#intergalactic baddie

[beautiful-3nigma]

We love a cosmic hottie. A space QUEEN. A celestial goddess. An intergalactic baddie. That’s what this palette gives.

[scarlett-bitch69]

Cosmic Baddies 🪐 ☄️🌖💫 Shabine Dreams

[tomatolandsca]

Hate to say it but Professor X was that girl this episode. Got unkilled, managed to bag a baddie, almost started a civil war, destroyed intergalactic imperialism and then said "ok vacation's over I've got work to do"

[elapsed-spiral]

Pre-season 2 OFMD fic list

It's less than two weeks till we get our ships wrecked, so here's my (presumably) final pre-season 2 fic list. Have a read if you wanna pass the improbably long days before the season premieres!

This list got out of control so I added some handy symbols: 🎧 = podfic available 💜 = personal favourite ⭐ = fics you may have heard about? I don’t know, I don’t have a sense for this stuff.

Cool collaboration(s) you should read immediately:

🎧💜Work Experience: what if Ed went to meet Stede when the Revenge ran aground? And what if Ed became a member of Stede’s crew? And what if things kept escalating and… Canon AU. Mature. Co-written with Shearwater.

Really no excuse for how stupid these ones are:

Watch Out, Here I Come: what if Stede had been intentionally seducing Ed? Teen

Once More, With Feeling: what if Frenchie just fixed the season 1 finale fiasco because he’s the most capable guy on the ship? Teen

Talent Show: what if Ed was crass about his sexual preferences? Explicit

Capsize on Your Thighs: what if Ed rebounded onto Calico Jack at the end of season 1? Ed/CJ and Ed/Stede (but Ed/Stede is endgame, natch). Explicit

🎧💜Your Feedback is Important to Us: what if Stede started holding open cabin hours to allow the crew to air their grievances (but was also very repressed and horny over Ed)? Explicit

Oh no Ed’s working through gender/class stuff (but make it funny):

Finery: Ed gets to wear a dress, Stede spontaneously combusts. Explicit

Tell More Tales: Stede isn’t the only writer aboard the Revenge. Explicit

🎧💜Lovers and Madmen: Ed is hellbent on marrying Stede. Explici

🎧 Save the Date: Ed 'attends' a wedding. Unfortunately, so does Stede. Short S2 alternative reunion fic. Teen

AUs no-one asked for:

Novel/novella length

🎧💜Restructuring: modern AU where Stede loses his fortune before meeting Ed, but Ed’s still got more money than you can shake a fucking stick at. Only problem is, Stede lies and says he’s wealthy and Ed lies and says he isn’t. Like the show, it’s a romcom about trauma. Explicit

🎧💜⭐Baddy Zaddy: Bridget Jones’s Diary style, former porn star turned sex shop owner!Ed/still unfortunately landed gentry!Stede. Novel length modern AU. Explicit

💜⭐Prize Every Time: You’ve Got Mail-y secret pen pals but also business rivals. Novel length modern AU. Explicit

Conflict of Interest: lawyer!Stede/businessman!Ed (read: gangster). Modern AU. Explicit

Shorter uns

Intergalactic Tango: Space Waltz AU. Mature

🎧💜Trade Descriptions Act: bailiff!Ed/estate agent!Stede. Identity theft but make it meet cute. Modern AU. Teen

Your Favourite Song: locksmith!Ed/museum curator!Stede. Kinktober fill that somehow isn’t E rated. Modern AU. Teen

⭐Draft Letter to Restaurant Downstairs: Google Docs AU with a (slightly) interactive element. Modern SMAU. Teen

Blind Date: Stede and Jeffrey Fettering go on a blind date at Ed’s restaurant. I think you know where this is going. Modern AU. Explicit

Different Dimension: ficlet that crams four and a bit AUs into 850 words. Modern AU. Teen

Stuck Still: British holiday resort AU feat. events manager!Stede and bartender turned fairy!Ed (it makes sense in the story I swear). Modern AU. Explicit

💜On the Job: “kidnapping” meet cute (but not actually. Again, I swear it makes sense in the story I swear). Modern AU. Explicit

Starring Jason Statham: another weird meet cute, courtesy of Jack and the Fast and Furious franchise. Stede/Jack, Ed/Jack and Ed/Stede (Ed/Stede is once again end game). Modern AU. Teen

West Ham Is for Lovers: Lucius has a new job. It’s going fine. Completely, totally fine. A meet cute fic about meet cutes. Ed/Stede but also Lucius/Pete, Lucius/Fang, Lucius/Izzy and Lucius/Olu/Jim. Modern AU. Teen

💜Conventional: back in the 00s, Ed was in a very famous movie franchise. Nowadays, he does the convention circuit. Modern AU. Explicit

🎧💜Proud: Ed attends Pride to get free mum hugs, Stede attends Pride to give free dad hugs. Modern AU. Teen

