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Walker? Sir? Mr. Actor?

Jokes aside. That look? That anger? Percy finally having enough and being pissed off with a God who doesn’t care about his children, insulted his friends, ruined their quest and wants to start an unnecessary war where he has nothing to lose? But most importantly… Percy literally QUAKING with unchecked rage for a God who came in the way of him saving his mom?

#gods help ares #the beginning of a lifelong rivalry #ares ‘bout to get DECKED #my 12 year old macho man #percy jackson disney+ #percy jackson show #percy jackson fandom #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson spoilers #percy jackson #pjo ares #ares god of war #pjo episode 7 #pjo ep 8 #pjo show #pjo spoilers #pjo fandom #pjo series #pjo tv show #disney pjo #pjo disney+ #pjo adaptation #ares vs percy #percy vs ares

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Various Punch Out Headcanons I have that I felt the need to share or else my brain would explode :p

All of the boxers (who didn't originally live in New York) pretty much just live in hell NY now cuz of their boxing career. They do visit their families during vacation and all that, but for the most part, they just stay in New York.

Piston Hondo finds it hard to make friends with people who are around the same age as him and younger because he finds them harder to understand/relate to (and also a bit more judgemental), so he mostly hangs out w/ people who are much older than him, with the only exception being Great Tiger.

King Hippo thinks that most beds are uncomfortable and will sleep pretty much anywhere except on a bed. On the floor, the couch, a pile of leaves, a comically small pillow, etc etc.

Aran Ryan has a bad habit of eating non edible objects out of intrusive thinking (and also spite sometimes), he's eaten things ranging from twigs to hand sanitizer to cigarette butts and has been sent to the hospital a couple of times because of it.

Don Flamenco is obsessed with skincare, mostly due to the fact that he looks like a middle aged man with his toupee off. The second he gets his paycheck, he immediately spends most of it on various scrubs and lotions. He even almost went bankrupt on numerous occasions because of it

Bear Hugger had been friends with Ms. Bear even since he was 12 years old. He found her all alone in the forest on a snowy day when she was a baby and his parents agreed to keep her until they find her a new home (which obviously didn't work out)

Super Macho Man is a nepo baby. His mother was a movie actor while his father was also a heavyweight boxer, which caused him to get a lot of attention from not only his peers at school, but also media outlets too.

Glass Joe has terrible eyesight and mostly uses contact lenses wherever he goes, though he does occasionally wear glasses sometimes (mostly at home or whenever he's run out of contacts).

Bald Bull is VERY reluctant to touch, even the slightest little bump in can cause him to flip out. He only makes this exception to people who are super close to him, but even then, he doesn't want any physical contact for too long or he’ll start to lose it.

Even though Von Kaiser wasn't actually apart of a war, he was enrolled in a boot camp for a few years of his life. It was hell and he still has nightmares about it to this day…

No matter how much sleep he gets, Great Tiger usually ends up sleepy at some point during the day. He's tried every to get him to sleep better, drinking warm milk, staying away from electronics an hour before bed, taking melatonin, but he still ends up tired in the middle of the day sometimes and it drives him mad.

Y'know those scientist that you see in Soda Popinski’s title defense slideshow? Well those are kind of his dads. He was left on the doorsteps of a lab when he was a baby, and all of the people in the facility have been taking care of him ever since.

Disco Kid has a brother a few months younger than him who used to be the boxer known as Kid Quick. They both started Boxing at around 18, but Kid Quick ended up quitting early in his career to focus on something more mundane. (Yea ik I made a lil shitpost drawing a few weeks ago about Kid Quick being pre-transition Disco Kid but shhhh-)

Mr. Sandman is the only boxer in the entire organization that's not only married, but also has a kid. He has a wife named Alena and a daughter named Chelsea, they all live with Sandman in NYC. :)

#theres like 2 of these which are just me projecting and i h8 it lol #punch out #punch out!! #glass joe #von kaiser #disco kid #king hippo #piston hondo #bear hugger #great tiger #don flamenco #aran ryan #soda popinski #bald bull #super macho man #mr sandman #ace.txt

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Richie and Georgie Misadventures Part 1

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Georgie was having a good day. Mom made pancakes with a face for breakfast, he was the first one to the monkey bars at recess, AND dad told Billy he had to walk home with him today.

So the kindergartner sat on the curb right outside the school office waiting for his big brother. Billy was doing a play right now so he had to practice reallllly late. Georgie didn’t mind waiting though! He is a big boy!

Well, Georgie didn’t mind waiting until at LEAST 12 hours had gone by. He is still yet to learn how to tell time but the snail he’d befriended managed to cross the entire sidewalk into the grass and the sun that was once in front of him now lingered behind the school.

“Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit! George Denbrough is that you?” a nasally southern accent called out.

Confused, Georgie turned around only to be instantly scooped up and turned upside down.

“What’re you doing out here, Squirt?”

Georgie lifted his gaze from his dangling arms to look at his captor, “RICHIE!” he squealed out. His brother’s friend began to poke his fingers into Georgie’s stomach from where he held him making the 5 year old squirm.

“RICHIEEE,” he giggled, “STOP- hahA-OP!”

Abandoning his quest to make Georgie’s insides become street art the older boy righted him whilst keeping a grip on his shoulders.

Only a bit disappointed to be back on the ground Georgie smiled up at Richie as he began to speak, “Is Billy with you?”

Richie gave him a confused look, “No? Is he not with you?” He began to turn around expecting the oldest Denbrough brother to appear out of thin air.

“Billy is in a play so he has to stay at school for SUPER long. But daddy said that we’re supposed to walk home together today so I waited for him like a big boy!” Puffing out his chest he posed to show Richie how tough he is.

Though his brow was furrowed, Richie laughed, “Woah there macho man don’t pull a muscle on me.” He shifted, “are you sure Bill knew you were walking together today it’s really late for rehearsals?”

Well duh Billy knew, daddy told them this morning? “Mhmm, my dad said so,” George considered himself very elephant eloquent for his young age.

Richie pondered this before a grin grew steadily on his face. “How would you like to ditch your boring old brother and walk back with me instead?”

Georgie thought about it, he really wanted to walk home with Billy today, he was the best! But Richie was also the best -Billy must be bester than best. Before the smaller boy could answer Richie spoke again.

“Cmon George! Don’t make me walk all alone,” he paused, “…I’ll give you a piggy back?”

Okay maybe Richie was also bester than best.

“OKAY!”

Richie bent down for Georgie to climb on his back and they started on their way to the Denbrough home.

#Bill isn’t a perfect brother but we still love him #luckily Georgie has an army of brothers including Rich #Richie and Georgie Misadventures #let me know if I should make more of these #losers club #it #it chapter 2 #it stephen king #the losers club #not incorrect quote #not incorrect quotes #georgie denbrough #george denbrough #bill denbrough #richie tozier #zack denbrough #sharon denbrough #it fic

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Beetlemania: Jaime Reyes (Blue Beetle Volume 7 #1-7 review) (Patreon Review/comissoin for Brotoman.exe)

Welcome back all you happy beetlemaniacas to beetlemania, my look at the three men to wear the mask.. and at last we've come to the breakout of the bunch, the latest and co-greatest, the one whose movie debut inspired this whole project, Mr. Jaime Reyes.

Out of the three Beetles, Jaime has gotten the most appearnces in other media. His two biggest roles were in Batman Brave and the Bold, where he was one of the most featured guest stars, eventually joining that shows version of the Justice League International, with Ted also getting some apperances. More on that next week. He was the centerpiece of Young Justice's second season, with the reach, the beings behind his armor, being the driving force of that season's plot and from what I can tell he's still been decently featured in later seasons. He's also shown up on smallville , justice league actions and in dc's direct to video teen titans movie before they killed off that universe and yes it still bothers me.

But before we can get into who Jaime is, we have to ask whatever happened to ted kord? Short answer...

But when have I EVER taken the short route when I can ramble a bit?

So around the mid point of his solo book, Ted joined the Justice League International. This is where I met my boy and where most people met ted, Ted being thrown in there, along with the later addition of Captain Atom, to show off DC's charlton cast.

JLI was a diffrent sort of justice league book. Most of the big 7 weren't avaliable, with Wonder Woman and Superman busy being rebooted, flash now being Wally West who wasn't ready for it, and Hal Jordan and Aquaman

So with just Batman and Martian Manhunter representing the old guard, writers Keith Giffen and JM Dematis decided to go in a diffrent direction; Make it funny. The comic would be both a sitcom and superhero action with real stakes and status quo changes.. but also batman punching the team's green lantern and ronald regan loving macho dumbass Guy Gardner in the face after Guy challenged the goddamn batman to a one on one fist fight, sans ring.

Have I mentioned JLI is one of my faviorite comics of all time and something i'm LONG OVEDUE covering in some form? Well I have now.

The book was a hit for most of it's run and a fan faviorite for years and had both a great legacy for ted.. and some cruddy after effects. The good was that it kept him in the public eye for some time: Ted was on the team from the beginning to the end of Giffen and Dematis run and into the 90's, including Death of Superman. He also gained his best friend and comedic other half Booster Gold out of the deal, a janitor who traveled back in time with some future tech to make himself a superhero and promote the shit out of himself and whoever paid him to promote the shit out of them. It left ted a fan faviorite for generations and guaranteed he woudln't be forgotten.

The problem was a LOT of people were idiots about the bok and assumed because it was jokey the characters within were jokes. I mean the team wasn't immune to some pretty.. bleh characterizations: Power Girl was an angry man hating sterotype of a feminist as opposed to being an actual feminist now a days, Animal Man was routinely mocked despite Grant Morrision working wonders and ole billy batson was routinely but of the joke as he was well. a 12 year old in a childs body to us but a childish man to everyone else.

As a result many didn't really think to use ted after. There was an attempt at using the charlton characters that fell flat, but otherwise Ted's only real big run I can think of post justice league was in the pages of Birds of Prey, where he showed up having retired and nursing a massive crush on barbra gordon, so do most people attracted to women , can't blame him. The two had good chemistry but ultimately with the spectre of dick "King of all tush's" grayson looming, Ted never had a shot.

So ted was left off to the side, showing up for jli reunions but otherwise unused... until Infinite Crisis. In a fit of irony that had to be intetional, while it's predecessor brought ted into this world.. the leadup to it's sequel would take him out of it.

And thus we come to countdown to infinite crisis, a one shot leading into four mini series that lead into the event comic infinite crisis. CTIC is infamous to some: it portrays ted as a joke in the superhero community and pretty gruseomly kills off an infinite character. And as someone who hates killing off a b or c list character for the shock.. I think his death absoltuely works and is one of the most tragic and well written deaths in the dc canon and lets Ted go out on a high note.

The diffrence between this and say the slaughter of the freedom fighters or the various titans c-list deaths in the book proper is simple: Weight. Ted's death is given a lot of build up, weight, tragedy and is something that is never forgotten afterwords and has a serious impact on several characters.

So ted finds a conspiracy involving Maxwell Lord, formerlly the comically money hungry benefactor behind the jli now a megalomanical supervillian bent on killing all metahumans and superheroes except himself using the OMACs, a last resort batman built after he found out the justice league mindwiped him.

The takeaway is ted found out and with booster injured, Babs busy with a lot of shit, and no one taking him seriously, Ted was left to his own.. and sadly as seen above Max beat the shit out of him, tried to flip him and then shot him in the head. But again part of what makes it work.. is that Ted goes out on his own terms. He could've just given up, he knew going in he had no real chance of winning , no idea what he was facing when he did, and no one to back him up.. but he didn't. He didn't give up because that's not who he is. that's not the man who put on this mask. That's not the man dan asked to put on the mask. He began his career trying to stop a threat only one othe rperson knew about.. and ended it the same way. And it was THANKS to his tragic death everyone else was able to unravel things in time. As a result wonder Woman was able to snap the bastards neck before he killed superman, see above gif, and Lord was stopped.

