#mothers transforming into monkeys huh?

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#so uh #mothers transforming into monkeys huh? #‘ain’t that relatable folks??? #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #song oak #kubo and the two stings #laika movies #studio laika #meme #shitpost #movie analysis

[quitealotofsodapop]

Ao Lie

referencing posts like; baby Ao Lie meeting the bimawen, and Ao Lie wants to be a godfather.

I thought it would be pretty adorable if part of the reason Ao Lie is able to act a horse so well was because they were like his favorite animal as a little hatchling and while it was considered kinda weird among dragons ("Not even a seahorse? Just a... land horse???") it was fully embraced by a certain celestial stablemaster - Bimawen Sun Wukong.

Ao Lie would run off and "to be a ""play horsey" whenever he wandered away from his dad or brothers when they went to the Jade Palace for summits or banquets. He was too small to actually transform himself into a horse, but he'd turn into his noodley-snake dragon form and slink away into the stables.

Wukong likely came across the white baby dragon as he was riling up the curious horses (they all saw Ao Lie as a snake), and was like;

Wukong: "Damn, how did a baby dragon get in here? Ok little guy best get you back-" Ao Lie, hissing: "No!!! I'm horsey! I stay in stable!" Wukong, trying not to laugh: "Ok? I guess I was wrong. You're clearly a skinny white foal. My apologies." Ao Lie: :3

Even if Ao Lie doesn't remember the encounters that well, it did leave him with a positive opinion of horses, stablehands, and monkeys for some reason.

When the dragon is a teenager by the time of the Journey, all he knows about Sun Wukong is that 1: His dad and uncles don't like him, 2: He steals stuff, and 3: He's in jail. His brain doesn't make the mental connection until much later when Zhu Bajie calls Wukong a "useless bimawen!" during the Gold and Silver demons arc.

When Ao Lie first met Wukong in the stone egg au, he basically had the mental journey of; "Huh. The monkey king is kinda chubby- OMG its an egg!! Why is he walking?! Get off my back Tang monk! Don't you know mothers need plenty of rest?!"

After meeting the steed for the first time Tripitaka wonders why the "Bai Longma" is super insistent on letting Wukong ride him specifically. Remembering that the Monkey is "carrying a stone egg" (Tripitaka only knows that part and thinks its a metaphor), the monk in turn tells Wukong that he should ride instead.

Wukong, tired but still wanting to stretch his legs after 500 years under the mountain is like; "Huh? No way! I'm fine! You ride him."

After a while of Tripitaka insisting that the Monkey rides instead of him, Ao Lie gets annoyed and just sits down, causing the monk on his back to slide off into the mud. Holy cassock now muddy. Wukong gets the message but insists he'll only ride until the next village/when they get a second divine-given horse.

Zhu Bajie tries to ride Bai Longma *once* and he gets bucked off so hard he gets tossed into a lake. He swears the horse has it out for him.

I hc that this was around the time Ao Lie's older sister was having a baby, and he was really bummed out that he wouldn't be able to attend to his uncle-duties cus of his "community service" [ie. the Journey]. So he redirected some of that excitement onto Wukong, who was carrying the Stone Egg. Eggs are a huge cause for celebration among dragonkind either way since they only produce a few in their long livespan.

Wukong was a little surprised/confused by Ao Lie's doting behavior at first, but started to understand why the dragon-horse was acting that way when he spoke to Ao Moang later on during the Tuolong incident.

Prince Moang: "I must pass on congratulations. It's not common among either of our kind to behold future kin." Wukong: "Oh really? When's the last time you've seen a dragon egg?" Prince Moang: "Last year actually! Our sister Zhūlong's egg hatched around the time of your release." Wukong: "Oh. that explains why Ao Lie spoils me." Prince Moang, excitedly: "My little brother is here!? I have to tell him everything! I have woodblock paintings of the baby!" Ao Lie, running over still in horse-mode: "Show me! Show me!" Zhu Bajie, watching: "Weirdos. Its just babies. Everyone's having 'em."

And Ao Lie continues to be super doting and attentive to Wukong as the Journey continues, though he does ask after a few years when the Egg is supposed to be laid. Wukong doesn't have a clear answer for him.

After a while, Wukong says almost in jest; "With how well you've been tending to me and the Egg, I might as well make you their godfather!"

Ao Lie just *shrieks* with joy!! Yes yes yes! He would be so honoured!

Wukong doesn't even have time to explain it was a joke when the dragon hugs him, heavy tears falling on his fur.

Ao Lie: "I'm sorry. It's just that... no one at home has really trusted me with anything so important before. I know that you might... get really hurt when your Egg finally arrives and I am so glad that you trust me to care for them if you have to leave us."

Wukong realises in that moment... Ao Lie knows about Stone Eggs. He eavesdropped on a conversation held between Wukong and the Bodhisattva Guanyin early on, and silently held onto that knowledge until Wukong was comfortable sharing it with the others.

The Monkey King decides in that moment that he doesn't want to trust anyone other than the dragon prince to care for his future child. He's already proven his kind nature - and if the future Stone Monkey were to truly be born an orphan, Ao Lie would gladly help to raise them in secret away from the prying eyes of Heaven.

Unfortunately the Samadhi Fire made it so that Ao Lie would be unable to fufill this duty either...

#bai longma #lmk ao lie #sun wukong #jttw stone egged au #slow boiled stone egg au #pregnancy tw #jttw #journey the west #stone egg talk #the monkey king and the infant #the monkey king and the infant au #lego monkie kid #lmk #lmk aus #gif warning

[crybaby-magic]

When Stars Align

chapter 4

The loud crash from the celestial realm to the human real was huge.Almost all that was in a distance could see it.The sphere that came from it slowly diminished away like nothing had happened.

"eh? The hell was that"a foreign figure mumbled to themself.A second figure popped up behind them pouncing on them breaking their thoughts.

"Hey bud! Did you see the big light?Did you huh huh?"the other one says while shaking the first figure.

"Will you stop shaking me!Of course I saw it i'm pretty sure everything in that thing's radius saw it."they grumbled swatting the other away.

The second figure rolled their eyes and stopped bothering the other on.They start to look in the direction of where the explosion happened sniffing the air proceeding to point out something "I can sense a lot of magic energy from the blast.Hey let's go check it out!"They turned into a bright gold color transforming into a bright colored bird.Flying towards the explosion spot.

"Hey you can't jus-ugh nvm!"The other one protested before giving up.They changed into a darker version of the other one following soon after.

“Why does my body feel so numb…my head hurts too…wh-what happened…?”I question to myself.Opening my eyes and moving my head side to side.My surroundings seem unfamiliar.Slowly sitting up so I can assess my situation easier.A shiver goes down my spine.It probably doesn’t help that i’m in my night gown.

I started to get up of the floor but while trying to find my balance.Once up I grab my tail impulsively trying to soothe my sporadic brian.Looking around I seem to be on a beach side of some kind.Atleast that’ll what I think it is.I only seen beaches like this in the books about the human realm.

Looking at the sky deducting that I feel from the celestial realm.A sense of astonishment crossed my face as I realized I feel a long way and didn’t die.Turing around to face the other way I see a wooded area.It must be a jungle just like the ones in the books I used to read.I slowly grew nervous remembering that i’m in the human realm all alone and anything could happen to me.

A sudden feeling of my body tugging me towards the jungle.In walked into the wooded area trying to be careful of my step.”Huh?”I mumbled out after feeling water drop.The water fell slow at first but got progressing faster.Sighing out in frustration with the thought of “I really should have listened to mother.”My clothes,hair,tail are all soak the more I walk around in this weather.

My ears perked up at a cracking noise.Trying to chalk it up to a small animal or my head.That was until I heard growling.Side eyeing where the noise was coming from.The sounds was getting close so on impulse I ran the other way.The father I got closer it got.The rain certainly wasn’t help seeing as it’s weighing my body done.To make matters worse I wasn’t looking where I was going,so I ended up tripping on a rock.I fell hard injuring myself in the process.

The growling got closer.I tried to get up so I could limp away,but my legs gave out.The creature came out it’s eyes glowing a golden color.It’s to hard to full figure out what it was but the eye could tell me it thought I was it’s prey.I tried to crawl back,but I hit a tree.I was physically and mentally exhausted from all the running plus the blood seeping out of my legs.

The creature made eye contact with me then pounced towards me.I put up my hands out of fear,only for a huge burst of winds blow the creature away.The creature flew back several feet breaking a bunch of trees on impact.My hands still out I panted out heavily.My eyes slowly started to fade to back despite my protest.My last thought was i’m going to be eaten by the creature.

A dark bird that witnessed the whole situation flew down to the girl looking at her.The creature came back before it transformed into a monkey the bird followed.The darker monkey glared at the lighter one before growling out”Seriously Wukong you could have got hurt or worse the girl.It’s bad enough she’s bleeding out her legs”He looked at the girl before looking backs at Wukong.

Wukong had just shrugged of the complaints made by his companion.He walk up to the girl before touching her face to get a better look.”Macaque she hurt me way more than what I did.My back hurts”He complain out.Macaque just rolled his eyes in disapproval.Looking at the girl you can tell she’s not human.

Macaque shook his head and sighed out”Well we can’t leave her here incase something that really wish to cause harm.Even if we’re on Flower fruit mountain.”Wukong nodded his head in approval before carefully picking up the girl bridal style.

Wukong summons nimbus and hopped on.”You coming?”He questioned his friend.Macaque shook his head before mumbling about he’ll follow after in a minute.Wukong just shrugged before flying to the top of Flower fruit mountain.Macaque just looked and teleported away.

Wukong jump of a nimbus as he crossed the water curtain into the cave.He walked down a path to a room.The room was filled with random things like treasure,fabric,fruit.In the center of the room was a pit filled with blankets,pillow,and just thing in general that made it comfortable.

White mini monkeys observed their king as he came in with the girl.He set the girl in the pit before covering her then leaving the room to go find Macaque. White monkeys crawled around you studying you some then laid down next to you falling asleep quickly.

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#macaque x reader #sun wukong x reader #lego monkie kid #sun wukong x macaque #fantasy

[cecilebutcher]

『◌𝕋𝕒𝕠 𝕐𝕦́𝕔𝕙𝕚◌』

C.w: description of violence

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⊱Bᴀsɪᴄs⊰

Name: Tao Yúchí

Age:17

Date of birth: May 28

Zodiac sign:Gemini

Hight:179cm

Dorm:Savanaclaw

Class: 2D

Place of birth:Shaftlands

Mother: unknown

Father: unknown

⊱Aᴘᴘᴇᴀʀᴀɴᴄᴇ⊰

Tao is a monkey beastmen. He has tanned skin with patches of fair since he has Vitiligo. He has ruby colored eyes and a mole under his left one. He has shoulder length brown hair with a white streak in his bangs. Even though it doesn’t show since he usually wears baggy clothes, Tao is actually well built. Not too many muscles not too little.

⊱Sᴘᴇᴀᴄɪᴀʟ Mᴀɢɪᴄ⊰

The four phases: the ability to see through any and all illusions transformations and disguises. And the ability to create a cloud like surface that floats that people can sit on for long periods of time, it is also very comfortable.

⊱Fʀɪᴇɴᴅs⊰

Ace. Deuce. Ruggie. Jack. Floyd. Epel. Aikat(oc). Phobes(oc). Silver.

⊱Tʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛs Oɴ Cʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀs⊰

𝚁𝚒𝚍𝚍𝚕𝚎: ugh I can’t stand the guy! He’s always telling me what to do and what not to!

𝚃𝚛𝚎𝚢:Eh, don’t care for him.

𝙲𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛: He invites to to hang out if he needs a big group and to party, so he’s cool.

𝙰𝚌𝚎: Ace is just hilarious! Whenever I wanna do something stupid he is always up for it!

𝙳𝚎𝚞𝚌𝚎: While he isn’t as fun as Ace, he can sure as hell throw a punch!! When I get in a fight again I’m 100% calling him!!

𝙻𝚎𝚘𝚗𝚊: Housewarden? He’s cool. Doesn’t bother me and I don’t bother him.

𝚁𝚞𝚐𝚐𝚒𝚎: That guy might be small but let me tell ya he’s fast! He could be on the track team, I’ve asked him to join but he really likes the spelldrive team, sigh.

𝙹𝚊𝚌𝚔: He’s big, like way too big, what are they feeding him? But he can run so he’s cool.

𝙺𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚖: sweet…. TOO sweet. He’s hiding something.

𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚕:Too mean. Don’t like him. Such a pushover.

𝙰𝚣𝚞𝚕: Haven’t made a deal with him yet, will continue this way. But if he asks me to join octavinelle again, he’ll lose that pretty face of his😁

𝙹𝚊𝚍𝚎: Hiding something…. But this time I don’t mind as much.

𝙵𝚕𝚘𝚢𝚍: oh dude I’m in his class and it’s so fun! You never know what would happen ever! I recommend hanging out with him it’s so fun!

𝚅𝚒𝚕: Sometimes, I wanna slam him into the wall and beat him up:)

𝙴𝚙𝚎𝚕: very very tiny. Very very strong. Respect.

𝚁𝚘𝚘𝚔: Keep that guys as far away from me as the sun. Holy hell he terrifies me, and NOTHING terrifies me!

𝙸𝚍𝚒𝚊:That’s Ortho’s older brother right?

𝙾𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚘: He’s sweet but not the same as Kalim, so he’s cool, I guess.

𝙰𝚒𝚔𝚊𝚝(OC): one time he told me that I would make a great leather couch….. he’s weird, I like him!

𝙿𝚑𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚜(oc): At first I thought he was quiet , maybe too quiet. But turn out he’s weirder than his brother. I fucking love these two!!

𝙼𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚜: Don’t care for him.

𝙻𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚊: Silver looks up to him for some reason….. especially since he’s shorter than him.

𝚂𝚒𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚛: Sometimes I find him fast asleep on random things, so I just put him on one of my clouds and go on with my life.

𝚂𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚔: He’s so fucking loud!! And disrespectful! I wanna beat it out of him.

⊱Pᴇʀsᴏɴᴀʟɪᴛʏ⊰

Tao is smart wise and intelligent, often shocking people with it(even leona sometimes wow. He’s reliable when he wants to be. not mention he’s strong and brave, always up for a challenge. He’s independent. And if he likes you enough he’s loyal even after death. He’s very easy going and open minded, not really caring for stuff, unless it causes a big problem(not the overbolts though huh?). He’s actually really funny. He can actually be really mature at times, though it’s very rare. He’s quite charismatic and social to others, and trustworthy. He says things as he sees them, making him really truthful. He’s also really witty. And he can tell when people are lying, making his basically a walking lying detector.

