#mythtaken

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everytime i think i'm having a good day its horrifically interrupted by remembering that Cordelia died

its been nearly a year since i watched that scene and i have NOT been able to finish Angel bc of it its actually not okay atp

and whats even worse is that she wont be in the reboot like AAAAAUGHH

[eddiegettingshot]

okay so true because we talk a lot about how they’ve written themselves into this narrative corner where nothing else is going to be as satisfying which is true but there’s not enough said about the meat and potatoes of it actually happening and what that comes with like… there’s so much fresh story potential there to a) explore new facets of their characters and a new layer to their dynamic b) the drama of the job the angst the getting put in Situations as always but now they’re aware of why they’re insane so they’re even more insane. love that. c) the FUN!!!!!!!!!! they are best friends… it would be so much fun actually like the potential for fun and hijinks cannot be overstated. Tim look at me look at me Tim. the fun.

yes exactly!!!!!!! IT’S THE FUN TIM. SOOO MUCH FUN. ALL THE TIME. EVERYONE WINS ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️

[every-character-ever-poll]

Ram? CPU? Aren't those for technogeeks with spreadsheets?

https://youtu.be/8mU82UgwONo

We're moms on the 'net!

[wardog-of-whimsy]

Talking With The Bestie Like

I love you babe! @thesilveramazon

[accidentally-hannibal]

Verified Accidental Hannibal Post

“these characters should be mentally healthy before they get together 😌” ummm no I actually think we should smash their mental illnesses together like clumps of play-doh and see what colors it makes

[you-little-arsonist]

no grave can hold my bobby down (batshit alobby moodboard)

🚬 i'm so tired ☕

inspired by this post from @doitbuckley

Links:

https://www.tumblr.com/prettysophist/782851393451114496/i-thought-they-were-using-deadbobby-as-a

https://www.tumblr.com/mythtakens/782389545944612864/case-about-woman-in-denial-about-her-kid-being

https://mythtakens.tumblr.com/post/781486605276004352/while-you-were-saying-bobby-nash-is-dead-i-was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Whitecoat

https://ew.com/911-bobby-death-showrunner-tim-minear-interview-whats-next-peter-krause-11717519

@tanktopdiaz @eddieswaistisslutty here i did it :(

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THE ESSAY i could write about Faith/The Mayor and Buffy/Giles father figure comparisons

someone pls hype me up to write this bc i have THINGS TO SAY

edit: lads don't expect this anytime soon, i'm fresh out of school and i seriously need some time to get my head together before i wrap my head around essays again 😭

[elverrie]

giles not laughing at one of willow`s best puns is the same evil energy as maggie walsh and riley NOT EVEN chuckling at mythtaken.

[bellemorte79]

This is like my Roman Empire...

[lover-of-mine]

"she literally said the line" what line??? please i need a way to still believe bobby is alive or I'm gonna do something drastic

Okay, so, the script Jen and Oliver posted to their story, @mythtakens actually decoded a lot of it. And well, it had Athena with the kids and her saying the "Rest Easy" line. Half the script made it to the show, so WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED??

[bucksbeagle]

i find it incredibly fucking weird that half the leaked script that @mythtakens put together was accurate and then they just. cut the episode off. it doesnt even end differently it just stops.

[xandersrailcrash]

i'm so gay oh my fucking god

[your-stranger-halfblood-things]

Alastor: I didn't know that the myth of killing angels was real until-

Lucifer: You could say that you've been mythtaken

Alastor: Shut the fuck up

[catmomjudy]

Context

(Gif: @wellcollapse)

The cut scene that posted—Chris telling Eddie that his girlfriend Penny broke up with him—adds a large amount of context to the events in 7x10. I’ve already posted some thoughts about Shannon and Eddie and the lake (here), so let’s talk about Chris and his girlfriend(s) and his relationship with his mother. It explains some up-in-the-air questions that arose from 7x10, particularly why Chris called his grandparents and didn’t call Buck.

In 7x01, Eddie discovers that Chris is dating multiple girls. He asks Buck to talk with him. This brings to light Chris’s feelings about his mother and her leaving Texas, and results in Eddie giving him her letter. The end result (which is really only confirmed by the cut clip), seems to be that Chris followed Buck’s advice and picked one girl to focus his attention on.

