#mego42

[hypermania]

zach didn’t actually have to act at all he was just living his life as a man existing in an endless hell

this was just zach watching it all go down on that set. the camera operator was smart enough to keep the camera running.

#replies #mego42 #are we being mean? yes. #is it deserved? also yes. #though i do feel like she was perfectly fine in house on haunted hill #so idk

[sarahleenyc]

Beth & Rio (Brio) Fanfiction

HERE IS A LIST OF THE BEST FICS (IN MY OPINION).

1. “Rough Night” By MichelleElizabethTanner

The season 5 we should of had.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34666819

2. “Irresistible” series by @wakeupflawless 

High School Brio.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1841020

3. “Do Not Collect $200“ Series By Linzackles @mrslackles

Aftermath of Season 2.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1406491

4.  “Only You Show Me What Warmth Is” Series By@riosnecktattoo​

Fluffy Brio.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1982956

5. “Plans Wrapped in Rubber Bands” By Civilllove @blainesebastian

Alternate Season 2.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1347943

6. “When We Talk” By Toalan

Season 4 Brio Start to trust each other and build a relationship. Also, there is some 

Mick X Annie cuteness.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33608239

7. “A Special Kind Of Business” By CaptainCabinets

High School Brio (Takes Place in the 90′s).

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33191974

8. “The center and Circumference” Series By Flashindie  @pynkhues​

Brio Move in Together and make it Work.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1416943

9. “A Rational Choice” By FireinsideforFun

Aftermath of Beth Shooting Rio in Season 2.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19077727

10. “Both Sides of The Law” By @joeyjoeylee

Brio in Law School.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26662066

11. “A Song In the Halls of The Dark” By ms_scarlet / @mego42​

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23218357

12. “And Did You Know Im Wild For your Skin” By Fortunehasgivenup

Rio is a tattoo artist. Beth is divorced.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1377679

13. “Shared History” By Brokensatellites

Brio Meet as Teenagers.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19009147

14. “I Pose and Take Pictures(Then Send Them To People I Don’t Know By)”

Fortunehasgivenup

Beth Is an Instagram Model.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24304321

15.  “The Show Must Go On” By ThoughWeAreWorldsApart

Alternate Season 1.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41543610

16. “I’m Just Going To The Store(To The Store) By Fortunehasgivenup

Beth is Pregnant and Meets Rio at a Convenience Store.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1700317

#beth x rio #Brio #good girls fanfic #brio fanfiction #beth x rio fan fic #fanfiction

[pynkhues]

URL song tag game

Thanks for the tag @kimwexlers-brownhair! I know you tagged me at @owlishgirl, but I hope you don't mind me posting here instead.

RULES: spell your url with song titles and then tag as many people as there are letters.

On my Knees - Middle Kids

Willow Tree (live) - The Waifs

Let You Down - Hungry Kids of Hungary

I Like That - Janelle Monae

Same Mistakes - The Echo Friendly

Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - Lana Del Rey

Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll - The Killers

I'll Believe in Anything - Wolf Parade

Red Eye - Kid Cudi feat. Haim

Lost (Season One) - Camp Cope

I also made a playlist, because why not, haha.

Tagging: @foxmagpie @mego42 @femalegothic @nakedmonkey @s-endeavour @hypermania @misshazelevers20 @riosnecktattoo @lemoncupcake @carry-the-sky and anyone who'd like to do it :-)

#i'm actually not big on lana but i really do love that song #i've been listening to a lot of camp cope lately though since they announced their break up </3 #music #tag games #Spotify

[sothischickshe]

🔥🥺🤡

😊 ty!!

🔥

a song inside the halls of the dark by @mego42

Ft! A fire!💡Fabulous Beth + Ruby + annie content! A fantastic antagonist!

🥺

You're my favorite kind of night by @goldfishangie

Ft! Dean bashing! Bondage! Bossy Beth!!

🤡

In your hands by @riosnecktattoo

Ft! Sexy clown rio! Very red lingerie! BIRTHDAY PARTY!

Send me 'an' emoji and I will rec you 'a' fic!

#gg fic recs #Nbc good girls #TV #Fanfiction #Emoji association is a fun game 👌 ty!

[joeyjoeylee]

I loved BSOTL! I think about Gretchen saying "Super Best Tiger" on the daily and giggle to myself. My cat side eyes me.

I wanted to know if you had plans to write more Brio or write anything in general?

