid…. Randall scared me so much I had to sleep with the light on for weeks, lol I thought he was gonna come out of the closet and smother me to death with a vacuum hose)

 He’s a Slytherin cobra! And he has no real, deep, dark backstory to explain his decline… if you can call MU a backstory. but at least it confirms he *was* originally a nice guy! And he and Mike *did* like each other at one time so it makes their scenes in MI that much more intense… and sad actually….. Randy seemed to be the *last* monster on earth that would ever end up wanting to harm children OR his former friends for his own personal gain….. like I’m going to blow up and kill everyone in this room. Shit just got real!

~RANDY + SULLEY= WORLD BURN~

It’s not a deep backstory by a longshot. It was *one* instance of Sulley the Herry Muppet beating his puny beanstalk ass at the Scare Games, literally the *only* time they ever interact in college…

(sdfjkhsdhfjkskhjf this will never not be funny what the FUCK)

…..and we’re supposed to believe he’s such a Sensitive Snowflake, that he forever holds that lifelong grudge against James P. Sullivan, Number One For Too Long, like a bloke he never once batted an eye at or even said so much as a friendly ‘’hello’’ like Sulley and Randall don’t even know each other yet!!!!! They’re only acquaintances through Mike, they literally never speak a single solid word to one another in college they don’t even know each other on a first name basis…

yeah, I know, it wasn’t *just* losing the Scare Games to Sullivan…. It was the fact that he was publicly humiliated in front of his Roar Omega Roar fraternity brothers and stripped of his position within the hellish social hierarchical ranks of the Kool Kids Klub…. And probably ostracized by his peers for the remainder of his studies…….and never accepted back into the brotherhood….. and made to be some kind of loser in their eyes……… but he holds it against Sullivan, who was not directly responsible………he doesn’t even know Randall exists!

………..but yeah, basically, that’s all there is to it.

I wanna say there’s an underscore of Freudian self-loathing or something, but there’s not enough backstory to go on. We can sit here and speculate but Pixar gave us nothing. I guess that’s what fanfiction’s for. His loss at the Scare Games doesn’t necessarily explain why or how he became so unapologetically evil, or why he harbors such a deep-seated murderous, revenge-driven hatred for Sulley apart from being rivals on the Scare Floor, like it’s such a big leap from the last time we see him in university to the first time we see him on the Scare Floor…. There must’ve been something in-between, some slow descent into madness…… like, maybe after he’s discarded like chopped liver by his frat bros, he’s once again the underdog who has to prove his worth, except he no longer has a friend like Mike to encourage him and stroke his ego, that he can fall back on and depend on and is basically left all alone without a fraternity or the common peer pressure to make him feel more important than he really is….. no, we never see what happens to Randall after he loses to Sulley, like…….

🎵 Steppin’ to the bad side, Gonna take a mean ride The smile I had has gone away Those that steal are gonna pay Steppin’ to the bad side today 🎵

We know Johnny, the mega asshole that he is, most likely kicked Randall out of his ruling campus clique but like……. did he continue his studies????? Did he stay a Scare Major??? Did he go into mechanical engineering as a minor???? Which helped him gain the skills and knowledge to build the Scream Extractor??? Did he ever regret giving up his friendship with Mike?????? Is he actually *jealous* of what Mike and Sulley have??? Like is it more than just being jealous of Sulley’s Superstar Status, but is he actually *jealous* of their friendship? Like ‘’it should’ve been US, bro’’????? Like ‘’you chose him over ME are you kidding?????’’ ‘’like out of everyone in the world and Mike chose this... SULLIVAN over ME??? BOY that's rock bottom.’’ Because Mike turned out to answer his true calling of being one hell of a trainer and if Randy had stayed with him and joined Oozma Kappa, for better or for worse, would Mike have been *his* personal trainer and made *him* the Shining Star of the Scare Floor????? WOULD THEY STILL HAVE BEEN ROOMMATES??????? OR BOYFRIENDS??????????????

