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personinthepalace · 11 months
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Olympia has grown up!
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Anna Cathcart as Agent Olympia in Odd Squad (2016) and Kitty Covey in XO, Kitty (2023)
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abedsnerdir · 5 days
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2x09 "The Mistake"
-welcome to a hiatus-less house rewatch club log
-what are you crazy? it hasn't been that long at all
-we love a chase centric and if you don't you're jealous of his hair
-I don't think I've ever actually seen this intro because on my first watches I would just skip over the "patient gets sick" part
-these kids are never making it into broadway wow
-oh boy don't get me started on lisa edelstein signing that petition against jonathan glazer like honey what? I just know david shore got her to sign it just like he made her guest star in the good doctor
-not that disappointed in him tho cause he disappoints me every day by dusk when I remember season 8 of this show
-are house and stacy beefing
-as if you couldn't work tgt when you're in love! house and cuddy have been doing it for years!
-you know I usually skip these episodes/ avoid them like the plague (literal race against time to keep netflix from playing the next one) because I hate the house and stacy storyline but the upside is that I DON'T REMEMBER SHIT ABOUT IT
-also context: when I started this I was watching on prime, but the whole reason I had prime was because house had left globoplay and the whole reason I had globoplay was because house had left netflix. Now it's on hbo max too, which I got so I could watch gossip girl because it had left netflix - although now it's back, though I can't cancel max now because of izombie and succession. I can't cancel globoplay because my mom likes the telenovelas and I can't cancel prime because that's where the x files live. I hate the streaming economy!
-also house md and gossip girl are sister shows. they just are. the way the office and monk, pretty little liars and suits are sister shows. it's not JUST the guest appearances, it's the vibes. they shouldn't be the same, but they are. anyway back to the regular programming
-there could be a whole alternate show about the princeton plainsboro legal team trying to defend house. like on project runway when they had the parallel model competition
-remiss, misremembering, misnomer... MIStake? do I detect a theme? Miss Chase?
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-theyre sisters
-yall just hate to see blondes succeed even 2 decades later
-legit thought it was buffering but it was a stylistic pause
-this is actually very much like the grey's anatomy episode "I saw what I saw" where my girl april kills a lady. slay girl we love it when our fave is the who whodunnit
-i believed chase so he's not that bad a liar... again, I remember nothing
-so, I just realized cameron knew chase was a murderer when she married him. he killed this poor mother of two but the dictator's the one she gets mad at??? outrageous
-I do love a chase centric. that's my boy, you know? not in a sexual way. it's just great hair solidarity
-'cameron loves you, chase loves his job' I actually think chase's love for house is deeper and purer and actually that's not my opinion it's PROVEN and it's one of the only things that season 8 gets right
-I accidentally saw an episode of wtv chicago department jesse spencer is on the other day and they force him to do an a,merican accent? why would you make him "correct" his speech impediment? that's not the correct attitude! it's our differences that make us special! we should celebrate them
-why does the ultrasound have fade-in
-great now it did buffer. and... it stopped. my tv also hates to see chase lose
-(...)
-took me a while to get it back on track. doorknock question lolol
-D.O. Birth? Really? You're gonna abbreviate the word OF??? With a period? It's the same number O. characters
-in this section, I try to pay homage to chase by putting on an "australian accent" but it's actually just me doing a cockney accent and finishing every sentence with mate. so. yeah
-they're all covering for each other ! I love how dysfunctional they are! FoundFamilyTrope!
-foreman jealous of house as always.... what else is new
-foreman: wants to be house but he pretends he doesn't want to be house which is very house because house doesn't really want to be house either
chase: doesn't want to be house but actually is and pretends he isn't
-House defending Chase! His number one boy! He's covering up a murder!!
-you'd think rectal bleeding *would* be mentioned but who knows
-you have to pay for transplants in the US? thats insane
-if everybody canceled their health insurance, then your government would be forced to do smtg, you know?
-no but chase really is house's n.1 boy. which is why MY number 1 boy is kutner
-his dad died right? and house blames himself for chase's screw-up cause he didn't tell him? right?
-house refusing to tell stacy that chase screwed up but telling cuddy IMMEDIATELY
-he really said let's see what your mother thinks and work this out as a family
-he said that didn't you hear it? my version includes that. sorry yours doesn't
-no but you don't understand. huddy cheated her into a transplant list! if they hadn't broken up house would've gone to prison on operation varsity blues for taking rachel's SATs I am convinced of that
-"liver-can't live without it. hence the name"
-caleb an cody, that's so 2006
-house would've never gone this hard for cameron OR foreman. 13, yes.
-"warmly clasped my hands in thanks was too much?"
-sah true! your employer's lawyer is not here to protect you
-"why would I volunteer to be the executioner" kind of a killer line
-ok house is attempting to bribe a surgeon. with money. where did he get this money (the show makes it clear he has no money ever smh)? I'm assuming from wilson. Bribing surgeons with wilson's money
-bribe didn't work, he's moved on to blackmail. surgeon's been cheating on his wife. Taub precursor! Blueprint! Sue for copyright
-he tried the bribe before the blackmail, which honestly was surprisingly kind for house
-why *did* you rat him out? did he screw up? transplant the wrong organ?
-we love you chase! stay strong diva! you'll get through this!
-damn this brother character is so dumb. he knowingly gave his sister hepatitis?????/ "maybe she got it on her own" yeah she was out there sharing needles while recovering from surgery
-what a dumb bitch! and you blame chase?
-they named HIM NOT HOUSE (who's got FOMO?)
-HOuse knows all them lawyers haha
-black market liver late subplot addition!
-3rd world surgeon. that's actually such a pathetic thing to say. like, mexico is right there next to you. if they're third. you're second, max. Or fourth.
-SHUT UP CHASE SHUT UUUUUUUP
-IDIOOOOOOT
-HE'S BEING SUED FOR 10 MILLION DOLLARS! WHICH HE'S GOT NOW! BECAUSE HIS DAD DIED
-did you know jesse spencer's real father is a rightwing politician? he says it's "not as bad as it sounds" lol ok. my dad is insane too. not that way tho.
-house is right that he would've fired chase if he'd been hungover because he DID fire 13 when she came in with drugs in her system
-love how he just hangs up on his stepmom. like... no further questions.
-you can prob also access the hospital call log and see that he got a call at the exact time the lady walked in
-you know what? it WAS a mistake and they WERE men at work! like the song
-I just want stacy to leave and never come back already! except for the finale which we don't talk about
-lololololol house tried to do smtg nice and got a worse punishment than chase!
-so this is the foreman as house's boss arc right?
-yet another instance in the saga of house versus soulless bureaucrats who don't understand him
-chase getting a slap on the wrist for killing a woman and house getting demoted! PRETTY PRIVILEGE IS REAL!
-not that house isn't pretty he's just also an asshole
-beautiful example of fatherhood, though. Just a single father caring for his unruly ducklings. Cheating livers into women. Love to see it.
-All right, that is it for tonight. Stay safe out there, don't kill patients.
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send-me-a-puffalope · 3 months
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NO BECAUSE VANESSA BEING A MICHAEL PARALLEL IS SO SAD TO ME… HER GETTING SCOOPED AND BURNING WITH HER FATHER…
Because Michael’s arc is so sad if you really think about it??? He killed his brother, his sister died, his father sent him down to a bunker where he got killed and worn as a skinsuit by his own sister (i still cry about that btw) and then he burned his dad and then he burned to death like???? he didn’t even have a chance to be somebody what if I died
AND THAT HAPPENING TO VANESSA… HER GETTING SCOOPED AND DYING IN A FIRE WITH HER DAD… IF THEY GO THAT ROUTE. PLEASE LET HER REUNITE WITH HER SIBLING(S?) FIRST PLEEK… the only way I stayed mentally stable after fnaf 6 was imagining Michael, Elizabeth and Crying Child somehow reuniting and hugging (the way I cried myself to sleep over the image when I was like ten 💀💀)
BUT I WANT SCOOPED VANESSA SO BAD. BUT AT THE SAME TIME I WANT HER TO BE HAPPY??? LIKE HER LIVING WITH MIKE AND ABBY AND GREGOR- *gets shot*
but if Mike gets scooped I’d actually kms like i know he’s the more obvious Michael Afton parallel but. Cmon. Vanessa’s right there… Vanessa Afton..
anyways you put the brain worms in my head so I’m throwing them back at you teehee
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There’s something to be said about how I will literally not care about Michael Afton at all until he’s a tall blonde woman named Vanessa. It’s okay, I’m legally allowed to because there’s more Michael fans than Vanessa fans. Lesbianism is a disease <33333
Vanessa going down to Sister Location looking for redemption is so tragic because if she didn’t go, she might’ve found happiness. She might’ve found people who didn’t use her as a tool, people who love her for her. But she didn’t. And now she’ll never get the chance to know a normal life and normal love. And I think that’s truly her final push towards dedicating her “life” to revenge and eventually officially dying in the same fire she set. After all, what else does she have to lose? She’s already lost her humanity.
