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The 100 knew how to do a redemption arc.

Throughout its seven-season run on The CW, post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama repeatedly doubled down on one of its many thought-provoking mantras: there are no good guys. The “good guys” often did terrible things in the name of survival, and the “bad guys” were rarely through-and-through evil (although they could be “cockroaches”).

Timed to the recent 10-year anniversary of the series premiere, we chatted with Richard Harmon, Lindsey Morgan, and Henry Ian Cusick about how they came to join the show, the extent to which Harmon and Cusick saw their characters as villains during the first season, and why they think The 100 has stuck around in the sci-fi genre.

Murphy wasn’t originally Murphy: he was “John #1,” and he wasn’t meant to live past the show’s second episode. Harmon recalled the process of first auditioning for the show: “I originally auditioned for the role of Bellamy, beautifully played by Bob Morley,” he said. “I remember auditioning for that and thinking, ‘There’s no way in hell I’m ever going to get this role.’ Lo and behold, I did not.” Weeks later, he got an audition for the roles of “John #1” and “John #2,” and after feeling confident that he’d booked it, he learned that he had. He was John #1.

Harmon said that despite his character’s predetermined Episode 2 death, he approached the first episode determined to do something different and have fun with the role. Thankfully, showrunner Jason Rothenberg was watching. “I guess he noticed that, liked what I was doing, and expanded the role in some rewrites during the shooting of the Pilot,” Harmon said, adding that half of what Murphy said in the aired Pilot wasn’t there in the original script. “When it got picked up to series, he emailed me personally—which was kind of a shocking thing as not a lead, to get an email from the creator of the show. He said, ‘I really liked what you did, how would you feel about not dying in the second episode? Could you stick around for the whole first season? Your last name will be Murphy, people will call you Murphy, and what do you think?’” And so went the story of how he booked “John #1”… and how “John #1” became John Murphy.

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First appearing in the show’s second episode rather than in the Pilot, Morgan wound up on The 100 through a whirlwind of correct timing and fate. She’d been waiting to hear whether she’d booked a role on Chicago P.D. when she auditioned for the part of Raven on Tuesday, chemistry-read with Thomas McDonnell [played Finn Collins] on Thursday, and was on a plane headed to Vancouver by Sunday. She later found out she wouldn’t have gotten the Chicago P.D. role. “It’s crazy to look back and imagine it happening any other way,” she said.

Similarly to Harmon’s “John #1,” Morgan’s Raven wasn’t meant to be a The 100 mainstay. Originally, Morgan said, Raven was meant to die after just five episodes—a shock, when one considers how integral the quick-thinking mechanic and tech genius became to the plot of the show. “I was on pins and needles, waiting to receive my death notice with each passing script,” Morgan said. After the Season 1 finale, Rothenberg made the offer to Morgan to stick around for Season 2. She’d been up for a role on a different show at that time. If she’d gotten it, Raven would’ve died from the gunshot wound dealt her by Murphy. Obviously, Raven survived. “The rest was history,” Morgan said. “As we all know, nothing can kill Raven Reyes.”

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For his part, Cusick mentioned that it was a sense of longing for Lost that led him to The 100. “It was Pilot season, and I had just finished something, and I was reading a bunch of Pilots,” he remembered. “The 100 turned up, and I thought it was very similar in tone to Lost, which I was missing. I read that and I said to my agent, ‘That’s a cool Pilot.’ I ended up having a meeting with [showrunner] Jason Rothenberg, and we had a chat, and he offered it to me.”

While he did almost float Clarke’s mother, Dr. Abby Griffin (Paige Turco}, in the Pilot, Cusick disagrees with the label of Kane as a villain and passionately defends him. Even in the show’s early days, he says he just viewed Kane as “more of a d**k.” Cusick recounts several things his character was accused of doing but never actually did—such as attempting to kill Jaha (Isaiah Washington)—and maintains that rather than being villainous, Kane was simply a stickler for the rules. “Other people were talking about him and badmouthing him, but he was just a man who was trying to save the human race,” Cusick said. “He went about it in a rather authoritarian, draconian way. He was very strict. And then when he arrived on Earth, he went ‘Oh, humanity is still around.’ Then he could go back to being who he really was. That’s my opinion.”

Whether viewers considered him a villain or a d**k, Kane undoubtedly softened up. His kindness and diplomacy helped establish peace with the grounders as he formed a friendship with Indra (Adina Porter), he and Abby fell in love, and he gradually became a father figure to the delinquents—especially Bellamy Blake (Bob Morley). “I really took to Bob quite quickly,” Cusick remembered. “We would joke around a lot. I would call him my ‘idiot son’ and stuff like that,” he said with a laugh. “We kind of cultivated that relationship, I thought, that we were like father and son. We enjoyed each other’s company, so that was easy to play.”

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Harmon, on the other hand, readily admitted he played Murphy as a villain in Season 1—so much so that he’d taken inspiration for Murphy and Bellamy’s relationship from Biblical literature. “I based [Murphy] loosely off of Lucifer, actually,” he said. “Bellamy was God, for this group, and I’m his right-hand favorite angel, but demon, really. Eventually I try to take too much power, just like Lucifer does in the Bible, and God smites me down. That’s when I get thrown out to the grounders in the wild and come back way later, with the sickness.”

When the show was picked up for a second season, Harmon and Rothenberg had another chat. “At the end of Season 1, Jason said, ‘Will you stick around for the long haul now going forward to Season 2?’” Harmon said. “And I was like, ‘Of course, I would love to, but how are you going to do that?’” Rothenberg, Harmon remembered, wanted him to get the audience on Murphy’s side. Harmon was up for the challenge, as long as he was given material to convince the audience that there was a good reason behind Murphy’s notable not-niceness. “Eventually, as the seasons progressed and the fans responded favorably to Murphy, all of my cuts were a good angle, and I was a little more tanned with dirt, and I was like, ‘I think they’re trying to, maybe, make me hot,” Harmon laughed. “I don’t think at that point in my career anyone had ever tried to make me attractive on-screen before. That was nice. That felt good.”

