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FLP POETRY BOOK OF THE DAY: Torch the Empty Fields by Mary Jo LoBello Jerome – NWVS #171

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Torch the Empty Fields is a reflective collection that reveals the voices of mothers, daughters, friends, partners, and even the earth Herself. Examining personal and social loss and celebrating survival, these are wry and graceful poems of witness and new beginnings. When you torch the fields, the new growth is lush; the narrative poems in this deft work explore those burning struggles and the wonders of women’s lives.

Mary Jo LoBello Jerome, poet, editor, freelance writer, and teacher, is a Pennsylvania Poet Laureate from Bucks County. She edited Fire Up the Poems, an anthology of creative writing prompts for teachers (2021) and is currently a poetry co-editor of Schuylkill Valley Journal.

Mary Jo’s writing has been published widely. She has lived and taught in her native New Jersey, Rotterdam, and Tokyo and has settled in southeastern PA with her husband.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR Torch the Empty Fields by Mary Jo LoBello Jerome – NWVS #171

While lamenting all we’ve recently lost, the poems collected in Mary Jo LoBello Jerome’s Torch the Empty Fields are themselves fertile with language’s powers: to proclaim, confess, luxuriate, and linger over what we might miss if we’re not paying close enough attention. Phenomena such as “the pulsing tiny body of a ruby/-throated hummingbird, small enough to nest/ in a lichen-lined tablespoon” hop into these poems playfully, colorfully, as if to say look at me, remember my fleeting form. A witness as well as a listener, at turns both irreverent and sweet, Mary LoBello Jerome is truly a poet to watch.

–Ethel Rackin, author of Evening and Crafting Poems and Stories: A Guide to Creative Writing

What good company these poems are. Mary Jo LoBello Jerome shares with us lovely and cherished things: a keepsake stone, a glorious field of tulips, a curl of lemon in a cocktail. When she engages troubling things, she does so with slantwise grace. Above all, she celebrates devotedness and companionship, what it means for people to be near and faithful to each other. We listen to a mother’s final instructions to her daughter. We see a couple setting up their first apartment, older women gathering for a game of cards, a wife in bed with her husband contemplating both spiritual and earthly things. These poems are good friends. Stay with them and visit them often.

–Lynn Levin, author of The Minor Virtues

“The world begins with you,” Mary Jo LoBello Jerome says in Torch the Empty Fields, which borrows from Virgil’s Georgics, a poetic guidebook to bucolic life. The poet deftly braids stories of women like daffodil leaves—from the world-wise speaker, who “search[es] for the mystical everywhere,” to friends, mothers, daughters, even the earth Herself. Jerome’s voice, by turns wry, humble, and reverent, always carries the insight of experience and the subtle flourish of a consummate hand, one able (and one we trust) to deftly lead us from a “grey Dutch sky” to a field of flowers “dazzling and giddy with color,” mere lines later. She asks us “what remains? / What will be remembered?” And we realize the answer—that these poems, seeds sown with skill and care, will bear us succulent fruit for generations.

–Chad Frame, author of Little Black Book.

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WWE Monday Night Raw 9/30/19 Review

The Raw season premier was an up and down show. There were some really fun moments, and even a few good matches, but it was dragged down a lot by some stupid shenanigans. Lots of the interviews were weird, and the storylines were kinda off putting. Plus, we didn’t add any new matches to Hell in a Cell. The show is on Sunday, and we don’t know anything about it. Let’s hope smackdown goes into overdrive to fix that, because it seems like Raw has been building to this show rather than their pay per view. I thought my complaints about this last week were kinda invalid, because the seeds were sown, but those seeds were then harvested and eaten on this show, so I will now complain about the lack of build. This is my review of this week’s Raw.

This was the first time in what has felt like years that we’ve seen the theme song, and I loved that. The new set looked pretty cool too, although the screen kinda bled into the stage which looked odd. Dio Madden, Vic Joseph and Jerry the King Lawler were on commentary.

Rey Mysterio Promo: Rey came out to like no noise, so I’m not sure if that is because of some problems micing the crowd. He thanked Dominic for getting him to this point, and promised him that he’d bring the universal Championship home. However, Brock Lesnar quickly came out to interrupt, with Paul Heyman in tow. Heyman was about to start talking, and Mysterio grabbed the mic out of his hand. He was about to start talking, but Lesnar picked him up and nailed two F5′s and left Mysterio laying. Lesnar looked out at Dominic in the crowd, and the two actually had a bit of a stare down, before Lesnar walked out of the ring and approached him at the barricade. Dominic slowly sat down in his chiar, but he pulled Dominic over the barricade, and launched him into the post, and even slammed him on the ground. Then Lesnar threw him in the ring, and gave him problably the biggest German suplex I’ve ever seen him give. He was going to attack him more, but Mysterio grabbed his leg, and ate another F5 for it. He almost left the ring, but he came back to give a couple huge vertical suplexes as Heyman begged him to stop. Lesnar was about to walk away again, but opted to get back in the ring, kick the crap out of some of the medical personal taking a look at Mysterio and Dominic, before throwing the two of them out of the ring very violently. We later saw that Dominic pulled a stretcher job as Mysterio comforted him and say sorry.

