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hitsuackerman · 3 years

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Unpredictable (Overhaul x Reader) pt.29

warnings: this cannot be read solo

Links: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12, part 13, part 14, part 15, part 16, part 17, part 18, part 19, part 20, part 21, part 22, part 22, part 23, part 23.5, part 24, part 25, part 26, part 27, part 28, part 30

Masterlist to my other fics: here :) (that has not been updated for how many months now... proceed with caution~)

“And that's about it.” You clicked the send button and stretched your limbs.

You weren’t too sure how many hours had passed but after venting it all out to Tsukauchi, you felt much better. The weight you carried still lingered but your mind was much clearer now. Looking at the office window, the skies were now a shade of pink. Not in the mood for cheap coffee, you stood up and took a peak at Tsukauchi’s desk.

Papers scrawled and pens scattered, Tsukauchi’s head was resting on his arms as he too snoozed off. Finding his sticky notes, you left him a small message telling him where you would be going.

You could always head home and freshen up but with the small window of time, the chief might call you out for being tardy. He’d been leaving you alone for the past few weeks and you hoped it would last a bit longer.

Making your way towards the cafe, you marveled at the emptiness the streets had. Quite some time had passed since the last time you took an all nighter. Now that you think about it, ever since that injury, you have been able to get an adequate amount of rest. Every now and then, food would be delivered followed by a text complaining how you were annoying.

Entering the cafe, you walked towards the counter. Greeted by a rather huge smile, all you could give was a forced one.

“Do you h-”

“Someone already ordered for you.” The cashier said. Telling you to wait, you went to a vacant table and took your phone out. It barely took 3 minutes before she came back holding a paper bag. “Shinoda-san has already paid the bill so you’re good to go~”

“How kind of him…” You took the bag and exited the building. The streets slowly getting congested as the seconds ticked by. Dialling his number, he picked up after the 4th ring. “Thanks for breakfast.”

“I put it on a tab.” Overhaul replied. His voice was muffled by his mask. “Everything I bought for you has been recorded and will be sent to you monthly.”

“That’s just mean…”

“That’s what you get for working overtime and not going home as we had agreed.”

“It was last minute, you dumbass.” You huffed but knew he was teasing. “Are you waiting for me to say ‘I’ll make it up to you. What can I do for you, Chisaki?’ or something like that?”

“Perhaps. It is still quite early but I did come bearing news.” He paused and you could hear papers shuffling. “I feel as though you already know that the Fukuo Kai case will start in about a week or two. I was thinking perhaps we should have a private meeting.”

“With Tsukauchi?” You stopped walking.

“Are you that dense?”

“I’m kidding. What do you wanna do?” Finding a nearby bench, you took a seat and took the sandwich out.

“I recall someone saying that their definition of a good date was something along the lines of ‘You and Me against the world?’”

“Go on…” The smile building on your face couldn’t be kept hidden anymore.

“I’ve booked us tickets. If things go as planned then perhaps the day after the Fukuo Kai case would be a good end to all this.”

“A parting gift I presume?” The smile slowly faded when you remembered what came after. The sandwich now tasted horrible. You waited for him to speak up but there was nothing but silence. “Alright. The day after the case sounds good.”

“I’ll pick you up at 6. Wear something nice.”

Ending the call, you stared at your sandwich. A week or two then once that’s passed, it wouldn’t be long before Overhaul’s case would be pushed to your priority list. Looking back towards the direction of the precinct, you decided to save the sandwich for later.

Now that you were seated and facing your computer once more, you decided to recheck your schedule.

Sure enough, there really was less than 3 weeks left of the Fukuo Kai case before things would finally be handed over. A meeting with the chief was also in store a few days from now to go over the plans for the raid. Upon further scrolling, you noted how Tsukauchi had set up a date for a stake out. Clicking on the attached comment, you wondered as to why it had taken this amount of time for them to make their move.

“You awake yet, Nao?” You knocked on your cubicle.

“Barely.” He grumbled. “What’s up?”

“Regarding this stake out, do you think we can push it to 4 days from now?”

“I’m not really sure. It’ll depend on Overhaul since he will be your partner for that one.” He leaned to take a peek at your station.

“Overhaul? Why?”

“Dunno. I just thought that it’s been a while since you two teamed up.” He shrugged as he dragged his chair closer to yours. “But it’s mostly because my schedule doesn’t fit. I have to meet up with All Might for the whole week. I did ask a few others but you can guess they turned it all down out of fear.”

“Hmm. No surprise.” You tapped your index finger on the mouse. Reminding yourself to call him later regarding the sudden change of plans, you leaned on your chair. “Who’s going to be in this meeting with chief?”

“The two of you and Shinezu.”

“Poor guy.”

“It’ll do him good. Speaking of which, we have to go over the initial plan for the raid. Do you wanna do it today or save it for some other time?” Choosing the first option, Tsukauchi nodded and went back to his desk. Grabbing the necessary documents, he waited for you to prepare and led you towards a private meeting room.

“Now that we're at it,” You took the adjacent seat. “What are the updates? I haven’t really heard anything about them for quite some time now.”

“Heh. Things got a little more complicated during your sick leave.” Sliding one folder, he waited for your reaction. Seeing how your eyes widened, he let out an exhausted sigh. “As if one organization is enough, having to deal with an alliance means more trouble for us.”

“Tsk. Damn it. When did you gather this information? What source did you get this from?”

“Believe it or not, the chief actually did some work and gave us this as some sort of peace offering.”

Peace offering? What was the man planning?

“When did you receive this?” You carefully read the details.

“If I recall, it was the day before you came back to work.” He shyly scratched his nape. “It’s kinda my fault, though. I honestly forgot to inform you regarding this information.”

“It’s fine.” You assured him. “I’m thankful you didn’t relay the information right then and there. So, it says here that we infiltrate them at their headquarters. The information was true? Their headquarters are downtown?”

“That’s right. The intel we gathered showed us that movement around that certain street has picked up. Akuji was spotted as well. He’s been involved from the very start, I presume?”

“Well, he was at that gala and the head of the Fukuo Kai gave him a business card. It’s only logical he is. But to go there in person only means bad things. Any ideas?”

“If it were a higher ups meeting, Overhaul should’ve been there. Unless they know he’s involved with us?”

“He’s not.” Overhaul was shady but you trusted him enough that he would have told you if he were called to attend a gathering. For once, he was in the clear. Or so you hoped. You’d have to inquire about that once you call him later. “My guess is that they too are finalizing whatever plan they have in store. With that being said, have you any clue as to what their main agenda is now?”

“We suspect that their main agenda now is to take over at least 50 percent of the yakuza network. Overhaul’s connections are rather large so they must be feeling pretty confident to make a move now.” Tsukauchi rested his chin on his index finger. “Akuji was one person we saw. The other one was Tamisura.”

“Hmm. Any sighting of Nokusu?” It had been a while since you last mentioned their names. The last time you spoke of them was days before the gala. Tamisura, with the momentum like quirk, and Nokusu with his shadow manipulation quirk.

“None. I am not confident whether or not it is safe to assume that they have declined the invitation to take part with the Fukuo Kai.” He shrugged. “I just kinda wished it was Nokusu we were dealing with and not Tamisura. We barely know anything about her quirk.”

“I’ll ask chief about his encounter.” You answered. “Perhaps the other precincts can provide us with some information. Whether it be big or small, we’ll take it. I do agree with you, though. It just had to be her.”

“Try asking Overhaul too. Perhaps they know something about her.” He watched as you nodded. “As for the plan, there aren’t too many changes from before. Overhaul will have to carry our asses for the last part but I feel as though he can do his part well.”

“I hope so.”

With the minor details now explained, you found yourself walking towards the chief’s office. Closing your eyes and sending off as silent prayer, you only hoped things would be fine. Knocking on the door, he gave you the permission to enter.

“Chief.” You greeted him.

“Oh~ (Y/N).” He closed the folder and motioned for you to sit down. “How can I help my favorite star, hmm?”

“I just wanted to ask you about Tamisura. What exactly did you see regarding her quirk?”

“Ah.” He leaned on this squeaky chair’s back. “Fine woman, I might say. Her quirk made her move at insane speeds. Because of the momentum, it was rather hard to stop her. When she moves, a trail of yellow light follows her. If my memory serves me right, then, I believe it would take her awhile to fully use her quirk?”

“Like charging herself?”

“Don’t take my word for it.” He raised both his hands up. “During that particular instance, one of my men noticed how she kept distance before attacking. Perhaps that’s the downside to her quirk. As for the duration, I cannot give any information.”

“This is more than enough.” You stood up and bowed. “Thank you for the cooperation and I apologize for disturbing you.”

“Anything for you, my star~” He winked.

Suppressing a groan, you awkwardly smiled and hurriedly left the room. Your prayers had been heard and the interaction was clean. The given information wasn’t much but it was something. Taking your phone out, you dialed Overhaul.

Strangely enough, he didn’t answer. Then again, you were sure he was doing whatever he did at 9am in the morning. The mental image you had as to what his activities were were rather vague but you could only hope he wouldn’t indulge in them too much. Who were you kidding? He was messed up. You were too for harboring feelings.

Not wanting to stay any longer, you informed Tsukauchi that you would be heading home.

When you locked your car doors, your phone rang. Checking who it was, you immediately answered it.

“You called?”

“I know it’s sudden but you think you can clear your schedule for me?”

“What exactly do you need, Problem Child?”

“I just wanna ask you a few questions about the Fukuo Kai case.”

“Does it have to be in person?” His voice was rather teasing. Admittedly, you always loved it when he spoke with that tone. “Alright. I shall see you where?”

“My apartment is fine. I’ll arrive there in about 30 minutes, so just take your time.”

“See you then.” He paused at your silence of a few seconds. “What?”

“Bring food! Bye~!” You ended the call immediately. Giggling at the moment, you tossed your phone to the seat and began your drive back home.

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Hello everyone! It's me!

I know I haven't updated the story in 3 months? And I apologize :( My family has well recovered from the COVID scare of last year. What took its place was my declining mental health due to my shitty work environment. I could barely write any of my fics and even when I did write a new one, I could only hold on to very little chapters before feeling down and useless T.T

As to the next upload, I am not sure when but I can promise you that the next chapter is currently being written as we speak :) I hope you guys liked the 2 new chapters! and if you enjoyed the whole story, feel free to buy me a ko-fi.. it'll greatly help me :')

See you all in the next update!

PS. I didn't mention the tag list cause maybe ya'll don't want to be tagged anymore hehehe if you do want to be tagged then please feel free to message me or comment :)

#mha overhaul #bnha overhaul #overhaul #kai chisaki #chisaki kai #overhaul x reader #overhaul x y/n

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bunny-xoxo · 3 years

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✨ Anon Playlist

For my ✨ anon, I hope it’s what you were looking for!

warning: slight timeskip!nishinoya spoilers, kissing?

gif not mine, credit to owner

A/N: I tried to make this GN! since I don’t know your pronouns, if you have any problems please let me know!

Relationship Head Cannons

Okok reading your ask I definitely had to pair you with Nishinoya!! Looking at your interests and your personality etc. I think you guys would make a lovely couple :)

He definitely met you while traveling and immediately asked you for your number (this man is so bold and shameless you cannot tell me otherwise); he was probably a little ridiculous about it and loud and he could not believe you said yes

Went from 😉😁😏 to 👁👄👁,,,😳😳😳 so fast

Called Tanaka drunk after you gave him your number talking about how you have to be the one or something cause he just got some gorgeous babe’s phone number at the bar and he’s pretty sure it’s real

Tanaka still laugh’s about it with him all the time and Noya’s always like oml haha so embarrassing😅😅 stop it dude they’re gonna think I’m a creep 🤬

Nishinoya love’s it when you get to meet his friend’s and get along with them!! It make’s his heart so full!

Double dates with Tanaka and Kiyoko!!! And Noya’s just so🤩🤩 guys guys look at my bb!!!!

omg would endlessly brag about your cocktail making skills asjjskfjnkajeke and NO ONE asked but he can’t help himself

Would shamelessly ask you to paint him and then immediately start undressing for a nude painting adjskfieurir

Would for SURE ask you to read to him and it’s one of the few times he’s actually calm, he just finds it so calming he gets to stare at you and just bask in you and how much he loves you is the real reason

Love love loves listening to you talk about your current book obsession and just finds it so cute

let’s be honest just worships the ground you walk on

LOTS of stargazing on beaches at night

He would ask you an abundance of questions about literally anything you know or love cause he’s a passionate guy, too!! You guys could definitely talk for hours and hours and never get bored of each other

And the way you listen to him while he rants about literally any and everything makes his heart practically implode

He’s so soft for you too cause he never thought someone would actually be down for his lifestyle of traveling and having a good time but you do! And you enjoy it so much :)!

PHYSICAL AFFECTION

LOVES holding your hand cause not only does it let him run around and make sure he’s not gonna lose you in the crowd but it just makes him feel so close to you? And it let’s everyone know he’s your boyfriend which he takes so much pride in pls

All in all, your guys’ relationship is just so full of fun that when you guys get to lay and look at the stars together and everything slows down for that moment, Noya knows he really loves you and couldn’t imagine finding anyone better

And what you’ve been waiting for... your playlist!

Ok, so I did my best to match your playlist to the indie vibes you mentioned and keeping it to the scenario of just laying with Noya as best as I could!

I sincerely hope you enjoy, please tell me your thoughts!! Below is the listed songs in order and my explanation for each :). And if you need anything changed, please tell me!

1. Lost in Your Love - Colyer: This song definitely is reminiscent of when you two first met, seeing you just hit him like a truck. Now, he could let literally let go of anything in his life as long as you were there with him. He’s quite definitely lost in your love (talk about devoted, sheesh).

