#siren 3x09

[edelweiss-maiden]

jade parfitt for jean paul gaultier haute couture fall 2003 // siren from ‘love, death + robots: jibaro’ (2022) dir. alberto mielgo (3x09)

[mesillusionssousecstasy]

Love, Death + Robots : Volume 3

It such an amazing animation series, the effect are incredible.

But it's more about Death, than Love.

The ending of each episode are more dystopian than Black Mirror itself, but I can understand life doesn't have an happy end either.

My favorite was the first one episode called "Three Robots: Exit Strategies" and the less favourite was "Jibaro".

So here a review for each episode :

Three Robots: Exit Strategies (3x01) : Excellent, the orange robot was hilarious and the cat ending too.

Bad Travelling (3x02) : was truly gory.

The Very Pulse of the Machine (3x03) : the animation was amazing.

Night of the Mini Dead (3x04) : I loved the details, it was incredible. The mini stop motion was perfect. Poor little penguins. The very gas station is called Hell literally and the Fedex truck is called Fux.

Kill Team Kill (3x05) : too violent, too stupid, too much cursing. It was the "fuck you" episode.

Swarm (3x06) : the animation was amazing.

Mason's Rats (3x07) : the animation was so well done. At some point, I was poor rats, but how many are they? I didn't understand the happy ending, it was the only one. It wasn't very realistic.

In Vaulted Halls Entombed (3x08) : the animation was incredible again, I wasn't expecting this ending.

Jibaro (3x09) : It was like animation on drugs, mushrooms. It was more looking as a video game than an episode animation. I'm not sure I understand the all story of the episode. It was like the siren against the deaf and dumb? I didn't understand why she was always dancing? Why the man was like from the middle age. At one point, I was asking if her vagina had teeth too. WTF. It was my least favourite episode.

Some Quotes:

"- What exactly is a tech millionaire? - It's a lot like a regular millionaire, but with a hoodie and crippling social anxiety." (3x01)

"- They were mean to robots and then robots killed them." (3x01)

"- Wait. I thought that's what the seasteads were for? - Those were for the merely millionaires. The obscenely wealthy 0.01 percent of humans decided they needed an entirely new planet." (3x01)

"- The elite were not sympathetic to their concerns." (3x01)

"- Okay, but Mars? I mean, it's dead and lifeless. - They could've taken the money they spend on the spaceships and used it to save the planet they were already on. - What's the fun in that?" (blows raspberry - 3x01)

"- I hate to say it, but humans are the actual worst. - Humanity had all the tools to heal their wounded planet and save themselves, but instead they chose greed and self-gratification over a healthy biosphere and the future of their children." (Robot 1 - 3x01)

"- Done and done. Nearly as unpleasant as it was necessary." (3x02)

"- Maybe I'm gonna live forever. Or maybe this is just one last dream before dying." (3x03)

"- Less Darwinian theory, more rodent-killing hardware." (3x07)

"- Spencer. (Harper) - The Lord is my light. (Spencer) - God is dead. Embrace the suck. We gotta move." (Harper - 3x08)

[acetv]

Ok so I'm slowly getting into siren but I'm already in love with Ben/Ryn/Maddie. So I'm nerves about watching because it seems like their destroying the triad for Ben/Ryn and I'm really hoping to be wrong cause while Ryn/Maddie could work without Ben it's not the same for Ryn/Ben.

I have a little hope that so far it seems like despite Ben obsession with Ryn and his bad choices costing him Maddie. Ryn and Maddie are still together if a bit distance. So I'm hoping Ben gets his act together and wins Maddie back with Ryn help and the Triad are happy again giving Hope 4 loving parents.

That said I was shocked that Maddie didn't get scene time with Hope in 3x09 especially with Hope remembering her time on land as a baby. I have not seen anything for 3x10

So I'm hoping that maybe in 3x10 Just maybe while Maddie looking for Dale she gets to rescue Hope and that Hope remembers Maddie

[juicenet]

which "h2o: just add water" episodes centered each character? a quantitative analysis

hello, 2021 h2o enjoyers! lately, i've been thinking about how many h2o episodes focus on a specific mermaid. naturally, i wondered—which main mermaid (cleo, rikki, emma, and bella) has the most episodes dedicated to their character arc? and what percent of the show focuses on that character? so i wrote up this quantitative analysis and... yeah.

caveats:

-there are many h2o episodes that don’t center any specific character, which is why these episodes are not included on the list.

-there are some episodes that focus a lot on on lewis, charlotte, will, et cetera. however, i decided to only compile episode lists for the four main mermaids.

-there’s no perfect methodology for this type of analysis. some episodes that i included in one character’s category also included a substantial plot point for another character. i just tried to use my best judgement; typically, if an episode mainly revolved around [insert character], significantly contributed to a character’s arc, and/or if that character had the most screen time in that episode, i labeled it as [insert character]-centric.

under the cut, you’ll find each character’s episodes!

list of cleo-centric episodes:

season 1

1x02 pool party

1x03 catch of the day

1x08 the denman affair

1x12 the siren effect

1x14 surprise!

1x16 lovesick

1x19 hurricane angela

season 2

2x05 hocus pocus

2x06 pressure cooker

2x07 hot water

2x10 missed the boat

2x16 double trouble

2x19 the gracie code, part one

2x25 sea change

season 3

3x03 keep your enemies close

3x07 happy families

3x09 the sorcerer’s apprentice

3x13 to have and to hold back

3x17 a magnetic attraction

3x24 too close for comfort

total: 19 episodes

divided by the number of episodes in the series*: 19/78 or ≈24%

list of rikki-centric episodes:

season 1

1x06 young love

1x09 dangerous waters

1x10 the camera never lies

1x18 bad moon rising

1x22 fish out of water

1x23 in too deep

season 2

2x03 the one that got away

2x08 wrong side of the tracks

2x11 in over our heads

2x24 three’s company

season 3

3x05 big ideas

3x12 crime & punishment

3x16 the dark side

3x18 into the light

3x21 the jewel thief

total: 15 episodes

divided by the number of episodes in the show: 15/78 or ≈19%

list of emma-centric episodes:

season 1

1x04 party girls

1x07 moon spell

1x11 sink or swim

1x15 the big chill

1x21 red herring

season 2

2x04 fire and ice

2x12 fish fever

2x14 get off my tail

2x17 moonstruck

total: 9 episodes

divided by the number of episodes in which emma appeared: 9/51 or ≈18%

divided by the number of episodes in the series: 9/78 or ≈12%

list of bella-centric episodes:

season 3

3x02 jungle hunt

3x06 secrets & lies

3x08 kidnapped

3x10 revealed

3x11 just a girl at heart

3x20 queen for a day

3x23 beach party

total: 7 episodes**

divided by the number of episodes in which bella appeared: 7/26 episodes or ≈27%

divided by the number of episodes in the series: 7/78 or ≈9%

overall, 50 episodes (or ≈64% of all h2o episodes) focus more on a specific character’s arc, leaving 28 episodes (or ≈36%) that focus more on the group as a whole.

