#nate was so right for this one

[jessaerys]

spoiled brat vs unimpressed boyfriend

#(: they are so sunmoon coded here #near is cajoling mello by promising (REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED) later if they can go to buildabear right now #near: world's greatest detective uses his most dangerous weapon (little brother wiles) #mello: unimpressed big brother but weak willed boyfriend #anyway your honor they are not only so in love but also two halves of the same thing #and that thing is so fucking annoying #meronia #mello #mello dn #near dn #mihael keehl #nate river #death note #please clap very hard so that i nay actually finish this one fdkdkdkfkdnf #my art

[jonasiegenthaler]

natejo secret satan for @stromesquad <3

#nathan mackinnon #jonathan drouin #avs #just saw that one article about nate driving him around everywhere when they were young and now because they're on the same team again #night changes etc <3 #it's so fun drawing people i know nothing about #being less worried about getting them right somehow makes it easier to get them right #.art

[places-people]

i'm still thinking about how GOOD the practical fight choreography is though, like mackenyu is EATING those scenes as Zoro he's so smooth, and Emily's Nami action too?? like it's CLEAN it's COOL i rewinded it to rewatch !

#one piece live action #one piece #opla #back to more positive hype things and not yeah #LUFFYS ARE ALSO GOOD INAKI IS A BLESSING but i just wanted to highlight the Nami and Zoro of it all #also their fucking interations in the first few episodes fhshfahsah (im only on 4) #like god romance dawn trio rights truly #they all are so good and have such good chemistry #nate says stuff #nami #zoro

[boasamishipper]

i can tolerate a lot of things from writers and showrunners but outright condescension and disdain for their fans is not one of them

#ted lasso #ted lasso critical #tedbecca #i didn’t like it from rian johnson and i sure as shit don’t like it from the ted lasso showrunners #i didn’t think tedbecca was going to be canon (and honestly didn’t care one way or the other) #(as in my enjoyment of the show was not hinging on tedbecca being canon. i was there for sam dani and nate first and foremost.) #but that 3.12 opening felt very meanspirited for a show that’s all about being curious and not judgmental #like if they felt so strongly about platonic tedbecca and KNEW they would never get together #what was the deal with playing coy when they were asked about that for the last two years #everyone involved could have just shut it down a la tina fey right away and we wouldn’t have this problem #i just don’t like ppl (fans and creators alike) laughing at the tedbeccas for picking up the pieces that the showrunners were putting down! #hunt and sudeikis and everyone in that room basically dangled a carrot for the last two years #and now they’re denying the carrot even existed #which does not sit right with me #also (hot take) but if the finale opened by mocking tedtrent fans and not tedbeccas y’all would (rightfully) be up in arms #the writers are adults and did not need to waste parts of the literal series finale punching down at a section of fans #whose worst crime was being annoying

[lunar-years]

for the results of everyone's favorite season one insults, see here!

#ted lasso polls #my polls #ted lasso #SHE'S HERE. I've had this in my drafts all season rewatch. slowly adding to it. #and man are there some hidden gems this season #like the jamie ones and the roy ones are iconic and many #but rebecca's mother didn't need to read ted for filth like that... #and SASSY. Sassy at the funeral my beloved my precious #not to mention that there's something so special about keeley jones calling rupert's baby whack #i'm cupping her in the palms of my hands #i deliberately left out the nate ones because they're SO mean and personal they make me feel sad. #but if you like insults that are incredibly sinister i have added that other option just for you <3 #go forth and support your fav's rights and wrongs!

[suddenrundown]

do you ever think about parker

#i am #not redemption parker idk who that is #but leverage parker? the best thief who is so much more than that #she's smart. so smart nate made her his successor and said you're like me so you can do it but enough not like me that you'll do it your way #and it'll probably be better #he trusted her with that! #and she was so capable of that! #and even that wasn't all there was to her! #she was a thief who learned to trust and care about others despite growing up not ever having been taught to #she learned to trust and to love (in a familial way and a romantic one! slowly but surely!) #she learned to do the right thing. to want to do the right thing. and that food wasn't just food! AHH #and she could also beat the shit out of someone with crutches!!! #I FUCKING LOVE PARKER LEVERAGE OKAY?! #leverage #parker #redemption writers put some respect on her name challenge im fucking begging you

[sleazyjanet]

"i hope nate returns to his old self" what old self? do you want him to be the sweet but unassuming, shy guy, is that what you want? because there's no old self for nate to go back to. he's growing as a person into a better version of himself that's neither past nor present and yet both altogether. traces of the old self mixing with the new and creating something better, someone confident and smart and sweet. someone who will be ready to make amends, likely, while hopefully also staying independent.

so he won't be "coming back", returning to anything. that would suck.

