#potes wrotes

[stealingpotatoes]

just watched mando s3 it’s great that we TOTALLY had a whole season about din coming to grips with being mand’alor & life without grogu and about dueteragonist bo-katan coming to realise she was only trying to lead mand’alor bc of her sister not bc she thought she was the best leader. and the whole season centred around the theme of accepting who you really are even if you’re certain you’re something else and was about how heroes and leaders can come from anywhere, they don’t have to come from a special bloodline (a sorta thesis against the skywalker saga) and about the uniting power of grief and oppression. isn’t it great we had that instead of a season with no plot 

isn’t it great that there were no mando cameos in tbobf and mando season 3 started with him on a bounty, cringefailing at using the darksaber and stabbing himself but he did the job and got paid in a nubian starfighter (he wanted a razor crest but he’s injured so he doesnt argue much) which he then used to find his covert on the canyon planet. then he revealed to the armorer and paz that he had the darksaber which after some time leads to paz duelling din for the saber (without telling the others bc they dont know din has it) and din wins but its revealed he took his helmet off. he’s made apostate IN FRONT OF EVERYONE (EVERYONE!!) with only one IMPOSSIBLE chance of redemption (nobody can go to mandalore anymore!!) and has to leave and now has nothing — no child, no clan. so he does the only thing he can think to and goes to a green planet we’ve never seen before. he lands safely but still injured from his fight with Paz and not fully healed from the original injury he passes out. and the episode ends with a kid running over and telling another kid to call master skywalker

and sure episode 2 was the fanservice episode but its disney! we have to expect a marketable plushie cameo episode — except of course that didn’t mean it wasn’t plot relevant! din wakes up and we realise he’s at luke’s jedi academy and this is great n stuff we finally get to see luke in his prime teaching a whole bunch of students! and we get to see grogu happy and having fun with his kind (which makes din happy but miss his own covert). luke notices din has a saber himself (despite it being well-hidden — luke can sense it) and din admits he can’t use it and that he doesnt think it even belongs to him while luke shows him saber forms (but pretends its for his own training and not din’s bc din refuses to learn). they have a discussion and din reveals he came here bc he got kicked out and has no way to redeem himself bc there are no mines left and even then the planet’s poisonous. luke spouts some jedi stuff asking din if he’s certain and says blind certainty is the enemies of hope and progress or whatever (setting up the larger theme of identity certainty in the season). luke also points out that if they imps r there then they have to have some way of getting around the environment they caused. inspired and knowing grogu is safe here, din is ready to go redeem himself on mandalore. he says he’ll come to see grogu again and luke makes it clear that while attachments can’t get in front of duty, din is always welcome here <3 

episode 3 of course had din go to the ruins of mandalore to redeem himself, inspired by luke’s words about certainty he goes to the ruins of sundari, where he knows there was once living waters (the other option is the one surviving and imperial-controlled city, but he’s not that dumb). also bc the imps only hang around the cities so that must be where it's survivable. there’s some imperials about the edge of the city (not many) and he does have to subtly fight them but he gets spotted. he wins but he’s panicking bc during the fight his breathing system got hit but then he notices a plant growing. and he realises he’s not dying — the air isn’t poisonous anymore or whatever! so he turns off his failing life support and goes to the city. he explores the city and finds many remnants of mandalorian culture there in the small parts that survived. ash-covered murals, mostly-burnt toys, something that could have once been a palace. he finds a memorial to a duchess satine kryze and thinks huh like bo katan? (because of course the show wouldn’t ignore bo’s motivations) anyway after some slow but meaningful exploring (its quietness eerie, unlike the quietness of the previous stealth section) he manages to make his way below the city. he finds the mines, reads the inscription and then goes in. except of course its no longer shallow and he falls and he falls and he realises well fuck he’s gonna die. his life support got hit earlier and he doesnt have his jetpack he’s going to sink. but then in the darkness, a great looming eye opens and before din knows it, SOMETHING is throwing him out that sinking water. it had to have been a freak current right? he was hallucinating. surely a MYTHOSAUR didn’t just save him… those are all dead, only to return with a new age of mandalore! he shakes his head, ignores it, and collects the water with something new to bring to his people

episode 4 reintroduced us to old fan favourite bo katan in her depression girl era bc din shows up to her empty palace ready to help her take back mandalore… only to find her in a depression pit and— oh my god is she drunk??! she drops that her ppl left her bc she didn’t have the darksaber and din’s looking at the depression pit like. right. bc of the darksaber. he briefly tries to convince her to fight him for it but she’s like no you’ll throw the fight it won’t be true comba— oh no! explosion nearby bc looks like din wasn’t as careful as he thought and the imperials followed him to bo’s place so both of them have to fucking skeet outta there and bo’s home’s destroyed so din’s like hey come on let’s go to my people we can take back mandalore with them or smthn. so they head back to the covert, din reveals he’s no longer apostate and that mandalore isnt cursed it’s breathable + you can successfully walk on the surface now. this is however interrupted by a beast showing up and trying to kill some ppl. it almost kills paz’s son but din kills the beast first in his starfighter. anyway back to the conversation (now within the cave) and din’s trying to convince his clan that they can take back mandalore (with bo as leader) but none of them want to follow her or risk what few numbers they have left. dejected, din and bo make to leave again, but paz follows them out and is like ?? din you literally have the darksaber why didn’t you use it to get at least SOME of them to follow you and din’s like i don’t want people to follow me bc of a legend, if they follow me it has to be bc they want to and paz and bo r internally like wow damn. anyway paz then says he’ll always fight w din if needed bc he saved his son but if he wants the people to follow him they should try get some of the other clans to help so it looks less dangerous. so bo and din leave on their quest. also throughout this episode, we’re introduced to some random civilian in the reintegration program. its implied they worked with gideon and that they’re preparing for something, but we don’t get much more than that. 

episode 5 is the bo episode, this is where we explore her character, have her arc, and ya know really cover her motivations (bc disney would NEVER make it so her motivation is invisible unless you’d seen two other tv shows). din and bo head to where her clan is. they just want to see the clan but they end up being dragged into a b-plot about helping the local pacifist duchess (& duke). din tries to say no but bo-katan says smthn abt diplomacy. this quest initially doesn’t seem plot relevant but throughout bo opens up about her own pacifist duchess sister and she comes to realise how much of this quest has been about trying to live up to satine and not bc she thinks herself the best mand’alor. the thing she said abt diplomacy earlier, she reveals, is just a quote from her sister. anyway they’re finally able to go to bo’s old clan and she, now reinvigorated in accepting and knowing who she is and what she wants (no longer depression girl) challenges axe for leadership of the clan. she wins and in a speech is like we’re gonna retake unpoisonous mandalore by uniting the clans!! most agree but theyre like HOW are we supposed to convince the other clans? and it descends into insane yelling UNTIL a low hum and a black-white light falls over the group. silence falls. everyone looks on. high above his head, din is holding the darksaber (proudly!!) and he’s like we’ll unite them with this. but axe has to constantly be chatting shit and getting up from the floor where he got his ass whipped he’s like really???? you wanna follow him???? he doesn’t even have any mandalorian blood in him!!! and bo makes a great speech about blood doesn’t make a good leader what makes a good leader is knowing when to use your power. and then she’s like he is my mand’alor amen and kneels before him. everyone else follows and din awkwardly stands there still not fully accepting his role 

episode 6 was the great prep episode. we start with din and bo helping and getting a new tribe on their side and heading back to Concordia we realise they’ve got this HUGEEEE war camp of mandalorians!! there are so many clans with them now (except one, which din is really missing)!!!!! this episode mostly focuses on mandalorian culture and them training/ planning and din and bo trying to keep the clans from biting each other’s heads off. but this is interrupted when a small group of imperials try to pre-attack them (like they did w bo’s palace) but the mandos all manage to fight back and take them down, which then leads to a whole speech from din and bo about how mandalorians are all fighting but theyre united now in their grief and with this they can fight the empire. the b-plot of the episode comes back to that random civilian from episode 4 and whoomp turns out their plan was to BREAK MOFF GIDEON OUT OF JAIL!! shitttt!!!! oh no!! he’s back now, that’s gonna make their very decent plan to take back mandalore harder but they dont knowww (irony!)

