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eisforeidolon · 3 months

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Question: What episode are you guys most proud of, that you just made and you really knew this is something special?

Jared: What episode are we most proud of that we made - of Supernatural?

Question: Of any show.

Jared: I'll go with Supernatural because we've got some Supernatural family members up here. What episode - I guess I'll start - sorry, I hear a little "Eeeeeeeeeeee" Was E.T. just up here? Why are we hearing "Eeeeeeeee" - just kidding, kidding. I think for me, this may seem obvious, the episode I'm most proud of and the most difficult episode to shoot was the series finale. It was rough. It was really rough. And it was a weird - I think when the COVID strike happened, we got - Jensen and I got sent home from Canada on Friday March 13th, Friday the 13th, appropriately, of 2020 because they thought they were going to shut the borders down. So they were like, get across the border, go see your family, we don't know what's going on, you know, there's a worldwide pandemic. And so we had the scripts by then, we had the last two scripts of the series and we got home and didn't go back to Vancouver until August 1st-ish? So I had four months - and a half - to sit there and read through the dialogue, I couldn't read through the scene, the barn scene especially, without crying. And so I'd like go - yeah, we have a little treadmill at our house - and so I had nothing else to do, I'd be like hey Genevieve can you take the kids for a second, I'm gonna go and just get a little run in and read through the episodes. And she's like, yeah, do it. So I'd go and I'd come back and my face would be all puffy and red, and she'd be like, oh shit, are you okay? Like, thinking I got bad news about a friend with COVID or something, and I'd be like yeah, just read the finale, it's cool, it's cool. Yeah, so that was very difficult. But I was very proud of that and it was very heartbreaking as well. Guys and gals?

[Julian Richings talks about being proud he was able to hit his mark in the big boat of a car Death drove in his intro, Sam Smith talks about all the little missing pieces character moments of Mary in Absence, and Alaina Huffman reminisces about getting "to kick the shit out of Crowley" and how great Mark Sheppard is.]

Mitch Pileggi: I'm gonna keep it with Supernatural, because I've been so fortunate to have such a long career and I can't remember most of it, so I couldn't remember moments from it. Probably the hugest, one of the hugest moments of my life was the day that I met Jared Padalecki. And, I mean, I've got the job, so I don't need to say that. Yeah, he ain't gonna fire me. So it was huge, I met an individual that has been so giving and so - to my family, to me and to my family and everybody around us on the show that we're doing now. I have to say that the show that we're doing now is my favorite show that I've ever done in the forty plus years of my career. Without a question, without a doubt, if you haven't seen it, start watching, please. But I think as far as Supernatural, I didn't understand most of what that character was doing and I'm still trying to figure it out. So, I mean even Bob Singer was like, what the hell is going on with those Campbells? So. But I have to say, the scene that I had with Jensen where he turns into the Yellow Eyed Demon was a blast. I had so much fun. I got to get up and sniff on Jensen real good and it was fun, I really enjoyed doing it. And just - like for both of them, when I met both of them, I think I took Jensen aside about four days working on the show and I said I just want to say that you two guys have got your heads screwed on right. Keep it that way, because this business can really twist you up and it hasn't done it to this day, so.

#supernatural panel #albuquerque comic con 2024

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bookaddict24-7 · 3 months

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REVIEWS OF THE WEEK!

EVERY WEEK I WILL POST VARIOUS REVIEWS I’VE WRITTEN SO FAR IN 2024. YOU CAN CHECK OUT MY GOODREADS FOR MORE UP-TO-DATE REVIEWS HERE.

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42. Identity by Nora Roberts--⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

One of the best things I did for myself with this book was going into the story without reading the synopsis. I legitimately knew absolutely nothing about this book and man, when that first twist happened I was HOOKED.

The familial relationships in this book were everything and I loved that there weren't any of the usual tropes in this one when it came to the romance. It was a thriller first and a romance/familial story second. I did love how all of the characters communicated and worked together, even if their dialogue was sometimes a little awkward--especially when discussing intimate things. I know all families are different, but I wouldn't confess to my mom and grandma that I just came back from a night of pure sex LOL. But hey, to each their own.

The love interest was interesting. I really liked him and his blunt delivery, but sometimes he DID push that line of like "Alright, I guess we're just going with this." It was funny watching these two come together and I'll be honest, when he was a certain way (which I know is just his personality), I thought "wow, our standards are flat against the floor." While the relationship sometimes felt stilted, it didn't detract too much from the story for me.

Now the villain was something else. He was creepy and horrendous. I actually pictured his face changing from when he first meets the MC to when he sees her sick friend. It's horrendous and he was so well written--especially when we get to see his steady decline into even more madness.

Overall, this was FUN and had some very disturbing moments. Roberts is a little too good at writing someone who thinks so horrendously and does some horrible things to his victims. I recommend this for the sweetness of the family and a character who loves her job, but also for the creepy POV of the serial killer.

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43. The Unknown by Katherine Applegate--⭐️⭐️

It's been a few weeks since I've read an Animorphs book because the library holds time is sometimes brutal. Why am I mentioning this? Because this was one of the rare books in this series that I didn't feel any urgency to read. I'll be super honest: This one felt like a weird dream. Half the time I was confused about how the characters got to certain points in the story.

I'll still be reading the rest of the series, of course, but this one was just okay. I do love these adventures, but this felt almost like a filler book?

Anyway, onto the next one!

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44. The Titan's Bride Vol. 1 by ITKZ--⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I will admit that while this storyline was actually sweet and pretty intriguing, this book is...nearly all porn. Had me blushing through the whole thing. I'm intrigued by where the story is going and I'm kicking myself for not having ordered the rest of the books yet, but yeah, this was basically porn with a sprinkling of a sweet and fantastical storyline.

I will say that the artwork is stunning!

Sigh. LOL.

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45. Once There Was by Kiyash Monsef--⭐️⭐️⭐️

ONCE THERE WAS would have been better as an adult fantasy book. Why? Because so many things in this book felt like an adult fantasy book--there weren't any adult themes, but a lot of the circumstances were a bit of a stretch. I think I, as a reader, wouldn't have had to suspend my disbelief so much if this had simply been an adult.

I mean, a fifteen year-old inherits her dad's Vet practice and and lives alone?

By the end of the book, I had forgotten this was YA.

Moving on from that, this book had a really cool concept. I loved the idea that there's a vet out there destined to take care of mythological monsters. I also loved that it was such a diverse set of characters too, including the MC. We get to see more about her culture and her father and what happens when Western society stamps out that aspect of an identity. For example: food, language barriers, and culture.

While the book felt a little all over the place, I really liked seeing the MC in action when it came to these magical beings. I also really liked how Monsef explored the concept of grief and how important it can be to just feel the emotions.

Overall, this book was OKAY. There were points where I was a little bored and a little confused as to why this was YA, but I can also see why so many people might love it. This was like Dr. Doolittle for mythological creatures.

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46. Raiders of the Lost Heart by Jo Segura-- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I didn't know what to expect from RAIDERS OF THE LOST HEART, but I had a pretty good time with what Segura gave us. From the badass FMC to the stuttering and himbo of a MMC.

I think with books like this one, I need to not take the storylines too seriously so I can fully enjoy it (which I did). The romance, tension, and spice were great. The adventuring was fun (even though I would have loved to see a bit more). I think reading the author's note also helped in realizing how much leeway was given to the characters' adventuring, since it isn't really like this in real life.

This really felt like I was watching a movie. It was a quick and addicting read and had me hooked from the very beginning.

There is one character, however, who is clearly Pansexual and I do wish they had said that instead of having the FMC confused as to how one person could like more than one gender. I do like that this character explains it, but I do wish Segura had gone the extra step of saying the term.

Anyway, I enjoyed this for what it was and I'm glad I didn't pay attention to the rating!

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47. Olive Harvest in Palestine by Wafa Shami & Shaima Farouki (Illustrator)--⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I don't normally rate or talk a lot about the storybooks I come across. But I came across OLIVE HARVEST IN PALESTINE while scrolling Instagram and I knew I immediately wanted it on my shelves. It's beautifully illustrated and the story it tells of an event that was a yearly tradition of harvesting and pressing olives in such a beautiful place like Palestine was both eye-opening and heartbreaking.

It breaks my heart to know that all of that beauty is now only on pages of storybooks, memories, photographs, and videos taken in passing. My heart ached while reading this important book. My heart cries for those olive trees that were hundreds of years old.

If there is a storybook you pick up this year, let it be this one.

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48. Block Shot by Kennedy Ryan--⭐️⭐️

When I read the first book in this series, I was hooked. I thought it was powerful, heartbreaking, and incredibly addicting.

And I don't know if it's because I spent yesterday sick in bed, but BLOCK SHOT was the last thing I wanted to finish (even though I only had like 4 hours left in the audiobook). I finally finished it earlier today but because I knew I wanted to finish it so I could get to the third book. Normally, I tell friends to DNF books but sue me, I wanted to give this book a shot.

