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honeywiththemoneyloa222 · 18 hours

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WHO AM I??

Hi baby

I’m going to talk a little bit about myself

I don’t wanna reveal too much

My face and everything else will remain anonymous for safety and privacy💕

Name:

My name is Honey(yes this is my birth name lol)

You can call me by my name or honeybee

Or even honeycomb

Do NOT call me beehive 😡

Unless it’s related to Beyoncè💕

Age: 23

Topics:

I discuss the void state, Law of assumption,Reality Shifting (I haven’t talked about this yet but will if you need more info)

And All kinds of Manifestation methods

How to talk to Honey!!!

Just dm me any questions I don’t take asks anymore so if you have any questions just feel free to dm me

Ethnicity/Nationality

My mom is Afro Peruvian, Indian,and Haitian

My dad is Jamaican

Sooo

I’m black hehe🤟🏾

I don’t do these I’m super private it’s soooo weird omg

What do I like??

Music food animals

Did I say music because

MUSIC!!!!!!

My favorite artists

I love all kinds of music

Even death metal occasionally

I like Harry Styles,Kid Cudi,Lady Gaga The Beatles,Ice Spice and many moreeeee

I also love movies

Literally almost any kind

But anyways

Let’s talk about something more interesting!!

Now that you know me(kind of)

I want you to know about this technique I discovered

It’s not new at all

In fact ppl on here have already talked about it I’m just late

As usual 😔

Anywayyyyyy

There’s a technique I want you all to try

It’s called the

“Wim hof breathing”

Method

No methods are needed But if you really want one

Then here you go pookie

(Found this on a website but it won’t let me copy the link😔)

WIM HOF BREATHING METHOD

Find a comfortable position.

Breathe in deeply through the nose or mouth and through the belly to the chest. Then let the breath go unforced.

Exhale through the mouth, then immediately breathe in again.

Take 30–40 such breaths in short bursts.

Take one final, deep inhalation then let the air out and stop inhaling. Hold the breath until you feel the urge to breathe again.

Inhale very deeply to full capacity and hold for 15 seconds, then let it go. This completes the first round.

Repeat the whole process, steps #2-6, 3-4 times.

After completion take time to meditate and enjoy the state of deep relaxation

After the very last step you should be a deep trance like state you should be really relaxed

I recommend that you let your next subliminal play

Which should be

Either a theta or epilson wave track or pink noise

Make sure your desired subliminal that plays after is Not a guided meditation you wanna still be in a trance

Start affirming in that point

And don’t stop

Just feel how relaxed you are feel that powerless body but powerful mind

Your body is at ease your soul and mind collide in such ways that allows you to breathe freely without any stress no harm

In the void state

Your main goal should be getting peace

Because if you’re entering just affirm

You’ll likely put it on a pedestal you’ll get frustrated and give up

It is not a wish granter bitch

It’s you

Baby you are powerful

Baby you are pretty

Baby you can tap in the void

And make the bring the 4D to your 3D and make it your home

Don’t use the void as a wish granter

Use it for peace

Don’t treat the 3D like the enemy

Treat it like a friend

After all it exists the way it does because of your assumptions

Whether you say this is hard or this is easy

Sugar, you’re right either way

Because if you assume something then that’s how it’ll be

If you think you’re pretty you’re pretty

But if you think you’re broke

Then you’re broke

If you think you’re rich

Then you’re rich baby

You could have wings

Superpowers

Be the biggest singer or rapper in the world

Star in the next Dune Movie

Be best friends with Ariana Grande

Be a Scientist

Be smarter than Albert Einstein(I mean was he actually super intelligent if he lacked common sense)

You could be get a bigger butt!!

I mean didn’t necessarily have a pancake ass

But I definitely didn’t have a Nicki Minaj

BUT I DO NOW!!!!

And bestie you can too!

Plastic surgery who???

Do we look like a Kardashian-Jenner?? I think the f not🙄

The void is our plastic surgeon

You wanna a smaller nose?

Got it

Tig ole biddies?

Got it

Nicki Minaj butt?

Got it

Floor length hair?

Got it?

Whatever you want to change about yourself

Got it!

And for the last time babies

You ALWAYS ENTER THE VOID EVERYTIME YOU SLEEP

Mentally just be

Physically sleep

In that moment baby

Forget the 3D and its fuck ass bob

Because the 3Ds not your enemy but its your puppet

You’re a ventriloquist CONTROL THAT MF

The 4D is you

The void is you

Quit saying what you can’t do babe

You CAN BECAUSE YOU ALREADY DID AND YOU STILL DO

“HoNEy I StiLL didNT gET inTO tHe vOiD”

YES YOU DID!!!!!!