2. My Kind of Woman - Mac DeMarco: So this is written with the intent of keeping you gender neutral since I don’t know your pronouns, so I don’t specifically take the “woman” part of this song as inspiration, but rather the idea of the love in the song if that makes sense. But if this song makes you uncomfortable please let me know and I will happily replace this song. SIMP ALERT 🚨 please Noya wishes he could dedicate this song to you with his whole heart. It’s more of him just being in complete disbelief that YOU choose to be by his side (this is a common theme here 🙄) It doesn’t matter how long you two are together he will never get over letting him be by your side

3. Nothing - Bruno Major: PLS THIS SONG IS MAKING ME SO SOFT FOR NOYA😰✋ please, this is your guys song. The epitome of just laying in each other’s presence and enjoying the warmth and conversation between you two, it’s these moments that really make Noya fall in love with you

4. Something About You - sophie meiers: Noya was definitely more nervous to ask you to be an official couple than he was saying I love you LMAO. He was just so scared to be like look I really like you, please just let me be yours and please be mine officially and let me do couple things with you and show you cool things I like (definitely came off like 💧👁u👁..... be my girlfriend? 🧍‍♂️)

5. Pluto Projector - Rex Orange County: C’mon now TELL me this ain’t you and Noya 🙄✋ your relationship is definitely always in that “honeymoon” phase, you guys are just effortlessly obsessed with each other cause not only do you have so much love to give but so does he!! And this song is just pure ~vibes~

6. Fall - Chloe x Halle: Ok, this one is mainly just for the feeling of it, but okok. You and Noya laying and looking up at the stars and it starts to rain but he just won’t get up and you guys just lay there having a laughing fit until you pull him up and make him come back to the warmth of your guys’ home. And as you’re drying each other off and you have a towel around your shoulders and your still dripping a little and you’re handing him his tea and fuck you just look so perfect he can’t help but tell you he loves you

7. Honeybee - Steam Powered Giraffe: SLOW DANCE TIME, everyone's gotta have one right? It’s more soft behavior, but this song? WHEW. Noya know’s he will forever be trapped by you and your beauty and presence but he just couldn’t care less, the things you do to him, god he swears you’re gonna kill him.

8. Intertwined - dodie: There’s no way you could mention laying with your s/o and NOT have me put this song on there, please just listen to this song you’ll understand 🙏 pure cuddly, chill vibes

9. Turning Page - Sydney Rose: stop it this song makes me cry tell me you guys aren’t laying with each other, tracing each other’s features with your fingers, memorizing every little detail there is to notice (fuck this is so intimate i-)

10. Like You Do - Joji: 🚨A LITTLE NOYA ANGST IM SORRY🚨 Noya would be a little scared his lifestyle would become too much and it’s kind of an irrational fear he has for you, but at the same time he knows that you make him so happy and you love him so much he’d be willing to even change this for you if it meant you could keep loving him like you do now.

11. Goodbye Horses - Q Lazzarus: Did someone say late night cuddly and giggly make out sesh? 😳 Noya pulling away every time just to go “oh no sir🤠!” before kissing you again ( :40 in the song, you’ll know what I’m talking about)

12. Body Language - Miki Ratsula: We get it you two 🙄✋ you like laying down and cuddling together

13. Dogs at the Beach - The Altogether: PLS this is just for vibes tbh

14. Wanna Know - Sabrina Claudio: I do feel like sometimes Noya is a very blunt guy who says it as is, and not everyone else is like that! So I’m sure sometimes he gets nervous that he’s too much for you and whether or not you love him as much as he loves you! But ultimately he knows you guys wouldn’t be where you are now if you didn’t love him (and then he immediately hates himself for even questioning your love, protect him pls)

15. Let Me Follow - Son Lux: TL;DR, all you need is each other’s love to exist and you couldn’t ask for more.

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AHHHH IT’S FINALLY HERE , I’m sorry this took so long! I was having a lot of problems with Tumblr and am a fairly new writer, I really hope you enjoyed this, please give me your feedback and thoughts! I want to make sure you got this :(

Feedback and opinions from anyone is appreciated!

request’s for playlist’s are currently closed until I finish the others, but I will make a post when they’re open again! And to all of those who have requested, they’ll be out shortly!!

-🐇out

#haikyuu playlist #haikyu requests #haikyuu x reader #haikyu x reader #haikyuu!!#nishinoya x reader #nishinoya headcanons #matchup #Karasuno #timeskip!nishinoya #✨anon #gn!reader

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bobasheebaby · 4 years

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60 Spongebob Squarepants Prompts

This is a very special request for @burnsoslow boys. And now is time for me to admit that I hate this show so I hope I did a good job picking quotes. But really some are funny.

1 “Now that we’re men, we have facial hair.” “Now that we’re men I changed my underwear.” — Spongebob and Patrick

2 “What does claustrophobic mean?” “It means he’s afraid of Santa Clause.” — Spongebob and Patrick

3 “You don’t need a license to drive a sandwich.” — Spongebob

4 “Are you NAME now? … That’s okay take your time.” — Patrick Star

5 “I’ll have you know that I stubbed by toe last week and only cried for 20 minutes.” — Spongebob

6 “NAME, you’re a genius!” “Yeah, I get called that a lot.” “What? A genius?” “No, NAME.” — Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick Star

7 “Firmly grasp it in your hand.” — Patrick Star

8 “guess what day today is?” “Annoy NAME day?” “no silly! thats on the 15!” — Spongebob and Patrick

9 “Dumb people are always blissfully unaware of how dumb they really are …” [drools] —Patrick Star

10 “NAME, your ceiling is talking to me.” — Patrick Star

11 [with candy on his mouth] “All right! Which one of you flatfoots stole my lollypop?” [spongebob, the cops, and patrick laugh] “I mean it!” — Patrick Star

12 “Quick, NAME, without thinking: if you could have anything right now, what would it be?” “Um ... more time for thinking.” — Spongebob and Patrick

13 “What do you usually do when I’m gone” “waiting for you to come back.” — Spongebob & Patrick

14 “Well, it may be stupid, but it’s also dumb.” — Patrick

15 “Well, it’s no secret that the best thing about a secret is secretly telling someone your secret, thereby adding another secret to their secret collection of secrets, secretly.” — Spongebob

16 “NAME ... I used your clarinet to unclog my toilet!” — SpongeBob

17 [thinking] I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I definitely don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it. [shouts] “I… need… it!” — SpongeBob

18 “Who’s ready?” “I’m ready!” “Who’s ready?” “I’m ready!” “Who’s ready?” *I’m ready!* — Spongebob & Patrick

19 “NAME is the only guy I know who can have fun with a jellyfish … [shouting] for 12 hours!” — Squidward

20 “Now, who wants to save the world?” “I do!” “I do!” “I do!” “I don’t.” — SpongeBob SquarePants

21 [in a mattress store] “Wow, look at all these mattresses! How many do you think here are?” [looks around the store] “10.” “Cool.” — Spongebob & Patrick

22 “Are they laughing at us?” “No, NAME. They’re laughing next to us.” — Spongebob & Patrick

23 “You never really know the true value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.” — SpongeBob

24 “Oh well, I guess I’m not wearing any pants today!” — SpongeBob

25 “We’re not doing so well, NAME. We need a new approach, a new tactic.” “Umm, I got it. Let’s get naked!” — Spongebob & Patrick

26 “Knowledge cannot replace friendship. I’d rather be an idiot than lose you.” — Patrick to Spongebob

27 “Careful, NAME; Careful NAME. NAME careful. Careful NAME!” “NAME.” “Yeah?” “It’s already open.” “Oh.” — Patrick

28 “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.” [locks SpongeBob and Patrick in jail cell and opens it again after a second] “Okay, time’s up. Now get out!” “But … we stole a balloon!” “Yeah, on free balloon day!” — Police & Spongebob

29 “What’s better than serving up smiles” “being dead or anything else.” — Spongebob & Squidward

30 “If I were to die right now in a fiery explosion due to carelessness of a friend ... Then it would just be alright.” — Spongebob

31 “Good people don’t rip other people’s arms off.” — Spongebob

32 “Wow, NAME, I didn’t know you spoke bird.” “No, NAME, that’s Italian.” — Spongebob & Patrick

33 “Isn’t this great NAME? It’s just the 3 of us. You, me, and this brick wall you built between us.” — SpongeBob SquarePants

34 “We shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request.” — Mr. Krabs

35 “That hat makes you look like a girl.” “Am I a pretty girl?!” — Mr. Krabs & SpongeBob

36 “A five letter word for happiness … money.” — Mr. Krabs

37 “NAME, I don't think Wumbo is a real word." "Come on. You know, I wumbo, you wumbo, he/she/me wumbo. Wombology, the study of wumbo! It's first grade NAME!" — Spongebob & Patrick

38 “No one can change a person, but someone can be a reason for that person to change.” – Spongebob

39 “F is for fire that burns down the whole town, U is for Uranium…bombs! N is for no survivors!" — Plankton

40 “The best time to wear a striped sweater …is all the time."

41 “Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died … the end."

42 “Can I be excused for the rest of my life?"

43 “Can I get some extra salt?" “We're all out." “Could you check?" “... No."

44 “It took three days to make that potato salad … three days!!!"

45 “You just CAN'T WAIT for me to die, can you?"

46 “Now he's gonna kick my butt!"

47 "This is not your average, everyday darkness. This is ... ADVANCED darkness."

48 “Too bad NAME isn't here to enjoy NAME not being here." — Squidward

49 “Remember, licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets."

50 “I'm not just ready, I'm ready Freddy!" “It's NAME …"

51 “NAME, don't you have to be stupid somewhere else?" “Not until four."

52 “Who are you people?!"

53 “Are you NAME now? ... That's okay, take your time."

54 “HAHAHAHA THAT GUY GOT HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A COCONUT HAHAHA."

55 “Too bad that didn't kill me."

56 “Bye NAME 1! Bye NAME 2! Bye NAME 1!” “You said bye to NAME 1 twice.” [grins huge, pauses, dreamily] “I liiiike NAME 1.” — Spongebob & Patrick

57 “NAME, bus is here! NAME!” [tries to run up the road] “Ahh! Ahhh! Ahhhh!” — Patrick & Spongebob

58 “If you believe in yourself and with a tiny pinch of magic, all your dreams can come true.” – Spongebob

59 “The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.” – Patrick Star

60 “It’s not always what you say that matters, sometimes it’s what you don’t say.” – Mr. Krabs

#spongebob squarepants quotes #spongebob squarepants prompts #drabble prompts #dialogue prompts #writing prompts #spongebob squarepants #squidward #patrick star #mr krabs #quaratine sucks and making these keeps my mind busy #i live in covid 19 hell

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thuskindlyshescatters · 4 years

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Team RWBY and the Very Long Day

Or maybe... not as long as you’d expect?

When the team reaches Atlas Academy and are brought on a tour, they’re dead tired. Now, as someone who’s gone on a number of college tours myself, I totally can relate. And plus, the team has had a really long day -- Volume 6 Chapter 10 through Volume 7 Chapter 2 have all been the same day.

However, it feels a lot longer for us than it should, since we saw it over a nine-month period, and they only experienced it in a day. But how long was that day specifically?

There’s a couple factors we need to consider: time zones, hour of sunset, flight hours, and actual in-show events. By evaluating this, we will determine: How long of a day were the past 6 chapters of RWBY? Is their exhaustion justified by canon events?

Spoilers, math, and lots of pointless reading below.

I) Time Zone

According to this map (the fifth image) from the second “World of Remnant” short, we get a pretty good approximation of the location of Atlas. Argus is on the U-shaped peninsula a third of the way from Mistral to Atlas. Ideally, time zones would work in 24 hour-wide increments, so assuming there is NOT a huge Pacific-like ocean around Remnant’s back half, there is approximately a two-hour time difference between Argus and Atlas. This means the sun sets on Argus earlier than Atlas -- however, Atlas is further North, so sunset may be earlier for them relative to someone at a lower latitude in their timezone. Additionally, it also means the team may experience around two hours of jet lag upon arrival.

II) Sunset

When the gang arrives in Atlas, it is night time. In Volume 6 Chapter 7, they arrive at Argus in mid-afternoon. Because the next episode’s scenes with Cordovin at the base and Maria in the garden do not have the same warm lighting, we can infer that those took place the next day, sometime during the middle of the day. They receive news that Oscar is missing and begin their search -- however, unless they were searching for him like in Volume 1 Chapter 16 (if you recall, that was 12 hours), it’s likely they were out of the house for no more than 4 hours. From the end of Volume 6 Chapter 8 to the end of Volume 6 Chapter 9 might have been from, call it, 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM -- meaning sunset was sometime within those hours. It is wintertime in the Northern hemisphere of Remnant (quick summary, it’s been about a year since the end of Volume 3 Chapter 12), so assuming they don’t have daylight savings time, this is a pretty reasonable estimate for when the sun would set in a city whose latitude is comparable to that of Paris. If we take a quick look back at Atlas, it is MUCH farther North than Argus, and is pretty much in the Arctic. If we compare map distances, Atlas might as well be in Iceland, as Paris and Reykjavik are 1,396 air miles away from each other. In December in Iceland, the sun sets at around 3:00 to 4:00 PM. Therefore, it is perfectly reasonable that people would still be up and about when it appears to be night time in Atlas.

III) Flight Hours

What this means is that the team, in order to leave Argus during daytime (earlier than 5:30 PM) and to arrive in Atlas during nighttime (later than 4:00 PM) when there is a two-hour time difference between them, it works out to assume that the minimum time a flight on an Atlesian dropship would take from Argus to Atlas would be 4 hours. Even more generous would be to allow them 5 hours, considering the pace of the vehicle.

IV) Events

I’d like to start with the evidence we see in Atlas and work backwards to make a fair assumption about when they arrive in Atlas. The amount of people on the streets and the fact that Dr. Polendina’s pharmacy is open makes me want to believe it’s before 6:00 PM. The Faunus miners we see on the passing vehicle makes me wonder if this is accurate, however, because I would assume the miners would work more unreasonable hours than that. I will chalk this up to be a case of world details being more important to show punctually than consistently. Anyways, if we say it’s 5:30 PM in Atlas when they arrive, then it’s likely 3:30 PM in Argus when they depart (accounting for a 4 hour flight and 2 hour time zone difference.)

Now, for the real numbers:

Ruby’s role in the heist takes place more or less in real time, while Blake and Yang’s excursion with Adam is punctuated by breaks of which we cannot know the duration. Therefore, knowing that Blake and Yang rejoin the group in Volume 6 Chapter 13, I will only recount the “cliff-side” events, as it were, to calculate the duration of the heist itself.

Volume 6 Chapter 10

We have no idea when the heist begins. Cordovin, being a military officer, would probably want Weiss to arrive at a sharp hour, so let’s call that hour “X:00″ o’clock. Based off of our previous calculations, the end of the heist must occur at around 3:30, so depending on their length, this hour could be 3:00 PM. (Spoiler: it totally will be.)

The episode begins on the Rooster Teeth website at 2:08 minutes, and from there it pretty much goes in real time until 4:50, which is the moment when Weiss loses scroll signal with Ruby. Ruby loses signal with Weiss at 6:02, so we can deduce that those next 1:12 minutes of Ruby’s timeline are occurring simultaneously with what we see of Weiss. From the beginning of the heist to when Ruby loses signal is 2:42 minutes in real time (how efficient of Weiss!). From 6:02 to 11:02 is the next realtime sequence, at which point we cut to Blake and Adam, but again, we’ll be ignoring them for now. Now, the heist has been in progress for 7:42 minutes; it is X:07.