Anon, you've made me Grinch Smile thinking of Gretchen and her never-ending exasperation with her Boss slash Little Brother-Cousin she will always partially see as a 5-year-old trailing after her annoying her 🤣 🤣  Putting answer under a cut b/c I may word vomit:

I've written a bunch and it's funny you mention Gretchen, b/c I just checked and I'm up over 5K words into her POV companion to the series. (4K into Annie's, 3K into Courtney's, etc.)

I had also started imagining a canon-jumpoff AU where everything is the same except for Beth/Rio meeting a couple years down the road instead when she is shiny newly-minted Super Go-getter City Councilwoman Trying to Do "Local Business Outreach" For the Community (and her public profile/own benefit natch) and he is Local [Crime] Business Owner wanting to work this situation [her, the connections, her, more money, her] to his benefit now that Nick is in jail and Rio no longer has that previous protection on the City Council. I wrote one chapter there and it is 2K words of basically Beth/Rio's first meeting, staring fixedly and obsessively at each other across his desk trying to figure each other out (this means "manipulate each other") while Mick stands silently behind Rio totally ignored by both, desperately thinking, please. stop this immediately. I can already see this is the worst idea ever. please. I'm so tired already. please.

My actual finishing/posting problems with all this are both micro and macro tho:

Experiencing plotting issues with the other POV structures that I can't quite figure out how to fix. Should they all go together, chronologically, weaving back and forth from like Gretchen to Annie to Gardner, etc. (which means something could be revealed in like, the Annie one covering the summer between 1L/2L that would be picked up in a Gretchen one later) or each one standalone covering the entire time period of watching the Brio trainwreck? How realistic are some of scenes given they would only have information they had personally witnessed or been told about by two unreliable narrators? Too much detail and backstory into the own POVs making them too OC (original character AND out-of-character) and not enough focus on Brio? Making each a standalone "arc" (I know I'm not using the right words here as I'm not enough of a creative writer to articulate it) with beginning, tension, resolution, to stand in their own rights given how long they are or just break them into vignettes?

Lingering never-leaving thought that I need to break off from my one "story" and do something new, so I pick up the outside POVs, then tell myself "stop! be more creative!" and drop them again.

The other POV thing has been done so much better by much better authors. I'm thinking of femalegothic's On the Outside Looking In and mego42's listening through the air shaft (and tooshyforthis’s AITA for wanting to stop paying my wife’s ‘business partner’ and yelling at her? Dean POV literally the most original hysterically perfect format that I’ve ever seen with these two eyes and I think about it at least weekly and laugh) all the time and the others I've read over the years and not sure it's even worth it to try to make a pale copy of those.

Pandemic/quarantine being "over" means I'm back in my thousands of people public office full-time which is a nonstop chaotic energy drag on this lifelong Introvert such that I come home every night and just want to mindlessly scroll Reddit/Tumblr and look at pretty pictures and read brilliant other writers, not actually ROUSING myself to concentrate and contribute anything myself (my default state tbh). During quarantine, I could block off hours at a time to try to immerse myself into writing uninterrupted and now I just don't have that. I wish I could be like other people who can furiously write during like, the 5 interminable minutes before the latest Zoom call starts, but I really can't. I need it to be uninterrupted blocks of time with no other distractions or it ain't happening.

Continual (inexplicable) internal pressure that if I start something, I must finish it such that I don't really want to post a WIP and have it hanging over my head unfinished. It's funny, I was scrolling back through my late summer 2020 Tumblr the other day trying to find something and saw that I had estimated early on that I would post BSOTL a chapter every two weeks. That is HI-larious in hindsight given the gap between the later chapters. But I had the spirit back then and thought I could get it done quickly. Now with the series no longer active and the fandom much quieter such that I'm not being reminded of this hyperfixation at all times, I'd fear I'd let things lag even more, and ya girl would be eaten alive by the "unfinished" aspect of the whole shebang such that it's better not to post at all.

Feeling that the fandom has "moved on" so to speak, which obviously is totally understandable given the passage of time, but makes me think I should "move on" as well into some new obsession and focus energy there (have not found this yet, open to all suggestions as to what to fixate on now instead!)

This is more than you wanted to know, Anon, so I am sorry as per usual. If I do get anything polished up enough tho, I will either post promptly I promise or ask you for a burner email and just send it to you so I can feel like I accomplished something lol.

Thanks again for the note, I'm really glad something I wrote gives you a regular giggle - makes me happy!

[thestarsthemo0n]

Rules: List 10 of your favorite female characters from 10 different fandoms and tag 10 people.

