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rexeipts · 3 years

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Monday Morning Rewatch Thoughts

This episode was disappointing. I think the last episode would have served as a better mid-season finale personally. Thoughts below:

Annie

- The plot of, “I wasn’t Ben,” and Annie being motivated to keep Ben in his current school for that reason is amazing. That is the kind of plot I want, and care about, for Annie. I love that they have included Ben’s transition into the story line in a way that it isn’t the main focus and that Ben has other pieces of characterization and other challenges/points of conflict than just his transition, but that they haven’t shied away from it when it makes sense.

- The financial aid lady is a down.ass.bitch. for telling Annie to just go find some guy she’s slept with the put down on the paperwork. I’m sorry, but that was great of her to be like listen here’s a loophole so you can help your kid and I will not ask questions.

- I did not like the Kevin (name?) storyline at first because it just didn’t make sense? And I did not like his characterization at the auction of being the “trashy homeless guy” who eats way too much food and steals dogs. I felt like he had more to him when he told Annie that he doesn’t want to be a favor to her. I think she has more chemistry with him than any other guy we have seen her with (including Greg, sue me) and I’m actually looking forward to a possible storyline of her and him falling in love via being awkward roommates. I am hoping it has a current of don’t judge a book by it’s cover, and that Kevin is someone who is a good person and has an interesting story that brings Annie to some sort of realization about herself.

Ruby/Stan

- I HATED... yes... HATED Beth in the scene where Stan was going over the game plan. She was so damn condescending. Stan was biting his tongue and being as polite as he could be, but she was fucking rude. Point blank. Rude.

- Because of that, I loved the scene where he called Beth out. And he is fucking right. And you know what? He even threw her a bone that she was ignored in her home for so many years. Which is fucking true, and made the conversation SO much more nuanced than just Stan calling her out. It made it sooo much more complex that he mentions her motivations. He has known this woman like a family member to his own family for decades. It makes sense he would see and understand the nuances of why she is doing what she’s doing. I hope it is foreshadowing for something more to come.

- Sarah and Ruby have the best chemistry of any parent/child relationship in my opinion. I love watching them on screen even for just a few moments.

- Ruby’s, “I did it for me,” at the end was remniscient of Beth telling Dean, “I wanted to,”. Yes, thank you. Ruby is not a yes man. She did this shit for her family, for her kids, for herself. As much as I think Beth might try to be in charge and often is, it was a good reminder that Ruby is still in there and still has a backbone. She has called Beth out with stealing the Tesla, with the sex tape, etc. before and I want that energy back.

- Annie and Ruby having a sweet moment together on the bench was great, I love them together. They’re so fun but also so so sweet.

Beth/Dean

- She’s with fricken Dean again this week.

- Beth’s eyebrows and wig are fucking terrible. Someone CHILL with the eyebrow filler.

- Was Rio just watching Dean and Beth? Like hanging out waiting? He was like RIGHT THERE when Dean got up. Was he behind a tree watching Dean with his arm around Beth just boiling?

- Dean being pitied by the guy he was trying to sell product to was great. He has been knocked down so many pegs. But also, it was a waste of fucking screen time.

- Not so easy to get out from under someone’s thumb, huh Deansie? How’s it feel to be a dumb ass yet again? A year’s supply of skin care? Guessing Beth is gonna have to bail him out which is again a waste of screen time and something no one gives a shit about seeing.

- The fact that Dean thinks he was good at selling cars is just... sad.

- Beth being a “bad bitch” and selling purses to the husbands who went to see strippers is completely undermined by her being a doormat for Dean who is a sexist, condescending pig who cheated, lied about cancer, and has not shown a single ounce of respect for her as a woman outside of her ability to raise children and make cookies.

- I do not want to see a storyline of Beth trying to get money to leave and go to Nevada or wherever. I know the show runners have said Beth will realize she can’t escape Rio if they’re in the same town, so that is what this storyline is going to be. Her trying to escape Rio yet again. This has been drawn out long enough now. This episode was so confusing and weird. Like her and Rio got the trust of the SS just so the agents could leave? Their relationship advancement, her making this choice of him or SS, etc. was for... what? The drama of the last episode was because of... what exactly? What was the entire point of the SS storyline if it literally put us no where? I’m asking sincerely if anyone has thoughts.

- I don’t want to see Beth and Dean anymore. I am fucking exhausted of seeing Beth and Dean. I am over it. I spent almost this entire episode on my phone because I was bored. The Beth being sweet to Dean storyline is so so so far past where it made any logical sense to the plot. There has been no advancement or progress. She’s supposed to be in a love triangle? We have seven episodes left and there has been absolutely zero progress in her and Dean’s situation. I will be looking for some fucking conflict in this next episode with Dean seeing Rio otherwise I have little to no hope for the Brio ship going forward.

Rio/Nick

- Rio is the spider that Dave talked about right? That he couldn’t get and so he never went back in the bed?

- Nick is a pathetic pussy, and so is his bodyguard. Mick is the only ‘muscle’ I want on my screen. Thanks.

- The bullet wounds not being there is unacceptable. Not just because it completely minimizes the fact that this man was shot in the chest three times and left to die, but also just from a plot standpoint. Like this was the entire storyline of season 3. Wtf. I understand Dean’s not being there, because that was treated as a minimal storyline. But Beth shooting Rio was the entire basis of season 3′s conflict. It’s bizarre and completely unacceptable.

- I posted a little while back about stereotypes, guessing that Nick was going to push Rio and Beth together by stereotyping them both and not seeing the deeper connection between them. Tooting my own horn because this is exactly what Nick did. Beth is the soccer mom, Rio the “gangster”.

- Nick and Dean are the same force for Rio and Beth, respectively. They’re both oppressors. They both don’t get it, the draw between the two. Beth and Rio both try to minimize their relationship, admitting only to sex and nothing more, to their oppressors. Beth used to want to get out from Dean’s grasp and Rio currently does with Nick. Both Dean and Nick have put this other person in a box, minimized them to nothing more than a stereotype, taken away their choices, taken away their power and control. How Beth does not realize Dean is her oppressor and not Rio is fucking beyond me.

- Nick doesn't have kids, so who was the kid referring to Rio as his uncle? The female cousin’s child? Let’s see more of her and less of Dean please.

- Rio literally couldn’t cope the second Nick brought up Beth. He walked away like a love-struck teenage idiot not wanting to admit that he made a bad decision over a girl. I’m curious about this. I hope we find out more of why Rio did it. Did he do it just to scare Beth into submission because he knew he couldn’t hurt her? Or was there a layer of thinking Lucy was a threat to Beth? Because Lucy was pissed at Beth. Or a layer of trying to feign still having power in front of his boys but not being able to hurt Beth?

- Rio’s voice is so raspy at the end, he’s so tired and beaten down, literally and figuratively. And I cannot catch the meaning behind “sometimes it’s worth it”, to be yourself? He sounded so... just sad and down when he said it. It sounded so vulnerable.

- It is not, I repeat, not a storyline they should go down of thinking it is cool/fun/sexy/empowering/feminist for this “gangbanger” to be in love with the housewife and for her to not reciprocate and then torment him. It’s not.

Promo/Going Forward:

- I think we have seen confirmation that Rio will lie/keep things from Nick. I think Rio gave Beth the plates, and they will be working together going forward. I hope.

- Rio chilling in the backroom of PP with Beth, so chill, so nonchalant, put me in the ground.

- In the below shot, you can see Rio still sitting there with his hand on his chin as Beth talks to Dean. This scene better be LOADED. Go ahead and mention them banging, Dean. That will be fun. But also I want to see Beth try to talk her way out of it. Go ahead and try to tell Dean you didn’t have a choice Elizabeth. Go ahead and try to minimize what this is when Rio is sitting there listening. That will be golden conflict. I want to see Rio realize the dynamic between Beth and Dean, see him see how submissive and pathetic she is when Dean is around, see how Dean belittles her, and then use that against her to pull her out of her shell. I want to see Beth try to minimize her relationship with Rio, see him call her out on that too. Idk. This scene has been four seasons coming so it better not be a disappointment.

#nbc good girls #gg spoilers #beth boland #annie marks #ruby hill #rio #gg season 4

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heymiller · 3 years

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A love letter to my most-loved sitcom:

Where do I start? This year has been tough for all of us. My escape was always binge-watching shows, until I have no show to watch. I’ve watched all the series I’ve had on my watchlist, until this unfamiliar series popped into my recommendations: New Girl

I mean, to be honest, what’s so interesting about the title? I don’t know what is this. The preview seem weird, the girl was with three guys. But something tells me I can watch this, just one episode. Maybe this won’t be as good as other popular sitcoms, but I was wrong, it was better.

To Jessica Day, thank you because your smile and your eyes makes me feel like I will have a good day. You’re funny, smart, responsible, impulsive, and you’re beautiful. You care about people, animals especially dogs. You cry for dogs. You know who you are and that’s to be in love. To be in love with your job as a teacher, vice-principal & principal! To be in love in hoping that someday the world would be a lovely place to live. To be in love with the thought of staying at the loft with Nick, Schmidt, Cece, Coach and Winston and it already makes up your day. To be in love with helping someone to be better. There’s a few people out there who’s in love in doing others’ work for their own good instead of prioritizing what’s good for themselves. That’s Jess for you.

To Cece Parekh, you made me realize what kind of woman I should be. You’re so brave, and you faced all the streotypes there is about you that people often point to you. Everything they see about you looks easy but what they don’t know is that you just carry your battles well. You’re the definition of a strong independent woman. But you’re not cold hearted, you are open to love. You protect the people you love. You’re the mama bear everyone needs, Cecilia.

To Nick Miller, I don’t know what to say because everytime I write your name, I see your name, and other things, I just know that I fell in love with you just like all the women in your life did—just like Jess. To be in a world where success is defined by what you can have and buy, you’ve had your doubts but you never doubted yourself. You always say that you’re broken, or you’re the worst. But Jess was right, you’re good. You made me want to have a life where I want to love it as much as you did. Truth is, Nick, your way of living wasn’t bad at all it was real because you were happy and comfortable with it and not all the people in the world has that. I love you, Nick Miller! *in Jess’ voice*

To Winston, I still don’t know how are you color-blinded yet you’re a cop. You’re inside jokes with the gang was the best. Classic mess-around. Your aliases that weren’t really working. You had the best development, Bishop. You became someone who doesn’t even know what he was doing in LA, in a loft with his college friends and a girl who doesn’t even know you for real to a man who marries the right woman for him, and has a real job!

To Coach, I’m really happy you found someone who you can be vulnerable with. No matter what you say about you being okay with everything, you’d always end up telling your friends what you feel which finally makes you feel okay with everything. I hope you’re happy in New York, I really missed you when you left. I wish you were at the show just as long as the other characters. You were fine as hell as a teacher, it’s like your calling but I guess love is just really above all of them. I miss you, Coach! Just like Cece, you fight your battles well and protect the ones you love because you can. I hope I’d have a friend who’d do that for me.

To Schmidt, I’d say you’re the type of man who deserves what you have. You’re hardwork in everything that you do is exceptional. Growing up to a world where you meet enemies because of what you look like is the worst but you rise above them. You made it seem like they gave you the power to be someone they didn’t even imagine you could be. Out of all of them, you’re the kind of friend that I need in life. Everyone needs a Schmidt. A man who thinks about people like Nick, gives them cookies! A man who directly says to Winston that there’s something wrong with what they’re saying. A man who’s like a mother, but also a man who is like a friend that a mother wouldn’t like for their child. You’re the man, Schmidt. I just wished your name wasn’t Winston. And I know you agree.

To New Girl, you are my comfort show. I’ve watched so many great shows but I never found a feeling like I’m home. It’s weird but this show made me feel less alone than I already am when I feel like I am. You instantly make my mood better and happier. You make me laugh, you make me appreciate every friend I have and understand them because you wrote characters who have different personalities but they created a family. You make me want to do the True American Game even if I don’t get it. You make me want to create a jar for my friends, just like what you did with Schmidt. You make me want to have a Nick Miller to my Jessica Day, you made me believe that friends to lovers are the best type of love even though sometimes it doesn’t end well. You made me happy and you comfort me every time. I will never stop bragging this show in my social media because it is the best and everyone should know it. And my biggest hope is that I’d get a reunion.

Cheers for making us happy, Thank you, New Girl

– love, user heymiller on tumblr.

#zooey deschanel #jake johnson #heymilleredits #new girl #nick and jess #new girl icons #sitcom #friends #greys anatomy icons #greys anatomy #schmidt #cece parekh #winston bishop #max greenfield #coach #new girl sitcom #new girl edits

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rpmemesbyarat · 3 years

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RP Meme Lines from "AHS: Coven" Episode 10: "The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks"

Drink this, it'll calm your nerves.

I'll cast a little spell for you.

I'm ashamed to show you my weakness.

I might have shed a tear or two myself if I'd lost everyone I had.

I'm over 300 years old.

Everyone I done ever met done followed after the Grim Reaper.

I taught myself long ago not to waste tears for the dead.

It's your kindness that has touched my soul.

I feel like I've been alone for so long, it's a relief to have found an equal. Even if that person come in the guise of an enemy.

We have so much to talk about. But not tonight.

Tomorrow we'll draw the battle lines.

Wake up. Your master calls.

Tonight's the night you pay me my due.

Not now. Please.

It's been a hard day.

Hard days deserve a harder night.

You drink my torment like wine.

Why you here in the house of your enemy?

I've come to seek a lasting truce.

I want what's coming to me.

It's the bargain you made so long ago.

You'll have to come back during visiting hours.

Mama's had a hard day.

Put the baby down on the ground and step away from it.

Don't mess with me.

I need this baby.

Put the goddamn baby down. Now!

I warned you.

I'll give you something to cry about.

He was determined to be a hero.

I should've seen it.

It's on me.

Ooh, he hated your ass.

You were my sworn enemy.

You hired him to kill me?