All of that being said, I WAS intrigued at the beginning. I loved how these two knew each other from way back when and how, even years later, they still couldn't fight the chemistry between them. Call me wild, but I personally don't know how I would have reacted if I the FMC and the events of the first part of the book happened. On one hand, I get it because being a fat girl has always been my identity. Being the butt of fat girl jokes? Been there, done that. But on the other hand, I found that this FMC had a massive chip on her shoulder that she carried for the majority of the book, which she then moulded into a slightly unhealthy thing.

I'll admit, I found the portrayal of her body and how even the MMC referred to it (like being fat is a horrendous thing) really icky. I know that this was written a few years ago, but it made me so uncomfortable that the fat girl's humiliation was one of the big motivations for the FMC to "better" herself, as if her intelligence and already existent beauty wasn't enough. Don't get me wrong: wanting to feel a certain way and looking a certain way isn't a bad thing, I think the phrasing of it was just not it.

Which leads me to saying that...the FMC was one of those characters who supposedly had a powerful presence and was touted as this saint, but LOL, let's be real. She wasn't. Sure, she could put her business face on, but man, she was someone who was so easily manipulated. There were so many instances where I wanted to shake some sense into her. Like, we KNOW the MMC was an asshole, but at least he admits it? He was honest about who he was, while she was the one play acting.

I won't even touch on the fact that there's cheating in this and it's not like in the first book, where it felt like a glimmer of hope and fear. Here it was all pure selfishness. And I don't think we should always like the main characters in books, but like...at least make them consistent. I don't know, the FMC annoyed me and again, while I didn't like the MMC, at least he was honest.

Also, that twist. I saw it coming, but it added a whole other level of ick to everything and the FMC.

I'm disappointed with this book, but I'll still be picking up book 3.

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49. My Love Mix-Up! Vol. 1 by Wataru Hinekure (writer), Aruko(illustrator), & Jan Cash (Translator)--⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I loved MY LOVE MIX-UP! and how much fun it was. The storyline was entertaining and while I think things happened a little too quickly in this first volume, I did love the antics and honesty the MC had for his situation. I can never tire of these kinds of stories where kids are just casually living their lives and falling in love with the unexpected person.

This reminded me a lot of BLUE FLAG, which was one of my favourite reads a couple of years ago. I loved the friendship aspect and how, even though things have the potential to be messy, that friendship perseveres.

I also laughed quite a bit at that twist at the end. Will definitely be aiming to get this entire series!

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50. Happy Place by Emily Henry--⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I think I always kind of know what to expect from an Emily Henry novel, so while I went into HAPPY PLACE with a bit of nerves, I also knew I would probably enjoy it. I didn't read the synopsis, as per usual, and I was (unsurprisingly) hooked from the beginning. This book was a shot of melancholy, heartbreak, and that magic feeling that summer sometimes brings out in us that anything is possible.

At first, I was put off by the going back and forth with the past and present. Mainly, I've always found these kinds of stories feel a little abrupt when they have a flashback chapter every so often and I become impatient for the present day story. But as the story progressed, I realized it was impatience mingling with anxiety. I was afraid to see what broke these two up; what had the power to come in between these proclamations of forever I-love-you's and soulmate-y kind of love stories. I was worried and while I had to force myself to face it, I'm glad I did. I obviously won't say what it was, but I will say that it felt like a very real reason, even though these two would heavily benefit from couple's therapy.

I also appreciated the friendships and how this book isn't just about the romance that broke, but the relationship between friends. There are different kinds of happy places in this book and many of them include these amazing friends who are guilty of a huge crime: growing up. I find that I related a lot to the one friend who spent her time chasing that high of youth caught in a summer breeze. I remember summers long past full of memories that will never be replicated, but growing up means knowing that those memories exist, even if life and time changes everything.

Much like many other Henry books, this delves into deeper topics as well, like familial trauma, grief, mental health, and abandonment issues. Those were palpable on the pages as the characters faced these very real parts of themselves.

I'm not giving this a full five stars because of the flashbacks and how messy the MC and her love interest were. Communication is a golden rule I wish more romances adopted, but I also can understand that in order to have diverse characters, we need to be mindful of the ones who genuinely have a hard time communicating--usually because of mental health and traumatic responses. All of that being said, I still stand by this couple being chaotic--even if they were probably my second or third favourite couple in the Henryverse.

ALSO, DID EVERYONE PEEP THE BEACH READ EASTER EGG?? Hell yeah.

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Have you read any of these books? What were your thoughts?

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Happy reading!

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the-scrappy-stinger · 6 months

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We open up to Honda being a mood.

This is Honda, and he's a business guy. He doesn't wanna go to the old okonomiyaki place with his high school buddies because he's bored gossiping about old girlfriends and passed memories. They make him go anyway. Along the way... they avoid KitKat.

Heading off to the old place, the shop is deserted, dirty, and run by the shopkeeper's only daughter. So what's basically the first place she does when they walk into the store?

What is it with this manga and women running restaurants? To be fair, she doesn't WANT to, her dad's just in the hospital. And she's got a toddler at home, and her husband works full time at a DIFFERENT restaurant as the head chef, and she's still expected to be a homemaker, so yeah, she actually has it rough.

So they all agree to help. Honda the grump is... not as agreed, but onboard in his own very food-tsundere way.

So of course he goes to the MEETING OF THE HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH TO SAVE THE OKONOMIYAKI PLand nobody else shows up. Figures. Honda the grump is alone.

AND OH NO, CUSTOMERS. AND HE DIDN'T READ THE RECIPE. I think I've had this nightmare. SO he sucks at it. KitKat comes over to borrow some flour and even though Honda the grump isn't the owner, he has a speech.

Weeping like my co so then a fuckin' yakuza boss comes in for food, because why the fuck is this place still getting reservations if the owner's been laid up for months- anyway so the yakuza boss nearly throws Honda into the back of a car to fuckin' kill him or whatever and KitKat's like "stop it. We're gonna use words."

And these guys were willing to kill Honda because he told them he didn't work there and the restaurant was closed because the owner's kid had the flu. ANd they're street food vendors.

Thus is the world of KitKat Jesus. (The Jesus part we're getting to, just stick with me.)

I have never related harder to a character in this manga in my life.

So KitKat's like "Look if you're here to shakedown for flavor THIS hard, let me try making the recipe. Honda you stay you have to taste test" and Honda's like "damn it!" because he is LITERALLY walking out the door! KitKat reads the recipe and goes "Wait... this is way too basic, this can't be right" and it turns out he's right, because despite living in the shop her whole life and watching her dad cook every day she didn't know the recipe.

So the street vendors are like "You should sell this at the food fair tomorrow!" and KitKat's like "... hell, why not?". Honda's like "okay i'm fucking LEAVING NOW THANK YOU" and the street vendors go "Hey wait aren't you a government worker? You know your job would be way easier if you did public work and people saw your face" and Honda's like "... ... sign me up."

They got the owner's daughter's permission, though, that's okay.

This next chapter's actually kind of cook- I mean cool! Freudian hungry. But KitKat talks about how food stall cooking is different from restaurant cooking, because you have to take into account eating on the go. Honda the grump is put on the cabbage cutter machine to help and bemoans that he wasn't allowed to eat street food as a kid.

Guy's just got opinions about fuckin' everything.

Honda the temporarily-asshole-for-the-plot decides to just go... LITERALLY grab customers out of someone else's line to force them to eat at his stall.

And starts a fight.

I'm starting to think the author has a low opinion of street food vendors.

OH wait no, I was wrong, they are ALSO the mafia. And street food vendors. Yeah there we go. No wonder Honda wasn't allowed to eat street food...

(skims ahead) oh god I'm gonna run out of pictures again- SO TO SUM UP:

The Capo wants to put the screws to Honda the grump because he tried to cheat at food stalls, so he has his two lancers, big dudes who cook fast, give him a bunch of okonomiyaki to sell before sunset, but KitKat's like "you bitch, you gave him shitty food to sell so you could kick his ass later".

Honda at this point must be like "I wouldn't be in this situation if everybody else hadn't flaked out on me, christ".

OH well, only one way to settle it.

And Honda the... weirdly malleable personality for the plot is like "I am so moved by this cook-off between two rival food mafia gangs that I volunteer to be the chef".

And so KitKat's like "Okay". TRAINING

Honda the singer now apparently has to sing ONLY this song for the next two days.

It's supposed to help him improve his internal clock so he doesn't have to look at his watch while he's cooking. Three minutes to cook on one side, six minutes on the other. ... thing is.

This song's been covered a LOT. And most of them aren't 3 minutes long. Most of them are REALLY fuckin' short actually. Fun little bop though!

Must be this version.

Hey, me too, guy!!!

So the training continues, and on the day of the cook-off-

Sooey sooey, soodada-lata, soodada-lata sooey sooey!~

And his place is a hit! Because-

It's in easy-to-eat pieces!

So he wins the contest- wait whatever happened to the restaurant?? WELL LEMME TELL YOU!

Honda the better goes back to his normal job.

Honda's buddies realize that they forgot about the plot for TWO WEEKS.

Buncha assholes!

And... Honda has quit his well-paying government office job... to work the okonomiyaki bar.

I mean... Not judging but... like, benefits? Vacation days? ... not going home at night smelling like cooking oil? Just a thought...

