#but if the op tagged it as the actor's name and no mention of the character

[sgdlr-asdfghjkl]

Link Click Musical Masterlist 🔍🌟

#音乐剧时光代理人# <- 'Time Agents Musical' main tag, pictures tab - shows majority of stage pictures in chronological order, updates from official Encore Musicals show up here too.

Tips: 1) Visit the OP's profiles! They usually post more than the one photo you can see in a thumbnail. And it's easier to browse & save pics through the profile.

2) Even though you can scroll the pics tab indefinitely, without a weibo account you won't be able to easily access older posts, as they'll get buried under the user's newer posts (there's a roundabout way mentioned in my guide). So I recommend to visit this tag frequently, if you wanna be sure nothing is hidden away 🔍 Daily or once in a 2-3 days will be enough imo, it's not very crowded tag ^^

3) ⬆You can also check videos in this tag, the orange tab has 10 most recent clips from the musical (other one has the most popular ones).

接着奏乐接着舞Musicals (Encore Musicals) <- official profile of a theatre that runs LC stage, they post the cast schedules, photos/behind the scenes clips, whenever new actor debuts, there's a special guests or a cast member has a birthday. They also report when an actor goes on a health break. Tip: all LC actors can be found in the pinned post (you'd need OCR 'image-text' tool to copy their names from pics though)

Encore Musicals Bilibili account <- theatre's official profile on a major cn video-sharing platform (more bts clips)

动画师lan <- bonus link to studio LAN profile, that's where they post the mysterious animation frames~

校医来啦 <- profile of a chief producer of LC Musical, Chen Xiaoyi

兮兮兮辞_ <- profile of an executive producer of LC musical

Metablue赛博蓝 <- bilibili of a music producer, she did videos about working on LC musical songs

🌟Actors

✨cast visuals promotional photos here✨

their personal weibo profile & actor specific hashtag (the 'diamond tag', you find the most stuff here)

Lu Guang

Wang Minhui - @王敏辉Black 王敏辉

Wu Yihan - @音乐剧演员吴以瀚 音乐剧演员吴以瀚

Guo Hongxu - @郭虹旭_GHX 郭虹旭

Du Guangyi - @杜光禕 杜光祎

Zhu Hanbin - @Keb_朱涵彬 朱涵彬

Yin Haolun - @殷浩倫Monster

Yang Haoran - @YANGHRAN 杨浩然hr

Cheng Xiaoshi

Cai Qi - @超级蔡淇 超级蔡淇

Shu Rongbo - @舒荣波-Bobi 舒荣波

Ji Xiaokun - @原来是纪晓坤啊 纪晓坤

Teng Chunpeng - @滕春鹏tcp 滕春鹏 (cw: heel injury pic is the only post on his @profile ><, just visit the tag)

Ding Xingchen - @D丁星辰 丁星辰

Cao Muzhi - @曺牧之 曹牧之

Bai Zhuoming - @丿日亻卓钅名 白倬铭

Wang Yifei - @王逸飞_V 王逸飞

Jing Yanqiao - @井彦乔JING_ 井彦乔

Guo Hongxu - @郭虹旭_GHX 郭虹旭 (yes, he plays both)

Qiao Ling

Cai Lu - @蔡璐_Katherine 蔡璐

Deng Xianling - @邓贤凌邓阿凌 邓贤凌

Wu Hanglu - @吴杭律 吴杭律

Feng Xinyao - @冯鑫垚smile 冯鑫垚

Qiang Dongyue - @嘀嗒_强东玥 强东玥

Zuo Yiping - @左一平儿 左一平

Qian Anqi - @钱安琪麦麦 钱安琪

Yan Lehuang - @闫乐湟乐乐 闫乐湟

Lu Hongbin/Chen Xiao

Zhang Jiahao - @张嘉豪music 演员张嘉豪

Li Zexi - @李泽熙Zenith 李泽熙

Xu Fangxing - @阿星-许放星 许放星

Zhi Bowen - @智小少总是不靠谱 智博闻

Zhou Bobo - @就叫我波波好了 周波波波波波

Zhang Zhiwei - @张智伟_

Song Yuanming - @教练 我zen勒想打球！ 宋元明

Gaoer Jinbaoyin - @高尔金宝音 高尔金宝音

Lin Zhen/Chen Xiao's mom

Hong Guo - @红果其实是洪果 音乐剧演员洪果

Liao Jingyuan - @廖婧媛LJY 廖婧媛

Guo Zhenyan - @郭珍艳Miki 郭珍艳

En Yu - @恩妤Ura

Shen Tian - @音乐剧演员沈恬 音乐剧演员沈恬

Yu Mengying - @于梦滢yummy 于梦滢

Zhu Jiayan - @朱佳艳Rio 朱佳艳

Zhang Ruishu - @_张睿姝_

Zou Ziyue - @-Zou醉是子月 邹子月

A few actors for supporting cast don't have a tag bc they seem to be newbie actors and/or have very small online presence

Tips: 1) Without a weibo account you can scroll through the actor's tag only up to abt 45 most recent posts. The actors perform in multiple plays (duh) so non-LC photos will show up too.

2) Imo the most optimal method, so the limits won't stop you is: go to the main 'LC musical' tag and see what's new. Check schedule for the cast lineup in a recent performance. Go to the actors' tags to see what's new.

3) Sometimes there are 2 performances on a same day, with different actors. So don't be surprised if you find mixed lineups under one date.

4) Mostly QL and Lin Zhen's actresses post behind the scenes photos on their personal profiles. Don't bother looking up the guys accounts, unless it's a holiday or their b-day >< From what I remember, only Wu Yihan posts abt his cat. Zhang Jiahao and Zhou Bobo post selfies sometimes. Ji Xiaokun posts his own photography (he's good!).

5) Google translate, however broken, is enough to translate the captions, so use it for context✨Ppl sometimes give their reviews titled 'repos' from the stage they've seen 🙏

6) You'll find more musical related clips under the actor's tag, than in 'LC musical' main tag. It's usually in an actor's fancam, but not always. Useful when you like an actor or there was a particular moment you want to see from a different angle🌟👌

7) The clips tab (one in the middle) under the actor's tag has no time limited access. You can browse and watch the videos without issues!

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I'll try to add missing tags when the actors debut 💪 And if you find any mistakes or a broken links, please let me know 🙏 For those who read it all, here's a present ;>

光时 <- bonus Shiguang ship tag, they're just like us fr (but way more horny on main), there's lots of art, from cute fluff to nsfw djs >>

OKAY that's all I have🎉

[the-witchhunter]

DP x DC: Stuff about Alfred Pennyworth

Just some facts about our favorite butler, Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth.

-His full name is Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth

-He’s not as old as you probably think. He’s only 20 years older than Bruce, which would make him early 60′s at most currently. He was in his mid 40′s when batman started.

-He owns a shotgun. While Bruce doesn't like guns, Alfred doesn’t have such convictions, and is entirely ready to use it. 

-Former member of MI-5. Essentially, he was special ops, has serious military training and was part of the British counterintelligence agency that combats terrorism and espionage aka he was one of the guys that stopped spies. Some continuities had it where he was MI-6 instead.

-Has killed before. Special ops, remember?

-Former actor. He had a bit of an acting career after he left MI-5. This lasted until his father, Jarvis Pennyworth, requested he serve the Wayne family on his deathbed.

-He has a daughter, Julia Pennyworth, an agent of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment. She briefly took over his duties helping the Batclan, It was a whole thing involving her not respecting him because he went from MI-5 to working as a butler for Bruce Wayne before an Identity reveal. 

- He is also highly respected by those heroes who are aware of his existence, including Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and the original Teen Titans.

-Was romantically involved with Dr. Leslie Thompkins. Not much came from that aside from a few dates, but they dated.

-Proficient in emergency medical techniques, acting, mechanical and computer sciences, on top of being one hell of a butler

- While not as skilled at hand-to-hand combat as Bruce Wayne, Alfred is nearly as resourceful. Batman: Gotham Adventures 16 has him kidnapped, only to readily escape and overcome his captors without even mussing his suit. It is later mentioned that he has overcome 27 kidnapping attempts.

-Reads the Artimis Fowl novels

So yeah, Alfred is the best, he’s a hell of an actor, a resourceful former secret agent that has dated Dr. Thompkins and has a secret agent child with an unnamed woman

Why am I tagging this DP x DC? Simply fertilizing the soil. Not everyone is as familiar with the character, especially with how confusing continuity is. Me rambling on is simply an effort to both educate, and give creators in this crossover more things to work with. Maybe it inspires someone, maybe they use this information just to add a little something. Maybe they think, “huh, that’s interesting” and never have to use it

Also I’m just glad we collectively ignore the fact Alfred is dead in current continuity. If you didn’t know, Alfred is dead after Bane snapped his neck and killed off one of the best characters. So I guess we could tie it in with Danny meeting him as a ghost,

 Alfred haunting wayne manor just to get Bruce to take care of himself 

[cloudslou]

sorry im back on it again this morning (since i think these asks i came across are from the same op as the last post i screenshotted and this is likely in response to my post and the tags of others on the post)

a) op states that refusing to acknowledge harmful things a person (woman) is doing is not feminism. thats true, its not. and it’s not what i do, either. what i am specifically talking about is baseless comments made that distort reality and presume olivia to be an unequivocally immoral person and harry a victim of a stunt, rather than understanding this as a mutually-beneficial arrangement that both parties have entered into, with full knowledge of what it entails and what would be asked of them

b) if anything, there is no “lowering an objective moral and ethical standard” for women, but in fact an unreasonably high standard women (in general, but also specifically within this fandom context) that women must meet to ever be considered acceptable (and if any woman has met this standard, please do tell me cus i cant name one). the things olivia is derided for, the thing she is hated for, are in equal measure (or greater) present in harry styles. “treating others poorly in professional settings” (firing previous members of his band w/ little to no regard for their financial wellbeing or that that his tour was likely the major source of income they were waiting for since they had been slated to work it prior to covid) (not to mention that olivia’s supposed mistreatment of people is, so far as can be materially proved, pretty baseless atm), “allowing them to make everything about sex to the detriment of other people’s comfort” (again, fairly baseless for olvia since she has talked about a range if things in regards to dwd, and she is hardly to blame for the focus that media outlets and fans have on sexual aspects of the movie) (and i think this is where harry’s music videos come in-- in ws and lnt both he was full clothed surrounded by much-less-clothed women, and i think its likely models and actors in the videos were more likely to accept the role despite discomfort because of financial motive, and i do not think there was any kind of intimacy coordinator to help manage sexual and sexist scenes, since this role is apparently very important to dwd haters)

c) i disagree with the “crux of feminism” here and find it unbearably shallow, but the whole “women do bad things too!” is the most useless and overdone idea of modern feminism, as if women do not have a history of being accused of wrongdoing, being thought to be immoral, being the scapegoat for all things bad and the downfall of good society, etc. there is no “dehumanizing” here or denial of “complexity”.

d) literally what in god’s fucking name decisions are you talking about in which patriarchy made it harder for olivia to make the RIGHT decisions?? (also condescending but). for all that this last paragraph pretends to be sympathetic to patriarchy and the impact it has on women, it all comes down to “well even if patriarchy is involved, olivia still did wrong and deserves no ‘pass’ at all and btw i have no empathy for her and the position she is in”. again, no one is getting a “pass”, but if someone actually wanted to consider patriarchy as a motivating factor for any of olivia’s actions, i think you would end up at a much more nuanced and empathetic conclusion.

e) my “crux” of all of this is that it is absurd and obviously misogynistic to say baseless things about olivia and hold her to much higher standards than you would harry. clearly so. if you dislike olivia, stop paying attention to her. disengage. admit that your dislike comes from a place of “protecting” harry and not liking the choices HE is making, rather than pretend you are on a moral crusade.