Grade: B+. Obviously, the promo was fine at best, but this was about the attack. This was incredibly violent in all the ring ways. On smaller guys like Rey and Dominic, Lesnar’s moves look so dangerous and awesome. Dominic sold well for his first time, but I don’t know how much of that was selling and how much of that was just a goddamned monster throwing a kid around and the kid crying. But that was a great looking German suplex, and I really hope that Dominic is okay. Highlight of the night.

Alexa Bliss vs. Sasha Banks: both ladies were out without anyone in their corner, and Bliss actually got some pyro for her entrance, which was cool. Becky Lynch came out to join commentary as well, and she was delightful right away. In the ring, things started with Banks being super vicious. After Banks put Bliss down in the corner, she hopped up on the turnbuckle and started to yell at Lynch on commentary. Lynch promptly hopped up and yelled right back, which allowed Bliss to hit a sunset flip powerbomb for a near fall. Banks then started to absolutely destroy Bliss as the went to the outside, laying in strike after strike and even trapping Bliss in the turnbuckle. As they fought, Bliss was able get some offense in, but Banks quickly hit a running knee to take control back. Then she feigned a quick injury and called for Bayley, only to hit Bliss’s leg and roll her up with a handful of tights for the win.

After the match, Lynch and Banks brawled in the ring, and Lynch forced Banks to run into the crowd. Lynch asked where Banks was going, and she said that she won’t be able to run away on Sunday. She said Banks made it personal, now Lynch will make it painful. Then she vowed retribution and dropped the mic.

Grade: D+. I didn’t like this match at all. It was really odd, and didn’t flow super well, along with some awkward exchanges from the commentary team really hurt this match. The finish was awkward and quite weird, and Becky’s presence was kinda unnecessary too. Just not the greatest match.

Seth Rollins Interview: He was absolutely pissed about Lesnar kicking the crap out of Rey and Dominic, and he doesn’t know whether or not he will win at Hell in a Cell. But he said he will do his damnedest to survive and retain the championship. However, he was not sure about the status of his Universal Championship match for tonight.

Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode vs. Heavy Machinery for the Raw Tag Team Championships: Ziggler and Tucker started things off with some amateur wrestling, and went back and forth for a bit until Tucker took him down with some shoulder tackles. He quickly tagged out to Otis after some nice agility. Ziggler fought back against Otis, and tagged out to Roode, only for Otis to plow both men over and follow up with stereo vertical suplexes from Heavy Machinery. The challengers maintianed control until Roode low bridged Tucker, and set him to the outside before tagging himself in. Roode then threw Tucker around a bit at ringside, and the heels started to beat him down with some tandem offense. At one point, Ziggler was mocking Tucker a bit, until Tucker caught a dropkick and then monkey flipped him into the turnbuckle. Otis got the hot tag, and threw Roode and Ziggler all over the place, girated a bit, and was just really funny in general. He was able to hit a double caterpillar on the two champions, but when Tucker went for the compactor, Ziggler caught him with a Zig Zag. He then superkick Otis to make him drop Roode, and then threw him into the turnbuckle. Ziggler then gave Tucker a superkick and Roode finished him off with the Glorious DDT for the win.

Grade: B-. Good stuff here. Just some classic tag team action that didn’t do too much that was wild, but was pretty solid. I liked the closing stretch a lot, and I think Roode and Ziggler are definitely improving as a tag team.

Miz TV: He sent his thoughts and love to Rey and Dominic before starting. He put over the season premier a bit, and welcomed Ric Flair out first, and then Hulk Hogan. Jimmy Hart as also out there, but they didn’t have a chair for him for some reason. Miz called the three of them that they are legends, and then Flair said that he was sick of listening to Hogan talk for thirty years. Hogan then wooed, and Miz said that they’ve had to listen to that for a lot longer, and they love it. Miz asked Hogan what it was like to see Flair across the ring from him, and Hogan started to yell about the city and stuff. Flair then said that although Hogan was the biggest draw in history, he was the best wrestler in history and he is sick of playing second fiddle. Hogan then said that it sounded like Flair wanted to take a fight, and they both squared up a bit. They looked like they were gonna fight, but Hogan said that they weren’t spring chickens anymore. The crowd chanted one more match, and Hogan said that they should add one more page in their legendary career. Miz then announced that there will be a huge 5 on 5 tag match at Crown Jewel, with Flair in one corner and Hogan in the other. Hogan announced that Seth Rollins was his team captain. Rollins was super excited to join the team, and he started to yell at Flair. Flair was about to welcome out his captain, but they played Orton’s music to early. So, Flair’s captain was Randy Orton. Orton told Rollins to crawl out of Hogan’s ass for a bit, and to listen up. Orton said that over the next few weeks, they will pick their teams, but he wants a match between captains tonight. Rollins accepted for some reason, even though he still probably has a Universal Championship match later. They were about to start the match, but King Corbin walked down the ring. Orton then attacked Rollins from behind, and he and Corbin beat Rollins down. Rusev then ran out and helped Rollins out a bit, which is weird because I thought he was a heel. Rusev was able to hit Orton with the Machka kick, and Rollins nailed Corbin with one too. Rusev followed that up with a Machka kick to Corbin as Rollins gave Orton a suicide dive.