Story arc length: 9 chapters.

#KitKat Jesus Retrospective #Food Manga Hyperfixation Binge

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paalove · 2 years

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nothing to lose and nothing to prove

patpran fic prompted a while back by @ninonikki hope it's what you wanted! (i did diverge from some of the details you gave because it felt more in character as i was writing) i'll post this on ao3 sometime this evening after i've had a chance to edit it a bit more :)

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“I didn’t know you had magic mind powers, dude.”

“Mo,” Korn says with a hit to the back of his head, “Shut the fuck up.”

Laughing, Mo protests, “No for real though – that was cool as fuck, you just glared that guy out and he stopped, was that really the architects’ secret weapon guy?”

“Pat?” Chang asks, because he’s noticed what the other two haven’t. “You good, bro?”

And the three of them turn to stare at Pat – who is staring over his shoulder, back in the direction of the fight. He hasn’t been following them super closely.

But he turns, a half-second late, looking all lost and weird.

Okay, now Korn’s worried.

The three of them exchange a look and walk back up to Pat’s side; Korn waves a hand in front of Pat’s face. Pat hits it away, but his reaction time is slow and he doesn’t even swear at Korn about it, so he doesn’t stop worrying.

Mo takes a turn at him, cheerfully suggesting, “We could go back there and kick their asses if you want? I bet we can catch up with those weak-ass slow motherfuckers.”

But Korn watches as Pat’s face goes more upset and conflicted at the suggestion, not less. Which means it wasn’t the missed chance at a fight that’s upsetting Pat (like it normally is) which also means this is going to be hard to deal with. The others didn’t meet Pat before the school year started, they don’t know him quite as well, but Korn knows that sometimes he gets all quiet and sad.

He puts his arm over Pat’s shoulder and tries to give the other two a look.

Not getting his silent ‘shut the fuck up’, Chang says, “Did that guy do something to you?”

And Pat answers quietly enough that Korn’s pretty sure the other two can’t even hear; he whispers, “My ex.”

Korn really, really hopes he means that guy stole one of his ex-girlfriends, but…

“He’s the one your dad-“

Aw shit; Pat’s crying.

…

Paa always has friends over, so there’s normally cover for any weird noises in Pat’s room.

He props his hand on his chin and doesn’t help Pran get back up.

“Who needs a boyfriend like this, huh?” grumbles Pran.

He looks adorable stumbling through Pat’s window; he can’t help the grin as he points out, “You do. Wrote a whole song about it and everything.”

And Pran’s glare would be super intimidating, but he’s totally coming over to Pat where he sits on the bed. Even the looming isn’t so much intimidating as it is sexy, and when Pran leans over Pat on the bed Pat’s pretty sure he can see something in his eyes…

Pat takes a risk and grabs his waist.

“Ai’Pat-“ he scolds.

They’re both laughing as Pran tumbles onto the bed next to Pat – he considers rolling over, following him over, but he’s happy to be able to turn his head to the side and watch Pran’s smile. It’s a really great smile, after all.

Then he notices and has to ask, “Why are you still in your uniform?”

“I don’t normally change after school,” Pran says. “Mae noticed I had the last couple of days, she was asking about it, so…”

Oh no, Pat’s made Pran think of bad stuff and now he’s sad – literally the opposite of his job.

To fix it, he pokes Pran’s cheek hard and asks, “Come here often?”

“What?”

Pran’s not giggling yet.

That’s fine, it totally means he can-

“Pat!”

Now he’s rolled on top of Pran and it’s not sexy (okay, total lie, Pran breathing near him is sexy, he’s only human, but it’s only baseline-Pran-sexy) because he’s flopped on top of him and is cuddling in like Pran’s a blanket, telling him, “I’m tired.”

He looks up to Pran’s face and sees him suppressing a fond eyeroll; that’s close to a laugh from Pran.

Maybe he’s about to say something, or laugh, or even, as he sometimes dares to, pull Pat up for a light kiss to the corner of his mouth. Maybe-

Pat’ll never know.

The door swings open.

“Pat-“ starts his dad, and everything ends.

…

Safe tugs on Wai’s arm to get his attention but it doesn’t work; Wai kicks at the wall with a frustrated groan.

“I hate that fucking guy – and you, dickhead, why didn’t you fight him, you could totally take that guy,” he’s complaining, but he’s not looking at Pran.

Louis gets Wai’s other arm, and Wai looks between them all confused.

So Safe points at Pran, who’s now sitting on the steps they’ve stopped at. Sitting with his head in his hands. He’s completely slumped into himself.

Wai looks back and forth between them again.

“Pran?”

Their friend doesn’t move.

Safe lets go, Louis lets go too, and Wai goes to sit at Pran’s side with a cautious, “Pran? Bro?”

“What’s wrong,” Safe says quietly as Pran looks up.

His face looks bad, all drained and shit, and his eyes are empty and lost.

“That was Pat.”

Wai nods slowly and tells him, “Yeah, the engineering guy we’ve been telling you about.”

Pran looks up at Safe and Louis standing in front of him, a startled question in his gaze, and Safe nods.

But Pran shakes his head, stares at Wai, and tells him urgently, “That was Pat.”

Which must mean something more to Wai than it does to Safe; Wai actually gasps, and says, “Pat-Pat?”

As those two have a private conversation in front of them, Louis and Safe have one of their own, consisting of pointing and mouthing, “You know what’s going on?” followed by a shrug.

Okay, they haven’t been friends as long, they don’t have their own language together yet or whatever, but it still works fine as communication goes.

…

“We won!” Pat bounces up and down.

“Yeah,” Pran laughs, “Of course we did. We wrote a whole song for it, nobody else did that. Anyone would think you weren’t used to winning… well,” he breaks off, mockery in his voice but a too-real smile on his face.

Pat’s smile is wide too as he says, “Against you, I win, but we haven’t won together before.”

That’s insulting and rude and exactly the kind of shit Pran should be challenging, but he’s caught up on the ‘together’ and on the look in Pat’s eyes. He keeps thinking about the heart Pat had drawn on the paper that Pran is stupidly keeping hidden away.

Something about that and about the high from performing in front of people, people liking it and thinking his song was good, has Pran taking the biggest risk of his life and saying, “Do you want to know who it was about?”

“What was about,” asks Pat – but he wouldn’t sound so nervous if he didn’t suspect.

Pran puts his guitar on the ground, stares at his hands in front of him, and says, “The song. Do you want to know who I was thinking about when we wrote it?”

…

“I think the obvious solution is for us to make out.”

In a rare moment of unity, all five other people turn to stare at Korn; he’s staring at Wai with determination in his eyes and a grin on his face.

Wai knows he shouldn’t show weakness around these fucking assholes, but he can’t help it, shuffling in his seat and leaning back. Back out of reach, just in case Korn decides to act up.

He asks the obvious question: “What the fuck are you talking about, shithead?”

“Pat doesn’t talk to his dad anymore and Pran doesn’t listen to his parents about much, right?” Korn asks, but he doesn’t wait for them to answer – it’s all been covered already. “So the main issue is the rivalry. If there start being other cross-faculty couples, there’s no way they’ll stay apart for more than like, a week, Pat nearly cried.”

Korn is briefly attacked by both of his friends after that revelation, which Wai can’t even smirk too much about because Pran actually cried even if Wai isn’t stupid enough to reveal it, and the attacks give him enough time to whisper with his own friends.

“You’re right about that,” he interrupts the engineers’ squabble loudly. “But why would we have to make out?”

Chang lets Korn out of the headlock to say, “Hey! Don’t you think my friend’s hot?”

The meeting isn’t as productive as it could be; they have a plan, though.

#patpran #waikorn #bad buddy #robfic

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lightninggavemeabs · 11 months

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S1E1 commentary cuz why tf not

okay who fucking knows if I'll keep up with this but I want to try it.

Season 1 is one of my absolute favorites, I think the storytelling is exceptional and it really set the foundation for the rest of the show. I've rewatched this so many times because I love it to death. I mean, right from the beginning. That intro sticks in people's heads. It's iconic. We see the flash running impossibly fast, and then cut to barry running pathetically slow. It's perfect.

The characterization of Barry Allen is subtle and immediate. We immediately get to see him interact with his coworkers, his superiors, in a way that shows his personality perfectly. He's clumsy, but brilliant enough to be kept around. He's a hard worker when he's not totally distracted. He's also a little bit goofy.

There's also the interaction between Iris and him in the lab where he tells her she looks amazing and for like half a second he has this disappointed look on his face that tells the audience everything they need to know and it's really a testament to Grant Gustins talent that we could get that information about their relationship in like two seconds.

Then of course we get Wellses speech, which I feel needs to commentary. We also get to watch our protagonist, our hero, fail to stop a crime. He gets his ass kicked and it's fun! Because we know what happens next, or most of us do.

It really amazes me how much of the storytelling in this show is dead silent. Barry walking around his lab, alone, listening to the news, looking at his murder mystery board, only for lightning to strike. It's the night that changes his life but it seems so innocuous.

And then we meet Caitlyn/Cisco who I immediately fall in love with because he's playing Lady Gaga for that guy in a coma that's just around?? for months??

