#haven 1x01

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First Appearances | Haven 1.01 - Welcome to Haven

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Welcome to Haven (1x01): FBI agent Audrey Parker tracks a federal prison escapee who mysteriously dies shortly after reaching his hometown of Haven, Maine.

Much Ado About Mara (5x04): Nathan and Dwight argue over what to do with Mara; Nathan is convinced Audrey is still alive and he wants to save her but Dwight wants Mara to cure the troubles.

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Invisible String Timeline

Timeline for my OBX Fanfic

(During The Series will be updated as published.)

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Before The Series *THIS SECTION CONTAINS SPOLERS!*

January 6th, 1981 – Petunia Shoupe is born

March 7, 1981 – Peter Grey is born

April 1999 – Petunia finds out she is pregnant.

August 1999 – Petunia Shoupe starts at Yale, Peter Grey plans to be a stay at home dad; they are funded by Petunia's parents.

October 23, 1999 – Twins Daisy and Lily Grey are born. Under the stress of parenthood and how incompatible he and Petunia are- Peter begins doing drugs.

November 8th, 2001 – Rafe Cameron is born.

2002 – Cleo is born.

January 16th, 2003 – Pope Robert Heyward is born.

March 15th, 2003 – Josephine Margaret Grey is born in New Haven, Connecticut.

April 12th, 2003 – John Booker Routledge is born.

April 17th, 2003 - John James Maybank is born

May 15th, 2003 – Kiara Maria Carrera is born.

May 21-June 20th, 2003 – Sarah Elizabeth Cameron is born

May 2006 – Petunia Grey graduates law school. The couple and their children move to Asheville, North Carolina.

February 9, 2007 – Naomi Agatha Grey is born.

October 10th, 2011 – Petunia and Peter Grey move back to Kildare island since starting their family. They are in the process of getting a divorce. Rafe Cameron sees Josephine for the first time.

"Maybank could be in love with you for the rest of his life. But I'll always have him beat by 26 hours."

October 11th, 2011 – Eight year old Josie attends her first day of school after moving to Kildare Island. She meets JJ Maybank, and they become best friends.

October 25th, 2011 – JJ invites John B to play pirates with him and Jose. They become a trio that does everything together.

Dec 12, 2011 – John B introduces Pope to the trio, and they become a quartet.

April 17th, 2012 – JJ punches Adam Sutherland for making fun of Josie's popsicle pirate ship.

May 2nd, 2012 – Josie meets Kiara Carrera after their dads meet, and they immediately become friends.

August 10th, 2012 – Josie introduces Kiara to the boys, and they become the official Pogues.

August 6th, 2013 – Josie's parents officially split up.

June 18th, 2014 – Josie plays seven-minutes-in-heaven at Sarah Cameron's house, but is embarrassed after a boy refuses to kiss her. She leaves the gathering and finds Sarah's brother, who offers to be her first kiss.

August 9th, 2015 – Josie's parents' divorce is finalized. Her dad disappears.

September 2015 – Josie starts her period at school. She gives JJ her allowance, and he rides a bike all the way to town and back to get her supplies.

October 2015 – Josie is transferred by her mother to the Kook Academy.

November 10th, 2015 – One of Josie's older sisters, Daisy, gets pregnant at 16. Her mother kicks her out, and Josie doesn't see her again until 2020.

December 17th, 2015 – Josie's mom starts dating one of her former clients, Cory Schmidt.

August 2017 – The Pogues start high school.

August 2018 - (Instead of kook year being freshman year, I've changed it to Sophomore year.) Kie's kook year begins

October 2019 - Big John goes missing.

October 2019 - (Because Sarah's birthday is in the summer, I've changed the party she doesn't invite the girls to to be a Halloween Party.)

December 2019 - Kie and Jose reunite with the pogues. She forges documents to transfer her to Kildare High School. She does not tell her mother.

March 16th, 2020 – Max moves to Kildare, befriends Topper and Kelce, and immediately shows interest in Josie.

April 8th, 2020 – Max and Josie start dating.

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During The Series *Updated as Published*

1x01 - Pilot

June 14th, 2020 – The pogues spend the day hanging out at housing developments on Figure 8. They run from the security guard. Josie sees her father in town and spends the following 24 hours in her room.

June 15th, 2020 – Josie and JJ are detained for trespassing, but let go with a warning.

June 16th, 2020 – Josie and Max get into an argument at a lunch date. Josie has a beach date with Pope and Kiara.

June 17th, 2020 – Josie and John B surf the swell of hurricane Agatha. John B sees Scooter's Grady-White out on the ocean water.

June 18th, 2020 – The pogues find the and explore Scooter Grubb's boat in the marsh. They discover a hotel key, which they then use to break into the Summerwind Motel, where JJ steals a gun. They find out that Scooter Grubb's was the owner of the boat and has passed. They then throw a Kegger, at which Josie argues with her boyfriend. topper and John B get into a fight on the beach, in which John B is injured.

June 19th, 2020 – John B is hesitant to continue with the gold because of an encounter with Peterkin. Josie makes up with Max. The pogues steal the Cameron's scuba gear and explore the grady white, before getting chased by boat. They discover that Big John's compass was in the boat.

1x02 - The Lucky Compass

June 20th, 2020 – Max says "I love you" for the first time, and then ditches Josie at breakfast. J3 visit Lana Grubbs. The pogues are almost killed by the compass hunters when they ransack the Chateau. Theyy visit the lighthouse, and John B kisses Kiara. John B takes the group to his grandmother's crypt, where they find the hidden message form his dad. The pogues agree to hunt for the gold.

1x03 - The Forbidden Zone

Jund 21st, 2020 – Josie tries on dresses for Midsummer's. JJ sneaks the pogues into the Island Club. The pogues break into the scrap yard to steal the drone. The group gathers at the Wreck, where Josie dances with Pope.

June 22nd, 2020 – The group tests the drone, and tensions grown between JJ and Josie. Rafe beats Pope up in Figure Eight, so Pope gets revenge on Topper's boat. The pogues have a surf day.

1x04 – Spy Game

June 23, 2020 – The pogues discover the empty wreckage of the Royal Merchant. Max questions Josie about her involvement with Topper's boat. The pogues watch a movie on Figure Eight, where the boys get into a fight with the kooks, and Max and Josie breakup. (For the first time).

1x05 – Midsummers

June 24, 2020 - JJ takes the fall and gets arrested. Josie meets him at the station, but he leaves to argue with his dad. Josie translates Tanny's letter for John B. JJ and Josie have a huge fight, which seemingly ends their friendship. Midsummers happens, and JJ realizes that there might be deeper feelings on his end.

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Haven 1x01

*Okay, the first thing I'm getting is that none of the protagonists in The Time Wars know how to store books.

Audrey, no.

(I can excuse it a little more than Will's, though, because at least it looks like she actually reads them.)

*Wait, Audrey Parker was FBI. Will Zimmerman was FBI. Will could have known the real Audrey Parker.

*Also, "Being open to possibilities is how we close cases. Like that one." Haven and Sanctuary's world building is going to work well together.

*Okay, but "Agent Howard" having to pretend to try to discourage Audrey from The Impossible. Hmmm.

*"No. There's no way I'm dying to this (Love Will Keep Us Together)". Ahfjsjsjx how many times have I watched this, and never caught that?

*"Okay, what am I going to do? Pull out another gun?".... The real Audrey Parker and Will Zimmerman were definitely friends.