It’s the inherent tragedy of a doomed character from the consequences of their own (good!!) actions. GAHHHHHHHHH
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omorfias · 3 months
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𝐌𝐘𝐔𝐍𝐆 𝐆𝐀 𝐄𝐔𝐍 ⸻ she is passion embodied , a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom. it is part of her beauty , this quality of being not quite there , dreamlike.
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trigger warnings : mentions of death , harassment , bullying, me not being able to spell my muse's name , the rp name , or literally anything at all without the red little line.
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☼ STATISTICS.
NAME : myung ga eun .
GENDER + PRONOUNS : cis woman , she / her .
AGE + DOB : twenty three , october 4th .
ASTROLOGY : libra sun , pisces moon , leo rising .
ORIENTATION : bisexual .
BIRTHPLACE : jeju island , south korea .
LOCATION BEFORE CAMP : somewhere in california .
DEITY PARENT : aphrodite .
POWERS : shapeshifting , amokinesis .
WEAPON OF CHOICE : celestial bronze spear .
POSITIVE : lion - hearted , gracious , optimistic .
NEUTRAL : romantic , artistic , honest .
NEGATIVE : blunt , obtuse , indecisive .
MBTI : enfp - the campaigner .
ENNEAGRAM : 7 - the enthusiast .
ALIGNMENT : chaotic neutral .
SONG : dancing queen by abba .
CHARACTER PARALLELS : aimee gibbs ( sex education ) , fran fine ( the nanny ) , chrissy snow ( three's company ) , elle woods ( legally blonde ) , erin hannon ( the office ) .
AESTHETIC : lingering red stained kissed to a cheek , paint stained clothes mixed with yellows and pinks , wide doe eyes linger with confusion , glittering eyeshadow trickling down her face after smudging.
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☼ HERSTORY.
001. her father has a hard time moving on from aphrodite. even on his wedding day to her future step-mother, he was telling tales to his only daughter about a wonderful beauty — his first love and the one that got away. it left five year old ga eun confused, distracting herself instead with the bow on her head as she was set to make her entrance as the flower girl. she wondered where her biological mother was and why she was being replaced with a woman that looked at ga eun as if she was the gum at the bottom of her shoe, doing everything in her power to scrap the little girl off. if the love between her mother and father was so great, where was the former?
002. her relationship with her father: he became distant with ga eun the older she became and claiming, especially on his emotionally drunken days, that she reminded him so much of her mother and it pained him to be around her most days. whenever ga eun would find the courage to bring up her mother, she was immediately turned down and made to feel guilty she would cause her father more heartache. it was okay though — it's what she told herself while putting on a smile in the mirror. her father was grieving, he would come around once healed.
003. her relationship with her step-mother: she became ga eun's first and only bully. it was easier for her step-mother to point the finger at her and have ga eun take all the blame for a loveless marriage, taking all her own hurt and frustration on ga eun whenever she could. ga eun grew up to believe her step-mother's favorite hobby was to belittle and badmouth her both to her face and behind her back. you're not smart enough to go anywhere in love, ga eun, her step-mother would hiss, who would want someone as ugly as you, ga eun? her step-mother had power over her, tasks around the house only getting done because ga eun wasted her weekends getting them done.
004. she lost her father at eleven years old, a motorcycle accident because he hated wearing a helmet, but he loved driving fast. no one knew how to handle an eleven year old who just lost her father, sobbing next to an empty casket, so they didn't reach out to her. they were too busy comforting the newly grieving widow who pretended that her step-daughter was her entire world. her step-mother hadn't thought that ga eun would be her problem to deal with now.
005. months after her father's death, her step-mother moved them to the states and settled in california. she watched her mother fall in love with another man that wasn't her father and become happy, starting a new family that she was completely isolated from. it wasn't until ga eun was eighteen that she finally got away, taking off without a word to anyone. she tried not to keep in touch with anyone either, writing letters of goodbye to those she felt close enough with.
006. from the age of eighteen until the age of twenty one, ga eun bounced around from state to state. she would fall in love with the places she went, the people she encountered, but it became a temporary emotion in her heart. finding waitressing jobs at different places helped her bond with so many people, but no one had felt enough for her to find permanence.
007. she found herself back in california after, finding another waitressing job to help her over before she found a painting class to help others paint step by step. she instantly became a favorite, soaking up all the love and admiration that her customers had to give, but it still felt as if something was missing. was california going to be the place she would never leave?
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HOW DID APHRODITE FIND HER?
aphrodite had to be the one to find ga eun considering the latter kept evading the satyrs. she thought she was losing her mind and decided it was the best time to dip into another state. ga eun had gone to the bar one night to hang out with her friends. that particularly night, she didn't want to hang around late into the night. being as stubborn and independent as she was, she decided she was going to walk home with the company of no one. it started off as a big mistake — a man who hadn't left her alone for a second inside the bar followed her out. he started by shouting compliments at her until she ignored and responded negativly to each of his advances, then he got mean in a fit of rage. it took a lot for something to really bother ga eun, but this man was getting on her last nerves on top of not feeling safe. she used her powers against him, made a fool out of him at the bar and he became her puppet. she made sure to make him act like such a tool that he was kicked out of the bar.
HOW DID GA EUN REACT TO APHRODITE?
ga eun went most of her life only having herself by her side. she felt almost indifferent to meeting aphrodite after so many years of wondering who and where her biologically mother was to forgetting about the woman all together — or she should be saying godly woman all together. she had love for aphrodite and was excited to finally meet her, the powers and being a godlike being a bonus, however, she couldn't wrap her head around finding her biological mother. it didn't quite feel like family.
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☼ HEADCANONS.
she loves love, except she's also someone who falls in love easily as well as someone who falls out of love just as quickly. she built this idea of what love and romance were meant to be like, desperate to find love that wasn't the one she was brought up around, but she loses interest in people who don't reach that high standard, especially if that someone isn't giving her the same energy back. she can find love in anyway and that light cna go out at any time. the clock is always ticking.
very independent to the point it can be annoying because she will try her hardest not to accept anyone's help and then you see her stumble over her own feet in front of everyone and continue to say that she doesn't need any help.
she is a horror girly, it's her second favorite type of media. it's a misconception that others believe she would hate horror and while romance is always her first, nothing tends to scare her much. she has been on dates before where they take her to a horror film in hopes to comfort her through the scary scenes, but it just ends up with a doe-eyed ga eun trying to both watch the film and comfort her date.
halloween is her favorite holiday.
her hobbies pretty much just include painting. she loves any type of art, but her real skill and heart is put into paintings.
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* LINKS.
wanted connections , pinterest , musings.
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galaxyzone · 21 days
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My top 6 favorite musicals
6. Next to Normal
This list was gonna be a top 5 but I couldn’t not include this musical. I’ve only seen one production of it and it was actually at my college but it was the best production I ever saw there. Really pulls at the heart strings and it has wonderful music.
5. Beetlejuice the Musical
I finally got to see this for the first time back in December and it was just really fun! Phenomenal set design and costume design and of course amazing performances. It even made me cry during one scene and I wasn’t expecting this one to make me cry! Also made me a bit nostalgic for the movie. Just so much fun and definitely a must-see for live theatre!
4. Fun Home
This musical absolutely breaks me every damn time. Even just listening to the soundtrack gets me crying, this musical destroyed me in the best way. I unfortunately have a bittersweet memory of it as it’s the last show that my ex and I worked on together right before we broke up (I was the SM & she was Medium Alison), so I haven’t been able to listen to it or even think about it since, but that doesn’t change the fact that this is such a fantastic and heartbreaking musical that resonated with me so well.