But hens still rather aggressive and violent a lot of the times(mostly outside of school) getting into fights waaaay too much. He can be rude and unfriendly at time. Not to mention greedy and possessive to that he hold dear(or those). He’s a bit bossy and moody, and can be selfish. Him being violent can make him very destructive. Some people say he’s difficult, mostly people who have taken care of him(even his own friends sometimes. And he can be very very irresponsible, especially if it’s about something he doesn’t care for. Speaking of caring, if it doesn’t benefit him, he doesn’t care for it, this also appears to people sometimes. He’d seen as snobbish and lazy a lot of the time(especially since 90% of the time he’s on his cloud or in a tree vibing).

He’s energetic, honest and sarcastic, Lighthearted, competitive, Traditional, stubborn, secretive, curious, unchanging, wary, and weird.

⊱Fᴜɴ Fᴀᴄᴛs⊰

Tao was orphaned at a young age.

Although tons of homes took him in because of his intelligence he left all of them because they never felt like home.

Until one day an old man took him in but not as a son, but a student.

He already had three other students, two older than him and 1 the same age.

From then on he was trained in magic, martial arts and any and all weapons.

He has a small friend group which consists of one dragon Faes a beastman of some kind(They don’t know yet) a pig beastman and a human.

He loves sushi and all its variants, plus steak.

And his favorite food is fruit and veggies.

In his free time he likes to go and bother people, playing pranks and just be annoying.

Which is why most house wardens don’t like him.

Violence is his first answer, then talking it out.

He has the second highest grades on the 2nd years under Riddle.

While Coach Vargas thinks of him as a spectacular students, the rest of the staff hate being his teacher.

He’s on the Track team, and is the captain.

Jack Epel and Deuce are impressed with how strong and capable he actually is.

Ruggie and Leona though….. they don’t really care

He’s usually cutting class and finding a quiet place to vibe on his make shift could.

Has blinded someone before out of anger, almost killed him too(if you know who I’m referring to I’ll kiss you). That student is also a diasomnia 2nd year.

Has major self esteem issues.

#twisted wonderland #twst oc #savanaclaw #monkey king

[ryttu3k]

Thoughts on His Dark Materials 3.07 and 3.08 - The Clouded Mountain and The Botanic Garden. Spoilers for the entire series, both TV and book!

Will be going through the tags tomorrow. Blacklist 'hdm spoilers' if you want to avoid!

Lyra’s 'fall': Honestly the whole story scene was... almost perfect, I kind of wish Mary had mentioned her first kiss and the marzipan connection when she was younger. But man, just the way she's telling the story, the way Lyra seems so completely entranced, how she and Will are both very clearly cognizant about how this will be relevant to their own lives... It's such an important scene, and aside from wishing Mary had mentioned the connection to that first kiss, that first memory, it was done beautifully.

Mrs Coulter and Asriel: Who gave Ruth Wilson the right to make me literally cry over Marisa Coulter, thank you, that is rude. God. The combination of lying for her life but also grabbing onto the bit of truth in there - she probably was being honest when she said she hated how loving Lyra felt. She had been transformed by her love, but it was awful to her. She had been completely in control, and now there was someone else she would live for? Disgusting, could not recommend. ...and she still made that decision in the end. 'Cesspit of moral filth' she may have been (and she was! She was objectively an awful person!), but that seed of love still was stronger.

Asriel's speech was genuinely emotive. Asriel having to confront himself was fab. I like the detail how Mrs Coulter already knew who she was, so she faced Metatron directly, but Asriel had to go through that mental battle first to get to the point where he could act.

And goddamn, no words for the actual Abyss scene. No words. It was beautiful and I literally cried, especially when Mrs Coulter's expression just became almost peaceful and resigned instead of that snarl, and oh god the scene of Lyra and the monkey reaching out to each other. Like, yes, the relationship was... tense, but I think Lyra knew, at that time, that her mother loved her. In the end, she loved her.

The final battle: It's not... really over, is it? They've defeated the Kingdom of Heaven, yes. They've defeated Death, with a door that will always be open now, that will always be an escape. But the Magisterium - and other forces in other worlds, like the Temple in Ogunwe's world - still exist, and frankly, they weren't exactly acting on evidence of Metatron in the first place. They've stopped death, but the Republic of Heaven is a hell of a long way away. The Magisterium is still going to act under the Authority's name, and who cares if he's dead?

(As a side note, it does amuse me how just... blase that is. "Huh, here's a weird box. Huh, there's an old man inside. Oh, he dissolved. That was odd. Let's move on." Similar level of blase in the book, too, so that was entirely accurate. They just killed God nbd. I do have further thoughts on how that scene was handled, see below in the 'as a standalone series' section, but I'll go into that there.)

The daemons: Okay back to the monkey. God he really was Mrs Coulter's soul, wasn't he? In the beginning, he showed a lot of the cruelty and animalistic anger and emotion that she never let herself show, got to be nice, good, respectable. Never mind her screaming anger at the injustice of her life, she'll never let herself even acknowledge it. She'll bury it down. She'll hurt it. ...and then she starts to change. And then she starts to love, and feel vulnerability. And then her daemon goes from demonstrating her suppressed rage, to demonstrating her suppressed love, because both are just as dangerous when you need to be in absolute control of yourself and your emotions. Honestly, that's why I loved that scene of the two of them from 3.06 so much - it was Mrs Coulter beginning to come to terms with herself, with everything she's pushed on to her daemon over the decades, to recognise they're a part of her too. And when she goes to meet Metatron, she knows that even though she's locked everything tightly down again, that part of her still exists. It's through her daemon that she's able to give Lyra one final message - that she's loved.

For the others: Kirjava my beloved I audibly gasped when I saw her sweet little face! Just a little darling, and I'm glad Will has her now. Also may have squealed a bit when Mary's showed up. "There you are!" Stelmaria, and joining in on the battle without hesitation, because even if Asriel ignored his own daughter, Stelmaria has always loved her and Pan. And Lyra and Pan - the reconciliation, where Pan was being stubborn as hell, of course he was, he's Lyra's soul, but there was just that longing from both of them... Honestly, I am nervous, since I've heard that things don't really get any better in Book of Dust, but for now it's just that sweet little reunion, where it was just that easy, honest, "I love you" because they both wanted to be back together so badly.

Mary: God I love her. I want her to be my cool aunt. She was curious and compassionate and warm, she looked after those two lost kids, she talked to them as adults. I did feel genuinely sad for her, having to leave a world she so obviously loved, but I suspect she'll do fine afterwards. I think Simone Kirby was my favourite cast member after Ruth Wilson?

(Also, she's queer! Hell yeah.)

Lyra and Will's love: Super unpopular opinion that may be coloured by being aro af here, but... I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing that they separated, and I don't think they were necessarily each other's One And Only True Love For Ever And Ever. The prophecy wasn't about a true love's kiss restoring Dust. It was about making that decision to experience. Yes, first love can be powerful, but it's not the be-all and end-all, and if one or both ended up falling out of love, finding someone else, living the rest of their life with them, being able to love them wholly and entirely, with Lyra/Will just being a fond early memory... that's okay. You're not bound forever to the person you had your first kiss with when you were fourteen.

I don't know. It just strikes me as odd and kind of uncomfortable that so many people say that they're True Love Forever. They're kids, experiencing their first romantic relationships, with all the emotional highs, Big Feelings, and, er, screaming awkwardness ("Er... you know, Dust and, uh... trees." Oh Will). They could very well move on. It happens, and it doesn't lessen the fact that they restored Dust through their choices. It was right for them then.

I will now bravely submit to being tarred and feathered, haha.

That said, the 'every atom' speech, that last kiss through the window, the montage of them meeting in the park... I was sobbing.

(Also, honestly, from how lonely Lyra looked returning to Oxford. Will is back with his mother, and he has Mary in the same city. He has support structures. Lyra has lost both parents, complicated feelings and all, she's lost Roger, her best friend, and she's lost Lee, who loved her like a daughter. She still has Iorek and Serafina, but Iorek is likely preoccupied in Svalbard, and Serafina probably has Witch Things to do. Lyra only has Pan.)

The HDM series as an adaptation: So, now some thoughts on how the series did! Looking at it from two different perspectives - how it went as an adaptation of the books, and how it went as a series standing on its own.

As an adaptation, it absolutely made changes, yeah. Did it still feel like His Dark Materials, though? That's the most important part, and in my opinion, yeah, it did. It told a story about how free will and independence and self-actualisation will always defeat the suppression of information and controlling others through fear. It told a story about how it's not a bad thing to grow up and change, that working out who you are is one of the most important tasks you can undertake. It told a story about how what you do in this life is what's important, not promises of a Distant Hereafter. So yeah, in that case, absolutely still a successful adaptation.

Also, let's face it, a lot of the changes they made were just due to the reality of the medium. Yeah, Lyra and Will were older now (Lyra talking about how they ignored her for thirteen years places her at roughly 14-ish by the end, Will is maybe a year older, so they're not twelve-year-olds). That's... pretty unavoidable when you have actors who do inconvenient things like ageing, haha. It still fit the story about that transitional period from childhood to adulthood, it just wasn't literally puberty. And things like showing much more of Mrs Coulter's personal storyline, I think, was an incredible decision, because they had an actor in Ruth Wilson who could absolutelybring it, and it made her one of the most compelling characters to watch I've ever seen. Changes like Lee passing through the door instead of joining the final battle - that worked. Changes like fleshing out Ogunwe's character - that worked, because it showed the influence of the Kingdom of Heaven even in other worlds. Yeah, it's not literally book-exact, but they weren't random changes, they were changes made to fit the medium.

The Lord of the Rings films do this too. They're not exactly word for word, but they still fit the spirit of the story, and the medium, and they're still incredibly successful adaptations that fans of the books can find a lot to love in.

Also, when they do hit things word for word? Goddamn, chills. I'm incredibly glad they kept the 'every atom' speech, because it really does feel like the most sincere declaration a young teenager can make to her first love, and it's sweet and honest and heartbreaking. (I also really liked that they kept the 'cesspit of moral filth' description!)

Definitely wish they had kept the line about creating the Republic of Heaven in their own worlds, though. That's, um, kind of an important theme.

The HDM series as a standalone series: So, as a series? Obviously I can't comment from the perspective of a non-book reader, because, well, I have. (Fun fact! I first read HDM when we first moved here seven years ago. We didn't have internet for two days, so I went, "Well, why don't I have a look at that trilogy I bought for ten bucks at a book fair a few years back?" The internet came back on when I was halfway through TAS. I did not stop reading.)

Just from going by the subreddits, though? Yeah, there are... issues there. Obviously it's brought in a hell of a lot of new fans, a lot who now plan on reading all the books now they've seen the series. But there are enough questions being asked to make me think that maybe the series didn't explain stuff as well as they could have to someone who hadn't read the books. There were so many posts blasting Lyra, mostly, about her decision to go into the Land of the Dead to find Roger, because they saw it as selfish and irrelevant in the scheme of things. (And it was selfish! Lyra acting on her instincts without knowledge of the prophecy is what enabled her to fulfill it in the first place, and the fact that it was a selfish decision just indicates that she's a flawed character! Characters are allowed to be flawed!)

For this pair of episodes, the questions I see over and over were - why do they have to separate, when Will's dad clearly could stay in another world for years (because the series didn't sufficiently express that John was actively dying and wouldn't have survived much longer anyway, I feel he should have explained to Will that he had been dying already when he was shot because he was in a different world), and who was that old dude in the box, anyway.

If you're doing an adaptation of an existing series, you really do need to cater for two audiences - the source material fans, and the new fans, and the sheer number of questions people had about elements that weren't fully explained in the series indicates that it may not have completely succeeded in telling a narrative to the new fans.

Still, overall - beautiful job. Not perfect, I'd probably put the series as a whole at 8.5-9/10, but damn, they did the near-impossible, and made a beautiful, compelling TV series out of His Dark Materials. Well done to them all!

#his dark materials #hdm spoilers

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If I was in transformers animated part 1

During the episode the elite guard

Warning cursing, I tend to curse a lot

In the office

Me: we'll Powell why don't you get your tongue outta your daddy's asshole so I can jam your Mama's cock you jizz covered monkey sponge!?!

Everyone stared at me looking weirded out af

Me: nothing to say now huh.

Powell: there's just a lot to unpack there....

Me: well call the office once you figure it out shit stick.

After finding the Allspark fragment

Sentinel Prime: but sir, you can't honestly believe that he's a lying--

Me: hey fuck clown! If you're ragging so bad why don't you get your mother's tampon out of your daddy's asshole and lick it clean before you shove it up your pussy!?!

Ultra Magnus: Optimus, do the organics here always talk like this?

Optimus prime: only CJ when shes mad enough.

After Powell evicts Sari from her own home

Me: I'm on it

I run to the hallway and in 12 seconds later I appear in Powell's office and completely rip the documents and bite them and do what Millie did to that cardboard cutout in helluva boss season 2 episode 3: exes and oohs

Me: where's your pussy ass documents now fuck nuts!?! *Flips off Powell*

#if i was in transformers animated #transformers animated

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Part 1 - Basic Concepts of Miraculous Ladybug: Miraculous Jewels

Alright! I promised you meta and now I deliver!

I feel like people mostly watch Miraculous for the romance these days. Shipping is all everyone cares about. I wonder why? Probably because writers themselves don't take their worldbuilding very seriously and because they don't put much effort into making the audience care about something other than Love Square, like the mythology behind the Miraculous, or motivations of the main villain, or some pretty heavy topics for a kid's show that they bring up and then refuse to touch again. You know, all the good things. And this is coming from someone who is a passionate multishipper. I have lived through several shipping wars in different fandoms and came out victorious after all.

I am probably the only person out there who cares about the big picture, the overall storyline and the worldbuilding of Miraculous in addition to all details and implications that could develop into fascinating plotlines relevant to the main story. It is a rather lonely fandom experience, I must confess. But, hey? Who cares? I am here to have fun and bring to the table discussions no one wants to have.

So, let's talk about the basics.

If you, as the writing team, are capable of keeping only 1 thing consistent, then please, I beg you, let it be the basic concepts of your universe. Because in this case, one has to actively put effort into writing characters and conflict resolutions badly. And also because nothing can save bad worldbuilding.