Raven Reyes was about as far from a villain as one could get, even though she, like every character, had to make incredibly difficult choices. Morgan has fond memories especially of Season 2, and portraying Raven’s journey with losing the use of her leg. “As an able-bodied actor, I felt a deep responsibility and honor towards playing a character with disabilities as accurately as I could,” she said. “I wanted to bring justice, nuance, complexity, and the best accuracy to her journey as I could, and hopefully share and showcase her truth, as well as the strength people with disabilities exhibit daily.”

Morgan, too, has fond memories of filming in the Vancouver wilderness. While filming with Cusick and the “adult” cast on the Ark put her inside in the warm studio (and closer to the snacks), she enjoyed being outside in the forest… and sneaking in an on-set nap when an opportunity presented itself. “I can, and will, nap anywhere,” she recalled. “Thomas [McDonnell] almost stepped on my head once, because I was napping on the floor of our cast tent. I blended into the ground.”

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Aside from his bond with Bellamy Blake, Kane’s other major connection on The 100 was his romance with Dr. Abby Griffin. Surprisingly, Cusick hadn’t known the writers intended to take the characters in that direction. “I remember Paige [Turco] saying to me, ‘I think they’re trying to get us together,’ and I was thinking, ‘No, that’s never going to happen. We need to be combative. That’s where the drama is,’” he said. In the end, Kane and Abby had a heartwarming love that lasted several seasons. Cusick thinks that not being told from the start about the romance angle only improved his performance. “The actors had no clue that was going to happen, so we were just playing our motivations, and our roles, and what we thought was right,” he said. “There was no hint of any flirtation or anything like that between the characters, so that’s when it happened. Maybe the audience saw it, I don’t know, but it was certainly a surprise to me.”

Unfortunately, Kane and Abby didn’t have the happy ending that many might’ve hoped for. Cusick departed the show in its sixth season, and Turco’s character was killed off in the Season 6 finale. While The 100 fans know all about heartbreak, it might add an extra layer of sadness to know that originally, Kane and Abby had been intended to have a more hopeful story. “My relationship with Abby was good, and people wanted us to get together,” Cusick reflected. “I think that would’ve happened, had I not left. I know that Jason [Rothenberg] said he wanted that to happen—he wanted us to get married, which would’ve been interesting.”

Cusick also directed the eleventh episode of Season 4, “The Other Side,” and the tenth episode of Season 5, “The Warriors Will.” When he thinks back on those experiences, he does so with appreciation for the show’s crew including director of photography Michael Blundell, and gratitude to Jason Rothenberg, director Dean White, and the cast. “Just in general, I never really got a chance to say this: I wanted to say thank you,” he said. “When I meet everyone at cons, I’m thinking about how we all went through this together. We all have relationships that are unique, because we went through that show. I’m always amazed when we meet up at cons by how fun they all are, and how nice it is to see them again.”

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On the subject of conventions, Harmon mentioned that he and Morley used to take it as a badge of honor when fans would tell them that they hated Murphy and Bellamy. Twitter death threats, too, Harmon learned to take in stride. “It got a little hectic at times, for sure,” he remembered. “If people wanted to hate you so much, I’m so grateful for that. That just means we did our job well.” Harmon also mentioned that he wished he’d gotten to keep Murphy’s jacket from Season 1. Unfortunately, he doesn’t know what happened to it. Morgan, on the other hand, has held onto a few of Raven’s iconic items—including her trademark red jacket and knee brace. “I joked that I was going to make a plaster cast out of my body and display them in my house,” she said. “I definitely didn’t do that, but I have them in a safe place.”

As for The 100’s staying power, Harmon, Morgan, and Cusick all pointed out its continued interrogation of what it means to be human, especially in heightened, life-or-death situations. While the show was airing, Harmon said he called it the “biggest show you’ve never heard of.” At this point, he no longer thinks that description is true—people have heard of it.

“It was cool to be on the biggest show you’ve never heard of, because people would be like, ‘What show?’ and then all of a sudden there’d be five people who’d go, ‘The 100? Yes!’” he remembered. “People who watched it fell in love with it. Or were livid with it. Either way.”

#the 100

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randomperson3736 · 9 months

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Character's I write for:

-Avatar & Avatar: way of water

*Jake sully

*Neytiri

*Neteyam

*Lo'ak

*Tuk

*Kiri

-Batfam

*Bruce Wayne

*Damian wayne

*Jason Todd

*Dick Grayson

*Tim Drake

-911 & 911 Lone Star

*Evan "Buck" Buckley

*Eddie Diaz

*Tk strand

*Carlos Reyes

-Spider man into the spider verse & spider man across the spider verse

*Miguel O'hara

*Miles Morales

*Earth 42 Miles Morales

*Hobie Brown

*Spider Noir

-The originals

*Elijah Mikaelson

*Klaus Mikaelson

*Kol Mikaelson

-Criminal Minds

*Luke Alvez

*Spencer Reid

*Derek Morgan

-The summer I turned pretty

*Jeremiah Fisher

*Conrad Fisher

*Belly

*Steven

-Chicago fire & Chicago P.D

*Jay Halstead

*Kelly Severide

-The outer banks

*John B

*JJ maybank

-Slytherin boys (Harry potter)

*Theo Nott

*Mettheo Riddle

*Enzo Berkshire

*Draco Malfory

-The 100

*Bellamy Blake

-Nimona

*Ballister

*Ambrosius

*Nimona

What I write:

*Angst

*Charcter death

*Heartbreak

*Fluff

*Child! Reader

*Daughter!/son! Reader

*Smut

*Headcanon

*Twin!/brother!/sister! Reader

*Pregnant! Reader

*Male!/fem! Reader

*Wife!/husband! Reader

*Sad love

*Short imagines

*Comedy

*Kidnapping

*Disability! Reader

*Torture

*Romantic

*How characters would react

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xofeno · 2 years

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CHICAGO P.D. – 9.03, The One Next to Me written by SCOTT GOLD directed by BETHANY ROONEY original airdate: October 6, 2021

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sleepyowlwrites · 7 months

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wip files tag fanfic edition

this time from @stuffaboutwriting

I said I was gonna do my fanfic doc the next time I did this, so that's what we're doing. the doc is called "Collections" and it's a scrivener doc so it's all organized.