what does this analysis tell us? well, unsurprisingly, far fewer episodes center emma or bella. but 18 episodes center cleo—does this mean that she's the main main character of the series? i'd argue that the writers framed her character this way. still, rikki, emma, and even bella are hardly minor characters. after all, h2o is about the Power of Friendship in this trio of girls who have been brought together by the mermaid secret—and each girl is supposed to play a roughly equal role in all of this.

footnotes:

*cleo and rikki were the only mermaids to appear in all 78 episodes of h2o. therefore, i didn’t break their screen time down any further like i did with emma and bella, who appeared in 51 and 26 episodes, respectively. (no, emma wasn’t in all 52 episodes of her two seasons—she didn’t appear in “the gracie code, part one”.)

**i feel like i should add that most of bella’s episodes are also will-centric. while she has more episodes dedicated to her in season 3 than cleo or rikki, this doesn’t necessarily translate to more character development or meaningful plot lines. i’ll let you form your own opinions on that, though.

[whitefluffyyeti]

Siren 3x09

[crayonboxhearts]

I'm late this week but...siren 3x09 no context moodboard

[cleo-serotonin]

h2o episodes to watch if...

...you want to laugh

1x07 moonspell

1x12 the siren effect

2x15 irresistible

3x09 the sorcerer’s apprentice

...you want to cry

2x02 control

2x25 sea change

3x13 to have and to hold back

3x26 graduation

...you want to remember

1x01 metamorphosis

2x18 the heat is on

3x26 graduation

[arrowsjusticeleague]

Ranking the Arrowverse Main Villains based on my stupidity (not all of them tho cause I cba)

22. Ben Lockwood | Agent Liberty - cute but racist. -infinity/10

21. Lex Luthor - ugly as fuck. No redeeming qualities. -1000000000000/10

19. Non - a little bitch. Astra totally pegged him. Without her he's just fucking useless. -200/10

18. Zoom - a sleaze. Just gross. Can't deal. -127/10

17. Vandal Savage - just kinda boring -70/10

16. Emiko Queen - beautiful, but a poor Backstory. Like, get some real justification for ur crimes. Or don't, just be a badass murderous gal with absolutely no reason. Did neither of these, didn't really work. 0/10

15. Ricardo Diaz - the DUFF of the Arrow villains. 0/10, only ranked higher than emiko cause he has some sick tats

14. Anti Monitor - wrinkly, old, rotten, shrinking for eternity, scumbag 0.001/10 killed my fave

13. Mom-el i can never remember her fucking name 0.002/10

12. Malcolm Merlyn | The Dark Archer - cool, but in like a granddad kinda way. One of those gay guys who's so repressed they become homophobic, but like, about murder instead. 0.272781/10

11. Savitar - stupid. Like really fucking stupid. Only became a villain cause his past self failed to save his fiance from being killed by himself. Wtf are u doing, dude? Get a hold of ur life. 4/10

10. Nemon the Demon - 5/10 hot but wouldn't fuck.

9. Racy ghoul - powerful, kinda doesn't have a motive, manages to ruin arrow s3 part 2 by killing ollie in 3x09, successful career . 5.99999/10

8. Devoe wtf is his name again - smart, not a speedster and faces barry , nothing without his wife. 6/10

7. Mollusc?? - managed to hold his own against Our Lord And Saviour Beebo for a little while. Successful villain. 9.5/10

6. Reign - could step on me whenever she wanted. 10/10

5. Red Alice/Beth Kane - id be gay for her. A murderous bitch, but cool. 99/10

4. Damien Darhk - an asshole, but manages to look good doing it. Killed my fave, so minus points for that, but a total daddy even so. Actually kinda redeemable, so uh idk... 99.00001/10

3.5. Black Siren weeeeoooweeeoooo - not always a villain so only 3.5 but she's gorgeous and amazing and honestly u go honey go achieve ur dreams. Amazing, 100/10.

3. Slade Wilson | Deathstroke -I just think he's neat. 2500/10

2. Eobard Thawne/"Harrison Wells" | The Reverse Flash - has good motives, complicated Backstory. Air of mystery, we don't know a lot about him but we do know he's having the time of his life. 9999/10

1. Adrian Chase | Prometheus - extra™, a whole ass mood, iconic, drama queen. Wins at life and death. 100000/10

(Also plz read tags lmao this aint a serious post)

[hope-for-olicity]

Fabulous Olicity Fanfic Friday - May 10th, 2019

Happy Friday! So this is my attempt to both thank awesome fanfic writers for their amazing work and offer my recommendations to anyone who is interested. Here are the fantastic fanfic stories I read this week! They are posted in the order I read them. This and all previous Fabulous Olicity Fanfic posts can be found on my blog.

With the Speed of an Arrow multi-chapter Complete by @academyofshipping - Oliver Queen’s elite and silver-spoon life has taken some blows in the past few years, but he is still the carefree billionaire everyone knows of and loves. When his role in the family business is in jeopardy and he is introduced to a motley of new people, his status quo is threatened. With a changed perspective, Oliver realizes his feeling for his best friend and anchor-in-life, Felicity Smoak, may be more than just platonic. OR A modern adaption of Jane Austen’s Emma with a gender swap* and no island. *Knowing that gender is not binary https://archiveofourown.org/works/16559846/chapters/38799857

Tick Tick Boom multi-chapter WIP by @nodecaff4me - This story is loosely based on S02, starting with the appearance of the Clock King. Only this time, Tockman is not just after the money, but also after Felicity. Someone hired him to go after her. How will she and her team handle this new threat? And the even bigger question; who is after her and why? https://archiveofourown.org/works/5365172/chapters/12390371

Time for a Story multi-chapter WIP by @smkkbert - This fic shows Olicity and their life as a (married) couple with family. Although Olicity (and their kids) are the protagonists, other characters of Arrow and Flash make appearances. YOU NEED THIS STORY IN YOUR LIFE. https://archiveofourown.org/works/3912157/chapters/8757172