Thanks for tagging me @tsttoain

This was way harder than it should be and I'm sure I forgot a lot of characters and fandoms but anyway.

1. Clara Oswald (Doctor Who)

2. Donna Noble (Doctor Who)

3. Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place)

4.Rebecca Welton (Ted Lasso)

5. Dot Campbell (The Wilds)

6. Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

7. Alexis Rose (Schitts Creek)

8. Janet (The Good Place)

9. Gwen (Merlin)

10. Sister Michael (Derry Girls)

I'm tagging @mego42 @katzunzs @keirahknightley @montygreen and anyone who wants to do it.

[lunafeather]

i'd quote your tags back at you but im crying too hard so thanks for that

Look, look, I am not saying you should consider this, but consider this:

Rio is forced into this role of the violent gangbanger who can't live with his son full time because of his life (that he didn't choose!! That Nick chose for him!!), but he has to sit and watch Nick have his own family (I assume the kid next to him at the dinner table was his son?), be happy successful dad who is always around for HIS kids, who doesn't disappear for months like Rio does to Marcus

Rio has to watch Beth be mom of the year for her kids, getting away with the same shit as Nick, being there with her family, when Rio never had that choice

The worst part, the worst fucking part... Okay, do you remember when Manny did an interview in season 1 and he said Rio's motivation for crime is to get enough money and get out? But now we know Rio can never ever get out of the life, can never get enough money to leave and be an upstanding citizen who sees his kid every day because you can bet your ass greedy sleezy Nick won't ever let him. Nick has his own wants and needs that Rio funds and in exchange he bails Rio out -- which means if Rio ever tried to walk away, Nick could likely have him put away for the rest of his life

And Rio knows that

No wonder he is a Sad Boi™ like.... I can't HANDLE this

#the answer is: kill Nick #take over the empire with Elizabeth #get married maybe #have lots of sex #profit #NBC Good Girls #GG spoilers #Rio #ask answer #Mego42

[riosnecktattoo]

not to be a complete creeper on main but i've been waiting all day for these and they did not disappoint. THE TEEH BARING THO??./???~!!!!!!~! am not and may never be ready to talk about the only her who matters

I like when you creep on me never change ❤️

IT'S SUCH A GREAT LOOK! something he couldn't smother bubbling up wsddvghhrhjihrdv

AND LIKE???? All it takes is n*ck saying "her" and he knows he means Beth. Cause????? Help????? 😭 rip side-dishes ur definitely too normal

#asks #mego42 #i actually wrote more tags but clearly went over the limit lol #unhinged by the pacing and snarl #nick doesnt have rights but if he keeps making brio uncomfortable about their insane feelings #i might let him have one right #its annoying cause i LOVE ignacio and manny together they have amazing chemistry so i am loving nick when he's with rio #love to hate him #mannys always been so expressive and so in tune with his physicality #he's so in tune with himself when he's performing and he LISTENS so beautifully and that is extremely my shit #bad actors are bad listeners #anyway #BOXING SCENE MY BELOVED #a gift truly #gg 4x09

[aadmelioraa]

#honestly fuck this gifset I can’t handle it < A! MOOD!

ITS JUST SO MUCH 😭😭😭

Every time I think I'm over them a Spuffy post will cross my dash and absolutely ruin me for the millionth time.

#THEYRE JUST SO GOOD #HELP #formative fucking shit right here #buffy x spike #btvs #kat replies #mego42

[jazillia007]

#which is also why I don't give sh*t about what Bill Krebs says on his social media or in DMs - preeeeeeeeaaaaaachhhh!!!!! word of god only matters if you want it to and press/social is even more meaningless imo

Look! I was at a stage as well years ago when I thought I could trust what writers or producers spill on their social media accounts it made me waste years on a show with a potential ship and a lot of hopes for plot and character development.

Until I realized: this is complete nonsense. These guys just want viewers to keep watching. They don’t care about viewers’ opinions and much less about the most coherent/interesting theories, better plot ideas and thoughts from the non-casual viewers.

They will say anything and everything to keep people interested and watching. So for me: I take note of what Bill Krebs says but I simply disregard it since nothing he says is canon until it becomes canon. And he doesn’t really say anyting at all.

Just stuff like “Keep watching!” and “It’s like chess” which is the same rhetoric used by the writers and producers back then. Same goes for news articles.

So I just be like “F*ck you, writers, and let me watch the show and do your job in writing a better plot from now on”.

