#tis the season idk just something along those lines

[crowwithacomputer]

The X Files - S4 - EP5

This episode has been very much interesting for their relationship

«Early in the four years of working together an event occurred that suggested or somebody told you that we were friends together in other lifetimes... always, would it have changed some of the ways we looked at one another?» said Mulder

«Even if I knew for certain, I wouldn't change a day» responded Scully «Well... Maybe without that Flukeman thing. I could have lived without that just fine»

I don't know but when I watch the episodes I see how they care for each other, but I don't see that love shown in this scene. It's like we're just some coworker. Watching them at all times, kinda weird, but only when they're working.

We don't see them in other circumstances. We don't see them watching movies, playing board games, visiting family, hanging out together... In four years they've known each other and we just get 16'5h on average each season (I did a bit of probably incorrect math). That's not even a day.

Am I saying we should get to see them 24/7 like The Truman Show? No, but it makes me think how much of their relationship we don't see. Again, we just see their professional side. And Scully and Mulder argue too much in every episode about all the theories they have. A normal working relationship cannot handle that much imo. They must have a really, really good bond. Maybe they don't get exclusively weird cases, maybe they work on normal stuff and get along pretty well during those.

They don't argue that much but such different ideas and perceptions while working on these things, idk, I feel it can only be handled when you know and appreciate that person very much.

"would it have changed some of the ways we looked at one another?" is such a hard line. Like, we've been together since the creation of our souls, for centuries before and to come, forever we'll be tied to find each other in the next life, even from an extremely small period of time, to spending our lives together. And Scully, I ask you, even after all those lives, personalities, faces, everything, do you look at me in the eyes and see Fox Mulder? Do you still look at me and see my weird theories and my love for sunflower seeds? Do you see a friend? Do you see me as something different? Something less? Something more?

Mulder, I tell you, that even remembering your faces, your personalities, everything from before. Knowing that we were mere coworkers, to husband and wife, to mother and son. Even after all that, after all we've been through and what we will have to go through, I wouldn't change anything that happened that led me to you.

I don't want any spoilers about this, but I wish we could see more of their life, both just having fun, arguing, hugging, whatever. I just want to see them relaxed for once and not stressed out 😭

[thecameronchronicles]

Friends

TW: Smut. Language. Slight Angst.

*NO HATE TO ELAINE, JUST FILLING THE REQUEST*

SUMMARY: The true feelings he has for you come to a head after his recent breakup…

WORD COUNT: 2200

REQUESTED:

Anonymous asked:

Heyyy, what’s up? So I’ve had this idea for a while so I thought o would just ask you😅

So basically the reader is apart of the obx crew and plays jj’s love interest but she doesn’t really get along with the cast. They aren’t mean or anything but the constantly exclude her. Rudy is the only one who notices and you know says on interviews that she’s good at memorizing lines when no one mentions her or something, idk. The reader starts to have a crush on him but he’s with Elaine but he kinda likes her, too.

Anyway so I thought maybe you could do some smut based on that? It’s totally okay if you don’t want to😁

By the way I love you and you writing so much, really🥰😍😘

*HEY! I LOVE ANYTHING WITH RUDY!! HOPE YOU LIKE THIS! THANK YOU FOR THE LOVE AND SUPPORT! XO*

Friends

Despite the camaraderie among the majority of the cast you never quite fit in in contrast to their close unit. You blamed this on the fact you had only become a series regular into the third season, a romantic interest to JJ, and everyone was invested in their own cliques. And as you had begun to get your footing through it all, it didn't seem to phase you too much. Until you released how excluded you truly were. Birthday parties and premieres with only pictures on social media leaving you to understand you were left without an invitation. For this, the sting would fade as you'd return to work and they would offer kind enough smiles, but still keep a distance, all while you remained professional. But these small moments became largely noticeable as the events carried on. Group photos in which you were forced on the outskirts and interview questions redirected to anyone but you. And everyone seemed indifferent to you. 

Everyone but him. 

Rudy had been the only one through the brigade of talents that took the time to talk to you and make you feel welcome. Even if it was nothing more than a kind smile, he offered it with every ounce of sincerity he was capable of. He had been the one to give you a tour of the set, practice your lines, and always reassure you whenever you were less than confident. And he also made you relevant through those attempts made by his friends and cast mates. He spoke of how talented and funny you were and how you were a marvel in delivering your lines with perfection. But it would be a comfort ignited by a spark from a romance only possible on the screen as he was otherwise intertwined with Elaine. 

She was kind enough, never making you feel any certain way, aside from jealousy when Rudy hung over her on the set, but it was never enough to give anything but that kind smile. Even as she witnessed kissing scenes and moments of high tension between your characters. She remained confident in her relationship. 

You were nearly through finishing your new scenes for season four when you noticed the shift in him. The usual illumination behind those sparkling blue eyes was dull and distracted. The lines he would execute with perfection as the rebellious Maybank had become wound somewhere behind his tied tongue as he would apologize in repetition before finally delivering the scene as he once had. But only when you would offer him the support of patience and humor. And you would swear he had looked at you with amorous appreciation out of character for just a moment, but you wouldn't be able to tell before he would correct this and remain professional. 

“It’s still hard for me to see you with her.” Elaine confessed behind the door of Rudy’s trailer as you had ventured there after yet another successful afternoon of filming intimate scenes. You turned to leave, not wanting to infringe on a moment clearly meant to be private. And you would have been able to if not for the sound of your name spoken from her lips. 

“Even though we broke up, it’s still hard for me. You said you were going to talk to Jonas-”

“I can’t help who he has JJ paired with, but-”

“Don’t tell me I'm just being insecure. Everybody can see it, Rudy! Everyone can see how you look at her between takes and…I just want…” She let out a breath, “I just want to know if you’re fucking her-” The sudden opening of the trailer door sent your cheeks red as Rudy looked to you with a mix of relief and amusement before Elaine’s voice at his back pulled him to remember of the argument he left unfinished while finding a momentary peace with you. 

“We aren’t done-” Her words ceased once she saw you, a reserved rolling of her eyes alternating into a side glance as Rudy brought you back to set, filming yet another series of scenes while you could feel his ex’s gaze burn into you. 

“Are you okay?” You asked as he fumbled his lines, his hands slipping beyond what was appropriate on your hips, as he would apologize and retract, before ultimately being told to take a minute to collect himself. This would bring him into a section of the filming location excluded from everyone else. At least everyone but you as you followed him with worry. 

“Rudy?”

“I’m sorry-”

“Did you hear…everything?” The crimson coloring in your cheeks acted as enough of an answer as he slowly nodded. 

“Maybe we can talk to Jonas and see if we can stop-”

“NO-” It was now his turn to blush as he had done so with a quick rise to his feet. 

“I’m sorry, Rudy…I don’t want to be the cause of anything and-”

“I’m not.” He confessed as your face contorted into confusion, “I’m not sorry. It’s what’s been kicking me in the ass since it happened…I know I should be pissed and I should be fighting for her…but she’s…not wrong…” His eyes slowly flickered to you after having found a home at his feet. 

“You-”

“Shit, I…We should get back, I’m just-” He moved past you as you caught his arm. After a  momentary hesitation, your gazes met and it was as if every ounce of air had been sucked from the room. A feeling apparently synonymous to him as he would option for your breath as a means of compensation. A soft kiss gradually increasing in speed and passion would send his hands to your cheeks just as his tongue ran across your bottom lip. A delicate moan from your throat would prompt his fingers lower across your hips and into a lead that settled you over his lap in a straddle as you took station at the couch at his back. 

“Rudy-” You pressed your hands to his chest as his fingers made their way beneath your shirt, fire left behind by his touch, but the guilt rushed through you to how he would feel once they left your body in final satisfaction. But he would surprise you with a hand gliding across your cheek and fingers set at a rest in your hair. 

“I keep telling myself that it was JJ and Samantha-” He spoke of your two characters. “But I lived through it…Touching you and kissing you…using it as an excuse but convincing myself it was just…method acting,” He scoffed for a second, “But she’s right. Everybody saw it…Every damn scene and I messed it up on purpose just to hold you one second longer or kiss you one last time…But if you don’t want-” You silenced him with a kiss, words you had only ever hoped you’d hear having now become a part of your memory as your hands collected his cheeks until your fingers ran through his hair. 

“Are you sure-” He moved to ask before his hand rose to the back of your neck, a sudden display of dominance making you breathless in companionship to the fervent kisses, “Because I’m only going to ask once…”

You answered by removing his shirt and then moving to yours to follow suit, until he took your wrists. 

