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allkinds-oftrash · 3 years

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Ya girl is watching the latest HSM series ep and Imma live blog it hshshs and will add my reactions under the cut so it doesn't end up a long post. Anyways, let's goo:

AHHHH THE MORNING SHOW WITH GINA AND EJ WE LOVE TO SEE IT

They really said we're gonna let life imitate art with Nini and Olivia huh

Ricky was SUPPORTIVE??? Damnn I really thought we gonna get a classic Ricky tantrum....

But also wow sir that sounds salty and should definitely talk to someone abt how you're feeling...A therapist maybe 👀

I know we needed to contextualise how Ricky felt abt the song but I really wanted to see Nini's interview in full!!

Sebby you're so cute I do wanna see yall do DEH

Shjshshs not the rights not being available for another 5 years 😭😭

I dunno how they're in great shape and closer to the Menkies Gold after not having a single proper rehearsal, but go off Miss Jenn

Omg honestly Kourt's costumes are always amazing and on point Imma excited to see it

Kourt is such a simp we love to see it

Carlos is so pissy this episode we love to see it shshhs

Also love the way Seb calms him down and keeps him nice it's such a funny dynamic

"We had 20 people make our Belle dress over 50 hours" Okay North High shut the fuck up

I'm calling it now the reason North High knows so much is cos Howie is the leak and Kourt has been unwittingly telling him. The way her phone keeps going off as they discuss how North High knows everything is really good foreshadowing if my prediction is right

Also like her phone went off just as Carlos said "How did they know that?" THAT'S PEAK FORESHADOWING

If Howie ain't in North High, I dunno what Tim is doing

GSJAGSHAH KOURTNEY MAKING ABS FOR EJ I CANNOT

"I have abs" We know sweetie

"I PADDED THE THUSH FOR YOU" "AWW THANKS KOURT I NEEDED THAT" THIS INTERACTION IS EVERYTHING THAT WAS SO FUNNY!! I love that it is now canon that EJ has abs but no butt love that for him

Okay but like damn these costumes are great!! North High can fuck right off with its high end ones I just wanna see lowkey homemade costumes by students; I'd watch a Broadway show if I wanted to see professional costumes okay

Damn Carlos has killer eyesight clocking in that mask in the trunk

GINA BBY DON'T SAY THAT AND HAHSGSH NINI NUDGING HER WAS SO FUNNY

Nini's little look over at Gina was like "Omg you guys my girlfriend is so cute and dumb" GINI STANS HOW WE FEELING?

Miss Jenn don't be that naive, your boyfriend probably put them up to it

That Insta page is prophetic with their timing tbh; all the info is a leak obviously looking at your Howie but like the timing of it all. Those kiddos don't know that they are discussing the stolen mask at this exact moment (Kourt has put down her phone after Carlos snapped at her so Howie doesn't know they are talking abt it rn)

"We don't dance with the enemy" *cuts to her dancing with Zackey later*

SEBBY WEARING THE TEACUP COSTUME OMG HE'S GOING MAKE SUCH A CUTE CHIP (yes I am still mad Seb/Joe was robbed but Imma fangirl over the costume anyway)

Wtf why does North High look so expensive - they are literally in the same district as East High right??? How did they get this much funding

North High is a very artsy and rich for a public school; they should have had Nini go here instead of YAC tbh (like this campus feels like what YAC should have been) NOW THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN AN INTERESTING STORYLINE

Seblos' dynamic IS ON POINT THIS EP I really love my bois so much and their back and forth is hilarious

Shhshs DIANE who loves volleyball and North High okay I totally believe it

WHY ARE RED AND ASHLYN SO KINKY EVERY DAMN EPISODE TIM THESE ARE UNDERAGED CHARACTERS STOP IT

Shshsh we love Gina knowing herself and practicing self control by volunteering to be the lookout

Omg yall listen to Carlos and stfu they are so lucky no one saw or heard them yelling Wildcats

Oh no no no no no Miss Jenn you gonna get sucked in; this is gonna be so messy

Omg I saw someone post about this scene before I watched the ep YALL ARE RIGHT THAT BOI HITTING ON GINA IS SO FINE Babes go for that one, not EJ

NOT THEM FAKE DATING UGH E W TIM STOP MAKING ROMANTIC PORTWELL A T H I N G I honestly do not understand how some of yall can ship it romantically knowing Sofia is a whole underaged babey and Matty is a whole ass grown man - like I get the appeal of the Wonderstudies getting together and they do have chemistry but the irl age gap is creepy and outweighs the appeal of shipping them romantically

As I always say; Portwell/Wonderstudies should be a BROTP not an OTP

Ugh Brotp Portwell would have clocked Lily right away; romantic Portwell making googly eyes at each other isn't helping anyone

Living for Nini getting the recognition she deserves - I really like her solo arc this season she's so much more interesting without Ricky tbh

Aww Kourt you simp I love her and I'm so happy she's happy I wanna be wrong about Howie being a North High kid

Where is the mask??