KrakenAir: Stede and the crew are heading to Benidorm to celebrate Stede coming out. That is, if Stede’s all expenses spared KrakenAir flight ever departs. Modern SMAU. Teen

Very Poor, Becoming Good: aspiring Gentleman Backpacker Stede Bonnet is adventure bound when he meets fellow traveller Ed Teach at an empty hostel. Now if they could just find the owner… Modern AU. Explicit

💜Stolen by the Gentleman Thief: Ed is a lonely gay guy in his late forties whose favourite book is historical softcore porn. Luckily, there’s a weird meet cute about to happen. Modern AU. Explicit

Live Sex Show: Columnist Ed Teach recommends that Stede Bonnet shake up his monotonous life by doing something weird. Modern AU. Teen

💜Continue Making Progress: Kraken Driving School has a terrible new student. Luckily, Ed and Stede both have a lot to offer one another. Modern AU. Explicit

Oh no there’s been a containment breach (aka non-Blackbonnet fics):

💜We Do What We Like (and We Like What We Do): a brief history of Ed and Jack. Explicit (Ed/CJ)

Fealty: Stede and Izzy make one another even more miserable. Mature (Stede/Izzy)

💜Contra Proferentem: Ed is a high powered lawyer and Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge. Lucius is not a high powered lawyer but he is a lecturer of English Lit at the University of Cambridge. Stede own a very nice cafe. Explicit (platonic Ed/Lucius, Ed/Stede, no cheating involved)

[liminalpebble]

When I try to explain my unquenchable thirst for baddies like Hux and Loki to normal people vs tumblr people...

To normal people:

Me: Okay, I know they're the worst but just let me please have my intergalactic, pale, lanky, greasy-haired, bright-eyed, Posh-accented, well-dressed, emotionally unavailable, brilliant, masterminding psychopath with daddy issues, inferiority/superiority complexes, and devastating cheekbones. I want to both hate fuck them, but also be the reason they discover they have a heart.

The World: "Whatever, freak".

---

To my Tumblr friends:

Me: "So I'm really into villains like Hux and Loki..."

My mutuals: "Say no more. Have my random fanfic where it's a threesome with the reader and they spank each other wearing latex. I just happened to have it hanging out on my hard drive. Thanks for the reason to post it. Welcome to thirsty kinky bitch land. We love you already. Here, have a cookie. "

@gigglingtigger @lokisgoodgirl @sweetsigyn @goblingirlsarah

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for going right back to causing chaos after the important missions were done?

I (30, M) am a member of an intergalactic team led by a kid (5-10?, M) that kicked most of our asses in the past, because a lot of us were enemies with him before. I was the one that tricked him into granting a wish to a comet, to make it clearer who I am.

Most of those guys who were enemies with the kid are now friends with him as they've tried to become better people.

Not me though.... hahahahaha! I never cared to become a better person. Truthfully, the only reason I tagged along in the group because the new threat was too big to ignore, although they did reward me with food! Can't say no to rewards like that. But regardless, I didn't join to be some sort of hero, and instead only because I didn't want the universe to be destroyed.

I love chaos and mischief! And I can't have my fun in a universe that's destroyed. Why let the universe be destroyed when there's fun to be had? I can't plot my own sketchy ambitions with all this other evil shit around!

The reason why the team was formed was because we needed to stop a doomsday cult that put the whole universe at risk. Their leader was hilariously unhinged, and after we whooped him, he sacrificed his followers to summon their god. We beat their god, too.

But it wasn't over. The toddler then made us all go to a twisted dimension to save that exact same cult leader with his three loyal followers. So we did that, too.

Once we completed the task of saving those four, though? I was glad that it was over. I was getting bored of having to go along with the rest of the group, but at least I was finally free to do what I want after that was all dealt with.

And so I went right back to causing chaos. I even went as far as to mess with the rest of the intergalactic team shortly after we were done! Hahahahahahahahahaha! It was so much fun!

They all got soooo mad! It was so hilarious to see the looks on their faces when I went right back to mischief. A lot of them cursed me out. Not that I cared, honestly. A lot of them didn't even get along with me beforehand, anyways. The only real friend I had in the group was a blue-cloaked guy (32, M) that also once betrayed the toddler like I did, although he didn't cause trouble to the rest of the group at the end like I did.

It was pretty funny that they thought I actually tried to become a better person. Nah, man, I don't give a crud. I only joined along to help ensure the new baddie got rekt, that doesn't mean I was gonna continue playing nice afterwards!

AITA or did you agree that it was annoying to go along with them and was relieved it was finally over?

[vincentvega0721]

Battletoads

Trapped in a fantasy simulator bunker for 26 years, the Battletoads awaken to discover they are no longer intergalactic heroes and have fallen into modern-day obscurity. In a bid to reclaim their glory, they set out to once again defeat their old longtime nemesis, the Dark Queen. But when they confront the queen, they end up teaming up with her to take down an evil alien race called the Topians, who have not only stolen the queen's powers but also were the ones who trapped the toads in the bunker.

SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron

Set in a world of anthropomorphic felines, this series follows the high-flying adventures of Chance "T-Bone" Furlong and Jake "Razor" Clawson. Members of Megakat City's elite law-enforcement agency, the pilots become grounded after their pursuit of archvillain Dark Kat sets them at odds with the headstrong Commander Feral. Reassigned to duties at a military salvage yard, Chance and Jake create their own high-tech jet from discarded parts and dedicate themselves to protecting the city in their secret identities as the SWAT Cats. Armed to the teeth and ready to roll, these masked vigilantes continue their quest to bring down Dark Kat and other threats to the city, including recurring baddies the Pastmaster, Dr. Viper and Hard Drive.

Biker Mice from Mars

With hearts as big as their helmets, Throttle, Vinnie and Modo -- the Biker Mice from Mars -- are back and ready to take on all evildoers. In this incarnation of the cartoon that first aired from 1993 to 1996, the mice rumble with the no-good Catatonians, a cat-like race of creatures who seek the greatest prize in the universe -- the Regenerator, a device that can create anything upon request. The mice use it to make water, the cats want it to turn planets into giant sandboxes, and they'll scratch one another's eyes out to get it back from Ronaldo Rump, a Chicago real estate tycoon who has stolen it so he can transform Mexico into a humongous golf and hotel resort.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Turtles' origin story begins with Hamato Yoshi, a Japanese ninja living in exile in New York City, who buys four baby turtles from a pet store. While walking home, Yoshi is attacked by a group of men who are actually alien Kraang in disguise. The Kraang splash Yoshi and the turtles with a mutagen chemical called Ooze, which transforms them. The Ooze combines Yoshi's DNA with DNA from a rat that crawled up his leg during the fight, and Yoshi becomes Splinter. The turtles are also transformed, making them stronger than almost any creature on Earth.

[beevean]

I think what doesn't help is that a lot of people tend to view Steven Universe as a whole one big "good guys vs. the baddies" epic battle story, when in actuality the show proper takes place in the aftermath of a major conflict that already happened; the Gem War thousands of years ago. The gem characters for most of the part weren't in that war "us vs. them" mindset anymore but- the Diamonds at least- more or less just wanted to wipe their hands clean of Earth and all of the bad memories associated with them. Another big epic grand battle didn't happen as people wished it did because it already did, and it ended horribly for everyone involved. Which fits with the show's overarching themes of healing and finding better solutions to things beyond physical contractions.

Oh, this reminds me of a criticism I also saw floating around, although not as common as the Diamond discourse: some people expected more "climatic battles" and where disappointed when the conflicts were solved by talking. The funny thing is, there are plenty of Gem fights in the show! It's just that fighting doesn't actually solve the problem! This is literally one of the core messages of SU! So they gave us both the spectacle, and the emotional part. It makes sense. Take Reunion, for example: you have the Crystal Gems vs. Blue Diamond. Great! Awesome! I love seeing BD in battle! But she's fighting because she's stuck in grieving Pink Diamond, and words don't get through her, so the end of the episode is Steven projecting his Pink aura and proving to both Blue and Yellow that Pink is alive. A cop out? Maybe, but that's Steven's way, to prove his point with actions and words.

Also, slightly unrelated, the other day I watched a very fair video about SU and SUF, from a person who severely disliked the ending of both but did not hate the show as a whole. His point was that he thought that the Diamonds did not deserve to go unpunished because they're intergalactic colonizers, but that doesn't mean that Steven "forgave Hitler". And you know what? This is a much more reasonable position to take! We can agree or disagree on whether the Diamonds needed to be "punished", let alone how, but at least this person understands something important, that redemption =/= forgiveness.

[whining-ylthin]

Discussing "your fav's dubious morality" with 40K fandom is frustrating, and not in the weird neopuritan "you can't like bad people, it makes you a bad person" way, but also kind of in that way?

What I mean is that once a post like "yeah, Chaos is evil, so is the Imperium" goes viral, you'll get responses along the lines of:

"Well yes, but the Imperium's cruelty is justified by the cruelty of other factions!" (it's fucking not, the whole point of things like Interex was to make Imperials go "are we the baddies", THE WHOLE SETTING IS A WARNING AGAINST THIS EXACT LINE OF THINKING)

"Yes, but also my niche borderline-OC Chaos warband is actually nicer to their slaves/thralls than the Imperium is to its so-called citizens" (1. that bar is placed so low it's buried in the basement, 2. it doesn't make them not-evil, 3. my sibling in Tzeentch, the Thousand Sons' "psyker haven" you've just bragged about is a literal army recruitment scheme that actively benefits from anti-psyker hostilities in the Imperium and thus will do nothing to address the root problem)

"Yeah, but my boyz/Nids are happy" (Orks are a bioweapon gone rogue, a horrifying menace to anything that's not an Ork and routinely exploit/abuse Grots, no matter how happy they are while fighting one another they are not "good"; Tyranids are an aggressive invasive species destroying entire planets' worth of populations and ecosystems, led by a hive mind said to despise all non-Nid life and spearheaded by a violent cult that spreads and maintains its numbers/influence through sexual violence and mind control, also GSCs strike uncomfortably close to reactionary "Great Replacement"/white genocide rhetoric and they coopt - rather than support - the struggle for freedom of the lower classes)

...with an occasional edgy roleplayer to exercise the block button finger on.

