#The Super Car's Trap (Part 2)

[dtccompendium]

Episode 198: The Super Car's Trap (Part 2)

Super nice wine stain boy covered Ferrari Dino with a grey sheet to trap carbon monoxide, and kill Pterodactyl, because Dino used to be his car….. but he never let it on. 

[shijiujun]

A Summary: The Spirealm | 致命游戏 (Kaleidoscope of Death 死亡万花筒 Live Action) & Why You Should (Eventually) Watch It

Talk about the most short-lived drama release ever, not even totalling two hours if I recall. Creating this summary as I've seen a handful of confused friends, so here it goes!

It's going to be a long review because I sped through all 78 episodes and only properly watched the first two doors, but I got you. You'll get both the brief book rundown and the drama parts!

If you just wanna see the bromance (LOVE) parts please skip to section 4!!!!

1. Overview

Title: The Spirealm (kinda awful I'm sorry it's a mouthful) or 致命游戏 which means fatal game

Adapted From: Danmei (BL) Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zixu

Novel Prints: There are GORGEOUS Thai, Vietnamese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese versions printed, AND Singapore publisher Rosmei has signed the license for the ENGLISH version, probably going on sale this year (preview is here). You can still access fan translations by Taida on I think wordpress and someone else on Tumblr sorry bad memory (they did half and half each) if you'd like to read it for context. It is one of my FAVE danmeis EVER and I am a die-hard OG book fan, check out my full danmei review here.

Total Episodes: 78 (20 minutes each with the exception of last episode which 10 minutes, with several BTS not that I think we will get to see all of them yet)

Where to Watch (LOL): Erm considering that iQIYI China AND International took the episodes down, there is no legal way to watch this, BUT thanks to some cnetz with super fast and great wifi, we managed to get ripped HD versions without subs. iQIYI is very hard on copyright though, they've taken down several subbed and unsubbed versions already on YouTube, but you should type the titles of show into Twitter and the top tags will tell you where to access the raws and very little subbed episodes, that may also be taken down at any point. I have the Chinese raws but as it's hosted on a cloud, I had to pay to access it.

Main Characters: Lin Qiushi & Ruan Nanzhu/Ruan Baijie (in the novel) and Ling Jiushi & Ruan Nanzhu/Ruan Baijie (in the drama)

Produced By: iQIYI so for SURE they won't film it fully BL even if the original is, but I've seen enough bromance cuts

Main Actors: Xia Zhiguang (Ruan Nanzhu/Ruan Baijie) + Huang Junjie (Ling Jiushi)

2. Summary

Book (drama follows closely if not removing the supernatural premises): Lin Qiushi, a designer, opens the door to his home one day from inside and sees 12 iron doors outside. Confused, he opens one of them and arrives at a snow covered village in the mid of winter, and meets Ruan Baijie, who's a pretty, unusually tall and whiny/timid woman. They realise that they're in a horrifying door game, and they'll have to find a door and a key to get out, while battling a long-haired, human-eating deity. They, along with a few others, have to survive day after day until they get out, and on the first night, two people have died in gory ways. Ruan Baijie and Lin Qiushi partner each other, and despite seemingly timid and crying all the time, she saves Lin Qiushi a few times mysteriously, and Lin Qiushi finds himself trusting in Ruan Baijie.

They get through the door together and when they leave successfully, Lin Qiushi realizes that the people who died in the door will die in real life by some freak accident too - car accidents, forced suicides, a robbery gone wrong, a lift trapped in the air and going ablaze, and more. That night, Lin Qiushi wakes up to see a super handsome and tall Ruan Nanzhu at his bedside and this man feels familiar to him, but he can't put a finger on it. All he can think of when Ruan Nanzhu says his name is Ruan Baijie (ahem he would later find out who it is of course). Ruan Nanzhu takes him to his mansion in the suburbs where he meets a group of other people just like them, who're forced to go through the doors for survival. Ruan Nanzhu then invites him to join Obsidian, his organization.

Through various doors, Lin Qiushi grows and supports a super intelligent and powerful Ruan Nanzhu, falls in love with him, gets through many many scary doors with him and some of their other team members, makes friends, loses them to the cruelty of the doors as they ponder over what the door means, and what being alive/dying means.

And at the end of it, at the end of of it all, when they're all good and living their life, Lin Qiushi also finds out what Ruan Nanzhu's secret is, and the lengths to which Ruan Nanzhu went to, just to be with him.

Drama: Ling Jiushi is a VR game designer who gets pulled into a game, and he meets Ruan Baijie (in his male form) right off the bat (SO NOT CROSSDRESSING I AM SAD). All the parts are actually the same as the novel, albeit with the game setting and Ling Jiushi and Ruan Nanzhu's identity adjustments to suit the game premise. Most of the other doors and their lines are the same, just that the ending is a bit more confusing than it could be. There's a big bad as well and they actually show the opposing organizations when in the novel, these other organizations aside from Obsidian didn't even actually have a face or goal to them.

3. Characters

^ Them in the book (based on manhua that never got to go live LOL) (RNZ/RBJ left, LQS right)

^ Them in the show (LJS left, RNZ right)

Ruan Nanzhu/Ruan Baijie: MY HANDSOME CROSSDRESSING INTELLIGENT ALOOF BUT WHINY (WHEN IT COMES TO LIN QIUSHI) SASSY BOSS!!!! He's super mysterious and super thick-skinned too, and all he wants is Lin Qiushi's attention the moment he meets him. He's intrigued by Lin Qiushi's calm and his brains and the way he handles things, and has a lot of trust for him right from the get-go. This is also shown in the drama itself. As the leader of Obsidian, he cares a lot for his team members and his friends even if he doesn't show it most of the time, and the last thing he wants to do is lose Lin Qiushi, and he would do ANYTHING for Lin Qiushi, ANYTHING!!! Just look at him whining:

Ling Jiushi (Lin Qiushi): In the novel he's super calm, has quite a lot of brains, a little bit of a blur in the beginning but he's super smart as well. Worries a lot for Ruan Nanzhu and is also a loyal friend to some of his only friends, and feels a lot when he loses them. Falls gradually in love with Ruan Nanzhu in the novel, like they just belong together. In this drama, Ling Jiushi holds that same trust for Ruan Nanzhu, but in demeanour he seems a bit more like a klutz and and not as cool as he was in the novel, but I guess it's acceptable. Literally like the only thing he loves more than RNZ (maybe) is his cat Chestnut LOL and RNZ is NOT really happy about that but Chestnut LOVES RNZ

Yixie and Qianli: CUTEST TWINS ;-; WHO TREAT RNZ and LQS as their big brothers LOOK AT THEM BOWING AND RNZ/LJS like parents LMAO

A handful of other characters who will keep turning up and get your hearts ;-;

4. ALL FAVE BROMANCE MOMENTS + TROPES

THEY TOUCH EACH OTHER A LOT LIKE HOLDING HANDS AND TOUCHING FACES, PIGGY BACKING?!?! DID I MENTION FACE TOUCHING

WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP THEY HELP EACH OTHER WHEN HURT OR GET HURT FOR EACH OTHER

AND WHEN THEY WAKE UP IN BED THE OTHER IS AT THEIR BEDSIDE

AND DID I MENTION HE FEEDS HIM IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE

AND THAT THEY DATED UNDER THE FIREWORKS LIKE THE NOVEL DOES NOT EVEN HAVE THIS SHIT

AND THE KABEDONS

AND FINALLY RUAN NANZHU RIZZ OMG

5. Settings

They REALLY OUTDID THEMSELVES. THIS JUST FROM DOORS 1-6:

THEY LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THE NOVEL DESCRIBED!!!!

6. Overall Thoughts

PROS: This was NOT a cheap production, I'm telling you, they followed the cases very well and there're a lot of super recognisable lines, if not ALL of them, even if they changed the cases a little. I think they did it because in the novel originally, the author DOES leave a lot of details hanging like someone dies and you know he had a background and there are some shady things happening but the author NEVER actually goes into detail. So the drama did their best to cover these loopholes, even if it felt a little awkward at times. Money went into settings and attires and every damn thing, this looks EXPENSIVE. And if you've ever imagined each door and the bosses inside in your head, you might have felt chills go down your spine because damn did they really colour the book's settings for me (despite its differences). DID I MENTION that Xia Zhiguang really got the damn memo and he was a passable Ruan Nanzhu/Ruan Baijie who knew how to turn on his BL eyes. PLUS they really did some of the character deaths really well - they're technically some of the biggest parts of this story so ;-; (not two main of course)

CONS (maybe): They did away with the supernatural/horror premise and replaced it with a GAME premise, which means that there's a scientific element to it and the try to explain away stuff with the game, including the ending. I don't 100% get the ending, but the feel/vibe is about the same. Might not be for hardcore reader fans tho! They skipped out on a couple of doors, some of which were my faves, but it's fine, it's long enough LOL. They give away/explain some of the clues and surprises super early which means you don't get that added boom at the back as well. Despite that, I have to say they tried to round up the loopholes from the book as much as they could and give it an explanation while tying elements/conspiracies across doors (probably also to save cast fees LOL). And as always it's not a solid ending, it's an open confusing one, and even more confusing than the book itself because THERE IS NO CERTAIN HAPPILY EVER AFTER WITH HUBBY for it (there is in the book tho, they live together happily every after). Secondl,y, I'd say HJJ's acting is a bit stiff and OOC compared to the novel, but Xia Zhiguang really made up for it.