*"Is this one of those cases where you claim you're here to help, but really you're just here to step on my toes?" Knowing he knew Lucy gives that a whole new level of Feeling.

*Contrasting this with Sanctuary, I do like how Nathan is allowed to hold his own with Audrey when they've investigating here. I mean, I know he's much more of a main character than Joe, but still.

*Again obsessed with how touchy Nathan and Audrey are from day one. Like, I'm NOT buying that Nathan didn't realize he could feel her until episode 7.

*Duke Crocker my beloved

*"You really need to work on your Thank Yous."

*Okay but in one way this show is exactly the opposite of Sanctuary or Timeless: All of the characters who Know The Secret are being as flat and undramatic as possible about the Secret while Audrey is increasingly freaked out.

*Audrey meeting someone as dramatic as Helen Magnus about Secrets would be so much fun.

*Audrey doesn't even play a major role in the Time Wars story but now I kind of want her to.

*"Let it go. Just let it go." At the girl controlling the weather with her emotions. A couple of years before Frozen came out.

*Not really a fan of the whole "You have to date her to regulate her emotions" thing. Like, I know Conrad is in love with Marion, so it's not like he's Unhappy about it, but still... Ehhh.

*And YET, him crossing his "perimeter" to take her hand... All the feels.

* Nathan knows flowers by smell.

*"When you've ruled everything else out, you have to accept what's left." !!! Audrey!!! And!! Will! Were! Absolutely!! Friends!!!

*Audrey dreaming about her mom rescuing all the kids in all the orphanages in the world and bringing them home... Ohhhh, how I want her to meet Helen Magnus.

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Haven S01E01

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season 1

All Episodes

Pilot (1x01)

Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc (1x02)

A Proportional Response (1x03)

Five Votes Down (1x04)

The Crackpots and These Women (1x05)

Mr. Willis of Ohio (1x06)

The State Dinner (1x07)

Enemies (1x08)

The Short List (1x09)

In Excelsis Deo (1x10)

Lord John Marbury (1x11)

He Shall, from Time to Time... (1x12)

Take out the Trash Day (1x13)

Take This Sabbath Day (1x14)

Celestial Navigation (1x15)

20 Hours in L.A. (1x16)

The White House Pro-Am (1x17)

Six Meetings Before Lunch (1x18)

Let Bartlet Be Bartlet (1x19)

Mandatory Minimums (1x20)

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (1x21)

What Kind of Day Has It Been (1x22)

season 2

All Episodes

In the Shadow of Two Gunmen I (2x01)

In the Shadow of Two Gunmen II (2x02)

The Midterms (2x03)

In This White House (2x04)

And It's Surely to Their Credit (2x05)

The Lame Duck Congress (2x06)

The Portland Trip (2x07)

Shibboleth (2x08)

Galileo (2x09)

Noël (2x10)

The Leadership Breakfast (2x11)

The Drop-In (2x12)

Bartlet's Third State of the Union (2x13)

The War at Home (2x14)

Ellie (2x15)

Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail (2x16)

The Stackhouse Filibuster (2x17)

17 People (2x18)

Bad Moon Rising (2x19)

The Fall's Gonna Kill You (2x20)

18th and Potomac (2x21)

Two Cathedrals (2x22)

season 3

All Episodes

Isaac and Ishmael

Manchester i (3x01)

Manchester ii (3x02)

Ways and Means (3x03)

On the Day Before (3x04)

War Crimes (3x05)

Gone Quiet (3x06)

The Indians in the Lobby (3x07)

The Women of Qumar (3x08)

Bartlet for America (3x09)

H. Con-172 (3x10)

100,000 Airplanes (3x11)

The Two Bartlets (3x12)

Night Five (3x13)

Hartsfield's Landing (3x14)

Dead Irish Writers (3x15)

The U.S. Poet Laureate (3x15)

Stirred (3x16)

Enemies Foreign and Domestic (3x17)

The Black Vera Wang (3x18)

We Killed Yamamoto (3x19)

Posse Comitatus (3x20)

season 4

All Episodes

20 Hours in America i (4x01)

20 Hours in America ii (4x02)

College Kids (4x03)

The Red Mass (4x04)

Debate Camp (4x05)

Game On (4x06)

Election Night (4x07)

Process Stories (4x08)

Swiss Diplomacy (4x09)

Arctic Radar (4x10)

Holy Night (4x11)

Guns Not Butter (4x12)

The Long Goodbye (4x13)

Inauguration: Part I (4x14)

Inauguration: Over There (4x15)

The California 47th (4x16)

Red Haven's on Fire (4x17)

Privateers (4x18)

Angel Maintenance (4x19)

Evidence of Things Not Seen (4x20)

Life on Mars (4x21)

Commencement (4x22)

Twenty Five (4x23)

season 5

All Episodes

7A WF 83429 (5x01)

The Dogs of War (5x02)

Jefferson Lives (5x03)

Han (5x04)

Constituency of One (5x05)

Disaster Relief (5x06)

Separation of Powers (5x07)

Shutdown (5x08)

Abu el Banat (5x09)

The Stormy Present (5x10)

The Benign Prerogative (5x11)

Slow News Day (5x12)

The Warfare of Genghis Khan (5x13)

An Khe (5x14)

Full Disclosure (5x15)

Eppur Si Muove (5x16)

The Supremes (5x17)

Access (5x18)

Talking Points (5x19)

No Exit (5x20)

Gaza (5x21)

Memorial Day (5x22)

season 6

All Episodes

NSF Thurmont (6x01)

The Birnam Wood (6x02)

Third-Day Story (6x03)

Liftoff (6x04)

The Hubbert Peak (6x05)

The Dover Test (6x06)

A Change Is Gonna Come (6x07)

In the Room (6x08)

Impact Winter (6x09)

Faith Based Initiative (6x10)

Opposition Research (6x11)

365 Days (6x12)

King Corn (6x13)

The Wake Up Call (6x14)

Freedonia (6x15)

Drought Conditions (6x16)

A Good Day (6x17)

La Palabra (6x18)

Ninety Miles Away (6x19)

In God We Trust (6x20)

Things Fall Apart (6x21)

2162 Votes (6x22)

season 7

All Episodes

The Ticket (7x01)

The Mommy Problem (7x02)

Message of the Week (7x03)

Mr. Frost (7x04)

Here Today (7x05)

The Al Smith Dinner (7x06)

The Debate (7x07)

Undecideds (7x08)

The Wedding (7x09)

Running Mates (7x10)

Internal Displacement (7x11)

Duck and Cover (7x12)

The Cold (7x13)

Two Weeks Out (7x14)

Welcome to Wherever You Are (7x15)

Election Day Part I (7x16)

Election Day Part II (7x17)

Requiem (7x18)

Transition (7x19)

The Last Hurrah (7x20)

Institutional Memory (7x21)

Tomorrow (7x22)

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My Mando fic

Hey folks!  I’ve suddenly found myself writing enough Mandalorian fic that it makes sense to do a masterpost.  All of my stories are also on AO3 under fanfoolishness / LoonyLupin, if you prefer to read there, but if you’d rather stay in tumblr, here we are.

My stories tend to be angsty to bittersweet, with a strong focus on Din and Grogu’s familial bond, with some additional focus on Din’s own trauma.  Occasional appearances by other characters include the Armorer, Peli Motto, Greef Karga, Cara Dune, Kuiil, IG-11, and Boba Fett. No plans for writing any romance, but if I do it will be clearly labeled as such.