Fandoms:

The 100 >

Punctuation > Question, Exclamation, Semi-colon, Comma, Full Stop, Ellipse

Sage/Clarke > Sage, Clarke

Other > Rowan

Shadowhunters > crash at bane's

Avengers (lordy this one oof) >

Guide to Caring for Your Spiderman > has a cold, isn't sleeping, is bleeding, is freaking out, awkward teen, needs his friends

Personal Protocol > Code: Night Troubles, Earth: 21st Century, Kitchen Manners, Leave of Silence, When You Can't Say Anything Nice, Training, Not Maiming, Benevolent AI

Battle Tactics > discuss crazy plans beforehand, have a little self-preservation, don't take unnecessary bullets, listen when your teammates talk, tell someone when you're going on a mission

Family > midnight ice cream, i'll get my shoes, stars in the city, hugs, hugs everywhere, kids these days, nobody hurts alone, i love you, too

Chicago P.D. >

Shots > Meeting, Blue Jay, Care About You, Olly and Spice, First Time, The Wayfarer's, Secrets

Power Rangers >

Samurai > Forest Secrets, Forest Secrets 2

Wild Force > Wishes on the Water, The Bear Necessities, Soul Searching, Curse of the Wolf, Battle of the Zords, Rlexiw

RPM > Dome Dolls, Rlexiw

Dino Charge > A Fool's Hour, Double Ranger, True Black, Wings of Danger, Rlexiw

ATLA > blood bending, character study

Misc. > The Chamber of Restitution

NCIS > Original > The Bulletproof Girl

Emberverse > ARMV > test run, irregular cartographies, IC: cast list

OTH > indulgence!

Top Gun > Reckless Endearment > Background, let's write scenes

Other Stuff >

Dialogue Prompts

Sentence Prompts

Conversation Prompts

Setting Prompts

Title Prompts

Templates

I said there were so many never to be written/finished avengers fics! there are 25. gadzooks.

anyway, uh, @flock-from-the-void @midnight-and-his-melodiverse @mjjune @wild-selenite-caffine OR ANYBODY list your wip files (and be as specific or general as you want. I'm just a weirdo)

#tag game #sleepy's story stuff

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NBC's Law & Order Franchise -- A Franchise in Disarray

NBC's Law & Order franchise (which started with the original series in 1990) has seen numerous changes over the years, but in this post-COVID-19 era of television, some of these new changes are not for the good.

The Law & Order 2022 reboot is lacking what made it's original run legacy television, Special Victims Unit lost a beloved show runner/executive producer (Warren Leight who decided the leave at the end of season 23) and cast member (Kelli Giddish, who was fired at the start of season 24, which later resulted in controversy as details of her firing came to light), and Organized Crime which has had a revolving door of show runners/executive producers since it's inception BEFORE it even made it to air.

I'm going to start in sequential order in which negative change [IN MY OPINION] came into play with this once beloved TV franchise that was once taglined by critics and press as "Must See TV/Most Watched Television"

Please Click the read more tab below to read my thoughts on the brand and what I feel can be done to correct the course of the brand, before it's too late... hang on to your seats!

Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021-present, season 3) - a Disorganized Mess.

The Christopher Meloni led series has had numerous complications behind the scenes since the show's inception pre-production. Chicago P.D.'s Matt Olmstead co-created the show with Dick Wolf (and later Ilene Chaiken) and Olmstead left the production after the pilot ("What Happens in Puglia") to be replaced by Chaiken (of The L Word fame). Law & Order: OC never started with much of a premise and a way to establish itself as it started with Stabler mostly bringing Kathy Stabler's killers (the Wheatley's: portrayed by Dylan McDermott and Tamara Taylor) to justice. And in between that, Stabler and the unit going in and out of undercover assignments. The Organized Crime Control Bureau has never really been fleshed out since the series start; season 3 brought some new detectives into the fold to assist with that but storylines in the serialized series have been all over the place.

While Organized Crime was meant to distance itself from the formula of the Law & Order brand, it doesn't feel like a Law & Order show - it feels more like the Stabler show to where we mostly see Stabler as IMO this almost vigilante cop seeking retribution, in this day and age (and Stabler's because he should definitely be matured from this kind of mindset), it doesn't work. This show lacks "the Law & Order feel" (title cards don't even exist in this show except for one episode, "Gimmie Shelter") and I believe it's why the series doesn't hold audience much as SVU or even the rebooted mothership.

It doesn't help that the show is now on it's 6th show runner, being SVU's David Graziano (who is surrounded by a controversy of his own that seems to be being pushed under the rug and ignored by higher ups at the network and at Wolf Entertainment). Olmstead, Chaiken, Barry O'Brien, Bryan Goluboff from SVU, Sean Jablonski and now Graziano. What ever is going on behind the scenes at OC needs to come to a full stop otherwise this show won't make it to syndication status (5 seasons, 100 episodes). This show has a super talented cast that deserve the best; Danielle Moné Truitt and Ainsley Sieger absolutely shine!

Law & Order (reboot 2022-present, season 2) - more like crash & burn.

Now this show is really pushing my buttons and it's only because of how the stories are being written for this reboot starting from the very first episode. Dick Wolf and the network decided to give the mothership it's very much deserved second chance (it never should have been canceled) and they've managed to put together a stellar cast out of Jeffery Donovan (Burn Notice), Hugh Dancy (Hannibal), Odelya Halevi, and Camryn Manheim. Sam Waterston returned as Jack McCoy and this season Mehcad Brooks (Supergirl, Necessary Roughness) replaced Anthony Anderson who only opted to do one season.

I'm not going to sugar coat this, making Rick Eid (who 'developed' a show that was already developed once back in 1988/1990 when he was still in grade school - it's a reboot where nothing has changed formula wise!) the show runner/EP over this series is a very poor business decision. Eid has had a poor history within the Law & Order franchise itself. He was part of a writing team that Dick Wolf and the network had to intervene and dismiss back in 2007 due to declining ratings on mother ship due to the decline in the quality of the writing at that time, Wolf made him show runner over Law & Order: SVU's 18th season and Eid "had to move on [to Chicago P.D.]", basically for the same reason. The. Same. Reason. It's a case of "Fool me once, fool me twice," we're on the 3rd now.