This fandom would be in a much better place if we could simply accept that yes, our favs are sympathetic or relatable, but also evil - yet it doesn't make us evil for sympathizing with them. If we could even enjoy them precisely for their evils - as a cautionary tale against human vices, but also as a safe outlet for darker emotions, and simply as a game we play or a fictional setting we enjoy together with other folks. As something that reflects our reality but isn't real by itself - or, at least, shouldn't be.

Because yes, I love my Thousand Sons, same as other people love their Craftworlds, their Iron Warriors, their Khornates, Orks and Nids. And half the fun for me is wracking my brain over their immorality and sociopolitical/cultural commentary within it.

The other half is obviously oggling Magnus' thick thighs and commiting casual intergalactic genocide for the fuck of it.

[denimbex1986]

'****

Did someone call for a Doctor? What about two Doctors? Amid intergalactic levels of hype over the unveiling of 15th Doctor Ncuti Gatwa, returning showrunner Russell T Davies did the impossible and bamboozled Time Lord fans young, old and in-between with the mother of all twists. Gatwa has taken his first bows as the new Doctor. But David Tennant will be hanging around as the… old Doctor?

How is this possible? Until now, it wasn’t. Davies has, however, cheekily reconfigured Time Lord lore by turning the traditional regeneration into “bi-generation”. “That is completely nuts,” says Donna Noble, speaking on behalf of the entire universe.

The Time Lord twist arrives at the end of “The Giggle”, the third of Tennant’s victory lap forays marking the programme’s 60th anniversary. Blitzed by a ray gun wielded by Neil Patrick Harris’s mega-baddy the Toymaker, Tennant turns a “regeneration” shade of orange. And then up pops Gatwa, lacking trousers for some reason. He’s charming, confident – a spaceman with swagger and exactly what you’d want of the latest custodian of the Tardis.

But hang on – Tennant is still around? He and Gatwa are joined literally at the hip and giving off weird levels of physical chemistry – they don’t snog but it feels like they might have. Pulled in two, they separate. “Bi-generation is supposed to be a myth,” gasps Tennant’s Doctor. Gatwa’s Doctor smiles devilishly. Myth has become reality.

The Tardis splits in two, as well – for the first time in TV history, we’ll have to devise a plural for time-hopping police boxes. Tardaux? Tardee? Tardisissss? I have only one brain and I think it’s melting.

The big question is what it all means for Gatwa’s stint as the Doctor. Tennant’s 14th Doctor has gone off to recuperate with Donna and her family, having apparently come down with interstellar PTSD. Yet he’s very much around and could come charging back at any moment – intriguing and very, very Marvel (no coincidence perhaps that the shift in lore comes as Disney + acquires global distribution rites for the franchise).

Yet it also implies that the BBC doesn’t quite trust Gatwa enough to hand him sole custodianship of the sci-fi flagship. Not that the Sex Education star seems too bothered, though. Even without trousers, he’s devilishly good fun – the Doctor we know and love but with enough charm to put his stamp on the character. He’s great – in the meantime, let’s give Davies and Tennant the benefit of the doubt and see how this Double Doctor strategy plays out.

Up to this point, “The Giggle” has been a mishmash of deranged cartoon and Freudian frolic through the Doctor’s psyche. It swings from silly to chilly, from schlock to shock – supporting Davies’s claim the episode is “nuts, completely mad, frightening”.

Fun and fright factor are both down to Neil Patrick Harris’s Toymaker– a notorious nemesis of the Time Lords introduced all the way back in the era of First Doctor William Hartnell. Patrick Harris updates the antagonist– to a point. His take on the manipulative sci-fi Willy Wonka is rooted unapologetically in the 1990s school of big-screen gurning. Harris has seemingly patterned his performance on Jim Carrey circa The Mask. Meanwhile, his big action set-piece is a violent song-and-dance routine to the Spice Girls.

Amid the regeneration, the return of the Toymaker and the general mayhem, there is also, somehow, a plot. When the previous excursion, “Wild Blue Yonder”, ended, the Doctor and returning companion, Donna (Catherine Tate), were back in London and surrounded by unfolding anarchy.

A psychological contagion has unleashed the real-world equivalent of social media on the world. Everybody is convinced they are right and more interested in shouting down people with the opposite view than engaging with them. Cancel culture exists – a monster run amok on the streets of London.