I don't have high worldbuilding standards for Miraculous. They certainly aren't as high as the ones I had for Legend of Korra (which was a badly written trainwreck, that ATLA doesn't deserve as a sequel) or the ones I currently have for Dragon Prince. Therefore I won't be too harsh in my criticisms. Granted, I think that Miraculous has better worldbuilding and lore consistency than Winx Club for example (I haven't seen the reboot yet, so writers might have fixed their worldbuilding at least a little bit). Even though I enjoyed Winx when I was younger and some elements of this story still attract me.

Both serialised and episodic shows as well as movies to the lesser extent must have some flexibility in worldbuilding and plot because you can never be 100% sure where your story is going. Maybe, you'll get money for more seasons, maybe not. However, you must never lose sight of your basic concepts. They have to stay the same no matter what, because rewriting lore and retconning major developments every new season is not and never will be called good writing.

Forgive me for using architectural metaphors, but you need a solid foundation to build any kind of structure. Otherwise, everything falls apart.

I like to apply this logic to writing as well. When designing a world where your story takes place, you must lay a few ground rules. It's especially important if you have a magic system. What kind of ideas absolutely must exist? What kind of conclusion do you want your story to have? Does your magic system has limitations? Where is the grey area? Could you introduce new elements later on?

And I feel like the writing team of Miraculous Ladybug did not ask these questions. This may feel like I am nit-picking canon material and looking for problems that simply aren't there, but I promise that I am not. You see, things that I am about to point out only seem small at first glance. But these details are actually the source of the largest plotholes in the series. And their presence negatively affects character development, conflicts and resolutions of said conflicts.

That doesn't mean that I have nothing good to say about the magic system of the show and its elements. There are a lot of great ideas and concepts. And some of them have the potential to contribute to the delightful story.

Let's dive right into it, shall we?

Camouflage

I have to give credit where it's due because the idea of camouflage and shapeshifting for Miraculouses is brilliant. It seems like Miraculous can't fundamentally change its type of jewellery or accessory. The ring will always be the ring but with a different ornament, colour or shape. This is true most of the time (Monkey Miraculous is an exception since it transformed into earplugs/headphones/headband/circlet) It makes sense and avoids plotholes. Grimoire doesn't have the pictures of each Miraculous in disguise for identity protection. That was very neat too. I have no comments. This concept was very good.

Also, since Marinette wore a nose ring of the Ox in "Kwamibuster" without any problem and Adrien wore Ladybug's earrings in "Reflekdoll", we can assume that you don't need to have piercings to wear a Miraculous. Miraculous just magically passes through your skin.

I'm interested to know the following. Can Kwamis recognise a camouflaged Miraculous on a person? Can the holder order them to confess the identity of this person? This shouldn't be possible for identity protection just like with Kwamis sensing each other. But more on that in later posts.

Power Levels

For a long time, we assume that there are only 7 Miraculouses. Turtle belongs to Master Fu, Gabriel has Butterfly and Peacock, Marinette and Adrien have Ladybug and Black Cat. Everything is pretty straightforward. Then it's revealed that there are more jewels and more boxes. It makes the worldbuilding interesting, but it also majorly complicates things, making them inconsistent.

Their position in the Miracle Box implies their power levels. Creation and destruction are the most powerful forces in existence, therefore they are at the top. Moreover, it makes this Box the most important, the most powerful out of all others. Su Han in "Furious Fu" calls it "Mother Miracle Box". Fox, Turtle, Bee, Butterfly and Peacock have less power than the main pair, but more than the Miraculous of the lower Zodiac tier (since they correspond with animals of the Chinese Zodiac).

1. Ladybug can create anything out of nothing (Lucky Charm, which gives what you need the most at the moment). This Miraculous can resurrect the dead, reverse the effects of the Cataclysm. The power of Miraculous Cure or Miraculous Ladybug can work in several ways:

it simply repairs the damage (puts stuff back together, heals injuries and so on)

it reverses time for the matter, restoring things back to the state they were before the destruction occurred (however, the Cure doesn't erase people's memories of everything that happened unless they were mind-controlled, frozen in place or transformed by Akuma into something else - this is an important point that I'll discuss some other time)

How does Miraculous Cure work when there are no supervillians? In NY Special Marinette just says this.

Excuse me, what? What was that? You can't do anything when the villain is gone? What the hell?

*insert here every scene where Ladybug fixed Paris after destroying akumatized/amokized object (this action causes the Akuma victim to detransform/sentimonster to disappear - villain is gone) and purifying butterfly and feather*

It was such cheap angst. I couldn't even be upset when Adrien gave up his Miraculous, because that whole situation is just stupid. But, never mind. We aren't talking about that today.

Apparently, Lucky Charm and Miraculous Cure only work when summoned to battle a specific villain. What is the point then? Huh? You can't tell me that Ladybug has the power of unlimited creation and then say that she can't repair the damage without a special Lucky Charm that was magically synchronised with specific big bad of the week.

Ladybug also can purify Akumas. It makes sense for Ladybug to have the ability to reverse the magic of less powerful Miraculous. But this power can't be applied universally. How does this power of reversal apply to different situations where there is no evil Butterfly holder? Can Ladybug reverse the magic of any Miraculous?

The unlimited power of creation introduced in season 4 ("Mr. Pidgeon 72") is another fascinating thing. On one hand, it's logical and proves the status of this Miraculous as the most powerful. On the other hand, by introducing this power, you have created a plothole. Look, Marinette can create the charm which repels Akumas. If Ladybug can create anything then what stops her from creating a tool for finding Hawkmoth (like special glasses for discovering identities or a compass)? I mean, the show says that the power of creation is unlimited, it means that the creation of such tool is possible.

2. Black Cat can destroy anything with Cataclysm, even other Miraculous. He can kill living things and turn them into ash, but not himself. This Miraculous is supposed to have other special abilities that we don't see. And they should be equal to powers of Ladybug, both in number and in potency. Unfortunately, after 3 seasons writers didn't give us anything. It makes laughable the idea of balance between Ladybug and Black Cat.

Now, to the second tier. These Miraculouses have a singular ability, but they need a second one to keep the power balanced between Zodiac and the main pair.

3. Butterfly creates champions with different superpowers. But how does the time limit of children work for Butterfly? In theory, the countdown should start right after the creation of the Akuma since for Ladybug and Chat Noir countdown starts after activation of their powers even if they don't use them. However, if the countdown of the Butterfly begins after Akuma creation then there's no point because the holder has to stay transformed to guide their champion. The charged butterfly won't have time to even grant powers before the transformation of the child-holder drops. This issue is never explored because Gabriel doesn't have a time limit. However, I feel like it should be addressed in flashbacks of past Butterfly holders for example.

This Miraculous should be less powerful than Ladybug and Black Cat. It's often not. Some Akumas are too overpowered. Stormy Weather can move the Earth away from the Sun, Timetagger can send people through time and jump through time as well, Chat Blanc destroyed the world with a single energy blast, Miraculer could steal powers of those more powerful than her by default. These are the most notable examples. One could argue that Chat Blanc was a different case. Hawkmoth simply gave the most powerful Miraculous a boost. However, we know that even without a holder (the wildest and the most powerful form of uncontrolled Miraculous magic) Plagg's Cataclysm can't destroy the universe just like that (he presumably wiped out dinosaurs and sunk Atlantis on his own without a holder). I think that the less powerful Miraculous (Butterfly) shouldn't be able to increase the power of destruction to such a degree and give Black Cat the power to destroy celestial bodies and galaxies.

Writers want us to see Hawkmoth as the formidable villain. But it's not easy because he is less powerful than your main heroes by default of your worldbuilding. Sometimes writers make the Butterfly more powerful than creation and destruction to raise the stakes, breaking the laws of their magic system. So, how do you solve this? Let Ladybug and Black Cat keep their status as the most powerful and instead of giving Hawkmoth more magical power, make him smarter, more cunning, inventive. Gabriel is a fashion designer, whose creativity makes him a very good Butterfly holder. He has a life full of experience, he knows much more about things than the main teenage characters. Catalyst was very interesting for this very reason. Gabriel sort of discovered a cheat code to boost his powers. Show us how he experiments with his powers, how he analyses his past Akumas and tries to find the most effective ones. Maybe Gabriel tries to design Akumas that can specifically neutralise Ladybug and Chat Noir. This exploration could also give writers an opportunity to explain how the powers of Butterfly work. Can he control the type of powers he grants? Can he control the appearance of Akumas? There are many things to be explored.

4. Peacock creates sentimonsters. I remember that fans were very disappointed when the power of the Peacock was revealed at the end of season 2. I was one of them. The concept of Amoks is far too similar to akumatized butterflies. Other Miraculouses have unique abilities and keywords for their powers, while Peacock just looks like Butterfly 2.0. That glowing mask effect just adds insult to injury.

You have to start by figuring out the powers of the Peacock in a normal situation. If a holder is a good person, then how does their power work? For example, make them related to sight (because of the "eye" pattern on feathers). Maybe, Peacock grants the ability to see the several possibilities of the future, but only a few minutes ahead. Maybe, this Miraculous gives you the ability to see through someone's eyes for a few minutes (and the victim is completely unaware of the intrusion). Perhaps, Peacock allows the holder to use feathers (or tiny peacocks) as cameras one at a time and be all-seeing. These feather-spies can be destroyed by the holder or disappear on their own after some time. Such power could be devastating when used against heroes in canon.

5. Bee can paralyze. This power is pretty straightforward. Once I read a fanfiction focused on very vell done Chloe Redemption, where she fights alongside Ladybug and Chat Noir. Eventually, she grows and becomes a better person. This fic ends with an Akuma battle, where LB and CN are trapped and Akuma is ready to kill them. But Chloe uses a second power of the Bee on the villain - Miraculous Stinger. It's deadly both for the holder and for the victim (because bees die when they sting someone). Chloe kills the Akuma with a Stinger before it can get LB and CN, but she too dies making the ultimate irreversible sacrifice. I will add a link if I find it again.

6. Turtle can create a shield. I don't have much to say on this either. It feels underpowered compared to others in the second tier. Maybe Turtle can also slow down opponents (because turtles aren't the fasters animals out there).

7. Fox creates illusions and acts as their puppeteer. In order to create a balance between other powers, these illusions must hold for as long as the holder needs them to. I propose this mostly because we see that Venom of the Bee lasts very long, the shield of the Turtle lasts either until it's destroyed or the holder wants to remove it, same goes for Akumas and sentimonsters who disappear only when the holder wants them to or their affected object is destroyed.

Let's talk about Zodiac tier. Miraculous of the third tier shouldn't have the second ability like more powerful ones. These powers are the most inconsistent. Even if we haven't seen all of them yet.

8. Mouse can create many small clones of the holder. It is unclear how these clones communicate with each other and how many of them this Miraculous can create. The holder can control the number of clones. This power was very convenient in "Kwamibuster" and it makes sense symbolically for the mouse. What activates the time-limit for children? Marinette didn't have any problems with it when she became Multimouse.

9. Snake can create a 5-minute time loop and has the ability to come back in time. This Miraculous feels a bit overpowered for the Miraculous of the Zodiac Tier. The holder can reset the time as many times as he/she needs to. It's was a good source of drama and trauma in "Desperada". I was honestly surprised that Adrien was capable of fighting after spending months in a loop. But this doesn't change the fact that Snake is overpowered. You can give this Miraculous the power to hypnotise or keep the time ability but place a limit on the number of resets. How does the lyre work as a weapon? Who knows? No one!

10. Dragon can shapeshift into elements: water, wind and lightning. It has the coolest transformation words hands down (Bring the Storm and Open Sky). Apparently this Miraculous doesn't have the time limit.

11. Rabbit can time travel or jump through alternative realities, even writers aren't sure. Time-travel in this show is so badly written it gives me a headache. This Miraculous shouldn't exist just like its powers. Snake belongs to the same tier, but 5 minutes and whole centuries of time jumps aren't comparable in power levels. They are not and this is the hill I will die on. Give the Rabbit powers related to its symbolism in China like an ability to de-age people, heal them or give them a speed boost in contrast with Turtle who might have the ability to slow down.

This Miraculous is so special that its Kwami - Fluff can live separately from his Miraculous in a Miracle Box for millennia (Fluff lives in the Box in "Sandboy", but his Miraculous, pocket watch, was passed down for generations in Alix's family). This is a discussion for a separate post, however. There's a lot to unpack. We'll do that some other time. You will suffer with me but at a later date.

12. Horse can create portals. They could lead anywhere, which is pretty cool. On the other hand, this power is not very useful in direct combat, especially when it's used by a child since we can have only one portal per transformation.

13. Monkey can cause a malfunction in powers of other people. What is the point of this? This power was specifically created by writers to defeat Akuma in "Party Crasher". That's it. What if your target is not magical? How does this Miraculous work in different circumstances?

14. Pig shows people their greatest desire. Both the holder and the recipient of this power can see this desire. Chat Noir wasn't impressed in "Guiltrip" and neither was I. It's underpowered compared to other Miraculous in this tier. Also, why does the tambourine can shoot energy beams? Why?

That's all I have to say on the matter. I'll update the power analysis as needed.

#miraculous ladybug #ml #miraculous analysis #miraculous meta #ml meta #ml analysis #miraculous transformations #miraculous critical #miraculous ladybug critical #miraculoustalesofladybugandcatnoir #mt of lb and cn #miraculous jewels

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Levihan, Fluff 11? Please, again? Lol

#11.) Levihan, Fluff: “I know it’s 2 in the morning but do you want to…” I think I was drunk when I wrote this draft, so, uhm, my apologies.

Summary: Levi is dead, dead, dead, and he is very, very confused. Crack fic, beware.