[coockie8]

Bridgerton fandom right now just spamming tags with like fifty unrelated characters not mentioned in their original post. One memorable one today was a post concerned people's internet behaviour towards the Duke of Hastings, over sexualizing him and the actor who plays him and the OP complaining about it. Meanwhile in their tags like it's the whole fucking cast list names down to minor characters just to get reach for their pearlclutching. It's like twenty to thirty characters named nothing to do with the post. I also saw a Terf using popular tags asking people to donate to her cos she was starving and ran out of foodstamps apparently but like yesterday she had posted and was complaining about the perils of jeanshopping. If you're starving and broke are you going to go shopping for jeans? I just don't know man

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[tyrannusimons]

just found out something about tumblr's filter tags settings and i am in love

[desert-bluffs-and-me]

WTNV Quick Rundown - 5 - The Shape in Grove Park

Heya! Catch up on the previous episodes here! or by checking the tag #wtnv quick rundown on the blog!

This series is a bulletpoint list of lore, facts, quotes and interesting bits of whatever from the podcast/live shows for both old fans who forget some stuff and new fans that wanna get through it and catch up quick! Although I do still recommend listening eventually because there's a lot of tone I can't capture (though may try to). Now, without further ado!

Close your eyes. Let my words wash over you. You are safe now. Welcome to Night Vale.

There is a Shape In Grove Park That No One Acknowledges Or Speaks About. It gives out low moans and has a gelatinous quiver. It is considered a local historical landmark and citizens are upset that the City Council is removing it to make way for a picnic table, swingset and Blood Stone Circle. It is eventually moved to the front of the radio station, which causes the radio host to have a tiny existential crisis.* But eventually becomes angry at being acknowledged so City Council moves it in return for the radio hosts silence. It's also worthy of note that City Council is a Thing, referred to by it/it's and they/them pronouns.

There is a Night Vale Green Market Co-Op. It's Board President is Tristan Cortez. They are finally going to actually start selling food, which they weren't before due to the whole place being a coverup for secretive domestic espionage operations.

Michael Sandero, previously mentioned quarterback, has grown a second more attractive, more intelligent head. Michael's mother likes this head better and has updated the 'Which of my children do I like better' board outside of her home. Sandero gives no comment, because the radio station didn't bother to try and get one.

Illiteracy, unwanted pregnancy and violet crime is on the rise in the tarantula community. Animal control is addressing these problems with after school programmes titled "teach a spider to read: stop the madness". You volunteer by weeping into your bathtub 'until it's all gone'.

There is a Fuel and Go gas station in Night Vale. Rita Hayworth has been spotted there by Old Woman Josie and an angel she is with. Even though this person looked nothing at all like Rita, the angel assured her it was Rita.

The Night Vale Community Theatre is introduced. They're having auditions for 'Once on This Island'. As well as the usual things expected of such auditions, is it required to give blood, stool and have radiation testing. You are NOT allowed to sing anything from South Pacific and POC are encouraged to audition as part of the equal opportunities employment offered by the theatre group. Also, actors with long-range sniper training, Fortran computer programming, and top-notch wilderness survival skills are a plus. Results are announced in secret.

The radio host does not understand or trust the moon. Like, the actual moon. He doesn't get it. He tried to ask Carlos about it, but Carlos hasn't been seen much since his haircut, it seems.

The Night Vale District has made some changes to it's elementary school curriculum: History class will focus more heavily on textbook readings and traditional exams, rather than live ammo drills (due to parent feedback).

Geology is adding a new type of rock on the grounds that it’s been awhile since anyone has done that (Vimby which is pale blue and completely edible. Points will be awarded to the first student to discover a real world example of it.)

Math and English are switching names. Their curriculum will stay exactly the same. Astronomy will now be conducting stargazing sessions with blindfolds, in order to protect them from the existential terror of the void (Pluto has been declared imaginary)

All classrooms will be equipped with at least one teacher physically present for the entire instruction period. Astral projection will no longer be used in any classroom situation.

In addition to the current foreign language offerings of Spanish, French, and Modified Sumerian, there will now be Double Spanish, Weird Spanish, Coptic Spanish, Russian, and Unmodified Sumerian.  

Weather: "Jerusalem" by Dan Bern, danbern.com

There is a service for Intern Leland at the radio station, where he is buried in the break room (as customary) and the questions of his family cannot be answered.

The radio host finally names himself as 'Cecil' at the end of this episode.

He once more signs off with 'goodnight listeners, goodnight'.

[kristalpepsi]

Temptation Stairway Thoughts™ + Theory Discussion

TW: blood + Death mentions, Implied (forced/pushed) integration (systems), racism (against asians), unreality stuff bc the show is Like That, Trauma causd by therapy

TL;DR = I mainly talk about implied integration, n as some1 in a system tht! mkes me uncomfy! I mainly will talk abt wht I’m calling the multi-ena theory (n anothr theory ill call the Multiple/Multi-Enaverse Theory) thts been popping up n disccng how thts kind of the bggst thng keepng me on board! I won’t LIE I might b a little biased bc I rlly do like thise show b I am NOT blind so I will try 2 address som things. I also talk alot abt the Shepard n Phindol bc I love themb so much they make me very heart Big.

DISCLAIMERS:

Obviously Joel G Highkey/definitely/most probbly did not intend 4 any of thise, but media is very complic8d so u cn end up accidntlly making problmtc things or implyng not great things

I hav a typing quirkkkk so if u cant understand my post I rlly dont blame u! I’m sorry how I type is Incomprehensible™

Not an angry post, more like my brain is holding me host-ge until i talk abt everyth dskfjhd!!

DO NOT Send anyone in thise post hate or angry asks/messages or perish by my sword

OK so this recnt episde has me w vry vry mixd feelngs!!! I’m both happy n exctd! b litrlly 2 things is whts bothrng me. While I CLD jst say :I Am Lookng Away: i rlly do need 2 write it down. Under a Read-more bc im secure SKSJ

Part 0: I’m uncomfortable help

The Section wher i tlk abt n bring up othr ppl’s concerns

So fr most if nt all the frnds I hav who also wtch Ena ALSO has a vry “vr vry mixd feelngs now tht I’ve seen the episde!!” mood twrds Temptation Stairway! It’s 4 a bunch of rsns, like thise post (tw racism) mde by a frnd whch brings up a good point

Part 1: The Actual Intro

Episode 1 = Auction day (AD) Episode 2 = Extinction Party (EP) Episode 3 = Tempation Stairway (TS)

Who is Ena

Ena can b describd as an "abstract girl split in half, w 1 blue side n the other is her yellow side!" Each side (emotion/mood, 2 b specific) seems 2 hav their own voic actor credited along with seper8 credits 4 each mood! So far the canon sides r Ena (happy), Ena (sad), n Ena (drunk)! They seem 2 act accordingly: Happy acts happy n optimistc, Sad acts sad n especlly depressd, n Drunk acts confused n dizzy [In the Credits, it would look like thise: Ena (happy) by Gabe V., Ena (sad) by Lizzie Freeman, (drunk) Ena by Sam Meza

4 Episodes 1-2, thy follow thise pattern exctly! So we cn expect wht 2 see from them, n each voice actor is creditd accordngly as seper8 b all a part of Ena

On epside 3, Ena is seen as actng diffrnt!! She's suddnly less predictabl! I say thise bc Suddenly, her voic Actors r not stuck 2 Only their sides. Thise is also emphasized when looking at the credit list! No longer is it "Ena (happy) by Gabe V., Ena (sad) by Lizzie Freeman" it's now jst "ENA by Gabe V. and Lizzie Freeman"

Happy's voic can sound STRESSED n sad, Happy can tlk w Blue's side in mor control n Sad's voic can sound Really happy n optimistic. Somth's Diffrnt n Not The Same

Temptation Stairway Summary

Skipping 2 my point, The summary of the episode Temptation stairway is tht Moony and Ena have a bet 2 race 2 the Great Runas! The Great Runas, can grnt u any wish accordng 2 Moony n som of those Ena passes by on the wy. The wager, is tht "whoever reaches the top of the Great Runas n makes their wish 1st, has 2 pay the debts of the loser" (yes it’s phrased like that) As Ena journeys thru, The DIFFERENCES between Ena Temptation Stairway and Ena Extinction Party n Below, is mor obvious as the epsde progrsses, even 2 wher Happy's voic actor is the 1 screamng in agony 2 jst get murdered already. The Episode ends w Moony beatng Ena (but it's 100% possibl it can be the other way arnd, that ENA Beat Moony, b thats somth I'll discuss in a bit L8r). Moony splits in half, revealing that according 2 her, "she wished 2 be skinny" n a humanoid coms out of her previous form. As 4 Ena, Her blue side slowly dispprs n its not answrd why.

Theories so far, are:

Moony wished 4 Ena 2 b happy (or 4 her sad/blu side 2 go awy. 4 wht reason can b eithr wholsom or 2 Moony's advntge [like so she "doesnt have 2 deal w Sad Ena"]) - b if Moony wished 4 Ena 2 b happy/b rid of her sad side, tht wld mean perhaps she lied about wishing 2 be skinny (her new humanoid form may be how she is "paying her debt 2 the loser"). Unless the Runas can grant u more than 1 wish.

Ena ws the 1 who wished her blu side awy, whch is a little depressng tbh

If both the above r tru, it may b possibl bc it wsnt clarified (afaik) tht the great runas can only grant ONE person a wish (or more). I think we only get tht implica8ion bc we see 1 (open) door while in the distance, ther r more doors tht look like their eyes r closed. We hav 2 remembr Moony said "whoever makes their wish 1st whch means Ena n Moony can totlly mke wishes @ the sme time

Somhow, turning pure yellow/only happy is how Moony is payng her debt 2 Ena(??) (opposite 2 the 1st theory)

OR If Ena won the race, it can even b possibl 2 consider tht Ena did not make ANY wish, n her debt 2 pay 2 Moony is her sad/blue side removed (I do not subscribe 2 thise) 

This info that was brought up 2 me is high evidenc that Moony won the race, n it explains how Moony surprises Ena whn Ena arrives. “I’m The Best and you’re the worst! I wonder who got the hair chest?” said by Ena, is a direct reference 2 a phrase usd by kids when they lose that goes “First is the worst, second is the best, third is the one with the hairy chest.”

“Whoever reaches the top of the Great Runas n makes their wish 1st, has 2 pay the debts of the loser.“ Might be phrased tht way as a weird way 2 pay 4 ur greed? (Last minute addition from me since some people wld think this is quoted wrong in and outside of the youtube comments)

i'm p sure ther may even b mor theories b i dont rmmbr them OOPS

Part 2: The Implied Integration Part AKA: How the System!Ena theory is affected by this episode

TW: Final fusion discussion, medical trauma (Is that the right word)

Disclaimer: This is 100% unintended by Joel G. That’s y the Alternative title 2 thise part is “How the System!Ena theory is affected by this episode”

2 GET IN2 the whole Implied Integr8ion part of my Essay™ I hav a theory calld system ena or sys!ena! (Check out my #system ena tag. This is in chronologicl order!) While thers no canon explan8ion 4 how Ena herslf is how she is, she mkes very intrstng n almst good accdntl Sys Represent8ion 2 me! They even show cofronting rlly well! I headcanon Ena as a system bc of the accidentl system!rep, but it explains 2 me y n how she switches! she has triggers 4 when she switchs 2 a diffrnt side, etc!