The mania is all part of the Toymaker’s great game. In a flashback to the 1920s, an assistant of Scottish inventor John Logie Baird visits a toy shop adjoining his Soho workshop. He’s there to purchase a ventriloquist’s dummy. But because the toy seller is also the Toymaker, the helper comes away with Stooky Bill, a creepy marionette with a twist.

Stooky Bill was a real person – or a real dummy – and featured in Baird’s pioneering experiments into TV. He was, in other words, history’s first television star. A century on, the Doctor and Donna discover that the signal sending everyone bonkers is Stooky’s deranged laugh – buried inside our TV screens for the past hundred years (don’t think about it too deeply – it will drive you as mad as Stooky Bill).

So it’s off to Soho 1925 to work out what happened to the dummy – an excursion that culminates in a memorable encounter with Stooky Bill’s terrifying widow and their three feral babies.

But before that, Donna has a few questions. Back at Unit HQ, she was introduced to another of the Doctor’s helpers – Bonnie Langford’s Melanie Bush. The Doctor is delighted to see Mel again after so many years. Donna, though, is puzzled. In all their time together, The Doctor never mentioned Mel – though he obviously cared for her.

“You talk about no one ever – you just keep charging on,” she says, half-accusingly as they take the Tardis to Soho. That reluctance to confront his past is why he has regenerated as the 10th Doctor, she suggests. “It’s like you’re staggering, along. Maybe that’s why your old face came back. Maybe you’re wearing yourself out.”

He shrugs her words off. Still, they have stung. When the Toymaker later traps him in his infinite toy shop, he falls apart. “I’m always so certain. I’m all Sonic, Tardis and Time Lord. Take away the toys – what am I now?”

It’s an impressively vexed performance by Tennant and a clue to where the episode is headed. The Toymaker is an old foe, but the Doctor has new woes – such as no longer knowing who he is at a metaphysical level.

With his “bi-generation” as the 15th Doctor, Tennant has moved on to the next part of that journey as Doctor-in-emeritus. On Christmas Day, Whovians will meanwhile catch up with Gatwa for his first solo adventure. What a weird and wonderful – okay, mostly weird – time to be a Doctor Who fan.'

[cha-melodius]

a space/sci-fi au for tmfu. they can still be spies but in space. or they can be some sort of space rangers.

Ooh yes! I am reminded of this fairly recent post by @napollya-inspiration of a space AU idea they have, which sounds so cool! It's definitely seems to be on the space-ranger side of things.

I have to say I would read the HECK out of a scifi AU for these guys (and who knows, maybe some day some grand space-opera plot will get stuck in my head and I'll write it). I do find AUs like this, where really the only specification is that the setting is changed, to be tricky, though! Because a lot of time it ends up as just re-stating the story from the TMFU movie in a different setting, and those type of AUs aren't really my jam (no shade to people who like them! but I already know how these characters get through that plot). Of course there's also taking the setup from an existing property. Like, how are there basically no Star Trek AUs in this fandom? I found one short one, in Chinese. But consider: Illya as the Vulcan science officer, Napoleon as the hot-headed starship captain with a dodgy (classified) past who somehow ended up in Starfleet, and Gaby as the ship's chief engineer? This feels like it has a lot of untapped potential lol.

Spies in space is a very interesting idea, and it prompted me to see what's out there for the genre in general, because I feel like I haven't seen a lot; there are a bunch of recommendations in reddit threads for espionage novels in space that sound intriguing. You know what would be kind of fun (for me at least, lol), would be just taking what we have and wholesale dropping it in the distant future. Taking at face value that what happened in the movie happened in its own way, and starting from now we have UNCLE but in space. Intergalactic politics are basically the same because nothing ever really changes. They could get into all kinds of weird space-y missions, tangling with weird aliens and baddies trying to take over whole planets or star systems. I could see it as a series of fics, even.

LOL now I kind of want to set a random mission fic—that would normally take place in 1960s canon-setting—in space just for the hell of it. Might do it. HMMMMMM. 🤔 Thanks for the idea anon! 😅

[selfshippinglover]

Hey! I'm here to ask about Rick [cause I'm cool and curious] what do you think the most dangerous adventure you two have been on [minus or with Morty, up to you] and how did you recover from that? Did you guys ever fight over those Super Life Threatening adventures? [Or did it bond you two more? these are important questions lmao]

-[void-selfships]

OOO THANK YOU FOR ASKING!! :DDD I'M EXCITTTED!! Ur sooo right these are the important questions jhsbhj

~God, we’ve been on MILLIONS of nearly life-ending adventures. That said, the most dangerous that the just the two of us have been on was taking on the fascist government on a  far off planet with only ONE other person to help. No sleep for a week, fighting to the death with barely any rest, and always on our toes. It was one of THE MOST EXHAUSTING things ever but taking down fascist pieces of shit feels good man >:) We literally just landed down in the garage and passed out on each other in the ship DKJBBDA

~There was fighting and good times. Really depended on the day and the stress levels kjdsbkj

~As for one with Morty, uhhh, probably fighting in the center of the New Intergalactic federation. Though there’s a lot of lower tier baddies that are easy enough to deal with, it gets harder as you climb up the ladder. Plus even with the help of Space Beth’s resistance group, we’re still VASTLY outnumbered. We made it but fuck everyone was stressed and tired. We didn’t see Rick for a couple of months after that.