You're not just blind, you are willfully blind.

We don't have to waste our time with worker bees, what we have to do is to find the hive.

What a lovely shawl.

You keep your distance.

I know your game, lady.

Don't bother.

I've surrounded myself with the white spirit light to protect me.

I've already made plans on how to bring myself back.

Well, now why would I want to hurt you?

You can keep your powers.

I don't think you fully appreciate the power of the throne.

You are going to know the world, and what's more they are all going to want to know you.

You owe me five bucks.

Well, that was a morbid field trip.

You're not his type.

I know everything about you.

Did I get the shawl twirl right?

I want to get it right.

Perfect. It was perfect.

My powers are growing.

I can do mind control.

Put out that cigarette.

Now stick it in your vagina.

It was clearly my destiny to die and be reborn, just like our Lord and Savior.

Important men get their pictures taken.

We have to be smart about this.

They pray to one god-- a green, merciless god.

You're tainted.

You let them get inside your head.

We can fight about this for the next ten years, but right now I want to help you.

Don't you understand anything?

You can't help me.

You can't help anyone.

You're worthless, hopeless.

Get out of my sight.

Bring them to me in a weakened state.

She's selfish and she's a whore.

I didn't realize this before, but we can't survive on our own.

You don't have a mean bone in your body.

Maybe you're the kind of leader we need.

I want to say good-bye.

What is that hideous smell?

Clear all the bad spirits out of here.

It's not evil intentions that's making me sick.

We still got work to do.

What has she done to you?

I found love for the first time, and it's given me the passion to keep fighting.

You know the secret.

I don't think you're ready for that.

Tell me your secret.

I thought I was the shit back then.

I had just come into my prime, and my magic was strong.

I was pregnant, and I did not accept the idea of death.

I was invincible.

I come to you once a year, and you give me what I want.

I thought he meant some kind of sexual favors.

I wished for it; it came true.

Unknowingly, I made a deal forged in Hell.

You'd make a beautiful mother.

Children ain't in the cards for you.

Not my baby.

Take it back.

Take the spell back.

I can be mortal again.

Give the child to me.

I want my innocent soul.

What does he want?

Try and get some sleep now.

Just close your eyes and forget about that for now.

This kabob's some kind of tasty.

Thanks for treating.

Pretty soon, you'll be drowning in merch.

Merchandise. Swag. The cookies. You know.

You are cynical.

Everything's transactional.

Guy buys you dinner, he expects a blow job. Welcome to earth.

Players only love you when they're playing.

No, I know what you're trying to do. Mess me up, make me doubt myself.

You think I'm stupid because of where I came from.

Well, I'm not so easily bought, and I ain't that easily fooled.

You're right. I do think you're stupid.

You want to change my opinion?

Enchant these guys, would you?

You're powerful.

I'm powerful.

I don't need you.

I just want to be your friend.

Now lose that ugly shawl.

Stupid bitch.

Where's his body?

I think it's time for us to go.

She has to pay!

You have to be cleansed.

Could you please stop playing for a minute?

I need to focus.

Listen to the celestial tones.

What is that thing? It's hideous and weird.

Don't be a hater, dear.

I cannot tell you how playing this instrument soothes my soul in tempestuous times.

Nothing could soothe my soul.

You buck up, is what you do!

Face reality headlong and carry on.

I have no one, and my powers are gone.

Your salad dressing is absolutely magical.

Maybe you could bottle it.

You've got a lovely personality, and you're always well-groomed.

Are you trying to push me over the edge?

Between us chickens, no matter how hard I worked at it, I never felt special, either.

Look at me, I'm fabulous!

One never knows what the universe has in store for us!

I am an absolute failure.

I don't belong here anymore. I don't belong anywhere!

Vultures are waiting to strip the flesh from our bones.

You get our people on the phone.

Nobody is coming near us.

There's nothing natural about this.

It's time we finally deal with those witches.

You broke out the good stuff.

I don't want to die.

I am not the same as everyone.

I don't give a wet donkey's shit about your title.

I want terms defined.

The deal is off.

You have no soul.

Bum luck, baby.

I'll get my immortality.

I have no soul.

I'll just kill 'em all.

You always hear something.

You stole this baby to kill it.

You don't know what you talking about.

Eat my shit.

Now we'll have more cops on our trail.

Whose baby is that?

You have blood on your hands.

I barely remember my baby's face.

Stop making such a fuss.

I was very clear. No substitutions.

Be a sport.

Do I have to wear this outfit for all eternity?

Anywhere is better than here.

#rp meme #rp memes #rp starters #roleplay meme #roleplay memes #roleplay starters #ahs #ahs coven

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botanicallyinclinednerd · 3 years

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NCIS Season 14 Episode 10 rewatch (contains episode spoilers):

First thing I noticed (because I've seen this episode before and know how it ends) is in the footage that shows the rear car window, there is no dark colored car following them even from a far distance after the near miss at the intersection. Tisk tisk. (This is a very small thing, im just being nitpicky)

I forgot how much the intro fucking SLAPS

I adore ducky and his endless wisdom

"I wonder if I could fit that on a cookie" I have the utmost faith in you Abby

The bagpipe ring tone for Ducky is so on brand and I love it

Jimmy immediately seeing Ryan and fucking zooming to reach him

Okay, slight time imbalance, can be explained away for plot convenience, not a big problem

Gibbs is such a Dad, and I love when he acts as a dad towards his team. He acts like a dad to Jimmy the least, I feel, as their relationship tends to be Jimmy starting to go on a tangent or oversharing and Gibbs just staring at him until he stops. But the concerned dad look and the long look and nod to Jimmy that is both a "you've got this" and a "I'll get you out of this" is so great

The Jimmy Ducky friendship is such a great dynamic and its one I love to pieces. Like. Ducky was his bestman. And now I'm nostalgic for the two part season 9 finale, thats not ideal. It also makes me nostalgic for the episode where Jimmy and Ducky get kidnapped and are fucking badasses. That one may be next tbh

Lol. *calm and matter of fact* "Thats one of our team members up there and if he dies, you're gonna be dealing with the whole US Navy." *fire chief looks up, conciders, calls into his radio* "Engine 52 to all units. Stand down for now."

Brian Dietzen is such a talented actor

Omg the flashback to s1 Jimmy

"What is this, self help karaoke?" "Honestly, I got a million of these, I could do this all night long" I'm sure you could Jimmy, I'm sure you could

Lord, the "i don't have friends like that. I'm sorry" and then him hitting Jimmy so he can try to jump, and then Jimmy falling and dangling from the edge and Ryan pulling him up and Jimmy quickly grabbing hold of Ryan's belt again and triumphantly declaring "you don't want to die" and calling him on his faulty logic as evidence and then fucking Torres, who somehow noticed none of this, sticking his head out to announce food. What a fucking scene

McGee's confident and amused"Jimmy never litters" is so great and funny to me, because of course he doesn't, and it is the perfect solution to move along the plot

I honestly love this plot device in this instance, characters revealing things about other characters while being unaware those characters can hear them. Aka: i love Jimmy talking about Gibbs to Ryan. And McGee arriving back at headquarters and being hushed by Bishop because Jimmy is talking, and the solemn "oh" look that McGee gets as he realizes what Jimmy is talking about. And Bishop, watching Gibbs carefully to gage how he's faring listening to Jimmy talk about him

"He's not exactly a hugger, you know. *huffed laugh* at least he's never hugged me" (I love the moment that comes out of this)

I adore Jimmy, really. He's such a genuine and kind character, and he's a goofball, for sure, but he's also so wise and insightful, and this episode really showcases that

The flashback to Gibbs setting him straight about the dad stuff. Ugh. So fucking good

Gibbs loudly talking at his intercom for Palmer to ask Ryan which intersection, for Bishop to tell Gibbs its a one way speaker, only for Jimmy to ask Ryan which intersection the next instant and Gibbs looking up like "you were saying?" is so funny.

The baseball bat makes a reappearance!

"Nobody at work knows" they do now, Jimmy Boy, they do now.

"Nothing lasts forever. I have had so many friends come and go. And live and Die." Jimmy, stop breaking my heart, I dont want to think about the many casualties of NCIS right now. Lord, the way Abby's eyes widden, me too girl.

"First, I think you should put Jimmy in for a raise" "ill second that" "okay"

Oh, fuck this clip. This is mean. Its even meaner that I don't immediately know if its Franks or Ziva. It is Ziva, but the fact its not instantly apparent is a good indicator to the fucking body count this show has on characters

Jimmy slipping and Nick catching him is Good. Especially the little "you told me not to let him fall" he gives to Gibbs

"Where else would I be? I'm not gonna leave you out there alone... Doctor Palmer" and the smile slipping from Jimmy's face as he truly realizes that they heard everything, and then the smile instantly reappearing at his mentor calling him "Doctor"

Basement boat scene! THE HUG!!! I FORGOT HOW MUCH I LOVE AND MISSED THIS SHOW

Gosh! Gibbs doesn't say a word in the basement scene, and he doesn't have to because the hug says literally everything. One: that Gibbs heard what Jimmy said. Two: Gibbs forgives him and is not mad and him for bringing up his wife and daughter to Ryan. Three: it conveys how much Gibbs cares about Jimmy. Four: Its a comfort thing and a "you did good kid" thing

This is such a good episode. Honestly? 10/10.

#NCIS #episode spoilers #jimmy palmer #tw attempted suicide #no actual suicide #mentions of attempted suicide #leroy jethro gibbs #timothy mcgee #ellie bishop #ducky mallard #liv watches shit #liv rewatches shit

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hysteriaww · 4 years

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Presenting: The Bonkai Legacies 2x12 AU my soul needed written!

“You know Dad’s probably trying his best to find us a way out of Uncle Kai’s prison world, Lizzie.” Josie sighs.

“No, I don’t think he is.” Lizzie whispers furiously. “Trying his best, would be getting his shit together and just contacting Aunt Bonnie to-”

“Bonnie?” Kai’s voice interrupts them. The twins stare at him in confusion. “D-Did you say Bonnie?” He repeats breathlessly.

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A/N: In all the excitement of Kai Parker’s return on Legacies, this Bonkai Legacies AU fanfic oozed out of me like I was some alien creature excreting fluids 😂Tho I should say, I’ve never watched Legacies, so idk much about the sand clock/dark Josie stuff so I’m not including it.

BTW this was all written before Kai’s Legacies episode(s) came out, so I assumed Alaric dumbly sent expelled Salvatore School students to Kai’s Prison World, but ultimately he, Josie and Lizzie got trapped there too, and now Kai’s happily threatened to sic Rick’s ex-students on Josie and Lizzie in a “supernatural Hunger Games” fight to the death/survival of the fittest situation.

My fic picks up at a point where we assume Kai’s holding Josie and Lizzie hostage while Alaric managed to escape him and is hiding elsewhere in the Prison World, trying to figure out how to save the twins. Hope you enjoy!

Part I

“So, not only are we trapped in a prison world, we’re trapped in the prison world.” Lizzie hisses at her twin. “The one with our trigger-happy Uncle Kai who’s tried to kill us since we were fetuses.”

Said Uncle Kai smirks while nonchalantly sharpening his machete only a few feet away from them.

“Lizzie, calm down,” Josie sighs, eyeing him warily. “If he really wanted to kill us himself, he would’ve done it by now.”

“Smart cookie,” Kai chimes in without looking up from his machete. “Just like your mother.” He sighs wistfully. “Sissy was so smart. She had her whole future ahead of her. Such a shame what happened to her.”

“No shit, Sherlock.” Lizzie snaps. “You literally Red-Wedding’d her!”

“Not what I meant, Lindy.” Kai chuckles. “I meant, it was a shame she got knocked up by ol’ Rick-iana Jones. She could’ve done so much better.” He rolls his eyes. “You and Jody are walking, talking proof of that.”

“Is that why you tried to kill us before we were even born?” Josie asks quietly. “You hated Dad?”

“And once again, Nick’s idiocy gene rears its ugly head. You’ve had 16 years to figure out why I wanted to kill you and you’re still wrong.” He sneers. “Man, my proteges are gonna crush you two so easily.” He laughs. “Isn’t it gonna be hilarious when Ricky’s two dumbest mistakes-” he points at his nieces. “-get killed by his biggest mistake?” He gestures to the prison world around him, crawling with vengeful supernaturals loyal to him. “Nah, not hilarious.” He muses, then snaps his fingers. “Poetic.”

All traces of humor leave his face. Josie stifles a fearful shiver while Lizzie masks her fear with a glare. Abruptly, Kai smiles and resumes sharpening his blade, almost as if their conversation never even happened.

“What the hell is taking Dad so long?” Lizzie grits out. “I’m sick of waiting around like this. Especially with this creep.”

“You know Dad’s probably trying his best, Lizzie.”

“No, I don’t think he is.” She whispers furiously. “Trying his best, would be getting his shit together and just contacting Aunt Bonnie to-”

“Bonnie?” Kai’s voice interrupts them. The twins stare at him in confusion. “D-Did you say Bonnie?” He repeats.

The girls exchange glances. “…Yeah, why?” Lizzie frowns hesitantly.

His face practically lights up in sheer glee. “She’s here, too?”

“If she was here, we would’ve been home by now.” Lizzie narrows her eyes at him. “She would’ve kicked your ass.”

“Lizzie!” Josie chides her.

“No, no,” Kai chuckles, waving her off. “Lily’s right. Bonnie definitely would’ve kicked my ass. She’s done it before.” He smiles fondly. “She’d kick my ass, I’d kick hers back. Maybe I’d stab her a little bit. She’d give me an aneurysm or two, boil my blood,” he shivers, grinning softly. “God, she’s so hot.”

Lizzie and Josie stare on in horror.

“What’s she up to now, huh? Is she still single?” He asks breathlessly.

“I-I think so.” Josie nods and Lizzie nudges her for actually answering.

