#aaaand this is the last one of the 4 ship challenge!

[pillow-boi]

After the battle 🫣

[foxorian]

Update 2019 to Today

If you don’t follow me on other platforms, here’s a quick update as to what happened with me over the last few years: a fast recap.

In 2019 I moved from Boston to Los Angeles! It was a big, tiring and expensive move, but a necessary one in order to jump to a career I actually wanted. I love my home city of Boston, but the opportunities for artists just weren’t there --- and I had student debt to pay off.

I went to Lightbox Expo in 2019 and got a little weirded out by it, but was able to drop off my portfolio in a few studio booths. A few moths later I was contacted by Netflix Animation to potentially start work on a new show being produced by Alex Hirsch. I took an art test, completed it successfully, and was hired full time as a background designer for Inside Job.

(You can check out the work I did for the show here!)

Starting my career on Inside Job was like boot camp. Thrown into the deep end, learn fast and get things done. It was crazy, but I couldn’t have asked for a better first job in animation. The team I worked with was great, I was really enthusiastic about the show, and I’m really proud of the work I made for it. (Part II just went live on Inside Job today! I need to update my portfolio with work I did for those episodes too. We worked on Part I and II at the same time in 2020.)

After Inside Job wrapped, I was contacted by TItmouse to do some work ofr the upcoming animation anthology for Amazon “The Boys: Diabolical.”

I was selected to do a bunch of design work for the final episode based on my illustration style, as this episode was more anime-like in approach. As being one of the only background artists on that episode, it was another big step up of a challenge to tackle the look of the episode more or less as I saw fit. It involved a lot of industrial environments with loads of damage needed lol. It was a quickie, but helped introduce me to Titmouse as a client.

Almost right after The Boys, I was contacted by Titmouse again to do some freelance for the season 2 finale of Star Trek Lower Decks. This was honestly not a show that was on my radar that I wanted to work on, but work is work! I took it on, smashed it, and they offered me a full time position for BG Designer on Season 3 coming back later that year.

(You can see some of the work I did for Lower Decks here!)

Working for Lower Decks has been awesome -- the show has a wide variety of environments, genres, and concepts to draw from. While Inside Job and The Boys were more consistent (urban office-like places vs industrial etc,) Lower Decks is ALL OVER the place. You’d think it’d just be a bunch of interior shots of the ship -- but no, alien cities, alien planets, outer space, space stations, science fiction technology, natural environments, you name it we need to draw it. Season 3 was a blast to do work for, and we were able to bring in a lot of our own design sensibilities to the show to bump up the art quality. Season 3 just concluding airing at the end of October, and if you watched it I hope you enjoyed it!

I’m currently working on Season 4 of Lower Decks and it’s every bit as entertaining to work for as season 3. Here’s hoping it comes back for season 5, (aaaand looks like I’ll be going back to Netflix after Lower Decks wraps for even more future work!)

It’s been a BUSY last few years for me, I’ve made more art in the last 2 years than I have before probably combined. -- And it’s been 100% work from home. A little strange to start a new career and not meet any of the awesome people you normally would have been hanging out with every day in a studio, but hopefully sooner than later that might finally be changing.

[moonlit-imagines]

Headcanons for being an Avenger from outer space

Avengers x reader

warnings:

a/n: this isn’t great but like im down for some avengers hc requests

prompt:

you weren’t exactly accepted on earth the moment you got there

but it wasn’t long before the avengers spotted you

“state your name and your business here” -tony

“wait, stark, just a moment! are you a [alien species]?” -thor

“...my name is y/n, i had nowhere else to go. and yes, i am [alien species]”

i mean, this would be much cooler if the avengers hadn’t already had a bad run-in with the chitauri army

but at least you weren’t trying to destroy any part of earth

“why don’t you come with us for a while? you might be safer in our custody” -cap

you were very uncomfortable with that, but you believed that whatever you were running from couldn’t get you if you stayed with “earth’s mightiest heroes”

and that you were...sort of

the bounty hunters that were on your trail, they didn’t know much about the avengers

so they were dumb enough to strike first

luckily, the avengers took a liking to you

“this is for messing with our new friend!” -tony as he straight up fries one of these goons

you seemed to fight well with them

it made them want to keep you around more than they wanted clint

“having fun, y/n?” -nat

“honestly, yes! i’ve never kicked ass in a group before!”

“i felt the same way on my first mission with these guys” -nat

“wait...is this a mission?”

“well, yeah? what’d you think it was, chess?” -nat

“what? what’s chess?”

oh, my god, this was like thor all over again, it was gonna be great

once the battle was over, they had a question to ask you

but before that...

“did any of you kill the leader?” -you

“which one was the leader?” -sam

“the one with...with the face” *puts clawed hand in front of face for effect*

“thanks, that was really specific” -sam

“you know, he’s got...” *puts fingers near face* “tentacles?”

“you couldn’t say that first?” -tony

“i didn’t know if they were called tentacles here”

okay, that was fair

at that moment the mf hopped out and you pushed clint out of the way so that he didn’t get shot. he said “ow” :( but u were too busy tackling a fellow alien

“you let the rest of those hunters know that they shouldn’t even think about coming after me, are we clear?”

“you’re sparing me?”

“don’t be too flattered, you’re nothing but a messenger to me” *shoots him in the arm*

okay that was a power move

as you kicked this bounty hunter back into his ship, the avengers crew reapproached

“got any plans now that you’ve taken care of your little ‘issue?’” -cap

“you know, i haven’t really thought that far ahead”

“well, if you’re up for it, the avengers would love to have you” -nat

you couldn’t have agreed faster lmaoo

the government didnt like you much

the human population actually wasn’t too fond of you either

but the avengers wouldn’t let anyone touch you

thor made it his own mission to show you all the new stuff that he had discovered on earth

“and these are pop tarts!!” -thor

im talking animals, snacks, music, and more

and dont even get me started on parties

no actually i will

“so, youre from space? list 3 species i’ve never heard of before” -random partygoer

“well, how would you know im not making them up if you’ve never heard them before?”

not much of a comeback for that

you’d only answer questions that weren’t stupid

like “how far away is your home planet?” or “did you have any friends or family?” or “what other planets have you been on?”

and you had a lot of questions too

“what is pizza and where can i get it?”

“you’ve never had pizza? oh, we have to change that” -tony

“what is it though?”

as you went on more missions, you got a better feel for how to work with teammates

especially when they had such different skillsets

“wanda, would you give me a boost?”

“with pleasure!” -wanda

“why didn’t you ask me? i could have flewn you!” -rhodey

“it just feels cooler when wanda launches me, but i’ll let you have your turn later”

“y/n, we should have coffee after this!” -thor

“WHATS THAT?!?!”

you always got excited when offered new things

*muttering* “what the fuck” -you

“OKAY, WHO THE HELL TAUGHT Y/N CURSE WORDS???” -tony

“hm. i wonder” -nat

thor brought you to asgard once

it was pretty. (pretty wild, that is)

“maybe you can take me to your planet one day!”

“i’m pretty sure i’m wanted on my home planet, but i’d love a challenge!”

okay maybe he was ur new bff

“so, y/n, how long is your species’ life span?” -bruce

“im not sure that our measurements of time are exactly translated, but i believe in your time it would be....900 years?”

“oh...may i ask how old you are now?”

“wouldn’t you like to know...”

“...n-no, thats okay”

honestly? sometimes your days were nothing but lazy, so you’d learn about human pop culture

“‘tatooine?�� odd, that’s a planet in my solar system. do you think this ‘george lucas’ is an alien?” -you, lying

*cue the entire fucking team going nuts bc they’re about to believe this conspiracy*

okay but like. you KNEW about thanos. you just never thought he’d be a problem all the way out here

so when the whole thanos situation came to earth you were just kinda like 👉👈 sorry guys, shoulda said smth earlier

“you know who thanos is?” -dr. strange

“...yes. i do. he’s big. really big. and purple. kind of looks like a raisin. oh, yeah, he’s crazy. obsessed with balance.”