episodes 7 and 8 were the battle of mandalore, woo! it had to be two episodes because it’s a taking whole occupied planet and not a single base, a pretty damn difficult task that definitely can’t be done by two single clans in like 40 minutes! there’s all those mini tiny bases scattered throughout the planet on the ruins (like din encountered in episode 3) AND more importantly there’s the one domed city that the imperials kept alive as their main base — which means they have to be careful, bc they can’t do any sort of aerial assault or great deal of damage to the imperials without also destroying the one surviving place for them to live. so the plan is smaller strike teams to go the bases plopped around the planet as a distraction and to stop reinforcements to the city while the main force surround the city and take it. the first city team (with din and bo) has to open up all the ports and stuff to allow the HUGE armies to get in. unfortunately this is in the main imp base in the centre of the city so they have to get there. (they’d prefer 2 strike teams but they can only spare 1) MOST of the mini-bases r meanwhile being successfully captured. the strike team gets to the centre to de-activate the port shielding n stuff and GASP! IT’S GIDEON!! FROM JAIL!! and he’s surrounded by fucking MANDO STORMTROOPERS and IN BESKAR ARMOUR oh no!! ambush!! he knew they’d have to go here to allow a full-scale assault! the small strike team at sundari also gets captured bc there were some mandotroopers there (they increased security post episode 3). episode 7 ends on a cliffhanger bc all seems lost and the strike team’s surrounded 

episode 8 starts straight off the cliffhanger and oh no they’re all gonna die gasp WHEN BAM fighting noises elsewhere, everyone’s confused, when paz’s voice crackles over din’s comm like hey bro! BC DIN’S CLAN FINALLY SHOWED UP TO HELP AND THEY WERE ABLE TO MAKE THAT SECOND STRIKE TEAM and in the confusion din & bo’s team take out the mandotroopers, gideon gets away. din and paz and the armorer come face to face and paz calls him mand’alor or smthn bc he’s also accepted it and they’re like woo let’s go now we can fight fr!! din heads to help lead the battle ig but bo’s like nah i have to end gideon for what he did to our planet. and din’s like well he’s wearing beskar armour so you’ll need this and gives her his beskar spear WHICH IS SYMBOLIC BC he’s finally giving up his other weapon and is going to solely use the darksaber!! he’s accepted who he is and is going to lead their ppl!! so yeah instead of having din fight gideon, who he already beat once, bo fights him and its incredibly cathartic. at sundari that strike team who got captured is also not looking great but MYTHOSAUR EX MACHINA COMES AND FUCKS UP THE IMPERIALS THERE (its returned!!). so big battle and gideon’s down and the darksaber DOESN’T get destroyed yay! afterwards they all vibe and they go to the forge and the armorer relights it and they proclaim din mand’alor fr and he accepts it and throne. sure he's still a BIT uneasy (mand'alor the reluctant anyone?) but he's not saying NOO now loll. yayyy!! AND THEN final scene is din returns to the jedi academy like hii thanks for ur advice u were right being blindly certain abt stuff is meh and leaves no room for hope. uh could i show grogu mandalore i promise i’ll bring him right back and it ends on din showing grogu the planet finally bc thats cute and fanservice

anyway isn’t it great this is exactly what happened, it’s all canon and definitely not the stealingpotatoes sequels canon continuity rewrite! 

#hot girls finally watch a show and then immediately sit down and make 2.5k words of a rewrite LOL #while having a fever! #mand'alor din djarin #potes wrotes #(ish) #the mandalorian s3 #mandalorian season 3 #IM NOT SAYING I COULD DO BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL WRITERS like i get they have very different circumstances to me n stuff w execs etc #but i did try to write this while considering what would make good/marketable tv not just what would make a solely good plot #im not gonna be one of those ppl who's never made a tv show but thinks she could do better than seasoned writers/directors lollll #this is lichrally me trying to make my accidental redo continuity work with s3 LMAO #its also messy as hell bc i wrote it in one sitting and its not a proper piece of writing. there r plot holes but i think less than og #actually if there r any problems im blaming my fever <3 #mandalorian s3 rewrite #the sswscc

[birbwell]

I spend a lot of time proselytizing Catface/Waleran but not nearly enough time preaching about my fav platonic relationships. which put me into the ground just as hard. Cuthbert & Remigius, Aliena & Catface, and of course Cuthbert & Milius & Philip .. sigh

#birbwellspeaks #are platonic crackships real.. looks at cuth/remi #had to write a script for scenario class earlier and couldnt think of anything but PotE headcanons #so i sort of wrote about them and slapped different names instead #and now im thinking abour all of them again. i m probably the illest about this story i am Dying thousand deaths again

[kerubimcrepin]

20th Anniversary Map, with commentary by Kerubim Crepin and Joris Jurgen

The frustrating thing about this map, is that nobody who got it has decided to scan or transcribe it, for documentation's sake. So I had to complete this list of all the commentary using tweets and unboxing videos.

But, at the very least, we now have documentation of what this thing actually says.

Joris and Kerubim's text is colour-coded for your convenience, and this post includes both the French transcription, and English translations.

La carte du Monde des Douzes. par Joris Jurgen et Papycha

The map of the World of Twelve. by Joris Jurgen and Papycha

ASTRUB:

J: Chez Papycha ♡ / Papycha's home ♡

J: Les Araknes, c'est dégueu-monstrueu! / Arachnees are icky-creepy !

J: Je pari que la tour du Xélor fou est par ici. / I bet the Mad Xelor's tower is here.

K: Perdu, mon Jojo ! / You lost the bet, my Jojo!

SUFOKIA:

J: de lourds secrets sont enfouis dans ses profondeurs... / dark secrets lay buried deep within this place...

ILE DE MINOTOROR / MINOTOROR ISLAND:

K: Croyez-le ou non, le Minotoror est terriblement chou... / Believe it or not, but the Minotoror is awfully cute...

FOIRE DU TROOL / TROOL FAIR:

K: Ma meilleure partie de pêche aux koin-koins ! / My best quaquack fishing experience ever!

J: Lorko -> 🚶‍♂️

(personal note: i have no fucking idea what a Lorko is.)

ILE D'OTOMAÏ / OTOMAÏ ISLAND:

J: contacter en cas de besoin 👍 / contact him should the need arise 👍

BONTA:

J: Là où j'ai taqiné la boufballe avec le giga gran Khan Karkass!! / Here I playd boufball with the supa-duper cool Khan Karkass !!

(personal note: This means that Kerubim and Joris started work on this map while still living in Astrub, but kept working even after the movie. Cute.)

(personal note: A French person who helped me decipher this part, said that Joris makes quite a lot of spelling mistakes here. I'm sure there are more that I didn't catch in other parts of the post. He's very wonderful, very cute.)

ÎLE DE MOON / MOON ISLAND:

J: autochtones sympas. ne pas rester pour le dîner. / nice locals. don't stay for dinner.

K: Bashy, mon pote d'enfance, semait la terreur aux ces flots ! / Bashy, my childhood friend, sowed terror among these waves!

ILE DE NOWEL / KWISMAS ISLAND:

J: Les cadeau sont mortels! (vraiment!) / The gifts are deadly ! (really !)

FRIGOST:

J: Bienvenu chez le Yech'ti! / Welcome to Yech'ti's !

K: Passe-lui le bonjour de ma part ! / Say hello to him for me!

PANDALA:

J: commander de la chichala à zato / order chichala from zato

(Personal note: this suggests Joris might be just as heavy of a drinker as Kerubim. Or at least into very intense drinks, similarly to Keke. He's so real for this.)

ÎLE DES WABBITS / WABBIT ISLAND:

J: éviter le wa... / avoid the wa...

J: L'île de La Likrone... Par là d'apré la légende. / The Unikron Island... This way, acording to the legend.

K: T'es à l'ouest, mon Jojo ! / It's to the west, my Jojo!

(Personal note: Joris wrote "d'aprés" with a mistake. I'll try to translate his little mistakes, if I notice them, or can come up with a way to do that.)

K: Le réceptacle des Dofus / The Dofus Receptacle

X Traverser le pont / Cross the bridge X Parler au chaman / Talk to the shaman X Boire un coup / Have a drink

(personal note: this is a reference to the quest "The Dofus Receptacle". The bridge referenced here is the bridge to Pandala.)

K: Je suis sûr qu'Indie a pris ce bateau ... / I'm sure it's Indie, who's on that boat...

VULKANIA:

K: Contre Grozilla, je me suis dépensé sans compter ! / I gave it my all, while fighting Grozilla!

Dessinée à l'ancre de Kralamour. / Drawn using Kralove eenk.

Propriété de Joris © / Property of Joris ©

Ne pa toucher / Dont touch

(Surtou si vous vous apelé Lilotte) / (Espeshaly if you're name is Lilotte)

#anniversarymap #ro liveblogs dofus #dofus #wakfu #krosmoz #kerubim crepin #joris jurgen

[space-axolotl]

drafts floating in space #1

i wrote the first part of PotE 2h after the finals, and it was originally just going to be keria and oner (bc roommates)

but they're both anxious types, so the first ending was just them hugging and crying, and when came time to edit i was like, guma help. come save your teammates (they're stressed—)

and so the 02 trio cuddle puddle came to be

#t1 au #t1 pote #t1 fic #my first drafts

[calliopecalling]

QOTS Rewatch - 5x09 - A Prueba de Balas

I cannot believe this is my second-to-last episode debrief for this rewatch. This whole thing has taken way longer than I initially planned but also I'm not even ready for it to end! WHAT WILL I DO WITH MY LIFE NOW??? Who'm I kidding, I'll keep rewatching and keep writing fics and keep digging up QOTS gifsets to reblog that I haven't reblogged yet. But I'm getting ahead of myself. First, I just have a few thoughts to share about this beautiful episode beyond what I wrote last year after it aired live. When I first watched this episode I had no idea what to make of it; I was so annoyed by all the Kote and trying not to be nervous about the finale and wanting more out of the Jeresa. In some ways, it hasn't improved on rewatch, but in many ways, it totally has. I love this episode on rewatch (it is WAY less stressful knowing it all works out in the end!).

