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encrucijada · 8 days

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PÍA RAMBLES #8

you might have seen this post or this wip intro. i'm here to talk about this book because i think it's really cool @teddywriting and i wrote almost 40k words by simply playing dolls with our ocs.

(yes i will be using screencaps of before sunrise, 1995 for any and all subsequent updates regarding this project thank you very much)

what's weird about this book in particular is that, despite maripaz and theo taking up way too much space in my brain, it's also incredibly hard to talk about them?? i know every single detail about them down to what they might order to eat at a mcdonald's, and yet i feel no one outside from teddy and i really knows these characters. their lore is weird and a bit convoluted and explaining it feels like i'm trying to explain the plot of a television show with like 18 seasons of character development you just had to be there to witness to understand even a fraction of it.

but first some basics about the actual book

title: babylon boy (book 1 of the home habitat duology)

genre: literary fiction

category: i say adult because there will be no censoring of topics but in this first installment our protagonists are around eighteen years old. you might consider that ya but i wouldn't

a small summary: having independently run away from home for their own reasons, theo and maripaz meet while homeless on the streets and form an alliance of convenience to survive. while theo vehemently denies the drug addiction he’s nursing, maripaz tries to deal with the way both want and revulsion seem to exist in her at the same time. falling in love is probably the easiest thing they do.

teddy and i are co-authoring, as in we both write the words. they will be primarily working on theo's chapters and i will be primarily working on maripaz's chapters but we'll both be involved in fully crafting this story.

talking about your book is hard when all that happens in it is character work so even whether someone gets sick at one point feels like a spoiler you want people to be surprised by.

we created mari and theo in 2020 on a whim. i can't even remember what prompted it exactly. we wanted a new pair of characters to play with and we decided to make two assholes to bicker and be mean to each other. this iteration saw three reincarnations before we put the characters on the shelf and almost resigned ourselves to them being a miss... if not for one important detail... i really, really believed they should have kissed. this first version of them would eventually be known as the homeless au.

looking back it's Wild thinking about how different mari and theo used to be. we moved onto new aus to play around with, landing on a superhero-type beat that became their new canon for a while. we had fantasy and sci-fi and musicians and hadestown and the raven cycle (that last one did so much for us it's insane). every new thing we tried shaped them more and more until they were unrecognisable from their original versions. one day i really want to go through their threads from start to finish and look at that change in real time.

there was a new thesis to their characters and it was no longer "what if two awful guys with issues were forced together and tried to bite each other's heads off". instead we were looking at two characters that through every new incarnation became more sincere and gentle. they had meta-narrative character development.

(every new au also gave us more characters to populate the world including but not limited to theo's twin sister, maripaz's seven siblings, alex, philip, a whole lot of parental figures, a quirky cast of friends... but i'll talk about them some other time)

then i did it again. in the 2.0 version of the homeless au there was one scene i loved beyond words where an argument between our two protagonists resulted in maripaz punching theo right on the mouth. when she tried to swing a second time he stopped her hand and warned her that if she wanted to hit him he would hit back. they fought and the scene ended. i said to teddy: they should have kissed. we laughed and imagined how homeless au would go now that their characters had changed so much. we started thinking about it more and more until we were moving the pieces of their cinematic universe around to fit this new idea... and suddenly we had plot for a book that would revamp that original homeless au... and a sequel too! (but more on that second one another time)

teddy started a rp thread of what came right after the opening scene of babylon boy, where theo and maripaz would shoplift and he would steal the angel necklace she wore (<- this is important)... and we just kept going... and going. we'd already had a few keys scenes to work towards, one those being that punching scene that started it all, as well as the ending. teddy added two new scenes we began calling the halo scene and the church scene, and we moved something we called the pool scene into this book from another au. we just had to fill in the blanks... fill in the blanks we did.

these right here are the names i gave each individual thread of the roleplay-ification of babylon boy. their purpose is not so much to be chapter titles but to make specific scenes easy to find for future reference. though obviously i had to be a bit artistic about it.

i don't know if babylon boy will have chapter titles, and if they will have some sort of theme going on (usually i like just putting two words together to create some imagery). "angel face" is probably what i would title chapter 1, but i also hesitate on that decision because i think i would like to save angel for later.