Volume 6 Chapter 11

The episode officially begins at 2:08 again. The first scene of them talking lasts until 4:01, when it cuts away from them planning to attack. Let’s be generous and give them 30 unspoken seconds where some offscreen planning occurs, making that first sequence about 2:37 minutes. Then, the sequence continues from 4:01 to 9:44 (no, I’m not counting slow motion because that’s dumb). Then, we cut away again. This episode’s total real-time stacks up to 8:20 minutes. Therefore, the heist has now been occurring for 16:02 minutes, so it’s about X:16 o’clock.

Volume 6 Chapter 12

This episode actually starts at 1:57 -- wow, wild. It runs continuously to 7:25 (no, cutting back and forth between dialogue doesn’t fucking count), making this section 5:28 minutes. We cut away to Bees, but we return to Cordovin at 11:42, pretty much exactly where it left off, and that carries on to the end of the episode at 12:54. The total of the episode comes out to be 6:40 minutes, since the Bees got a lot of murder screentime. We are also now 22:42 minutes into the heist, and it is X:22 o’clock.

Volume 6 Chapter 13

Cinder and Neo take up the first few minutes of screentime, so the episode starts for our main heroes at 3:33. It kind of carries over from the previous episode, but there’s enough fighters in the air that I’ll give them 90 seconds of cushion time to compensate for realism. I will also add 30 seconds between when Weiss says they destroyed the mech to when they’re all in the airship taking flight at 4:21. Since they like skipping time so much for dramatic effect, I’ll add ANOTHER 30 seconds between when Ruby realizes she has to face it alone and they hatch their second plan at 8:39. I’m going to stop the clock at 9:55 because Ruby yells for Jinn and stops time in-universe until her Silver Eyes moment at 11:16, which, while awesome, is the first event that occurs once time speeds back up to normal. So that whole first section, including padding, was 8:52 minutes. Then, from Silver Eyes to the end of this time section when they time skip to their arrival at 13:14 is 1:58. Finally, the episode cuts to credits at 16:51, the last line being “welcome home,” making the total for the episode 14:27.

I’d like to note that the episode was 10:50 minutes before they timeskipped to their arrival, so it was 33:32 minutes into the heist and X:33 when they left for Atlas. We said earlier it would be best if they left at around 3:30 PM, and what do you know: the number works out! We can therefore pretty confidently say the heist began at 3:00 PM, which will be important later.

Volume 7 Chapter 1

That’s right folks, we’re not done! Now in Atlas, it is 5:33 PM, just like we predicted it would be. The line “welcome home” is said at 0:38, where I’ll be starting the clock for this episode, but I’ll add the 3:37 of dialogue that occurred the previous episode. They cut away to some pretty Atlas shots while they descend into the city, so I’ll provide 60 seconds of offscreen time. From there, we stay in real time until they put the ship down, which I’ll again provide another 60 seconds for. After their encounter with the MAGA (Make Atlas Great Again, obvs) hecklers, let’s say they walk for another 60 seconds before reaching Piedro’s pharmacy. Continuing to the end of the episode, it’s pretty continuous, except for the extra 90 seconds I’ll provide for them being loaded into the airship. The realtime total for this episode is 18:24 minutes, so it’s been 4 hours and 51:56 minutes since they began the heist, and it’s now 5:51 PM in Atlas.

Volume 7 Chapter 2

The episode starts at 1:46. Let’s be generous and say they’ve been in the air for 2 minutes so far. The episode plays out pretty much in real time until 15:18 where we enter Penny’s montage, so I’ll add about 3 more minutes of travel time to and from Ironwood’s office within Atlas Academy and account the Ironqrow moment for the time it took offscreen for the rest of the group to start Penny’s tour. Then, because I’ve been on many a college tour myself, I expect they’ll be walking for about 10 minutes before they start to feel like they need to collapse. So, in total, this episode takes 29:02 minutes of real time, bringing the amount of time since the start of the heist to 5 hours and 20:58 minutes, making it now approximately 6:21 PM.

In that time, various members of the team have singlehandedly overwhelmed two Argus soldiers, taken control of an airship, fought brutally with their archnemesis, battled a giant mech, flown into the barrel of a cannon, murdered a man, entered a maelstrom of Grimm, obliterated a behemoth of a Final Boss, taken a 4 hour flight, fought an onslaught of new Grimm, reunited with former besties, sisters, and colleagues alike, been arrested, and worst of all gone on a college campus tour.

V) Conclusions

I don’t think the team is suffering from that much jetlag, but I’d definitely be exhausted with that much happening even if it was only 8:21 PM in “my time.” (International travel takes a lot out of you, man.) Additionally, they probably got up earlier in the day (maybe around 9:00 AM, Argus time, if it was a lazy morning), so at this point, they’ve been awake for 11 hours, assuming no one took a nap on the airship.

However, I was surprised to find that even though all 6 of these episodes happened in one day, the actual heist part took only 33 minutes, and their first day in Atlas was about 47 minutes, maybe actually longer. That means that a LOT of the bullshit I listed above was packed into 33 minutes, and the remaining time stretched out over a leisurely hour or so. This post also was made on 11/09, so it might even happen that the next episode CONTINUES this exhausting day, in which case, expect an update.

TLDR: In conclusion, the team deserves to be tired AF because of all the crazy stuff that’s happened to them today. However, they were not awake for an exceptionally long time, nor did the events in Argus actually take up much of their day, much to my surprise.

What was the point of this again?

#rwby #rwby7 #rwby spoilers #this was fun :D #why did I do it tho :DDDD #I could have been posting about something people actually cared about :DDDDDDD #8DDDDDDDDD

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lukeskywalking · 4 years

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Rules: Answer twenty questions and then tag twenty bloggers you want to get to know better.

Tagged by: @party-like-a-brockstar thank u 5′10 queen

1. Name: Gwendolyn

2. Nickname: I mean I go by Gwen. Gwennie is most widely used among family while Gween is most common among my friends

3. Zodiac Sign: Cancer lol

4. Height: 5′2″ :(

5. Languages: English, a wee bit of German

6. Nationality: American

7. Favorite Season: I can find things to love about all the seasons but my favorite is late Spring & Summer.

8. Favorite Flower: I like daisies and stargazer lilies

9. Favorite Scent: petrichor, coffee, strawberries !

10. Favorite Color: the other colors WISH they were as top-tier as pink is

11. Favorite Animal: weirdly specific but I love chickadees. and foxes

12. Favorite Fictional Characters: Luke Skywalker is my main bitch. Steve Rogers and Peter Parker as well

13. Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate: Coffee but it has to have something in it, I can’t even drink it if it’s only got cream and sugar. Mocha is my favorite.

14. Average Hours Sleep: bruv......don’t go there

15. Dog or Cat Person: both! I have a dog named Brady and I want a kitty so badly

16. Number of Blankets You Sleep With: 2-3 depending where I am and what season it is

17. Dream Trip: uh I mean I guess I wanna go to Europe but everybody says that. I wanna go to the village in Italy where my ancestors are from and I wanna go to Ireland as well.

18. Blog Established: I cannot believe I’ve had this fucking shit account since 2012. I cannot believe it. Why am I still here

19. Follower Count: just recently surpassed 1,000. Take that as you will considering it only took me 8 shitty fucking painstaking years

20. Random Fact: oh shit uh idk I have a coldplay tattoo ig??

tagging: uhhhh anyone who wants to !!!

#hell yea #shut up gwen

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kyungsoopilates · 5 years

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THIS TOOK WAY TOK LONG I’ve been working on this for like 3 days i keep GETTING SIDETRACKED

85 Questions

Rulserinos: Answer these 85 statements about yourself and tag 20 people. (das a lot)

I was tagged by @vroomvroombaek 😭 i lOve you too wow hI 👋🏾

Last...

1. Drink: Kiwi strawberry Sparkling Ice (gud shit right here im telling you)

2. Phone call: my momma

3. Text message: a friend

4. Song u listened to: Cherry Bomb 🍒 💣

5. Time you cried: uhhh like two weeks ago

6. Dated someone twice: I m pure ive never dated anyone

7. Kissed someone and regretted it: ^ see the last one

8. Been cheated on: ^ 🤷🏾‍♀️

9. Lost someone special: 🤔 don’t remember

10. Been depressed: not to be depressing but depression is a constant thing 🏃🏾‍♀️ can’t get away from bitch shes clingy af

11. Gotten drunk and thrown up: ooooooh boi I love a good margarita, never got piss faced enough to throw up tho sorry

Fav Colours..

12. LavENDER

13. ROYAL BLUE

14. whiTe and just pastel soft colours

In the last year have you?...

15. Made new friends: yah

16. Fallen out if love: nope

17. Laughed until i cried: i laugh until I can’t breathe never cried 😂

18. Found out somebody was talking about you: nobody but my momma

19. Met someone who changed you: not in the last year more like last 3

20. Found out who your real friends are: ^

21. Kissed someone on your facebook list: did i mention im p u r e

General...

22. How many of your Facebook friends do you know irl: like 75%

23. Do you have any pets?: no :(

24. Do you want to change your name?: kinda... nObody calls me by my real name except my parents occasionally

25. What did you do for your last birthday?: i think i got drunk i forgot

26. What time did you wake up today?: 11am

27. What were you doing at midnivht last night? Sleeping 😂 scandalous

28. What is something you can’t wait for?: my next pay check 🤭

29. What are you listening to rn: my shower 🚿

30. When was the last time you saw your mom: half an hour ago

31. Ever talked to a person named tom: yep yep i have a friend named Tom

32. Name something that gets on your nerves: people who fail to realise how much their words and actions can affect other peoples spirits 🌞

33. Most visited website: tumblr 🤷🏾‍♀️

34. Hair colour: dark brown

35. Long or short hair: my hair is short but i like it long

36. Do you have a crush on someone: nope

37. What do you like about yourself: myyyy mental strength?

38. Want any piercings: i want my nostril redone, Kinda want a medusa as well

39. Blood type: A+

40. Nicknames: from my family its Bird 🦅 and my friends call me Stan/Stanny

41. Relationship status: single

42. Zodiac: Aries sun, Pisces Moon and mercurY

43. Pronouns: she/her

44. Fav tv shows: Stranger things, any kind of space documentary or those horror ghost story shows

45. Tattoos: i have a cross on my wrist, im not super religious just cause. Hoping to get a sternum tat eventually

46. Right or left handed: righty

47. Surgeries: had one last year in October, had my gallbladder removed

48. Piercings? My ears and my septum :)

49. Sport: gross, tennis is cool tho

50. Vacation: 😤😔 I don’t GET VACATION I HARDLY LEAVE MY H O U S E

51. Trainers 👟: Puma or Nike mostly ooor Adidas I really want some Fila Disruptors 😭

52. Eating: none

53. Drinking: watahhh

54. Im about to watch: myself be locked out my house for an hour (I DONT HAVE MY KEY IM AVTUALLY IN MY C A R)

55. Waiting for: CHRISTMAS 🎄

56. Want: to move outta my family apartment

57. Get married: yus

58. Career: something related to art or graphic design

59. Hugs or kisses: h u g s

60. Lips or eyes: lips and TEETH im awful at eye contact so beware of your teeth and breath 😂😭

61. Shorter or taller: i guess taller but not TOO tall

62. Older or younger: 😈...jk definitely older i cant deal with the youngins now a days

63. Nice arms or stomach: if you can’t snap my neck with your bare hands I don’t want chu🤷🏾‍♀️

64. Hookup or relationship: relationship

65. Trouble marker or hesitant: hesitant for the rest of my life 😔

Have you ever...

66. Kissed a stranger: uhh

67. Drank hard liquor: yep

68. Lost glasses: lots

69. Turned someone down: no

70. Sex on the first date: im p u r e

71. Broken someones heart: probably my parents tbh

72. Had your heartbroken: mmm kinda

73. Been arrested: not yet

74. Cried when someone died: yep 👍🏾

75. Fallen for a friend: 🙃

Do you believe in..

76. Yourself: 😃 to an extent yes

77. Miracles: yayaya

78. Love at first sight: nah

79. Santa 🎅🏾: the concept is nice but no

80. Kiss on the first date: cheEk kiss 😙

81. Angles: sure

Other...

82. Best friends name: Lamiae (Don’t ask me how you pronounce that because its been 3 years and a still canNot)

83. Eye colour: brown

84. Favourite movie: not a huge movie person but i gotta say 형 one of the only movies ive sat and watched more than once

85. Favourite actor: 제 아이가 도경수 😭 my baby b o i

And i ill taggggg

@cherrysooda @monicaexol @kyungsoobery @kyungsoorose @spicydyo I Licherally blanked as soon as it was tome to tagged so everybody else yall do it too.

#i was literallt locked out of my apartment writing this ag some point #i got back in eventuallY #mine

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hockeyisreligion · 6 years

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Trades

Authors note: this was posted on my hockey fan fiction website : captaincrosbyy

Sighing, I run my hands through my hair slightly pulling for what seems like the hundredth time in the past hour. The past couple months at work have been very hard on me and the troubles with my relationship have not helped. I have been dating Dallas Stars defence man Jordie Benn for the past three years and we have one dog together, Juice. Lately, Jordie and I have been under a lot of stress, the team has been underachieving HARD and I recently started in a higher position at work. This has been putting a massive strain on our relationship now that I barely ever see Jordie and when I do we are either fighting or not even talking. We fight mostly about me never being home when he is because of my work schedule or we fight about me saying the wrong thing about the team that sends Jordie off in a huff. Earlier I would have ran after him when he went downstairs to fix things but now I am so tired of fighting that I will just sit in the nook looking out the window wondering where things went wrong and praying that we would be able to fix this.

If you had asked me 4 months ago if Jordie were to propose would I say yes, and I would have told you in a heart beat. But after these past months of constant fighting and then the silent treatment, I don’t know if I could tell you I would have the same answer. I believe Jordie is it for me, and is the love of my life but I value myself too much to let Jordie treat me like shit and not do anything about it. Since Jordie and I started dating, my job had always been a touchy subject for him. I work at a book publishing company mainly reading manuscripts and meeting with authors to finalize their work. This requires A LOT of my time and that cut into the time I had with Jordie. During my time in the WAG’s room at the Stars games I noticed not many of the wives or girlfriends have careers and I think Jordie wanted that for me too. Well it was the opposite of what I wanted, I love my job and it brings me so much happiness and enjoyment with my adult life that I feel like I would go crazy not having it. Jordie wanted me to go to every single home game, be there to make him pre game dinners before every game, be able to take off on quick vacations when the team get time off, and spend his off days laying in bed. But that was not the case with me, I was focused on my job and furthering my career to see that was what Jordie wanted. I guess this was his breaking point and I was too tired to fight for us.

