#reagron

[aj-lenoire]

no really re-watching inside job and remembering the cliffhanger and the futile sacrifice and the way it could very easily set up for staedtler remembering reagan and the fact netflix cancelled it is the closest i've felt to 'screaming crying throwing up' since i watched vox machina for the first time

[impuubus]

holo-chamber fun

[verlilias]

do you think the morning after appleton ron wakes up and he makes breakfast for two and sets the table for two but as he's about to start eating he realizes he's alone. yeah 👍

[starknitsweater]

can their ship name be ronald reagan please

[fiuworks]

do you like teenage dystopia? do you like contrived superpowers? do you like inside job? do you hate alexandra bracken's storytelling?

a silly doodle of me and venus' inside job the darkest minds au...do u want to see silly teenage cognito crew get hunted by the government and commit shennanigans? you might like our fanfic...its almost 50k words 13 chapters and still continuing! i think you guys would enjoy its a very fun read......ooooo u wanna read PiT so bad

[classictetris]

almost 2 months since my last andre comp whoops. i got nothing good sorry. BOO one reagron doodle too

[littengreat]

Happy anniversary to inside job part 2 wish they couldve had there happy ending

[mighwnt]

reagan ridley + #35 on ur spotify wrapped!!!

[ten-cent-sleuth]

Carter and Barrett in “Smoke & Mirrors” are giving me massive Ridley/Staedtler vibes from Inside Job. Like.

Carter / Reagan:

genius scientist and inventor who’s competent and kickass as heckk

secret government branch working with aliens

parental issues; followed in her father’s footsteps

workaholic who won’t ask for a hug but definitely needs some kinda emotional support,,

fan favourite (or at least has my undying love)

Barrett / Ron:

badass but disillusioned agent who wears a suit, works alone, and talks in low tones

secret government branch also but this one has some deep-seated trust issues

Carter’s/Reagan’s agency’s rival until they start working together and he learns to trust her, if not anybody else

“You’re the one who’s always talking about trust” x “So we’ve both been keeping secrets” vibes

I’m not saying I ship Carter/Barrett the way I ship Reagan/Staedtler (the dynamics do have significant differences after all), but their similarities were striking in the scene after the “Smoke & Mirrors” explosion. Idk what it was about that exchange in particular… I haven’t re-watched Inside Job in months so I might be missing a Reagan/Staedtler moment parallel to that scene, not to mention some other general overlap I could have noted above, but yeah. I had to make this post lol.

(The “Smoke & Mirrors” gif is courtesy of @samantha-carter-is-my-muse, idk why Tumblr’s not linking for that one but credit where credit’s due.)

[toontownportraits]

so let me love you completely, let me show you you're my everything

(from a whiteboard with @maddestmewmew and @molabuddy :3)

[ijafterhours]

"What happened between you two?"

After weeks of no contact with Cognito, Lara is convinced to attend their annual Halloween party in order to see her close friends again and show face. Said friends, very concerned for her wellbeing after ghosting them like a champion, try to weasel any and all answers that they can out of her.

Happy Halloween After Hours fans! This is very fortunately a Halloween episode!! So much happens in this episode, all the way from me predicting the Everything Everywhere All At Once 2022 Oscar sweep (I wrote this episode before the 95th Oscars in February 2022!) all the way to Logan having a complicated (and very drunk) debate with a certain member of his family. Enjoy!

[aj-lenoire]

what makes the saying goodbye to staedtler go from sad to a fucking gutpunch is reagan is choosing cognito so she can have a chance at bettering the world, but as soon as she commits to that choice, the robes reveal they’re playing her and her sacrificing her relationship was pointless

[impuubus]

Some things i've had for bit that I'm gonna post now. Happy holidays ❤

[xx-skullheartz-xx]

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING FOREVER

SMEONE MADE AN UNSIDE JOB FANS ONGJ

[reagron]

"why is staedtler so similar to reagan lmao why would the show do that. it's almost like they're somehow related" ok. let me rebutt that. ur wrong btw. here's why.

if you're talking about looks, then i can see what you mean. similar eyebrows and nose shape, i guess. it makes them look kinda related if u imagine it ? but the show would Not pull any weird incest crap so they probably just have similar facial features by coincidence. it's no big deal. can happen to anyone.

and if you're talking about personality, even though they intially bonded over how similar they are to each other, they have a Lot of key differences !!

essay below cut.

reagan has basically sold her soul to the deep state. her work is everything to her. she's willing to give up love for her job, because that's the kind of person she is. she wants to make a difference, even if it'll cost her everything.

ron wants nothing to do with the shadow world. he wants to get away from it all and live a normal life with the person he loves most.

ron has more of a moral compass than reagan does. he avoids doing ethically questionable things whenever possible. he hates his job as a mind eraser and wants to leave the shadow world.

reagan is less concerned with ethics. she's been in cognito long enough to see some bullshit, and even though she recognizes the things they're getting up to aren't exactly ethical (she literally says the situation in still valley is "radically unethical") she does it anyway. because it's her job. simple as that. a lot of what cognito does can be considered lesser evils for a greater good, but shit like spraying an entire town with mind-erasing chemicals so they can sell more dangerous outdated crap is just another tuesday afternoon for her. she doesn't really mind. heck, she probably doesn't even care. she's probably never given still valley another thought after p1e5.

reagan's a bit of a control freak. she probably gets it from rand, no surprises there. if she wants a job done right, she thinks she has to do it herself. in p2e4, she wants her and ron's trip to rome to go perfectly so she can ask him to be her boyfriend. she overuses the catholicizer because if they take too long, they'll be late for her reservation, and that'll ruin the mood, and he might say no. she interrogates him under the guise of the mouth of truth when she hears him say he doesn't date because she wants to know what her chances are before she pops the question. she wants everything to go according to plan, and when it doesn't, she takes it upon herself to arrange things so they're in her favor again. in rontagion, she doesn't trust that her relationship with ron will last if he leaves the shadow government, so she jumps through hoops and organizes an entire company halloween party just to keep him in the shadow world. basically, she wants things to go her way. a lot. and the only people she fully trusts outside of herself are probably brett and ron (and even then, she prefers to get things done herself), so she tends to deal with everything on her own.

ron doesn't seem to share this problem, probably because he grew up in a non-ridley household. in appleton, when he convinces reagan to run away with him, that's literally exactly what he does. no behind-the-scenes shenanigans to highlight the dangers of the deep state, no elaborate scheme to make her see the appeal of a simple life in an unknown city, nothing. he just talks to her, tells her why he wants this, and asks her to think about it. he leaves the decision completely up to her and does zero meddling. if reagan were in his shoes, she'd probably have prepared at least a 50-slide powerpoint presentation, among other things. she'd be a lot more worried about what decision ron would make, and she'd channel that nervous energy into coming up with something to increase the odds that he'd say yes to her.

and that's just some of their differences.

ron seems more comfortable meeting new people than reagan does.

reagan gets so caught up in her feelings that she sometimes loses sight if the bigger picture. ron (the way i see him at least) is more level-headed.

ron is plagued by guilt over the memories he's erased. reagan's had to disappear (and probably indirectly cause the deaths of) more than a few people, but it's never kept her up at night.

reagan's a little paranoid (courtesy of rand, of course). ron's less on edge than she is.

in summary, i love them very much.

yes, the show highlighted how alike they are in p2e1. yes, their similarities are part of why their fling started in the first place. but they're still two very different people with very different priorities in a world where not one in a thousand timelines saw them happy together. god i hate this show.

[fiuworks]

day 2.....his hand accidentally got smooshed in the mouth of truth......whoops!