“I’ve probably taken off your shirt at least a thousand times as JJ…” He traced the skin beneath your shirt, a light grip pulling you closer to him, “THIS time, it’s for me…” Quickly, you were left shirtless, the fabric discarded without care as you rocked into his hips. It was the smirk left behind when he would groan that sent him to lift you enough to return you to his naked thighs while your fingers toyed down his stomach, muscles you’d felt a thousand times in character, but now exclusively for yourself.

“Off.” He spoke with more of a soft order, dimples on display softening the cruel timbre, as you bit your bottom lip, climbing off of him enough to remove your pants before his fingers took you back to him with a hooked finger on each side of your panties. 

“Everything changes after this…I told you I'd only ask you once, but if you want me to stop-” Your hands came to his chest, pushing him back into the couch as he groaned beneath your passionate kiss. Both hands would come to the corner of your panties, a tear making you gasp. 

“You’d only ruin ‘em in a second anyway-” He made your lips part, “I love when you look at me like this…” He reached back down to his pants to reach for a condom as you would bend in a correction to apprehend it yourself, returning to him to note how he had been staring at your body, admiring it by this gaze alone, bottom lip between his teeth in visions worsened by your actions. 

“I’ve wanted this-” He interrupted your confession before nodding. 

“That’s all I needed to hear…” You were suddenly taken over him, his full shaft interrupting your dripping sex. 

“God, you feel-”

“Fuck-” His hand searched over your mouth. 

“I don’t want anyone to hear you…not yet…not until I’m sure I can have you all to myself before we get interrupted…” Your eyes rolled to the feeling of his thumb at your clit, making slow motions contradicting the thrusts quickening. 

“Take over baby…I want you to use me until-” You now teased him with a hand over his mouth. 

“I don’t need direction, Rudy…” Your hand fell loose down his jaw and back onto his chest, a slight claw made into his skin, before you smirked. 

“Oh shit, you don’t, do you? Fuck…” He grunted as your hands came back to his shoulders and then to the couch behind him until he purposely led them back to his skin. 

“I want to feel how desperate you are for me.” You pulled his hand back to your clit as it had left to take hold of your hip. But as he expected this to be a direction, you moved lower. 

“You feel SO good inside me Rudy…Oh my God…”

“You’re a dirty little thing, aren’t you?” This prompted you to prove it, drawing the fingers stained with a mix of your slick and his precum before you lifted it to your lips. Eyes locked to him, you proceeded to suck you both from the tips of your fingers as he would grunt. 

“Fuck-” He grunted, quickening his movements as you rivaled him with your own until you now controlled the flow. 

“Yes…YES-” He groaned into your shoulder, using your skin as a means to be quiet. And this was how you would remain as perspiration grew alongside desperations. Until Jonas’s voice echoed on the door outside of the room you’d made private for the two of you. You would be pulled onto your back, a hand over your mouth as he continued to drive himself deeper and faster into you. The eroticism of the moment worsened as you made note of the way his face contorted in pleasure and necessity. 

“All those fucking scenes…I’ve had your moan on repeat in my mind…But I want to hear it for real-” Your eyes flashed to the door that held the echo of distancing stepson its opposite side. 

“I gotta hear it, baby…Let me.”

“Ahh…mmmm…MMMM….RUDY!” His hand came to the back of your neck, your bodies impossibly close, peeling and rocking against each other as he nodded. 

“You’re so close, fuck-”

“I'm gonna come-”

“And I’m right there. Right. There…” He growled, his body bucking as you trembled beneath him, satisfaction and fantasy colliding in this perfect moment as you basked in how he felt in attempted recuperation over you. 

“Fuck…” He groaned, “Now I know…” He shrugged. 

“Know what?”

“It wasn’t just me…”

“No, Rudy…It wasn’t just you…” He smiled, reaching between your thighs. 

“Correct you are, baby…it’s both of us…” He brought his fingers back to your lips. 

“My turn…” And with that, he made the descent between your legs, your eyes coming to him as you’d feel only his breath on your sex and a smirk at your thigh. 

“Mine.” He spoke sweetly as you nodded, committing to him just as he had done to you. 

Finally…

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[star-crossed-mid]

Little ramble on water boy 2 and red string cutter and their powers

The Goddess of Fate's power was the ability to change the future/fate of anyone. In some of the other gods stories it kind of seems like her power was just giving people a choice. I like to believe that MC has that power still but its more toned down as in she just talks to people about what choices they can make like idk telling leon to not kill everyone and wipe the universe teehee.

We see her power work in every story intentional or not. Maybe it was the king using the help of her powers to decimate the underworld or the simple acts of kindness performed through MC. Anyway, it can go into theories of dominos falling or butterflies flapping their wings that Clotho's power was very strong and had lasting impacts on a persons future.

Hue's power is clairvoyance, granted he can't use it without touching the person but he could still see into the future. He keeps to himself when he does this, only preparing for the inevitable.

I love that Huedhaut was the one to help Clotho figure out how to use her powers and incidentally was one of the first people who had his fate 'changed'. Whether his fate was actually changed by her or it was just him trying to create a logical answer to him catching feelings is wild.

One of my fav excerpts of them is I think in one of Hue's stories he gets surprised accidentally reading Clotho's future. He saw that they were dating before he even knew they were. Ended with both of them getting awkward about it and just acknowledging 'hey we're dating', and along the lines of him saying 'i've never had my own future spoiled'.

TLDR their relationship

One of the reasons Hue fell in love with MC/Clotho was because Clotho always forced Hue out of his comfort zone (at a reasonable level) and was his total opposite. Something refreshing, sun and moon.

Clotho definitely woke up Hue in the middle of the night to ask if he would still love her if she was a worm (and him in a begrudging state of total confusion would say yes, he loves them in any form, he loves their soul etc etc).

It's also to note that her power literally interrupts his. He can't see/predict the future if it's always changing. It was unpredictable for him. Which ties into the philosophy he learnt when we see him in S1 that he doesn't know how to process the illogical and irrational. He also gets a bit mad at MC when she brings up the concept 'fate' once again being a theoretical concept not set in stone. Huedhaut tries to grab onto any reason when it came to an emotional experience and it left him with centuries full of grief as to why Clotho did the things she did.

In a sense, Huedhauts season 1 reads like a ghost story. Clotho is the ghost that haunts MC, Hue, and some of the other gods. There's a famous quote by David Foster Wallace that says:

"Every love story is a ghost story"

Clotho haunts the narrative, and surely haunts Hue. Those versions of the goddess of fate with the god of Aquarius doesn't exist anymore, yet they still have a very persistent figure in the story. Clotho gave up (not sacrificed) herself/powers because she wanted humanity to feel the love that Huedhaut gave her, her last thoughts were literally of her and Huedhaut hugging the morning prior as she found comfort in the absolute. Huedhaut was near her/watched as she faded from existence. Everything she did, Huedhaut took it personal as Clotho's decisions were purely emotional.

Whether it was inconsistent writing or intentional, Hue's reasonings/graspings at Clotho changes throughout the story from (TLDR SUMMED UP)

"Oh gods I desecrated myself for love" "Did she love me or was she unhappy and decided to do that" blaming himself for not stopping her/finding a solution/not being smart enough at the time

it changes in his route a few times but I think its a realistic depiction for someone who didn't get closure and is heavily focused on reason. tldr im rambling love overcomes as a theme and love is good. Voltage I am begging please give Hue a good update also redo his promise of infinity.

hue and clotho/mc have that doomed yuri type beat also something about them just spreads tragedy i love them i have like 3 scm aus and one of them is dedicated to them entirely.

[singswan-springswan]

Frozen II justifies Jelsa

okay I feel like I should explain.

First of all, the time period lines up nicely

I don’t think it’s ever explicitly stated what time the Frozen adventures take place, but given by the photograph joke at the end of the second movie, it’s set somewhere around the early 1800s.

Rise of the Guardians also never gives a date for when Jack died, but if it was 300 years before present day, that drops him roughly somewhere in the 1700s or in the colonial era. 

Putting these two together, it seems neat that they come into their spirit forms at relatively the same time, and conveniently Jack is first too.

you could play around with the idea of Jack not quite getting the hang of his duties yet by the time Elsa comes along, based on the inconsistency of seasons (especially winter) that is a motif throughout both Frozen films, even at the very end of the second one

Let’s talk about the wind!

Jack’s wind and Elsa’s wind have the same personality for all intents and purposes.

Both are fun-loving, well-meaning, playful, kind, and always willing to help.

Both are also incredibly fond of their goofy little snow spirits

okay short conversation because I think I’ve made my point 

Frozen II put a lot more emphasis on frost...? like boi was that just you trying to show off your artists or was that actually relevant?