Rating: M

Only the Good Stories Remain

Levi thinks he’s a goner; his butt has been kicked by that stupid monkey because Zeke—fucking—Yeager pulled the pin of the thunderspear. Waiting sure makes revenge more satisfying. He wants to say, “A shithead like you has no one on your side.” He wants to chop him up with the Executioner from Hell and feed him to the dogs of Marley. Like bad boys with their bad toys, because sticks and stones may break his bones but whips and chains excite him. Zackley is in the corner, using his torture device on Pixis and Nile. Once he’s done, the Prime Commander sets them all on fire, and Levi thinks this is okay. Hands off, Chief. If Zackley ever touches his face, Levi’s gonna break his bones. He almost had it all, but what they gave him was his angst. He is just the right kind of lost, like a sour, wrinkly grape waiting to rot. It’s him, a painful death, and all the heroic stories in between. But heroism is also a deadly flaw. Like hubris or vanity or snorting soap suds to calm him down. That’s why he thinks he should do away with it. There is something wrong about him so he looks down and sees himself naked. His nose twitches. Somebody comes up to him and grunts, “Fancy, huh?” He glances to the side and sees Farlan and Isabel. They’re cleaning and scrubbing every inch of him. “The fuck you’re doing?” Isabel laughs and splashes an entire bucket of tea onto him, upset that he’s held it the wrong way all these years. He stares down the cup and sees his reflection: it’s a sad blob of smoke and blood. The handle is more fragile than his ego. Behind him, his horse is whinnying; it’s wild and free and the next thing it does is a somersault in the air with his ODM gear. It spins in the air, just like what he does when he’s slashing at Titans in full rage. And then the horse transforms into Erwin without notice. There's no mistaking that blond hair, blue eyes and eyebrows thick as worms. “Erwin, what the hell?” The Commander is running to him with a huge pastry the size of his thigh. “I’m here to keep you high.” He turns around and sees Erwin covered in cream and chocolate. “Surprise, I’m the pastry.” Levi is disgusted and his face does not hide it. But he still wants to bite it even though he might choke on that. It probably tastes like wild berries and bratwurst. Or beef jerky. And all that Levi does is imagine. Pretend he’s not a 30-year-old man who hangs out with teenagers because all his friends are dead. It’s like when they say the history is written by the winners—stories don’t grow in Paradis; they come out of Marley’s ass. Put that on loop and you’ll get a new season. Out of nowhere, Mike keeps on sniffing him; he doesn’t know why but he knows he smells of grapefruit and mint. The next thing he knows is Mike sneezing like it’s the end of the world. He keeps wheezing until Wall Maria falls once again, and then it topples over Sina and Rose. “Oh my god,” Sina blurts out from the afterlife. “Did you mean goddesses?” Rose flips her hair and winks. Oh my us, indeed. Next to him, Nanaba is laughing out loud. She’s a blonde version of Levi, but her hair makes her look like a banana. Maybe that’s why her name is like that. He believes blondies on board do the trick; they’ve all developed a kink for napes. It’s an awkward question if he asks her to confirm that. But he’s waiting for secrets to come out. Blondies should die their hair a different color so people don’t think they’re dumb. And now Levi’s tired because all of his rabid fangirls are trying to ship him with anyone and everyone; he doesn't have enough holes for that. He wants to strangle them all with his cravat. But nobody really dies a virgin because life fucks them all. He’d rather break their bones because they have 213 of those. Nothing here makes sense, he says, seeing Kenny and Kuchel run around chasing knives. His mother is angry at Kenny for raising Levi like a homeless rabbit. So she skins her own brother alive with a backhand grip. And now they’re even, his Ackerman clan. Maybe it’s all about riding out the pain. Or just getting high. It’s a shit show. “Heya, midget!

Shit happens, right?” Kenny spits out the apple seeds from his mouth. “Don’t listen to him, baby.” His mother puts a finger on her lips, but Levi says, "I'm not a baby anymore." He might be growing old but he refuses to grow up and the dead just keep popping out of the dark like daisies. Lynne and Henning are beside Gelgar chugging mugs and mugs of beer. Bizarre and off the wall. He’s mad because nobody gave him an invitation to drink. And now the drinks are on him. Somebody’s throwing up in the back, it might be Kenny or his mother. But it’s actually Sasha, who choked on an entire potato because it wouldn’t fit inside her mouth. She throws up and all kinds of titans come out of her mouth. But they don’t eat anyone; instead they just crawl to the ground with their faces flat in the mud like Rod Reiss did. Even Rod Reiss says hi but Levi doesn’t give a shit. He can keep his face down in shit for all he cares. It’s like dreaming that he’s Historia and Eren is the person who got her pregnant. There’s too much riding and moaning for horny kids and he’s only got sore joints and eyebags from being a veteran. Petra is spanking Oluo for imitating him again. Watch her back; it might break again. The girl acts like a wife to this copycat avocado. Everything is like fish sauce and gin; they don’t make sauce but you still want to hear about it. Gunther is doing bondage with the harnesses, and it excites him, but now he doesn’t know how to free himself from it. “O Captain, My Captain,” Eld says, as if he’s reciting some lines out of a play or a poem. But that does not stop him because Levi cannot appreciate art. He thinks art is for fuckers who think they’ve achieved something good in life. Why be normal when he can be fab? He’d rather be something than nothing. Erwin’s voice is booming. “Do you believe in it?” His bolo tie is slipping. “Do you, do you, do you?” Erwin’s voice keeps repeating: do you, do you, do you, do you, until Levi himself finally has had enough and says, “Fuck this, get out of my head.”

“...Levi?”

Hange is looking at him. There’s no one else around. It’s just them, a bonfire, a tent, splintered wood, and a cart of supplies in the forest, and he’s fucking naked and there are bandages around his face.

Oh, and his fingers are missing.

“We’re all good here, right?”

Hange nods, slowly. “I know it’s 2 in the morning but do you want to…”

“What?”

“...Maybe rest some more?” Hange puts their hands on his shoulders and gently pushes him down the mat.

It’s like camping. In the midst of war. And they’re out here, roasting marshmallows with his hand that has two less fingers. But he’ll be fine, who knows?

Then the cart explodes right behind them.

#levihan #aot #snk #attack on titan #levi ackerman #snk levi #hange zoe #captain levi #hanji zoe #levi attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin #levi aot #levi heichou #shingeki no kyoujin levi #fanfic #fanfiction #writing #mine #djmarinizela #crack fic #CRACK FIC I SAID #I WARNED YOU ALL #IM SO SORRY

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Reacting To: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (Season 2 Episode 7)

Episode Title: Benson and the Beast

Spoiler Warning: Kindly proceed if you’ve already seen the episode or are able to handle spoilers.

1. The past few episodes have been starting out with flashbacks huh? Well, this episode is no exception; We travel back one year into the past and we see Benson climbing down into a deep den with baby Dave in his backpack. He’s there because he wants to get his cassette player back from two giant bat mutes. However, they catch him red-handed and tell Benson they need the player to build an alien communicator to reach out to the aliens. 

2. Baby Dave then molts rapidly across one entire cycle and stops at his toddler stage. This makes the bats think that he’s an alien. Why are they so sure that he is though? Lol. So afterwards, Benson and Dave were able to escape with his cassette player. 

3. We are now in present times and it picks up where things left off last episode; Full Mega Jaguar Kipo is chasing after Scarlemagne who has her mother, Song aka the Mega Monkey under his mind control. One of the Nobles tries to shoot Kipo with an arrow but he gets taken down by the three scientists with a paralyzing dart. 

4. Kipo goes on to attack them and Dr. Emilia retaliates by shooting the darts at her. Luckily, she’s stopped by Wolf and Benson then tries to calm Kipo down and remind her who she is by showing her, her family photo. However, Zane points his arrow at Kipo, which startles her and accidentally bumps Benson to the ground in the process. He tries again one more time and Kipo manages to turn back into a human. Wow, that sure was suspenseful!

5. The scientists immediately recognize she’s Lio and Song’s child (I think) and they try to act like they know nothing about her parents. I think they are gonna try to kidnap Kipo themselves to experiment on her. They claim to be part of the human resistance that’s against Scarlemagne and they plan to wait till the Noble whom they just took out snaps out of his mind control state in order to extract information about Scarlemagne’s plans. 

6. It looks like Benson has dislocated his shoulder; Poor thing! Dr. Emilia tries to trick them into following them back to their headquarters but Wolf is highly suspicious of them. We also know that the scientists were actually looking for Kipo for 13 years! Okay, so they definitely know she’s Lio and Oak’s daughter. Also, they secretly plan to use Kipo as their weapon and dispose of her afterwards. Yikes! That’s evil! Anyways, despite still having reservations about them, Kipo and the others agree to follow them because they really need for Benson to get medical help. 

7. Another flashback!; This time, we go back to the time when Song decided to stay back to answer the knock on her and Lio’s apartment door. As I’ve predicted, the same scientists were the ones behind the door. Song opens it and Dr. Emilia immediately calls her out for lying to them about being able to isolate the mutagen. 

8. If I’m not wrong. there’s two sides here. The first side, which Song and Lio belong to are the ones who want humans and mutes to live in harmony with one another and that’s by genetically modifying humans to become half-mutes in order to survive on the surface world. And as for the other side, which the scientists belong to, they just want to take mutes down and turn them back into animals so that humans can go back to being the dominant race again. 

9. Dr. Emilia tells Song that she’s going to find Kipo and take her away; Song tries to resist them but accidentally falls off the balcony. Luckily, she transforms into the Mega Monkey just in time. That was a cool scene I must say. 

10. Back at the scientists’ HQ, Dr. Emilia is able to fix Benson’s dislocated shoulder. She then gives them a tour of their offices and we see more scientists busy working on plans to rescue the mind-controlled humans in Aurum and they have a tunnel that can take them there. We also get introduced to some of the things they’ve created to use against the mutes like a pheromone proof room and their Sonic Emitter, which emits sound waves that can only bother mutes. 

11. However, the sonic waves unknowingly wakes up the two mute bats. Are these bats supposed to be good or bad? We discover later on that the mind-controlled human they managed to capture is actually Troy’s dad, Roberto! Finally! After 6 episodes, we get a mention of Troy again. I miss him. And so does Benson hehe. Lol, look at Dr. Emilia’s face in this picture. 

12. Dr. Emilia now wants to train Kipo to control her powers and Benson wants to come along since she needs her anchor. Before leaving, he asks Wolf if she could make him look good in front of Troy’s dad. LOL! He still gotta impress his boo’s dad even during a time of crisis. Well, he still has a date set with Troy after all! I hope we get to see this date by the end of the season!

13. During the training, Kipo is finding it difficult to go back into her full jaguar form again. By the way, Dr. Emilia is INTENSE! Benson tries to talk to Kipo to figure out where her head’s at and Kipo tells him she’s afraid of hurting him or anyone again. Well, that’s a valid fear to have.

14. Meanwhile, Wolf is re-telling the story about how Benson and Troy had set up their date to Dave. Suddenly, Roberto wakes up and Wolf explains to him what happened, including letting him know that Troy is safe with the Timbercats, thanks to Benson. Roberts asks them who these people are to which they explain everything to the best of their ability lol.

15. I appreciate Dave for trying to talk Benson up to Roberto lol. I mean, that’s gonna be his future father-in-law. Zane and Greta discover that Roberto is awake and asks him to explain Scarlemagne’s plan during his future coronation; He reveals that Scarlemagne plans to gather all the humans in the arena to mind-control them. Benson, Kipo and Dr. Emilia joins them and Roberto tells Benson he’s impressed with the heroic things he didn’t do, thanks to Dave. 

16. Suddenly, the mute bats barge into the building and fortunately, they’re not evil/mind-controlled but they are really obsessed in trying to find that “alien communicator” they so desperately want. They (Geli and Jibralta) start rummaging through the place and attacking whomever in standing in their way. Kipo tries to stop them with her two jaguar arms but it’s not enough. 

17. Because Benson recognizes these two, he tries to lure them to him by telling them that the sonic emitter is the communicator. However, they think he is an alien whisperer and they grab hold of him and take him away. Aww, Dave is upset that Benson’s gone. Finally, Kipo is able to trigger her transformation into her full Jaguar form. 

18. The crazy bats take him to their den and ask Benson to use the “communicator” to make contact with the aliens. Kipo, the full jaguar then jumps into the burrow and starts to chase the bats. Wow and she’s giving them a beating for sure lol. As Kipo is about to attack them some more, Benson manages to calm her down by showing the family photo to her again. Phew! I’m glad that she’s able to transform back again because you know how some shows will try to make it more dramatic by not allowing its characters to do something for some random reason. 

19. But they still have to deal with Geli and Jibralta and it turns out, Kipo is able to transform back into a jaguar again without any problems, in order to scare them. Wow, I’m impressed; She’s getting good at this. Afterwards, Benson gets on top of Kipo and they head off. 

20. They reunite with the others and Kipo impressively turns back into her human form once again. She’s happy that she’s able to now control her powers and she’s confident in taking down Scarlemagne without hurting the humans. However, Dr. Emilia wants Kipo to use her powers to specifically take down the Mega Monkey. But Kipo doesn’t say anything. Why can’t she tell them that the monkey is her mom? It’s not like Kipo was given the impression that the scientists already knew of her or her family. 

21. Awkward moment alert! Roberto tells Benson that he should date Wolf because she’s been saying nice things about Benson to him. LOL! His plan backfired. Benson decides to tell the truth and Roberto immediately gets the hint and it seems like he would be happy for his son, Troy to be with Benson. Phew! For a minute there, I thought Roberto would be that homophobic parent we all hate tbh. But considering the fact that the show’s setting takes place very much in the distant future, I’d like to think that gay relationships would be much more normalized by then. 

22. Kipo is facing a dilemma because she might have to fight her own mom, who is mind-controlled. Benson, yet again, comes up with a plan to get Kipo and Roberto to sneak out in the middle of the night and Roberto navigating through the tunnels to get Kipo to reach the place where her mom is being kept. She goes up to the surface to immediately find her mom who is asleep but it looks like she’s tied to a giant tree? 

23. OMG look at that face; I just want to cry. Song wakes up and they share an emotional reunion. However, Kipo gets grabbed by a flamingo and is dropped onto an empty clearing in the forest.

24. She is then greeted by Scarlemagne and her mind-controlled father. So she has no other choice but to hold herself back from attacking. The episode then ends here. 

25. That’s the end of my review of episode 7. Thank you guys so much for having read my review/reaction. I really appreciate your support. Please check out my review of episode 8 for when it will be out tomorrow. Till then, bye!

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[futurewriter2000]

Final Moments

A/N: This is my first marvel imagine and I know I haven’t much perfected the character but give me a few more imagines and I’ll make him the Steve Rogers that he is. I just haven’t really written much of Marvel fics but I hope this is good enough.

