#josh goes to jail

[fundiebabynamebible]

151 Months and Counting

HEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLL YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bring out the tater tots, lets have a party. Bye bye Josh, see you never👋

I'm happy, I was hoping for at least 8 years.

He's either staying in Arkansas or off to Texas.

[fundamental-cactus]

Anyone else wishing they could read the Duggar family texts today? Deciding who will be at the sentencing, clothes, etc.

[fundie-predictions]

This is really really really sad. Hoping she means another friend and not who we all think it is...

[oh-surprise-its-me]

Roy/Jamie prompt: Roy has to fly out somewhere for a recruitment event. When Jamie takes him to the airport they say goodbye, both of them holding back tears. They are absolutely miserable without each other, especially when something happens that delays the event so Roy has to stay for a bit longer. Roy is an even more glowering and grouchy version of himself and even though he secures several new prospects for Richmond, he just can't bring himself to celebrate. He goes to his hotel room just wanting to call Jamie and go to bed, so imagine his surprise when he opens the door to find Jamie Tartt waiting for him wearing nothing but a pleased little smirk and love shining in his eyes?

🚨WOOP WHOOP THATS THE SOUND OF THE HORNY POLICE 🚨

(It’s okay anon we can be bunk mates in jail)

Roy fucking loved zoom calls. He could mute people, he could not talk, he could have Jamie in the room and no one would know.

Fucking in person recruiting. Fucking Josh who got the date wrong so he’s flying in tomorrow. What kind of name is Josh anyway.

He knows he was more of a grouch then usual, but in his defense he had to cancel his 9am flight back to Jamie.

London.

Home.

Jamie.

Whatever the fuck. It doesn’t matter now because Josh made him stick around for another three days.

Josh had better have a foot touched by god and all the fucking wisemen.

Roy slams his room key into the sensor. It blinks red.

Fucking seriously. He slams his way back into the elevator, fuck it might as well call Jamie.

It rings for a good few seconds before he picks up.

“Roy! How’d the extra first day go?”

Roy leans against the wall watching the number tick down. “Hell. I want to strangle Josh but I can’t because he won’t even be here until tomorrow.”

Roy hears their bed squeak, Jamie rolling around. “That fuckin sucks. I miss you.”

There’s a hint of something in Jamie’s voice. He can’t quite tell what. “Did you at least do anything fun today baby?”

Jamie laughs, Roy can picture him perfectly in their bed sheets tossed around, bare skin for miles. He wishes he wasn’t standing in the lobby of a hotel getting a new key.

“Nothing crazy. Bought some new sweats. Planned out a hike to take Phoebe on.”

“I love you.”

He hears Jamie sigh, “I love you too, miss you like crazy. I hate to cut this short but I think Marigold is caught on something I’ve gotta go love you!”

Roy opens his mouth return the sentiment but just hears the beep of the tone.

Christ this key better work.

He slams it into place again, green.

He opens the door and sets the bag down, weird he doesn’t remember leaving a lamp on. Probably house keeping.

He walks into the room.

Jamie.

Holy shit Jamie.

Jamie laughs, Roy must’ve said that last part out loud.

“Baby why are you here??”

Jamie gets up off the bed, Roy now notices Jamie is in fact not wearing any clothing. “Thought I’d surprise you, had Beard deactivate your room key so I’d have a bit of warning.”

“You little prick. How.

“Movie magic baby. But really I’ve got a lot of unused miles and couldn’t take another three days.”Jamie runs a hand across and down Roy’s chest, lightly toying with the waistline of the jeans.

Roy lunges forward, he shoves Jamie back onto the bed, flips him over.

“You aren’t leaving this bed tonight, or in the morning. You are going to fucking limp and look like you belong to me by the end.

Jamie let’s out a moan, “please god Roy touch me.” He reaches back and grabs a handful of hair lightly pulling to try and make Roy go faster.

Roy starts biting his was from neck to ass, he’s not going to miss a spot, they’ve got time.

—

“Roy I can’t fucking stand is this how are we supposed to go sight seeing.”

“Baby you are the sights, keep complaining and I’ll spank you.”

“Ooh honey don’t threaten me with that.”

*the smack heard round the world*

[daenystheedreamer]

not to be obsessed with the theon that lives in ur head but in ur modern au how does he come out to his family??

Well. i think balon always was like that boy's a sissy! he's not right! so theon from the outset has a very weird relationship with his family. his brothers constantly calling him gay but the slur for gay that starts with f. definitely did not make his psyche normal. and since ironborn culture is so patriarchal its expected to have sex with women. its not even heteronormative its just sexist because there's no equal footing for women not to imply heteronormativity is fuckin feminist LMAO)

i always keep the general canon plot outline when Pondering modern au.. so theon has some kind of breakdown/falling out/mid life crisis at the age of 19/whatever and returns home and gets microagressed by his family for a while. after a couple years (usually involving the ramsay torture labyrinth) and he's like 5% more self-actualised he visits pyke middle fingers akimbo going fuck maron fuck rodrik fuck you dad fuck this bitch ass family this sexy motherfucker before you takes it up the ass and has actual taste and if that makes you mad then KILL YOURSELF! then he runs home to asha's place and they eat candy and watch movies and he cries a little bit.

and balon never comes around to it but since maron and rodrik are still around to be straight and continue the family line or whatever he's just like eugh -_- well he always was a disappointment. alannys doesnt really get The Gay Identity but she's nice. she just worries the gay lifestyle might make theon too skinny and worries he's not eating enough. asha is like im the cooler gay and you are lame and i DO hate you for being gay actually because youre ruining the reputation of lgbts everywhere (shes just joshing :) or is she...). aeron is like well we've all been 19 once... whom amongst us.... the navy you know how it is.... and victarion goes What. I didnt. Wtf are u on about. I didnt do gay sex. Im normal (only reason he's not the most fucked up member of the greyjoy family is because euron is in jail for every single crime ever)

[leslie-lyman]

All Hallow’s Eve (A Stranger At My Gate Drabble)

summary: A little look at what is, technically, Tessa and Pero’s second Halloween together.

rating: G (though my entire blog and its contents are only for those 18+)

word count: 1.5k (I’m still counting it as a drabble, fight me)

a/n: I started having some Tessa and Pero thoughts on my walk home from work this afternoon, then cranked this out after dinner. It occurred to me that it might be fun to spend just a moment or two with these two today, given the importance of All Hallow’s Eve to their story. Happy Halloween, everyone!