My debrief last year said that some of the things I was annoyed by in this episode -- the prolonged Kote scenes and lack of actual Jeresa conversations -- might be redeemed by the finale. In essentials, that didn't end up happening in the way I imagined at the time. I essentially thought that if (1) Pote ended up dying (or Kote in some other way had a plot twist or didn't get a happy ending) and (2) James and Teresa were revealed to have been plotting a fake death escape all along (or at least for a while), that it would satisfyingly explain both the extended Kote and the lack of Jeresa in 5x09 (and to a certain extent earlier episodes as well).

This only sorta happened, and yet, in my opinion, 5x09 aged surprisingly well. Obviously Kote did get a happy ending and there's a part of me that is still 😒 about it because their story never resonated with me as you all well know. And yes, their scenes in 5x09 are too long. But from a writing perspective, I sorta get it in hindsight; for the fanbase (apparently sizable) that DID love Pote and Kote, planting them in the suburbs and showing Pote adjusting was part of what made their happily ever after feel believable I guess. So even though their relationship does absolutely nothing for me and even though I feel profoundly irritated at how stupid and sexist they ended up writing Pote to be, I on a rational level get that writing.

But other than Kote, I honestly love 5x09's Jeresa scenes. No, we did not get a plot-twist reveal in the finale that ended up showing us substantive flashbacks to Teresa and James working out their plan. That is a disappointment for sure (one that I'm sure I'll discuss in the finale's rewatch posts lol). But we do get a lot of Jeresa in this episode and LOOK AT THEMMM. They are tethered to each other by an invisible elastic thread and literally everything about them in every scene together screams how inseparable they are, how ridiculously in love with each other they are, both of them, and how deeply they rely on each other. Completely openly now. Even before the kiss and the I love yous.

It's so freaking soft and beautiful even though most of their scenes are them working together. The thing is that them working together in synchronicity is where they began and so it's a fitting way to show them together as they near the end, too. It's also important to see how their working relationship is changed now. It's not the hierarchy of seasons 1 and 2 in which Teresa essentially reported to James (well, at least until the end of season 2). It's not the hierarchy of seasons 3 and 5 either, in which James reported to Teresa. Nothing has explicitly changed, but it's abundantly obvious in this episode that they are working together now. Teresa's the leader of the cartel but James is her partner. He may not be co-owner of the business or anything like that but he's not working for her. They are very clearly deciding things together now. She consults with him; he refers to her. There is no longer any kind of hierarchy. Just a very clear mutual respect.

So I don't know. Sure, I would love dialogue between them like we had during the earlier seasons that lasts longer than 30 seconds but it feels like part of the point now is that there is almost too much to say, and yet none of it really needs saying. It'll be said eventually. But how could the show have possibly done justice to the years of feelings they're finally coming around to in a scene of dialogue? It's really hard to imagine. Trust me, I know, because I tried to write the extended scenes fan fic for this episode and the next, and it was HARD. I would've loved to have seen something like what I ended up writing on screen, to be sure, but would it have really felt like it belonged in the penultimate QOTS episode? I don't know. I really don't.

The one thing I do wish is that the balcony scene had had some more dialogue before Teresa kissed James. That scene did feel jarring in how fast it moved after a drawn-out Kote scene about putting together a crib in suburbia. But the juxtaposition to me also in some ways works because it really elevates Teresa and James. If I'm being honest, the episodes in which I really wanted to see more Jeresa conversations were 3 and 4, maybe even 5 or 6 -- but not these later ones. I think their scenes, unspoken feelings filling in all the empty space around them no matter where they are and what they're doing, are completely perfect. I really do. Which isn't to say I wouldn't have loved to see more of their emotional processing but that, I don't know, I'm not sure this is really the show that was ever going to do that. Most of their best conversations historically have been of the angsty processing variety.

So, well, I'll just fast-forward the Kote scenes when I watch this again and I'll be happy. Their love scene, MY GODS, it is incredible. Would I like a scene where James pushes Teresa against a wall and takes charge? Um, yes. Does that supercede the absolute joy I get from their blissful we-might-die-tomorrow-so-what-the-hell soft and sweet sex? No, it doesn't. Their softness with each other is absolutely to die for. I don't think I'll ever recover from it.

So, that concludes my thoughts on 5x09. On to the finale. I can't believe I made it. The end is near 🥺

#qots s5 #5x09 #2021 rewatch #txt post #qots reaction post #qots meta #I made the point in my original live debrief that Teresa not only didn't have substantive conversations with James #but she also didn't have substantive conversations with ANY other character #so with that in mind it seems clear to me the writers weren't trying to avoid Jeresa #they just decided that moving Teresa in the queenpin direction meant closing her off to other characters #and even though this episode is the final turnaround--she's arriving as queenpin in some ways (her killing Kostya is THE ultimate #queenpin moment) but is also abandoning queenpin once and for all-- #it's easy for me to understand how she is still at a loss for words now with her world falling down around her #but her body language and eyes tell us everything we want to know about where she's at and what she's feeling #so thank you Alice for that

[astaeris-in-the-stars]

I love how I said that I might post what I write here and it’s been two years since I’ve poted smth I wrote

Maybe I’ll post more french writing in the future

#writing

[crazy-lazy-elder-sims]

Hi, do you have Twitter? I want to share your How to dress a Muslim in TS4 post (part 2) on Twitter because I feel the community there need to see it too. I can post 2 photos from the post and link back to the original tumblr post that you wrote so people actually read it. Sorry if this is a weird ask!

Its not a wierd ask! You can absolutely do that my twitter is @ameliathesimmer i have the same pfp as here thou i dont use it almost at all. I initially avoided poting it on twitter my self because as much as anon hate and death threats suck on tumblr twitter is worse with thier "takes" on things they only know from the propaganda around it. But please go ahead and post it maybe it will help somebody and thats the main reason i made that post !

#ask #anon ask

[that-fema-corps-blog]

Day 47

September 18, 2022

Another break day. Wrote up and sent off the bi-weekly Community Relations Representative report, but otherwise did nothing of value.

Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico. One of my teammates told me that the FEMA Corps team that was already there would be starting Disaster Survivor Assistance tomorrow.

Nearly 1.5 million utility customers were left without power, thanks to winds estimated at 85 mph, well above minimum hurricane force. The National Hurricane Center said Puerto Rico could get 12 to 18 inches of rain, with 30 inches possible in some areas.

#fema corps #round 1 #news

[olderthannetfic]

damn, just saw an anti-RPF post on my timeline saying "it's 2022 stop being a creep lmao".

bitch, literally who the fuck cares. like, yes, because it's fucking fanfic it's a "free pass card" 'cuz it's poted in places where if the people you wrote about find it it's because they're actively searching for it. like Mads Mikkelsen saying he read a bunch of fics about him (and Hannibal).

if the people who ship two or more real people aren't showing the horny fic or fanart to the actors/singers/whatever the fuck they're then it's fine. it's the Gold Rule and everyone knows it (well, almost everyone, there's always people who are fucking idiots).

plus, like... exactly what kind of real people ships are we talking about, hm? for example I ship two streamer because they made a really funny dynamic in a series and actively made FANSERVICE for us the viewers. a lot a actors/singers/whatever also do that. maybe they don't have in mind the shippers but they're pretty aware that people will go crazy because of a hug or something.

really, you simply don't have to show the fic/art you made of this Real People. it isn't that fucking hard.

anyway, just tired of people being "proshipper" or "profiction" or "anti censorship" but immediately they said "oH BUT REAL PEOPLE FICS ARE BAAAAAaAaAAdD".

--

If people are really so ~concerned~, they should ban twitch and youtube, not RPF.

Mads vanity googling for the lulz is not a problem. RPF of streamers isn't even the problem.

Toxic-ass bananas crazy fandoms for streamers are often a problem, and these idiots blame the fanfic for that. Half the time, the problem is tattle-tales showing other people's fic to their faves. Half the time, fic isn't even involved, and it's just a bunch of intrusive assholes demanding real info about streamers' personal lives.

The term 'proship' means nothing these days. It's just another crowd of "Only my squicks count" idiots pretending to be morally superior.

[stealingpotatoes]

And I'll Go With You

Summary: After finding out about their long lost family, the Naberries invite Luke & Leia to the family home for a traditional Naboo dinner. Leia’s feeling a bit overwhelmed by it all.