My assistant drops 5 more manuscripts off to my desk and informs me that they need to be read and briefed all for tomorrow’s meetings. I smile politely and she leaves my office closing the door behind her. “This is seriously what I need right now” I mutter to myself. Eyeing the clock on my desktop I see that it is 5:17 and remember that I promised Jordie that I would go to his game tonight. I was trying but as time was running out and I still had 3 manuscripts left I soon realized I have left Jordie down and once again picked work over him. Its 7:10 when I leave the office still having 2 more manuscripts to look over before tomorrow, figuring I will do it after the game and head to my car to race to American Airlines Centre to try and get to see some of the first period.

I check my phone for what seems to be all day to see 12 missed calls and 7 missed texts. 2 from Jordie, 4 from Jamie, and 1 from Katie (Jamie’s girlfriend). I panic thinking that Jordie was hurt during the game and quickly look at the Jordie texts.

I got traded. Now this is when my world flipped upside down and I stare at the three words that make me want to vomit.

I have to leave for Montreal tonite, call me when u get this. Jordie sent me that at 2:30 THIS AFTERNOON. I can’t breathe while I dial Jordie’s number hoping he hasn’t left yet.

“Hi you have reached Jordie, I can’t get to answering your call right now, but if you leave a message I will be sure to get back to you as soon as possible.” FUCK I scream tears brimming my eyes.

I open Jamie’s texts next.

I’m so sorry Ellie, call me

Jordie will need u

I know things haven’t been good lately, but he will need u

Jordie flies out at 7. Was the last text I received from the Benn brother. I don’t bother looking at Katie’s text I just head in the direction of Jordie and I’s house. Speeding, tears streaming down my face I get to my house in record time. Jordie’s truck is gone, lights off, the house looks dead, abandoned and I don’t get out of my jeep right away. Hoping and praying that Jordie for some reason is still here and not on a plane moving away from me, to a different country.

I can’t bring myself to open the door of my jeep I just sit there crying, wondering why this happened to Jordie and I. Finally after what seemed like 10 minutes, I slowly get out of my car and head to the front door. I can hear Juice whining from behind the door already so when I open the door he runs circles through my legs.

“Hey buddy.” I reach down to pet him and he ends up jumping up to give me a kiss. All the lights are turned off in the house except one over top of the sink in the kitchen. It illuminates the paper left out on the counter and I feel myself being pulled toward the kitchen. I take a deep breathe when I see Jordie’s terribly, scribbled handwriting filling the page.

My hands tremble as I go out to grab it and slide down the counter, my bum hitting the floor and immediately being swarmed by Juice before he figures out I am okay and sits beside me.

Dear Ellie,

I can not imagine whats going through your head right now. (Same here Jordie I think) By the sounds of it, your phone was turned off all day at work and you were heading to the arena to find out that I have been traded. Or you worked late and are now shocked to find this. Either way I hope you come to terms with what happened because I don’t know when I will. I’m looking around at the life I have in Dallas and in the matter of a phone call it has all been taken away from me. The past couple months have been rough on both of us and I take full responsibility for that El. I resented you because you had something that was other then me. I only have hockey and you and for one of my things to almost be taken away from me was a hard pill to swallow. Yes I wish you worked less but I will have to get over that if I want to be with you.

I wish I knew what you were thinking Ellie so I could help you cope in a way. I know your job is super important to you, mine is too. But you are the most important thing in my life and it took me being traded to figure that out. I cannot ask you to give up your job because as much as I love you, I don’t know if I would be able to do the same for you. Yes that is very hypocritical, yes I just said you were the most important thing in my life and then said I would choose my job over you. But this is where I am at right now. I want the best for you in life and if that means us separating ways I will have to deal with that. I want to be selfish and ask you to give up your job and everything in Dallas to come with me but what kind of person would I be if I did that? A terrible one? YES.

I know I am all over the place in this note but well I can’t even seem to think straight. I am somewhat hoping that this is all a dream or I am being punked but Ashton Kutcher hasn’t came out yet and my flight leaves way too soon.

But I leave you with this. Montreal could be a city for us where we could both start over. In Montreal, I am not Jamie Benn’s brother or the bearded Benn brother. In Montreal, I will be Jordie Benn, defence man for the Montreal Canadiens. I will be writing my own story with one of the most historic franchises ever. We could start over, leave all the shit of the past months behind us in Dallas and sell that house because to me it was never a home. We could find a real HOME in Montreal, one that we love and we build together and Juice could run around in. We could start our family there and you could find a job there that is better then the one in Dallas. Hell baby you could start your own publishing company, I will help you. Give us another chance and I will PROMISE until the day I die that I will show you and tell you how much I truly love you everyday and that our love is worth so much more then what we have been going through.

I also need to tell you this. Stay in Dallas, keep Juice, keep the apartment, I don’t care and live out your dream with this job. You worked so hard to get there and I don’t resent you for a second for choosing your job over me. If this is what your leaning towards, please do not let me slow you down or hold you back from your dreams and the endless potential you have. I’m sure you will find someone that will give you all of your dreams that I couldn’t. I know there is someone out there that can do this for you Ellie. I KNOW because I thought I was that person, but if the last few months were any indicator I realized I am not. I am the most selfish person when it comes to my life and you are the complete opposite. I treated you like shit the past months and I am forever sorry about that and I completely understand if this is the end of the road for us.

I love you more then you know.

Don’t ever be a stranger,

Jordie.

#hockey imagines #nhl imagines #go habs go #canadiens #jordie benn

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princesswinnifred · 6 years

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i have not done one of these in a very long time but i have had too much caffeine today and i’m feeling particularly Share-y so here’s this

1. The last person you kissed screams they love you, you say… i straight up do not know who the last person i kissed was and not bc i’m a big ho it’s because the last time i kissed someone it was for performance art so idk how to answer this

2. Did you get to sleep in today? yes i did and i regret it

3. Do you never know what you got until you lose it? like yes, absolutely, that’s why it’s a cliche

4. Do you have siblings? yes i have a younger brother

5. How many kids do you want? like two probably

6. Who was the last person you held hands with? it was likely marin from chais or someone else really touchy

7. Did you stand on your tippy-toes for your last kiss? no i was seated

8. Do you think if you died, the last person you kissed would care? idk who it was but i HOPE so

9. Last person to talk on the phone? my dad

10. Did anyone watch the last time you kissed someone? nope, by design

11. When’s your birthday? september 14

12. Remember the first time you kissed the last person you kissed? omg can we can it with the last person i kissed questions i do not know who it was

13. What kind of phone do you have? iphone 7+

14. Are you watching jeans, shorts, sweatpants, or pajama pants? i am not wearing any pants

15. Are you a different person now than you were 5 years ago? very different!!!! i just copy-pasted this question thing from somewhere where i did it five years ago and my answers are very different

16. What were you doing at 4am? i was ASLEEP

17. Would you rather write a paper or give a speech? give a speech but i don’t mind either

18. Are you lying to yourself about something? probably lol aren’t we all always doing that

19. Last night you felt…? not great

20. What’s something you cannot wait for? my friends to come home from europe/hang out with me!!!!

21. Ever told your parents you were going somewhere but went somewhere different? probably

22. How many hours of sleep did you get last night? like ten

23. Are you a morning or a night person? night

24. What did you get your last bruise from? it’s a MYSTERY as per usual

25. Do you reply to all of your texts? yeah compulsively

26. Your phone is ringing. It’s the person you fell hardest for. What do you do? i’d be like “this is bizarre bc i have not heard from this person in like three years” but i’d answer?

27. Did your last kiss take place in/on a bed? nope

28. Anyone you would like to get things straight with? yeah!!!!!! absolutely yeah

29. How many months until your birthday? four!!! twenty-fun baby

30. Favorite thing to eat with peanut butter? chocolate!!!!!

31. Did you like this past summer? last summer was pretty good

32. What were you doing before you got on the computer? i watched inside llewyn davis with my parents

33. Your ex is sitting next to you, with their new partner. What do you do? i’d be like “WHY DON’T YOU HAVE A FACEBOOK???”

34. Last thing you said out loud? “goodnight”

35. Your mood summed into one word? vibrating

36. Are you doing anything else besides taking this survey? nope

37. What are your initials? SJL

38. Are you a happy person? nope but that’s okay

39. Do you still talk to the person you liked four months ago? four months ago i didn’t really Like anyone

40. Where do you want to live when you’re older? new york probably, idk a city with cool theatre

41. Have you had your birthday this year? nope

42. What did you do yesterday? i worked and had a miserable time interviewing the director of this show and then i drove home and it took me forever and then i watched high school musical theatre awards with my parents

43. What will you be doing tomorrow? idk hopefully something that makes me feel productive

44. How late did you stay up last night? i prob fell asleep around 2

45. Is there anyone you would do anything for? yeah for sure

46. Is it hard to make you laugh? not at all

47. Do you believe exes can be just friends? idk it depends on the circumstances of the breakup but probably yes

48. Do you think any of your exes will eventually want to be with you again? no lol

49. How many people have you had feelings for in the year of 2012? like 2.5 cause one of them wasn’t serious at all (im keeping the 2012 answer bc in my mind it’s only one but 2012 sarah knows the sitch better than 2018 sarah does)

50. Do you wish your ex was dead? no!

51. Have you ever dyed your hair? yes

52. Would you ever take back someone who cheated? i don’t think so

53. Was New Year’s Eve enjoyable? yeah i love new year’s!!!

54. Bet you’re missing someone right now? yep!!!!! always in the summer especially

55. How would your parents react if you got a tattoo? well i did get a tattoo and my mother did not speak to me for a while but my dad was fine

56. Sleep on your back or stomach? side

57. If you could move away, no questions asked, where would it be? london probably

58. What would you change about your life right now? i’d be more confident and i’d have a well-paying job

59. Has anything upset you in the past week? yeah obviously who do you think i am

60. Are you on the phone? nope

61. Today, would you rather go forward or back a week? forward

62. Would you take $40,000 or a brand new car? 40k are u kidding

63. Have you ever talked to someone when they were high? hundreds of times

64. Ever cried when you were on the phone with someone? absolutely

65. Have you ever copied somebody else’s homework? yes lol

66. Are you the type of person who likes to be out or at home? at home!!!! but out on specific occasions

67. Do you automatically check your phone when you wake up? yes

68. Have you ever stayed up all night on the phone? close to

69. Could you use some sleep right now? yes absolutely

70. Are you going to have a baby by the time you’re 18? i am 20 and i didn’t

71. Does it bother you when someone hides things from you? it sure does

72. What’s your favorite color? pink

73. Have you ever slept in the same room with someone you liked? yes

74. Have you ever been looking for something and it was already in your hand? constantly

75. Do you get annoyed easily? i do

76. If someone liked you, would you want them to tell you? lol it totally depends

77. Do you have a person of the opposite sex you can tell everything to? yes

78. Does anyone call you babe? no THANKS

79. How many people of the opposite sex do you fully trust? two or three

80. What do you prefer, relationship or one night stand? relationship!!!!

81. What color hoodie did you wear last? maroon

82. Is there someone who meant a lot to you at one point and isn’t around anymore? yep

#about me #this is a lot of nothing #but yeah

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20210117 U Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea

20201005 월요일 Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea I remeber everything from when we first went together.

His hope and his confidence had never gone.

He was too simple to wonder when he had atteined humility.

20201006 T Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea. Once there had been a tinted photograph of his wife on the wall but he had taken it down because it made him too lonely to see it.

20201007 W Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea. Why do old men wake so early? is it to have one longer day?

he was asleep in a short time and he dreamed of Africa when he wa sa bdoy and the long golden beaches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and high capes and the great brown mountains. He lived along that coast now every night and in his dreams he heard the surf roar and saw the native boats come riding through it. He smelled the tar and oakum of the deck as he slept and he smelled the smell of Africa that the land breeze brought at morning.

Usually when he smelled the land breeze he woke up and dressed to go and wkae the boy.

20201008 R Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea. he was shivering with the morning cold 그는 아침 추위에 몸을 떨고 있었다.

But he knew he would shiver himself warm and that soon he would be rowing. 하지만 그는 노를 젓기 시작하면 따뜻해질걸 알았다.

He was sleepy and the old man pu his arm across his shoulders and said, I am sorry. 그는 졸렸고 노인은 소년 어깨에 팔을 두루고 말했다. 미안하구나

"Que va" the boy said. 전혀요 it is what a man must do. 이거는 남자가 해야되는 거에요.

20201009 F Ernest. Hemingway. The old man and the sea. The sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the other boats, low on the water and well in toward the shore, spread out across the current. Then the sun was brighter and the glare came on the water and then, as it rose clear, the flat sea sent it back at his eyes so that it hurts sharply and he rowed without looking into it.

20201011 U Eenest Hemingway. The old man and the sea. He watched his lines to see them go steatight down out of sight into the water and he was happy to see so much plankton because it meant fish. The strange light the sun made in the water, now that the sun was higher, meant good weather and so did the shape of the clouds over the land.

20201012 M Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea IF the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy, he said aloud. But since I am not crazy, I do not care. And the rich have radios to talk to them in their baots and to bring them the baseball.

20201013 T Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea This will kimm him, the old man thought. He can't do this forever. But four hours later the fish was still swimming steadily out to sea, towing the skiff, and the old man wasstill braced solidly with the lion across his back.

20201014 W Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea. That makes no difference, he thought. I can always come in on the glow from Havana. there ar ettwo more hours before teh sun sets and maybe he will come up before that . If he doesn't maybe hewil lcome up with hte moon. If he does not do that maybe he will come up with the sunrise. I have no cramps and I feel strong. It is he that has the hook in his mouth. But what a fish to pull like that. He must have his mouth shut tight on the wire. Iwish I could see him.

20201015 R Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea When the sun had risen further the old man realized that the fish was not tiring. There was only one favorable sing. The slant of the line showed he was swimming at a lesser depth. That did not necessarily mean that he would jump. But he might

20201019 M Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea Fish he said. I love you and respect you very much,. But I will kill you dead before this day ends. Let us hope so, he thought

20201020 T Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea. He straightened up, wiping his hand on his trousers. Now he said. You can let the cord go, hand, and I will handle him with the right arm alone until you stop that nonsense. He put his left foot on the heavy line that the left hand held and lay back against the pull against his back.

20201021 W Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea. He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he mad his run. If i were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.