Problem was Brother Eye, the AI Batman built to create and control the omacs was still mostly loose and the omacs copoted by the big bad of infinite crisis, Alexander Luthor, relelated to exactly who you think's.. alternate good counterpart from a mirror universe. Thankfully Ted's devistating loss inspired Booster to do something, so he went back to the future, grabbed as much info as he could, declared "never again" and found the scarab, which had ended up in el paso on the back of one Jaime Reyes and recutied him since he was invisible to brother eye. With a team of other heroes they saved the world from batman's greatest blunder.

The questions remained though. Who WAS this kid wearing the armor? What happened to him after? And how did he feel about the weight now on his shoulders? All important questions abou tot be answered as we dig into the first arc of Jaime's Solo, Shellshocked.

This comic comes from us from Writers John Rogers and Jm. Demattis. JMD of course co wrote jli, while Rogers is a screenwriter whose written a few comics and later would take sole writing credit here for this run and is part of the reason it slaps so much.

We begin with our hero landing in the desert, having no idea what's going on as he's attacked by captain punched in the face himself Guy Gardner, whose response to Jaime putting up a shield to defend himself after Guy shouts at him "WHAT ARE YOU" is

So an average first meeting with Guy all things considered. We flash back to Jaime's life before he got super armor and had a guy trying to kill him while he looks like he just.. badly wants to go home. The art here by Cully Hamner is fucking awesome and hamner also designed jaime's now iconic outfit, complete with having his mask look similar to a luchadors. It's gorgeous stuff and while Ted had the cool bug eyed goggles and giant ship, Jaime really looks insectoid. while still giving his mask enoough expression.

So in the flashback we meet one of the best parts of the book, Jaime's best friends Paco and Brenda. Paco is a boisterious loudmouth with a heart of gold while Brenda is a type a trying to encourage the other two to study more. Paco has shown up in the brave and the bold but the two don't get adapted much.. including, disapoitningly , for the film , with other characters seeming to take up their rolls instead, paticually Jaime's sister taking paco's roll as she was aged up for the film. I don't hold it against the film makers hard: as much as I miss them I get them trying to both do their own thing and not having room for them, focusing more on his family. Their might be room in sequels, one can hope.

For the comics though I like the two a lot and through every attempted revivival creators have been smart to keep them in it. They both provide a nice shoulder for jamie, Paco being his more fun and games type buddy, while Brenda keeps him grounded. While this type of trio, moderate voice of reason who has to pay referree to a smarty pants and a loudmouth isn't new in fiction, Paco and Brenda feel like real people. Their conversation feels like two real friends arguging with Jamie understandably tired of being their refree.

Things take a turn when Paco is judo throwingly dickish, sniping at Brenda she "thinks she can become a lawyer".. and rightly gets tossed on his ass for it. Brenda also takes akkido.. though the why is heartbreaking as she let's it slip her dad hits her. I also like the diffrence in where the two want to go" Paco dosen't care about school becaues he knows he can't afford college and has to make his own way, while Brenda desperatley hopes to because she has no other option to escape her abuser.. or so she thinks but we'll table that for now. For now Jamie finds the scarab. If your curious HOW Dan's scarab got here, he had it for a while, it seemingly blew up when it reinamainted dan from the dead to fight Ted , and then it somehow ended up on the rock of eternity. Then gods vengance got horny and then got angry and blew it up, and here we are.

We cut back to guy breifly and .. it's more of Jamie getting beaten up as his armor reacts on it's own to pull out canon to defend itself. Then we cut back.. but before we do.. I have to comment on how jarring this is. The scenes themselves aren't bad: the past stuff provides valuable info on who jamie is , his family, his friends, lots of ogod setup and the fight with guy IS necessary: not only is his over the top reaction to the scarab foreshadowing, but it leads to one of the best scenes in the entire series later on when he comes back about a year later.

It just feels a bit jarring here: even having read infinite crisis it feels incredibly abrubt and entirely unfriendly to anyone who didn't.. and trust me as someone back then who , while not reading this series monthly (that came years later when I finally got the chance via comixology unlimited) was picking up books week to week as a high school dork, not everyone could afford the big event series. I'm not doubting most comic book fans had read this.. but to someone just picking up the trade without knowing what an infinite crisis is, it's a bit of a head flip. They DO explain jamie's time in infinite crisis and fill us in on that stuff, it's just a lot to take in getting into the book wether you know the event or not.

Jamie banters with his kid sister milagro, in the comics as I hinted at earlier only about 4 or 5 versus slightly younger than jamie in the movie. The two banter, his mom tells them not to fight (And she knows because it's tuesday), and he goes to help his dad. It's a nice little scene that helps establish the dynamics: he and his sister fight but in a very natural sibling way (Jamie was annoyed she asked him to help with the remote for the 80th time) and his mom is.. well see above: she's tough but entirely fair.

He then goes to see his dad, and we see a scene tha'ts new to us but feels like ti's happened a thousand times: Jamie's dad's car shop isn't doing well but he refuses to let his son eithe rdrop out to work shifts or even do more with school, just wanting him to be a kid longer. I'ts.. heartbreaking and well done.

We then cut back to the fight. Guy is winning.. but breaks the face of jamie's armor so he sees it's just a kid and REFUSES to keep fighting despite his ring's recommendation. This is a REALLY awesome character moment that shows the duo really get guy. Not a suprise form Dematis obviously, but it still shows h'es not the same asshole he used to be. He's still.. well guy, seen here leaving earth for a tour of duty on oa with his usual grace and dignity

That comment tells me Batman''s seen that ass before Batman knows an ass that needs a shaving for he is the night.

Guy explains why he went nuts.. for once with an actual reason: the ring went fucking crazy, and wanted to kill the shit out of Jamie, but Guy isn't a killer.. which is a bold faced lie but hey you try telling a kid. Guy says he'll be back.. and isn't seen for a year in publishing time and months in story. Look he has a lot of people to moon and not a lot of time before he was due back on oa, cut him some slack. The one important bombshell though is contrary to previous lore up to this point, the Scarab.. isn't magic. Which isn't a shock to anyone whose seen jamie in anything else, but is still a nice way to drop that bit of retcon. And I do like it: it dosen't horribly contridcit previous stories and if anything Lewis Lovhag made a VERY good case in his blue beetle retrospective for how it all ties together.

So the scarab retracts, Jamie is left naked and in pain and we cut back to the past. The scarab bonds with him and he speaks it's language breifly.

Jamie then walks with Paco and brenda and runs into a strange girl.. a strange girl who turns out to hav eno eyes. While his friends pass it off as jamie starring at .. something else, it's clear he saw something. It's part of the scarabs power set naturally.

So we end the issue with Jamie naked and having no idea what to do next. We pick up exactly from there next issue: jamie is naked and wondering through the desert wondering how the hell he'll explain this to his parents, when we flash back to the past again. Their at school and Jamie once again sees thigns that arne't there. We find out why as it turns out Probe, the girl from earlier's friend has a power that allows him to make people undedticable. Curious about his own powers they want to invite him to join.. but the scarab attacks probe some how and, not knowing it wasn't Jamie's idea, her friend vows revenge. Back in the present, we get a neat scene as Jamie , with no other options rifles through a guys trunk only for a guy to point a rifle at him. The guy in question being white and having a sweet trucker hat, you'd assume he's going to be a dick.. but in a nice subversion and an even nicer random act of kindness.. the guy simply gives Jamie some clothes, offers to call his folks and is just in general a sweetheart. Given the series takes place in texas, el paso to be specific it's just a nice show that not all people are ignorant monsters. Some people will just.. help someone because it's the right thing as they should.

We get one last flashback, as Jamie gets targeted by Probe's friends we get another breif superhero fight with the scarab activating on it's own. Gain it's a bit.. chatoic, but on second read.. it feels a lot more deliberate than it did. The fight not only shows just how dangerous this thing is when left to it's own devices, but even the posse's leader is starting to tell that whatever Jamie is he isn't a baseline metahuman.

Back in the present day, the friendly trucker man who I genuinely wish we see again some day, such a peach talks to Jamie and tries to convince him his parents will be fine. Jamie insists on sneaking in.. and finds a freaked out Milagro in his bed... and sadly for our boy and his poor family.. that isn't the ONLY suprise awaiting our hero.

It's a hell of a reveal and one that's entirely well done and set up.

To properly explain it I have to get into DC's linewide status quo at the time. Blue Beetle came out in the aftermath of the big event I mentioned, infinite crisis. Heroes lived, a LOT of heroes died, and in the aftermath Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman all stepped away for a bit: Superman was depowered in the final fight of the series, Wonder Woman wanted to reconnect with humanity despite being perfectly connected under any writer who wasn't Geoff Johns, and Batman, after all his paranoid antics leading up to it, decided to take a year off with his adopted sons Dick and Tim. Damien didn't exist yet if you were curious. And so every dc book jumped ahead

Complete with this nifty Sticker. Every book shifted it's status quo with a year having passed and like any good time skip left questions as to WHY things changed while we weren't looking. One Year Later was my first time skip and to this day is one of the best i've seen in comics. At the time I was reading Teen Titans, which shifted to a whole new roster in the wake of superboys death and a lot of turnover off screen, adding in two of my faviorite titans Ravenger and my boy eddie aka Kid Devil, who I'm bound to cover one of these days. It was really good stuff. Other books had roster changes, massive status quo shifts and all sorts of good stuff and most used it beautifully. It's what gave me a love of time skips and what you can do with that.

Given Jamie didn't come in till Infinite Crisis he wasn't obligated to use the gimmick and looking at his first two issues, they cleverly DIDN'T plaster the sticker on there, as to not give away the twist. There was no way a reader would know this had a one way time jump going in and no way a modern reader will know reading the trade. It also means they didn't HAVE to use it.. but i'm glad they did: Jamie being gone and his family and friends dealing without him leaves a massive gap and seeing how it was before allows us to discover how it is now alongside our boy. Some truly magificent storytelling.

We open issue 3 with..

I'm not kidding... we open with Peacemaker, complete with tatoo's. .talks about dreaming 'Blue dreams".. while casually beating up some guys holding up a convience store. He has a friend in the area he just dosen't know it.. god help him.

Back with Jamie, his mom.. dosen't belivie a word and neither does his dad, thinking it was drugs or something. His mom even calls it "this fairy tale". Now in MOST stories i'd get it: it's a LOT to take in and a lot to believe.

The problem is in the details: when Jamie disappeared.. the world was in danger: robots were swarming the sky, an army of supervillians escaped. There was mass destruction all over the world and an army of superheroes engaged in a massive battle for the fate of it. All of this happening around the EXACT same time Jamie disappears in a world where superheroes are entirely common and have been a fact of life since world war II. It dosen't wreck the story for me, Jamie's mom is fairly practical she probably didn't want to kid herself, I get her not thinking that till now.. but it's still VERY weird that none of them think MAYBE this is true.

So with really no other choice.. Jamie armors up. Which solves the "she thinks you were on drugs problem: but the result.. is one of the most heartbreaking scenes in comics and the one thing I was least looking forward to re-reading this story, a scene that's gotten me EVERY time.

It hurt to even put that on there. And in a lesser book Bianca's thought wouldn't have any nuance... but as Alberto explains and somehow makes this hurt even MORE

It's a beautifully heartbreaking segment and part of what makes this time jump work so well: Jamie's disappearnce had a tangible, painful effect. It's an exploration of what just taking ONE person out of the world for that long would do. I also love the end of what I showed you. Alberto explains to his son why Bianca's doing this.. but assures him he's still his boy and this will pass. I also like that they don't just have bianca be evil .. it's simply the SHOCK of all this getting to her, of having to come to the grips with the fact that Jamie is a person.

So he has Jamie go out for a bit, let his mom work through stuff.. though he pointedly dodges Jamie's question about him now walking with a cane. For now Jamie still hasn't gotten a grip on what the suit can do, and tests it, using arm blades and the canon from earlier before popping back naked again. Thankfully this time the Scarab shows it can make him some clothes.

So Jamie goes looking for his friends.. but both places he tries sputter out: Brenda's moved during the year and Paco isn't at school. Turns out though the Scarab can track anyone Jamie's met, and he acknowledges how creepy that is before heading for the border.