Asking the real questions…..but Pixar doesn’t leave much to the imagination……. It just is what it is…… they never go too deep into Randall’s motivations or his transformation from Hero’s Sidekick to Super Villain……but there it is……. This was probably not the single greatest character defining moment that convinced him to step into the dark side, but it was probably the first moment in a series of unfortunate events….. I bet a lot of Randy’s transformation happened off-screen, in later years, but we never see it….

Home boy is having a mental and emotional breakdown on the daily love him so bad…

(He was* supposed* to have a redemption arc in the unproduced, scrapped sequel Lost in Scaradise…. But is he beyond redemption at this point???? Will he ever bake cupcakes again??????????)

oh Randy… you could’ve had it all , babe…… 💔

Randall will forever revisit this moment, he will become *obsessed* with this moment, rewinding this moment over and over again like a movie in his mind, it will literally fuel his motivations to destroy and obliterate Sullivan… he will visit the stain like it’s a Civil War site……….. like Randall, dude… it wasn’t *that* deep, like get over it.

Brother no. You gotta fight your battles lmaoo don’t project, bitch. Seems like such an extreme reaction to an almost nothing moment, that was so insignificant that Sulley just completely forgot about it and it obviously didn’t phase him in the slightest…….. like five seconds later, he was so unbothered.

I can imagine, off-screen, that Randy flipped on full Regina George mode:

🎵 Sullivan, time to watch your back Sullivan, time to turn and cough Because you took me down But you didn't finish me off …

And in case you're keeping score Sullivan may have won the battle But I will win the war

… I wanna watch the world burn I got the gasoline 🎵

………

There is no heterosexual explanation for this.

Randall is obsessed I mean ‘’loathing’’ Sulley.

Get therapy, Jesus fucking Christ. Or a padded cell.

No, for real though……I kinda wanna hug Randy here…. But then later I want to kill him. Specifically strangle him. Not Randy. Randall.

Look, Randy. I can tell that you will have a lot to fight for in this wild ass world, so I just want to give a lil for your journey :) I hope all ur pillows are cold and ur sheets make u wanna rub ur legs like a cricket they’re so cozy, the rest of ur days……..

~TO DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM~

I know he’s a college kid……….. kids always think stuff like this is the end of the world as they know it. Kids don’t think that far ahead. They don’t think they have their whole lives, their whole futures ahead of them……… they think their whole college career is going to determine who they become as adults….one failure in school, and it’s like……. Kill me now. I know. I’ve been there, don’t that……. But like, literally nobody cares about college frats outside the Ivy League campuses, and I doubt anyone in the *real* world gives worth a damn about the Scare Games… it’s a self-contained championship that only Scare Majors care about. Who you are (or aren’t) in college does not shape your success in the real, grown-up, corporate world. There’s always room for improvement, Randall! Look at Mike…….. he never took it lying down. He would’ve lost the games had Sulley not rigged it, and even still, he didn’t give up…….. Sure, the Scare Program was preparing these kids for the Big Leagues in the factories, but literally………………….

People can go from being the Prom Queen in High School, right……. But when you put in an application for Walmart, the hiring manager is not going to give a shit! No one is going to care if you were in the Art Club or if you were a Jock. Or if you were a Band Geek or a Computer Nerd. They don’t care if you were popular or if you were a loser……….. Employers care more about your skills, if anything. A diploma or degree only gets you so far, but what’s important is letting them see a window into your world. You want to tell a story, and your story gives them a sense of who you are as a three-dimensional person—beyond what your high school GPA, test scores, education, and internship experience can reflect. Sulley and Mike were permanently expelled from school, had to start in the mail room, work their way from the bottom up………. Pull themselves up by their own bootstraps…..I mean, that’s how the real-world works. They took the alternative route…. And they still achieved their dreams it just took a little longer for them to get there because they didn't take a direct path to success... and you don't HAVE to in order to be successful.... that was the whole moral of the movie...

And it's pretty deep for a college movie. Pixar wasn't saying to kids, ''Hey drop out of school you'll be fine,'' sure Mike and Sulley don't get their B.A. but what they're saying is... no yeah, absolutely stay in school if it's for you but college isn't for everyone and it's not the *only* way to be successful.... and if you do decide to go to college, your major or your initial goal may not be what you end up doing for the rest of your life. AND THAT'S OK.