And then when Barry's discovering his powers and he just starts running super fast through the city and crashes into some van? Not to mention: there is canonically a random laundry guy who knows who the Flash is. He saw Barry run and he saw his face. Really the most goated character because he doesn't say shit.

Also, there's the

Barry: You seem kinda depressed

Caitlin: because I am

it's something that definitely should make me laugh but I always have a little chuckle at it because it's like Barry, you dumbass.

I really love the music that's playing when Mardon shows Barry his powers.

Joe West ranting about how Henry killed Nora because he's so certain that nobody has any weird magical powers is so painful to watch sometimes, especially when Eddie comes up and confirms Mardon's alive immediately afterward. Yikes.

"You're not a hero, you're just a young man who was struck by lightning" - Wells Season 1

Okay, fuck these police officers who let a child sneak in and see his mother's corpse you're doing a bad job. Also, Joe is like, guess I'm a father of two now (oof)

And then the cut to him talking to the Arrow, because obviously he needs a mentor.

And the "Cool." "Cool." it's so lovely.

also "I am god" "Shut the hell up" IMPECCABLE

convinently knocking eddie out so Joe can learn about Barry's abilities. That was a plot concussion.

"he can do it, I know he can do it" because Cisco has always been Barry's biggest fan. Right from the beginning, he believed in the Flash. Do you think he knew what the flash would someday become?

and everyone smiling in the control room once mardon's dead. beautiful.

joe, with tears in his eyes, apologizing for not believing Barry for all those years, truly breaks my heart. Joe West, dadliest of dads. The conversation between Barry and Henry, too, is completely heartbreaking. Henry saying that Barry needs to stop worrying about him and live. It's beautiful.

"I've made some new friends" YEAH YOU HAVE BARRY.

and of course we end on the obligatory 'harrison wells is not who he seems' scene. this whole season is basically this happening. we also get our first glimpse of THE newspaper. this episode is an incredible start to an incredible season.

I think i'll do one of these on every episode i feel deserves one. I don't know how many that will be., Anyway I'm going to go try baking bread. See yall :)

#dc comics #dc #the flash #barry allen #iris west #eddie thawne #joe west #cw the flash #dcu #i don't think anyone gives a shit about my opinion but I'm doing this anyway.

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Top 10 Anime (That I've Seen) in 2020

Well now, it has certainly been awhile. I'm currently sitting at eight months too late for posting this, but, y'know, something something life happens. More accurately, I already made this list, but wanted to try out what response I'd get from Reddit. Turns out, they're not as cool as you guys!

Anyways, as the title states, this is not a list of my favorite anime that came out during 2020, but instead my favorite anime that I just so happen to see during that year. While it's fun to have an end of the year retrospective, I find that having a list in this format not only adds variety, but also helps bring attention to anime that might have been lost in the shuffle in previous years (I also don't have enough time to stay caught up in seasonal releases).

Honorable mentions:

Aggretsuko S3, My Hero Academia S4, Today's Menu For the Emiya Family, Interspecies Reviewers (yes, really), and I Couldn't Become a Hero So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job

10. Maid-Sama (2010)

In hindsight, I find it a bit funny that I wanted to watch something wholesome to kick off 2020. Anyway, Maid-Sama is about a high school girl that is also a no nonsense Class President and she kind of has to be at a school where, until recently, was an all boys school. While she kills it in academics and is good at shutting down any shenanigans from the male student body, her financial situation isn't the greatest and has to balance a job at a maid cafe along with her school-related responsibilities. She does her best to hide her employment there to keep up appearances, but is one day found out by one of the boys who happens to be a big flirt and, yeah, hijinks ensue. While this anime doesn't have too many surprises, our main leads bounce off each other well enough to keep me entertained. Nothing I haven't seen already in other anime Rom-Coms, but I think it has more than earned its place at the start of this list.

9. Haganai NEXT (2013)

It's a personal rule of mine when making these lists that I don't include sequels of shows that were in previous lists. While I DID see the first season of Haganai a couple of years ago, it didn't quite make it into the top ten at that time. Because of that, it meets the criteria for this year's list. While I found the characters were just as charming here as I did during the first season, the development of their relationships really took off. It's a shame that it will most likely not get a third season, but I'm happy with what ride this show gave me. But hey! At least I can read the light novels/manga to continue the story! Wait, nevermind, the Haganai fans on Reddit are saying that's a bad idea.

8. Engaged to the Unidentified (2014)

Based off of a Four Panel joke manga, Engaged to the Unidentified tells the story of a girl in high school suddenly getting some life changing news. As it turns out, her grandfather made an arranged engagement with her and the son of a family he knew. Next thing she knows, the boy in question, as well as his little sister, moves into her family's house! While the boy is unassuming at first, there may be more to him and his family than he lets on. Plain and simple, this anime has charmed me. There's a decent amount of drama and mystery despite the source material and I applaud it! Even though this also doesn't have much new to offer, even to the point where I would compare this to Maid-Sama, what made me pick this at the 8th spot were the color choices and animation quality. Give this a shot if you can!

7. Grimoire of Zero (2017)

It's a fantasy/adventure story starring a loli sorcerer and a huge, anthropomorphic white tiger man. I honestly can't say anything else. I won't be able to do it justice. That first sentence should intrigue you a lease a little bit. Read it, again. Please check it out. It's an underrated gem that no one is talking about.

6. ID: Invaded (2020)

Hey, here's something recent! Unfortunately, this is also not something I can say much about. There may not be too many deep characters and the secret bad guy isn't hard to figure out, but BOY is this anime cool! The best way to describe this series is that it's like the movie Inception, but instead of brain heists, it's brain murder mysteries.

5. Carole and Tuesday (2019)

A runaway rich girl has a fated meeting with an orphan and they decide to make music together...oh, this also takes place Mars. Joking aside, this show was something special with its music (a new song almost every episode no less), interesting setting (freaking Mars, dude), and endearing main cast. Shoot, the music itself would be top 3, maybe number 1, but what bogs it down is the show's second half. I can easily see myself watching this again someday, and maybe my opinion will lighten up, but for now, 5 is a dang good spot.

4. Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front - Babylonia (2019)

Part of me hesitates placing this high up on list due to this show being animated, fan service spectacle for Fate fans. However, that hesitation is overshadowed by the fact that I am a Fate fan myself and I can do whatever I want with this list. Even if you're not a Fate fan or play FGO, if you enjoy some solid fight animation, this is worth a look.

3. K-On S1 (2009)

I'll admit it, I might regret not watching the second season then putting the series on the list as a whole, but this how I've been doing these lists and I'm such a creature of habit. There's not much I can say about K-On that hasn't already been said. By itself it's an anime classic and one of Kyo-ani's biggest properties. It's a sweet and wholesome watch, but be sure to have some insulin within reach.

2. Princess Principal (2017)

Imagine you're working with a team of programmers trying to make a mobile game then all of a sudden someone asks to make a show out of it. You know, a show with different character motivations, plot, twist and turns and all that? Most might say that's just a shameless, shallow cash grab, but it turns out okay for Princess Principal. Sure, most might summarize this anime as, "cute girls doing espionage things," but with its cast, visuals, and interesting alternative timeline, it works! Apparently there's a new season or movie in the works and I am all for it!

1. Beastars (2019)

I was not expecting this to be number one, but with much deliberation (with myself obviously) this feels right. It tells a pretty unique story while showing itself to be the exception to the rule when it comes to 3D anime.....it being that it's actually good. While I acknowledge that shows like K-On are classics and deserves to be number one on many different lists, it didn't line up with my personal criteria like Beastars did. My biggest deciding factor is: Now that I've watched this, do I want more? It's true that while I'm excited to start K-On S2, Beastars intrigues me more and ever since season two was announced, I'm looking forward to that more.

Sorry again for this list being so late, but at least the silver lining is that the next end of the year list is about four months away (in theory)!

#anime #k-on #beastars #princess principal #fate grand order #carole and tuesday #id invaded #grimoire of zero #engaged to the unidentified #haganai #maid sama

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pumpkinspice-prouvaire · 3 years

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Here you have your cute Triumvirate headcanons (and a big hug if you're okay with that)!

- Combeferre and Enjolras are childhood friends. If you want embarassing photos of Enjolras, you should definitely ask Ferre. He has a collection he brings out from time to time: four-year-old Enjolras with puffy cheeks and his face covered in chocolate from his birthday; Enjolras missing his front teeth in a tree costume made out of coloured paper for school; Enjolras in a pool with arm wings bigger than his head...

- Courfeyrac met Combeferre at theatre club when they were twelve, and he soon was inseparable. He had so many bad ideas as a teenager and he dragged the other two with him. Over and over again, he will say "yeah, so when we were fifteen we did..." and you'll think he's joking, but no, they really climbed to the roof of the abandoned building next to their school at midnight.

- The minute they can, they get an apartment just the three of them. They keep it on and off for the rest of their lives. Life pulls them apart sometimes, like the year Courfeyrac went to do some volunteer work to South America, or when Enjolras got a job in a different city, or when Combeferre decided to try to live with his then boyfriend, but they always come back to each other.