So turns out Paco is WORKING with Damper of the posse, the guy who makes the invisible stuff happen.. but just as their on the bridge here come the men in black, and the MIBS are working for someone named la dama and have cable sized laser rifles. Thankfully before they can blow a hole in paco and damper, Jamie swoops in just in time and blocks it. The MIBs decide "Fuck it this guy wants it big willie style" and attack jamie who struggles to get the scarab NOT to murder them, but manages to take them out then swoops off with Hector since homeland security are you know.. homeland security.

Jamie explains things to hector before stopping on a roof with him.

It's a touching and MUCH needed bit of cahtarsis. After going through a LOT of shit in the past three issues.. Jamie's finally given a proper welcome home.

Paco also helps with Brenda... turns out things got even WORSE with her dad and the bastard put her in the ICU. As paco brilliantly put it, there apparently really IS a god as a week later he died, and Brenda's beloved great aunt took her in. Paco's still visiting but hasn't told her about the posse. Jamie's reunion with brenda is just as sweet if a bit .. less huggy.

Yup.

So we open issue 2 and Jamie is doing his homework. He finds ted doing this without powers cool.. until he gets to the bullet in the brain part. Clearly a bit unnerved he moves on to dan, who at least gives him a clue, the scarab gave dan powers.. but he wonders why it skipped over ted. That's when he gets a visitor on the web: Oracle.

For those who haven't seen this version of her, Oracle is barbra gordon. During the killing joke the joker , wanting to drive Comissioner Gordon to madness, shot barbara. That wouldve been the end in many cases but not liking this one bit, writer John Ostrander turned her into oracle, who works as most superheroes go to help line, paticuarlly the bat family and her own operatives the birds of prey. She TRIES to recruit Jamie: Ted was her friend and this makes it her buisness... but instead of opening with "Ted Kord was my friend I just want to help" or something like that which might not have worked but at least would've softballed you know, hyjacking his monitor, Jamie instead blows up at her, mad the other heroes didn't find him (In her defense they had no way of knowing he was missing as Booster never told them and isn't around due to his fate, revealed in the series covering the missing year 52, not being known at the time this comic was published),. Jamie blasts the screen and tells her to go to hell while Black Canary, who is both barbra's best friend na dmain field operative needles her a bit. She likes Jamie though and it's clear she gets it: to Jamie the superhero community abandoned him, and heroes don't do that, and he simply needs time to process the fact their humans and they fuck up.. and that guy DOSEN'T represent them. Though Babs didn't HELP with that one by saying "if he wanted you dead you'd be dead" which is factually true but dosen't exactly calm down the scared teenager babs.

Anyways Jamie's mom takes him to the doctor where they find nothing. Jamie points out that's a good thing: if he HAD found the scarab, which can retreat into Jamie, there would've been a LOT of questions and possibly the government on their asses. We do see Bianca's come around a bit: after jamie apologizes Bianca tells him he has no need to: it's not her fault and she has to stop thinking that.

We cut to La Dama's place. While Brenda leaves for school, La Dama talks with her minon Diviner... and given he oggles brenda a bit before La Dama just bluntly tells him if he does it again he dies, no metaphors either she just straight up says she'll have him killed. Direct. I like that. But Diviner is an ass, but he's a useful ass so La Dama wants him to test the new beetle, try and break him. See if he's of any use since as far as she knows, the Scarab is still magic.

And reinforcing my point from earlier, Jamie getting back into school.. was incredibly easy. A lot of weird shit happened around the crisis so he just had to fill out a form. It's a great gag and makes perfect since. All Bianca had to do was say he disappeared in a beam of light. Brenda shows up , getting out a half our earlier as naturally having a rich aunt means she can get a nicer school and the three riff like nothing happened. Diviner finds Jamie easily.. but realizes Brenda being there complicates things, so he decides to stage a false flag attack: test jamie with a monster and save her to score points with his boss at the same time.

They go to their old hangout spot we haven't seen before but fair enough, we just met these guys. Jamie asks them point blank: what happened to his dad. Both are shocked no one told him and while Jamie got the cliff notes version, he got hurt at the garage, he knows their not telling him the whole truth.

And shockity shock, they weren't. His dad got shot. Turns out the unreliable guy Jamie was trying to fill in for... was in with drugs and Alberto got shot. Jamie.. blames himself. He was going to get to work summer hours. Thankfully Brenda says fuck that noise..well more don't blame yourself, this isn't a mature readers book.. and in a nice moment Paco.. agrees for once.

It's not hard to see why Jamie's connecting those dots as he lays them out: he disappeared, the cops questioned paco and brenda, her dad nearly beat her to death as a result, Paco joined the posse... but Paco makes it VERY clear it's not his fault.

It's a brilliant moment that shows for all his bravado.. paco is very EMOTIONALLY intelligent.

Then some groots attack. Well ents but they look grooty enough. Jamie tries to fight them but the scarab won't damage nature. Foreshadowing for later. For now Jamie takes command and points out when it complains there are plenty of trees, tracking where the magic is coming from.

Jamie is able to stop it and it foils Diviner's attempt to seem like a hero.. that and Brenda KNOWING him, knowing he always hits on her aunt, and not trusting him whatsoever. The fact he uses the word "ruffians" to describe jamie and paco dosen't help.

And with this Jamie's full circle knows. It was one of the big word of mouth things I heard in wizard magazine and other places back in the day... and rightfully so. While most teen super hero works have the hero hide it, especially during the 2000's cartoon teen superhero boom that was going on at the time, Blue Beetle.. has everyone find out within issues 3 and 4. Jamie HAS to reveal it to his parents as a result of his missing year and Paco and Brenda learn organically as he has to save both of them in ways that don't feel contrived: Paco was already working with some metahumans and the attack on him introduces la dama.. and makes it a big reveal that this crime boss is Brenda's aunt and guardian, while Diviner was attacking Jamie anyway. It allows jamie's FAMILY to deal with this situation with him instead of him having to hide it and the books better for it.

Am I saying EVERY hero needs to tell their loved ones? no, if you have a godo reason for them to hide it in your story your good. But if there isn't they should know. It's why most 2000's superhero animated shows, while not telling the parents in most, had the friends know at a minimum. It's more intresting to explore how this effects those around them rather than just having them have to hide it.

So the issue ends with Jamie having Paco call on the posse for a meeting.

Issue 5 begins with Jamie waiting for the posse. He ends up instead meeting the Phantom Stranger. For those curious the Phantom Stranger is.. the phantom stranger is...

I TRIED looking it up but he has no concrete origin. He's a mysteroius man in a trenchcoat and fedora who appears related to magic stuff or to help someone with a critical turning point. For instance brave and the bold had he and the spectre, the horny ghost of god's vengance, wager over wether batman would kill Joe Chill or not. Golly this review is giving me a LOT of ideas for OTHER reviews.

At any rate he says Jamie's not what he thought he was, and then bounces. The posse's rep, Damper the invisible guy from the flashback with probe is ycordial: as long as Jamie dosen't try anything their cool. Turns out Paco is actually really close to him: As he revealed to jamie earlier they aren't into drugs or anything, and as it turns out blocker dude was so upset because one of the other posse members he hurt was his girlfriend who since then has had a baby . And since Paco explained it wasn't a concious decision on Jamie's part, there square for now. He also finds out the stranger was invisible to everyone else and asks the scarab to tell him next time.. and finds out they can't hear the scarab either. Though i'm sure the voices thing went down better as Jamie HAS explained at this point the thing has a mind of it's own. It turns out though a guy working for Diviner is following them.

While that's going on Brenda has lunch with her aunt, who asks her about the boys. She also knows about the Posse though Brenda vouches for Paco, telling them he just hangs out with them. La Dama also wrongly assumes Brenda has a crush on jamie and I like changing this dynamic up: normally in this sort of trio the main character and the girl of the group have the unreseloved romantic tension. Here.. well..

I love the art here too. It communciates very well that no , Brenda's not denying she has feelings.. she's just utterly mortified anyone remotely thinks she has feelings that aren't there.

So while the Posse gives jamie ten minutes to talk, Divinier begins his plan, summoning a religious hunchback to do his bidding

Said hunchback uses harlot a lot and is easily tricked into stealing Damper (Shield guy) and Bonita's baby... and i'm suddenly wishing firefist would come back stupid outfit and all.

It turns out Probe is missing and we find out why while also finding out more about La Damia and the Posse: La Damia was originally just a coyote, someone who helps people from the border in exchange for cash or drug trafficing. Some are more benevloent than others, and ran a whole orginzation of them but has gone up in the world over the time skip.

She's also decided after the crisis she has to step it up hence gathering magical artifacts and metas, collecting them for her own team. And it also turns out Paco was ENTIRELY correct about the posse being good guys and harmless: they run stuff like bingo, smuggling and getting people across the border, but as Paco vouched no drugs or anything serious. They do crime.. but it's only because with no real superhero presence down El Paso way, no one on either side of the border is looking out for the little guy. Paco is one of their non meta guys, used for the more day to day stuff. They also figure Beetle's already being "tested".. before bonita rushes in talking about the hunchback taking her baby and accusing Jamie

We cut back to lunch: La Dama continues to grill Brenda, but Brenda both admits everyone likes jamie and gives the beam of light story: while La Dama dosen't buy it Brenda gives good reason for her loyalty: jamie was there for her when she showed up brused at school from her dad, took her lying about it in stride and simply offered genuine support... and with that La Dama clearly realizes she has an issue as she's targeting her adopted daughter's best friend.

Everyone else gets her calmed down.. and Jamie offers to get her back. It's a nice chekovs gun: since he met them earlier, that means he can track the baby using their combined dna. While one of the posse questions if Jamie's a superhero now Jamie dosen't know about that but says "It's a baby, I can't let anyone hurt a baby". While jamie may not WANT to be a hero and given all the shit it's brought down on his life, no one can possibly blame him... it's moments like this and the stuff mentoind by brenda that show WHY he's a hero. Without a moments hestiation he helps two people using something he really dosen't like simply because a child is in danger and he's the best bug for the job. It's jamie's core feature: his heart> he's just a good kid who loves his family ,friends and tries to do the right thing. That's it. It's why his friends and family are so key to his character: they show off he's human, he jokes, he fights with his sister, he's a normal teen.. but also show he's an honest good kid who does wheaver he can to help them, letting Brenda have an escape from her abusive home, helping his parents however he can, just being there. Jamie Reyes is one of the purest, most lovable heroes in the dc universe and this one moment encpasulates.. all of that.

Jamie fights the hunchback of notre slut shaming but has a problem since you know, he has to also rescue the baby then hold it. He traps the guy under a truck but it barely slows him down. thankfully help arrives: Peacemaker shows up on motorcycle and grabs the baby. Which is badass. but he calls jamie the blue monster.

Jamie is able to easily beat quasimodick though ,as the guy WANTS to die and the scarab drains it clean, despite jamie's wishes.. and as it turns out the news was watching. The whole world now knows there's a new blue beetle.. for better or worse. Something I want to note before we wrap up the arc proper next issue: ther'es a runner that while jamie has great power.. he has NO idea to fight. And I like that. He gets by with his gadgets and such but it creates a nice contrast between the previous two beetles: As we've seen while Dan Garret had powers, he was a brawler, while Ted was an acrobat and used movement as his primary weapon. It creates a nice contrast that jamie really only has his brain, much like ted, and brute force at first: no finnese simply because he hasn't had TIME to learn it yet.

So we come to the finale of our introductory arc, and yes ther'es still another issue to cover after, i'll explain when we get there.

We cut to some time after last issue with Jamie having found La Dama's compound. Turns out he didn't know he could do the tracker thing himself, it's why he had to ask the posse about probe int he first place but now he can it was easy enough. He has Paco stay behind though.. not out of malice or anything but as Jamie rightly points out he's can fly ONE person out if things get dicey. They need an exit stratgey. And when paco worries if Jamie's just trying to protect him..