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HOPE THIS HELPS YOU GUYS!!! But I guess if you need subs it's going to be a long LONGGGG ride, considering that iQIYI doesn't seem to be going to be able to put it up anytime soon CRIES.

[alizalayne]

Whats the ventilation and heat like in the suit head? I can't tell if it would be warmer or more cool to wear in compaison to a faux fur fursuit head. The only thing I worry abt is how durable needlefelting is and if it can be cleaned like a traditional fursuit head. That being said I really hope you continue making these, they're cool as hell 👍🔥👍

Okay first of all I'm super jazzed to be able to talk about this with people, and I kind of went overboard answering this, but thanks for asking! Putting this up in case anyone else is curious.

The main answers to your questions are 1: wool is cooler than acrylic fur and less stinky

2: A fursuit head is a swamp and i am snorkling in it.

I mentioned this in my behind the scenes post and there are pictures there but I literally just made a snorkel out of a snorkel mouthpiece and two collapsible automotive funnels, the kind that you can bend into a shape so that you can get goo into a weird part of your car.

that snorkel piece goes straight out of a vent hole in the inside of the ear and I felted a pink skin flap in front of it and then felted white fiber into that so it just looked like a tuft. it worked perfectly, it's just that I couldn't talk in it that well. But I'm definitely going to keep using it if I can't think of a better mouthpiece for it because as SOON as I breathed inside the head instead of through the snorkel I was like oh my god everyone is living in hell.

You can see it in this picture a little bit. nobody noticed it at all!

My friend had made a much more traditional head with a bigass electric fan in it and he was having more heat issues than I was, because I cannot stress enough that acrylic fur is like, one of the most horrifically hot fabrics you can wear. I don't know how everybody is even alive!! and there's a layer of ACRYLIC BACKING on it! Also check out how "short-pile" my fur is, most of the head is only an inch thick, it's a half-inch bucket head made out of foam covered in maybe 1/3 of an inch of wool? the less space you have between the fibers the less heat gets trapped. I was shocked by how comfortable I was, and I was having migraine symptoms that day and was extra sensitive to heat. The con where we were had the air turned down and it was chilly outside, but I was shocked when I took the head off and shook my hair out and I wasn't even sweating. I had long hair in a wig cap under that thing and I wasn't sweating. It was crazy.

As for cleaning the wool, I cannot find anyone else who has done this who has cleaning tips for me, but the foam is what I'm worried about. After a few hours of wear there's nothing wrong with the wool at all, but i can TELL the foam is ever so slightly nasty, because the foam is polyurethane and wool is what you make hiking socks out of. I have some wool cleaner coming in the mail that's made for delicate needlefelted items like scarves and deposits lanolin, which is what keeps wool "alive" kind of like how you have to care for leather. It's definitely an experiment! Nothing ventured nothing gained!

I don't have an idea in mind for a second head right now and the next thing I want to make is a cowl so I can wear lower-cut tops with this head, but I might try something else if I think of an idea! I'm probably never gonna sell these because I'm weird about selling sculptures for whatever reason. They're like my living beasts.

But I definitely hope this encourages other people who might be interested in bringing needlefelt or other fiber art sensibilities to this space, that would be a massive complement and a high honor to give people a new way to enjoy a hobby that I know means a ton to a lot of people.

[1000sunnygo]

One Piece Academy Chapter 45: Brothers part 2 (Quick translation)

source | translation index

Trebol: Corazon?! How come you're okay~?!

Diamante: Uhahaha...Is that Law I see?

Pica:...!

Zoro: Ow, those are some mean looks. Are they the Executives?

Sanji: Did they gather to gang up on Corazon?

Nami/Usopp: NOOOO~~!!

Luffy: Mingo you jerk!! Doing what you did to Corao, I still haven't--!!

Usopp: God forbid.. Luffy, don't provoke them!!

Gladeus: So that's the Straw hat? How cheeky...

Doflamingo: Down there...There's one of my Kitchen cars.

Let's go eat.

everyone: ??!

Luffy: UHOWWWH!! SO THIS IS THE LOBSTER ONIGIRI! LOOKS SUPER TASTY!!

Nami: Luffy, you!

Luffy: R-right...I shouldn't eat... they haven't made up yet... !

Usopp: Corao!! That guy definitely has some plans under his sleeves!

Baby 5: Of course! Don't underestimate our Young Master!

Law: *clink*

Cora: *step* *step*

Law: Cora san!

tears in my eyes

Cora: Delicious!

(........)

Cora: The flavor was a bit strong.

Doflamingo: Kids these days prefer that way.

Coby: It's not a trap?!

And they're eating together like nothing happened... How is that...?

Luffy: Shiishishihi.... I see!

Baby 5: Is it okay, Young Master?

Doflamingo: I have successfully settled things with Corazon.

But for whatever reason, he's here and doing great. Take it as just another outcome.

T/N: throwback to when Doffy said Law's erroneous choices lead to the outcome where Cora got stabbed

Law:

Doflamingo: What is it? Law.

Law: I will never forgive you. That is all.

Cora: Law...

Law: Not saying in the spirit of revenge, though.

Thanks to Cora san, I've become free... I refuse to live with my heart trapped within your clutch.

I will surpass you by myself, of my own volition.

And someday, I'll have you mopping the floor after beating the crap out of you!

That's how thugs settle their business, don't they?

Doflamingo: Fufufufu... well, that's something to look forward to.

Sugar: *noms*

Doflamingo: *stands up*

Cora:.....

Luffy: Oi Mingo, you don't wanna party?

Baby 5: Young Master is busy! Unlike you people!!

Luffy: What's up with that guy anyway...

*brothers take opposite directions*

Franky: There he goes. To the school?

Corazon: Well, time for another strategy meeting!

Law:

Cora: Huh?

Luffy: FWOOOOOOH~~~!!!

Cora: Straw hat ya!!?

Nami: Where are you going, Luffy??

Luffy: SCHOOL!!!

Sanji: Hold on a second!!!

Continues in Reblog ⬇️

[rapunzelbro]

A Sacrifice For a Friend Angel Dust X reader 5

Extremely long chapter. Disclosure this is uh. Dark lol. Super dark. Valentino being well. Valentino. It’s just dark. That’s the TW.

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Days turned into weeks, and still, you couldn't shake the feeling that there was more to the story between you and the demon named Angel. You found yourself searching for him at every party Valentino wanted to show you off at, hoping for another glimpse of his familiar face, hoping to find some way to understand what it was that drew you to him.But Valentino seemed to have a sixth sense about these things, and each time you tried to seek away, you always found yourself pulled away by the Demon's insistent hand.

You spotted Angel standing alone in the shadows, his eyes met yours, and for a moment, you felt a spark of something - hope, perhaps? - flicker between you. "Angel," you breathed, walking towards him him. You were about to speak when a hand clamped down on your shoulder, spinning you around to reveal Valentino. His features were twisted into a mask of anger."I thought I told you to stay by my side" he growled. "What part of 'keep your distance' did you not understand?"

Angel's eyes flashed with anger, but he didn't say anything. You could see the tension in his shoulders, the way he was clenching and unclenching his fists at his sides. He knew Valentino. Valentino's grip tightened on your shoulder. "I'm not asking you again," he warned. "If you keep this up, I'll make sure you regret it."You felt the anger rise up inside you, but you forced it down. You couldn't risk it.

You looked at Angel, hoping he understood the danger you were in. His expression softened, and he gave you a small nod. You turned back to Valentino, trying to sound nonchalant. "Fine. I won't see him again." Valentino studied your face for a moment, as if he could see right through your lie. But finally, he seemed to accept it and let go of your shoulder. "Good, it’s time we head back to the studio" He motioned to the limo, idling at the curb, and you knew there would be no escaping him tonight.As you climbed into the car, you caught one last glimpse of Angel, watching you from the shadows. There was something in his eyes that made you feel like he understood what you were going through, that he knew you were trapped in this nightmare.

The ride to the studio was silent, besides the sound of Valentino's harsh breathing and squeal of the limos tires as it swerved through traffic. You tried to prepare yourself for the inevitable verbal assault that awaited you once you arrived, but you couldn't help but feel a tremor of fear run down your spine.

When you finally pulled up to studio, you climbed out of the car and forced yourself to stand tall. You didn't want Valentino to think he could break you, not completely. As you walked up to the door, you could feel his eyes burning into the back of your neck.You pushed the door open and stepped inside, bracing yourself for the onslaught of his rage. The familiar smell of strawberry lube and sex filled your nostrils, in an almost comforting way as Valentino led you to your dressing room. He slammed the door shut behind you instantly, his eyes burning with fury.

"You disobeyed me," he growled. "You lied to my face." His voice was a low, dangerous rumble, and you could feel the anger rolling off him in waves. "Do you have any idea how much I give you , you stupid whore!" He advanced on you, his hand curling into a fist at his side. You couldn't help but take a step back, feeling the wall of the dressing room press against your shoulders. "I've been giving you everything you could ever want," he snarled. "Fame, fortune, a fucking desire most people can only dream of, and this is how you repay me?!" You wanted to defend yourself, to explain that it wasn't like that, but the words caught in your throat. You could feel tears welling up in your eyes, threatening to spill down your cheeks. "I'm sorry," you managed to choke out. "I didn't mean to disobey you." Valentino took a step closer, his face inches from yours. His breath was hot against your skin, his grip on your arm painful. "You know what you have to do," he hissed. "You know what I expect of you."