You did it

You just didn’t know

Bro the void is just recognizing you’re asleep

And getting in contact with your mind

Which is where you already go when you go to sleep

So ha

Billie

There’s your answer

When we fall asleep

That’s where we go

The mf Void State

The only thing your cute ass has to do baby

Is just be aware

When Neville Goddard says just “BE”

Bitch just BE

That’s it

Be aware

Like that SpongeBob episode

“Be the crane”

Be the Void

It’s just you love

So why you stressing

Why complicate something YOU created?!

Baby girl make it make sense

Own your power bitch

I love you My darlings

Month is almost over

Bring me my success stories

Or I’ll be your sleep paralysis demon 😈

(Just kidding)

Or am I;)

NOW BITCH LOOK!!!!

YAYYYY

Imma keep pressuring you to listen to this(NOTE YOU DO NOT NEED SUBLIMINALS)

But I like this one🫠

Wrong emoji

I can’t find that cute one at the moment I’m rushing cuz I wanna eat my burger!

SLADE:

https://youtu.be/oKU8YIicYQg?feature=shared

THIS

because it’s soooo peaceful

Slade is the best

BYE BITCH GO GET THAT DREAM LIFE NOW!!!

I love you ⭐️💕

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mean-scarlet-deceiver · 3 months

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Hmm… have I asked for Thomas and Henry, or just thought about it hard a couple of times? XD;;

Ooh, a fun pair.

“You’re too fat, you need exercise! 😤”

“Oh, I can’t wait for dawdling tank engines like you; good-bye! 😇”

“Run my train on time for one thing 😡”

“You’re the only danger on the rails, Thomas 🙄”

‘Oh, I guess you can go to York… some of us are still too useful to become museum-pieces… 👿’ (paraphrasing Henry’s copium here)

All right, maybe it’s more “fun” like the one in “dysfunctional.” But still!

The thing about this is that it’s a “minor” relationship in that, for most of their lives, they’re in each other’s periphery. Then again, they’ve been in each other’s lives sooooo long. So it’s a very sibling-y sort of relationship. They’ve been on different life paths as long as they can remember… but ohh, the embarrassing shit they remember about each other…

Birds’-Eye View

This relationship has an eternal tug-of-war quality.

Of course, Thomas by instinct plays tug-of-war with all the “big engines”! This is who he is!

But the relationship with Henry is different because there’s a sort of long-term… equality? Like, with Thomas and Gordon, like, Thomas is cheeky, but the one time he ever got really out-of-line with Gordon (i.e. THOMAS’ FIRST APPEARANCE?) Gordon pretty much put him in his place, and overall the whole point of their relationship is that Thomas acknowledges Gordon’s superiority in at least certain key points, it’s precisely WHY he likes to measure himself against him! (I’m thinking a lot here of many, many TVS-only incidents… but even in RWS there’s “Hurry hurry hurry,” he puffed, pretending to be like Gordon.) Thomas can’t look upon Henry the same way, for “Henry I”-related reasons not least of all (see section below). But with Gordon, the whole fun of the relationship for Thomas is to tease him in a way that only works if Gordon is on a pedestal. Thomas doesn’t try to knock him off… he just likes to shake things up, freak Gordon out, then do a campy little victory dance and make his exit with a shit-eating grin.

Then there’s Thomas and James, and in RWS… post-strike, James is never again seen to give Thomas any shit for being a tank engine? (Actual gold star, I can’t believe we’ve found an avenue of insult that even RWS!James has left untrod.) So a key feature of his tension with Gordon and Henry is, apparently, removed. Of course they do clash, if you go by TVS they clash a LOT. But in this relationship Thomas kind of has the upper hand, when you take the long view. (Thomas is more famous and favored, and James just gets so consistently shut down by the whole universe the moment he tries any shit. Plus, their foundational moment was Thomas getting him cleaned up after his first Sodor accident, and I think that colours the relationship forever – even after James is no longer prepared to just take Thomas’s patronizing airs (“Hullo James! Feeling better? That’s right! Oh, I must go, I don’t know what the Fat Controller etc. etc…” Betcha James shut down that shit before too much longer, lol.)

If Gordon has the dominant role in that relationship, and if Thomas has the dominant role in the one with James… then the fun thing about Thomas and Henry is that the scale never permanently settles one way or another. Whenever they have a lil’ flare-up, they feel like they’re on equal footing, and perhaps that’s why the barbs they trade feel ‘specially vicious! The field is wide open, no one comes in with the advantage, and they are both in it to WIN it!