these threads are less of a draft and more the skeleton of a draft, that's why i called it a draft 0. its purpose is to give teddy and i direction and reading through them i already know how i want to shift the timeline and how i'd rewrite some of the scenes to make them a lot better, but it did give us a great cause and effect look of things. the way teddy and i approach our roleplay threads is more loose than what i do with @on-the-river-lethe (with whom i'm currently roleplaying draft 1 of our book lupine trail and also a giant hunger games au). fluffy and i write responses between 1k-4k words, they are basically chapters. teddy and i instead do a quick call and response, mostly focused on dialogue, we build on top of each other and neither of us really knows where a thread will go when we start.

there are no actual non-roleplay words written for babylon boy thus far. teddy is in charge of chapter 1 as we open with theo's pov but we are both busy or focused on other things. right now we're enjoying the playing around stage of the process (which i don't see going away even once we start seriously writing, i know for a fact we'll probably do various roleplay-type passes to babylon boy).

you've probably noticed the christian imagery is rampant here. it happened kind of by accident and the already mentioned halo scene is entirely to blame for it. like i said, teddy and i have this very "yes, and," approach to storytelling together where we kinda build on top of what the other puts down. teddy gave me the description of one (1) scene where theo sees a halo of light around maripaz's head and i decided "well, this is now i thing that is here to stay". church scene really brought it all together and there is a scene in book 2 adeptly nicknamed the angel scene that is kind of the culmination of this.

the imagery is almost exclusive to theo's pov as mari is more the subject of the imagery than the one pushing it forward. teddy and i will be doing our most to fill this book with visuals: characters lined with stained glass windows, lights shaped like hearts, signs and graffiti that say meaningful stuff.

babylon boy, as the title suggests, is more theo's book. both he and maripaz have meaningful arcs but theo's is really at the core of it, mari takes centre stage in book 2 (titled gossamer girl). i think i talked about this somewhere before but the titles just kind of... happened. gossamer was relevant for that superhero au and it's just a word i really adore so i wanted to use it on the title. you can't go wrong with alliteration so gossamer girl it is. and because i love when books in a series match i had to do something with boy. like gossamer i adore babylon for some reason, and so we got babylon boy. i wasn't sure about that one because while gossamer girl made sense with the theme, what did "babylon boy" even mean, exactly? teddy came in clutch and analysed the title for me. they connected it to theo's drug addiction and now i can't think of any two titles that are more perfect for this series.

like i said, there are no actual words written for this book so sadly i cannot share any excerpts. but i will share

Festival was very much the result of teddy and i having just watched before sunrise, 1995

we watched before sunrise, 1995 because the mannerisms of the two leads reek of maripaz and theo

"until a miracle happens" became a recurring thing said in the draft and it wrecked me

Our Fears is probably my favourite thread both thematically and visually. followed closely by Church Angels, though that one is mostly visually

The Pool is the longest thread with about 90 responses and all of it is beautiful. i would probably consider it the companion to Our Fears

"mutual pining they're both just idiots"

the closing image is probably my favourite one of the book

the core themes are very much trust, love, and communal help. we've got such an array of npcs who simply... help. i love the human race.

i'll probably do another update before we start properly writing talking about maripaz and theo as characters specifically. a bit of a crash course on who they are, really.

anyway. i'm giving you a golden star if you read all of that ⭐ do ask me or teddy about this story!! we'd be happy to talk about it. or even just about the characters.