Let it Out by @laxit21 - Let’s pretend that Arrow ended after Oliver was acquitted in 6x21. The Lizard and everyone connected to him all died or were erased from existence, including Black Siren. This is sad. You’ve been warned. After an unexpected tragedy, Oliver and Felicity say goodbye to someone important to both of them. https://laxit21.tumblr.com/post/184626020474/let-it-out

Conspiracy by @felicityollies - (prompt) Slade conspires with Thea of all people to get Oliver and Felicity to break their "let's take it one step at a time rule" by putting them in a situation for Oliver to propose to her again. https://archiveofourown.org/works/11915487

Blast from the Past by @felicityollies - Set in season two - Oliver’s ex comes to visit him, but has to stop by executive assistant Felicity first. https://archiveofourown.org/works/11921649

Unasked Questions by @laurabelle2930 - This one takes place during 3x20. It’s my take on what happened before we see Oliver staring out over the moon lit sands of Nanda Parbat. Warning: It’s smutty... https://archiveofourown.org/works/11927979

Want vs Need by @felicityollies - Felicity knows the difference between want versus need, but she can’t seem to let go of a beautiful jacket she saw in a department store window. She goes as far as to steal it right off the rack. A kind stranger, that happens to be the city’s mayor, steps in when she gets caught. (prompt) https://archiveofourown.org/works/11940456

Every Piece of You multi-chapter WIP by @bowsmoakandarrow - If anyone had told Felicity Smoak that she'd be a single mother right out of MIT, she would have laughed in your face. https://archiveofourown.org/works/11554779/chapters/25950957

I Do Believe In Magic by @smoakmonster - AU 5x09 flashback, in which present day Oliver Queen actually time-travels back for a short visit to see Felicity in 2012, before she became his partner, before he’s supposed to be in love with her. https://archiveofourown.org/works/2588447/chapters/20369764

Is it Too Much to Ask? (It Probably is) by @laureningall - Written for the Olicity Hiatus Fic-A-Thon prompt "Ask" Felicity knows that Oliver would do just about anything she asked of him. But what about something that was pretty silly. It was silly really, what was bothering her. Felicity works to track down a long lost team mate for some help with her unusual request. https://archiveofourown.org/works/11921043

Something Old and Someone New by CaptainBrieOnToast - Felicity decides to make a pretty drastic lifestyle change her Senior Year of high school, at first no one notices, but then some does. https://archiveofourown.org/works/11944593

You're thinking too LOUD by sssssssim - Once upon a time, metaphoricalanchor posted this thing: AU prompt: Person A is thinking sexually graphic or generally odd thoughts and suddenly panics and thinks ���If you’re a mind reader, cough right now.” Person B coughs. Then, wittyfelicity had a party in the tags: #IMAGINE THIS ABOUT OLIVER AND FELICITY#LIKE FELICITY IS HAVING A DAYDREAM AND THEN HER THOUGHTS START TO GET REALLY GRAPHIC AND OLIVER PRACTICALLY CHOKES WHEN SHE SUDDENLY THINKS#THAT#CAN YOU IMAGINE THIS THOUGH#SOMEONE NEEDS TO WRITE IT ... I took it upon myself to write the thing. Smut. THING. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1414105/chapters/5204288

The Only Way to Know is to Ask by @cruzrogue - Felicity and Oliver have been living in their new home for roughly a month and after Oliver's run he meets one person that Felicity has conversed with during his outing. But they aren't the new neighbors... https://archiveofourown.org/works/11951745

Olicity One-Shot: The Rage Phase by @entersomethingcleverhere - Newsroom AU — Felicity might have been the face of Atlantic Cable News’ financial analysis, but when an ex-boyfriend takes revenge on her for breaking up with him, he tries to ruin it all for her. Oliver’s the only one she can turn to to help her get off the floor and fight back. https://entersomethingcleverhere.tumblr.com/post/164841890517/olicity-one-shot-the-rage-phase

The Fan multi-chapter WIP by @leuska - For the past couple of months, Felicity Smoak, previous child star known to the world through her alter ego Lisy the Tech Whiz, who ended her career and her growing popularity at the age of thirteen rather abruptly, has sporadically received disturbing notes and gifts in her mail. Police believe the notes to be just little tokens of appreciation by a former fan. Despite having left the spotlight over a decade ago and living in anonymity since, the fan mail keeps coming, increasing in frequency as well as intensity. Thelast drop is when Felicity receives another letter with a love note. A scary, ominous note. A note written in human blood.FBI director Amanda Waller tasks her best Agent to the case. Oliver Queen, a criminal profiler, is currently working on a special task force formed between SCPD and FBI to catch a man dubbed the Start City Slasher, who has murdered at least three young women in the past nine months. Agent Queen is not thrilled with the prospect of holding a former princess’ hand through her problem with a simple stalker while a serial killer is still at large. However, once meeting her, Oliver finds there is nothing easy or simple about Felicity Smoak as their worlds start to intertwine. https://archiveofourown.org/works/17726573/chapters/41820368

Did You Pack Enough? by @christinabeggs - Felicity preparing for trip with the two most important men in her life. https://archiveofourown.org/works/11955036

Ghost by @felicityollies - Olicity + "I'm sorry I didn't say it sooner. I love you Felicity. " post 3x09 angst https://archiveofourown.org/works/6610375/chapters/27070692

Mission Impossible by @felicityollies - Felicity gets kidnapped during an undercover OTA mission https://archiveofourown.org/works/6610375/chapters/27072189

Choose Me by @felicityollies - prompt: choose - Felicity begs Oliver not to continue his daredevil lifestyle. She wishes he would give up his street racing and choose her, but he’s adamant that his racing is for her. https://archiveofourown.org/works/11034534/chapters/27176745

Choose by @wetsuiton - dialogue fic, prompt choose https://archiveofourown.org/works/11084547/chapters/27178335#main

Our Once Barren World Now Brims with Life by @overwatchandarrow - Felicity is worried Willaim won't like her. Oliver wholeheartedly disagrees. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12018810

Five Times Felicity Finds the Ring multi-chapter Complete by @anthfan - Five part series. Each chapter shows a different way Felicity finds out about the ring in the bowl. Chapters are standalone. https://archiveofourown.org/works/5184392/chapters/11944589