But why are they like this?

Early Years

The thing I envision about their early acquaintance is the mutual bafflement. It’s a similar vibe to the one hilariously (and accurately) depicted here with Thomas and Gordon, except it’s not about different autisms, and it’s less confusion and dislike and more confusion and annoyance.

My headcanon for Henry is that Thomas was the first time he set eyes on a tank engine. So his initial reaction is like “what is this deformed… creature? (and why is he so mouthy?) (and what does he do here?) (what is ‘shunting’? oh nvm it’s not like i’ll ever need to know, i’m a proper engine)” Even if my headcanon is discarded, however, Thomas sure is Himself and the sheer force of his fussy, self-important Main Character Energy would have had a similar effect on young Henry, fresh from the shop and still dazzled by the wide world.

Thomas, though he has a fair bit more worldly experience under his boiler bands, still isn’t nearly as worldly as he thinks he is! — and he finds Henry just as baffling as Henry does him. Henry’s not like any other engine he’s ever met. He’s the biggest for one thing. He’s also far and away the un-reliable-est. I accentuate this in QLIR because part of the “scam” is that Henry is presented to Hatt as, not perhaps the engine he envisioned, but still an engine with some on-the-job experience. Total lies, of course. Far from “hitting the ground running,” Henry is a babe in the woods, constantly stumbling and fumbling his way around the rails. He knows nothing of railway operations, yard etiquette, or shed culture. Someone like Edward can take this in stride and just be like, All right, new chap needs a little extra looking after. It’s just a thing. No biggie. (Topham Hatt of course is in his office spitting nails, but this ain’t about him.) Thomas, however, is at just that childish stage where a) he knows all this stuff and b) he can’t fathom anyone not knowing it. So he’s constantly having the reaction of “What is he doing???” And, since he has no filter, drawing everyone’s attention to New Guy’s odd behaviors, every time (which does nothing to help Henry build confidence!)

(Then again, of course, sometimes New Guy legitimately does some very strange stuff – Once an engine attached to a train/Was afraid of a few drops of rain… That, erm. That Doesn’t Help.)

Then you add on Henry’s… mis-build, and Thomas’s befuddlement is cemented. He’s a cast-off on the Island Railway of Cast-Offs, of course, so the idea of mechanical issues aren’t new, but Henry’s are at a whole new level and they regularly disable him. Thomas is definitely 100% on board with the idea that you can manage to at least finish any job if you just try hard enough… and certainly you can at least get out of the shed in the mornings, yeah? Henry is the first time he encounters an engine for whom this just isn’t true. Same childish point of view: Henry is weird.

Again, I cannot emphasize that “Henry is weird” is an attitude coming from Thomas… who in his own unique way is one of the weirdest little engines ever built (affectionate).

None of this amounts, on either side, to anything like hatred. Annoyance on both sides, to be sure, but even then I don’t think it’s their dominant attitude towards each other. We see in “Thomas’ Train” that Thomas is… intrigued by the potential of his getting to fulfill his long-term Train-Taking Goals. But he doesn’t gloat over Henry’s misfortune, and I think TVS was so correct in giving him a worried face mask even as he slowly goes off to get the train ready… He can’t even be properly excited until he’s out of Henry’s vicinity, and, mind you, Henry’s too ill to be intimidating just then – Thomas refrains only because he really does feel bad for Henry, and doesn’t want him to feel worse!

We also have, later in the same story, Thomas thinking “Henry says it’s hard to pull trains, but…” So, you know, they’ve talked before. (At minimum, Thomas has listened to Henry fretting to other big engines!) Henry is a real person for him, so to speak, by now a consistent presence in his life.

As they settle in to their early-canon dynamic, I reckon it’s now characterised by mutual envy. Thomas would LOVE to take trains regularly like Henry – and can’t fully comprehend why Henry treats it like a burden! Like, he knows Henry gets ill, but at a gut level I don’t think Thomas could truly “get it,” because there’s nothing more he wants in the world than to have what Henry has!

Conversely, Thomas himself is always complaining, too (They’re both so good at having a good grumble!) and I think it would kinda drive Henry nuts that Thomas acts like he has it soooooo hard for *checks notes* having a job that he can actually perform to everyone’s satisfaction?... Vicarstown pilot Thomas may feel ignored by their manager, but that’s a million times preferable to being an eighty-ton disappointment to a manager who now has buyer’s remorse and a consequently short temper with you… :/

Keeping Each Other Grounded

I have no doubt that in the early years Henry leaned as far into the “big engine” identity as he could, largely to ensure that he wasn’t dead last in the pecking order. But I don’t know that this worked… especially after Thomas is promoted to branch line, and now Henry and the others don’t have a station pilot to kick around for a while…!