From the minute "The Right Thing" hit the airwaves, I knew it was 2007/2016 all over again! The reboot storylines are tone-deaf, have massive plot holes, pull directly from the headlines without much deviance, skew to certain political leanings (hard left and right) and is shoved into the faces of viewers, and problems with legal strategy that actually go against the actual law and procedures that wouldn't even wash in an actual courtroom (and yes I am aware it's work of fiction but that is why they have legal advisors on the payroll - or at least I hope).

And the characters? Caricatures. I can't really root for any of them - Samantha Maroun & Jalen Shaw (Halevi & Brooks who are great) are the closet ones who are actually being fleshed out as characters that can be relatable/likable. Cosgrove and Price need work bad! Cosgrove is basically a more hard-core Elliot Stabler with a thick Bronx accent in one episode and then another episode he's a young Lennie Briscoe/Michael Westen from Burn Notice mix; it's not consistent. Most seem to prefer him portraying Cosgrove in a Michael Westen-ish style as opposed to Stabler 2.0 (if that's the case swap Donovan and Meloni).

Nolan Price? I don't know where to start. Who is Nolan Price? I don't know honestly but I can tell you he is NOT a great prosecutor. He's no Mike Cutter, McCoy or even Ben or Peter Stone. Price is written just as inconsistent as Cosgrove is and the cases as they make it to court and trial make Price worse, because it seems ambition and wanting to win is the only thing this character has. "Bias" that just aired showcased Price as a colleague was murdered and he had a personal investment in the case. He should have be recused and maybe even suspended due to his misconduct. And Price's arrogance in this episode, telling Jack McCoy that he let him run with the case because "I'm the best." I love Hugh Dancy and he's a magnificent actor but this writing is hurting this role for him in my view.

And speaking of McCoy, where the hell is he? I understand Sam Waterston can't do what he was doing back in 2007 in the courtroom scenes and he is the district attorney but my goodness, his scenes "lack meat" now, it's all bone. Jack says something pithy about the case, yells a little, and walks out his office/elevator/outside. Eid said in an interview that he wanted McCoy to walk in the shoes of Adam Schiff (Steven Hill), if that's the case Schiff was way more involved in his prosecutors cases and had more say in the direction the cases go. Again, it goes back to the writing.

Unlike on OC, Law & Order could use a show runner change, and it could use it ASAP, because what's airing as quality in this reboot is tarnishing the legacy that the original mothership established.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999-present, season 24) - what is going on behind the scenes and on screen is especially heinous.

Warren Leight's departure last year was the catalyst, however Kelli Giddish's firing was the irresistible force slamming the immovable object - so to speak. Kelli Giddish was fired in place of Wolf/NBC wanting younger blood (Molly Burnett, Days of our Lives); not even a year prior Wolf/NBC faced a form of backlash after dropping two cast members of color - Demore Barnes and Jamie Gray Hyder - in exchange for one male (Octavio Pisano). Star Mariska Hargitay tried to step in to keep Kelli on the show but she was overruled by Wolf and the network.

Meanwhile something that hasn't been overruled but more overlooked; new show runner David Graziano's prior and current accusations of bullying, misogyny, and toxic behavior on sets and behind the scenes of show's he's worked on, including SVU. Graziano took to his Instagram to try and 'explain' his accusations but he did not deny them. How can you write and supervise any kind of story about women's empowerment, healing after trauma and sexual assault, inclusiveness, and justice as someone who has/is doing personal actions against that very stance? And how can Dick Wolf and NBC over look it? Money talks in short. He's also running OC for the last 3 episodes in this season.

That aside which is problematic of itself, like the mother ship, the storylines on SVU have taken a turn sideways. Season 24 started off pretty solid, it wasn't the best it's been in it's prime and younger years (S3-7, and again S13-17), but it was passable to view. Now? Post-Kelli Giddish it seems like the focus is on Muncy (Burnett), Velasco (Pisano) and the recurring guest cast (Kevin Kane and Jasmine Batchelor); ICE T and Peter Scanavino's screen time is noticeably decreased this season than season's past. And like mothership's storylines, inconsistency is on display in full view.

Under Graziano in his first 6 episodes (Gimmie Shelter is written by Rick Eid and Gwen Sigan as part of the season premiere crossover) were the solid ones, even before Kelli's last episode I felt a change in tone coming into play; and coming off of the season's Bronx trilogy its even more noticeable. It's like it's a mix of Eid's season 18 and some other show that's NOT SVU. The focus has gone off of the survivors, veteran characters, the pursuit of the worst criminal offenders, the pursuit of justice and the unit itself. SVU has gone off of the rails and if they want this show to continue to break records and preserve the legacy that it has both on and off screen, they better make some changes fast. SVU's ratings haven't exactly decreased but all this 'change' could soon have a negative impact on them; SVU's dominate the entire franchise right now as a show that's consistently been on air for 24 years now in a changing TV landscape.

In summary/my suggestion(s): the Law & Order franchise needs to undergo some major changes behind the scenes, starting with the gentlemen running these shows. I don't directly want to call for the dismissal of show runners/executive producers Rick Eid and David Graziano (certainly from SVU) but I do feel this is the start absent them being given a different set of marching orders that they should follow (not likely). The issues I brought up above only touch the surface, I don't want to sound nit-picky but things could and should be better.

This franchise is 33 years old and still going, and it could go longer and further but if there aren't any immediate changes that make an impact and turn things around, and the shows keep going about as they are: this franchise won't be around much longer. "The Story Is Everything" is what Dick Wolf has said about the L&O brand and NBC even used that as a tagline during the prime years on the network 2003-2007. That's where the investment needs to start.