The Voyage to You multi-chapter WIP by @obibalwin - Felicity Smoak didn’t want a complicated life. She enjoyed helping people as a nurse at Starling City General Hospital and spending time with her best friend Sara. When a John Doe arrives on the fifth floor of thehospital, she finds herself being dragged into a world of mysterious oaths and visions. The only thing she can hope is to stay strong enough to resist the man who has traveled to find her. https://archiveofourown.org/works/16596788/chapters/38895977

I Can't Let Her Die multi-chapter WIP by @originalhybridloverfics - Future Oliver seeks present day Oliver help to save Felicity. Chapter 1 https://originalhybridloverfics.tumblr.com/post/183625037894/i-cant-let-her-die Chapter 2 https://originalhybridloverfics.tumblr.com/post/184191980224/i-cant-let-her-die-ch2 Chapter 3 https://originalhybridloverfics.tumblr.com/post/184665869079/i-cant-let-her-die-ch3

Forget Me Not multi-chapter WIP by @mindramblingsfics - Felicity was presumed dead after The Gambit was shipwrecked and she went missing. As the one year anniversary of her death approaches, a miracle happens and she is found. Just when Oliver thinks the universe has given them a second chance, he learns Felicity barely remembers him and the memories of their love together are gone entirely. Oliver and Felicity’s journey after they reunite prove to be a tough road ahead, and then they learn that Felicity’s accident may have had a more sinister motive behind it. https://archiveofourown.org/works/18392291/chapters/43556987

Providence multi-chapter WIP by @so-caffeinated - Will Queen has struggled in silence in the year since he was shot. But when a shadowy crime lord known as Domino targets the only woman Will’s ever truly loved, fate forces him to confront his demons in ways he never could have imagined… Whether he wants to or not. Amelia Prescott has fought to take control of her life since learning two years ago that her personal and professional worlds were manipulated by others. But nothing can prepare her for just how hard she'll have to fight to set her own course, especially when her heart belongs to a damaged man and a crime lord threatens her every professional move... And her life. Destiny brings them together, but as chaos reigns and personal demons haunt Will and Amelia both, it may also threaten to tear them apart. https://archiveofourown.org/works/17919056/chapters/42308753

Hard To Find Love multi-chapter WIP by Mellowyellowdiamonds - Through a tragic twist of fate Felicity finds herself left with an orphaned young William Clayton. Keeping her promise to her friend, Felicity raises William diligently, loving him as if he were her own child, only to have Moira Queen storm into their lives several years later demanding custody of her grandson. Locked in a war with Moira Queen, things get complicated when Felicity finds herself developing unwanted feelings for William's biological father, Oliver Queen. At the same time she must try to manage her meddling 13 year old son, who has it in his head that if Felicity would just cooperate and fall for his father, everything would be right in the world. https://archiveofourown.org/works/15941786/chapters/37173917

Ivy Town to Star City by @geneshaven - Oliver's thoughts as he and Felicity take the limo from Ivy Town to Star City https://geneshaven.tumblr.com/post/184709636599/ivy-town-to-star-city

Pieces of Always multi-chapter WIP by @so-caffeinated and @dust2dust34 - Life continues after Forever is Composed of Nows. Ongoing non-linear collection of family moments for the Queens. http://archiveofourown.org/works/8220479/chapters/18840356

Our Version of Events multi-chapter WIP by @machawicket and @geneeste - Action star Ollie Queen is trying to clean up his image and land parts that require him to do more than appear shirtless while fighting stuntmen. Pop star Felicity Smoak wants to be seen as an adult in time for the release of her new, grittier album. And talent manager John Diggle’s got an idea about what coverage of Oliver and Felicity’s brand new (and totally fake) romance could do for them both. http://archiveofourown.org/works/8025382/chapters/18375349

Thank God You're Alive by @alexiablackbriar13 - that olicity reunion scene in 7x21, slightly re-vamped with more hugs and kisses and concern because c'mon arrow... https://archiveofourown.org/works/18749404

P.S. Hong Kong: Was it Real?!? multi-chapter WIP by @cruzrogue for Olicity trope-tastic award: Fake Marriage - This is off season 3 Flashbacks. When Tommy goes to Hong Kong he doesn’t go alone he takes his friend Felicity as the best information system being to help him locate Oliver Queen. Tommy may leave empty handed but Felicity gets to be a bride… https://archiveofourown.org/works/15025697/chapters/34832747

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[allimariexf]

Arrow 7x16 FULL ON FREAK OUT:

So I think people either loved or hated 7x16, depending on whether or not we are into the Flash Forwards or not. I LOVED IT. And honestly I DON'T KNOW HOW I AM SUPPOSED TO CONTINUE TO LIVE AFTER THAT OPENING.

I don’t have coherent thoughts yet, so here’s just a list of things that murdered me I loved:

WHEN WE SEE IN THE REFLECTION THAT HE LAYS HIS HEAD AGAINST HERS.

"I love you so much." / "I love you so much. I'll love you even more after this baby's out of me." AND HIS SMILE AT FELICITY BEING FELICITY.

AND THE WAY HE KISSES HER HEAD, FOR SOOO LONG! (3x09 parallels my heart!)

AND THE HANDS! THE HANDS! I KNEW ABOUT THE HANDS YET I WAS STILL NOT PREPARED!!

AND THEN THEIR FACES WHEN THEY SEE MIA OH GOD!!!!!!!!!

lots more freakout under the cut!

Meanwhile, NYSSA YAAYYYY (and Katrina Law with prego belly lol)

and yes, obviously this poses a bunch of questions about what happened to Thea and Roy, but I believe (since Roy is clearly a part of the story they’re telling here) that that will be addressed

AND JUST can we please appreciate this that NO MATTER WHAT Felicity had Nyssa by her side all these years!? Like, maybe not living next door, but Nyssa definitely was a regular presence and just WOW. How awesome for both of them. 💗😭💗😭

And CAN WE PLEASE HAVE FELICITY WITH THAT QUASI-2x08 HAIRSTYLE IN THE PRESENT PLEASE!?!? I LOVE IT! I want to see more of it in season 7!!!

I think a lot of people aren’t liking Mia’s attitude? I want to be clear that I LOVE HER!. I do agree that Mia's tantrum at Felicity was a little fast...and super overblown, but whatever. There’s more to the story than we’re seeing. She’s clearly felt isolated her whole life and probably felt a little betrayed by her mom’s secret. We’ll probably find out more about their relationship, but even if we don’t, whatever. It’s a means to an end and I choose to just go with it.