OHMYGOD THESE KIDS COMING IN LIKE A HORROR MOVIE

Lily really wishes she was Jesse St. James huh; you could never Lily so stop

Andrew Barth Feldman and his cute little French accent I love him so much

Hnng Miss Jenn gonna get manipulated by this hoe. Omg wowow Zackey really is a hoe, making out with another girl before the show THE AUDACITY OF HIM SAYING MISS JENN WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH I WILL THROW HANDS WITH THIS MOFO

Wait the kids didn't steal it BUT WHAT IF ZACKEY DID

Ssjsgfajhdfg I CANNOT WITH ANDREW'S ACCENT but I can't tell if its really bad or really good but I'm also confused why didn't they just cast a French person as Antonie shshhs Antoine is adorableee and a little shit the best type of character

Lily is so annoying b y e sis bye and Olivia Keegan is talented I just wish they didn't make her character such a cartoony villain type

"How about if we bop to the top" SEBBY I LOVE YOU AND NEVER STOP BEING SO CUTE I SWEAR and Awww Carlos called him Honey I am s o f t

Hnng why do these fools are really gonna give into North High calling them chickens

OHHH NO SHE DIDN'T JUST SAY THAT ABOUT ASHLYN FUCK A DANCE OFF I AM ABOUT TO THROW HANDS WITH A 16 YEAR OLD

"She told us not to dance with the enemy. She's better than this" No Sebby, she's not *cuts to her dancing with Zackey* AND OMG THE WAY I SAW THIS EDIT COMING BEFORE IT CAME

Ooooh I like this song wayyy more whatever the mess The Mob Song became (when I first heard it drop on Spotify yesterday) Around You is such a great song musically and lyrically very relevant to these two and gosh I love their voices together

They have so much chemistry damn, go home Mike (well he technically has oop) and Mr. Mazzara

YES YOU DO MISS JENN YOU ALWAYS HAD IT

Oh god this is the scene from the trailer; she's gonna make a move on Ricky isn't she?? Leave him alone Lily he doesn't need a 3rd girl to be confused about he needs a therapist

Lily shut the fuck up with quasi; STOP TRYING TO MAKE QUASI HAPPEN

"I love Nini's song" Sure, Jan.

...Okay yes you should have called him out but don't bait him LIKE THAT oop there's the scene from the trailer

Ohmygod is Andrew Barth Feldman gonna hit on Ashlyn

Okay this is so cute but also I am VERY annoyed with the way this show handles its characters like they aren't relevant or important unless they get into a relationship or a love triangle?? That's such a shitty way to give out screentime and arcs to characters. Is it not enough to develop the characters on their own and strengthen their friendship???

HUH TIM why you so obsessed with compulsory heterosexuality??(well also homosexuality for Seblos but they are the only ones I'm not annoyed with their relationship cos its a hella big step for Disney to have a gay couple and their relationship isn't in our faces or overshadows the plot and its just spinkles of cuteness every time they interact - they are honestly who Rini wishes they were; besties in love. They are a couple that Tim should be taking notes from; leave the relationship drama in the background, focus on the theatre and friendship aspect of everything)

My mini rant aside; this is a very adorable interaction between Ashlyn and Antoine.

"TOM HOLLAND ON STILTS" GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE WITH THAT COMPARISON I AM SCREAMING ANTOINE THAT'S SO FUNNY

This is so funny he keeps picking out the hottest guys of the group; as if he himself isn't the French version of Big Red they look super alike ngl shshsh

WHY YOU RUIN IT WITH THAT ANTOINE I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU

Drama between Antoine and Red is already spicing up shshsh I cannot

Why are you so dramatic with the shuffle Lily gtfo of here...also this doesn't make sense?? She wasn't even on a BATB playlist; what if a non BATB song came on ahahah

Good to know they aren't big fans of The Mob Song like I am Awww EJ you cutie, okay I will appreciate the OG Mob Song just for you

OH WAIT HE PROLLY LIKES IT COS ITS A GASTON LED SONG TIM GIMME THE EJ SOLO I DESERVE IN THIS NUMBER

I'm being robbed of Gaston for the last 7 eps I at least deserve an EJ solo for compensation

The way the set looks straight out of Broadway but also like omg the blue lighting and fancy stage gave me intense flashbacks to that Glee episode where Vocal Adrenaline sang Bohemian Rhapsody

RICKY STOP BEING SALTY AND ACTUALLY COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND LIKE A NORMAL PERSON

OMG THE SUBTITLES SAID ITS HOWIE SINGING AS THE BEAST I FUCKING CALLED IT

Howie you hoe you gonna break my girl Kourtney's heart

Yeah...still not a fan of Antoine's Dance Remix

Yall know Gina would kill the dance number if she wasn't wearing that fit

Okay but it's Gaston led song WHY DOES EVERYONE BUT EJ HAVE A SOLO IN THIS SONG??

First the Beasts led it (Howie sounded better than Ricky ngl), then the Lumieres (their voices worked hella well together; I always forget what a talented singer Frankie is THEY NEED TO GIVE HIM A SOLO SONG) and now the Belles are going at it (Ashlyn's voice is superior)

BIG RED BEING JEALOUS AND SALTY IS SO FUNNY ITS LIKE A PUPPY BEING ANGRY I CRI

...Did anyone really win, Lily??? STFU

CARLOS IS RIGHT AND HE SHOULD SAY IT

Oooh I did see someone talk about this when the Rose Song dropped last week, apparently its illegal to add songs to a musical you're doing for a school play; I really thought the show would brush past that irl rule but I guess they are playing into it

THE WAY EVERYONE TURNED TO EJ FOR THE SPORTS METAPHOR I AM D Y I N G AND HIS FACE WAS GOLDEN! ITS LIKE THAT LISA SIMPSON MEME SHHSHSH

Okay Nini is being a little pissy about leaving her song out of the show and its a little selfish to wanna keep it at the risk of being disqualified but I also understand why she's hurt

Everyone is dog piling on her right now being against her idea and it feels like they are being against her song and her herself instead of them not wanting to be disqualified. Also like she poured her heart and soul into the song after Miss Jenn lowkey rushed her to write it. So I can see why this feels like a rejection of her and her song and why she's so hurt rather than her seeing the big picture right now

It doesn't help that Ricky said the final blow causing her to walk off

Okay maybe Zackey gets some rights for being chill and wanting the kids to be peers

THIS MOTHERFUCKER I KNEW HE WAS SHADY Also the way I gasped even though I predicted he stole the mask halfway through this ep shshsh