3. Hadestown
Oh my GOD this musical gives me chills. I’ve gotten to see it live twice and both times have just left me so awe-struck, I don’t know quite how to explain it. Everything is just phenomenal. The story telling, the set, the acting, the singing, the music, the choreography. Seeing this musical was one of those experiences that reminds you exactly why you’re pursuing what you’re pursuing. This musical made me fall in love with theatre all over again and reminded me why I want to do it.
2. Legally Blonde the Musical
I will always love this musical and it will always hold a special place in my heart, especially as a feminist. This is such a good musical for women and feminism in general. The way that Elle learns that she doesn’t have to change who she is in order to be successful is SUCH an important message for women and girls. Being feminine doesn’t make you any less serious and people shouldn’t think less of a woman simply for the way she chooses to live her life. Also, Elle and Emmett are just adorable and one of the cutest couples in musical theatre. I’ll always have a soft spot for this show.
1. Into the Woods
What I consider to be a theatrical masterpiece. This show will ALWAYS be my favorite. It’s the first musical I ever fell in love with and it’s never leaving my #1 spot. I just don’t see that happening. The storytelling is some of the most creative and genius storytelling I’ve seen in theatre. The music is obviously iconic and challenging as hell but SO good. There are so many clever themes and motifs, so much symbolism and parallels, I could go on about my analysis of each character and their respective character arc. I also just love the way they were able to tie multiple iconic fairytale stories together and they touch on what happens after “happily ever after” and I just love that. I remember when the movie came out and people thought it should’ve ended on the happy ending (which would be the end of act 1 in the stage version), and it just bugged me how those people so clearly missed the whole point of the second act. The show is telling us that life isn’t as simple as “happily ever after.” This musical is one of the few musicals that wasn’t afraid to touch on more taboo subjects and darker storylines, and I love it so much for all of that.
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goodqueenaly · 1 year
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Not me realizing after x amount of posts about ASOIAF and The Accursed Kings one very pointed connection between the two series.
While Cersei is in no small part, I think, inspired by Isabella of France from these books - the beautiful, blonde-haired, loveless queen and daughter of a cold, commanding potentate, among other parallels there - I think Cersei’s creation also owes some credit to Marguerite of Burgundy. Like Cersei, Marguerite appears to be one of the most beautiful women in the world, in Druon’s estimation anyway; the author in fact notes that “[i]t was said that [Marguerite] had the most beautiful body in the world, and she was well aware of it”. Like Cersei, Marguerite is trapped in a loveless political marriage to a king; indeed, Louis’ experiences raping both his sometime mistress forced sexual partner and second wife, as well as Marguerite’s reaction to teasing about her being able to “reassure [her] husband”, might strongly suggest that Louis, like Robert, regularly raped his wife (even if Druon doesn't think so - but that's a critical discussion for another time). Like Cersei, Marguerite engages an extramarital affair with a member of the royal household - and just as Cersei’s relationship with Jaime resulted in the birth of children whose royal paternity fell into question, so Marguerite’s only child, Jeanne, is the subject of much speculation as to her paternity (indeed, so far that, in Druon’s story, the Salic law is invented as a means of cutting this doubtful dynast out of the succession to the French throne). Just as Cersei fondly imagines the conception of her first (and, of course, first extramarital) child as the consummate rejection of Robert’s early, familial affair of his own, so Marguerite (in Druon’s opinion, anyway) “felt that she was justified” in her affair “by the fact that she had been married to a prince whom she did not love, and whose nocturnal advances filled her with horror”.
Yet what I never realized for a long time - even though it is so blatant - is that Marguerite’s death bears striking similarities to what is prophesied (and to some extent what has passed) for Cersei. After Marguerite’s affair is revealed (by Isabella, no less), Marguerite is imprisoned (along with her cousin and sister-in-law Blanche, who had also had a sexual affair with a royal equerry). At the beginning of the second novel, Marguerite is approached by Robert of Artois on behalf of the new King Louis X. Because Louis legally remains Marguerite’s husband, Robert offers to have Marguerite formally declare that she had never had sex with Louis and that her daughter is illegitimate in exchange for freedom. Yet Marguerite rejects the offer: she will never declare her daughter illegitimate, she proclaims, for “should Louis die, which I hope he does with all my heart, my daughter would become Queen of France and then people would have to take some account of me as Queen Mother”.
However, Marguerite changes her mind later in the book; subject to months of suffering in the bleak and hopeless Château-Gaillard, Marguerite eventually agrees to write a letter confirming that her daughter is not the child of the king. Unfortunately for her, however the letter ends up in the hands of chief minister Marigny, who burns it (to keep Louis trapped in his marriage and in his, Marigny’s, power). Still worse, Louis - now betrothed to a Neapolitan cousin, but with a deadline to free himself from his first marriage attached - implicitly agrees to have Marguerite murdered in order to marry his new bride. So Robert returns to Château-Gaillard and has Marguerite sign a document proclaiming her to have been Louis’ faithful wife; then, after he leaves, his chief henchman enters Marguerite’s chambers and strangles her (hence the title of the book, La Reine étranglée, or The Strangled Queen).
These facets of Marguerite of Burgundy’s story recall certain aspects of the story of Cersei. Just as Marguerite, during her imprisonment, stalwartly refuses to denounce her daughter as illegitimate (and counts upon little Jeanne’s would-be regal future for her own salvation), so Cersei immediately rejects the High Sparrow’s accusation that “[her] children were not fathered by King Robert” and “are bastards born of incest and adultery” by declaring it “a lie, a lie, a palpable lie” (and, when she is forced into her walk of atonement, Cersei thinks that Tommen “will not refuse his own mother” because he “is a good little boy, a good little king”). Yet just as Marguerite grows desperate enough in her imprisonment to try to renounce the position she had taken and declare her daughter illegitimate, so Cersei, while in prison (albeit before facing the High Sparrow) tries to look for rescue via a letter to the father of her extramarital children; in both cases, moreover, these letters are not acted upon but destroyed. Just as Marguerite is approached by Robert again and compelled to sign a new declaration affirming that she had always been the king’s loyal wife, so Cersei is about to go to trial - and very likely win - to prove (among other things) that she had always been Robert’s faithful wife during their marriage. In neither case, however, does such a declaration save the queen at issue; while Marguerite is soon after murdered by strangulation, Cersei is prophesied to die (and I think soon) when the valonqar “wrap[s] his hands about [her] pale white throat and choke[s] the life from her”. Just as Marguerite died ostensibly known as the faithful wife of King Louis X (albeit with many questions lingering to her daughter’s paternity), so perhaps Cersei will be remembered by history, thanks to that possible trial outcome, as (at least officially) the faithful wife of King Robert (but with at least some awareness as to the rumors of her children's paternity).
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter - Wednesday, July 26 - Thursday July 27 - Part II
The Sunnydale Herald is looking for at least one new editor. Contributing to the Herald is a great way to get your Buffy on!! Find out more here.
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aleks, ALEKS, ALEKS YOU HAVE MADE MY LIFE MY WEEK MY DAY MY EVERYTHING YOU AND KANA.
(before we get started on still not sure if you're forgiven for that normie core comment on nanami. Yes, he is normie, but HE IS MY NORMIE DOMESTICATED HOUSECAT/WIFE!! UNDERSTOOD!? jk, jk. Apart from nanami blondes aren't really my type either lol)
anyway, I loved this chapter made my eyes tear up (my eyes always tear up because I'm emotional like that but this was a special kind of tear up) I've and fire just makes me so sad and nothing remotely drastic has even happened yet. But I'll move in chronological order.
man, I'm ROOTING for yuuji/historia. (Yuhisu? Hisuji? Still working on a name) why did no one think of that first they'll be wonderful together. The minute he mentioned his type of woman I just flashbacks to the princess commission you had haha.
And goodness, rika is falling flat on her face for eren. I don't blame her, the whole scene about her smile and touching her hand made me squeal. I could have ascended right there with no hesitstion. But it's gonna be pretty bad when she finds out that he's married to her brother 🤐. Eren makes me so sad like just imagine his holy marriage with yuuta and realising that legally yuuta needs a princess STOP I'LL CRY.