“balance? what do you mean by that?” -tony

“like, he likes to kill half of each population for ‘balance,’ you know?”

anyways you went back to space

“so, anything else about thanos we should know?” -tony

“he has 2 adoptive daughters, they’re both badass, i know then personally, he’s from the planet ‘titan,’ last of his kind, aaaand he has an army”

“we have a—wait, no we don’t” -tony

“are there aliens that lay eggs in people? or is that just a stereotype?” -peter

“peter, is it? i heard that you’re taught that there are no stupid questions, but that was a very stupid question”

“...i don’t know if that was a ‘yes’ or ‘no’” -peter

tony asked if you could fly the ship. no.

eventually making your way to titan

which was surreal since it had just been so long since you’d left earth

gotg in the house

“where’s gamora?”//“who’s gamora?” “why’s gamora?”//“you know gamora?” “you know gamora?”//“do you work for thanos?”//“no, i’m here to kill thanos”//“so you’re here to kill gamora?”//“what? no! gamora doesn’t work for thanos anymore, it’s been like 4 years”//“holy shit”

and then thanos popped in and nebula too and she recognized you and it was kinda awk but were just gonna pretend it didn’t happen bc it gets worse <3

u, tony, and nebula got trapped in a ship for like 3 weeks but it was good for catching up

and u met captain marvel and honestly youve just met too many people in the past few weeks u were not vibing

“so, y/n, miss space at all?” -tony

“up until we went back to space, yeah. i’m not leaving this planet ever again”

“we need to find thanos” -bruce

“fuck”

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[baebeyza]

Megastar for the pairing ask

Thank you ~

You know, Starscream and the MegaStar pair are the reasons why I got into Transformers in the first place. Watched some videos on Starscream, learnt about his dynamic with Megatron and thought: “Sounds interesting! ~”

I enjoy dynamics with some hostility, they tend to be way more intense than friendly dynamics and getting feels is what I am here for!

And I did get what I was promised and I still like it a lot, though after watching a lot of shows I actually only really like in G1.

Their G1 dynamic is a lot more nuanced than people give it credit for:

1. They have this whole Starscream wanting to kill Megs 2. They have episodes in which nothing bad happens between them and they work together just fine 3. They have this rare moments where you’d think they actually like each other 4. Starscream sure does shine as a second in command bychallenging Megatron, giving his opinion and whatever 5. They have Megs being fucking mean on his own, but also as retaliation

Comparing it with their bullshit with other shows:

TFA: 1. Starscream tries to kill Megatron and Megatron reacts in kind And tbh, that’s it

TFP: 1. Starscream tries to kill Megatron 2. Megatron tries to kill Starscream and doesn’t do it 3. Starscream becomes loyal at some point 4. Starscream is afraid of Megatron

Now the thing with TFP is also that a lot of their dynamic comes from Starscream while Megatron himself doesn’t contribute much to it. He’s simply being himself and Starscream acts and reacts, it’s kinda one-sided.

And TFA is almost just Starscream tryna kill Megatron, we barely ever see him doing anything else and we never see him as the second-in-command either.

Compared to those shows G1 just has more to offer in terms of interesting interactions. And it’s not as one-sided as TFP, Megatron contributes to their bullshit a lot more. Also they seem on much more equal footing in G1 - where TFP Starscream usually cowers before Megatron, his G1 counterpart is way quicker to challenge his leader, criticize him and question his leadership and decisions.

Not that there arent moments in G1 where Starscream is afraid of Megatron, but even then it’s not as extreme as in TFP.

Don’t get me wrong, their dynamic is a mess in every case, but the interactions in G1 are just more compelling to me thanks to it’s variety, and therefore it has more room to explore and play with.

The question as to why Megatron never fired or killed Starscream in G1 is something I find important to the dynamic as a whole, because as far as I can tell, that is what a lot of fans like to explore and it’s what the writers of shows to come explored as well in their attempt to make their shows make sense.

And that is what I wanna do when shipping (romantic or non-romantic), explore the relationship of two or more characters based on what I am given in canon!

And G1 just gives a lot of room here!

As for other shows:

I always see Megastorm from BWII as a version of Megatron, so I can go with it here too: Here the dynamic is different in that Megastorm isn’t the leader of Predacons, but Starscream still has a desire to kill him and take his place as second next to Galvatron.

This dynamic is noteworthy in that Megastorm has way less power over Starscream, especially when Galvatron is around. Then they do seem more like equals than in any other version. It also helps that Megastorm seems much younger than Starscream.

If you want a dynamic about these two in which Starscream doesn’t get any beatings, this one doesn’t have any! They still try to kill each other at least once, but apart from that nothing happens.

Personally I am more neutral towards BWII in general and don’t ship them here, because while the dynamic is different, it’s not as intense. And both have more meaningful dynamics with other characters anyway. (Megastorm with Galvatron and Starscream with BB. Starscream and BB are fucking adorable btw, another reason to watch the show when you love Starscream.)

Prime Wars really doesn’t have much to offer tbh, I admit that Starscream was kinda done dirty in that show. They really could have done more with him than just make him be the plot twist for shock value. 

Though I did like this exchange:

Megs: “Should have killed ages ago!” Starscream: “But’chya didnt!”

Aaaand last but not least, Cyberverse!

Just gonna repeat what I said about MegOp: I am not a fan of this show and therefore ship nothing, also I hate this version of Megatron with all my heart </3

[thirteenthspirit]

ESG Investing in the Pokémon World

As a financial advisor (aka professional bank pimp), it seems the concept of “Sustainable Investing” has really taken hold this past year, despite being around for quite a few years. I was pondering new investment ideas and recommendations (so they can sit patiently on my desk waiting for my boss’s approval) and noticed that most of them are ESG-focused. Of course.

As a Millennial (like that means anything), imagining that your investments might go towards helping someone or doing some good for the world is a key motivation. I don’t mind even sacrificing some additional returns, if that means my money is being put to good use. Unfortunately, I don’t really have a lot of like-minded people as Clients, so raw returns still dominate the investment sphere. But we’ll get there!

I want to explain a bit what it is we call ESG – Environmental, Social and (Corporate) Governance Investing. It is a very studied and elaborated research topic that has become so convoluted that virtually any company can be qualified as ESG-passable (sigh). A company with a high ESG score means it Excels in all or one of these three key areas. The ESGest of them all, try to integrate in their daily practices some of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which range from ending world hunger to reducing inequality, climate action, etc.

I’ve also been replaying Pokémon Platinum (ayyy you see where this is going don’t you?) – probably not, since you haven’t read my previous newsletters. But anyway.

Sinnoh could really benefit a lot from some ESG-focused investing, especially in the Environmental aspect of it. The first thing that popped into my mind was the Fuego Ironworks. No, it is not related to the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest runner-up’s song of choice, but rather a big warehouse-like facility harboring a huge furnace in the center of it all. If you manage to get past the arrow-one-direction-thingies leftover from the renovation of the Viridian Gym, you eventually reach this massive incinerator. Ok, so, fossil fuels are a big no-no in the battle for climate change. Hydrogen plants and renewable energies trump coal mines and similar facilities. So I would take that big chunk of investor money and shut down the Fuego Ironworks. I know what you’re thinking – WHERE ELSE AM I GONNA CATCH A POKÉMON WITH FLAME BODY THIS EARLY IN THE GAME so I can hatch that perf Togepi (because what else) – but fret not, those Magmar can relocate to Stark Mountain. But uh… maybe I’d try to throw a couple of Slugma near the Lost Tower or something, so you can still hatch them eggs early on. Need a motherboard-frying Magnemite? You can now catch them in Iron Island! Have fun.

But shutting down a massive energy-producing (assumption here assumption there la la la) facility like this is BOUND to have an effect on the residents, especially for the people who live in the nearby towns – I mean where else are Floaroma residents supposed to work? Smell the flowers in the floaroma medow (which is somehow located DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO THE IRONWORKS but ok)? Serve as night guides to wandering girls and their Chansey in Eterna Forest? Or sweat away in the Valley Windworks?

Huh? Windworks? Like an actual wind power farm? Grab ‘em Pachirisu and let’s go!

Seriously, the Valley Windworks would be exactly where my inflows would go. From any residual money gathered from the sale of the Ironworks, my investors could provide a massive overhaul of the windworks. We could bring specialists in from Hoenn’s Weather Institute and build a ton more Teletubbies (my boyfriend’s endearing nickname for those huge fan-thingies). Maybe we could even expand to hydraulics, what with that huge river flowing alongside the facility. Just imagine the drifloon! One for each doom-bearing child.

Ok great! We’ve managed to take action by remodeling the energy supply from the area, effectively diminishing its carbon emissions while preserving the citizens’ quality of life. For me that qualified as a big E investment! And maybe our work wouldn’t stop here, if you’ve got a few cents in your pocket imagine if we could harness the energy from Mt. Coronet! With cares not to disturb any dimensional beings or pseudo-gods. Just a thought.

Miss Moving On is a song by Fifth Harmony. Next we have the “Social” aspect of ESG investing. This would be the category where you would find the community-improving or demographic and populational aiding aspects. Infrastructures, accessibility, any and every thing that could better a population’s daily routine and ensure its sustainability for generations to come. So which issues plague Sinnoh residents? I can think of a few – weird people with bowl-shaped haircuts stealing Pokémon, people-swallowing marshes, freakin’ SELFDESTRUCTING ROCKS (née Geodude) and the occasional time/space distortions from the odd attempt at creating new universes.