The anger in his eyes made you feel small, worthless. You didn't dare meet his gaze, instead looking down at the floor as you tried to steady your shaking breath. You could feel the weight of his anger pressing down on you, making it hard to breathe. “You know what you have to do," he repeated, his voice low and threatening. "You know the consequences if you disobey me." His grip tightened on your arm, causing you to wince in pain before he let you go, opening the door harshly, and left.

The exhaustion began to set in after the first couple hours. Your body ached from being used in ways it wasn't meant to be, and your mind felt like it was spinning out of control. Every time you thought you'd reach the end, Valentino would demand one more scene, one more position, one more act of degradation.

It was as if he was trying to break you, to reduce you to nothing more than his personal sex toy. You tried to focus on the money, on the fact that this was what you had signed up for, but the thoughts kept creeping in, filling your head with doubt and self-loathing. The only thing that kept you going was the fear of what would happen if you couldn't meet Valentino's expectations, if you failed to please him.

And the thought of maybe seeing Angel again.

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[katanashipping]

@love-killed-the-superstar​ I hope you don’t mind but this particular part of your recent liveblog just... really sparked something in my brain that I need to get out, re: Fast Forward, and it’s this repeating theme of FF rehashing a plot point from S1-4 but worse. Like the turtles version of a live action Disney reboot.

This turned into a massive rant, oops, more under the cut. Clearly, I have a lot of feelings about this.

Example: Shredder vs. Sh’okonabo

Consider the Shredder. He is an evil alien. He comes back time and again for four seasons before being defeated for good by the turtles’ allies. Every thing we learn about him is more messed up than the last, and learnt often at great personal cost. Notable henchmen: Karai (right hand woman & very skilled fighter), Hun (leads a notorious gang & very skilled fighter), Stockman (kind of a hostage situation, super smart guy who gets punished via mutilation) and later on, Chaplin (Stockman light)

Now consider Sh’okonabo. He is an evil alien. He pops up a few times over one season before being defeated for good by the turtles. We learn most things about him from an expositional voiceover from other characters, and he doesn’t evolve much beyond that. Not that good a fighter by himself. Notable henchmen: Darius Dunn (debatable, he has his own stuff going on), Zixx (debatable, he has his own stuff going on), and Viral (hostage situation, smart person who gets punished via mutilation). Every aspect of him mirrors the Shredder, if the Shredder had decided to try world domination by just... stumbling into the food hall of the UN one morning and feeding everyone poisoned porridge. And also had no friends subjects working for him.

Example: Things Change vs. Future Shellshock

Plotline: The turtles and Splinter have a normal day at home when something unexpectedly rips them out of their routine and throws them into the unfamiliar streets of New York City to fend for themselves. Making their way across the city, one of them gets trapped in an armored car and separated from the rest, turning the episode into a mixture of finding-their-feet and rescue-mission. At the end of the episode, the family finds a new home.

Things Change is the first episode of TMNT 2k3. It sets up the characters in their most archetypal ways, but also shows their connection as a family. The episode begins with the turtles training their ninjutsu skills when they are attacked by the mousers. Raph gets trapped in a Purple Dragon van in an attempt to evade danger, and the family follow in pursuit. Throughout the episode, the brothers might fight, but they never abandon one another. We meet  a few of the villains for the first time (Baxter Stockman, the Purple Dragons, and the Foot). At the end of the episode, the family reunites and find the Outpost Lair, thus finding a new home. Change, Splinter reminds us, is Good.

Future Shellshock is the first episode of the Fast Forward “reboot” and as such reintroduces the characters a little. The episode begins with the family fighting over the TV remote, a battle which Splinter wins (and which somehow comes up again in several other episodes of Fast Forward) when they are zapped to the year 2105. Mikey gets trapped in a newspaper van in an attempt to play a video game, and the family follow, but are distracted for 2-6 hours by Cody showing them around his penthouse and turtle museum before they are reminded by Cody that Mikey is still missing and resume pursuit. We meet a few of the villains for the first time (the Street Phantoms and the Peacekeepers). At the end of the episode, Cody explains that he’s the one who trapped them all here and graciously allows them to stay in his home (which they proceed to wreck in every single episode to follow). Change, we learn, is something you have to make the best of when it hits you unexpectedly from behind.

Example: Playtime is Over vs. Christmas Aliens

Plotline: Mikey is obsessed with a specific toy that is newly released. Initially unable to get one for himself, he suddenly finds himself involved in the local gang’s plot to steal the lot for money. Despite being briefly mistaken by the police for a co-conspirator in the theft, he manages to return the toy to its rightful owner/distributor in the end.

Except in Christmas Aliens, we get a fully fleshed out episode highlighting Mikey’s independence, competence under pressure, fighting skills, and compassion for his fellow humans (when he decides to steal the toys from the thieves and return them to the owners (orphanage) himself. He even goes one further in the end and decides that what he really wants is to give the toys away himself, and the whole family ends up volunteering at the orphanage and agreeing that he has done a Good Thing today.

In Playtime is Over, we get an entire episode of Mikey as a selfish, single-minded and obsessive “gamer”, fulfilling every early 2000′s stereotype of the same: he doesn’t shower, there is trash everywhere, he doesn’t care about his training or his family; the entire “subplot” (such as it is) of getting Cody to hook up with Starly in the mall passes him by entirely; and the only reason he gets involved in the theft at all is because he wants to get a game for himself, not to help others. He cheats, he lies, he cuts in line, he belittles others. At several points, he screams “GIVE ME MY GAME” at the episode’s villains. The entire episode is about Cody finding balance, yet Michelangelo serves only as the bad example of how not to be in contrast; he doesn’t learn anything. When Starly reveals that she got him a copy of the game in the end, he immediately goes back to video gaming, and his whole family agrees that he’s being Bad About This in a way that somehow warrants an entire second episode later on to resolve.

It is actually ridiculous, upon my most recent rewatch, how very similar these episodes are, except Playtime is Over is so much worse in every aspect and the perfect example of the Flanderisation that’s going on in FF. Like, if PiO came before CA somehow I’d call that character growth, but since they are several seasons apart I’m just... ???? what ????

ANYWAY:

These are just two episodes that stuck with me during the recent rewatch that serve to portray my frustrations with Fast Forward as a show. We’ve already seen most of these plotlines, and we’ve already seen most of these villains, and Fast Forward just falls short at every single turn. I am still baffled how they made an entire episode featuring “Raphael says out loud that they finally have a chance to walk the streets in daylight and wants to go do human things for fun, but the rest of the family prefers to stay at home and play video games” and then just... kept having everyone stay inside to play video games for the next 20 episodes after that. Talk about a missed opportunity.

[gatzilksis-2]

The Grand Return (2)

(this story includes fart kink and other adult elements)

chapter one here

Chapter Two: Beginnings

I met Tony Gonzalez first. I had sat in the expansive lobby of The Chicken Spot, a family-owned business with only 3 locations. He'd come out from the back of the restaurant, donned in the collared shirt of a manager. My jaw nearly fell to the floor.

Tony was six feet tall and average body size, dark tan skin making his big smile stand out. His hair was long, in a dark, curly ponytail behind his head. He extended a large, callused hand, and I couldn't stop staring at his dark, happy eyes. I shook his hand and noticed chest hair behind his open collar. "Hey. Cal, right? I'm Tony."

His hand was so warm. I already had the biggest crush on him. Tony had interviewed me, and then I hadn't seen him for a while. I got hired, but I opened while he closed.

Opening was where I met Vince Martino. He was the prep guy while I opened service. Vince had an olive skin tone with perfect features and an average body, but he was tall and broad-shouldered. His black hair was cut short, and his pale green eyes sparkled behind spectacles. The best part about him was his butt, a tight but thick ass in his standard black pants.

Vince was hot, and we got along well. When business was slow, we talked and shared stories. A few mornings after my first day, I walked into the back to get something from the cooler. Like always, I walked through behind the prep area, where Vince was cutting tomatoes.

I walked directly into a thick cloud of fart, most likely more than one. I didn't say anything, passing through and taking a moment to freak out in the walk-in. He was hot, and he had great farts. I needed to find a way to encourage them.

I left the cooler and walked back through, the cloud staying in place. "My god. Is that the drains?"

"Sure." Vince gave me a sly grin.

"What?" I smiled. "Did you shit?"

"Nah, it was all air." He winked at me.

I moved on, silently thanking whoever for Vince.

A few weeks in, I worked over my usual shift, filling in for someone at night. I finally saw Tony again, walking his sexy self past me with a wave. "Hey! You liking it?"

"Yeah!" It was all I could get out.

Tony went into the office to talk to the morning manager Pam. Not two minutes later, Pam came out quick, fanning her face. I suspected the best option and asked, "what happened?"

"Tony farted in that tiny office." Pam continued past me and walked around the corner.

There was no one else around. I crept around the corner and up to the ajar office door. Tony was counting down a cash drawer. I thought quickly and knocked. Tony pushed the door open, and I put my head inside.

I wasn't expecting the pungency of his fart. It was noxious, bordering on offensive, but it was also extremely sexy to me. "I just wanted to say thanks for hiring me, and I hope your night goes well."

"You, too, Cal." He showed his bright smile, as if he hadn't destroyed all the air in the room.

Fall turned to winter, and business was super slow.

In the morning, Vince and I didn't do much but talk, the weather outside frigid and ugly. We were by the front wall with the registers, but he backed up while I was talking, stepping a yard back. He squinted one eye and then sighed.