I don’t know for sure how I come down on about the TVS notion that Henry really grows out the big-engine trio vs. RWS, where the big-engine trio more slowly dissolves with everyone’s mutual consent. But if Henry did sort of lose interest in this identity when the other two didn’t, it makes sense precisely because the big-engine thing never let him rise higher than oh let’s say Thomas, and keeping a few paces ahead of that mouthy little tank engine (who always fails upward!!) was a big part of his motive for adopting it to begin with.

Similarly, Henry is so practiced at seeing the down side of anything. This makes him great at poking a hole in Thomas's balloon, any time Thomas gets too proud and puffed-up.

The Good Times

Right, I started off focusing on the tensions just because whenever one of these fellas takes a potshot at the other it’s always a classic! And because I think mutual befuddlement is the keynote of their early relationship.

As we get even in a little into canon, however, I want to emphasize that they usually rub along comfortably. They’re kind of on each other’s periphery, always, but they’ve lived and worked together for so long. And they’re both good-hearted sort of lads really. So it’s impossible that they don’t care about each other, even if it’s almost always at a bit of a distance. We are more likely to see them when they’re shooting a poisoned arrow at each other, but we know that what they’re usually doing when they see each other at the junction is pleasantly exchanging news.

This means that I approve of (virtually all) the little TVS moments that point to this kind of bond. Usually it’s one of them looking concerned when the other is jumpy (Henry) or missing (Thomas… dude, you sure do go missing a lot in TVS). I likewise enjoy getting to see them happy for each other at the appropriate moments (usually this is Henry for Thomas, most memorable for me is “That’s my boy!” <- cheering on Thomas when he’s kicking ass in the Shunting Challenge).

This is basic, background sort of stuff. But it’s also, I think, the most accurate representation of them. The zingers are incredible but they are a small part of their relationship. A basic, background sort of quasi-siblinghood is what constitutes the lion’s share of that bond.

I don’t like the TAB notion that Thomas went out of his way to say a few encouraging words to Henry and thereby cured Henry’s rain-related anxiety wtfffff… but I do approve of the general idea that, even (especially?) in the early days, there was certainly a time or two when Thomas hung back in the sheds to encourage Henry, just the two of them. It’s only that I think his brand of encouragement would be more like… Gordon or one of the BBBs had said something shitty to Henry, and (after getting into it with them, because Thomas is not one to back down from a fight!) actually remembering (for a change?) that this was all about Henry to begin with, and hanging around for a bit until Henry was cheered up. Although unlike Percy’s very frank, open attempt to cheer Henry in “Gordon’s Whistle,” I think Thomas’s approach would be more like “what a wanker…” Like, he wouldn’t show any pity, he’d just open the door for him and Henry to both talk shit about the guy for a few minutes. This is, indeed, Henry’s preferred method of being supported, well above being shown any overt pity! And Thomas would get it! (You wouldn’t usually find me doing an emotional-intelligence point-for-point comparison between Thomas and Percy where Thomas comes out on top, lol. But in this case Thomas’s nature – which includes being a casual shit-talker – would really shine!)

Not So Different?

Indeed, I wonder sometimes if these two aren’t the two most similar personalities on the cast — they’ve just been shaped by very different external factors!

They’re both fussy, both self-important, and neither is one to suffer in silence. They’re both good steady everyday grumblers, not aggressively, but in a very normal, perhaps even very English way. They both have good hearts and are quite willing to work hard… though they have both been known to throw a tantrum that sooner (tunnel & rain) or a wee bit later (banged-up snowplough) brings operations to a halt. None of which is unique to these two, by any means! All these traits are pretty common among the RWS cast(s?) especially. But Thomas and Henry’s traits match up point-for-point. They’re just living different lives, but underneath the externals they’re awfully alike.

Now, of course, there is a key difference — Henry is a follower, and Thomas would make a terrible follower; he can’t handle cliques (he’s rather too rough-around-the-edges to ever fit in one, methinks!) Then, too, when Henry thinks he doesn’t get enough respect (often), he just grumbles but has to wait for someone to present to him an opportunity (Gordon and James re: the strike, Duck re: six lovely tenders). When Thomas thinks he doesn’t get enough respect (again — often), he’s soon off doing something — usually something that ranges from foolish to catastrophic, but the point is that he’s more active and Henry’s more passive.