#it shouldnt piss me off so much #but nate is not 'coming back' #i hate that terminology #i bet yall liked him when he was unassuming and small #after all. theres SOOO many fics about him #specifically with season one nate #as a main character of a fic #right? #oh wait. no there arent #because he was not a Real Person for fans to CARE about #because he was a caricature. a comical character #and yall turned on him as soon as he insulted rebecca #or at least later claimed you KNEW from then #miss me with this shit #sorry for the tone but i'm annoyed #nate shelley #nathan shelley #ted lasso

[mr-independent]

you know, its not brought up in fics often but ted is extremely well read. he doesnt brag about it, but hes read everything from f scott fitzgerald's b sides to ayn rand's doorstoppers to the sixteen book Ender series, etc etc etc. Ted reads about as much as we see Beard reading (which. in my head is a trait that was passed on, a new focus to sharpen the mind and keep him out of trouble and his mind off drugs, something Ted offered up as a coping mechanism for when his own dad died, a way to have fun and adventure and escape without ending up in jail like Ted himself had a handful of times before, scaring the bejeezus out of his ma.)

this turned into a mini fic and i lost my train of thought but point is, Ted reads So Much and more people need to pick up on this in fics please and thank you.

#ted lasso #hes got an artistic soul! #but also anyone whos fav book is the fountainhead must be both well read and stubborn as a bull #its a slog and thats coming from someone whos read both infinite jest and les mis #im getting through it slowly but surely. mostly to stretch my story endurance before jumping into atlas shrugged #also. yes i know we have no evidence that he read all 16 ender books #but having had read them myself i know in my heart of hearts that ted absolutely finished every one of them with gusto #probably on the bus to and from games with his team back in the US #no wait hold on. he was a backup punter right? that means LOTS of time sitting on the sidelines waiting for a whole bunch of nothing #lots of time was spent watching the plays and the team and formulating im sure (which is also probably why he trusts nate so much in the #beginning. bc that used to be him sitting on the sidelines taking it all in) but also theres long stretches of no play in american football #during which he probably read like a demon to keep his grades up and keep his scholarship #so that this ma never had to worry about him away at school. He wasnt going to get into trouble anymore not like he did in high school #he had to be the man of the house and gosh darn it was he going to do it with gusto #which meant good grades and learning about life and people and spending all that free time the right way #therefore: books. an easy habit that keeps him out of trouble and keeps his mama proud. plus itd be easy to hide from coaches under his pad #if they ever had a problem with it (which im sure they would at first but once he proved he was paying attention and wormed his way in #with the team even as a reserve well. they were less eagle-eyed after that concerning the paperback-shaped lumps under his jersey) #anyway have another mini fic i guess lol #im feeling a tad verbose today

[larsnicklas]

hart convo rn is so fucking funny bc it's just the various beat writers convinced that the team they cover's guy is better than the rest

#and the colorado folks are right i'll tell you THAT for free #(im actually a kuch!hart truther BUT i think it's going to be so close and since he already has one and natemac doesn't. it'll be nate) #meg.txtpost #and then the calder race is just mark l.azerus and mike r.usso arguing on twt FKLJDSKLSFJ;

[blondiest]

the entire SPK: OH FUCK WE ONLY HAVE FIVE DAYS TO FINISH GETTING READY FOR HIS SURPRISE PARTY 😰

#death note #near dn #near death note #nate river #again i say: if you don't like near you NEED to get right with god :/ #and also read the manga lmfao #they needn't worry bc mello has thee most insane over the top bonkers crazy birthday cake ordered for the occasion #[he is trying to upstage the SPK so hard but will not acknowledge that this is his aim bc he has to feign nonchalance at all times] #[or he'll DIE] #[we shan't discuss how really really really bad he is at seeming chill. no one acknowledge that directly] #blondiepost

