#finding magic mike

[alexzalben]

Some clarification from Warner Bros. Discovery on the whole "pulling shows off HBO Max" thing... Yes, those shows are being pulled off HBO Max, but they will be offered to FAST services (Free Ad-Supported Television). Think Pluto, Tubi, even the ad-supported tier of Peacock. So they're gone from HBO Max soon, but will be back on other services in the future. That said, if you can get them on physical media, that's always your best option.

The shows leaving HBO Max (with no specific new home at the moment) to be offered to FAST services include:

Westworld – seasons 1, 2, 3, 4 The Nevers – season 1 Raised by Wolves – seasons 1, 2 FBOY Island – seasons 1, 2 Legendary – seasons 1, 2, 3 Finding Magic Mike – season 1 Head of the Class – season 1 The Time Traveler’s Wife – season 1

Additional titles being pulled from HBO Max, that are currently in negotiations to be offered to FAST services and potentially others (i.e. on demand services or otherwise) include:

Gordita Chronicles – season 1 Love Life – seasons 1, 2 Made for Love – seasons 1, 2 The Garcias – season 1 Minx – seasons 1, 2

Warner Bros. Discovery will also announce additional details about its own long-term WBD FAST offering in 2023. Meaning, hilariously, these shows could head right back to whatever HBO Max becomes next year.

Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy quote: “We are incredibly proud of Westworld and the remarkable work of our cast and crew.  We are excited to have the opportunity to welcome a whole new audience to our show.”

[drangues]

gay tumblr users said they wanted more cleradin i said oh im sure

[natjennie]

the ghosts I think would watch d20:

kitty - gets extremely excited about everything, happy stims and squeals along with the players, "I don't understand a lot of what's happening, but it's so very thrilling! everyone gets terribly excited for the number twenty; their happiness makes me happy!"

cap - dragged along to watch with kitty, mostly doesn't pay attention to the game but definitely simps for lou wilson. and can you blame him? gets hooked on battles, his eyes light up at the prospect of strategizing.

thomas - fascinated by the storytelling of it and the emotional performances, especially fey and flowers. "these people have such a way with words" sort of energy. wants alison to contact cast members to ask questions about the lore and she has to explain that's not how that works.

pat - played d&d when he was alive, interested in the ways the game has changed since then, constantly interrupts with anecdotes about his games and characters, desperately wants to get a button house campaign going

[rotisseries]

me writing the plateau shrines in the botw byler au incredibly vague: "there's a trial.... mike has to do some things.... the intent is just to make sure that dudes coming out of 100 year comas are working fine.... that's all you need to know....."

[aemiron-main]

also I do think that will should get to hug Mike in one of those hugs where he picks him up a bit. i just think he should get to lift his boyfriend up!! i don’t even mean this in a “buff byers has to be strong and domineering” way, I mean it in a “they’re both dorks and I want Will to hug Mike so tightly after that pathetic airport hug that he lifts Mike up a bit and they’re both laughing and they both almost fall over and Mike deserves to be flustered bc usually he’s the one trying to get people to lean on him so I want to see him lean on others/be cared for by others even just in small ways” way.

[omarfor-orchestra]

Just remembered I did Crowley's cosplay the year before COVID at Lucca comics

[connectionterminated13]

Hehehe crypted AU...

I get silly in the tags... Because it's 12 o'clock at night

[morganee]

A comment on this post on twitter made me think about something and how the theory about El and Mike being already broken up at the end of S4 could actually work.

So the tweet is about the time jump at the end of episode 9, when we get the “two days later” board. I guess it’s safe to say that the “two days later” bothered pretty much everyone. It felt out of place, almost lazy writing. While I can understand, up to a certain point anyway, why they did that, I’m still confused as to why they didn’t somehow show us snippets of those two days. I get it, there was no time to actually show the Cali gang travelling for two days or have the Hawkins group gather together and deal with the consequences, but I think they could’ve given us something like a few glimpses of what happened in those two days in a short montage (e.g.: Max being rushed to the hospital with Lucas following her, Steve, Nancy and Robin finding Dustin with a dead Eddie in his arms, El being hugged by her brothers and Mike, the Russian group hopping on a plane, you know, little scenes like that). Still, we got nothing.