The first movie really only stressed ice and snow as aspects of elsa’s power, but in the second movie, we start to see different things. we see less and less of the snow and ice; in fact, she only really busts those out when in stressful circumstances.

by contrast, she seems to default to frost more and more. everything she touches with her power is more or less laced with frost. she opens the mist around the forest with frost. her dress is covered in frost. she tames Nok and Bruni with frost.

also, in the very end of the second movie, when it’s supposedly winter in the forest, everything is frosted over. the trees, the rocks, the leaves, even the ice has frost on it.

either this is just Elsa discovering a new softer side of her power or. you know. we use this to justify the crackheads.

moving on!

The realm of the spirits is openly acknowledged and tangible to the audience, which is something vital to the story of Guardians

Though never directly mentioned in Guardians, there seems to be a vast number of magical forces throughout the world, relevant to important concepts in society (or nature) like holidays or virtues and stuff like that. The “spirits” featured in the movie mostly derive their power and essence from the belief that people put it them---regardless of whether or not people acknowledge their existence

there are spirits for lots of different little concepts floating around out there. We know at least that the Ground Hog is real because the Easter Bunny has beef with him or somethin. And I’m not sure how many others are “canon” but I think Mother Nature is around, along with plenty of nature spirits and other patrons of holidays. The main thing is that all of them are tied to human beliefs or practices.

In Frozen II, we’re presented with a very classic collection of nature spirits. Most everyone thinks of air, fire, water, and earth as being the fundamental elements of nature, so if we’re following the logic that the beliefs of people give them power then it would make sense that these four elements have powerful spirits to go with them. That Elsa happens to be their ring-leader is probably just a mildly forced convenient piece of writing, which provides her with a hotline to the balance of nature and the spirit realm both.

Things like the trolls would also make sense in the universe if they’re just a physical manifestation of nature’s magic and sentience

plus if there are magical beings just kinda drifting around the world then it seems perfectly reasonable for Jack and Elsa to meet one another---especially since she’s the bridge or however that’s supposed to work idk

Elsa isn’t exactly a winter spirit, per se, but she is a spirit by definition. She’s literally called the “fifth spirit” of nature or somethin. She’s still tangible and visible, because she was born human, but it’s very clear by the end of the second movie that’s she’s no longer quite... mortal... I wanna say. I’m going to headcanon that she’s immortal now. Otherwise she’ll have to be replaced when she dies and like that’s too much effort. I mean it’d make sense if she was “transformed” (to use Olaf’s word) into the fifth spirit. 

Both Jack and Elsa strike that very specific type of winter too. We can obviously tell that winter is her favorite season, and she thrives in the chilly north where it’s always cold at least partly. Her whole aesthetic is built on the promise of winter and i think that’s a cool idea. haha. On top of that, Jack never totally struck me as the heavy snowfall kind of dude; his version of winter always seemed like the brisk flurries you get at the very start of the season. They’re made for each other, your honor. it helps that Frozen II was set in late autumn. like if that’s not a blatant message of “winter is coming!” then what is amiright. They both exude a kind of winter in its youth: something on the precipice of permanence, delicate and lively and strong all at once. Their vibes might be different, but I feel like they share the same direction of the season, if you catch me.

Anyway listen my point is just that I want them to be friends at the very least. We’re all going to pretend the age gap doesn’t exist because they are both unalive for lack of a better term and Chris Pine voiced Jack despite having a very deep manly voice that definitely wasn’t suited for a literal child. I want Elsa to be able to see Jack even though no one else can because she’s the bridge between humanity and nature and I want them to bond over wintertime and I want them to get into snowball fights and to make patterns in the frost and to chase the wind around just for funsies. I want Jack to teach Elsa to fly, which they quickly find is something she does not excel at. I want her to show him his connection to the season and his responsibility to maintaining it because he may have a good heart but he’s got no respect for rules and deadlines. I want her to convince Ana that Jack is real, so that someone else can see him too (up until that point, Elsa was talking about him like he was just Some Guy she met so Ana was going to believe her but then Elsa dropped the whole “winter spirit” bombshell and Ana thought she finally cracked so it took some convincing in the end). I want them all to have game nights on fridays. I want Ana and Kristoff’s kids to grow up always having believed in Jack. I just want Jack to have a nice lil family okay :’) one that tolerates his pranks and mischief and I want Elsa to relax and have some carefree fun moments. I want her to laugh and have crazy, harmless adventures and do goofy things just for the sake of it.

I put way too much thought into this but I saw a KRIFFTON of parallels between these two characters when I watched Frozen II so like,,, y’all get to hear about how I feel you’re welcome

[lunar-years]

Jamie's mum is EXACTLY what I expected, I always thought they'd be super super close and he would be an extreme mummy's boy and this just went above and beyond. I have no idea why anyone ever thought she was dead, estranged, absent or anything like that, but I also never thought James came back as young as some others seem to think he did - Jamie never would have lived with him or anything, he would have just seen him now and then as a teenager until it got worse and worse. But this ties into his mum and Simon - Simon knew about the poster rotation and the some of the players be mentioned retired a WHILE ago. Which makes me think the mention of James trying to get back with Jamie's mum when Jamie was 14 wasn't in any way successful, like he showed up and she was already with someone else, but he was allowed to form a relationship with Jamie. Jamie never says they did get back together. So based on that and the poster details think Simon has been around ten to fifteen years, meaning that even though his bio dad had an awful impact in his later teens, Jamie was actually raised by two soft loving parents. Which makes sense for what a sweet happy baby he is when he isn't being triggered by his dad.

Gold star for anticipating the dynamiccc :)

Idk, my own thoughts are complicated (probably too complicated to discuss articulately as I'm still giddily writhing from a fantastic episode, but I'll give it a short go). I don't think I'm ever not going to think the way he talks about her in previous episodes was very wistful and implies a level of distance (that yes clearly is not the actual case, but I do think it feels a little disjointed, lol). That said, I've had a million thoughts on Jamie's mother and very rarely the same thought twice, so I've always felt any interpretation of her was/is valid.

I think I'll probably continue to think along those lines about many things, especially the way his mum and Simon and his dad all fit into the same picture. For instance, I personally still feel the line is played in the Amsterdam scene as "this was not the first nor the last time my dad tried to get back with my mum" and whether or not he was ever successful, well, who knows/can be head-cannoned different ways. Same goes for the level of his dad's involvement and when it all began (all we know with certainty is that it's been at least since Jamie was age 14). I mean, I think you're right that Jamie never lived with his dad permanently or anything, but I think it'd still be fair to say he might've spent weekends with him, etc. Regardless of the specifics, his influence was clearly palpable.

Meeting his mum was so great though. It wasn't something that was especially on my radar as a plot I really wanted for the season (I know some people have thought about her at extremely great length, whereas I've just never felt particularly invested in her one way or another) but it ended up being SO FUN!! Their scene was the cutest and best (the sexy baby callback was incredible). 100/10.

[bellaxgiornata]

Hi idk if u take fic requests but in case u do could u write a Matt Murdock x drummer reader fic? Like he goes to Joesies and theres a live performance and notices reader playing the drums rly well and meets her when the band is done playing and then they just hang out together myb end up making out idk it can take whatever turn i just need matt liking a drummer pls feed my addiction🙏 (also ti better paint the picture her band can be playing digital bath by deftones or sumn) i rly like ur fics btw i love them never stop writing i love you :3

Thank you so much for thinking of me!! And I'm glad you're enjoying all my fics so much, friend!! Unfortunately right now I do not take requests because I have far too many series' that I'm currently working on before I go on a little writing hiatus after I give birth in a few weeks, but honestly this sounds like a really awesome idea!! I love the idea of Matt meeting a musician at Josie's personally and at some point I may have to do something like that! I know I have had a fic idea for season 3 Matt meeting a musician for a long time now.

Though, I may or may not open requests or something along those lines during my "writing hiatus" over the summer to try to keep myself writing but just focusing on one shots while I'm sleep-deprived. I've been toying with that idea depending how I'm feeling and what time I have for anything!

[timothylawrence]

do you recommend russian doll? it's been on my watchlist for forever bc i'm in love w natasha lyonne but i still haven't watched it. should i

Hi Anya!! Hope you’re having a lovely evening 🤗🫶!! I apologize for this essay you’re about to get flung your way I love to talk 😭!

So to preface this, I have watched three (3) shows in the last five years. And one of those shows I was nearly tied down to watch because I am notorious for not watching television— like I will see something interesting and instead of watching I’ll just end up reading what happens (yes it pisses everyone off sorry).

SUFFICE TO SAY, I watched Russian Doll in literally two days. The whole thing. A huge incentive is the fact it’s IN TOTAL ~16 thirty minute episodes.