"Did you fart?" I asked, though it couldn't have been more obvious.

"I don't know." He grinned in mischief. "Does it smell?"

It hit me as he asked the question, the same smell as before only slightly weaker. "Yeah. A bit."

A few days after that, Vince ran up to me in the drive thru and dropped three audible rippers in sequence. I tried to escape the smell, but he trapped me in the little drive thru area. "What's wrong, Cal?"

"You stink." I pushed him, and he ripped another one. Both of us fell into hysterical laughter, until a car came to interrupt us.

A few mornings later, I went outside to smoke with Pam. It was freezing, but we lit our cigarettes around the corner, protected from the wind.

"Oh my god." Pam blew out smoke and shook her head. "You know how I had to help close last night? Tony and I went out to smoke, and he just squatted and let out this HUGE fart that went on for too long."

"Really?" I was mentally screaming, instantly excited.

"Yeah!" Pam hit her cigarette and blew out smoke. "Tony is always, always farting, and sometimes it smells like death."

It was the greatest sentence in existence. "Really? At work? I never work with him."

"You will soon."

Another amazing sentence!

Pam continued, "Tony's gonna start opening three days a week."

I held in my gasp. "Cool. He seems awesome."

"He's cool, but he stinks!"

Next time!

We see the extent of Tony's gaseous abilities and deeper connections between Cal and Vince!

[cutemothman]

Thinking about Peggy Blumquist. Her being the catalyst for all the events that happened in season 2. In the last episode, when she's in cuffs in the back of Lou's car, her husband just died, her life is over and she's just trying to explain herself to Lou. Why she did what she did.

It's a lie, okay-- that you can do it all-- be a wife and a mother and this self-made career woman, like there's 37 hours in a day. And then, when you can't, they say it's you. "You're faulty," like-- like-- like you're inferior somehow.

Every man in this series monologues about their time in the war and goes on long tangents, speaking in riddles about some story that loosely relates to the situation at hand. Lou just told Peggy a story about his time in Saigon.

But when Peggy tries to talk about how fucking hard it is for her, Lou interrupts her to say "People are dead, Peggy". He interrupts her.

And he's right. It doesn't matter that she didn't mean for any of this to happen. It happened. But he was talking about Ed protecting his family, as if Ed wasn't just as complicit as Peggy. As if Peggy wasn't also protecting her family.

He says, "It’s the rock we all push. Men. And we call it our burden. But It’s really our privilege."

It's clear that all they see when they look at Peggy is a crazy woman. She obviously suffers from some form of mental illness and is very much a product of her time. With all her magazines stacked in the basement and obsession with self help seminars. She just wants to be able to choose the life that she wants, but she feels trapped.

I'm not defending her actions, but the way that she takes the blame for inciting this war that she had no part in is super interesting. The police see Peggy as the reason that all those men are dead. Why didn't she just drive to the hospital? Why didn't she go to the police? It's so simple to them. When the sheriff is asking her why she didn't drive to the hospital and she says, "You say it like these things happen in a vacuum."

She made a choice. And then another choice and then another until things had spiraled far out of her control. But she didn't make those choices in a vacuum. All of her choices were a result of the place that she was in. Staring down the rest of her life in a small town in Minnesota. Knowing that the second Ed buys the butcher shop, she'll be stuck there forever.

Rye also made a choice, when he decided to shoot all those people. Didn't he start the war, not Peggy? What about the people actually fighting the war? The Gerhardt's and Kansas City. Lou calls Rye the victim. And Rye is a victim, but not in the same way that Peggy is.

No. That’s not fair. Cause I’m a victim too. Was a victim first. Before him.

[boysborntodie]

Greaser Girls headcanons

Angela considered to be very beautiful and very particular about her looks. She's got thick, dark hair, a nice frame and expresive, pretty eyes. Her one insecurity is her nose which is long and hooked

Sylvia calls herself 'a boy's girl' and isn't friends with many girls. She doesn't take much care in her appearance and participates in 'unfeminine' activities (like rodeo and drag races), which others scorn her for

Sandy did love Soda but she also felt very trapped in her life. She'd always been considered a 'good Greaser girl' who doesn't misbehave and knows her place. The older she got, the more dissatisfied and jaded she became in her life

Sandy went to a wild party one night, wanting to explore how other girls (like Sylvia) she knew lived. She flirted with a guy (a bad boy-type, not much like Soda) and one thing led to another. She immediately felt ashamed in the morning but the damage had been done

Angela doesn't like smoking much but only does it because she thinks it looks cool

Evie is mixed race. Her mother's Jewish and Black while her father's has Cherokee roots. They raised her to be in touch with their cultures and she stays with her extended family during the Holidays

Despite Tim getting along with Darry and Ponyboy being friends with Curly, Angela and Soda can't stand each other

Evie actually knows quite a bit about cars (not Steve level but still). Her first proper interaction was at the DX, where she was waiting for dad to refuel their car and saw Steve, who had just started working there, struggling over a car engine. The problem was a quick fix but easy to miss and she corrected him. They befriended each other after that (and started dating a year later)

Sandy's an amazing dancer and it's the one thing that can make her feel truly free and happy

Sylvia and Sandy despise each other. Sandy looks down on Sylvia for being 'that type of girl' (although a part of her is envious of how free and unrestrained Sylvia is) while Sylvia thinks Sandy is pretentious

Funnily enough though, Sandy's best friend, Evie, is one of the only people who is something of friend to Sylvia (not quite because Sylvia doesn't know how to have friends)

Despite not looking super tough, Angela is a vicious fighter and can even take on people much bigger than her. She's also scarily good with knives

Angela doesn't usually have to fight herself tho. She's got two hoodlum brothers as well as the whole Shepard gang backing her. If anyone messes with her, they'll have to answer to them

Sylvia's got five younger siblings and they're the only people in the world who she's truly soft and kind with

Might make a part 2 later idk

[theexaltedbride]

Dead Island 2 Slayers X New Numen Reader. (Female).

You failed to get to the evacuation zones in time. There were just so many zombies around, so much chaos, and the earthquakes damaged the roads, preventing you from taking any of the pre-prepared routes. By the time the military pulled out and set up the quarantine zone, it was already too late. 

You were trapped in Hell-A, and you had no choice but to run, hide, and pray for the storm to pass. Days turned to weeks, and the earthquakes continued, causing power and water to be inconsistent until it shut down completely. You had to survive by moving from house to house, hoping to find enough resources to live just one more day, and not to run into any marauders who might be interested in taking advantage of the situation and a lone woman without a group.

You were pretty lucky at first, none of the infected around you were anything more than rotting Shamblers who could be outpaced by a fast walk or a light jog. But your luck was set to run out, as a Butcher moved into your area, and began stalking you. It could smell your blood, hear it pulsing in your veins, and it wanted to hear the musical rhythm of your heart beating in terror as it slaughtered you. Like a skilled predator, it waited until you were vulnerable, when it came in for the lunge, and you first knew of its presence by being impaled in the side by one of its bone spikes, then by a bite on your face.

You were mauled by several of the infected, tossed about like a ragdoll, bitten into. You only barely escaped with your life by biting the Butcher right back and tearing off its nose. While it was confused and in pain you fled and found an alleyway to recover and think up a better plan, hiding in a dumpster, where the stink of it hid your scent from the Butcher, long enough for the virus to course through your body and begin repairing you. Parts of your body are different now, your eyes are a different color, almost like one of the infected, your jaw feels strong enough to crunch bone (like a dog does), and you feel like you have way more energy than you did before your infection.

Something in your blood responded to the virus, and it began to work with you rather than against you. It called out to others like you, and you could sense them nearby, but so could the Butcher, as it finally chased you out of the dumpster and into the streets, where someone else finally came to your rescue. 

Amy:

-Amy saved you from the butcher by running in with a war cry and a pistol, firing off bullets as fast as she could pull the trigger. While the Butcher was fast, she was even faster, moving like the wind. She ducked and weaved round the Butcher’s strikes, using some old cavalry sword that she’d made sharp with some mods to slice the Butcher up. Once it was dealt with, she focused on getting you to safety, and has been by your side since then.

- Amy has been a great help in getting you used to your new status and keeping your spirits up. She’s had to go through the loss of a leg, and turning that into a positive, as well as the shock of discovering she was a Numen. She knows what you are going through even more than you do, and is always there to empathize with you.

-When Amy trains you she focuses on building up your stamina as much as possible. Even if you have super speed you wont always be able to use it and sometimes being able to outlast an enemy in a fight is more important than being stronger than them.

-Whenever you feel ashamed about your bite and stab scars, Amy will take time to ask you to help her adjust her prosthetic leg as a subtle way of showing she understands, and to show how much she trusts you by letting you help her in that way.

Bruno:

-Bruno showed up by doing one of those action movie slides over the hood of a car and shouting for the Butcher attacking you to “Pick on someone who hits back!”. Bruno brought the hurt on the Butcher with an electrified machete, that sent the monster reeling back and screaming as 1.21 Gigawatts of ‘payback’ flowed through its body. Once it was dead, he used that same electric machete to jumpstart a car and use it to take you back to Emma’s mansion where you could be given first aid.

-While you were recovering and still healing from the Butcher’s attack, Bruno was always there to help you out and had several calming playlists to keep your mind from panicking too much as your body put itself back together and the group slowly introduced you to what they knew about being a Numen.

-Bruno teaches you a lot about gadgets and inventions (almost as much as he does about music and videos) and wants to make sure you always have some trick up your sleeve if you are ever in danger.