Tag: My Mando fic.  All fics listed in chronological order of the series, but are written randomly as they occur to me.

Stories are also tagged #noromo Mando for stories that contain no romance.

duty: 500 words. A Nikto pirate does their best to take care of a strange prize on Arvala-7. Set during episode 1x01.

Holding Space: 1000 words. Kuiil POV.  An Ugnaught’s lifespan is twice that of a human’s, but even a being who holds the long view can still find space to hope.

as the dust gathers, 400 words. The Armorer reflects on Nevarro.

the hollow man: 580 words, Din & the Armorer set during The Sin.

what is true: ~600 words. Din knew the truth once, until it was forgotten.

In It Together: 1152 words. Din and the Child get patched up after their escape from Nevarro.

focus: ~400 words. Din finds a safe haven.

Birdsong: 700 words. The Child sneaks out on Sorgan.

To Stay a Little While: 2800 words. Cara Dune doesn’t know why she lingers on Sorgan.

Somewhere Safe: 1100 words. Din and the Child leave Sorgan. More than a little sad.

A Goodnight Song: 671 words. After a hasty departure from Sorgan, Grogu is inconsolable.

Stories: 500 words. Peli Motto rocks the Child to sleep.

Nightmares: 600 words.  Din confronts a world in which he was too late to help the child.

the naming of things: 1795 words. Din names the injuries he received in The Prisoner, and reflects upon the hunter becoming the hunted.

The Confession: 1000 words. Kuiil and Din discuss the Child on the way to Nevarro.  Kuiil thinks the Mandalorian has changed.

Primary Directives: 2020 words.  IG-11 discovers similarities between itself and the Mandalorian.  Mainly based on the episodes The Mandalorian, The Reckoning and the Redemption.  Whump.

A Warrior’s Death: 1700 words. Din tends to his wounds and armor after the events of the Redemption.

For the Darkness Always Passes: 800 words. Din struggles with guilt after The Redemption.

something borrowed, 400 words. Din cherishes the Rising Phoenix and the gift of beskar.

Contact: 800 words. Din is a touch-starved man, but he’s getting better.

jewelry: 300 words. Din marvels at how much the child loves the pendant.

Waves in Moonlight: 1100 words. Din Djarin and the Child share a meal together under moonlight.

Noctis: 508 words. Din and the Child both struggle with dark dreams.

The Lullaby: 1900 words. Din and the Child are exhausted and try to get some sleep.

The Dove-Gray Sky: 950 words.  The Child sees snow with Din for the first time.

The Scent of Whiteleaf: 4800 words.  Grogu and his protector visit a calm and peaceful world, searching for those who could help them find a Jedi. They find something else instead. Grogu POV. Grogu & Din, some of Din's backstory, and several gentle family bonding moments.

The Outpost: 2000 words. Din and the kid visit Batuu, hoping to find a Jedi.

Vaii Mhi’Yaim (Where We Are Home): 6800 words.  Whump.  Din nearly dies bringing in a bounty to Nevarro; it’s up to Cara, Greef and Grogu to save him.

going under: 800 words.  Din Djarin nearly drowns. Whump.

Fulminating: 5000 words. Din suffers complications after nearly drowning on Trask.  He and the Child recover together. Maybe it’s enough. Even more whump, hurt/comfort.

The Clan Now Safe: 1500 words. Din struggles with feelings of isolation from his kind.

if things were different: 800 words. Greef Karga and Din Djarin discuss the Child before they make plans for the Siege.

The Connection: 195 words. Ahsoka learns what Grogu finds most important.

The Weight: 450 words. The Armorer grieves the past, and prepares for the future.

the hand outstretched: 1400 words. The quiet finds its way in after the Tragedy.

Orphans: Din and Boba Fett discuss their next move in the search for the child. Fett asks a question, or two.

Amputechture: 1300 words. Din returns for his armor after attacking the Imperial base, injured.  Boba Fett lends perspective.

Translation: 2400 words. Din Djarin was a man of few words but many languages. Some thought the Child spoke no language at all. They learn to understand each other.

The Sacrifice: 600 words.  Din never understood the depth of what he had been asked to do until it was too late.

Finding the Way: 2400 words. Din struggles after the Rescue, but Cara Dune is a good friend.

The Good News: 800 words.  Din shares the good news with an old friend. Angst.

Strikethrough: 1250 words. Din struggles with a wound that will not heal. Angst.

five denials and a truth: 3800 words. Five times Din Djarin denied being a father, and once he didn’t. Angst.

the wheeling stars, amidst the dark: 5370 words. Peli Motto is glad to see her favorite customer return, but is worried when she realizes he’s come alone. Grief, angst, friendship.

talisman, 470 words. Cara reaches out to a friend when she realizes he needs to talk.

The Nor'Wester, 1200 words. Din Djarin seeks a new purpose after the events of The Rescue, but memories lurk around every bend. Angst.

How Strange to Stay, 1000 words. Fennec Shand wonders why she cannot seem to leave Tatooine.

going up?, ~400 words. A Mandalorian gets on an elevator. BoBF 1x05.

Onto the Next, ~400 words. Din struggles during Return of the Mandalorian.

in bacta, dreaming, 1200 words. Din Djarin dreams in bacta.

The Invitation: 2600 words.  Din travels in dreams that feel realer than real after the Rescue. A promise is kept.

cobbles, 200 words. Din and Grogu share a quiet moment.

Reverberations, linked to on AO3, 16,500 words. Five times Din and Grogu encounter the Dark Side, and one time they encounter something altogether different.

[chacusha]

I've now finished season 1 of TNG and it's a bit of a rough season but I will say, the one thing I think it does very well in terms of worldbuilding is that it solidly establishes the level of competence aboard the Enterprise. I feel like TNG is peak in terms of competence porn? Other Star Trek series mostly take place on ships that aren't the flagship of the Federation (and when they do competence porn, it's mostly in the style of "excitedly technobabbling at people as you solve your way out of a seemingly impossible problem"). And even the ones that are on the Enterprise are set earlier in time and feel a bit less professional in terms of their crew. But there's various things in TNG season 1 that establish very early on that this crew is the Best of the Best, and they mostly act like it (aside from various fuck ups in terms of basic things like quarantine procedure and security):

It starts in the first episode (1x01/1x02 "Encounter at Farpoint") where Picard (whose characterization is a bit off in this early episode -- it settles into something different later) for no reason asks Riker to prove his chops by manually aligning and attaching the saucer section to the battle bridge section. And Riker, though surprised at this test, rises to the challenge and passes with flying colors. Riker in general gets a lot of character establishment as a highly ambitious career-oriented officer that is meant for Great Things.

Picard's bridge crew... consists of said very competent first officer, a superhuman android with something like 23? years of Starfleet experience under his belt as the second officer, an empathic half-Betazoid who Picard regularly consults (and she gives good advice and is extremely cool under pressure), and the first Klingon in Starfleet. Like, you get the feeling that Picard has very carefully picked his bridge crew not only for the skill of the officers but also for the diversity and what they convey about the type of people that the multicultural Federation has to offer.