Well let’s not go overboard with our intervention, we cannot hope to solve ALL problems plaguing our beloved residents. Let’s start with a simple issue. Little Timmy loves everything related to boats. Boats boats boats and sometimes ships – so he loves going to Sunyshore City, to see the Lighthouse. He goes whenever he can - he swears one time he even had a date with a girl who was visiting with her Ampharos! Legend has it for him it was love at first sight. But she had a ship to catch, bound for her hometown region. So they agreed to meet that very night, before she departed. She waited and waited, but Timmy never came. With tears in her eyes, the girl was last seen boarding the ship, never to return…

Dang it Timmy! Why did you do that?

Well… the thing is, Timmy tried. Timmy lives in Solaceon town and works for the local newspaper. So on that afternoon, after collecting his heart scales, he cheerfully got on his bike and began pedaling, heading to meet his lover. But there is no direct route from Solaceon to Sunyshore – Solaceon is pretty much isolated where it stands, one has to either go North trough Veilstone or face the marshes of the south through Pastoria, to finally traverse route 222 to the city.

Since a bike would sink pretty hard on the bog, Timmy rode North. He got drenched in rain before reaching Veilstone, though – forcing him to change clothes in the city before carrying on. Oh and he claims to have also had an encounter with a couple of Psyduck which seemed pretty checked out… I assume Misty rammed her bike into one. After leaving the city, he just had to face – I’m sorry, am I reading this correctly, inexistent participant – “hellhounds”. Um… ok… Timmy is a BIG Supernatural fan (Destiel FTW). But he finally made it to the Hotel Grand Lake – the last rest stop before reaching Sunyshore. His legs were already tired, and he was sweatin’ bullets, but his spirits were high as a Staravia!

“I’m sorry sir but Route 222 is closed until further notice, due to the occurrence of a blackout”.

Aaaand that was the end of Timmy’s love story. Don’t feel bad for him, I hear he went on to win a Pulitzer from his work on exposing the Ditto sex trafficking scheme.  

Maybe if Timmy had been a little faster on his route, he could’ve avoided the blackout altogether, it is just such a long stretch of Sinnoh to traverse…

Like Timmy, many residents who work in East Sinnoh face this issue in their daily commute – the lack of viable connections. So where could we begin to tackle this subject?

Well I heard of a guy who has been trying to dig a tunnel from Route 2014, to Solaceon Town, all by himself! Must be tough, Excadrill weren’t even invented back then…

Maybe our kind investors could give him a hand with their funds! We could make the efforts go faster and more smoothly, maybe even establish some underground ferry mechanism to aid in the crossover. Create a separate entrance, so people wouldn’t have to disturb the Unown. The newly crafted pathway would sure come in handy for travelers, maybe even helping in dynamizing Solaceon or Celestic Town with tourists staying at the Hotel Grand Lake! Seems like a somewhat simple-enough project for us to tackle.

So we basically identified a necessity, designed a way to overcome said necessity and then implemented it – thus creating sustainable impact!

Fantastic! Stunning!

Speaking of stunning – hrm, our efforts might be a bit derailed if these “blackouts” continue. Maybe someone could go have a chat with Volkner, to stop experimenting with the power grid? Perhaps Flint could help, I hear they get along quite well… Does he even have a license to tinker with the mechanisms? What, imaginary voice? You don’t need one in Sinnoh? So you mean I can just connect my Raichu to a generator and power my entire 12-story building?

That seems… unlawful. Couldn’t we do something to change that? Well, we could write a strong-worded letter to the lawmakers of Sinnoh, urging them to pass legislation on these activities. Maybe even use our leftover funds to raise enough awareness on this issue, so we could enact this change in policy! Wow, that’s what I call putting the G in Governance.

Random segway aside, that is exactly what the last letter in ESG is meant to state – policy, rules, means of internal conduct and culture that an organization runs with. And apart from Volkner’s constant need to reinvent his contraptions, there is a topic on which we can praise Sinnoh – gender equality.

Now, we recognize that we don’t know the details, but let’s assume Gym Leaders are paid equally, as not to have poor shivering Candice earning 70 cents on the poke-dollar, compared to Byron’s wage. 4 female and 4 male gym leaders comprise Sinnoh’s gym challenge. 50/50, nice message to relay. Ok fine, if we only look at the number and don’t analyze much else, we can give Sinnoh a passing grade on this one… what about the Elite Four?

The Elite Four is also comprised of 2 male and 2 female members. Wow, nicely thought out. And Cynthia is given enough screen time to actually be a fleshed out character, even appearing in several generations. She is, after all, in my opinion, the toughest Champion the Player is required to face.

But other generations don’t really follow suit – the list of League Champions or Elite Four members is comprised mostly of men… In these regions perhaps some gender diversity or inclusion metrics could be put in place, starting with getting each of them to affirm their stance and compromise with ending gender inequality in the League Challenge!

For that, I guess we’ll have to take that same ship and sail away to another region, with the sure knowledge that (maybe) we managed to help Sinnoh inch a little closer to a sustainable future!

Your ESG-type Trainer,  

                                                                                                 -João A. (Pachiren)  

[audi-obsession]

Our Canadian Racer Lindsay Rice and her Audi RS3 LMS

audi obsession | on the spot

We had a chance to talk with Lindsay Rice, a Canadian racer driving the #18 RICERACING Audi RS3 LMS, which is the only female-run Audi team in the country. 

Lindsay is extremely driven, she is  pushing the limits of auto racing, and she has exceptional perseverance and dedication to her sport.

Who is Lindsay Rice?

“I am a 26 year old female race car driver originally from Mississauga, Ontario in Canada – just outside of Toronto. I’ve been racing GT cars for 3 seasons now competitively, and I will be heading into my 4th ever season racing in Canada in 2019. I come from an Automotive background (Dad and Grandfather loved cars, I went to school for Automotive Business) and have loved cars ever since I was able to drive them. I am still, however, a first generation racer in my family. My most memorable moments when I was younger was taking my car for a drive (…every day and every night… and in between), and listening to my car or my music, rolling the window down, and enjoying being behind the wheel and having full control of it. This has always been my happy place, a place for me to really feel myself and enjoy the power of driving.”

“This has always been my happy place, a place for me to really feel myself and enjoy the power of driving”

Why racing cars?

“It has always been about cars for me. But - why racing? It was never enough to go the speed limit – I always want to push the threshold, pass cars, edge into corners – so I wanted to test my skills on track. Overall, it is that feeling of being alive that I get when driving a race car, one that I get nowhere else. There is no other rush for me like competing in a car.”

If you weren’t racing, what would you be up to right now?

If I wasn’t racing I would probably be out on the ocean. I absolutely love the wildlife – so perhaps I’d be a marine biologist or a scuba diver. Or a captain of my own ship. That would be nice. Once you bring me to the ocean and show me whales or sharks, it is very hard to pry me away. Kind of like the race track.

Who is your inspiration?

I have many. One of my favourites is Daniel Ricciardo. He is a fantastic driver, but I mostly enjoy his attitude towards the sport. He has fun with it and gets serious when he needs to. Very similar to Aryton Senna. He was also an inspiration for his spirit in the sport. Truly a beautiful human being !! Another inspiration of mine is Kathrin Legge – I think she is super rad and gets the job done when she’s on track.

What is your dream car?

Race car – I don’t know if I should be saying this to Audi Obsession – but I would love to compete in the Porsche RSR. 😊 This is a beast of a car and I can just imagine what it’s like to even sit in it. But truly, the Audi R8 GT3 is an absolutely stunning race car that has always grabbed my attention. I would also keep my Audi RS3 LMS TCR forever…… My AUDI dream car for the street would have to be Audi R8 V10+ - aaaand I believe it would have to be a 2015 model, because I need a manual gearbox – gated shifter - metal on metal please 😊😊

What are your pre-race rituals?

Race day I always eat an avocado. Pre-race I talk to my team and go over my set up and any changes we’ve made to the car. I am also constantly on data, going over my last laps on track and seeing where to improve. When I get onto grid, this is my time to visualize – I will sit in my car with 5 mins to go and see myself at the race start, passing all of the cars 😊

When did you realize you wanted to race at the pro level? What was your approach – how you did it?

To be quite honest I am really a dreamer… So to answer this questions, I’d have to say that I saw myself going pro right from the beginning. I always envisioned it 😊 I am not one to sit back and let myself stay stagnant and get comfortable - I always need to be improving and learning and pushing and challenging myself. This goes hand in hand with graduating into different categories of racing. My approach was to enter into racing and see how I do first – which I was lucky because I did have natural talent up my sleeve (thank goodness). I had the feel and the reaction time and the calm and collected mindset on track – this helps a lot. My next step was to continue to push my racing program to the world – to gain exposure for my team. We have always raced well, and we continue to improve, but we also know how important it is to be out there in the front of the sport spotlight to gain recognition and to gain interest in my program for future plans. So, while I am taking it all in - learning and challenging myself, and enjoying every second I am in the car - I do need to focus on what makes sense for my future and what needs to come next so I can succeed in my career.