Grade: C-. This was a wild segment. I have no idea what Flair’s script was, but he didn’t follow it at all. Flair looked happy to be out there, but he was acting a bit wild. But as cool as this segment was, I didn’t really care much about it. Honestly, this would’ve gotten lower, but after Hogan and Flair started to jaw jack, I was terrified that they would be the headlining match at Crown Jewel. Luckily, it’s just a big tag match, and I was so happy that I bumped this up. But yeah, this wasn’t a great segment.

Rusev Interview: Charly asked where Lana was, and he just looked really sad for a second, so Charly moved on. He said that he wanted to cash in on the debt that Rollins owes him for saving his ass a few minutes ago, and challenged him for the Universal Championship. Jeez, is Lana dead or something?

AOP Vinette: They talked about how they grew up in violence, so now that is what they are best at.

Viking Raiders vs. The OC: Ivar and Luke Gallows started things out with some huge power moves, but both quickly tagged out and the Raiders started to beat down on Karl Anderson. Gallows then tagged in and started to lay into Ivar with some strikes, only for Erik to quickly get the hot tag. Erik rocked Anderson with a quick combo, and then a knee to the face. The OC took control back during the commercial break, but Ivar soon tagged in, and he beat down Anderson with agile and powerful offense. At one point, the Viking Raiders nailed Anderson with a springboard lariat into a german suplex for a near fall. In the finish, Ivar gave Anderson a tope suicida, while Erik nailed Gallows with a huge spinebuster. Ivar tagged in and won the match with a splash.

Grade: C+. This match was okay, I wasn’t hugely into it. Just a lot of slow offense with no one retaining control long enough to be entertaining. The work was fine though.

Charly Caruso Backstage: She was running down the attack from Lesnar, and called it criminal. Cesaro then showed up, and started to say that Lesnar wasn’t a criminal, and he wished that he would’ve been able to beat the crap out of Dominic. Ricochet then walked up and told him that he wasn’t half the man Rey is, and challenged him to a match.

Cesaro vs. Ricochet: Ricochet started things up quickly, flipping off of Cesaro’s chest and then hitting a dropkick. Cesaro started to hit some strikes, but Ricochet monkey flipped him out of the ring. The two quickly got back in the ring and beat each other down, with Cesaro nailing a Gorilla press into the knee for a near fall. Ricochet quickly got the win with a springboard spike rana.

Grade: B-. This was good for what it was, but it was criminally short.

Firefly Funhouse: Everyone in the funhouse were really scared, and Ramblin Rabbit even died. They were all scared about the Rollins and Fiend match. Bray told them all that it is okay to be scared, because Hell in a Cell is a terrifying place built for pain and suffering. He said that the Fiend will always come back to protect the Funhouse, but he isn’t so sure about Rollins. Bray then said that he was gonna find the Fiend and tell him to be nice, but laughed it off and waived goodbye to everyone.

AJ Styles vs. Cedric Alexander for the United States Championship: Styles started the match out fast with some shoulder tackles and chops, but Alexander quickly started to use his agility and speed to dodge and score a rana and a basement dropkick. He was able to nail a dropkick and put Styles on the outside, but Styles intercepted his tope con hilo with a forearm. Alexander then tried for a springboard move, but Styles caught him on the shoulders and hung him up on the top rope. Styles then nailed a forearm out of the ring and to the floor, and we cut to commercial. When we came back, Cedric quickly fought back into things, nailing a Neuralizer. Styles responded with a series of strikes, but Alexander dodged the final hit and nailed a back elbow, followed by a detonation kick for a near fall. Styles then countered out of a Lumber check, and hit a beautiful reverse DDT. Styles then tried for the Styles Clash, but Alexander put him on the apron. Cedric then dodged the Phenomenal forearm and hit a Michinoku driver for a close near fall. Styles responded with a German suplex and a facebuster, but still only a near fall. In a goddamned awesome finish, Alexander went for the Lumbar Check, but Styles rotated in mid air and gave Alexander a sunset flip, before transitioning right into a Styles Clash for the win.

Grade: B. Good stuff here. Lots of fast paced action and fun counters, but I really think that Cedric should’ve won here. He has jobbed to Styles a lot lately, and Styles should probably be in the main event rather than the United States Championship picture. Also, that finish was sooooooo good.

Street Profits backstage: the two just said that they’d be on NXT this week, and put over their championship match on Wednesday. They put over the main event, and Hell in a Cell. Then they said that if you say the Fiend’s name three times, he will appear. So that was fun.

Lacy Evans vs. Natalya: The two locked up right away, and Evans was incredibly disrespectful right away. The two went back and forth with some striking and signature offense, and Lacy even smashed Nattie’s head into the stairs in a vicious spot. That got her a near fall, but then she smashed Nattie’s head into the mat over and over again. Nattie fought back with some nice strikes in the corner, nailing a discus lariat for a near fall. Nattie tried for the sharpshooter, but Evans escaped. Nattie continued to attack Lacy on the apron, and as the ref was pushing her back, Lacy raked the eyes. Evans then rolled up Nattie with a handful of tights for the win.