Real quick, look at Audrey Hepbrun as a real-life example. She wanted to be a professional ballet dancer... that was her childhood dream! but no matter how hard she studied and trained to perfect her craft, her dance instructor told her the cold, hard truth.... that she just didn't have what it took to be a prima ballerina! But her instructor encouraged her to explore other avenues... to consider becoming a dance teacher, that way she was still exercising her passion...... or to find other talents. Well, even though it broke her heart to never dance ballet, little did she know that she was gifted in other areas of performing arts.... she used her beauty to break in as a model... and though she never had former acting lessons, she had a real knack for it when she began testing for movie roles and she ended up becoming one of the greatest actresses of Old Hollywood! And to think she may never have done that if she stayed in ballet school and pursued something she wasn't very good at.... she had a hidden talent she didn't even know and all because she made the difficult decision to give up dance. To give up her dream to pursue another dream.

Mike is like Audrey Hepburn... he begins this childhood dream of becoming a Top Scarer at Monsters, Inc. But like Audrey he has to realize that, no matter how hard he tries, he's just not a scary monster.... he's too cute and little to be scary. But darn tootin' doesn't he know all the Scare Theories, and the techniques to be a good Scarer? Yes, but he's unable to perform those tasks in a way that impresses Dean Hardscrabble or convinces her that he has what it takes. Some got it, some don't. It takes Mike half the movie to realize this as he continues to pursue an unattainable goal... the impossible dream... because he doesn't want to let himself down, no matter how inspired (or uninspired) he is on his Hero's Journey.... well, Sulley makes him realize that maybe he wasn't meant to be a Scarer after all....but he has a SUPERPOWER he's totally unaware of....... he's a damn good teacher. He sure as shit can take any ol' bumpkin and train him and groom him to be a Star. He helped Oozma Kappa bring out the best in themselves and become Scare Majors.... he knows how to form a team of people together and be good players. He could've been a coach for the NFL! So Mike realized his true calling.... and though he didn't get to do the one thing he wanted to do most.... he ended up finding something better! And he still got to do something he loved.

And that's it. That's the message. Sometimes life doesn't work out how we plan...... but taking the road less traveled by can be just as rewarding.

No goal is truly impossible if you put in the work! Even if Mike and Sulley did not cheat their way through the Scare Games and stayed in the undergrad program and finished school with a bachelor’s or whatever, Sulley’s celebrity status was something he had to *earn* in the factory, it wasn’t simply rewarded to him just because he bears the name ‘’Sullivan.’’ He just happened to get into Waternoose’s good graces with pure work ethic and happened to train hard to get where he was……….. HE WORKED FOR IT.

Randall…….. it’s like he thinks the world owes him something. It’s not that he doesn’t work hard, but he always comes in second best behind Sulley…….. AND he thinks that actually matters because it doesn’t. But he wants to be the Big Dog on the Scare Floor. He’s a sore loser cuz he wants to win. Not some of the time. But 11/10, he wants to win. But he ends losing 99.9% of the time because he’s blind with envy…..instead of being humble about his losses, and trying to learn from his mistakes, he lets the power and greed corrupt him….. he isn’t even a terrible performer…….he’s *one* of the best……. But he wants to be THE Best. He thinks there’s not enough room on the Scare Floor for both he and Sulley…. It has to be one or the other…. And either way, it’s never enough. He’s never satisfied. He could easily settle for second best, like his numbers aren’t *that* bad. But it’s never good enough for Randall. Because he wants to be the cream of the crop. He always blames that loss at the Scare Games on the one person who succeeded where he failed. Like, dude…… even if you beat Sulley at the Scare Games, it doesn’t necessarily mean you were gonna ace it on the Scare Floor…….he had to keep working his ass off to beat the Scare Record and stay on top of the game. But that’s Randall’s mindset, clearly. Like, if only he’d kept his status in college, maybe he too, could’ve been a Rockstar. He wants to rule the world……..like any teenager, I guess.