This season also establishes (through Wesley in 1x19 "Coming of Age") the procedures for admittance into Starfleet Academy and it's super intense? Like, even though Wesley is obviously super smart, very knowledgeable on multiple subjects, has a kind and helping disposition, is psychologically resilient, etc., he doesn't make the cut, and it's clear the other applicants had trained really hard for it too. Like, the process just for getting into the academy is obviously incredibly selective, and then the Enterprise is all the people who made it through that AND were selected as the top multiple times thereafter.

Speaking of which, Geordi is obviously a more junior officer, but when he's called to fill the captain seat because the three more senior bridge officers are away, he rises to the challenge, uses his training, and takes on Deanna's (again great) advice on the fly. It's clear that even the less experienced officers are well-trained and highly competent.

Finally, Picard himself is the head of this whole, well, enterprise, and TNG delves a bit into the question of, "What kind of person becomes the captain of the flagship of the Federation?" Season 1 establishes, in episodes like 1x24 "We'll Always Have Paris" and through Riker's parallel but earlier-stage career journey (e.g. 1x11 "Haven"), that rising to this position requires a significant amount of sacrifice in terms of one's personal life. And in his behavior, Picard models being the Best Boss, taking on board the advice of his officers, trusting them with responsibility, and even when he overrides an objection raised by an officer, makes sure to publicly praise that officer for raising that objection. And he's constantly thrown into situations that require diplomacy and judgment, and he's careful and thorough in his deliberations. Basically, he's a great boss.

All of the above little details from season 1 already contribute to the impression that the whole crew of the Enterprise has gone through a lot of selective processes and training and has emerged out of it highly competent and professional. And I'm not sure if there's any other Star Trek series that can (has tried to?) pull off the level of skill, professionalism, and respect for each other that the TNG crew obviously has.

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Star Trek Comfort Episodes Megalist

Alrighty! So this idea has been in my head for a good few months now. I watch Star Trek a bunch anyway, but I found that when I would be feeling unwell or a little bit down I found myself re-watching the same few episodes over and over, so I decided to make it into a list! 

I've been working on it for a good few weeks, and it's about as finished as I can get it, as I don't know all the Treks equally. So I'm posting it as is, and if anyone who knows some of the shows better, I'm more than happy to take suggestions to add to it!

(Edit 08/11/21: Now includes episodes from Lower Decks)

TOS:

2x15 The Trouble With Tribbles

TNG:

4x11 Data’s Day

4x20 Qpid

5x05 Disaster

6x04 Relics

7x15 Lower Decks

DS9:

3x22 Explorers

4x07 Little Green Men

5x06 Trials and Tribble-ations

6x10 The Magnificent Ferengi

6x14 One Little Ship

7x04 Take Me Out to the Holosuite

7x15 Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang

VOY:

4x14 Message In a Bottle

5x12 Bride of Chaotica!

5x24 Relativity

6x10 Pathfinder

6x11 Fair Haven

6x12 Blink of an Eye

7x18 Q2

ENT:

1x07 Breaking the Ice 

1x18 Acquisition

2x02 Carbon Creek

2x09 Singularity 

2x05 A Night In Sickbay 

2x12 The Catwalk

4x07, 08 & 09 The Forge, Awakening, Kir’Shara

DIS:

1x07 Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad

2x01 Brother

3x07 Unification III

3x13 That Hope Is You (Part 2)

LDS:

1x01 Second Contact

2x03 We’ll Always Have Tom Paris

2x09 wej Duj

Movies:

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Star Trek Beyond

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Once Upon a Time 2x09 “Queen of Hearts” Review

Reviews 1x01 1x02 1x03 1x04 1x05 1x06 1x07 1x08 1x09 1x10 1x11 1x12 1x13 1x14 1x15 1x16 1x17 1x18 1x19 1x20 1x21 1x22 2x01 2x02 2x03 2x04 2x05 2x06 2x07 2x08

What a spectacular episode! It has it all. What happened to Cora after young Regina pushed her through the mirror. How she and Hook formed an alliance. How the safe haven came to be. Sword fighting between Emma and Hook. True Love’s Kiss (again) between Mary Margaret and David. And the big one, Emma apparently has magic! Hold on, because this one is going to be long.

Summary: Emma and crew are trapped in Rumplestiltskin’s cell by Cora and Hook. Hook is sent by the Evil Queen to kill the Queen of Hearts. In Storybrooke, Gold and Regina set a plan in motion to prevent Cora from coming through the portal, but could end up killing Emma and Mary Margaret instead.

Opening: Geyser of water

Character Observations:

Emma: So last episode she was feeling extremely guilty over Henry being in the Burning Red Room and not believing him. This episode (which is just later the same day), Emma is feeling as though her Saviorhood has been thrust upon her and that she’s not really as special as she thought she was. Good thing that gets dispelled later on. Emma and crew are in Rumplestiltskin’s cell looking for the squid ink he said he left there. First they find a scroll with Emma’s name written on it in any space available. They think he’d gone crazy. Emma is a little unnerved by this course of events. She wants to know what it means. Mary Margaret says Rumplestiltskin was obsessed with her since she could break the curse. They can’t find the squid ink anywhere. Emma thinks maybe something got lost in translation in the Netherworld, but then Mulan finds and empty ink pot. Emma’s upset because that was their way back home, and then Aurora makes a great throw with the ink pot and closes the cell doors on them. Cora comes and immediately gets the compass from them. Emma immediately tries to get it back through the bars, but can’t get it. Cora reveals that she has Aurora’s heart, but looks almost heartbroken when Hook reveals that he actually took it. Emma tries to appeal to Hook with the fact that she needs to get to her son, but he’s done with being nice to her after she left him on the beanstalk. She claims he would’ve done the same, but he says she’s wrong and Emma looks properly chastised. Poor Emma, she looks like a kid that just got caught doing something bad by the teacher. Then Hook rubs it in even more when he shows her the dried up bean the giant had kept (that Emma, once again, tries to grab through the cell bars), and how it had once been full of life, and now it’s shriveled and useless, just like Emma. She looks like she’s really thinking about her life choices right in this instance. Emma is not trying to hack through the bars of the cell with a sword, which is going just as well as expected. The women lament about whose fault it is that they’re in this predicament, but Emma feels it’s all her fault because she the Savior and she’s not doing much in the way of saving. Mary Margaret tells Emma that good always triumphs over evil and Emma tells her she sounds like Henry. Mary Margaret says optimism runs in their family but Emma thinks it must have skipped a generation because she is anything but optimistic. Emma goes on and on about how she’s not special, that Gold planned everything and used her as a pawn, and she’s just a name on a piece of paper. Emma quips that the paper isn’t going to magically open the cell door for them, but that helps Mary Margaret remember that you can blow spells, which she does, and the bars disappear. Emma realizes it was written in squid ink and seriously, this is the happiest I’ve ever seen Emma in this series. She’s absolutely elated that they’re able to get out.  Emma, Mary Margaret, and Mulan, despite the time delay of getting out, manage to get to Lake Nostos right as Cora and Hook are about to jump into the portal. Mary Margaret shoots the compass out of their hands and Emma goes to look for it. Emma goes and sword fights with Hook. He looks like he’s got her beat, but then the satchel with Aurora’s heart almost goes in the portal and he saves it, giving Emma a chance to get her sword back (because Hook is much better at sword fighting than she is). But Emma ends up on her back with Hook right on top of her making sexual innuendos, and oh, guess what she just happened to land on? The compass. Which she then uses to knock Hook out. She then runs at Cora (seriously, Emma), who poufs away. Mary Margaret tries to get herself and Emma to the portal but Cora comes back and throws them back. Cora then attempts to take Mary Margaret’s heart, but Emma is not losing her mother so soon, so she gets in the way and Cora plunges her hand into her chest. Cora tells her love is weakness, but then Cora can’t get Emma’s heart out of her chest. Emma realizes love is strength and magic surges through her and knocks Cora out. And, of course, Emma is freaking the eff out because being the Savior is one thing, but having magic is another thing altogether. And with that, Emma and Mary Margaret jump into the portal and finally get home. Regina, Gold, and Henry happen to be at the well where they come out and Henry tells Emma that Regina saved them on their way home. After Mary Margaret wakes up David, Emma goes to confront Gold. She knows he could have gotten out of his cell whenever he wanted since the squid ink was there. She says because he created the curse, everything she’s done has been what he’s wanted her to do. He tells her he just took advantage of what she was, a product of true love. She’s powerful because of that, not anything he did. And he confirms that she has magic. Emma is not sure how to feel about that. She, Henry, Mary Margaret, David, and Ruby go to get dinner, as a family.