And I cried(albeit I’m an easy crier). I laughed. I sat there in agony and intrigue. It hurts in such a good way it makes you rethink your own outlook on life your relationships with others and your perception of humankind, so if that’s your kinda genre I HIGHLY recommend. Idk if you’ve seen fleabag but it’s along the same line. The show has a sci-fi twist that I think is executed wonderfully and leaves you on the edge of your seat— I went in with zero clue but it was amazing. Truly.

Natasha Lyonne knocks it out of the ballpark. Like the whole cast is amazing but she lives in her role and it doesn’t even feel like we’re watching actors and actresses but rather someone’s real life.

Personally, I’ve recommended it to two people (one being the lovely @katagawajr who actually watched it on my couch with me lol) and an IRL friend (who I also recc’d fleabag to) who said “I’m never taking another recommendation from you unless I want to cry”.

I’d give it a good ol 8.9/10 and I think it shines best in season 1 but season 2 is pretty damn good!!!!!

[thisismehappy]

I need, for when they finally have their *conversation* for it to be long single takes. Few edits. Id prefer a bottle episode. Stuck somewhere. No choice but to talk it out. In the words of Abed from Community "They're wall-to-wall facial expression and emotional nuance"

Basically I want a play.

Do i want the script to have an outline and have M and C improv the rest? Also probably.

Sorry! I think this got buried in my notifications! I don't get very many asks and I just saw this in my inbox which I never usually look at.

This was a lot so I figured out how to add a cut. See below. 

Generally, I'm not a *huge* fan of bottle episodes. Pragmatically speaking, bottle episodes serve a purpose in the TV industry as a low-budget episode because they only need to use one set for the whole episode and there are no location shots and relatively few actors and probably no extras. That puts a huge amount of pressure on the writing and the actors and it is, as you say, more of a play format which makes sense given everything I just mentioned. Most of the time they feel, to me, like the writers and production team are trying to *do* something in a way that as an audience member I don't actually want to be aware of. Like maybe they're swimming beyond their depth. It feels forced, is what I'm saying. Forced and itchy and uncomfortable and I find myself checking the time every 2 minutes waiting for it to end. So I almost never hope for a bottle episode.

BUT I have really liked Mariska's bottle episodes on SVU. I'm thinking specifically of Something Happened, Part 33, The Year We All Fell Down, and 911. None of which were perfect bottle episodes, as I recall, because they did have some movements to other sets and some location shooting and things like that. But any 43-minute show that has Mariska on my screen for 40 of those minutes is fine by me. And she tends to do really well with them. I get the feeling she enjoys the challenge and so she puts a lot of herself into them. She won a freaking Emmy for 911 after all. I also think if it was an EO episode, she would be so beyond focused on making it perfect bc this has been her dream really since day one imo. (There's a clip floating around if Chris giving an interview in season one and Mariska runs up and hugs him and says, "He's playing a detective that's in love with his partner," or something along those lines.) And I think Chris would be great at it too. So all that to say, I do think the actors are up to the challenge.

I worry about the writing a bit though. While I understand where you're coming from, I'm not sure I'd agree about them just ad-libbing it bc to me this is something that needs to be pretty carefully thought out with a clear understanding of the implications of the words and a pretty specific memory of the past events they're discussing and the actors are great, but they've been part of this for 24 years and aren't going to remember everything. Someone needs to go back and reference old episodes. If a bottle episode happens, I want that script to be *crackling* with subtext. I want to hear Elliot apologize for not being there and Olivia say, "I know you can't spend your life looking over your shoulder to make sure I'm okay." I want them sharing a drink. I want her to have to blink a light at him to show she's okay. I want him to ask if anyone's taking care of her. And I want him to cradle her in his arms like he did in fault and spooked. I don't expect all (or realistically any) of that too happen, but I think a carefully, beautifully written script would do this moment the most justice. Idk if the writers are up to that or not, but they've been showing us things this season that (mostly) give reason to hope.

The actual plot of a bottle episode is where I get tied up though. SVU is a police procedural above all else and every other bottle episode they've ever done has been related to solving the mystery of a case. An interrogation, a hostage situation, a mystery girl on a phone, and argument in a court house waiting room. These are what we've seen before and what we would expect to see from a show like SVU. An EO bottle episode is uncharted territory. Is there a case that's going to be taking up half the plot? I cannot imagine them really talking unless they were alone so that rules out most of what we've seen before. (Although, Olivia having to interrogate Elliot for a crime while half the department stands on the other side of the window does sound *delicious*.)

A court house argument could work, with the aspects of the case hitting *all* the wrong buttons for them, but it's been done before. Some kind of escape room type scenario could be really fun and interesting. Where they're trapped somewhere and need to solve a mystery to get out. That could be on point and very them, but unless it feels like life-and-death, idk if there would be enough of a driving force to get them where they need to be emotionally.

If I were going to write a fic about it, it would be a situation where they were maybe chasing a suspect or investigating a location and no one really knows exactly where they are and they get hurt and trapped somewhere. Personal preference, I would have her more hurt than him. I want it to be kinda enclosed so maybe it's triggering her claustrophobia (which she has if it's my fic). I want him to need to pull some of her clothes off to help with her injuries and find her scars from William Lewis. I want her to ask him to take Noah if she dies. I want him to be in serious pain from his own injuries but feral to save her. Maybe in the end, his recovery time is worse bc he does something stupid to get them out. I think the fear of death and of missing their chance to be together might be what it takes to make it finally happen. These two are very stubborn. If they were just trapped in a room together with no other problems idk if they'd get there. (Maybe, he's pretty motivated now, so that would help. But idk if he's going to push her too hard if she's really fighting him in it.)

Also, they're gonna kiss if it's my fic, and imo, their grievously-injured bodies are about the only thing I think would keep them from going all the way the first time they kiss. And I don't mind that either, but the idea of them finally being together, but having to wait 6-8 weeks to get medically cleared for sex sounds really fun. The first day in the hospital is very *serious* but the second day features them both trying to check out AMA and him hobbling his way into her room and making out with her in a hospital bed. They're going to get busted multiple times by different people. And yes, realistically they should be traumatized, but things worked out in the end and they've got the world's best security blankets. And I think even Liv's shrink would tell her to go for it.

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Executions part..3 I think idk. Now I just know I have made one for everyone.

Mizumi Akemi’s execution: Lost at Sea

Mizumis hands are tied to a pirate ships wheel. She is forced to steer throughout large groups of water. Monokuma soon appears dressed as a siren singing..poorly. Despite that; Mizumi is forced to follow it and the ship pounds against the rock Monokuma is on. The ship carries TNT and explodes with Mizumi still on it. Soon a Monokuma pirate in a scuba diver outfit goes under the water finding below her skeleton below with Monokuma raising her skull in celebration for finding the ‘treasure’.

Sumiko Honda’s execution: Those you can’t save.

Sumiko is on top of a large building. She turns around to see a line of patients she has helped in a line behind her. One by one the patients walk beginning to jump off the building, Sumiko tries to talk them out of it and stop them however is unable to. The final person on the building before jumping grabs her wrists, someone who looks like her former friends, drags her down with her. Sumiko falls dying from the great height.

Shigure Futaba: Red String of Fate.

Shigure’s hands are tied by simple red strings by his wrists. His body is forced to be hung up still by the wrists. He is shown what he loves most, he gets shown love in all forms. Love between a parent and child, love between siblings, love between friends, all of it. However it ends with showing him a mirror of his reflection to taunt him showing how he has never truly had or even understood true love despite his talent. A new red string ties around his neck and the ones on his wrists are cut leading him to be hung. Finally, Monokuma dressing as Cupid shoots a large arrow through his heart.

Rika Ikari’s execution: “Hey waiter!”

Rika is given plates of food along a long hallway and is told to give the food to the customer. As she skates over to the customer something is revealed behind her. Her entire group of siblings are there, Monokuma next to them holding a massive meat slicer. This causes Rika to stop and rush back to her sibling in terror as the customer yells at her. Despite that, she is too late as she watches her entire group of siblings get slashed and die. Rika falls to her knees in broken defeat ignoring the customers anger. It ends with her being quickly sliced as well in defeat no longer trying to get away at all.

Yamane’s execution: “Ick, so last season!”

Yamane is laid down on a large piece of fabric. Above her is a massive sewing machine and Monokuma designing a dress of some kind. He starts the sewing machine stitching her to the fabric below her starting with her arms and legs before ending with her stomach. It ends with Monokuma looking at his outfit in disgust and throwing it away, dooming it and Yamane herself to be forgotten.

Hayato’s execution: Follow the assignment

Hayato is surrounded by skilled fighters and is tasked with protecting someone in a Monokuma suit. He despite his fear of the execution does exactly that fighting off the best he can, but soon gets overwhelmed and is surprised to see the one in the Monokuma suit trying to stop the attackers as well despite Hayato telling it to stop. Soon a attack hits the suit and the mask comes off to reveal Giichi. Hayato runs to protect him losing focus and is soon killed by the fighters.