(oh and btw confirmation that Felicity isn’t dead. Big duh. Better confirmation: SHE IS WEARING HER WEDDING RING. 🙌🙌🙌)

The fact that Felicity financed William’s startup is both

not surprising, like we were expecting something like that all along, but also

MURDERING ME WITH FEELS because like he thought she abandoned him 😭 and that he was alone 😭 and that she didn’t care 😭 and like 😭😭😭😭

AND THEN MIA SAYS "Guess she might have been watching over you, after all” and honestly WTF HOW DARE!?!?!?!?!

AND THE FACT THAT WILLIAM HUGS HER AND FORGIVES HER AND CHOOSES TO FIGHT WITH HER IS JUST 😭 And they are really going with this redemption theme in all directions and UGHHHHH it’s not FAIR

OKAY SO I’m going to put a pin in this: "For once in your life, mom, put your family first." because

I DO NOT LIKE THAT. 

"Being a hero means choosing other people's safety above your own." I DO NOT LIKE THAT AT ALL.

I DO NOT LIKE WHAT IT SUGGESTS

and I DO NOT LIKE THE LACK OF GROWTH BECAUSE

MOST DEFINITELY THAT IS NOT WHAT BEING A HERO MEANS

I OBJECT

and I think there’s more to it that than, and I know we’ll see it soon, and in short

WAIT AND HOPE 😒

HOWEVER: "Being a hero is my purpose" is FUCKING EVERYTHING THANK YOU, EVERYONE ELSE SIT DOWN

Felicity Smoak is a hero without a mask

a badass since always

a beacon of hope

the heart and soul of Arrow

and this has always been true. Having her say it is just 🙌

Mia saying "What the frack!" YASS! and “I need some air.” just 💗💗💗

Felicity introducing Mia to the riff raff was 100% badass: "This is Mia. These are mine and Oliver's impeccable genetics." just the perfect blend of sass, wit, pride (in her daughter), and (I think) pride in her and Oliver 😍 Could not have been more perfect.

FELICITY IN THE FIELD WITH THE TEAM, WITH HER CHILDREN!? Just go ahead and murder me some more, okay??? 😭 And Felicity in the green mask. And all three of them being so fucking badass. And such a good team. 

“Overwatch. No one’s called me Overwatch in a very long time.” 😩😭😩😭

also William handing Felicity down the stairs is such an Oliver move and OH GOD MY EMOTIONS!

WHAT A FAMILY! The Queen (Smoak-Clayton) Clan IN THE FIELD 😱😱😱 CAN YOU IMAGINE WHEN (yes, when) WE FINALLY GET OLIVER TO COMPLETE THE LINE-UP!?!? I WILL DIE.

And finally, I just need a very big moment of appreciation for when Felicity says: "There's always another way."

BECAUSE I CANNOT HELP IT I AM A SUCKER FOR RECURRING THEMES AND THAT ONE IS MY FAVORITE

Felicity as the one who showed Oliver that there’s another way, and then her way became his way, and that hope, that optimism, IT IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THEM 😩😩😩

HERE IS THE LINK (go to it and “like” it because @clarissa-adelefairchild makes the absolute best Olicity clips and we should show our appreciation) and at 1:48 she says “There is another way” and then at 2:18 she says THE THING 😭💗😭💗

also bonus, William and Felicity being awesome partners!! 😭 and Mia’’s line: “Oh good, now there are two of you” 😂

And then the final scene with Mia and Felicity.....................YALL. I CANNOT SPEAK OF IT. Just 😭😭😭😭😭😭

So anyway, to wrap up, my very loose, not-thoroughly-vetted spec for the rest of the flash forwards this season (contains spec and spoilers):

I do not believe Oliver is dead, at all. The way they speak of him in 7x16 (in the present tense, without any “reverence” that you would reserve for a fallen hero, etc.) only make me more certain of this.

furthermore, I don’t think there’s much of a mystery as far as Oliver is concerned in the future. I think it’s only a mystery to the audience. Again, no one seems particularly concerned about him in the future.

this leads me to believe that he’s alive, but that people have made “mental peace” with his status. I think this means he’s thought to be either a) EVIL or b) CRAZY and that he might be believed to be locked up or in some other way neutralized.

but I also believe that that’s UNTRUE and only what Oliver and Felicity want people to believe; I think they’re working on something together, whether taking down Galaxy One or something even bigger.

BTW I still think most of this episode tracks with this spec.

my main question being that, if Galaxy One and the Ninth Circle are basically the same, then it wouldn’t make sense for Felicity to have said that “this is not about Oliver.” So...questions remain. We’ll definitely find out sooner rather than later.

So coming up with have the Canaries episode, where we’ll possibly wrap up Black Siren’s storyline...which would explain her absence in the future.

and everyone wants to know WHERE IS JOHN DIGGLE: well, I predict John’s upcoming episode (Spartan - is it 7x19? I think?) is when we’ll finally see him in the future, I think. Bit clearly he has something to do with the anti-Argus group, and clearly that will stem directly from the 7x19 storyline that will deal with John/Lyla/Argus/Ben Turner/baby Connor/John’s dad?? 

and everyone also wants to know WHERE IS THEA: and I think we’ll definitely get answers to that as well, when we dig further in to Roy’s storyline.

I AM SO EXCITED FOR WHERE THIS IS GOING, YALL. I still have my fears. I still have many lingering questions. BUT I HAVE FAITH IN THE PLAN! 

YEEEEEEEEEEESH THIS WAS LONG. gonna tag a few who might care?

@ixxmcmxciv @lucyyh @msbeccieboo @faegal04 @dmichellewrites @tangled23works @babblingblondegenius @jules85 @it-was-a-red-heeler @blondeeoneexox 

[austencello]

The Demon - Arrow Music Notes 7x05

Oliver finally gets his wish to meet the Demon only to discover it is his former mentor then adversary, Talia al Ghul.  He also notices the deadly results of Dr. Parker’s therapy and resolves to stop it.

Oliver and Talia in Level 2

Oliver rests after the psychological torture from last week as a guard arrives to tell him he is being moved to Phase 2.  As he is given this information and a shock bracelet, a new electronic theme begins going up.  The timbre quality is almost of rain drops or dripping water but going the opposite direction.  Because of that, it gives an unnerving quality to this next unknown phase.  It is over a low repeating electric bass note, used quite frequently in the prison music.  The other repeating pattern during this section is a four-note motif as the guard mentions that the bracelet is for his safety and the other prisoners.  It is a device to control the monster.  Like the Phase 2 music from last week, it repeats each note several times.  This pattern goes to a higher range over percussive beats and electronics as he is guided towards his cell and then plays with a distorted quality as he learns there will be no visitation rights in Level 2.  