Our heroes sneak in.. but turns out La Dama naturally ha senors and their soon spotted. The place itself is.. paradise. A really nice garden, plenty of testing. It's clear while La Dama has been taking kids in.. she isn't stupid enough. I mean she still has grunka lunka dunkity darmed guards, but when the guy in charge talks to them he not only tells them they could've got vistors passes. A fight quickly breaks out as our heroes naturally don't assume the best of these guys and one of them spinner, who can swap powers being a dick to the posse dosen't help. A full fight breaks out whlie outside Paco is chasaed. We cut to La Dama who.. handles things well, simply wanting it calmed down and notably giving Spinner an infraction... more on her later as we cut to her other problem, said car chase as Paco tries not to die, while Jamie takes the head guy out of the dome.. and thus the Phantom Stranger finds what he was looking for. it's a lot at once. All good stuff though.

La Dama arrives and ends this nonsese. She also brings out Probe, who turns out is staying of her own free will. As Stranger, whose now visable to all puts it , it's the finest prison.. one of their own will. He's also here BECAUSE La Dama's been hiding magic people, but she counters it dosen't break rules as she's doing it to keep them safe. Which given every the majority of supervillians are still unionized under the society at this point and the goverment's track records includes "send a guy who was used for experiments because he had a rape and murder charge to deal with the new green lantern and hope he dosen't do somethign serial killery to her girlfriend and oh look what's in kyle rayner's fridge".

So Damper makes an offer; since la dama offers saftey, he promises they'll be safe now El Paso has it's own here: Jamie. and Since jamie has no intent to go anywhere and is a good kid he agrees despite just being volunteered for this. La Dama also agrees: they can come and go as they please

As you can probably guess, La Dama isn't pleased and has a one on one with Jamie, who recognized her as Brenda's aunt. She knows who he is as like Ted jamie isn't the best at keeping secrets.. in this case the fact the Blue Beetle showed up right after jamie disappeared with a very flimsy explination.. it's too obvious and it's clear earlier she was just trying to get Brenda to tell her. As for why she put in the effort he's a threat.. and she's not wrong: he upended a massive operation of hers simply by doing the right thing and so far dosen't have any idea what the hell he's doing.

But as you can tell by this point La Dama's smart and it's part of why I love this character so much: she's a crime boss and she's defintely doing some shady shit.. but she's not a horrible person. She genuinely cares from brenda and sh'es far from stupid when doing her dealings. She was kind to the various metas instead of imprsoning them and when faced with a superhero.. she simply makes an offer. And not "you need to work for me or else" like say the kingpin would a simple one: keep doing what your doing but don't fuck with my operations in a major way, which also neatly dosen't stop jamie from say stopping a dealer or a robbery or something if it's on her dime and he didn't know it, just stops him from dismantling them, which with his powers he likely could. She's still antagonistic, offering to paint him as a villian in the media if he does.. but Jamie shows he's not afraid: she does this, he'll tell brenda. He's clearly bluffing, La Dama can see it.. but the risk is too great not to agree. Also in case you were wondering if things were a bhit TOO concidental with Brenda's new happy life.. Jamie had the same thought...

Honestly I like that the crime boss in Jamie's life ISN'T some big kingpin style villian. And I love me some kingpin and his dc equivlent blockbuster. No question. But I like that La Dama.. isn't evil. Ruthless, a criminal and someone more than willing to kill yes, but she's complex: she loves her niece, and while she did kill her dad and it's mildly fucked up she did so given the son of bitch hit her regularly then beat her so bad she had to be hospitlized, I have absolutely no sympathy for him. She did what she had to and the complexites of that including what Brenda will think once she finds out, all nicely add some Drama. La Dama says Jamie won't be able to figure out the scarab without her resouces.. when Peacemaker enters and drops the bombshell.

And this is PART of why I wanted to cover issue 7: it ends on less of a cliffhanger. That and it ties up some necessary EMOTIONAL loose ends too.

So we open our last issue. Jamie recaps his landing to earth and has taken the Reyes Family, Paco and Brenda to the crater it left, with Alberto having them gather some soil samples his cousin can look at. I .. genuinely dont' think this comes up again.

MIlagro suggests retracing his steps.. but still recoils when her brother tries to touch her. It's painful to see. Peacemaker joins the group and understandably Alberto wonders what the strange man wants with his son. Turns out he got the scarabs database, i.e. the instruction manual and more, beamed into his head on a tour of duty. We get our first flashback to inifnite crisis. We also get a few nice bits: Jamie wonders what monster built brother eye with Bruce deflecting it onto Green Arrow. He also later tells them to say they met superman, it'll go down better.. and when we cut back he has. Well most of them take it okay

Speaking of Peacemaker , Alberto dosen't trust the strange tatooted man and isn't comforted by Peacemaker casually talking about working off the books during the dominon and qurac wars, both wars Alberto served in. It's both some nice character to find out alberto served, and something that leads to one of the series best moments later, and both of Alberto's tours are some nice dc continuity nods: The Dominon War was the DC crossover event Invasion! , where the earth was invaded by the dominators. It didn't have a ton of impact and I mostly know it for two reasons: there were tie ins at the time in most books , in paticular Wonder Woman, JLI, and Suicide Squad for me personally, and Doom Patrol's next relaunch came out of the event and it'd later be the origin story for Crazy Jane. god I also have to do some doom patrol content at some point. Not enough hours in the day I swear.

We also get Paco and Jamie's thoughts on the la dama thing: While Paco is worried she's Jamie's "nemesis" jamie.. is fine upholding the truce. La Dama has stopped the worst of her actions, could easily have him ground into paste if she wanted as she likely knows someone as powerful at him but with more experince, and is being good to brenda. There's no REASON to shake that hornet's nest for now.

We get the rest of what happened on Brother Eye: Dinah suggests blowing up the bitch, I forgot she'd already met Jamie at this point, and they blow it up.. and as we see it REALLY was accidental: the scarab cloaked itself upon seeing Jon Stewart and then Hal Jordan.. and thus our hearts get broken one last time ... this arc.

It's one of the best scenes in the whole run and one of the most powerful.. and as I hinted at the main reason WHY I wanted to do this issue. At last, Jamie fully has his family back with him.

As for why he went forward in time it's simple: Brother Eye was already out of synch with time, its's how the scarab could track him since it used similar technology as it's creators, but with Brother Eye busy exploding and everything chaotic Jamie got shifted out of time and phase and thus wound up a year later.

So everything's good right.. except.. peacemaker raises a VERY valuable point as we end on a cliffhanger I CAN live with.

And we'll get to that some other day as I intend to cover the rest of this series sometime on my own time.

For now though when I finally got to read this run last year.. Blue Beetle became one of my faviorite comics of all time. It was probably easy to tell given i heaped almost nothing but praise on it. It has SOME small growing pains but once we're firmly in the present and everything set the book just keeps going and tells a magnifcent coming of age story. It's not hard to see why DC keeps going back to Jamie or why they thought he could anchor his own movie: He's a wonderful, loveable character with a rich and fleshed out supporting cast. While Ted's death was tragic it paved the way for a book about family, legacy, duty and being who you are versus who people expect you to be. Blue Beetle is a masterpiece and there are trades collecting both halves of John Rogers run out now thanks to the film. Snap them up. This is good stuff and it only gets better. For now though that concludes the main portion of beetlemania, but tune in next week for more beetle as we focus on both boys as they get brave and the bold and we wrap up this retrospective. Thanks for reading.

#jaime reyes #blue beetle #ted kord #peacemaker #barbra gordon #guy gardner #batman #milagro reyes #alberto reyes #bianca reyes #paco #brenda del vecchio #the posse #la dama

[mjparkerwriting]

15 Questions 15 Mutuals

Thanks to @squarebracket-trick for tagging me!

Rules: Answer the questions as yourself or as an OC of your choice. Some people have done both which is cool.

Gently tagging (I'm sorry if you've been tagged in this already): @sarahlizziewrites @distinguishedgentlemanswritings @ryns-ramblings @btranscrolls @harps-for-days @nightlylaments @alnaperera @kckramer @thewardenofwinter @karolinarodrigueswrites @kaiarchives @the-stray-storyteller @maiwritesbooks @inkspellangel @cabaretofwords

Using Seth, one of the main POV characters in my WIP.

Are you named after anyone?

Not that I know of. I've never thought to ask and no one has said anything about it.

[Both of my parents' grandmothers had the same name so mine is just a version of that. My middle name is a combination of my parents' mothers' middle names.]

2. When was the last time you cried?

I'm not gonna pretend like I'm some macho man dripping with bravado. I cried in that swamp. Before that, I cried in my bed because...well, for reasons. It happens.

[LMAO just cried like two days ago. It will happen again.]

3. Do you have kids?

I'm literally 20 years old. A child would ruin everything for me.

[I am a 24-year-old teenage girl. One day I'd love to, but today is not that day.]

4. Do you use sarcasm?

No. (Note: That was sarcasm)

[I can't not use sarcasm. It's a problem.]

5. What's the first thing you notice about people?

Their hair. How it's styled. How clean it is. How neat it is. Hair is important in my culture. Mine probably looks like shit now, but usually, I take good care of it.

[Clothes and shoes. I'm big on fashion. I love collecting shoes and trying new styles. I'm always curious about other people's styles.]

6. What's your eye color?

Brown. Dark, dark brown.

[Also dark, dark brown.]

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

I love movies. I make movies. I don't think you can compare the two, though. Scary movies are a different form of art that not everyone gets. It's more than just the scare. It's the tropes. The characters. The score. I will say that I don't always like a happy ending, so I guess my answer is scary movies.

[I love scary movies. BUT, I'm a sap and I cry at almost everything, so a good happy ending is always nice, too.]

8. Any special talents?

Can it truly be considered special, if I'm good at everything I do?

[I don't know. I like to bake cookies lol. Not to be that person, but I don't know if I have a special talent. I've done a lot of different things, so maybe just a Jack of All (a few) Trades.]

9. Where were you born?

Oklahoma. In a hospital close to the rez.

[I'm from the US.]

10. What are your hobbies?

Watching movies. Making movies. Reading.

[Besides reading and writing, I like collecting things and watching movies and TV. I don't know if this is a hobby, but I like trying new foods.]

11. Have you any pets?

I mean, there's the rez dogs. That's about it.

[I have a cat <3]

12. What sports do you play/have played?

I played basketball in high school.

[I played basketball for about 4-5 years. I used to fence and I was in marching band (it's a sport. don't start).]

13. How tall are you?

Are you trying to be funny? Haha, we get it. I'm not tall.

[5'6, but I wish I was just a few inches taller. Just 2 inches would be nice.]

14. Favorite subject in school?

Debate, of course. After that, probably Psychology.

[English. Creative Writing. History.]

15. Dream job?

Movie director and/or producer would be a dream, but we have to be realistic here. I'm getting a degree in PoliSci so I can have a real job that'll pay real bills.

[I've wanted to be a teacher since I was like 16 and I'm doing that now, but of course, a writer. I think I can do both, so I'm kinda living the dream?]

#writers of tumblr #writeblr #poc writers #tag game #wip tag

[theravenkin]

Any headcanons about Andrew in juvie?

omg i know this ask has been sitting in my inbox for several months now, i'm so sorry. i've just been struggling with how to answer it.

so i have never been in the juvenile detention system, or involved in the justice system, nor have i been in foster care. so, i don't truly understand, on a personal level, how fucked up these systems are. thus, i don't think i can truly empathize with andrew's time in these systems.

however, i have thought a lot (a LOT) about how andrew's time in juvie, as well as his time in the foster system, might have shaped his psyche and his character into adulthood. i actually did a psychology project where i analyzed andrew's background and childhood and extrapolated about what certain events or conditions might have had certain effects on him that created the adult he is.