[nateriverswife]

i am not even going to lie. mello/near is starting to grow on me

#i don't know what's going on #mellodramattic is always going to be my comfort ship. full stop. #but there's something about mello and near that just #i cannot stop thinking about it #i am not 100% sure if i can see them romantically #but i can see near liking mello and this bitch feeling conflicted #and hating near also because of that #other than you know feeling inferior to him #and they both know that they could never work together #so it's like right person wrong time setting plot everything #like they long for each other but everything that happens put them one against the other #i don't know how to explain it #meronia #mello #mihael keehl #nate river

[fuzzydreamin]

OC Interview

Got tagged by @krokaxe @bokatan and @leavingautumn13 I've already done this for Nora and Al, but I figured I'd do it for some of my other characters... So, Nate and Jack below.

Name: Nate Sosu Nickname/Alias: Charmer (Railroad) Gender: (slightly GNC but mostly in private) Cis man (he/him) Star sign: Aquarius (February 18, 2045) Height: 6’0” Orientation: Bi + poly Nationality: American (white) Favourite fruit: Cherries and Pineapple Favourite season: Summer Favourite flower: Dandelions Favourite scent: Grass Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: Coffee Average hours of sleep: Not enough. He has trouble sleeping due to PTSD. Dog or cat person: Dog person, because he loves to play with them. Dream trip: Nate's the kind of person who cares less for a location specifically but more for who he is with while visiting. He'd love to go just about anywhere if he could do it with someone he cared for. He probably would have dragged the family to Nuka World when Shaun was big enough to enjoy it. Number of blankets they’d choose to sleep with: One or two, depending on how cold it is. Random fact: Considering he went right from school into the army, this man had no idea what he'd do for an actual job. Probably would have looked into mechanics. He knew he'd love to coach little league, though.

Name: Jack (No last name yet) Nickname/Alias: He doesn't have any unique nicknames or code names (yet?). Gender: Cis man (he/him) Star sign: Taurus (1st May, 2058) Height: I dunno exactly yet, but he's quite a big boy. Over 6ft for sure. Orientation: Gay Nationality: American (white) Favourite fruit: Cranberries and Blackberries Favourite season: Winter Favourite flower: The kind that grow on melon and gourd plants. Favourite scent: Petrichor Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: Tea Average hours of sleep: 6-9 hours, depending on the time of year and if he needs to get up earlier to feed his chickens or something. He'd happily sleep in more if he could. Probably the best sleeper of my OC's. Dog or cat person: Either. He can't own a dog though, so I guess it defaults to cat person. Dream trip: Jack travelled all over every corner of Appalachia a lot during the years after getting out of vault 76, and doesn't have much incentive to want to go anywhere else, since he had so little life experience before going in and so much to do after getting out. He doesn't really think about travel on a wider scale. He also can't be sure how people would react to his unique mutations, so he feels safer sticking close to home just for that alone. If you asked he'd probably say something simple and sappy like hiking up to a high, nature filled point to watch the sunrise or some shit with a very unenthused Beckett. Number of blankets they’d choose to sleep with: One. He generates a lot of body heat so he's all good on that front, and his house tends to be pretty cozy. Random fact: He came from a large family, and several of them did survive past the bombs. Still figuring out if he ever actually meets any of them again though.

#fuzzy.post #fuzzy.oc #oc: nate sosu #oc: jack #this one took a minute because I had to figure out some of the answers lol #the random facts ones always get me... #I like things like this because they give me prompts to build off of #so the ones that are essentially “come up with ANYTHING right now” make me draw a blank lol

[unloneliest]

jam i have a question. who is eliot spencer... where is he from. what makes him ur number one blorbo and what do u understand abt him that no one else does <3

partridge thank you so much for this ask i need you to know you made my entire morning. eliot spencer is. my specialest guy my blorbo of all time i love him so so so so much. he's from the tv show leverage, which aired from 2008-2012* and isn't immune to the downfalls of that era of tv in general but that. honestly does a comparatively outstanding job to ME. it holds up and also the premise is "what if these extremely competent hot thieves ruined shitty rich people's lives and helped the people who'd been victimized by the rich people and created a found family together after all having various levels of sad backstory? and there was an ot3 made as canon as the showrunners could possibly make it in 2012?" i'm getting ahead of myself though.