How do you mentally handle yourself when you’re behind the wheel?

This one is really quite simple. When I get in the car, there is nothing else. It’s like my mind goes blank and nothing in the world matters but pushing my car and myself, getting in front of ALL the cars ahead of me (lol), as well as keeping my car on track. So – I handle myself mentally pretty well I’d say. I put myself out there and focus on improving every lap, in qualifying, in a race and even on testing.

Any other passions?

I LOVE my dog, my music, my home and decorating it, spending time with friends and family, enjoying delicious food and (sometimes) wine (ya right). I really enjoy endurance training – jogging, stair climber, etc. I mean, I don’t looove it when I am doing it, but I love the feeling after my workout 😊

Any advice for young people?

I get this a lot. I stand true to what I always say – please just follow what your heart is telling you. If there is something in the world that you feel you need to do – do it. Don’t let time pass you by and don’t let that dream go. Do whatever it takes, be strong, be humble, and remember that you are absolutely worthy of reaching your passions and living your own dreams. In terms of racing – it is a tough one to get into, but I recommend volunteering and being around the track and getting into a car for a track day before you make any big plans. Make sure you love it and you feel it. If it works, it works. Then put your head down and get things moving.

[kenshi-vakarian7]

Leather & Lace ‘19 - Fic 4 of 14

Event hosted by @alyssalenko @vorchagirl and @starsandskies

This one ended up a little longer than my intended challenge.

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“Ogling”

Prompt - Watching the other and getting caught by someone else.

Late into the evening, Jack was about to eat her dinner, grateful for the alone time she had in the mess hall.  Well, she was grateful until Commander Jason Shepard appeared from around the corner and walked towards the kitchen area.

Fuck... she thought, her hopes for solitude dashed. She turned to Shepard with the intention to glare at him, her way of telling him that she wanted to be alone.  When she caught his eye, he had the audacity to smile at her – that nice, charming smile that always had a way to both confuse her and make her heart flutter and-

What the - stop thinking about this romance shit!

“Ran out of coffee in my quarters,” Shepard justified as he began to dig through the cabinets for the coffee packets.

Jack shrugged nonchalantly.  “Sure, whatever,” she replied before she bit into the sandwich she made for herself.

She was halfway done with her sandwich when Shepard finally closed the cabinet.  Jack simply turned to him... but only to make sure that he actually left the mess hall, nothing more.  Not because he'd been nice to her since they met and that smile and those gorgeous eyes and-

Fuck!  Stop it!

“That's not the entire stash, is it?” Jack ended up asking after noticing the small box he carried in his hands.  “Some of us also drink coffee here, not just you.”

“Oh really?” Shepard said with a little mirth in his voice.  “Well, it's a good thing I only took half the stash.  And it's a good thing we'll be in Illium tomorrow with plans to pick up more.  Aaaand it's a good thing I didn't take your favorite, the cinnamon flavored ones.”

Jack raised an eyebrow suspiciously.  “Okay, that’s a little creepy, Shepard.  How the hell did you know it's my favorite?”

Shepard chuckled a little.  “You don’t remember?  I was there during your first week on the ship when you accused Miranda of stealing the last packet of cinnamon flavored coffee.  Then, later that day, you nearly threw Zaeed into the garbage disposal in his room when you found out he was the real culprit.”

“Yeah, well... he would've had it coming if you hadn't stopped me.”

It was Shepard's turn to raise an eyebrow.  “Over coffee?”

“No!  For pissing me off.”

He smiled that damn smile again.  “That reminds me... ever since Pragia, you've been a bit more, how should I say it... affable, at least towards me.”

Jack raised her eyebrow again, wondering what he was getting at.  “Aaand?”

He was STILL smiling.  “Aaand I think it's well... pretty cool.”

There he goes with his charm again, always complimenting in ways she's never received before in her life.  Always sweet to her, always with that damn smile and-

Fucking stop with these shitty romantic thoughts!

Shepard gave her a small nod after a moment's pause.  “Goodnight, Jack.”

He started walking away before Jack had the chance to respond.  She found herself watching as he made his leave, her eyes following him until he turned the corner towards the elevator.  She scowled once he was gone.  What the hell was his game?  Why did he keep talking to her?  She was here to kill for him, nothing more... though she really appreciated how he took the time to plant a bomb at the facility that ruined her life.  Why he did have to be so... nice?  It would've been easier if he was just like all the others who-

“You were staring, Jack,” a voice suddenly spoke in the room.

Her eyes widening, Jack searched her surroundings, but there was no one else around.  “The hell-!”

Suddenly, Kasumi Goto seemed to manifest right in front of her as she uncloaked herself.  The thief was relaxed in the chair she sat in across from Jack, sipping from the canned drink she had in hand with a straw.  If not for the sly smirk on her face, Kasumi would've looked quite innocent of any wrongdoing.

A month ago, Jack would've thrown Kasumi across the room without a second thought.  Now though... she realized how soft she was getting since joining Shepard's crew.  Damn him...

“What the fuck are you talking about?” Jack asked in annoyance, even thought she was well aware that she was caught eyeing the Commander while he had his back turned to her.

“Please, Jack,” Kasumi replied.  “Most of the crew might not notice, but I have.  I've seen the way you look at Shepard when he's not looking. It's what we call... ogling.”

Jack glared at her.  “You don't fucking know anything!”

“Oh yeah?  Then why are you blushing?”

“Shut the hell up!  I'm not blushing!”

“Then why are your cheeks red?”

“I-” Jack ended up growling.  She could already feel the familiar tingling in the back of her head; her biotics were staring to flare up.  “Fuck off!  I didn't ask for you to analyze me!”

Kasumi frowned as she placed her canned drink – iced tea, Jack noticed – down on the table.  “I wasn't analyzing you.  Actually, I was going to mention how much of a coincidence it is to see you ogling at him.”

Jack narrowed her eyes.  “So?”

“He stares at you when you're not looking, too, you know.”

Jack snorted.  “That's not a surprise.  In case you haven't noticed, anyone would with all the tattoos I don’t bother to cover most of the time, tits included!”

“No, not in that way!” Kasumi corrected.

“No? Then what the hell are you getting at?”  By now, Jack was even more annoyed and the back of her head was starting to itch.

“What I'm saying,” Kasumi started.  “Is that you two can find happiness with each other if you both let yourselves.  He's not like a lot of guys.  He's handsome, but not stuck up about it.  He's also confident, and when he's not taking down enemies... he's actually pretty sweet.”

Jack glared at her.  “If you think he's so sweet, then why don't you get in bed with him?”

“Because he likes you, Jack,” Kasumi pointed out without hesitation. “I’m pretty sure you already know his past since it’s common knowledge, but he's someone who's experienced the kind of loss I experienced. It's been years and he's no longer in mourning, but... there's only one reason someone who lost a loved one would look at someone else the way he looks at you with longing – because they are willing to open their heart and find happiness again.  In this case, he’s willing to open his heart to you.”

That... whole statement hit a tad bit closer to home than Jack wanted to admit.  Thoughts of the man who died for her – who loved and wanted a future with her – filled her mind.  The wound had long since scabbed over, but it had a tendency to open up once in a while, stinging her just as bad as the day he sent his final message to her.

Of course, no one, not even Shepard or Kasumi, knew that.  But she knew both their stories nevertheless.  Overhearing past conversations in the mess hall, Kasumi talked about her former partner, Keiji, quite often.  Her loss was fairly recent, so of course she was still in mourning.  As for Shepard, from some of the past interviews she watched of him, he did occasionally talk about his wife, who was KIA during the Skyllian Blitz, and how losing her – and his experience on Torfan – motivated him to become a better person and help those in need.  He wasn't angry over his loss, nor did he let himself drown in the memories of his late wife...

Not like she did occasionally when it came to her late fiancé ...

Jack glared at Kasumi, but... not as suspiciously as before.  “You... might have a point.  But that doesn't mean I'm just gonna run off and jump into his pants right this second.”

That got a laugh out of Kasumi.  “That's not a bad thing.  It's nice to take things slow.”

“...Maybe.”

Kasumi stood up from her seat.  “Well... I must admit, I never thought we'd have this kind of chat.  We should do it again soon!”

“Heeell no!” Jack called out despite the fact that she couldn't help but grin.  “The last thing I need is to have a girl talk over boys and make-up and crap like that.  Besides, I'm not into that girls' club shit.”