“Oh, great!” Kai beams. “If that answer was a no, I may have had to go on a minor murder spree and kill her boyfriend.” He resumes sharpening his machete. “And every ex she’s ever had.”

“Aunt Bonnie would crush you first.” Lizzie sneers.

“Aunt Bonnie,” he sighs wistfully. “She’s your Aunt Bonnie and I’m your Uncle Kai. It’s perfect.”

The girls cringe, but Kai suddenly stiffens. “That’s it. Change of plans.” He claps and stands up. “Alright, idiots. If you want me to consider cancelling the Hunger Games to help you avoid certain death,” he points his machete at them. “Bring me Bonnie.”

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A/N #2: Depending on what y’all think (and my muse), I might post more of this random Bonkai Legacies AU I never thought I’d write! It’s oozing out of my eyeballs!

#bonkai #kai parker #bonnie bennett #kai parker is back #bonnie x kai #bonnie bennett x kai parker #josie saltzman #lizzie saltzman #anti alaric saltzman #legacies #tvd #bonkai fanfiction #bonkai fanfic #bonkamily #bonkaimily #mine

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spaceorphan18 · 4 years

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99 Perspectives on a Single Love Story #10

A/N: The Story of Kurt and Blaine told through the eyes of everyone else but them. Each chapter is a different perspective in the ongoing tale of their love story.

I started something like this a while back - and now I’m taking the idea and really running with it. Each chapter is a ficlet of a different character at a different point in Kurt and Blaine’s life - documenting their love story. This starts in Audition, and each chapter will be paired with a different episode until reaching Dreams Come True.

I’m using this as a fun writing experiment for a) writing short things and b) writing things from a multitude of varying perspectives. Have fun! :)

I decided Nick and Jeff are the Santana and Brittany of the Warbler world.

So I managed to forget that A Very Glee Christmas comes before Silly Love Songs. Whoops. It’s just one joke - hopefully y’all will forgive me for the continuity error.

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Nick Warbler (A Very Glee Christmas)

Nick is pacing outside the common room -- fuming really as strides back and forth. All he wants to do is study and be ready for finals. The common room is meant to be for studying -- not for, well, whatever the hell is going on in there. It’s bad enough the new kid has Blaine wrapped around his little finger - now he’s taking up Dalton’s precious space, too? Ug. He’s going to fail his biology course, and when he does, he’s going to blame Kurt Hummel.

“Hey, Nick,” Jeff comes whizzing around the corner. “Great news -- Wes and David agreed to the caroling idea for next weekend. We’re gonna go downtown and sing to local businesses - possibly for tips. Maybe we’ll hit up the mall, too.”

“What?” Nick snaps. “Who said anything about caroling?” Just what he really wants to do - stand out in the cold and sing Christmas songs to pissy customers and uptight business people.

“Wow, well, someone’s being a Scrooge,” Jeff comments, back off a bit. “Actually, Kurt suggested it. He said it would be a great way to bring camaraderie and maybe make some extra spending money.”

“Kurt,” Nick hisses through gritted teeth. “Of course, Kurt did. Patron Saint of being the most precious Warbler ever.”

Jeff gives him an odd look. “Dude, chill.”

Nick will certainly not chill . “First he has Blaine doing just about everything at his command. Do you remember when we sang at the Gap? It was humiliating. And it was all because Kurt wanted us to expand our horizons. Maybe I want to buy trendy, capri pants for men - well now I can’t because we’ve been banned.”

“...I mean, there’s always Old Navy.”

“Not the point,” Nick continues. “And now Wes and David are taking his council, too? Where does it end? First it’s Christmas Carols and the next thing you know, we’re the kick off for Columbus’s Ohio Gay Pride Parade.”

“Dude, that would be kinda cool.”

“It’s always Kurt this, and Kurt that,” Nick whines. “And Kurt is so fucking amazing that I just might as well be fucking him right now in the common room, causing the rest of us mere mortals to fail at biology because we have no place to study - and don’t say my dorm room, because I live with three other guys and it’s impossible to study there and it’s too cold to go to the library. And no I will not calm down because I am feeling indignant, Jeff. Indignant .”

Jeff just stares at him blankly. “Wait, what?” He brings his head down a little lower to whisper. “Are Blaine and Kurt... doing 'it' in the common room?”

“Well, I-I mean…” Nick stutters. “Not literally, but in musical form.”

Jeff scurries to the door to peer in. Nick leans against the door frame, watching as Kurt plays innocent during their torrid Christmas duet. Blaine’s hanging on to every note. It’s disgusting. Utterly disgusting.

Jeff gives Nick an odd look. “They’re just… practicing.”

Nick gives Jeff a side-long look. “Oh, my sweet, naïve Jeff. They’re flirting. They’re practically having eye sex.”

“I think you’re overthinking it.”

“I think you need to be as angry as I am about it,” Nick argues back. “Kurt is some kind of evil mastermind, just waiting to stake his claim.”

Jeff shakes his head. “I don’t know, Nick. Yesterday, Kurt shared half his lunch with me because the cafeteria ran out of meatballs, and you know how much I enjoy meatballs, and…”

“Uuugggg,” Nick throws his arms in the air. He gives up. He looks to the common room where the song has ended and Kurt and Blaine are just staring at each other while sitting on the couch. Gross. So gross.

Just then, a man with blond, curly hair approaches them. “Excuse me, can you tell me where to find Kurt Hummel.”

“He even has an adult posse!” Nick shouts. “Fuck my life.”

The man gives him a weirded out look as Jeff points to the common room.

“Come on, Nick, let’s go to the cafeteria,” Jeff says, putting his arm around Nick’s shoulders. “I think they’ve got some fresh Christmas cookies. And then we’re going to talk about you going to see a therapist again.”

Nick grumbles as he’s led away from the common room.

#s.o. writes things #99 perspectives

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popculturebuffet · 4 years

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Top 10 Regular Show Episodes

Close Enough is Close! 2 more days and a show i’ve waited without hyperbole years for will finally land offically. While i’ve seen three episodes preelease, one because of a french film festival the other two because HBO made an oopsie, and it’s more than likely i’ll be seeing those episodes again thursday, it dosen’t make it any less special, as with an offical release comes the fandom finally becoming a thing and the ablility to watch the episodes over and over again.. on computer till HBO gets it’s shit together but still. IT’s a great time. And my hype for the show made me revisit it’s big brother: Regular Show. Created by what would happen if you condesned california into a person, JG Quintel, Regular Show, as you all damn well know but I like doing anyway so as rigby would say, STOP TALKING, was about two slackers and best bros: Laidback hipster and hurricane when it came to talking to women, Mordecai and Rigby a high strung, idiotic, impulsive, and frequently angry racoon who worked, when they absolutley had to, at a park. Joining them at the park were their coworkers and later closest friends: Benson, their constnatly angry boss who constnatly belts out empty threats to fire them and has a rather sad personal life, Skips, a centuries old yeti whose literally seen it all and despenses advice for the duo and is voiced by everyone’s faviorite grandpa/jedi/murder clown Mark Hamill, Muscle Man, a grotesque blob of a man who likes “My mom” jokes and breaking things, Hi Five Ghost, Muscle Man’s sidekick who got like.. one episode focusing on him alone over 8 seasons moving on, and Pops, an odd but unfailingly sweet and kind vicotrian era gentleman whose also basically immortal and is Bensons’ boss in name only. The Park Crew spend their days working, or in our main duo’s case trying to get out of work to do anything else, while dealing with every day issues that would quickly ballon into insanity. Getting pops a birthday present of Fuzzy Dice from a local pizza place ended up with the crew having to fight a bunch of anamatonic animals that were stashing diamonds in there. Trying to get concert tickets involved getting caffine from the nipples of a giant sentient coffee bean in order to stay awake long enough to do the extra work. And Mordecai trying to delete an embrarassing message off his crush Margret’s voice mail lead to him and rigby getting hauled in front of a bunch of a message guardians, one of which is a sentient smoke signal that wanted to burn them while the other replied with “we’ree not going to burn them when have we ever burned anybody”... I love and miss those guys. Oh and it’s resolved by having to playt he embarassing song he sang while said message beings groove to it then ask him to colaberate with them on their album. THis show was on all the drugs and I am all the hear for it. I could go all day obviously but this section is long enough as is, let’s move on.

Regular Show came at JUST the right time for Cartoon Netowork: Similar to how the 80s doom patrol comic started off really bland and cookie cutter and not at all doom patrol and then grant morrison came in, had hte previous writer kill almost everything, then rebuilt it from scratch with crazy, CN had few shows left and was coming off a really terrible attempt at competeing with NIck and Disney Channel’s live action dommance with a bunch of dude broy reality shows and other ill conceved ideas. The network had a few shows, Total Drama, The Clone Wars which got better and I need to watch those better seasons at some point, but they weren’t enough to make the network thrive again. SO enter adventure time and regular show: BOth were creative, funny , a bit rough around the ages, and kind of nuts, but both were massive hits: The shows hit almost every demographics sweet spots: Kids like the bright colors, fun designs, and insanity, teens loved the edgy bits of the humor and also the insanity and 20 somethings and older both found refrences they got and loved, and well.. insanity. I mean being fucking nuts but also wonderful is kind of the watchword for most animation nowadays. While in the past in my own head i’ve played down Regular Show’s part in things, after all it came second and had a rough patch I told myself.. but I was wrong. Both shows had a lot of the same elements; insane stuff, great voice acting and good humor especially as they evolved.. but both also evolved in largely the same way and that way helped change animation for the next decade: Both, despite being comeidies, regular show keeping to it a bit more than adventure time did as they evolved, had the characters grow, something a lot of animated comedies didn’t do as much ast the time, even the good ones. THey had season long arcs, things that are now standard features in most cartoons for good reason were MADE standard by these shows. It’s just regular show’s legacy got diluted by shows that TRIED to copy it but both failed to see that it grew past season one or that it’s being okay for kids but really based in adult life and problems meant copycats like fanboy and chum chum, sanjay and craig and breadwinners, all thankfully long dead, eventually sputtered out and died. That and Nick is REALLY shitty at maintaing shows or treating creators with anything resembling respect. Somehow Teen Titans Go is still alive despite having similar failings but you can’t win everything. It didn’t help gravity falls came along right after and proceded to be even more influentail than both of these shows. Hmmm I just realized I haven’t done any gravity falls reviews here.. I gotta get on that. But while the show got eclipsed in quality and popularity I do still think it holds up for the most part as funny, charming and with , for the most part, good character arcs, it’s just that a bit of incosntientcy, some abrubtly done actions and a REALLY fucking terrible arc in season 6 dull the show a bit in comparison to what came after, but I do realize now it’s still worht watching, remembering and laughing at. It may of not been the greatest, but damn it was good. So with my nostaliga for the show popping up, my faith in it restored, and it’s sucessor showing up in a few days, I decided to do a little something for the ocassion. I WAS going to do a full on review, but had troulbe finding an episode as some of my faviorites are part of a larger arc that was hurt by a later arc, and the show ping ponged between slice of life and utter insanity enought hat it was hard to peg down to jus tone or two episodes. So while I WILL review the show eventually, it has both good and bad episodes needing it, I decided instead to dig out something I hadn’t done in far too long: a top whatver lists! Now while I do get these things are clickbaity, because they are, I.. honestly just love making them. Even if i’ts not for any specific purpose I just love ranking, the stress, even if I normally hate stress given my anxiety, of trying to narrow them down, and the satisfaction of taking a ton of episodes and melting htem down into the best of them. And with a show as long and varied as regular show, If igured this was the best way to show it off before I dived into it eventually. I’ll obviously be doing more top, and bottom lists in the future, but for now this seemd like a godo place to get back to it. As Now a few more things before we finally get started. Yes I know i’ve gone on for a few years now but i’m almost done. This list is obviously, my opinon. If you disagree fine, and feel free to comment or shoot me an ask about it but I stand by my list and what I choose. I had to boil down over 60 episodes I picked to possibly be on the list and even after it was down to 40 cuts were really difficult, .. Also just as a quick note there are no episodes from seasons 1, 6, 7 and 8, and that’s not on purpose, as the last two seasons are really good, it just fell out that way and i’m sorry about it. So with that out of the way grabs some sodas and wings, get out your maxi gloves, and bring out your best sentient earworms wearing sunglassses, after the cut I count down the top 10 Regular Show episodes. OOOOOOOOO!

10. I Like You, Hi (Season 5, Episode 26) As you’ll be able to tell by the rest of this list Season 5 is my faviorite, and it’s where I feel the series hit it’s peak before next season lead to it’s valley. It’s got a ton of great episodes, as this list will attest, some great character development, and was still really damn funny. But what put it over the top for me was the Mordecai and CJ arc. At the end of the last season as you probably know the show wrote out Margret, having her finally get into college like she’d wanted since she got an actual character back in “Camping Be Cool” instead of just being “that hot girl mordecai really likes but is too scared to persue”, and another fantastic episode we’ll be getting to, Mordecai was in position to move on. Re-Enter CJ. CJ was introduced earlier in the season 3 ep “Yes Dude Yes” which itself is really good, where Mordecai thought margret was engaged and with Rigby’s encouragment, ended up meeting CJ, stands for Cloudy Jay if your curious, a sentient cloud voiced by the wonderful LInda Cardenelli, aka wendy from gravity falls and currently co star of the equally wonderful show Dead to Me. Seriously go check it out on netflix, it’s really good. It naturally went pearshaped since Margret wasn’t engaged, he tried going out with both, she turned into a thunderstorm out of rage... as you do.. it’s like the season 6 plot but less infurating and more understandable. But the two remeet, and had a kiss on new years while not knowing it’s the other person under am ask.. and then CJ ran and both thought the other was upset: MOrdecai for him being MOrdecai, and CJ for running out on him and agreed to be friends. That didn’t last, though it did give us another classic on this list, as while exes can be friends and all, the two still had something between them. Thus came this one. And it was a hard one as it barely inched out the finale of their relationship arc, Real Date, which had the ceo of a dating company try to break them up and be really damny funny but it’s ulitmatley this one being just as hilarious while being a great character piece that gets it the rub. As the episode opens Mordecai and CJ have been spending a LOT of time together and i’ts clear there’s a spark there.. but Mordecai insists it’s platonic. And yes there is a bad habit of animation being unable to accept females and males who are into the oppistie sex can’t be friends without being attracted to each other. It’s being cleared up more lately, but as Star Vs showed it still happens sometimes. But it works here: The two STARTED with dating, made out on new years, and are attracted to each other it’s just clear both were in denial about it. It’s not saying “well they have chemstiry so fuck their partners’ like star vs or “if you loved someone once those feelings will return and destroy yoru current relationship” like next season.... season 6′s arc is a tirefire burn it. But the issue is forced when, while texting about an extreme baking show together while CJ’s at her job at a sports bar, it autocrrects from Yuji, the show’s host, to you hi, sending the title message “I like you, hi”. Mordecai, being even less adept with his feelings and anxiety towards women than me and trust me that’s saying something, spirals and we do get the episodes best scene, narrowly beating out it’s climax, where Mordecai summons a war council.. aka the rest of the main cast minus benson but plus Thomas, the intern who I wish stuck around longer even after he turned out to be a russian spy because they ran out of ideas for him, voiced by Roger Craig Smith and distractingly using his future sonic voice.