Ther hav been theories about Temptation Stairway in the past (before the episode cme out) wher ppl try 2 explain y the trailer Looks Like Tht. Besides theorizing abt the introduction of a new forme (I'm ok w just calling it Scared/Anxiety 4 now until 4rthr notic), 1 of the theories ive seen is tht Temptation Stairway's new introduced forme is due 2 being something akin 2 being "integr8d" (probably by force, accordin 2 the OP) (in other words, all her sides merge in2 one) n Ena being devast8td abt it

While tht theory is now DEBUNKED, bc the new forme clearly did not come out bc of being One Single Mind now, the "integr8ion" part of tht theory is unfortun8ly a littl tru

What is Integr8ion?

Integr8ion is not inherently a bad thing. In systems, ther are 2 definitions: "the breaking down of barriers 2 form healthy multiplicity, n then healthy communic8ion n less amnesiac barriers" and the othr, n mor FAMOUS definition bc its the oldest 1, is "final fusion"

Fnal Fusion is when all the members "fuse/merge" 2gether until ther is 1 single mind left. While not necssrlly a bad thng, final fusion n ther4 "integr8ion" is a scry thing 4 a lot of systems 2 talk abt, because in the history of Treatment, Final fusion is uslly somthng forcd on2 systems 4 the longest time :^(

Very valid 2 hav final fusion as a goal, b showng it as a desire n end goal is uslly seen as a sad n even scry thing 2 promote accdntly or not in media, bc of the previous traumas in the medicl/therapy world of system treatment etc

What's Worse. is tht if we apply the Ending 2 Temptation Stairway to the System!Ena Theory, thts wht hurts!!!

Scrolling back up 2 the possibl theories of who won the race and wht happened aftr, Either Moony or Ena wishing 4 the blue side/Sad Ena 2 go awy is rlly painful!

B I'll be honest, thts a RLLY biased n personal opinion i hav!! I've seen ppl think its rlly wholsom altho a bit Sad, tht the blue side disappears. I've seen ppl think its rlly sweet esp if it was Moony who mde tht wish

BSCLLY If I were to hold on2 the System!Ena headcanon while watchng the Temptation Stairway episode, its Hurtful, not rlly bc of the implied Integr8ion of Sides, but bc most top theories r that the blue side disappeard on Purpose either from Moony or Ena wishing her away or involvng the debt! It's like asking 4 ur sibling irl 2 Disappear and cease 2 exist. it's scary n rlly sad esp whn the audienc can c tht Sad, Happy, n Drunk cn almst b seen as their own persons n mite even b abl 2 interact w each othr (as seen by the many fanart of Happy n Sad having their own seper8 forms)

  Ok so Now tht ive described my intro n Main Beef w the Episode, here's a theory I cn rlly get behind tht dsnt mke me wnna cry behind a Denny's. Prsnlly it's a rlly relievng theory even if it mite b hard 2 take in

Ther's no name 4 it, som call it the Enaverse, b just so it dsnt get confusd w other definitions (like, u wldnt call it the Marvel Cinematic Universe theory, the MCU is jst wht it is) I'm gnna call it the Multi-Ena theory! Bsclly, there's mor than 1 Ena in thise universe. But I'll get in2 a sub/partner theory tht is also possibl: ther is mor than 1 enaverse n somhow u may or may not b abl 2 travel between them

Part 3: The Multi-Ena theory

Something interesting I noticed was that the shepherds says “another ENA troublemaker?” Which definitely means more than one ENA/person has been there before.

(I blockd out the rest of the commnt not bc it ws bad, b i wantd 2 focus on this part of the commnt, but thise commnt will come up again L8r)

Not connected 2 System!Ena or the integr8ion issue I mentioned earlier, the multi-ena theory seems 2 b 1 of the top suggstd theories bc of many thngs! Bsclly n in short, thise theory believs tht in the series (or Enaverse), ther is multipl ena's! So fr i havent seen a post tht RLLY went in2 depth on thise so here is my attempt!

Evidence:

(See: above explanation on how the voic actors r credited 4 their roles individlly 2 explain my system!ena theory/intro) In episodes 1-2, Ena's diffrnt emotions/sides r creditd individually! In Temptation Stairway, Gabe n Lizzie Freeman r all creditd undr the sme nme, just as "Ena" (mening thise is a completely different Ena from the past)

Again, as said in my summry 4 Tempt8ion Stairway, thise Ena acts compltly diffrnt n is not follwng the sme "pattern" or rules as Ena did in Episodes 1-2! (Read above in my summary section) Either ther r stuff we've missd between Extinction Party n Temptation Stairway, or thise is a diffrnt Ena entirely.  I'd hav 2 sy prsnlly tht I'm leanng 2wrds the latter bc of how the VA's are crdtd. but if ur not convinced, let me continu:

When we meet the Shepard in 7:52 of the episode, they say (verbatim) "Arghh... Another ENA trouble maker." which implies there r more than 1 Ena's

9:08 - 9:19 when Ena jumps in2 the "Holy Code" where we head undrwtr in2 a sea of diffrnt doors, we see floating Ena models (n the comment section seems 2 gravit8 2 callng them "dead bodies") (Honorary mention: You'll notic they glitch in2 Mannequins if u pay attention 2 them). This piec of info is Direct Evidence 2 the multi-ena theory, bc ther r Explicitly mor thn 1 ena's on screen! wht's concernng n unanswrd tho, is y do they glitch in2 mannequins? Does tht mean all the mannequins we sw on screen in the begnng of the video (n onwards) were all previously an Ena? Is it only an Ena tht can transform in2 a mannequin or cn othr chrctrs also become mannequins?

Not the strongst evidenc b i'll input it anywy: Ena's Action boxes (Like when she receivs or gives items) spell her nme her as ƎNA (with a backwrds E). The thing abt thise 1 is tht we can't compare it with Auction Day n Extinction Part bc they don't have any action boxes. BUT What we CAN compare is how she is spelled in the dialogue boxes of those speakng in diffrnt languages AND in the Credits! In Episodes 1-2, She's Spelled as Ena with this captialis8ion. In Temptation Stairway the dialogue and credits consitntly spell her as ENA in all caps. May or may not allude 2 her being diffrnt, b i will admit this is the most Strechiest piec of evidnc. Tru or not, I'd like 2 refer 2 Tempt8ion Stairway ena as TS!Ena or ƎNA, prsnlly 2 differenti8 her frm the othr episodes

Pronounci8ion: BUT 2 build on the above evidence, In the beginning of the episode, Moony DOES pronounc Ena's name in different wys a lot, startng w I-NA (ai-na), ENA (ehna), n finally JENA. And this isnt new! She’s been doing it sinc Auction Day (ee-nah/ii-na) n Extinction Party (ay-nah). Thise may or my not sggst that perhaps Moony's inconsistancy is bc these othr pronunci8ions or names cld b of other ena's she's met in the past w similr or diffrnt preferences! I’d say because of her constant switchng in the beginning of Temptation Stairway, it would lean 2wards that she may know different Ena’s @ once. Otherwise, c the Multi-Enaverse theory below

Note: Every othr charctr besides Moony (So far; Merci and the Shepard) Pronounces Ena as ehna (or ehna) so it might be that perhaps Eh-na is the universal way of pronouncng Ena?

Conlusions/thghts on this theory: I prsnlly like thise a lot!! It makes Enasonas Very Possible, b also tht any interpret8ion of Ena cn b corrct or possibl! It knda saddens me tho bc im not rlly sure if we'll ever return 2 the Ena we're used 2, I wldnt rlly want 2 b stuck w/o Sad bc I thnk her role is rlly neat n can b importnt, b im biasd. I also rlly subscribe 2 thise theory bc it means whtvr happend 2 TS!Ena ds not hav 2 be permanent in the long run; Again litrlly the only thng keepng me from gettng supr upset abt the ending of Temptation Stairway, is tht the prev ena’s r not the sme n wld possibly not do thise, or tht ther r othr ena’s out ther besides THISE episod 1, who wld nvr do tht, etc

Part 4: The Multiple Enaverses/Multi-Enaverse Theory AKA The Alternative In Defense of Moony Mispronouncing Ena’s name over and over

An alterntve 2 the Multi-Ena theory, is tht there is MORE thn 1 Enaverse! So bsclly, a multiverse theory. Primarily thise my explain Not jst Ena's sudden Shift in how diffrnt she is in thise episode b may also explain how Diffrnt Moony is actng in thise episode 2. While thise isnt the top theory i prsnlly subscribe 2 (sinc ther isnt explicit evidence besides it bein an explan8ion 4 Moony n Ena's weird/diffrnt behavior), it DOES open a lot of doors 2 intrstng things 2 thnk abt!

Bsclly Moony keeps mispronouncing Ena’s name a lot (in Tempation Stairway) n its Really Rude, esp consdrng she’s always said it properly (As in @ least 1nce in an episode n not switchng multiple times) b4! so 2 Explain her Sudden change in behavior, this is actlly a Different Moony, besides a different Ena. this is a whole different universe/timeline!

LIKE If not multiple Ena's, The different Loca8ions in Ena cn probbly b traversible across dimensions! The Holy Code may b the door 2 diffrnt enaverses. The Shepard's garden cld b an interdimensionl place tht is singular n deals w diffrnt beings passing thru! While i dnt hav mch 2 sy on thise, its RLLY Interestng 2 thnk abt

Like the Multi-Ena theory, thise also opens the doors 2 enasonas being vry possibl :^) Som ppl's evidences r all involvng Moony besides how Ena's rlly diffrnt

Moony can skateboard??

Moony's square shape hole can shrink 2 hold an item

while not strong ATM or frm wht i cn see, its still very inch restng!!! Tho I would sy it is VERY on par w the Multi-Ena theory anyway

Part 5: Honorary Mentions: Mini Theories

The Great Runas is actlly a play on the "Run As" Command! I'm not very Smart engh 2 break thise down vry well, b bsclly w all the allusion 2 "codes" n the Blood ID looking like a Chip, The Great Runas being abl 2 grant u wishes makes a lot of sense! This ws brought up 2 me from a friend (@ambercard​)!

like its a command line. so then the great runas being able to grant wishes makes sense if its digital world like all the code stuff says Allows a user to run specific tools and programs with different permissions than the user's current logon provides.

Runas is a command-line tool that is built into Windows Vista. To use runas at the command line, open a command prompt, type runas with the appropriate parameters, and then press ENTER.

In the user interface for Windows Vista, the Run as… command has been changed to Run as administrator. However, you should rarely have to use the Run as administrator command because Windows Vista will automatically prompt you for an administrator password when it is needed.

and my friend who i was talking to said that probably explains what the password was for and the blood id being a login or something?

its possible using the blood id akin to using the run as administrator command since idk their name but one of the people ena met said the blood id didnt seem like her which is like. if she isnt administrator then it would make sense that using that command wouldnt match who she is

My response:

man do u realiz Ena uslly does not hav the corrct passwrd/admin privileges all the tme? Bc the guardian entity in extinction party askd her 4 1 b i guess it ws so Low Game tht it wsnt supr necsrry in the end

The Enaverse is all a computer code of some sort- most probbaly a game! AKA: This is a digital world

... If we were too treat this world as a video game this would make more sense since different play through bus and all that. Oh god this feels like a fnaf situation, taking a video that just wants to be a video and turning it into a big serious thing

Going with the whole ‘there are multiple enas representing the player’ theory, perhaps this ENA realized that she’s in a video game and isn’t taking it too well? But the game is kind of glitching out because of it.