-You’re starting to pick up that Bruno goes out of his way t make your music playlists empowering to you or to help you come to terms with being humanity 2.0, but in a good way, more heroic than what the Eschaton Group is like.

Carla:

-Carla came roaring in on one of her fixed up motorcycles when she sensed you in danger. Like something out of an action movie she jumped off the back of the bike and let it slam right into the Butcher, knocking it off its feet, while she pulled out a tricked out mace to smash the Butcher’s head in. Once the threat was dealt with, she put you into a princess carry and ran with you all the way to Emma’s place, kicking zombies to death along the way while constantly talking to you to keep you from going to sleep.

-Carla knows your fast, but she trains you to build up some upper body strength. You can use both speed and strength to get the upper hand on any Butchers who come after you in the future. Carla won’t always be around, but she wants you to be safe.

-Whenever she gets a motorcycle working again, she loves pulling wheelies and showing off that same trick which helped her to save you. Sure she’s wrecked a few bikes, but its worth it for her to see that glimmer in your eyes.

-Carla sometimes struggles to train you as much as she wants during sparring sessions because she doesn’t want to accidentally hurt you.

Dani:

-Dani’s accent was one of the first things you noticed when she came to your rescue. Matched only by the constant cacophony of gunfire from her. She seemed to have guns hidden in hammerspace, as each time a magazine ran dry, she just pulled out a new one and kept on firing, even with how a Butcher seems supernaturally able to block bullets, it wasn’t able to stop every single shot and soon Dani had turned the Butcher into paste, before taking the time to provide you some initial First Aid. 

-Dani comforted you as you were taken back to Emma’s mansion, and you learned that a lot of hard swears can actually be pretty endearing when said with a comforting tone and some genuine care. 

-Dani has put you through a full gun safety course so you can soften up a Butcher (or any other threat) from afar before it can get too close to you, as well as teaching you to swear like a sailor and get yourself hyped up. Don’t get scared, get angry!

-She’s started trying out some different hairstyles to find something which matched your hair to your new Numen eyes, so you wouldn’t have to be afraid of looking different.

Jacob:

-Jacob played the role of the dashing hero out of nowhere, ducking and weaving through the attacks of the Butcher, while sometimes taking hits and managing to turn it around against the Butcher. Once he dispatched it (by turning a feint into a suplex that broke the Butcher’s back) he dropped his normally comedic attitude, and promised you that he’d get you help as he slid his arms under your own and started to pull you towards the mansion. 

-Jacob has always got a kind word or smart comment ready to help lift your spirits up, which proves very useful during training when he teaches you how to fold your body and handle getting hit, and turning it around against an enemy.

-The two of you tend to hang out a lot and just talk about things, a Jacob really impart his devil may care attitude about being a Numen to you. Its just the same as being a regular human but with extra steps.

-When you admitted fear and shame over other people seeing your mutated eyes, Jacob took the moment to gently remove his own sunglasses and show how he has one discolored eye, effectively blind in one eye even after becoming a Numen. He knows a lot about how you feel.

Ryan:

-When Ryan initially found you he was full on using a fake firefighter voice to sound heroic as he fought off the Butcher and eventually stomped the monster’s head in. He then put you into a fireman’s carry and ran with you all the way back to the mansion. Ryan didn’t know much first aid, but he had the strength and stamina to get you back to the mansion for treatment, where he chose to be by your side the entire time.

-It took you a while to learn Ryan’s secret, as he kept up an act of being a real First Responder to keep you calm and feeling safe. It wouldn’t be until after you made a full recovery that he told you the truth.

-Ryan’s training with you has been focused on helping you think on your feet and come up with responses and plans quickly when under attack. He isn’t much of a planner, but when the going gets tough he still manages to keep his head.

-When you both grew to trust one another more, Ryan admitted that he is always afraid. The mask of bravery he wears is an act for everyone else. So he can sympathize with you when you admit you are afraid of Butchers, but he also helps you to learn to mask that fear and keep it behind a mask, until the mask becomes real and the both of you are genuinely brave enough to fight whatever horrors Hell-A throws at you.

General Headcanons:

-The Eschaton Group tries to recruit you into their faction and pull you away from the Slayers. They know you have powers that the rest of your friends don’t, and they want that on their side. They tell you that the age of baseline humans is over. Numen are inherently superior and should rule the world to come. But you recall the fear and pain you endured while you were still a ‘baseline’ human. It pushes you to save others, and use your powers for the better. Great Power comes with Great Responsibility, and those with the means to protect others have a duty to do so.

-You’ve taken to wearing sunglasses to cover up your Numen eyes, so you don’t scare anyone with how different you are. Its even become a bit of a game for everyone to bring you some new sunglasses and see which one works best for you. Sometimes this leads to some very good finds, and other times it leads to hilarity as you are running around Hell-A slaying zombies in the most ridiculous sunglasses your friends could find.

-Your own Numen powers are beginning to develop the more you test them. While the others get things like super strength and rabid fury, you are developing the same kind of regeneration as them mixed with an incredible movement speed. When you trigger it you move faster and smoother than everyone else, its like they are all walking through water or mud while you stroll past them. It’s fast enough you could even dodge the strikes of a Butcher if one were to attack you again. It only lasts about ten seconds, but that is still just enough to finish off a zombie or to pull someone out of danger. 

-The sight of the Butcher infected still sometimes inspires fear in you. But you know you can handle it. You’re a Numen now, you have the power to beat the shit out of these monsters, to save people, and you have friends and a lover with you who have that same power. It will take some time to conquer this fear, but you know you can do it. 

-Since you have other Numen allies to help you master your new powers and status, you’re discovering that it is easier to control your abilities with those who support you and you’re learning it faster than the other Slayers who had to learn it from trial and error. It almost acts as a direct challenge to the ‘Sink or Swim’, method that the Eschaton Group uses.

-Your vision is slowly changing, you can see things, almost as if you can see through walls to pick up on when infected and uninfected are around, its let you get the jump on some of the more dangerous autophage variants out there. 

Bonus: Bruno’s Playlist for you.

-Disturbed “The Curse”.

-Transistor ”She Shines”.  (The one by Supergiant Games)

-Skillet “Feel Invincible”.

-Disturbed “The Light”.

-Karl Sanders “The Elder God Shrine”.

-Matthew Good “Weapon”.

-Matthew Good “Fated”.

[imaginedreamwrite]

Hi!

For sneak peek Saturday(idk if this counts for sneak peek)… I’m super excited about the Chris Evans x Reader fic and 2 scenarios come to mind:

1) it’s very well known Chris gets Anxiety so imagine that happening while he’s trying to get reader into a car and she’s a few months along and the paps are on her. Like she almost fell over because of them. He manages to get her in safely but then she helps him calm down (kinda leads into one of those I’m falling in love with her moments)

2)there was a video I didn’t get a chance to save but it’s Chris telling Dodger it’s time for bed and Dodger grabs his little lion stuffie and runs into the room. Now imagine he does this but instead of running off into Chris’ room he runs into reader’s room and lays with his head on her lap and Chris just stands at the door admiring his family!

You don’t have to use either of these but I’ve been thinking about it all day 😂

Why not both? Chris gets protective and anxious:

The doctors office seemed bright and airy, it was made to give you the most possible level of comfort within reasonable circumstances. You laid back against the bed, your head turned and your eyes glued to the screen as the doctor moved the ultrasound transducer against your belly.

“Congratulations, Chris.” The doctor spoke to him, gaze skittering between you and the famous actor, a tight smile on the doctors face.”

“Look,” Chris leaned in, transfixed by the image on the screen, “absolutely beautiful.”

You studied him, watching his emotions change and the egregious joy in his eyes. He leaned in and reached for your hand, his lips parted as he mumbled something to himself.

“I hope you’re ready prepared for a crazy shift in your life.” The doctor had pressed the transducer further into your belly, a wider smile on his face. “You’re not just having one baby.”

“Two?” Your heart stopped, your hand squeezing his tightly. “Two babies?”

“Twins? Really?” Chris’ smile widened and he laughed in excitement and disbelief. “Two babies…”

“So, this went well.” The doctor was starting to wipe your belly, cleaning you up and putting his equipment away. “We’ll see you in about 4-8 weeks for another sonogram, and congratulations again.”

There was a kind of haze that fell over the room, a silence that was thick with anticipation. Chris was still holding your hand, he was subtly brushing his thumb across your knuckles while he seemed to be trapped in his own mind.

“So…” you addressed him, pulling him from his thoughts, “how are you feeling about it?”

“I’ve always wanted to be a dad.” He exhaled in a huff and finally let your hand go to grab his coat, and then he swept in and helped you stand. “Twins…”

“We should…get a sonogram for your mom.”

“Ma,” he grinned boyishly, walking with you out of the private office toward the front of the building, “is never gonna believe it.”

At the front, you met the bodyguards he had with him, and even before you had left the building you could see the chaos of press waiting for you. The crowds waiting for the peek of Chris was already starting to affect him, and you had made a note of the way his nostrils had begun to flare.

“Are you okay?” You questioned him, studying the flash of his eyes and the slight clench of his hands.

“Stick close to me. Keep your head down and don’t let them get to you.” His bodyguards had flanked Chris, and he had grabbed your hand as a measure to keep you close and to keep himself calm.

“When you’re ready…” The door was opened and the chaos had hit your ears, the raised voices and shouting that was meant to garner his attention.