*there's a sequel currently airing but i have yet to watch it & there's certain aspects about it that i refuse to accept as canon (this is a part of me being the most right about eliot)

i am putting this under the cut because. well. this got long

to start with context. having my brain rewired by supernatural and captain america: the winter soldier when i was a teenager is a huge factor in like. *waves hands vaguely* everything. when it comes to how i came to love leverage and eliot specifically. i got driven away from spn because (to simplify things) the showrunners hated the fans so bad and the characters were fighting the narrative but unable to escape it, and i loved the version of the characters that was actively being opposed by the show. and that was just plain not enjoyable for me. and marvel is marvel and continuity of emotional and interpersonal arcs doesn't matter at all to them.

and the thing is i took a sociology class in 2017 and it was making me so upset learning about white collar crime. and @canis-la-trans was like. we are watching leverage now. to remedy this. and i'd tried watching it with him before but this time around it just clicked. and the biggest part of what clicked is eliot. because listen. eliot is in somewhat of the same category as my earlier favorite characters but the thing about eliot spencer is that all of his best qualities are canon, not fanon. he redefines the category. he's incomprable. to me.

the thing about eliot spencer is he's the punchboy. he's the hitter. it's his job to get in the fights and protect the team. and he does his best to come across as grumpy, as not caring about people, does his best to fly under the radar as just another unintelligent lackey with a short temper who's particularly talented at violence.

but that's a performance. canonically that's a performance. and he has the best work/life separation of the whole team. he's not his job - he's very good at his job, and it's what he does and that is a part of him, but where some of the other characters view their job as an extension of their selfhood, eliot doesn't.

he cooks. he cooks so well that he could do that professionally. he grows all his own produce (allegedly). he's one of if not the best person on the team with kids. he loves so wholly so fast. he's the first person to call the team a we. within team dynamics he & sophie, the grifter, protect the other 2 from the worst of the team leader's dysfunction.

eliot's done bad things in the past. and he views himself completely past saving. like. from commentary on the show: he knows he's going to hell. like. his self worth is completely abysmal. i know he would die for the team. in s2e2 there's an episode where the team isn't succeeding at the con, and he takes the fall on purpose. and in a conversation about that he says "i'm not diving on a grenade. i'll be all right" but he says that so readily that i Know he's thought about it. and he would. for the team he would. for parker and hardison he would. he's in love with them. and they're in love with him too and i have to cut myself off or i'll go an entire separate rant about them!!!!

he has long hair. which he straightens. and he looks great with blood on his face. he doesn't use guns. he never throws the con for personal reasons - only ever does to protect kids. he grew up in rural oklahoma and he enlisted to get the hell out of dodge and he got in such a bad argument with his dad the night before he shipped out that he got disowned. and he can't even talk about it until nearly the end of the final season of the show. he never once mentions his mom. and i just know he got disowned for coming out, intentionally or not. he's never had an environment he could be his full self in without fear until the team.

parker, the thief of the team, is intentionally written as autistic; the hacker, hardison, is so likely written to have adhd. and eliot is autistic too, to me. it makes the level of performing masculinity to closet himself so much more insane to me. bc it's also masking. and adding that context to eliot and parker's relationship makes me unWELL.

the thing is is that eliot is a character who's hiding, who's actively doing his best to be unnoticed. and so many people who watch the show fall for the act, even if they don't fall for the whole act they fall for parts of it, and like. They Are Wrong About Him. i have an entire complex backstory thought up for eliot, because i think the only thing sadder than him missing out on the kind of connection he finds with the team is him knowing what he's missing because he had a queer best friend as a kid, & the two of them were closeted together, but he lost contact with her over the years.

the thing is that eliot spencer has SO MUCH GENDER and i know if he and parker and hardison adopted a kid eliot would be ma. never dad. and i don't think he'd even be able to start exploring that for himself until the end of the series.

the thing is eliot spencer would listen to the mountain goats. and there's a couple other people out there who are right about that and it makes me so insane 100% of the time.