Akihito’s execution. ‘Words like Knives.”

Akihito sits down at his desk, A bunch of eyes surround him watching him work. He is forced to draw a next manga but each decision he makes gets the audience angry as they slash him with knives demanding him to make it the way they want. Determined to make everyone happy, Akihito keeps trying despite all the slashes even as he begins to grow dizzy from bloodloss. The manga is soon finished and it goes out to the audience, a group of Monokumas who angrily rip it up unsatisfied. It ends with them all stabbing him until he dies from bloodloss, the last thing he hears is hatred to him.

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i’m watching kiki’s delivery service which means i want a plot where a young witch flies to a new town on her own and befriends a new person while she figures out her skill.

[kiwi-tai]

Listen, I LOVE your tis the damn season fic 😍 pleaseeee would you write an exile based fic for like noahxmc or Marisolxmc or honestly even more garyxmc?? I will name my firstborn after you if you do (jk no kids for me,,, but maybe like a cat or hamster)

wait anon your on to something here!!! this is big brain stuff! Kiwi is a cute name for a cat or hamster 👀 

to work with the plot I made this pre love island I hope you don’t mind also took some liberties with the mc thing, like it can still be mc but i used you so second person point of view, but its good promise at least i think so i really hope you like it <3

exile 

pairing: Noah x MC

summary: Noah lost you, no let you go—ok more like he made you go. But that didn’t mean he felt any good about it, especially not when he sees you with someone new.

note: Noah is a dick, is it my projected thoughts on how his route goes? idk, Noah just gives me the type to second guess his relationships and fuck them up so here is this fic 🤗 there are some lines that oof i get chills i love them its short, but honestly too powerful i had to stop (yeah im hyping myself up on this one i feel like i really did something here) anon idk if you wanted cute stuff but if you did this is such an angsty song im sorry if so. Also I posted this on my Ao3 too.

Ao3 Link

The champagne was being passed around, but Noah was itching for something a little stronger. The incessant chatter that filled the room irked him, he was too used to the calm quiet that filled the library where he spent most days. Even when he was off, school was still in session so he couldn’t spend time with his siblings and he spent most of his free days alone in his apartment reading or watering his plants. By choice, some would remind him, but he tried not to think of that despite how hard this night is setting out to be. He tried not to think of you.

Twinkling lights hung over head, the best man was clinking a fork to the top of his glass of bubbly. He sat alone in a sea of family and friends that were not his at the wedding of one of his close friends that he had happened to meet with you. Who he reminds himself he has to stop thinking about, but it's easy when he can busy himself with filing or logging information at work and especially hard when your perfume lingers in the air because you’re sat two tables away. Two tables away, a distance of probably twelve feet, but in reality it felt more like there was an endless ocean of murky violent water in between the two of you.

Noah’s world was once blended with yours so perfect and seamlessly—or so he likes to think. It is always so much easier to remember the memories in the glittering haze of nostalgia where everything feels fuzzy and warm. But maybe it had been. Maybe things were perfect and how they should have stayed. With your clothes in half his closet, your toothbrush in his bathroom, your notes littering the fridge and edge of the front door. Those were all gone now, except the notes, he always kept those. He still hasn't managed to throw them out; the brightly colored post-its still sit in a box under his bed with the pictures in frames that used to sit on the mantel. His sister had begged him to put them away, you’ll feel much better, she told him. 

But the man had found his worst enemy these days to be his mind, cruel and treacherous twisting up all his thoughts and anything he’d come by to fill him with reminders and images of you. He didn’t need the photographs when he closed his eyes, there was your smile. There was an old woman on the bus wearing a sage jacket, your favorite color. The little kids kept wanting him to read The Little Prince, there was your voice along with his reading the tale and making little voices as you went. Everything was you. Worst of all it's his mind that got him to where he is now. It filled up that ocean, added the sharks and sharp waves, threw in a kraken just for the heck of it. 

Who was Noah if not his own worst enemy. 

He really did hate himself for letting you go, making you go, he should say, but he doesn’t because you're the one who packed your bags, who picked up your things and scraped his apartment and his life clean of you. Until this wedding that neither of you could escape. The clash of two worlds, that had once been one. He just didn’t expect this. That person by your side. Their arm around your chair and their hand rubbing your shoulder. He felt sick, he hated it. He hated the sight of you with someone else. It was like some twisted nightmare. 

No, it felt like a movie he had seen before. He was never one for movies, but you loved the cinema and would drag him to every film you wanted to see. At first Noah thought he would struggle to stomach them. He didn't have a problem with sitting still for the two hours and some stories weren’t bad, he just missed the literary prose that came with novels. The eloquent words that would flow from a page that he never felt the dialogue of a movie could replicate. But he quickly found the beauty of the reflected projector light on your face, the twinkle in your eye as you watched. The flow of emotion these films caused you. He relished the sight of every laugh, tear, and jump as he got to see the beauty of these stories in you. 

This scene, however, was not from one of the movies he enjoyed. He liked the adventure films, even the rare sci-fi. He enjoyed the light heartedness that came with romantic comedies. He loathed the dramas. The deep shocking stories that would weld tears in the eyes of the theater goers. The raw moments like these where silence, even if it was only the one he created around him, echoed and prickled his skin as if it were a thousand needles. 

The groomsman and bridesmaid end their speeches as the band starts to play a song for the wedding couple. He should be watching his friend and their partner share their first dance, but the person you are with whispers something in your ear and you laugh. It was a sound he had been craving to hear since you had been gone, but the sound cuts at his heart and as you whispered back to them it only poured salt to the bleeding wound. It makes him angry seeing you like that, it was as if your world hadn’t shattered the way his did with you gone. As if this moment was easy.  Did your heart not break like his? Had you not spent nights crying as you read over poems and scribbled notes on the margins of books? Did it not pain you to walk the aisles and see someone that looked like him? To turn everywhere and see him in the faces of strangers, hear his voice in the sound of music, feel him in the wrinkle of bed sheets?

He is swallowed up in the rising ocean tide overtaken by the current and too far gone to notice anything but you and them. His fist clenched, making his fingernails dig into his palms. Noah would give anything to go back to a few months before. His mind, the instigator, fills his head with memories now. Every time he made you laugh louder than you were now. Every pretty little moment: the lingering kisses, the grocery shopping, the stolen touches, the times you spent with his family, all the times he fell deeper in love with you. 

It made him see red, a fury he wasn’t used to feeling, of maybe he didn’t want to admit he felt too often, as jealousy bubbled in his blood. He needed a drink. Noah bee lines to the bar to order himself a rum and coke, making sure to tell the bartender to keep the soda to a minimum. He could get through this night; he just had to calm down. He hated anger. The way it clung to him like wet clothes after getting caught in the rain— or after diving into the ocean head first in your best suit at your friend's wedding. 

He’s too caught up in it all to notice you till you order a drink beside him. Now you're so close he can smell the hints of lavender. It almost does the job of bringing him down from his clouded jealousy, but the look on your face as you turn to him resolves him to spite instead. 

“What is your problem, Noah?”

“I beg your pardon”. He’s better than he expects at feigning nonchalantness, it’s his pride, he thinks, if he can just get you to feel as bad as he does, maybe he might feel a little better.

“Don’t— I would very much appreciate it if you would stop glaring at me and date.”

“I can't look around the room?”

“You were staring.”

“Must have just been lost in thought,” he shrugs and he hears you mumbling to yourself. It’s your tell, it's how he knows he's accomplished his mission, you’re just as angry as he is now.

You fake a smile and thank the bartender as they lay down your drink on the bar. After taking a sip you sigh, but he spots the crinkle in your nose, still angry, “Look, this room is big enough for one of us to be on one side, the other on the other and then no one has a problem.”

Simple enough, but could he do that? He thinks he might just so he doesn’t ruin this wedding for his friend, but this sick twisted part of him doesn’t care. He hasn’t seen you in so long and though he wishes it were on nicer terms, if a screaming match is all he can get from you he’ll take it and hate himself later. “It's that simple, huh?”

“Oh my god,” you shake your head.

Noah leans over motioning to his chest, voice rising to a plea, “I’m sitting here with my fucking heart ripped out of my chest and you’re—” galavanting off with your date he would have finished but you’re quick to stop him.

“Oh, i'm sorry, Noah is me trying to move on after you— you broke up with me offending you?” You quirk your head at him and scoff, “Your heart ripped out of your chest,” it's a bitter laugh that leaves your lips now, not like the joyful one he had heard moments before and he kicks himself because he's dug this hole. Six feet deep in the ground, but god does he not want to lie in it. 