Stab him Miss Jenn STAB HIM

Bitch why you so threatened by East High if yall have such a Broadway-esque show planned??? They honestly should have stuck to the Little Mermaid; I really wanted to see the aquarium

"It's just a song Ricky" "A song can mean everything" Do you get deja vu? Anyone else getting intense flashbacks to Jan when DL first dropped and all the drama happened 👀

YES PLEASE STAY CO ANCHORS Gosh I love them so much esp once you take the romantic connotations out of their interactions

ROUGE GRAND I'M SCREAMING

I love this long take of checking in with everyone's relationship status (still hate how romantically focused this show has become but still a cool shot)

I K N E W IT I WAS RIGHT

Okay but like looking at Kourtney's face I have never wanted to be wrong so bad GOD I HATE IT HERE I really think he likes her and I hope they work it out

Nini setting up her own music acc feels like when Olivia rebranded her whole IG to be just for her music stuff - love this for both of them

AHHHHH SHE'S NINA NOW YALL

I know everyone loves her as Nini but like I have always loved the name Nina and it really suits her to be honest also shows how she's growing up now and kind of leans into the lyric "I won't be confined to your point of view" from The Rose Song because Nini is the nickname Ricky gave her so it shows that she's outgrowing him too and I love that for her!

Overall thoughts; they really crammed all the North High drama into one ep huh. Personally would have liked it if all of this was spread out throughout the last few episodes; like different hijinks for every episode. I'm just a big fan of properly setting up the overall arc over the season instead of patching it together closer to the climax/end of the show. Cos now it lowkey feels like two different seasons - 2A felt like The Rini/Rina Show esp with YAC storyline and whatever was going on with Rina and now 2B is finally feeling like what this season should have been all this time

#hsmtmts season 2 #hsmtmts #hsmtmts spoilers #nina salazar roberts #gina porter #EJ Caswell #Ricky Bowen #Kourtney Green #Ashlyn Caswell #Seb Matthew Smith #carlos rodriguez #Big Red

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kideternity · 3 years

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For the ask game: Helena Bertinelli, Selina Kyle, Cassandra Cain, Harper Row, Dinah Lance, Diana Prince & Stephanie Brown

Oh god oh yea okay hold on op this will get long (under read more)

Helena Bertinelli

How I feel about this character: I adore her 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 literally my wife my muse my love

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Dinah, Karen, Renee

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Helena and Eel, John Henry and Zauriel ^_^ also think she and Vic Sage should have “LETS GO LESBIANS LETS GO!” Energy together

My unpopular opinion about this character: I love Barbara dont get me wrong but shes an AWWFUUUUUULL friend to Helena 😭😭😭 like I LITERALLY CANNOT GET OVER HOW BABS CANONICALLY BEFRIENDED HELENA SOLELY TO MANIPULATE HER ORIGINALLY... not to mention all of that unnecessary beef over dick and like OTHER PEOPLE calling Helena batgirl.....

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I wish she stayed with the justice league for more time so much 😭😭😭 I have a soft spot for JLA (1997) always its my fav critically examined run but MAN helena getting fired when the first run was ending pissed me off!!!!

my OTP: Probably right now Dinahelena? Tie between Reneehelena and that one

my cross over ship: I don’t have a ton of non dc media I like but Liz sherman from hellboy maybe

a headcanon fact: She has a wine cooler in her car at all times for people to grab a drink from if needed, the only rule she has is to try not to spill it everywhere because it’s a bitch to get out of her leather seats

Selina Kyle

How I feel about this character: Admittedly idk a ton about Selina I need to haul ass on reading catwoman solos 😭 I've had a complicated relationship with her but as of right now I like her! I think she’s cool

All the people I ship romantically with this character: All i'm turning up is Zatanna bc my friend writes really good zee/selina fics wjwjajajwua stan randy!!!!!

My non-romantic OTP for this character: I am like OBSESSED w the small little friendship tidbits Helena B and Selina have....... its not suer amazing or anything but huntress year old Selina insta best friending helena made me 🥺

My unpopular opinion about this character: IM NOT REALLY SURE WHY SELINA IS CONSIDERED A GOTHAM CITY SIREN NGL.... like its most likely definitely me knowing nothing Abt popular characters but its just always struck me as kinda weird/the only thing ivy harley and selina have in common is like. The most well known bad women in gotham

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I WISH WE GOT TO SEE MORE OF HER MENTORING KITRINA FALCONE...... FUCKING CATGIRL..... LIKE SHE JUST FUCKING SHIPS HER OFF TO A BOARDING HOUSE AND THEN WE NEVER SEE KITRINA AGAIN LIKE I GET WHY BUT MAN MISSED OPPORTUNITY!!!!

my OTP: idk sry !

my cross over ship: Felicia hardy purely because its just really fucking funny to me

a headcanon fact: Selina fucking hates Gnort more then anything imaginable

Cassandra Cain

How I feel about this character: I like her!!!!! Definitely my second favourite batkid after Duke ^_^

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Steph

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Duke! Ultimate siblings. Also just like the idea of Lonnie and Cass getting along bc they tell old men they suck

My unpopular opinion about this character: Cass should not be able to beat everybody. She should not be able to beat people of unimaginable power such as Dr Fate. Like I think she could defeat normal fighters, or maybe enhanced fighters, but actual metas and magic casters etc I don’t think she would be able to, especially since iirc she almost fucking died fighting metahuman assassins??? So

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I know we all say it but let cass be batman v_v but also let her be batman and let carrie Kelly be her batwoman so that they can absolutely hate each other I wanna see that play out

my OTP: Stephcass im basic

my cross over ship: n/a

a headcanon fact: Duke introduced her to heavy metal now she cant get enough of it

Stephanie Brown

How I feel about this character: I like her! I still need to continue reading her batgirl solo and more but I like her! Good character!