SO. if i were to extrapolate about andrew's time in juvie, though i don't know much about it, i would say:

he probably felt the need to bulk up and be able to defend himself; andrew was probably always a small kid, and probably would've been a target (or felt like one, at least). i think juvie is prob where he got in to weightlifting and where he got so physically strong.

i also think he probably felt the need to exaggerate his performance of masculinity. not necessarily because of juvie; just because...well, he was a 12 year old boy around a bunch of other, older teenage boys, and he probably felt like he wasn't masculine enough. especially considering that this was probably the age where he started realizing that he likes guys. around a bunch of other teenage boys, that probably feels not only terrifying, but also, he probably felt broken, like he wasn't a "real" man, that he'd been corrupted (OW god this is hurting as i write this). i assume that andrew tried to assume a sort of macho persona, and that he tried to make others think he was ragingly homophobic so that they wouldn't get the idea that he was queer. (this is usually pretty common amongst teens in general, in my experience.) andrew might have ditched this act in favor of apathy later on, but i don't doubt that for a while, andrew felt that he had to work at making other think he was "normal", as far as gender and sexuality go.

contrary to all this posturing, though, i think andrew was a bookworm as a kid. i think he probably clung to school like he did to exy, back then--they were life buoys when he had nothing else to really live for (he has a pattern of this, desperately clinging to reasons to go on, which OW). again, when there's not much else to do...i think he was really good in school, secretly. i can definitely picture him hiding in his cell with a stack of books, finishing like a book a day. (stop im making myself CRY UGH)

okay, so, obviously, this hurts me, so i need to stop. but yeah, these are all the ideas i have about that period of andrew's life. idk if this is what you were looking for, but. it's what i've got. hope you enjoy my little meta :)

#raven's asks #aftg meta #aftg character study #man i love psychoanalyzing my blorbos #aftg #andrew minyard #twinyards #all for the game

[jurisprxdent]

I was actually going to post this as a reply on @rahleeyah ’s post of @thisismehappy ’s comment on Grief, but once I started typing I figured I’d make it its own thing here because I’ve never really shared how I got into SVU.

The very first SVU season I watched was s13, when it came on Netflix and they had seasons 13-17 iirc. I’d never seen an episode before, or even really heard of the show. I got hooked, obviously, as this was around the time I started getting into law and thinking about it as a career and I loved how the show explored and balanced the police/detective work with the trials/outcomes. And then I got drawn into the characters, and the relationships, and the storylines, and eventually I caught up to the live episodes and watched seasons 18-20 as they aired.

All this to say: I watched 8 whole seasons of Law & Order: SVU without knowing who Elliot Stabler was. 

I remember starting s13 and thinking Liv was kind of a bitch, and that she seemed pissed off about something. I remember she got bad news from her captain, and I remember her packing up someone’s desk, and how she stared at a photo of a man with a baby, and I thought, “oh, I guess that’s the guy who used to be her partner or something.”

I remember watching Surrender Benson and hearing her tell Lewis that her “old partner would know what to do.” I remember watching her on the witness stand, Lewis taunting her about a “macho ex-partner,” romantic fantasies, and “he would’ve.”

And...that was it. That was all I knew about the old partner.

It wasn’t until I got Hulu around the time season 21 was airing and decided to start the series from the very beginning that I heard the name “Elliot Stabler” for the first time.

Maybe there are people out there in the fandom that understand what I’m trying to say here and what I’m trying to emphasize, but I just want to shine a new flashing light on it: nobody, and I mean NOBODY, said Elliot Stabler’s name after he left. 

Coming in at season 13, I literally did not know who he was for 8 seasons. No clue, until I watched 1.01.

And now that I’ve watched (and re-watched, and re-watched) the entire series from the beginning to the live season, seeing all the little moments and big moments between them, how they grew and changed over 12 years, I just think that that says....a lot, about, well -- a lot.

And especially when I re-watched s13 AFTER watching 1-12, I’m pretty sure my heart broke, thinking about Olivia and how it must have felt to think she would never see her partner ever again. I mean, he didn’t even pack up his desk; I wouldn’t have thought he’d ever come back, either.

I could really go on about how fucking shook I was/still am whenever I think about it, but I just wanted to sit here for a few minutes and try to get across how literally Elliot did, just...disappear. 

Anyway. That’s my story, and now I’m in love with the love of two 60-year-old cops.

[obsessivelollipoplalala]

it does seem like some of his peers at the time didn't really take him seriously until after he died, which is unfortunate

Obviously some of it (most of it really) was homophobia (I think it was Paul McCartney who all but said Queen was too gay for him) but it was also just the type of music they did. It wasn't serious (read: boring and sad) enough for some and completely written off. It wasn't until after Freddie died and the industry changed a bit that more recognizable names realized how smart the lyrics and melodies were, even if it was "just stadium rock".

On another note, maybe this is blasphemous but I really don't think John Lennon's music was all that great. Paul McCartney's stuff is decent but George Harrison is the only one out of the four I really like.

Absolutely. Freddie was an openly gay man--a gay man who loved sex--on stage, and some of his super macho, heterosexual peers couldn't cope and couldn't see past it to listen to the quality of Queen's work. I could picture them not taking some of Queen's more lighthearted music seriously, too. I guess people removed the sticks from their asses once Freddie was dead and they didn't have to compete with him anymore.

I think all of The Beatles were/are overrated lol. I don't deny the impact they had on music and that they had some talent, but that doesn't mean they weren't totally overblown. My mom says it was like people fawned over every fart they did lol. I haven't sat down to seriously listen to any of their solo work, but when their solo songs have come on the 70s radio station, I haven't been impressed. I don't think any of them were good singers. I also hate "Imagine." I saw a tweet recently that "Imagine" is like if a song was written by a 12 year-old with no grasp on how the world works lol. Fucking pretentious edgelord shit written by an absolute asshole.

#replies #Anonymous

[rikiblues]

"pls be my girlfriend."

aka the true story of the boy who didn't know when to give up.

so when my friend, let’s call her Lu, was still living in her home island, there was a dude who was very obviously into her; let’s call him Ri. Around then Lu would’ve been maybe 11/12 and Ri 13/14, and while he was very obviously down bad for her, she really was not. she legitimately thought he was creepy. like this guy would lean against the door of her classroom and act all cool and she would just be like ?????

there was this one time he was leaning all cool-like at the window of his classroom that was ALSO right in front of hers. it’s not uncommon around here for classrooms to not be arranged in grade-order; my ninth-grade floor has around two or three seventh-grade classes, for example. so anyway Ri was leaning all macho on the windowsill and looking into these eleven/twelve-year-olds doing whatever it is that sixth-graders do, and trying to catch Lu’s attention, I guess. when Lu did see him she was like “…?” and smiled at him if only to make him go away. and this man

he literally LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL OVER. DEAD SKSKSKS

and I think they were like neighbors or something, because when Lu went home after-school, he’d be there sitting on one of the motorcycles parked outside on the road and she didn’t even blink. it wasn’t like he was doing anything so she figured he was basically harmless and stopped paying him any attention at all every day. this dude literally would ask her every few days “pls be my girlfriend” and Lu: “no. bye.” *walks away*

so one day, after Lu walked into her house, she nearly had a heart attack cause Ri, this dumbass, was literally looking in through her window. like, her BEDROOM window. she was very much freaked out, especially because she wears a hijab and obviously she 1) won’t be wearing it at home and 2) he’s not allowed to see her without it and that is such an idiotically disrespectful creepy thing to do anyway, looking in through windows of girls, especially if that girl is like two-ish years younger than you?????

she slammed the window shut in his face, drew the curtains, then went back outside to the other rooms of the house and drew the curtains there, too. she was also alone home, I think, cause her parents work and her older brother is Ri’s age and spends the day out hanging out with friends or whatever. then she went to sleep because why the hell not.

she wakes up at like two a.m. to knocking on bedroom window and she’s so confused because she’s pretty sure her brother is in his room right next to hers and also he is not the type to play weird pranks like that. also literally, they lived in an ISLAND which has like plants and wildlife all over the place despite it being somewhat developed and like.

no sane kid goes out that late because it’s DARK and creepy in any islands lmao.

so she lifts the edge of the curtain and wants to punch Ri in the face because it’s him.

she can’t find her hijab so she literally just. grabs her towel and wraps it around her head like a makeshift hijab LMFAOOOO im trying to imagine a tiny Lu with a towel round her head like a weird skewed hijab and wheezing over here she’s so put together and so prettily composed these days I CANNOT

then she opens the window and asks him what the hell he’s doing here so late at night and Ri: “pls be my girlfriend”

Lu: “literally, what the hell.”

then she hears the faint sound of keys and remembers that her dad is home right at that moment from night duty, I think he works as like a security guard or smth I’m not sure, and she has a very bright idea, especially bc Ri is there legitimately begging her to date him and has no idea that her father is probably about to check on her since it’s so late.

she screams as loud as she can “THERE’S A BURGLAR IN THE HOUSE THERE’S A BURGLAR IN HERE HELP”  OH MY GOD I CHOKED WHEN I HEARD THIS PART.

so her dad comes sprinting in and by this time Ri has already hightailed it outta there, and he was so freaked out that he accidentally left one of his slippers behind. dumbass actually had his name written on the bottom of it so you can imagine how her dad took that. he was so mad lmfaooo. he went and talked to Ri’s dad about it and of course he was in so much trouble over it. but wait, it doesn’t end there.

like a few weeks later, he literally goes to Lu’s dad and asks: “can I have Lu as a girlfriend pls” as if he hadn’t been acting like a creep istg

her dad already knew all about him trying to make moves on Lu. he literally went: “if I ever see you anywhere near my daughter ever again I will break both your legs.”

yeah, that’s when the message sank in and he refuses to look at her in the eye these days lmao. like for the longest time whenever they passed each other on the street he would look at both his feet like there’s gum stuck on it or something. he would pretend not to see her at school but get so flustered and quite frankly terrified is she was anywhere like within five meters near him. Lu found all of this absolutely hilarious.

there was literally this one time she was walking along the pier on their island and there Ri was riding along on his bike. he had no idea that Lu was there until she heard noises of the bicycle and turned around, because the pier was narrow and she’d have to step to a side to let him pass. she also didn’t know until she turned but she didn’t care, either.

so, she would’ve stepped to the side and let him pass like any normal person would’ve done but Ri

this dumb idiot

he turns sharply and DRIVES HIS BIKE STRAIGHT OFF THE EDGE INTO THE OCEAN 💀💀💀 he was fine just soaked his nice clothes right through

but his bike did not like the contact with saltwater and it rusted so badly a few days later he had to throw it out LIKE WHAT DID YOU EXPECT MAN?

fast-forward to now that Lu is 15 and he’s like 17/18. he’s friends with Lu’s big brother and attends the same higher secondary, so he occasionally comes over with a group of their schoolmates to do group study sessions Lu’s dad eyeballs him so hard every time that it’s awkward for him to look anywhere but his books sijaiererwne and whenever Lu walks into the room he either chokes on something or starts demanding his friends for answers so as to avoid any and all contact with her and frankly it’s just literally free entertainment for her at this point 😭

oh yeah and Lu’s older brother very much knows this and he finds it free comedy gold like she does.

tbh I wish I was that chill about a dude who freaked me out like that like anytime that kinda guy goes near me it’s fight-or-flight mode for me.

#creepy guys #comedy #humor #ngl this is funniest thing i've heard all year #ty lu for permission to tell this story!

[sheepie-self-ships]

I posted 612 times in 2022

That's 612 more posts than 2021!

20 posts created (3%)

592 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@pedritcpascalito

@rebeccaselfships

@letsgofoletsgo

@dianthus-lovebomb

@disaster-walking-on-land

I tagged 304 of my posts in 2022

Only 50% of my posts had no tags

#sunny ☀️ - 70 posts

#hiromiii 🌺 - 55 posts

#toshi 🌻 - 50 posts

#montyy ⭐️ - 40 posts

#moony 🌙 - 18 posts

#ninasrandomships - 12 posts

#murder gf ♥️ - 12 posts

#the robo dad friend ⚡️ - 11 posts

#evil toshi 🥀 - 9 posts

#tag game - 9 posts

Longest Tag: 138 characters

#there’s also kinda mettaton but he feels more like an ex i still like? i haven’t interacted with ut content in years but i still love them

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

hellou! :] here's a gush pass 🤲✉️. gush about whoever is on your mind today!!

:0c hi!! I love ur blog!

uhM honestly sunny has been pretty Present as of late and I just think hes so cute like 🥺🥺 I was reading some of the hcs i rb’ed and they made him sound the sweetest. He’s just such a little ray of sunshine (well… yeah he’s supposed to be the sun lol) and I’m so happy I found him :) even if he’s a robot lol

2 notes - Posted January 6, 2022

#4

Headcanon: Monty listens to Ariana grande

13 notes - Posted January 7, 2022

#3

HEY HEY HEY!