A comment underneath the tweet said something about getting to know about these two days in S5 through flashbacks and I can see that happening and actually, this might work for certain plot lines.

I’m a firm believer that they already shot some scenes for S5 while filming S4 and this flashback comment got me thinking: what if they already shot El and Mike breaking up?

Imagine this: at some point in the first episode of S5 we have Mike and El talking about something and it’s clear that they’re not in a relationship anymore. Cut to: a flashback of two days earlier where we have El and Mike in the pizza place. It’s right after the monologue, El just woke up and she has a blanket around her shoulders. Jonathan, Will and Argyle are outside, giving them some privacy. It looks like a sweet moment, the one you would get after a love confession, but it’s actually sad. El is telling Mike what Brenner told her, that maybe he was right about her not being ready, but she doesn’t go too deep into this conversation because she wants to talk about Mike’s speech. They talk, she’s sad because she knows Mike lied to her and at the end of it they break up because they both realise that this is not working. (And I really hope we get the "I dump your ass" line again but with them laughing, that'd be so sweet!)

I never liked the theory about Milkvan being already broken up at the end of S4 because I think that’s something we need to see. In my opinion, no ship that’s been this relevant deserves an off-screen break-up because it leaves such a bad feeling (I had to live through one for one of my OTPs, I don’t wish that on anyone, it leaves you confused and hurt, and you feel like they just made fun of you). But I would be okay with that if we get a flashback in S5, because it wouldn’t be off-screen anymore but it would be something that’s already happened.

And honestly that would explain so much.

Why did El and Mike barely talk during those two days? Why is Mike so detached from El? Why doesn’t he stay behind to comfort her when they get to Hopper’s cabin for the first time? Why doesn’t he stand next to her on the field? Why is he always paired with Will?

Because they already broke up!

El leaning on Mike in the hospital can easily be a platonic scene (it also parallels with El leaning on Hopper, her dad, at the end of the episode). It's the first time El sees Max after trying to save her and she didn't know the extent of her injuries. It's a shocking moment and she needs comfort and Mike’s still an important person in her life, even if they're not together anymore, so it's only logical that she would seek comfort from him.

Honestly, I feel like this would be a good way to handle the break-up off-screen in S4 but still give it to us on-screen in S5.

[chaotictomtom]

omg im shifting into mike mode (listened to one (1) track that has been used in a scene with him)

[isabelguerra]

i dont have an actual name for it but depressed college au is probably one of my favorites. i dont really care for the adults in paranatural and thinking about how the activity club/others might grow up and continue their lives is so much more interesting to me

[bearseokie]

i just saw the fatal love series and i’m excited 🤩 i had something of the sort in mind ages ago, but i was one too nervous to do it and two never really watched half the stories so i scratched the idea. i can’t wait to read these! 🧡

yoooo this is sick omg... hi

yeah i hesitated for so long on even posting the masterlist since I'm working fic by fic. mainly because the commitment of writing a story per member is A LOT. it's insane

this is so cool coming from you because you're a super cool monsta x writer!!! I've been saving your stuff lately to add to my recs blog when i get time & when i can actually dive into reading your works. like I'm stunned that you sent me this ask LMAO

[evilminji]

You know how... world leaders can't just? SAY stuff? Because when they DO it's the Offical Stance(tm) of their Country?

That makes their Fuck Ups(tm) all the more serious. It's WHY they have press teams.

But!!!

WHAT IF?

They said something, PUBLICLY, on LIVE TELEVISION, that? Can not be taken back? Full on "masks off, behold the horrors you have payed for" moment?

Sure, they could SAY "that wasn't me" and "I was brainwashed" etc etc. But? If it's BIG enough? UGLY enough? TRUE??? People WILL find it. Dig and dig and dig like termites in the walls. Hunt like bloodhounds.

Riot in the streets.

Because? All it would TAKE? Is ONE half ghost, a few too many long nights trying to balance college classes and his internship, a bigotry filled call from back home, and staring down that empty fridge with just one box of moldering take out, because he's been too busy and stressed to remember to get GROCERIES AND-

Ah.

So this is what "so stressed you feel calm, I have run out of Fucks too give" feels like. Neat. *picks up phone* Hey, Sam? You still at that protest? Outside the presidential speech? Neat. Don't move.