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Cass

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Lonnie ^_^ Rebirth lonnie is literally so OOC and nasty I don’t wanna hear any bs abt how its ‘better’ but I did like the idea of Steph and Lonnie being friends and I think it'd work still with Lonnie’s good characterisation

My unpopular opinion about this character: Timsteph is a bad ship its objectively bad and I hate it a lot also Steph kissing Tim knowing he was dating Arianna was shitty writing/a dick move on her part i just hate all of it its comp het the ship

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: OKAY I NEED TO READ MORE STEPH COMICS FIRST but I am perpetually haunted by my idea of steph in the future becoming huntress.... I Ponder It

my OTP: Stephcass lol

my cross over ship: Gwen Stacy and Steph could be fun :O

a headcanon fact: She doesn’t like condiments unless it’s say, syrup for waffles

Harper Row

How I feel about this character: I used to be like obseeeeeeessed with harper used to think abt her 24/7 but ive mellowed down a lot.... havent read her comics in like literally ages...... still love her a lot tho

All the people I ship romantically with this character: nobody 😔

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Steph and Cass being Harper’s friends was always cute to me also I like when I think both or just Steph was Harper’s roommate it was fun

My unpopular opinion about this character: Mostly nobody seems to fucking care about her 🙄 you guys cry for gay batkids 24/7 but you wont even acknowledge harper existed........ smh

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: that she stuck around more : ( i liked how her brother cullen sorta became this like oracle esque figure so I like the idea of her being a vigilante in some place like bludhaven maybe w Cullen giving tech support

my OTP: n/a :/

my cross over ship: not really a ship but maybe Miles and Harper teaming up one time?

a headcanon fact: Would really like to own a pet snake

Dinah Lance

How I feel about this character: I love women.... I love this woman.......

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Ollie, Helena

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Babs :] best friends 4ever !

My unpopular opinion about this character: Dinahs done a lot of fucked up things and like i dont even mean like in a “its bad writing way” i mean just like consistently dinah is not perfect and she shouldnt be regarded as such and i dont like when people do

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: Wish she stayed with the JSA longer :[ I really liked her with the JSA it was fun!!!!

my OTP: Dinahelena 💜🖤🤍💛

my cross over ship: n/a

a headcanon fact: She's really bad at cooking most dishes

Diana Prince

How I feel about this character: I LOVE HER a very interesting character with a lot of interesting lore

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Zatanna, Natasha Teranova

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Clark and Bruce ^_^ they are her close friends and teammates and I want absolutely nothing to go on between them. Ever.

My unpopular opinion about this character: Not abt diana specifically But damn yall when the fuck you guys gonna actually.... talk about diana.... like when are you going to make metaposts about her and hot takes and so on as much as you do for ppl like bruce

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: She and Natasha should have gotten married whilst in space together period it was homophobia to have Natasha just go back to russia and never show up ever again

my OTP: Wondermagics

my cross over ship: not a ship again but LET HELLBOY TEAM UP W DIANA

a headcanon fact: She's really good at pottery! Especially during the sculpting stage

#helena bertinelli #diana prince #selina kyle #harper row #dc #ask meme #dinu yells in the void #chek's posts #oh my god tysm i know we literally have never interacted before but i appreciate this so much mx flamebirds #im sorry for a lot of my lacklustre answers i am literally only good for obscure characters >_<#feel free to continue sending asks or a dm to talk or w/e tho!!!

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somuchbetterthanthat · 5 years

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You spoke so beautifully about Jon and Georgie earlier, but I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on Martin and Georgie friendship. Obviously them striking up a friendship while both watching over Jon during his coma. But also, imagine Georgie is the only person Martin talks to during his self imposed isolation. She's not involved, so he can talk to her. She's not afraid, so she doesn't want to stop talking to him. She worries about Jon, and he can tell her at least a little about how he's doing.

Mmmh, gosh. This is so hard, because while I love to gush about Jon and Georgie, and Jon and Martin, I feel like…. I’ve got a really hard time with Martin and Georgie? Probably because…deep down… i have to admit… that i’m Bad At MartinTM. He’s too good and complex for my poor mind.

BUT. Here are a few thoughts anyway; I think Martin is painfully jealous of Georgie Barker for - the whole of season 3, really; but it’s not exactly in the same way he gets petty and protective of Jon like Basira and Melanie discuss in their office gossip; it’s more of a this woman is absurdely cool, and Jon live(d) with her, and he obviously loves her a lot and I am not cool like that, and could she TUNE IT DOWN A NOTCH PLEASE, some of us had still vague hope to ever get Jonathan Sims’ love and appreciation without being reminded of what people they might actually fall for and little chances they have considering it.

Except, after everything - after the Unknowing, Jon is still in an hospital bed, dead-except-not, and Martin comes in feeling weak and numb and hopeful, still, he’s got to be hopeful, because Tim’s dead but Jon’s special, so Jon’s got to wake up - and there is Georgina Barker there, not even holding Jon’s hand, just, staring with such deep sadness, and Martin’s heart falls into his stomach somewhere and he starts to stammer weak apologies but Georgie looks up, stares at him for a moment and then she goes: “Oh. You’re Martin, right?”

And that small little sentence stops Martin to ever feel jealous of Georgie Barker ever again, even after the first emotional tearful night, or anything; because Georgie is like “I mean, there’s only one person Jon rarely shuts up about, so -”

(Me: “i don’t know about Martin and Georgie” Me, several endless paragraphs later: ……um. Under the cut i guess.)