Masterlist. | Series Masterlist.

———

Pero will never admit this out loud, but he secretly loves when Tessa fusses over him. Little touches that show that she cares, like she’s doing now, adjusting the collar of the white shirt that lays under the light blue vest she’d picked out for him.

“Alright, Flynn Rider, gimme your best smolder.”

“I will do no such thing,” he replies evenly, scowling at her.

“Perfect.”

“Hey now,” Pero grumbles, reaching down to tickle her side, “it worked on you, didn’t it?”

Tessa lets out a small shriek and twists away from him.

“Pero, behave. I promised Amie we’d hand out candy at her place while she and Thom take the kids trick-or-treating and we cannot be late.”

“With you in that dress, mi amor?” He cocks an eyebrow at the frilly purple garment that is turning his love into Rapunzel for the evening. “I make no promises.”

___

“Moira make it to Florida okay, Tess?” Henry says as she and Pero fill bowls of candy in her sister’s kitchen.

“She texted me when she landed earlier,” Tessa confirms.

“Tessa said she goes on this trip with her witch friends every All Hallow’s Eve?” Pero asks.

Amie nods.

“And Moira never misses a year when it’s Nancy’s turn to host. The woman takes to South Beach like a spring break co-ed.”

Henry barks out a laugh.

“Remind us, Pero, to tell you one day about the time we had to bail the whole lot of them out of the Miami-Dade County jail when they got booked on disorderly conduct.”

As with every nugget of information Tessa’s family shares with him about Moira, Pero is equally impressed and terrified.

Thom wrangles the kids into the kitchen, their whole family outfitted this year as Toy Story characters. Molly, Toby, and Finn — done up as Bo Peep, Rex, and Woody — rush to give their aunt and uncles hugs before racing out the door, eager to start collecting candy. Thom places a big red cowboy hat onto his wife’s head, completing her Jessie ensemble, and she helps him shuffle out the door sideways so as not to damage his Buzz Lightyear wings.

“Be good until we get back, you crazy kids!” Henry shouts at Tessa and Pero, one hand on Walter’s leash and the other around Martin’s waist. The two of them had decided to go out with the kids this year, wanting the chance to show off their costumes as Blue and Josh after the rain had thwarted everyone’s trick-or-treating plans last year.

Tessa and Pero settle themselves on Amie and Thom’s front stoop. The whole month of October has served as the last round of modern holiday education for Pero, Tessa and the rest of the Walsh family including him in their Halloween traditions as they had those of Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, and the Fourth of July over the past year. Pumpkins Pero had picked and helped to carve now stood guard on either side of Tessa’s front door. He’s gone on a hayride and wandered his way through a corn maze. He’s watched spooky movies and been the eager beneficiary of Tessa’s return to fall cooking, their house always smelling of pumpkin, cinnamon, apples…

And now, he’s let her dress him up to partake in the tradition of costumes and trick-or-treating, happy to spend a few hours dressed up like that Flynn character from that movie with the long-haired girl with the pretty voice if it means he gets to see Tessa all done up in her lace-edged dress, an innocent pink bow sewn to the neckline between her breasts that makes him think anything but innocent thoughts.

Paper bags with battery-powered tea lights line the driveway and front walk, a collection of carved pumpkins are clustered on either side of the door. The air is cool and crisp, the sky cloudless, the faint smell of fallen leaves on the breeze. The yellow glow of the porch light lets folks know there’s candy to be had at this house, and turns Tessa’s hair appropriately golden.

Slowly, children and families start wandering up. There are a few costumes he recognizes, classics like vampires and ghosts, a number of tiny witches to whom Tessa gives a little extra candy, characters from that movie The Wizard of Oz that Tessa loves so much. There are plenty of others he doesn’t — a lot of young girls are going as Ms. Marvel this year, and many teenagers and grown women are the Scarlet Witch. Tessa coos over a young boy dressed as the Mandalorian (who, she insists, Pero is a dead ringer for, even if he doesn’t see it), who comes up to get candy along with his Jack Russell terrier dressed as Grogu.

Some of the children eye Pero with trepidation, the inherent spookiness of the holiday and the shadows cast by the porch light making him look even more intimidating than usual. But then a girl of about five dressed in an absolutely precious Rapunzel gown of her own approaches them, and Tessa and Pero can see the look on her face change when she realizes who they’re dressed as.

“You’re Flynn Rider!” she squeals, then marches straight up to Pero to loudly whisper in his ear, “You’re my favorite Disney prince.”

Pero has had enough practice at playing pretend with Tessa’s niece and nephews that he’s able to get over his surprise and muster up a suitable reaction.

“Thank you, princesa,” he says, giving the girl a courtly little bow from where he sits. He drops an extra large handful of candy into her bag with a wink, and she practically sprints back down the drive to her waiting parents, loudly telling them how Flynn Rider and Rapunzel live at that house.

Tessa giggles next to him and leans her head on his shoulder, murmuring something about how she knew Flynn would be a great costume for him. But Pero is lost in thought, the mirror image of this scenario playing out in his head, in which he and Tessa are the ones standing at the end of the drive, and the little girl in the princess dress running excitedly to meet them is theirs.

———

Once they’re home, Tessa plops their doggy bag of leftover candy down on the counter and goes to get herself a glass of water. Pero unlaces his boots, tugging them off and placing them on the mat. There are so many places for his things now in the house, so many reminders in every room that this place is theirs, not just Tessa’s alone.

When he straightens again and looks to her she’s gazing out the window over the sink, the one that in the daylight offers a view of the woods that conceal the Gate in their depths. Pero makes his way over to her and wraps his arms around her from behind, resting his chin on top of her head.

“You are thinking very loudly, angel.”

Tessa sighs, but it’s a contented sound.

“I was just remembering…it was a year ago tonight.”

Pero hums.

“I’ve been thinking about it, too.”

Tessa turns in his arms, resting her hands on his chest.

“You left quite a first impression that evening.”

Pero grimaces, imagining the way he must have looked, wet, injured, unkempt, unconscious, Tessa and Henry literally dragging him into the house that first night to take care of him.