(sequel to my pooja meets the twins comic that got too long (nearly 3k) and turned into a fic instead of a 2nd comic!!) -- [also on ao3!]

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It wasn’t like Luke had been eating badly these past few months. Ever since the Rebellion had become the New Republic, rations had been swapped out for consistent, mostly-hearty meals. There were still battlefields and shoddy basecamps, of course, where the food primarily consisted of ration packs and whatever the base cooks could make with what they’d managed to get through battle lines. Yet those were slowly becoming the exception and not the rule, especially as Luke fell further into the ancient role of Jedi diplomat, helping Leia convince systems to join the New Republic. Battles in politics tended to mean fancy meals with too many people and food Luke couldn’t even begin to understand. Even moreso for him than most; politicians and the like were more than happy to offer their finest meals to the Jedi master who’d blown up the Death Star and supposedly defeated the Emperor. 

But none of that fine cheffery compared to the simple stomach-filling warmth of a home-cooked meal -- especially not a home-cooked meal prepared by his grandmother (he had one of those now!) for him, his sister, and their entire family. 

Luke looked around the Naberrie dining room, joy bubbling in his chest and stomach at the warmly-lit sight. Empty dishes and plates stretched across the long table, that had earlier been filled with all kinds of Naboo dishes Luke had never seen or tried before. At either head of the table, his grandparents sat laughing at something Ryoo, sitting by their grandmother, had just said. At Luke’s side, Leia was enraptured in a quiet conversation with their cousin and her old colleague, Pooja, that Luke imagined he wouldn’t understand even if he was listening. His aunt and uncle, Sola and Darred, were the only ones not seated, circling around the table and dilligently clearing up the wreckage of the family meal.

“Are you sure you don't want some help with that?” Luke asked Sola as she piled up another plate opposite him.  

“Really Luke, it’s alright,” she replied with a kind smile.

Luke half expected an assertion that he was their guest to follow, but none came. The blank space left a sunny feeling in his chest; he wasn’t a guest here, he was family. Completely and utterly welcome, as if he’d been a part of that family his whole life, and not as of a few days ago. 

He was so wrapped up in the small joy that he almost didn’t notice Leia’s quiet excuse me, before she gently placed her napkin down on the table and gracefully got up to leave the dining room. 

Luke doubted the Naberries thought anything of it -- Leia’s years of politics made her far too good at hiding her emotions to let them do otherwise. She was so good that even the strongest of force users might not have been able to sense it through her mental and expressive shields. But Luke was not any old strong force user; he was Leia's twin, and so her secret turmoil blared in his head like a whirring attack alarm. 

He cleared his throat and excused himself too, not sticking around to field anyone’s quick questions (though knowing he should’ve). He wound through the love-filled house, following his senses and memory of the tour they’d been given earlier to reach the starlike presence of his sister. He passed through only two short hallways, both’s walls were filled to the brim with memories he’d never known. Holos of his young cousins, of Sola and Darred on their wedding, and of a brown-haired woman Luke wished he’d known as mom. He’d learn every story behind each of the pictures and keepsakes, some day. 

He reached the back garden door -- a light, wooden thing, as ornately simple as the rest of the house -- and stepped into the early night. 

The garden was hardly cold, but the sudden coolness compared to the hearth-warmth of the house bit at Luke. He stared up for a moment. Three moons hung white in the sky, painting the white house walls and the green of the garden in blueish moonlight. It was strange how it reminded him of home and yet was so different. Tatooine too had three moons, though all it did was turn golden sand a deep, colourless blue or silver. Never the friendly blue of Naboo’s.

Shaking himself from the thought, he easily spotted his sister standing cross-armed in front of a neat, flowery maybe-vegetable patch. Her white, Naboo-style dress with puffy sleeves and a many-layered skirt stood out against the dark of the moonlit garden as if it were a small, fourth moon itself. 

Leia had bought the dress shortly before their diplomatic trip to Naboo for any formal dinners they would be invited to as a part of their Republic negotiations with the Naboo. It was, apparently, very strategically important to acknowledge the culture of those you wished to diplomatise with -- even if Luke and his poor galactic fashion knowledge thought the dress looked no different from any of her Alderaanian dresses. He supposed it was lucky he got to wear his Jedi robes everywhere. 

“Hey,” Luke started, stepping up beside her, careful not to get his boots too close to the pristine flowers. 

Leia smiled up at him, almost hiding her sorrowful expression. “Hi.” 

She glanced back at the windows of the house, where warm, orange light diffused out across the neatly cut lawn, not quite reaching their night-blue patch of the garden. “You didn’t need to come out here for me,” she half-apologised. “It’s cold, you should get back to dinner.” 

“I wanted to make sure you were okay.” 

Leia opened her mouth, but quickly closed it, as if realising I’m fine was a useless excuse to your brother who could sense your emotions. “You didn’t have to do that.” 

“You’re my sister, yes, I do,” Luke smiled with a slight shake of his head. After a breath, e leaned down slightly, trying to better enter Leia’s pointed-down sightline. “Hey, if you want to leave, I’m sure we can come up with some urgent New Republic excuse.” 

Leia was the far better liar, but Luke had the added advantage of being one of the only Jedi in the galaxy. If Leia didn’t come up with some political excuse, Luke could always make something up about the force that nobody could refute. 

Luke shrugged. “We’ve been here half the day, anyway, I’m sure they won’t take it personally if we miss one last course. There’ll be other--” 

“No, no, I want to stay,” Leia shook her head with a sure furrow of her brow. “Really, I just needed some air. I don’t-- I can’t leave this.” 

Luke nodded, hoping she didn’t notice how thankful he was that he didn’t have to go. 

“It’s a nice night to be out.”

“Mm. Naboo’s temperature is quite agreeable,” Leia said, her voice growing politically hollow. 

What were they doing, talking about the weather like they were at some stunted party? Luke wanted to say Leia, we both know I’m bad at this not-talking-about-feelings thing, please just tell me what’s on your mind, but he knew his sister well enough to know a brute-force question like that wouldn’t get much out of her. He needed to wait and let her talk on her own terms. So Luke left a gentle space in the air between them, one that Leia could fill when she was ready. Only quiet night birds and the faint rustle of garden trees were so brave as to interrupt it. 

“Maybe I came out here for more than air…” Leia mumbled, predictably rewarding the silence after some long moments. “It's only that they’re so… I don’t know how to say this.” 

“It’s okay, you can say whatever it is,” he managed through the slight panic entering his mind. Did Leia not like their new family? But they were so nice! They were perfect! 

Clearly noticing the worry knotted in his brow, Leia held her hands up. “No, no, it’s nothing against them. It’s barely even about them as people, it’s just…” 

Luke only watched for her continuation, aware all he could do was try to project his own comfort through the force.

Leia forced a deep breath in and out, clenching her eyes shut for a short moment. “When I lost Alderaan, I lost everyone. I lost my father, my mother-- anyone I’d so much as briefly considered family. I had nobody to call my own. Nobody. And I thought that was going to be it, forever. I thought that I would never have any family ever again.” 

“But then,” a smile crept onto Leia’s lips as she gave Luke a short glance, “you came blasting into my life and you told me about everything, and suddenly I had family-- I had a brother!”

“Blasting is a bit of a strong word…”

Leia levelled him a raised eyebrow. “Is there a weaker word you think fits better, then?”

Luke huffed out a chuckle, remembering how quickly their first meeting had devolved into a blaster fight and a narrow escape of death. “I guess blasting works.”

Leia let out a quiet sigh, her presence brightening. “And suddenly it’s not just you, it’s our grandparents, our aunt, our uncle, our cousins, and it’s all…” Leia trailed off. 

Luke nodded slowly. 

Finding the Naberries had been very different for the two of them, but only now did he appreciate the true difference in what their new family meant for them both. 

He’d had little cause to think of what new family meant to the two of them before, given how easily she accepted Luke as her brother, and how resolutely she refused to accept Vader as her father. Luke had thought it was so simple; that it was just Luke was good in her eyes, Vader was not. He saw now that it ran deeper than just Vader’s evil. 

Luke loved his aunt and uncle, but they’d never claimed to be his parents. They had always left room for Luke to long for a mother and father, to dream of the people they never spoke about. He had despised the reality of his father at first, but come to accept that while Vader was not the father he dreamed of, he was Luke’s father nonetheless. However awkwardly he had filled that lifelong gap.

To Leia, Vader was not only a villain, but an invasive species. A predator, encroaching on the still-sore memory of Bail and Breha Organa. He could not be her father; that position belonged solely and permanently to Bail and nobody else. Vader would only ever be relegated to a ‘birth father’ -- and that was only on days that Leia felt particularly merciful. 