Cora: In the past we discover Cora has become the Queen of Hearts in Wonderland. Hook goes to take her heart thanks to a spell from the Evil Queen, but Cora doesn’t keep her heart in her chest. Well, if she didn’t have her heart when Regina was young, that would explain a lot. Cora then retaliates by plunging her hand into Hook’s chest and squeezing his heart. She looks devastated when Hook tells her it was her daughter who wanted her dead (well, what does she expect after murdering her fiance and then expecting her to marry someone else right off the bat and then getting banished to Wonderland?). Still holding Hook’s heart, she says he’ll tell her everything because when he you hold someone’s heart you control them. Hook wants Cora to get it over with and kill him but she rants about Regina and how she should have come to kill her herself. She doesn’t kill him because she wants his help. She explains that she can get him his revenge and how the curse will wipe his memories and he won’t know who he is, let alone who Rumplestiltskin is. She wants him to bring her back under the guise of having killed her so she can Regina’s heart out. Well, that escalated quickly. Cora is in an ornate coffin and the Evil Queen wants to say goodbye to her. The Evil Queen actually reveals that she still loves her mother and that’s why she wanted her killed. Once she leaves, Hook questions why the Evil Queen is still alive and Cora actually has feelings towards her daughter and decides that she will bide her time and wait until the curse ends and Regina has nothing and no one and then she’ll swoop in because she’ll need her mother. But first they need to protect themselves. Cora makes the barrier that protects that little corner of land from the curse and tells Hook they will be frozen there for 28 years, and then he can have his revenge.

In the present, due to having Aurora’s heart, Cora and Hook are waiting for Emma and crew when they go to Rumplestiltskin’s cell. She thanks Aurora for helping her, magics the compass to herself, and then shows them that she has Aurora’s heart. Cora and Hook leave to go open the portal after Emma makes one last plea to Hook. They go to Lake Nostos, since the waters will restore what once was lost. Hook says there’s no water. Cora’s response is to magically dig into the earth and find the water underneath, creating a geyser of water. Cora asks Hook how he can doubt her after everything they’ve been through. The geyser calms down enough for Cora to let Hook throw the ashes into it and it creates a portal. They’re about to jump in when an arrow whizzes by and knocks the compass out of their hands. Cora starts shooting fireballs and Mulan lobs them back. Cora throws the satchel with Aurora’s heart and poufs away. Mulan catches it on her sword and almost loses it in the portal, but Hook catches it. Mulan gives Mary Margaret her sword to go give Aurora back her heart and Cora comes back. She and Mary Margaret circle each other, but Emma comes in with her sword to try and get Cora, who poufs away before she can get to her. Cora knocks Emma and Mary Margaret to the ground when they make a run for the portal. Cora goes for Mary Margaret and tells her she’s going to finally get for her daughter what she’s always wanted. Her heart. But as she goes to grab it, Emma knocks Mary Margaret out of her way and Cora ends up in Emma’s chest. Cora is delighted at what she perceives as Emma’s stupidity for loving her mother. She tells her love is weakness but then can’t get Emma’s heart out of her chest. Cora is thoroughly confused. Emma realizes love is strength and somehow pushes her away with magic. Cora tells Hook they failed after Emma and Mary Margaret go through the portal. Hook tells her not to doubt him and shows her the bean. Cora thinks it’s useless since it’s petrified. Has she already forgotten what the waters of Lake Nostos can do? Cora and Hook are then seen on the Jolly Roger that has appeared on the outskirts of Storybrooke’s harbor. Very excited to see what kind of trouble they get into.

Evil Queen/Regina: The Evil Queen catches Hook in Belle’s cell. She steals his hook before he can kill her. She tells him she’s a valuable chess piece. She’s also impressed that Hook managed to get through her guards and into Belle’s cell. But she does not like his attitude. She tells him she knows all about his vendetta against Rumplestiltskin and that he’s been in Neverland and that she can help him if he helps her. They have a drink and she tells him about the curse that is coming. She entices him by telling him the new land they’re going to is a land without magic and Rumplestiltskin will be powerless, making it that much easier for Hook to kill him. The Evil Queen is practically seducing him while talking to him. It’s a little unnerving. Hook wants to know what he has to do for her. She wants him to kill her mother. She enchants his hook so he can pull out her heart. He wonders what she did to have such ire from the Evil Queen, but that’s her business. She just wants him to kill her and bring her body back. And then, one of the best parts of this episode happens when the Evil Queen reveals that Claude, a dead body, will be going with Hook. Hook has no clue who Claude is and the Evil Queen reminds him that he just killed him in the cell block. This whole scene and delivery are hilarious. Hook is understandably confused as to why he’s bringing a dead body with him. She then explains the rules of the hat and that he will be going to Wonderland.The next time we see the Evil Queen, Hook has brought back Cora’s ‘body’, and she is mourning for her mother (in one of the most atrocious outfits I’ve seen on her so far, like what is even happening with this outfit?). The Evil Queen is visibly upset, considering she just hired someone to assassinate her mother. But she really wanted her dead because of Cora telling her love is weakness, and she still loves her mother, so she can’t bring Cora with her in the curse because it will make her weak. And what she doesn’t realize is that ends up saving her life. She just knows that she is in control and she finally feels like she has won.