#Law & Order #Law & Order: SVU #Law & Order: Organized Crime #Law & Order: OC #Organized Crime #L&O #SVU #Law & Order: Special Victims Unit #NBC #Mariska Hargitay #Christopher Meloni #Sam Waterstoon #Hugh Dancy #Mehcad Brooks #David Graziano #Rick Eid #Dick Wolf #Peacock

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imjustwritingg · 2 years

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This article gets it.

http://thefixnewz.com/hoa/chicago-p-d/2335/?fbclid=IwAR048WfFSPggW6T5ZIdvR4yEutTMhHRD4UiROTZ4c7QqKI4tkIkepPVxk7E

I don’t know what that link is, but here is the original article. And it is SPOT. ON. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

https://www.cbr.com/chicago-pd-upstead-dead-nbc/

#jay halstead #hailey upton #upstead #chicago pd

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a-little-bit-of-tradition · 1 year

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Jesse Lee Soffer left Chicago P.D. as a series regular after more than 200 episodes of One Chicago action (including Fire and Med), and Season 10 has had to move on without Jay Halstead in the mix. The actor didn’t stay gone from the show for long, however, as Soffer stepped behind the camera to direct the next episode of NBC’s hit drama. Called “Deadlocked,” the episode will put a dangerous spin on a murder trial for Voight and Intelligence, and Soffer spoke with CinemaBlend about returning to direct, including what was “tricky” about it.

“Deadlocked” will be Jesse Lee Soffer’s directing debut, which was announced just a couple of weeks after Chicago P.D. said goodbye to Jay Halstead. Soffer was certainly familiar with the show beforehand thanks to nine full seasons as a star under his belt, along with the first three installments of Season 10. When he spoke with CinemaBlend, he opened up about the origin of his desire to direct. According to Soffer, he’s been wanting to pursue directing for much longer than fans might have guessed, as he said:

"To some degree, you're always having some part of your perspective on how to make this work, and not just telling the character's story, but how to make it work for this scene, or for this element in the story. I just started to realize that I was doing that a lot, and I was really looking at the macro aspect of storytelling. I was like, 'I think I want to direct,' and so that just kept growing until finally I asked."

Asking to direct certainly paid off! Soffer was quickly back on the show's set after finishing Halstead’s story so that he could shadow director Bethany Rooney, who is credited with directing the sixth episode of Season 10 that focused on Atwater. All signs point toward Soffer in his element once he took the reins of his own episode.

Soffer also couldn’t have hoped to make his directing debut on a show on which he had more experience than Chicago P.D., after ten seasons and just shy of 200 episodes. (P.D. hit the 200-episode milestone with a big Burgess episode back in February.) So, did coming back to shadow as a director not too long after finishing as an actor affect Soffer? He explained what got tricky:

"It was helpful no matter what. It was gonna be helpful whenever I did it, because there's so much responsibility, and it's so time-consuming, and there's a lot of work that you have to put in. So it was really eye-opening to see that, and I was so grateful for that experience. The only tricky part was that I left set and came back a week later to shadow, and now I'm just like a silent observer and I don't get to have an opinion, and I'm pretty opinionated. I'm very opinionated about what makes P.D. work. So it was tricky to have to bite my lip and just [say] 'Okay, got it. This is how this episode is gonna be.’ Because I have a strong point of view about it."

Expressing opinions as an actor is apparently very different from expressing opinions when shadowing a director, and Jesse Lee Soffer didn’t spend much time away from the show between saying goodbye to Halstead and preparing to direct. Fans will soon get to see all the decisions he made for the next chapter of the Intelligence Unit’s story once he was able to graduate from shadowing to directing. Soffer shared what it was like to direct his former co-stars:

"It was just a great experience. It was really cathartic. It was a nice sendoff. It felt good to get to be on that side of things, but experience an episode with everybody, again, from that perspective. It was awesome."

#jesse lee soffer #chicago pd #video #s10

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i-am-confused-about-life · 1 year

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Masterlist | Kpop Masterlist

Hey, I'm Alex. My pronouns are she/her and I love writing. I have been writing on Wattpad in German for about 5 years and have been planning a few English stories for Tumblr.

I am a big Kpop Stan and have multiple Kpop Addition Stories planned. But I also want to write for some shows and movies and I have some ideas that are unrelated and original.

I am figuring out how tumblr works and trying to make friends/mutuals, so feel free to send asks. English is my second language so I apologize for grammar or spelling mistakes.

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Tags I (will) use:

#i-am-confused-about-life (for all my work/posts)

#X rants (me ranting xD)

#X reads (stories I've read & liked/remembered to repost)

#X replies (for all asks)

#X reads for later (for reading later)

#X loves (things I simply love)

#X tags / #X tag games (for posts I got tagged in/tag games)

Requests: Open

I take requests from now on but it could take a bit till they come out. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

I write Ships, Reader x Character or even OCs x Character. So feel free to request anything.

Shows/Movies I will be writing for:

Supernatural One Chicago (fire, p.d, med) Marvel Lord of the Rings The Hobbit The Witcher

Kpop Boy Groups I will be writing for:

Stray Kids Ateez Enhypen TXT BTS Monsta X Got7 Exo Seventeen The Boyz NCT

Kpop Girl Groups I will be writing for:

Twice Mamamoo Itzy Aespa Red Velvet

Rules for Requests are:

No Smut/NSFW I don't write smut/NSFW for now. I am not really willing to write it. I do write suggestive themes but nothing more for now. Please respect that.

Sensitive Topics I do write about sensitive topics but I will not romanticize any of them. I will also draw the line, if I think a request goes too far. So, please be aware of this.

Respectful & Feedback I expect respect from everyone for everyone. Please stay fair and give constructive criticism. I appreciate feedback as long as it is respectful. Anything that is discriminating (homophobia, transphobia, racism, etc.) or inappropriate will be blocked or reported.

#i-am-confused-about-life #pinned post #one chicago imagine #marvel imagine #supernatural imagine #kpop additions #kpop imagine #lord of the rings imagine #the hobbit imagine #pinned intro #introduction #requests #x loves #x reads #x reads for later #x tags #x tag games

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Hi looking for 18+ writers I use she/her pronouns I only do boy x boy rp but I’m looking for anyone to rp these fandoms with me I’m not considered about the characters ages since they are made up

Tv shows: criminal minds law and order svu ninja turtles 2003 2007 2012 out of the shadows Star Trek the next generation walking dead Chicago P.D. Blue bloods Law & Order: Organized Crime fire county CSI: NY The Blacklist prison break breaking bad the sopranos ghost whisper Justified

Games: devil may cry 5 Resident Evil 2 Red Dead Redemption 2 mafia one and two

Movies: X2 X-Men: The Last Stand X-Men Origins: Wolverine taken one two and three The Wolverine X-Men: Days of Future Past Thor: The Dark World Thor: Ragnarok Thor: Love and Thunder Justice League

I can double up i only rp here since I don’t trust discord anymore if interested like and I’ll contact you

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jaelyn96 · 1 year

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Jesse big director debut!!