PAIRING: Steve Rogers x reader

REQUEST: would you be down to write a steve rogers x reader fic? i love your writing and would love one... so here’s the request (if u do) so it’s a post serum 40s steve who doesn’t really know much about what is happening to him. he knows that everything is on edge. he knows he has do do these shows and stuff but there is something or someone else on his mind as these changes occur. she was one of the scientists (possibly) at the lab and he sees her out and about one day. they get to talking (part one) -- (pt2) and she and steve share little moments where her inter scientist comes out and she starts helping steve truly understand what happened to him. (if you feel comfortable doing this that would be cool and i love all of your pieces! peace and love:) ) 

XX

‘ It was somewhere along the words astonishing and fascinating watching the serum change a man with a slim figure and pretty much all bones into a man, who was the opposite. What was even more incredible than watching the serum work was how much pain and radiation this lanky boy had to go through. He clearly didn’t had enough of body mass to survive but he did and it showed the strength within.

Though you knew this man could take care of himself since his new transformation, you were still responsible for his health.

“You’re temperature is normal, blood presure is normal, heart rate stable,   the amount of haemoglobin in the blood is a bit too high but that must only be the serum trying to overload you on it since your past documents say it was too low. Did you have to take medicine for it?” you looked up at those blue eyes but he only stared. “Mr. Rogers?” you waved your hand in front of him and he flinched.

“Uh- sorry. What was the question again?” he dazed out of his day dreams and focused on your words again.

“Doesn’t matter.” you smiled and put the lab results back on the desk. You sat in front of him and lit a flashlight to see his pupils. “Heard you wanted to join the military?” you said as you switched the eye.

“Yes.”

“May I ask why?” you rolled back on your chair, put the flaslight away and took the a piece of paper to scribble on it.

“If I can ask about what you’re writing there?” he smiled and nodded at the file.

“Well. I’m writing down your neutrophils, lymphocites, monocites, eosinophiles, basophils, haemoglobin-”

“Okay, okay.” he chuckled. “I get it. Medical stuff.”

“Yeah. Thought so.” you winked and put the files away. You sat on your stule and smiled at him, waiting for his answer.

“I wanted to do something good. Since I was a kid all I wanted was be a soldier, serve the country and- and there was this man, my father actually, who was an amazing soldier. From what my mother told me, she said he was the only soldier leaving with a smile and coming back with a smile.” he continued to ramble, not even aware how much he has already told you. But you listened to him and you kept your attention on him. “He died...just at the end of the war.” he looked down at his intertwined finers.

“I’m sorry.” 

He looked up and smiled. “I was too young to know him but I just wanted to make him proud, you know?”

“Well, he can definetly be proud of the man you’ve become. After this, you’ll be the best american soldier...” ‘

Months passed since he last saw you but he could still remember the smile on your lips, the colour of your eyes and the laugh.

‘ “No, no- God, Steve.” you laughed as he accidentaly bumped into a skeleton dummy, making its bones fall from the strings that kept it together.

“I’m so so sorry.” he picked the bones from the ground and tried to put them back where they belonged. Key word: Tried.

“It’s alright, Steve. Just leave it.” you continued to laugh as the bones only falled. ‘

He never enjoyed the visits to the doctors, but you? To visit the scientist who made all of that possible? He couldn’t wait when they told him to see you.

But if only you could see him now. In these stupid  tights and this stupid hat. All he wanted was to be a soldier and now? Now he’s just a walking clown. Would you say his father would be proud after seeing the soldier you met sing and dance like a circus monkey?

“Rogers!” someone shouted and came from behind. “There is some science woman here to see you.”

Steve jumped on his feet immediately. He was just thinking of you and now- now you’re here? And he’s wearing this-

“Nice tights, mr. Rogers.” you giggled as you walked in front of him. “Really shows out your legs.” you kept teasing but he only grew more red.

“Uhm- eh- (y/n)- khm.” he mumbled and couldn’t even find the words to say to you.

“Relax, dummy.” you sat on the stairs where he sat before. “How are you?”

“Uh- great.” he sat down beside you but you saw right through him.

“Yes. I can see. I can see you jumping from excitment.”

“That obvious, huh?”

“Only to me.” you nudged him a bit, trying to make him smile.

“I just- I hate this.” he put the cap off, showing his messy blonde hair. “The tights, the hat, the costumes, the singing- it’s not what I signed up for.”

“Then why are you still doing it?”

“I don’t know...” he sighed. “Something is better than nothing.”

“I guess that’s true.” you shurgged and looked at the distance.

“You probably think I’m dumb...” he mumbled really quietly.

Your head shot in his direction and you immediatelly denied. “No. How could you think that?”

“I told you all these things about my dad and how I want to make him proud but this is the furthest from it.”

“ Not everything is easy, Steve. You can’t expect to get what you want with a snap of your fingers. It took me all my life to get where I want. Especially a girl and a scientist. Where have you seen that?” you took his hands again and he felt his body soften. “I remember in my third year we had fieldtirp to E.T.S.N Labs and there were males. Just random guys in white cloaks and colourful bottles. And to most of my classmates the whole discussion about nitrium reactions was dull but I found it the most fascinating. There were all these glass bottles and test tubes- oh and there was this huge computer- imagine seeing the computer for the first time-” you nudged him a bit, realizing just how much you were babbling to him. “Oh, sorry. I’m talking too much, aren’t I?”

“No, no. Keep going.” he nudged you back. “I wanna hear about this computer.”

“Well, it was huge, as I said...it took a room but not a normal sized room but a gigantic sized room that felt...”

And as you kept explaining the time you first got inspired by chemicals, chemistry, the human body, the elements... he watched. He watched you with the same smile as you explained your story of how you fell in love with science. You were talking with such a wide smile and when he nodded, despite not having a clue what you were saying, your eyes sparkled like they were filled with the stars.

And for a moment all of his troubles disappeared and he was with you. Only you.

---

Since that moment, the two of you grew closer to each other. To you, he was never a soldier. He was always the lanky boy you saw walk through the doors of your laboratory. A boy with an awkward smile and lovely laugh. 

It wasn’t easy letting him go on those missions later on. You tried not to come out as paranoid as you did but you deeply cared for that man and seeing him go off, not knowing if it’s the last time you will see him, wasn’t exactly easy. He grew on you- mostly... he grew closer to your heart. 

“No martini today?” he leaned on the counter and you smiled, tracing your finger around te edge of your glass. 

“No. Not today.” you looked at him, pushing away the drink. “You?”

“I don’t drink.” he leaned on the counter with both of his elbows on the edge and his view over at Bucky’s table. 

“You never stop looking out for him, do you?” you mimicked his position and looked over at the drunk men over at the other table.

“Bucky? He looked out for me my whole life. Like a brother. I care to do the same.” he turned his blue eyes back to you, smirking. 

“That’s really amazing to hear. God knows I never had anybody to watch over me.” you took a sip of your scotch.

“Now, you know that was never true.” he stood up straight and you pressed your glass against your lips. “I have always looked out for you too. I’m Captain America.” he wiggled his eyebrows and you scoffed. 

“Using that line on me?” you quirked an eyebrow. 

“Is it working?” 

“A little, yes.” you let out a laugh, before finally putting your drink down and stretching out your hand. “Come on. Let’s see if Captain America can dance.” you took his hand but he stayed seated. 

“Yeah, I don’t know.”

“There is a lady asking you to dance with you, Steve.” you walked back closer, leaning forward and partially glancing at his lips. “Don’t let her down.” your eyes shit up to his and the two of you just looked at each other for a moment. 

To be honest, Steve Rogers wasn’t even thinking. He knew his answer but he just wanted to savour this moment; to have you close and with him, to feel not his image but himself. To be Steve Rogers, not Captain America. 

“Then let’s dance.” he smiled and stood up. 

He took you by the hand, his other hand placed itself on your hip not too firm but not gentle either. Your feet moved together, small steps to the sound of a saxophone and a piano. The man on the stage san in a voice, deep and dreamy: ‘  The night is like a lovely tune, beware my foolish heart How white the ever constant moon, take care, my foolish heart...’ 

He pulled you closer and you laid your head on his chest, feeling his heart beat calmly. You could smell the woody, aromatic parfume on his collar and it was blessing your soul with its scent. The warmth of his body heat was giving you a stronger effect than you could have imagine. You were in a daze- a daze with a gentle music in the background. 

“I could stay like this forever.” you said quietly but still feel him smile. You removed your head from his chest and looked up at him. He was smiling down on you with one of those smiles that could just make your heart go wild but calm down at the same time. 

“I could stay with you forever.” he replied and the two of you started slowing down your dance to the point where you barely moved. Your hands were now around his neck, your fingers gently scratching the back of it. 

He was watching you, dazed just as you. There were the stars as always in your eyes but at the moment you didn’t want him to see the stars. You wanted to feel them. “Steve?” you smiled, droping one hand on his chest.

“Uhm.” he mumbled.

“Are you meaning to kiss me or just look?” you teased and he smiled even wider. 

“Look, then kiss.” he replied and you giggled.

“Do you want me to twirl?” 

“It would be nice, yes.” he said as he moved away to let you spin around for him. You held on to his hand but as soon as you faced him again, he pulled you close, put his hand on your cheek and kissed you. Like his hold, it wasn’t gentle but it wasn’t too firm as well. You knotted his shirt in your fist and by pulling him closer, you deepened the kiss. There were whistles coming from the table his friends sat and both of you pulled away, smiling. 

He leaned his forehead on yours and kept grinning. “Sorry about them.”

“Well, they are probably thinking the same as I am.”

“Which is?” 

“Finally.”

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[nowhereiswhereibelong]

73 Questions

I mas tagged by: @mrs-machinegun-norris about two centuries ago sorry

On a scale of 1-10, how excited are you about life right now?

• 5

Describe yourself in a hashtag?

• #sadbicht

• Cause I'm a bad bicht you can't kill me, only I do that

If you could do a love scene with anyone, who would it be?

• Aaron Taylor-Johnson

• Colson Backer

If your life was a musical, what would the marquee say?

• The crazy bisexual is on the loose

What’s one thing people don’t know about you?

• That I cant handle silence

What’s your wake up ritual?

• All my cats and family yells at me till I roll of take my meds and stare at the wall till I'm late

What’s your go to bed ritual?

• Make sure I cleaned the litter box and that my cats have food and water then is up to bed and reading anything and everything till I fall a sleep

What’s your favourite time of day?

• Night time (I get the zoomies), or when I'm home alone

Your go to for having a good laugh?

• I really like comedy and some that make me laugh even when I watched 1000 times: John Mulaney, Daniel Sloss, Russel Howard and Sarah Millican

Dream country to visit?

• As many as I can! I have an extensive list

What’s the biggest surprise you’ve had?

• Last semester 3 professors at university were really supportive and understanding and I didnt expect them to be so kind or belive in me that much.

Heels or flats/sneakers?

• Sneakers everywhere all the time for any given reason

Vintage or new?

• Vintage bits and pisses of different eras but late 80s early 90s give me live

• And I'm obsessed with 70s buildings dont know why

Who do you want to write your obituary?

• An creative stranger - go nuts dude freak people out

Style icon?

• dont have one I guess

What are three things you can’t live without?

• My cats

• My phone

• My guitar

What’s one ingredient you put in everything?

• I'm crazy about mustard

• My dad always says anything salivary can be better with cheese and anything sweet be better with chocolate - not that far from the truth

What 3 people living or dead would you like to make dinner for?

• Elvis Presley

• Jane Fonda

• Janis Joplin

What’s your biggest fear in life?

• Failure

• The dark

Window or aisle seat?

• Window: you can look at the view, it's better for sleeping and during the day sunlight for reading

What’s your current TV obsession?

• A have many, it's a problem, but right now mind hunter

Favourite app?

• Instagram and tumblr

Secret talent?

• I like to lie to myself and say acting but maybe just weirdly good at pretending to be good at things (ain't that the joke huh)

Most adventurous thing you’ve done in your life?

• I would say it was dumb, stupid and streamly dangerous but when I was 16 a friend and I went to some guys house in a very weird neighborhood and lied to our parents about it and only 1 other friend new (also our taxi couldn't find the house). We meet those two guys at a friends party and they said that they were throwing one and that we should go, and our dumb selfdestruting alcohol hunting minds though, why not. It was not a party. It was just a hang out with us and one other guy and to this day I dont know how we left at 7am (the only way to get out of there was the first bus because uber wasn't a thing yet and me and my friend were to scared of what kind taxi driver we would find) unharmed and not sexually harassed, given that one of the dudes that our friends new more hated me for a few months for not putting out for him, cause you know, men.

• I'm absolutely sure they wanted a sex party that didnt happen. But I did show my unasked skills of knowing every single black veil brides lyrics.

How would you define yourself in three words?

• Anxious

• Laud

• Loyal

Favourite piece of clothing you own?

• The stolen 80s tshirts from my dad

• High waisted shorts

Must have clothing item everyone should have?

• A comfortable pair of jean shorts that you feel pretty in

Superpower you would want?

• To stop time

• I get to anxious trying to time manage and it just snowballs from there. And sleeping in without being always late.

What’s inspiring you in life right now?

• Machine Gun Kelly (I stared listening to his stuff a few months ago)

• But always and forever is the passion that moves people

Best piece of advice you’ve received?

• Be/do to other people what you wanted to be done for you

Best advice you’d give your teenage self?

• It's not just on your head it's a real thing, you're lot alone, and it ok to need help.

A book that everyone should read?

• Harry Potter: that even thou I have read multiple times it still is amazing and full of symbolism that people brush through some times.

• Women who run with the wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

• My older sister made me start this book and its absolutely live changing and I belive should be obligatory to all women in this world. This book is a live long work by this psychologist and through miths, legends, folk tales and stories she puts together what she calls the wild women archetype and what is the feminine instinct is and how those tales teach us about it and how to have a healthy relationship with her.

What would you like to be remembered for?

• For being kind

How do you define beauty?

• It's an powerfull force within

What do you ~love most~ only love about your body?

• The shape of my eyes

Best way to take a rest/decompress?

• Listening to music and dancing around

Favourite place to view art?

• I dont understand sorry

If your life were a song, what would the title be?

• Static supernova

If you could master one instrument, what would it be?

• Guitar and piano cant choose only one

If you had a tattoo, where would it be?

• My planned ones:

• Orca

• Felix felicis

• Tree

• Mother earth

• Penicillin allergy (I dont trust nobody)

Dolphins or koalas?

• Dolphins

• Did you y'all know that orcas not only aren't whales but belong on the same family as dolphins?

What’s your spirit animal?

• Orca

Best gift you’ve ever received?