Now Regina, on the other hand, feels like her life is falling apart. Which is why she so willingly goes along with Gold to ‘prevent’ Cora from getting through the portal. She’s actually very optimistic at the beginning of the episode, believing that Mary Margaret and Emma will make it home. Gold starts questioning (manipulating) what she believes. She knows David gave the message to them, but because he’s not awake, Gold says they don’t know if he did or not. Also, the constant threat of Cora coming through terrifies Regina. She’s still that scared little girl when it comes to her mother. She doesn’t realize she is so much more powerful than Cora is now, and Gold doesn’t help her in believing that either. He tells her that if they ‘accidentally’ kill Emma and Mary Margaret with the portal barrier, then Regina would be the only parent in Henry’s life. Regina is truly trying to turn over a new leaf. She tells Gold she can’t lie to Henry. Gold basically double dares Regina to help him because Cora would be a threat to everyone, including Henry, if she comes through. Regina is still very conflicted. She goes to Henry and tells him that she and Gold need to prepare for the portal (guess she made that decision pretty easily then), and Henry couldn’t be prouder of how much his mother has changed. She and Gold go to the mines where Gold steals all the fairy dust diamonds. Gold takes Regina to the Wishing Well, since it supposedly returns lost things. The water at the bottom is bubbling, indicating that there is, indeed, a portal opening up and someone will be coming through. Gold is still insistent that Cora will be coming through, and Regina is still holding out hope that it will be Emma and Mary Margaret. Gold creates the portal barrier. Henry and Ruby run up and Henry accuses Regina of not helping Emma and Mary Margaret. She tries to explain how she is protecting him and the town from Cora, but Henry is hysterical now because he also believes that Emma and Mary Margaret will be coming through the portal. He gives the good always defeats evil line and points it at Regina. She’s not having it thought. She knows Cora would destroy everything she loves and she can’t let that happen to Henry. He tries to run for the well, but Regina holds him back. Henry eventually uses Regina wanting to change and that she needs to have faith in him to guilt her into removing the barrier. Regina takes the barrier into herself and manages to do it without killing herself somehow. They think they’re too late, but Emma and Mary Margaret make it out. Regina’s feelings are very conflicted here. She’s happy that she did what she did to make Henry happy, but now his ‘real’ mom is back (and Henry calls them both mom, and she looks so hurt when he calls Emma mom). Henry tells them that Regina saved them. Emma tries to talk to Regina about Cora, but can’t say much more than she’s a piece of work. Regina welcomes her back with a mix of jealousy and honesty. They all go over to watch Mary Margaret wake up David. Regina is feeling completely out of place. Henry gives her a hug and tells her she really has changed. You can tell that she’s completely overwhelmed with Henry hugging her, yet really happy at the same time. Emma asks Henry to come to dinner with everyone at Granny’s, but does not invite Regina, who is heartbroken to be left behind, and Gold rubs it in that they didn’t invite her along. She is now definitely at her lowest point and Cora coming can only make things worse for Regina.

Mary Margaret: She is full of hope, even when it looks like there is none. She exposits to Emma how she hasn’t been to Rumplestiltskin’s cell since before Emma was born and that her being the Savior was prophesied. They others wonder if someone else was in the cell with Rumplestiltskin but Mary Margaret explains that he was by himself, even visitors were forbidden as he was too dangerous. Emma wonders what it means, but Mary Margaret is convinced that Rumplestiltskin was obsessed with Emma since she was the key to breaking the curse. Mary Margaret starts getting a little desperate when they can’t find the squid ink that David told her about. Emma suggests something was lost in the translation but Mary Margaret is determined to find it. They end up finding an empty bottle of ink and then Aurora traps them in the cell. When Cora tells them that Aurora helped her, Mary Margaret feels very betrayed, considering she’s been like a mother to her and helping her through the nightmares. But then they realize that Cora has Aurora’s heart. After Cora and Hook leave, Mary Margaret has given up hope. She tells Emma, in a very annoyed voice, that trying to get out is impossible because it was enchanted to keep Rumplestiltskin in (seriously, she has that tone that mom’s have after their child has done something eleventy-billion times and still continues to do it). But once Emma starts blaming herself for them being trapped in the cell, Mary Margaret’s tone changes and she’s all gung-ho about good always defeating evil. She still seems to believe that Emma is the Savior, despite Emma believing she’s just a pawn in Rumplestiltskin’s game. Mary Margaret once again tells Emma they will get out of there. Emma isn’t hopeful because all they’re doing is staring at the scroll with her name written on it, but that strikes a memory in Mary Margaret about how Cora used to do spells. She blew them off the page. So she does so with Emma’s name scroll and it breaks down the cell for them to get out. Emma is amazed. Mary Margaret basically tell her she told her so, and they run off to get to Cora and Hook before they can use the portal. They make is just in time as Mary Margaret shoots the compass out of their hands with an arrow right as they were going to  jump into the portal. Emma immediately starts sword fighting Hook and Mulan deflects Cora’s fireballs with her sword, while Mary Margaret shoots arrows to help them out. Mary Margaret tells Mulan to go back to Aurora once they have her heart. Mulan gives Mary Margaret her sword to help defeat Cora. Emma tries to get Cora but she poufs away and Mary Margaret and Emma try to get into the portal at that point, but Cora knocks them away. Cora confronts Mary Margaret who asks why she wants to go to Storybrooke so bad. Cora tells her Regina needs her and she’s going to give her the one thing she’s always wanted, her heart. Cora attempts to take Mary Margaret’s heart but Emma pushes her out of the way. After Emma somehow defeats her with magic, Mary Margaret quickly soothes her by telling her they’ll figure it out in Storybrooke and they make the leap home. Immediately, when they get to Storybrooke, Red comes and takes her to David. Mary Margaret rushes to Gold’s shop and True Love Kisses David awake, in the exact scene they had when he kissed her awake in the Pilot. He even says the Burning Red Room gave him pause. They all go off to Granny’s for dinner. Hopefully, we’ll get to see Mary Margaret in actual mother mode now that they’re back in Storybrooke and not fighting for their lives.

Gold: I’m honestly not sure if he is truly afraid of Cora coming through that portal, or he just finds life easier without Emma and Mary Margaret around or both. Gold has stated he’s more powerful than Cora, so why is he so afraid of her coming through the portal? Especially since Regina seems to be turning over a new leaf and could easily help him defeat her. Either way, he manipulates Regina into helping him set up the portal barrier (or at least tagging along because she doesn’t seem to do much but stand there). He actually looks shocked when it appears that Emma and Mary Margaret aren’t going to make through the portal, but then has no emotion when Emma and Mary Margaret make it back through. He literally just walks off and doesn’t say a word, just shoots Regina a look that apparently she was right. Emma confronts him after David wakes up. He actually goes to apologize for the portal barrier, but she understands having met Cora. She’s upset about him orchestrating the whole Savior thing. Plus he could have gotten out of his cell whenever he wanted. He tells her he was exactly where he wanted to be. Gold tells her that he didn’t create her or make her the Savior, he merely took advantage of who she was, the product of true love. He tells her that’s what makes her powerful and everything she’s done has all been her. Emma realizes he doesn’t know what happened between her and Cora. He confirms that it’s magic and that he had nothing to do with that. Everyone leaves for dinner leaving Gold and Regina. He congratulates her on reuniting Henry and Emma and quips that maybe they’ll even invite her to dinner one day.

Aurora/Mulan: When it’s discovered that Cora has Aurora’s heart she instantly feels guilty. Mulan feels guilty for not protecting her from her heart being taken. Aurora insists on being tied up and left behind when they go after Cora and Hook. Mulan eventually returns with Aurora’s heart and puts it back in her chest. Aurora tells Mulan what Cora told her about the wraiths and souls and they decide to go figure out how to put Phillip’s soul back in his body.

Henry: He has so much faith in Regina in seeing how much she’s changed. It means so much to Regina for him to trust her and love her like he does. It’s his faith that finally gets Regina to practically kill herself to stop the portal barrier. And while he does thank her and tell her how much she’s changed, again, it’s not enough to invite her to come to dinner with Emma, Mary Margaret, David, the dwarfs, and Ruby. I get that he’s 11 and doesn’t necessarily understand how Regina is feeling, but he’s finally forging a real relationship with his adoptive mother that isn’t manipulative. Wouldn’t the fact that she just saved them from being killed warrant an invitation to dinner?