(Gif: @mythtakens)

Like most middle school relationships, it comes to an end. In the cut scene from 7x09, Chris tells Eddie that Penny (the girl he had over for video games in 7x01) broke up with him. No matter what we, as adults, might think of those cute middle school hand-holding situationships, Chris is most likely devastated. He and Eddie chat, and Eddie ends up telling him about how he met Shannon, at a lake near the Senior Diaz’s house in El Paso. He gives him HOPE that he, too, will find a Shannon one day.

(Gif: @ayo-edebiri)

Shortly after this (also in 7x09), Chris walks in on the Ghost of Shannon, standing in his house.

So, in season 7, Chris has received these messages about dating:

“We don’t cheat on girls.” (the conversation with Buck in 7x01)

“Girls actually do leave.” (the breakup revealed during the 7x09 cut scene; Eddie’s confirmation that “They do that.”)

“Dad is a cheater.” (the scene at the end of 7x09)

”All of Dad’s girlfriends leave.” (The off-screen breakup with Marisol, combined with knowing that Shannon left, and the whole Ana thing.)

”What was the point of picking one girl when she was going to leave anyway?” (Combination of 7x01, cut scene, and end scene of 7x09)

He receives these messages about Shannon:

“Mom loved me, but she left anyway.” (The letter in 7x01)

“Dad met Mom when he was my age.” (The cut scene from 7x09)

“Mom came back.” (Season 2; rehashed in 7x01)

“Dad isn’t over Mom.” (Question asked & not answered in 7x09 cut scene; in-his-face takeaway from Kim encounter in 7x09)

“I’m not over Mom.”

So, between the whole drama about the multiple girlfriends and the reactions of Eddie and Buck, and the Dead Mom Trauma in 7x01 (I.e. the letter and his feelings, which he’s found some closure for, but “comforted” doesn’t mean “fixed”), and the things revealed in the 7x09 cut scene, I can really see that the events of 7x09 were the straw that broke the camel’s back, rather than the isolated incident that editing made them appear to be.

That’s why this scene was important. We’ve all been trying to figure out why Chris didn’t go to Buck or why his very good relationship with Eddie didn’t make him think a bit more before going nuclear (I.e. calling his grandparents). But the Penny breakup brings this full circle.

He probably feels as betrayed about the 7x01 conversation (the relationship advice from Buck, which he obviously took and ran with) as he does by his dad’s hypocrisy and by walking in on the Ghost of Shannon. Add to that:

(1) The fact that she (Ghost Shannon) was IN HIS HOUSE (his safe place)

(2) Penny and Marisol are both gone (so why shouldn’t he leave, too)

(3) He’s had a recent reminder of where Shannon was at his age (that lake in Texas)

Well, it makes a lot more sense. Context is everything, and we didn’t really have the full context to interpret Chris’s actions.

[gffa]

Hiiii :D I was just wondering, do you have any good Marvel fic reccomendations? Your massive list of star wars fics is like the no.1 thing I go to when im in a star wars mood, and all of them have been amazing, so thanks so much for that!! I'm just curious if you have any good Marvel fic recs?? If not that's fine lol, thank you for your service 🙏

Hi! Lol, I had to sit with this post for a few days because "Marvel fic" is such a wide range of possibilities, like are we talking the comics or the live action shows? The Avengers movies? The X-Men movies? Which section of those fandoms? Avengers as a team? Captain America? Thor? Iron Man? Daredevil? X-Men: First Class? Just... anything? I don't actually have a lot of comics fic recommendations (mostly because it's too hard to wade through all the movie stuff because so many people cross-tag into the comics tags despite it not being comic fic that those tags are now useless), but my go-to for Marvel comics are always: ✦ Betrayal + Paradox Law + The Game of Empires by Valerie J It's hard to describe this series, other than that about ~15 years ago, it was an ambitious attempt at taking various elements of the X-Men comics and weaving them into a coherent whole, focusing on giving Remy an epic backstory to explain his origins and his powers. It probably wouldn't really fit with more recent comics, but if you're a fan of late '90s/early '00s X-Men comics, this was a hell of a ride with cool powers, surprising family twists, time travel, fun relationships, and incredible ramp ups to tense situations that explode in the best way. ✦ The Gestalt Arc by Lori McDonald Another old school fic centered around the Remy/Rogue relationship and taking them on an epic journey, in an alternate version of what happened after their kiss in X-Men #41. The ups and downs of how they work out their issues, the lives they try to lead with each other, finding their path forward together, it's still one of my favorites for the era. ✦ Anything by Traincat for the Young Avengers My favorite is grab a blanket, brother, but they're an author that I'd write a blanket rec for, if any of the summaries sound relevant to your interests! They also write Peter Parker/Johnny Storm, which isn't my area of comics, but I'd trust them with it! But primarily I'd route you to them for their super fun Young Avengers stories, the Teddy/Billy and Eli/Kate ones especially. ✦ Anything by silverspidertm2, X-parrot, takadainmate, or Mythtaken Identity for Journey into Mystery and Loki: Agent of Asgard-era fic. This is when I was in my prime era of reading Thor comic-centric fic, around Journey into Mystery and Loki: Agent of Asgard, when he was Kid Loki and then Teen Loki. There was a lot really fun worldbuilding or road trips or just feelings explosions fic from this era. Beyond that, my bookmarks are a bit of a mess, but you can scroll through them to see what you're looking for. My primary fandoms were: ✦ Daredevil TV, where I went in hard on Matt/Foggy (and some Matt/Foggy/Karen and Frank/Karen and a little Matt/Elektra), where I read voraciously for about a year before MCU burnout hit. Some faves are Double Blind by smilebackwards and Something Dumb to Do by poisonivory and jump, check parachute augustbird.