Honorable Mentions: Random Info + Unanswered Questions

Ena seems self-aware of smth! (10:24 Ena screams "YOU'RE ALL LIVING A LIE!") May help the Run as command idea n the video game/digital reality idea! If not a video gme, they sure r Somewhere

What does the Great Runas look like?? is it the door? is ther mor thn 1 Runas?

What is Mariya n Gabo's Job? R they just like the Guardian Entity in Extinction Party but are assignd 2 this part/location of where they are?

In 6:30, wht does Ulysses mean by "Desires r never fulfilled nor quenched"? "You Will fail like the rest of them" Is he referring 2 the other Ena's that's passed by? who else have come n failed?

This Post Also brings up som good points I hvnt noticd yet!

Thise comment pretty much says everythng:

Standout things from this animation:

-This Ena switches between a male & female voice at seemingly random instead Happy speaking with a male voice and Sad speaking with a Sad voice. The text boxes noticeably refer to this Ena with a reversed E, and The Shepard says "Another Ena troublemaker", implying that there are multiple Enas. We also see some Ena corpses flickering into the mannequin bodies at one point. Third, at the end we see Ena's sad half turn from blue to yellow over the course of Ena & Moony's conversation. My personal theory is that this Ena is possibly 'broken' in some manner. -Moony either doesn't care or dosen't realize that Ena's voices aren't matching the personalities anymore. -The grey personality appears to come out when Ena gets too stressed out. Notably the transformation involves the happy half turning into static and exploding out, erasing Ena's face in the process. It also appears that some physical trauma (in this case, Brick Frog kicking Ena) is necessary to exit the grey personality, unlike the previously seen 'blackout' personalities which can possibly be switched by the other personality exerting themselves (in the auction episode, Ena enters her sad blackout/depressed personality, then switches to Happy!Ena, who apologizes to Moony about her depressed outburst). -Moony's hole is capable of closing to hold things, and she also knows how to skateboard. -Judging by Ena's reaction, Moony's transformation at the end is weird even by this universe's standards.

aaaand thats all 4 now! I really hope thats all my brain can think of skjsdhfsdfkh

Feel free 2 send me asks abt Ena theories n stuff! While this is a Comprehensiv post, it’s definitely mor focused on the Multi-Ena theory n my thghts on the episode whn it comes 2 how it affects the System Ena theory. I’m open 2 questions!!

Last Edit: Feb 19 2021 (GMT +8)

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Okay so.... I've encountered your tags about "the talking scene between trapper and hawk in dr pierce and dr hyde the stuttering the grabbing the not blinking how another of hawk's coping methods has bitten the dust#trapper being soft parental but annoyed and how he needs to check out while hawkeye needs to save the entire world"... if you have time, Go off! I would love that 2000 word essay and your opinions.

It’s a bit of a mess and would probably get a C- if I handed it in, but! Dr Pierce and Dr Hyde and how it shows the difference between Hawkeye’s and Trapper’s coping methods.

Context! Alan Alda wrote the episode, mental health is important to him (not to psychoanalyze an actor, but he had depression before the show and his mom was schizophrenic) and there’s a quote on how Hawkeye didn’t actually change much in the eleven years, just had his coping methods beaten down.

So throughout season one, Hawkeye and Trapper have mostly been ignoring the trauma of a war. Hawkeye naturally ended a movie with a speech about propaganda (Yankee Doodle Doctor) and Tommy tells them (Sometimes You Hear The Bullet) about a kid who should have been the blonde hero in a war movie actually dying and not hearing a bullet, forcing them to actually quietly think about it. But for the most part, they can distract themselves with booze, pranks and women, and Hawkeye can still draw a straight line between his tenuous sanity pre-war and the place he’s in.

There’s also two important episodes in season two before Dr Pierce and Dr Hyde, that make the war more personal for both of them. The first is Radar’s Report, where a scared prisoner contaminates Trapper’s patient by knocking the blood over. Trapper’s sulkier throughout the episode, obsessed with how it could have been okay if it weren’t for that incident, and less indulging of Hawkeye’s girl of the week problem. His patient doesn’t make it, and he makes a beeline to the POW’s tent, maybe would have killed him if Hawkeye hadn’t bought him back to reality. “That’s not what we’re about.”

The second is For The Good Of The Outfit. This one has a village bombed by American military and Hawkeye/Trapper run afoul of previously decent sounding generals trying to shut them up from talking about it, including passive aggressive threats to send them to the front, and specifically to Hawkeye, intercepting letters to his dad. It’s okay by the end of the episode, but he’s still livid when he finds this out.

In comes Dr Pierce and Dr Hyde. The episode starts with Hawkeye already slightly dissociated from a long shift, thinking it hasn’t ended, and Trapper having to gently take him by the arm and guiding him out of the OR, telling him he was taking the chest cases “like he was their only hope”. Hawkeye wanting to save everyone keeps popping up throughout the episode; here, when he’s stumbling into Henry and his ego filtered through deprivation making him think he’s the only one who can do chest cases, the scene I’m getting to, and the end where Trapper and Henry sum him up.

As much as Trapper is “let’s get drunk to deal, okay?” kind of comfort in comparison to BJ who can actually talk about emotions, if not necessarily knowing the best way to deal with them (Hawkeye has a type and it’s repressed blondes), he’s soft with Hawkeye – gentle touches, firmly telling him to go to sleep, indulging that chopper noise is just thunder – until he figures the best way to get his friend to rest is to sedate him behind his back.

The thing with Trapper is that while he might be a bad husband, cheating on his wife with no shame (but he keeps bringing up that Hawkeye is more perverted so that might make it easier for him to deal with, see the couple of times he glares at Hawk for flirting with Henry/a male patient, Divided We Stand, The Trial Of Henry Blake, Check Up, Life With Father, Adam’s Ribs), he’s a good father who ran into a minefield for Kim and tried to go AWOL for Cathy and Becky. That’s not to say he always treats Hawkeye like a child, that would be weird considering how much flirting they do, but when the other man is manic or badly affected, Trapper’s first instinct is to be parental.

After Hawkeye in his doubletalky way admits to Radar he’s compulsive and psychotic (sidenote:  his symptoms of strong emotions, not being able to think clearly and too many spirals to name actually bear that diagnosis out, instead of just using the word when one thinks another is behaving badly), he wanders around the camp like a ghost, making notes about corpsmen with guns and nurses checking patients in post-op.

As Hawkeye often does, whenever he finds something out, or thinks he has in this instance, he has to tell his live-in boyfriend of the season immediately, and if he can’t sleep then neither can anyone else. He sits on Trapper’s bed, extremely close and not blinking, and jostles him awake. Already Trapper’s slightly panicky, as no matter what he says about being the mellow one, any time there’s shouting or loud noise in the swamp, he always wakes up with a start. Even when he sees it’s Hawkeye it takes him a few seconds to process and get back into his role.

Hawkeye’s very sad and very quiet. For the past seven minutes, even though he’s dissociated, exhausted and not doing well, he’s still trying to do his normal thing of turning his anger sideways and being snarky or being a clown bottom for the gaggle of nurses. Going back to one of Trapper’s good qualities is that he’s a decent parent, Hawkeye can regress emotionally into being like a ten year old (incidentally, the age when he had the most trauma pre-Korea, with Billy, his mom dying, guilt over not wanting dad to remarry and at some point losing his virginity), both for funny like in Picture This and for sadness.

So he’s finally noticed that he’s in a war zone and he’s too tired to make jokes about it or distract himself from it. Trapper already sounds frustrated but still listens, telling him to go bed before he drives himself crazy. There’s been a few takes that Trapper would get sick of later Hawkeye, and given how much they really can’t talk to each other that often, even just a mention of Hawkeye’s will when he has to go to the front makes Trapper shut down and Hawkeye cover with a joke, that’s probably true. They’re both messes, but for now Trapper can give Hawkeye someone to lean on.

“If I thought I could stop it just by going to sleep, don’t you think I would try?” Hawkeye does a twitch of the head, still unblinking, and that’s just really asking Trapper to understand and take him seriously. Also the wording, he’s not saying he can stop thinking about it just by going to sleep, or stop feeling anything just by closing his eyes, although both of those are implied. He makes it very clear later on (Letters, Preventive Medicine, Blood Brothers) that he feels like he’s as bad as the war – god and martyr complex combined – and if he can’t fight against/blame everything on that then it’s time for some self loathing.

Trapper does actually pay attention and gives him some advice. Definitely not great advice, but advice nonetheless, to close his eyes when things get unbearable, and to keep checking out when it keeps happening. This can’t work for Hawkeye, who’s had a guilt complex ever since he was a child, but it’s how Trapper copes. The next episode when Kim’s mother turns up for the boy, after a time of being actually open, he goes right to dismissive snark. Plus in season three’s Mad Dogs and Servicemen, another one on how differently Trapper and Hawkeye deal with things, he shrugs that he pretends he’s not there all day along.

Hawkeye’s stuttering a bit at this point. Words are important to him, it’s why you should probably leave him a note even if you’re a man who 1) wants to forget about Korea as soon as he arrives in Boston but won’t 2) wants desperately to believe he’s straight but isn’t 3) cares through physical touch and can’t think of what to say for seventy two hours. Wordplay is important to him too, and he admits to Sidney in the finale that his brain thinks too fast. Obviously exhaustion is going to put his brain and mouth out of sync, and considering how he sounds like he’s going to cry in the mess tent when he can’t even get words out to Frank Burns, it makes him all that more helpless.

“Somebody, and it wasn’t you or me, started this war.” It’s the “whoever the them, we were always us” of it all. It’ll be more important in the third season, and what happens in Welcome To Korea, but Hawkeye has taken it for granted that he and Trapper will stay co-dependent no matter what happens or who they come up against or how their time is running out. Much how he probably didn’t tell Trapper about the abandonment trauma he’s suffered before, Trapper always reassures him to come back soon, or no charge for leaning on him, or it isn’t a Christmas goodbye, and doesn’t want to share real feelings.

Beyond that scene, with Hawkeye dragging himself off to be a hero, assume that everyone who tries to take care of him really just wants to sleep with him, and cry while singing, Trapper tries to sedate him while he’s not looking. He’s tried being parental, he’s tried the repression advice, it’s time to be passive aggressive for Hawkeye’s own good. Or what he thinks is Hawkeye’s own good. It’s not especially great on Trapper’s part, but a similar thing happens reversed in Mail Call, where a drunk Trapper tries to go AWOL and as soon as he’s distracted laughing at Frank, Hawkeye locks his bag away so Trapper won’t be tempted again. Both of them are repressed messes who can’t really talk to each other.

When that sedation attempt ends up in Frank falling over, Trapper goes to Henry to be the worried macho boyfriend. Like with the only comedic dancing allowed and not the time in Officers Only when a genuine offer gets turned down, being protective over Hawkeye where he can hear can only happen when it’s for fun/likely no real danger.