20201025 U 4:53 PM Ernest Hemingweay. The old man and the sea. Once in the afternoon the line started to rise again. But the fish only continued to swim at a slightly higher level. The sun was on the old man's left arm and shoulder and on his back. So he knew the fish had turned east of north.

20201026 M 1:21 PM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea. Then he bagan to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old he is he though. Never have I had such a strong fish nor one who acted so strangely. Perhaps he is too wise to jump. He culd ruin me by jumping or by a wild rush

20201108 U 5:03 PM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea. He hasnt changed at all He said But waching the movement of the water against his hand he noted that it was perceptibly slower

20201110 T 3:12 PM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea He did not truly feel good because the pain from the cord across his back had almost passed pain and gone into a dullness that he mistrusted. But I have had worse thing sthan that, he thought. My hand is only cut a little and the cramp is gone from the other.

2020112 R 3:24 PM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea. He held teh light tight in his right hand and then pushed his thigh against his right hand as he leaned all his weight against the wood of the bow. then he passed the line a little lower on his shoulders and braced his left hand on it.

20201115 U 11:29 AM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea He could not see the fish's jumps but only heard the breaking of the ocean. and the heavy splash as he fell. The speed of the line was cutting his hands badly but he had always known this would happend and he tried to keep the cutting across the calloused parts and not elt the line slip into the palm nor cute the fingers

20201116 M 5:16 PM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea Why was I not born with two good hands? he thought. Perhaps it was my fault in not training that one properly. But God knows he has had enough chance sto learn. He did not do so badly in the night though

20201117 T 10:42 AM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea

It was a great temtptation to rest in the bow and let the fish make one circle by himself without reoering any line. but when the strain showed the fish had truned to come toward the boat, the old man rose to his feet and strated the pivoting and the seaving pulling that brought in all the line he gained.

20201118 W 11:53 AM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea But I must ge him close, close, close, he thought. I mustnt try for the head. I must get the heart. Be calm and strong, old man, he said On the next circle the fish's back was out but he was a little too far from the boat. On the next circle he was still too far away but he was higher out of water and the old man was sure that by gaining some more line he could have him alongside

2020119 R 2:18 PM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea He looked up at the sky and then out to his fish. He looked at the sun carefully. It is not much more than noon, he thought. And the grade wind is rising. The lines all mean nothing now. The boy and I will splice them when we are home

20201123 M 8:29 PM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea He could see the fish and he had only to look at his hands and feel his back against the stern to know that this had truly happened and was not a dream. At one time when he was feeling so badly toward the end, he had thought perhaps it was dream. Then when he had seen the fish come out of the water and hang motionless in the sky before he fell, he wa ssure there was some great strangeness and he could not believe it

20201126 R 11:49 PM Ernest Hemingway. The old mand and the sea The old man's head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. It was too good to last, he thought. He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in. It might as weel has been a dream, he thought. I cannot keep him from hittingme butmaybe I can get him. Dentuso, he thought. Bacd luck to your mother.

20201128 S 12:14 PM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea. He took about forty pounds. The old man said aloud. He took my harpoon too and all the rope, he thought, and now my fish bleeds again and there will be others

20201129 U 10:29 AM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea But he liked to think about all things that he was involved in and since there was nothing to read and he did not have a radio, he thought much and he kept on thinking about sin. You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to seel for food, he thought. You killed him for pride an dbecause you aare a fisherman. You loved him when he was avlie and you loved him after .If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. or is it more?

20201130 M 6:41 PM The old man withdrew the blade and puche the shark exactly in the same spot again. H still hung to the fish with his jaws hooked and the old man stabbed him in his left eye. The shark still hung there.

20201201 T 9:34 AM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea Now they have beaten me, he thought. I am too old to club sharks to death. But I will try it as long as I have the oars and the short club and the tiller.

20201202 W 1:27 PM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea He did not want to look at the fish. He knew that half of him had been destroyed. The sun had gone down while he had been in the fight with the sharks.

20201203 R 12:14 PM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea In the night sharks hit the carcass as someone might pick up crumbs from the table. The old man paid no attention to them and did not pay attention to anything except steering. He only noticed how lightly and how weel the skiff sailed now there was no great weight beside her

20201204 F 6:12 PM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea

it was then he knew the depth of his tiredness.

20201205 S 1:05 PM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea He was eighteen feet from nose to tail, the fisherman who was measuring called

20210117 U 4:04 PM Ernest Hemingway. The old man and the sea. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions

#오숙문고 #ErnestHemingway Theoldmandandthesea

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1. god I can’t believe I’m watching this again 2. WHY ARE THE EPISODES SO LONG 3. IT’S ARIE WHAT COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN

4. “how’s everyone feeling today?” “i’m emotionally and physically drained” this is me every morning

5. if i had to go on a group date with krystal i would absolutely find a way to accidentally punch her in the throat 6. i like tia she just runs around making noises 7. the fuck is a glob 8. THE KISSING BANDIT god i hate this man 9. if someone surprised me with a wrestling date i’d kill myself 10. OMG IS ALISON BRIE HERE 11. the fuck it’s not even alison brie 12. oh they’re like the real wrestlers lmao 13. i have no idea what bekah's personality is

14. wrestler lady: “who wants it?” tia: *raises her hand but only like, a little bit*

15. arie was talking and my mom said from across the room “what are you watching it’s putting me to sleep” 16. lauren b is just standing in the corner laughing i’m dying 17. oh my god she’s just… insulted bibiana’s name? 18. WHAT IS HAPPENING

19. wrestler lady: “I could take you down right now!” tia: “i would let you”

20. bekah’s gonna beat the shit out of them 21. the girls are literally crying 22. IMAGINE GOING ON A DATE WHERE THE ENTIRE PREMISE WAS THAT YOU WERE GOING TO GET BULLIED 23. i really wish alison brie was here 24. shut the fuck up bekah go call your mom 25. “has anyone even watched WWE?” literally no 26. i love tia 27. tia winning would be justice for raven 28. BIBIANA IN A DINOSAUR MASK 29. i want chris harrison to beat the shit out of arie 30. i don’t even remember who kenny is

31. bring back peter

32. who is the lunch lady 33. imagine having to pretend to fall in love with arie 34. oh my god what is HAPPENING 35. imagine losing to krystal 36. LMAO KRYSTAL IS LITERALLY BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF THIS GIRL 37. is this… porn 38. i think this is porn 39. aw i love tia and bibiana 40. every time arie speaks i want to fast forward

41. i’m trying to snapchat arie and krystal but i can’t get a clear enough shot of their faces because all they’re doing is kissing really grossly 42. oh my god 43. snapchat makes this show so much better

44. “he’s fucking awesome” yeah ok tia 45. WHY DOES ARIE JUST KISS EVERYONE 46. “i have a feeling i’ll be on that one on one date because he knows i’m a mom” god in all my krystal hatred i forgot how awful chelsea was 47. i cannot tell any of the laurens apart

48. “and i just feel like these girls are living in a false reality” oh my god she’s CLINICAL

49. HAHAHAH HE GAVE IT TO BEKAH 50. SUCK A DICK, KRYSTAL 51. she’s just SMILING THROUGH THE PAIN 52. LIKE THE PSYCHOPATH SHE IS

53. is krystal literally just going around the house talking to the other girls about how strong her connection with arie is…

54. “this is a very Lauren S. date” - lauren S

55. “i like to go to bed early” of course you do arie you’re like 60

56. hulu isn’t working and i feel like this is a message from god 57. ugh no it’s back

58. “i feel like you’re a little bit of a wine connoisseur.” “no i just like drinking wine.” the most relatable arie has ever been

59. SHE’S JUST RAMBLING 60. SHE’S BEEN RAMBLING FOR PROBABLY AN HOUR 61. SHE JUST KEEPS TALKING 62. LAUREN S PLEASE STOP TALKING 63. she’s literally talking so much that arie is actually eating

64. “how is ‘ruff’ spelled?” “r-u-f-f” *everyone SCREAMS*

65. THERE IS A TRAUMATIC SITUATION FOR EVERY EVENT ON THIS SHOW

66. he’s NOT GIVING HER THE ROSE 67. I’M SO UNCOMFORTABLE 68. THIS IS THE WORST THING I’VE EVER SEEN 69. god that was awful 70. ugh i liked her 71. or at least like… i didn’t hate her 72. why is krystal talking about her like she died 73. dear god SHUT!!!!! UP!!!!!!!

74. “stop being so condescending to everybody because you like, met his dog.” CAROLINE FOR PRESIDENT

75. how is it only 9:00 i feel like I’ve been watching this episode for six years 76. tag yourself i’m the blonde bitch jumping up and down when arie even vaguely alludes to a dog 77. when does unReal come back 78. THESE DOGS ARE SO TALENTED 79. my dog can’t even walk without falling down

80. LMAO WAIT IS ANNALIESE 81. IS SHE THE ONE WITH THE BUMPER CAR ISSUES TOO 82. who PUT THESE FLASHBACKS TOGETHER 83. “AND I ALMOST LOST MY EYE,” SHE SAYS AS A CRYING BABY SCREAMS IN SEPIA

84. bibiana signs off from her prayer with “love you bye!!”

85. “we have just a random girl who’s walked up as well” same 86. i would just hold my dog and pet him 87. why is annalise so enthusiastic about poop 88. she’s really owning it though 89. how are there still so many girls left i only know like six of them 90. omg I can’t wait for chelsea to go home 91. her poor child is going to have to watch this someday

92. “dogs are so cute” wow arie is full of gold tonight 93. “i have never had the opportunity for someone to respect me for who i am” ok chelsea 94. i wonder what arie is thinking about at any given time 95. “the last time you said you were in love was five years ago on this show. tell me more about that.” do you really think that’s the best topic of conversation here

96. i wonder if arie is stoned or if he just naturally looks like that

97. omg annalise stop complaining and just go talk to him 98. ten years from now someone’s gonna say the word bachelor and she’s gonna have flashbacks to THIS traumatic moment 99. HE JUST KEEPS KISSING PEOPLE 100. it’s never a good sign when the dude says “so how do you think things are going” 101. he’s so not into her 102. that was painful 103. poor annaliese 104. she deadass got her coat on LMAO

105. HE CAN’T HOLD A CONVERSATION AND JUST SLOWLY MOVES HIS FACE CLOSER TO THE OTHER GIRL THE ENTIRE TIME UNTIL THEY STOP TALKING TO KISS

106. THIS IS THE WORST I HATE HIM!!!!!!

107. “today was really fun. i loved today. today was such a cool day. it was amazing.” - literally a sentence that arie just said

108. maybe he is super stoned 109. how dare they show me a black panther commercial and then make me go back to watching the bachelor 110. who does bekah look like 111. she looks like someone

112. BIBIANA SET THE ENTIRE THING UP AND HE JUST TOOK THIS BLONDE BITCH OUT HERE 113. I’M SCREAMING 114. LMAO WHAT THE FUCK 115. WHO MANIPULATED THIS SITUATION INTO EXISTENCE 116. WHERE IS QUINN KING!!!!! 117. SHE’S GOING TO SEE THEM KISSING BECAUSE WHAT ELSE DOES ARIE DO 118. “he’s with lauren b on my setup” i would literally cry 119. THE DEVIL IS WROKING OT 120. HE’S TAKING EVERY FUCKING GIRL TO IT 121. I’M SCREAMING!!!!!!!!!!! 122. THIS MAN IS SUCH TRASH LMAO!!!!!!

123. EVERY SINGLE TIME HE TAKES A NEW GIRL OUT THERE HE’S LIKE LMAO I DON’T KNOW WHO SET THIS UP BUT ISN’T IT NICE? LET’S KISS!!

124. AHH!!!!!!!! 125. annaliese is gonna force him to kiss her

126. he got tia HAY BALES AND MOONSHINE 127. I’M SCREAMING WHAT HTE FUCK IS THIS SHOW 128. SHE’S TALKING AND HE’S JUST 129. SLOWLY MOVING HIS FACE TO HER 130. MOUTH OPEN

131. i hope they checked him for herpes

132. the bitch smiling because annaliese hasn’t kissed him 133. he’s going to send annaliese home right now isn’t he 134. this is so uncomfortable because she’s like BEGGING him to kiss her 135. i’ve never seen arie REFUSE to kiss someone 136. this is awful 137. he said no and i gasped 138. that was literally the most dramatic thing that’s happened this entire season 139. this is so dumb

140. you know annaliese and bibiana are going home because he deadass has sought out EVERY OTHER GIRL TONIGHT to stick his tongue down their throats one last time

141. arie is definitely lowkey racist 142. why does he make jokes that 11 year old boys would make 143. if i never see arie kiss another human it will be too soon 144. aw bye annaliese 145. “bye ladies,” she says, crying 146. WHO SAID SHE’S KIDDING 147. “i don’t know what this man is thinking” but literally everyone watching does 148. god shut up krystal

149. “i feel really confident, but also i don’t have a rose,” she says, BEFORE THE ROSE CEREMONY

150. “i had to make one hard decision” arie you’ve sent two girls home 151. the camera zoomed in on krystal when he saw the word wife dear god 152. OH HER NAME IS KENDALL? I like her 153. why did only one girl walk up when he said lauren 154. there are like at least four laurens left 155. bye bib 156. LMAO WAIT DOES HE EVEN KNOW SHE SET UP THE DAY BED 157. he definitely doesn’t 158. thank god this is over 159. THEY’RE TLAKING ABOUT HER DOG FEARS AGAIN 160. oh my god