I don’t know how their friendship go though; I think it stands from the fact there the only two people who regularly come to see Jon; Martin can’t speak at all of his grief and his longing at work, and Georgie - Georgie loves Jon. She sees Jon like Martin does - yes, he can be an ass, but he’s also… there’s a kindness to him, such warmth and deep care, underneath the prickeness and stiffness, and Martin got a bit better, during season 3, understanding Jon’s jokes, and he’s so knowledgeable and he’s so bad at caring for himself, and when he likes you it feels like you’ve earnt something special and precious and - point is, it feels good, to talk to Georgie.

And yes, first, their conversations are mostly about Jon; but Martin is very good at paying attention to people and small talk, so they start to stray to Georgie’s podcast, and her family, and her favourite foods (”hungarian food is great” says martin earnestly, and georgie goes “oh my god, of course i find the ideal man and he’s gay for my best friend” and martin blushes adorably and sputters and laughs). They most certainly bond over the Admiral. And Georgie is a good judge of character, too, and she’s got definite social skills; she gets Martin to open up a bit about his job, grumbling about his colleagues, admitting that it’s so hard to just - be hopeful when everybody else is always so - so ready to dive into unhealthy patterns without talking to each other. At some point, Martin makes an idle remark about his struggles with money when he was younger, with his mum, and Georgie goes ‘god, that’s a mood’ and opens up a bit with her own childhood and the lack of money.

They also always sort of meet up at the hospital, at first, but one night a nurse comes to tell them it’s time to leave, and Georgie stares at Martin and she says: “wanna come eat at mine’s? it seems silly to just stop chatting, i’m having fun. and i’ve got good food at home, promise.” and Martin is so baffled but also so - pleased? and he goes “yeah. Yeah, that’d be nice, uh - thank you?” and eventually that becomes an habit, too; Martin coming to spend a few evenings at Georgie’s; he cooks sometimes (”god, i got better because - well, there were worms you see -”), and he and georgie even work together on a What The Ghost’s episode one day;

Those moments at Georgie’s they’re - they’re sort of the only good things going for Martin, at this point; back at the Institute, Melanie is constantly angry, and Basira is constantly away - even when she’s physically present - and the corridors seem filled with the ghosts of a grinning Sasha, a laughing Tim, and a pricky but amused Jon. Every day, Peter Lukas comes, sits on his desk like he belongs there, and chats for a bit; then his eyes get serious and he’ll always lean in and go: “Have you considered my offer, Martin?”

(Martin does not talk to Georgie about that)

Then the Flesh attacks, and Martin has to put a plan in action, he’s done waiting, he’s done running, he’s done - he’s done expecting Jon to wake up and make it all better. Jon is probably not going to wake up. It’s. He doesn’t think about that. It takes two weeks for Georgie to call and say “I haven’t seen you at the hospital in a while” in a careful, worried, stern voice. “I’m going to get very busy, Georgie, I’m - probably not going to have much time anymore to visit Jon.” he says, and his voice cracks a bit) (”Come by tonight,” she tells him. he looks at his hand, eyes blurry, and he doesn’t want to give up that, he doesn’t want to give up Georgie and her warm smiles and her cool stories and her underlying, deep understanding of what he feels but - “Maybe, maybe next week” he tells her weakly. “Sorry, Georgie”)

(Georgie doesn’t say how much that hurts, really. She likes Martin; she likes the way Martin is genuinely interested in her life, not just through Jon; she likes how Martin loves Jon; she likes Martin’s little jokes and his determination for things to get better, always) (she does tell Jon, softly: “well i hope you never have to live that. Easy to get attached to that boy, uh?” and jon, of course, doesn’t answer. she sighs and kisses his forehead and leaves, and mopes that night with the admiral. The next day, she thinks “no, i’m not falling into that pattern” and goes back to her life, and her other friends; She’s not as hopeful as Martin, but she’s definitely as stubborn)

(Martin calls though; he calls again, because he doesn’t know who to tell, when his mum dies) (he’s back at her place that night and he feels numb, and he doesn’t cry; he looks deathly pale, and Georgie helps him through the following days, and vaguely remembers helping Jon with his grandmother’s funeral, the way he hadn’t cried either, for a long time, just got very snippy and distant; god, it was towards the end of their relationship - she’d argued with him, at some point, that he needed to cry, and he’d said he didn’t NEED to do anything, and he was sorry if she didn’t like how he handled his grief - and she’d been like “i’m just worried about you jon” and jon’s shoulders had slumped and he’d gone “there’s no point to it”)

(Martin doesn’t cry, he doesn’t, right until all those people talk about his mum and he realizes he doesn’t know the woman they speak of; he’ll never know this woman) (Georgie takes his hand when he starts weeping, and lets Martin’s distant family tell her that they’re really rather relieved, that Martin found ‘a nice girl’, that they thought - that Martin was, well, you know - because she wants to snap at them but it’s not drama that Martin needs right now, just comfort)

After that, Martin thinks he can’t let go of Georgie; she’s done too much for him, at this point? So, he tries to be as honest as he can; he tells her he’s got a plan, to protect the Archives (”it shouldn’t be your role” georgie tells him with a deep concerned frown, and Martin shrugs and says: “But Jon’s not here and - someone ought to. Someone ought to protect them. I - I’m not special, Georgie, but that’s - that’s something I can do, and I don’t want to be a coward.”)

He says “I can’t come by anymore” and “thank you” and, hopefully “we can still chat on the phone?” and Georgie says “… sure.”