Kasumi laughed some more.  “Ah, that's a shame.  I would've loved to know how to put on eyeliner the way you do.”

Before Jack said any more, Kasumi went into cloak mode and disappeared as quickly as she appeared a few minutes ago.  Even better, Jack heard her footsteps head back towards the lounge.  Finally! Jack thought.  She was alone again and the itching in the back of her head started to fade... but she didn't grab for her remaining meal right away.

Instead, she thought of Shepard again – his charm, his wit, those eyes, that damn smile... and come to think it, no one had even been nice to her, not in his way at least.  After all, he invited her to join his crew despite being considered 'unstable,' he always helped her improve in her fighting capabilities, and he assisted her with no hesitation when it came to Pragia.  More importantly, he never once asked for anything in return beyond joining his team.

As these thoughts crossed Jack's mind, the corner of her lips tugging into a small smile.

[marythegizka]

Bodyswap AU - Part 8 (here are the links to: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7)

The Ark Angel took off and dashed over the valley, piercing through clouds of ash as it made its way up. Aphra punched the coordinates into the computer. In a matter of hours, she would be home. A mental scoff followed. 'Home'. It wasn't home, really. Never had been. Just a bed and a roof. And if there was one thing she hadn't planned on doing with Vader, it was bringing him along to pay her father a visit. But there was little choice in the matter. Aphra sighed, a slightly louder wheeze, casting Vader a brief glance. Maybe she should give him a heads up, just in case. Or maybe not. It had been such a long time since she'd last seen her father, he would hardly notice the change. She'd blame suspicious behavior on 'the booze'. At least that he would believe, with all the credit he gave her. All they had to do was show up and mention the Ordu Aspectu, and he'd just roll with it. Things would be fine. Probably.

She turned towards Vader, then towards Ahsoka, and towards Vader again. None of them had spoken since they had taken off. The hyperdrive whirred and hummed, filling the gaps between her breaths, and a sense of discomfort hung around like stale air, making her throat clench a bit. Subtle wafts of emotions flowed her way, spikes of anger and dips of guilt, surges of hope followed by dread. Although she knew they came from them, she couldn't pinpoint which was whose. It was like bathing in feeling-soup. She didn't like it.

Ahsoka made an attempt to break the silence.

"So... do you intend to spend the whole trip pouting?"

Vader didn't bat an eye.

"Why not."

Oh, Aphra fully believed that. Vader had never struck her as the most cheerful person to be around, and she'd gotten used to his 'moods', as Triple-Zero called them. Even so, the atmosphere was a little tense for her taste.

"Hey, not that this is any of my business," she said, "but why all the drama? I'm... picking up bad vibes. Literally. I think."

"I do not routinely engage in conversation with traitors." Vader snapped. "Forgive my lack of practice in the matter."

"Traitors?!" the girl blurted out. "You tried to murder me but go off I guess."

"That makes two of us."

Ahsoka fell silent, and the air grew heavier. Her eyes were glistening, Aphra noticed. She shifted in her seat, unsure of what to say.

"Oookay... How about music then? I have Jatz, Quenk Jazz, some old Rodian Rock... any preference? "

Her hand hovered over the dashboard, waiting for an answer she half-suspected wouldn't come. It didn't. She sighed, and pressed "on". An engaging Zeltron dancer began jiggling over the holo-player, casting the camera sultry looks. Vader gave her a side look.

"Stop judging," she said, opening the food-safe.

"I'm not judging."

"Right," she said, handing him a can of cheap blue mappa. He eyed it with suspicion.

"You won't get drunk on that," she reassured. "Trust me, you've got training."

He grabbed the can, took a sip and coughed. Oh dear. And after all those years on vitapaste he wouldn't call himself picky.

"I will pass."

"Snob."

"What?" He knew what she had said - the vocoder was more suited to barking orders than mumbling - but the word took him by surprise. He wasn't snobbish, really. Just... direct.

"Nothing," she said, turning towards Ahsoka. "Ahsoka, would you like a drink? You look beat."

The girl snapped out of her stupor and looked at them numbly, her eyes moist with silent tears.

"I'm fine," she said feebly. "Thank you."

There was a time he would have attempted to comfort her. Now she was a traitor. She could have joined him, become an inquisitor, a Sith apprentice maybe. She chose the Rebellion. Perhaps it was a good thing then, that this time was long gone. His throat clenched. Perhaps.

Aphra shrugged.

"Hm. Well if you change your mind... you know where the hooch is. There's food too."

Ahsoka tried to smile.

"How about you?"

"I uh... I just drank weird stuff from a straw. I'm good. Sort of good."

Vader snorted. Weird stuff from a straw. That was one way to put it.

The music switched to dissonant Leap-jump.

"They used to play this at Dexe's", Ahsoka said.

"Dex. It's called Dex."

Ahsoka sat upright, pointing her chin up.

"Dex. It's called Dex," she parroted.

"Quit it, Snips."

This time, Ahsoka actually smiled.

"You just called me Snips."

"I thought you hated it, Snips."

"Not anymore, Skyguy."

"Don't. Call me. Skyguy."

"Or what?"

"Permission to intervene, Masters?" Triple-Zero chimed in.

"Denied," came their joint reply.

The droid left the cockpit.

"No Beetee, this doesn't look promising. Humans these days."

Aphra looked at the navicomputer. Two hours left. And the ambient tension lingered.

"By the way Ahsoka, why don't you grab some sleep? You look exhausted. My bunk is..." she paused, remembering the girl's confusion upon finding them there. "You know where it is. Make yourself at home."

"You're right. I am exhausted."

Ahsoka stood up.

"Thank you," she said, bowing her head slightly before leaving the room.

The tension eased a little. Now Aphra had two whole hours to ruminate about her boss meeting her dad. And the longer she dwelt on it, the more the thought worried her.

Ahsoka jerked awake as he ship hit the ground, bouncing like a spring on its landing gear. She had feared the nightmares, but her sleep turned out dreamless. Yet she remained exhausted. But she had been prepared. Her last encounter with Anakin had left scars on both of them, and as much as she hoped, as desperate as she was for another glimpse of that faint flicker of light, she knew nothing would ever be the same. And it hurt. Malachor had hurt them. And it had changed her. With nothing but Sith artifacts to engineer her escape, she had delved into their secrets, tapped into their power... and made it hers. She had found it, in the end, her one and only way out: one last portal through the Force. She had found it, used it, destroyed it. But for that to happen... A sob escaped her. She had to. It wasn't really falling if you didn't lose it, right? Not if you could claw your back to the Light. It couldn't be. It mustn't be. And now that she was free, she would help Anakin break out. She had to. For the Rebellion. And for her friend.

Aphra leaned back in her seat, not quite succeeding to stretch in the cramped space, and switched the engines off. A red light remained on at the bottom of the dashboard, signalling a leak in the secondary fuel tank. Aphra stood up.

"See? This ship is a keeper. Told you the leak wasn't that big. We still have quite a bit," she said pointing at the fuel gauge. "I'll check it up in a minute."

Vader shook his head. Her faith in that piece of junk would be the death of her. She stood there and stared at him, hands firmly planted on her hips. She must have picked up on his exasperation.

"Say it."

"Say what?"

"What you've just been thinking," she said.

Vader gave her a wry look.

"Doctor, what makes you think you're allowed in my head?"

In truth, it was unlikely she had sensed a clear, fully-formed thought. The occurrence was rare, even for him. A general feeling of aggravation? Definitely. But thoughts were another matter. A delicate matter, one that required control.

"I didn't..." She paused. "You can read thoughts?" she asked, which such incredulity Vader could almost hear her popping round eyes at him.

"It's not that easy."

And it was lucky, really. He remembered one time, walking through a busy street, when the minds of passers-by had suddenly become as clear as pure water. It had felt like an assault. "If I don't pay Black Sun..." - "Senator Mothma said..." - "So if that's ten credits..." - "Who's that?" - "Monster" - "Freak" - "Don't come near"... The incident had barely lasted a minute, and had left him exhausted, his blood pulsing in his hears, physically struggling not to slash through the crowd. He'd stood there paralyzed, feeling like a proton torpedo ready to explode. "Are you alright, sir?" "Get away from me!" He hadn't told his master. There was no point.

"Is that a challenge?" Aphra asked.

"No," he snapped, pointing a finger at her. "Do not try it."

Vader heard steps behind him.

"Hi!" came Ahsoka's voice.

Aphra greeted her with her usual enthusiasm.

"Good morning," he said reluctantly. "Why don't you join Doctor Aphra? She's got a leak to fix."

"It's no big deal, really, I can do that on my own."

Vader shot her an icy look.

"On second thought, maybe I could use a hand. After that we'll go meet my... contact."

"Sure."