“You were quite a surprise too, you know,” he tells her.

“Oh yes? What was it exactly?” She teases him gently. “My house full of magical gadgets? My inability to understand any of your languages? My absolutely incredible grilled cheese sandwich-making skills?”

Pero shakes his head, brushing the tip of his nose against Tessa’s.

“You were so kind to me,” he murmurs. “So kind when you had no reason to be. And you weren’t afraid.” He says it like he still can’t quite believe it.

“Of you? Never.” Tessa curls her fingers into his shirt. “You were mine, right from the start, even if it took me a while to realize it. And I was yours.”

A year. A whole year she’s been his, a whole year they’ve belonged to each other. It’s not enough. Pero wonders if any amount of time ever will be.

He slots his lips over hers and kisses her, loving the way she responds, always meeting him kiss for kiss. Tessa never leaves any room for doubt that she wants him.

She pulls away for a moment, a suggestive glint of mischief in her eye.

“Trick or treat, Pero?”

His answering grin is her only warning before he scoops her up and tosses her over his shoulder, pulling an indignant squawk out of her.

“I think, mi amor,” he says, heading for their bedroom with his prize, “I won’t be satisfied until I’ve tried both.”

———

[impassionedactress]

Probably my favorite in-joke in Season 2 of Schmicago is when Josh's in jail and the criminals are denying that they committed the crimes of which they're accused, and the guy in the gold suit goes "And I never touched that girl," and Topher goes "I believe you too, Conrad" - it's a reference to the stage version of Bye Bye Birdie, when the rock n' roll star Conrad Birdie almost gets arrested for supposedly ravishing Kim MacAfee (but it's a misunderstanding and nothing happened between them). Bye Bye Birdie is an adorable show, btw. :)

[saints2sposts]

Viola DeWynter

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BASIC INFORMATION

UNLOCKABLE

Yes

GENDER

Female

HOMETOWN

Steelport

FAMILY

Kiki DeWynter[2]

OTHER INFORMATION

AFFILIATIONS

The Syndicate

Morningstar

3rd Street Saints

VEHICLES

Temptress

Gawalek A36[3]

OCCUPATIONS

Art

Human Trafficking[4]

Prostitution

Head of the Federal Reserve

APPEARANCES

APPEARS IN

Saints Row: The Third

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VOICED BY

Sasha Grey[5][6]

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Viola DeWynter[4] is a character in Saints Row: The Third and Saints Row: Gat out of Hell.[7]

Viola DeWynter: "You may continue to operate the Saints/Ultor media group as you see fit, in exchange for 66 percent of your monthly gross revenue."

Kiki DeWynter: "That is before taxes, of course."

— Viola and Kiki DeWynter in Saints Row: The Third.[8][9]

Overview

They're the number two in the Syndicate [...] If they weren't around, everything would descend into chaos.

— Steve Jaros, lead writer of Saints Row: The Third describing Viola and her sister Kiki

Viola is the twin sister of Kiki DeWynter, they are the lieutenants of the Morningstar gang led by Phillipe Loren.[4] Viola is well endowed and is very pretty, having a buxom figure, wearing tight, black, form fitting clothing to accentuate her curves, much like her twin sister.

Viola's model in a mirror image of Kiki: her hair is mirrored,[10][11] and her Syndicate star chain is on her left hip, while Kiki's is on her right hip.[12]

While in the Morningstar, Viola wears white sunglasses[13], while Kiki wears Pink sunglasses.[11] After joining the Saints, Viola wears a purple pair of sunglasses.[14][1][15]

An early leaked achievement for Saints Row IV is "Bad Memories", awarded for completing the mission "Dewynter Blues". This mission doesn't appear in the final game. Viola also has 3 audio logs for Saints Row IV which were cut, but still exist in the files.

Biography

Viola and her sister run finances for the Syndicate[Reference needed], having increased the Syndicate profits tenfold in Steelport[Reference needed].

The DeWynters are also Philippe's personal assistants, managing his personal life and day-to-day business affairs, and are the heiresses to the leadership of the Syndicate and Morningstar.[16]

Saints Row: The Third

Viola and Kiki DeWynter

A scan from GameInformer's exclusive Saints Row: The Third reveal, revealing some information on the DeWynter sisters

Viola and her sister are sent by Phillipe Loren to bail Playa, Shaundi and Johnny Gat out of jail and bring them to him.[8]

The DeWynter sisters also became acquainted with Zimos, the oldest pimp in Steelport. The relationship goes south, and Zimos finds himself locked away in the basement of one of the Syndicate's human trafficking hubs.[17] After completing all City Takeover activities in the New Colvin district of the city, and completing various activities with Zimos, Zimos reveals that the reason for the DeWynter's hostility is that Zimos slept with one of the sisters, without being able to remember which one he slept with.[18]

Viola joins the 3rd Street Saints.[19] The reason being that Killbane killed her sister after the assassination attempt orchestrated by them failed, Killbane then lost his temper when Kiki called him Eddie, causing him to snap her neck.[20][21][22]

Viola informs Playa about The Syndicate cargo carrying a bunch of hos.[23]

Viola meets with Playa when STAG first invade the city and helps Playa escape in an elevator.[1]

After she joins the crew, the next mission Viola and Playa disguise as actors to kidnap Josh Birk. She is dressed up as the Bloody Canoness while Playa dresses as the Cardinal, which she shows a strong disdain for the revealing outfit.[24] She also helps in the mission defending an attack from STAG who want to have Josh Birk returned to them.[25]

When Playa goes to rescue Shaundi from STAG, Viola and Pierce acts as prisoners so Playa can find Shaundi and escape. All four of the Saints escape the Thermopylae and destroy the aircraft carrier in the process.[26]

After the Zombie outbreak on Arapice Island, she calls Playa about how the Mayor wants the Saints to deal with the Zombies. The pair of them head over to Arapice Island to deal with the outbreak, and disposes of the containers that contained the virus.[27]

Viola also reveals the best way of ruining Killbane, is by removing his mask so that only Eddie Pryor remains.[28]

Endings

Kill Killbane

If Killbane is killed, during the final mission Three Way, Shaundi, Viola and Mayor Reynolds die. Afterwards the Saints throw a party to remember Shaundi, though leaving out Viola and Burt Reynolds. Though when, planting bombs on the Daedalus, Playa's Female Voice 1 says "One for Shaundi, one for Viola, one for my crew and one just for me".