The Naberries, on the other hand, didn’t stand to replace anyone. Padmé Amidala, their mother (force, that was weird to think), may have stood too close to Breha’s position -- but Luke suppose finding out your birth mother was your childhood hero and a founder of the rebellion was very different to finding out your parent was the Emperor’s genocidal attack dog. And even then, she was gone now. She could play little part other than a puzzle piece and a forgotten memory; she did not threaten to take a dead parent's place like the living Vader had once done. 

The rest of the Naberries were purely happy additions to their family. There was no limit to how many aunts and uncles and cousins you would have, and neither twin had ever had grandparents before. Their family had become so full and so big with only a chance meeting of Leia’s old Senate colleague Pooja (and some intervention from an unsettling resourceful woman named Sabé). It had all happened so fast, and it was so wonderful… and so easily overwhelming. 

Even Luke struggled to get his mind over all the sudden expansions to his once-thought-gone family, and his grief over two family members and strange hermit mentor was hardly comparable Leia’s planet-sized grief. He knew it wasn’t, because he had felt the difference for himself, every time she saw a certain plant or a heard a certain phrase. Such little things would bombard their force-bond with the soul-crushing grief that had hit Leia out of seeming nowhere. 

Luke stretched the force out to Leia now, focusing on her shields as uninvasively as he could. Her heavy mantle of grief lay near-dormant, at least, but it was still present in the back of her mind. 

Leia glanced up at him from the flowers, perhaps sensing his search despite her lack of training. If she did, she made no comment. 

Luke put his flesh hand on her shoulder. 

Leia delicately rested her own hand on it, bringing her eyes to firmly meet his. “I am okay. It’s just… it’s…” Leia -- the princess whose educated words never faltered, the general who could muster the greatest of speeches out of thin air -- stuttered.

“It’s a lot to deal with,” Luke offered. 

Leia gave him a nod. 

“But you're not dealing with it alone,” he said, turning around to face Leia in full. After a moment of quiet staring up, she turned to face him too. “I know this isn't all quite the same for me. I know it’s… a different kind of difficult. Still, I’m here. I’m always here for you. And I’m sure all of them are too,” Luke said with a nod back to the house. 

Leia hummed in agreement-acknowledgement.

“I don't think they're expecting you -- expecting either of us -- to be completely and suddenly okay with this. I’m sure it’s almost as much for them as it is for us. But they're our family. We may not know each other very well yet, but they already love us so much.”

Luke knew it so certainly; he could sense all the Naberries’ love for the twins, as strong as the heat of the suns on a Tatooine noon. Mottled by cloudy grief in places, but always oh-so present. It radiated off each of them in waves whenever Luke and Leia were around. 

“I think I’m just trying to say it’s okay,” Luke concluded, losing steam in his speech. “However you’re feeling now, it’s gonna be okay.” 

Silence drifted between them, entirely comfortable and nothing like the eager, questioning one Luke had left earlier.

“Thank you,” Leia smiled finally.

Luke shook his head. “It’s nothing.” 

“No, really, thank you. I don’t think I say it enough, but I love you Luke. I’m-- thank you. For being my brother.” 

Before Luke could even think of replying, Leia crashed into him, wrapping her arms around his robes and shoving her face into his shoulder. Luke caved into the hug, pulling his arms tight around his sister in return. 

“I love you too,” he replied softly. 

They stayed like that for a good few moments, fused together like twin stars, basking in each other’s presence as if they truly were so. The galaxy seemed so utterly at peace in the garden around their tight-armed cradling, like it had never faced a single war or fight, like Luke and Leia had always been one and never been ripped apart by the tragedy of circumstance. 

Luke sensed Pooja’s presence -- joyous, if a little timid -- before he heard her treading over the grass towards him and his twin. The two of them pulled apart to face Pooja at the same time, arms still half-pressed together. 

Pooja came to a slow stop as they did, standing still in the bright square of warm window-light. It painted the the cream of her dress a loving orange and made her half-up curls near-glow with its source behind her. 

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt…” she started serenely, half-smiling at her cousins standing shoulder-to-shoulder in the blue near-dark. 

Leia shook her head, moving towards Pooja. “We were just about to come back in anyway.” 

Pooja brightened, bringing her hands to an almost-clap. “Perfect timing! I came to tell you Grandma’s about to serve up dessert. It’s cake, her speciality.” 

“Sounds wonderful,” Luke’s mouth watered at the thought of more of Jobal Naberrie’s cooking, despite the protests from his already-full stomach. 

“Not as wonderful as it tastes. Now come on!” Pooja over-gestured. “If we don't hurry, Ryoo will have eaten all of it before we get there!”

Leia laughed with all the gentle warmth of the Naboo sun. “We’re coming Pooja, don't worry!”

They followed their hurried cousin back to the nearby door, forming a line as they reached the portico of the entrance.

“I'm so happy we found you both,” Pooja admitted quietly as she held the door open for her cousins. The two of them stepped back into gentle embrace of the family home, something sweet hanging in the warm air. 

Leia gave Luke a quick glance before she turned to Pooja; “I’m happy we found you too.”

#luke skywalker #leia organa #pooja naberrie #sola naberrie #jobal naberrie #ruwee naberrie #ryoo naberrie #darred naberrie #star wars #potes wrotes #skywalker twins #space twins #skywalkers & naberries

[birbwell]

wrote two more chapters for the PotE drabble collection. it is good practice methinks

#birbwellspeaks #my writing is rusty forever and ever but better to have Something Meh than nothing at all

[jerepars]

My QOTS 5x09 live reactions:

Oscar is in the “previously on”. Oscar x Jeresa team up?

SO MUCH Kote in the “previously on”. Whyyyyyy? We already had to sit through their episodes once, isn’t that enough?

James taking off that ski mask was somehow really hot

Is it bad if I want to skip through this suburbia Kote stuff and just get to the Jeresa team up lol

“Like the devil himself he lives in the shadows” uhhhhh that was a little…YA fiction-esque. Lol who wrote that line and are they serious.

If there were two very attractive people sitting across from me, dressed like yin and yang, promising me protection like that…I think I’d be very confused LOL

Konstantin Federov? Is Kostya like, a Russian hockey player? Did he play in Detroit with the Russian Five? I am howling.

an INSTRUMENT TO DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY lol lol lol

again Devon leaves the room without being a blatantly obvious Jeresa shipper. Boooooooo.

suburbia suburbia why can’t we do away with ya?

what happened to don’t come out until I tell you to?! Do you understand the consequences of death or not?

oh good job just show the neighbors you guys have a fucking arsenal in your kitchen that’s not gonna be suspicious at all

“I am a soldado, I will never put my guard down” really REALLY we all know that’s not true this is how you guys got banished to Little Rock in the first place

“it was a big raccoon” Raccoons are adorable they look like little bandits leave them alone

Jeresa are sitting ~very close~!!!!

“in the DR” As in, in the Dominican Republic? Do people really say that? Sounds like I’m watching Big Brother and they’re talking about the Diary Room LOL

Wait what Teresa is doing coke right as James leaves the room? What if he forgot something and comes back??? Does he know? Has this just been accepted by him? This is never going to be addressed, is it?

Ooh, theory time. Is the coke...not coke? Is it something else and Teresa has been building up a tolerance to it so she can appear dead?

“I know you want things to go back to normal” BACK to normal? When were things normal? Why does half the episode have to be spent on these two?

“I don’t want to live like this anymore” You…you...WHAT? Why did you join a drug cartel? You BEGGED back in with them. Proved yourself. Worked too hard, isn’t that what you said? What did you think it was going to be like?

Do we, the audience, have to suffer through the garage sale, too?

HOW LONG IS THIS SCENE WHY ARE WE STILL IN SUBURBIA

Yeah snoop through your neighbor’s mail when the whole neighborhood is around THAT’S NOT SUSPICIOUS AT ALL

oh it’s his little girl’s team now we have to suffer through Pote’s redemption for his misogynist sexist comments from earlier in the season

Yo, why are we only meeting Domingo now? I like this guy. He’s fun. Plus he’s got cool piercings.

aaaaand he’s dead.

Oh, okay, not dead. But injured.

YO I LIKE DOMINGO

CHICHO HOW COULD YOU CALL POTE THIS IS NOT HOW I RAISED YOU

omg is KA going to tell Pote to go back to Teresa where he’s happy because she doesn’t want his spirit to die? If so, I think I might want to die.

I don’t need another tender Kote moment JFC MAKE IT STOP

BRICKS!!!! KISS TIME!!!!

“You wouldn’t let me do it, so why should I let you?” Dead. Dead. DEAAAADDDDD. 😭😭😭

I love you. SAME. (I still wish T had said it first)

So no conversation. Just straight to the sex? Okay. I guess we’ll roll with it.

The way he pauses to tuck her hair away from her face and looks at her all starry-eyed when she’s on top of him. Dead. Dead. Dead dead dead.

And then they SMILE. Can you be more dead than dead? I think that’s where I’m at. 👻

Sidenote: I don’t think we’ve ever seen this much of J’s tattoos up close. This is glorious. Lol yeah because there’s sex happening and I’m looking at the details of the tattoos hahaha

The hand on the thigh to end it before the camera pans and then fade to black. That’s great. I will accept it.