Ahsoka followed her into the engine room.

"You don't really need a hand do you?"

"Nope. I've got two," she said, wiggling both arms. "Kidding. Really."

Ahsoka shook her head.

"Would I be wrong to assume he's always like that?"

Aphra chuckled, lifting a panel behind the tank. There was a thin drip on the side on the container, but that was nothing she couldn't manage.

"What did you expect?"

"Honestly? I don't know. A lightsaber in the heart was always a possibility."

Aphra nodded.

"I know the feeling."

Ahsoka gave her a wan smile.

"Yet you're staying."

"Yes." Aphra bit her tongue. Things were getting awkward. "Right. There's a plasma welder right under your left foot."

Ahsoka handed it to her.

"Thanks. Aaaand there we go," she said, sealing the breach. "Easy. Now if you could keep an eye on the kids?"

"Kids?"

"Droids. Just in case. We'll be back in a bit."

"Okay but..."

Aphra waved a hand.

"You'll do great!"

She could still feel Ahsoka's stupefied look as she left the engine room, heading straight for the cockpit.

"There, patched it", she said.

"Then let us not delay."

Vader followed her outside.

They had landed at the foot of a grassy, stony hillock, the top of which was crowned by a small, hive-shaped mud house.

"Is this where your contact lives?"

"Yes, but he..."

Before she could finish, Vader was leaping up the dirt stairs. There was no point in delaying. The door had been left ajar. He knocked and pushed it.

"Hello?"

The place was, to put it simply, an absolute junkyard. Stone tablets lay scattered all over the clay floor, amidst heaps of old books and worn-out artifacts - there was even a kyber on top of the fireplace. The stew that simmered over the hearth gave off a musty smell, like the underside of a sun-beaten evaporator. At the center of the room, half-hidden by a pile of books, an oldish man was bending over a manuscript, mumbling in... was that Proto-Basic?

The man hardly noticed him. Vader stepped inside.

"Sir, we have need of you."

The man looked up from his work, his eyes popping round.

"Sir?"

"What else should I address you as?"

The man flinched as Aphra entered the room as well. His mouth fell open, but no sound came out.

Aphra sighed, pinching the nose of her mask.

"Oh kriff... try 'Dad'."

>Part 9

[ntshastark]

MERRY BRIDGERTON DAY MY DUDES

Bridgerton liveblog: Part 1 (Eps. 1-4)

HERE BE SPOILERS

Episode 1

The very first scene is corset-bashing............... Sigh.

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WELL MA’AM THE FASHIONABLE SILHOUETTE HAS CHANGED QUITE A LOT SINCE THEN

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THE BEE!!!!!!!!!!!

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THE PAINTINGS HOLY SHIT I’M SO IN LOVE WITH THE PAINTINGS I MIGHT CRY

poor gregory and hyacinth tho

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A CATWS fan, I see

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Aaaand they’ve made Anthony irresponsible and incompetent. Great. Amazing. Not like he has been the head of the household and a father to his siblings for about ten years now or anything. Not like he has a deep psychological need of living up to his father’s memory or anything. No, none of that.

Great.

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AND HE’S LATE BECAUSE HE’S FUCKING SIENA AGAINST A TREE

GREAT

AMAZING

BECAUSE ANTHONY IS OH SO VERY KNOWN TO PUT WOMEN BEFORE DUTY, RIGHT?????

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Now that’s a lot better

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nvm

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Absolutely love how they used actual paintings of George and Charlotte as a base for this one

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SHE’S DEAD FROM CORSET DISEASE

HOLLYWOOD FINALLY DID IT

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I really don’t think that’s how the ceremony worked, but I don’t know enough about regency era to dispute it

(Then again, apparently Charlotte rarely even did this anymore around this time bc of her health, so. Go nuts I guess)

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THE OPENING IS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS HOLY SHIT

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JULIE ANDREWS JUST SAID BITCHES

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🥺

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me reading RMB:

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damn marina’s voice is deep

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HE!!!!!!!!!!

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Edmund’s watch 🥺

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🌚

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i love this

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POLIN ALERT

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Violet, Daphne, and an angry chihuahua

who will have his ass kicked by a corgi soon enough

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LMAOOOOOO i cannot stress how little you will care about this three sisters later

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anthony knows the dirt on every single dude in london, lady whistledows’s got nothing on him

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“you speakin french now??????”

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IS THIS JUST A REFERENCE OR ARE THEY GOING TO MOVE RMB TO THE SECOND SEASON?????????? BC IF I DON’T GET KATHONY SOON I SWEAR TO GOD

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OH NO THE SCENE IN THE TRAILER REALLY WAS THEIR FIRST MEETING

I WANTED TO SEE DAPHNE PUNCHING NIGEL GODAMMIT

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they spent like. 15 minutes at that party.

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ANTHONY IS SUCH A LITTLE SHIT, I LOVE HIM

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PUPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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BRUH

SHE’S INSULTING THE KING

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

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marina wearing her stays without a chemise has just cost me 3 years of my life

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PENELOPE AND THE PUPPY!!!!!!!!!!!

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pretty sure that’s a daphmon interaction in the books but ok

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TWO PUPPIES

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..............................

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THE PERSON WHO DECIDED TO GIVE PENELOPE A PUPPY DESERVES A FUCKING PROMOTION

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i wonder if marina is lord featherington’s illegitimate daughter.......

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tfw he lasts 7 more years and charlotte actually dies before him

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AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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THE TRUE PROTAGONISTS OF THIS SHOW

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oooo is she looking for her period blood????

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ANTHONY’S DESK

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i hate this

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RESPONSABILITY AND DUTY ARE LIKE. 80% OF ANTHONY’S PERSONALITY

TF IS THIS MESS

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:))))))))))

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NOW THAT IS MY BOY

HELL YEAH, SACRIFICE YOU PERSONAL HAPPINESS FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR RESPONSABILITES, THAT’S THE ANTHONY I KNOW

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poor siena :(

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poor me having to put up with hollywood’s idiotic insistence of pretending women used to put their corsets on bare skin

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“fall from grace”

“damning scandal”

ma’am, she has an overprotective brother, not a body under her floorboards, maybe chill?

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nicola’s accent slipping when she says “wear a dress” sdklfjndsf i love her

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EXCUSE ME WHAT THE FUCK

WHY ARE THEY ACTING LIKE DAPHNE IS A SPINSTER WITH A HUGE SCANDAL AND NO OTHER WAY OUT

IT’S HER FUCKING FIRST SEASON, ALL ANTHONY NEEDS TO DO IS STOP BEING A DICK AND MEN WILL GO BACK TO SWARMING HER

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THE PUNCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[narrator voice] so he took that as a challenge

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LOOK AT THIS FUCKING POWER COUPLE

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the noises aren’t actually the fireworks, but anthony’s brain shutting down

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Episode 2

oh no, simon’s backstory :(

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cressida’s mother (i think?) said simon looked just like his father but he doesn’t AT ALL lmao, he looks a lot more like his mother

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TWICE???????????

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i love violet and lady danbury being the captains of the daphmon ship

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“or a garden”

“what”

“what”

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don’t forget to wear mask everyone! it protects you from both coronavirus and pregnancy

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ironic that eloise says this when complaining that daphne being pretty isn’t an acomplishment, because in TD&I daphne is the one to bring up the fact she would go to university if they allowed women

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the sheer terror on eloise’s face at the possibility of unplanned pregnancies sdfkjnsdlfk

see, violet, this is why you should talk to your children about sex

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I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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OH MY GOD

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OH MY GOD

SLDFKJNSLDFKJ

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THIS SCENE IS THE BEST THING EVER

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oh god anthony is still insisting on the nigel thing ffs

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????????????? THIS IS LITERALLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING

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YES, NEITHER DO I

AND NEITHER, I’M SURE, DOES BOOK!ANTHONY

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🌚

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YES, ANTHONY

AND WRITE DOWN THE FLOWER THING, IT’LL COME IN HANDY

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I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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He 🥰

but also: did you forget who you’re talking to lmao

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little simon :(

(also: i love how the insults were clearly filmed without the child actor in the room 🥺)

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marina is so sweet :( damn shonda rhimes and her sadism for making me care about her knowing what’s going to happen

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oh my god

i’m gonna research about queen charlotte and george iii’s relationship after i finish the show bc i knew of george iv’s famously loveless match, but i was under the impression his parents at least liked each other

(and now i’m talking all posh thanks to both bridgerton and the regency game i’m developing for uni)

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uhhhh

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LIL SIMON IS SO CUTE

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IT’S WHAT I SAID!!!!