Save Shaundi

If Viola, Shaundi, and Mayor Reynolds are rescued during Three Way, Viola survives.

As the "Save Shaundi" ending is the official ending, Viola is canonically alive at the end of Saints Row: The Third.[29]

Saints Row IV

Viola DeWynter named head of federal reserve.

— Mentioned in news ticker when first customizing Playa

Viola becomes the Head of the Federal Reserve after Playa is elected President of the United States.[Reference needed]

Viola is killed when Zinyak destroys the Earth.[30]

Although mentioned, Viola herself does not appear in the game.

Saints Row: Gat out of Hell

Viola is dead, and in hell with Kiki where they run Cerberus Security. However the power players in hell don't like their ideas. They are surrounded and attacked by a group of Satan's demons known as "Sinterpol" in a parking garage downtown, located in the DeWynter View Neighborhood, until they are rescued by both Johnny or Kinzie. After being saved, the twins make a deal with Dane Vogel and award both Johnny and Kinzie the Blast Arcane Power.[31]

Although Viola is glad to see Kinzie, Kiki is less welcoming. Viola defends Kinzie claiming "she grows on you" but Kiki still refuses to "share her sister". That attitude changes when Kinzie rescues them, declaring Kinzie her "sister" as well. When Kinzie steals an APC, she'll some times mention her sister wants it. Which one she's referring to is not obvious, but since it's singular, it's probably Viola.

After completing the take over of Downtown, the DeWynter sisters are cautiously happy, but worried a new storm will come along. It then shows the shadowy picture of the "power players" as William Sharp, Kazuo Akuji, Shogo Akuji, Jyunichi, and Killbane.

In the Shawarma epilogue cutscene after completing City Takeover, Viola has a meeting with god and sets up an "annual meeting" between "representatives of Heaven and Hell" which is largely just an excuse to play volleyball with their friends in Heaven.[32]

Trivia

During the cutscene of "Gang Bang", she is wearing white glasses, but as soon as the gameplay begins, she is wearing purple glasses.

During a cutscene in the mission "My Name is Cyrus Temple" on the Thermopylae, Viola wears white glasses. During gameplay, she wears purple glasses.

Volition, Inc. allowed Game Informer to print an article which stated that Viola and Kiki were assassins.[33] Steve Jaros later stated that they were not assassins and blamed the forums for this rumour.[34]

Originally, Viola and her sister Kiki were Japanese twins called Natsuko and Yukako, nicknamed Suki and Yuki for short. They led their own all-female gang - "Oiran" - to contrast with the original Morningstar concept of an all-male gang. The two gangs were merged to streamline the story, and the DeWynters were made Caucasian to avoid the stereotype of "badass Asian chicks that are subservient to an older man".[35]

Steve Jaros, lead writer for Saints Row: The Third, explained he "named Viola and Kiki DeWynter after RPG characters" that he and his friend played.[35]

The game data files internally reference Viola as "Suko", proving it was changed after the early concept stages.

Safeword was originally an Oiran Stronghold, while Powder was the Morningstar Stronghold.

Viola has a master's in economics.[36]

She and Kiki also appear to be extremely exceptional artists, based on Zimos' original DeWynter painting, based on Andy Warhol's 'pop art'.

Though identical, Viola is the nicer and more self-controlled of the two, she says "yes sir" and commonly doesn't fuss at all to her bosses.

Female Voice 3 accuses Viola of having implants.

Like Tera and Nyte Blayde, Viola drives a Temptress.

Viola and Kiki share many similarities with Vice Kings lieutenant, Tanya Winters. The main difference being that Viola and Kiki treated their girls much better than Tanya did.

Despite many articles showing her and Kiki with short black hair and black leather pants, in game and later trailers they both wear their hair in very high-ponytail and black skirts with black stockings.

Viola is one of 3 characters to be an initial antagonist and later join the Saints, the others being Benjamin King and Matt Miller.

Unlike Benjamin and Matt, and the other Saints Cabinet members, Viola is not present at the White House during the mass-abduction.[37]

After Zinyak blows up the Earth, Kinzie mentions that Viola is dead in when berating Playa, when accusing them of being an asshole and putting the crew members at risk.[30]

"Viola" is Italian for the color purple, the 3rd Street Saints color.

Viola has a few similarities with fellow Saint Tera. Both of them are voiced by former porn stars, both drive a Temptress and both worked for the opposing factions.

After joining the Saints, Viola still wears her Morningstar chain on her hip.

The F-69 VTOL computer voice which says 'Flight mode engaged' and 'hover mode engaged' sounds similar to Viola's voice, and may have also been voiced by Sasha Grey.

Originally, both Kiki and Viola were to join the Saints.[38]

During "Three Way", it is possible to go to the top floor before getting rid of the bombs, the only person at the top is Viola, who is standing upright, not tied up.

Although Viola cannot be called up as a Homie when "Three Way" becomes available, completing both endings allows her, Shaundi and Burt Reynolds to be recruited again.

Neither Viola nor Burt appear in the end cutscene of Three Way after they have been saved.

Promotional images of Viola often show her wielding an AK-74M assault rifle.

Like Angel, Viola might complain that you're not doing anything useful if you're not doing any major combat on the ground when you recruit her as a Homie.

Viola is treated like an outsider after defecting to the Saints by multiple members at various points of Saints Row: The Third due to her association with The Syndicate and Morningstar as well as being involved in the grievances of several characters.

Playa when first meeting Viola, after she says they need work together, Playa quickly argues that Johnny Gat's death is on her hands, and is reluctant to let her join judging by the sigh they give after she requests to see Killbane suffer.[39].

When Oleg is with Playa during their meeting, Oleg gets visibly angry and clicks his neck after Viola insults him when she references to the Syndicates cloning operation, with Playa warning Viola "not to piss off the big man".[39] Oleg also expresses distrust towards her when recruited together.[40]

Shaundi does not like Viola talking or being near her[41] and she also expresses displeasure about her during Stilwater Blues due to her involvement in Johnny Gat's death.