Questions:

Why does Belle look like Storybrooke Belle and not Enchanted Forest Belle in her cell? Is the Evil Queen really letting her do her makeup and hair everyday?

How does the Evil Queen know all the details about Hook’s vendetta against Rumplestiltskin? Did Rumplestiltskin tell her?

Where does Cora keep her heart if not in her chest and how long has she not had her heart with her?

How does the Evil Queen not suspect that Cora isn’t dead? Did Cora enact some kind of glamour spell? She’s breathing and she has a heartbeat. How did the Evil Queen not check for these?

Is Henry, Sr. already dead at this point? Has the Evil Queen already taken his heart to get ready for the curse? Because otherwise, a) I’d think he’d also be mourning Cora as she was his wife, and b) the love is weakness concerning Cora wouldn’t make sense because until the Evil Queen was told she needed to take the heart of the thing she loves most, Henry, Sr., was going to go over in the curse as well. But in the episode The Thing You Love Most, it seemed as though she cast the curse almost immediately after she killed him.

Where did Rumplestiltskin hide a pot of ink on him when he was captured? Wouldn’t they have taken everything from him? And would they really have let him have a pen and parchment in his cell? Or were those on him as well?

I thought the dwarves were going to harvest the diamonds for fairy dust the day after they found them? Did David tell them not to bother once the hat was burned?

How did Hook get the bean from the Giant? Did he kill the giant to get it?

Why does Henry assume that Gold and Regina taking all the magic is for something bad when she had just told him they had to prepare things for Emma and Mary Margaret coming through the portal?

Exactly what was Regina needed for with the portal barrier? Gold used the fairy wand to get the magic diamonds, and then used it to bring the barrier down to the well. Regina just stood there and watched. Was she his scapegoat in case things went wrong?

How did Mary Margaret, Emma, and Mulan know to go to Lake Nostos? Did Mary Margaret track Cora and Hook there? 

Are the writers really expecting me to believe that Emma, who has no formal sword fighting training and has only picked up a sword once before, can beat Hook, who has, who knows how many years of sword fighting under his belt?

How convenient that Regina and Gold just happened to be trying to stop the portal at the same time Emma and Mary Margaret make it through. 

Isn’t Phillip technically dead without his soul? Wouldn’t his body be decomposing? Or is getting your soul ripped out equivalent to a sleeping curse when it comes to body preservation?

Who is steering the Jolly Roger? Hook is nowhere near the wheel.

Observations:

There are hash marks in Belle’s cell. I counted them. There are 193 groups of five. That’s 965 days. So assuming that Belle made all the marks and there weren’t there from a previous occupant, Belle has been the Evil Queen’s prisoner for roughly two and a half years (based on our calendars).

The wand Gold uses to take the diamonds from the mine belonged to Cinderella’s fairy godmother that he killed in The Price of Gold.

Hook was able to take Aurora’s heart because of the spell the Evil Queen put on it.

Cora doesn’t keep her heart in her chest.

Now we know how Gold woke up when he learned Emma’s name when she first came to town, he had it ingrained in his memory.

Mulan’s sword can deflect Cora’s magic.

You don’t need magic to put a heart back in someone’s chest.

I’m not sure how long it takes to get to your destination once jumping through a portal, or what the time to time correspondence is between Storybrooke and the Enchanted Forest, but it took an awfully long time for Emma and Mary Margaret to get through the portal.

Rumplestiltskin wanted to be caught and in the cell because he needed to know Emma’s name and tell Snow and Charming about her being the Savior, since he’d already put the True Love’s Kiss contingent in place by putting some of it on the curse scroll.

It’s 5:10 in the evening when they pass the clock tower on the way to Granny’s.

Cora is holding the rose (dried) that Regina placed in her coffin when she and Hook arrive in Storybrooke.

Great episode! This was the season 2 fall arc ender before they took a month break. It will be interesting to see how Cora and Hook being in Storybrooke will change dynamics. I’m also looking forward to Mary Margaret and David figuring out how to be Emma’s parents and Emma being Henry’s mom now that they’re all back together. Remember, the curse was only lifted about a week and a half ago in their timeline, even if it was 9 weeks of episodes for us.

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[sir-adamus]

It’s still Summer

okay so we don’t have like, a very clear timeline on how much time has passed in-show; though we do get a lot of details that we can make a rough estimate

unfortunately sometimes a lot of the wrong assumptions are made - like thinking it’s been a year since the Fall of Beacon, that Ruby would be 17 now, or that it’s now Winter-time

i’m gonna just lay out what the show gives us for where the show currently is in it’s timeline, but to tl;dr it if you don’t want this whole infodump, it’s been about a year and some change since the beginning of volume 2, and Fall hasn’t set in yet

alright so i should probably start off by providing evidence of the time of year

now a lot of people  have assumed it’s been a year since the Fall of Beacon, presumably because the latter took place in the Fall and volume 5 ended on the night before the Fall Semester would have started (i’ll get into why that’s not a solid connection in a little bit) but i can counter that with two screenshots, both involving Patch

here’s Patch during volume 3, in Fall, 3x01:

the leaves have turned/are turning, the grass is brown, it’s very clearly Autumnal

here’s Patch at the end of volume 5, 5x14:

leaves are green, grass is fresh and green - warm tones, it’s Summer

and the reason for this is that volume 5 ends the day before the Fall Semester would’ve started

and we know from volume 1 that a semester lasts a few months, as the entirety of the first volume after episode 1 takes place within that first semester (with Ruby’s fight with Torchwick happening not long before), from 1x15:

and we know from volume 2 that the Vytal Tournament takes place during the second semester, and so Fall must start during that Semester (as Ruby comments to Winter that it is Fall during volume 3), as Ruby says in 2x01:

“Look guys, it's been a good two weeks and between more exchange students arriving and the tournament at the end of the year, our second semester is going to be great! But, classes start back up tomorrow!”

‘the end of the year’ is a bit of an ambiguous comment, though this excerpt from After the Fall implies a third semester that presumably happens after a Winter/New Year’s break

and we also know from a few details that the school semesters happen at roughly the same time

within the show itself, Cinder’s absence after 1x01, only showing up with Mercury and Emerald in tow in 1x16, can be inferred to be because they (along with Neo) were posing as students at Haven to get entrance to the tournament (and presumably this is when Lionheart defected to Salem’s orders), and other exchange students (like Sun) began arriving around the same time, meaning a semester had been going on

another instance comes from After the Fall, where during her own initiation, Velvet wonders if her buddy Vega Bleu from Pharos Academy would be going through initiation at the same time

suggesting the years start at roughly the same time

so this establishes that volume 5 ends roughly a year after volume 2 starts, a year after the Best Day Ever

so that establishes where we were at the end of volume 5, summertime, a year after volume 2 started

volume 6 picks up two weeks after that and ends within a week (6x01 to partway through 6x06 all happen on the same day, the rest of 6x06 and 6x07 happen the day after that, 6x08 - 6x09 the third day, and 6x10 - 6x13 presumably a day or two after), which i want to say would put it between a year after the investigation into the White Fang’s activities in Vale (2x03 - 2x04) and the Vytal dance (2x05 - 2x07)

also just for point of reference, this doesn’t really add much to anything except establishing the time of year, Grimm Eclipse happens between volumes 2 and 3 and the areas outside Forever Fall clearly show it’s still Summer