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I just.. love everything about the scnee. From the term pulling a mordecai, to Rigby joining in, deservedly as he’s had front row seats for a lot of this bollocks, to everyone’s suggestions especially Muscle Man’s half assed one that somehow, but unsuprisngly, works for him and Starla. Naturally Mordecai comes up with what Rigby HIMSELF admits is a Rigby level half assed scheme to get an actual photo with Yuji rather than just admit the truth. Yuji himself is an utter delight, having had his star not rise as fast as he’d like thanks to autocorrect and being entirely on board, and when it backfires as MOrdecai ends up autocorrected and sends the message thrice and gets sucked into the phone again, admits i’ts “pretty extreme’. I love the guy and i’m prety sure he showed up again, to my delight.

In the phone Mordecai meets some old friends, the message guardians who I mentioned in the “insane shit this show has done” bit earlier: old forms of messaging who police texting, all voiced by Rich Fulcher of the Mighty Boosh and Snuffbox Fame.

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I love Rich and wish these guys could show up in close enough. Maybe they can, I don’t know how rights issues with turner properties work when it comes to two diffrent audiences entirely. Anyways what really makes the episode, besides the great callbacks in this scene, is when confronted with everything going on, Mordecai.. tries to run into the void, with Rigby, The Message Recorder and the Smoke Signal all encouraging him to come back. “There’s nothing out there for you, literally it’s just a blank void”. With the leading tape recorder pointing out from their text history not only how great CJ is but how much he seems to like her with Mordecai finally coming back and admitting the obvious: He does like her.. he’s just scared of beefing it again. Which he does but that’s not the point. Rigby, who as part of his character development helps Mordecai quite a bit with this stuff by being a neutral party, though he also likes CJ better than Margret which is a mood even though I don’t care which one you ship mordecai with frankly, you do you, I have my prefrences. And with that Mordecai finally texts her and asks her out, with her accepting via winky face.. with an added text to clarify it for his neuotic ass.. which is also a mood as my neuortic ass could use that a lot. Overall just a wonderful , hilarious and good bit of character growth.. that season 6 throws in the oven, but that’s a long rant for another day. On it’s own, “I LIke you, hi” is a good character piece for mordecai whlie still being really damn funny.

9. Thanksgiving Special (Season 5, Episode 15)

Regular Show was really damn great at holliday specials. Their terror tales from the park every halloween were always a nice treat and a good replacement for Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror” which still exists, it’s just no one cares at this point, and their christmas and new years episodes are both really damn good, the first Christmas Episode being in contention for this list even. But to me the best of the best was easily Season 5′s thanksgiving episode.

The premise is simple: Mordecai and Rigby accidnetly destroy thanksgiving dinner, which the park crew is having for everyone and their famllies and, refusing to take Benson trying to dismiss their attempts to help fix their mistake, end up joining a songwriting contest to try and win a Turducken.. a natural one that’s born every 1000 Years because this is regular show. To do this they have to beat a parody of everyone’s least faviorite president Donald Trump, Rich Buckner. The fact that trump was basically the main villian of a holliday special a year before he became president is not lost on me and is one of the most accurate depections of the man i’ve ever seen. The fact Rich steals the prize despite our boys winning from his blimp with a grappling hook is peak trump. The fact Trump has’nt stolen more things with a grappling hook in real life is only because his hands are too small to use one.

Getting past our president for my own sanity, the episode also has really great subplots: Muscle Man and Fives go to a sports bar to get sides and end up pissing off a former football player and getting into a touchdown dance comppetition, sadly not set to the super bowl shuffle, while Benson, Pops and Skips go to get a turkey and end up fighting over it with men dressed up like a piligrim, a first thanksgiving era native american and a turkey, to which they don’t even really give an explination for.. granted most explinatoins on this show are insane but even by regular show standards, this gets none. And I love it for it. While as you can tell the episode is really damn funny, what really sells it is the emotional core: For once while they do fear for their jobs a bit Mordecai and Rigby’s main motivation in this messup is genuine guilt and wanting to fix their mistake, and they work hard at it, even giving a genuine and awesome heartfelt song that notches itself up with other thanksgiving classics “That thankstiginv themed soul sketch on snl” and adam sandler’s turkey song also from snl. Not a high bar but it’s really good regardless

The episodes’ real strength though is it’s emotional core: For once instead of saving their own asses or understadnably wanting to get one over on the cranky and in the worse written episodes obnoxiously overbearing benson, they simply feel terrible about possibly runing the meal for their arriving parents and everyone elses parents and families and their friends and work to right the wrong. It’s not the first time they worked to do something genuinely good with no benefit to themselves, but it’s probably the best and Benson’s I forgive you, while hilarious is also really sweet. And speaking of sweet

It ends on a really sweet and touching note, as Mordecai and Rigby, after escaping a blimp via a wish on a golden wishbone because of course, make it home to find the various weirdos the park crew met have brought them thanksgiving, and their parents will be there and we get a nice touching ending as the main duo get a well earned toast from Benson. Just an out and out amazing thanksgiving special and a good reminder of what the holiday means.

8. Trucker Hall of Fame (Season 3, Episode 37)

Moving on from Season 5 for a second, Season 3 was where the show really started to hit it’s stride to me. While Season 2 was a nice increase in quality from the sometimes choppy and heavy on “everyone is an asshole” comedy season 1, Season 3 was where the increased focus on the rest of the cast outside of our main duo balloned and what seeds of character were planted in season 2 beautifully bloomed. And this episode is one of the best examples of that. This one focuses on Muscle Man, who earlier on was basically the main duo’s rival alongside his buddy high five ghost, and kind of a dick. While “Kind of a dick” never left any discription of Mitch Sorenstein, this and previous episode muscle woman showed there was more to the goblin man than we thought. It’s also one of regular show’s few early mostly serious episodes and unlike the benson ones, again this list was tough don’t come at me with a machete, and realy showed why muscle man is the human tire fire he is. The episode introduces, and quickly kills off, muscle dad, mitch’s dad who gave him a love of pranks and was a truck driver who died as he live: mistaking a fake bear for a real one during a prank. Muscle Man being not the most stable person on a GOOD day, spirals, as seen above, and Benson tasks mordecai and rigby, since Fives isn’t good with death ironically and isn’t holding up much better, and as a much later episode shows the two became besties in high school so he probably knew muscle dad for a good ten years so he’s probably not in a great place either, nice stuff, to go with him to put his dad’s ashes in the trucker hall of fame. What follows is a sweet and damn sad episode. While Mitch’s frequent breakkdowns can be hilarous their also really sad and having lost my grandpa since this episode aired, I can relate to being fine one minute and a total shrieking wreck the next over the smallest thing. But it also shows that Mitch genuinely thinks of our main duo as his friends, and that beneath his testorrone positned exterior he’s a decent guy, being genuinely greatful. Of course being regular show the 3 end up squaring off with some truckers, while Mitch also grappels with the revelation his dad wasn’t one but a forklift opperator who faked being a trucker for his son’s benifit and dleft a tender note in his picture, figuring correctly his son would break it open when he found out... oh and because this show is still nuts his ghost ends up saving them at the end which is really sweet , as mitch decides trucker or no his ashes deserve to be there. Also his ghost shows up again at thanksgiving so apparently he can just come back once in a while, which is nice but dosen’t demnish the bittersweet feeling of this ep. And as I said the show has a good grasp on continuity as this ep marked a turning point for our main duo and muscle man: while the’yve bonded before after this, aside from mitch’s habit of christmas pranks and his faking his death, they really don’t nearly get as annoyed by him ever again. i’ts a sweet touching ride tha’ts uncharacristic of the show’s usual chaos but really works.

7. A Bunch of Full Grown Geese (Season 4, Episode 19) After a few episodes that were more sentimental on this list, it’s good to get back to some good old regular show madness for this one, which was also the series 100th in production order and is a worthy milestone episode. Season 4 was really good building on the good will from Season 3 and FINALLY having payoff to the margret and mordecai thing, more on that in a bit. Not as much to say as seasons 3 or 5, but it was still spectacular. The sequel to another ep, fittingly given it’s #100, full grown geese has our duo tasked with removing a bunch of obnoxious geese, with Benson in dick mode refusing to give the two more help, though it does lead to one of the show’s best scenes when he gives his usual your fried threat.. and fitting a milestone episode, Rigby calls him on never going through with it and the threat being as empty as my dreams. Benson responds by going nuts and angrishing them out of his office.. really funny. But yeah with the geese attacking them and , in their first attacking, poor pops, and no way to combat them, the two turn to the baby ducks, a bunch of baby ducks from the episode titled that who show up to help.. and this being the 100th episode of an already grant morrison level nuts show, it turns out the geese seek to conquer earth, voiced by david warner of course and have laser eyes.. and can combine. And the ducks do so again, mecha style, and add in our heroes and a bunch of call backs in one of the series best and most batshit sequences> The ending is also throughly satisfying as while our heroes win, Benson chews them out for tearing up the park in the process.. only for the ducks mom to call him out for not only yelling at the ducks, who are just kids, but at mordecai and rigby after they just saved the park from being a smoldering crater and not just trashed and he backs off. Just a fun episode where the crew just went nuts and the results speak for themselves.

6. This is My Jam (Season 2, Episode 13)

Now this one I couldn’t NOT include. This is one of the series best even after it’s immense growth, and a beloved classic for a reason. And like the above it’s a good classic case of regular show hyjinks while also being relatable this time: Rigby gets a brainless but catchy pop song from the 90′s stuck in his head and despite growing to hate it, and Mordecai hating it because this episode establishes him as a hipster, and seemingly exercises it.. only for it to manifest as a GIANT CASETTE WEARING SUNGLASSES THAT PLAYS THE SONG JUST BY EXISTING AND DANCES CONSTANTLY. it’s utterly glorious and used to great effect, also annoying benson because he’s constnatly annoyed. To beat it the main duo get the rest of the park’s help at Skips suggestion to form a band and craft an even BIGGER earworm to cast it out. Oh and there’s a great scene where Pops is forced to awkwardly dance with the incarnation of the 90′s “But I won’t use my best moves”. The climax also has one of Benson’s best moments as, after he’s irritated all episode, he comes in hot, with both the cast and audience expecting him to chew out mordecai and rigby.. only he’s mad because they forgot drums are key to an earworm and saves the day with his drumwork. It’s a great subversion and one of the first times Benson was more than just the angry but understandable, at times, dickhead boss. Just an utter standout and one of the show’s most memorable episodes for a reason. Also the line “you can’t touch music but music can touch you’ is great.

5. Meteor Moves ( Season 4, Episode 28)

This one was a long time coming and to me is a great example of writers taking their own shortcomings and making something awesome out of them. I prefer that: instead of just retconning away bad writing use it as a tool.. I try to do that myself when possible. See early in the show as you all probably know, Mordecai’s crush on Margret was just a plot device: he had a crush on the cute waitress at the coffee shop so they used it to get him to do things. A gratioutis shot of her in bike shorts got him to bet all computer rights for life that sort of thing. The show.. wasn’t great with female characters till season 3 and even as it grew, as season 6 and just.. forgetting to give CJ a proper ending as a character shows, still grappled with it. It took writer Kat Morris saying “no no stop go to jail” to them wanting ot make CJ a difficult woman type, whatever horrifying thing that is. I don’t want to know, let’s move on. The point is it wasn’t till season 3 that Margret and her best friends, and Rigby’s future wife, Eileen got fleshed out a bit: Eileen got smarter and turned out to be good at wilderness stuff while Margret was chill, nice, if annoyed by the chaos around mordecai, and funloving, while also having a clear goal in stark contrast to her future boyfriend: going to college. Even after coming back it was botha fter finsihing college and to start a career. It wasn’t incredibly deep, but it made me not be ehhh to her mere existance like before. The show also started developing her and Mordecai’s relationship seriously with the two bonding and the previously shown Butt Dial showing for the first time, after previously having a terrible taste in men and then just not noticing his crush, that she was receptive to how mordecai felt. And the two had several moments and two dates even, it just.. never went anywhere for some reason.