Angel also shows frustration to Viola when recruited together, due her sticking with Killbane and The Syndicate after what he did to him, which was cheating and unmasking him.[42]

Zimos and Viola both hate each other, Viola hating Zimos due to him sleeping with her or her twin sister Kiki and not remembering which one, and vice-versa due to Viola and Kiki putting him to work in Safeword for years.[43][18]

Viola recognises in her cut Audio Logs that the Saints had a hard time accepting her, and acknowledges Oleg's, Zimos', Pierce's and Shaundi's unforgiving attitudes towards her.

[sydmarch]

ok @minetteskvareninova & @caleblandrybones as promised here's everything i can find on the filming of heaven knows what & the whole "pretending to be homeless" thing. surprisingly after not finding any of the old articles i remember reading in my reblogs the first mention of it i managed to find was actually in a more recent interview i was just reading for funsies & didn't expect to be relevant here:

Though he has no formal Method training, Jones harks back to that tradition – especially in this era of actors as bland, gym-pumped corporate ambassadors. He was recommended to intensity merchants the Safdie brothers for the role of Ilya, the blade-hurling junkie in their 2014 heroin memoir Heaven Knows What on the basis that: “He will do what you need him to do in terms of immersing himself.” He hit the New York streets to understand the vagrant’s life. “I was panhandling a little bit and made $150 in a day.” You suspect there may have been the odd Landry Jones fan among the donors. He didn’t, though, as some have speculated online, go as far as shooting up as part of his preparation: “I worked with Malcolm McDowell [on Antiviral] and he told me: ‘You don’t need to do that shit. You can just be an actor.’”

this interview doesn't really get into his experience staying on the street but is kid of like a precursor to the experience that i found interesting bcus i'd actually never read about their first time meeting before:

So you met him in person for the first time when he arrives for the shoot? Josh Safdie: Yes. His agent asked us to put him in a fancy hotel and stuff. We rolled up to the hotel [that first night].

Ben Safdie: Everybody [from the cast] ended up staying at that hotel soon enough.

Josh Safdie: Yeah, he had a lot of people in that room. Everyone from the street was in his hotel room, they were throwing bottles out the window. So, we pull up to this stoop, and he was sitting in front of the hotel and asked immediately, “Why am I staying at this hotel?” And we were like, “Well, because your agent said…”

Ben Safdie: He said, “I thought you guys were real.”

Josh Safdie: “I thought this was going to be like a real situation. Where are Ari and Ilya staying?” It was about five degrees out, and I said, “Well, because it’s so cold, they stay at this Internet café on Eldridge.” He goes, “I’m going there.” I said, “Well, let’s hang out first.” We took him over to Sean’s house, and we watched a bunch of movies. And then I dropped him off back at his hotel and said, “Tomorrow I’ll introduce you to Ari and Ilya.”

But he didn’t go back to his room. He went and found the Internet café and got time on a computer, and stared at Ilya, the real Ilya, while he was passed out. He had known what he looked like, so he just stared at him and watched how he slept and everything. Arielle wasn’t there that night … Then the next day, I introduced him.

Ben Safdie: That first meeting, we were all sitting at a McDonald’s, and Caleb was just kind of witnessing Ari and the real Ilya. He was very careful not to say anything or do anything — he was just watching them. And, for me, that’s when I realized that he was going to be able to do it, because of the way he was watching. Every once in a while he would say something; he knew what to say to get Ilya on his side, not that it was phony in the slightest — he just knows people. That’s what you’d hope from an actor. He would say things and slowly work his way into the world.

also "At this point, Caleb was fully in costume, looked a lot like Ilya. He showered once, the entire shoot, maybe. He smelled horrible." lmao the dedication.

this one also isn't the one i was looking for where they actually talk about his experience prepping for the role but it does get mentioned:

Benny: I heard that on Contraband he got arrested and cost production a lot of money because he was sitting in jail for three days. For Heaven Knows What, he was upset that we gave him a hotel room. He wanted to stay on the streets immediately with everybody. He’s like, “If I’m going to be playing a kid on the streets, I want to be living with them.” Eventually, he found them and hung out in the streets. But when they found out he had a hotel room, everybody went back to his hotel room and he kind of fit in perfectly. You could see him observing and understanding everything.

i SWEAR back in like 2015 i remember reading another interview where they actually talked directly to caleb about his time filming but i cannot fucking find it & i've dug through literally every interview i was able to find for this movie. also totally disregard what i said in my tags earlier about "wasn't it filming for this when he met katya" bcus once i used my brain cells for 2 seconds i realized that doesn't make any sense timeline wise so it wasdefinitely a different time he looked homeless ig (lmfao???) bcus i distinctly remember him saying she thought he was homeless & didn't believe he was an actor but i will be attempting to dig up that interview later rn i need a break from looking at screens bye

[kierreras]

! spoilers for gossip girl reboot are below !

overall, my biggest hope for the finale was fulfiled - kate was exposed and she is finally in jail. so yeah, i can count that as a win

still, gg reboot worked for me not only because of drama it had (and i am a sucker for drama), but because characters were really interesting and i personally resonated with some of them. so of course i am mad because we were robbed of good ending. luna finally getting her voice and having a storyline only for it to be thrown away like it didn’t happen. monet not being in italy when savannah was there during filming. couldn’t they include her in group scenes? i guess we will never know. oh, and the most boring character like obie being included in main gg plot, Rome plot, gg reveal plot. don’t get me started on this one cause i don’t even understand why they kept him around. zoya finally getting a promising love interest and his scenes with the whole group being cut? such a bad move.

as for triad, i am mad and disappointd. just a week earlier i was clowning myself thinking that they are going to break them three up. and what do we have here? aki and audrey throwing max under the bus again. them completely erasing their whole development only to end up together without any worries about max. and poor max feeling like they both played with him an got tired of him. i feel so sorry for him because he is the one character in this whole reboot who changed the most since the first episode. he is the only one whose development and progress were not forgot about.

thomas doherty is an amazing actor because i also cried with him when he realised that aki and audrey are not in love with him like he is with them. writers are really cruel for letting this scene be in the final cut because once again we have a media example that throuples are just for sex and sex only. once again tv series is proving that polyamory does not exist in a healthy way. once again the golden couple stays together and redeemed character is getting heartbroken. i can’t even describe in words what i am feeling right now because not only the triad had no purpose with this ending, but a character that had so much growth during the series has circled back to point zero. if writers were backing them up and completing most of the storylines because they suspected that the series is not going to be renewed, why letting triad stay this way? why breaking them up and pointing that their whole relationship mattered only to max and leaving aki and audrey together? i am so pissed at creators now. and if before finale i was able to defend them, now i actually can’t.