One Phone Line Express later. SAM is telling him to breathe. Maybe... maybe calm down. Think about this. Others around her can see the same "spark of madness" glint in his almost zen like smile.

It Fiiiiine, Sam.

He's just here to Talk.

He disappears. Sam's freaking out. President stumbles but catches himself on the way to the mike. Up in the watch tower, various Magic users choke on their lunches, because a ghost just possessed the United States President.

ON LIVE TELEVISION.

He taps the Mike, smile, leans in real close like he's gonna Tell You Folks A Secret.... Aaaaand~

"The second you Die, you no longer have human rights. Doesn't matter how brief. Heart stops? You're sub-human scum! Non-sentient by American law. We here in the United Stares PROUDLY desecrate the bodies and graves of the dead. Tear apart the immortal souls of the innocent. And condemn you to oblivion crying, begging, and screaming for mercy! Why, obviously, is an act. Because souls don't have the RIGHT to feel fear or pain!

And YES. We do mean EVERYONE'S. Atlantian, Kryptonian, Martian. Canadian, Mexican, Russian, AND Chinese! I could keep going! Once you die? You belong to the United States to experiment on as we see fit! You're PROPERT now! So turn your nonrights having, nonsentient self in to the nearest GIW! For the good of AMERICA. Ectoplasmic Scum!"

*drops mic*

Jaws are on the floor. This was VETERANS DAY. Dead military Heros and smile for the cameras. A cake walk. Do a patriotism, rah rah. There.... there are DIPLOMATS in the crowd. Sure as SHIT, were more then a few foreign nationals WATCHING. Religious leaders looking on in fury, grief, and horror.

Reporters. Oh sweet Jesus the reporters.

The press secretary faints.

PANDEMONIUM. The president, still dazed and confused from being possessed, gets PUNCHED on live television be his VP, a deeply religious if moderately shady man. Take bribes? VP is cool with that. Bootstraps, peasants, and all that. But how DARE you fuck with the Souls of the dead. How DARE you!

Phones are blowing up, questions are being shouted, the JLA Dark FEEL like they should tell somebody about the ghost kid... but also this feels VERY "Call for help-y" so they might throw their weight around instead and pretend they know nothing. World leader are meaningfully staring at their Dear Beloved Dead Grandmother's photos as they send LIVID assistants to hound the American into answering the DAMN PHONE-!

And Danny?

Danny feels calmer now. He has stolen like....700 bucks from secret security's various wallets. He's going to buy himself BOUGIE groceries. Some...some NICE take out. Maybe a little cake. Yeah~ Cake for Danny~

If anyone needs him? No you don't. He needs to go do some shopping, eat, lie on the floor of his shower and just... vibe for a bit under the spray. In the dark maybe. Sleep for a week. Have his food. Yummy little treats.

Or he's gonna fuckin LOSE IT, man.

(Tucker is actively hacking his college schedule as they speak. He KNEW it. Called it! Too many classes! But does Mr "I can handle it" listen? Noooooooo! Now look what happened! Holy SHIT, Danny!)

@hypewinter @hdgnj @ailithnight @nerdpoe @the-witchhunter

[seat-safety-switch]

You can find the most amazing stuff at garage sales. My friend Medium-Sized Mike is the best at it. He can walk right into an inadequate, suburbanite garage sale, one of those real limp ones with a table full of mismatched pots and pans and nothing else, and walk away with an amazing find. Nobody really knows how he does it, but that's not the subject of this story, anyway.

I waited in the driveway, watching the air slowly leak out of the tires of a rusty 2003 Ford Explorer Sport-Trac, while Medium-Sized Mike took care of business. What happened this time is: he found the Orb of Planar Suffering. We had to look this shit up on Wikipedia, too, so don't feel bad.

"You want five dollars for this magical artifact of untold destruction?"

"Yeah. My wife found it in the basement, we've had it on the dining room table for years, but now she has a new pine cone display she wants there instead. Harvest season."

"I'll give you three."

Now, the first thing everyone asks is: what do you do with a two-million-year-old cosmic weapon, abandoned on this earth by a dead strain of Pioneers? Obviously, it has some decorative value, but the real value comes from using it to split the planes of reality and walk across dimensions. Why would you do that? Because those dimensions also have garage sales, and Medium-Sized Mike has more discoveries to make.