~Rick was WAY too concerned with Morty getting killed to really relax so barely any growth there. We just wanted to make sure everyone got out okay =-=‘

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: November 10, 2023

Lyrics:

I lost my way, somewhere in another galaxy ('xy)

Too much to take, these memories, end in tragedy ('gy)

And all of these places, all of these faces

I didn't wanna let you down (down)

And all these mistakes of mine, I can't replace it

I gotta move on somehow

Healing energy on me

Baby, all I really need's one thing

Healing energy on me

Baby, can you make a wish for me?

Healing energy on me

When it's 11:11, I need it

Healing energy on me

Baby, can you make a wish for me?

11:11, oh

11:11

When it's 11:11, I need it

Anxiety

Don't let the pressure get to your head

You know we play for keeps

Don't let it go over your head

Heavy stepper, I got too much weight on this

You can see the diamonds, don't complain on this (me)

We was hustling, you n- got no say on this (no)

I'm just being honest

I'm moving steady (shoot)

You can't buy success, ain't got no sale on it

You know that God did, he never gon' fail on us

Too much paper, got me thinking I'ma save all this

I know the opps want it, they love this

Two-tone, got the bussdown like woah (woah)

The streets crazy, they don't love me no more (oh)

Not one for pressure, but I'll bang for my bros (bros)

Walking in Giuseppe, I be ten on my toes

Welcome all the smoke (smoke, smoke, smoke, ski)

Mama, pray for me, so I won't fold (fold)

Walking ten toes

I be paranoid, but nobody knows (woah)

Anxiety

Don't let the pressure get to your head (head)

You know we play for keeps (for keeps)

Don't let it go over your head

Steady, moving onto greater (ghetto, ghetto)

Never thought that I'd be ready (ready)

She let me, I let her keep her things (keep)

She told me, "Why didn't you just fight for it?"

All these baddies, had too many (many)

I promised that I would have died for it

You just had to f- let me (let me)

Now I'm married to the game, I'm in that

No more chains, I'ma buy me some gold (woah)

Three babies, tryna make room for some more (ooh)

Life learning lessons 'cause you reap what you sow (grow)

Walking in Giuseppe, I be ten on my toes

You know I welcome all the smoke (smoke, smoke, smoke, ski)

Mama, pray for me, so I won't fold (fold)

Walking ten toes (ten toes)

I be stressing out, but nobody knows (yeah, yeah)

Anxiety (anxiety)

Don't let the pressure get to your head (don't let it get to your head)

You know we play for keeps (we play, we play, we play)

Don't let it go over your head (know welcome all the smoke)

Welcome all the smoke (welcome all the smoke, ooh)

Mama, pray for me, so I won't fold (fold)

Walking ten toes (ten toes)

I be paranoid, but nobody knows (yeah)

Anxiety (anxiety, yeah, oh)

Don't let the pressure get to your head (don't let it get to your head, don't let it)

You know we play for keeps (we play, we play, we play, play for keeps)

Don't let it go over your head

Songwriter:

Steady (ooh)

Oh-woah

Just fight for it

Christopher Maurice Brown / Brian Mitchell / Jamal Gaines / Ebenezer Marango / Juan Ramon Luis Melian / Ethan Mitchell Hayes / Lance Hunter

SongFacts:

"Angel Numbers / Ten Toes" is a song by American singer Chris Brown. It serves as the opening track to Brown's eleventh studio album, 11:11, released on November 10, 2023. Although it was not released as a single, the track became the album's highest-charting song in various countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Ireland, France and Switzerland.

“Angel Numbers / Ten Toes” is an R&B track that consists of two different parts. The first half of the song was described by Kayla Sandiford of Renommed for Sound as an "emotional, dreamlike acoustic introduction" in which Brown sought "healing through a desire for refuge from the pressures of mental health." Medium's Edward Bowser said that "the first half has an acoustic, almost intergalactic feel", with Brown taking up the 11:11 theme, while "Ten Toes" "ramps up the intensity" towards a more hip-hop influenced sound , while the pop singer “speaks openly about battling anxiety.” According to Billboard, the track's lyrics are about battling anxiety and depression.

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Fic Delivery Service!

So, AO3 is still down and looks like it might be down for a while (boo, leave the poor website alone, ya weirdos).