And this was INFURATING to me: See back then shows had a tendency to just pop in love intrests SOLEY for plot fuel like margret with no intention of following through with things either through rejection or a relationsihp upgrade and by then I was sick of it. The whole spike and rarity thing in MLP (which to be clear I wanted her to just reject him but nope, even after I stopped watching she never did. ), Isabella and Phineas. I was fed up so I went from being “eh” about it to annoyed supremely.. but the thing is the writers realized this.. and course corrected. The first step was picking up Margret, where Mordecai agrees to pick her up to get her to the airport for a college interview and we get a nice deconstruction of things as Margret is anticpatiing things going wrong, and wrongly blames Mordecai for it.. I mean it is his fault sometimes but half the time weird shit just follows him. However she’s won over by him working past it, getting her there in time and kisses him. That blew me away and made me think well it’s finally here.. and it was.. ALMOST. However the creators wisely, if frustratingly to past me, took one more episode to iron it out: Metor Moves has the two growing closer, and semi-going out, but Rigby pops mordecai’s bubble pointing out he never actually made a boyfriend girlfriend move and her move could’ve gone either way. So Mordecai , after seasons of being wishy washy and awkward, finally decides to go for it as he, rigby, eileen and margret go to a metor shower. Being Regular Show it dosen’t go as planned as his attempted kiss is blocked by the guardians of the friend zone.. which is a real, phantom zone esque place here and that’s just fantastic. And it’s also clearly mocking the hell out of the concept, which is dumb. if you want to ask someone out just do it, I learned that the hard way. And if you really are friends, if she says no then you’ll accept it and keep a friend anyway as I have. But it’s clearly parodying it and Mordecai get sreplayed all the times he ALMOST made a move but didn’t but refuses to accept this clusterfuck, realizes he was a screwup when it came to this.. and kisses her.. and this time the two enter a relationship> Granted it barely lasted but still, it was nice while it did and this ep is just great for it. While not the funniest, it’s up this high because it took somethign the show did wrong.. and turned it on it’s head and into a character flaw and had mordecai grow past it, with a genuinely romantic moment on top as well as an utterly funny and batshit concept. It also had some Rigleen, as by this point rigby stopped being a hateful wastebasket to her and warmed up to her, and I regret there’s no reigleen episodes on this list. Their the shows best couple and utterly adorable. Just wanted to mention that at least once this list.

4. Laundry Woes (Season 5, Episode 1) From the begining to the end. While sadly Morderet didn’t last too long in canon, which blows, it did give us some great episodes while it lasted, as with the above entry and their breakup in Steak Me Amedeus. As mentioned before Margret left for college, which while abrupt feeling did pave the way for great stories: The Mordejay arc mentioned above and that will pop up again very soon, This was one of them: the ep while lacking on laughs is a good emotional rollercoaster and starts with an amazing montage that catches us up from the end of season 4: Mordecai is miserable, as you’d expect and wallowing in it with Benson, of all people, letting him. And given Benson seems to have a heart attack any time Mordecai and Rigby aren’t working, that’s huge. But eventually his friends refuse to let it go on and in a really touching montage help him through it, taking him out places, giving him good times and eventually.. the fog starts to lift and he starts to enjoy himself and by the end.. he’s himself again. It’s one of the series best sequences, told with no dialouge and showing just how far the rest of the cast had come: Benson actually wants to comfort mordecai but is encouraged not to at first, underfstandably as it probably woudlnt’ help, and a crew that were once, aside from Pops who much like Krillin is everyone’s friend, just coworkers who barely tolerated each other, and are now close as family and help their own in need. But Grief isn’t a straight line and just as Mordecai’s recovering he’s sent spiraling when he finds Margret’s sweater and uses ita s a flimsy excuse to go return it. It’s here I also get to talk about Rigby, who grew from an impatient idiot who hated Mordecai’s romantic endevors and actively sabtoaged them at times, to an understandting wing man who, while understandably frustrated with his best friend’s own idiocy with women, turned out to know more and be the wise council he needed, triggering both is relationships and only bailing out during the season 6 clusterfuck and even then was there to comfort him after it was all over and go to his aid to pull him out of another misery hole. And here he gives Mordecai the hard truth: He shoudln’t do this, it’s just going to tear both him and margret up again and he just put himself back together. He’s not going to let his best friend do this to himself. And while there is a supernatural elment, the sweater comes to life and tries to get Mordecai to force margret back with him and give up college, likely voicing his darkest wants that he hates himself for wanting, but it feels more like a manfiestation of Mordecai’s own issues than the usual madness. Like “Trucker hall of Fame”, a rare senntence, it’s a less funny packed more grounded episode. And in the end it’s mordecai himself, after rejecting the ghost sweater and seeing his ex truly happy , that gets him to NOT talk to her and just.. let it go. IT’s a good emotional episode and SHOULD HAVE BEEN the end of their relationship... but i’ve ranted about the cheating storyarc enough here, moving right along.

3. Portable Toilet (Season 5, Episode 16) Back to the Mordejay arc. And yes this arc is my faviorite and while I didn’t make it clear at the time I really shipped the two, even before it became canon. I had nothing against morderet, these two simply had more chemistry and these episodes built CJ up as more of a character than Margret was at the time. It’s why that later arc sucks so much to me: it destroys a perfectly good relationship and story arc for dumb reasons and never really did enough with it to justify doing so. I’ll get to it some day, or if someone comissions it soone rthan some day, but as you can tell i’m still sore over it and great eps like this are part of the reason why. It’s the same reason i’m sore on how Tom was handled on star vs. But as you can also tell as bitter and lemon scented as I am.. these eps are still objectivley great and thus took up a third of the list basically. Case in point Portable Toilet, which zooms back a bit to when neither would admit they were into each other but were now friends at least. Also Eileen was CJ”s friend now because plot convience. I mean they worked, and it bothers me a lot that the creators claim cj washed her hands of her even though she’s not the one who made out with margret... which come to think of it adding her to rigleen.. not a bad idea. I mean Rigby didn’t really like margret true, but they did almost go out before mordecai killed him and then reset time because Mordecai’s always kinda sucked. I’ll file that away for later. But my new OTP aside, I did like the two bonding and what not. Anyways with their outside park friend/RIgby’s future girlfriend now friends with Mordeai’s future girlfriend the four have apparently been hanging out which, while i’ve bemoaned off screen stuff at times, works here and regular show uses it better than most shows. While Rigby can clearly see Mordecai and CJ are into each other Mordecai is as we covered in denial and while that dosen’t really progress here, it does lead to one of teh shows finest hours. When talking would you rathers, CJ semi-flirtly dares Mordecai to eat his lunch sandwitch in a portable toilet, which he agrees to and drags a reluctant rigby along for. This being regular show, it goes south fast as the two get stuck, with Rigby’s clautrophiba kicking in leading to an amazing exchange Mordecai; Dude that makes no sense! Rigby: You’s makes no sense! While our dynamic duo try to get mordecai and rigby out the two are carted away and repalced with a new portable toilet, a deluxe one. Also we get another great bit when our dynamic duo find Muscle man, in a robe with choclate’s claming “Eileen, other girl, this isn’t weird” before screaming “This isn’t weird”. Turns out old portable toilets are taken to be blown up by the miltary and we get one of the shows best one off characters in the general, who not only explains it as “toilets being about the same size as the enmy” but when told he should call the president says “the preseident is not my father i’ll blow up as many toilets as I want.”. Spectacular. So now it’s a scramble for one twosome to rescue the other, Rigby lets out a cathartic “THANK YOUUU MORDECAI” over the flirty toilet dare, and the day is saved> This one is another pure comedy one, even if it ties into a plot I really like, and i’ts gold for obvious reasons and manages to take blowing up porta poties, a premise that dosen’t seem that funny, and make it utter comedic gold. Speaking of pure comic episodes that are utterly insane...

2. Cool Bikes (Season 3, Episode 7)

This one feels like regular show boiled down to it’s core: semi-relabtale hyjinks dovetalling into pure madness. And the premise sounds like a shit post i’d make: Mordecai and Rigby want benson to admit their cool and get into progressively weird outfits and tricks to their bycycles to do so, eventually becoming so cool their put on trial by the council of cool , ending up having to make a runner when Benson finally breaks down and admits it. The premise is utterly stupid in the best way possible, with the conflict being the kind of petty bullshit we all get into from time to time with our aquantinces: not wanting to admit something and loose the argument withthings escalating. And in regular show terms it escalate sperfectly into the entire unvierse being threatned adn our heros being on trial for their lives. There’s not much to say here, it’s just pure comedic gold with a premise that just works. It also has good moments for Benson with his finally admitting they are cool and saving the duo’s lives whne he realized he just gave them a death sentence. Utter fun. And now we come to the finale, my faviorite episode...

1. Dodge This (Season 5, Episode 15)

Yup this arc again. But this one has more than my ship going for it, and it’s why it soared to the top: It takes the excellent character work of other episodes and weaves it with excellent comedy to create an utter delight and the episode I remember most fondly and most often. It’s just great. The second part of the Mordeijay arc, not counting yes dude yes, the episode is half that and half sports movie: The Park Guys have been taking part in dodgeball as a team bulding thing and it shows how far Benson’s come as he not only praises mordecai, and launches the mordecai and benson ship in the process, but gives his team full wings and his full support, a far cry from his usual self. It’s also the first big instance of him getting hammered on wings and it’s glorious to see drunk flirty benson. Benson is also genuinely congratulatory to the team’s ace mordecai, and most of them realy for b eing valuable and hopes to win this year. IN their way are two things: The magical elements, aka the floating baby heads that gave skips his immortality, his friend with sparkly eyes who works for them and death himself whose a recurring character and fucking great and who were their bowling rivals too. The other is CJ is back, and Benson in another good moment actually talks mordecai through it and his nerves over it assuring him. So we get a great sports piece as our heroes work through various callbacks and even beat the magical elements iwth Rigby’s hilarious and rediculous rignado manuver, which is as dumb as it sounds and winged a guy hilaroiusly before with Benson scolding him like a toddler. Of course it ends up with Mordecai and CJ against each other, both incredibly awkard over things as mentioned before, and both ending up in a stalmate that magical dodgeball guardians have to resolve because, let’s do this one last time. IT’S REGULAR SHOW. We do get a good moment though as the two work through their awkwardness: both thinking the other is rightfully mad: Mordecai for his two timer date with her and Margret and CJ for running out without talking to mordecai after they had a moment on new years. The both work past it, the park strikers loose,benson likely gets hammered again off screen.. it’s a good one and I have no shame in putting it at number one. It’s got heart, really great jokes, and some good charcter stuff, not to the level of other episodes on this list, but it wasn’t a full episode of that like those were and still works to move the plot forward and is still a classic. Just a fun, breezy, well done epsidoe fully rooted in the cast’s characters and getting laughs out of that.. mostly benson. And with that this giangantic list comes to a close> I hope you enjoyed it, if you liked it follow me for more. I’ll be doing close enough coverage every week, as well as amphibia and owl house among other reviews. Until we meet again, later days.

#regular show #mordecai #rigby #cj #eileen #margret #muscle man #benson dunwoody #high five ghost #pops mallerd #skips #death #yuji #rich fulcher #close enough #top 10 lists #cartoon network

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Survivor Winners at War Ep 12 Recap

We’re getting close to the end! In this episode, man I knew I shouldn’t have manifested anything, look what happened now...

So after the Sophie vote, Tony’s got some explaining and damage control to do. And oh my god, I love how the episode starts with Sarah on her confessional going “Ok Sarah, be calm, don’t blow up”, and then THIS

I feel the italianness to my bones.

And I really love to see these two together cause aaaaa they’re just so good. Cause like, Tony very much took out one of Sarah’s closest allies in Sophie, but he really managed to make her feel safe and secure and like they still have a trusting bond (which, they very much do!). And as for Sarah, yeah she can scream at him but she was like “I’ll be with you, until I’m sunk and then I’ll sink you too, no mercy” WHICH IS GREAT, cause she can very much benefit from their mutual partnership!

UGH THEY0RE BOTH JUST SO GOOD I LOVE THEM.

And then Tony goes to calm down Ben which ALSO WORKS, although Ben is still very much not wanting to talk to Jeremy. Also Tony gets pooped on by a bird. They are in the jungle, after all.

Because everything is wonderful, we get more Crazy Tony stuff, and after a quick recap of THE SPY SHACK and THE SPY BUNKER (rip) we see the birth of THE SPY NEST.

And god, did I mention how much I love the Tony and Sarah buddy cop partnership?

Can y’all spot Tony? Where could he be!

(Also Sarah saying “if Tony was my partner in real life, one of us would get fired.” Please, I need Sarah and Tony buddy cop comedy PLEASE).

In other news, Miss Kim planted the idea of getting rid of Tony, which...is a very sound idea, considering the dude is doing really well. He does have an idol, but you can always hope to blindside him, and now could be a good time...

Back in Depression Island, it’s Log Challenge 2: Electric Boogalo, coconut edition! Y’all remember the one where they had to bring back a bunch of logs one at a time? Well, they gotta do that again! But with coconuts! Oh, and only the first six actually get tokens. Time to go!

Adam is such a mood. Also, love how even in EoE, the show is like we WILL keep making fun of Adam, bet on it dfjkdfhkdj (him getting lapped, and then seeing Wendell jump from rock to rock and going “huh?? how did you do that?? dkfjhdkh relatable king).

Natalie is being a total Queen, and everyone is like “yo Natalie is killing it” which SHE IS. Then people get injured, too, which scared the CRAP out of me like PLEASE ROB AND DANNI DON’T DIE HERE.

In the end, the placements are Natalie, Sophie, Yul, Parv and Tyson, and Wendell, all with tokens (also then Rob went and tried to complete the challenge, even when it was over, which...I mean good for you dude, but don’t tire yourself over nothing! Save energy for the challenge!)

Back in the game, it’s idol hunting for everyone, now that Sophie’s idol is back in play. Ben and Tony are kind of searching together, and Ben finds the idol and...tries to hide it really obviously, to which Tony is like “dude, I’m right here I can see you lmao” which KDHGKHDKFHDK I love him a lot.

So yeah, Ben gets the idol and is trying to put Tony at ease, cause everyone wants Tony out right now. Also we get this:

aber, bézense :)

Now it’s challenge time--the good ole classic “stand with your arm chained to a rope tied to a bucket full of water” but with a twist of standing on a narrow beam--and.........sigh.......I have issues.