(tho regé does more so than the child actor imo)

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1. i cry

2. lady danbury really can’t see a boy with an estranged father without taking it upon her to raise him into someone worthy of marrying a bridgerton sister, mad respect

2. i love how they adjusted younger lady danbury's clothes (and hair!!!) to match the fashions of the time. it’s more than i’d expected tbh

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THIS TRANSITION THO

THEIR POWER IS TRULY UNMATCHED

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MY LIL DAPHMON HEART

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i love them

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KING OF COMEDY

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HELL

FUCKING

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FUCKING FINALLY

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I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

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given the power of necromancy, i would revive simon’s father just so i could have the pleasure of killing him myself

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oh i love what they’ve done with the letters!!!!!!!!! it makes a lot more sense for simon to have found them in the house than for some random dying friend of his father’s to give them to daphne. and, especially considering what’s in them, it makes so much more sense for his father to have just kept them than to ask for a friend to deliver them to simon, that never sat well with me tbh

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HISTORICALLY ACCURATE MAKEUP!!!!!!!!

BE STILL MY BEATING HEART

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this lil scene was so cute 🥺

(tho it’s funny that benedict is the one eating on the side instead of colin lmao)

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I LOVE HER SO MUCH

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1. LMAO

2. so felicity really doesn’t exist in the show? :( i was hoping she would just not be around the family much bc of her age :/

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really not a fan of how anti-marriage they’re painting eloise bc she does eventually get married, and we, as a society, really don’t need more “you’ll change your mind when you get older ;))))” stories

ETA: i just realised the foreshadowing in what she says here...............

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NOW THAT’S QUINTESSENTIAL DAPHMON

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well, fuck

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did eloise smoke on the books????? i don’t remember eloise smoking on the books

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THE BICONS

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i love how they show the renovations i assume were going on at the royal residence

(watch my stunning lack of regency history knowledge. sorry, i’ve only recently left the tudor bubble)

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uhhhh

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I LOVE SHOW!VIOLET SO MUCH MORE THAN BOOK!VIOLET ALREADY, AND THAT’S SAYING SOMETHING BECAUSE I FUCKING ADORE BOOK!VIOLET

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sigh

still not sure about how they handled her and anthony’s relationship tho

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HELLO, 911????????????????

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HE JUST STUTTERED FROM JEALOUSY JESUS FUCKING CHRIST I AM DYING

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holy fucking shit simon was there when his dad died

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Episode 3

the glove thing reminded me of benedict and sophie at the masquerade

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penelope helping marina 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 she’s so pure

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i love them all so much i’m gonna cry

(when will francesca return from war bath)

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daphne that’s gay

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oh i thought the prince frederick of the show was gonna be, y’know. britain’s prince frederick. queen charlotte (and george iii)’s son

not prussia’s prince friedrich

but then again, britain’s frederick was 45 in 1813, while prussia’s friedrich was........... 17................

which reminds me daphne is supposed to be around that age as well................

hm........

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I LOVE THEM SO MUCH HOLY FUCK

gotta say, from the dinner scene i was afraid they were gonna try to turn daphmon into a kathony-esque enemies to lovers thing, but they absolutely nailed their relationship

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THE MODISTE FAKES HER FRENCH ACCENT, I KNEW IT

SO MANY HISTORICAL ACCURACY POINTS WERE EARNED

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🥺

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i’ve just decided i love siena and wish her all the best in life (not with anthony tho)

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THIS FRIENDSHIP >>>>>>>>>>

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OH BOY IS IT THE MILK SCENE

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IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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ARTIST BENEDICT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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wait wasn’t he the dude fucking a dude in the trailer

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holy fuck she straight up ditched the prince for simon

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I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

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I ACTUALLY CHOKED

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the queen just switched ships like a traitor

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ARTISTIC BBY

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idk what they’re doing with daphne and eloise’s relationship but i’m digging it

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@ VIOLET 

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oh man this whole conversation is shading violet SO HARD

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YOU’RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A PARK

THIS IS INNAPROPRIATE TO DISCUSS IN PUBLIC TODAY unless someone has just come out as ace apparently

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i-

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lady danbury hitting people with her cane ❤❤❤❤❤

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SOME GREAT ART ADVICE FROM MISS ELOISE BRIDGERTON:

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i love it so much that they decided to explore their relationship in the show 🥺

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it’s ok ben, we’ve all wondered it at some point

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y’know....... these speeches usually happen to show all the couple has to overcome in order to finally be together at the end........ so it’s kinda underwhelming to have her say this only for it all to end up being true.........

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WELL, APPARENTLY PHILLIP’S BROTHER WAS A FUCKING ASSHOLE

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WELL, APPARENTLY PENELOPE’S MOTHER IS A FUCKING ASSHOLE

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it’s called botox

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DAPHNE IS FUCKING KILLING IT, YOU GO GIRL

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heh

“tongue-tied”

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Episode 4

SO, APPARENTLY THIS IS THE EPISODE

HERE WE FUCKING GO

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i mentioned this on twitter before but oh my god i love it so fucking much that queen charlotte’s wigs are clearly based around coily hair, like. this one is straight up made out of dreads

ETA: might have written a whole dissertation about this for university...........

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SIMON WASN’T ACTUALLY AT THE NECKLACE SCENE, THE STILLS FUCKING LIED TO US

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daily reminder that hyacinth is my fav

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I’VE JUST DECIDED I LOVE HIM

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AND I LOVE ALICE TOO

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god, show!eloise is the picture of bitterness, all she does is complain

like, if she wishes so much to do something with her life then do it, isn’t it what she told benedict? sure, she has restraints, but she could ask her mother to hire teachers for any subject, she could try to write something and publish it under a pen name, she could try to do charity, anything

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i quite like the prince tbh. was about to say i hope when daphne dumps him he gets with someone better than cressida, but then i remember he’s a real person and i could just. google who he marries. so hold on

OK, HOLY FUCK SHE’S HOT

Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, they get married in 1823, so 10 years after the events of season 1

aw, and it seems to have been a love match!!! says here that she was devastated when he died :(

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dammit there’s a perfect meme for daphne’s situation rn but i can’t find it and i didn’t save it bc i can’t relate to horny memes

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FRIEDRICH IS SO CUTE I SWEAR TO GOD I’M THIS CLOSE TO GO LOOKING FOR A DOCUMENTARY ON HIM

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the second daphne cheers for the man he loses lmao

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BInedict is a treasure

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i just realised.... simon and daphne never told anthony about the plan in the show

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COLIN AND GREGORY PLAY-FIGHTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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oh god

they really do enjoy adding some extra drama huh

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🥰

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oh damn daphne is telling violet

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oh so there is lore

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ah, the first day of art school, i do remember it fondly

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so, uh

this is what i assume to be That Party

and siena is there

is....... is anthony.............. gonna find daphne and simon....... because he was.... looking for a dark corner himself............

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philippa, honey, you knew him for like a day.........

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ok, i’m assuming he’s done this bc he has gambling debts and can’t pay the dowry. still don’t see how the whole marina thing fits into this tho. maybe handling her season is the price for some bet he’s made????

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OH MY GOD

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the polin moments have been fewer than i expected but they’re all so good, and not even just from a shipping viewpoint

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I’M SO SORRY FOR FRIEDRICH, HE’S SUCH A NICE DUDE, HE DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER

BUT ALSO: GET ON WITH THE SMOOCHING

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THE SCENE WAS ACTUALLY MORE TAME THAN IN THE BOOK??????? NOT EVEN A TIDDY WAS SEEN

MY, MY, MS. NETFLIX

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benedict is monopolising all the titty time in the episode

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penelope having to hear marina gush about colin :(

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FUCK YOU SHONDA RHIMES, I DON’T WANT HER TO DIE

IF THIS ELOISE IS SO AGAINST MARRIAGE SHE CAN STAY SINGLE FOREVER, LET MARINA LIVE A LONG HAPPY LIFE WITH PHILLIP AND THE TWINS

OR BETTER YET, LET GEORGE LIVE AND MARRY HER!!!!! THAT WAY SHE CAN EVEN STILL BE ELOISE’S SISTER-IN-LAW!!!!!!!!!!

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DON’T WORRY BBY YOU WILL BE A PRETTY BRIDGERTON!!!!!! YOU’VE ALREADY GOT THE PRETTY PART DOWN, NOW JUST WAIT A FEW MORE YEARS AND YOU'LL HAVE THE SURNAME TOO!!!!

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literally what did eloise even find to be offended about in what penelope said

“i had a fight with my best friend bc she called me pretty and said i'm from a nice family :((((

all i did was project my interests and opinions onto her and act like she should be ready to drop everything at any given moment to focus on what’s really important: what i want to do :((((((”

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jonathan has such a drawable profile....... i need to see benedict use him as a life model

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when i got back from my first day in art school i didn’t get to be my older brother’s second in a duel, this is so unfair

actually, now that i think about, he said he was gonna drop me at uni and then couldn’t make it so i had to uber there........... did he choose someone else as his second??? should i feel offended???? i wasn’t even aware of the tradition!