I’m Sheepie, this is my self ship blog :) hi! I use they/them pronouns, please respect that!!

DNI IF:

- you are LGBTQ+ phobic and all that follows that

- you are a MAP and all that follows that

- want to start drama/discourse, no one has time for that!! Go do something that makes you happy!!

- don’t like self inserts, self shipping, etc. How’d you even get here then???

- (this is more of a BYF but still) if you are uncomfortable sharing F/Os (See my F/O list to check!)

F/O List under the cut!!

Romantic F/Os

I’m comfortable sharing all of them!! If you aren’t tho that’s chill, ik my blog probably isn’t for everyone ^-^*

☆ Star emojis are for my favorites! ☆

~☆~

☆ TOSHINORI YAGI/ALL MIGHT ☆

Boku No Hero Academia

tag: #toshi 🌻

villain AU/All Smite tag: #evil toshi 🥀

status: Fiancé :))

~☆~

☆ HIROMI HIGA/SHADOW ☆

Sk8: The Infinity

tag: #hiromiii 🌺

status: Boyfriend

~☆~

☆! SUNDROP/DAYCARE ATTENDANT !☆

Five Nights At Freddy’s: Security Breach

tag: #sunny ☀️

Poly tag (with Monty): #glittergolf and their human ☀️🐊🌸, #glittergolf ☀️🐊

status: Boyfriend

~☆~

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14 notes - Posted January 4, 2022

#2

Hihi this has definitely been done before but i wanted to make a post on this blog 👉🏻👈🏻

anywayssss put the song you associate with your F/O or the song that is you guys’ couple song???

I put mine under the cut because I wanted a few

im gonna say whoever wants to can rb with theirs but ill also tag some ppl ^-^)b

@ninasrandomships @rebeccaselfships @fictofriend @my-self-ship-wonderland @mothy-selfships

All Might: i just like the song and it reminds me of him <3

Shadow: we both work at flower stores!!! and its just a cool song

Sunny: its just a really him song and i like knowing hes there for me no matter what <3

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18 notes - Posted May 11, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

i saw this and wanted to try it but I didn’t wanna reblog a version I wasn’t tagged in so :,) anyways I’m doing this for toshi <3

Directions: Highlight/Bold the tropes that apply to you and your romantic F/O.

height difference • mutual pining • first kiss • first love • wedding • in-jokes • lgbt+ • family disapproves • friends disapproves • would die for each other • fake relationship • arranged wedding • cuddlers • pda friendly • and they were roommates • secret relationship • opposing world views • opposing personalities • opposing goals • getting a pet • have kids • grow old together • relationship failures • rest head on shoulder • share a bed • token dummies • relationship doubts • they have a song • first date • share a jacket • sharing a blanket • mutual interests • study buddies • bathing together • crash into hello • accidental nudity • laundry • same hobbies • cooking for each other • big fancy gala • sibling rivalry • hair stroking • dancing • laying in the grass • watching stars together • watching the other sleep • shared values • friends to lovers • enemies to lovers • lovers to enemies • childhood friends • slow burn • love triangle • toxic relationship • sitting on each other's lap • can't be together • hugs • forehead touches • neck kisses • car/motorbike rides • compliments • nicknames • falling asleep together • late night talks • gifts

tags: @ninasrandomships @trope-madness @mothy-selfships @rebeccaselfships @my-self-ship-wonderland and anyone else who wants to do this <3 (you also don’t have to if you don’t want to :>)

21 notes - Posted February 6, 2022

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[iwantjobs]

Trang's Palestinian lawsuit's revised claim

REVISED CLAIM

The First Amendment states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."  The U.S. has been violating the Constitution of America in the last 75 years when Congress made law to send money and arms to Israel to establish its own religious democracy country called "Judeo democracy of Israel" on recent stolen land in the Middle-East; which has been under controlled by a religion called Islam for the last 400 years in a country called Palestine; which is a prize land called the Holy land WHERE JESUS WAS BORN AND MUHAMMAD DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN; and which has an oil well in Gaza.  As a taxpayer with some conscience to preserve almost all God’s human children and religions, I suffered anger, sadness, shame, guilt, fear, and paranoia that my tax funded this animalistic humanity for killing, possibly burning, and bombing babies in this Israel-Hamas war which led to a dirty-blonde-hair-blue-eyed American man with curvy nose similarly of Jewish nose with a Polish last name to stab a 6-year-old Palestinian boy 26 times to death and stabbed his mother 12 times in Chicago on 10/16/2023.  My life was affected by relinquishing my genocide American citizenship, and resorted to a deeper jail-like life to avoid jihadi attacks, jihadhi-machoness fueling America’s gun violence, and a WWWIII on American soil. The Constitution via First Amendment demands a letter to be sent to Congress to stop the funding of non-food-water-fuel-medicine and arms to Israel, or pay me $25,000 to write this lawsuit, my expense to leave America eternally, and start saving $5 trillion to pay for a WWWIII.

(NOTE 1:  This land is known as the Holy land: (1) where God’s son Jesus of Christianity was born; (2) where Israelis of Judaism are using their Torah to answer their God's instruction to return to their ancestors' homeland of 2,500 years ago via their Zionism even though their ancestors (the ancient Jews) nailed Jesus; (3) where the Hamas militant-terrorists say their Islam's Muhammad died and went to heaven (this probably justified their violent motto to die for Islam under martyrdom); (4) where the Bible of Christianity tells its churches to rebuild God's kingdom for the second coming of Jesus; (5) where Iran and Osama Bin Laden said they are fighting to defend their Islam; (6) where the female Buddha named Trang, or I, think my God (the Sun) wants me to enter the battle scene of the men of the humanity by crawling out of her semi-homeless life on disability checks and ex-Infoseek-and-women.com credit cards to inject Buddha's reincarnation theory of life from Hinduism as punishments, and predicts more future God's representatives: (1) A gay Latino person for gay pain, (2) A black African man thanks to South Africa's genocide lawsuit against Israel (and as soon as black South Africans stop killing the white South African farmers as revenge after apartheid ended), and thanks for the pain of the black Americans in slavery and segregation (and as soon as the blacks around the world go to college); (3) An indigenous American man to represent all indigenous people whose land and natural resources were stolen by the biggest thieves in humanity so far (the Christians and even the Israelis for stealing Palestine--A thief of a fat luxurious diamond of India, and even humans in the buying of kidnapped Africans into American slavery via capitalism; and as soon as his indigenous people go back to college); and (4) A blonde-haired-blue-eyed American man many thanks to the painful martyrdom of a kind-of-white-white American young man of 25 years old named Aaron Bushnell for having some compassion for the sufferings of people outside his race, caused by his race and country, with his suicide for burning himself while wearing his American military uniform to demand for a free Palestine from colonialism and end of massive genocide in Gaza (he probably wants the return of all hostages from the Hamas and thousands of administrative detention prisoners with no formal charges in Israel’s democracy system) in front of the Israeli American embassy on 2/26/2024 (As soon as I,Trang, the hardcore heterosexual female with hardcore heterosexual eggs philosopher, teach his white race not to be so gay if they are not really gay).

NOTE 2: The  American democracy' is a semi-religious system for it was created by Christianity's Protestants coming to America from England away from their kings and queens for freedom of religion. Its democracy's equality concept is pulled from the religious text of Judaism of "all men are created equal" which are forewords of the country’s contract called the Constitution.  If this democracy of Christianity and Judaism controls the Holy land where Jesus was born and where Muhammad died and went to heaven, in fast speed, this democracy of equality will yank out their gays from the closets to jump out dancing happily and safely in nearly nude female undergarment outfits in gay raves and music festivals (like the one next to Gaza with all those poor young people who were killed and kidnapped while dancing in ecstasy into the ears of barbaric Gazan men who were taught to cover their women in extreme conservativeness of black sheets).  All this will take place next to the exact location where your Jesus was born, and where your Muhammad died and went to heaven. Scary and so sinful.)

2/29/2024 Thursday at 11:34 a.m.: Trang's work at 50.89 years old.

[negativemancy]

A 30 year old man that nothing has changed for since i was 17. No Job no love no friends no diploma no real future thats not just more of the same nothingness ive had since i was 17. When did this apathy for my own life start? Has it actually always been like this? Is it because my parents lost interest in actually raising me in an effective way? My father has been so absorbed with his job since before i was born. There really is nothing else to him. Just leave him to his job and buying things he'll never really need or use online. The house could fall down around him and as long as it doesnt effect any of that he wouldnt care. He and I are so different i wonder if that is why he is apathetic to me. Hes very semi macho things that im not i cant help but imagine how much of a disappointment i am which he would deny but its just so obvious a normal person a normal family would have kicked me out and sent me to fend for my self or die a decade ago. My mother i suspect will never be truely happy with her life. If it isnt how she always wanted it then theres something wrong with IT instead of the oddly high standards or hoops it was suppossed to fit through. Theyre both in their own way adult children my mother emotionally stuck at around 16 or 17 my father im not sure he has the rage build up and tantrum of a 12 year old or so. I am rather convinced that had my parents not had me and only had my older sister and probably eventually gotten divorced they would be happier. I suspect that i was a kind of "marriage saver" baby my mother has told me about how she had to convince and beg my dad to have another child. Why would you use a child like that. Growing up there were lots of times my mother figured she wasnt getting the life she had dreamt or the praise she wanted for being a mother so she would fly into red faced screaming crying hysteria clearing tables of their contents in one swoop sending things flying or just calling my father after work saying that she would just go to the bank drain out all the money she could fill up the car with gas and see how far it all could take her without coming back. It actually might have been best had they just not married at all. When i was 16 she finally moved out more than likely in hopes that he would chase her or that it would shock us all into changing for her. It didnt work. So there i was at 16 not really knowing who i was or anything about myself my mother wasnt out of my life but she was out living hers and my father worked constantly and found a new person and a better working family. At least for a time because as they were not really together my parents never divorced. And i was left home alone. I remember streches of time like a week or so that i hadnt seen my father even though we lived in the same house. my sister in another state with her husband. I spent the time i could with the girlfriend i had at the time. But having no real healthy idea of a relationship growing up it was rougher than it needed to be. I think it was when the real apathy for my own life started.

[lex-munro]

[Glitter on the Wet Streets: Part 11] Take the Past

Now there’s a Third Rule, and Venom gets the Christmas present Eddie forgot about.

Chapter 11 of 12.

BTW it’s actually not 100% healthy to let someone else set your trauma-based boundaries.  But when you shut down or are unable to set boundaries for your protection, it’s nice for someone who cares to look at the situation and say, “Okay, that was too much/too far.  Let’s not get to that point again.”  (In that sense, Matt and Eddie have stumbled into something of a light Dom/sub relationship.)

Warnings:  Canon divergent based on the MCU (Secondary Branch BTV613).  Oblique spoilers for Black Widow, Wandavision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Hawkeye, Daredevil, Iron Fist, The Defenders, and Luke Cage.  Talking things through like well-adjusted humans.  Brief discussion of past child abuse.  Devious reporters are devious.  Jess isn’t fooling anyone.  Language: PG-13 (primetime TV plus s*** and f***).

Pairing:  Matt/Eddie, past Eddie/Venom (plus background Luke/Claire and Danny/Colleen).

Timeline:  A year after the events of No Way Home, but (kind of) concurrent with the events of Hawkeye (told you it was canon divergent).  Christmas Day.

Disclaimer:  I doesn’t owns the movies or the characters.  Or the assorted objects of pop culture reference.

Take the Past

  “New rule,” Matt says as he pushes Eddie onto the couch and kneels to take his shoes off for him.

“Mm?” Eddie asks, not quite up to conversation.

Matt rubs his calves in steady, soothing motions.  “Rule three:  if you’re having a panic attack and I can separate you from the trigger, I will.  No hoping for the best, no putting on a brave face.  I felt the need to check in with you—that should’ve been my cue to get you out of there.”

Eddie feels small, and ashamed, and he suddenly understands what set him off.  “It was like watching my old man out in public.  All smiles and stories and laughter.  Man’s man macho bullshit.  Everyone loved that old bastard…‘s how I knew they’d never believe he beat the shit outta me on the regular.  And even if they did, they’d agree with him—that it was my fault, for fucking something up or being too namby-pamby or killing my mom when I was born.  That I deserved it.”