In the meantime, if you're desperate for a fic, I've got the following fics of mine available as PDFs. As an added bonus, I can send them to the email address of your choosing using the burner email account I used to make my Google Docs SMAU. In other words, if you fancy reading any of the following fics as a PDF, Stede Bonnet can send them to you! DM me if you'd like any!

Cool collaboration(s) you should read immediately:

Work Experience: what if Ed went to meet Stede when the Revenge ran aground? And what if Ed became a member of Stede’s crew? And what if things kept escalating and… Canon AU. Mature. Co-written with Shearwater.

Really no excuse for how stupid these ones are:

Watch Out, Here I Come: what if Stede had been intentionally seducing Ed? Teen

Once More, With Feeling: what if Frenchie just fixed the season 1 finale fiasco because he’s the most capable guy on the ship? Teen

Talent Show: what if Ed was crass about his sexual preferences? Explicit

Capsize on Your Thighs: what if Ed rebounded onto Calico Jack at the end of season 1? Ed/CJ and Ed/Stede (but Ed/Stede is endgame, natch). Explicit

Your Feedback is Important to Us: what if Stede started holding open cabin hours to allow the crew to air their grievances (but was also very repressed and horny over Ed)? Explicit

Oh no Ed’s working through gender/class stuff (but make it funny):

Finery: Ed gets to wear a dress, Stede spontaneously combusts. Explicit

Tell More Tales: Stede isn’t the only writer aboard the Revenge. Explicit

Lovers and Madmen: Ed is hellbent on marrying Stede. Explicit

AUs no-one asked for:

Conflict of Interest: lawyer!Stede/businessman!Ed (read: gangster). Modern AU. Explicit

Intergalactic Tango: Space Waltz AU. Mature

Trade Descriptions Act: bailiff!Ed/estate agent!Stede. Identity theft but make it meet cute. Modern AU. Teen

Baddy Zaddy: Bridget Jones’s Diary style, former porn star turned sex shop owner!Ed/still unfortunately landed gentry!Stede. Novel length modern AU. Explicit

Prize Every Time: You’ve Got Mail-y secret pen pals but also business rivals. Novel length modern AU. Explicit

Your Favourite Song: locksmith!Ed/museum curator!Stede. Kinktober fill that somehow isn’t E rated. Modern AU. Teen

Draft Letter to Restaurant Downstairs: Google Docs AU with a (slightly) interactive element. Modern AU. Teen

Blind Date: Stede and Jeffrey Fettering go on a blind date at Ed’s restaurant. I think you know where this is going. Modern AU. Explicit

Different Dimension: ficlet that crams four and a bit AUs into 850 words. Modern AU. Teen

Stuck Still: British holiday resort AU feat. events manager!Stede and bartender turned fairy!Ed (it makes sense in the story I swear). Modern AU. Explicit

On the Job: “kidnapping” meet cute (but not actually. Again, I swear it makes sense in the story). Modern AU. Teen

Starring Jason Statham: another weird meet cute, courtesy of Jack and the Fast and Furious franchise. Stede/Jack, Ed/Jack and Ed/Stede (Ed/Stede is once again end game). Modern AU. Teen

West Ham Is for Lovers: Lucius has a new job. It’s going fine. Completely, totally fine. A meet cute fic about meet cutes. Ed/Stede but also Lucius/Pete, Lucius/Fang, Lucius/Izzy and Lucius/Olu/Jim. Modern AU. Teen

Proud: Ed attends Pride to get free mum hugs, Stede attends Pride to give free dad hugs. Modern AU. Teen

Conventional: back in the 00s, Ed was in a very famous movie franchise. Nowadays, he does the convention circuit. Modern AU. Explicit

KrakenAir: Stede and the crew are heading to Benidorm to celebrate Stede coming out. That is, if Stede's all expenses spared KrakenAir flight ever departs. Modern AU. Teen

Oh no there’s been a containment breach (aka non-Blackbonnet fics):

We Do What We Like (and We Like What We Do): A brief history of Ed and Jack. Explicit (Ed/CJ)

Fealty: Stede and Izzy make one another even more miserable. Mature (Stede/Izzy)

Contra Proferentem: Ed is a high powered lawyer and Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge. Lucius is not a high powered lawyer but he is a lecturer of English Lit at the University of Cambridge. Stede own a very nice cafe. Explicit (platonic Ed/Lucius, Ed/Stede, no cheating involved)

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I don't usually watch the Marvel short series or whatever but I was hoping for some crumbs from S2E1 since it's literally "What if Nebula joined the Nova Corps".

Positive and negative notes below! Also spoilers, duh.

This is like, stupid long. Probably longer than the video itself. It kinda makes me want to come back and write a proper essay

Author disclaimers/context: I'm a Nova girly. Duh. Love comics. Have bad memory. Have not watched every MCU thing but have a lot of vibes about it.