Airing Wednesday 3/22. Read the articles and respect his wishes and let him go . Stop begging him to come back . And some of you take your own advice which many of you gave to those who was sad over someone leaving and move on. IT WAS JESSE CHOICE!!

https://www.tvinsider.com/1086163/chicago-pd-jesse-lee-soffer-return-director-season-10-episode-16/

https://www.wnypapers.com/news/article/featured/2023/03/21/154717/qa-former-cast-member-jesse-lee-soffer-directing-chicago-p.d.

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#jesse lee soffer #chicago pd #Youtube

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tvrundownusa · 2 years

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tvrundown USA 2022.09.21

Wednesday, September 21st:

(exclusive): "Prisma" (amazon, Italian teens drama, all 8 eps), La fórmula (Peacock, Mexican sci-fi rom-com, all 8 eps), "Shadowland" (Peacock, conspiracy theorists docu-series, all 6 parts), Iron Chef Mexico (netflix, competition spinoff premiere, all 8 eps), Only For Love (netflix, Brazilian musical romance mini-series, all 6 eps), "Dahmer – Monster" (netflix, serial-killer bio-pic series, all 10 eps), "The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist" (netflix, docu-series, all 3 parts), "Fortune Seller: A TV Scam" (netflix, Italian true-crime docu-series, all 4 parts), "Super/Natural" (dsn+, nature docuseries premiere), "Meet Cute" (Peacock, time-loop rom-com original movie), "The Perfumier" (netflix, German mystery-thriller, ~95mins)

(streaming weekly): The Handmaid's Tale (hulu), Tell Me Lies (hulu), Reservation Dogs (hulu, penultimate), "The Zone: Survival Mission" (hulu), Andor (dsn+, Star Wars "Rogue One" prequel series premiere, first 3 eps), Uncle From Another World (netflix), Once Upon a Small Town (netflix), 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time (Shudder), Ink Master (Para+), The NFL Pile On (amazon, primetime)

(also new): "Malicious Mind Games" (LMN original movie, 2hrs), "The Challenge: Untold History" (MTV, docu-series premiere), "The U.S. and the Holocaust" (PBS, night 3/3, docu-series finale), "Escape From Kabul" (HBO, documentary, 80mins)

(earlier - hour 0): The NFL Pile On (amazon, streaming), NFL Slimetime (NICK) / / Nick News (NICK)

(hour 1): Chicago Med (NBC, season 8 opener), Survivor (CBS, season 43 opener, 2hrs), The Conners (ABC, season 5 opener, new time) / / The Goldbergs (ABC, season 10 opener, new time), The Masked Singer (FOX, season 8 opener), DC's Stargirl (theCW)

(hour 2): Chicago Fire (NBC, season 11 opener), Survivor (CBS, contd), Abbott Elementary (ABC, season 2 opener, new night) / / Home Economics (ABC, season 3 opener), LEGO Masters (FOX, season 3 opener, new timeslot), Haus of Vicious (BET), Guy's Ultimate Game Night (FOOD)

(hour 3): Chicago P.D. (NBC, season 10 opener), The Amazing Race (CBS, season 34 opener), Big Sky (ABC, season 3 "Deadly Trails" opener, new night), Archer (FXX), Resident Alien (SyFy, penultimate), "Welcome to Wrexham" (FX, ~66mins), No-Recipe Road Trip (FOOD), The Black Hamptons (BET, Carl Weber mini-series reair premiere)

(hour 4 - latenight): Chucky (SyFy, season 2 sneak peek / preview)

#JeffreyDahmer #LEGOMasters #AbbottElementary #MaskedSingerFOX #NBConeChicago #TheBlackHamptons #television #CarlWeber #NBC1Chicago

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melis-writes · 2 years

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I wish you would write for Chicago Fire, Med & P.D. as you’re one of the best writers on tumblr 😭

Omg thank you, I really appreciate that!! 🥺😭❤️ Perhaps I can add those shoes to my “to-watch” list in the future! ☺️ You never know, right? 👀

I know I’d like to get into Peaky Blinders, Hannibal, more of The Vampire Diaries/Originals/Legacies series, along with a 100+ “to watch” list of films so more fics seem to be bound in the future but to what, I’m not sure yet! 😅

I’m just really happy to share my writing with you guys and it makes me so overjoyed to hear how much you all enjoy it! 🥺 Really, my heart is so full and I’m very always grateful!! ❤️

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xofeno · 2 years

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CHICAGO P.D. – 9.09, A Way Out written by GWEN SIGAN directed by LISA ROBINSON original airdate: December 8, 2021

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All Other Works Masterlist

Banana Bus Squad

One of Them Is Lying - You’re a YouTuber, and Mini Ladd’s little sister. When an anonymous number texts you private information and pictures, and threatening to release them online, you know it can only be someone on the inside. But when everyone says it’s not them, what could truly be going on?One of them is lying. [DISCONTINUED, General]

Charmed

Something Wicked This Way Comes - A new Power of Three has risen again. The Halliwell’s have settled down from magic, the Vera’s have been estranged for years, and the Archeron’s- well, the Archeron’s are living their own lives without the use of magic. When Feyre leaves her abusive ex and makes a distress call, the sisters are brought back together and the magic of the Power of Three is awakened once again. [A Court of Thorns and Roses Crossover]

Chicago P.D.