But now he’s an adult…….so………… I’m less forgiving of him being stuck in this teenage mindset. Imagine letting another person send you into depression/ spiral into insanity knowing you’re a GROWN ASS MAN MR. BOGGS😭Learn to control your emotions you nutsy lizard lmfao

What a jerk. Is that too kind? He’s not just a jerk. He’s a hardcore sociopath. (More on that later)

~HIS DESIGN~

But as I’ve said before in another post, Randall’s got a pretty SICK design, all things considered. Silver Medal Olympics Scarer. The other monsters just roar and use their teeth, claws, and immense size for intimidation and what not, but this freak of nature is insanely talented and unusually skilled……. Because he doesn’t have what the other monsters have. He isn’t the biggest beast on the floor….. in fact, he’s smaller than the other monsters (MU finally explains why…. He and Mike were in the same league, not born to be Scarers), but he does use his small size to his advantage…… he can use his whole body like a weapon…… and the only reason he was accepted by Johnny’s group was because of his rare abilities, despite his smallness, cuz he’s the smallest ROR member (five feet tall and appx. 220 pounds which is nowhere near Sulley’s colossal 7’8’’, 795 pounds)…..on the surface, he doesn’t appear as threatening as some of the other Scarers, so why would anyone find this seemingly harmless garden gecko a menace? He doesn’t have claws or fangs… his rows of sharp teeth are more for aesthetic purposes than any real monstrosity. Sure, every monster uses their own strengths to their advantage. Some look cuddly buggly like George Sanderson….. so it’s safe to say that even a smaller than average Scarer like Randall could still be frightening in a dark bedroom, esp. if he’s coming out of the closet in the middle of the night. I mean, even a rattle snake is frightening when it sneaks up on you. It doesn’t have to be a 500-pound gator to be malignant and fearsome.

But Randall is no ordinary monster.

He’s got literal superpowers.

Okay. Yeah. It’s just ‘’camouflage’’. Big whoop. The vast majority of animals, including insects, reptiles, fish, and mammals, utilize some form of camouflage, you say. Making it a very widespread phenomenon, you say. Yeah, Randall is a giant lizard, you say. Not nearly as creative as some of the other monster designs, you say. Because he’s just a more advanced version of an already existing earthly species, you say!!!!

Yes, and no. Yes, Randall is an upgraded lizard-thing. He’s based on reality, more than some of the other monsters, who are a combination of things==pure imagination, real-life animals, and Greek and Roman mythology (in the case of Mike and Celia… Cyclopes of Homer's Odyssey, with a mix of Medusa in the case of the latter). But like………… here’s the thing.

Randall doesn’t *just* change colors. He doesn’t have the physical limitations of a real-life animal because he’s NOT a real animal, he’s a fantastical beast in an alternate reality. He literally disappears. Like if he was wearing the cloak of invisibility. Yes, he can match his body color to its background or to other characters and their patterns, so it makes him *look* invisible when he really isn’t…. He can even mimic other objects, like in MU where he disguises his body into the shape of a lamp to avoid detection during a round of the Scare Games.

 His skills are predatory in nature because it allows him to ambush prey (Boo…. And later, Mike). But the guy can literally almost become seemingly INVISIBLE. He basically surpasses Griffin in H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man. Because he doesn’t need a serum to disappear. It’s literally his biology. That’s spooky. That’s like…… some Twilight Zone shit. That’s a big cup of NOPE. I lack the cojones to even think about the possibility of a giant lizard predator in my closet in the middle of the night... Boo, I get you, homegirl….

And Mike was the one who helped him realize said talent because-

HOLD.

THE.

MOTHERFLIPPIN’.

PHONE.

Mike created the Monster!

He pulled a Colin Clive/ Dr. Frankenstein and brought this thing to life!

Mike is basically responsible for the Monster we’re familiar with as the main antagonist in the first film.