“No, Eddie,” Matt says firmly.  “He was your father—you deserved to feel safe and loved by him.  What he did was evil.  No matter what outside observers might think, that is the immutable truth.  I don’t want you to ever feel unsafe, okay?  Especially when I’m right there.  Otherwise, what good am I?”

Eddie leans down and presses their foreheads together, memorizing every speckle of brown or gold hiding in the olive green of Matt’s eyes.  “The best,” he says.  “Absolute best thing in my whole life.”

Venom pokes around on Eddie’s phone until they find a decent livestream of the parade, then props it up while Matt fetches Snowflake from a nearby sunbeam.

Time loses meaning with his boyfriend nestled close and his cat lazily purring over the sound of vapid commentators and various marching bands.  Matt smells faintly of Wolfthorn, and Eddie would tease him, except that it reminds him pleasantly of gummy worms.  It’s relaxing—to have no tasks, no expectations, nothing more pressing for the moment than basking in the unequaled pleasures of a soft cat and a good cuddle.

Soon enough, Rafael will figure out what happened to the Christmas edition of the paper.  MJ will have to put together more articles.  Matt and Foggy will have to present a fresh case against Fisk, who may or may not cop a plea like a good boy.  Maya Lopez is still out there, along with Yelena the cat-loving Black Widow assassin.

But right now, it’s just them on their couch, in their apartment with a terrible view (which suits Eddie, since he’d rather look at Matt).

An ad comes on for Stouffer’s stuffing, and Eddie remembers the bags in the front hall.  “Mm.  Sorry, V, I forgot all about the present I got you.”

“You said you didn’t get me anything!”

“And I just said I forgot about it, asshole.  Bag by the front door—there’s the French press and the electric kettle for Matt, but then there’s a box for you.”

There’s a loud rustling of plastic near the door, then a flurry of torn wrapping paper raining down around them.

The ensuing pleased screech sets Eddie’s teeth on edge, but he doesn’t mention it.

“I am going to my bowl to learn about coffee!” the alien announces, and he rips free with the usual chilly shock (like being thrown into a swimming pool, come to think of it).

“He’s trying,” Matt says.

“I know he is; why ya think I got him the damn thing?”

Matt just hums and squeezes his knee.

~*~*~

Eddie stares at his phone.

Incoming call from Latin Asshole

Time to show off his acting chops.

“Hey, man, Merry Christmas!” Eddie says brightly.  “How’s page three look?  Pretty good for a fluff piece, huh?  I had to pry that arepa recipe away from—”

~“Cut the shit.  I know it was you.”~

“Rafa, my name’s on the article.  I spent a week eating stuff I couldn’t pronounce.  Of course it was me.”

~“You’re really gonna sit there and pretend you don’t know your article got swapped out.”~

“It what?!” Eddie yelps.  “No, no, no, I did not eat some weird unidentifiable Hainanese thing just to have my piece pulled!  Who okayed that?  Kramer was the one who gave me the damn assignment, so I’m pretty fucking sure it wasn’t an order from the top!”

~“Nope.  Somebody changed the layout from my computer at quarter to nine.”~

“So they snuck into the building and up to the office after hours, unlocked the office door, and logged into your computer?  They knew your password?  You leave that thing lying around on a Post-It or something?”

~“They changed my password.”~

“What?  How?  Did they hack your email?”

~“When I find out how you did it, I will end you.”~

“That kinda sounds like a threat.  Might wanna keep an eye on your car.  Meanwhile, Kramer’s gonna hear how you pulled my piece just because of a bad date and then tried to spin some wild story of me breaking into your work computer after hours to sabotage my own career.”

He hangs up on whatever arrogant insults are sure to follow.

“I’m supposed to be the smug one in this relationship,” Matt points out.

“Can we get an esperesso machine?” Venom calls from the kitchen.

“No,” Eddie vetoes immediately.  “Master the French press first, buddy.”

So he texts Jones about Rafa and leaves a voicemail for the Street’s Editor-In-Chief.  He refers to the call with Rafael as ‘an unhinged rant’ and says he has witnesses to Rafa getting creepy over a bad date.

~*~*~

Something buzzes.

“Phone,” Matt says, muffled slightly by the shoulder of Eddie’s sweater.

“Phone, shit, yes,” Eddie manages, snapping out of a doze and fumbling for his phone.

Incoming call from Queen MJ

“Fuck.”

“Mm-mm, no panicking,” says Matt.  “Give it to me.”

He gives in, partly because he knows Matt will literally fight him on this (and he strongly suspects Matt would hand him his own ass on a platter, even with Venom’s help).

“Eddie’s phone, Eddie’s overprotective boyfriend speaking,” Matt says.

MJ sounds upset when she replies, and Eddie winces.

“It’s nothing you did, I promise,” Matt tells her.  “You told me Happy and your father would be there; it was thoughtless of me to put Eddie and Venom in that situation.”

She says something else, volume starting to rise.

“In the situation of having to hide who they were on a day for family and love and acceptance.  But yes, I think it would be best to limit Eddie’s exposure to your father, and I think you know why.  But we really were happy to be invited, and it really was good to see May and Pepper and Morgan.  How’s your follow-up article coming along?”

This time, her voice is calm again.

“That’s good.  I’ll give you what information I can, but keep in touch with Jess—she’s got more legal wiggle-room.  Talk to you tomorrow, Merry Christmas from all of us.”

The phone is warm when Matt hands it back.

“I’m reasonably sure you didn’t get to actually taste any of the wonderful food May made; let’s go get something sugary, like cupcakes.”

“Hey, V—coming with or staying here?”

“I have found the YouTube coffee bean rabbithole.  I must learn more of this…kona plant.”

“We’ll bring a cupcake back for you,” Matt says, hoisting Eddie to his feet.

They’re locking up when Matt’s phone calls out, ~“Claire. Claire. Claire.”~

“Get us a cab, honey?”

Eddie pauses.

The last person to call Eddie ‘honey’ was Anne; Matt has only ever called him by name.

“Sure, baby,” he replies with a big dumb grin.

(“Hey, Claire, Merry Christmas!  Oh, wow, you’ve got everybody—hi, Luke; hi, Danny; hi, Colleen.  Great.  Really good.  No, uh…heh, I’m actually not at Foggy’s this year.  My boyfriend and I—oh my God, you’re all the worst—we had a rough morning, so we’re treating ourselves to cupcakes.”)

Eddie flags down a cab and pretends to help Matt into the back before getting in on the other side.  “Magnolia Bakery, please,” Eddie tells the driver.

(“Don’t give me a hard time—give Danny a hard time.  He helped us move a gigantic cat across Manhattan, so he absolutely knew I’ve been living in sin with an anxious writer and his enormous pet feline.  No, thank you—I’ve made him put up with too many strangers today already.  Maybe New Year’s?  We could talk Jess into it, make it a whole thing.”)

Detective Booze-hag so about that money you said i’d get up front but haven’t seen

Eddie smirks.

Hey, you were there when everything started to fly off the rails. Anyhow, lemme cash out the fundraiser, and I’ll Venmo you or whatever.

Detective Booze-hag fundraiser what are you, bruce fucken wayne

I mean, if you don’t want the money…

Detective Booze-hag fuck you, brock. your creepy editor’s shiny acura is now modern art, yw

You’re my second-favorite woman on the planet.❤

Detective Booze-hag who’s first

Her Royal Majesty, Queen MJ, the greatest evil mastermind in the tri-state area.

Detective Booze-hag an illustrious title for a 12yo

I hope she hasn’t hacked our phones and can see that.  You’d have to flee the country.

Detective Booze-hag hey so tell murdock i said Merry Christmas or whatever

“Jess says ‘Merry Christmas or whatever.’”

Matt smiles.  “She’s not fooling anyone.  She loves us.”

  .End.

#fanfic #CANON DIVERGENCE #Venom liked the MCU so I let him stay as a treat #Matt/Eddie #rarepair #fic series: glitter (venom mcu)

[deputychairman]

The Curse of the eldest daughter is that is segues so naturally into being a Wife, you know in the old fashioned way, where you’re somebody’s helpmeet and I feel like I played myself ending up here. There must’ve been a point I could have been, look, let’s divide up the things that need doing so that it’s approximately fair, and also if *you* feel the need to yell at everyone and go apeshit sometimes well ok then, sounds fun, in the interest of a balanced working relationship I guess I will do the same and expect the same lack of fallout from it? I don’t enjoy conflict, I don’t feel that shouting at kids is effective parenting or discipline, and if they lose their shit at me they are still children, I can get my stern mum voice on and tell them they’ve hurt me or each other or are behaving inappropriately, but I’m the adult and I have the power and as we know with great power comes great responsibility, so I must and will keep *my* shit together when i react to them. (You’ll notice I’m having an argument with someone who isn’t here.) However I hold another adult to a higher standard than a 10 & 12 year old!!!!!

And all this is because I’m working while he’s on Week 10 of teacher summer holidays and I asked if he could perform the 2 simple tasks of buying rabbit food (10 min round trip) and the heating gas our water heater uses (15 min round trip: these are big heavy gas canisters and I always do it and I can manage fine but any time a male neighbour sees me he’ll insist on helping, not sure what my point was there uhhh maybe that if you want to play the Strong Man in my life perhaps you could do it in ways that are actually helpful? You have more upper body strength than me but the 60 yr old guy on the 5th floor is helping me instead? Isn’t that like, an insult to the version of masculinity you’ve chosen to perform?) and then I had the gall to say that if we’re going to this christening you only told me about on Wednesday then the kids need shoes that aren’t flip flops, I’ll do that after work. But having been asked to perform the 12 Tasks of Hercules already (aka rabbit food & gas), he proceeded to hear “YOU must buy them shoes” and lost his shit, yelling & insulting us like excuse me WHAT?

And I didn’t react at the time because his mum was there and she and I could exchange knowing eye contact, but honestly how DARE you play GTA for 2 months while I work and cook and do all the washing up & laundry and take the kids out and drive them to their friends’ houses and try to have one (1) friend here in your country who I see with the kids so it’s not even like you have to look after them when I’m out, and then act aggrieved when I ask for 2 incredibly easy errands!!!! Which you could’ve said no to, we had cold showers on Thursday, it’s really hot it was fine! The rabbits can just eat hay they’re also fine!

And I am sympathetic, like I can see the world and its basic adulting tasks stresses him out hugely, so I try and take on as much of it as I can because, well, I can. But it’s hard and we’re in his country not mine so it’s that much harder this way round but ok. Ok. I committed to you and I love you so I’ll help you. But i cannot and will not tolerate anger & criticism if the tasks aren’t performed to your liking!!! When you absolve yourself of responsibility you also have no say in how or when things get done, because now I just feel like you see me as some kind of servant or your mother (not that she ever let you believe servant & mother were synonymous), that I do all this because it’s the natural order of things that a woman looks after you and you can pick fault with how she does it. How far is he genuinely fragile and unable to cope and how far is it just a nice life to let your wife do all the work? Your mother did too, because your father was a drunken good for nothing and post-Franco Spain tolerated that because he was strong and macho and aggressive, but please note that she also left him!

All of which to say I decided not to go to the christening which is a Big Deal, he’s gone with the kids (the only time all summer he’s taken them anywhere) and I’m experiencing some eldest daughter meets wife emotions that I’m not enjoying very much.