And they do that! They keep chatting! when Martin starts to get wary of Peter listening in, he switches to texting only.

then jon wakes up

and. ugh. Ugh. I’m sorry, I’m going to keep making this sad, but Georgie and Martin have their first argument; because Martin can’t be there for Jon right now, but it’s because he’s - he’s protecting him, saving him. He’d give ANYTHING to be able to be there for Jon. and Georgie could. Georgie has not made a supernatural deal with a dangerous man serving a Eldrich God, and Jon needs someone, and Georgie gets fed up; she’s been supporting Jon. She’s been supporting Martin; she’s supported them both through their idiotic decisions and Jon woke up, yes, but he’s fine and unblinking and his aura’s all - different and she can’t do this. She can’t. She can’t let herself be involved anymore, she’s tired and who can she talk to? Who’s supporting her? (”it’s admirable,” she says, sadly, to Martin, “how selfless you both are. It’s terrible too, you know? You could both have stood to be a little bit more selfish. Perhaps you could have both - I love you both, Martin, but I’m ready to be a little selfish now; I need to get out, because otherwise, I’m gonna drown with both of you.”)

(”Georgie -” he begins and she sighs and says. “Goodbye, Martin. Take care. Text me, if you need to.” and she hangs up)

#warning: this is probably not the cute heartwarming friendship story people were hoping for #I MADE MYSELF VERY SAD #the magnus archives #............. i feel really bad now you wanted cute supportive friends #for what it's worth i definitely have a few aus stories where jon and georgie and martin end up living together in a qp relationship #well it's not platonic for martin and jon #i also have just a lot of headcanons - even without speaking of a proper relationship - where martin and georgie team up on jon #/so that he takes care of himself/ they're very stubborn both of them and jon is very very weak for them both #also just georgie and martin are just both two people who are GOOD at social interactions and chatting and stuff

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73. I don't love you anymore? Whatever comes to mind

Hello,

First, lemme state that I do not ship DickBabs past them being first love, and young love, long term I don’t see it lasting as they both seem excellent at bringing out the worst in each other at the worst times. The break up, on again, off again, romance DC has going for them berates what they mean to each other, romantically and platonically, and it irks me.

As friends, I think Dick and Barbara bring out the best in each other, I think they are good for one another in this sense. But as lovers, it always manages to bring out the worst of them. I adore their friendship, I like the quirky middle school love they can have going; slipping notes to each other and being dorks in general; it shows how much they care about each other. But when they date… it’s like watching a train wreck occur in slow motion at high speeds

So again, just to be clear, I don’t ship DickBabs, but I adore their friendship.

And I should be writing I’ve Got the Umbrella and NOT writing spoilers or subplots, or sidelines for Hopes for a Bastard’s coming stories. Bad Blu, very bad Blu.

Anyways, here’s Spoilers for Written in the Stars….

Perfectly Imperfect…

There were words ineveryone’s life that they didn’t want to hear.

‘I don’t love you anymore’ or ‘It’s me, not you’ or ‘I’msorry but…’ or ‘There’s another woman’ or even worse ‘I’m gay’ (that one wasn’tas painful, it only sucked if a guy had been using you as cover to keep hissexuality from the world; then yeah, that one sucked).

And as Barbara sat in her chair, trembling, and staring atthe Save the Date she’d received in the mail and the letter that accompaniedit. The letter was unopened as she sat there in her apartment as she sat there atthe invitation for the wedding…

The wedding of Richard John Grayson to Koriand’r.

Barbara wanted to scream, she wanted to throw things, breakthings, she wanted to curse this world for the cards it had dealt her and theperfection required to be her.

Her father, her uncle, her mother, her brother, they had allneeded her to be prefect. She needed to be strong, she had to be happy, cheerful,she needed to have the strength to keep her front of being perfect up.

She had been that girl, the perfect one, she didn’t set atoe out of line. She was the straight A honor student who helped kids like Dickstudy, she was in gymnastics, set for the Olympics, she was going to college,she’d get a degree in criminology, she’d work her way up through the GCPD withher father’s aid, cleaning up the department. She was happy, she was good at beinga friend, the perfect daughter, and the best she could. The only rebellious thingshe had ever done was being Batgirl! And even that she had excelled at to beperfect.

And now she wasn’t perfect!

The Joker had shattered that perfection she had used to keepher life. He had taken it all away from her!

Joker had stolen her legs, her purpose, her life, her love,he had killed her as surely as if he had shot her in the head! In some ways Barbarahad thought Jason lucky, lucky he didn’t have to deal with the pain of beinginvalid now.

But that was until she had learned Jason was alive, and Jason…Jason had come back and from what she had seen of him, he had come to survive ahell. And he didn’t even care!

Barbara shivered as she rolled away from her table, therewas a knock on her door as she pulled down her tea pot.

“It’s open!” she called out as she started the tea. If itwas a rogue or something, she didn’t care.

“Hey Babs, okay, so I was having problem with the Batwingprogramming, and Tammy is driving me nuts. I swear she’s almost onto the fact I’min the Batfamily,” he said as he walked on.

“Yeah, sure, I’ll look at it,” Babs said swiftly as she triedto clean her tears away before he saw them.

“Babs?”

“I’m fine,” she dismissed. “Just allergies, I need to dustmy fans again,” she lied pulling off her glasses.

“Is this about the Save the Date I’m looking at on yourtable for Dick’s wedding?” he asked.

“No,” she trembled.

“Uh-huh, why don’t you look at me when you say it,” Lukeordered sharply, and she glowered over her shoulder at him.

Barbara and Luke’s unconventional friendship; if it couldeven be called that, had been when the Court of Owls had acted again, and Dick,Tim, and she had needed help rescuing two years ago. Luke had found out hisfather was in on the Batfamily when Lucius had been attacked in his office andtortured for the access to the tech, Luke had found out and intervened. He’djust been discharged from his service, and he had actually been at WE for a jobinterview working Wayne Security and in their hurry and urgency to save Damian,Luke got swept up into their ranks and stayed. He and Kate, they stayed.

Now, Barbara had always known Luke, he was a few years olderthan she, and he’d been close to Dick when Dick was adopted by Bruce. She hadn’treally cared all that much for Luke, he was annoying to her because when she’dhad legs all he had to do was stand and hold the ball out of her reach, Dickbeing a monkey would clamber all over Luke.