so, jobie and akidrey are getting their onscreen endgames while other characters get nothing. good to go gg reboot!

my ideal finale of this season would have been if triad broke up - them three breaking up and finding themselves outside of relationship. like we could have finally have their separated storylines and them being independent characters. specifically audrey and aki needed that. so i really hoped that three of them would break up, discover themselves and around season three finale they would realise what they are missing. so starting the last episodes of season three triad would be getting closer again and realising that the three of them are still in love with each other. they would have a confession in season finale and finally getting together in a healthy way (without sneaking behind each other backs and having any doubts) in the beginning of season four. as josh mentioned, he wanted to have four seasons of gg, so as for season four, i imagined characters to have college-related drama. for the triad, i think that they could have had a “will we last long-distance or not” just like seth and summer from the oc in season three. no cheating, no doubting each other, not any of them feeling extra. just regular senior year drama that every high school relationship goes through. i feel really robbed and i would be looking forward reading josh’s interview because i think he is going to share some of their plans for future seasons. also, let’s not forget that initial plan was for triad to be an endgame. so let’s focus on that

[fundiebabynamebible]

Judge Brooks's Comments

[108garys]

Random Man of Medan thoughts

The MoM cast is shockingly willing to drop into dark crusty places they have no guaranteed way back from

It amuses me that you could have a boss fight and/or the main antagonist could keel over and die in a random corner(I've actually lost the boss fight and then Olson celebrated by off and dying like that)

Imagine if during said boss fight all the bags of Manchurian gold falling out like that caused mega hallucinations and it made it switch between a firey hellscape or back to the ballroom or some other character specific thing due to the overwhelming chemicals(that would be exciting)

Junior is the one and only chosen npc and I love him based solely on the fact that I could save him(after all these years I finally did it✨)

The ending where everyone goes to jail makes so much more sense because even though there isn't an explicit interviewer it seems a lot more like they are giving their account to some authority compared to the other endings where they say the same thing looking straight ahead without interacting with the person next to them

It's actually surprising this game doesn't have cannibalism endings, for stuck on either non functional boat, it could be implied that on the duke if there's more than one character easily

Just imagine a "josh Washington" type ending where like Alex or whoever is taking a little nibble on characters who died or a bunch of rats if everyone lived(lord knows the ship has plenty of rats)

It's possible to contact the military then leave and it's possible for Conrad to get help and find no one, but what if this happened together and he and the military run into each other equally confused

Curie: not a sole survived

Danny: excuse me?

Doing nothing in the curator's cut for "plunged" is so funny because Danny straight up saves both Alex and Julia from drowning and they try to kill him for it

All these bitches had time to change so I can only conclude some of them chose not to wear shoes on the rusty crusty ship

Julia wears Alex's shirt to bed and it's gonna be real awkward in my next playthrough when she rejects his proposal and wears it anyway

Given Julia can make a point of keeping her last name you'd think she'd actually have one

Yes I'm still salty about Conrad and Julia not having a last name

[fundamental-cactus]

No computer for 20 years after release? That is near impossible today, let alone in ten years from now. Wow. Well done, judge.

[onboardsorasora]

i’m religiously refreshing ur blog and praying i don’t get put in ask jail for sending so many but what are your fave headcanons about bump gate???

is ther even an ask jail? I know there's a daily post limit so hopfully I don't hit that soon lol

are we talking harem bump gate?

Daniel likes pineapples but only when Josh peels them because he does the spiral cuts he learned from one of his teammates

Daniel always goes to George and Charles when he's craving forbidden things. It took two months for them to realize why and they studied all of his allergies so they don't mess up.

Max reads to the bump every night but the harem chooses the books together.

Charles speaks to the bump in every language he knows. lil bean kicks the most when he speaks Italian (because Daniel also speaks Italian a lot)

lmao I forgot who else is in the harem lool

[koheletgirl]

[id: a reply by @vocalovely​ that reads: “No no please get started on the theme songs I loved this post and would be interested in your take on the theme songs jfhbjdj /genuine“ / end id]

first of all, thank you! second of all, i will now get started on the theme songs. this will be a lot.

so. we have established that every season has a theme. btw the way i look at it is a little different than the way the creators do - according to rachel and aline the themes are repression, romance, revenge, and reckoning. which i also agree with, but that’s not exactly how i see it in my head. anyway let’s talk about how each theme relates to each theme song.

season 1 - denial so this one is very obvious. rebecca states that “it happens to be where josh lives but that’s not why i’m here”, and then goes on to insist she is not “the crazy ex girlfried”, and isn’t broken inside. so. very obvious denial. the backup singers calling her crazy are taking the form of the rest of the cast, but they are also very much the voices in her head. neither part of it is healthy - not rebecca’s denial, nor the way her subconscious, if you will, tries to make her confront that. because she’s right, that is a sexist term. that is an ableist term. and having a cartoon sun happily sing about how broken she is inside - that’s just her self hate talking. and then she says one of my favorite lines on the show: “the the situation’s a lot more nuanced than that”. and she is both right and wrong here! there’s no nuance in why she moved to west covina, it wasn’t a combination of reasons and circumstances - she ran into josh, and she moved there for him. but of course it is a lot more nuanced than that. just not in the way rebecca thinks it is.

season 2 - love + doubt “i’m just a girl in love / i can’t be held responsible for my actions / i have no underlying issues to address / i’m certifiably cute and adorably obsessed / they say love makes you crazy / therefore you can’t call her crazy / ‘cause when you call her crazy / you’re just calling her in love”  so in a way, the denial continues here. in a way, it’s even more prominent: the backup singers are on her side this time. but there is hesitance. rebeccca speaks for herself this time, she both raises and answers her concerns. who is calling her crazy? it’s not the cast this time. who is trying to hold her responsible for her actions? who is she defending herself to? who is telling her she has underlying issues to address? because it sure seems like it’s all coming from her. to me, this is the most unhinged song (and i say this very affectionately). everything about it feels so fundamentally wrong. her expressions throughout the number, the way the camera lingers after the song ends, for 3 whole seconds! that’s 10% of the song! and it’s giving her face plenty of time to go through some very interesting expressions. it’s about the comedic timing, but it’s also about the awkwardness, about the way she seems to ask herself throughout the song if she really believes what she is saying. and it all comes crashing down and becomes painfully obvious in the season finale, when we find out these were the exact words her mother used in court to get the judge to send rebecca to a mental institution rather than jail. heartbreaking.