Those are real differences and not just down to circumstance. However, apart from these two points, if Thomas were a large ill-built tender engine, I think a lot of his behavior would be Henryesque. Same but inverted if Henry were a hale and healthy tank engine. Their natures were cut from similar cloth, even if they underwent different treatments and design. They’re not as irritable as James, as even-tempered as Edward, as bubbly as Percy, nor (even if they had been built to his design) would they be quite as proud, nor nearly so dignified, as Gordon. They’re both Just Guys, in a way.

What are YOU looking at?

I guess there’s one other way they differ… in TVS, Thomas is so proactive about going out and introducing himself and making seven bajillion merchandise deals friends.

I favor RWS for Thomas’s essential nature, though – and he’s notably absent in the nationalisation era, when the others are constantly bumping against B.R. engines. “He’s on his branch line!” Yeah, but, man – Percy somehow has a circle of B.R. admirers. Thomas could be mixing it up more at Tidmouth if he were inclined to. I think he likes staying on his home base. I think Thomas is a quite a bit more of a homebody than Andrew Brenner seems to, in short.

This also means that I think Thomas and Henry are alike in this way, too. They’re happy in the lives they’ve carved out for themselves, new acquaintances can approach them if they like – but watch out! (“What ugly wheels you’ve got.”) Newcomers to the book version of the North-Western can expect Duck to give you guidance, Percy to peer upon you with frank curiosity, James to self-importantly shove himself into your personal space and try to put you in your place, Gordon to officiously introduce himself if he thinks you’re important enough to merit such an honor, the Caledonians to maybe break you in with a practical joke if you stick around long enough, Edward to extract your entire life story if you stay longer than about 48 hours. Thomas and Henry? They’re hangin’ back. Not on account of shyness! And they’re not excessively proud I don’t think – but they’re both just self-important enough that they’re automatically suspicious of anyone with the nerve to approach them.

(That said, annoying Thomas is just a first step in befriending him. Annoying Henry doesn’t work out the same way! He’ll just tell you to get off his siding, lol.)

It’s like Ariel Wanting to Walk on the Beach… with Legs…

A final and very important similarity: Thomas and Henry both distinguish themselves by indulging in some notably un-engine-like behavior.

Thomas is discontent in early canon in a way I certainly don’t think is true for all shunters (hence part of my characterization of my OC Poppet, who would never dream of pining to be anything but a station pilot. She has a grand job! What more could an engine want than an important job? Variety? Society? Scenery? Pah. Because Poppet's a normie, is why.) Even early in his branch line days, we see him taking up a yen to fish like the anglers he sees at the Els river – and is apparently called out for it by every engine to whom he announces this desire. (“Engines don’t go fishing??? *mutters aside* Loony…”)

Henry, too, is given the trait in TVS canon of liking to sit ‘round on mysterious sidings in the middle of a peaceful forest and take in the beauty of it all. Now engines often want to be a part of things – it seems they have a social drive – but to want to do all this slow, solitary, un-useful nature hobby stuff, that’s really something else. This is such un-engine-like behavior that it’s downright impractical! RULE 55 But it puts Henry into what is (for the Classic and New Series, at least) a pretty exclusive club, pretty much just him, Thomas, and – later in the same TV season – Duck. And, like, I accept this as canon because it feels right. Yeah, they’re our weirdos (affectionate).

In Our Lanes. Thriving.

So, yeah. Two nifty dudes, with a sibling relationship that’s so basic and understated that it’s almost dangerous to write them, because you could very easy press your thumb a little too hard and ruin their balance!

There’s a little crop of fics that give them the shared spotlight in a story, usually in the Vicarstown days, when Thomas does something nice for a struggling Henry. That idea tends to work quite well. I can’t think of many other times when trying to put the focus on their dynamic wouldn’t foil their dynamic. As I say for the last time – a keyword here is “peripheral.”

Their connection is strong mostly because of time and shared history, strengthened by a similar temperament, and spiced up by their chronic squabbling. You could too easily try to give them a nice Moment and overdo it, because they’re in the same tight family-like circle, but it’s like they’re each on one of the polar caps – just waving at (or snarling at) each other every so often as their shared world keeps chuggin’ on.

#long post #ttte #the railway series #chatter #ttte thomas #ttte henry #1+3

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ambergembr · 2 years

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Why do I still watch “The Blacklist”? Maybe I’m a dreamer hoping for the best...

I've said it before: The blacklist has become my guilty pleasure.

The series has a lot of incongruity, but I still watch it for two main reasons:

James Spader /Reddington 🥰– He's great as an older version of himself from the start, but no less enigmatic and sometimes selfish and ruthless. An individualistic character, a lone wolf who, after Liz's death, sort of found the pack to which he belongs in the task force.