As I saw his corporeal form shimmer and disappear at the end of the driveway, I knew two things. One, there went the bravest man I'll ever know. Two, he better bring me back a corn dog making machine.

[neil-gaiman]

Not an ask, just a thank you. Really enjoyed spending time with you yesterday at NJPAC. It was an early Christmas present for my husband and he didn't know where we were going until we got in the car yesterday morning (we live in South Jersey across from Philadelphia). He was so excited when I showed him the tickets on my phone. The sincere and often hilarious way you answered our questions and the thoughtful selections of the stories you read (Donna will live with me forever) made for a wonderful afternoon. My favorite story was about the dinner party and Armistead Maupin, it was so cool to hear a new favorite author (yes, my husband Jim and I are late comers to the magic - though I did read Good Omens way back in the day - but we're making up for lost time) speak so lovingly of an all time favorite author (I worked in book shops for about a decade and Tales of the City was always the first book I suggested to the baby gays venturing into the world of queer literature). Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you. It as been a tough year for us, perhaps the worst in our 38 years together, as I was forced out of my job of 20 years last fall and 60 is a tough age to find work (I just got a new job a couple weeks ago thanks to a dear friend) so to hear Jim say twice yesterday that it was "one of the happiest days of my life" really brought joy to my soul. You are henceforth my Angel of Joy, Neil. Peace, joy, and long life to you and yours. Mike Kiley-Zufelt

That means a lot. And I'd recommend Armistead Maupin to everyone.

[geesenoises]

DnD: dungeons and draco

for @quail-in-red. this is just further proof that if anybody shows even the slightest interest in one of my dumb jokes, i crumble and perform like a silly jester at once. based on this post i made last year and rediscovered today about hp wizards playing DnD.

Dean didn’t give a lot of details when he invited Harry to his weekly dungeons and dragons game, but the last person Harry expected to see at the table was Draco Malfoy.

“We started a game together when we were, er,” Dean trailed off.

“When we were prisoners in Draco's house!” Luna finished for him brightly.

Malfoy didn’t say anything, just met Harry’s eyes stolidly and then went to fuss with the small pile of papers and cards in front of him.

Harry shared a look with Ron, who was already sitting between Dean and Hermione, and then sighed inwardly and took the last remaining seat between Seamus and Luna. He pulled out the premade character sheet Dean had owled him last week. It was wrinkled from having nearly been lost in a pile of post and then hastily shoved in Harry’s pocket before flooing to Dean’s flat. 

Harry looked around the table. Malfoy’s stack of papers was bigger than anyone else’s, even Hermione’s. And why did he have so many cards? There was a little wooden tray in front of him too. The dice in the tray looked iridescent, catching and reflecting the light. Trust Malfoy to have expensive poncy accessories. Why was he even here? Did he even like DnD? He’d grown up around magic his whole life; what did he need to pretend for?

“And so let’s go around and introduce our characters,” Dean finished. Harry had missed his whole introduction. “Since Draco and Luna have played before, we’ll start with them.”

Malfoy straightened up a little, carefully picking up his character sheet even though it seemed like he was so familiar with it, he didn’t need to reference it. “I’m Mike, a level three call center operator. I’m twenty-three years old, originally from Essex and just moved to London. I played football in uni, but am feeling less fit now that I have a job where I sit all day.”

Luna went next and spoke in a surprisingly deep voice. “My name is Archie, and I’m a level six IT consultant. I’m forty-six years old, originally from Norwich, but I moved to London for uni and never left. I’ve been married to my wife, Evelyn, for twenty years and we have two children and a cocker spaniel named Rosa.”

Harry stared down at the character sheet in front of him. He hadn’t looked at it before grabbing it in his rush to get here on time. It told him he was meant to be playing Grace, a 29 year old paramedic who’d grown up in London and recently broken up with her fiance after finding out he had cheated on her. She had a cat named Pomegranate. Harry didn’t know much about tabletop games, but there had been a group of kids that Dudley’s gang would sometimes target instead of Harry who had played. And what he’d overhead from their games didn’t sound anything like this.

“Hang on, these are just normal people; we’re all humans with muggle jobs. I thought we were playing dungeons and dragons, you know, with magic involved.”