And yuuki x toji is one sided but I shall fall down the unrequited love hole with toji if I have to. They're just so REAL and wpdbrosnjfowms. I can't put it to words my English isn't gonna allow me to express. No language is 😫. All I know is, I want someone to love me in the way toji loves yuuki...and also, I'm not liking their parallels with renyuu....
I don't think I knew what I was getting into when I started your fic 😭. But you and kana are doing I brilliant job and I can't wait for the next chapter 😚😚😚
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ARIES ANON always a lovely day when you’re here!!!!
Waaaa thank you for reading this fic you know it’s always something in my mind that there aren’t a lot of people reading compared to the effort it takes to write this but when I get messages from you (& Nina, Zell, Kriza, & the few who are reading) it’s so nice to know people are reading it despite the fact that it’s such out there crack content LMAO but like I find it so fun to create something out of nothing ya know? I’m so glad you’re still here 😭🫶🏽
I’m laughing at the nanami comment HE IS NORMIECORE OKAY !! Speaking my TRUTH!! If anything I’m living for Lord Hand Nanami tho omg he is like the only level headed person in this whole fic LMAO I respect him for that ahshdhjs
Oh my god I can’t wait for you to see Yuuji/Historia actually interact !!!! THEY ARE SO CUTE IM ROOTING FOR THEM TOO KAGDKSHD (<- me, the writer, knowing what evil things we have done to both Yuuji and hisu….) there’s a chapter kana wrote where they have a heart to heart convo about relationships and Yuuji helps Historia and it’s the sweetest thing Yuuji baby you are too good for this fic. You know when people look at JJK and they’re like “these guys should be put in a slice of life” like I’m saying the same thing about my fic this is gonna be BAD. Like i think we are on par with Gege… every single character is going thru it I fear
Rika will eventually find out about yuuta & Eren but it’s gonna hurt her feelings :( but who else other than her hot knight bestie megumi to pick up the pieces 😉 (<- me, the writer, knowing what evil things I have ALSO done to megumi)
Eren is going to go thru it too because VERY SOON yuuta will be needing to marry :// oh man I feel so bad right now LMAO BUT THAT IS NOT COMING FOR A LITTLE WHILE SO ENJOY THEM FUCKING NASTY FOR NOW HAHA
Oh my god Yuuki x Toji…………. My heart aches. Their relationship I’ll SOB like… 🥹 if I’m being real the parallels are REAL Yuuki x Toji is honestly what renyuu would be if they decided to choose their duty over their feelings. The thing is that Yuuki and Toji have different personalities than renyuu do. Yuuta’s naïve in ways that his father isn’t. He really believes (at least he does currently) that he could both be king and still have his relationship with Ren. Whereas Yuuki has known his whole life that he has a duty to fulfill and that having a queen is part of that duty. So he fucks around and does promiscuous things (oh get ready for him and *******) but at the end of the day he will settle down with a princess and become a great king. And Toji’s willing to sacrifice his feelings to support that :( he does come to love mamagumi tho but he always has those feelings for Yuuki. Sobbing 🥲
I haven’t written for this story in a hot minute I’ve been kinda in a slump with writing but every time you come to the ask box I get excited about this fic again 😭😭 I can tell you what’s coming up in the next few chapters!!
Next chapter Gojo is making Yuuta’s ring (remember when he mentioned in the council meeting that he can make a ring to help control Eren? THAT ring). And there’s another nasty sex scene coming 🫶🏽 Yuuta in all his monsterfucker glory 😵‍💫 then after that is the CORONATION!!! We will be introducing more characters!!! PRINCE NAOYA PRINCE CHOSO AMONG A FEW !!!
There’s an arc coming up where yuuta and Eren go to Xentis, Naoya’s kingdom, and some shenanigans ensue 👀 then…….. *whispers* wedding bells……… bad things happen after that wedding this fic is CURSED. HEADS WILL ROLLLLLL
All the villains in JJK will be making their appearances (kenjaku, Sukuna, mahito, etc) so be prepared to see them !!!
THATS ENOUGH SPOILERS HEHEHE
I’m very serious about the warnings on this fic btw there will be a lot of gore, warfare, fighting, backstabbing, downright awful things. If it’s ever too much for you I get it!! The political situation in the world we created is very complicated and there’s SO much going on in the background like you don’t even know what’s happening right now behind the scenes. But hope you will stick it out!! The ending we have planned makes me cry when I think about it for too long… :(
Waaaah maybe if I pick this back up I’ll get out of my slump !!! I’ll try writing again tonight :>
ALSO sorry if you’ve tried to leave any anon messages on the renyuu blog I had to disable them cause someone was being rude in the inbox :/ but you’re always welcome here !!!
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I was (unofficially) tagged by @bbgirlsteve to list nine of my favorite movies.
Gotta tell you, narrowing this list down was hard. I was a Film major back in the day, so I have a ton of movies that I love dearly.
Tumblr arranged them in alphabetical order, so below is the actual order, along with a little blurb about each!
(1) Requiem for a Dream (2000) This is my all-time favorite movie, and one of the few I view as being perfect. It's about four people going down the downward spiral of addiction and experiencing all of the consequences that come with it. It was the first movie I watched on my own when I was trying to be a Serious Film Student, and I was blown away by it. In particular, the editing style is remarkable. It uses over 2000 cuts, whereas your average film of the same length uses about 600 - 700. It's done in such a way to mimic a drug user's experience, going from rapid, frantic movements to slow calms. I must stress though, if you want to watch this movie, PLEASE exercise caution. The whole reason I found it was because it was on several Most Disturbing Films Ever lists, and it earns its place there. It's like a very long, drawn out sucker punch - painful, dark, and potentially will leave you laid out for a day.
(2) Legally Blonde (2001) On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, Legally Blonde is my second favorite. I'm sure most of you know it, but in case you don't: A "dumb blonde" goes to Harvard Law School to win back the boyfriend who dumped her. I love it because it works hard to subvert the dumb blonde stereotype - Elle is smart, hard-working, and above all has a good heart. This movie just has an overall positive message, plus it has a ton of female positivity, which the world needs way more of. It's my go-to sick day movie because it never fails to make me feel better.
(3) Coraline (2009) Ah, Coraline. A cautionary tale about a little girl who discovers a gateway to a perfect parallel world in her new house (except it's not so perfect). This one I love because it manages to perfectly marry the magic and pains of childhood with extreme darkness. Coraline is just a kid who longs for adventure and a family that pays attention to her, which hit home for me in a lot of ways. And then they come in with "oh by the way you have to have buttons sewn into your eyes." God, that moment still makes me shudder. Also, fun fact: Coraline held the world record for the longest stop motion animation film (100 minutes) for seven years until it was overthrown by Kubo and the Two Strings (101 minutes).
(4) Colossal (2016) Colossal is probably one a lot of you have overlooked. It's a got a very strange premise - a drunk, down on her luck woman is somehow linked to and controlling a kaiju that randomly appeared in South Korea? What? But this movie is so, SO good. After not really paying much attention to movies for a few years, Colossal was the one that made me take notice again. It's a masterclass in acting from both Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis. Its premise, while strange, lends it a unique charm I have yet to find in another movie, even other kaiju or body swap type stories. And its another positive message movie - no matter how hard life or other people knock you down, you can get back up and keep fighting. I can't recommend it strongly enough.
(5) Cat People (1942) This movie's premise is also pretty bonkers: A woman won't have sex with her husband because she thinks that she will turn into a giant cat and eat him if she does. However, do you like modern horror movies? If you do, you have Cat People to thank for them. Obviously, horror movies had come out before Cat People. It was made by RKO as a response to Universal's success with Dracula and Frankenstein, after all. However, Cat People set up a lot of things that would inspire later horror movies. In particular, its use of the idea that "What you don't see is scarier than what you do" and emphasis on subtlety rather than in your face scares is something you see coming from here. It's also credited as the source of the very first jump scare.
(6) Coco (2017) I love movies about music and/or that have good soundtracks. Coco falls into both categories, since it's about a little boy who wants to be a musician and ends up seeking out his musical ancestor in the Land of the Dead after his family rejects his musical aspirations. It is visually gorgeous - I legitimately think this is the prettiest movie Pixar has ever made, which is saying a lot. (The moment where Manny crosses the marigold bridge into the Land of the Dead comes to mind) I also love the way that the Mexican culture and music is seamlessly woven into the story. It truly transports me to a new world.