The upside-down rain motif returns as Oliver tries to talk to Diaz’s man to learn the Demon’s identity.  After he pushes Oliver and then shocked by the guards, the Phase 2 music begins to play even more distorted than the previous time as they decide to cart him away and Oliver watches wondering what he got himself into.

Oliver awakens in his cell to end up fighting the Demon: Talia al Ghul.  As he fights, “Talia breaks up fight” (5x16) plays with the wooden percussion often used with the League of Assassins and Nanda Parbat, ney flute, harp and then finally Talia’s theme as she is revealed (first heard in 5x10).  The harp part and Talia’s theme returns as Oliver pieces together that Talia was behind all the attacks and Brick’s plans to get him down to Level 2.  The ney flute (a Persian flute) then plays as she reminds him that she taught him to separate the man from the monster and that by exposing his identities, he became the monster.  She then asked for his help to escape over the harp theme and the flute plays again as he angrily rejects to help after what she did to his family.

Oliver witnesses Diaz’s man being carted out dead and talks to Talia, trying to figure out what is going on. The instrument of her theme (electronic timbre resembling the duduk) and the cimbalom (an Eastern European hammered dulcimer used for Russian scenes, reminding of where they first met “Improper to Ask” 5x11) plays as she points out that he really has no idea what Dr. Parker is doing in “helping.” They both refer to the past over these instruments: she reminds him that he spent 6 years putting away criminals and asks why he should suddenly care about them, and he reminds her that it was her idea in pushing him towards helping and fighting for justice.  

Oliver decides to investigate by meeting with Dr. Parker again, pretending to have a relapse of violent thoughts. He mentions that the guy he wanted to kill was already dead as brass plays three chords from the pilot/last episode, hints of the hero coming out. The Level 2/psychological electric guitar theme returns as Dr. Parker notices the old Oliver coming out, the one stuck in a cycle of violence and heroism with no regard for his family, repeating his indoctrination in the same way that the theme repeats. 

The cimbalom returns as Oliver talks to Talia, agreeing to help her if she helps him expose Dr. Parker, an auditory reminder of when they used to be allies.  Another instrument used for Talia/Nanda Parbat are antique bells like the gamelan (from Indonesia) and used quite a bit in Season 3.  Oliver recognizes that the criminals are being treated as disposable instead of people and that no-one deserves that.  Talia is upset that that this compassion was lacking when he killed her father.  The bells (Talia) play over a low string melody (Oliver) as he apologizes for killing her father without thinking of his family, being concerned for his city.  He knows that the only way this partnership will work is if they trust each other again, putting their feud behind them. Both the bells and the strings have melodies that are separate and take turns both in contrast, dissonance, and working together echoing their conversation and relationship.

Oliver and Talia “fight” as the string pattern briefly plays the Arrow theme before changing as they begin to fight.  Violins and Basses have a very punctuated theme resembling in the fight between Oliver and Samson in 7x03 though the melody itself is different.  

Oliver wakes up tied up in the room as the low dissonant bass prison note plays with strings.  The Level 2 guitar theme returns over a string and brass rising melody as Oliver replies that he will fight the cycle of secrets and violence his own way, not Dr. Parker’s, the hero fighting the Doctor, the guitar contrasting the rising melody. Arrow string patterns (without the actual theme) play as they head towards the door, ready to fight their way out alongside low brass notes. The same theme that played as Oliver entered the cells of Level 2 returns as they leave the cell area.  

The brief version of the Arrow string pattern returns as Talia says they must go after their epic fight and OIiver gives her the flash drive to give to Felicity, choosing to stay.  A new violin melody plays over that as he tells Talia that she was wrong about separating the man from the monster.  It just gave power to the darkness instead of containing it.  While the string patterns lend an urgency to the scene, the melody reflects the light and heroism that Oliver has been growing in.  He knows what it means to be whole now, one person instead of being split down the middle.  The distorted prison bass returns as he turns to face off the guards as Talia leaves.

The ney flute and wooden percussion make a final entrance as Talia attacks Dr. Parker, putting the shock bracelet on him.  Then Ra’s al Ghul’s theme “Meeting with Demon” (3x09) plays as she pulls out her sword to kill him: the Demon is back.

Meanwhile, Oliver is returned to Level 1 and one of the prison themes (often used for meetings with Brick) in the low bass plays as Stanley tells Oliver that Felicity came to visit.  He’s back where he started with no leads on Diaz and Felicity still determined to go after him, leaving him very concerned.

Felicity determined to save Oliver

At the beginning of the episode, Felicity shows Black Siren how to follow their tracker on Silencer as she prepares to visit Oliver.  When the dot almost disappears, Felicity goes into hacking mode.  Music resembling her hacking theme for HELIX in Season 5 returns.  The melody is not the same but the electronic instrument is the same and resembles that theme in tone as well with a few chromatic dissonances thrown in.  

As Felicity visits prison and is informed by the guards that she can’t see Oliver, low distorted glissandos go up and down, reflecting the bad trouble Oliver is in and Felicity’s disturbed state.  Strings play minor chords as she talks to Stanley until he mentions Oliver was set up and sent to Level 2 as the phase 2 motif begins to play.  As Felicity refuses to believe Oliver would do this, her Helix instrument (resembling an organ) overlaps with the phase 2 motif. Darker Felicity is stirred into motion for the man she loves.

As she looks up the prison records with Black Siren watching, her pseudo-organ sound returns over string patterns.  Felicity is determined to find out what is happening at Slabside to her husband and will not let anything stop her, mirroring her path in Season 5.

Felicity and Black Siren recruit Dinah to look through records on Dr. Parker to find out if anything shady was going on.  Felicity bursts out that she should have been able to prevent things from happening by visiting him more instead of being mad over his decision that led him to prison. As she shares this, strings play a familiar melody with slightly different harmonies: “Let Darkness In” (2x17). It first played when Laurel was lost after Tommy died and buried herself in alcohol and revenge admitting it to Helena who had also lost herself to darkness after that the loss of the man she loved. The theme returns as Black Siren also talks about darkness in 5x10 “More Darkness talk” and then again as Oliver tries to reconcile Felicity’s decision to choose Helix and a dark path in 5x19 “Drinking Alone.” Now, Felicity is struggling with her own dark choices and what Oliver may be going through in prison.  She feels guilty that she could have prevented it being so focused on catching Diaz. The music changes as piano (Oliver’s instrument) plays a new melody while Dinah reassures her that there was nothing she could have done.  Felicity is worried that not only may she lose her husband to prison but that her greatest fear of losing him permanently will come true.