“Chris! Chris! You wanna stop and take a picture?” “When’s the due date?” “What are you expecting?” “Can we see the sonogram?” “Can we expect a marriage?”

Every step was anxious inducing, every shout and raised voice had hit your ears. You had winced and tried pulling back in retaliation and shock from the moment, an action which was met by Chris pulling you even closer. He slipped an arm around your waist and you angled you closer, leading you to the SUV that was waiting for you two.

The door was opened and you had both gotten into the safety of the vehicle while the press was still yelling and attempting to get your picture. Chris had slid over to the other side and raised his hand, covering his mouth with his palm while staring headily out the window. He was silent, he was struck silent and you could feel the anxiousness radiating off of him.

“Chris, are you okay? That was…a lot.” Your fear of the press and the chaos that surrounded you had met his anxiety.

“It never gets any easier.” In this moment he was not the confident actor you knew he was, the man who had stolen hearts of thousands if not millions.

He was a man who was tired of the press being in his face. He wanted privacy, he wanted freedom to live his life without having questions thrown at him while he was leaving one place to head to another.

“I was scared too.” Your voice shook, your bottom lip quivered.

Chris lowered his arm before he rest his hand upon yours in the leather seat, gently grasping and squeezing yours. It was an act of solidarity, neither of you was alone without the other.

2. Dodger goes to bed, but not with Chris

“Bed time, bub.” Chris tapped his thigh, stirring Dodger from his sleep and beckoning him to go to bed. “Grab your lion. Get your lion.”

At his word, Dodger had jumped from the couch and trotted toward his lion stuffy, grabbing the animal and packing it in his mouth.

Good boy, good boy Dodger.” Chris watched him trot with his lion, his tail waving back and forth with excitement at the prospect of sleep. His nails clicked against the floor and his paw thud lightly as he headed toward bed, but not where Chris expected.

Chris followed him down the hall toward his bedroom, only Dodger didn’t follow like he expected. Instead Dodger had turned and moved toward your room, nudging the door with his nose once and then he looked back at Chris.

“Yeah, bud?” He laughed under his breath, following along and then slowly opening the door to let Dodger in.

Chris leaned against the door and crossed his arms, watching Dodger jump on the bed with his lion. He had curled up against your side and rest his chin against your baby bump, whining softly.

“You excited, bub?” Chris slowly inched into the room, watching you sleeping, and Dodger sleeping beside you. “Me too. I can’t wait to be a daddy.”

“We’re gonna be a family.” Chris reached his hand out to scratch his head, affectionately stealing his attention for a moment. “Twins, dodge. We’re gonna have twins.”

Chris rubbed his head one last time before he leaned over and grabbed the edge of the blanket, pulling it over his shoulder. He draped it properly and then stepped away from you and Dodger, taking a moment to study the two of you before he stepped out of the room while leaving the door open in case Dodger wanted out.

[foxes-that-run]

Timelines and Themes

Timelines

Timeline Tag

20 May

28 September

Dates by Month

Harry's house

Fine Line

Midnights

Better master posts :)

Timeline Masterpost - fab timeline and photos

Haylor Master post with timelines, theories and more!

Haylor Master post with great Folklore links

Fabulous timeline with photos

this 2012-2014 timeline with photos galore

Another Twitter timeline 2013-14

Taylor-on-your-dash covers making 1989 up to May 2014 and making red - WAGBT, Savan and Maroon 5

Playlists

My Haylor playlist

Another man mix tape summary and playlist

Other

They only talk in song

20 times it was always Haylor

20 and 7

Notebook references

Larry

Burton and Taylor

Olivia benson

About Joe

Matty Healy

April 29

Reputation has two parts

William Bowery

Winding Wheel

Ed on being real friends

A relationship as muse

Harry complimenting Taylor and Taylor saying they’re friends

Themes

Trapped by fame and love theme

Flamingos more flamingos 🦩

Swans

Hallways

Colours

Bleeding

Doors

Cars and Driving

Fools

Flying, planes and passports

Trains

Coffee and Kitchens

Wine, Drugs, Antidote, Addiction

Madness, Crazy and Mind

Robbers and Crime

Rose Ring, Thorn and rose References

Stitches

Take my hand

Home

Lighting and camera flashes

Paris

Paid the price theme

Pages, writing, story

School as a metaphor for One Direction

1, 2, 3 Counting

Lightening and camera flashes

Jewellery and Tattoos

Harry's Rings

2024 mystery ring

Temper Trap Tattoo, Arm Lyrics and meeting in 2011

Harry and Lt non-Matching Tattoos

Butterfly and handshake tattoos

Cross Tattoo

Infinity Symbols

Taylors braids and chains

Taylor Angel and evil eye rings

Harry's Heart Tattoo and 70 times he kissed it

Songs performed by Other artists

Maybe Someday

I don’t wanna live forever

Eyes open

Renegade - Big Red Machine Feat Taylor

The Alcott - The National Feat Taylor

Head > heels - Ed Sheeran

Tenerife Sea - Ed Sheeran

Still the one - Shiana Twain

Unreleased songs

Need - TS Unreleased

Him - HS unreleased

Coco - hs unreleased

I'm not happy - HS unreleased

Talk, HS unlreleased

Pop tart - HS unreleased

Anna and Baby Honey, HS unreleased

Complicated Freak - HS Unreleased

Super Pretty - HS unreleased

Hunger - HS unreleased

Lately - HS unreleased voice note

Part of Me - HS unreleased

California - HS unreleased

Jesus Christ Happy New Year - HS Unreleased

Too much sauce - HS Unreleased

Make my Day - Harry's House unreleased

[frangipanilove]

Carol’s Blue Ford Mustang (or "Consumed Part 2")

TWDDD 1x6 Coming Home ended with a scene of Carol searching for Daryl. Personally I’m thrilled to see Carol again, partly because I love her (I know, controversial...) but also because she's tied up in so much of the symbolism we see around Beth. In this case, it's the hints of a "Consumed Part 2" that particularly thrills me.

I had already seen a spoiler pic of Carol’s stunt woman in a Blue Ford Mustang, so I knew going into the episode that there was a chance we'd see Consumed-related symbolism. And holy moly I was not disappointed!

I’ll do a post on license plates eventually, because that’s a rabbit hole in its own right. But for now, let’s appreciate that the license plate on Carol’s blue Ford Mustang, 502AV2A, points directly towards TWD 5x2, which is the episode when Carol and Daryl left searching for Beth. And when they did, it was in a car with this license plate: LC6M187. Keep this in mind, I’ll get back to it.

I’ve touched on the significance of the cars in TWDU in posts before (here and here), and the news of a blue Ford Mustang made me super happy. We’ve only seen it in a short scene, so I won’t expand on it too much, but I do want to say a couple of words about why it thrills me so intensly.

First of all, there's the role it plays in the scene. With Carol behind the wheel, it comes up behind Daryl’s bike, it’s one eyed (tape over the right headlight = Sirius symbolism), and it took a bullet. So plenty of interesting stuff already, parallels and retellings of what happened in 5x6 Consumed and 5x8 Coda. Then we see Carol knock out the guy driving Daryl’s motorcycle, and we see him wake up. He wakes up in the trunk of the car.

And if that's not enough, he's left in there for an unknown length of time. Time will tell if Carol returns to let him out. I think she will, but it doesn't really matter.

All of these things are variations of a sequence of events myself and many other TD’ers theorize possibly happened to Beth after Coda.

So, why is the blue Ford Mustang important?

First of all, it’s blue (here).

Second, it’s a Mustang.

I talked about Mustangs and horse symbolism in Trunk Resurrection 2.

We saw a yellow Ford Mustang in TWD 2x1 What Lies Ahead, when the group got stuck in a traffic jam on the highway. This was around the time when Sophia ran off. They left supplies for her on the Mustang, along with a note about how they’ll come by every day. We later learned that Sophia likely died soon after running off, but had she been alive long enough to get back to the car, the supplies would have saved her, and TF would have come by eventually. The Mustang represents a hope and an opportunity to survive even when the odds are against you.

Take a look at the license plate of the yellow Ford Mustang from 2x1:

Yup, it’s the same as on the car that Carol and Daryl used to search for Beth. LC6M187.

A Mustang is a horse, which means it tied to the Buttons symbolism.

It is also tied to the scene from 5x11 Them, when Maggie found a car with a trapped walker in the trunk. We saw a sea horse key ring attached to the car keys Maggie used to open the trunk, and we know that walker was supposed to remind her of Beth, because it was confirmed on The Talking Dead.

We also knew it was a callback to Beth because of this scene from 4x11 Still:

And finally, there's this guy. Daryl's brother Merle. Disappeared in season one, presumed dead, only to return in season 3.

Here seen enjoying a drink before making his final sacrifice, drawing walkers in to ambush the Governor rather than handing Michonne over, as was the original plan. There are many paralells between Beth and Merle, and interestingly, the license plate of the car he drove when leading the walkers to ambush the governor looks familiar:

It's LC6M187 again. Same as on the yellow Ford Mustang where TF left supplies for Sophia. Same as on the car Daryl and Carol drove when following the Grady car with the white cross. Merle sacrificed himself to save Michonne and TF.

Carol's blue Ford Mustang from TWDDD 1x6 has a licence plate that directly points back to 5x2 Strangers, when they left to search for (and eventually found) Beth. The license plate points us to 5x2 for a reason.

We're about to see “Consumed Part 2”, and again, they will find Beth.