- If you headcanon any of them as dating, this is a Spice Girls situation: if you wanna be one of them's lover, you have to get along with their friends. They are a package deal.

- At some point they develop a chore division that would make Ford proud (although don't tell them that). Enjolras does the grocery shopping and cooks, Courfeyrac washes the dishes and the clothes, and Combeferre does the weekly cleaning.

- They have a common bookshelf with all of their political works. Well, it was one bookshelf when they were young. Now it's an entire wall of the living room. In any case, they keep buying books, and they recommend them to one another. "So, I was reading this book on American imperialism and I think you would enjoy it", "oh, cool, leave it at my bedside table once you're finished". They also gift each other books all the time.

- But it's not all work and no pleasure. Apart from what they play with other people, they have two nights a month where they sit down, whatever is going on with their lives, and play RPGs. They take turns playing game master, and they have half a dozen campaigns open. Which also means that sometimes they'll start talking about their characters' adventures with no context, and people get super confused. "Oh, yeah, like that time when you ran away with all our money and I found you and broke your jaw... that was fun".

I could probably come up with more stuff, but I have work to do, so I'm going to leave it there! Hope this makes you feel better! ^^

Oh god oh fuck I love the three of them so much. Have some (hopefully just as cute!) headcanons in return and thank u for the hug <3 <3 <3

-The three of them met in maternelle/kindergarten/whatever you wanna call it (This is a long boi but I love this headcanon and I've wanted to talk about it for ages). So they're having break time outside, and Courfeyrac is on the swings and Enjolras, who was actually kind of timid as a kid (he was raised in a 'children should be seen and not heard' kind of household, which, eugh) is watching him and would like a turn on the swing. So he steps forward to ask Courfeyrac if he can have a go, but he misjudges the distance and Courfeyrac fucking kicks him in face. Enj falls on the ground in a heap and immediately bursts into tears because, well obviously, he's four years old and he's just been yeeted across the playground. Courfeyrac immediately stops and freaks out, but it's Combeferre who runs over and picks Enj up and calms Courfeyrac down and the two of them take Enj to the nurse's office, and she has a heart attack because oh god why are these four year olds covered in blood. Enj gets three stitches in his lip, and the first day he comes back to school Courfeyrac gives him a stuffed dog and a joint 'Get Well Soon' card Combeferre and he made together. Enjolras still has a small scar above his lip, and he may or may not still have the stuffed dog in his wardrobe somewhere shut up it's really none of your business

-Courfeyrac has a big house and two older brothers, so during the summers Combeferre and Enjolras practically move in. They spend everyday riding their bikes to the beach and playing football or rugby with Courf's brothers and having ice cream for dinner, luckily Courf's parents don't really mind having two extra kids for eight weeks a year

-Courfeyrac and Enjolras were each other's first kiss. The two of them were hanging out because Combeferre was on a date with a girl in their class (didn't know he was greyromantic yet) and Courfeyrac is panicking about "what if I never get kissed?! What if my first kiss sucks because I don't know what I'm doing?!" because he's an insecure teenager. Eventually Enjolras is like "oh my god if you're that desperate to get it over with I will kiss you right now to shut you up" and Courf is like "fine do it then!!!" lol. So they kiss for a lil bit and it's fine but then they break apart and look at each other and just burst into hysterical laughter, because oh my god that's Enjolras and oh my god that's Courfeyrac and what the hell are we doing????? It doesn't mean they don't do it again in the future though....

- It's a game changer when they all pass their driving tests and Courf gets his first car. The three of them go on long drives after school on a Friday and blast music and just have their main character moment, good for them

- When the time came to think about university, they deliberately didn't talk about where they were applying to. They didn't want to hold each other back or pressure each other to stay together. Turns out they all applied to universities in Paris anyway. Nice.

- The three of them understand each other to the point where they can practically have conversations without speaking, and finish each other's sentences. They all understand the other's little idiosyncrasies as well.

- If any of them have had a bad day, or something has happened, it doesn't matter how old they are, Courfeyrac will declare a slumber party and the three of them curl up together in his bed and cuddle until they feel better. Combeferre comes home from a very long, very stressful shift at the hospital, and he never cries but he looks close to tears right now, and Enjolras says "What do you need?" And Combeferre says in a very small, very un-Combeferre voice, "Slumber party" and Courfeyrac just takes his hand and tells him he doesn't even have to ask

LMAO I GOT CARRIED AWAY BUT I LOVE THEM AND I THINK THAT'S VERY VALID OF ME

#answered #headcanon #triumvirate #enjolras #combeferre #courfeyrac #i love them #long post

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So, I don't think I've ever asked you this... what IS the whole point of the Spider-Sense? It really seems like something that only exists for writers to ignore or work around when they want to inject Legit Tension into a story.

I’ve thought about this power so much, but never with an eye to defend its right to exist, so I needed to think about this. The results could be more concise.

Ironically, given the question, I have to say its main purpose is to ramp up tension. But it’s also a highly variable multitool that a skilled creative team can use for...pretty much anything. It does everything the writer wants it to, while for its wielder always falls just short of doing enough.

I went looking through my photos for a really generic, classic-looking example to use as an image to head this topic, but then I ran into the time Peter absolutely did not reimburse this man for his stolen McDonald’s, so have that instead.

A Scare Chord, But You Can Draw It

That one post that says the spider-sense is just super-anxiety isn’t, like, wrong. It’s a very anxious, dramatic storytelling tool originally designed for a very anxious, dramatic protagonist. I find it speaks to the overall tone of the franchise that some characters are functionally psychics, but with a psychic ability that only points out problems.

Spidey sense pinging? There’s danger, be stressed! Broken? Now the lead won’t even KNOW when there’s a problem, scary! Single character is immune to it? That’s an invisible knife in the dark oh my god what the fuck what the fU--

Like its counterpart in garden variety anxiety, the only time the spider-sense reduces tension is in the middle of a crisis. But in the wish fulfillmenty way that you want in an adventure story to justify exaggerated action sequences, the same way enhanced strength or durability does. Also like those, it would theoretically make someone much safer to have it, but it exists in the story to let your character navigate into and weather more dangerous situations.

For its basic role in a story, a danger sense is a snappy way to rile up both the reader and the protagonist that doesn’t offer much information beyond that it’s time to sit smart because shit is about to go down.

Spidey comic canon is all over the board in quality and genre, and it started needing to subvert its formulas before the creators got a handle on what those formulas even were, and basically no one has read anything approaching most of it at this point, so for consistent examples of a really bare bones use of this power in storytelling, I’d point to the property that’s done the best job yet of boiling down the mechanics of Spider-Man to their absolute most basic essentials for adaptation to a compelling monster of the week TV series.

Or as you probably know it, Danny Phantom. DON’T BOO, I’M RIGHT.

DP is Spider-Man with about 2/3 of the serial numbers filed off and no death (ironically), and Danny’s ghost sense is the most proof in the formula example of what the spidey sense is for: It’s a big sign held up for the viewer that says, “Something is wrong! Pay attention!” Effectively a visual scare chord. It’s about That Drama. And it works, which won it a consistent place in the show’s formula. We’re talking several times an episode here.

So why does it work?

It’s a little counterintuitive, but it’s strong storytelling to tell your audience that something bad is going to happen before it does. A vague, punchy spoiler transforms the ignorant calm before a conflict into a tense moment of anticipation. ...And it makes sure people don’t fail to absorb the beginning of said conflict because they weren’t prepared to shift gears when the scene did. Shock is a valuable tool, too, but treating it like a staple is how you burn out your audience instead of keeping them engaged. Not to go after an easy target, but you need to know how to manage your audience’s alarm if you don’t want to end up like Game of Thrones.

The limits of the spider-sense also keep you on your toes when handled by a smart writer. It tells Peter (everyone’s is a little different, so I’m going to cite the og) about threats to his person, but it doesn’t elaborate with any details when it’s not already obvious why, what kind, and from what. And it doesn’t warn him about anything else-- Which is a pretty critical gap when you zoom out and look at his hero career’s successes and failures and conclude that it’s definitely why he’s lived as long as he has acting the way he does, but was useless as he failed to save a string of people he’d have much rather had live on than him.

(Any long-running superhero mythos has these incidents, but with Peter they’re important to the core themes.)

And since this power is by plot for plot (or because it’s roughly agreed it only really blares about threats that check at least two boxes of being major, immediate, or physical), it always kicks in enough to register when the danger is bearing down...when it’s too late to actually do anything about it if “anything” is a more complex action than “dodge”.

Really? Not until the elevator doors started to open?

That Distinctive, Crunchy Spider Flavor

The spider-sense and its little pen squiggles go hand in hand with wallcrawling (and its unique and instantly identifiable associated body language) to make the Spider-Person powerset enduringly iconic and elevate characters with it from being generic mid-level super-bricks. Visually, but also in how it shapes the story.

I said it can share a narrative role with super strength. But when you end a fight and go home, super strength continues to make your character feel powerful, probably safer than they’d be otherwise, maybe dangerous.

The spider-sense just keeps blaring, “Something’s wrong! Something’s wrong! God, why aren’t you doing something about this!?”