She’s touching his arm in the morning after scene. There is SUNLIGHT. This is the best lit Jeresa scene of this show’s existence, lol. Holy shit.

When does she tell him she loves him? This is obviously setting us up for a goodbye.

LOLOLOLOL James is talking about weapons and making sure she’s well equipped and she’s giving him heart eyes instead sooo is she about to say it?

SHE SAID IT!!!!!!!!!

Jeresa making out. Jeresa getting it on. Jeresa kissing after a love confession. In one episode. ❤️ 🥰 🎊 💞 💓 😘 🎇 🔥 Bask in the glory. Savor it. Let’s all enjoy this and rewatch and reblog gifs etc etc etc because it’s all we’re ever going to get. 🎁

“She’s not going in without us.” “I’ll go.” OoOoOoOo this is all part of the plan isn’t it?

But when did you have time to plan this when you spent all night making out and having sex. You must have been spent. Did you multitask in bed? 😂

Scared Puppy James :( :( :(

Wait. WAIT. This is very plot holey. Kostya didn’t know anything about Teresa’s business? He’s apparently the biggest bad-ass there is and he didn’t even vet her? He just let Oksana handle it? WHATTTTTTT

The tequila isn’t poisoned. She put something on the shot glass, probably? That’s why they had Chicho talk about how Oksana was killed at the beginning. Right?

So Kostya has been elusive all season. Fucked everything up. And he dies as soon as he meets her? WHAT. Just like that. This is so deflating.

Uhhhh, listen, I get it, Teresa is obviously gonna make it out of here. But why have Kostya’s guys not shot her in the head yet? This is very unrealistic. They wouldn’t hesitate. She would be on the ground in a second.

WHAT. NO. WHY IS POTE HERE. GO AWAY. YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO STEP UP, CHICHO.

I wish Pote had died. A final sacrifice for his family. That would have been his redemption. And I’m not apologizing for anything I just said. Full offense. Not sorry.

“You had enough on your plate.” Are you KIDDING ME? Yo WHO THE FUCK DOES CHICHO THINK HE IS? Making decisions for the boss? That’s not…that wouldn’t happen, helpful or not. Teresa would kill HIM. Know your place. Wow how nice of the writers to screw Chicho up.

“I’m only legit until Devon decides I’m not” So…okay. Jeresa have definitely talked about Devon and made the sniper plan now, right? If she’s saying this?

“Can you shut down operations in New Orleans and meet us when you’re done?” “Of course.” That’s the goodbye, isn’t it? We’re still on track for the sniper plan?

“When everything’s settled I’ll send for you.” Uh. Maybe KA is safer in Little Rock. But you’re gonna leave her out in the wind for an indefinite amount of time? OKAY.

“He may not be as nice” LOL

Omg this is like the most continuous dialogue James has had all season and it’s wasted on DEVON

Personally not a fan of this very predictable James-was-still-under-Devon’s-wing-the-whole-time because I think it’s lazy writing. Very lazy. BUT I bet in James’ mind, he’s for sure been pretending and this whole time whenever he’s been sitting boo-boo faced in the corner moping, he’s been planning out how to tell Teresa and going over the plan of how she’s going to “die” and they’re going to disappear. So he could tell her and they could execute it perfectly when the right time presented itself. Right? And that’s all going to be shoved into like the last few minutes of the finale, isn’t it?

Ah okay so sniper James is going to shoot Teresa through the window to make Devon think he followed orders. They WERE multitasking in bed. 😂😂

I knew it. I fucking knew it. It’s exactly the ending to this episode we all expected.

Finale preview: soooooooo Teresa is barely in it because she’s “dead” and we have to watch Pote carry out her “wishes” for most of it until it’s safe for her to come alive again? COME ON.

#qots spoilers #qots 5x09 #qots #queen of the south #teresa mendoza #james valdez #jeresa #pote galvez #kelly anne van awken #kote #boaz jimenez #devon finch #chicho nolastname #i have opinions they are unpopular

[ablindingsupernova]

QotS 5.08

So I actually wrote a lot of this on Friday and I’m only now getting around to finishing it and posting...

I’m gonna apologize in advance as this post will echo quite a bit of other people’s reactions to this episode. Hazards of waiting so long to post I guess. And this is a long one...

- Kote:  As much as I've enjoyed Pote and Kelly Anne in the past, they have gotten way too much screen time. And to be honest, I don't really care about their story. I'd like to see them both survive, but at this point, they're pretty far down the list of arcs that I want to see resolved before the finale. If the point of Kelly Anne’s pregnancy and Kote’s impending parenthood signals a new/different life, new beginnings, etc. and serves as a parallel to Teresa’s journey, then we should’ve had more balanced storytelling. I haven’t seen enough of the impact their changing circumstances is having on Teresa besides very surface reactions. And since this is HER story, we should’ve gotten more. And if that’s not what the Kote arc is supposed to be, then I feel like Teresa’s character evolution was sacrificed to elevate a storyline that no one is really invested in. 

- Boaz:  My dude was dropping truth bombs all over the place. But for someone who claims to be neither crazy nor stupid, not covering the waterfront of their meet location in anticipation of Teresa's arrival was pretty dumb. Boaz knew that she had security up the wazoo - former Mossad, no less - why wasn't he expecting her to try something?

- Jeresa: As we've had way too much of Kote, we've had way too little of Jeresa. Which is a weakness in the narrative, as their relationship is a pivotal one in Teresa's journey. We know how James feels about some of the choices she's made and all we've seen is one brief conversation lasting less than 30 seconds. And as for the reveal about Castel being a CIA asset- I'm not surprised by Teresa's dawning realization of "You were protecting me". When James explained his reasons for working for Devon in 5.01, he framed it as solely an issue of his unfinished business with Devon. James had to make things right, or Devon would keep coming which would, by extension put Teresa at risk. But now she understands that James' sacrifice wasn't JUST about that. Now she gets that James was protecting her and her business, entirely separate from his issues with Devon. And as much as I love these moments between them, it isn’t enough. And this isn’t just because of shipping- James remembers her as she was, the one who wanted to do things differently. He sought her out because she made him believe that it was possible. And his absence meant that he didn’t experience her slow slide towards full queenpin. So he’s as much of a reflection of her former life as the visions of her old self that have begun appearing. 

- Devon: I loved Devon's return. As much as I feel like I should hate Devon for what he's doing to Teresa, he has a point. Teresa is a criminal and he has been doing her a favor by looking the other way. Sure, his reasons for doing so are selfish, but Teresa has still been able to operate without interference from the CIA and taking out another criminal seems fair in exchange. BUT, why did he wait? If Kostya is that much of a threat and Teresa Devon’s only shot at flushing him out, then why didn’t he act sooner? He had to know what was happening, had to know that Boaz was going after her, and Teresa was almost killed. TWICE. Biding his time until Teresa sought his help was extremely risky and frankly, stupid. He could’ve rolled up before that and made it clear that he was cutting her off and the only way to get out alive would be to kill Kostya. 

And of course I loved the way he looked at James after he made that comment about her family. He has to know how James feels about Teresa and after the debacle at the winery, he has a pretty good idea of how Teresa feels about James.

- Oksana: Teresa saw herself in Oksana, in what she was trying to do for herself in this business. And that business killed her. I was sorry to see her go, but I have less of an attachment to her than I do King George.

- Teresa: I feel like she’s reacting to ongoing threats rather than considering what her actions have done and who she has become. And with only two episodes left, I think it’s going to be more of the former and slim to none of the latter. 

I hope there’s more to that teaser in the promo in the next episode but I’m also managing my expectations. There was actually quite a bit more to this write-up but I decided to wait until the end and consider the season as a whole. And since this is already A LOT, I figured I’d also spare any followers even more of my blather. lol

#queen of the south #qots #my thoughts

[calliopecalling]

QOTS Rewatch - 5x01 - Las Fantasmas

Ok so: I wrote long episode debriefs last year when the show aired live, so I'm not going to write entire new metas for them again. I know I'm extra, but... I'm not that extra. Instead, I'll just link to those each time and add any new or updated thoughts. So go read that to get my original, unfiltered thoughts and opinions on this episode lol.

My few additional thoughts on this one are below the cut!

I was actually impressed as I re-read my original debrief that my impressions of the episode haven't much changed, even knowing how the rest of the season unfolds, how it ends, etc. A few things that jumped out at me:

I'd forgotten I'd made this point, but when I re-read it I was like oh yeah that's so true GOOD POINT, PAST EVA. And that is the catch-22 she finds herself in that she'd already made the mistake in the past of doubting James and letting that doubt come between them and make their relationship come crashing down. She can't do that again. She knows that she can't. AND YET, she knows she has to do her due diligence. So she takes someone whose judgment she implicitly trusts--George--and gives him the responsibility of checking out James's story. Teresa is not a disinterested party, she literally cannot be the one to do that. But George is the only one whose assessment she can trust. She already knows Pote cannot be trusted to make those kinds of judgment calls. But she trusts George. I absolutely think that her letting George handle this was the right call, and she knew that George would not kill James. George knew that George would not kill James. But he had to do the due diligence, and he was the only one who could do it.