He recognizes Randall’s talent…. Randy who bullies himself into a corner and constantly shrinks his shoulders to make himself appear small….. who lacks the confidence to be himself…… it was even part of his original backstory that his Disappearing Act is seen as something of a curse rather than a blessing, in that as a child he was not able to control his abilities because he disappears when it’s unwarranted or at the most inopportune times, like when he’s scared or nervous, like so:

Mike was probably the first person who did not see Randy’s abilities as an inconvenience, and tells him as much. Imagine that Randall was told his whole life that his disappearing thing was a nuisance, or a burden, or a problem he needed to learn to regulate or manage or restrain. Randall be like:

DON’T TALK ABOUT ME

DON’T LOOK AT ME EITHER

IF ANYONE ASKS, YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF ME

PUSH MY EXISTENCE FROM YOUR MIND AND ALLOW ME TO REVEL IN ANONYMITY

Not Mike.

Mike literally sings his praises like ‘’DAWG, COOL BEANS, AWESOME SAUCE……. But lose the glasses. It gives it away.’’

And Randy goes, ‘’By George, you’re right!’’

And Mike be like, ‘’Homies help Homies. Always. Always.’’

And Randy be like, ‘’ 🎵 But if you really see me If you like me for me and nothing else Well, that's all that I've wanted for longer that you could possibly know! 🎵’’

And well, that’s how they (almost) fell in love I mean became (almost) best friends…. bestie idk if we're getting past this one….. the winds are strong but so are you…….. the winds are changing…… Mike and Randall be waving through a window……. But nobody can hear….

😭😭😭

(Meanwhile, Randall *always* out here shushing people & Mike be like, ‘’don’t f*ckin SHUSH me, b*tch’’ they act like an old divorced gay couple XD)

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To Be Continued……….

[larkingame]

Play as Preacher Abrams, prolific vampire hunter (and pathetic preacher) in Larkin! Demo out now!

[luna-loveboop]

Ok Sky and Hyrule

I have tried forever to write up a good Sky and Hyrule post. I wanna clarify their relationship because it is kind of hard to make sense of, and I've had several ask after I mentioned my thinking that they have issues in this post. However I am tired and just want the thoughts out there, so I'm just gonna give a low-effort post with a bunch of screenshots. Read. Have fun.

Hyrule is very stubborn and Sky is very stubborn. They do not vibe. The clearest starting point of them butting heads was in divine dark reflections when Hyrule showed his ability to get ahead of himself and left Sky behind, something Sky does not take kindly too.

They fight with opposite hands, which isn't a problem when Hyrule is fighting with Wars for example, but with Sky they don't fight well together and clash.

We don't see these two clash that much bc they are both very friendly people! So I think them actively scowling at each other after they bumped elbows is pretty telling. They have beef with each other ok.

HOWEVER for the positive aspects of their irritatingly-ambiguous relationship, their main point of bonding is the master sword. Yeah. bc Hyrule can wield it and Sky falls in love /plat lol with anyone who compliments it

They also both like to joke around/prank others, so they have that in common too yay!

AnD ANothEr thING! Sky can be Very judgy about appearance, and those traits obviously carried over into lu from sksw canon. Whereas Wars showed respect towards Hyrule despite him not being a knight, we never got that from Sky. What internal thoughts does Sky have about the humble traveler?

Sky can tend to be prideful, and Hyrule absolutely could not be prideful. Rulie is still confident in who he is! Firecracker boy. Also they both can have tempers and are stubborn.

Random note: Hyrule thinks himself incapable compared to the knights, but in the discord Jojo mentioned at one point that she thought Hyrule could hold his own in a fight against Sky due to his own skill set. No. Sharing. Discord. Documents. Outside. Of. There. Casual mention only. Mhmm. So I think this is ok. I'm gonna set the discord rules as my wallpaper I check them so often. anyways.

Also please note that I am NOT hating on either of the babies, I love them very much and BOTH have flaws in their relationship with the other. The thing that's so hard about Sky and Hyrule's relationship is that they are both so very friendly it's hard to discern. They're two nice guys who wanna chill! But they do not chill or vibe with the other, most of the time Sky and Hyrule are not commonly hanging out. Yeah there ya go, Sky and Hyrule ramble. Bye!