Pretty morose thing to live with, for a safety net! Kind of a double edged sword you have there! Could be constantly being hyperattuned to problems would prime you for a negative outlook on life. Kind of seems like a power that would make it impossible for a moral person to take a day off, leading them into a beleaguered and resentful yet dutiful attitude about the whole superhero gig! Might build up to some of the core traits of this mythos, maybe! Might lead to a lot of fifteen minute retirement stories, or something. Might even be a built in ‘great responsibility’ alarm that gets you a main character who as a rule is not going to stop fighting until he physically cannot fight anymore.

Certainly not apropos of anything, just throwing this short lived barely-a-joke tagline up for fun.

One of my personal favorite things about stories with superpowers is keeping in mind how they cause the people who have them to act in unusual ways outside of fights, so when you tell me that these people have an entire extra sense that tells them when the gas in their house is leaking through a barely useful hot/cold warning system that never turns off, I’m like, eyes emojis, popcorn out, notebook open, listening intently, spectacles on, the whole deal.

It also contributes to Peter Parker’s personality in a way I really enjoy: It allows him to act like an irrational maniac. When you know exactly when a situation becomes dangerous and how much, normal levels of caution go out the window and absolutely nothing you do makes sense from an exterior standpoint anymore. That’s the good shit. I would like to see more exploration of how the non-Parker characters experiencing the world in this incredibly altered way bounce in response.

It’s also one of many tools in this franchise hauling the reader into relating more closely with the main character. The backbone of classic Spidey is probably being in on secrets only Peter and the reader know which completely reframe how one views the situation on the page. It’s just a big irony mine for the whole first decade. A convenient way to inform the reader and the lead that something is bad news that’s not perceivable to any other characters is youth-with-a-big-exciting-secret catnip.

Another point for tension, there, in that being aware of danger is not synonymous with being able to act on it. If there’s no visible reason for you to be acting strange, well...you’re just going to have to sit tight and sweat, aren’t you? Some gratuitous head wiggles never hurt when setting up that type of conflict.

Have I mentioned that they look cool? Simultaneously punchy and distinctive, with a respectable amount of leeway for artists to get creative with and still coming up with something easily recognizable? And pretty easy to intuit the meaning of even without the long-winded explanations common in the days when people wrote comics with the intent that someone could come in cold on any random issue and follow along okay, I think, although the mechanic has been deeply ingrained in popular culture for so long that I can’t really say for sure.

It was also useful back in the day when no artists drew the eyes on the Spider-Man mask as emoting and were conveying the lead’s expressions entirely through body language and panel composition. If you wiggle enough squiggles, you don’t need eyebrows.

Take This Handwave and Never Ask Me a Logistical Question Again

This ability patches plot holes faster than people can pick them open AND it can act as an excuse to get any plot rolling you can think of if paired with one meddling protagonist who doesn’t know how to mind their own business. Buy it now for only $19.99 (in four installments; that’s four installments of $19.99).

Why can a teenager win a six on one fight against other superhumans? Well, the spider-sense is the ultimate edge in combat, duh.

Why can Peter websling? Why doesn’t everyone websling? Well, the spider-sense is keeping him from eating flagpole when he violently flings himself across New York in a way neither man nor spider was ever meant to move.

How are we supposed to get him involved with the plot this week???? Well, that crate FELT dangerous, so he’s going to investigate it. Oh, dip, it was full of guns and radioactive snakes! Probably shouldn’t have opened that!

Yeah, okay, but why isn’t it fixing everything, then? Isn’t it supposed to be why Peter has never accidentally unmasked in front of somebody? ('Nother entry for this section, take a shot.) That’s crazy sensitive! How does he still have any problems!? Is everything bad that’s ever happened to characters with this powerset bad writing!? --Listen, I think as people with uncanny senses that can tell us whether we are in danger with accuracy that varies from incredible to approximate (I am talking about the five senses that most people have), we should all know better than to underestimate our ability to tune them out or interpret them wrong and fuck ourselves up anyway. I honestly find this part completely realistic.

*SLAPS ROOF OF SPIDER-SENSE* YOU CAN FIT SO MANY STORIES IN THIS THING

The spider-sense is a clean branch into...whatever. There is the exact right balance of structure and wishy-washiness to build off of. A sample selection of whatevers that have been built:

It’s sci-fi and spy gadgets when Peter builds technology that can interface with it.

It’s quasi-mystical when Kaine and Annie-May get stronger versions of it that give them literal psychic visions, or when you want to get mythological and start talking about all the spider-characters being part of a grand web of fate.

Kaine loses his and it becomes symbolic of a future newly unbound by constraints, entangled thematically with the improved physical health he picked up at the same time -- a loss presented as a gain.

Peter loses his and almost dies 782 times in one afternoon because that didn’t make the people he provoked when he had it stop trying to kill him, and also because he isn’t about to start “””taking the subway’’””’ “‘’“”to work”””’’” like some kind of loser who doesn’t get a heads up when he’s about to hit a pigeon at 50mph.

Peter’s starts tuning into his wife’s anxiety and it’s a tool in a relationship study.

It starts pinging whenever Peter’s near his boss who’s secretly been replaced by a shapeshifter and he IGNORES IT because his boss is enough of an asshole that that doesn’t strike him as weird; now it’s a comedy/irony tool.

Into the Spider-Verse made it this beautiful poetic thing connecting all the spider-heroes in the multiverse and stacked up a story on it about instant connection, loss, and incredibly unlikely strangers becoming a found family. It was also aesthetic as FUCK. Remember the scene where Miles just hears barely intelligible whispering that’s all lines people say later in the film and then his own voice very clearly says “look out” and then the room explodes?? Fuck!!!!

Venom becomes immune to it after hitchhiking to Earth in Peter’s bone juice and it makes him a unique threat while telling a more-homoerotic-than-I-assume-was-originally-intended story about violation and how close relationships can be dangerous when they go sour.

It doesn’t work on people you trust for maximum soap opera energy. Love the innate tragedy of this feature coming up.

IN CONCLUSION I don’t have much patience for writers who don’t take advantage of it, never mind feel they need to write around it.

#spiderman #peter parker #spiderverse #spidey #marvel #danny phantom #one day you'll see what i'm doing with it in the project i'm collabing on w/ my brother and then you'll all be sorry and hopefully impresse #mirrorfalls #asks answered #essays

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sauntervaguelydown · 3 years

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OKAY SO i've been meaning to do this for AGES but i never got to it - please tell me everything there is to tell about Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

oh GREAT choice, I've never talked about that. This is gonna be long.

So the (greatly abridged) story of how this fic came to be is that in a now-defunct JTHM server, there was a fic exchange. And Choko bravely wrote NnyGar as assigned, despite not uhhhhh liking that pairing, much, actually. Anyway, I was cheerleading the whole fic as it went and I got quite attached to it because! Evil carnivals! Ray Bradbury! Shark-face carnie Jimmy! ahhhhh

Well in any case Choko was fully burned out on it and I wanted to see more, so I asked if I could have it, and she said yeah bitch go nuts.

This was at least 6 months into my JTHM revival kick (which lasted an ASTONISHING almost exactly 12 months). I had written Edgar in a bunch of new ways, and I was evaluating what it was that I liked so much about him. (This was after writing Copperwire Canines, mind you.) Why was he so compelling. And I realized he's a fucking monster fucker. He loves horrible dangerous things and he wants to bandage their broken nightmare wings. And I just keep giving him new monsters to kiss!

Choko had told me that Jimmy's backstory in this universe was basically, he was gay in the 50's in a shithole heartland town, and got chased into the Fey Carnival by gay bashers. He got free again, and spent the next couple years obsessively tracking the carnival across the country, trying to get inside again so that he could ask to be given a job.

So like!!! Here HE is, had to work and scrape for everything he has, and then along comes EDGAR who gets everything and more just by being?? NICE?? Literally, I say to myself, what could be more compelling than that.

Edgar has a super androgynous vibe in this because it was about the time me and Choko were talking about Edgar being a baby non-binary and maybe wearing bras for no reason except that he likes the vibe. Not sexy bras just like. Normal. Walmart bras. Anyway that gender queer thing really bled in here, and I think the result is this really cool like--queer fantasy, of being taken away to this other world where you can be your truest most horrific (to society) self, and no one expects anything else of you, and you don't have to apologize, and you can be soft and kind and cruel and hungry and wear lots of necklaces if you want to. We are monstrous, but in our shared monstrosity, are we not bound all the tighter for it?

The final scene where Edgar is transformed was probably the second thing I wrote when I got permission to start. The idea of ultimately choosing your corruption, and being happy in your corruption--!