✦ Thor (MCU), which is actually the heart of who I was as an MCU fan, I spent a long time there reading a lot of fic and this will take you to my bookmarks with the pairings filtered out. I was a big fan of Thor & Loki's relationship so that's most of what's in there, and I always suggest starting with these three fics: ✦ Bargaining by proantagonist, thor & loki & odin & frigga & cast, time travel, 108.9k Faced with an eternity without his brother, Loki strikes a bargain to change the past. Post TDW. ✦ No Such Liberty by Xparrot, thor & loki & cast, 147.3k The first thing Loki said, after he had swiped his tongue over his lips to wet them, was, "You shouldn't trust me." ~ Following the attack on New York, Thor takes Loki back to Asgard in chains; but this does not mean that the god of mischief's schemes are ended, or that Thor has or ever will give up on his brother. But when Thanos threatens the realm to claim his lost prizes, on which side will Loki fall? [post-Avengers fix it] ✦ The Lullaby Singer by TheOtherOdinson, thor & loki & odin & frigga, 85k wip Odin hasn't left Asgard in over a thousand years. When he finds out Loki is still alive and preparing to launch an attack on Midgard, he could send Thor to stop him. Or Odin could go himself. As a bonus, I have a few more Thor genfic recs here.

✦ Captain America (MCU), where sure I liked some gen fic but lbr I was there for the Stucky. I mostly read during the height of the post-TWS fervor and then tapered off a lot after that (given how hard they swerved away from their relationship) and I haven't read almost anything in the fandom since Endgame, but if you want some fun TWS-era fic, I put together this list recently. (To be fair, I also liked a lot of Steve &/ Natasha, Bucky &/ Natasha and Sam/Natasha, so you can find that in there, too.)

✦ Iron Man (MCU), where I liked a mix of some fun gen pieces and some Tony/Pepper which put me in the minority, but I don't care because there were some banger authors for both. If you're interested in them, I always liked pretty much anything I read by roboticonography. icarus_chained wrote a wider variety of stuff, but I've always liked anything I've read from them as well.

✦ Avengers (MCU), where I read a lot of fic, but it's kind of all mixed in together, even some sprinkled in Black Panther fic, some Spideypool that was super fun for a hot minute, some Guardians of the Galaxy characters showing up, etc. Step carefully if you're not interested in pairings (I read a fair amount of Tony/Loki and Steve/Loki in amongst the other stuff), but honestly by the end I was probably reading more gen than anything.

✦ X-Men: First Class-verse, which is my exception to not reading much for the live action versions of the X-Men, because I am a long time Pietro Maximoff fan and while Peter wasn't my Pietro, I did love him and there was some absolute banger fic for the Dadneto trope, which was where my heart was at. Come Together by blarfkey is absolutely the first place to start!

Hopefully this is what you were looking for, but if you have further refinements on what you're interested in, let me know and I'll try to give some pointers! I've been out of reading Marvel for awhile, but I have a huge backlog from when I was in it, at least. 😂

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i will ALWAYS love the way they loved

“I’m a princess.” “That’s what you are.”

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

2x03 - School Hard