They do eventually find a file on Parker’s former patients and the raindrop Phase 2 theme plays as Felicity reads about the bouts of amnesia created by the treatment. The other Phase 2/Level 2 motif plays as Felicity realizes that they are trying to erase Oliver (continuing to the scene where they cart Oliver and Talia away).

A nice lighter moment occurs at the end when Laurel sort-of invites Felicity to lunch. The strings have a lighter, major feel for a brief moment.

Extra Notes:

- Curtis got a beautiful piano and harp melody as he tells Diggle that he doesn’t want to be Mr Terrific anymore and then Diggle’s response in ARGUS.

- Curious to know if the music for the painting will return.

- Sorry for the lateness of this review! There were some unexpected things that needed my attention instead.  

@smoakmonster @herskirtsarentthatshort @ah-maa-zing @almondblossomme @scu11y22 @academyofshipping @green-arrows-of-karamel @jorahandal

[darkstorm1720]

I'm watching Siren 3x09 "A Voice in the Dark" #AlexRoe @ElinePowell #FolaEvans-Akingbola @IanVerdun @RenaOwen @Sibongile @ChadRook @culu @RonYuan @RealTammyGillis @HannahLevien

[televisionpromos]

Siren 3x09 "A Voice in the Dark" Promo - Tia unleashes a deadly attack on Bristol Cove. Ryn, Ben and Maddie race against time to find a cure for Xander’s mysterious illness, while anticipating Tia’s next move. Baby Hope returns to land to reconnect with Ryn.

[elizabethrobertajones]

So I saw that gifset of Kripke's commentary on that season 3 episode (I'm a newbie watcher but I started the new season and and slowly working my way through!) and I guess I'm a little confused? Kripke is basically saying "yeah Dean really wants that apple pie life" and when I've been going through and reading people's meta, I've seen a lot of people's opinion (especially season 6 metas) that kind of disagree and that Dean really doesn't want that suburban life. Any opinions? Thanks much :-)

Heya!

https://elizabethrobertajones.tumblr.com/post/162713109665/sensitivehandsomeactionman-eric-kripke-on

Oh! Yeah, I reblogged this with the sense of irony about what Kripke was saying in place that you get from being a long-time watcher or deeply embedded in the meta community :P (I should have a /irony tag I use for the benefit of people knowing I’m thinking deep dark shade at whatever I’m reblogging but you know not in a mean way just in a this goes way deeper than what it looks like to me but maybe I just don’t feel like commenting right now :P)

I can’t remember if I have a Dean x Lisa tag that’s actually well-kept except for cute gifsets but 3x02 and 3x10 probably have a fair amount of discussion about it if you want to dig deeper… But I have literally just watched Dean’s conversation with Rufus in 3x15 which reminds me that this was a season-long arc, and 3x10 was a weird little part of it… 3x02 sets up that Dean has a sort of wistfulness for what he COULD have had, and 3x10 and 3x12 (and all these are Gamble-related episodes) have stuff about Dean yearning - this bit and the conversation with Victor where he makes it blatantly obvious that even with Sam he has a sense that he might want more from life and he is not currently getting it - Victor’s comparison of ex-wives and empty apartments is paralleled to Dean’s feelings. And in 3x15 Rufus warns him that this is what he has to look forward to becoming if he survives. (In 12x14 we had a parallel where Ketch buys his way in the door the same way Dean buys his way in the door with Rufus & scotch, but it was subverted in so many ways, it just seemed like the BMoL had sketchy intel you might be able to buy Dean this way.)

Anyway, by the end of the season the message is quite clear that Dean sort of years for it but can’t have it and in many ways has chosen this life of saving people over it. Though he’s dying for Sam, and never un-wishes that or can even think of it, from about the midpoint of the season he wants to find a way to break the deal but I think a lot of that is driven by not wanting to be a demon rather than wanting to grow old, since becoming a demon will pretty quickly undo all the good work Dean did saving people, he’d have to assume. 3x09 gives him any motivation to fight rather than cheerfully stroll off to Hell because Sam’s alive and that’s all that matters, you know?

I think in the context of season 3 the Lisa stuff was pretty interesting because I think Dean can have a contradictory yearning but Lisa is a ghost of an idea, literally where she fizzles out of the dream in the same way ghosts disappear, and to feel wedded to the hunter lifestyle and in many ways he’s been rejecting it from the start… In 1x08 (Bugs) especially he’s making a point about beeing skeeved out by suburbia and the idea of living SUCH a normal life. In 2x20 we see him as a civilian and he enjoys it for a day or two to hang out with Mary and Sam and Jess, and I’ve written a LOT on the over-lap of Carmen in that episode and Lisa in 6x01 since they’re connected by djinn dreams and I feel like the message is his year with Lisa was emotionally/functionally practically the same to Dean as if he’d been strung up in a warehouse the whole time. (That’s something in my 6x01 tag or 2x20 depending which you feel like scrolling through :P Sorry, I’m kind of in advanced brain bleeh from sitting in a noisy room so you can get surface brain rambling to answer this but no research or links in this state >.>) 

Anyway in 2x20 he unequivocally rejects the civilian life because people died without him doing his job, even though he called Carmen “the One” and everything else seemed fixable or exciting to him, including his relationship with Sam. It was after discovering he’d “un-wished” all their work as hunters he angrily appealed to John about why it was his job, before stomping off to find and kill the djinn, and un-make his wish, assuming at this point it was a wish and not a dream. (I still call it a wish-verse sometimes because of how DEAN analysed it and I find it FASCINATING to look at that way when it comes to these decisions, while I’d just call it the djinn dream when looking at it from another angle). 

I suppose Lisa comes not long after but he goes to see her as part of a farewell tour revisiting the best hookup of his life, and ends up smacked with the potential he’s mission out on of raising a kid and all that - a long-term investment he can’t get involved in for one year (do you feel the knife turning :P) because that’s not fair on them and offers them no long-term stability. He CAN’T make a home when he has a 1 year demon deal weighing on him, so the episode is just there to psychologically torture him. I think he never dreamed of suburbia before Lisa in 3x02 but by 3x10 we can see he took some unexpected emotionally scarring just from being told he CAN’T have something. Because posing the question opens up “what if”s (this incidentally is my entire rationale when you boil it down for why the male siren proves Dean’s bi :P). Dean had a moment to seriously imagine a NICE life where he would be with Lisa and have Ben as a son and it’s impossible for he can even start to have it. And in 3x15 Rufus confirms that even if Dean survives (or comes back from Hell as it turns out), being a crotchety old hunter who only opens his door to people if they show up with nice Scotch is about as much as he can hope to look forward to.