Then he had joined the ranks of the Bats, and now they hadthis odd friendship, that she didn’t always know what to make of because hewasn’t as annoying now, as when they’d been kids. God she hated him when they’dbeen kids.

He was always composed, perfectly, and tall, and smug, hehad had the arrogance of knowing he was the best, smartest boy and bestathlete, but the war had changed him. Now he was different, not as smug, andshe found his presence tolerable.

“I’m fine,” she dismissed.

“You know it wasn’t going to last, Babs,” Luke said softly.

“What the hell do you know about it!?” she snapped as shespun her chair around to glare at him. She fucking loved Dick! Loved him withall her heart! She found herself glaring at Luke who stood there very calmlyholding the Save the Date in his hands.

“You know, you can lie to a lot of people Barbara, but notto me,” he stated coldly as he stood and walked over to her slowly.

“You don’t know me.”

“I know a lot more about you than you’d think.”

“You wouldn’t understand anything I’ve been through for aminute!” she hissed.

“Oh no?” he mused humorless. “A bad thing happened to you,the world fucking forgot to stop and notice, kept spinning. You picked up thepieces, reesembled who you were before the bad thing happened, but that leavesa bitter taste in your mouth with a sharp tongue and bad attitude. You won’t letit go, that fucking feeling, it’s all you got some days when you wake up, itfuels you, it’s what drives you to get up some days. Other days feels like it’sdrowning you and you want someone to hurt as much as you do because the worldforgot about your pain.”