#nbc good girls #thank you so much for the ask #mego42 #rant #please don't believe ANYTHING Bill Krebs and co say on social media #like if it makes you feel better my friends go on but don't be disappointed or surprised in the end #GG negativity #I guess

[hypermania]

beth really sat in her marital bed and said, "tis merely a flesh wound" while annie and ruby looked at her like she lost her damn mind because they don't knoooooooow. they think her and rio banged it out a few times and then made a breathy asmr audio track for the secret service. wham bam thank you ma'am.

they don't know that she walked into that bathroom that first night because her husband was droning on and on about all the ways he doesn't see her at all and rio had just told her that he thinks she could be somebody.

they don't know that rio stood in front of beth with a harsh set to his mouth and told her, "you're a drug dealer" while she cried, but still left an envelope with her name on it, revealing a little bit too much about where his priorities lie when it comes to her.

they don't know about the way he sat on her picnic table and laughed about the baby hitmen, the way he offered to take care of it for her, no strings attached.

they don't know that the two of them stood in the soft afternoon glow of her bedroom while rio smiled at her mismatched socks and that she had laughed nervously in the kitchen when she realized she didn't really have any food to offer him.

they don't know about the tired set of his shoulders and the way he hung his head when she told him she lost the baby and they certainly don't know about the way he had trouble looking at her on that bench after lucy's murder.

they don't know about all the ways that rio's said i see you to beth, despite all the ways they've tried to screw each other over. they just hear beth saying, "what if it wasn't luck?" and they think she's lost her damn mind. but they don't know!

beth just needed that one final gesture to prove that it's real, it's always been real AND NOW THEY'RE CRIME MARRIED FOREVER, NO TAKE-BACKSIES!

i mean, if rio was the one behind it and he really wanted her gone, he would've just emptied the clip, right?

#what i'm saying is that i'm STILL mclosing it meg #bethrio #otp: it's just business #nbc good girls #good girls spoilers #gg416 #mego42 #replies #mp

[daydreamstew]

i heard a rumor you're soliciting cat pics and wanted to apply

um yes i am soliciting cat pics, pet pics, and pics of smol or large things people love (like a succulent or a sculpture of a grown man)

yes excellent i see you have sent me a picture of a lion 🦁

GREAT ROAR!! 3000/10 💕

this baby looks GLORIOUS basking in the sunlight!! ☀️

what is this baby’s name?? simba??

#hi love your cat #😭😭😭 #i want a cat #cat asks #asks #mego42

[pynkhues]

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

Thanks so much for tagging me @entwinedloop! This was fun to do, and it was so fun to read yours! I have an alarming amount of Succession fic in my last ten (truly did not realise I'd written this many, haha). SO:

Our Endless Numbered Days (Beth x Rio, Good Girls)

“You cannot be serious,” Ruby says, exasperated, and it’s enough for Annie to start backpedaling even before she’s finished. “They were together for nine years.”

2. Despicable Animals (Gen fic, Succession)

The night after she slits her brother’s throat, feels her inheritance wrenched from her grip, watches her husband get crowned king through clear, unvarnished glass, Shiv dreams of DC.

3. Unsprouted (Gen fic, Succession)

“Nina, they’re too - -” Kendall blinks rapidly, suddenly tongue tied, his fingers pulling at the rubber strap of his goggles, trying to loosen the suction around his eyes, and he thinks they’ll leave big red circles there again like they did at Marco’s birthday party. 

4. Stay Soft, Get Eaten (Gen fic, Succession)

“Can I take your bag, sir?”

5. Whatever Gets You Through the Night (Gen fic, Succession)

“Ow, fuck,” Roman bites, wincing dramatically as Connor rolls his eyes, offers up a half-assed watch it as he presses the balled-up washcloth to his youngest brother’s split lip.

6. Bear the Cost (Gen fic, Succession)

Here’s how it happens:

Your father dies, and everything’s on you.

7. I Might Be Great Tomorrow (but hopeless yesterday) (Chrissy x Eddie, Stranger Things)

Thing is, he wasn’t lying when he said he thought it was pretty cool.

8. Nymphaea (Anthony x Kate, Bridgerton)

It’s strange, she thinks, her breath catching when Anthony’s fingers tentatively brush the scar at the base of her head, the things that simply do not cross a mind until they happen.

9. A Foreign Sound to Your Ear (Gen fic, Succession)

So they go back to Kendall’s villa.