At the end, Trapper and Henry sit by Hawkeye’s bed when he’s finally asleep and talk about him. Kindly, but they know he’s unstable with a hero complex. Like Mulcahy said in season eleven, the camp has a lot of experience with not dealing with reality, and even Trapper says in Iron Guts Kelly that one man’s reality is another man’s fantasy. Nobody has the capability to talk about this yet, and Sidney and Hawkeye only really become friends in O.R. Hawkeye will wake up and he and Trapper will pretend this never happened.

When Adam’s Ribs comes around, and Hawkeye has a manic episode over needing to eat something that isn’t liver or fish, Trapper and Henry are again the ones looking after him, comparing him to their kids and Trapper in the background both snarking over Hawkeye’s slippage in sanity and looking out for him. It’s not as quite high stakes as Dr Pierce and Dr Hyde, but they’re still worried about him.

To end this out, Trapper and Hawkeye and mental health is a fun thing to look at. Neither of them are particularly emotionally intelligent yet, Hawkeye just kind of a self absorbed mess and Trapper finding it easier to be a reassuring rock and keep his own struggling to himself, and they keep things from each other while also taking past each other, but they comfort each other with jokes and distractions that only they can understand. The repressed clowns are trying, even if it does all end with a borrowed kiss and only just barely missing each other.

[theonceoverthinker]

82. Want to read another one of my Fair Game HC’s? I’m REEL-y happy to hear that!!!!

So, I’m sure many of you saw/read/participated in the Ace Op actors’ AMA today, where for the first time...really ever, but especially following 7X12, we got to hear Chris Whekamp’s perspective on what it was like to play Clover, and we were rewarded rather nicely! Look, we’ve had a rough past few weeks, and to see an actor who was actively sympathetic to our plight, who demonstrated that he himself put in a lot of effort into his character, and honestly just didn’t put his foot in his mouth the way a lot was honestly just the thing we needed.

While my question didn’t get answered, so many asked by my friends did, and I honestly couldn’t be prouder of them! 

Actually, I’m proud of all of us Clover fans and Fair Game shippers for how we behaved today. We were respectful, played by the rules, asked thought provoking questions that never entered rude or attacking territory, and kept our salt on Discord where it belonged. 

Honestly, my fandom experiences with fellow shipmates in past fandoms has had real ‘yikes’ moments (Even as recent as this week, with one of my friends being harassed and stalked), and especially given the raw deal we got three weeks ago, the way we conducted ourselves this afternoon was astoundingly mature! Special shout out to @fairgame-is-canon for being an amazing leader who has managed to keep such an emotional fandom dealing with such complex and intimidating forms of grief so well organized in the wake of this awful baiting nightmare! Rob, I think I speak for all of us in the Fair Game community when I say that you’re the fandom’s biggest spark of hope right now, and we couldn’t ask for anyone better to take on that role!

Okay! Thank you for indulging that aside of mine. Now onto the HC!

Among the things Chris spoke of was his feelings on Clover’s relationship to his weapon, Kingfisher. Now, Kingfisher has always been a really interesting thing to me. Even in a show with such a diverse set of weapons ranging from a scythe to a freakin’ trumpet, Kingfisher continues to stand out as one of the strangest. It’s a fishing rod. That’s it. Sure, we saw evidence that it MIGHT be a harpoon, but it was never used to that effect (Btw, if there was ever evidence of Clover coming back, it would be to finally see that harpoon in action), so all we’re left with is a fishing rod.

I actually touched upon theories regarding it in a previous HC, but I’m going to play with it once again because of Chris’ answer, namely that a young Clover liked to fish, and that hobby incorporated itself into Clover’s weapon when the time came to get/create one. I’ve wanted to do a Clover/Fair Game fishing HC for a while, and what better time could I have to choose to do it than now?

So, let’s do this!

-For the longest time, I pictured Clover fishing in a forest or coastal area, but considering that I also believe he never really left Atlas at all in his life, I could absolutely see him first learning to fish out in the tundra via-ice fishing. It would explain (1) how Clover is so comfortable doing missions in the arctic in just a sleeveless vest, and (2) a lot of Clover’s muscles because it makes sense that ice fishing would require a lot of power relative to other kinds of fishing because it has the added difficulty of maneuvering the resistant fish to where the hole created in the pond is, especially if the fish itself ends up being bigger than the initial hole he was working with.

-The first time Clover does any non-ice fishing fishing, it’s in Patch after he’s left Atlas. Because of all that resistance stuff I mentioned before, and its absence in the far warmer Patch, Clover ends up being really good at it! Like, he and Qrow are sent to go catch their dinner or are just fishing for funsies, and Clover’s plopping these massive fish over his head like it’s nothing. Qrow is staring at him, thinking, “I know Maidens can only be women, but is there some male variant on it that Oz never told me about (Not that it would surprise me) because THAT shouldn’t be possible!”

-Clover takes fishing trips fairly regularly. Sometimes, he’ll bring Qrow and they’ll make a day out of it. Qrow doesn’t love getting up early, not preparing the bait, but he loves relaxing once they’re out on the water. It’s so quiet and peaceful. I have this idea in my head that they usually get a boat big enough for Qrow to lean back all the way in. So Qrow will have his feet on the boat’s floor, his knees bent, and his back and neck against the wooden seats, holding his fishing rod casually in his hand. He looks up at Clover who is sitting up straight, sweetly smiling while looking down at Qrow. Clover calls him cute, and Qrow agrees, citing himself as “one hell of a catch.” It’s so peaceful out there. Qrow sits up whenever he get a bite and it gets very exciting as he pulls in his line. He’s not bad at fishing either -- not as good as Clover obviously, but he can get a few of his own catches with little issue.

-Clover and Qrow love cooking up the fish that they catch together. There’s something so satisfying about cooking up something that they caught themselves (Though they don’t like hunting). Even the gross parts of preparing the fish (A process that usually deters them from hunting) feels okay after a day out on the lake. They love pairing specific seasonings with different types of fish, sharing pieces of their dishes over dinner.

-Though Clover’s an expert when it comes to fishing in most places, the ocean has always given him trouble. He has trouble settling his line in the midst of all the waves, and just finding a spot that’s not too shallow or too unruly is really hard. It doesn’t stop him from trying, and Qrow loves him for his determination, but on some level, they both know it’s probably never going to happen. One day, Qrow throws out a line in for giggles while they’re hanging out on a dock, and within three minutes, gets a bite. That bite ends up being a nice, chunky sea bass. Qrow can’t stop laughing and gloating for over an hour after it happens, and Clover, jealous, pouts for the entirety of that hour. However, once he gets over himself and sees how happy it made Qrow to catch something like that when even Clover couldn’t, Clover smiles, realizing he wouldn’t change a thing about the circumstances.

Putting the tagged names under the cut because this got LONG!

Tagging @homokinetic @skybird13 @whipped4qrow @mooksie01 @luck-of-the-caw @xwildangel @solitude-of-stars @magneto-is-neato @o0nashipear0o @unfairgamey @doctorrwby @clover-and-co @megan-atthedisco @wash-my-brain @bisexualdisasterqrow @baelonthebrave @doubledexterity @rwby-things-i-guess @atlas-heartthrob @the-answer-was-bi-klance @compoterie @thuskindlyiboop @oceansquid @transdemion @deltastream21 @mimiori @xya-hunter

Want to be tagged in future Fair Game HC’s? Of course, you do! So send me a reply, PM, or ask to be added, and I’ll grant your greatest wish! XD

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How to Where-s-all-blue:

If you are asking for headcanons:

Ensure that I haven't already done headcanons for the character.

Do not just drop the name of the island or the arc, give me names. Each arc drops approx five-hundred new characters that I have to keep track of so by listing the characters you are really making things easier and lessen my headache.

Check whether or not I am taking a pause from the said AU, some of these AUs are the type that people only pay attention to such as the Actor AU that I seem to only get asks about. If I have stated that I'll be taking a break from it, it usually means that I've burnt all out of ideas for that AU for now or wish for people to pay attention to the other AUs that are being put a lot more attention into.

Extra Info Tidbits That Are Important:

R = OP, can also be used by the readers to project themselves into if they feel like it, part of the Heart Pirates Crew.

C = OP's friend who runs nue-nue-nomi, is in the Straw Hat Crew.

K = Mutual friend of both R and C, currently part of the Kuja Pirates, might later on leave it.

Denden Tea = Not so serious Self Insert AU, often makes an appearance in the conversation posts as well to show just how insane it'd be to simply drop yourself into the world and then think that people wouldn't think of you as a weird cryptid creature.

Yes, you are allowed to ask questions about the above mentioned AU as well though there's no guarantee that I myself know what's up with it at this point.

You fancy something on this blog and want to draw/write something related to it? Be my guest! Also you better drop me a link to it so I can reblog it here and your creativity will get the publicity it deserves.

Literally everything else:

I prefer asks over everything else, they're easy to find and notice and won't be lost in the literal sea of people reblogging and liking the posts about Law being stressed, Ace kidnapping kids to be their newest sibling and Luffy adopting people to be his older brother. Also I physically freak out whenever I get a message into DMs so- how about we avoid me throwing my phone across the room in panic and use asks, k?

Always specify what you are commenting/asking/suggesting about/for; I have several fics, posts and AUs, unless you specify what you mean, I can't answer you.

Please try to be polite and patient.

Yes, the ask box is open ALL THE TIME, and it is titled Den Den Mushi. And YES I do plan to answer every single one of them.

For longer questions, you can use the submission function though it doesn't have the anonymous ability to it as far as I am aware of.

If you do not want to have your question be seen, make sure to mention it so I can change the answer into "Private" before posting.

Before asking, please check if I've answered the question before.

While I do not mind being asked for commentary on the arcs, please just assume that I am not fully up to date with the most recent events, (I'm working on an original comic and I have a YouTube channel on top of it so my actual amount of free time is maybe 1/10th of what most have).

I occasionally do mention my other projects here, but I'd appreciate it if the questions that are directed towards them would be taken to their respective blogs such as my artblog or the comic's own blog.

If I forget to tag the above mentioned accordingly (aka R works/not OP) and if I should add a warning to some posts, please do mention about that to me.

Sometimes I show off my actual work work for you because I don't want you to get bored while waiting for me to update or worry that something has happened to me. Sometimes I do that because I am very proud of it and want to share it with people.

There might come brief moments when I am mentioning a shop or sort because as an artist I want to get paid so I can pay my bills and to eat and because these shops have literally items that I've had a hand in designing, I like the idea of shops more than putting up a patreon because that way you'll always get something back from it. Also I suck at figuring out stuff to give for patrons as a return.

Just assume that I have no idea of the actual chapter number I am on, I have an awful number memory. I literally can't even remember the birthday date of any of my siblings despite of loving them dearly.

[tastingmellow]

Close Encounters

A/n: Heyyyy, I’m back! I’m loving all the requests that I’m getting, y’all are WONDERFUL! This was a request for @l-auteuse. This also a great time to mention that Erik is not the only person I make fics for! I make fics for all the fine ass characters we know and love. Disclaimer, if I don’t know a character or actor then I can’t write for them, keep that in mind!  I hope you enjoy! Requests are open!

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Your heels softly clacked against the linoleum floors of your favorite restaurant. You were meeting up with an old friend since the two of you had ran into each other while you were out shopping. You hadn’t seen them in 7 years and you were nearly bursting with excitement. They had texted you previously letting you know they had been seated and given you the reservation name. The hostess showed you the table and you smiled, thanking her before turning to your old friend.