cheers, pía

#pia rambles #( wip ) bb&gg

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no-psi-nan · 2 months

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🥺🥺🥺 not 2 be sappy on main but omg I actually started off in Deviantart ages ago, that was the closest thing to social media for me until the tumblr migration lol. But I never really interacted with people on there, and even upon moving to tumblr, never really interacted with people here too often either. At first I had my main blog which was meant to be more professional since I was selling art to get a little college income, so I didn't really make too many irrelevant posts. Then I decided that I wanted to be able to reblog art and support other artists, so I made a side blog where I carefully curated and tagged the posts I reblogged. I made a few original posts but no one ever interacted, and eventually I realized that people only ever sent me asks there if I tagged anything wrong. Also I found out that adding stuff like series and character tags to a reblog on tumblr is basically useless because the op will pretty much always tag those things which makes it searchable on your own blog even if you don't tag it yourself. And if op DIDN'T tag it those things, your tags will make the post searchable on your blog but NOT in the general search, so it doesn't give op any more of a boost than just reblogging it tagless. So I made another sideblog, which I still have today, and I just rapidfire reblog literally anything I find shareworthy lol. Not any interaction there but at least I'm not wasting my time meticulously tagging strangers posts hsfjdlshfks. Since I was best friends with a big name fan in my main fandom (we became friends when I left a long emotional comment on their fanfic btw <3), I helped run some small fandom events and met more people as well. When I switched fandoms, it was a fandom event that gave me a new friend too, my posts never got any traction. Large fandom discords didn't really work for me either. But on this blog I was lucky, and for the first time people started like actually responding to my comments and posts, and get conversations going! And genuinely that's what's kept my brain rot so powerful I think, because bouncing ideas off each other and joking around and shitposting is genuinely the most fun I've ever had online!! I have to thank desta and oatmeal for the fun times especially, and hillbilly---man left really nice comments on my first few fics that really encouraged me, and I always have fun trading ideas with alienn, saikikthoughts, and crookedlyinnernightmare, plus everyone else who's on here, that's too many people to type out. AND I TYPED UP A BUNCH MORE STUFF BUT TUMBLR FUCKING DELETED IT!! Are you shitting me.... Well I think I remember saying that even if it's been getting kinda quiet and boring lately so my attention is starting to wander (I've pretty much posted all of the meta that's not deep fanfic hc at this point and my drawings take me a long time to make), I'll never delete this blog and I'll still be putzing around online until the day I die probably. And I'll always remember these days fondly and hope to find another great community like this one. And also I highly encourage everyone to post, reply, interact, and play with fellow fans! I've made lifelong friendships over blorbos and even if we don't have the same blorbos any more, we're still friends. Obviously stay safe online, never send money to strangers, probably wait like a year to start shipping each other stuff but still, reach out because you never know who you might meet! I've been lonely irl for most of my life for various reasons, and my online friends have been a lifeline honestly, they're all really important to me. Two of my best friends today come from fanfic comment sections!! Also I need to get around to archiving my meta on AO3 lol (yup, it's for meta too!) but that's gonna be a lot of work so -_-U).

#notes to nopsi #🥺thank u for making an old blogger like me emotional at 7 am #even if tumblr fucking pissed me off by deleting half the post #Also I appreciate the 'hate' anons because even though it must have been super embarrassing for them #it was fun to do some more analysis on a topic I usually don't think about <3

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cookinguptales · 2 years

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Nadja also seems to sort familiars, vampires, and regular humans in two completely separated boxes so her liking Guillermo's family read to me as more proof that she's slowly been shifting him into a different category. Going along with the party was just! So close to the "oh Nandor/Lazslo/Nadja is Doing Something I will join" the vampires do with each other's bullshit ideas! It seemed significant to me that they put so much focus on the vampires explicitly saying they go along with unreasonable scenarios because they're more fun that way (The club. The interview) and then Nadja extending this to Guillermo's Shenanigans, which she wouldn't have done past seasons.

Honestly that they're treating him less like a familiar (the they here should also include Guillermo himself) and more like a Vampire Household Member With Rights bodes well for Guillermo becoming a vampire eventually, or maybe he attains some kind of full power vampire hunter status that grants him immortality, whatever, he's already a serial killer vibes supernatural creature of some kind

Yeah, that's why I was specifically comparing Guillermo to another familiar in my post rather than a human like Jenna, who I think Nadja always kind of pinned as someone she wanted to turn into a vampire. She definitely does sort people in certain ways in her head and can be bad about changing those cognitions.

I'm not sure if I agree that her being willing to go along with insane shit means that she sees him more of a vampire type (because lbr, she was very willing to do insane shit with Gregor, including things that made her vaguely uncomfortable like the carnival) but I think the fact that she didn't want to hurt him did. Like she wasn't all that broken up about Gregor dying, lbr, and she had zero interest in appeasing his ghost. But she did genuinely try to spare Guillermo's feelings at every juncture in this last episode.

To me, the way she behaved towards Guillermo in this last episode reminded me quite a bit of how she behaved toward Nandor in "Gail". She didn't necessarily like the situation, but she just wasn't able to hurt him in the face of those puppy-dog eyes. I've always loved that moment when Nandor just goes soft and earnest and says "please?" and Nadja just folds. And she kind of did that here, too.

I found it very interesting that she seemed to understand instinctively how vulnerable Guillermo was in this episode. Like she had no fucking idea who these people were in her house, but Guillermo's reaction when he saw her told her that this was Important. And then when she realized this was his family, whom he loves very dearly and who don't know anything about his life, she played along in a way that spared his feelings. She made fun of him a little bit, but she could have been much crueler than she was if she was just playing along for funsies. Like she didn't even talk about his penis! lmao.