Art is by Jojo @linkeduniverse au!

:)

Thanks to everyone who asked for elaboration <3 Sorry for the wait.

[alxastrx]

When you're one of the most selfish mc who only saves people because it's part of a job you never wanted and did not get to chose or you would've died, who took your co-workers' morals and ideals because you didn't have any and desperately wanted to fit in somewhere, be it with the heroes or the villains, who's activelly haunted by one the most tragic past to have been created and suffer from a psychosis so bad (dare I say schizophrenia) that even your enemies acknowledged that you are mentally ill and objectively flawed in your judgement, never hesitated to try to kill anyone and has the most egoistic reason to be a good person but the fandom still thinks you're just a kind crybaby "I don't know what a gun is" homosexual twink.

[nemotakeit]

i think that if we dig all the way down to the roots of tøp's musical theme, it all comes down to that constant internal conflict between desperately wanting to be seen and desperately wanting to stay hidden. we can see how they've been making gradual progress in "managing the tension" but it's still there on Clancy. dare i say it's the central theme of the lore as well.. the reason the character & the era Clancy feels so rebellious is because he's actively fighting to Be Seen. the oscillation continues, but a subversive variable has emerged.

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

my favorite scully moments from s2

after the x-files are shut down, she gets moved to teach at the academy, and in episode 1 she does a little monologue on how a person’s body is a physical manifestation of a lifetime, which one of the students describes as “spooky”

when mulder sneaks off to puerto rico in the same episode, she goes into his place to try and figure where tf he went, and prevents his sneaking about being caught by the investigators who broke into his home with the power of feeding his fish

lecturing about the dangers of eating raw steak in episode 2, then getting lost down a rabbit hole of worm science

when no one was answering the door in episode 3, she just walks in. this made me laugh hysterically, i cannot explain. both of these guys WILL enter your home.

every single time she is a bit of a medical nerd, like when she learns about the surgery that allowed people to survive without sleep in episode 4, which she describes as “incredible”

(and the freckles + flower earrings combo were also a fave)

when she scans the piece of metal that came from duane barry in a grocery store in episode 6, and the cash register goes crazy. and she denies involvement and just walks away LMAOOO <- honestly i'd do the same!!

she wakes up from her coma in episode 8 and wants to write a thank you note to the nurse that took such good care of her, only to learn no such nurse ever existed. scully got to witness the paranormal for once!!!!

in episode 9, someone brings up a volcano scientist in conversation, and she says she had heard he was brilliant, which means that somehow she is keeping up with volcano news. she is a woman of many layers.

being deeply worried about this scared looking grad student she just met, and once again not waiting for an answer to enter her room and figure out if she is okay

(and when said grad student is being consumed by a fungus, scully thinks quickly enough to get herself locked behind a door, keeping herself safe, despite being handcuffed and otherwise looking death by fungus in the face)

in episode 11, mulder walks into his office, only to learn she has been there and has been going through his stuff since 6 in the morning. queen of getting results!

in the same episode, an old man overdoses on mushroom pills, and she shifts into Doctor Mode, yelling about “ventricular fibrillation” and “milligrams of lidocaine” and it was, like every other time she goes Doctor Mode, so deeply satisfying to watch

when she meets the two cops in episode 12, and can immediately tell they are having an affair and that the detective is pregnant, and despite the detective pleading with her not to tell a soul, the absolute MILLISECOND she is reunited with mulder, she spills the tea. and he is SHOCKED! <- arguably my favorite moment in the entire series so far

(and, to make the woman feel more comfortable, she confesses to also having had feelings for coworkers before which. elaborate on that, please)

but she really does care; when the detective ends up in the hospital, scully brings her a change of clothing <3

when she is so shaken by what she sees in episode 13 that she goes to the FBI’s onsite therapist; she’s too scared to tell mulder how she feels because “i don’t want him to feel like he has to protect me”

(as if there was ever going to be a choice; he is the protector and he Will protect, it's just his nature)