So, there were two immunity necklaces, one for the last woman, and one for the last man. Obviously everyone wants to vote for Tony (at least the vast majority), so you gotta make sure he doesn’t lose, right?

But then what happens is that Jeff comes out with cookies and peanut butter...and all hell breaks loose. First Michele stands down, ok whatever, BUT THEN...KIM STANDS DOWN AS WELL? KIM!? That makes Denise win immunity cause Sarah was out, but KIM...you’re putting together the plan, you’re a Big Threat in everyone’s book...WHY THE HELL ARE YOU DOING THIS?

AND THAT’S NOT ALL. Then Nick tells Tony that he’ll let him win if he gives him one token, and when Tony says yes HE STEPS DOWN, TOO!? FOR FUCKING COOKIES!? WHAT THE HELL ARE Y’ALL DOING!?

So yeah, Tony challenge beast confirmed, y’all are fucking stupid lmao.

People are now trying to go for the second plan, aka Jeremy, but Ben goes and snitches on Tony about them trying to blindside him, and he goes and confronts Nick which dfjkdhkj MAN IT’S SO OBVIOUS. But yeah, Tony finds out it was Kim that tried to bring together the plan, so he goes after her.

BUT he has to try to convince Ben, which is SO deadset on Jeremy, but DAMN HE FUCKING DOES SUCH A GREAT JOB. It’s still like oh which way will they go? But it’s could happen...

And then...Michele gives Jeremy her 50/50 coin? I’m...? What? I mean yeah, he’s your ally, but you’re gonna VOTE FOR HIM AS WELL? To vote with the “majority”? Girlie, Idk...

Then it’s TC time, and I love how when they mention that Kim, Michele and Nick all dropped out for cookies, Parv is like:

LITERALLY ALL OF US AT HOME WATCHING. WTF.

And then it’s...well, it’s a whisperfest again, VERY chaotic, very convoluted and confusing...but there were more subtitles with time! Yay!

(Also Denise being done like OK FUCK IT LET’S VOTE WHATEVER jkdfhdkjfh mood)

When it’s time, Jeff goes “Anyone wants to play anything do it now or find out”, and OH SHIT, first Tony says “Wait a minute Jeff”, and then he’s almost gonna play it for Sarah but she goes “No dude, don’t do it” and AAAAAAAAAAA HOW BALLSY (I guess you gotta trust your alliance, but AAAA SARAH DON’T SACRE ME LIKE THAT).

And then Jeremy ALMOSTTT playing the 50/50 but ALSO not doing it, and in the end THEY WERE ALL RIGHT, cause Kim got voted out. And listen, I’m SO SAD I love Kim to pieces, she’s so hot, but either Tony or Kim was gonna lose this episode, Tony was immune and it ended up being Kim. At least it was entertaining.

#the floor is having a tribal council with no whispering and everyone sitting on their seats! [everyone starts flying]#juli watches survivor #survivor winners at war lb

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top 5 found families in media

rags first of all soz for taking 70 years to reply to this i literally forgot and this is hard to narrow down, also secondly this is a leading question i know you’re asking mainly about THE ORIGINALS so welcome to my ted talk it’s under the cut. for those of you who don’t want my dissertation;

1) the originals klaus + marcel & marcel + davina

2) black sails jack + anne

3) gossip girl blair + serena + nate + chuck

4) elementary sherlock + joan

5) new girl nick + winston + schmidt

honorable mention, bc who amongst us would not love to occasionally full murder our families, interview with the vampire louis + lestat

1) the originals klaus + marcel & marcel + davina

okay everyone shut the fuck up for a second let me get into this, the klaus and marcel dynamic really does hit me in the face every time bc klaus is basically marcel’s only family: he finds him, he saves him as a child, he names him, he raises him, he turns him, he fucking loves this kid. marcel is literally one of v few people klaus actually gives a fuck about and the parental dynamic does murder me bc it’s klaus wanting to raise him and wanting to be a good father and be the opposite of his own father BUT when it came down to it and the opera house burns down in the 1920s or whatever, klaus leaves. he runs, he never looks back because he assumed his son was dead and he never fucking went back to check. BUT their dynamic when he comes back to new orleans and sees that marcel is not only alive but thriving and ruling the city that klaus built and left burning is so!!!! there’s literally so much shit between them but at the end of the day (or at least until elijah throws marcel off a bridge) they're still family to each other. they go back and forth from being allies to enemies like every 10 episodes but marcel backs klaus, marcel protects the mikaelsons, marcel saves baby hope from the witches and even if he wants to kill klaus it’s DIFFERENT bc he loves him he has the fucking right to do it after everything klaus has done to him, other people (the witches, the strix, that asshole lucien) don't. they reconcile at the end of the series but the one thing that like properly actually fully broke them apart was davina’s death. which brings us to.......

marcel and davina. theirs is a slightly less complicated dynamic (yes there's manipulation and lying but this is cw show grow up) and i’m obsessed with them. marcel saves davina from being sacrificed and takes on being her father figure bc when they meet she absolutely is a child, and they connect because they’re similar and marcel sees a lot of his younger self in her. after all the witch shit is settled and she’s a lot more independent you still see that they take care of each other because who the fuck else will? they both have enemies on either side of the vampire/witch communities so even if they’re not on the same side they still have each other’s backs. marcel looks out for her no matter what, and davina’s one exception to being asked to help kill klaus is to break the sire bond so that if klaus dies marcel doesn’t die with him. and after ALL of the shit that happened between marcel and klaus, it’s davina dying as direct result of mikaelson bullshit that finally finally breaks marcel. he takes the supervampire serum, and goes absolutely apeshit to avenge her because that’s his daughter they killed.

2) black sails jack + anne

i don’t need to explain this everyone knows i’m right. yes? yes. i’m right.

3) gossip girl - the original gang so blair + serena + chuck + nate

hey siri, play frank ocean - super rich kids. god!!!! baby’s first found family i think? i love these dumb motherfuckers!!! objectively horrifying behaviour from all parties but they love each other!! non judging breakfast club!!! they're a bunch of stupid fucking kids with no one but themselves!! they raised each other they aren’t really friends with anyone else bc who the fuck else has the SHARED EXPERIENCES that they do when gossip girl starts!! where does one begin,,, all of them having serena’s back in season 1 after georgina drugs her, serena fake dating nate to cover for him as he absolutely be fucking a married woman, chuck secretly loaning money to nate’s family so nate doesn't find out he’s broke, blair and serena’s entire friendship, them collectively coming together whenever something they think is actually serious (the georgina thing, serena going missing, serena’s car accident, bart dying, blair and chuck’s car accident, that scene where the three of them are trying to get serena out of jail!!!) happens ugh i do love them i do.

4) elementary joan + sherlock

i am obsessed with their dynamic!!! obsessed with it!!! monsieur crumplesnatch simply does not have the RANGE!!! they’re PARTNERS, he cares about her opinion more than literally anyone else's, when he thinks joan’s in danger he goes apeshit and so does she when it’s the other way around, they co own a tortoise!! he named a new species of bee after her!! she forcibly socialises him into acting like human being sometimes, he actively tries to be more considerate, she doesn't take any of his shit and they fuckign just,,,, get each other!! purely platonically!! god the found family of it all....the dynamic is so good lads it’s so good watch elementary

5) new girl - nick + winston + schmidt

they’re so motherfucking stupid i am obsessed with them and their dynamic. “would you consider us adorable?” “winston, we’re adult men, we’re cute.” the entire gave me cookie/got you cookie exchange, the fucking guys night episode where nick teaches schmidt to do laundry and winston to read a ruler, the flash cut in the same episode from nick saying “what, we’re just gonna sit around and talk about love?” to them under a makeshift tent in the living room drinking sangria and crying as they all sing i wanna know what love is. stunning.

6) honorable mention interview with the vampire louis + lestat

are we not all craving family so badly sometimes we’d fully just turn someone into a vampire so they’re forced to stay with you literally forever?? would you not turn a child also into a vampire to force your unwilling husband to stay with the family?? wouldn't you too, burn your entire home,, simply to get away from your family?? 10/10

#brownbicon #rags i enjoyed this immensely thank you #replies

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onlyfroaskingcmcqusetions1 · 4 years

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Hi, I've got something I need to say. I'm going to say this now, and I'm going to get it off my chest and if any of you disagree with me that's fine but I'm going to say this anyway.

YouTube has gone to s***. I enjoy watching it I enjoy using it for some reason it's fun to shoot is Formosa do the reasons the biggest of which being children content can't have commenting board hello not all the people watching children's content or children number 1 and number 2 why the hell does it matter if a child leave a comment and if a kid leave the comment but deciding the fact that YouTube isn't for children in the first damn place. Also, side note Google this is directed at you instead of having YouTube kids develop an entirely different website that uses the YouTube API that's directed it kid don't have YouTube kid make YouTube kids something different by Google kids or Google junior or some other form of a YouTube type service that's only for children and don't put YouTube name on it your stupidity has caused issues. And I can give you a couple of other reasons it's really stupid to do, for example YouTube does not let there be mini player active for children's content any longer so say I'm watching an episode of DuckTales or Tangled or say I'm watching a video where someone is talking about Tangled and they show clips from Tangled well they're going to assume it's children's content and then let's say I don't want to watch that video but I'm searching for something else to watch right after well I can't do both because it's children's content do you see the stupid what danger is a child in by having mini player available so they can sit through and watch YouTube videos at once or try to find multiple videos and watch at the same time What is the thing what's the danger in letting a Child leave comment on a video now I can get behind there's a child in the video we don't want comments when there are children in videos because they could be full of pedophile commenters AKA Maps or people trying to bully the child listen to responsibility to deal with it. YouTube It's the parents responsibility to protect your child from the Internet by the internet job Hopper shouldn't exist poplin needs to get removed we shouldn't be protecting our children on the internet because that's the parents job nothing internet job.

It's the parents job to keep their child safe on mine it's not the internet provider or the websites job to do this they shouldn't be doing this they shouldn't have to do this now, is it something like Nickelodeon or Nick jr. Yes by all means they should be because they're directed at children mainly but something like YouTube they shouldn't have to they shouldn't have to comply because they weren't designed for children in the beginning know where they ever aimed at children YouTube kids was just their way to try and have a safe place for the children's content that gets uploaded like Ryan's world because they think children can't watch YouTube in a regular manner cuz oh no little tiny two-year-old Jimmy but accidentally clicked a video about Fallout okay so well that's not for children I admit that and yes I'm on the way to that could be potentially scarring but I'm also not going to sit here and say that that would happen because let's look at it this way if someone is watching Ryan's World Julia's likely to get certain types of videos. And side note if you're watching Ryan's world you have no life LOL just kidding but seriously he's content is not good at all I tried to watch it before it's going to

Now, there's some other things to keep in mind to I get that YouTube is trying to protect their asses because the FTC is involved and I don't like the children can't have protein today because heaven forbid that collect information from a six-year-old without the parents consent think that's such a problem and you have a problem because yes their information gets taken and no I'm no expert but I do know a little bit about computers and from what I do know they only do things like take cookies which tracks the website you go to that's not bad it's not like YouTube is sitting there and pushing a button that says let's find out little Jimmy's age place of birth date of birth time of birth social security number place of schooling they're not doing all of that and if they were I mean you were Dubai a lot sooner. And the reason I have such a problem with all of this is because it ruined a perfectly good YouTubers like Audrey Lynn Vlogs who I just discovered she's a lot like fathering autism and they're in the same general category so I'm going to whip them together for a minute no Abby is nowhere near the same thing as autumn but we're going to lump them together because they're in the same general category of disabled parent vlogging but we're going to lump them together because they're in the same general category of parent of disabled child blogging about their experiences. I'm well aware that there's a potential for Matt's out there I'm not saying that map should be given freedom but I'm saying is I as a viewer should be allowed to talk to the YouTubers I watch be a comment even if they were children in their videos because there is some good content creators out there that I want to be able to leave comments on but I can't because they use other forms of social media I do not use or will not use like Snapchat Instagram excetera I don't like Snapchat I think it's stupid I don't like Instagram Instagram isn't stupid I just don't like it because I don't like the way it's set up, and I refuse to use Facebook.

And also, I don't use Twitter anymore because Twitter is garbage. Now, and the other thing, I want to point this out as well there are other channels out there that don't specifically directed at children but they get called child channels is simply because of the content exhibit a hextian he does Dobby paints now, his dogs are not for children yes he uses Barbie, Ever After High, Monster High and some other Barbie asked dolls but his stuff is not directed at children at all no hok watches videos yes but they're not directed at children exhibit B MyFroggyStuff no you should think about her Channel he's in a bit of a gray-haired because she did originally start out as a crafting Channel designed to Showcase craft that a child could technically do with some adult supervision like how to make a Barbie bed or dollhouse etc etc adult supervision or potentially on their own so I could see what she need to get considered a child's Channel because her content is kind of Grey area skewed more towards children Exhibit C we have someone like nerdecrafter she could be considered a child Channel because she covers arts and crafts and My Little Pony and then of course we have more on the other end like people like say Bailey J he is very good, she's an artist and if you haven't seen or content you need to. But, under the actual thing at hand she could be considered a child's channel to technically but see she doesn't do children's content we automatically assume the things that are cute on YouTube or for children when in reality through things that are cute but don't you children I'm going to name two examples hear Happy Tree Friends anything bendy and the ink machine because in some instances bendy and Company can look very cute and adorable and also are you Gregory horror show which again to some people could be considered cute and childish.

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The Caduceus Effect

Title: The Caduceus Effect Universe: Critical Role, Campaign Two, post episode 47 roundabout Series: Close to Home Characters: Caleb Widogast, Caduceus Clay Rated: K+/SFW Descriptions: Caleb didn’t know how he did it, but there was something calming about proximity to Caduceus Clay. For @claylebweek 2019, Day One, First Meeting/Early Days

Caleb didn't know what Jester and Nott were up to, and frankly, he assumed he was better off not knowing. The two of them were chattering and giggling over Nott's alchemic materials, and it alarmed him, but only half as much as it irritated him. Peace and quiet were not to be found in his quarters. He went elsewhere, seeking a calm spot on the ship to work on his spellbook (and his other book) without being disturbed. The Balleater, however, was small for all that it was a ship. There were few places a man could find solitude.