After the match, Evans nailed the Woman’s Right and walked away.

Grade: B. Good stuff. These two actually have a bit of chemistry, and I’m into it. I don’t think that this was their last match, and hopefully things will only get better.

Paul Heyman Interview: He seemed totally desperate, and said that while Brock stepped over the line, it was Vince’s fault for booking him on the Raw season premier. He said that Lesnar was going to destroy Kingston on Friday, because he is in fight mode. He said that Lesnar winning on Friday is a spoiler, and he’ll be the new WWE Champion.

Maria Kanellis Interview: Maria said that Rusev isn’t the father of her child, and walked away. Sasha Banks then came in and grabbed the mic, and she told Lynch that she was going to destroy her in Hell in a Cell and make her tap out. No man can win her match.

Rusev vs. Seth Rollins for the WWE Universal Championship: Rollins treid to start things with a handshake, which Rusev used to take down the champion right away. The two both tried for their signature offense, but neither man could get anything. Rollins was able to score some strikes, but Rusev caught him running the ropes and nailed a fall away slam as we cut to commercial. That cut was of the Fiend too, so that was cool. As we came back, Rusev locked in a bear hug, and King Corbin and Randy Orton watched from the apron. As the two continued their brawling, Rollins put Rusev out over the top rope, and gave him a pair of tope suicidas. Rollins put Rusev back in the ring and went for a splash, but Rusev caught him, only for Rollins to get a small package for a near fall. Rusev then hit a high kick, and then a spinning uranagi for a near fall. Rusev went for the Machka kick, but Rollins caught him and rolled him up for a near fall. Right as Rusev kicked out, Rollins nailed a superkick and barely powered Rusev up for a Falcon’s arrow. He tried for the Curb Stomp, but Rusev dodged it and put Rollins on the apron. Rollins then tried for a springboard forearm, but Rusev caught him with a Machka kick. Just then, Bobby Lashley made a big return, as did Lana. The two then made out on the stage for a super long time. After they finished (not like that), the Fiend showed up and attacked Rollins, who had rolled to the outside. He slapped on the mandible claw and put Rollins down with it.

Grade: B. This match was pretty good, but it super fell apart at the end. Rollins and Rusev had a good contest that was a pretty good main event for Raw, but then all the stuff with Lashley and Lana, and the Fiend did the same thing that he’s done every week it seems like, and I kinda lost interest. Still though, Lashley and Lana made out for a super long time, and Rusev just watched. That must’ve sucked for him.

Overall Grade: C+

Pros: opening attack; cesaro vs. ricochet; evans vs. nattie; main event

Cons: no rollins vs. mysterio on the card; Bliss vs. Banks; miz tv and flair being weird; lots of random stuff during the main event; ramblin rabbit died again :(

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cromchychipdip · 2 years

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Ahem okay time for some self-promo!

As you might know, I've been working on a Danganronpa fan game for a little while and all of the work is being done by yours truly! Here's the introduction post for it on the blog I made for the development, but I'll give a little synopsis here too, just for the intrigue lol.

So imagine the world of Danganronpa. Pretty terrible, right? What if I turned back time just a little to the early 2000's, before the Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History? And what if the seeds of despair were already being sown?

We follow Ren Korematsu - The Ultimate Negotiator - through Hope's Peak's first killing game, where she reconnects with fragments of her past and tries to return to the life she had before in one piece. Along the way, we get drama, death, despair, love, life, and friendship. Will the player be able to guide Ren to the outside world? Or will they let her fall victim to whoever is behind the controls? Find out by playing Origins of Despair, release date to be determined!

During this game, you will get to play as Ren and befriend various characters, and have the chance to get four possible endings depending on how well you get along with certain people!

And have I mentioned that there are gay people? There are gay people. And trans people. And neurodivergent people. And people from all fields of study, ranging from biochemistry to economics to sewing! There's quite a lot of overlap between these, too. If you won't play for the Danganronpa lore, play for the dad jokes and character design!

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mittensmorgul · 6 years

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Wayward: Supernatural in Parallels (and a parallel universe as well)

aka I have spent the last four hours typing again, so here you go. :P

(at least I managed to keep it under 6k words this time!)

(shut up that’s kinda brief for me... now if only I could write 6k of fic in 4 hours I’d really be on to something...)

Wayward Sisters set itself up admirably as a spinoff, if for no other reason than it’s so deeply rooted in the original series without actually being that series. We already know all six of the main characters (some of them for nearly a decade, like Claire and Jody), and we know at least a little bit about about how they came to be where they are at the start of 13.10. But even more than that, this episode served so many parallels to the entirety of Supernatural’s past canon, but did so in ways that take all of those themes and wove something entirely new out of them.

All the seeds for the spinoff grew from the original, but they’ve been sown in a new field.

I needed to record as many of these as possible for future reference.

(under a cut because as I said, it’s like 5900 words deep and it’s 2:23 am and I am so not up to editing this tonight.)

The little girl Claire saves from the two werewolves in the cold open looked so familiar to me-- because she reminded me of the ghost girl in 2.11 Playthings. Not technically a parallel, but even from the promo clip with her in it my brain insisted that I’d seen her somewhere before.