I wrote: "I recall that at the beginning of Season 4 T was like 'if we go legit we won’t have to work with people like Boaz who kill their own family' and now he’s one of her trusted right-hand men." HA. I like to think the writers knew even at the beginning of season 4 that they would have Boaz betray her in the end, so that that line would be legitimate 5x06 foreshadowing.

What didn't age well: my certainty that we'd be in for another season-long slow burn. I mean, I wasn't totally wrong, but 5x02 was such a shock to the system after 5x01. I was so sure we'd have to suffer until at least 5x07 before Teresa so much as showed James any kind of emotion! I'm very glad they didn't do it that way 😂

LOLing also at the fact that I couldn't remember the entire banker arc from season 4. Granted, I hadn't finished rewatching season 4 when 5x01 aired (I think I got as far as 4x05?) but really shows how unmemorable so much of season 4 was.

It strikes me on rewatch how funny it is that they’re at her safe house bc clearly someone dangerous is after her and yet she still comes and goes from the bar without any obvious additional security 🤣🤔 This show’s biggest weakness from the beginning has been that kind of incongruity.

I wrote: "But it’s going to be really hard for her to reconcile that this path she’s on might not be worth it just to get to where she wants to go. And her relationship with James is already clearly and immediately reminding her of something she’s reluctant to unearth." YUP.

#qots s5 #5x01 #2021 rewatch #txt post #qots reaction post #qots meta #final comment: holy mother of god Teresa's hair this episode #all season really #*dreamy sigh*

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No more waiting!

Mirror, mirror on the wall ... Reveal the Reflected Wish.

The mirror reveals the Reflection of the Wish: When you are tired of waiting for the right moment to talk about your feelings and kiss them in public (feat. Azul, Leona & Malleus)

Female Reader

✨ Ela sempre tentou esperar o momento certo, mas que nunca chegava;

✨ Ele estava sempre ocupado lidando com clientes que querem fazer contratos, gerenciando o Mostro Lounge, suas responsabilidades como líder de dormitório ou como estudante;

✨ Ou sempre quando uma aparente chance surge o mundo parece se voltar contra ela e algo acontece arruinando sua oportunidade;

✨ Até que enfim o último fio de paciência estalou;

✨ Em um ato impulsivo eis que ela o puxa pelo colarinho e o beija;

✨ Quando ele percebe o que aconteceu, o tritão perde a capacidade de pensar enquanto seu rosto se torna mais escarlate mais que as rosas vermelhas de Heatslabyul;

✨ Quando os lábios deles se separam é tarde demais para voltar atrás;

✨ AzulAshengrotto.exe parou de funcionar;

✨ Se ele conseguir se recompor ele vai fingir uma tosse antes de nervosamente ajustar os óculos;

✨ Ele está tentando manter a calma, mas internamente está gritando histericamente;

✨ (Inner Azul: *gritando histericamente* OH PELA BRUXA DO MAR! [NOME] ME BEIJOU! Acalme-se! Acalme-se, Azul! Continue agindo NORMALMENTE!)

✨ Ele questiona as ações dela tentando “repreendê-la” e exigindo explicações;

✨ Se no que restou de coragem dela ainda for o suficiente é a chance de confessar os sentimentos que ela tem;

✨ Azul permanece em silêncio e provavelmente está entre procurar seu pote de polvo ou desmaiar;

✨ (Imagine esta cena cômica: Azul desmaiou e escreveu o nome dela com a tinta que ele acidentalmente cuspiu dando aparência de uma cena de assassinato);

✨ Bônus: Caso ele sinta o mesmo por ela, ele tentaria formar frases coerentes e dizer a ama também.

✨ She always tried to wait for the right moment, but it never came;

✨ He was always busy dealing with clients who want to make contracts, managing the Mostro Lounge, his responsibilities as a dorm leader or student;

✨ Or always when an apparent chance arises, the world seems to turn against it and something happens to ruin your opportunity;

✨ At last the last thread of patience broke;

✨ In an impulsive act, behold, she pulls him by the collar and kisses him;

✨ When he realizes what happened, the newt loses the ability to think while his face becomes more scarlet than Heatslabyul's red roses;

✨ When their lips part, it is too late to turn back;

✨ AzulAshengrotto.exe has stopped working;

✨ If he manages to compose himself he will fake a cough before nervously adjusting his glasses;

✨ He's trying to stay calm, but internally he's screaming hysterically;

✨ (Inner Azul: * screaming hysterically * OH FOR THE SEA WITCH! [NAME] KISSED ME! Calm down! Calm down, Azul! Keep acting NORMALLY!)

✨ He questions her actions by trying to "scold her" and demanding explanations;

✨ If what remains of her courage is still enough, it is the chance to confess the feelings she has;

✨ Azul remains silent and is probably between looking for his octopus pot or passing out;

✨ (Imagine this comical scene: Blue passed out and wrote her name with the ink he accidentally spat on giving the appearance of a murder scene);

✨ Bonus: If he feels the same way about her, he would try to form coherent phrases and say love too.

✨ Siempre trató de esperar el momento adecuado, pero nunca llegó;

✨ Siempre estuvo ocupado tratando con clientes que querían hacer contratos, administrando el Mostro Lounge, sus responsabilidades como líder de dormitorio o estudiante;

✨ O siempre que surge una aparente oportunidad, el mundo parece volverse en su contra y sucede algo que arruina tu oportunidad;

✨ Por fin se rompió el último hilo de paciencia;

✨ En un acto impulsivo, he aquí, ella lo tira del cuello y lo besa;

✨ Cuando se da cuenta de lo sucedido, el tritón pierde la capacidad de pensar mientras su rostro se vuelve más escarlata que las rosas rojas de Heatslabyul;

✨ Cuando sus labios se abren, es demasiado tarde para volverse;

✨ AzulAshengrotto.exe ha dejado de funcionar;

✨ Si logra componerse, fingirá toser antes de ajustarse nerviosamente las gafas;

✨ Está tratando de mantener la calma, pero internamente está gritando histéricamente;

✨ (Azul interior: * gritando histéricamente * ¡OH POR LA BRUJA DEL MAR! [NOMBRE] ¡ME BESÓ! ¡Cálmate! ¡Cálmate, Blue! ¡Sigue actuando NORMALMENTE!)

✨ Él cuestiona sus acciones tratando de "regañarla" y exigiendo explicaciones;

✨ Si lo que le queda de coraje aún es suficiente, es la oportunidad de confesar los sentimientos que tiene;

✨ Azul permanece en silencio y probablemente esté entre buscar su olla de pulpo o desmayarse;

✨ (Imagínese esta escena cómica: Blue se desmayó y escribió su nombre con la tinta que escupió accidentalmente al dar la apariencia de una escena de asesinato);

✨ Bono: si él siente lo mismo por ella, intentaría formar frases coherentes y decir amor también.

✨ Com esse leão preguiçoso e arrogante parecia que nunca havia um bom momento;

✨ E que inferno seria se ele gosta de provoca-la;

✨ Poderia haver vezes que ela ficava magoada com as provocações;

✨ Ela teria que tomar a iniciativa e num gesto impulsivo beijá-lo;

✨ Leona pode ter se surpreendido (e os alunos de Savanaclaw estão surtando ou com medo que acabe de uma maneira muito ruim);

✨ Uma vez que o beijo acabe, Leona vai mantê-la em um aperto de ferro e não deixar a pequena herbívora escapar facilmente;

✨ Leona não vai deixar essa passar e provocar o quão atrevida essa herbívora está sendo contra um leão;

✨ (Tenho certeza que ele sabia sobre os sentimentos dela, mas estamos falando desse leão idiota e arrogante então ele estava se divertindo ao provoca-la);

✨ Caso ele corresponda aos sentimentos dela... Bem, boa sorte para atura-lo! 

✨ Ele terá ainda mais motivos para provoca-la.

✨ With this lazy and arrogant lion, it seemed that there was never a good time;

✨ And what the hell it would be if he likes to tease her;

✨ There could be times when she was hurt by the provocations;

✨ She would have to take the initiative and in an impulsive gesture kiss him;

✨ Leona may have been surprised (and Savanaclaw's students are freaking out or afraid it will end in a very bad way);

✨ Once the kiss is over, Leona will keep her in an iron grip and not let the little herbivore escape easily;

✨ Leona will not let this pass and provoke how bold this herbivore is being against a lion;

✨ (I'm sure he knew about her feelings, but we're talking about this stupid and arrogant lion so he was having fun teasing her);

✨ If he responds to her feelings ... Well, good luck to put up with it!