Moreover, I don't think she actually was having fun, at least at first. Nadja seemed very genuinely wrong-footed when she first walked into that room and sat down with them, perhaps more than we've ever seen from her in the series. Like she really, seriously wasn't quite sure what to do and she didn't like that.

I do think she quickly became more comfortable with it, at which point it did become Shenanigans, but I do think initially she was like. "oh shit oh shit oh shit what do I do" and she landed on "get out of this without hurting anyone". It was surprisingly kind, for Nadja.

And then, y'know, her response at the end when Guillermo was literally begging her not to hurt his family..... yeah, that was the exact same Nadja we saw giving into Nandor and agreeing to meet with the werewolves. It implies a weakness in her that she did not have towards Guillermo a few seasons ago, and I do think it's a good sign that she's starting to see him as an equal and a true housemate.

Plus... honestly, I'll probably end up writing an entire meta post about this eventually... But I think seeing Guillermo's desperate attempts to keep his family (when they both know that it can't last) both during the dinner and after the fight did make her feel more connected to him. Like she said, she does know what it's like to see your family die in front of you. I think she looked at him in that moment and had a moment of very uncomfortable nostalgia and familiarity. The two of them are so similar in so many ways, and I think she had a brief, awful moment of looking in a mirror for the first time in centuries.

It's harder to hurt someone when you've seen yourself in them, however briefly... And I think that Nadja won't admit it, but the way she sees Guillermo now is forever changed. There's a fondness there, a recognition, an investment in his happiness. And yeah, that's part of why she was kind and allowed them to remember him coming out. Even if he could have done it again. Even if it places them all in more danger. Even if she didn't really get the significance of it herself.

She recognized that this was something that was desperately important to Guillermo and she let him keep it. And that's significant.

(Also, side note, I have actually thought a lot about Guillermo becoming not a vampire but some kind of supernatural vampire equivalent as an extension of him realizing he has to stay in their world to be his true self but simultaneously realizing that he's hung his hopes for betterment on being something he's not and he doesn't have to... but again, that's a different meta post.)

#replies #wwdits #wwdits s4 spoilers #wwdits meta #nadja of antipaxos #guillermo de la cruz

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chibivesicle · 2 years

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Hi, I just read about postponing your meta-writing activities. I hope you've recovered from your covid-infection, and that work has been less stressful to you. I wish you the best and I'm looking forward to read your thoughts on GK again some day :)

Hello,

Thanks for the kind message! I finally finished reading the manga (I ended up letting a bunch of the chapters pile up so I could just read them all). I'm looking to post a reaction to the end of the manga, sometime this month between all the regular life things.

After starting to search for a new job in 2019 (god that hurts my brain to type it out), I finally found a new job and got an awesome offer and all that stuff. But now, it means packing up my home and cat and moving ~1,000 miles in a north and east direction in about a month or so.

The pandemic pretty much killed the job market in 2020 and I had to continue with my current job, which was very stressful from spring 2020-spring 2021. And then fall 2021 reaallllyyyy damn well destroyed me for a whole host of reasons - I had to put in for promotion for my job that I technically didn't want to be promoted for - everyone was excited to be in person for about a week and then collapsed - I got freakkin' strep and it sucked horribly - I got to spend American Thanksgiving recovering from strep on crazy antibiotics which made traveling lovely (I'm still bummed out I didn't have to poop in DFW airport b/c Texas). I had a brief and lovely visit at Christmas to see friends I hadn't seen in years - but then got Covid on the way back and that sucked so bad. The last time I'd been that sick was in fall 2010. Which was likely H1N1 in retrospect.

I swear, I can write a guide about how to look for a new job remotely and the soul sucking levels of shit you have to wade through. Wow, I sound so lovely, but it is true - I worked my full time job and remotely networked in two different locations and applied to jobs. It was - a lot. Writing my GK meta had been a way to deal with my frustration around my current role and at first helped with my eventual decision to leave my current position. The longer the search went on, in the pandemic (which is still totally a pandemic) the less I could motivate myself to write the meta. Like many people, in mid-2021 I looked for a therapist, got wait listed and finally found someone, who has been great. This should be no shock to my readers as I wrote a very personal meta a long time ago with my relationship with my own mental health and what I know is a life long struggle with depression. One of the suggestions of this excellent therapist was to cut back on the busy work that was overtaxing my burnt out brain with my day job. This included:

1.) pausing my watching of the drama Nirvana in Fire, because that is a great drama for detail nerds like myself. You have no idea how much I loved trying to predict things with limited information and I was doing a damn good job of it. I haven't forgotten you NiF, I'll watch you when I'm in my new location.