Mr. Werewolf and his terrible knock knock joke was such a dark mirror to Kate the werewolf in 8.04. If she was the noble version, he’s the grotesque, right down to the way he uses almost the exact same movements to terrify an innocent as Kate used to get revenge on the guy who’d turned her against her will and murdered her boyfriend. The Winchesters rightly let Kate go (TWICE!) but Claire rightly kills this jerk.

Not to mention Claire’s very personal history with werewolves (and being one bite of a heart away from becoming one herself) in 12.16. This case, and rescuing a little curly-haired blonde girl from werewolves is a tidy metaphor for how Claire has developed as a hunter since we’ve seen her last. And she absolutely PROVES that she’s learned. She doesn’t hunt dumb like she did back in 11.12. She does her homework, and knew exactly what she was doing when she approached Mr. Werewolf’s lair. She knew exactly who she was there to save, how to approach the werewolf lair most effectively (DELIVERY! LAND SHARK!), and she kept her cool throughout the entire fight-- for the sake of the little girl.

This entire fight is also reminiscent of 11.17, just for the fact that she’s physically proving herself as capable as Sam and Dean are in a werewolf fight.

Her rescue of Amanda Fitzmartin from werewolves was a direct parallel of 12.06, and Mary Winchester’s rescue of Asa Fox from… you guessed it, a werewolf! Right down to the mother/child reunion scene on the front porch. I can only imagine that Amanda Fitzmartin may be a future generation hunter now, too… Then again, Asa took up hunting because Mary told him she was “retiring,” and he felt obligated to fill her shoes so that someone would be out there saving people. Claire told Amanda that everything would be okay, and then went right on hunting. Claire’s in a very different place than Mary was, despite the similarities.

Jody’s call to Claire-- “It’s Sam and Dean. They’re missing. They were on a hunting trip, and I haven’t heard from them for a few days.” Well, isn’t that just THE iconic line of the entire series? 1.01, top of the script, hello Dean Winchester. Not to mention 12.20 and how Alicia used the same line about her mother to get Sam and Dean’s help in finding her.

What’s DIFFERENT in Jody’s plea to Claire is, “It’s time to come home.” Home has always been such a nebulous concept for the Winchesters. For the longest time, the only home they knew was Baby. Their “apple pie life” was a pipe dream that they wavered on ever really believing they could have it, or if they even really wanted it the few times it seemed like it could be within their reach (Dean with Lisa after s5, Sam with Jess pre-series, Sam with Amelia after s7). It took a while, but they both now identify the Bunker as “home,” despite it not being a home in the traditional sense. And after Dean’s words to Cas in 13.06-- “Welcome home” as he hugged him at some alley payphone-- I believe their concept of “home” is more “the people we care about” rather than a fixed physical point on a map, you know? And after watching Wayward, and oopsie here jumping to the end for just a second, Claire says, “I'm staying because I need them, my family.” In both series, home is where the heart is, if you will.

Of all the hunters Alex could’ve mentioned that she’d tried calling while looking for Sam and Dean, she mentions Donna (who we’ll see in a bit here), and WALT. Aka one of the guys who killed Sam and Dean way back in 5.16, and who returned in 12.22 to help take down the BMoL.

Claire and Alex’s gentle teasing of each other is just… so dang sisterly. In the same way that Sam and Dean’s teasing of each other is just so dang brotherly, you know? “Did you miss me?” “No, not really.” Lines delivered deadpan followed up with the knowing little smiles.

Claire pointing to her cut lip and telling Jody, “It’s just a werewolf, no big deal.” Well, isn’t that exactly what Dean told Sonny in 9.07 when Sonny questioned him on how his wrists were injured? And heck, how many times has Dean diminished the seriousness of an injury with an “I’m fine” or a “no big deal.” To the point where in 12.23 when he meets up with Cas again, Cas doesn’t even bother asking if he’s okay, just rolls his eyes and heals Dean with a lil boop.

“When did we become huggers?” Well, Sam, Dean, and Cas seem to ask this of themselves every time they find themselves hugging… at least they used to. They’ve since become acclimated to the fact that yes, they are huggers.

Claire’s discovered that Jody let patience move into her room, borrow her sweatshirt, while she was away. But she takes the blame for leaving on herself. This calls back to a lot of the emotional baggage between Sam and Dean over the years in a far less toxic fashion (You chose a demon over your own brother? You didn’t look for me in Purgatory? Who are you gonna replace me with next? There’s a lot of that between the brothers.) But Claire lets it go. And they have Business to attend to…

Alex tends Claire’s wounds during their meeting to share what they’ve gathered so far about Sam and Dean’s disappearance, and then Alex gets up to leave for work. She has a job-- a real, regular job as a nurse (how respectable! In Dean’s words from 2.20). Claire is upset, because finding Sam and Dean should come first, but Alex doesn’t even argue about it. The entire dynamic is similar to Sam and Dean’s motivations in 1.01. Sam had a law school interview that he didn’t want to miss (which Dean initially assumed was a job interview), and described as his whole future on a plate. But Dean insisted they already had “the family business.” Just as Claire insisted her own job is hunting. Unlike Sam and Dean, Alex and Claire work this out in their own way, and Alex DOES go off to work. Her job is just as important as hunting to her, and she doesn’t compromise on that.