season 3 - crazy one of the final lines of dialogue in season 2, between rebecca and her father, is: “youre crazy”, “little bit”. and this perfectly leads us to season 3. if i had to summarize rebecca’s mindset in the begging of s3 in one sentence, it would be “oh you want crazy? i’ll give you crazy”. and she spends this season trying to unpack what the word “crazy” means to her. this word has been thrown at her her whole life, but what does it really mean? and this is of course reflected in the theme song, in the form of 4 characters, all played by rebecca (that represent 4 musical genres bc this show is brilliant), singing about what being crazy is. and then they all sing together: “you do / you don’t / wanna be crazy / and you don’t / you do / wanna be crazy / to clarify yes / no / on the crazy / we hope this helps”. and they cut to rebecca, watching this music video on her phone while sitting on the toilet, visibly confused. what a great summary of this season. 

then it does get a lot more nuanced than that. and rebecca is still in conflict with what the word “crazy” means to her, but this time from the angle of someone who has just received a personality disorder diagnosis. and the song is still relevant; but it gets a whole new meaning.

season 4 - rebecca “meet rebecca / she's the coolest girl in the world / wait, wrong rebecca /  it's this one over here / she's spunky, she's sweet, a generous friend / oh, but there she looks kinda mean / okay, she's snarky, sarcastic, and a ... what? / you know we're not really seeing a common theme / meet rebecca / she's too hard to summarize / so let's go back to other rebecca” this season is about rebecca. finally finding herself. coming to terms with the parts of her that are harder to come to terms with, trying to make amends with the people she’s hurt. sometimes failing. trying to become a better person, sometimes failing. trying to figure out what it is that she wants. who is she really. recovering, but figuring out who she is outside of the context of her mental health. who she is, outside of being crazy. and this is the only theme song where the word “crazy” isn’t used. and it’s messy, and it’s hard, and it’s imperfect. it’s a lot more nuanced than that. she’s too hard to summarize, as is every real person (”other rebecca” obviously doesn’t exist, and her one-liners that change every episode, besides being hilarious, serve to showcase that she is not a real person). and rebecca will always be self-centered, and impulsive, and a little annoying. she is not going to turn into this perfect, uncomplicated character. because she is a person. (side note: i Love how in the series finale white josh still doesn’t like her. but that’s a different point). but she is her. she is still growing, and changing, and learning about herself; but now it’s her story to tell. she has a stronger sense of self. she doesn’t try to live her life as a fairytale, or a romcom, or a revenge movie; because life doesn’t make narrative sense. and she doesn’t need the theme songs, or the musical numbers, to cope with her life anymore. she can express herself now. she can do what she is really passionate about, in front of everyone. she can showcase all of it, she can show it to her best friend and have her tell her how incredible she is. and she doesnt feel the need to fit it all into one theme song. and the songs aren’t being written anymore - she writes them.

and “this is a song i wrote”.

[freefromthecocoon]

TWD Finale Review

So, Thanksgiving is complete and I finally had a chance to sit and review the finale. I got kind of long winded with this so buckle up. I will do a separate Caryl review as well.

We open as Daryl arrives at the hospital to get help for Judith. He gets knocked out by a trooper. Judith wakes enough to barricade the door to delay walkers from entering and we end on the shot of them laying on the floor that we saw back at SDCC trailer time.

Opening theme. I really loved that Bear used a full orchestra to score this episode. It added a lot to the scenes.  Bear McCreary and in recent years Sam Ewing also have done a wonderful job of scoring The Walking Dead.  The 2 songs picked for this episode were perfect as well. 

Poor Jules didn’t even get a toast later. Luke shouldn’t have disappeared to go play in Potterworld. It really did feel like they only brought them back to kill them off as soon as they arrived. 

Daryl laying on a gurney as he wakes up to bloodbath of poor Luke and his family. Carol trying to take care of Daryl and Judith. The scene with Luke and his family was sad and caught their emotions. I have to say, I wouldn’t mind a Tales episode showing how they came to be a family. There was so much focus on using Connie for shipbait, that we really didn’t get enough of their story and it was a disservice to all of them, even Connie. 

I know there is frustration that Daryl and Carol don’t use their words, but I also know that goes to the chemistry that Norman and Melissa have and that translates to Daryl and Carol. They can exude so much emotion and communication with just a look. Carol knows that Daryl is looking at the scene with Luke’s family and their grief and that he is worried for Judith as she is hurt badly. Daryl makes an executive decision for a blood transfusion. I like that this was explained using a Merle memory and we do have background of Carol having some medical knowledge from years in the apocalypse, so this works, but as a nurse, I have to let a lot go with this show. 

Princess and Max literally bust Mercer out of jail. We get a mini reunion of sorts, that felt unearned to me, but we had to show his escape so he could help overthrow the government. 

I think we have spent way too much time on the Negan/Maggie dynamic, more on this later. 

Our trio of Gabe, Eugene and Rosita arrive to save the babies. Never get in the way of a mama bear whose babies are in danger.  

Judith wakes and is still out of it and so Daryl isn’t sure if what she said about Rick and Michonne was just dream talk or what. She passes out and the walkers begin attacking the hospital.  Daryl barricading Judith in her room was a nice callback to the earlier seasons of the show when Shane did the same for Rick. I’ve always rolled my eyes at the use of walkers on the show, but I do think it was done well here and in the scenes with Rosita. The walker with the rock breaking the window was definitely a Season 1 callback.

I would be walker food if I had to climb a drainpipe to get away from zombies. I REALLY loved the scoring here when Rosita popped up out of the zombies and climbed on top of the ambulance. I really thought that maybe the spoilers had it wrong that Rosita would not die. Sadly, I was wrong.