I think now, in addition to using the FBI for his own plans, he wants to use the power and influence he has to protect Task Force members and himself.

Diego Klattengoff / Ressler😍🤩 – The guy is good! He's also presenting a more seasoned version of that Ressler from the beginning of the series, with the pain and mistrust that only someone who's been through everything the character has gone through could have.

But the series has disappointed me with some things, which I pretended not to see at start, but are getting very uncomfortable now.

Don't get me wrong, I'll keep watching, but I won't pretend I am not noticing these details.

Dembe: Dembe has no role this season! When season 9 started and Dembe went from being Reddington's henchman to being a member of the FBI (which I found very weird). I thought he was going to take Liz's space as Reddington's liaison with the task force, but that's not what happened and so far no one has explained what was in the box he opened as proof that he had disconnected from Reddington...or did I miss it at some point? It’s still a loose end.

He's become an absolutely underused character, and it seems like he's just there to do numbers. I don't even have much to say about him, because he just hasn't been relevant until now. A waste of an amazing character and actor! 😓

Park: Honestly I can't connect with her. And I really tried!

At the beginning of the season, I was even enjoying her interaction with Ressler, first as his confidant and second when she confronted him on the issue of drug use, because he was an idol to her and suddenly he fell off the pedestal she had put him on, and he wanted to recover the image he had for her. But after that it just went downhill.

She did not develop her conflict with her husband, nor her anger management problems, nor did she suffer any consequences from the loss of the baby. She didn't develop as a character at all.

Worse, she ended up opening up Ressler's drug secret to the entire team, a secret that Liz, as selfish as the character was at times, literally took to her grave. It seems like a character you can't trust, because, as far as I know, Ressler was dealing with his addiction (he said he didn’t fell off the wagon, despite thinking about it). I thought it was an exaggeration from her part with something so personal to him, especially since it was never shown that Ressler was so intimate with the other members (maybe with Aram, but not Dembe), for her to make that decision.

She is a character I really don't care about.😡

Weecha: When she appeared as Dembe's replacement and in some of the action scenes I was like “Wow, it's a female version of John Wick!”😎 (John Weecha … that was horrible, but I don’t regret, ha ha) but then she disappeared. Today she has no action scenes and the role of voice of reason – which was once Dembe's – in the moments when Reddington reaches the limit has not been explored. Damn it! Even Park has already given Reddington a solution (when she tells him to locate the last transmission from the tracking device that was on Liz's body!).

I even thought something was going to happen between her and Aram after that episode where Aram wonders if she remembers him when she goes to the Reddington’s trailer. It would be too cool (maybe I'm the only one who thinks that, lol).

Speaking of Aram...

Aram: I love Aram, he's kind of a comic relief at times with the rambling and babbling, and he that had moments of development.

In the first few seasons he had his moments of disappointment, especially in relationships with two of the women he got involved along the series: the cyber criminal who used him to hack the post office through his computer, then the homicidal madwoman he had met in the episode of “les fleurs du mal”. His best relationship of all times was with Samar.💔

Here goes a quick comment: Samar is my Goddess! In The Blacklist she was ex-girlfriend of Agent Shur from Mossad (played by Oded Fehr), had a one night stand with Ressler and dated Aram in the series! Go girl!!! Looking forward to see her in future episode.🤩🤩

Then he had the turning points, like the time he stole all of Reddington's money, and when he wanted to confront Cooper about the information regarding Liz's murder, and best of all so far: when he outmaneuvered Reddington and gave the order to arrest Helen Maghi in episode 9x16.

But when he was put in charge of the task force, he just disappeared! He's become an insecure character, shy when it comes to leading, distributing tasks and making decisions, he's letting Cooper take over everything, even though he knows Cooper has other personal concerns.

Aram isn’t an inexperienced agent, he's been with the task force since the first season of the series, there's no reason for him to behave like that.

I say one thing from experience: when you have to lead a team, whether you do lead or you do not, there is no middle ground.

Yes, I know that all of them, without exception, respect Cooper and have in him the figure of the natural leader. Even Ressler, when he lead the task force at the time of the Cabal conspiracy, went to Cooper to vent, but in the end of the day, the decisions, good or bad, were his.

Aram isn't doing that, and he's not facing the enemy face-to-face inside the post office like Ressler did back in time.

I really hope the writers give Aram some really hard decision for him to make on his own, to redeem themselves for turning the character into an administrative coward after so many displays of courage he's already shown throughout the series.