He tried the hold, but the lingering odor of Twiggy's week-long residence made his head spin. The deck was far too windy and noisy. Fjord was sleeping in his quarters after a night spent on watch, and that would not be conducive to studying either. Caleb found himself in the galley, drawn in part by the smells floating out of the open doorway, and by the realization Caduceus was inside, no doubt preparing their evening meal or one of the snacks he was known to produce, seemingly out of nowhere. He peeked into the galley, but couldn't see anyone other than their firbolg friend. Beau was not here trying to nick a bottle of liquor. There was no member of their crew chattering Caduceus' ear off. It was warm and inviting, and Caleb hovered in the doorway, books and paper tucked under his arm. Caduceus stood at the counter, chopping something, humming under his breath, tail a lazy sway behind him. He seemed perfectly at ease, and Caleb envied his ability to find calm no matter the storm. "You can come in, if you want. I don't mind company," Caduceus called out, though he hadn't glanced over his shoulder. Sometimes, Caleb agreed with Fjord. Caduceus' seemingly preternatural perception was a little off-putting. "I, uh, was looking for somewhere quiet to work," Caleb said as he stepped inside, casting around for a place to sit and finding a small table tucked off to the side, with just enough room for one. "If you don't mind my intrusion." Caduceus turned and gave him a lazy smile. "Hello, Mr. Caleb. No, I don't mind at all. Have a seat. My humming won't be a bother, will it?" Caleb slid into the chair and set his items on the table. "No. It is certainly preferable to Nott and Jester's chattering." "They are up to something," Caduceus said with a little laugh. "Perhaps something that will entertain all of us." He turned back toward his work, the steady sound of the knife slicking through some vegetable echoing through the galley. Caleb found it soothing. "We can only hope," Caleb said, and lapsed into silence. He opened his spellbook, procured his quill, and got to work. It was easy with Caduceus. There was no expectation of conversation. There was no subtle prying into his past or his present or his future. Caduceus might eye him, might peer at him as though trying to read him, but would never ask and would never presume. Caduceus took everything at its own pace, and that was quite refreshing. It helped that Caduceus seemed to emit a kind of peaceful aura. It soaked into Caleb, easing the tension gathering around him like a heavy cloak, and gradually seeping away the densest layers. "Just let me know if I'm a bother, I'll leave," Caleb said after a bit. He didn't want to wear out his welcome. Caduceus chuckled and appeared in Caleb's periphery with a cup and a small plate. "Not at all, Mr. Caleb. You're pleasant company." He set both by Caleb's left elbow. "Here. You have to keep up your energy if you want to stay focused." "I suppose now is a good time for a break." Caleb leaned back, bones in his spine popping as he did so. He winced. "You ought to stretch more," Caduceus observed. "I'm sure there are many things I ought to do more." Caleb offered Caduceus a thin smile and reached for the cup, inhaling the light fragrance. Hints of chamomile for certain, and anise? Ginger? All good things. "This is good. Thank you." Caduceus' smile was a thing of radiance, genuine all the way down to his heart. "Try the cookies. I made them with some of that fruit we picked up on Bisaft." Caleb picked up a cookie, gave it a careful sniff, before biting into it. Crumbs immediately erupted around his lips, while the cookie itself managed to both crunch and melt on his tongue. It had a tangy flavor to it, not overly sweet, and went quite well with the tea. His eyebrows crawled upward. “Very good,” Caleb said around a mouthful of crumbling cookie. He dabbed at his lips where crumbs kept emerging. “You’ve a talent for these. I’m glad I was able to taste them before Jester discovered they were here.” Caduceus chuckled and turned back toward his cooking, his tail lazily swaying behind him, swish-swish-swish. “I made a separate batch just for her. They’re sweeter.” “That was very astute of you.” “Well, sometimes I have good ideas,” Caduceus said over his shoulder. He picked up his cutting board and shifted over, scraping the chopped vegetables into a big pot. Caleb tilted his head. “More often than not, I’d say.” He sipped the tea, rolling the flavor over his tongue to enjoy it. “You have a… a presence about you, Mr. Clay. I know we all appreciate it.” Caduceus hummed and stirred the soup before placing the lid on it. “I don’t know about a presence, but it’s nice to know I’ve been of use.” He paused and tilted his head, tapping his bottom lip. “Though maybe ‘use’ isn’t the best word? Helpful maybe?” “Helpful is a good word, but you know, you are also our friend. We would return the favor,” Caleb said as he watched Caduceus pull a bowl from a high shelf and turn it out onto a floured counter. Long fingers kneaded a lump of dough, and Caleb watched for a few moments, as there was something hypnotic about the motion. “I know. Maybe once I figure out what it is I’m looking for, then I’ll know what to ask for,” Caduceus said, his shoulders flexing as he rolled and kneaded and punched the dough into a vaguely loaf-shape. “As soon as you do, I’m sure we will be ready to listen,” Caleb said as Caduceus scooped the dough back into the bowl and covered it with a cloth. Up onto the shelf it went, and Caduceus wiped his hands on the front of his apron, already liberally streaked with flour and other evidence of meal-prep. Caleb wasn’t sure where he’d gotten the apron, perhaps he’d brought it from home, but it suited Caduceus in a way he didn’t think it would suit anyone else in the Mighty Nein. There was something about Caduceus that felt like home, though Caleb couldn’t put into words why or precisely identify the reason. He ate another cookie, rolling the flavor around on his tongue as he contemplated. It was warm in the galley, probably because of the cooking fires and the lack of ventilation. The smell of damp and sea air wasn’t present, only that of Caduceus’ spices and the ever-present scent of earth Caduceus seemed to carry with him. It would be, Caleb thought, the perfect place for a nap. Not that he’d come here for such. He was supposed to be working on his spells. Caduceus started humming again. Caleb only recognized the tune because Caduceus hummed it often, usually when he was concentrating on something and didn’t realize he was humming. Sometimes, Caleb woke when Caduceus was on watch, and the firbolg was surveying their surroundings, hands on his knees while he sat lotus, humming under his breath. He never had nightmares those nights. Caduceus would probably say it was because Melora watched over his sleep. Caleb preferred to think of it as the ‘Caduceus Effect’. He finished his cookies. He finished his tea. He picked up his quill and worked and worked, only dimly registering when Caduceus took down the dough again, worked it with his hands, and this time, folded it onto a metal pan. Caleb watched him cut little slices into the top of it, and sprinkle it with some of his herbs before he slid it into the tiny oven, banking the flames with a few swirls of his fingers. “How’s that book, Mr. Clay?” Caleb asked because it felt a little too much like he was watching something he shouldn’t in that moment. “Hmm?” Caduceus asked as he looked away from the oven, his ears twitching in Caleb’s direction. “Oh. The book you gave me. Yes. That one.” He stood up, brushing his hair behind his ear. “I apologize, Mr. Caleb, I admit I haven’t gotten very far. I’m sure it’s a very interesting book, only I’m not the best reader.” “Oh.” Caleb sat up, realization tumbling through him. “I didn’t realize. I suppose I should have known better than to assume.” “It’s all right.” Caduceus swept up the kettle and brought it over, refilling Caleb’s cup with steaming water. “I’m not ashamed of it, I suppose. Never had reason to be.” He dug into his pocket, pulled out a packet of leaves, and sprinkled them over the water. “It was still a nice gift.” Caleb felt a bit ashamed of himself. Caduceus was so kind to them, and he worked hard to keep them alive and well, despite being such a stranger at first. He’d thought to offer the book as a kind gesture, and it had backfired. How had Caduceus felt, receiving a gift he couldn’t appreciate because Caleb had been too narrow-sighted to pay attention? “Does it bother you now?” Caleb asked. “Not particularly,” Caduceus said, only to pause and tilt his head, looking up toward the ceiling as he often did when he was reconsidering something they’d asked him. “Well, maybe a little. Only because I’d like to actually understand the book you gave me. I feel like it’s a waste to give me something so nice.” Caleb shook his head. “No, not a waste. It’s my fault really. I should have been paying better attention.” He curled his fingers around the cup, embracing the heat of the blooming tea through the hand-carved wood. “You know, I could… help you with it, if… if that was something you were interested in.” “Oh, no. I couldn’t possibly take up so much of your time,” Caduceus said, turning to hang the kettle back on the hook. He moved to the pot next, removing the lid to give the contents a quick stir. “You have more important things to do than try and fill this head with knowledge.” He tapped himself in the head, and though his words were light, there was something of self-deprecation in them. It was slight, very, very slight, and Caleb might not have recognized it, if he wasn’t so used to hearing the tone in his own words. “It’s no trouble at all,” Caleb said. “If you’re interested, I’d be happy to teach you.” He paused and gestured around them. “Fast as we are, it will take time before we’re back in Nicodranas, and even then, travel takes time, yes? So we have it. Time, that is.” Caduceus replaced the lid and turned, blessing Caleb with one of his blinding smiles. “Then yes. I’d like that very much.” He pulled a basket from another shelf and tucked it under his arm. “Let me just deliver these cookies to the others. Keep an eye on the soup, will you?” Caleb eyed the pot uneasily. “I’m not much of a cook, Mr. Clay.” “Oh, nothing so complicated. Just if it bubbles over, lift the lid and give it a quick stir. It shouldn’t, but you never know. Sometimes, you just can’t take your eyes off things under pressure.” Caduceus patted Caleb on the shoulder, giving him a brief squeeze. “I’ll be right back.” “And then we can get started, if you have time to fill.” “Sure.” Caduceus’ rumbly voice seemed to radiate with the same heat as his presence. “So long as it’s no trouble.” “No trouble at all.” Caleb managed a smile of his own, though it was slight and nowhere near as appealing as Caduceus’ genuine grin. “Then I appreciate the help.” Caduceus hummed and swept out of the galley, though he left warmth and comfort in his wake. How did he do that, Caleb wondered, and summoned Frumpkin to rest in his lap. He scritched behind his familiar’s ear, pondering. Caduceus Clay was still very much a mystery to Caleb. Fortunately, Caleb was quite certain there wasn’t anything in the world he couldn’t solve with a pinch of determination, and a fair amount of study.

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slothgiirl · 5 years

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shadowplay ch 2 (alex turner x reader)

Your phone rings, vibrating on the sette while you try and decide what to order for dinner.

Work had run late and you had really just wanted to finish to jacket tonight and not have to pick up where you left off tomorrow. Not expecting any calls, you hit ignore and decide on chinese. Fried rice and pot stickers sounding heavenly.

Your phone rings again and you decide to answer just to see who could be calling you.

It can't be work. And your friends would've texted you.

"Hello," you answer. If it's some telemarketer you can always hang up.

"It's Alex."

"Who?" You don't know anyone named Alex.

"ugh you pretended to be be my girlfriend that one time," he trails off.

"Oh yeah. Sorry my brains at like half charge right now."

"Long day at work," Alex asks.

"Basically," you answer, "my hands are beyond cramped. You know you could've texted. Who calls anymore?"

"If I can't do something face to face," he counters, "callings the next best thing."

"Okay grandpa."

"I just wanted to well. . .ask if you would mind much doing it again." He pauses as if working up the courage to say the words. Taking so long I think he might have hung up. "Pretending to be my girlfriend that is."

"What happened," you can't help but asks, already wondering what kind of situation he got himself into.

"Arielle sort of told some mutual friends and now. . ."

"Your friends think we're dating."

"Exactly," Alex finishes.

"You could just come clean. No shame in that." Though the idea of seeing him again alone is worth considering faking a relationship.

"Yes," he protests, "it's embarrassing. Arielle's getting married and I pretended I have a girlfriend. I 'fink I'd 'ave to live under a rock after that."

"Are you free right now?"

"Why," Alex asks.

"So we can talk things through. Oh and can you pick up food on the way. That'll save me the delivery fee."

"So you'll do it Love," sounding so hopeful you almost say yes on the spot.

"Well what's in it for me?"

Alex snorts, "I'll grab you dinner or something. Anything you want for saving my bloody arse."

"Well like I said, you can start by picking up dinner." You give him your address.

A small flat at the top of some old building with a tiny balcony that was the main attraction. You had been looking at houses but had yet to find something in your range and one that you also wanted. So here you still were.

You buzz Alex in, looking dapper in blue jeans and a strokes shirt with a different leather jacket on. This time sans glasses.

"Thank you so much," you tell him as you unpack the food onto your coffee table, but not before making sure he takes off his leather boots with more of a heel than you could walk in.

"No problem love," Alex says with a smile, "least I could do right."

"Your learning."

He chuckles, taking a seat next to you on the sette. The great british bake off plays, an old episode. You haven't paid enough attention to know what's going on.

"So. . ."

"Yes Al," you grin playfully.

"Would you like to be my fake girlfriend?"

"Not until you explain what's actually going on."

He ducks his head as you start on the fried rice. Shoving forkfuls into your mouth without a care about how you look. Lunch seems to have been ages ago for how hungry you feel now.

"Like I said over the phone. Arielle told a bunch of our friends and now Jaime invited us over and I said yes. And now I can't just fess up."

"You could though," you note, offering him a fork too.

"I'd look so bloody pathetic."

"So if we were to do this," you ask carefully, not meeting his eyes, wondering what you were getting yourself into. But as the weird girl in college with only one good friend, you knew a thing or two about being embarrassed. And it sounds amusing.

Not to mention Alex is beyond hot.

He sighs, relieved. "It's just be once or twice. Then we break up and no one ever has to be wiser."