Team Family gets to the safe house that Mercer has set up and we get the payoff for Yumiko outing that Tomi is a surgeon. He begins the work to save Judith. I loved Aaron helping Lydia and giving her a pep talk on coping with losing part of her arm. Carol is nearby, always listening and watching. This poor child has lost so much and I was so glad she didn’t lose Elijah. More Negan/Maggie drama…yayy. I do like Negan’s apology here, it seems very heartfelt and sincere. They somewhat come to a truce so to speak. 

Now for the beginning of the true heartbreak. Rosita’s arc turned into one of the best of the show. Eugene and Rosita’s scene here is just everything and Christian and Josh completely knocked this out of the park. Eugene seemed to know something was off and Rosita sadly confirmed she was bit. I loved her being Rosita in this moment, telling Eugene to pull his shit together.  Rosita just wanting to spend her last moments with her family, enjoying being with them. The I love yous exchanged between Rosita and Eugene are different than the ones with Daryl and Carol later as R/E are truly platonic best friends and he immediately goes to Max who is, as Eugene calls her, his beloved. 

Daryl and Carol holding vigil over Judith is an intimate scene that calls back to Rick and Lori holding vigil over Carl so long ago.  Again the looks between Carol and Daryl without words convey so much, that’s chemistry folks.  The relief and humor when Daryl says Lil Asskicker and Judith responds as only she can with Big Asskicker.  

Mercer decides to make a stand and Zeke gives an inspiring speech as only he can as a rallying cry to Team Family. The standoff at the gate was intense and Negan was correct, arresting Pamela was a more fitting punishment as she would have escaped through death, although it was nice seeing Walker Lance again, Maggie was right to not let Pamela get off that easy.  Can I tell you that seeing Jerry stroll through those gates gave me life. I really thought we were gonna lose my cobbler king. I adore him and was happy he made it through.  

I need to mention Gabe’s arc here. Gabe went from my most hated character to one I truly loved and respected.  When we first met him, he was a cowardly man who locked his parishoners out of his church and he ended with risking his own life to open the gates for the CW people to be saved. I was also glad to see Gabe come to terms with his faith and to be able to reclaim it. Well done, Gabe. 

The scene with Team Family in the town square battling the walkers, were the final scenes filmed for the show, The videos of the confetti and the final wrap call for the show were just after this scene.   I admit, I did a little head banging hearing Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality”, it’s such a kick ass song and should be added to your playlist immediately…yes I’m old, lol. And yes, the explosion was very OTT, but I will allow it as it was the finale to a big ass show that meant a lot to all of us. 

Carol being the ultimate boss bitch in her conversation with Pamela as Daryl proudly watches his woman and Mercer slams the door shut was a chef’s kiss moment. 

I have given a lot of grief to the Negan/Maggie storyline over this season, but this scene with Lauren and JDM was so well performed. Maggie’s description of Glenn and why she cannot forgive Negan and also Maggie acknowledging that she knows he is trying to change was well-written and well-performed. In having anger with people in my own life, I completely understand the idea of letting go of anger to keep from burning yourself up, even if forgiveness isn’t a possibility. Negan seemed to grasp this and at long last respected what Maggie needs from him. I still don’t understand how they wind up in New York together, but I guess that will soon be explained.

The family dinner scene was precious to me and was a realization of Rick’s vision of a celebratory family dinner. Seeing that Dog is okay and begging for scraps was sweet. Daryl’s little head nod to Negan was appropriate. Gabe learning of Rosita’s fate was so well-performed. The music here is great too. Landslide was a total gut punch of a choice for scoring and perfect choice to convey the emotion of TWD coming to an end. 

I haven’t read the comics, but the Rosita goodbyes are a callback to the Comic Andrea goodbye and was really well done. I know some people have asked why Daryl wasn’t more prominent in these scenes, but filming for all this took place while Norman was out due to his concussion. I would have liked to see Rosita and Daryl say goodbye to each other, but I think they handled that as best they could. Eugene and Rosita being there together at the end was precious. 

I know we are sick to death of time jumps, but I think this one was appropriate. It was nice to see everyone catch up. Zeke and Mercer are the new leadership at the CW.   Eugene and Max have a baby named Rosey. I liked the Daryl and Connie scene. It’s obvious that each of them are content in their own lives and that each of them are happy. A really good friendship scene.  Lydia and Elijah have taken on the roles of couriers for the communities and I like them being able to do this.  Negan checking in with Judith was appropriate and I liked the payoff of him sending the compass back to her. ASZ looked wonderful and thriving as did Hilltop’s rebuilding. Chandler Riggs was on set for the last day and Greg put a hat on him and gave him a job as a background gardener, a nice little Easter egg.  

Maggie wants to begin exploring for other communities (this is the way I took this as it wasn’t clearly explained). So this explains why Daryl leaves. I won’t get into the debate about whether he should have left the kids and Carol.  I think a lot of people misconstrued that he was leaving to search for Rick and Michonne, that was not the reason he left. I will explore this more in my Caryl review of the finale. 

As I said previously, I plan to do a separate Caryl review, cause there is so much to unpack, but I will say here that Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride could read a phone book and I would watch it. They nailed their goodbye scene as we all knew they would and I gasped when Daryl told her he loved her as it was so much more than I expected we would get.  It was hard to watch him ride away, but I am left with so much hope that we will see them together again. 

I know the majority of fandom needed to see Rick and Michonne participate in the finale, I loved their scenes. The only thing I would have done differently here would have been to end with Daryl fading to black and playing the credits and then have the Richonne scenes as an end credit scene. I would also suggest watching World Beyond if you haven’t. I admit WB is a slog fest at times, but the CRM points of the show are what I refer to as tie-ins, not directly of course. But there are some definite Easter eggs from WB in the Rick scenes especially.

So, TWD has come to an end. I think overall, they stuck the landing. Obviously, the Reapers arc was a disappointment and a waste of precious time with all the characters we care about. The Negan/Maggie stuff was overplayed and I think if cutbacks had been made there, we could have gotten a more fleshed out story with the characters we care more about. But hindsight is 20/20, so I won’t belabor the point here. I think going into the finale blind and without spoilers or opinions from biased reviewers really helped my enjoyment of the episode.  If you have stuck through on this word vomit from me, I will do a more extensive Caryl review and post at a later time. Thank you all for reading this if you could slog through it, lol.