Here goes another (not so) quick comment: Okay, I'll admit that my rejection of Aram in the leadership position over Ressler has a lot to do with my personal experience. The frustration of seeing someone less prepared than you assuming a more responsible position instead of yourself, and then having everyone on the team turning up to you instead of the leader, because that person is not able to solve problems for whatever reason is aggravatting.

And seeing Aram being less competent than I expected him to be bothers me a lot.

Let's be honest, everyone has some personal issue that have already identified in a series, movie or soap opera we watch and can relate to, that's why we watch!

Cooper🤔 : He has changed a lot in the first few seasons. I remember that, in the first episodes, he was a character who demanded 100% commitment to the work from the members of the task force, especially Meera Malik, then he evolved into someone more sympathetic to the team's personal problems, he always led the team and weighed the consequences of each action.

I wasn't surprised that he was trying to solve his problem in season 9 by himself, but I think it's OOC that he choose Aram to lead the task force.

Cooper has always been a balanced and competent character who wanted the best for the Task Force based on the importance of it’s work, and as much as I like Aram, he's not the best available. Ressler is, and Aram himself recognizes this when he says that Ressler is the “top in the hierarchy”.

In my opinion, Cooper discarded all the effort Ressler made to get rid of his addiction and regain his position as an agent, but Cooper didn't appreciate it properly, and that disappointed me a little.

I think (but nobody asked my opinion), on one hand, that it would have been a lot better if Ressler had taken the position and had the whole team supporting him at that moment, like they do with Cooper, because, again, I think (but nobody asked that too) that Ressler was wronged the first time he took charge. He couldn't count on Cooper, Aram was against him at first, Samar ended up betraying his trust when he helped Liz behind his back, and he was facing the Cabal inside their office. He was alone most of the time.

But, on the other hand, after whatching 9x16 ending I gave grace he wasn’t in charge, because it would have killed the character, by showing him as an naïve leader. But we’ll get there.

Ressler: I'm a fan, so I'm pretty partial in my opinions about him (Who coul tell?🤨 ). I know! He has everything to be one of the best characters with all that Reddington-hunting background, but he also let me down a little bit too. The animosity he displayed against Red when Cooper asked him to return to the task force simply faded.

There are occasional pissed-off and snarky comments, but this has always been there. I really hoped that Ressler would become Red's enemy within in the task force, someone who, by expecting the worst of him or wanting revenge, would be more perceptive of the obvious moves, who would somehow become an adversary at some point.

But when I saw the end of 9x16 I was disappointed! I expected more from the task force and Ressler and Dembe, especially. O hopped at least one of them could predict that Red could trick them with fake agents. Fuck, I predicted that myself by the moment I saw the guys!

Ressler hunted the Red half his life as an agent and the other half he worked with him, and couldn't foresee such an obvious move?! What about Dembe?! He worked with Red his whole life and didn't foresee this?

Honestly, innocence doesn't suit their profession. It borders stupidity. I am mad AF .🤬

It was not funny. Funny was when Vesco tricked Red with the gold bars story (and Red poses for the picture looking like an idiot alongside with Dembe). Someone misled the misleader for once!

That was fun. The end of 9x16 was just disappointing!

Whenever we watch a movie with FBI characters, they’re always intelligent people who can anticipate the opponent's movements after some time being beaten by them.

But this Task Force, even after NINE seasons, is still making themselves idiots 🤡! Holy crap!

It's hard to understand how they are still so innocent in dealing with Reddington.

In the past I thought Liz was a good opponent for Red for being unpredictable. But looking back at season 8 a while ago, I’ve realized she was actually just a reckless person who did things without thinking about consequences, being innocent to the point of blindly believing in people who were liyng (Kirk, fake Rostova), as she didnt’ knew that in their world “everybody lies” (Thank you House M.D. / Hugh Laurie, for the quote and for the life lesson!)

She was limited, self-centered and selfish, who Red had to protect himself from, but who he wanted also to protect at the same time.

He had to control Liz but not destroy her. And she ended up destroying herself, precisely because she was reckless and naïve.

So far I'm trying to figure out how, or why, she swallowed the tracking microchip... because it wasn't so small as to go unnoticed. So I think she has got it from someone she trusted, or to pass information to someone she trusted. And at this point, only Ressler comes to mind.

But with the impending resurrection of Mr. Kaplan I don't know anymore.

As for Reddingtons enemies, Susan Hargrave was a good character with a story that ended quickly. Robert Vesco, Mr. Kaplan and the fake Rostova were Red's best opponents so far.

I keep watching to see where the rabbit hole goes, because, despite everything I said, I still like it.