(7) The Ring (2002) Everyone knows the story even if they haven't seen this movie: It's about a video tape that kills you seven days after you watch it. And this is the single scariest movie I've ever seen. I first watched it when I was about 13. I watched it on VHS alone in the basement of my childhood house late at night (which definitely upped the scare factor). I actually thought the movie was over after they discover Samara's body in the well and stopped the movie. But then I decided I wanted to watch the credits because I wanted to see who was in the cast. And boy did I get a surprise. That single moment redefined horror for me. To this day, there hasn't been another movie that has scared me that badly.
(8) Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010) Conversely, there hasn't been a horror comedy that hit all the right notes quite like Tucker and Dale. It's a spoof on your typical summer slasher movies like Friday the 13th or Wrong Turn, but done right. It takes every single slasher horror trope you can think of and turns it on its head. This movie made me laugh harder than almost any other movie. It's also made from a place of love, honoring the tropes and movies that came before it, and working with them to make an amazing movie.
(9) Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) Yes, this is a romantic comedy about two friends making a porno together. And it's good. It's hard to make me like romantic comedies. They have to have something that really sets them apart. Zack and Miri does this by leaning hard (hehe) into its premise. It's not ashamed, it gleefully shows off its cast in every sense of the word, and it still manages to create one of the most intimate sex scenes I've ever seen. (Yes, in a film about porn) Plus it's funny as hell. Just do yourselves a favor and don't watch it with your mom like I did.
Some honorable mentions:
The Omen (1976) Happy Death Day Ratatouille Us Pan's Labyrinth Candyman Stranger Than Fiction Wolf Children Cabin in the Woods Little Miss Sunshine A Quiet Place
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Tagging (no pressure or obligation <3): @justmyownreality @iantoya @therantingfangirl @obscurism @starnightcat @moonlight-alphafemale @mal-the-konohoe
And if you weren't tagged but want to participate, please feel free. I love talking movies!
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                                            ──    HSHQTASK041  :  inspiration.    ❜
otherwise known as  :    well-dressed, dramatic and everything done to a tee.
elle  woods  from  legally  blonde  .
elle was one of the main inspirations i had when creating eloá, and it’s because of many reasons.    elle is a very upbeat individual, who cares very much for people in her life and is always open to meeting new people.    this, in essence, is the way elo is.    she’s almost constantly got a smile on her face, will go to the ends of the earth for the people she loves, and loves socialising and making new friends  !    like elle, eloá also tends to get underestimated a lot, despite being smart in general.    people tend to take her bubbly and energetic nature as a sign of her being the opposite of intellectual, but eloá, like elle, loves proving people wrong and won’t ever left their opinions effect her or stop her from getting what she wants.    elle is also kinda the reason why i wanted elo to study law in college, although their reasons are completely different    (  elo would rather be seen dead than be seen going to harvard for a man  !  )
cher  horowitz  from  clueless  .
cher horowitz is probably one of my favourite characters ever, and i see a lot of things in cher that are paralleled in eloá  !    like cher, eloá is moral and helpful to anyone who needs it, and is incredibly thoughtful.    eloá also shares cher’s love of shopping  !    eloá would be more than happy to spend all day and everyday in a mall and, the same as cher, would probably spend far too much than should be allowed, but who cares  !    fashion is everything to her  !    although eloá isn’t quite as superficial as cher, she can be quite self-centered at times and doesn’t really have an awareness of her own spoiled privilege.    but, making others happy and find joy in doing good deeds  !
caroline  forbes  from  the  vampire  diaries  .
caroline is the loml so ofc she would shine through eloá  !    the biggest stand out for me with caroline and elo is that they both need perfectionism to survive and the only way they feel they can be achieved is by having things in their own hands.    they both love planning events  !    they both have to put dresses on hold then get extremely pissed when cough elena somebody steals the dress they were going to wear  !    but they are both also incredibly dependable and encouraging.    they both would do anything for their friends, and have a tendency to be a little or a lot overdramatic, and can also be very insecure.    they can both also be incredibly judgemental, and find it difficult to hide that judgement 
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Okay let’s see for Bingo…Shret for Ethersea, Rainer Michelle for Grad, Indrid for Amnesty, and Lup for Balance!
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Shret:
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Why do I associate like every character I've gotten for this bingo with red?? Anyway
She has so much going on! But we don't explore it very much. Like I guess in flashbacks we do but it's not properly and there is SO much background with her and amber but it's kind of hidden since that's the way Amber keeps it. I for one am excited to have an opportunity for fans to explore the missing pieces of the puzzle there, but I also feel like it was left behind intentionally. Who knows.
I don't think she's like the next big bad or anything at all, I think her and amber just have beef because of what happened to their friend and.. Amber's brother??? What the fuck was that a fever dream?
Rainer:
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My love. My light. I need to think of her more because she is cool as hell! I really love that Travis introduced her as a character with a disability (WITH COOL MAGIC SHIT :D) but it was just part of her, not her whole deal. She is so sweet and a little creepy and I love her with my whole heart. And yes I will project onto her.
It's like it was cute how she had like a small crush on Fitz probably (from my perspective) but like it wasn't a Thing™ especially when Fitz showed he wasn't interested. And with him being canonically ace + headcanon aro, they just remind me of the way I was with a similar guy at the start of high school before realizing I was gay. I dunno I just thought of that parallel-- it's my headcanon and I'll project if I want to😌
Indrid:
Too slow 💪😏 just posted that one though. Cool dude, he's a moth, enough said
Lup:
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BINGO!!
Lup Lup Lup, love of my life. I know I just said that about Rainer but I can have multiple loves.
What is there to say? She's just SUCH a character and she's fun but grounded and has so much love and anger and <3
She is so cool looking. She has pierced elf ears with like the cuff chain, and a cool red jacket and wears patterned tights and shit(all of which I have in my cosplay for her 🥰). But sometimes just messy hair and sweats and I love her just as much either way.
If she were real I would marry her and also be afraid of her. She's so powerful. She wouldn't hurt me though. Unless I was a prick.
I put kinda for screen time because I think the amount we got of her was like.. perfect? For what she needed to do? But yeah I do still wish for more of her but we have liveshows for that. And fan fics
I previously joked about her carrying a little dog with sunglasses in a handbag like legally blonde style and naming it Barry one of the cycles where he fucks up early on and dies and goes lich mode. I still want to draw it.
She is amazing on her own but I especially love her relationship to the other characters, and how she interacts with each of them, and really grounds Taako. It's just so special. It's easy to see why they all fell apart when she left.
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lunapwrites · 2 years
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Omg I'm dying with the titles!!! Can I have something from "waiting room"?
Hi hello yes friend! <3 I am fairly certain this is another bit from LTL, but let me check...
OH NO. Ohhhhh this is from a VERY OLD version of the bathtub scene (still Remus POV!), before I ended up reworking a bunch of things. I'll note what changed under a cut, but uh. Here is a small, inoffensive snippet of this one lol
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"I can't believe you did this." Dora snorted, squirting different coloured dyes into several small bowls. They'd broken out the good china for this exercise, he'd noticed. "I absolutely can." Sirius sighed dramatically, and Remus was beginning to suspect he'd somehow switched consciousness with his fifth-year self. "I just fancied a change."  "Then paint some walls or something, you prat, not…" He trailed off, gesturing vaguely at Sirius' hair, which truly looked horrid. "Eugh, look, no offence, cariad, blond is not your colour." "You don't think it makes me look like my cousin? My dear old mother used to say we had the same cheekbones." He pursed his lips, tapping his cheek with his index finger. He did have lovely cheekbones, but that was rather beside the point. "Probably why she tried to marry me off to her, come to think of it." "Cissy had actual colour to her hair. This is… erm…" "White?" Dora supplied, grinning as though she weren't at least partially responsible. "Well, that's a word for it, isn’t it? Thank you Dora." Sirius scowled; the effect was rather ruined by how ridiculous he looked. Don't laugh, Lupin, you'll just get him all het up again. Whatever made him happy, right?
Right. "I’m never staying blond, ta very much." Dora winked at Remus, then grabbed Sirius' head firmly and turned him so he was looking straight down into his lap. "Too right you're not, now sit still so I can apply this."