• My cats (even thou there are rescues they're my little special gifts from nature)

Best gift you’ve ever given?

• On my best friend wedding my friend and I gave a performance as siluetes (it was private beach and all the light were off and we had the car headlights behind us) I played the song you are in love by taylor swift while she did an beautiful performance on silks the song represented their relationship and how she shared it if us in a very sacred way and the silks was a representation of her herself and how the 3 of us saw in the last few years her transformation from a very broken person to the women she was born to be.

• Yes we were crying the hole time but was the most genuine and beautiful think I ever done so yeah

What’s your favourite board game?

• Dix it, its awesome go play it pls

What’s your favourite colour?

• Petrol blue

Least favourite colour?

• The color of lentil soup my mom makes it looks like a baby have serious digestive problems

Diamonds or pearls?

• Diamonds of the symbolic value of "the pressure that could've break us made us into diamonds insted"

Drugstore makeup or designer?

• Drugstore makeup, the one I know that are real brands hauahauahs

Blow-dry or air-dry?

• Air-dry

Pilates or yoga?

• Pilates even thou I must prefer sports mostly

Coffee or tea?

• My blood is coffee at this point

What’s the weirdest word in the English language?

• Wolrd, because English is not my first language and specially in an American accent the pronunciation of wolrd if simply the worst and is absolutely obnoxious and unsettling.

Dark chocolate or milk chocolate?

• Dark

• But my absolut favored is a 70% cacao white chocolate. It's incredible but I only got to buy it twice :(

Stairs or elevator?

• Stairs, I also love to sit on them

Summer or winter?

• Winter. I only like heat if I'm inside very cold water

You are stuck on an island, you can pick one food to eat forever without getting tired of it, what would you eat?

• If nutrition value doesn't matter, ice cream

A desert you don’t like?

• Orange cake. Bad memories and I vomit every time I try to eat it.

A skill you’re working on mastering?

• Singing and playing the guitar

Best thing to happen to you today?

• I think I made a online friend :D

Best compliment you’ve ever received?

• That I'm kind

Favourite smell?

• Buttering sugar

Hugs or kisses?

• Hugs i Iike to be permanently attached to some people at times

If you made a documentary, what would it be about?

• Domestic violence

• Parenting

Last piece of content you consumed that made you cry?

• Today I was trying to play this song called Ronan and cryed my eyes out like all the other times I tried before It's a song of child cancer in the mother's perspective

Lipstick or lip gloss?

• Lipstick

• I'm a red matte lip stan

Sweet or savoury?

• Sweet

Girl crush?

• Billie Elish

How you know you’re in love?

• The only time I think I've been in love I only realised it because they left and I didnt understand why i was severely hurt by it and changed the way I created all relationships after that. And then it hit me

• So pain and heartache.... yeah that's depressing as shit

Song you can listen to on repeat?

• When the sun goes down - Arctic Monkeys

If you could switch lives with someone for a day who would it be?

• My own self but not a anxious depressed mess just to feel what it's like

What are you most excited about at this time in your life?

• That I dont need to make decisions

[whenimgoodandready]

🎶It’s fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A! It’s fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A!🎶 Lol! Despite Disco being dead, we just can’t help but resurrect it from the grave cuz it’s just so.........so..........🌸✌🏻✨groovy✨✌🏻🌸. No matter the generation, 80’s, 90’s, 2000’s or even the 2010’s it’s always fun to celebrate the decade that made dancing feel good and hip. So let’s party!

*Party Crasher-Remember “Gigantitan”, the episode where it was mostly girl orientated cuz its main focus was all about Marinette and her girl squad trying to make Adrienette happen with a zany elaborate scheme, well now it’s Adriens turn to have himself a guy episode in which I like to call a “Bros Day Out”! Nino plans it out since Gabriel is “out of town” and has a few of his male friends to accompany him and bribe his bodyguard (with action figures) to give Adrien some well deserved free time from his busy schedule. That’s nice, except he made them all lie to the girl squad by making up excuses to why they can’t help them plant trees. Look, it’s wrong to lie, but who hasn’t lied in this show already!? We got two major heroes who make up excuses to why they’re always late and disappear, a part-time supervillain dad with questionable morals that makes himself look “busy” with his lies and a girl that officially went to the dark side who does it on a daily basis! ¯\_( ಠ_ಠ)_/¯ .

Anyways, word spreads like wildfire where almost every guy in the show and I mean EVERY GUY IN THE SHOW! Arrive and party like it’s 1970! Speaking of the 70’s, there’s a parody of The Village People as well as their hit song, “Y.M.C.A”! Lol! So while the biggest sausagefest in Paris, France was goin’ on, Marinette got suspicious as to why all the guys suddenly bailed out on her and her squad and went undercover to find out (poorly) disguised as “Marino”. Well, every sausagefest needs at least one “taco” at a party, huh? (Badum-tish🥁).

The party was great, except Maxes robot friend, Markov, hacked into the sound system to pump up the volume and make it loud enough to practically topple the Eiffel Tower and it also caused the underground lair in the Agreste mansion, where Adrien’s mother, Emilie, was in her comatose state, to lose its electricity and black out thus cutting off her life support glass coffin! Don! Don! Don! Gabe was there and he was freaking out! He transformed into Hawk Moth to fix this, but unfortunately for him, there’s more joy in his house than the Happiest Place on Earth! Wait just a minute! Looks like we’re short one guest in the park. Wayhem! Adrien’s #1 fan! (“Gorizilla”). The bodyguard was too distracted with his “bribe” to notice him outside and let him in leaving the poor guy heartbroken. Bingo! Hawk Moth, you can save your wife now!

Miraculers, meet the most fearsome supervillain Hawk Moth has ever created, Party Crasher! Don! Don!-(record scratch. Takes a good look at Party Crasher and sees how ridiculous, UTTERLY ridiculous he looks. Hysterically laughs) XD! Seriously!? He looks like a Disco Dan-esque weirdo! Disco balls for hands, a pink afro and a mustache! What’s his power? Making people Boogey Oogey Oogey ‘til they just can’t boogey no more!? Oh boy! (wipes a tear). Okay, okay, okay, so he crashes the party and his powers are actually capturing whatever he touches with his disco ball hands trapped inside of ‘em and analyzing the heroes next moves before they happen. Nothing Ladybug and Cat Noir can’t-(Ladybug gets captured). HOLY SH*T! LADYBUG GOT CAPTURED! LADYBUG GOT CAPTURED! LADYBUG GOT F**KING CAPTURED! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS!? IT MEANS NOW WE DON’T HAVE ANY ONE TO PURIFY THE AKUMA! DON! DON! DON!

Master Fu was at the party so he recruited Nino, Luka and Max as Carapace, Viperion and Pegasus (respectively) and WAIT! When did Luka and Max get miraculouses!? Oh I get it, we’re goin’ this again.........POORLY SCHEDULED EPISODE ORDERS! F**k whoever’s in charge of that! :P. I’ll deal with this later, anyways, it’s now up to them and Cat Noir to save Ladybug and from their powers (along with Viperions power:second chance and Pegasuses power:transportation), I’m sure they’ll save Lady-(they all get captured by Party Crasher)😳. Ah! C’mon! First Ladybug, now the superdudes! Who’s gonna save the day now!? Alya’s not there and Chloe’s retired, so I guess, we’re doomed!

In a desperate attempt, Master Fu finds out that Kim was one of the few guests that was still at the party (unaware of the danger) and gives him the monkey miraculous! Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the holder of said miraculous, Lê Chiê’n Kim a.k.a. King Monkey! (trumpets sound). Huh, the monkey miraculous went to Kim.........I was still kinda undecided on which one he’d get, but it’s canon he gets that one. His Kwami is a monkey like being named Xuppu, his miraculous a headband crown, his weapon a staff and his power is “Uproar” in which he conjures up a random object to throw it at the person he’s aiming at and it makes their powers malfunction. Don’t worry Fu, you made a good choice. He helped save the day.

So Wayhem has become so obsessed with Adrien that he even dyed his hair like him! Okaaaaaaay, creepy fanboy there, but Hey, it’s common in real life too. As great as it is that he’s become friends with Adrien since his debut, it was sad he couldn’t get into the party and even before that, wasn’t even allowed in after what he did saving his life from his akumatized bodyguard and even unintentionally erasing Hawk Moths mind that Adrien and Cat Noir “aren’t” the same person. Nino’s plan to give Adrien a party with the guys had its pros and cons though; Pro:Making Adrien have a good time, Con:Lying to the girls about it when they promised to help save the environment. Why couldn’t they just tell ‘em they wanted to have some guy time? Gabriel was secretly at home and not “on a business trip” so that he can harvest his akuma butterflies! That’s how he gets them!? He actually grows them!? I thought they just appeared from magic with his miraculous!? Okay, weird. When Marinette got suspicious and went to investigate using her detective skills, I was glad she was doing this to get to the bottom of something on the whole dishonesty thing from the guys (she hates liars), I mean, sure she also got tempted to go to the “Guys Only” party just to see Adrien, but she went there first to uncover the truth. That black out almost killed Emilie! For reals! If that were to have happened, the sh*t would’ve hit the fan and Gabe/Hawk Moth would’ve had a bigger reason to get the miraculouses. Close call! I take back what I said about Party Crasher, he seriously almost sent the real miraculouses to Hawk Moth! (eat your heart out Dark Owl). He first only made a villain to bring the power back to save Emilie, but then he was all like, “Eh, might as well wait for those heroes to show up and really save my wife”. I don’t blame him, he practically had a heart attack! HE WAS FORCED TO SLOWLY WATCH HER DIE! A first ever in the show was that Ladybug, who has the most important job of all, was captured! Not Cat Noir, Ladybug! This emergency called for Carapace along with Viperion and Pegasus. This is clearly out of order cuz Cat remembers them and I know that Max will get the horse miraculous in “Startrain” (which is later) and Luka gets the snake miraculous in “God-knows-which”, but I won’t waste my trumpeters time until it’s their proper given superhero hour for me to get the full intell! Despite the rescue attempt, all the guy heroes unfortunately got captured too. Whomp! Whomp! Whomp! The one that really deserves an intro in their new superhero life is sports fan Kim! During the party, he saved Master Fu from falling thus earning him his respect. So I guess the protocol for getting a miraculous directly from Fu is just to save his old a** from falling. XD! By the by, Marinette was concerned on why he was at the party since in this episode, Hawk Moth found out about his identity (which I assume is in the later ep, “Feast” even though it’s already after that in this case), but I guess he couldn’t resist the whole “Bros before Hoes” jamboree (shrugs). Fu, watch yourself, you’re in enemy territory! I never thought Kim would have the monkey miraculous though. I always thought he’d either get the goat or the dog one, but come to think of it, monkeys are playful and chaotic which fits Kim’s fun-loving and recklessness along with the miraculouses power. Plus, monkeys are known to be wise creatures and this’ll help him learn to mature. Congrats Kim! You’ve finally got your wish to fight along side Ladybug and Cat Noir! (“Syren”). Y.M.C.A. saves the day and in the end, all that mattered was Adriens happiness. As we all know, Adrien has to live up to his strict fathers high expectations and be the “picture of perfection” and he can’t be badly influenced by others which is why he barely has friends over or even have fun :(. That’s why Nino did all this “Pre Bachelor Party” thing and after he and Marinette apologized for their dishonesty, it was for the sake of Adrien. Let the guy be happy!

#miraculous ladybug #party crasher #miraculous ladybug party crasher

[huckleberrycomics]

On this Thanksgiving, I’m going to give thanks for some of my favourite First Nations artists who continue to fight the good fight against colonialism

(that I have to research as part of my final exam anyway)

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Coast Salish and Okanogan, born 1957. Surrealist painter, history painter, and creator of the Manifesto of Ovoidism. Featured here are his paintings “Red Man Watching White Man Fix Hole In Sky” (1990), and “The Fish Farmers They Have Sea Lice”.*

Rebecca Belmore, Anishnaabe, born 1960. Performance artist, sculptor, and activist. Pictured here are her works “Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother” (1991) (a sculpture in response to the Oka Crisis in Quebec) and “Vigil” (2002) (a response to the missing and murdered Indigenous women in the downtown east side of Vancouver, BC).

James Luna, Payómkawichum, Ipi, and Mexican-American (1920-2018). Photographer and performance artist. Featured above are his works “Take A Picture With A Real Indian” (2010) and “Half Indian/Half Mexican”. Here’s his memorial article.**

Norval Morrisseau, Anishnaabe, 1931-2007. Painter. Founder of the Woodland School of Canadian Painting and a member of the “Indian Group of Seven”. Pictured above are his famous “Thunderbird” print (1960) and “Indian Erotic Fantasy” (n.d.).

Bill Reid, Haida, (1920-1998). Hugely influential Canadian sculptor who had an enormous impact on the art world surrounding the work of First Nations artists. Pictured above is “The Spirit of Haida Gwaii” and “Raven and the First Men”.

Susain Point, Musqueam Coast Salish, (born 1952). Printmaker. Pictured above are “Beyond the Edge” (2015) and “Transformation” (2005).

Edgar Heap of Birds, Southern Cheyenne, (born 1954). Mixed media. Pictured above are two examples of his work from two of his series “Native Hosts” and “Genocide and Democracy: Secrets of Life and Death”. 

And now for some writers!

I highly encourage you to read some of these books if you can.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. You can find a free PDF here, or buy a copy here!

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson*. You can buy it here!

As she races along Canada’s Douglas Channel in her speedboat—heading toward the place where her younger brother Jimmy, presumed drowned, was last seen—twenty-year-old Lisamarie Hill recalls her younger days. A volatile and precocious Native girl growing up in Kitamaat, the Haisla Indian reservation located five hundred miles north of Vancouver, Lisa came of age standing with her feet firmly planted in two different worlds: the spiritual realm of the Haisla and the sobering “real” world with its dangerous temptations of violence, drugs, and despair. From her beloved grandmother, Ma-ma-oo, she learned of tradition and magic; from her adored, Elvis-loving uncle Mick, a Native rights activist on a perilous course, she learned to see clearly, to speak her mind, and never to bow down. But the tragedies that have scarred her life and ultimately led her to these frigid waters cannot destroy her indomitable spirit, even though the ghosts that speak to her in the night warn her that the worst may be yet to come.

Not up for something that old? How about Robinson’s new book, Son of a Trickster that came out this year?

Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon.