and i love him and this is just a list of facts about him and the most important thing about eliot spencer to me is that. he exists in motion. trying to capture a still image or static description in words never works. but he's my wife and i love him so much. and i always will. and i'm writing a fic where i'm going to blow him up. just a little bit. for his own good. this is my "eliot made himself a mountain goats mix tape about knowing he's willing to jump on a bomb for parker and hardison & never telling them that in advance" playlist from that universe.

all of leverage is availible for free streaming on imdb tv & here are thee best leverage fanvids of all time:

& this last vid is abt the show in general, not just the ot3:

i would add all my fave eliot pics i have screenshotted but this is already so long . i still might rb and do that anyways he is Everything to me

#jam replies #boyjoan #this is 800 years long. i love eliot spencer so bad #the thing about leverage is that without even touching on eliot. this show went 'this autistic girl's special interest is stealing #& crime. why would you ever stop her from doing the stealing and crime' and they're so right for that. #parker isn't the pov character but she's the main character to me. nate is the narrator not the hero #literally though leverage has it all. fake dating. characters handcuffed together for an episode. episodes about historical crimes where #the actors play younger versions of characters from the past. murder mystery costume party where an actual murder happens that they have to #solve. baseball episode. 2 hockey episodes. eliot spencer sings and plays guitar with jo from supernatural. hardison makes their undercover #names dr. who references. there's a reference to the mcelroys. there's two episodes that tell the story of the same night 'off' from 2 #different points of view. #eliot is a horsegirl. #i cannot put into words how amazing this show is it loves the fans so much & it's so clever and so good at like. being a story. and #character & emotional continuity is one of the things they value so much. i love this show so bad #my leverage special interest and mountain goats special interest are kissing with tongue #OH and the show also did. an 'i need you' moment. leverage grave danger job handclasp ca:tws handclasp spn goodbye stranger #not mind control though. but like. #okay i'm posting this now #leverage posting

[plutonicbees]

I'm guessing it's likely that each of the young avengers infinity comics are going to focus on individual members or pairings that will ultimately end in the reunion in the last issue.

if so, we've already got nate in the first one, then billy and teddy in the second, and kate in the third; I'm thinking america could be next because of kate saying that she wished america was there, then a tommy and david pairing (i believe they'd be paired off together because they're a couple + that's how many of tommy's appearances have been in the past few years), and finally ending with cassie being the focus for the actual reunion (because it was her death that sorta made them fall apart in acc?). I might be completely wrong but just some thoughts!

#watch me be wrong when the next one comes out in literally four days sorry in advance #everytime eli is even mentioned in a comic my brain goes eeeeee but im pretty sure they still dont have the rights to his character so :// #nate richards #iron lad #billy kaplan #teddy altman #billyteddy #wiccan marvel #hulkling marvel #wickling #kate bishop #hawkeye #kate bishop hawkeye #kate hishop 616 #america chavez #america chavez 616 #david alleyne #tommy shepherd #tommy shepherd 616 #billy kaplan 616 #thinkfast #prodigy marvel #speed marvel #cassie lang #young avengers #young avengers comics #marvel comics #marvel #marvel 616 #eli bradley

[her-devils-advocate]

I just know that N Sewell would be the best cure for a migraine. No one would risk being loud in the library with them there, the only sound being the comforting and gentle page flips every so often.

Just them stroking away the pain while peacefully reading.

They would also be the best at remembering what time to take painkillers and would always have them prepared.

#♥. lucille #the wayhaven chronicles #nate sewell #nat sewell #twc #I struggle with migraines a lot and currently have one coming on right now #so i would just love nate to chase it away since tablets usually don't

[places-people]

did the most embarrassing thing of my life last night to fall asleep but you know what. I fucking fell asleep so I’m calling it a win

#Nate says stuff #see if I type a lot of nonsense in these tags #I can just build them up enough that tumblr requires people to press read more right #so eventually #if I just keep rambling about garbage #those who don’t care won’t see what I did #and I can giggle and laugh at myself in the tags because it WAS ridiculous of me and I AM embarrassed but it’s also funny #anyway I think this is long enough #I put on one of those deep voice gay Asmr boyfriend things on YouTube. no I don’t wanna talk about it #yes I was asleep in 10 minutes according to my watch after laying in bed 2 hours #anyway. bye