I really enjoyed the color...ing? color grading? whatever fancy word is used for the colors of a film. A lot of nice compositions as well. I'm glad there were a lot of visually bright moments.

I generally like the style of What if but the animation/rigging itself is... not great. It's definitely a little chunky. I'm not looking for like, feature film levels but maybe a bit more than 3D animation youtubers.

Plot wise, I understand what they were going for but it doesn't really build well in short format. The ambiance was there but literally "corrupt police chief" is soooo overdone. Also like Howard the Duck and Groot were fun to see but am I supposed to know the other guy? Or like Korg?

I legitimately had to rewind the section where she gets uhhh apparently some Captain Marvel dude? out because his name is goofy and I wasn't sure if I was supposed to recognize him earlier. The end bit where he's next to the other Nova Officer is so funny because its just. Two white dudes next to each other that are nearly identical.

Euch okay not a shining example of the art style. It's okay generally I promise.

On that note, the total lack of uniqueness in the Nova Corps was boring like is this the Nova rapture (vol 4)

Like okay not totally perfect examples but at the very least I feel like it's important to emphasize that the Nova Corps are an intergalactic thing and not like, Humans+. They show some other alien races on Xandar itself but all of the Corpsmen just look like humans.

I mean, on the whole the Nova Corps aren't fleshed out which is fine since we don't have a Nova focused thingy yet but I feel like the MCU on the whole misses iconic things in favor of just omitting details that they can't handhold. Nothing about Worldmind, the Nova Force or anything. In general they just aren't setting up any MCU folks to root for them at all. Like imagine a Ko Rel cameo in the scene where Nebula is getting beat up by a bunch of unpowered by virtue of lack of explanation dudes and Ko Rel has some compassion and helps her out. Imagine knowing anything about the Nova Corps beyond "space cops".

On the hand holding, I get that some of the over explain-y-ness is a bit eg. *shield closes in on a ship with big explosions* "the shields are closing on the ships!!" but like all of the writing is just. So much. I probably could've listened to the whole thing like a radio play.

A lot of the writing felt like it was trying to be self aware eg. *wow person breaking into something talks to lock* "why are you talking to the lock it doesn't even have actual mechanisms" which is at least a fun Nebula line but it felt even more cliche. I probably could've guessed how most of the lines in the movie were going to go. Also everything with the comic relief group. I like Howard the Duck calling Nebula 'Nebby' but every bit in the casino/bar was unfunny and boring. Why is Korg here aside from the Rock, Paper, Scissors joke.

God the stupid "aren't you a big deal baddie?" bit was so long and painful. ugh. made worse by the fact I haven't seen Captain Marvel.

Anyway. After making an essay longer than the episode itself. Sandwich time. More good uh I don't like Nebula because of how far removed she is from her comic self but hey. It works and I actually quite liked her. Space cop cars were cool. They included one Hala star which satisfied my curiosity of "how are they gunna look near the nova stars".

Wow I should like, make essays proper instead of going full stream of consciousness on everyone's ass. Maybe if I did video essays I could give you a consolation prize for getting this far from one of my sponsors. I really didn't mean for this to get this long I just started having feelings

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AITA for refusing to give up my prized collection?

Bonjam. Sorry to bother you all, but I recently got into an argument with just about everyone, and I figured I’d come here to settle the debate. ^^

Not too long ago, my sisters (20s F, 30s F) and I (20s F) joined an intergalactic peacekeeping organization run by a toddler (4M). He and his companions assisted us when we were on the brink of death, and for that, we’re very grateful. We were initially enemies with them, but thanks to their kindness, we turned over a new leaf.

For the most part, we get along well with this toddler (I’ll call him K) and the rest of his friends. Some of us see the world in very similar ways. But one small issue has arisen.

K and his friends want me to get rid of my treasured collection.

I’m a hobbyist, of sorts. I have something I’ve been collecting for years. And I’m verrrry proud of it. But apparently it “freaks K and co out?” :(

They knew I had this collection when they invited me us join their group, but are only asking me to get rid of it now that I’m a member. I don’t think that’s fair, and so I’ve refused.

But this has caused a bit of an upset. While K has been (mostly) polite, his friends have been extremely judgmental.

One (some heroic knight) said that I’m “acting like a goddamn lunatic,” and “no-one should want that in their house.” (Language, much!?)

Another (this cute, if annoying, little cat guy) said “he gets it, he really does,” but “we have to give certain things up when we stop being baddies.”

Not everyone has been so unsupportive. My sisters, of course, have said I shouldn’t let them boss me around and that I have every right to keep my collection… and one of my new friends, M (20s M) says it “rules,” and that “he wants a collection like this of his own now,” but for the most part the reception has been pretty chilly.

AITA? I don’t want to come across as creepy, but Void forbid a girl have hobbies, am I right? :/

EDIT: Oh! I was told I should clarify what the collection is? Since apparently that’s important?

It’s frozen corpses. Hope this helps, and have a great day!