Jared can't count on his mom to stay sober and stick around to take care of him. He can't rely on his dad to pay the bills and support his new wife and step-daughter. Jared is only sixteen but feels like he is the one who must stabilize his family's life, even look out for his elderly neighbours. But he struggles to keep everything afloat...and sometimes he blacks out. And he puzzles over why his maternal grandmother has never liked him, why she says he's the son of a trickster, that he isn't human. Mind you, ravens speak to him--even when he's not stoned.

You think you know Jared, but you don't.

Something a bit more historical is Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse.

Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he’ll find it only through telling his story. With him, readers embark on a journey back through the life he’s led as a northern Ojibway, with all its joys and sorrows.

Kiss of the Fur Queen by Thomson Highway is somewhat convoluted, but a thoroughly enjoyable read with a touch of queerness inside.

Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are all too soon torn from their family and thrust into the hostile world of a Catholic residential school. Their language is forbidden, their names are changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel, and both boys are abused by priests. As young men, estranged from their own people and alienated from the culture imposed upon them, the Okimasis brothers fight to survive. Wherever they go, the Fur Queen--a wily, shape-shifting trickster--watches over them with a protective eye. For Jeremiah and Gabriel are destined to be artists. Through music and dance they soar.

Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden is another excellent, tragically dark tale.

It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relation, is gravely wounded and addicted to morphine. As Niska slowly paddles her canoe on the three-day journey to bring Xavier home, travelling through the stark but stunning landscape of Northern Ontario, their respective stories emerge—stories of Niska’s life among her kin and of Xavier’s horrifying experiences in the killing fields of Ypres and the Somme.

Not in a reading mood? How about some of my favourite films!

Indian Horse is now a movie.

Smoke Signals shaped my childhood.

Powwow Highway is amazing.

Reel Injun gets to the core of the history of Indigenous Cinema.

And Atanarjuat is arguably one of “the most indigenous films ever made”.

Happy Thanksgiving, lovelies! Support your local First Nations artists!

*I have met Lawrence and Eden. They are both very nice people. :)

**Huh, turns out my professor in the class I’m currently taking wrote this article.

(disclaimer: I am of settler descent, I am not Indigenous. I’ve grown up in Indigenous territories with lots of exposure to First Nations cultures, but I can’t claim that title for myself. I merely hope to uplift some First Nations artists and celebrate them, never to speak of behalf of Indigenous cultures <3)

#runaway posts #art history #art #first nations #culture #indigenous #colonial #thanksgiving #drug ment #alcohol

[seriousshit88]

For @scottstiles, because she wanted some fluff awhile ago <3

Rain. If anyone ever asks Scott what his favorite substance in the universe is, he’d say it’s rain. Of course, that wasn’t the answer until it became the answer a few hours ago.

In bed, now, he yawns as quietly as he can. This whole thing is both familiar and brand new, and Scott finds himself trying very hard not to ruin it by waking Stiles, who either sleeps like the dead or not at all. He’s very careful of every movement, every quiet exhalation he breathes into the darkness surrounding them.

And to think, Stiles wouldn’t even be in his bed if it hadn’t been for the rain.

***

“Oh, no,” Scott said as he peeked through the living room blinds. “I think the bottom’s about to fall out.” He sighed and placed his motorcycle helmet back on the hook near the front door. “So much for that.”

“So much for what?” Stiles asked from the messy nest of blankets and junk food he’d constructed on their sofa. His eyes never left the TV screen, and his fingers were a blur on the PS4 controller. From the looks of things, he had absolutely no plans of leaving that spot for the rest of the weekend. Fortnite had a way of doing that to him.

Scott unzipped his riding jacket and shrugged out of it. “I tweaked the suspension on my bike yesterday, and I wanted to take her out on some curvy roads, test the handling.”

“Oh,” Stiles said. “That sucks. Maybe you can go out when the rain stops and the roads dry.”

Finding the cleanest corner of the sofa, Scott sank onto it. “You don’t have to pretend to care. I know how much you hate the bike.”

“While it’s true I don’t care about your two-wheeled death trap, I do care about you not getting to do something you wanted. That genuinely sucks.”

“Aww, thanks, buddy,” Scott smiled.

“Yeah, yeah.” Stiles threw a second PS4 controller at him. “When I die, we’ll go two player. Just promise me you won’t hide in a bush the whole time.”

Scott picked up the controller as a distant rumble of thunder sounded off in the distance. “All right.”

***

After nearly two hours, the rain still hadn’t let up. Scott and Stiles synchronized their latest jump from the Party Bus for what felt like the millionth time.

“I’m just gonna land in a tree.”

“Scott, no,” Stiles grumbled. “We need to gather supplies as soon as we hit the ground.”

“You gather supplies. I’m tired of being mowed down by 6th graders. We can’t even break the top ten like this.”

“If you land in a tree, I swear I’m going to chop it down.”

Scott had every reason to believe Stiles, what with the steady heartbeat and the dangerous glint in his eye. Still, he felt almost obligated to put up some sort of opposition. “You wouldn’t.”

“Try me,” Stiles replied.

Scott aimed his glider for the nearest tree.

“Ugh, you little-”

Suddenly, a deafening peal of thunder rattled the walls of their tiny apartment and drowned Stiles out. In fact, the thunder was so loud that Scott involuntarily dropped his controller and clapped his hands over his ringing ears. Stiles nearly jumped out of his skin.

“Just how close was that?” Scott wondered as he retrieved his controller.

“Pretty damn close,” Stiles said. He extricated himself from his slovenly-yet-supremely-comfortable cocoon, went to the living room window, and opened the blinds. “It’s dark, too. Looks like a really bad thunderstorm. You probably won’t be riding at all today.”

With a sinking feeling in his gut, Scott joined Stiles at the window. The sky was almost pitch black, and it was barely past 4:00 in the afternoon. Rain came down in torrential sheets with no cessation in sight.

A bright flash turned everything outside a brilliant white. Before Scott could register the scent of ozone in the air, another painful peal of thunder shook the walls and rattled the windows. Scott felt rather than saw Stiles edge slightly closer to him. He tugged on the bottom of Scott’s shirt.

“Maybe we should move away from the window,” Stiles suggested.

“That’s a very good idea.”

Stiles closed the blinds, and Scott followed him back to the sofa. They sat a little closer than before, almost shoulder to shoulder. Scott considered the sagacity of continuing to play video games during a thunderstorm, but, well…

“You seriously landed in the tree?” Stiles sputtered next to him. “Okay, that’s it. It’s choppin’ time.”

“No! I’ll take damage!”

“Get out of the tree, Scott! I’m doing this for us.” Stiles chuckled as his character began hacking at the trunk of Scott’s tree.

“Noooo!” Scott grabbed Stiles’s controller and sat on it.

“Hey!”

“I’m doing this for us,” he parroted.

Stiles narrowed his eyes. “Don’t think I won’t reach under your ass for my controller.”

“Why do you keep threatening me? Is this your idea of teamwork?”

“Yes.” Stiles shoved his hand underneath Scott’s ass, just as he said he would.

Scott burst out laughing as Stiles’s wiggly fingers went fishing for the controller. He had a ticklish butt; what could he say?

“Aha!” Stiles proclaimed as he yanked the controller from captivity. Almost as if on cue, a bolt of lightning struck somewhere dangerously close outside. The resulting thunder clap came instantly and was louder than any of the others before. Stiles shrieked and flailed so hard that he landed on top of Scott, tipping him over on the sofa.

A second boom shook the apartment, and they were plunged into darkness.

“Jesus Christ,” Stiles muttered.

Scott lay there trying to get his bearings. The thunder dazed him enough to temporarily scramble his thought processes. Sensitive werewolf hearing could be a drag sometimes. His keen sense of smell, however, was enough to ground him, because the scent and heavy weight of Stiles on top of him was enough to reboot his brain.

“The lights are out,” he said, as if he weren’t stating the obvious.

Nodding, Stiles pushed himself up off of Scott. “I think a transformer blew outside.”

A faint, unexpected twinge of loss settled over Scott. He sighed and sat up, too. “Looks like mother nature’s throwing a monkey wrench in both our weekend plans.”

Stiles looked around shrewdly at the mess of blankets and junk food scattered around on the sofa. “Not if I can help it,” he said after awhile.

“You have something else in mind?” Scott asked.

“Yeah. I think I do. Meet me in your room in about five minutes. Bring a flashlight.” Before Scott could get any kind of explanation, Stiles grabbed as many blankets and snacks as he could carry and headed to Scott’s room.

The storm clouds outside cast a dark grey pall over the room and blocked the late afternoon sun Scott had hoped to see again that day. Nighttime approached, and though he could see just fine in the dark thanks to his alpha vision, Stiles definitely couldn’t. Flashlights were a good idea.

***

When Scott made it to his room with a couple of flashlights, he realized Stiles hadn’t requested them for practical reasons.

“Dude...what is this?” Scott asked, smiling at the haphazard arrangement of blankets and sheets spread over the tall posts of his bed (a housewarming/graduation gift from Derek, of all people).

Stiles popped his head out of a blanket flap. “Blanket fort. Get in here.”

Scott kicked off his shoes with no argument.

The storm still raged outside, but inside the pitch dark fort, the blankets muffled the thunder.

“Wow. You are really committed to this vegetate-in-gross-comfort thing you had planned for the weekend, huh?” Scott said as he crawled over a pillow and part of Stiles’s snack hoard to find a spot to relax. He handed Stiles a flashlight, who clicked it on.

“Nice,” he said. “We haven’t done this since we were kids, and with the electricity out and nothing else to do, I figured, why not?” His eyes shone with a gleam that couldn’t be attributed to the flashlight.

“You’re enjoying this,” Scott noted. He nudged Stiles’s foot with his own and received a bag of chips in return.

“I just want to hang. Want to tell a ghost story or something?”

“Given our actual lives, what kind of ghost story do you think we can tell that’ll be any scarier than reality? I mean, I was murdered that one time. What if I’m the ghost? What if we’re both ghosts after the nemeton sacrifice?”

Stiles winced. “Jeez, Scott. Could you lighten up, please? That line of thinking won’t lead anywhere good. Like, I still wonder sometimes if I’m in a clone body thanks to the whole possessed thing. I’m just trying to have a good time tonight, you know?”

“You tell a story, then,” Scott said gently. He didn’t want to talk about any of that stuff, either. It was a rocky time in their lives and friendship, a time he was more than happy to leave in the past. He and Stiles were at a good place now that things had finally settled down, and they were allowed to lead something resembling normal lives.

Stiles munched on a Snickers. “All right. I’ll tell you about the spooooky copier at work. Sometimes, when the office is quiet, it comes on by itself and spits out blank pages.”

“Maybe it has a short in it.”

“Or maybe it’s haunted. Stranger things have happened. We’re living proof of that.”

Scott didn’t believe any of Stiles’s story about the haunted printer, but he hung on every word all the same. He ate his chips and relaxed as Stiles regaled him with tales of improbable happenings in the FBI. Soon, his eyelids began to feel heavy.

“I think the storm’s dying down,” Stiles said, yawning. He stretched out in Scott’s bed. “Damn, your bed is comfortable. I don’t see how you ever get up in the mornings.”

“The struggle is real,” Scott conceded.

“Hey, guess who’s sleeping here tonight. Here’s a hint: he has nine toes.”

Scott made room and gave Stiles a loose blanket that escaped construction of their fortress. “That’s fine. We can blame it on the rain,” Scott said as he settled in next to him.

***

Scott listens to the faint patter of rain hitting his bedroom windows. The storm has dwindled to a light shower, and he has to admit the blanket fort was a great idea. He may not have gotten to ride his bike, but he got the opportunity to spend the day (and night) with Stiles. Sometimes, the best days are the uneventful ones that don’t go to plan. Sometimes, the best days are spent playing video games and telling stories in a blanket fort. Sometimes, the best days end at the side of one’s best friend. And what could be better than that?

#sciles #foreversciles #scott mccall #stiles stilinski #mobile users there's a cut #divvy i don't think this is exactly what you wanted #but i tried my best #it's more slice-of-life than intended #sorry it took so long!

[sebeth]

Young Justice: “Infiltrator”

Warning, Spoilers Ahead…

 Episode 6: “Infiltrator”

August 7, Infinity Island - Roy sneaks into a fortress to rescue a scientist.

The opening scene is a nice testament to Roy’s skill.

Back at the fortress, Sensei/Silver Monkey is informed “She finished. We are good to go.”

Can someone please call this man by name?  He’s appeared in both the Young Justice cartoon and comic books and he is never identified. I know he’s either Sensei or Silver Monkey but can we please get a definite answer.  

I paused for some quick visual research.  I’m leaning towards Sensei.

Let’s detour for a quick recap of the tangled family history of the House of Al Ghul.

Ra’s al Ghul and Talia debuted in the1970s. Ra’s is “the Demon’s Head” and the founder/leader of the League of Assassins/Shadows.  Ra’s was born over 700 years ago and uses the Lazarus Pits to extend his lifestyle. Talia is torn between her duty to her father and her love of Batman.

Simple so far but that never lasts in comics.

Sensei was introduced later. Despite earlier claims of Ra’s discovering the Lazarus Pits and founding the League of Assassins it is revealed that Sensei was the original leader of the League.  Sensei is also the father of Ra’s al Ghul and has been driven insane by centuries-long use of the Lazarus Pits.

Making Ra’s a lying liar who lies about his history. But that wouldn’t surprise anyone so it’s easy to handwave away the discrepancy.

Ra’s first wife (pre-transformation into the Demon’s Head) was named Sora. No children resulted from this union. Sora’s death would start Ra’s on his world domination quest.

Ra’s has one son. Dusan, aka the White Ghost, was an albino so Ra’s down-graded his son to “servant” level. We’re never told Dusan’s age or mother. Dusan would later sacrifice himself to extend Ra’s life.  Read the “Resurrection of Ra’s Al Ghul” for Dusan’s story.

Ra’s eldest daughter is Nyssa. She was born in the 18th century.  Nyssa has a livid hatred for Ra’s after he left her family to die in concentration camps in World War II. Read “Batman: Death And The Maidens” for Nyssa’s story and quest for vengeance.  Nyssa has appeared in the “Arrow” show but I am way behind on the series so I can’t give you the details.

The youngest member of the Al Ghul clan is Damian/Ibn.  Damian’s been all over the place in the comic books and animation so I’m not going into his backstory.  I will recommend Kingdom Come and the Kingdom for anyone curious about Ibn.  He doesn’t play a big part but Alex Ross does an excellent job portraying the first meeting between an adult Ibn and Bruce.  You can feel Ibn’s desire to meet and curiousity about his father just from the art.