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OK, so if you want to see the changes...
This was the version where Remus ALSO sat down and let Dora dye his hair (he no longer does this.) Fun fact: this is what my PFP is from lol. I'm still a little sad I lost that bit, but. Oh well. It really wasn't that important.
The hearing never happened in this version, so Sirius was still trying to figure out a legal way to clear his name rather than Remus flinging himself at the situation like an angry cat.
The whole borderline alcoholism angle with Sirius was not addressed yet like it has been in LTL-canon, and the problem was going to be a lot worse. I decided to walk it back a little because he didn't really get the chance to full-on spiral down that particular well like he did in actual-canon.
This version takes place the same night the Weasley kids + Harry show up at Grimmauld Place. I pushed it up earlier in the month instead because it was WAY too messy and honestly I didn't want to put a bunch of anxious teens in the same house as a couple of inebriated adults. As I was writing it out, the discomfort overrode any comic value.
Sirius got to be The Adult In The Room, which... I ended up reworking as a concept into some better/healthier moments, since it's important for his character arc.
The discussion between Remus and Dora re: his past addiction issues was originally going to happen here, and Remus was also going to mentally draw parallels between his past and Sirius' current struggles. I felt it was a little too on the nose.
I had been laying the groundwork for actual UST between Dora and Sirius here, which no longer strictly lines up with where they're headed in LTL.
There was a photograph of Remus with green hair. I will be working this into LTL canon SOMEWHERE, or so help me XD
Remus took paint thinner to Walburga's portrait, and Dora drew a dick on her with a sharpie which she couldn't scream about, owing to no longer having a mouth. While the scene is hilarious, I could not in good conscience keep this as is, and the writing in the dialogue is so genuinely terrible I want to cry lol. (Not like the words they're saying are bad, just I was still in the "need to write the way they sound" mode, and it just isn't a good look, it's going back in the hole forever.)
There's probably some other changes here but yeah, just generally tone and trajectory and pacing and plot alllllll changed from where this was at initially lol.
Thank you for the ask!!
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Legally Blonde and She Loves Me Parallels Part 2 (Part 1)
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the-lonelybarricade · 2 years
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Okay I don't have the time to write it but hear me out: Elucien Legally Blonde AU.
Like... spoiled pretty rich girl everyone underestimates? Going to extremes for a man who doesn't love her? Only to realize she's capable of so much more than anyone ever thought she was? The parallels are there, somone do it 👀
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Hi! Idk what came over me but I thought an AU where Sander’s kid is anti-Bowie was the most hilarious thing thanks to @hidden-joy @kylesbishops and @sanderijzermans so I wrote it skdjdj
Disclaimer: it’s all fun and chaos and I don’t really know anything about how to write kids
x, x, x, x, credit to the chaos 🤪
The day Sander Driesen hears the words come out of his child’s mouth is the day he wonders if this is his child at all.
He’s standing there, leather jacket, white t-shirt and all, bleached hair icy even in the summer sun, and he looks down at the small stature in front of him. Grey-green eyes, dark locks and an air of confidence that could only be learned from a certain music-loving individual fill his sight. There’s so much innocence standing before him but a driven insistence breaks through the words spoken.
“Dad,” he hears. “I don’t know how to tell you this, but...I don’t really like David Bowie all that much.”
Sander thinks he’s lost his senses. He is definitely not hearing right. Hell, he’s only a man in his early thirties, he could not be this hard of hearing already. He tries to brace himself on the couch from falling over. Shit, he’s also too young to feel this frail.
“Wh-what do you mean you don’t like David Bowie all that much?”
The question comes out in gasps of air, ragged and winded, like he can’t believe what’s happening. He feels like his world’s spinning, like he’s entered another dimension, like there was no way, absolutely no way, his child doesn’t like David Bowie.
Denial is a pretty powerful thing, though...
See, when Alexandra Driesen was born, she brought light and life to Sander and Robbe’s eyes. She had a chubby face and squishy cheeks and eyes the colour of a summer storm. Her dark hair had been a blessing to match Robbe’s. Everything about her was as perfect as it could get. And then came the perpetual frustrations of parenthood with the screaming and the crying.
Sleep was something to be cherished at the Driesen-Ijzermans household. A few day-naps here and a doze-off there. But God, oh God, did Alexandra know how to cry in the middle of the night. Robbe and Sander spent hours upon hours holding her and swaying her and rocking her on a chair. Sander had read that sometimes music helps so he’d even done all that. Bowie usually floated in the shriek-filled room during these times and yet, Alexandra just wept.
“Come on, baby, just a little bit of sleep. Don’t you get tired of screaming all night?” Sander asked in that exhausted tone of parentese. He held her against the crook of his neck and walked around in sweats until he saw Robbe enter the room with blood-shot eyes and curls disarrayed.
“She’s still crying?” he asked with a rasp in his voice.
“She literally won’t stop and I don’t know what to do, I’ve tried everything. I’ve even got Bowie on for her,” he said.
Robbe took her from his arms and swayed her a little, cooing and kissing her tiny head.
“It’s kind of loud, though,” Robbe said to him as he then stepped over to turn off the music.
And in an instant miracle, the house was all quiet.
It seems that’s what’s always happened and Sander just hadn’t noticed it. Alexandra settled into Robbe’s chest and stretched her mouth in a heavy yawn. Her warmth radiated and glowed through Robbe, but Sander was stunned. He’s completely shocked.
“You-she-“ he stuttered clumsily for a bit. “But it was Bowie,” he said weakly.
How could his own daughter not feel at peace with Bowie? It was a connection he held with him, something connecting him and Robbe and what he hoped would connect their child to them in this little family.
“Hmmm,” Robbe hums pensively. “Maybe Bowie’s not her thing.”
“Not her thing?” Sander just about exploded. Then he suddenly remembered Alexandra’s finally gone to sleep and whispered, seething. “That is not our child!”
“Biologically, no. Legally and emotionally, yes,” smirked Robbe. “Calm down, babe, she’ll learn to like him soon enough. For now, how about we hold off on Bowie for a bit, yeah?”
He swayed her just a little more, just to really make sure she’s easing into sleep and then set her gently back down in her crib.
“How long?” Sander muttered and Robbe gave him a confused look. “How long without Bowie?”
Robbe contemplated.
“Maybe we give it six months or so,” he said.
And now it was Sander who wanted to weep. -
As the months and years went on, Alexandra had gone on without her Bowie-loving phase, only mildly being interested in the lightning bolt plushies and the songs blasting on road trips and the shirts Sander would get for her. Robbe says it just takes time for kids to get into stuff. That it’s better to leave it there in the open for them than to shove it down their throats.
“It’s barely any shoving,” Sander had grumbled.
“I know, babe. But I know how you can get sometimes,” Robbe had placed a soothing kiss upon his lips.
Still, Sander’s worries were increasingly growing.
Then a few years later, they’d adopted another beautiful girl. Mia was a radiant vision of blonde curls and brown eyes. They held a similar warmth that Robbe’s eyes held and Sander couldn’t be happier to lose himself in pools of coffee or dark, earthy soils or any other sort of metaphor for his favourite kind of brown.
To his relief, though, Mia loved listening to Bowie. She loved playing with the lightning bolt plushy and wearing all the shirts and as she grew, she and Sander had lots of music jam sessions blasting Bowie throughout the house. Alexandra was enticed into joining for a bit in the beginning but as time went on, Sander found it that she was making more and more excuses to not be in the same room when Bowie was mentioned.
“Uh, I got homework, Dad,” she’d nervously run her fingers through her hair.
“Uh, Papa needs help with dinner I think,” she’d run out with a tight smile.
“Group project due soon. Léon’s being a piece of shit and not pulling his weight at all.”
“Language,” Robbe would chastise coming around the corner.
“He’s being a dick?” she suggested.
“Fuck him.”
“Sander!”
“Sorry.”
Her interests lay instead in skateboarding with her friends, headphones in her ears listening to rap: BROCKHAMPTON and Stormzy with even a little Ed Sheeran in the mix, and keeping her hair as short as possible. She’d had a bit of a habit wearing overgrown shirts like Robbe did. But Sander found that endearing and he didn’t really think it was a case of ‘not-like-other-girls’ syndrome. He and Robbe just let her wear whatever she wanted.