10. Acid Tongued and Serpent Toothed (Naomi x Tabitha, Succession)

After her mom dies, Naomi loses a year.

In terms of patterns, I tend to start with either a bit of dialogue or a bit of action? It's not really a conscious choice, I think I just like dropping people into a moment as that tends to be how stories come to me. There are a few outliers to that though! Both I Might be Great Tomorrow and Acid Tongued start more with a bit of reflection. I do think I tend to do that more with stories that are designed to be longer though, and given those are the only two that aren't one shots on here - - yeah, it checks out, haha.

Tagging: @nakedmonkey @carry-the-sky @foxmagpie @bethsuglywigs @mego42, if you fancy.

#so many baby roy fics here #i get too inspired when i'm hanging around my nephews tbh #i'm writing a lot more kid scenes in my new novel than i intended as a result too haha #this is also really really making me want to finish acid tongued again #ugh #it's so close idk why i can't just get that last bit out #imbgt 3 is on track for the weekend though i think :-) #fic asks #thanks again for tagging me!

[sothischickshe]

I don't know if you still do fic recs, if not ignore me.

I've been away for a long time, probs been 1.5years since I read any brio fics and I'm looking for fics wherein Beth was shot, but gravelly injured, or at least with more action in terms of Brio than what we got.

hope you are doing good and thank you in advance

Heya! I'm allllllways up for some fic recs (as long as it's something specific, I find 'gg fics' or 'brio fics' to be a little too broad 😅📚).

This isn't a trope/topic I'm necessarily that drawn to (I'm more about the emotional hurt/comfort than the physical etc etc) so other ppl might be able to chime in with more, but hopefully there's something here which fits what you're looking for!

Firstly, there are a few where Beth is indeed gravely injured/dies (major character death warning, natch):

Until long after she takes her final breath by @bensonstablers

Why don't we go to venus? by @bensonstablers

miss me in your bones (and I still talk to you) by @fondful

You'll turn into dirt someday, same dirt as me by @blizabrth

Then there are a couple of time travel/loop fics (major character death warning but also maybe not really?):

Twice upon a time by niham87 (tragically unfinished 😭)

Bad Moon rising by @jesbakescookies

And a choose your own adventure fic (major character death warning... Maybe! 🪙):

Fifty percent by @bourbon-ontherocks

Elsewise, there's:

A rational choice by fireinsideforfun

Better unrequited (series) by @elise-jupiterstyle

& I suspect eventually possibly:

His Elizabeth boland (series) by hisbossbitch (kithi1)

& while I don't think these involve Beth being shot (although it's been a while since I read them😅🧓), there's def Violence and Action:

a song inside the halls of the dark by @mego42

Cross your fingers by @pynkhues

#Thanks for asking 😊 #This was fun! #& I hope is kinda what you were looking for? #@ anyone else feel free to add on! #Nbc good girls #gg fic recs #TV #Fanfiction #Fanfic

[gild-and-fire]

Pass the happy! 🌻 When you receive this, list five things that make you happy and send this to 10 of the last people in your notifications. 💛💛💛

Aww thank you Meg! So sweet of you 🥰 (can u be one of the five things that make me happy??)

1. Sunshine! havent seen it in a while bc of the fires :/

2. danny rojas!🎶 rojas! 🎶 danny rojas! 🎶 i cant get enough of that guy

3. my friend texting me first to chat and catch up

4. Nasir x Zafira from We Hunt the Flame 😳🥺 cause I'm still thinking abt them two months later

5. the fact that it will be autumn soon!!

#asks #mego42

[tedbecca]

oh my god you're almost through s5?????? i have been slacking on stalking you apparently my b. what do you think so far?

i am !!!! i would probably be done season 5 by now but the episode where joyce dies really took me out 😩 so i haven’t continued it yet

as for what i think

I LOVE IT. OBSESSED. it’s almost all i think about in my free thinking time. i almost sought out fic last night. only held myself back bc i’d probably encounter spoilers ckvmfmckdm

so far season 4 is probably my least favourite and season 5 my favourite. and i just !!!! love all the characters !!! so !!!! much !!!!! (xander still pisses me off a lot, but not as bad as he did in seasons 1&2 so… progress? haha)

#im not done season 5 so that might change #but i’m having so much fun with it (well except for the whole joyce thing that has briefly stalled my watch lmao) #you know when i really like a show bc i absorb it at an alarming rate. see: gilmore girls and now buffy #taylor watches buffy #taylor replies #mego42