If you want to read more of Damian or the details of his conception, the following series are a good start: “Batman: Son of the Demon”, “Batman and Son”, “The Resurrection of Ra’s Al Ghul”, Batman and Robin (both volumes), Kingdom Come, the Kingdom, and Super Sons.

There is also the Heretic – a rapidly-aged clone of Damian.  He killed Damian only to be executed by Talia.  Read “Batman Incorporated” for the Damian-Heretic story.

Back to the cartoon…

August 8: The Young Justice gang – minus Wally – are having some fun in the sun at Mount Justice. Wally, a Mid-Western boy, has started school earlier than the others.  

Dick declares “First a moment of silence for our absent comrade.”

We switch to Wally who is suffering through “the first day of sophomore year”.

The opening montage nicely demonstrates the frustration a speedster would endure at a normal human-pace day.

An X-Factor issue from the 1990’s had Quicksilver demonstrate the same frustration.  It was an excellent insight into Pietro’s head.

DC and Marvel speedsters have the same dilemma but Marvel’s turn out snarky and sarcastic and DC’s become sweet and lovable.

The YJ gang swim, cook out, and play volleyball while Wally suffers various indignities and frustrations.

Finally, the school day is over! Wally yells “Woo-hoo!” and tears out of the building.  Whether it’s work or school, we’ve all been there.

Wally, in beach attire, zooms over to Mount Justice.  Unfortunately, the beach party is over and everyone’s in costume.

“The Wallman is here.”

Wally meets the love of his life but it’s not love at first sight.

“The Wallman, huh? Love the uniform. What exactly are your powers? – Artemis, so sassy.

Green Arrow introduces Artemis as his new protégé.

Wally demands “What happened to your old one?”

Speedy chooses that moment to enter Young Justice.

“For starters, he doesn’t go by Speedy anymore. Call me Red Arrow.”

Roy and Oliver waste no time going at each other. In Oliver’s defense, Roy started it. Artemis enters the argument to defend her skills.

Wally: “Who are you?”

Oliver and Artemis both repeat the “niece” line.

Dick interjects “Another niece?”

That comment could go two ways.  The first way is Dick realizes the story is a sham and is causing trouble.  Even though Batman is five feet away from Dick!

The second interpretation…well, Oliver has as many kids as Bruce.  The majority of Bruce’s children resulting from adoption.  The majority of Ollie’s did not.  Especially if you believe Ollie to be the father of Arrowette. Does Dick feel that this is another illegitimate child of Oliver – one that he’s passing off as a niece?

Kaldur reassures Roy: “But she is not your replacement. We have always wanted you on the team and we have no quota on archers.”

Wally: “And if we did, you know who we’d pick.”

Artemis doesn’t back down: “Whatever, Baywatch. I’m here to stay.”

Artemis puts on a tough façade but you know she had to be insecure in this moment.  She’s very concerned about her teammates discovering her parentage and then the original Green Arrow protégé waltzes into the room? The much more experienced and accomplished one? The protégé that Dick, Wally, and Kaldur consider a good friend? Talk about a nightmare!

Roy tells the team about Dr. Serling Roquette, a nano-robotics expert and claytronics expert aka the scientist Roy rescued earlier in the episode.

Serling was abducted from Star City two weeks ago by the League of Shadows.

Dick’s excited: “You want us to rescue her from the League of Shadows?”

I can see Batman shaking his head from across the room: “No, Robin, you don’t get to storm the League of Shadow’s headquarters.  Young Justice is about “training wheels” missions not “put your big boy pants on” missions.

Roy admits he already rescued Serling. The problem is Serling had finished her work on “the Fog” – a weapon “comprised of millions of microscopic robots, nanotech infiltrators, capable of disintergrating anything in their path. Concrete, steel, flesh, bone. But its true purpose isn’t mere destruction. It’s theft. The infiltrators eat and store raw data from any computer system and deliver the stolen intel to the Shadows. Providing them access to strategic defense, cutting edge science and tech.”

Artemis pipes in with “It sounds like the Shadows”.

Wally counters “Like you know anything about the Shadows.”

Artemis smirks at Wally. You’d be surprised, Wally, at the depth of knowledge Artemis has on criminal organizations.

Wally doesn’t like the smirk: “Who are you?!”

Roy informs the group that Serling is working on creating a virus that renders the Fog inert.

Dick quickly realizes that would put Serling’s life in danger.

Oliver offers to help Roy keep Serling safe.  Roy bitterly rejects the offer.  Batman lays a hand on Oliver’s shoulder to stop the impending argument.

The cartoon’s creators inverted the typical Ollie-Roy positions.  In the comics, it’s Ollie who’s causing/escalating the divide.  In the cartoon, Ollie is much more level-headed and attempting to mend difference.  Roy rejects and peace offering and escalates their confrontations.  

Roy proclaims his job is done and leaves the team.  Wally glares at Artemis.

Miss Martian telepathically links us the team and Serling at Happy Harbor High School.

Wally and Artemis continue to bicker.  Wally informs Artemis that he “does not need attitude from the newbie who drove Red Arrow off the team”.

Dick tells Wally to cut Artemis some slack as she is the one who saved him in the battle against Amazo.

Serling, at Aqualad’s urging, goes online to track the Fog’s location. Tracking goes both ways and the League of Shadows quickly discovers Serling’s location.  Sensei orders the closest operative to assassinate Serling.

Superboy, Miss Martian, and Artemis are patrolling the outside of the school.  Artemis is very appreciative of Superboy’s physique: “Hmm, that boy.”

Megan does not want anyone intruding on her obsessive crush: “He can hear you. We all can hear you.”

Artemis replies “Oh, I know.”

I love the Artemis/Wally pairing but I’m Team Artemis in this encounter.  Artemis is simply appreciating Superboy’s appearance in a teenager-like way.  Megan’s pursuit of Conner is an attempt to mold and then slot him into this fantasy life she has created for herself.  Megan may love Conner but it’s not a healthy relationship.

Serling has located the Fog. Kaldur orders Superboy and Robin to pursue in the bio-ship.

This is the second episode in a row where Robin and Superboy have been partnered up.  It’s almost an homage to the close friendship in the comic books.  Except the Robin is Tim Drake.

Cheshire makes her first appearance, skulking in the bushes.

Megan confronts Artemis: “You embarrassed Superboy.”

Artemis: “Didn’t hear him say that.”

Honestly, Megan you might as well declare “Get away from my man!”

Cheshire infiltrates the school and quickly takes out Kid Flash.

Cheshire has a harder time with Kaldur – Atlantean skin is quite dense and he’s mostly immune to the jellyfish toxin she has on her shuriken.

Cheshire retreats when she has to face the entire team.

Wally blames Artemis for Cheshire gaining entrance into the school. Megan defends Artemis.

Robin and Superboy arrive in Philadelphia. STAR Labs has been completely destroyed.

Kaldur and Megan patrol the outside of the school while Wally and Artemis guard the doctor.

Wally and Artemis glare at each other.  Kaldur orders the duo: “Stop it. Both of you. I can hear you glaring.”

Cheshire has called in reinforcements – Black Spider and the Hook. The trio make quick work of Kaldur.

The trio storm the room and attack Wally and Artemis.  Readers of the comic book know that this is the second time Wally has fought the Hook and Black Spider.

Cheshire attempts to land a killing blow on Serling only to realize she’s a disguised Miss Martian.

Serling is at the Sandbox Internet Café, guarded by Kaldur, and she has discovered the Fog’s next target: WayneTech.

Robin has an “Oh, crap” moment as he realizes the Fog would end up accessing the Batcave.

Cheshire orders her comrades to keep Young Justice busy while she pursues Serling.

Artemis storms after Cheshire and orders Wally to “take the rest down”.

Wally tells Artemis “You are so not the boss of me”.

“Just do it!”

Superboy and Robin arrive at WayneTech.  Superboy attacks the League minions while Robin enters the building. A security guard attempts to lock down the building due to Robin’s unauthorized entry but Dick overrides the lockdown: “Waynetech override. Archie four.” Possible shout-out to Archie Goodwin, a writer on the Batman series. Or Dick is fan of the Riverdale gang.

Cheshire and Artemis fight. Cheshire wins.  Megan and Wally take out the Hook and Black Spider.

Cheshire decides against killing Serling as the anti-Fog virus has been completed: “After all, the Shadows may have another use for you.”

Dick’s quick hacking saves Wayne Tech.

Superboy battles Ojo and makes quick work of him.

Cheshire and Artemis have a short fight. Artemis realizes Cheshire is Jade, her older sister.

Cheshire escapes.  The rest of the team arrives. Wally claims the Cheshire mask as a souvenir.

Artemis returns to Gotham City. She is immediately confronted by Roy.  He warns her “do not hurt my friends” but assures her that “her cover is safe” as he feels Oliver and Bruce have a “good reason for lying”.

Sensei is informed of the mission’s failure but states it’s good that they “have an operative on the inside”.

The first hint of the long-running traitor storyline of season 1.

I mentioned earlier Artemis recognized Cheshire as her sister.  I should clarify that wasn’t made explicit in the episode. Cheshire simply hinted that she had information on Artemis that would weaken her position in Young Justice.  The cartoon hasn’t mentioned Artemis’s criminal parents at this point either.

Adding Cheshire into the Crock family is an interesting choice. Jade has no connection in the main DC universe.  I can’t recall a time Cheshire has even met Artemis in the DC universe.

Jade was a half-French/half-Vietnamese child who was sold into slavery in the Middle East.  She later escaped and became a mercenary/assassin. Jade married and later became the widow of Spitting Cobra, an African assassin.

Roy Harper went undercover for the United States government.  He met and fell in love with Cheshire.  Roy left Jade because he was unwilling to finish his assignment and capture her.  Roy didn’t realize Jade was pregnant.

The former lovers encountered one another on a mountain top.  The Titans were attempting to prevent Cheshire from assassinating diplomats unaware she was setting up the team to take the blame for the failed diplomatic teams.  Cheshire informed Roy that she had given birth to their child but that he would never meet said child.

Roy later tracked down Jade and begged to meet his child.  Jade relented and Roy met Lian.

The 1990s were not kind to Cheshire – she went from a scheming mercenary/assassin to a genocidal nutcase. The highlight of Jade’s insanity was unleashing a nuclear bomb on a country, killing every inhabitant.

Needless to say, Roy won full custody.

Cheshire’s portrayal improved significantly under Gail Simone.  Jade had a rivalry with Black Canary over Dinah’s role in Lian’s life.  Cheshire also played a significant role in Villains United/Secret Six.  She became pregnant- and later gave birth – to Thomas “Catman” Blake’s son.

Jade would suffer enormous tragedy when both her children were killed.  If I remember correctly, the Blake child’s death was faked in order to keep him from both Jade and Thomas’s enemies.  I could be wrong – it’s been a while since I read the issues.

Lian’s death, unfortunately, wasn’t faked.

Roy and Jade would have a short-lived, extremely toxic reunion in the aftermath of Lian’s death.

Flashpoint happened shortly afterwards and DC was reborn as the New 52. Cheshire’s made a few appearances in Red Hood & The Outlaws, Nightwing, and a few other titles.  Jade and Roy are former lovers.  Sadly, we didn’t receive a New 52 Lian. Boo!

For more of Cheshire, besides Young Justice (which is the best version of Jade), I would recommend her late 1980s Teen Titans appearances, her appearances in Birds of Prey (Gail Simone version), and Villains United and Secret Six.

#Young Justice #Artemis Crock #Roy Harper #Cheshire #Ra's Al Ghul #Sensei #Wally West #Conner Kent #Miss Martian #Oliver Queen #Bruce Wayne #Superboy #Kid Flash #Robin #Dick Grayson

[elizabethmasen]

okay so im rewatching twilight (2008) but its missed recording up until the carpark "everyone is staring" scene but imma still share my thots:

"since im going to hell" can you believe how much i would absolutely die for this cocky fuck i love him

why did they make him sit in the rainpour why whats the meaning???? hes just a soggy boi now!!!

lmao the absolute drama of the first movie. like yall are big Moody huh

also robs voice in this ✔✔✔✔✔

that peacoat was really doing the most sjfhjdjshebbrbd

holy sgit i forgot (jk i didnt really) how good this movies was

jtjejfhsjfj5 THAT DRIVE BY OH.MY GOD

theres so much breathing in the foley

'not the motes' no esme has better taste than that but still how i c o n i c

AHHHHHHHH THE COOKING SCENE IM SO FUCKIN HAPPY

EMMETT AND ESME AND CARLISE ARE SUCH A TEAM!!!!!!!!

ALICE!!!!!! MY BITCH!!!!! ICONIC ENTRACE INCONIC DIALOGUE WOW LOML

the relationship between alice and edward is so fuckin good and warm im dead

also edward anothony masen cullen more the king of consent i stan

"thats kinda miserable-repeating high school over and over" right???? like uni would be wayyy easier to deal with

".........uhhhh...........yeh this is my room......" oh my god thats so awkward fam

"no bed" BELLA omfg yall are horny teenagers i see

"i dont sleep" "ever??" "nah notatall" thats so fuckin funny ideky

the music im dying his face

also what fuckin 17 year olds wear a chambry button up???? like???? no?????

oh god "spider monkey" why???? the book scene was so good why??? this??

ed scaling those trees will be in my nightmares thx catherine

okay but using 'bella's lullaby' for the first movie and then during bella's transformation is a motif of cinematic brilliance

stephanie meyer queen of cameos

okay so renee is pretty shit but you gotta say her 'mothers intution' is pretty gold

i love see my boy smiling!!!!!!

props to rob for not breaking saying sme of the most hilarious lines "i like watching you sleep" sure dude go for gold your valid nejkkwkjduajhdndhd

"bella i just wanna try one thing" me, immediately: *gripped* nrjdjjfndjdjd oh boy!!!!!!! djjdkekdnue *on the VERY edge of my mf seat*

okay but showing up just for a pash is ICONIC and Very Valid

those curtains are ugly af

"dont move" *moves instantly and a lot* confirmed: bella is awful at following instructions same hat girl

tangling your fingers in the hair of a highly unstable apex predator is such a power move i love this ballsy hoe

she in the pit  ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

what does that head movement mean???? i still dont know!!??

#twilight #bea talks #long post