#the bachelor #bachelor s22

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Friday 28 May 1830

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off at 6 25/.. rain[e]d all the way, b[u]t my plaid cloaK on and did not get wet - a few minutes at my apartment and at the amphitheatre at 7 23/.. - Lecture 4 de mirbel from 7 35/.. to 8 50/.. - breakfast at home over at 9 35/.. - wrote 2 pp. of 1/2 sheet to miss mcL-MacLean and off to de Blainville’s 6th lecture at 10 20/.. - given today in the salle des mineraux where Brongniart monsieur G. St. Hilaire lecture, and on monsieur Brongniart’s days the hour changed from 10 1/2 to 11 - so that Mondays and Wednesdays it will be one sit from 9 Brongniart to 1 1/2 Saint H-[Hilaire] De Blainville Leçon 6 from 10 35/.. to 12 10/.. - G. St. Hilaire Leçon 3 from 12 1/2 to 1 1/4 -

hurried home - just got in before it began to rain pretty smartly - at my desk at 1 3/4 - wrote 1/2 sheet full to Lady Stuart - thanK you very very much for 2 last letters - she the only one upon whose account of miss mcL-[MacLean] I can depend - Vere, poor dear girl, cannot judge, and such is miss mcL-[MacLean]’s infatuation it is impossible to place any confidence in what she says of her health - I have long ceased to name the subject to her save in the most cautious manner Knowing how tremblingly alive she is to the least word that hints at her delusion - I see how it is - I dread this weaKness, and fear she will never be well enough to leave London - Lady S-[Stuart] read the greatest Kindness to us all in preventing her setting off - it would indeed have been madness perhaps Lady S-Stuart the only who deeply I grieve over the whole thong - I dwell upon all the circumstances till I am quite miserable - have said as much as I thought prudent to Vere - astonished at its having so little apparent effect - but now rejoice - it will save her much uneasiness -

mention having heard from Lady Gordon - perhaps we may one day set up another journey together but I have said nothing about it for the present as she seems determined to spend the summer at home and my plans are too uncertain to be named - I should liKe to go to the Pyrennes, and we talKed of it the other day at the Embassy - but I never thinK of travelling without being in despair at prince Leopold’s abdication ‘C’est un vrai malheur - not that I thought of going to Athens by the next Steamer - but I shall do nothing without telling ‘you for you I Know are always interested for me - so do not believe me gone or going anywhere ‘till you hear from my myself’ conclude with adieu I hope to have better and better accounts of you ever very af[f]ectionately yours A Lister -

wrote a full 1/2 sheet quicKly said I wrote in a hurry, true, to miss Hobart - style less grave - more familiar - more easy - less remote from flippant than usual - sent my love in return to your Chares - said I could call him nothing else - and this was long when one was in a hurry - how did she liKe Y.C.? mentioned having paid her bill at Batton’s yesterday and said I had enclosed it - however I afterwards found that I had in my hurry omitted to put it in -

wrote 2 1/2 pp. of 1/2 sheet very Kind to miss mcL-[MacLean] enclosed madame Galvani’s letter to miss H-[Hobart] and the letter to ‘miss Caton’ and ditto to ‘miss Glynn’ and my letter to ‘miss Hobart’ in an envelope, and my letter to ‘miss maclean’ in an envelope and after having read them all over put them with my letter to Lady S-[Stuart] in large envelope directed to the ‘Honourable Lady Stuart Whitehall’ and sent it off by george (who came at 4) at 4 40/.. tho the chief packet for Miss H[obart] directed it to lady S[tuart] thinking after a minute or twos consideration this would be the best

asKed miss H-[Hobart] to finish the direction of madame G-’s [Galvani’s] letters ‘miss Caton chez the marquis de wellesley and miss Glynn BerKeley Square - et voilà tout ce que je sais’ - wrote the last 28 lines which tooK me till 5 20/.. -

off at 5 3/4 - tooK fiacre from the Place Maubert - from there home in 20 minutes at 6 20/.. - dressed - dinner at 7 - read the paper - had the porter up - he had seen monsieur de Favière’s attorney who wants me to pay the 88/.[francs] contrbution directes, and deduct it out of the rent as I seem determined not to pay these contributions - told the porter to say I declined paying in advance or any way or having anything to do with the thing, and left it to him to explain now it is once as certified I have no bussiness to pay - said I was very well satisfied with what he had done and gave him 10/.francs for which he seemed really very much obliged -

came to my room at 8 55/.. - looKing over my money ect. - on coming home to dinner found my album come - no letter - Lady S-[Stuart] miss mcL-[MacLean] and miss Hobart and Lady Gordon have written in it - the 1st affectionate - the 2nd melancholy, the 3 very prettily selected the 4th made me laugh - poor miss mcL-[MacLean] it seems as if she thought she should not live long - they have sent the album because thay thinK she will never bring it? my heart ached to see it -

my aunt poorly today - sicKish all the day, and inclined to have spasms at dinner - Coffee at 9 1/2 - came bacK to my room at 10 25/.. at which hour F55 1/2 - fair but streets wet - several showers during the day - rained the whole way from home to the rue Saint V-[Victor] this morning, and then must have been a good deal of wet this evening - 1/2 hour reading Thomas’s practice of physic - articles Lepra and dropsy -

#anne lister code breaker #1830 #lady stuart #vere hobart #sibella maclean #lady gordon #aunt anne

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1. Super Bass by Nicki MInaj

Excuse me, you’re a hell of a guy you know I really got a thing for American guysI mean, sigh, sickenin’ eyesI can tell that you’re in touch with your feminine side

2. How to Be a Heartbreaker by Marina and The Diamonds

Girls, we do, whatever it will takeCause girls don’t wantWe don’t want our hearts to break, in twoSo it’s better to be fakeCan’t risk losing in love again, babe

3. Miss Murder by AFI

Simply a look can break your heartThe stars that pierce the skyHe left them all behindWe’re left to wonder whyHe left us all behind

4. Do Ya Think I’m Sexy? (Cover) by Glee Cast

If you want my body and you think I’m sexyCome on, sugar, tell me soIf you really need me, just reach out and touch meCome on, honey, tell me so

5. Close ft. Tove Lo by Nick Jonas

I am not really known for ever being speechlessBut now, but now somehowMy words roll off my tongue right onto your lips, ohI’m keeping cool while you keep smilingSaying all the things I’m thinking

6. Check Yes Juliet by We The Kings

Don’t sell your heartDon’t say we’re not meant to beRun, baby, runForever we’ll beYou and me

7. We Built This City by Starship

Knee deep in the hoopla sinking in your fightToo many runaways eating up the nightMarconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don’t you rememberWe built this city, we built this city on rock and roll

8. Primadonna by Marina and The Diamonds

Would you get down on your knees for me?Pop the pretty question right now, babyBeauty queen on a silver screenLiving life like I’m in a dreamI know I’ve got a big egoI really don’t know why it’s such a big deal, though

9.Heaven by DJ Sammy

Baby, you’re all that I wantWhen you’re lyin’ here in my armsI’m findin’ it hard to believeWe’re in heaven

10. Oh by Ciara

Trunk-rattlin’ what’s happenin’, huh?I don’t even think I need to speedBass-travelin’, face-crackilin’ huh?Turn it up and make the speakers bleed

11. Get Higher by Paper Tongues

I don’t wanna wake up from thisI cannot afford to forgetThe feeling of your arms, they hold meThe power of your skin, it’s lovelyYou provoke a man to bow downAnd I get on my knees and cry outEverything I have is yours now

12. Slow Dancing in a Burning Room by John Mayer

I was the one you always dreamed ofYou were the one I tried to drawHow dare you say it’s nothing to meBaby, you’re the only light I ever saw

13. Paint It, Black by Rolling Stones

I look inside myself and see my heart is blackI see my red door, I must have it painted blackMaybe then I’ll fade away and not have to face the factsIt’s not easy facing up when your whole world is black

14. The River Has Run Wild by Mads Langer

The river has run wild tonightIt hurts to see you burning, burning oh so brightSee throughMy looking glassI sell the pastIt’s still oh so quiet

15. Papa Don’t Preach by Madonna

You always taught me right from wrong I need your help, daddy please be strong I may be young at heart But I know what I’m saying

16. Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance

Sometimes I get the feeling she’s watching over meAnd other times I feel like I should goAnd through it all, the rise and fall, the bodies in the streetsAnd when you’re gone, we want you all to knowWe’ll carry on

17. Stacy’s Mom by Fountains Of Wayne

She’s all I want and I’ve waited for so longStacy, can’t you see? You’re just not the girl for meI know it might be wrong, but I’m in love with Stacy’s mom

18. Same Love by Macklemore

“Man, that’s gay” gets dropped on the dailyWe’ve become so numb to what we’re sayingOur culture founded from oppressionYet we don’t have acceptance for ‘em

19. Dog Days Are Over by Florence and The Machine

Run fast for your mother, run fast for your fatherRun for your children, for your sisters and brothersLeave all your love and your longing behindYou can’t carry it with you if you want to survive

20. Rush Rush by Paula Abdul

I’m gonna run, I’m gonna tryI’m gonna take this love right to yaAll my heart, all the joyOh, baby, baby, please

21. How Far We’ve Come by Matchbox Twenty

I’m waking up at the start of the end of the world,But its feeling just like every other morning before,Now I wonder what my life is going to mean if it’s gone,The cars are moving like a half a mile an hourAnd I started staring at the passengers who’re waving goodbyeCan you tell me what was ever really special about me all this time?

22. Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood

Use the sleeves of my sweaterLet’s have an adventureHead in the clouds but my gravity’s centeredTouch my neck and I’ll touch yours

23. Holiday by Madonna

You can turn this world aroundAnd bring back all of those happy daysPut your troubles downIt’s time to celebrateLet love shine

24. Havana by Camila Cabello

Havana, ooh na-na Half of my heart is in Havana, ooh-na-naHe took me back to East Atlanta, na-na-naAll of my heart is in Havana My heart is in Havana

25. Eye of the Tiger by Survivor

So many times it happens too fastYou trade your passion for gloryDon’t lose your grip on the dreams of the pastYou must fight just to keep them alive

26. Popular by The Original Wicked Cast

Don’t be offended by my frank analysisThink of it as personality dialysisNow that I’ve chosen to become a pal, a sis-Ter and adviserThere’s nobody wiser

27. So Sick by Ne-yo

I’m so fed up with my thoughts of youAnd your memoryAnd how every song reminds meOf what used to be

28. Love Addict by Family Force 5

Doctor, doctor, I’ve got an emergencyIt seems I’m head over heels, a case of L-O-V-EIt’s like I’m glowing insideYeah, a light I can’t hideAnd if this feeling is bad then I don’t wanna be rightWhat I’ve got in my soul gives me the highest delightOh yeah it’s better than drugsIn fact it’s sent from above

29. Fuckin’ Perfect by P!nk

You’re so mean, when you talk, about yourself you were wrongChange the voices in your head, make them like you insteadSo complicated, look how big, you’ll make itFilled with so much hatred, such a tired game

30. 心臓を捧げよ by Linked Horizon

Offer up your hearts!All your sacrifices were for this moment!

捧げよ　捧げよ　心臓を捧げよ全ての犠牲は今この瞬間のために捧げよ　捧げよ　心臓を捧げよ進むべき未来をその手で切り拓け

31. Young And Beautiful by Lana Del Ray

Dear lord, when I get to heavenPlease let me bring my manWhen he comes tell me that you’ll let him inFather tell me if you canAll that grace, all that bodyAll that face, makes me wanna partyHe’s my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds

32. Faithfully by Journey

Restless heartsSleep alone tonightSending all my love along the wire

33. I Want You Back by Jackson 5

Trying to live without your love is one long sleepless nightLet me show you, girl, that I know wrong from rightEvery street you walk on, I leave tear stains on the groundFollowing the girl I didn’t even want around

#B I T C H YOU thoUGHt i wouldnt do it. IMM LAUGHING I THOUGHT IT WAS 38 AND WENT UP TO 33 OOPS #MY MOM DIDNT RAISE NO QUITTER #kousseii #Ask

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GoT Re-Watch: Fine-Toothed Comb Edition

Whoo, this took me a while. It’s a lot of counting, but I finally got it done. Next week, we’ll be all caught up!

6.09 - Battle of the Bastards

I still can’t believe the episode is actually called this.

Surface-level ridiculousness aside, there’s the matter of what this episode title actually says. And that is that the conflict of importance is between Jon Snow and Ramsay, who haven’t even met and whose sum total of interaction was one letter, the reading of which was more important to Sansa’s characterisation than Jon’s. Nor does this episode title keep the stakes of the battle in view - control of Winterfell, the righting of Bolton usurpation, the ability to mount an effective defence against the White Walkers.

I also want to say right off the bat here that Sapochnik can fucking direct. In this regard, both this episode and the next episode look fantastic. But much like the actors, there’s only so much he can do to prop up lazy, thoughtless writing.

(2:11-13) Deaths: 1, 2, 3.

(2:23) This is what I mean about good directing. Here we have a slow drawing backwards from the devastation in Meereen to Dany watching it all. Sapochnik’s direction makes Dany’s back more expressive than her face was at the end of the the previous episode, precisely because the shot choice makes it very clear what she’s looking at and from what perspective.

(2:55) I don’t understand this bit here. Rather than owning up to any mistakes, Tyrion is frantically and somewhat comically denying them. I think these few lines were supposed to be somewhat comedic, due to the dissonance between “the city’s on the rise!” and the repeated trebuchet impacts, but I don’t understand why. Tyrion’s failures here are significant. Logically, they should be affecting how he understands his own strategy in Meereen. No matter how you slice it, Tyrion’s failed massively here by not keeping an eye to the city’s defenses.

The other thing here is that this scene isn’t about Dany. It’s about Tyrion. Dany’s primary interest is defending Meereen and establishing her hold over the city; if that was the interest being catered to in this scene, Grey Worm and Missandei would be in the room helping formulate a strategy. Tyrion’s primary interest is validation from Dany, and so his selectively articulate opponents within her command structure have gone somewhere to do something else so that he has a clear floor to spin his actions unopposed. The tension here derives primarily from what Dany thinks of Tyrion. His standing is in jeopardy - oh yeah, and so is Meereen, incidentally.

(2:58) “The rebirth of Meereen is the cause of this violence. The Masters cannot let Meereen succeed. Because if Meereen succeeds, a city without slavery, a city without masters, it proves that no one needs a master.” This does not address Dany’s problem of a city under siege. This addresses Tyrion’s problem of a liege who is unimpressed with his actions. He’s not acknowledging failure and trying to fix it, he’s denying that there was a problem in the first place.

This argument doesn’t hold up as an excuse for what’s going on outside. If Tyrion anticipated violence as a result of his economic success, how is it that he’s manifestly unprepared for the fight? I’m not seeing a political genius at work here, nor a mastery of political and economic philosophy, I’m seeing self-serving ass-covering. More to the point, I’m seeing writers trying and failing to write characters smarter than they are.

(3:17) To which Dany replies, “Good.” This is a bit of a non-sequitur. Tyrion just gave her an if/then, and I have no idea what Dany thinks is good about it. Meereen’s success? The violence outside? Proving that nobody needs a master? The conditions Tyrion has argued exist? Grammar!

(3:23) Tyrion asks, “Do we have a plan?” Which one of them has been in the city all this time again? Who’s the one who’s met directly with the enemy’s envoys?

This also points to another shortcut to depicting intelligence that the writers have been taking - thinking of a good plan is hard. It’s much easier to show your smart characters are smart by having them poke holes in someone else’s plan. We’ve seen it repeatedly with Davos criticising Stannis, and Sansa criticising Jon Snow. Here we get another layer of ugly in that this dynamic is supposed to position Tyrion not just as smarter than Dany, but reasonable to Dany’s unreasonable.