#a Rant #screaming into the void IS therapeutic isnt it #ready to get on with this unexpected day i have to myself #although yes i WILL still do the shopping because i'm an adult #but then i will swim in the sea and read raymond chandler (not at the same time) #and maybe rewatch cobra kai o the big tv like i never can because you're always playing GTA #i think my period's due but also i'm right so #i will not undermine my own justified anger

[captainshadowgirllostfan]

So there’s this guy whose comments always sort of bothers me even though I half agree with what he’s saying, and I couldn’t resist commenting but it turned into an essay and now I just want to share:

“I kinda disagree with your notion on "improved character"... frankly I don't think a good character has to be likable. He/she has to have flaws and bring something to the story. By that notion, I personally would've probably prefered a mean Billy because I prefer continuity. This idea that Sheldon has got his entire history wrong is discrediting one of the most popular and iconic characters in Big Bang into nothing more than an idiot. Never mind that Young Sheldon is deliberately not showing key events mentioned in the Big Bang show. Sheldon says that Billy put something deep into his nose. Maybe that was his mind, that whatever was put in his nose wasn't that deep and he just thinks that. That's fine. But the fact is that it must have happened. I saw an article the other day by screenrant (horrible publication like most papers about entertainment that just spat out drivel to appease the creators instead of what people are really thinking but then are people really thinking when they watch these shows?) that Missy apparently forgot her childhood and how she and Sheldon split rooms when they were older and how the easy bake oven story might happen in the future except why would a 12-year-old Missy play with an easy bake oven when easy bake ovens are mostly for elementary kids. This Missy seems keen to grow up. Anyway, I do agree that Billy has become developed. There are hints that he's going to grow troubled. They're making Billy more relevant and I do love complicated characters. So if they're going to do the same to Billy as they did with George Sr, show why Billy became mean to Sheldon (I'm sure there was a justifiable reason. Sheldon says previously that he wished he was more mindful of Billy's feelings about his father leaving him when he complained about how he'll never get back the data he lost in his computer and how Billy would never understand that) then I'm okay with that, just like I do like how they're showing a very understandable reason why George Sr is kind of distant to Mary and why he's having problems committing to his marriage (though he is trying...) and his family and that the guy made so many sacrifices for his family over his own happiness. George Sr, in my opinion, is the best character in the show. As is George Jr. (even though I would've preferred to see what was said in Big Bang. A drunk father who was too macho, manly, and domineering, and kind of an idiot...Georgie is the only one that fits continuity which is why I have the least problems with him but I've come to love George Sr honestly. I love his story arc and how much the character tries, honestly, he tries so hard with his family to be a good husband and father and everyone just puts him down. This man deserves better. He deserves a reward.) though I honestly do wonder if that "cheating" will even happen because well you know everything Sheldon says in Big Bang is just a misunderstanding and he's basically wrong about...everything... sighs. tbh that does seem to be what the writers are doing. 187 IQ genius, idiot about the things going on around him.”

I’m sorry Young Sheldon’s lack of continuity and it’s excuse of Sheldon just didn’t know, misunderstood the situation, and was just basically wrong about everything will always annoy me. Why you ask? Because the moments where he becomes fragile, where he breaks down and spouts out some childhood tidbits of his are so genuine and seemingly traumatic for him, that I’m like seriously? 

You’re just going to sidebrush the fact that this character seemed bothered that he could never relate to his father because his father wanted him to be into football, hunting, and archery when he would’ve preferred to do science. 

You’re going to sidebrush the arguments his parents had that he listened to but apparently “misunderstood” when his dad was shooting up his mother’s china or when his mother prayed for the will to not grind up glass in his father’s own meatloaf?

You’re going to sidebrush the fact that his mother said that his father once fought a bobcat for a stick of liquorice?

Or the fact that his father after getting angry at the Dolphin’s win, wanted to shot the television and actually did. (I hope this gets shown in Young Sheldon).

Or how Sheldon used to cry after hearing his parents argue and how his mother admonished his father to stop yelling because Shelly’s crying and George Sr answers “He’s upset because his name is Sheldon”.

Or how Missy mentions that Sheldon created a Death Ray against the neighborhood kids who used to pick on him but instead pissed off the neighbor’s dog (I believe this might’ve been off-handedly mentioned in Young Sheldon though when Georgie asks one of the neighbor’s to buy a snowglobe and again when Mary confronts Brenda and Herb about their dog and Brenda mentioned I think the Death Ray) 

Or how he messed with her Easy Bake oven and it fizzled out her eyebrows so that her mom had to scribble on eyebrows when she entered the second grade (the series happens a bit later when Sheldon is 9 years old so I guess this could be excused but god that screen rant article annoyed the hell out of me). 

Or how he created a CAT scanner and tried to use it on her hamster Snowball but ended up killing Snowball and suffering radiation burns. How about that saying that came about after that incident, “Not a Snowball’s chance in a CAT scanner”. That saying is NOT even mentioned in the entire series!!!

Or how he tried to bring free electricity in his own neighborhood only for the Feds to come and ruin his project... (though actually I think they did try to make an episode... an episode probably exist of this actually so there’s at least that)

Or how he messed with the staircase for an experiment and broke his father’s clavicle. 

And how he had to go to boarding school (which was never shown in Young Sheldon. It just shows him going to high school with his older brother). 

Or how their dog Lucky got run over by a truck.

Or how Sheldon asked for a centrifuge for his birthday and got a dirt bike instead and was so upset about it that he came to hate birthdays. They don’t even show him hating birthdays! Just that he didn’t want to attend a birthday party. What about his own birthday? His and Missy’s?

Am I missing anything else? Please be free to add more if anyone can think of anything.

The point is, Young Sheldon is a good show, but it sucks as a prequel in my opinion. It’s retconning so much. 

Exhibit 1, Sheldon’s family which is hinted to be poor IS NOT POOR. They are middle-class. 

Exhibit 2, young Sheldon for some strange reason is dressed up like he’s a young version of Bill Nye or Urkel instead of the superhero tees that’s shown throughout the series and we know how neurotic scientist does not like change. Why is he dressed up like a middle-schooler as an adult but like a grown up (a dorky grown up) as a child? 

Exhibit 3, George Sr is shown to drink a lot but no where does it indicate that his drinking is causing problems to the family aside from the fact that it’s eating their finances. It’s hinted that George Sr’s drinking has caused problems in his marriage with how much Mary wanted him to stop. In Young Sheldon, Mary barely tries to do anything about George Sr’s drinking. 

Exhibit 4, Mary in Big Bang seems exasperated by Sheldon’s neurotics, in Young Sheldon, she indulges them (though it is likely she changes her methods of dealing with Sheldon later on...)

And again like I mentioned, it doesn’t bother to show the scenes mentioned by Sheldon. Instead it deliberately tries to make it like he’s got his personal memories wrong. He. The guy with the eidetic memory who can remember Penny’s outfits and menstrual cycle and also when Howard and Leonard made a pact to never date Priya. Like wth is with this show. I’m sorry as a Big Bang fan...Idk how you can like Young Sheldon without ignoring the fact that it’s a prequel. Because it’s a great show, but it sucks as a prequel.

#seriously they're following the George Lucas route it seems #ruining an iconic character #Sheldon Cooper #the Cooper family #Young Sheldon #anti-Young Sheldon I guess #Big Bang Theory #will also label this Shenny because some of these points came from the site #Shenny #pro-Sheldon Cooper #Missy Cooper #Mary Cooper #I also don't really like MeeMaw's portrayal in Young Sheldon too but that's another story tbh... #George Sr #George Sr is growing on me but I still don't like that he's so different from the Big Bang version #George Jr #Honestly I'm treating this show as an AU

[goldstonegolem64]

This just a get the though out of my head post .So I might do something with this later I was just bored and kind of want write something about murder drones. But I wanted to  write something with Mercenaries as the main antagonists because I always loved the though a group of antagonists  just in it for the money and for the fun of it  .It also allows me to write two lesser antagonists that I always wanted to write like a Hivemind that slow infected those around them and a Macho man like character who was just as Brutal as he is muscular . 

On a space Station  owned by JC Jencon in Spaaaaace . Two company lawyers walked down a hallway towards a meeting room

“ Are you sure they’ll get the job done?” The first lawyer asked  

“From what i’ve read on their mission reports  yes I definitely believe they can reclaim our mission assets.” The second lawyer replied as the two walked into The meeting room and saw a Man of Mongolian descent wearing a very fine business suit standing on the left side of a meeting table

“Hello my name is Kingston and i am here o the behalf of my employer.” Kingston said as he walked towards the to JCJ lawyers and put a metal hand out for a shack  

“ Yes we were expecting you I'm Alex Quinton and my associate here is “ Alex said as he took Kingstons hand 

“ Aster Mathew“ Aster said as he took Kingston hand after 

“ Now lets get to business “ Kingston said as he took a seat at the meeting table  

“ Yes lets “ Aster replied as he and Alex sat down

“ So what has caused the JCJ to call the Crusher Corp “

“ Well seeing as you may heard about twenty three years back an exoplanet known as Copper-9. It had a bit of catastrophic Planetary extinction event. Do to a accidental Core collapsing that caused massive amounts of debris to be sent into the planets Atmosphere mixed in with cores rapid lost of heat caused a planet wide Flash freeze     ” Alex said 

“ That is an understatement “ Kingston replied 

“ Well after all human life on Copper-9  was gone. It turned out that all the Worker drones survived the planet flask freeze. An do to their Ai they started making lives of their own. But we needed their A.I’s back. So we sent several squads Disassembly Drones to wipe out the works reclaim the A.i’s and then Die from their bodies over heating do to lack of oil. After that we’d send a recovery team to reclaim the Black boxes of each drop pod and get all our A.I Back” Aster said

“ And everything was going to plan well until team 023 defected killed of their squad leader and then converted several more Disassembly drones after we sent eight  more squads to hand it “

“ So do you know what caused this Robo-rebellion and how main worker and disassembly do we have to deal with?” Kingston asked 

“ 12 disassembly drones and the number of worker drones unknow but we do know three location that house huge numbers of W.Ds  “ Alex said as he turned in a Holo-screen that showed a old oil Rig that had a Metal Dome built around the top of it. Followed by another picture of a Military fortress and the last one show a picture was of a open bunker door and in the picture was dozens of worker drones walking into it with make shift carts made from old cars carrying supplies and other things and looking down on caravan the was a male disassembly Drone and a female worker drones  

“ Who are the two watching?” Kingston asked knowing those two are the leaders just by seeing them

“Those two are the bane of the company . the Disassembly drone is serial designation N and As for the worker Drone we don’t know the audio on are scout drone don’t work on world do electrical interference messing with them. But from what we have collected her name is Uzi and she is the main problem. Do you wish to know more .”

Kingston looked at his desk and saw a blue light turn on “No i clearly know the  targets that’s all we need. Now  with that out of the way. How about our payment and our requests for supplies ?” 

“ Yes two trillion credits, five hundred Worker drones programed for ship repair    two thousand blank slate worker Drones and forty two crates of Tediore fire arms, twenty two crates Dahl fire arms, Ten crates of Vladof assault rifles four crates of S.M.G and two crates Torgue explosives. Is their anything else you wish to request.”

“ No that will be it “

“ I do have to ask why so many blank slaters.?’ Aster asked 

“ One of our commander’s like to be in control of multiple bodies at once the bigger the amount the happier he is. Now if you don’t have anymore question i have work to do “ Kingston said 

“ No and thank you for doing business with us and I wish you good luck on this Mission .” Alex said

“ Good I hope we work together again you do pay us the best “ Kingston asked as he ended the call. Kingston sat alone in his office for a few seconds before a another call rang on his holo-phone and without missing a beat he answered it. Which caused a Older Hispanic man wearing a Combat Vest and thick Cargo pants “ Hello Boss “

“ Hello Kingston it is good to see  the deal gone through?” The Crusher Corp leader said as he had been watching the call 

“ Yes It is  Mr. Bassarisk.” Kingston said 

“ Good I’ve already sent Hive and El Automaton to the world a head of time  “

“ Sir with all do respect Sending two of are most brutal commanders to a simple Exoplanet seems a bit extreme is it not ?”  Kingston asked 

“ I agree with you on that but the Exoplanet is hostel and there are rogue disassembly drones on planet so we need to be brutal and it’s also fun to see whose stagey is better Hives infiltrate and infect or El Automaton Simple yet effective brute force .But all that aside we need to be careful Because if a worker drone could cause several  Disassembly drones to rebel i wonder what else they can do and if this N is as dangerous as his files says he is will have to keep our guard up. Anyone who can effective play the idiot for as long as he can is someone to fear “ Bassarisk said 

#murder drones #murder drones uzi #murder drones n #impulse writing #serial designation n