“Mo, you look so good, boo!” You squealed hugging your old high school best friend. She laughed softly and hugged you back. “Oh my gosh, it’s been so long! Sit down!” She exclaimed and you chuckled before taking a seat. “So, what’s been going on? I see you grew up a lot miss thing, finally grew into ya donk.” Monica spoke and you leaned over laughing, rolling your eyes. “Girl, stop playin’, I been had a lil something back there.”

The two of you joked around a little more, talked about what you two have been doing since graduation, caught up on some gossip, etc. It felt nice to finally have a friend you could talk to. Yeah, you had coworkers and met plenty of people through your line of work but people run their mouth too much. You can’t ope up to everyone. That’s why you were ecstatic when you found out Mo had moved to your city, you two would become close again.

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The night moved on steadily. You were on your third glass of wine and Mo had went off to the bathroom. You sat your table legs crossed and scrolled through your phone before you felt a presence above you. It was Mo, with a tall, dark stranger (A/N: Yes. I am cringing.). You openly sized him up, looking him up and down. “Y/N! This is my co-worker, Trevante! Tre, this is my old best friend. I know it’s odd to bring a stranger around but I used to talk about you a lot at work, especially to him. Now, he finally gets to meet you.” Mo was cheesing and you gave him a small smile as you stood up. You stuck out your hand, “Nice to meet you, hope she didn’t tell you anything embarrassing.”

Trevante smirked and shook his head, grabbing your hand in a firm grip. “Nah, nothing but sweet things. Nice to finally meet you.” He spoke, his voice deep and smooth like the finest satin on earth. you and him stood there, shaking each other’s hands for what seemed like forever. “Ahem.’ Mo’s voice finally broke the intense stare off. “Well...I guess introducing you two was my best idea yet.” She chuckled and you rolled your eyes before she looked back to Trevante. “Join us for dinner, I’m sure you’d love to get to know Y/N more.”

Trevante smiled, his white teeth making you take in a short breath. Is that alright with you?” He spoke, leaning into you a little more. “That’s fine by me.” You lightly bit your lip before sitting down with Mo, Trevante pulling up an empty chair to your table.

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The rest of the night was filled with laughter, flirty looks, and Mo’s commentary on you and Trevante. The three of you had finished dinner and were now standing in the parking lot, finishing up conversation. Mo was the first to leave, saying she had to wake up early for a meeting. leaving you and Trevante to talk. “So, Mr. Rhodes...” you trailed off and he looked at you. “Yes, Ms. Y/L/N...”. You lightly bit your lip and looked back at him. “You gonna walk me to my car?” you lightly shoved him and he chuckled before gesturing for you to lead the way.

The walk was short but in that time you had learned that he was single, never married, aspiring to run his own business, and, as he says, finds Mo to be quite a handful. “Hey, Y/N...hope this isn’t too forward but,,,you are a fine woman.” You chuckled as he gave you another amazing, nearly blinding smile. “I would love to take you out, get to know you...”

You shrugged, appearing to be thinking. “I don’t see why not. You don’t seem like a serial killer.” You laughed and so did he. You asked for his phone and put your number in it before handing it back. “I’ll text you.” He spoke and you nodded. “Bye, Mr. Rhodes.” you spoke before getting in the car.

you buckled your seatbelt and started the car, just as you were about to pull off Mo called you. “Bitch, did I just see you give Tre your number?” You rolled your eyes, laughing. “Girl, I thought you had a meeting.”

“i made that shit up so you two could be aloooone...so, what are naming the babies?” She asked and you laughed harder. “Bye!” You hung up and drove out of the parking lot, honking at Trevante.

Probably name the baby Elijah

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The 100 Final Season Speculations

I was tagged by @nightbleeder and @kizo2703

Thank you both!

From the OP by @nightbleeder​ :  It’s been a long road, but the last season of The 100 is currently in production!  Since Jason & The CW announced that Season 7 would be the show’s last, I thought it would be cool to make a post where each of us gets to share our speculations for the show’s final plot.  Then, a year from now, we can look back and see how accurate we were! 

Pick one or more characters you think will survive: Jordan, because, by this very existence, he represents hope and Marper's legacy, and it would be a huge failure on Clarke and Bellamy's part to not take care of him, as Marper told them too, so killing him off would just feel like nihilistic grimdark crap. Madi for a similar reason, and probably Hope, because they’re really not subtle with the symbolism of her name. They will have all the “new generation” characters survive. Also Niylah, Miller and Jackson will all survive, because there is really nothing to be gained by killing them off, and the show wants to avoid being called out on the Bury Your Gays trope again.

The rest I’m not sure about.  I could only see Raven dying if she gets a really good, big storyline for a change, but I’m inclined to think she won’t, and that her story is about  finding happiness, foreshadowed by Shaw’s words “Tell Raven she deserves happiness. She thinks she doesn’t, but she does.”

Pick one or more characters you think will die: Russell is 100% dying (there's no way a Prime, the Prime leader in fact, is going to survive to the end. You can't close off the story of the Primes and bodysnatching without his death. And that means definitely destroying all the mind drives and killing him off.)

Gabriel, probably - he's lived for 260 years and he will do something good to fix everything and sacrifice himself, after he has learned the mystery of the Anomaly.

Charmaine Diyoza, unfortunately, has a high chance of dying, because the show loves to kill off the parents. 

I’m not sure about the rest. At least one of the main characters will probably die, and my money would be on Murphy, who was high on my death list in season 6, because so much of his story has been about his fear of death and desperate wish for immortality, and because he was considered a cockroach who just cares about his own survival for so long - so it would be a fitting and ironic ending if he sacrifices himself. He wouldn't do it for the 'greater good', but he probably would for his friends and definitely for Emori.

You’ll notice I haven’t mentioned Clarke, Bellamy or Octavia, because they’re my biggest question marks. But the one thing I’m sure is that Clarke and Bellamy  will either die together in some great epic "Together" moment, or they survive and get a happy ending together, even if it's an off-screen/epilogue happy ending. They aren’t going to kill off just one of them. (Especially since either would be really repetitive: killing just Bellamy would feel like we're doing the old "kill the people Clarke loves so she can suffer" thing that's been done to death on this show and would feel lazy. And we've already seen Clarke sacrifice herself and "die" and Bellamy mourn her, twice, except she didn't really die either time.)

Pick one deceased character you think might make a cameo: If I had to pick just one, Abby, in a fantasy sequence/hallucination by Clarke and/or Raven. But, since it’s the last season, I wouldn’t be surprised if we get a lot of dead character cameos, depending on the actors’ availability and willingness to return, and some more reused footage flashback appearances of those whose actors won’t return.

Do you expect any romantic changes to happen this season? Definitely: Bellamy and Echo to finally amicably break up, which I expect to happen in a low-key manner (much like their relationship has been.. I wouldn’t even be surprised if it happens off-screen between episodes and they just reference it);

and Bellamy and Clarke to finally have a love confession and/or kiss and/or get together - I just hope it won’t happen at the last moment, in the last episode, before they die, but I wouldn’t put that past the show.

I don’t expect any changes to Memori or Mackson (except maybe one or both of Memori dying, which is possible). The rest is up in the air - whether Octavia, Raven or any other character will get another romance. They surely could, the show often develops romances over the course of one season or less. 

Where will the final scene take place?: It would be nice if it takes place on the Earth, which is livable again.  

What will the final line be?: “We have survived... Now... we live”. 

Who will say it?: It would be most fitting if it’s Clarke. (If she survives, obviously.) Or maybe Bellamy in reply to Clarke (same caveat). 

If they both die (and of course their last words in that case would be “Together”), then... I'm not sure, but probably one of the “new generation” characters.

What’s one thing you hope happens?: Clarke and Bellamy getting to be happy together at least for some time, any amount of time.

Do you expect a happy ending?: I expect a sort of a happy ending ("our version of happy ending” as JRoth put it), in any case. This, at the very least, means a happy/hopeful ending for the humanity. It would be fitting if it included going back to Earth and making it livable again, but I must say I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary, they could still make a community on Alpha as well. Now. which characters will get a happy ending, that’s trickier, but at least some of them will. It won’t be a nihilistic “everything sucks” or “rocks fall, everyone dies” ending.

List your favorite character, season and episode up to this point:

Character: Clarke and Bellamy (I can’t choose)

Season: Season 6 (followed by: season 2, season 4)

Episode: Blood Must Have Blood Part 2 reigned supreme for most of the show, but now maybe Nevermind, and What You Take With You, and Matroyoshka. Honorable mentions: the last three episodes of season 4 (The Other Side, The Chosen, Praimfaya) and the season 5 finale Damocles, both parts.

Tagging: @jeanie205 @theatre-steph @immortalpramheda @wankadi @wolfheartgirl @platonic-oxymoron @lee-em-dee @lesbellamy @justbecauseyoubelievesomething @still-watching @katersann @clarke-the-ferrari @persepholily @carrieeve and anyone else who wants to do this.

[jadeottsel-multimuse]

GET TO KNOW THE BLOGGER.

Can be used for RP and non-RP blogs to get to know a bit about the person behind the screen!

1. FIRST NAME: Jade

2. STRANGE FACT ABOUT YOURSELF: I used to have weak eye muscles, so one of my eyes would move oddly from the other. A month before I was scheduled to go in for surgery to correct it, I got an NES...after weeks of playing with it, I had a pre-op checkup, and they discovered my muscles there had strengthened, and therefore didn’t need to have surgery.

3. TOP THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU FIND ATTRACTIVE ON A PERSON: I...usually don’t go for physical, first, but...eyes and smile, mostly? ^^;

4. A FOOD YOU COULD EAT FOREVER AND NOT GET BORED OF: I’m gonna agree with Cast’s answer and say Rice. Jasmine rice in particular, as it smells SO good when cooking, and doesn’t need much to taste good if made right. Heck I’m good just eating it cooked in chicken broth with a tiny bit of margarine. ^^;

5. A FOOD YOU HATE: Oysters. Cooked, they are WAY too fishy...raw, they’ve the consistency of snot. Also I got deathly ill eating a raw one before, so my answer may be a little biased by that. xD; Runner up would be spicy *anything*...I’m a wuss (well, that and my stomach has sensitivity issues from the previously mentioned oyster illness); And raw onions...they smell like someone’s bad B/O. :X

6. GUILTY PLEASURE: Mystery Science Theater 3000. I love seeing these horrible movies they make fun of. The 80′s ones are particularly cringy. xD;

7. WHAT DO YOU SLEEP IN: Knit pants, and a T-shirt usually. I also have a sleeveless nightgown for when it gets too hot for that.

8. SERIOUS RELATIONSHIPS OR FLINGS: I’ve never really been one for flings; if I’m with a person it’s usually long term.

9. IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN THE PAST AND CHANGE ONE THING ABOUT YOUR LIFE, WOULD YOU AND WHAT WOULD IT BE: Find out what I did wrong in my friendship with my best friend from high school and try to fix it. That’s one loss that’s eaten me up from the inside, and I wish i could. :/

10. ARE YOU AN AFFECTIONATE PERSON: ...I *can* be? I’m usually hesitant of showing affection physically usually. ^^;

11. A MOVIE YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN: I know it’s more than one but...The Blues Brothers, Little Shop of Horrors (1986), and Ghostbusters (1984). They were just movies that kept me happy during my childhood, and I never seem to get tired of seein’ em. ^^;

12. FAVORITE BOOK: It’s been a REALLY long time since I actually read a book that isn’t a cookbook or a movie’s novel adaptation, to be honest.

13. YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO KEEP ANY ANIMAL AS A PET, WHAT DO YOU CHOOSE: Hyena. What? I find them cute. :p

14. TOP FIVE FICTIONAL SHIPS [IF YOU ARE AN RP BLOG, YOU CAN USE YOUR OWN SHIPS AS WELL]: - New Dream (Eugene x Rapunzel) (Tangled the Series) - Dislestia (Discord x Celestia) (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) - Connverse (Connie x Steven) (Steven Universe) - Chalastor or Chaggie (Charlie x Alastor/ Charlie x Vaggie) (Hazbin Hotel) -  Rupphire (Ruby x Sapphire) (Steven Universe)

15. PIE OR CAKE: Cake! I can take or leave pie, tbh.

16. FAVORITE SCENT: Chocolate, new sneakers. I know the last one is weird, but eh. ^^;

17. CELEBRITY CRUSH: Dan Aykroyd, when he was younger...but other’n that, I don’t really do celeb crushes now.

18. IF YOU COULD TRAVEL ANYWHERE, WHERE WOULD YOU GO: Disneyland Paris. Phantom Manor is *chef’s kiss* and I’d love to go on it in person. <3

19. INTROVERT OR EXTROVERT: Introvert.

20. DO YOU SCARE EASILY: Yep, it’s why I can’t do games with jumpscares. :c

21. IPHONE OR ANDROID: IPhone.

22. DO YOU PLAY ANY VIDEO GAMES: I play plenty of games!  I’m honestly a sucker for MMOs, I’ve been playing WoW off and on since I was a teenager, and though I’m currently more focused on Final Fantasy 14 at the moment, I go back to the other game every now and then. I love my goblin hunter, ok? :p Also I’m currently excited for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. :D

23. DREAM JOB: Voice actor, or a cook. <3

24. WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH A MILLION DOLLARS: Get the heck out of California and move closer to my s/o. lol

25. FICTIONAL CHARACTER YOU HATE: Hate is a strong word and I wouldn’t use it...but I dislike Ronaldo in Steven Universe. I can’t stand him. Sorry!

26. FANDOM THAT YOU WERE ONCE A PART OF BUT AREN’T ANY LONGER: As a rule, I never really get too deeply involved in fandoms as a whole, really. That said, I think the last “Fandom” I was actually involved in was South Park, YEARS ago, as a teenager. I don’t really watch the show anymore though, and didn’t really keep in contact with those I knew back then online.

tagged by. @stagtic technically (..?) tagging. do it if you want xP

[fictionkinfessionsarchived]

responses, replies, you know how is it, who it is!! [its me the party cat!]

Anonymous said: oh god shaky hands did that "i think Name just wants to be understood, etc etc he didn't [stuff]" ask send on anon

You're fine, anon! That one was anonymous!

Anonymous said: got paranoid about forgetting to turn on anonymous,, if you just got an ask about memories of [thing before thing] and it’s not anonymous please delete it

That was definitely anonymous! You're ok!

Anonymous said: hi party cat!! you had post/186855979462 tagged as critical role but it’s actually psychonauts!!! sincerely, raz psychonauts ;D

Anonymous said: post/186855979462/ is Psychonauts, not Critical Role

Oh? Tres embarassmentos! Thanks anons! I kinda remembered a Sasha from something, but that wasn't the right thing! IT's fixed now!

Anonymous said: hey that darkwing duck kinfession is factkin, just thought you should know. i think by “jim” they mean jim cummings, aka the voice actor from the original darkwing duck show

Anonymous said: Hey so that darkwing duck ask from a while ago signed by Jim is a factkin ask. Jim Cummings is the voice actor of darkwing duck. That’s factkin

Ohhh that's gross! I thought that was a character because there's people with typical human people names like Louie and Dewie! It's deleted now! thank you both!

Anonymous said: pls for the love of Everything tell me my ask was on anon - the [source] anon who is Nervous because mobile Sucks

Yeehaw its anon! And if it helps, I think most mobile browers let you open a private tab so you can only send in things as anonymous since you're not logged into any account!

Anonymous said: August 9th 2019, 4:19:55 pm · 5 hours ago Hey!!!! I’m p sure that Consigliere is town of salem kin, mod party cat. - A v anxious werewolf

Oh! Ha! Yeah I figured that out when the next couple of kinfessions kindly added some hints! x3c Googling the name didn't give me much, especially when adding in the mentioned mafia! lollerskates! Well I'll go fixed those other kinfession posts with tags! Thank you all the same!

Anonymous said: Some of you guys take this too seriously. Like. Please. Go outside.

I was outside literally a half hour ago! I left work, hopped on the subway, hopped off to buy some groceries, and took an express bus line back home! What do you want from me? To stick my head out the window while cooking dinner and tomorrows lunch/dinner? Wash dishes with my leggy out the kitchen window? [no way i can't reach it!! It's like seven feet high ok!] 

Lollerskates, anon, it's too hot for this! Let's both cosplay fuzzy homocidal doorstops on the hardwood floor, eating popsicles! And then when can go out when the night falls and it's cooler out, we can stick our heads out the window and look at the stars! It's a date!!!!  If you're not in a better mood by then, purr-haps my candied ginger will help? Promise I didn't lick any! [its a new package!]

Anonymous said: post/186541892347 is tagged as Warcraft kin but it's about No Evil! Also, Nerevar might be their ustom tag but I don't think it's about being kin with Nerevar? OP can correct me on that part if they wish.

>.> Hmm! I thought nerevar was from warcraft? But they might be from Final Fantasy, or The Elderscrolls? But the 'No Evil' doesn't bring up anything for me? Could be wacky search results...! Either way, I'll tag it as noevilkin, and we'll see if they come back with more hints on who they are! We have quite the mystery on our paws, anon!

Anonymous said: Hewwo mod party cat!, in the recent ask from present mic with his soap box (I'm on mobile app so I dont know how to get a link I'm sowwy,,) bnha kin and caps cw are together in 1 tag! Thought it might help to let you know, thank you for all you do!!!

Ha! There I go, running across the keyboard! No way to type, honestly! Thanks anon, I type too fast for my own britches and forget to fix it as I watch the message faded away as I hit 'queue'! That's fixed now! I should remember to slow down my keyboard poking!

Mod Party Cat!

[go-diane-winchester]

How come Misha gets away with causing so much damage to this show?

Thanks for the conundrum @staycejo1:

That is a good question to ask.  How does Misha get away with so much?  The reason is simple.  Misha is smart.  Compared to Jared who is merely scholarly or book smart, and Jensen who is intelligent with regards to cinema and various arts [he hit the nail on the head with wincest, year ago], Misha is shrewd.  I don't like the man, but I have to admit, he is very smart.  He is using something I learned about whilst studying Public Relations: networking.  Networking requires skill.  You need to know how to talk to people and you need to know which people to talk to.  If you network properly, you reap major benefits.  There are a few cliques that Misha might be networking with:  SPN production personnel, SPN alumni and cast members, Creation Entertainment, media personnel and selected fans. 

SPN Personnel and affiliates

I elaborated on these people in other posts.

Bob Singer:

Bob Singer has been a co-showrunner for almost all the time that SPN has been on air.  He handles production while the other co-showrunner handles the story.  And yet, this man never gives the impression that he is a showrunner.  When Sera Gamble killed off Castiel, rumor has it, that Singer fought to bring the character back. 

Eugenie Ross-Lemming and Brad Buckner

She is Bob's wife and was brought on board with her writing partner, Brad  Buckner.  Since season 7, she has enjoyed many promotions.  Now she is a co-executive producer on the show.  Nice to work for your husband, huh.  She and Brad butchered Sam's character until recently.  I think Jared told them off.  They were demonizing Sam to elevate Castiel's status.  Currently, they are not writing destiel.  They are not stupid.  They are writing enough material to keep Misha on the show. 

Robert Berens

Robert or Bobo Berens started off as a writer and moved up to co-executive producer.  He allows the leads to be abused by heller fans, that he follows online.  Remember, he is the one following problematic fans and not the other way around.  Does that even make sense?   

What personal stake do they have in keeping Misha relevant?  Well, they all take their cue from Bob, and he is a close friend of Misha's.  If Bob has a stake in Random Acts or Gish, then it might explain why he isn't willing to let Misha go.  But I don't have that information just yet. 

Stands

Misha has shares in Stands.  For awhile now, they have been pushing destiel related merch.  When they start to regret it, you will see a change.  This is because hellers are already complaining about getting duped by Misha regarding the merchandise.  We will just have to wait and see.

SPN alumni, cast members and affiliates

I spoke about these people before so I will gloss over them here.

Kim Rhodes and Brianna Buckmaster

They needed Misha for Wayward Daughters.  They have affiliation with a bunch of fans who are involved in the Travis Aaron Wade scandal. 

Osric Chau and Orlando Jones

I don't think Osric had any personal stake in elevating destiel.  He really loved SPN and the fanbase.  He was probably trolling destiel for fun like Orlando Jones does.  The minute both men realized how problematic the hellers are, they slowly backed off.  I don't think Orlando Jones has spoken about destiel in a while.  He still is a friend with Misha as is Osric.  I don't think these actors have any ill will.  So far they just seem like a couple of trolls.  Misha's networking failed with Destiel but succeeded professionally because these two men may be able to ''hook him up'' with other projects. 

Creation Entertainment

Someone once pointed out that Adam, the CEO of Creation Entertainment, is in fact, Misha's cousin.  I don't have any sources of that.  However, for awhile CE was pushing a lot of YANA and destiel related things on their con circuit.  The reason is because they have financial stakes in Misha's charities and thought that pushing destiel might make his fans shell out more money.  The cockles photo ops probably gave them the erroneously impression that Misha himself, is profitable.  Recently, however, this happened. 

https://jolygram.com/profile/creationent/photo/1842990860569353024_552397215

They added a caption:  Name a better duo.  We'll wait.  So was Cockles not better anymore?  Misha is not profitable, so all of a sudden, CE loves the leads.  I think they realized that when Misha's entire con fails but one of Jared's sweaty hoodies which he wore all day, fetches $8000 during an auction, that maybe they were betting on the race horse that dances rather than runs to the finish line. 

Their personal stake was money which is why they dropped Misha and destiel related endeavors like a hot potato.  Misha's networking failed here.  Well, not completely.  I heard there might be a new Misha con.  I think they want to be sure that he is a failure before letting go completely. 

Media Personnel

There are many kinds of mediums that are available to Hollywood.  Some are more important than others.  There are small trendy little pointless media outlets, usually social media outlets, like Hypable, ONTD and Geekiary.  There are bigger more credible ones, also known as mass media outlets, like E! Entertainment.  The heads pick up on news coming from the mass media.  They don't bother with small outlets, and that is where Misha does his networking.  He has people working within these outlets who are not legitimate reporters.  They are merely gossipers and shippers in disguise.  These outlets are invited to meets to disseminate information and that is where Misha connected with these viruses.  Some of these pseudo-journalists have since been demoted, reprimanded or fired for misinformation. 

What is their personal stake?  Self-importance.  Hellers and their sock accounts keep these peoples social media handles active. 