Chicago Belle - After Aelin and Aedion Ashryver’s foster mother is found murdered, they become suspects in a wild case with mysterious trails and clues- with the most mysterious of all being that one of the Intelligence officers looks almost exactly like their mother. [Throne of Glass Crossover]

Crescent City

The Tightly Tangled Web - Lidia Cervos is a name known by none but her most trusted comrades. Black Widow, though, is the name her enemies are too afraid to speak. After a mission gone wrong, Lidia is thrown down a rabbit hole of endless questions, all of which turn into one in the end. Who is the Winter Soldier? [Black Widow!Lidia Cervos/Winter Soldier!Ruhn Danaan, Marvel Crossover]

Worldwalker - Princess Malonne Whitethorn Galathynius vanished into thin air from the royal palace of Terrasen when she was ten years old. Now she is back in Terrasen- but her memories of her home are gone. With her friends and family’s help, she must recover those memories and walk to worlds once before visited to save them all from a fate worse than death. [Tharion Ketos/Original Character, Throne of Glass & A Court of Thorns and Roses Crossover]

DC Extended Universe

A Court of Widows and Espionage - Nesta is not her real name. Velaris is not her home, but she’ll be leaving soon enough. She’ll be going to find her real family, her real home. She’s done hiding, and she’s done running from her past. [Cassian/Black Widow!Nesta Archeron, A Court of Thorns and Roses Crossover]

Euphoria

All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned For A Thing I Cannot Name - After the death of your father under the Starcourt Mall, your life turns into a dark and destructive cycle. One year later, you have lost control of everything you had ever known, and traded everything- your family, your friends, your boyfriend, your life- for something much, much worse. [Eddie Munson/Reader, Stranger Things Crossover]

Haikyuu!!

Five - You and Keshin have always had a strange, flirty banter when you come to his shop every Sunday. It only escalates when he refuses to let you pay for your tea, so you did what you do best... You played a little game. [Keshin Ukai/Reader]

Hearthway Hollow

Hidden Kingdom - Clara Shostokova is the daughter of the Red Guardian and an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.. As Elizabeth Draper she is just a new citizen of Hearthway Hollow, only she’s in search of a missing girl who’s recently been spotted in the town’s perimeter. Dimitri Kovalevsky is a Russian immigrant and previously feral werewolf who’s been trying to keep on the down low in Hearthway Hollow. The owner of the Hollow’s gun range, he’s seen as terrifying and cold. That is, until he catches a whiff of his mate- a girl who’s new in town. [Original Character/Shostakov!OC, Marvel Crossover]

Keeper of the Lost Cities

Sunswallow - Maya Evans is the Sunswallow, the Black Swan’s one-and-only project created to help make the world a better place for all species- at least, that was what she was lead to believe. After being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Neverseen for over three years, she has become aware of the Black Swan’s sister project called Project Moonlark. Dreaming of the day the Black Swan will save her, a spark of hope is ignited when she meets the newest Neverseen recruit, Keefe Sencen… [Fitz Vacker/Original Character]

Lockwood & Co

A Love, Requited - You would say you were truly happy at Lockwood & Co, but that would be a lie. You couldn’t be happy, not as long as you were hopelessly in love with your employer, Anthony Lockwood. [Anthony Lockwood/Reader]

Married at First Sight

Married at First Sight - When Sam Wilson is accepted as one of the four grooms on the television show “Married at First Sight”, he wasn’t expecting his audition to take him this for, to get him married at first sight. He wasn’t expecting to fall in love with you at first sight either. [Sam Wilson/Reader, Civilian AU]

Midsommar

Midsommar - A couple, Feyre Archeron and Tamlin Springfield, and their group of friends travel to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown for its fabled midsummer festival. [A Court of Thorns and Roses Crossover]

Miraculous

The Games We Play - Marinette Dupain-Cheng: Superhero. Student. Spy. When Agent Cheng is sent on a rescue mission for a woman named Emily Agreste, she is assigned to watch her husband on suspicion of criminal operations, and to protect her son at all costs. [Adrien Agreste/S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent!Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Miraculous Crossover]

The Next Chapter - When you find a stray cat on your balcony, soaking wet from the rain, it would be rude not to let him in... right? [Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Wizarding World Crossover/AU]

Fraidy Cat - Marinette discovers a secret about Chat Noir- a fear of the dark. [Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng]

ghosts - Marinette's friends come to visit her. When they leave, they take her with them too. [Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng, 16+]

Goodnight - Adrien didn’t mean to fall for the beautiful, clumsy girl who lived above a bakery... But he did. [Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng]

My Hero Academia

Genesis - Lara Maximoff-Midoriya is the problem child, despite being born Quirkless. No one knows her true past, no one knows her true power- except for one Katsuki Bakugo. When her adoptive brother Izuku is accepted into U.A. High School, she couldn’t care less- until the day she’s been kicked out of her latest new school and has no other option but to tag along with him... [Katsuki Bakugo/Scarlet Witch!OC, Marvel Crossover]

Only You, My Girl - Soulmate marks. Everyone has them, including you. A flame surrounded by your magic rests in the palm of your right hand. The thing about soulmate marks is that only you and your soulmate are able to see them, and for the first time today, you saw your mark on a certain someone else’s body. [Dabi/Scarlet Witch!Reader, Marvel Crossover, Soulmate AU]

Seven Days In Heaven - After Kaminari dares you and Kirishima to fake date for seven days, you discover that things might not be truly as they seem. [Eijiro Kirishima/Reader]

To The Grave - You are one of SHIELD’s best stealth operatives, one of the former Russian spies called ‘Black Widows’. As Ms. Sakuma, you are only the first-years of U.A.’s world history teacher. While keeping an eye on three certain U.A. students, you happen to also catch the eyes of two of your co-workers… and that’s not very good for a spy ready to disappear any moment. Not very good at all. [Shota Aizawa/Hizashi Yamada/Black Widow!Reader, My Hero Academia Crossover]

Peanut Butter & Jelly - On a Facetime call with your friends, you take the opportunity to “jokingly” vent about your boyfriend as if he isn’t in the call with you. But it takes more of an emotional toll on him than you expected… [Katsuki Bakugo/Reader]

Starsweeper - Katsuki’s favorite place is home; to lie on your chest as you sing him lullabies and run your fingers through his hair. [Katsuki Bakugo/Reader]

Midnight Confessions - You have something to tell your boyfriend, Katsuki Bakugou. Something that could change your relationship forever. [Katsuki Bakugo/Genderqueer!Reader]