(3:53) For the temporary convenience of Tyrion’s plot, the writers have decided that Jaime totally told Tyrion the full truth of what happened in King’s Landing at the end of Robert’s Rebellion. Jaime wasn’t using that characterisation anyway.

It also foreshadows the events of next episode. How convenient!

(4:35) Note that the scene ends just as Tyrion suggests an alternate approach, which is way better than Dany’s only you’re never going to hear him explain its merits, just ooh and ahh as it unfolds without a hitch.

(6:01) Unforseeable! Who would ever have guessed that the Mother of Dragons might consider using her dragons? What needed to be established earlier is that the Masters thought that the threat of using the dragons was a bluff, and that nobody would ever actually use the dragons on them. As it is, this looks like “oh shit! We just remembered! Dragons! With military applications!” The CGI work on Drogon is stunning, though.

As for the rest of the negotiations, yeah, I got nothing, incredibly clever to come to parley with the offer of no u.

(7:06) Nicely timed breaking out of the pyramid from Rhaegal and Viserion! They either read the script of heard the dramatic swell of Dany’s theme music.

(7:25) Deaths: another 5, bringing the total to 8. The Sons of the Harpy are having an impromptu slaughter outside the gates for some reason.

(7:29) Deaths: 10.

(7:31-32) Deaths: 11, 12.

(7:36) Deaths: 13.

(7:38) Deaths: 14, 15.

(7:42) How do these armies keep sneaking up on places?! Does nobody keep a lookout? And this is probably the season’s least egregious apparating army.

(7:56) Deaths: 16. Daario kills a Son of the Harpy.

The aerial shots of Dany and her dragons over Meereen are the highlight of the episode for me. It’s just such a nicely done action sequence in and of itself.

(8:32) Deaths: 18. Dany kills two sailors, turning Drogon on a ship.

(8:35-37) Deaths: 19, 20. Dany kills two more sailors.

(8:48) Deaths: 21. Dany kills a fifth sailor.

(8:54-55) Deaths: 26. Dany kills five more sailors, bringing her kill count to ten.

(9:01) Deaths: 27. Dany kills an eleventh sailor. It’s absolutely implied to be more, but that’s just the deaths I saw.

(9:13) Now that Tyrion’s dilemma is solved by persuading Dany that he was right, Grey Worm is totally amenable to Tyrion’s plans.

(9:54) Ditto Missandei.

(10:24) Deaths: 29. Grey Worm kills two of the negotiators, in quite flagrant violation of the terms of their pact themselves. Oh ho, aren’t they clever, killing two of the Masters when they said they’d just kill one. Guess everyone should know not to surrender to Dany. Seriously, by all means strip these people of their wealth, execute them for their slaving crimes afterwards, but these customs of parley have to be upheld and enforced or nobody can have a parley.

(11:40) “You don’t have to be here.” “Yes, I do.” I like that exchange. Good characterisation for both Jon and Sansa.

(12:29) Ramsay here mentions that Jon deserted the Night’s Watch. Anyone else? Anyone?

(13:36) Two things, one good, one teeth-grindingly typical flaw. The good - the way Ramsay keeps slipping “bastard” in to refer to Jon Snow. Shows his own insecurity, legitimate tactic to needle Jon. The flaw - “I keep hearing about you.” Footage not found, because this plot has been unforgivably rushed and strangely focused on people telling the Starks to rack off. They missed a step in their storytelling.

(14:05) This, I think, was actually one of Jon’s brightest moves all season. What does Jon lose by offering single combat? Nothing. What does Ramsay lose by refusing single combat? Well, if the writing was better, he should have lost respect at a critical time, as Jon points out. Compare Robb in season one, where he could safely refuse because he’d just proved his mettle in the field, changing the context of the offer so that accepting would have come across as hubris.

(14:24) Note Sansa participating in this conversation in spite of Ramsay’s presence and taunting.

(14:54) Note Sansa interrupting Ramsay with a death threat. And she rides off…before Ramsay says a damn thing about starving his dogs.

(15:17) Come to that, note Jon holding it together in spite of Ramsay’s repeated taunts about raping Sansa. Not the slightest hint of an outburst. All season, he’s kept it together well in this regard.

(16:07) Hey, it’s what Jon just mentioned! Military commanders in Westeros must be seen to be appropriately brave and daring and such, and only a solid track record of success (such as book!Stannis’ record) can help offset commanding from the rear. Therefore, there’s a political argument that Ramsay should consider starting the battle in the field rather than sitting it out behind his defensive fortification.

(16:17) Jon also engages in what should have been more foreshadowing - Ramsay’s army doesn’t want to fight for him. Thus far we’ve not seen the slightest hint of disloyalty, so this becomes another informed attribute, and again reflects poorly on Jon’s intelligence.

Sansa’s in the background looking unhappy.

(16:26) I hear that the shooting of this episode’s big battle was woefully mismanaged. I believed that the instant I heard it. You know why? Tormund’s concerned about Ramsay’s horses - not his disciplined infantry, which ends up posing much more of a threat to the Starks than anything else. Add that to Jon’s comments about an eleventh hour betrayal, I’m thinking this scene was scripted to set up a battle that wasn’t shot. If that’s the case, this scene needed to be redone.

(16:33) Jon says that “we’re digging trenches.” Not we will dig trenches. That’s in progress, apparently.

(16:48) Just so we know exactly the sort of manoeuvre Jon’s talking about, he puts it three different ways. Just go with the simplest version first.

(16:58) Establishing that it’s vital to hold position and make Ramsay charge. Also established: the need for the reserves to stay exactly where they are, so that when Ramsay does charge, he’ll be surrounded. Note that it’s Davos’ plan, not Jon’s.

(17:11) Man called ‘cunt’: 1.

(17:19) Jon talks about trying to make Ramsay angry, and Sansa sits in the background, glares, and says nothing.

(18:10) Sansa starts chewing out Jon for not asking her about Ramsay’s temperament. This is just. Just. It’s so lazy. It honestly makes my brain hurt how lazily and carelessly this scene was written.

Since she reunited with Jon, Sansa has been if anything more assertive than him in conversations with their advisors. Every political scene, save perhaps the ones with the Free Folk, has proceeded with Sansa willing, able, and welcome to contribute. Nobody on her own team has once tried to stop her talking - they haven’t always taken her advice, obviously, but nobody’s said “stop trying to help, Sansa.” The closest anyone’s come was Jon and his “you don’t have to be here” which is quite clearly based on the hurt she could suffer rather than how appropriate a woman’s presence might be in the discussion. This is supposed to be ‘sexist guys not asking Sansa for her expertise and opinion,’ but what I’m seeing is the men around Sansa quite reasonably assuming that if she had something to say, she’d speak up - like she’d been doing consistently and in far more interpersonally hostile situations, for the last half season. Including speaking up to Ramsay’s face a few hours before this scene.

It’s also apparent once again that nobody on Team Stark has talked to each other about anything of importance. They’re not even talking about the basic building blocks of a campaign with each other, things that both parties should know they need to discuss (needed to discuss, past tense, a few episodes back). I just keep coming back to the fact that it’s the writers who are ignorant, and haven’t been willing/able to compensate in a sensible manner. It’s all well and good to have these characters not agree and not get on very well, but this is some fake conflict right here.

(18:27) Sansa here makes a point of saying that Ramsay is better at manipulating people than Jon. True, but there was no need for the antagonism with which she said it. Seriously. If she’d honestly been slighted by Jon in the preceding conversation, I’d be way more sympathetic about catering to the male ego, but she wasn’t. Sansa’s picking a fight with Jon (and giving bad advice badly) for no better reason than the writers apparently want her and Jon to be rivals. Who gives a fuck about Sansa’s characterisation?

(18:48) Back to the point about Team Stark not talking about anything of importance - Sansa and Jon have not conferred about their siblings.

(19:04) Sansa’s claim that Rickon won’t live long in Ramsay’s care is somewhat undermined by the fact that Ramsay has kept Rickon alive for several episodes - and utterly ignores the fact that there’s good reason for not killing him in any way attributable to Ramsay. (If Sansa still believes “the North remembers.”)

(19:14) Like I said, this is lazily written. Sansa’s very, very upset about not being called on in class - but when Jon says “okay, Sansa, what should I do?” she says “I don’t know!” There’s no “he’s going to kill Rickon in front of you to make you charge him - be ready for it.” There’s no “he prefers to fight with a bow and shows favouritism to archers.” No “he’ll sacrifice ten of his own men to kill one of yours.” There’s nothing. No alternative course of action. No plan. No insight. Why wouldn’t Jon ignore the person whose only contribution is “you’re doing it wrong” with nothing to say about how it could be done better?

(19:30) Oh, and now we follow bad with worse!

One, Jon did let Sansa know his plans to attack Winterfell shortly, two episodes ago. She argued against it. She chose not to bring her strongest arguments to bear, and between that and not hearing back from the other Northern houses Jon (reasonably) decided that conditions were as good as they were ever going to get, and that they should think of a plan suited for a smaller force and do their best. “When will we have a larger force?” is an entirely valid question, and one Sansa needed to answer two episodes ago.

Two, Sansa’s still not offering anything better. If Jon had listened to her then they wouldn’t be in this situation now - but what does this do to fix the problem now, when all Sansa has to offer is “can’t help you, Jon!”

Three, and this is the big one. Sansa is lying. She has a good answer to “when will we have a larger force?” and is choosing to stay mum. If she tells Jon about the Knights of the Vale, he goes out there, rounds up some scouts, and sends them down the Kingsroad to meet and coordinate. He rejigs all their plans around stalling until the reinforcements arrive and getting into a position where Ramsay can be most effectively flanked by the Vale’s cavalry. I’ll come back to the consequences of this lie later. For now, I’ll just continue to hammer on the theme of Sansa lying because um reasons.

(20:19) “No one can protect anyone.” Strong, tough, cynical Sansa has seen the light…so to speak. It’s everyone for themselves. Collective action is futile and foolish. How I hate grimdark.

(20:55) Davos is sounding very anti-Stannis here, saying it was Stannis who defeated Stannis rather flippantly. Characterisation? Who needs that.

(21:19) Man called ‘cunt’: 2. In the context of Tormund telling Davos why he’s very very wrong to have cared about Stannis, of course.

(22:40) Melisandre sighting! It’s been a while!

(22:57) Jon goes to ask for advice from someone else and receives the helpful advice “don’t lose.”

(23:08) Also, legit dealing with Jon’s resurrection! It’s also been a while! It’s like he never died at all.

(23:31) In the ongoing saga of Mel’s humbling, she admits that she interprets the Lord of Light’s signs as best as she can.

(25:15) In the dark and the snow in the middle of the Northern countryside, Davos kicks over the exact log to reveal Shireen’s half-burned stag. What a coincidence. This may even remind him of who Shireen was.

(26:13) Theon making jokes about Tyrion’s height is also footage not found. Tyrion being an ass to Theon, on the other hand, that footage we can find.

Oh yeah, Yara and Theon are here now. They didn’t play any part in the battle that might have affected their characters or their relationship with others. They’re here to deliver ships. That’s all.

(26:52) “And [Theon] paid for it.” “Doesn’t seem like it.” Aah, mixed feelings! On the one hand, no, Theon has not faced the true consequenes of killing the orphan boys he passed off as Bran and Rickon. Unlike book!Theon thus far, show!Theon seems to appreciate the full gravity of the crime. On the other, I am so uncomfortable with the continued messaging that Theon deserved what Ramsay did to him and that he didn’t deserve to escape that treatment.

Also, notice how Dany doesn’t have a dedicated reaction shot. There is nothing to indicate to the audience that Dany is actively listening and forming her own opinions. She’s sitting in the background like a statue while Tyrion does the speaking.

(27:06) Dany first speaks here, after almost a full minute of Tyrion talking with Theon. Totally ignoring Yara, by the way. What a consummate professional. What diplomatic mastery.

The writers understand quippy dialogue. They don’t understand politics. And instead of trying to improve their understanding, they’re doubling down on dialogue that sounds nice and has no substance. While I’d normally be all for writers playing to their strengths as much as possible, this lack of understanding, and the focus on writing clever-sounding dialogue, is now opening up plotholes, inconsistencies, and implausibilities. It’s well past time to work on ameliorating the weakness.

(27:20) What went for Tyrion goes for Dany. They’re both ignoring Yara, even after they’re aware that Yara’s the one claiming. And why weren’t they aware of this going into this meeting? Um. Reasons. Please ignore the fact that neither Dany nor Tyrion did their homework.

(28:05) Theon continues to do most of the speaking, offering the military details and the narrative of how the Greyjoy siblings came to Meereen.

(28:25) There’s that sensitive nuanced representation I’ve been looking for! After the show revealed Yara was into women, she starts hitting on the very next woman to cross her path, no matter that this may not be the most appropriate time and place for flirting (while her brother does most of the talking about politics). Will this trend continue? Have you seen the season seven trailer? Plus queerbaiting, yay!

(28:51) “We’d like you to help us murder an uncle or two who doesn’t think a woman’s fit to rule.” “Reasonable.” I’m sorry, what? Is this exchange supposed to be feminist? How is this anything but a bad cartoon of feminism?

(29:32) Yara has become pro-reaving here. She wasn’t back in Volantis when she was paying the gold price for sex (with a slave), she wasn’t with Balon, she was in the Kingsmoot - script can’t decide whether Yara is Asha or Victarion.

(29:39) Ah, Yara waiting on a nod of approval from Theon.

(29:49) Unlike Theon and Yara, Dany did most of her political talking for herself. So naturally she looks back to Tyrion for a nod of approval. It’s a pattern. It needs to stop.

(30:06) In spite of Jon saying “we’re digging trenches,” present tense, in this aerial shot of the battlefield there is nary a trench in sight. Guys, I think they made massive changes to the shooting of the battle sequence and never bothered to redo the scene that sets up the battle sequence, accidentally making their protagonists look utterly incompetent in the process.

(30:34) Protagonist power denies all need for a helmet. But then again, Jon did have his face smashed into an anvil back in 4.09.

(31:00) Wun Wun is barehanded. He killed seventeen wights in a few minutes back at Hardhome once he had a club. Why would you give him a club now? Or a bow? Geez, maybe Jon wouldn’t have sent scouts to coordinate with the Vale Knights if he knew about them, if this is what he calls putting military assets to use.

(31:23) Ramsay’s 20 good men strike again, this time erecting a bunch of flaming Bolton crosses on the battlefield without the light giving them away. It has to be the 20 good men. Who else has that sort of skill?