Patience’s visions in this context are so reminiscent of Sam’s visions back in the early days. She’s still trying to figure out exactly how they work, and exactly what they mean. And in a lot of ways what Clare seems to be feeling is a reflection of Dean in 2.05 when Andy mind-controls him into telling the truth, “He's psychic. Kind of like you. Well, not really like you, but see, he thinks you're a murderer, and he's afraid that he's going to become one himself, 'cause you're all part of something that's terrible. And, I hope to hell that he's wrong, but I'm starting to get a little scared that he might be right.”

It’s not an exact parallel, but the same sort of disbelief and maybe even a little bit (or a lot) of fear over what those visions might mean. And Claire addresses this later in this episode when she’s talking to Kaia while Jody and Donna are investigating the ship. So I’ll get back to that later… I’m finding it’s really difficult to take this scene by scene…

Claire’s difficulty with Jody “smothering” her while hunting reminds me A LOT of both Dean’s difficulty with John (when Dean first began to break away from blind obedience to John’s every order toward the end of s1), as well as Sam’s difficulty with Dean. How many times has Sam pulled the “I’m not a little kid anymore, I can do this” card on Dean? Exactly. This growth process hurts, and it’s terrifying, but it’s a give and take on both sides, and Claire and Jody both grow a lot by it. Because it’s not just Claire wanting to prove she’s capable, it’s also Jody’s abject fear of losing ANOTHER CHILD to the Supernatural. She would give anything not to have to relive what she went through with her son in 5.15. And Claire does begin to understand Jody’s point of view, as Jody begins to understand Claire’s. And after Dean admitted to Mary in 12.22 that he’s been both mother and father to Sam most of his life, this exact same dynamic can be applied to his over-protectiveness of Sam. There’s a balance to be found between Claire’s “run in head first” and Jody’s “find the perfect plan.”

Speaking of balance, Alex seems to have found a balance that works for her. It’s been a long time since 9.19 when Jody gave her a foundation to build a new life on, and as Jody said in 10.08 and we saw first-hand in 11.12, it wasn’t always easy. But Alex found a career that makes her happy, and in return she’s happy to help Jody with whatever she needs, be it housekeeping or monsters. She seems… settled. And she confirms to Claire that Jody (and by extension Alex herself) never stopped worrying (or thinking) about Claire even when she wasn’t around. It was a solid confirmation to Claire that yes, she’s still part of their family, regardless. And wow, how many times has this sentiment been expressed in Supernatural? Too many to count.

And Claire and Alex get their emotional baggage handled and properly stowed, and it’s right back to the Big Issue at hand. Where we discover that despite all their differences, they’re both on exactly the same page. Claire suggests searching the hospital database for “rock star aliases” in case Sam and Dean have been injured, and Alex confirms she already searched for practically every rock musician she could think of, “From metal gods to obscure hair bands.” And of course “obscure hair bands” makes me think of poor old Vince Vincente and Ladyheart back in s12. Their third album wasn’t terrible… :P

Incredibly enough, a new search for Jane Doe leads Claire to find Kaia in that very hospital (and heck, is it Sioux Falls General? Aka where Dr. Monsterface worked back in 7.02?) Claire finds Kaia and confronts her about Sam and Dean, and instead of needing to be broken out of “child prison” (10.09 for Claire) or rehab (13.09 for Kaia), they both walk out of the hospital. Except oops… there’s some Bad Things waiting for Kaia outside. She freezes in fear and Claire comes to the rescue… but Jody also came to the rescue, and only working together did they kill the Bad Thing.

Warning that here the Destiel Parallels become impossible to ignore or avoid. They’re just blatantly there, so freaking deal with it.

In the hospital, the first time Claire and Kaia see on another we get increasing close-ups of their eyes. Like… welcome to intense eye contact city. The scene is punctuated with an eerie swooshing sound effect to make it impossible to ignore as A Significant Thing.

Back at Jody’s while Alex goes from Nurse Mode into Monster Autopsy mode (snapping that glove on like a regular Dana Scully), Claire and Kaia have a Bonding Moment outside-- comparing scars. As we pointed out back in 11.15, Dean did this exact same thing while bonding with his childhood idol Gunner Lawless (and yes, not Destiel per se here, but definitely a queercoding of Dean and the exact nature of his youthful infatuation with this wrestler). And the trope started with a scene from Lethal Weapon 3, where Riggs bonded with his wife-to-be in the exact same fashion. And Claire and Kaia’s bonding over this is again shown to us through significant eye contact and smiles, and then beginning to open up about themselves in ways we’ve been told that Kaia never opens up to anyone. At least based off what we know of her from 13.09. This is Significant for both her and Claire, who’s been hunting alone for at least a year now. (like… all the Destiel parallels intended)

Back to the Monster Autopsy… this is so reminiscent of 7.09 for me, as a lot of this episode is. I was half waiting for the monster to sit up and start fighting again just like the monster formerly known as Gerald Browder did in 7.09. But unlike Gerald who’d been human until the “creatures from another dimension” got hold of him and fed him grey goop and turned him into a monster, the thing on the table in 13.10 is… really not even remotely human (and it wore a strange mask anyway, in a season of “masked things” and misidentified things). I even tweeted at one point while watching the first time that the monster’s blood was even visually reminiscent of the TDK Slammer goo. Which is interesting because in 13.03 when we first met Patience, there was a billboard announcing that the TDK Slammer was back at Biggerson’s for a limited time. And isn’t that just entirely amusing.