((and then later sobbing into his arms, realizing she doesn’t have to always put on a front))

toads start falling from the sky in episode 14, so she rationalizes that they likely came from a nearby tornado. this is a scully-approved theory.

they’re investigating a murder in the same episode, and a teenager starts pouring her absolutely horrific trauma out to both of them, scully holds her while she sobs into her jacket

honestly any time either of them know weird information, i love it. she says that it would take hours for a snake to eat a man and then weeks for it to digest in episode 14, and mulder makes some funny remark but it’s sooo endearing to me. she knows her snake facts.

then in episode 15, she notes poison in someone’s blood, but specifically that the poison comes from pufferfish eaten in Japan… girl i’m crying, she just knows stuff!

during that same case, they get rooms near each other like always, and she knocks on a door thinking it’s mulder’s. he doesn’t answer. she walks in and hears water running, so she just talks to him through the door to the bathroom. and i love this so much. i love that they are close enough to just walk into each other’s rooms and talk from behind the door while the other showers. it’s such married behavior.

working on the case in episode 16, we see her at home wearing a flannel, checking her computer, still serving looks but now giving casual

(and seeing the art she keeps on her walls- little postcards of beach scenes <3)

in the same episode, she knows mulder left to go get himself in trouble, so she bursts into skinner’s office to ask for help. but she feels bad for barging in on skinner, so she apologizes to him. which was very sweet.

when mulder is gone, she goes to his apartment to look for clues, and falls asleep on his couch

(and when X knocks on the door, she knows he is hiding something, and screams at him to tell her where he is)

this whole monologue from episode 17, which i loved more than life itself:

“several aspects of this case remain unexplained, suggesting the possibility of paranormal phenomena. but i am convinced that to accept such conclusions is to abandon all hope of understanding the scientific events behind them. many of the things i have seen have challenged my faith and my belief in an ordered universe, but this uncertainty has only strengthened my need to know, to understand, and to apply reason, to those things which seem to defy it”

(and that is just Her, isn't it? the need to understand, to rationalize. the worldview shaped on science- if she doesn't understand something, it's because a key piece is missing, and she'll find it. because the world Has to work that way, has to be bound by a greater logic, even if it is yet to be understood. to imagine otherwise would be impossible, to imagine otherwise would be to abandon hope in everything, and she cannot abandon hope)

((and maybe the idea that the world being something she cannot perfectly comprehend is a failing of her own understanding makes me a little emotional. but still))

she says that the whole loaves and fishes deal was a parable in episode 21; she is not a biblical literalist

(she then makes some sassy remark about things generating spontaneously, and mulder laughs in the corner. good to know he thinks she is funny)

every single time she answers the phone, she says “mulder, it’s me”, and idk i just think it’s so endearing

she thinks she might have been infected with a killer disease in episode 22, but mulder calls, so she tells him she’s okay and to take care of himself out there.... those are the last words she chooses, just in case they never talk again </3

and every time she says unsettling things, like “could be the residue of burnt human flesh” or “darkness covers a multitude of sins”, both in episode 23, i eat that up

reassuring her student who has just become a detective that she is doing just fine!!!

and then going to said student's funeral when things do not turn out fine... she loves her students that she taught for like 3 months so much :(

getting pulled aside by skinner and her bosses after mulder just acted wild in episode 25, and denying that she had seen any top secret files even though they say they will fire her if she lies lmaooo <- she is a ride or die!!!

but also going to his place, demanding assurance that she is doing the right thing by assisting him, and i love that. i love a character who will break all of the rules as long as they believe they are doing the thing that is morally Right, and that definition is so deeply her own, but she is committed to it, and she'll do anything to stick by it. and he just says something about getting the code that he wants broken, and despite how awful he's being, she goes through with it anyway because it's the Right thing to do.

later, her being the one to realize that mulder should not leave the house after his father was killed because he will be the prime suspect (he does not listen to this sound advice)

he stumbles into her place with a million degree fever, and she carefully lays him down in her own bed, despite the fact that he is soaked in his dead father's blood. and she takes care of him.

this one honestly deserves its own post because it is so incredible, but: shooting mulder with enough precision to get him to knock off his wild behavior that was going to make him look like he killed his dad, but not actually HURT him, then finding out krychek was putting LSD in his water, knocking him out, and driving 2 days to New Mexico to get him where he needed to be. AFTER he had been acting wild because he was inadvertently drugged, and had accused her of spying on him and being a traitor. that level of love is deep. very very deep. she is a Lover.