Selected fans

These are fans that are overly invested in either Castiel or destiel.  Most of them are nobodies but because of their association with Misha, they are recognizable figures.  These are meta writers and influencers within the fandom.  Their names are: 

Lua James, with a twitter handle, poptivist.  Real name:  Theresa Cotter

Influencer who regularly attacks Jared on SM, and fled California after Travis's house was vandalized.  Close friend of Kim Rhodes.  Destiel shipper.  Claimed to be a Journalist.  Not sure about that.  Followed by Kim, Matt Cohen, Robert Berens and Briana on SM.

Monica Gleberman

Very big shot.  Lua's bosom buddy and Swagger magazine journalist or editor.  She is a minion who lied that she had sex with Jensen and Jared.  Commits fraud. 

Emily Cleghorn

Influencer.  Not sure if she is a meta writer.  Runs the SPN anti bullying twitter handle and Exorcising Emily blog on Tumblr.  J2 kicked her out of con once, because she made them uncomfortable with a tweet.  She got into a twitter fight with William Shatner over destiel. 

Reba Snodgrass 

Runs small cons like Wayward con.  Proven liar.  Has to know Misha personally in order to run the cons. 

Janelle Clay Davis

Influencer, also known as intelligentshipper on Tumblr and GhostofBobby on Twitter.  Claims to be haunted by the YED.  Pushes destiel like a religion.  Cyber stalks people.  Posted a selfie where she is posing with a gun recently. 

Sara Burnhope

Knows Misha and his parents personally.  Random acts volunteer as well as Gish participant.  Might have worked with YANA although I am not sure about that one.  Attacks people on his behalf on social media.  Cyber bully.  From the UK.  Might be an influencer.  Not sure if she writes meta. 

Melanie Adeline

Regular con-goer and influencer.  She has fans of her own.  She belittles Jared to his face.  Destiel shipper.  Knows Misha and Briana personally. 

These influencers and meta writers are important because without them and their overreaching meta, Destiel will fall flat.  Misha accidentally tagged their meta once in a tweet.  Or so he claimed.  What is their stake, other than canon destiel?  Self importance.  These randos are suddenly important people, because Misha put them in that position.  They are the ones who encourage people to vote for Misha for awards, and harass the execs for destiel.  They are the ones who attacked J2 for the Nolacon joke and influenced others to follow suit.  The above women were implicated in the Travis Aaron Wade scandal.  There may be more, but these are the worst of the worst.  As far as I know anyway.

So to answer the question, why does he get away with this problematic system that he has put in place?  Notice, that he is affiliated with small fries.  Misha, like I mentioned before, is a nobody.  People are not linking the irritation they are dealing with, to Misha.  Misha's criticism of SPN's misogyny was reported in those petty small media outlets where his hellers are working.  And it was written in a such way that he is portrayed as a good guy.  If E! spoke about it, Misha would have been in trouble because Pedowitz and gang pay attention to E! not Hypable.  That's why they don't fire him.  They don't know what he has done because he has spn people in his back pocket covering for him.   

Even J2 don't have time to look through their own panels.  They are certainly not paying attention to Misha's panels.  So obviously Jensen doesn't know about this. 

If Jensen was aware of this, a fistfight would have broken out of the set.  Jensen would have boxed Misha's ear.  Because this is sick.  This was apparently at one of the Chicons.  I don't know which one, because I can't stomach looking at that over bloated loudmouth.  This is proof that the leads have no time to spare looking at this man's panels.  So he is confident enough to say these things knowing full well, that the lead are too busy to care about him.  He's behavior goes unchecked, and his continued presence on the show ensures that Gish and Random acts are continually funded.  He needs Castiel to keep these two machines running. 

Excuse the typos. 

[natasha-cole]

Focus: Chapter 2

Pairing: Chris x Reader x Rob

Chapters: 2/?

Word Count: 1,599

Warnings: None yet

Series Summary: Reader is a popular fandom photographer, having made a name for herself in large convention circuits. When an old mentor asks for her assistance at an event she’s never attended, she’s happy to agree. Not only does Chris have to guide her through the unfamiliar territory of a Supernatural convention; he may just have to show her exactly how he feels about her when the one man she never expected shows up for the weekend. Reader has grown used to fighting for what she wants, but what’ll happen when she becomes the focus of attention from the two men she admires most?

A/N: Part 2 of my collaboration with @wilde-abandon.

Since this is a collaboration, if you would like to be tagged in this particular series, please let me know. I won’t be automatically tagging my forever list because it’s honestly just a lot and I’d rather start fresh with this one.

Catch Up: Chapter 1

TWO

The moment you entered the room, you were overwhelmed by the sheer volume at which the music was playing. You took a moment to gather yourself before you easily spotted Chris, his back to you as he appeared to be fumbling with his gear that was set out on the table.

Knowing that you couldn’t necessarily get his attention by shouting right now, you moved up behind him and carefully placed a hand on his arm.

Startled, he quickly turned to face you, smiling widely when he saw your face.

He moved to stop his music that was blasting through the room before turning his attention back to you.

“Y/N! You’re here!”

“I told you I was here,” you chuckled.

“No, I know. But, you’re here. Right now.”

“I am,” you smiled.

“I really appreciate you coming to this. With all of these new events that the organizers keep adding, it’ll be good to have someone around who is capable of helping me out when I need it.”

“I don’t know how much help I’ll really be,” you admitted. “I only aspire to be as good as you someday.”

“What are you talking about? You’re amazing. You’ll fit in very nicely here.”

“Well, I did learn from the best,” you said as you gave him a playful nudge.

“I don’t know about that,” he laughed in return. “Anyway, I should probably give you the rundown. It’s day one and everything starts soon. This,” he began, gesturing at the room in which you currently stood, “is the photo op room. This is basically where I am at all times every day.”

You glanced around, familiarizing yourself with the setup. It wasn’t anything that you hadn’t seen before. You figured that if you were expected to spend most of your time in this room shooting photo ops, the weekend was going to be a piece of cake. However, you were still unsure of exactly what your real purpose here was. Chris had only mentioned you coming to help him out.

“So, what will I be doing this weekend exactly?” You asked.

“Like I said, just helping me out when I need it. I always have people helping me during ops, but I figured it would be nice to have someone who really gets photography to help out. You were the first person I thought of, Y/N. You’ve come such a long way from when we first started talking about photography, and you have an impressive resume. Now that I’m doing a photography workshop, I didn’t want just anyone stepping in for me to take over ops. The company also likes the idea of having someone cover the events. I figured, I’d have someone competent to help me out, and it would also give you an opportunity to photograph the convention. I think you’d really enjoy it.”

“Events?” You asked.

“Yeah; panels, karaoke, the concert... “ Chris trailed off.

“Karaoke? A concert? What kind of convention is this?” You chuckled.

“Well, it’s a lot different from what you’re used to to,” he said with a smile. “But, I think you’ll really enjoy it.”

“Okay. And I just get a free pass to photograph around here?”

“Yeah, you’ll have the same access that I do.”

He began to rummage through a bag until he found what he was looking for. He handed the item over to you and you recognized that it was basically a press pass for the weekend.

“You’ll need that to get into all of the events,” he explained. “It basically gives you free range to pretty much everything.”

“Everything?”

“Hey, perks of working with me,” he said as he gave you a wink.

You slipped the pass over your head, knowing that the weekend was already starting and that meant you’d be put to work quickly. It wasn’t usual for you to play second-fiddle to another photographer, especially at a convention; but Chris had easily talked you into basically playing his assistant this weekend. You only wondered what his job really consisted of at these things in which he’d need help to begin with.

Chris glanced at his watch for a moment before turning back to you.

“We have a little time,” he began. “I could show you around real quick before everything starts.”

“Sounds good,” you replied.

You followed Chris out of the photo op room, walking quickly just to keep up with him. He spoke as you walked, occasionally pointing out rooms that had nothing to do with you and introducing you to people that you’d forget the names of too quickly.

“This is the green room,” he explained as he held open a door for you.

You paused briefly, wondering if you had heard him right.

“Green room?” You asked.

“Yeah, our first stop.”

“They let us in the green room? Isn’t that usually reserved for actual famous people?”

Chris gave you a confused look, which was then quickly replaced by a sincere smile.

“Yeah, you’re gonna learn a lot here,” he replied. “Come on.”

You entered the room as he prompted you to and he stepped in as well, letting the door close behind the two of you.

“This is the green room,” he explained. “This is where everyone hangs out in their down time.”

“Even you?”

“Yes, even me.”

You glanced around the space; noting that it was definitely set up so that a group of people could hang out if they wanted to. There were couches and tables and a set up of drinks and snacks against a wall. The only strange thing was that no one was here. For a convention that consisted of what you understood to be quite the lineup of actors from the show, and was scheduled to begin in only a couple of hours; you couldn’t help but wonder where everyone was.

Chris must have read your mind because he interrupted your thoughts so that you could continue on.

“Come on,” he said as he began to walk back toward the door. “I’ll introduce you to everyone who’s here.”

“Where are they?” You asked as you followed him out.

“Most likely the theater,” he answered as the two of you walked back down the hall together.

Almost as soon as he said it, you could hear the faint sound of music playing down the hall. This time, you knew it wasn’t Chris’ playlist blasting.

Again, he opened the door for you, holding it so that you could step inside and take a peek. The large space was filled mostly with chairs, a few people sitting up in the front rows as a full band stood up on stage doing what you assumed was soundcheck. You heard the voice from one of the men on stage giving instructions over the sound system.

Chris nudged you as he stepped next to you, indicating that you should follow him. You did just that as he led you to the front of the room, your legs moving fast as you tried to keep up with his wide gait.

“You weren’t kidding about the concert thing,” you pointed out. “There’s actually a band here?”

“Yeah, they play all weekend. They’re on stage more than anyone else here.”

Just as you got close to the front of the stage, making your way around people and equipment, the band began to play again. You had to pause as soon as you heard the opening to the song they had started. Chris stopped short as well, looking at you in confusion. You studied the men on stage a bit harder, getting the feeling that you definitely recognized the song they were playing.

The man at the microphone with a guitar began to sing, and you smiled to yourself as soon as he started the first line of the song.

“Hey,” you called out to Chris, speaking a bit louder now that the room was filled with music. “Are these guys a cover band? I know this song.”

“This song?” He asked. “I mean, yeah they do covers, but this is a Louden Swain original.”

“Louden Swain?” You asked in shock.

Chris looked at you, trying to figure out why you were so surprised by the band on stage right now. You paid him no mind as you focused on the guys again, trying to piece together why in the world your favorite indie band was playing at a Supernatural convention of all places.

Truthfully, you didn’t recognize the guys at all. But then again, you had the tendency to just stumble upon random bands as you set up playlists to listen to while you edited. You were usually too busy to pay much attention to bands outside of listening to them. You had been listening to this particular band for the last couple of years and now you suddenly felt stupid as you realized this was them.

“You know them?” Chris asked as he broke you from your thoughts.

“Oh, I’m familiar with them,” you replied. “I listen to them all the time.”

“Yet, you didn’t recognize them the moment we walked in here?”

“Forgive me if I just listen to music and don’t let the people behind the music consume my life,” you said. “I’m a busy woman. I don’t really pay attention to who I listen to.”

Chris continued to watch you, amused at the way you were reacting over this realization of who these guys were.

“What are they doing here at a convention?” You asked.

“Seriously?” He laughed in return. “Oh, Y/N, you really do have a lot to learn.”

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