Malfoy glared at him. “Weren’t you paying attention, Potter? Dean just explained the premise of our campaign.”

Harry didn’t want to admit to Malfoy he’d been too busy wondering what his dice were made of. He looked away from Malfoy to Dean. “Er, sorry. I was… distracted.”

Dean sighed but looked more resigned than irritated at having to explain again. “When I started the game with Draco and Luna, they got confused by the magic system because actual magic doesn’t work the way it does in DnD, so I made up a slightly different game we could play. We’re a group of Londoners in a recreational dodgeball league.”

“And honestly, Harry, it doesn’t feel right pretending to be of magical creature heritage for a game,” Hermione added. “Think of what kind of hurtful stereotypes we could fall into.”

“Okay…” Harry said slowly. It still felt strange, but now that he thought about it, he supposed he didn’t need to spend his Thursday evenings pretending to be part of a group camping out and hunting evil. Once per lifetime was enough without having to do it recreationally in the realm of imagination.

Harry smoothed out his character sheet again and introduced the group to Grace.

not sure if there will be more, but we're all shipping mike/grace right?

[ruizpizzaria]

FAZGANGG ROLL OUT ( FNAF MOVIE RAMBLES + EASTER EGGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ) PT 1

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD ! ! ! !

ok first off i cant put into text or words about how i fucking insane i am about this movie so uhm ahahaha im not gonna or i might explode my head off and end up looking like cc's foxy's plush. THIS MOVIE WAS THE MOST LOVINGLY LOVING LOVE LETTER TO THE FANBASE AND I COULD NOT BE MORE NUTS ABOUT IT

SO IM GONNA WRITE ABT ALL THE LIL EASTER EGGS I NOTICED DURING MY WATCH OF THE MOVIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( many more rewatches to come )

UPDATE : PICS ADDED ! ! !

MATPAT AND CORYXKENSHIN CAMEOS ( NO MARKIPLIER D: )

do i even have to say anything about this??

MATPAT SERVING THEORIES SO HARD HE GOT HIRED AS A WAITRESS

CORY BREAKING ANKLES AS AN UBER DRIVER

the theater went ballistic yeah

SPARKY THE DOG CAMEO / FINALLY CANON LOL

MAN OH MAN WHATT I DDID NOT EXPECT THIS ONE.

In the movie we get a full glimpse of a disassembled sparky suit in parts in service -> max gets stuffed inside this suit later on or a suit next to sparky

the diner that matpat works at is also called Sparky's ( lol foreshadowing )

this is still pretty unreal to me.

FNAF BOOK LORE PLAYS A BIG PART IN THE STORY

There's a scene towards the end of the movie where Abby is hiding from foxy and runs to hide behind some arcade games -> reference to the sequence where Foxy is chasing Charlie in the silver eyes (lighting is almost one on one too)

The animatronics realize they're getting manipulated by afton /spring bonnie when Abby shows them the truth through a drawing depicting spring bonnie's true nature -> reference to Carlton showing the dead children that spring bonnie / afton is their enemy through drawing spring bonnie as their killer

CARL THE CUPCAKE

i just find it kinda funny that the guy eaten alive by cupcake was named carl seeing as how carl was cupcake's fanon name

also he can defy gravity too ig

THE SHIRT CARL ( ONE OF THE GOONS WHO CAME TO TRASH THE PLACE ) IS WEARING HAS A PRINT OF FNAF 6'S DRIVING MINI GAME

Chica's magic rainbow from FNAF world gets its own branded ice cream parlor chain :

EVERYTHING ABOUT ABBY HANGING OUT WITH THE FAZGANG.

Spaghetti and Pizza analogy

this one is a bit more obvious but I like how its used as away to illustrate how mike had to choose giving up abby or cc ( i refuse to call him garrett he is either evan or chris. )

Hospitalized Vanessa Theory

Now that Vanessa is hospitalized could she be filling the roles of cc or mike in fnaf 4 ( mainly cuz of hospital hallucinations )-> shes traumatized by the animatronics and could hallucinate back to her days in the hospital ( if she wakes up or if its a dream sequence or something not sure ) ; also could also work since she's afton's daughter

LIVING TOMBSTONE END CREDITS LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

point where i died in the theater and ascended

so yeah yk id say the trap was sprung successfully

I am the most normal about this movie