“You can’t even imagine,” she started.

~~~*~*~*~~~

“Dick and you, yeah, before you two had a shot, I’d haveeven put money on it, before; Barbara. But now, you are sodesperate to hurt someone and drag them down to your level that there’s no wayanything you start with anyone would last. And it’s not because you’re unlovable,that’s the opposite of the problem here. The problem is you don’t like this newreality or the new you and you fight it tooth and nail to cling to a you thatno longer exists. And that anger is why it wouldn’t last.”

Luke had known Barbara since he was ten, he hadn’t alwaysliked her. She was younger, brattier, and annoying. She was also Miss Perfect,but he learned real quick to see through that. Then Dick had come along, andthe poor kid worshipped Barbara’s façade; not her, the perfect façade he hadmet. Luke knew that was doomed from the start, well, maybe not before theJoker, but after it, it was all fucked to hell. And he’d watched Dick Graysonclaw his way through the pain of losing his little brother and girlfriend, to onlyhave the girlfriend cut him down and drag him down to her level of agony.

Luke was actually very relieved when Dick and Babs hadfinally ended. Kid deserved to be happy, he deserved love, real love, the loveof a woman, not a façade, and that was where Kori came in. Dick and Kori, thatwas real, true, once in a millennium, soul mate, rewrite the stars kind oflove. It was real, and Dick was a better man with Kori than he ever could bewith Barbara.

No, this didn’t make Barbara a bad person, he actuallyadmired her tenacity to pull herself up from the gutter and to find a way toadapt to her life. He had lost friends before their deaths because they couldn’tdo what she had done. He had watched some good friends just give up. And whileLuke didn’t always like Barbara, he could always admire her and play itstraight with her.

The freckled redhead glowered at him, and her glassesglinted dangerously as they glared at one another.

“I’m not upset or hung up on Dick,” she stated.

Luke resisted rolling his eyes at that. And he wasn’thaunted by nightmares of Jason Todd; but that was tales for a different time.

“I’m Not!”

“Oh, no, I believe you Babs, to a degree,” he clarified forher.

“I’m not!”

“Barbara, he’s in love, he’s getting married, they have abeautiful daughter, who has stolen all our hearts. It’s okay to be hung up onit, but don’t get it in your head to wreck it for him,” Luke warned her.

“I would never do that!” she snapped.

“I know all about how you left her to die, Barbara, and Iknow about it from Tim before you think to go skins someone’s balls off,” hewarned her as he held up a hand to pacify her. He had only learned about itwhen the teen was so sleep deprived and thinking about a coming alien invasion,the very aliens that had apparently kidnapped Kori from Kom and Lobo and hadbeen annihilated by Raven; apparently. He didn’t know about that last bit forsure, as it wasn’t in files he could read.

Barbara looked like he had just fed her a sour apple.

“You’re human, I get it,” he shrugged. “But you and Dick, itwas never going to work Babs, and you have to let it go.”

“I am,” she admitted bitterly. “I just… he’s my oldestfriend, I’m happy for him, I really am. I get it now. But…”

“But.”

“It was supposed to be me,” she admitted softly and hewalked over as he slowly knelt to her level. He pulled the glasses off as thetears fell and she furiously tried to wipe them away.

“It’s his loss too, Babs,” Luke reminded her.

She sobbed as she slumped forward, and he wrapped his armsaround her. They weren’t really friends, but they’d grown up together. He’dbeen for forever, so they were something important.

“Hey, if you’re up to it, if you want to go, you can be myplus one,” he said as he rubbed her back.

“You’re just asking out of pity,” she sniffled against hisshoulder.

“Well, partially, and partially because, he is the circusmonkey and he’s important to both of us,” Luke smiled slightly as he pulledaway. “And Babs, I don’t pity you. Admire you at times, and respect you always,but I don’t pity you. Never have. You survived, now you just have to stoppitying yourself.”

“I…”

“You. Survived.” Luke repeated that, because it wasimportant.

Just like him surviving Jason Todd had been important,before Jason had come home and before he even really knew that it was Jason whohad just about killed him.

“Why couldn’t he just love me?” she whispered against hisshoulder.

“He does Babs, just not the way you want,” he assured her.Luke was tempted to hoist her out of the chair and flop down on her couch withher, but he didn’t. It wasn’t his place, so for now he’d just hold her.

They were kind of friends after all, and kind of friends didthis for the people their cared for.

She smelled like lavender, and lemons.

It was kind of an odd combination to notice, as he ignoredthe kettle and just held her.

#bluboothalassophile #fanfic #hopes for a bastard #hopes for a bastard universe #barbara gordon #lucas fox #lukebabs #dickkori #spoilers #hopes for a bastard spoilers

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wellhalesbells · 6 years

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6 and 8 please! 😊

yesss, i adore you!!!

6. what books have you read in the last month?

considering i’m using this to combat boredom, i’ll answer as if you’re asking a 31-day month from right now, rather than just listing january. :)

dec 15-31

iceman #8, by sina grace. why did this get cancelled?? we just don’t know.

nightwing, vol. 3, by tim seeley. meh. these are going downhill fast for me. (psst, he can’t really write women in this series apparently??)

the rose society, by marie lu. i am finishing this effing series this year, okay, i am. and the boys had better be gay together!

noumenon, by marina j. lostetter. one of the arcs i picked up from comic con last year! i actually loved it a lot, but space, science and psychology are a hodgepodge of my favorite things so… makes sense.

the couple next door, by shari lapena. it was… hella quick? i finished it in the car in two days between taking driving turns. and i liked the ultimate villain but otherwise it was just kinda… there (and did not focus on the couple next door, like, at all so… what?).

dirk gently’s holistic detective agency, by douglas adams. it was no hitchhiker’s guide that’s for sure but it had some epically great lines like: “i suspect that your problem,” he said, “is that you have too many paper clips up your nose.”

uprooted, by naomi novik. OH MY GOD, I LOVED THIS ONE. fantasy’s kind of hard for me and i really have to space that shit out as i cannot do a lot back to back because i get bogged down with all the different elements. but, holy shit, this was amazing fantasy; i could read eight of these in a row. the dragon is just sitting there going ‘oh no thank you,’ to every potential adventure, because fuck it, i’m immortal and what’re you gonna do, man? i control the narrative ‘cause i’m gonna outlive ya, you bozo, and i’ll just tell everyone i was heroic as balls after you die your horrible death so go do that. so agnieszka is given more to do than basically any heroine ever because the guy who knows all the stuff is like: ‘i’ll be in the library with tea today, please keep the screams of the nearest village to a dull roar.’ (the dragon is my hero, okay.) and is trying to learn magic from this pomp and prissy wizard before she eventually comes up with, ‘you know what, it works if i just sing the happy birthday song or forget half the word and make up my own, so, shove it.’ then she goes off, makes the universe significantly better and gets some dick. it’s marvelous.

the wicked + the divine: christmas annual, by kieron gillen. i could just have more inanna and baal for the rest of eternity and it wouldn’t be enough.

wonder woman, vol. 2, by greg rucka. greg is moving in the right direction. i liked this one better than volume one.

jan 1-16

endurance, by zaya feli. this series is steadily improving too. it’s not epic or anything but good. i hope the final book is a nice finish ‘cause i’m gonna chomp it up soon.

everything leads to you, by nina lacour. SO I’M STALKING NINA LACOUR NOW. i love her writing. and this book was so good, so weirdly nostalgic in a way and warm and kind and loving and free and insightful! LOVE IT.

behind closed doors, by b.a. paris. gah, i’ve had this book forever. got it free as an arc and then never read it because i am an asshole. it was super well done (and the finish was so satisfying) but goooooosh is it hard for me to read that much helplessness and hopelessness or any book that relies on the reality that men will automatically be believed over women. it’s realistic, absolutely, but that’s not the kind of realism i want in my fiction ‘cause, uh, not so relaxing, that.

this was not the plan, by cristina alger. this was so much cuter and sweeter than i expected it would be! i wish the ending had been more solid ‘cause then it would’ve been a total fave. but caleb was absolutely adorable and charlie being torn between wanting to protect caleb from what kids/adults might say and do in regards to him wearing tutus and dresses and all the pink the world has on offer and wanting to embrace every single bit of that because that’s his amazing kid read very real to me. zadie and moose were great side characters too.

john dies at the end, by david wong. meh. i mean, there were definitely parts that made me laugh out loud but it’s such a lowbrow (boy’s) humor book: meaning boobs and dick and fart jokes all over the place.

spider-man/deadpool #25, by robbie thompson. HEY, HI, I MISS JOE KELLY. like, sobbingly miss that guy. he wanted the boys together possibly more than i do. robbie thompson’s arc kinda blows. (and seeing as marvel print went on a diversity-killing cancelling spree, not seeing any reason why i should continue supporting this.)

iceman #9, by sina grace. judah better be fine and that’s all i’m gonna effin’ say about that.

the disciples, by steve niles. SPACE ZOMBIES.

limbo, by dan watters. DUDE, HOW GREAT WAS THIS?? neon, voodoo, 80s vibe, noir amnesiac detective, femme fatale singer who’s actually a goddess of the underworld, a sidekick who communicates with the gods by making them mixtapes, dia de los muertos, a marachi band of assassins who use music to murder, and on and on and on. i wish it had ended differently but it gave me so much awesomeness first that i don’t even care.

ufology, by james tynion iv. i wanted so much more aliens!

the friendship ruse, by georgia tell. the amount of obliviousness was totally unbelievable but give me a second book and i’ll read the shit out of it (especially since so much was unanswered at the end of book one, come on!)

8. what is the first book you remember reading yourself?

i’m not sure which came first, either harry potter and the chamber of secrets or the picture of dorian gray. two of the most different books in existence, ahahha.

book meme.

#!ask #meme answers #WELL THAT KILLED SOME TIME YEEEEES #rankcastle

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