this also means that Ruby’s still 16 - we know from volume 3 when Ciel gives her profile on Ruby in 3x05 that Ruby was still 15 at the time, meaning the tournament was happening before October 31st, which is officially her birthday following this bit of Word of God from Miles after the Chibi episode about it:

and because it hasn’t been a year since the tournament, Ruby’s still 16 (and no, we don’t have official word on her being 17 and the timeline of the show - the primary canon, of which everything else, secondary canon and Word of God, is supplemental - doesn’t match up to it)

so then there’s the next point of confusion i see people, that it’s now Winter, and as we’ve established, it’s not, and the show isn’t confusing it’s own timeline and suggesting it is

we see more snow in volume 6 because RWBY and the others are in the more northerly part of the Anima continent

which the map shows to be fairly snowy

the show reinforces this as when we cut to Cinder during the volume (and remember that her timeline is established to be taking first a month after the battle of Haven - not the two weeks after which is RWBY’s time frame - and then an additional week while waiting for the info from Little Miss Malachite), it’s clearly not Winter, most notably when we see her and Neo in 6x13:

it’s dark but y’know, lush greenery - very clearly not Winter

so there we have it, it’s still Summer, we’re coming up on the anniversary of the Fall of Beacon and Ruby’s birthday within the next few in-universe months of the show

[mythoughtsaretroubled]

Welcome to Haven (1x01): FBI agent Audrey Parker tracks a federal prison escapee who mysteriously dies shortly after reaching his hometown of Haven, Maine.

Sarah (3x09): Duke and Nathan are sent back in time to 1955, and Audrey is the only one who realizes that their actions are having serious consequences in present-day Haven.

[eternalxblossom]

Another challenge I love to bits because I ship EVERYTHING.

OTP GAME - thank you for tagging me, @halfthealphabet​, you are doing God’s work.

1. Bea Smith/Allie Novak - (Wentworth) - I would seriously sell my kidney for them, number one OTP forever and ever, they’re even in the blog tag so... I am also forever salty about them.

2. Hailey Upton/Jay Halstead (Chicago PD) - the most chanel straights of all chanel straights - they’re in the blog tag too so that’s self-explanatory.

3. Lucas Scott/Peyton Sawyer (One Tree Hill) - listen this is the first ship that made me believe love is real

4. Amy Raudenfeld/Karma Ashcroft (Faking It) - I want to die when I think of that wasted potential

5. Emily Prentiss/Jennifer Jareau (Criminal Minds) - same as 4

6. Nathan Wuornos/Audrey Parker (Haven) - my parents. They are my parents!

7. Veronica Mars/Logan Echolls (Veronica Mars)

8. Stiles Stilinski/Lydia Martin (Teen Wolf)

9. Lincoln/Octavia Blake (The 100)

10. Erin Lindsay/Jay Halstead (Chicago PD)

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1. Do you remember the episode/scene/chapter that you first started shipping 6?

First scene - 1x01. I was trash. I mean they literally pulled guns on each other and I was like “TRU LUV. They have two dogs!”

2. Have you ever read a fanfic about 2?

Just one? I read pretty much all Upstead there is. I even wrote some!

3. Has a picture of 4 ever been your screen saver/profile picture/tumblr screen saver?

Oh yes, I used to have Amy from Faking It as my icon here on Tumblr because she is my damaged sarcastic daughter.

4. If 7 were to suddenly break up today, what would your reaction be?

I would be very angry. But not as angry as what the showrunners did...Veronica Mars fans know, THAT was a shitstorm. I would have preferred the break-up.

5. Why is 1 so important?

Listen Bea and Allie are the greatest prison love story and love story of all time on television and I will fight anyone who ever dares to say otherwise. It has everything - unconditional love, tragedy (a bit too much but that’s just television), acceptance, hope, seeing the other the way no one else ever has, willingness to sacrifice, trust and patience...I think Tumblr has been sleeping on this amazing pair.

6. Is 9 a funny ship or a serious ship?

A very serious ship! I will always be angry at fucking Jason RoTTENBERG for what he did to Linctavia, fuck that prick.

7. Out of all the ships listed, which ship has the most chemistry?

BEA AND ALLIE I MEAN LOOK AT THEM JESUS.

....I WILL THROW MYSELF OFF A BRIDGE.

Point made? Point made.

8. Out of all your ships listed, which ship has the strongest bond?

Bea/Allie and Jay/Hailey (1 and 2). Absolutely no contest. Hence why they’re both in my blog tag.

Point made? Point made again. I only ship Chanel, Walmart can take a seat LOL.

9. How many times have you read/watched the 10’s fandom? 

Hmmm well I did read a bit of Linstead fanfiction back in the day but I can’t say I watched their scenes or episodes twice. I enjoyed the dynamic on screen a lot though.

10. Which ship has lasted the longest?

Canonically? I would say 3 - Lucas and Peyton from One Tree Hill. They’ve been on and off, though.

11. How many times, if ever, has 6 broken up?

Hmm they didn’t actually break up willingly, let’s just say interdimensional travel and a weird creepy barn and some amnesia split them up (Haven fans know haha)

12. If the world was suddenly thrust into a zombie apocalypse, which ship would make it out alive, 2 or 8?

Both, actually! 2 are a pair of cops and 8 - well, Stiles and Lydia have huge brains and wits, they could outsmart any dumbass zombies.

13. Did 7 ever have to hide their relationship for any reason?

I can’t remember exactly but I think Logan and Veronica did hide it at some point because Logan was her best friend’s ex and she died and V. felt guilty about moving on with him, of all people.

14. Is 4 still together?

They were never canon but they are together in my heart and away from that shitty ass showrunner Carter Trollington so that’s all that matters. Where’s my Faking It fandom at? Guys, I am still salty, for the record.

15. Is 10 canon?

They were for a while but one character got written off so no.

16. If all 10 ships were put into a couple’s Hunger Games, which couple would win?

I can’t decide. But I’d bet on Bea/Allie cuz they have prison training or Jay/Hailey, along with Emily/JJ cuz both pairs are cops.

17. Has anybody ever tried to sabotage 5’s ship?

YES THE FUCKING WRITERS who were cowards and didn’t want to make Emily Prentiss a lesbian even if the actress would have been fine with it. They just sabotaged the best chemistry they had.

Another point made I think. The gif speaks for itself.

18. Which ship would you defend to the death and beyond?

ALL OF THEM but especially 1 and 2. 

19. Do you spend hours a day going through 3’s tumblr page?

I used to, in the past. Not so much now because One Tree Hill ended forever ago. I still follow ship blogs and reblog their gifs whenever I see them because I’ll always have a soft spot for Leyton. 

20. If an evil witch descended from the sky and told you that you had to pick one of the ten ships to break up forever or else she’d break them all forever, which ship would you sink?

I hate to choose but...10. They already broke up in canon so...

P.S. I really don’t know who to tag this time so if y’all wanna do this, just say I tagged you!

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Is rewatching every pilot from the shows I've picked for The Time Wars the most productive way to spend my day? Not really, no.

Is it what I'm tentatively planning to do? Absolutely.

Right now the plan is:

1. Sanctuary 1x01 Part 1

2. Timeless 1x01

3. Haven 1x01

4. Grimm 1x01

5. Sanctuary 1x01 Part 2

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Audrey Parker every episode. 1x01 - Welcome To Haven