✨ He will have even more reason to provoke her.

✨ Con este león perezoso y arrogante, parecía que nunca había un buen momento;

✨ Y qué diablos sería si le gustaba burlarse de ella;

✨ Puede haber ocasiones en las que las provocaciones la hirieran;

✨ Tendría que tomar la iniciativa y en un gesto impulsivo besarlo;

✨ Es posible que Leona se haya sorprendido (y los estudiantes de Savanaclaw se están volviendo locos o temen que termine de una manera muy mala);

✨ Una vez que termine el beso, Leona te mantendrá en un puño de hierro y no dejará que el pequeño herbívoro se escape fácilmente;

✨ Leona no dejará pasar esto y provocará cuán audaz es este herbívoro contra un león;

✨ (Estoy seguro de que sabía de sus sentimientos, pero estamos hablando de este león estúpido y arrogante, así que se estaba divirtiendo bromeando con ella);

✨ Si él responde a sus sentimientos ... Bueno, ¡buena suerte para aguantarlo! Tendrá aún más razones para provocarte.

✨ Embora os dois se dessem bem, seria difícil encontrar um bom momento;

✨ Ela não teria medo dele e sim de arruinar tudo entre eles;

✨ Mas sua consciência dizia que seria bom fazer algo do que se arrepender de não ter feito enquanto tinha a oportunidade;

✨ Ela precisou de muita meditação para acalmá-la antes do grande momento;

✨ Então seria arriscar tudo e puxá-lo para um beijo;

✨ (Sebek está gritando coisas incoerentes ao fundo enquanto Lilia se diverte com a situação e Silver está sonolento demais para perceber o que está acontecendo);

✨ Malleus está confuso com o ato dela (e ele é tão inocente e inexperiente em vários sentimentos);

✨ Uma vez ele pergunta sobre o acontecimento ela tinha que ir até o final;

✨ Uma vez que ela confessa sobre os sentimentos dela, Malleus precisa de um tempo para entender;

✨ O que é esse sentimento reverberando nele? Felicidade?

✨ Ele passou muitos anos sendo temido e evitado que é tudo tão novo para ele;

✨ Pela primeira vez ele se sentiu tão amado além de suas poucas amizades;

✨ Bônus: Caso ele retribua os sentimentos dela há um dragão feliz se apegando a ela como um filhote alegre e ao mesmo tempo carente.

✨ (Agora que os status dela foram atualizados de amiga para namorada, Sebek passa a chamá-la de “Jovem Dama” e se torna um cão de guarda mesmo que Malleus não peça. Ele agora tem a missão auto imposta de proteger a amada de seu jovem mestre).

✨ Although the two got along well, it would be difficult to find a good time;

✨ She would not be afraid of him, but of ruining everything between them;

✨ But her conscience said it would be good to do something he regretted not having done while he had the opportunity;

✨ It took a lot of meditation to calm her down before the big moment;

✨ So it would be risking everything and pulling you in for a kiss;

✨ (Sebek is shouting incoherent things in the background while Lilia is having fun with the situation and Silver is too sleepy to notice what's going on);

✨ Malleus is confused by her act (and he is so innocent and inexperienced in many feelings);

✨ Once he asks about the event she had to go to the end;

✨ Once she confesses about her feelings, Malleus needs time to understand;

✨ What is that feeling reverberating in him? Happiness?

✨ He spent many years being feared and avoided that everything is so new to him;

✨ For the first time, he felt so loved beyond his few friendships;

✨ Bonus: If he reciprocates her feelings, there is a happy dragon clinging to her like a cheerful and needy cub.

✨ (Now that her status has been updated from friend to girlfriend, Sebek goes on to call her “Young Lady” and becomes a watchdog even if Malleus doesn't ask. He now has a self-imposed mission to protect his Young Lord's beloved partner).

✨ Aunque los dos se llevaban bien, sería difícil encontrar un buen momento;

✨ No le tendría miedo a él, sino a arruinar todo entre ellos;

✨ Pero su conciencia le dijo que sería bueno hacer algo que lamentaba no haber hecho mientras tuviera la oportunidad;

✨ Se necesitó mucha meditación para calmarla antes del gran momento;

✨ Entonces sería arriesgarlo todo y atraerte para darte un beso;

✨ (Sebek está gritando cosas incoherentes de fondo mientras Lilia se divierte con la situación y Silver tiene demasiado sueño para darse cuenta de lo que está pasando);

✨ Malleus está confundido por su acto (y es tan inocente e inexperto en muchos sentidos);

✨ Una vez que le pregunta sobre el evento, ella tuvo que ir hasta el final;

✨ Una vez que confiesa sus sentimientos, Malleus necesita tiempo para comprender;

✨ ¿Qué es ese sentimiento que reverbera en él? ¿Felicidad?

✨ Pasó muchos años siendo temido y evitado que todo sea tan nuevo para él;

✨ Por primera vez, se sintió tan amado más allá de sus pocas amistades;

✨ Bonificación: si él responde a sus sentimientos, hay un dragón feliz que se aferra a ella como un cachorro alegre y necesitado.

✨ (Ahora que su estatus ha sido actualizado de amiga a novia, Sebek pasa a llamarla "Joven Dama" y se convierte en un perro guardián incluso si Malleus no pregunta. Ahora tiene una misión autoimpuesta para proteger a la futura reina de Valle de las espinas).

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QOTS Episode 7 Live Reaction AKA Zoë is an oblivious duckling who focuses on wardrobe and nerds out on set design to the point where she doesn’t realized obvious foreshadowing :)

1. Okay are we gunna talk about the ~hot people montage~ that opened the episode.... off to a wonderful start

2. Splitting it up with murder to stop me from malfunctioning was a good idea now I’m crying over George again :’(

3. Pote and Kelly anne color coordinating 🥺

4. POTES GETTING HIS RESTAURANT AND IM GUNNA SOB THIS IS SO WHOLESOME SO FAR IM TERRIFIED

5. Pote being called “Love bug” is my favorite type of character development

6. “I’m gunna chose to be optimistic” - both me and Kelly Anne as this episode started far too nicely meaning it’s about to become a bloodbath

7. Teresa Mendoza is hot.

8. James looking her up and down because he believes in point 7 above (I’m a simp, he’s a simp, I love it here)

9. I’m gunna fucking lose it if they try and pretend George’s death was an accident or he just went missing or some ba my boy DESERVES BETTER

10. I’ve always hated Boaz now I’m just mad

11. James sweetie you’re staring. I mean same. But it’s getting weird

11b. I love that he’s completely accepted the fact that he’s in love with Teresa and is now just suffering

12. Pregnant Kelly Anne desperately longing for coffee is so absolutely adorable and I love her she’s gonna be such a cute and wonderful mother 🥺

13. Kelly Anne and Pote both in black pants blue shirt, James and Teresa both in white top black pants THIS IS WHAT IM LIVING FOR PROPS TO THE COSTUME TEAM YOU ARE DOING THE ~MOST~

14. “LIKE YOURE THE GOD DAMN QUEEN OF THE SOUTH” NAME DROP YES FINALLY

15. Power couple Jeresa in meetings is literally my favorite thing ever they’re so cool and beautiful and color coordinated and I just want them to be happy

16. Me genuinely terrified they were about to kill James after the Teresa jumping out to save one of her men comment

17. Father Pote oh my god I love him I LOVE HIM “until he’s done baking” this is too wholesome I’m a literal puddle on the floor and Kelly Anne just laughing because he’s being adorable and she’s all happy and oh my gosh shes been through too much only a few seasons ago she was killing her abusive husband I LOVE THIS GIRL SO MUCH SHES HAPPY SO IM HAPPY

18. If James doesn’t cool it with this self sacrificial bs I’m not gunna survive to the season finale

19. “That gun in your waist band does not give you power” who ever wrote this episode 👏

20. I love Dumas. I don’t expect him to survive the season but his development is amazing we love to see someone go through trauma and then reevaluate their morals

21. I’m losing it over these parents to be. Pote ranting about how difficult it is to cook for an expectant mother and then melting and going dead silent when the babies heart beat came 🥺

22. IF THEY KILL POTE

23. The. Parallels. The way it used to be queen Teresa who gave little messages and now it’s her badass younger self wowowowow I love it this is amazing they’re closing the show sooo beautifully

24. The way I was scared of everyone dying other than Kellie Anne....

Final thoughts: flawless, somehow adorably wholesome yet also full of funky plot twists and angst. Jeresa are gunna be the DEATH OF ME. Those longing looks. The way they keep having unspoken conversations and ending spoken ones abruptly because they know they can only cope with so much emotion before they literally jump each other’s bones... I. Love. Them.

#queen of the south season 5 #queen of the south #qots #spoiler #qots spoilers #james valdez #teresa mendoza #pote galvez #kelly anne van awken #peter gadiot #alice braga #jeresa #qots jeresa