My Servant, My Savior

My Servant, My Savior - In 2021, Elisabeth Delacey inherits her family estate after her parents pass on. Opening the front door to her new home, she expects an unfurnished home filled with cobwebs, not a portal taking her to the 19th century. In 1821, Alistair Cardlin is the butler of an empty home. With the Master and Mistress passed on, the house is too quiet. Until a young Lady Delacey stumbles through the front door. [Alistair Cardlin/Lady Delacey, Semi-Modern AU]

Once Upon a Time

The Beautiful and the Damned - As a young girl, your mother would tell you stories. Tales of a beast and his long-forgotten castle. The stories terrified you as a child, but you had since blossomed into a beautiful young woman. Now, as the fiancé to the cruel and abusive crown prince of the Enchanted Forest, you realize that it hadn’t been just some old folktale- it had been your destiny. [Bucky Barnes/Reader, Marvel Cinematic Universe Crossover]

Shadowhunter Chronicles

Take My Hand - As a college senior, Alec wanted nothing more than to graduate, but didn’t expect to find someone- much less with transfer student and fellow senior Magnus Bane. What follows if a flurry of secrets and scandals, heartbreak and soul-searing love. [Alec Lightwood/Magnus Bane, College AU]

Thanksgiving - Thanksgiving is coming up, and you and your girlfriends, Natasha and Wanda, have decided to spend the holiday with your family, the Lightwood-Banes. [Natasha Romanoff/Wanda Maximoff/Reader, Marvel Cinematic Universe Crossover]

Sherlock

Get Well Soon, Molly - Sherlock takes care of Molly while she’s sick. [Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper]

Sidemen

Figure 8 - Being the two youngest members of the Sidemen, you and Harry had always been close. Since you both joined the group, you had been deemed each other’s “security blankets” by the internet, and even shipped by some fans. It wouldn’t have been a problem if you weren’t in a relationship with WillNE. [Harry Lewis/Reader]

XIX - You’re a YouTuber, a Sidemen in fact. Unbeknownst to you, your biggest fan is the celebrity you’ve had a crush on for years. [Harrison Osterfield/Reader, Sidemen AU]

Star Wars

Coffee Guy - Why the hell do you keep running into this annoying redheaded man? And why does he keep running into you? [Armitage Hux/Reader, Modern/Social Media AU]

Gleam & Glow - Not once in Din Djarin’s career as a bounty hunter has anyone willingly chosen to put a bounty on themself. You just so happened to be the first. [Din Djarin/Reader, Tangled AU]

In the Midst of Devils - You were dead. You were dead and gone, and it was haunting him to the ends of the galaxy. And you have to find your way out of the sea of devils and get back to your love, or die trying. [Poe Dameron/Reader, 16+]

Worlds Away - You didn’t mean to fall through the portal to another world. You didn’t mean to wake up on the mean robot-looking guy and his little green Gremlin’s ship. And you definitely didn’t mean to impose on the strange pair with no way to get back home. Only the Mandalorian, as you later learned, wants you to stay. You just don’t know it yet. [Din Djarin/Modern Terran!Reader]

Ring - Mandalorian marriages do not have ceremonies or rings or cake, but after Din returns to you injured he can’t stop asking questions about your people’s wedding traditions. [Din Djarin/Reader]

Never Been Kissed - You offer to take Din’s kiss virginity. [Din Djarin/Reader]

Would You Still Love Me If I Was A Droid? - Unable to sleep, you decide to pester your loving-but-annoyed Mandalorian husband with a very unconventional question. [Din Djarin/Reader]

Stranger Things

Lost & Found - You and Steve have been dating for two years. Everything was perfect, you had moved in with him not long after the six month period and Steve had recent started looking at engagement rings. That is, until you mysteriously went missing one dark and cold night without a trace left behind… [Steve Harrington/Modern!Reader]

The Witch and the Banished - Once upon a time, a boy fell in love with a witch, a witch fell in love with a boy, and they lived happily ever after. That’s how the story is supposed to go. Right? [Eddie Munson/Scarlet Witch!Reader, Marvel Crossover]

All Too Well (10 Minute Version) - When Steve returns home from work, anticipating cuddles and sweet nothings, he doesn’t expect your first question to be if he could break up with you for ten minutes. [Steve Harrington/Reader, Modern AU]

Injury - When you get injured in the Upside Down, you try to make it as unnoticeable as possible. But when you can’t handle it anymore, will your friends- and your girlfriend, Robin, be able to save you? [Robin Buckley/Reader]

Movie Night - You come over to Jonatan Byers for a movie night, but when Argyle is a no-show it’s just you and Jonathan- your crush. [Jonathan Byers/Reader]

Throne of Glass

Worldwalker - Princess Malonne Whitethorn Galathynius vanished into thin air from the royal palace of Terrasen when she was ten years old. Now she is back in Terrasen- but her memories of her home are gone. With her friends and family’s help, she must recover those memories and walk to worlds once before visited to save them all from a fate worse than death. [Fenrys Moonbeam/Original Character, Crescent City & A Court of Thorns and Roses Crossover]

The Umbrella Academy

Of My Last Love - When Diego Hargreeves returns to the Umbrella Academy to do anything but mourn the loss of his father, he doesn’t expect to nearly be murdered by a Black Widow. Angered, he hunts down the woman who tried to kill him- only to realize he’s loved her for a long, long time. [Diego Hargreeves/Black Widow!Reader, Marvel Crossover]

Wizarding World

As Cold As Dawn, As Black As Night - After you transfer from Ilvermony to Hogwarts for your fifth year, Sirius jumps at the chance to get to know you- but the ties between you become strained when your sorted into Slytherin. Can you and Sirius find your way back to each other despite your differences, or will your timeless love be lost forevermore? [Sirius Black/Potter!Reader, Marauders Era]

Father’s Daughter - You’re the daughter of Tony Stark, you’re an inventor with an IQ that can rival your father’s, and you’ve just recently found out that you’re a half-blooded witch. You’re brought into the Order of the Phoenix by Albus Dumbledore to perfect your most recent invention, one that he believes could win the war. [Sirius Black/Stark!Reader, Marvel Crossover]

#masterlist #fanfiction #fanfiction masterlist

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