“Don’t give me your high and mighty crap right now,” you continue, “How do you think I feel? For me to pour out every fucking inch of my heart to you and for you to doubt that?” Your voice cracks and the tears start to form in your eyes, but you’ve learned to get the anger out first before they start to roll, “I moved out of my apartment when my lease was up. I got an offer for a job in Manchester— a real fucking good one, but you didn’t know that. No, cause I didnt even give it a second thought? Why when I loved my life in Romford? I loved the life I was building with you and I turned it down.”

You poke at his chest and the tears fall now, “No, Noah, you don’t get to sit there and be angry with me. You fucked this up.” 

He wants to reach out and hold you, you're so close now he could if he wanted to, but he doesn’t, knowing you’d just hate him further. He thinks of all the ways he could beg, cry with you, scream that he loves you. But as much as this felt like a scene from a movie, it wasn’t. He lost you way back in the end of the first act and there was no love confessed reunions to this film. Not like the romantic comedies. He was not the leading man. Some dark-haired suave Mr. Darcy type who’d get looked past for all his shitty fucking behavior because he’s here crying and telling you he loves you. 

No, this was one of those films that ends in tragedy. 

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Idk if you've talked about this before, but how closely tied do you think the stockpiling nature of OfA is to the "passing down" nature of it? I was thinking about how Midoriya has access to the quirks of the previous holders, and I was wondering how much of that is due to the stockpiling quirk vs First's quirk. Like, if AFO had given and taken the stockpiling quirk multiple times to people with different quirks, would it have "collected" those quirks too, since it's a stockpiler? Or was it purely First's quirk that allowed the other holders' quirks to be passed on as well? Because if it's the latter, then what exactly is the original quirk stockpiling? Before realizing Midoriya could access the previous holders' quirks, All Might said OFA gets stronger each time it's passed on. Would that mean it only accumulates the holders' physical abilities unrelated to their quirks? But that can't be right because OFA has supposedly made all the quirks it contains stronger. So if it's the former, then since AfO held the stockpiling quirk at one point, did it also "collect" a copy of AFO and Midoriya will be able to access it eventually?

i did once answer an ask with a mathematical breakdown of OfA multiplying x amount of average human strength as an example to show the difference between periodic compound interest and continuous compound interest. um, because i teach economics and i always thought that making it entertaining was the best way to get it to stick. that one had showed that izuku should have a truly ridiculous amount of strength, though i dont remember the exact numbers rn. you can try to find it on this blog... good luck.

anyway, thats not really the question you're asking, so lets get into ofa and try to science a quirk that probably is just magic.

I have answered the question below the cut in three parts, plus a lightning round to try and make sure i answered all the parts of your question.

1- stockpiling quirk vs First's quirk: For this, i am going to say that i quite like the theory that First was actually quirkless, and the stockpile quirk just took a little bit of AfOQuirk with it and thats why it could be passed on afterwards. In this situation, i think what OfA does is that the Stockpile Quirk makes a copy of everything in it's holder- their memories, their dna, their energy and vitality. It does not boost any of those until it's passed on- the Stockpile was very small and could only copy AfO's genes that had the AfOQuirk, but at tenth generation would probably copy more than that if passed to someone with AfO and with a hoard of other quirks. On being passed, it then adds to the new holders strength, while working to copy their base traits. So, First got a little stronger with a boost from AfO, and his quirk though he didn't know it, while OfA ran him through a copy machine to make a vestige to paste into the next body. Second has the strength and dna of first and afo, plus some ghosts, and could use his own while it was being copied. And so on. But that's just the "First was actually quirkless theory", so lets work on the assumption that First did have a pass-along quirk

2- First's original quirk. Which doesn't even get a name, thanks guys. We know it should have something to do with passing on quirks, and on relying on consent of the giver and dna transfer, which makes it different than AfOQuirk. AfO can steal and give, but doesn't require dna. There are even some panels in the manga that imply AfO doesn't even need physical touch to take a quirk, as it appears he steals many quirks at once by jumping over a crowd of people. unfortunately, Bones decided to just cut that scene out of season five for some reason, so it's still a mystery and maybe he's using some other method. thanks, bones. hope those last two movies you had to shove painfully into quasi-canon were worth it. Anyway, different activation methods. Now, given that ofa requires on consent of the given, it does make me wonder: if someone knew about ofa, and wanted to give an ofa holder their quirk, and provided dna for it, would it stick? Can ofa both take and give, but only based on willingness? Seems like a possibility that would have never been tested. BUT i am getting super off topic bc i am writing this answer late at night, sorry. Right, so how much of this is First's quirk? Given that it's described as the ability to "Pass on his quirk(s)", i think all of the quirk-stockpiling, including the vestiges, are from First's quirk. On his own, his quirk would collect dna, which includes quirks, and quirks are just straight up haunted. On his own, without the stockpile, he could have passed on his quirk to second, and started the line like normally, but the holders would not have gotten any boost of strength, just possibly the ability to use previous quirks. Maybe only access them if they were originally quirkless? maybe not, without the 'stress' of the stockpiled they'd all be fine with multiple quirks? Who knows. Point is, thats what i think the options are. Either 1, the quirk-vestige stuff comes from afo, first was actually quirkless, and the strength is stockpile, or 2- the quirk-vestige stuff comes from first, and the strength is stockpile.

3- So what is the stockpile doing? Ok so the stockpile is like soup. bear with me. the longer you keep your ingredients in to flavor a broth or stock, the stronger the flavor will be, right? A chicken bone and some carrots in some stock for ten minutes wont' be as flavorful as a chicken bone and some carrots that have been cooking in a stock for an hour. Basically, the stock liquid is the stockpile, and the ingredients are the user's quirks. because of this, i think that it makes sense that Second's Quirk, whatever it is, has received a larger boost from OfA than, say, Black Whip has. It's been in the soup longer. That doesn't mean it's necessarily going to be stronger than black whip when izuku accesses it, because BW probably got to start off stronger, but it will have gotten more of a boost. You can also think of it as a loan- OfA took a quirk loan out from Second way before it took a quirk loan out from Banjo, so Second will have accrued more interest than Banjo, but the total sums also depend on how much was there to start with. Man i hope these metaphors make sense. BUT, but, but, but. The stockpile only has access to these quirks to boost them because of First's original quirk (or the copy of afoquirk it took) On its own, it would have just stockpiled up strength and energy- i think of it more like interest on a checking account with a bank (you get a boost just by having money in there, and it slowly grows over time.) than like a feruchy metalmind (where you would store 'strength' to use later, at the cost of being physically weaker now). While the metalmind concept does technically fit the definition of 'stockpile' to me, i don't think thats how it worked bc it doesn't sound like what AfO meant when he talked about giving it to First. and i mean, AfO has been wrong about quirks before, but still. Interest from a bank is probably how it works. On its own, the only thing the stockpile has in its bank account is physical strength. the AfOquirk copy or First's original quirk let it open up its bank account to more, including the quirks.

lightning round-

Before realizing Midoriya could access the previous holders' quirks, All Might said OFA gets stronger each time it's passed on.

Yes but AM doesn't know a lot of things about OfA. I do think it gets stronger as its passed on, either though Option One of the past user's being pasted onto the next one when it's passed, or through Option Two of it getting stronger as its used, and more passes means more holders means more use.

Would that mean it only accumulates the holders' physical abilities unrelated to their quirks? But that can't be right because OFA has supposedly made all the quirks it contains stronger.

While OFA does make the quirks stronger, i'm not sure if it did much in a user's lifespan or only after it was passed on- Banjo talks about Black Whip being much stronger for Izuku than it was in his time, but i don't remember him mentioning anything about it being enhanced significantly during his time holding ofa.

So if it's the former, then since AfO held the stockpiling quirk at one point, did it also "collect" a copy of AFO and Midoriya will be able to access it eventually?

IMO, possible- but only in Option One where First was originally quirkless. there, he'd have both a vestige and an afoquirk to deal with. In Option Two, he would have neither- except whenever tomura stops by his headspace with an afoquirk and vestige sticking out of his shoulder.