This is a visually oriented story, to me--all the grey-blues and greens and pearl colors of Edgar's tent, all the stark black and whites of the circus proper... the teeth marks.... I struggled with wanting it to be all either one palette or the other, but in the end, I think the variety works in the fic's favor. Not everything has to be as monolithic as I want it to be lmao

All these characters are probably their furthest incarnation from canon, for various reasons... I did feel the whole time like they were straining the bounds of fanfic, like they really wanted to be new characters, but I did my best to keep them leashed. I felt like I'd gotten a better handle on it once I figured out how to get Johnny to be both an inhuman fairy thing and also a vengeful condescending misanthrop.

this is ALSO one of those fics where I write a 3some and then have everything be about the two weirder pairing and not do much about the Much More Normal Pairing that would usually be the center but like.... I think I managed to get some good Nnygar content in there by the end of it. That just took a lot more concerted effort. The trick was that I focused on the weird alien aspect of Johnny Sea and let that part keep my interest. I still adore the opening scene on the carousel... I would love to see that scene with a soundtrack...

Let me see, what else... oh! it's extremely canon that Devi comes back like 6 months later in her own timeline but like decades later in Edgar's, with a sword in hand, and tries to rescue him but ends up rescuing Tess instead. And then they are Girlfriends. Also Tess has been in here since the 40's and doesn't know what a microwave is.

I have more to say but I've already taken SO long I really need to stop here

#izamun

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butchbarneygumble · 3 years

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Got tagged by @lucky-lacmac ! I always grasp the chance to talk about my comfort characters so HERE GO They vary depending on hyperfixations so I'm going with what comes to mind rn and thus they're not numbered wheeeeeee Prohyas Warrior (Mighty Magiswords)

I just. I was just smitten by this guy from day one. I was in Florida, caught the first episode on TV. Wasn't too enticed by the show yet, but soon found myself dreaming of the characters. Gave it more of a chance when I was back home, and eventually got way too into it and it moved from Background Noise to Hell Yeah I Love You!!!! The show in general brings me so much joy but something about Accordion Man just... speaks to me. He insist he's manly and has a killer bod, but he's also openly fond of cute things like dolphins and lil bugs and is super motherly. I just love when characters defy gender expectations. And I love his design, his attitude, his voice, the sense of humour he brings, and that hair, man. That hair Sends Me. He's probably one of the reasons I dyed my hair blue.... not to mention both he and Vambre are just unapologetic manchildren who just try to have fun with their job and adult life. I really relate to that and wish CN would do more cartoons about that. I'm tired of children protags jhckgfgs

honestly every character in this show gets comfort character vibes from me (just please give vambre a break with the hornyposting she deserves so much more) and the fact it has like no fandom at all is criminal

Conker (Conker's Bad Fur Day)

Imagine if you will, I was 6 years old or so when Bad Fur Day released. I had no knowledge of it until my dad bought it for himself from the bargain bin in a local Intertoys that is now gone. Playing it through a bit (sneakily) my mom caught me JUST at the moment he threw up during the opening cutscene. I cried out of secondhand embarrassed, mom consoled me and it went into storage until I was 13 Then I found footage of the Great Mighty Poo on Youtube and snuck in that damn game again. Now, I had actual knowledge of English and as a teenager, the concept of an adult game was just very exciting. I fell in love with Conker, but in a different way a lot of people do. I see him as a normal guy who's just having a really weird day and his greed ruins his life. It's poetic, and I want to hug him a lot. But also slap him for being a little shit. He was there for me in my strange teenhood, when I was exploring adult subjects when I probably shouldn't, but it's been good all the way through. Probably my gateway into the furry fandom as well. As an adult I find myself enjoying the non-edgy stuff more - and it reflects in the fan material I produce of Conker. He is still very important to me and I love him a lot.

Barley Lightfoot (Onward)

Rarely was there ever a character I could point at and be like "me." Girls in animation were always just... There, or very girly to a point I couldn't see myself in there. Surprise, surprise, Renée, you're not even a girl!!! Barley is one of those characters that I saw myself in. I do not have a sibling, but sometimes do wish I had one - and live vigorously throughout media portrayals of them. He is me as my best self - supportive, loud, clumsy, outwardly scary but otherwise just trying to do the right thing. He's one of those "Do I want to date you or do I want your gender" types. Ian is a good boy too ofc, but Barley to me is especially personal. His choice of fashion and body shape, right down to his big jawline, I feel mirrors myself. However, where both Lightfoot bros shine is that I share the experience of having "half a dad".

When Barley and Ian were going through the underground river and he was talking about the last memory of his dad, I saw me. I cried buckets. My dad was diagnosed with ALS somewhere around when I first read about Onward's development, and when I saw it with him he was already paralyzed and wheelchair-bound. He was smiling all the way through. Fergy Fudgehog (Viva Piñata)

Lilshit. Absolute trash animal. Why do I love you so much? I dunno. He's kind of awful. Whereas originally characterized as a scaredy-cat who hated the idea of parties, he eventually got flanderized into a nasty little so-and-so who would sell his own adoptive brother if it meant he could get a snack out of it. When he's not that, he's a whiny manchild. Yet he entices me. His colour pattern, and my fondness for hedgehogs... him making weird noises a lot. I like him enough to have had a role play account for him for a while that's still around!! Sometimes you don't know why you like a character and that's okay.

Luigi (Super Mario Bros) Mario (Super Mario Bros)

When I was 12 I first got into Mario. And I don't mean playing the games and enjoying them, but actively into the characters, lore, and stories... for as much as you can say Mario has story. Mario and Luigi are just such pleasant looking characters. They shouldn't be cute but they are. They were my first crushes and recently I've gotten back into it and I'm just here for it. Mario and Luigi are cute and I should say it!!!!!I legit find them attractive, physically and mentally. Also shipping Luigi with Peasley gives me happiness and I hate teenage me for having bad taste and hating it.

Donkey Kong Diddy Kong Dixie Kong

Donkey Kong is the Absolute, the Eternal. He has always been there in my life, and so have his games. Something about that ape makes me feel comfortable and happy and I just want to hug him. I love the lore of the games, the aesthetics - toony-yet-realistic, and it influenced the HELL out of my own art style. Donkey Kong is just a Cool Soft Gorilla who WILL kick ass. Diddy and Dixie were also super influentual to me. DKC2 is one of my most favourite video games, starring two of my most favourite characters, and my favourite aesthetic... though, in a fun case of chicken-and-egg situation, I dunno if my love for pirates came from DKC2 or other way around. Lars Barriga (Steven Universe)

Babby's First Gender Envy When Lars' entire arc happened, I was in college, constantly trying to discover myself. I enjoyed the character before the arc but the arc just elevated my love for him to the stars. He's just a fella, so nervous about what other people think about him... later in the show you get an insight on why he's like that. Then, he's dragged to space, forced to confront his emotional constipation, Fuckin Dies trying to save his new friends, and is brought back to life as a badass pink space zombie. Something about that just vibed with me super strongly. And how Steven always saw the good in him even if he bullied him. I love him so much. I love them both. That's the main ones! I tag whomever wants to do this I'm bad at tagging jdkfghjd

#tag game #long post #comfort characters

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rusty-bucket-of-taconite-pellets · 2 years

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Lee Pace

A/N: This is the first time I have written in years. I'm rusty, my grammar is bad, and the characters are like cardboard. But if I post I can later look back and see if I've made any progress. Lee Pace has been my favorite actor since 2015 and I with his new show out I've fallen back into the hole that is my love for him. So here's this. I also figured that I could start with with something like fanfiction in order to ease into things. (Also, do people still do these A/Ns? They were a thing when I first started writing on the internet. are they still cool? am I hip with the youngsters?)

Character- Lee Pace

Words- 1,000 words on the DOT

TL:DR- you tell your long term boyfriend that you are pregnant.

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I’m late. Not for work, or a date, or anything as simple as that. My period is late. I’m on the pill, have been since I was 16, but I know that it isn’t 100% effective. I don’t know what to do. My boyfriend and I have been together for a few years now, but we haven’t talked about children. We don’t have time for kids with him traveling all the time for work, and working myself. Our busy lives couldn’t possibly take on another thing to juggle.

So I go to CVS. I get a test, and I take it. For the first time in my life, this isn’t a test I want to pass. But, like the gods themselves are laughing at me, two lines show up. Positive. So I take another from the box. And another. And another. Four out of Five read positive. Every emotion hits me at once and I fall to the floor of the bathroom, crying. The floor swirls around me as my mind races.

How am I going to tell him? He just got back from filming season one of foundation, and I know he’s going to have to leave again. If not for that job, another. He’s going to leave and I will have to be here, by myself, and a child. He might not even want the kid, Hell, I don’t know if I even want the kid. I know he is a rational man, but I can’t help but think that he may leave me. Me being pregnant would only be a burden to him.

What if he’s mad? We should have been more careful, I should have tracked my period and ovulation cycle better I should have taken more precautions. I want kids but it’s not the right time.

Maybe I don’t tell him. Our relationship seems almost perfect and I don’t want to lose him. Maybe I’ll just go to the clinic and have an abortion. Plenty of people do it, and he would never have to know.

But what if I never get pregnant again? But we aren’t even married and we’ve only been living together for two years, and half of the time he hasn’t even been around. I’ve always dreamed of having a child of my own, but is this the right decision?

I need to tell him. Relationships are about communication, trust, and commitment. Even if we are not ready for this commitment, that is something we will decide together. But what if we don’t make the same decision?

I hear Pete barking and the front door open, which means Lee must be home. I hear him talking to Pete as I pull myself from the bathroom floor. I try to fix myself up in the mirror, but it’s no use. My eyes are red and puffy, and you can clearly tell that I’ve been crying.