[queenlucythevaliant]

I do find it kinda funny that we Americans have pretty much entirely forgiven Japan for WWII (Pearl Harbor, whole Eastern theater) but we still haven't really gotten over France (surrendering to protect their art). Easier to forgive an enemy than a wimpy ally, I guess.

[skullsandcorals]

https://www.tumblr.com/skullsandcorals/738285799236321280/im-dyslexic-im-not-stupid

1. Holy shit I am so happy I found another person who gets how smart Percy is, and gets that every instance of Percy looking/getting called stupid is due to his dyslexia or people not telling him anything.

2. Which book/chapter is this from? I need to bookmark it ASAP and start shouting it from the metaphorical tumblr hills.

3. We really don't talk about how good a mom Sally is? Like yeah she's badass and gentle but like. She respects Percy. When the school system failed Percy, she's the one who still not only believed that he was smart but still acted like it and probably taught him too. Queen mom Sally Jackson right there.

1.) YEAHH EXACTLY. Or his ADHD 😭 It drives me NUTS whenever Percy is treated as the dumb + comedic guy. Like I get what they're saying and why they're saying it, but sometimes his character gets reduced to JUST that and it hurts my soul. I get that he's funny as a narrator and as a character and sometimes he can be a little "clueless" but it just feels like some people like to think of that as either all he is or a huge part of who he is. I believe I've also seen Leo get this treatment despite literally being insanely smart at such a young age so. that's...fun. They can be funny and smart too 😞

2.) It's from the 10th Anniversary edition of The Lightning Thief! It's Rick's cover letter for the first readers of the manuscript & a note from the narrator. I don't have a copy of that edition myself, but I've seen some pictures of it on Rick's blog and someone posted one of the pages on Reddit (where I got it from).

Here's the full page from Reddit (source) & the picture from Rick's blog where the page is visible (source):

3.) YEEEAHHHH I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!! What I would do to get adopted by her rn. The way she talks to him makes me kinda teary-eyed because she's just so...you can just tell how much she loves Percy and that she would do anything to make sure he grew up resilient and kind in a world that's always out to get him. She believes in him so much that it just makes me lose my mind a little. It's just so sweet and I can't help but feel so moved by it.

I'm not sure if you've read Chalice of the Gods, but there's this scene where (spoilers, kinda) Sally talks to Percy after the whole thing with Hebe and honestly this scene makes me want to sob and cry and weep

“You are a lot of things, Percy. But helpless isn't one of them.”

[kingslionheart]

whats the weirdest thing you’ve ever normalised

i wanted to try to find something a bit lighter to say but there's genuinely nothing light in anything weird that i have normalised, SO.

i guess the weirdest thing i have normalised is exclusion, like actively excluding people and being very open about it. i wasn't the one doing that, it was done to me in middle school and that was part of the bullying i was subjected to, tho the adults (especially the teachers) were the ones who made me normalise it and bullying in general, because they constantly repeated to me like on a daily basis that bullying didn't exist and neither did exclusion, and therefore of course A 12 YEARS OLD IS GOING TO NORMALISE THAT

[anakinh]

my personal lovm review so far is that I don't mind most of the changes they're doing and I even like a few BUT that they have (so far) done my girl Raishan so dirty. I wanted to see her fight Thordak, goddamn it!

(also Vex was the one who came up with the idea to use Yenk for a vestige and they should've kept her doing that! establish her as a leader! smart! strategic! why is grog doing the planning asjfjsd I made a joke about how it's Travis Willingham breaking through Grog during a typical analysis paralysis section but man I wanted Vex doing it)