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I think yang has sort of filled two semi-disparate genre-defying roles over the course of rwby. In the first like 2/3 seasons, she essentially functioned at the unexpectedly strong feminine character (even more so than ruby and blake), which to be fair was an already established trope but it couldn’t have hurt to have a little more, as a treat. The more interesting ground shes tread upon is the role she fills in seasons 4-8 (And I give that timeframe not to imply that her character hasnt changed over that span, salem knows it has, but rather to better encapsulate what I’m trying to get at) The role she fill in these seasons, a primarily butch woman who still very much desires her femininity (and this is something that, as a cis man, I cant really speak to so correct if you believe I’m wrong)— this is much less common, and is also part of the reason we saw such a reversal of fandom expectations of her, *especially* from incels and others like them. Like you look at the way she reacts to seeing the bikes for the first time and thats an explicitly feminine reaction, to a somewhat masculine interest. I just think the places where crwby has been taking yang are interesting.

yeah i mean, i think it’s less so that she’s a butch woman who is still desiring femininity and moreso that she’s just,,,,,,,, free of stereotypical restrictions that typically come along with butch or futch gender expression

speaking as a masc lesbian, my years of being perceived as femme, replicating those perceptions, and associating with femme people means that a lot of my behaviours or ways of moving are still femme or not representative of what’s expected from someone who looks like me,,,,,,,,, my hand movements, the way move voice turns upward at the end of sentences or when i’m excited, these are all things that consciously remind me of my femmeness even while occupying mascness as my aesthetic

i think yang is along these lines as well re: her journey,,,,,,, in the early seasons her behaviour was very femme with hints of masc shining through and i feel like we’ve seen a reversal of this,,,,,,,, when she was separated from people her age for a prolonged period of time and forced to grow into herself without much outside influence, we saw her start to grow into this hypermasc way of being (v4-5 specifically),,,,,,, now, in v8, i think we’re seeing her settle into a solid mix of both as she kind of lets herself just,,,,,,,,,, be

which is why i think i take issue with femme yang so much,,,,,,,, i truly don’t think you can characterize her effectively unless you acknowledge her inherent butchness that underlies the way she moves through the world and through her own identity now,,,,,,,, idk i just wish that there was more work that actively addressed how unique yang is as a character and i think much of that uniqueness is tied to her gender expression and journey over time

[organic-guacamole]

showtime

episode 211 let's go

ok first of all, this is the second to last episode guys... I don't even wanna think about how much pain I'll be in after next week's episode

mr mazzara doing the recap-

this is so weird to me and I don't know why

WHY DIDN'T YALL JUST ASK BENJAMIN FOR HELP, THATS LITERALLY HIS THING

is Nini giving out the cards a callback to season 1 when Natalie Bagley said that Nini gave her a card or something on opening night of another musical?

STEPHY AS THE ENCHANTRESS OMG YES

Ricky in the crown gives me Harry styles in that photoshoot vibes

he's so pretty.

ok but why did we never see Ricky and Ashlyn interact before? it's been like 5 seconds and I already love how they bounce off each other and it's just so natural

OH THEY REALLY DON'T HAVE ANY UNDERSTUDIES-

well that explains a lot...

so Ricky fell on top of Ashlyn and all that broke for both of them was their wrist-

insert Jake Peralta *coolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool no doubt no doubt no doubt*

of course howie was amazing as the beast, were we expecting anything less??

Ricky is so beautiful and I will not shut up about it....

let me enjoy this before the makeup crew slaps mud on his face.

Nini and Ricky talking to eachother? in a civil manner? wasn't she avoiding him just in the last episode? hm ok

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH THEY CANT EXPRESS THEIR FEELINGS JUST LIKE ME HAHAHAHAHA THIS IS HILARIOUS, WHATS NEXT? THEY CUT EVERYONE OFF CUZ THEY CANT HANDLE EMOTIONS? ...ha

yes Kaden and Rico, my favourite east high boys 🥰

I mean....where's EJ?

THERE HE IS

EJ AND GINA IN THE BACKGROUND... doing something idek

KOURTNEY'S MOM IS BACK YAY

Howie is a shining star, ofc ofc

the smallest fOrk

can't wait to see the fork burst into song about how she deserves more than to be used to eat salad😌

the duster and the bluster.... ok😃

hi Gina!

hi- oh wow I didn't know Robbie Rotten was in this show!!!!!

the portwell look.

that my friends, is a married couple's look✋

GOSH EJ WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU

aww Gina's so excited for this

D word?

Die?

Delicious?

Dom Toretto?

"good, clean fun all alone with someone I dig...a lot"

sir that does not sound very clean to me

SEBLOS

Seb looks so cute standing there next to pope Carlos

DID THEYEY REALLY LIGHT ANTOINE ON FIRE-

I NEED TO SEE THAT

Seb's reading Carlos better than big red read the script in episode 102, this is great development after the "fight"

Kourtney really just made the best outfit for herself and let the rest of them suffer

the way Gina immediately goes to hold on to EJ after the announcement

"tonight we're going to put the U in UTAH"

...

"hey where are you from?"

"TAH"

SEB'S SINGULAR CLAP KILLED ME-

he's officially salt lake city's resident thanos

just wity clapping because for some reason I have a feeling he doesn't know how to snap his fingers...don't ask why

Ms Jenn do you mind encouraging your leads before the show? idk just an idea

pepto bismol product placement smhsmh

those flowers are bigger that big red himself-

*bops along to the opening theme*

that whistle at the end slaps everytime

WHY IS THE AUDIENCE SO MASSIVE

I guess they're all here to see Ms Jenn go on as a fork after Nini decides to *go her own way*

wow i am so funny

so they couldn't do many group scenes cuz of covid, but this 300 person crowd is cool? nice

OO THE VIOLIN GIRL FROM EPISODE 6 IS IN THE ORCHESTRA

HOWIEEEEEE

"Mr Caswell", he said, in the loudest voice possible while backstage at a show that's about to start.

Mazzara what are you trying to pull-

I usually like Benjamin but I don't like his tone

"iS yOuR wHoLe FaMiLy HeRe?" LIKE YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW THATS A SOFT SPOT FOR EJ

"we've had some good conversations these past few weeks"

right so what's going to happen after you graduate?

what does he think of you not going to Duke?

what did he say about you giving the sweatshirt that's been in the family for 3 generations to a girl you're not even dating?

good old Mr. M

therapist Mr. Mazzara, they all need it.

start with Ricky though.

"Michael Bowen"

dude why did you shave, now you look less like "hot lumberjack" and more "creep at the gas station"

OH-

does she not like Mike anymore?

why does it sound like jennzzara started dating and now they just sit back and talk smack about everyone in their freetime

break the fourth wall-

uhhhh im scared

why am I scared

he's scary

hehe flowers for Ricky, obviously for Ricky, ObViOuSLY

oh boy poor Michael

this man is in love, rip

why does Ms Jenn always look at people with her eyes open so wide

LILYYYY

I'm only excited because I really like the idea of lily and Ricky being friends, nothing more.

ha this guy's got jokes

a MOAT AROUND THE SCHOOL

wheeze

also he's very pretty.

"the wolves and very talented humans"

how dare he forget to mention the very talented wolves and normal humans, smh erasure

"being nice, what a concept" ted talk by Lily who still doesn't have a last name

did she just say lol out loud

same with the hug emoji last episode-

go touch some grass babes

the way he didn't say no, but said he didn't know how the east high kids would react-

not saying he does want to date her but that's an interesting thing to think about, also another thing to write an essay analysis on just to leave it in my drafts for a few months

awww lily genuinely trying to help him

sorry guys, I've been taken by the Lily charm (didn't know it existed until now but oh well)

REMEMBER WHEN I SAID I'LL NEVER SHIP PORTWELL?

just look at me now

the Lily wink I can't she's so cute-

HELP ME I'M BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY LIL-

David Attenborough?

oh nvm it's Benjamin narrating the show in a really weird British accent for some reason.

STEPHY GOT MORE LINES YAY GOOD FOR HER

also is this to show that Nini doesn't care about being the star of the show anymore? the way she's supporting everyone else even though she's a fork?

I would pay for a special of the full musical ngl

OOO THE TRANSFORMATION WAS SMOOTH

shockingly

yo where did the makeup come from

man I wish I was a theatre kid

THIS IS STEPHY'S EPISODE NOW IDC✋

my girl is starring

"needs an X-factor"

Simon Cowbell creeps in

"it's a yes from me"

and them boom, he takes Nini and mistreats her horribly and then she comes back to theatre after deciding music isn't for her👍

"I thought she just hog-tied him?"

don't ask sebby, it's better if you don't know.

imagine they spotlight the wrong person and this dude is just some random person that likes writing down stuff during shows.

Ms Jenn just let them do what they rehearsed (at some point we never saw) or else this is gonna end horribly wrong

"help"

same Carlos, same

I love how seb is just his translator rn

I thought he said "great displeasure" instead of "greatest pleasure"....help?

big red coming out from throwing up to see his girlfriend star is the cutest thing in this show.