Guilty pleasure rules baby! 💚💛

#The Blacklist #donald ressler #dembe #aram mojtabai #alina park #Harold Cooper #elizabeth keen #Raymond Reddington #Samar Navabi #guilty pleasure #mad af

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😴 - What do their sleep habits look like?

Hizashi hums in thought. As he thinks he rubs his chin absentmindedly. “Well I brush my teeth that’s for sure after that it depends. Before all this traitor stuff it would depend on if Shouta was home or not cause I do different things then. If you want to hear about that let me know. Uh…..” Hizashi seems hesitant to continue but does after a moment. “Now I put a heating blanket on the side that Shouta used to sleep in….. Because….. I can’t handle having that side of the bed being cold anymore…… Then I take a shower, Put on pajamas and turn off the heating blanket then sleep.” He sighs a nostalgic look on his face.

😡 - What’s their biggest pet peeve?

Hizashi huffs. “Oh. Do I have some for you guys. 1. People grabbing me roughly when I don’t have my hearing aids in and they want to talk to me. Happened a lot in high school not so much now but still my biggest. 2. Fans that try to get way to close and comfortable with me. Like…. Those ones are terrifying. They act like they’ve know me my entire life and try to act like I’m their best friend or.” He shivers a grimace on his face. “O-Or that i’m secretly their lover or something….. Its gross and dehumanizing. Please don’t be one of those people guys. I know that Heroes or Stars seem like their on some high pedestal but were just like you! Were human and we make mistakes! So please treat us like a person! Everyone who is in a position like me will appreciate it! And last one! Number 3. People using someone’s debilitating fears against someone as a “Prank” It’s not funny and never will be.” Hizashi huffs once more before shaking his head and smiling gently up to the camera. “That’s all I can think of at the moment.”

📹 What’s their saddest memory?

Hizashi rubs his chin in thought as he murmurs the question to himself. After a moment he looks up a sad smile on his face. “Ah….. That would be….. When my friend Oboro died…… You see I was on a mission to attack this villain in high school. It was with this agency called Buster Union. I don’t know if you guys heard of it. But anyway so other heroes and I used this attack that would combine all of our quirks against it and it backfired on us……..” Hizashi takes a deep breath as his face and voice shows guilt as he continues. “It…. It used my quirk….. o-on the building Oboro was near and he saved these kids and teacher….. But…. But he didn’t make it…..” Hizashi quickly rubs at his face and looks up at the camera with a tiny smile. “That’s my saddest memory…. heavy huh?”

😈 - What’s the evilest scheme they’ve ever come up with?

Hizashi smirks “Hmm I don’t know if I should say this…. Might get me in trouble with my husband later on…. Fuck it…. Okay so!” Hizashi’s smirk grows even wider as he pauses for a moment then continues with a dramatic flair to his voice. “Imagine….. Your this grumpy overly logical man who has decided to work until everything he has planned is done on this one really bad case. But that means overworking yourself… And you don’t realize you’re overworking yourself which is ironic since you could see it in your husband from miles away….” There’s soft giggles from Hizashi but he continues in the same way as before. “So…. You tell yourself you have to get all this paperwork done because it feels like a mountain and you need to climb it.” Hizashi smiles and laughs softly. “So I decided to help my husband relax by coming up with a scheme. Because he wouldn’t accept my help otherwise!” Hizashi takes a breath and continues. “Okay so I started with getting Shouta’s agency to agree on Shouta taking a couple days off. Then I made My agency, Nemuri’s Agency and a few other friends agencies to agree taking on the case Shouta was dealing with all without letting Shouta know. Next I slowly started taking case parts and distributing it to all the other agencies little by little so that it made it seem like Shouta was getting through the files when in fact he was only getting through like 3 or 4 parts. Which I might add. Did nothing for the case whatsoever. So how I made that work. Was I made fake case files for all of the files Shouta was working on and put them in the complete pile when I took the real ones! Nemuri especially helped in this cause she would help by making Shouta pass out while I replaced the files with fake ones. He thought he passed out for a few minutes but in fact it was a few hours.” Hizashi laughs at this for a few seconds before continuing “Which I could easily fool my husband by changing all the clocks. Including the ones he keeps on his person. So! By the time my husband decide to put in all of his work. My agency and all the rest of the agencies wrapped up the case in less than 48 hours! And that’s the story on how I fooled my husband into thinking he finished a case all by himself when in fact he didn’t.” Hizashi laughs for a solid minute before looking up at the camera sheepishly. “Sorry Sho…. But you needed the rest…” He waves at the camera as he says “Thanks for the questions listener! I appreciate them!”

#The Listeners Questions #Anon #in character post

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