And in fact, it was at thirteen years of age that Alexandra came out to the family as a boy. Sander remembers it clearly with them all huddled on the couch looking at the person in front of them with beady eyes, waiting.
“Dad, Papa, Mia. I think I’m a boy. I think I’m trans and I’d like to formally introduce myself to you all. I’m Alexander, or just Alex. And I use he/they pronouns.”
Sander had wanted to tear up, emotions flooding inside his rib cage. Happy tears, though, a joyous occasion where his son felt comfortable enough to tell them about this part of himself. That he and Robbe had created a space where he felt safe enough. Loved enough.
“I kept Alexander ‘cause, Sander,” he gestured to Sander. “But really, Alex is fine.”
And Sander wanted to cry all over again.
They’d all been encased in a huge family hug with Mia chirping that she’d ‘always wanted a big brother.’
Robbe and Sander had been quite supportive of it all, calling the school to change both the name and preferred name and asking if Alex was considering wearing a binder or getting a proper haircut. “Yes” to the haircut. “Hold off for a bit” on the binder. He’d whined a “Daaaaaad” when Sander ruffled the short brown locks. Most of Alex’s friends were cool with it, too and while it wasn’t all smooth sailing, he’d never run out of love from his family.
It was a big change and everything, but Sander thought, well...as long as he had his Bowie-loving children, it was all fine. -
It’s his worst nightmare. It’s the stuff that haunts you from the depths of the worst kind of hell, making your limbs feel like jelly. He’s cursing every name and divine entity and he’s really hoping Robbe’s right about those parallel universes because he’d love to hop over to the one where this wasn’t happening right now.
Sander’s having a hard time even looking at Alex in the eye.
“Dad?” he hears his concerned voice.
“I think I need to sit down,” says Sander, grabbing the armrest of the couch, lowering himself onto the cushion.
“It’s really not a big deal,” says Alex.
“Not a big deal?” Sander looks at him with wide eyes. “My own son hates David Bowie.”
“I never said I-“
“The man who infinitely changed my life. Space Oddity, Life on Mars, Ziggy Stardust, Ashes to Ashes. None of them?” Sander waves his arms. “You’re telling me you like none of them?”
“They’re...fine, I guess,” Alex shrugs innocently with a cringe to his face.
“Fine?” Sander squeaks.
“What’s fine?” Robbe trudges to them overhearing the conversation.
“Your son hates Bowie,” Sander squints his eyes at him.
“I do not,” says Alex. “I’m just pretty indifferent to him. He’s not exactly my style,” he shrugs, his hoodie moving with the movement.
“And what is your style?” Robbe laughs as he comes up behind him to rub his shoulders. He looks up at Sander with long lashes and a questioning smile stretching across his face. They share one of those ‘parenting looks.’ The ones where they know it’s not all that serious. But Sander thinks it is.
“A bit of rap, a bit of hip hop, some pop, some mainstream,” Alex lists off. “Not exactly the ‘80s vibes in me,” he laughs.
Robbe cheers as their tastes in music are quite similar and he proceeds to carry out their very own handshake they’d created when Alex was nine. There’s a different one with Sander. Sander, who’s getting more and more agitated by this revelation.
“Oh, okay,” he pats his knees and stands up. “Well, if you two are having such a grand time hating Bowie and bonding over your own music, I’ll just take myself and leave. No child of mine doesn’t like David Bowie,” he says dramatically.
“Sander…” Robbe looks at him.
“Dad…” says Alex.
“No, no. It’s fine. Really,” he begrudgingly walks out of the living room, almost knocking into Mia on the way.
“What’s with him?” she blinks twice and points a finger back.
Robbe sighs as he looks back at Alex.
“Your father, he…” Robbe puts a hand on his shoulder. “Bowie’s practically his life and so are the two of you, so I guess it’s really important to him that you like him, too. He’s just gonna need some time with all this.”
His eyes are apologetic and he gives him a half-smile, hand leaving his shoulder.
Alex takes in the words while Mia wiggles herself onto the couch and finds the tv remote beside her.
“You finally told him about Bowie, huh?” she gives him a gravely sad look. One that says he’s about to be doomed.
Alex just lets out a stressed breath as Robbe follows to go find Sander.
What’s so special about David Bowie anyway?
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Part 2 is coming! IM SO SORRY SKDJJF I just need sleep and rest
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TWD 11x02: The Talking Dead
Okay, I DO have a details post, which will go up tomorrow. Because Emily was a guest on TTD this week, I thought it would be more important to post this first this week.
P.S. Apologies for the low quality of the pictures. I wasn’t able to get my usual screenshots this week, so I had to take pics of my TV. ;D
Right off the bat, let me say there weren’t any huge, smoking guns about Beth’s return in the episode. In other words, not much that the general audience (GA) would pick up on.
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But we’re not the GA, are we? LOTS of suspicious dialogue and symbolism came out of this. Way more than we usually get from TTD. So, let’s dive right in.
The first thing was in the introduction. When Chris Hardwick was introducing his guests, as he always does, he used the phrase, “Beth is back!” That sort of thing always catches our attention and makes us side-eye.
@wdway​ observed that Emily’s outfit was a mixture of black and white/cream colors, Xs, and diamond patterns. In the past, I might not have been entirely swayed by that. (We’re assuming she chooses her own clothes, right?) But there have been too many times in the past when similar things have happened. Like for the S8 premiere when she wore that bright pink top that looked exactly like the pink bra ashtray in Still? Yeah, I’m no longer convinced Emily ISN’T dropping hints through her clothing.
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It was also observed that her hair was very long. Whether extensions or not, it was very long (Beth length) and very blond. Might have been another hint.
One of the first questions Chris asked he was what she thought of Maggie’s SURVIVAL. That’s important both because it’s a question about someone who was left for dead surviving and also because Maggie crawling under the train was a direct parallel to Glenn, who was a direct parallel to Beth. So I was definitely side-eyeing that.
At one point, Chris referenced the Commonwealth interrogating people before letting them in, and he asked if Hershel had done that at the farm, would Rick’s group have made it past the screening process. Emily, overall, said yes. But Josh (McDermott who was on with her) said Shane wouldn’t have. They then started talking and making typical fandom jokes about Shane’s craziness.
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The reason this made me smile is because Emily often deflects questions by saying she doesn’t remember, or doesn’t know, or that she no longer keeps up with the show. But here, she talked about specific characters and events in specific parts of a season 9 years ago as though she’s VERY familiar with it. It was like, “oh, but that character didn’t do that until minute 32 of episode 8 of season 2. But I don’t know. I don’t really keep up with things anymore.”
Okay, I’m totally exaggerating there. She wasn’t that specific. But that’s what it felt like. The little fibs she tells to keep people from suspecting Beth’s return are showing.
In talking about the significance of Maggie giving Negan a gun, Lauren said something kind of interesting and Beth-ish. She said, and I paraphrase, that Maggie is struggling to hold onto the person she was, rather than giving into who she might become. Just very reminiscent of Beth’s line to Daryl from still. “You gotta stay who you are, not who you were.”
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Chris then asked what Beth would have thought of the current Maggie. And he asked specifically, “Would she even recognize her?” Now, of course he meant that in terms of recognizing who she’s become, because Maggie has changed so much as a person since Beth’s death.
But given the memory loss theories and all the surrounding evidence, we really think there’s a good chance Beth won’t recognize Maggie right away. So that was a huge hint to drop.
See what I mean? It’s not that they talked about Beth’s return in a huge, smoking gun sort of way. Rather, they just dropped a lot of hints through dialogue and the way they phrased questions.
The other thing I noticed is that Emily, in answer to the question, said that without Maggie, everyone seemed adrift and as if they didn’t know what to do because they no longer had a leader (until Maggie showed up again) to tell them what to do. Especially since it didn’t directly answer Chris’s question, I felt like maybe Emily was hinting at Beth’s leadership. New sheriff in town, and such.
Then Josh brought the shiv to everyone’s attention. I don’t think I mentioned this yesterday. If not, it will be in tomorrow’s Details post. But we saw Eugene wheedle a piece of wood into a sharp shive/spike and stick it into his sleeve. It was very reminiscent of Beth hiding the scissors in her cast in Coda. And Josh specifically called attention to that scene. He actually compared it to Terminus, rather than Coda, because we saw them trying to create makeshift weapons in the train car in 5x01. But still, it’s all season 5 and revolves around Beth’s arc.