Ash and Gina dancing is so fun

I'm imagining them practicing at night at their home, watching the movie for the 100th time and making sure their one dance together is perfect

KOURTNEY YES

HOWIE IS IN LOVE AHHHH

I LOVE HOWIE SO MUCH

SEBBY

THIS SCENE HAS SO MUCH GOING ON I CAN'T KEEP UP

THIS IS SO GOOD

HOW???

no because I'm actually crying

I'm dead serious.

we need this musical released as a special

big red is so proud and I love to see it

Natalie: "if you do not by at least 20 dollars in concessions, you do not support art"

rando in the audience: "but I pay for ad free Spotify"

Mr Mazzara clapping in the distance

Gigi, the guy you like is talking to you, complimenting you and hyping you up

YOU LUCKY LITTLE FEATHER DUSTER

aw EJ teasing her about the chocolates in a way that doesn't make her feel bad? take notes Richard

JORDAN FISHER

there is no rest of the show idc Jordan is it for me

THE WIG CAP ON RICKY OMG

they look like they're high and having "deep" conversations on the floor

THE MEAN GIRL WITH THE EYES-

@sunshine-julie-molina YOU HEAR THAT

Natalie really just be coming for them all

Howie what is happening rn

I'm scared

"did you enjoy it"

"very much"

dude wants a kiss so bad

ASHLYN OMG

NO DON'T DO IT BECAUSE OF LILY, PUT YOUR OWN TWIST ON IT

I want a Jordan autograph please

just keep swim- oh pushing...

Gina is literally a giant next to him and I live for it

am I about to cry for the 3rd time in this episode?

yes.

Ricky's leg kicks under the table makes me so happy aw

the portwell glances will kill me.

ah yes, mashed potato snow

Mr. M.... I'm not a theatre kid but even I know you can't have your phone on backstage.

Howie please just do it

CHIP'S BIG LINE I CANT

I LITERALLY HAD TO PAUSE IT AMD SCREAM INTO MY MASK FOR A SOLID 2 MINUTES (I'm not at home rn) HES SO CUTE

oh ok bye Jordan

oo tea

NOT HIM BEING STARSTRUCK BECAUSE HE'S MEETING HIS FUTURE BROTHER IN LAW-

"we're all just glad Gigi has a big brother figure in her life"

excuse me for a few thousand hours while I laugh hysterically

THE CAMERA ZOOM ON EJS FACE AND EVERYTHING-

STOP EJ LOOKS LIKE HE'S GONNA CRY BUT I CAN'T TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY WITH THE STAGE MAKE-UP

someone else said this already but I think it's hilarious that they had to bring in 2 guest characters to create some portwell angst

omg this really is Cici's episode, found family is their thing

elevator music lol

I'm gonna bet that big red took the harness for his surprise for Ashlyn without realising what it was

did Ms. Jenn just....tell her most mentally unstable student....to commit suicide....on a disney show...was that....I'm very....well....what the actual-

oh and there she goes running off instead of trying to make it right

oh wow Nini's the hero, she's gonna save the show 🤩

😐

the judge is doing a sudoku

honestly if I went to the hsm show as well, I'd come prepared for this one too

Lily why are you looking like that-

I WAS JUST STARTING TO LIKE YOU DON'T MESS THIS UP

wow ok, there goes that.

omg

what if Howie was acting weird because he knew what Lily did and wanted to tell Kourtbut Lily threatened him so he was scared to-

anyways see y'all clowns next week when we all simultaneously lose all motivation for the week without Fridays to look forward to.

[chibigaia-art]

Hi, can I ask you something? How can I get into the Team Fortress 2 and Overwatch fandoms without playing the games? Because I saw your art and I want to get into those fandoms, but I'm not really good at online games and they give me anxiety. What am I supposed to do? Sorry for the bother and I hope you're having a nice day/night!

HI HI THANKS FOR ASKING ME THIS 😳😳😳 I got into overwatch the moment it was released and I couldn’t play the game for over a year, so I know how it feels,, the fun thing about both games is that you can really just ignore the game itself and enjoy the characters and story!

I’m gonna put everything under the cut because the post became longer than what I expected,,

OVERWATCH

one of the sad things about ow is that they retconned some stuff and some lore bits are really blurry and confused (for example they had D.va be a Starcraft pro-gamer or smth and then they just removed the info idk why) ; I was really into the ow lore since I couldn’t play the game at first, but as time went on I just kinda stopped bothering with it? reading the characters’ profiles gives you an idea of who they are and what they do tho so that’s nice

- so, first, you have the animated shorts, (AND FOR SOME REASON THE BEST ONE ISN’T INCLUDED IN THIS PLAYLIST) which are what really pulled me into it! After them you can read the comics, some of which are tied to seasonal events, like ‘Uprising’; they’re listed in reverse chronological order, so the first you should read is Train Hopper (tho most of them aren’t related to each other anyway) - side note, in the same page as the comics there’s also the short stories! But I only read Ana’s so I dunno much about what happens in the others :’)

-  speaking of seasonal events, every year around april there’s the Archives event, which recount the events of specific moment in overwatch/blackwatch history - you can watch the gameplay and cinematics for those here!

- the thing about OW is that there was a constant adding of new heroes, and with those there were origin stories released - there isn’t an official playlist for these ones, and the best way to watch them in one place is here ( you need to scroll down a bit); for some reason Blizzard never uploaded a good quality of Tracer’s origin story, so here it is

if you expect to see something related to lucio or zenyatta, i regret to inform you we’re still waiting for that stuff :°°]

TF2

Okay so tf2 didn’t really have a story at first, aside the set up of two brothers hiring mercenaries to fight each other, but as time went on they expanded on it with the comics; it’s a lot more graphic than OW so warning for tons of blood and gore in 90% of this stuff

- first thing, watch the ‘Meet the Team’ videos; they’re focused on each merc so you get a LOT of characterization for the most part and tbh I love them for that; there’s also a playlist with outtakes from Meet the Medic

- NOW the comics! Where the lore starts! They’re split into TF comics and Update comics; the TF ones are where the story happens while the update comics are more related to, well,, game updates, though there are still some bits of important stuff that you need to know to get into the main story; if you want to skip the update ones and go directly to the TF comics tho, read the catch up comic so you know the set up! Even if you read the update ones first, the catch up comic is super helpful;

- other animated shorts! Expiration Date (my beloved) was released along an in game update and is also the only relic of a time where TF2 could’ve been an animated series for adult swim; End of the Line is a community made video, for a community made update, so it’s not canon material but it’s still really nice; Jungle Inferno was released with the homonym update and it’s also been the last official animated short,, for now,,, hopefully,,

- the Mann vs Machine and The Sound of Medicine are TECHNICALLY tied to the main turning point of the story, though the shorts are more focused on the characters/gameplay once again, so you can watch them even if you have no idea of what’s going on in the comics - they’re fighting robots! Medic is cool!

aside the official stuff, Valve used to host the Saxxy Awards, which were basically contest for animated shorts - all the entries aren’t canon obviously, but some of those + a lot of other SFM/GMOD videos on youtube are REALLY good and fun; I’m not gonna list my faves here since it’s already a pretty long post but uuuh if you ever want a quick list, just send another ask anon, i’ll happily oblige 😳👌

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For both ow and tf2, you can also look up the wikia pages of the characters and listen to their voicelines/interactions with other characters, those are always fun!

[betweenlands]

hello! i never really got into the yogscast stuff so i was wondering where the two quotes y'all mentioned in previous posts' tags were from. it was "it came from the skies" and "no you're the fool. he's the failed clone" or something along those lines. tbh im just assuming that those were from the yogscast but idk tbh. have a nice day y'all! :]

YES YES THEY ARE THEY'RE FROM FLUX BUDDIES okay so the thing is. flux buddies ran for a wildly long amount of time. we're talking like. early 2013 for the Apprentice all the way up through 2019, ending literally during the hermitville build height battle.

flux buddies is a series about a dude named lalna and a -- i hesitate to call her a gal because her nonbinary energy is off the charts -- a newcomer to minecraft named nano. they do things together. nano falls into an orb filled with Bad Magic and it spirals into an epic plotline involving malevolent gods and also the most intense impostor/clone plotline i've ever seen

"it came from the skies" is actually a one-off line that was a cryptic hint about where lalna was being imprisoned, but it was said by an evil clone (who isn't even the main evil double) with such fucking energy that i still think about it years later

and then "no, you're the fool, he is the failed clone" is from the flux buddies 2.0 finale. it ties together the whole clone arc and turns the series from what's kind of a stereotypical Good Vs Evil Clones plotline to like. something where the antagonist now has a fucking riveting backstory involving a previous yogs series and like. a genuine motivation

it's so fucking good i cannot tell you how much i think about lalnable hector on like. a monthly basis. lalnable hector is one of the best villains ever in anything, let alone in mcyt. in fact if i may be so bold i think lalnable hector has what c!wilbur wants (including being nuanced and interesting and not necessarily even all that bad of a person)

anyway please watch flux buddies here's a playlist that our roommate made; it contains most of the plot-important episodes all the way through season 3 and is Good