“I’m home! I brought home some cheesecake!” Lee shouts through the house, his voice ringing in my ears. I walk to the kitchen where he’s unpacking groceries with his back towards me, humming an unrecognizable song.

“The supermarket was having a great sale on fresh fruit so I bought all sorts of goodies-” he says, turning to me. He sees my state and instantly his demeanor changes.

“Honey, what’s wrong?” He asks putting down the carton in his hand and walking over to me. He takes me into a warm hug. I feel numb, but my body shakes, and tears begin to fall again.

“Babe, it’s okay, you can talk to me. I’m here.” He says and kisses my head. The words are both comforting and nauseating. He doesn’t have a clue. He might decide to kick me out the moment the words leave my mouth. He pulls away from me far enough to wipe my tears and lift my chin up so I’m looking at him.

“What is it? I hate seeing you like this. Please tell me.” he coaxes

“Lee, I’m so sorry,” I say, my voice meek

“There’s nothing to be sorry for. I will never be mad at you for being upset.” He says but I shake my head

“It’s not that.”

“What is it?”

“I’m pregnant.” I finally get out, and my world feels like it’s about to come crashing down. Lee pulls away from me a bit more

“Are you sure?” He asks, and I can’t tell if his expression is angry or worried. I nod my head, not trusting my voice.

“I’m so sorry Lee- I should have been more careful since I know you’re going to leave again for work and you probably don’t even want a baby-” I start but he pulls me close again.

“[Y/N], there is nothing to be sorry about. It takes two to make a baby. I am at fault as much as you.” He pulls away again, causing me to feel empty. “And if you want this baby, then I couldn’t be happier. Do you want this baby?” He asks, and I nod my head

“Then we’re having a baby!” He grins as he picks me up and twirls

“But what about work?” I ask as he sets me back down.

“Screw work! We’re having a baby! They can find another ruler of the galaxy. I’m going to be a father!” He puts me down and puts one hand on my waist, the other he cups my face with.

“I am not going anywhere.” He smiles at me, wiping the remainder of my tears away. I finally smile back.

“Maybe I could come with you? That way we’re together, but you can still work.”

“If that is what you want, we can make it happen. But you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to. Understood?”

“Understood.”

“I love you.”

“I love you too.” I lean into him, letting all the anxiety from earlier settle. We were going to have this baby, and we were going to get through this together.

#lee pace #foundation 2021 #fanfic #preganancy #healthy relationships #[y/n]#self insert

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lunawolflight · 4 years

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Spies In Disguise, "alternative course of the story" (FANCREATIONS)

Hello there!

So I'm still fangirling over Spies in Disguise, I knew I was going to really like the movie but not LOVING it so much! In fact I saw it a second time just two days ago eheh x3

I don't usually do this, but I wanted to share with you a little "alternative course of the story". There will be SPOILERS of course, you've been warned, if you want to read GO SEE THAT MOVIE! (If you want eheh, believe me it's really good)

Okay so, my favorite part was the Venice's part, all of it, but more specifically the part where Killian kick Walter out of the moped and when he's about to kill him. Now, my "alternative course of the story" is from start from this point:

Walter spear bread's crumbs to Killian and all the pigeons "attack" him, but instead of run away, Walter, took by the adrenaline and a courage that has grown for had being with Lance, he put first the track on Killian and then steals the database from him.

Little discussion from Walter's choice: this bravery has been earned thanks to the admiration he had towards Lance and, the more time he passed with him (other then prove his inventions) he starts to have a little more confidence in himself and, in the "birdnado" scene, he took by this courage that has grown inside him and face directly the bad guy, stealing the Agents' Database (before taking it I imagine that Walter at first is scared but then he takes conscience of the situation and face Killian).

After he runs away with Lance and the rest of the flock, Killian now directly concentrate his attention towards Walter and from then on he became a target like Lance (also he remember that the kid called Lance's name so he suppose that the two are a team or work together). Then there's the scene that's like the movie where Killian flees away from Marcy and the other agents.

In the submarine, Walter is totally excited for had take from the bad guy the database and he's really proud of that while Lance, like in the actual movie, rethinks about the huge risk Walter had take, also because (I haven't specified it before so I do it now), Killian injured Walter while the kid was stealing the database (I imagine it could me the arm or the shoulder).

It's not a bad wound, Walter bandages himself quickly, still it's not so superficial and even if Walter is more concentrate on his victory, Lance starts realizing how much he's putting Walter's life in danger (like in the movie). Anyway, the scene goes on like in the movie, Lance doesn't tell his feeling to Walter, he compliments to him, the two hugs (ASSGDBDHEB LOVE THEM), Lance lays an egg and there Walter realize the formula to bring Lance back to normal.

Now that we arrived at this point, Walter propose to bring the database to Marcy and prove Lance's innocence to the agency and so stop all together Killian.

Lance immediately refuses because that's the first thing Killian would have expect and they can't let expose theirselves or, imaginary conversation:

"Dude, that's the first thing robot hand would expect us to do and so you-!

*clear his throat*

We and the rest of the agency will be in danger."

So after some more thoughts and ideas, the two decides to hide the database in a place safely far from Killian's location and Walter propose to add a protection to the files but Lance refuses, without explaining the reasons. The two hide the database, go to the island to stop Killian and here there's the same argument between Lance and Walter, in this case Lance points out also the wound that the kid earned and that he wasn't to be an agent, Walter refuses but Lance tranquilized him and send him away to protect him.

Same dynamic from then on; Lance goes to Killian to destroy the machines but eventually he reveals to have more of them and hits the spy unconscious.

Once he woke up there's the revelation part and then Killian wants to know where the files are, Lance of course doesn't talk but then Killian mention Walter and then Lance freeze.

Now I'm getting a little be into my own "story's style", but anyway, Killian pressure Lance talking about why he would had had a to do the "dirty job" for him (since he of course doesn't know he was a pigeon) since he "flies solo" and such, imagine an evil and chilling speech from him eheh x3

Now here, I can't decide between two choices, and one of these it's because I'm falling too much into my own "angst style" and it would totally turn into one of my story eheh xD

Well anyway, this certain first choice, is that Killian reveals to Lance to had capture Walter with one of his drones ('cause he had placed lookout drones and thus tracing the boy) and, from both of them, wants to know where the database is and since his revenge is towards Starling and wants to see him suffer (also he thinks that the kid would have break out first), he decide to tortures Walter and after a bit of pressure, the kid doesn't talk but after awhile Lance breaks down and reveals the position of the database.

Seeing how Lance revealed the care for Walter, Killian keeps him as a guarantee and goes to get the database and eventually kill him in front of Lance, but Walter is able to escape before they get back to Lance and like in the movie Killian tries to kill him with the drones but Walter saves himself.

From now on the things progresses is like in the movie with a bit more confront in the scene where Walter frees Lance.

The second choice it's like in the movie with a little changed dynamics: Walter is about to get back for Lance and Killian treats to kill him if Lance doesn't talk, after a lot of pressure Lance talks but Killian doesn't eventually keep his word, sends the drones to kill Walter, he's alive and the movie goes on.

So yeah I let my imagination slip on the writing again, in my mind things gets a lot more interesting and I'm not too good to put them on a proper writing eheh. One thing I'm not really convinced on is how Lance reveals the database to save Walter, I think that in the contest of the movie Lance would have find another way to not sacrifice the agents, his character reveals to me that he would have do anything to not sacrifice anyone, but I think that for Walter he would have done it, adding more deepness to their relationship, even though Walter wouldn't have agree on that since, like he shows in the end, he would totally sacrifice himself to save the others. Gosh if the movie would have follow my own idea it would at least be a two hours or more movie xD

Maybe I some things that I exposed may have other solutions or maybe don't even make sense, but after all the movie came out just few days ago and this "alternative continuation of the story" came up in my mind two days ago indeed eheh.

Well I've write another poem spending pretty much two or more hours for it and I enjoyed doing it, hope to not have done too many grammar errors I need to fix my english better eheh x,3

Oh good that's all I had to say, I'll probably make some fanarts since I'm really into the movie, GOSHHHHH

*I didn't choose these picture because I love these scenes and the fact that I just exposed such an an angsty concept doesn't imply that I really love Walter, NONONONO*

EDIT: I wanted also to clarify why I imagined this topic, I forgot to mention it my bad eheh

Anyway, I imagined it would have been cool to bring to Killian more attention to Walter since he's the real protagonist of the movie (with Lance as a co but the story is the most centered about him, his idealogy and the wait he has to face through the whole film). Plus, I find that Killian could at least failed a mission for just one time and made him involve with Lance and Walter as primar targets that interfeer with his plans. (Also I love writing and imaging angst so yup)

Sorry if I forgot to add this part of my fancreation, I'll also reblog it so the one that already read this will have a double check x,3

#SPOILERS #spies in disguise #walter beckett #lance starling #killian #angst #fangirling #I'M THINKING ABOUT THIS MOVIE FOR DAYS I CAN'T BELIEVE IT I LOVE IT SO MUCH

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