I think that’s a bad message too but it gels more with Dean’s outlook and experiences and I think helps him shut away the feelings he could ever have had more or that he was being unfairly denied, in a combination of personal choices to hunt/seeing the benefits of doing it over a normal life, and pessimism about his lifespan or what they can reasonably expect from their lives. In 5x18 he tells Lisa that when he thinks of himself being happy it’s with her, because of the scarring I mentioned that 3x02 specifically denies him this endgame and leaves an impression of it in his psyche as the Thing Dean Can’t Have, but DOES turn into a nice thought to hold onto as a what if. And Sam tells him to go for it and he does, and by the end of season 6 it’s a “never mention this again or I’ll kill you” situation and Dean doesn’t think about endgame out loud for like 5 more years until season 10, and the question is slooowly reintroduced through hesitant confessions and car conversations and meeting a pair of married hunters at a bar one day, to finally get the idea that while Dean’s unequivocally written off suburbia, wife & kids, there’s other things he could get out of life to make him happy and feel less like Victor or Rufus, dark mirrors of his present and future, like the ghosts of endgame visiting a long-term-relationship Scrooge :P 

But yeah Kripke saying that Dean secretly has a romantic soft spot for the normal life and fluffy romance, personified in this case by Lisa, is really because he’s talking compare and contrast to Sam. He says Sam isn’t interested in Bela that way really, he’s just horny and they know no women really so… that happened. (I side-eye but whatever, different discussion :P) and that’s in contrast to Sam’s supposed sweet and nerdy surface layer, while Dean’s got the macho horndog outer layer so Kripke’s explaining in 1 go performing!Dean (and Sam) and that Sam n Dean are yin and yang to each other (which, again, in Baby, we have that great shot of them in red and blue contrasting colours, sleeping top & tail in the Impala from above that demonstrates this… Can’t tell if you’ve seen season 11 actually or joined in season 12 (oops apologies for those spoilers too, I tried to keep them super vague and if you’ve seen season 12 you sort of know where it led to >.>) but this is what it looked like:

from a meta POV it’s absolutely one of my favourite shots of Sam and Dean in the entire show. Anyway it’s visually demonstrating the same thing Kripke is saying in that commentary. Sam presents one way so they write Dean presenting in the absolute opposite way, and then choose to subvert both presented faces with an image each to absolutely destroy that image and show something deep underneath. From the way he was talking it sounded like they thought the Bela thing first so the Lisa thing might literally just have been a part of it because it was amusing to them to do that with Sam, and the rule is absolutely probably 1st thing in their character bible to always make Sam and Dean at odds with each other even if it’s in some innocent visual/character demonstration.

(This is why I hate Buckleming writing btw - they’ve been increasingly writing Sam and Dean as an utterly unified unit who think and breathe on the same wavelength and it drives me nuts because that is not their dynamic at all no matter how fan favourite “winsync” is (which is of course a totally different thing to do with them working well together meta-textually as actors and in the text as kids raised closely together, and who also have worked together for most of/their entire adult lives so of course they naturally move and talk together sometimes - I can be in sync with my twin and we have core personality overlap but we’re also utterly different people in extremely obvious ways e.g. quiet vs chatty - guess which :P)… In Buckleming’s hands it just means they can use Sam and Dean to alternately deliver exposition in lengthy talking scenes as if they’re one character, and that exposition to Mick in 12x17 when he “Hello boys” them in the Bunker was one of their worst incidents so far >.>)

Anyway, I don’t think that makes the Lisa thing insincere especially as it sounds like 3x10 more than 3x02 actually cemented her as Dean’s imaginary choice of perfect dream girl to fill the space Carmen the El Sol ad lady previously held, when it came to the writing. 3x02 stand alone is good to torment Dean as a “Hahahaha you will never have this” but 3x10 builds on it and shows them being intuitive to the character and things that make sense to write him… And I think from the very start they were aware of the contradiction and that Dean might sort of have a soft spot/dream of the normal apple pie life but that he was also at the same time profoundly aware of all the ways in which he hadn’t chosen it, it wasn’t his life, and there were abundant reasons he wasn’t having it and even in the same core places this dream resides, didn’t want it. If you go deep in my 3x02/2x20/6x01 Lisa x Dean metas (again, sorry, I’ll add tags to this post at least :P) you’ll probably find the post I made collecting my rewatch notes as I discovered this subtextual story through the season, realised where it all came from later, and by the end of the season realised that they knew and had talked themselves out of it being something Dean could have because the subtext took the same route as the actual Dean and Lisa arc in season 6, probably because Gamble helped craft the entire thing in season 3 and then brought Lisa back for season 6 and had a whole season to play the entire thing over again. So I feel like that suggests Dean talked himself out of it too with Rufus and Victor’s help, and fundamentally never changed track even with season 5 & 6′s Lisa stuff, because that closed the book on it so hard we have this parallel to Dean and Rufus in 12x14 and the idea he can have something more with a hunter maybe or ~someone in the life~ is now the subtext under that in the same way Kripke talked about him having this squishy interior to do with Lisa back in season 3.

[habibialkaysani]

do you ever feel like a song reminds you of either a specific memory or a person or a time in your life? for me, listening to surrender by natalie taylor reminds me of this westallen fanvid I watched set to that song, around the time 3x09 aired and black siren was slated to be on arrow. and I see fire by ed sheeran reminds me instantly of the time when I attended my first ever convention, because I had downloaded a gajillion versions of it on my phone and was listening to these while waiting in autograph queues. good times. :) 

[fathersonholygore]

Siren 3x09: "A Voice in the Dark"

Siren 3×09: “A Voice in the Dark”

Freeform’s Siren 3×09: “A Voice in the Dark” Directed by Steven A. Adelson Written by Zoë Green

* For a recap & review of 3×08, “‘Til Death Do Us Part” – click here * For a recap & review of the Season 3 finale, “The Toll of the Sea” – click here Xander’s rushed to the hospital after he fell over at the reception, following that…