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i love how B and C were just living their jolly lives, enjoying a good night, and then BAM pistols at dawn

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..........................i’m sorry what

did the writing team just............. not read his book?

anthony’s core characteristics are

his love and care for his family (just like his father)

his enormous sense of duty to both his title and his siblings (after all he inherited his father’s responsibilities as both the viscount and the head of the family)

and his refusal to let himself even consider falling in love (as he’s certain he will die young, like his father, and couldn’t bear making someone go through the same pain his mother did)

and this show made him into an incompetent, irresponsible man who keeps moping around over siena and their ~forbidden love~ or whatever

who the fuck even is this

and the argument of “oh but wait for his character development!!” is irrelevant. all these characteristics they erased stem from the trauma of his father’s death, which already happened

TEN YEARS AGO, IN FACT

GOD I’M SO FUCKING ANNOYED

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like, i was willing to put up with him not knowing how to navigate the marriage market bc daphne is his first sister to debut, and that’s her first season, so it’s understandable that he doesn’t know how to deal with that. and i was willing to put up with him; instead of wanting to find a wife he wouldn’t love, sire an heir, and die; just planning to manage things until death comes and then pass it all to benedict

but then violet keeps suggesting he’s not managing things well????? that he’s bad at being a viscount, that he’s bad at being head of the family?????? AND THE NIGEL THING, OH MY GOD????????

AND NOW THEY’RE SAYING HE’S OK WITH FALLING IN LOVE???????? WHAT’S EVEN GOING TO BE THE CONFLICT NEXT SEASON?????????? BECAUSE IF THEY MAKE IT AN ACTUAL LOVE TRIANGLE WITH EDWINA I’M GONNA FUCKING RIOT

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WHO IS THIS MAN???????????????????

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yay i got it right!

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how long until the edits of this scene with ten duel commandments start coming out, you think?

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TERESINHA DE JESUS, DE UMA QUEDA FOI AO CHÃO

ACODIU TRÊS CAVALEIROS, TODOS TRÊS CHAPÉU NA MÃO

O PRIMEIRO FOI SEU PAI

O SEGUNDO, SEU IRMÃO

O TERCEIRO FOI AQUELE QUE A TERESA DEU A MÃO

ou então a teresa manda todo mundo tomar no cu, pode ser também

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Since I'm supposed to be such a gamer, I'm really intrigued by this extensive list of video games you like. Like... after Lucas Baker, I really wanna know what else (and who else?!) is out there that I'm missing out on. Feel free to give as much detail as you like, also take your time because it's not like I'm gonna be finished with RE7 and Outlast anytime soon. Thanks!

 Thank you for asking, Waffle. I’m going to list some unconventional interests, as far as male villains and such go, and then I’ll add some of my favorites horror games for you at the end since some of them are just too damn good even without something dubious to obsesses over. Possible spoilers, but I’ll try to limit them to minor things.

Outlast’s Eddie Gluskin: Probably, my favorite villain from Outlast, after The Twins. His obsessive desire to make himself a wife is as sympathetic as it is batshit insane. He’s a real family man, has a great haircut and bow tie. If it weren’t for the blood and gender mutilation he’d be a real catch. You’ll meet him soon…

Outlast’s Twins: I’m not sure if they have another name or not, but these two really want to eat you and hang major dong throughout the whole game. The swinging dick is enough to either put the player off… or pique their interest. My interest was piqued. There’s no fandom for these guys, which sucks. Maybe I’ll write something awful for them one day.

RE7′s Lucas Baker: This fucker needs no introduction. Genius mastermind, sociopathic tendencies, probably a virgin and has an accent close enough to my boyfriend’s that I get weird feelings daily. Plus, he loves birthdays! I bet he’d be great at parties.

Silent Hill 2′s Pyramid Head: I wondered if I should include him or not because it goes without saying most of the people that will see this are already familiar with the manifestation of sexual deviancies and repression. He rapes Mannequins, has a long tentacle tongue that smacks the shit out of you and wears an apron of human flesh. Gotta love the dedication.

Fallout 3′s Charon: Not for the faint of heart, ‘cause of the whole zombie-face thing (he might not even have a dick if you think about the fact that he doesn’t have ears or a nose anymore) but he’s six and a half feet tall of ghoulish bodyguard. He’s available to both good and bad karma players because he’s loyal to anyone who holds his contract. The dude pretty much communicates in grunts and questionable insults thrown at enemies. He’s awesome.

Fallout 4′s Hancock: He’s a drug addict, a ghoul without all the insecurities and the Mayor of an anarchist town. The dude stabs a guy just for trying to extort caps off you the first time you walk into his town. First impressions am I right? His romance veers into sticky romance a bit too heavy for in at times, but he’s still a fucking badass and that radiation-torn voice is fucking hot.

Fallout 2′s Myron: It’s not creepy since I was a teenager when I played this game. This little shithead genius created the ultra addictive wasteland drug Jet, pretty much solely so he could barter for prostitutes. He’s a horny, greasy asshole and my favorite companion in Fallout 2. I sorta wanted to strap him to the Highwayman and put him in his place.

Gears of War’s Locust: They come in many forms/races but the grunts were always my favorite. When a town would get decimated it was usually these beasts that got sent in first, kidnapping people in spades. I always wanted to read something devious about these guys but never could find anything. 

F.E.A.R.’s Paxton Fettel: I fucking loved this guy to the point of trying to write my own messy fic about it, but I couldn’t figure out how to make the sex work with him. Maybe I’ll pick it back up someday. He’s a mama’s boy, bloodthirsty and look at that face! He’s a monstrous and methodical human in the first game and, even after surpassing that in the second game, manages to still be just as menacing. Any more and I’d spoil the game, but it’s a great FPS with solid horror elements.

Dragonage 2′s Arishok: Yeah, his design in the game is a bit different than the CGI trailer, but he’s no less menacing. The Qunari in DA is an interesting race. Though they are very hard to write for considering they don’t have sex outside of procreation unless they’re Tal-Vashoth, which are essentially deserters of the Qunari way of life. This bad boy is the head of their military and his horns… dear god. 

Skyrim’s Borkul the Beast: I’ve had a thing for Orc’s and Orc-like races since Lord of the Rings… and Borkul is probably my favorite. He’s a self-appointed guard in the Cidhna Mines with skull face paint and he’s fucking massive. Your character is stuck in a prison mine, weaponless and part of the quest to escape is get this fucker to let you in to talk to the head prisoner. How, oh how can you convince him to let you through? Better break out the knee pads…

The Darkness’ Jackie Estacado: The nephew of a crime boss and ex-assassin. He gets possessed by The Darkness on his 21st birthday and everything after that is just one big cluster fuck of blood and angst for poor Jackie. He’s a tragic character, good with a gun and has monsters that come out of his back to devour gang members, so… he’d be an interesting lay, to say the least. It’s also a great game, same with the sequel.

The Evil Within’s Ruvik/Rubin: He’s a bit edgelordy at times but he’s got the hood, scars, and disposition of a madman. Also a genius in his own way, if not very sociopathic to the point of keeping a brain alive to submit it to needle pokes of torture, stimulating the different lobes to give the disembodied brain the purest kind of dread. But he’s also obsessed with his sister (not sure if it’s incestuous or what) so he’s got some emotions left at least. It wasn’t the game it was cracked up to be in my opinion, but it was still a fun playthrough.

The Evil Within’s Safe Head: A diet Pyramid Head, but he’d no less brutal. No rape from what I could see, but he’d got a meat hammer and he has the added advantage of being able to snap his own neck in order to manifest himself in any place where there’s another safe just laying around. He’s tenacious and at certain points, there’s more than one of him. He made me feel things other than fear a few times.

Dead Space’s Isaac Clarke: First of all, I wish they’d never unmasked him. Secondly, his whole course of action is to find out what happened to his wife on one of the mining ships. He’s not a fighter, although you wouldn’t know from looking at him, he’s an engineer and his gun is a laser cutter. If you like survival horror and sci-fi, this is the game to play. Say what you will about the third game, but I enjoyed all of them.

Aaaand, that’s about it. I’ve got a soft spot for Bioshock’s Splicers, Alice: Madness Returns’ Carpenter, Metro: Last Light’s Pavel Morozov, and Silent Hill 3′s Valtiel.

If you run out of stuff to play, let me know. I have other horror (and horror-like) games to recommend that don’t necessarily contain drool-worthy villains. Thanks again for the ask, this was a challenge and a blast to put together. Hopefully, this post doesn’t crash people's browsers/apps. It wasn’t short.