Such wanton cruelty seems like it ought to be foreshadowing something…

(32:35) Ramsay led Rickon Stark, on a leash, through his entire army, and nobody batted an eyelid. No reaction. Not even the disapproving looks that Stannis burning Shireen garnered. The North Remembers!

(33:29) Poor Sapochnik’s got his work cut out for him here, trying to make Art Parkinson look shorter than Iwan Rheon.

(34:17) Ironically, and unacknowledged by the script, acting with such alacrity to try and save his legitimate half-brother is one of the best political moves Jon Snow could make. Bastard Jon charging selflessly across the field towards Ramsay Bolton in order to save the last (so far as anyone else knows) trueborn son of Ned Stark? Looks good by Westerosi standards! Very heroic! After that people would find it hard to say Jon didn’t care for his siblings and wasn’t doing his utmost for House Stark.

And, to be honest, I have rarely liked show!Jon more than in this moment, when he puts himself on the line for his brother. What follows is less good, but this itself was right and noble.

(34:30) Starks are too honourable to dodge arrows. This is the only explanation for the dead straight path Rickon takes to Jon.

(34:32) Ramsay starts firing arrows at the last known surviving trueborn son of Ned Stark, in what is clearly a cruel game, and nobody bats an eyelid at this either. The North Remembers!

(35:27) God I hate watching that. Thought Rickon was going to make it? You and everyone who hoped it is stupid. Including Jon Snow. He should have been smart like Sansa and written him off. Deaths: 30. Ramsay kills Rickon. Enjoy a few seconds of watching a young boy choke on his own blood as he dies inches away from his rescuer.

(36:30) Jon cracks and charges. After several seasons of actually being able to control his temper and emotions - including not responding to taunts about Ned, not chasing after Bran when he learned Bran was alive, and keeping it together when a man he knows raped his sister was making jokes about doing it again to her face - he cracks now because the plot demands he cracks. This is admittedly not the biggest stretch here, but I’m just saying, “Jon can’t control his temper” has been consistently untrue for the past few seasons, and breaks just when the narrative needs him to the most.

(36:34) Enjoy a few more seconds of a young boy’s dead body being riddled with arrows as he lies on the ground! Feel bad, everyone. Feel bad.

(37:27) Ramsay surveys what he has done and smirks. I don’t get the writing of this episode, I really don’t. Right up until the end of this episode, Ramsay has no setbacks, no failures. He’s plot-invincible. Here it means he uses the exact same battle plan as the protagonists, but better! Because he is the better plotter! And there is nothing the protagonists can do about it except throw more men at the problem. I don’t understand. I really don’t. The protagonists are already fighting the odds, the episode can work if they’re not also fighting their own incompetence.

(38:19) I do love the moment when Jon’s dramatic slow-mo is cut off and overtaken by the charge from his own side. Very nice. It actually makes me laugh! Yeah, he’s implausibly uninjured, but this is the man who only got a bloody lip from having his face smashed into an anvil.

(38:23-25) Deaths: 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. Not counting the horses. Poor horses.

(38:33) Deaths: 36.

(38:45) Davos mentions that if they fired they’d hit their own men, while Ramsay goes ahead and fires anyway. This is a well-executed contrast, and draws well from Roose Bolton’s tactics of firing on his own men in the confusion of battle (when those “own” men belong to his regional rivals). But again, it seems like Ramsay’s callous disregard for his people ought to be leading up to something…

(38:54-55) Deaths: 38, 39.

(38:58) Deaths: 40.

(39:02) Deaths: 41. I really like how this is shot, I really do. Unlike Dany’s sweeping aerial views of her conflict, this really gets to the confusion and chaos on the ground.

(39:07) Deaths: 42. Jon kills a mook.

(39:10) Deaths: 43. Jon kills a second mook.

(39:14-15) Then his plot armour kicks in again and he miraculously avoids a volley of arrows. Deaths: 44. Jon kills a third Bolton soldier.

(39:18) Deaths: 44.

(39:23) Deaths: 45. Jon kills a fourth Bolton soldier.

(39:28) Deaths: 46. And a fifth.

(39:39-40) Deaths: 47. A sixth and a seventh.

(39:49) Deaths: 48. And an eighth.

(39:52) Deaths: 49.

(39:55) Deaths: 50.

(39:59) Deaths: 51, 52.

(40:03) Deaths: 53.

(40:10) Deaths: 54.

(40:11-12) Deaths: 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60.

(40:17) Deaths: 61. Jon kills a ninth Bolton soldier.

(40:19-20) Deaths: 62. Tenth and eleventh Bolton soldiers.

Throughout all this, the action’s been punctuated by Ramsay calling “nock, draw, loose,” though we only ever hear “loose.” That bit of writing is good, the direction is excellent.

(40:26) Deaths: 63.

(40:29-30) Deaths: 64, 65, 66.

(40:35-37) Deaths: 67, 68, 69, 70.

(40:39) Deaths: 71. Jon kills a twelfth Bolton soldier.

(40:41) Deaths: 72. Jon kills a thirteenth Bolton soldier.

(40:44) Deaths: 73.

(40:45) Deaths: 74. Jon kills a fourteenth Bolton soldier, and he’s starting to sound a little tired and distressed.

(40:48) Deaths: 75. Fifteenth Bolton soldier down at Jon’s blade.

(40:49) Deaths: 76. Sixteenth!

(40:52) Deaths: 77, 78.

(40:54) Deaths: 79.

More importantly, we’re slowly panning out to reveal a giant pile of corpses. This…should not have happened. We saw that the battle was on flat-ish land. No river. No bridge. No rock formations in the way, no walls. Nothing. In medieval battles, these piles of corpses form when there’s a chokepoint of some description. Which isn’t present in this battle. The piles of bodies aren’t going to get that big without some sort of barrier, because without those barriers, the battle can move around the obstacle of the corpses, distributing them more evenly across the landscape.

But it looks cool and that’s all that matters, right? Right.

(41:06) Having established earlier in the episode that Davos hanging back is essential to Stark forces not getting flanked, he compounds Jon’s error by charging as well. It’s official - everyone in a position of power on Team Stark is incompetent. Jon got provoked despite being warned. Sansa’s actively sabotaging their chances of success by denying information. Tormund doesn’t know what a pincer movement is. And Davos is disobeying orders.

Davos even specifically gets off his still-living horse so he doesn’t have the advantage of being a mounted warrior on the field of battle. Amazing.

(41:12) We also cut straight to Ramsay watching this development and reacting to it. Like a battle commander might.

(41:43) Deaths: 80. Jon kills a seventeenth soldier.

(41:50) Deaths: 81. Tormund kills a soldier. He’s got a lot of catching up to do.

(42:19) Jon Snow (who hasn’t had a line aside from “hyah!” or “aaaaaaaaaargh!” for twenty minutes) and Tormund simply watch as the Bolton infantry forms an impeccable shield wall around their forces. This was supposed to be cavalry. They made do with infantry. It’s very silly, because doing this with infantry is so slow, it’s contingent on the entire Stark force taking a halftime break for gatorade and oranges while the Boltons get into position.

(42:24) The aerial shots only make it worse, because you can see how slowly this happens, comparatively.

(43:00) It’s nice that Ramsay’s had time to train up his peasant levies so well and found the money to outfit them with such wonderful, anachronistic tower shields. They do make a lovely shield wall, and move in an impeccably timed fashion.

Copy/pasting from historical battles does not historical accuracy make. Nor good historical synthesis into a fictional universe.

(43:01-3) Deaths: 82, 83.

(43:08) Deaths: 84.

This is supposed to be very serious, as the lack of music tells me, but it’s such a ridiculous development in the battle I can’t stop laughing.

(43:19) Deaths: 85.

(43:34) Deaths: 86. Jon kills an eighteenth soldier.

(43:40) Deaths: 87. Wun Wun kills a soldier.

(43:51) Deaths: 88. Tormund kills a second soldier.

(43:55) Deaths: 89. Jon kills a nineteenth soldier.

(43:58-44:00) Deaths: 90, 91. The Smalljon kills two Free Folk.

(44:02-06) Deaths: 92, 93, 94, 95. Truly amazing gout of fake blood on that last one.

(44:14) We’re depicting the horrors of war here, so have some shots of men with their guts hanging out, men with their legs chopped off, and blood everywhere.

(44:20) Deaths: 96. Jon’s twentieth kill.

(44:25) Deaths: 97. Wun Wun kills a second soldier.

(44:28-9) Deaths: 98, 99, 100!

(44:31-2) Deaths: 101, 102.

(44:35) Deaths: 103. Tormund kills a third soldier.

(45:11-2) Deaths: 104, 105. It’s pretty scary, how this implausible shield wall is backing the implausibly trapped force into the implausible mountain of corpses.

(45:17) Deaths: 106. The Smalljon kills a third man.

(45:19) Deaths: 107. Jon kills soldier #21!

(45:33) Previous establishing shots established the lack of room for anyone to run in this tight little circle of death. But Jon’s forces found the freedom to charge over him because drama.

(45:49) Deaths: 108.

(46:09) Implausibility aside, this moment where Jon’s suffocating is a well-executed one. With the muted audio, it really does feel chaotic and trapped.

(46:30) Deaths: 109.

(47:31) What’s that? A horn? I wonder what it could be!

(47:39) Deaths: 110. Tormund kills the Smalljon. Hey, he might be sixteen kills off the lead, but he did take out a named character/elite mook.

(47:48) Everyone called this moment.

(48:16) Littlefinger (and Sansa) save the day! Or, it’s supposed to be Sansa saves the day. It’s not. Sansa bears a hefty goddamn chunk of responsibility for the deaths today. There’s not much credit to be laid at her door and an awful lot of blame.

If she had told Jon about this force in 6.07, the batttle would not have taken place as it did, saving a lot of Stark-affiliated lives. If she had told Jon about this force earlier this episode, the battle would not have taken place as it did, saving a lot of Stark-affiliated lives. She knew what would persuade Jon to delay the battle, and she didn’t bring that information to bear. This is either stupidity or malice. Out-of-episode comments state that Sansa wanted the credit - so malice it is!

More blame should go to the writers, who created the situation where the only plausible in-universe explanations are stupidity or malice. This save would be just about perfect if Sansa had been in the Vale the whole time, totally isolated from Jon’s planning process, and only rocking up for the first time now.

(48:31) Ramsay looks shocked, shocked! At the fact that his perfectly planned battle has been wrecked by these last minute intruders. If only he had known that Moat Cailin fell at the start of the season! Or that there was a massive army marching up the Kingsroad, all sneaky like!

(48:41) And more to the point, Sansa got a lot of people killed right here. I have a nice picture to illustrate this.

Oops. There’s a reason the camera cuts away from this before you see the Bolton forces crumble.

(48:49) Deaths: 111.

(49:12) It’s time for the named characters to assault Winterfell solo!

(49:32) Deaths: 112.

(49:58) The downfall of Ramsay begins here, as he fails to process that the appearance of the Vale army means that he’s lost. Okay, this is supposed to be a Hitler-esque descent into madness and denial…but such a decision puts Ramsay’s psyche front and centre. What have the protagonists done to earn this victory?

(50:10) Far from betraying him, at the sound of knocking on Winterfell’s gate, Bolton men rally to defend themselves and Ramsay. The Night’s Watch didn’t do this when Wun Wun broke their gate.

(50:56-58) Deaths: 113, 114, 115, 116, 117.

(51:02-3) Deaths: 118, 119, 120.

(51:06-7) Deaths: 121, 122, 123, 124.

(51:20) Deaths: 125.

(51:32) Deaths: 126. Thought you’d seen the end of Jon reaching out to someone he cared about and Ramsay putting an arrow through them? Think again! Ramsay kills his second named character of the episode.

(52:02) This confrontation between Jon and Ramsay could also be spun in an extremely Jon-friendly way. I can definitely see how the average Northerner could come away from the battle thinking Jon was 100% the hero of this particular story. The viewer does not occupy the perspective of the average Northerner. Nor should most of the nobles participating.

(53:17) When Riverrun was retaken, after a mere two episodes in the location, it was the subject of a dramatic montage. Here we have Winterfell, the object of two seasons worth of campaigning, and the replacing of the banners is done in a few seconds, followed by a reaction shot of Melisandre. Because of all the people present, Melisandre would get the most satisfaction from seeing Stark banners on the walls again.

(53:29) Looks like Davos really did remember about Shireen! About time!

(54:00) Jon uses words! It’s been about half an hour since he had a line! That line also establishes that Ned’s bones were returned to Winterfell, because who cares about the ongoing plot thread that’s obviously going to culminate in Ned’s bones being returned to his home in honour and mourned properly by all his surviving children.

(54:31) Ramsay is injured. He’s bound.

(55:34) Wow, when Ramsay’s hurt, his villain lines take a turn for the corny. “You can’t kill me, I’m part of you.”

(55:59) I see the kennel door is open and there is a dog waiting there patiently for her cue. I checked with my editor, but he didn’t seem to think there was a problem with this.

(56:26) “You haven’t fed them in seven days. You said it yourself.” Continuity is a bitch. Literally, in this case. Sansa wasn’t there for that line. Did Jon give her a word-for-word after-action report?

(56:36) This is supposed to be what goes around comes around. Metaphorical and all. But nobody turned on Ramsay. His men fought for him to the death. Even in the battle we saw more Stark forces breaking and running than we did Bolton forces.

Nor was Ramsay defeated by the actions of any protagonist this season. Sansa spent most of the season lying, sabotaging Stark chances to win; Jon and Davos both made massive mistakes in the battle itself. What defeated Ramsay was a third army popping up out of “nowhere", maintained and motivated by Littlefinger for the past two seasons.

The protagonists did not deserve this victory, and Ramsay’s rise and fall were both dictated by the whims of the plot, rather than character writing.

(57:17) Deaths: 127. Sansa kills Ramsay.

(57:49) And Sansa smiles as she walks away, closing out the episode on the note of how empowering we should all find rape-and-revenge plots, rather than justice being done. I still firmly believe what I said here and here, when this episode first came out. These days this show isn’t just a bad show, it’s an immoral show.

Game of Numbers S06E09

Deaths: 127. Series high. It’ll stand for a single episode. Let’s break this down a bit...

Dany kills eleven sailors. Grey Worm kills two Masters. Daario kills a Son of the Harpy. Tormund kills three Bolton soldiers and the Smalljon. Wun Wun kills two Bolton soldiers. The Smalljon kills three Free Folk. Ramsay kills Rickon and Wun Wun. Sansa kills Ramsay, her first kill for the series. But it’s Jon who dominates this count, taking out a full twenty-one Bolton soldiers.

Woman called ‘cunt’: 0.

Man called ‘cunt’: 2.

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