[northernlightalaska]

How they would ask you to prom!

WARNING BAD PICKUP PROM LINES (the gangs lines are in bold!)

WARNING BAD SPELLING WARNING BAD WORDS!

Also I'll do part 2 with the Shepards+ the some of the socs tomorrow

Darry

You were getting ready to cheer for the football game it was about 2 weeks before prom then darry tapped you on the shoulder

"hey y/n"

"hey what's up?"

"wanna tackle prom with me?"

Y/n laughed a tiny bit

"yes dar I will go to prom with you"

"oh thank gosh Oh uh I got you flower by the way! oh and those candies you told me about!"

he was def stressing since he needed it be prefect (sodapop gave him the pick up line)

He spent at least 30 minutes trying to pick out the best flowers

Sodapop

(just image he didn't drop for the plot please 😭)

Him and Steve definitely practiced for hours

"hey uh will you uh"

"dang it soda! get your head in the game she ain't go with you if don't act with bravery!"

"Oh shut your trap Steve you ain't got no date at all"

"hey!"

-⛸-Later-⛸-

"hey Y/n wait up!"

soda walked up to as you were getting ready to get in your car

"oh hey soda whats up?"

Y/n smiled at him and he took a deep breath

"You know since your such a bright star maybe you should light up my night at prom?"

"Oh sure soda! I'd love to go to prom with you!"

Soda flashed his a million dollar smile

"well great! can't wait to see your dress I bet it'll look great on you"

"awe thank you soda! You'll look great too now see ya!"

"yeah,yeah see ya!"

-⛸-Later-⛸-

"Yo dude she said yes!"

"hell yeah man!"

add in high five

Ponyboy

He went to darry to ask for some advice since he didn't know what to do at all

"hey dar.."

"yeah pony whats up?"

"I wanna uh ask out this girl to prom but I don't know how... can you help me..?"

"oh yeahs sure ponyboy I forgot it was prom season"

Darry gave him the run down about flowers,what candies to get and maybe a little extra gift

-⛸-Later-⛸-

You were at the park watching the sunset and ponyboy taped your arm

"hm? oh hey pony oh whats with the flowers?"

"oh uhmm I got these before since I wanted to ask you something.."

"yeah what is it..?"

"I think it'd be a real page turner if we went to prom..?'

"I loved to go to prom with you pony!" *y/n smiled*

"Oh uhm I got you that book you were talking about"

"thank you pony boy I love it"

He was screaming in his pillow because he said the pick up two bit told him and two-bit started to laugh his ass off when he found out pony said the pick up line

Dallas

Now did he have almost all the girls in Tulsa wanting him yeah? but he'd got bored of most of most of them and thought he'd try this prom date thing.. and he wanted to at least do I good so he bought (stole) you a pack of cigarettes and some cd he was pretty sure you liked and wrote on the inside of the cigarette box to ask you (a lot of effort for dally)

-⛸-Later-⛸-

You and him were at a rodeo and he thought he'd get over with and ask you

"Hey Y/n"

"Yeah dal whats up?"

*Dallas handed you pack of cigarettes and the cd*

"oh thanks dal! but it ain't my birthday yet..?"

"just look inside the cig box!"

"Okay man jeez!"

*y/n opened the box and read it*

"Oh uhm Yeah I'd love to go with ya Dallas you ain't pranking me right?"

"No y/n I ain't pranking It was hard work to stea- I mean but that stuff!"

Johnny

he needed to ask ponyboy and Dallas for help since he didn't know what to do

"Guys what do I do..?"

"man do you just want us to beat up then make her say yes?"

"No! Dallas none of you are beating her up!!"

"Well I think You should pick her some flowers and-"

"LAMEEEEE BOOOOO"

-⛸-Later-⛸-

You were laying in the lot waiting for johnny since you two usually hung out at the lot

*johnny hide the flowers he picked in his jean jacket pocket*

"Oh hey johnny thought you got busy"

"nope just lost track of time"

*johnny sat next to y/n*

"so uh you know how proms coming up right?"

"Oh yeah my families super excited for me since I get to go this year"

"So since Proms coming up I was wondering if you could go to the dance with me? and maybe we could go to the movies ro the dinner atfer..?"

*johnny took out the flowers and handed them to you*

"oh.. johnny yes of course! I'd love to go to prom with you! and I'd love to go the dinner after prom we could get some sundaes or something at the dinner!"

Y/n smiled and johnny and so did johnny

Two-Bit

"heyy y/n!"

"Oh hey two whats up"

"Maybe you should not be a meanie and go with this-"

*y/n laughed*

"I wasn't done with the joke yet!"

"sorry sorry I heard you telling it to Dallas earlier and had to laugh at it sorry sorry keep going!"

*loud dramatic two-bit sigh*

"will you go to prom with me?"

"Yes I will two then we can watch mickey after"

"HELL YEAH WHOOOOO"

Steve randle

(guys he didn't drop out your crazy talking)

he was practicing with sodapop and made sure he was going to get everything right

"man I'm so sacred what if she says no? what id she says no!"

"steve she won't say no I mean look at you! you look so tuff man!"

He made ponyboy write you a wrote so he could put in in his toolbox to ask you out to prom

-⛸-Later-⛸-

"hey Y/N uh pass me that wrench!"

"oh sure stevie here ya go!"

"hey can you go in my tool box and uh get me the rag outta their Please?"

"Oh sure I guess"

Y/n opened the tool box and saw the note and read it

_dear y/n please to go prom with me if yes say so if not you never saw this note and you've never saw this! Xo steve!_

"Oh here's the rag steve and yes I will go to prom with you I think theirs a drag race going on the day after and maybe we could go?"

"Oh yeah we should do that!" Later

"YEAHH WOOO SHE SAID YES I'M ON TOP OF THE WORLD YEAHHHH!!"

"I KNEW SHE"D SAY YES TO YOU MAN GIVE ME SOME!"

High five!

[scoobysfriend]

This is my ideal scooby gang. Explanation and scooby doo character analysis under the cut

I think Scooby Doo is a character driven show actually. Every time there is a mystery, and everytime we aren't always interested in what the mystery is but how the characters investigate it. Most scooby doo episodes and movies aren't about the mysteries themselves but are about the character shenanigans the gang get up to while solving that mystery.

The best way to possibly ever write fred is make him laios but with an ascot and for traps instead of food. You don't even have to change the monster part! A heart of gold and a specialized skill set. Can fred make a phone call? no. Can fred turn all the wheels on the mystery machine into suction cups so it can go up a wall to chase a tentacled bird demon? yes. He must also be kind, all the scooby characters must be, but fred most especially. Plus trap making is such a niche hobby, and mystery incorporated explored this a little bit, but doing that even more is great. Funny enough I also really loved mystery incorporated's stance on fred's family life. Being raised by someone who doesn't understand who you are fundamentally and wants you to change, poetic cinema. I also want Red Herring to be Fred's childhood friend turned nemesis turned weird I know you better than I know myself thing, my password is your birthday and yet we don't talk there's this distance. Like when kids are young and they bring their friends over to their house, and that friend never really leaves cause they aren't getting parented at home? That's red herring bringing fred to his house, and make his mom a mechanic and suddenly so much stuff fits. It also explains his mechanic skill. Traps and cars are different things. Fred is a crazy inventor who emotionally bonded to the mystery machine and learned mechanics from someone who was the closest thing he ever got to a parent. Fred is a crazy smart inventor. He makes traps and contraptions and rube goldberg machines for the thrill of it. We call a man boring who probably has twelve bear traps in his bedroom and he's so confused on why people don't want to live this way so more for him he guesses, but that also means he always wants to share it with his friends!!!!!!! He's a huge gentle soul that loves his people and his mysteries and his traps. In that order.

i think daphne should get to have a character arc actually?? There's been enough iterations of all the scooby doo characters that if you just mix and match them you have character development. She should start as danger prone daphne always getting in trouble. Then she should decide she doesn't want to be the one getting saved all the time. She starts learning skills to get her out of danger first lockpicking cause whats new scooby doo was my scooby growing up, then learning martial skills to the point where instead of getting rescued she is the one running into danger to rescue others. Someone who protects and never shies away from trouble. I also think it would be cute to make it so she's really into fashion from the 1960s, so that you could modernize the world but keep the old designs cause the gang wants to go matchy matchy with daphne. She does love fashion and knows about it, but just saying "loves fashion" is very 2 dimensional. Saying Daphne loves vintage clothes and using those clothes in the modern era especially clothes from the 60s opens a lot of opportunities to explain why the whole gang is going to this super duper spooky estate sale, Daphne heard this woman had an extensive collection. It also lets the gang have cool outfits and character models. On top of that by having the gang match Daphne, shows that she loves them enough tom share this part of herself with them and that they love her enough to be a part of it with her. Daphne also is almost always the backbone of the gang. Fred, shaggy, and scooby would give a stranger the shirt off their backs, velma and fred don't always recognize what is socially expected so can take advantage of because they are trying to fit in an uncomfortable social situation, but Daphne? Daphne is a fiery redhead who loves her friends more than breathing, no you can't have fred fix that for you, no you can't say that to shaggy and no velma won't do your homework. We are also bringing scooby in with us, if you don't like it that sucks. This combination of traits is stuff she already had, in one iteration or another, and gives a solid character. Also making her the youngest daughter of like twelve in a wealthy family slaps.