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Actually, as they went along through the episode, they did callbacks to various things in S5 a BUNCH of times. Kind of convenient given that Emily is sitting on the couch next to him, no? Both Lauren and Josh mentioned Terminus multiple times in various ways. Which works because Eugene’s group has been around a lot of train cars these past few episodes. But the thing is, they didn’t really equate Eugene’s storyline directly with Terminus. They were simply finding ways/reasons to randomly mention it.
They also brought up Noah’s death multiple times, comparing Gauge’s death to it, since in both cases, people watched them die horribly from behind a glass partition. Totally makes sense, but yet another tie to Beth by really talking about Noah a lot.
Lauren, talking about good vs evil and what people are capable of, a la Maggie’s disturbing cannibal story, said it wasn’t just about what outward choices people make. She pointed to her chest and said, “it’s what’s in here.” That just gave me huge Beth feels from Still, when she said, “…or it kills you. Here.” And pointed to her chest in the same way.
It just felt like they were invoking Beth a lot during this episode.
This next one was kind of the big kahuna. Chris, just out of left field, looked at Emily and asked, “Will Daryl prove Beth right? Will he be the last man standing?”
And that’s important because it has nothing to do with this discussion or this specific episode. Daryl wasn’t even in this episode.
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And I have to acknowledge that there’s a good chance Emily was supposed to be on last week, and her appearance was pushed. We just don’t entirely know what happened there. So possibly, they would have asked this last week during a more Daryl-centric discussion. But still, Chris didn’t say that. It wasn’t like, “Oh you were supposed to be on last week and we wanted to ask this…” No. He just launched into it.
Furthermore, Emily knew exactly what he was talking about. Yes, it’s a well-known line of Beth dialogue from Still that she probably would have been familiar with either way, but even so. The “will Daryl prove her right” came directly from Daryl’s origins episode. So again, despite “not keeping up with the show,” she clearly watched the Origins episode and knew what Chris was talking about.
A couple of suspicious things in her answer:
She essential said yes, that she believes Daryl will be the last man standing. But she also said she didn’t think he would be the ONLY last man standing. Then Chris made a joke saying (and I paraphrase), “Yeah, it’s not like Beth could have said, ‘Daryl, you’re going to get a spinoff.’” And they all laughed and joked about it.
Let’s consider her statement first. She said he wouldn’t be the only one who was standing last, but how would she know that? If she doesn’t follow it anymore and is only associated with it as a previous, deceased character, how would she know that.
And yes, you could argue that this was conjecture on her part, but she said with such…I don’t know, authority? As though she knows something we don’t.
I think you can interpret this one of two ways. The first is what I’ve hinted at above: that she knows others besides Daryl will survive to the end of the show. And I totally agree with her on that. While most of us believe, I think, that Daryl will live until the end, I think plenty of others will, too. Rick and Michonne. Probably Carol and Zeke. Hopefully Maggie, though I’m a little more worried about her. You get the idea. But once again, why would Emily know anything about that?
The other way you could interpret it is that this is a statement about Daryl not being alone. He’ll be the last man standing, but he won’t be the ONLY one. He won’t be alone in that, because Beth will be by his side.
And here’s your friendly neighborhood reminder that in an interview with Larry King prior to S5 airing, Gimple confirmed that Daryl will find love in the apocalypse at some point.
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Then there’s Chris’s statement about the spinoff. Now, that came from Chris rather than her, but it was still a really random reference. For me, what Chris does or doesn’t know is kind of irrelevant at this point. I personally believe he knows everything and is fully in on Beth’s storyline. But even if I’m wrong about that, these questions come from tptb. If Chris recognizes their significance, he’s being instructed to ask them and direct the conversation in a particular way.
And they way he threw in this mention made it seem like he was equating Beth with the spinoff in some way. Even the way he said, “there’s no way Beth could have known to say…” the thing about the spinoff struck me as interesting. Because back then, I truly don’t believe the writers knew anything about the spinoff. As I like to say, everything changed when Kirkman abruptly ended the comics and the writers decided to pick up all the characters and story lines and move them to a different vehicle: the spinoff. Probably for legal reasons. But they couldn’t have know that would happen back in S4.
There’s also the unspoken implication that, while Beth couldn’t have “known” about the spinoff, she didn’t know about other things. Like her return and Daryl’s fate.
Emily even told a story about how when they were getting ready to film the porch scene for Still, both she and Norman were hounding Angela Kang (not the show runner back then, but the writer of that episode) about the last man standing line. They both wondered if it was some kind of foreshadow. She implied they were both worried that Daryl would die soon because of it.
A few things about that. 1) I don’t think either of them actually believed Daryl was soon to die. I seriously doubt that. This is just one of those stories they tell to illustrate a point. Which leads me to my next point. 2) Clearly they are implying that this IS some sort of foreshadowing. They’re just not being specific about what it foreshadows. 3) Keep this in mind--that they were both asking about what a certain line of dialogue might foreshadow--the next the time actors try to claim they have no idea what anything means or what’s going to happen next. They’re VERY aware of how the writers put these symbols in and are constantly wanting to know where the show is going, just like we are. 
So yeah. I was definitely a fan of that whole discussion.
The Inside the Dead portion referenced some interesting Easter eggs, including Gorbelli foods (seen in Tara’s backstory in S4, which had lots of Beth parallels) and Duane Jones Whiskey (alcohol, Morgan, etc; we’ve compared that with Beth before). Kinda small potatoes, but still important.
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I missed part of this next question, but they asked Emily something about whether she thought the Commonwealth is going to turn out to be a good thing and helpful to Alexandria. She said no. Again, maybe not a smoking gun but given that we think she’s most likely coming through Eugene’s story line, it might have been a hint.
They asked her about the Eugene/Stephanie story line, and she said she was excited for any love story in this world. *coughs Bethyl hint*. She also said she’s suspicious of ‘Stephanie’ (emphasis mine) *coughs plot hint*.
For the quiz, they talked about how many walkers Dog killed in the episode (1). Where Mercer said he went to school (Westpoint). What was interesting, is that they kinda gave something away there. After giving the answer, it said, “Mercer didn’t go to school there, but the actor that played him did.” So, they kind of hinted that Mercer SAID he went to Westpoint, but was lying. Just more evidence that Eugene’s group is being lied to and manipulated. Finally, they had a fill-in-the-blank of Eugene’s dialogue. It was when he asked how he was being processed. And one of the options was “as in bologna and other meant stuffs…” (again, I’m paraphrasing; forgive me if my wording is a little off). Anyway, it said at that moment, Eugene was thinking about Terminus. So, just another callback to that story line in S5.
Near the end, Chris asked Lauren and Emily what they miss most about working together. Lauren’s replay was, again, suspicious. She said Emily was “such a bright light,” which we equated to Norman’s famous description of Beth as Daryl’s light that “went out.” She also talked about how it was a testament to Emily’s goodness that she’s “being so missed.” Which made me think of, “you’re gonna miss me so bad when I’m gone, Daryl Dixon.”
Finally, even before the episode aired, @wdway had a theory about Emily being in the studio for the episode, rather than via satellite. Well, I guess it was more of a hope than an actual theory. Now that the episode has aired, it’s an actual theory. 
See, she had a hunch that maybe the Commonwealth story lines (what Josh should be filming right now) might be filmed in studio, rather than on location in Georgia. And there IS an AMC studio in L.A. What we saw--Josh in person on the show while Lauren was there via satellite because she’s in Georgia--does seem to back up this idea. Or at least the possibility. 
The fact that Emily was also there in person could be a coincidence. But it could also possibly mean that she’s filming in studio for the Commonwealth story line as well. @wdway​ thought of this because we think she’ll first come through Eugene’s arc, and none of the Commonwealth stuff is being filmed on the main Alexandria lots where people generally look for spoilers.
Not something that can be proven either way, of course. But a great theory that I’m 100% behind! 
Okay, that’s it for TTD (but that was a LOT) and it makes me super happy. Together with the screeners not being able to talk about episodes moving forward, I think we’ll see Beth very soon. Any references in TTD that I missed?
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