(also a depressing but necessary side note about 7.09-- the episode ends with Bobby shot through the head by Dick Roman. Dick was a thing that looked like another thing, a thing from “another reality” aka Purgatory in his case. But something that absolutely was not supposed to be on Earth. And of course 13.10 uses a LOT of parallels between Purgatory and The Bad Place. I’ll get to those soon.)

Claire convinces Kaia to open up about what she knows of this strange monster and where it came from, and therefore what happened to Sam and Dean. Kaia was convinced that if Sam and Dean are in the Bad Place, then they’re already dead. Much like Dean was convinced that Mary must already be dead in 13.01 when she was trapped in the War World. And much like Sam was convinced that Dean was already dead when he was trapped in Purgatory back in 8.01. And yet…

Sam and Dean are just having a lil camping trip. Well, Dean’s adjusted SCARY FAST to the Bad Place. I suppose that compared to Purgatory it’s kind of a garden spot. They say they’ve been there for two days already, and they haven’t seemed to have run into anything that’s threatened them. It’s not the sort of 360 degree combat we saw Dean endure in Purgatory anyway. He’s even bothered to stop for barbecue. Well, he’s bothered to trap a lizard and roast it over a fire he managed to build.

Poor Sam, meanwhile, looks disgusted at the mere thought of eating the monster land lizard, and rather uncomfortable in general. In the face of Sam’s uneasiness and insistence that they continue to look for the door back to their universe, Dean maintains his exceedingly practical outlook. “Eat up.” They’ve been there two days, they have no reason to believe the door is even still open, and nobody knows where to look for them. He’s been in this exact same spot before, in Purgatory, and learned very quickly there that you do or your die. There’s no point wasting energy fretting about it. I think it must be a switch he can just flip at will at this point, into Purgatory!Dean. We saw it in 12.15. We’ve seen it a few times since s8, actually. It’s unsettling, but it’s practical. It’s how you survive.

When the monster closes in on their little campsite, Dean takes his roast lizard on a stick to go. Unbeknownst to Sam and Dean, something human-shaped has been following them. They’ve seen nothing to raise their suspicions that it might even be a possibility that anything human-ish lives in that world, or that anything might pose a threat to them aside from the giant monster they keep hearing. They’ve been there just long enough to shift their priorities on what to keep their attention focused on that just by waiting them out, Darth Kaia is able to sneak right up to these two men who at ANY other time would’ve been on high alert about being followed. Like in 8.13 Dean had his “gay thing” with Aaron following him around, and Sam had “something stuck to my shoe,” aka their code word for “I’m being followed.” They have a LONG history of being hyperaware of their surroundings, so it took some kind of patience for Darth Kaia to wait them out like that.

Patience has a crisis of normality after watching the monster autopsy. She’s not sure she can handle the hunting life, and it’s Alex who convinces her to stay. Which is incredible because this was Alex’s crisis back in 11.12 when her own history caught up with her at a time when all she wanted was to be normal, to go to school and have a boyfriend and maybe go to nursing school. She didn’t want anything to do with monsters or hunting, as she and Claire talked about earlier at the hospital, but she’s found a balance that she can live with. She knows she can truly help Jody by helping with the hunting stuff when she can, and that it doesn’t have to be her entire life like it is for Claire. She can do both! And she also knows her limits. Alex isn’t a fighter for the most part, and Patience doesn’t have to be either. They can each have an important place there, though. “We help in other ways.”

As Patience is packing her car to leave, she has another vision of Jody’s house being overrun by monsters. Claire wants to stay and fight, but Patience argues back that they can’t win. And hooboy this is a fascinating parallel to 3.12, in about six different ways. RIP Victor Henriksen. Patience laying down the truth to Claire, and then using an interesting bit of technology to demonstrate the truth of the situation, much as Dean laid the truth out for Victor and Sam used an interesting bit of technology to trap and exorcise a gaggle of demons all at once.

For Sam and Dean, 3.12 also marked one of the points in the show where they were officially declared legally “dead.” It was a turning point for them, which in a strange way freed them up to do their jobs more effectively with far less concern over interference from human authorities, so they could focus on the monsters. In a way, this moment functions in a similar fashion for Patience, not that she’s going to be cut off from society as drastically as Dean and Sam were, but as a liberation of sorts, and an affirmation to herself that her visions are as important to the group as Claire’s fighting skills or Alex’s nursing skills. They all have a role to play. This just helps her find her way to it.

In some ways it’s also reminiscent of 3.15, and the trap Dean left for Bela at their motel, similar to the trap Aragorn helps the hobbits lay for the Ringwraiths in Bree. These monsters aren’t so much fooled by a trap, or decoy bodies left in beds, but they do arrive to an empty house while their quarry has managed to flee. I think this tactic has been used elsewhere in Supernatural, but since I’m just about at the halfway point of the episode and this essay is already nearing 3500 words, I figure I should probably try to be more concise...