2.) forcing myself to write GK meta when it was a slog. Now, that I've finished the manga, I will continue to note that the overall, depth and quality dropped after the Karafuto arc. Does this make me think the entire manga was terrible? No, it is still a very very solid manga and I still love certain aspects of it. But it did not deliver a satisfying ending for me. However, other than being the same age as the GK readers in Japan, I do not have anything else in common with them.

3.) encouraging me to do other sorts of activities that were more relaxing or to watch/read things that were still good but not going to turn my brain into full on 'must examine every little detail mode' which is actually bloody hell for me to not just do automatically.

I am so thankful that I was lucky enough to find a professional at the time I needed it. Yet at the same time, I'm really disappointed at how mental health care is soooo hard to get for many people. We are going to be unpacking the layers of collective PTSD we all have from the impact of the pandemic - for years - maybe even the rest of our lives.

An unusual result of the manga and reading about Ogata did result in me adopting my cat when I did. I can thank Noda for that idea, I love my cat and he was adopted long before the pandemic lock downs, but it was nice to have him around. Unlike most cats, he loved lock down and got to see me all day every day. He was more upset I returned to work in the summer of 2020 than one would have expected but all in all he's a lovely cat.

Anyhoo, I'll likely write out a few metas here and there before putting a bow on it and calling it good. The manga may have ended on a let down, but I found a great community in the fandom and can't thank Noda enough for that. United by a love and interest in Ogata.

#ask #golden kamuy #gk meta #golden kamuy meta #why mental health is important

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sharkface-daydreams · 2 years

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🏅 What is something you recently felt proud of in regard to your writing (finished a fic, actually planned for once, etc). 👨‍👧‍👧 Do you tell people in real life that you write fic? 💭 What is a headcanon you have about your own work?

What is something you recently felt proud of in regard to your writing (finished a fic, actually planned for once, etc).

Ok. Time to think up proud thing #3. Well, I'm proud that I've written and published so much in such a short time. I'd basically only been writing for myself for the past decade ish, mostly just Skyrim OC(PC?) backstories. But as of now my AO3 word count for 2021 is .... jesus. over 60k lmao. that's a lot. and only what I've posted! I kinda get down on myself a lot recently because I'm having trouble writing like I want to but like. That's nothing to sneeze at. :) i done good lol

Do you tell people in real life that you write fic?

HAHA NO my partner is supportive but also isn't the transformative work type, we just can't get our respective heads around the other's mindframe with regards to interacting with media and that's ok. my head is full of 'what ifs' and his is full of canon dissection for study and analysis only. he likes his authors alive and i like mine dead.*

but yeah he's pretty much the only person i've EVER told irl that I write fanfiction. i guess it wouldn't be /awful/ these days to tell other people but like when i started writing it was definitely not cool to be writing fanfiction at all let alone queer stuff so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the defenses are still up lol

What is a headcanon you have about your own work?

Hmmm I don't know if I keep many consistent headcanons across AUs, I kind of like to mix things up...

Plenty of trans headcanons: almost always Sharkface, big fan of trans Locus, Tucker, Simmons and Sarge. I don't think there's actually any straight people in my universe. :o everybody is some flavor of straightn't

In my head the Director and Counselor were bitter exes by the time they were working on Project Freelancer. actually most of the time I think I keep the same backstory for them - they're both prominent researchers in the AI science field and despite their nasty breakup several long years ago Leonard requests Aiden specifically for PFL because there isn't anyone he trusts with the work. this of course strains their working relationship and eventually the program lol

Hmm. also that most people who end up with more than one AI or have one fucking up their brain for too long end up with some sort of plurality. Maine/Meta, Wash, Lina, Caboose, Doc, possibly North and York but I don't think I've ever actually written those two o.O Tex and Church are ofc fragments so they're pieces of a system by default

maybe one day I'll get around to polishing and sharing my plural!Meta lives AU lol

ty for the letter 💌 ^^

*this is a terribly worded death of the author joke please no one take it out of context ><

#we just got a letter #ask memes #chattin about fics #rvb plural stuff

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faegal04 · 5 years

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"Star City 2040" Arrow 7x16 My Thoughts

Okay. This is probably going to get long and may venture into crazy town, so for that apologies. Also, I'm seeing alot of season 3 callbacks in this episode! Like a ton! But I had so many thoughts about the episode, and alot more questions but let's try to middle through, shall we? Right!