Velma, oh velma, JelloApocalypse put it best "A bad Velma is the worst thing that happened to Scooby-doo". Velma often suffers from being the workhorse of the narrative. Donatello of the tmnt often suffer similarly. Velma I feel like, even in character, should reflect this. Velma is the smartest person in the room, and due to her knowing this, she often feels responsible for doing something with that knowledge. The gang takes a lot of that pressure off. Velma is not a master of every single science, but she is one of the most gifted researchers alive. Yet, she is also compassionate, she feels responsible, because when seeing something go wrong and be awful, she believes that she could change it. She, maybe the most, benefits from having the scooby gang all together, because they give her permission to have fun. Velma will see a bad guy and already be twelve steps down in her thought process on how this will affect the carnival's income, while shaggy yells that they need to "Run, Man!". Velma is one of those characters where you could imagine her being very successful in dusty stacks for the rest of her life, but she gets color added to it, and first hand knowledge, by going out with the gang. She's curious to a fault, and wants to know about everything, and often thinks she can just find out from books and the internet, and is often right! But is just as often wrong! Velma will be twelve review articles deep trying to find the best place to eat and shaggy will say I know a guy and they'll be eating out of an illegal taco boat moored in the middle of the harbor. Or velma will be trying to make what is objectively the best decision in a given situation when Dpahne will come in and ask "Why are you in this situation in the first place, let's leave" or velma will be curious about the reproductive cycle of the three toed sugar cane frog and fred will show up with a cooler, night vision goggles and two plane tickets. The gang give velma the freedom to make choices without worrying about which one is the "right" one. This also extends to mysteries, because velma wants to prove that ghosts and aliens and werewolves and everything exist, she wants to prove it so so so badly, but she's been told intellectually her whole life that it's a load of hogwash, but with the gang, they all go get to prove if it's hogwash or not together and have fun doing it! Even when it's all fake, it's a puzzle, it's so much fun! And this is what makes Marcie Fleach such a good foil. Marcie is also gifted, beyond gifted, in robotics, but she doesn't have anyone to get her out of her own head. So Marcie is stuck in her own dark thoughts trying to make it work while velma is trying a sandwich that scooby made that has circus peanuts in it. There can be no knowledge without experience and that is what velma really proves. Her research skills provide such a strong base for the gang, and her observational skills are second to none, she might not always know what to do with those observations but that's what she can talk to the gang for. This responsibility she feels to the world and the people living in it and even just the ideals of the truth, all form this core facet of her personality that she gets to explore and uphold in a fun way through the solving of mysteries. She has a book for everything and a try anything thrice while documenting the results for science kind of attitude. Plus this pull between what she has been told it right, what she thinks academically is right and what she feels is right, all fighting in her head for dominance makes for great character motivation. Like in where's my mummy she dresses up as the bad guy because she thinks it's the right thing to do, and she's shown by the narrative to be right! Also velma should get to, and be required to, get up to as many goofy shenanigans as the other members of the scooby gang. They all take turns being the straight man and on particullarly goofy days, it's scooby.

SHAGGY IS A GODDAMN ANTHROPOLOGY MAJOR. And a wizard, but we have known that one. Shaggy is a nice witty guy, who likes helping people, but even more than that he likes learning about people. Like, he's the kinda guy who ten minutes after meeting him you bring him home to your family and they adopt and feed him. He's charming and snarky and a good listener. He's often a coward, but he's brave for scooby. Scooby will be scared out of his mind and so will shaggy, but shaggy will crack a joke so scooby will laugh and scooby will dance so shaggy will laugh. They are best friends. Shaggy also loves old horror flicks, the cheesier the better and video games that people don't think are very good. Shaggy as a character is like a celebration of things everyone trashes put into a lovable package. Shaggy is a coward who runs away and eats too much and loves b grade horror flicks and trashiest video games ever produced. Shaggy is the one who wants to go to the puppet museum or accordion camp or the world's most giant ball of yarn. There's this love and wonder toward everything in the world that many of the iterations of scooby doo miss. Shaggy wants to go and solve the mystery as much as any of the gang, because he loves every part of it. If shaggy is not scared, he is smiling and laughing and engaging with the locals and going dumb skits and reading comic books. Shaggy will work as a stage hand or carnival ring master or manager of a famous doll customizer's youtube channel for a summer because he likes hanging out with folks and likes the food. And people notice this trait about him and respond in kind. There's this curiosity that all the gang needs to share, that always gets surgically removed from shaggy and I don't know why. It's just that shaggy's curiosity is more about fun happy things. Like even in ghoul school, there were monsters and he was scared, but he realized they were people and immediately tried to be friend to them. Maybe it's my own bias, but if shaggy went to college he'd be an anthropology major, because wanting to know everything about people and eat their food and hang out with folks eternally, that is applied cultural anthropology lmao.

(Also i could do a whole thing on how the members of the scooby gang each represent a different branch of applied anthropology. Scooby as primatology, Fred as biological anthropology/Forensics, Velma as archeology, Daphne as linguistics, Shaggy as cultural anthropology, another day, another day.)

Finally last and certainly not least. Scooby Dooby Doo. The dog, the myth, the legend. It's really interesting to talk about scooby and the way he evolved, originally scooby didn't have that many words. He was like a parrot, had a certain number of set phrases but had to pantomime the rest. I like scooby talking, I like knowing his thoughts, but that pantomime. I'm so irrationally obsessed with it. I really think we need to bring it back. So much of his slapstick comedy and personality is removed when you removed that. Scooby isn't making quips, scooby is dressing as a cancan dancer while shaggy's thar barman and making the evil chicken ghost blush so much it bends over backward to buy them a drink that he throws in it's face so they can run again. Scooby has so much emotional intelligence and cares so deeply for the gang, to reduce him to a shaggy clone is a crime. Scooby has that classic dog mentality, Shaggy is his boy. His best friend and his everything, if scooby could go everywhere with shaggy he would and wait he does! Scooby wants to go on adventures, and go with his people, and for scooby an adventure could be a trip to the dog park or bowling alley or solving a why ghost pirates are attacking their cruise ship. And of course scooby's scared! He's a scaredy cat! He'll jump and yipe and be afraid, but he'll stick by his people even if he is afraid. He provides such tension relief and emotional solace, he is an emotional support animal. Anytime the gang is stressed or worried or sad or anything there is scooby doo! Either feeling it right along side you or comforting you through it, like that one scene in little miss sunshine when the kid has a breakdown cause he's colorblind and won't be able to fly and then gets comforted by that little girl. Scooby is that little girl. I really cannot emphasize enough how loyal scooby is, and there is no better illustration of that than scrappy. Scrappy was just a puppy but he thought his uncle scooby was the bravest dog in the whole world, and that's the thing scrappy never saw any different!! Scrappy would picka fight with a monster or someone bigger than him and everytime, without fail, there scooby would be to pull him out of it. Scooby is a loyal beyond all other things, even beyond his fear, and has an emotional breadth that can only come from not only being the heart of the show but the heart of his little family too! And shaggy is his best friend!!!!!!!! They do everything together and he loves him so much!!!! And sure he's clumsy, but so is daphne, and sure he can get jealous, but so can velma, and sure he's a coward but so is shaggy! Scooby does this thing where whenever he is there, everything is a little better, the sun a little brighter, the avocado toast a little more scrumptious, and he's smiling and cheering and so then is everyone else. I also thought of a hilarious bit, where since scooby is a dog and they like eating all the time they keep running into stuff that is poison for dogs so shaggy can't share it with scooby and he begs with the biggest possible eyes, and rests his head on shaggy's lap and shaggy feels so bad that he gets three scooby snacks and the bacon from fred's plate.

Really though. These are all goofball young folks who like solving mysteries together and traveling together and bonding over random activities. They love each other, they are all best friends, and it would be relatively easy to give them all character arcs based upon things that previously happened to them.

Fred as this guy, getting recognized for his achievements and hobbies even if they aren't what is considered normal. All his friends hyping up his most complicated trap or cheering when he makes the mystery machine a boat or being willing to tell his automatic breakfast machine. That transition from hiding everything about yourself to showing a little bit and then a little more and the relief each time from being accepted fully!

Daphne as the spoiled youngest daughter of a wealthy family to damsel in distress to danger prone Daphne to being the emotional backbone of the time to as many skills as a bard to having enough skills to protect herself to throwing herself into danger with these skills she's acquired to help other people.

Velma as this cloistered researcher always trying to make the 'right' decision and having her open up about her desires and fears, and what she wants to research and investigate, where she starts investigating and having fun and experiencing all these things till she is this well of knowledge and uses that well of knowledge to have fun and help people

Shaggy who drifts from group of people to group of people, finally having a group to call his own. Getting to stay with people, and have them really learn him and really express himself. Building up confidence, and if you believe the wizard shaggy theory like I do, using magic as a metaphor for that and having him come into his own as a powerful wizard. Or even just having him come into his own as a masterful people person or as an excellent chef or as a world class detective or all of the above. Letting shaggy acknowledge his skills and his growth in them and letting him be proud.

Scooby would also reflect shaggy. Scooby with his trust issues, opening up to someone who wasn't just shaggy. Being supported by others and supporting them in turn. Being understood and listened to. Having someone tell the hotel front desk, no scooby is coming inside, no you do not get an opinion and if you do we can take our business elsewhere. This relationship with other people making him braver, and happier, and bouncier, and sillier. Having fun with everyone you love always!

You fools! The whole time Scooby doo was about love and hanging out with your friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And how no matter how evil or weird or scary everything is, you can figure it out together!!!!!!!!!