You sit up straighter, studying Alex. His well defined bone structure, his expressive brown eyes, and the way he couldn't quite meet your eyes, unsure as you felt about the whole thing. He looked like a proper douche with all the hair gel and habit for wearing sunnies when the sun had gone down, but you'd enjoyed talking to him.

You still can't imagine it being hard for him to get a girl. And yet here he was. "Alright. I'm game if only because I think this whole thing is ridiculous. They're your friends. Not to mention I'm such a nice person."

Alex laughs, which has you smiling hard enough that your cheeks hurt and for once not caring that it might look weird, might make your face look fat.

"Oh thank god I was about ready to book a flight to LA and pretend I had work or something along those lines."

"I wish I could do that whenever I didn't want to deal with my aunt. My cousin got married last summer and now everyones looking at me every time we get together. I'm twenty six. Practically a child bride!"

It makes Alex laugh again.

"If we're going to do this though," you tell him, opening up a fortune cookie, "we have to like establish details and have our story straight. Like I still don't know what you do. That'll raise eyebrows."

"True enough," Alex acknowledges. "I can already tell you'll be the smart one in this relationship."

You snort. "Tell that to my maths teacher."

"I was thinking, we've only been seeing each other for a weeks. I've flying back and forth quite a bit. It adds up," he states casually, like people just flew back and forth from one home to another all the time. "Haven't told anyone because we we seeing where this was going."

"Makes sense. So where did we meet? Musicians are supposed to be creative aren't they?"

"Are you really going to make me come up with everything by myself love?"

You roll your eyes, "I really should stop getting take out. It's bad for the planet but I'm so out of it after work."

"How about you tailored some clothes I needed fixin'," he suggests with a dangerously flirty grin.

"That's so unprofessional Al," you protest, "I'd get into so much trouble for something like that."

"Which is exactly what you said when I asked you out," he continues, looking gleeful as the whole scenario plays out in his head, "but I was persistent. And said I'd never be a customer again if you'd give me a chance."

"And you pouted so much I just couldn't say not to that face," you add with a giggle. "I work at Hargreeves by the way. Mostly suiting through there are quite a few dressmakers there too."

"I have a little band called the Arctic Monkeys," Alex offers, watching you carefully.

You shrug, "never heard of them."

"The last shadow puppets too," he adds, still studying your reaction carefully.

"You any good?"

"We're signed love so I 'fink we're doing all right."

"I don't think you're being a reliable source Al," you note, googling Arctic Monkeys instead. "much too humble."

"I'd sound like a twat otherwise."

Your eyes widen at the number of results and articles right off the bat. "doing all right my arse! You're bloody famous!"

"Only a little," Alex protests, running a hand through his hair, pink dusting his cheeks.

You tell him about going to trade school and your apprenticeship "Something right out of the devil wears prada! Kept pricking my fingers so badly!" Your friend Sam who does dresswear and complains about how, "everyone wants the same boring sillouttes! Can you believe dropping ten thousand pounds on a dress you could get at Harrods!"

He tells you about growing up in Sheffield, about his band mates and old friends who have all gotten together or married by now, about his love for the strokes and Miles Kane.

Alex talks about moving to New York for a girl, about moving to Los Angeles for a different girl. "I guess I'm a romantic at heart," he confesses.

You blab about wanting to work for an Atilier like Valentino and how you still feel weird about spending money on things like a Chanel bag though you can justify it. About devouring magazines while your mum shopped.

It had been that initial love for fashion and your grandmothers own seamstress skills that had led your down the path you'd taken. "Poshmark is bad for the environment and the clothes don't even hold up," you ranted.

Old clothes done by hand had lasted much longer and there was something about making things. "It was always just fun to design something and then see it come together through I nicked myself a lot and my mum made sure I finished my assignments before spending hours in my room."

Alex asks you about your taste in music which is, "hasn't really changed since college I mean Britney spears still slaps and who doesn't love the spice girls."

Your shamelessness has him laughing again."I mean your not wrong about the spice girls love."

It's past ten when he finally makes to leave. "So next week at Jaime's," Alex asks once more, worried you might have changed your mind.

"Yes. Text me the details. Or I guess call if that's more comfortable for you."

He smiles, resting against the doorway, looking down at you with his soft brown eyes. "Can I kiss you? For practice I mean. . .they'll be expecting us too. . ."

If you let him go on, it might take two years for him to get to the point and you've already set boundaries. Hand holding, hugging, all the typical couple stuff except for sitting in his lap.

That was too much for you. A kiss here and there for believability but obviously you wouldn't be making out in public.

Or at least, if this was real you wouldn’t go overboard in public so there was no reason to with him.

So you kiss him on his lips, light and quick, just a goodbye kiss. And send him off.

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eggman-empire · 5 years

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Dr. Eggman’s Good Deeds

by Dr. Mechano

Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik: Nemesis of Sonic the Hedgehog and would-be conqueror of the world. For almost thirty years, this man's turned animals into robots, unearthed ancient monsters, and threatened the planet with doomsday weapon after doomsday weapon. In short, he's a villain's villain. A true bad egg.

But rather than celebrate his feats of villainy, I wanted to talk about the rare times across the franchise that Eggman has performed truly good acts. Eggman's capacity to care, to show kindness, to help others.

Now, I want to clarify what I mean here. For the sake of this list:

I will not be including Eggman teaming up with the heroes to save the world. These acts of "goodness" inherently carry an ulterior motive; That being to save himself and make sure there's still a world for him to conquer. Plus, half the time it's one of his own schemes going out of control anyway. So just saving the world in and of itself won't make the cut for the purpose of my post.

I will also not be including a mere lack of cruelty as "goodness." You don't get a cookie for feeding your prisoners or not torturing people. So while I do think the times where Eggman's lack of cruelty has been pointed out (such as in Unleashed) are important, they're not what I'm talking about either.

I'm specifically talking about times when Eggman does something kind, or helpful, or selfless toward others without some villainous ulterior motive. I will also be including spinoff material, since the majority of these examples come from those rather than the games. So! With that out of the way, let's begin!

Sonic Lost World - Eggman saves Tails

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Now, I mentioned that merely teaming up with the heroes doesn't warrant a mention. But I think this goes beyond that.

Tails attaches Cubot's head to a Crabmeat, which causes Cubot to become very aggressive, attacking Tails. Eggman - without a moment to think or evaluate the situation - immediately leaps into harm's way and shoves Tails to safety, honoring his truce with his enemies by putting his own safety on the line to protect them.

Now, you could make the argument that Eggman is only keeping Tails around because he needs him for Sonic to take care of the Zeti (which could also be an argument for Eggman saving Sonic himself later in the same game), but consider: A.) How spur-of-the-moment this was; Eggman didn't have time to calculate how he could use this situation to his advantage, and just leaped as soon as Tails was in danger, and B.) He put himself at risk to save someone else.

Yes, by the end of the game - after the terms of their truce were met, with the Zeti defeated and the machine disabled - Eggman goes right back to fighting them. But during their time working together, Eggman is an honorable ally who ultimately saves Tails's and Sonic's lives. I feel like this goes beyond simply helping them out of necessity and warrants mentioning here.

As Eggman himself put it, he's "a complicated guy."

Sonic X - Eggman talks an enraged Sonic down, and has his crew save Chris and Cosmo from the Metarex

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In Sonic X, the Metarex commander Black Narcissus attacked Chris and Cosmo, which nearly drove Sonic into an unstoppable rage.

Cue Eggman stepping in to provide Sonic with some perspective and remind him not to lose his cool. He manages to calm Sonic down, informing him that he sent Shadow to rescue Chris and Cosmo, and that they're fine. Eggman then proceeds to berate Black Narcissus for his cruelty, saying in no uncertain terms that hurting innocent people is wrong, and humiliates the commander by having Decoe, Bocoe, and Bokkun beat him to the curb.

Eggman didn't have to do any of this. Saving Sonic's friends or even calming Sonic down didn't really provide him any strategic advantage. But he did, and then explained why: Because Black Narcissus crossed Eggman's own personal moral code, and the Doc wasn't having it.

Sonic X Comics - El Gran Gordo

After initially becoming a luchador as part of a get-rich-quick scheme, where the Doctor won matches by cheating, Eggman eventually grew to love the spectacle and public adoration of being a hero. So for a time, he stuck with the wrestling gig, without any villainous intent this time.

This lands him in trouble when the hulking Andes the Ginormous challenges Gordo to a fight and completely mops the floor with him. Without his robots and gadgets to help him cheat, Eggman is no match for the might of Andes, and is just about to tap out to save himself any more pain or humiliation... when suddenly, from the stands he sees the tears of his number-one fan, Chris, and hears him say exactly what Eggman has perhaps always needed to hear: "I believe in you."

Despite the pain, despite his exhaustion, and despite being ridiculously out-matched, Gordo gets his second wind, and through pure raw determination, defeats Andes the Ginormous, claims the championship belt, and lives up to Chris's idealistic expectations. Chris's hero refused to let him down, and even in a moment of weakness, found the strength to win.

The El Gran Gordo arc is also my favorite story in the entire Sonic franchise, and I know that over the past decade I've gushed about it enough times already. It's just so good.

Sonic X Comics - Eggman the Hedgehog

In Sonic X issue 37, Sonic and Eggman swap bodies.

Blessed with Sonic's newfound speed and power, does Eggman attempt to use the hedgehog's body to take over the world? Nope. Just the opposite: Eggman loves being Sonic, and being seen as a hero to the world (which echoes his temporary stint as El Gran Gordo), and - upon hearing the president was kidnapped - attempts to rescue him. He actually seems content being the hero, and wants to use the fame and glory Sonic already has as a jump-start to his brand new heroic career.

Now, this begs the question: If X comic Eggman wants to be a beloved hero to the masses so badly, why doesn't he just reform? Why go through the middleman of luchador disguises or hijacking your arch-enemy's body to live out a life of heroism? He could just be Eggman and be a good guy, especially since this particular version of Eggman is so driven by wanting love and adoration, which heroism gives him in droves.

Ah well, he's a complicated guy.

Sonic Boom - Eggman chooses Amy's friendship over personal gain

In "Fuzzy Puppy Buddies," Eggman and Amy discover that they share a mutual interest in a collectible tabletop game about adorable dogs. They spend the episode bonding and actually striking up a genuine friendship over their newfound hobby, working out an arrangement to still be enemies on the battlefield, but friends in their off time.

At PuppyCon, Eggman steals a puppy figurine, and Amy demands he do the right thing and give it back. So she challenges him to a game, wins, and gives Eggman an ultimatum: He can either return the figurine, or their friendship is over. Eggman hesitates at first, but relents, ultimately choosing Amy's friendship over the rare figurine he wanted. The episode ends with the two of them happily playing another game of Fuzzy Puppies in Eggman's base.

I like this episode, because it really gets at who Boom Eggman is. He's a lonely guy who wants friends more than a serious conqueror or evildoer. And when actually given friendship and positive reinforcement, he become a slightly better person.

Sonic Boom - Eggman the Wingman

In "Tails' Crush," Tails has a crush on Zooey the fox, and keeps getting astoundingly bad romantic advice from his friends about how to ask her out. Tails ultimately makes a fool of himself and gets no closer to truly expressing his feelings.

Eggman witnesses this shameful display and, declaring that "the bro code trumps the enemy thing," gives Tails some solid romantic advice: Be confident in yourself and quit trying to copy others. He then immediately launches into an attack on the village - he is a villain, after all - and Tails, taking Eggman's advice, regains his confidence and saves the day. He gets a kiss from Zooey and ultimately ends up in a long-term relationship with her for the rest of the show; and we can thank Eggman for giving Tails the push he needed.

Sonic Boom - Eggman saves Beth the Shrew

In "Don't Make Me Angry," Eggman's experiments go awry and lead to him temporarily transforming into an adorable little creature every time he gets mad. In order for the effects to wear off, Eggman must avoid getting angry for an entire 48 hours.

When Sonic realizes Eggman's condition, he takes pleasure in mocking Eggman for it - hoping to goad him into getting angry. Eventually he succeeds, causing Eggman to become the purple creature as the village laughs at his transformed state. But the young scientist-in-training, Beth the Shrew, takes pity on Eggman and doesn't mock him along with the other villagers. She shows up at his base with cookies a couple of days later to try to make him feel better; a gesture Eggman is touched by, despite the cookies themselves being rather unappetizing (they were made with toothpaste).

While exploring Eggman's lab, Beth accidentally falls into the trash compactor, which is automated and set to go off soon. Eggman frantically tries to save Beth from being crushed, but is too large to fit into the compactor himself. So he does the only thing he can: He goes out of his way to become angry so that he can morph into the purple creature, fit into the trash compactor, and pull Beth to safety. Initially, he has trouble doing this, and can't find any way to get angry in time - the futility of which itself ends up making him angry, allowing him to transform and save Beth from being crushed just in the nick of time.

This entire episode revolves around Eggman going out of his way - seriously doing everything he could, including morphing into a form he hates - to save a child's life. I think that's great.

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So, these are some of the immediate off-hand examples I had of Eggman doing outright good things without any villainous undertones.

Share your opinions! Do you like stories that show some of Eggman's nicer side? Do you prefer takes on him that are just evil without any redeeming qualities? Maybe somewhere in the middle?

Or maybe you just feel like talking in-depth about any of these specific examples? Or you'd like to add some of your own that I didn't cover? There's a lot to talk about here, so feel free to chime in from whatever angle you want! Reblog and add your own thoughts, or just leave a comment!

As for me, I love this stuff. Eggman showing a nicer, more humane side to himself is something I pretty much always enjoy seeing. So it's no surprise that X and Boom are my favorite takes on the character overall; even if I do also enjoy his more sinister incarnations in their own way. In the end, I love that Eggman's a character with as much range as he has. Some stories can make him borderline-monstrous, while others give the impression that he could make a great hero if he'd just give up on world domination. And those latter stories are among my favorites in the Sonic franchise.

This is Dr. Mechano, hoping to bring you more Eggman Editorials in the future!

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