First of all, I absolutely LOVED the episode! I know there are people who didn't and I get it. Did the episode have everything I wanted? Hell no! I could have used more Olicity moments and definitely more Oliver, but it delivered on everything else. More importantly it gave me further proof that our illustrious vigilante is alive and well!

The Birth

cue pterodactyl noises

Oliver's "I love you so much" and Felicity's reply back made me melt.

Felicity's additional "I'll love you even more when this baby's out of me" - was just the right touch cause, been there done that twice! Also it was wonderful to see Stephen almost break character in that moment.

Can we believe our sweet hero went from this moment, thinking he would never get a future like this

^^^^^ That is Oliver's "I just saw Jesus" face wrapped up with "I just got everything in the world that I didn't think I deserved" smile. Excuse me 😭😭😭

Training

Yassss! A legacy training a future legacy!!

Seeing Auntie Nyssa training young Mia was absolutely perfect! Do I wish it was Oliver? Hell yeah! But having the Heir to the Demon/Demon's Head train Al-Sahhim's daughter! 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Funny how the ex sister wife was trusted with Mia's existence, but NTA was not!

I guess once a

Always a sister wife!

Side note: You can totally tell that Katrina was preggers/just had her baby when Mia shoots the bow for the first time. Also, I believe it was Katrina's baby who played newborn Mia!

Oliver

We didn't get much of him this episode but to me we got more clarification about him. One, Felicity still wears her wedding ring!( my own dad passed away 13 years ago and my mom has stopped wearing her ring). Two, not one person spoke about him last tense or with the respect a fallen hero would garner. "Who your father is?"

He's alive bitches!!! I will fight anyone who says different! Also, when they show the cage fight, I honestly see Oliver as the long haired fighter. His body type, his fighting style, the marks/scars on his back

ISTG

BlackStar Tattoo

"My mom used to say that all the starlight we see has so far to travel. Stars might not even exist anymore. Eventually they just all fade to black. Erased. That's where I want to be." Oh, Mia. My poor, poor heart wept at this declaration. Yes, she's running on thinking her whole life has been a lie to this point, she feels betrayed by her mother and her father is absent, that's enough to bring anybody down, but to wish to be erased from existence....😭😭 For now my sweet, broody child hold onto that anger and darkness and you will find a way into the light, just like your dad did.

The Wizard of Oz

The references throughout this episode - the cowardly lion and scarecrow(season 3 nod anyone), to William's City of Emerald angel investor along with Felicity in last week and her hilarious wicked witch babble leads me to think that this whole season is based on smoke and mirrors. Here's a fabulous meta on the wizard of oz by @msbeccieboo that I totally support. Read it here

Back to the episode or this is going to get hella long(er).

The season 2 callback to CEO/EA had me giggling cause Mia ain't having it just like her momma didn't! Enter Agent?! Agent Hawke and his Nightwatch badge to save the day! When tiny Mia pinned him to a wall and then asked "Was any of it real?" And his "All of it", not gonna lie this was me

All aboard SmoaknHawke are leaving the dock!

Next is William and his "flirty flirt" with Dale - that boy is definitely Oliver's son!

I also need more William and Mia - that sibling relationship is fabulous! Their quips and tiny bickering is everything a sibling bond should have!

The out of the elevator fight scene had me squealing like a fan girl. Hello feminine Oliver!

William and Felicity reunion

😭😭😭😭, that is all

Reunited with the old team

I want to know what happened. That is not a happy look Felicity gives DD. Rene I can see the not so happy because hey he's a douche with a bad wig. (Season 1 Oliver called and he wants his hair back)

Yoda Connor

Cue pterodactyl noises again. He was totally channeling his dad in that moment of talking to Mia. Hit me square in the feels!

The Celebration

Felicity in that green mask - cue me sobbing again for like the millionth time this episode!

Rene said one thing I agreed with and liked -"Show them what a hero is"

The fight scene! ASJDKFLKSJSHEJEIDKLS Mia won me heart and soul in this moment, she cleared that room like her father and I stan a new motherf*ckin' Queen!

The last thing I want to touch on from the episode is this. The play of dark and light, like so much in the Arrow world, means that Mia needs to find her light. At first I thought it might be Connor but now I'm wondering if it is William as well.

I'm going to make another post with my theory as to what is going on with Oliver later, but for now, that's what I thought.

Huge thank you to all the gifmakers! None of them are mine!

#arrow #my thoughts #arrow 7x16 #faegal04 writes

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