Me… more concise. Talk about your freaky AU scenarios…

Whatever. Claire watches the monsters tear up Jody’s house via webcam, and she gets a sudden, shocking, undeniable lesson in the reliability of Patience’s visions, which brings to bear the full weight of the vision that brought her home in the first place, and the reasons that Jody was so terrified for Claire’s safety. For the first time all day, Claire is rattled. It’s one thing to go through life as a hunter knowing how hunters typically end up (and hello all 39 iterations of Dean’s “point of a blade or barrel of a gun” speech), but to know specifically how you’re going to die is entirely different. This was s3 Dean with the ticking clock to Hellhound Day. This was Sam during the Hell Trials.

And enter the D-Train. The ray of sunshine so chill that butter doesn’t melt in her mouth. And like the monster that signalled her first REAL introduction to the supernatural back in 10.08, Jody introduces her as someone who’s killed a lot of vampires. To think Claire wondered when they all became huggers before… “You too, Rainbow Brite. Come on, bring it in.” Donna brought the hugs. And the angel wing imagery behind her in this scene, combined with her nice tan coat. She’s our angel; our sunshine, as it were. And armed to the teeth (just the basics, because she’s from Minnesota).

Alex proves yet again that she’s an excellent Sam parallel, using the phone and Kaia’s vague clues to find the exact location where the rift opened. Please oh please let Alex have the same sort of Magical Wifi that Sam does. :P

When Jody and Donna leave to investigate the shipyard, Jody has Claire stay behind to protect the other girls, much like John used to do with Dean, ordering him to protect Sam. I mean, it has nowhere NEAR the sort of ick factor to John doing that in the flashback scenes in 1.18, for example, but there has been a consistent implication throughout the series that it was a constant state for Dean, and thank HECK this dynamic between Jody and Claire is shattered by the end of this episode.

Jody’s actually surprised when Claire agrees to stay and protect the other girls without much of a fight, because of what Patience’s vision might mean for her, as I mentioned above.

Donna asking who knows how to use a flamethrower… honestly Dean would be jealous. He and Sam have always had their jury-rigged camping fuel flamethrowers when they’ve needed literal firepower like in 3.02 and 4.05 among others.

Speaking of Sam and Dean, back in the Bad Place, Sam’s finally figuring out that they’re in an entirely different universe, and Dean’s annoyed by how muddy it is. Which was a rather hilarious reversal of Sam’s reaction to stepping in horse poop the moment they landed in Sunrise, Wyoming in 1861 way back in 6.18. Sam complained about the state of his boot, and Dean was all excited because AUTHENTICITY! But he’d been wearing his lil cowboy costume at the time, and we know how much Dean loves cowboys, despite the fact that he was far less enamored with “authenticity” and how much germier it was than he’d been expecting… but once he adapted his expectations back in 6.18, he kinda stepped right into the role of sheriff, just like he’s able to adapt to Purgatory and to eating monster lizard despite the germiness factor. He’s a delightful but thoroughly consistent bundle of contradictions, and I love him.

Enter Darth Kaia, who catches them entirely unaware and off guard. They were entirely convinced that the only potential danger to them in this world was whatever huge thing they kept hearing in the distance. They hadn’t run into any of the creepy Monster Autopsy critters that constantly plagued Kaia in The Bad Place, and after two days, it’s entirely understandable that they would begin to let their guard down at least a little bit. Heck, it’s like Westley and Buttercup in the Fire Swamp, except nobody ever told them about the ROUS’s. When Darth Kaia sprang out of nowhere at them in full-on kung fu attack mode with a spear, they were honestly lucky to survive. They’d been flung as far from the portal into that world as Kaia was flung out to that abandoned roadside where the ambulance found her and had picked a random direction to wander in search of a portal the size of a party streamer in an entirely foreign universe. A portal they weren’t entirely sure was still there to find in the first place. Everything about their situation had them on their heels for once, even more so than Purgatory did for Dean (where he was at least expecting to be attacked from the moment he landed, by a pack of red-eyed monsters he later referred to as “gorilla wolves” in 8.02). And funny that the Big Monster in the Bad Place has a skull that vaguely resembles a gorilla, and the smaller red-eyed monsters were scripted as “Canids,” aka “dog-like monsters.” Again, in so many ways, The Bad Place is similar in design and function to Purgatory.

Back at the abandoned shipyard, Jody and Donna find the Impala and know they’ve found the right place. They find the melted angel blade and scorched angel wings from 13.09, as well as the portal, but encounter a very large pack of the “Canids.”

Claire and Kaia have another heart to heart reminiscent of some of Dean and Cas’s conversations. Claire expresses some of the same sorts of self-doubt and fear that Dean did at the end of 4.16 while lying in the hospital bed, telling Cas it’s too big, and he can’t do it. But Claire feels she can’t stand back and let others handle this alone. Kaia encourages her with, “If you go, I’ll go with you.” And how many times have we heard Dean and Cas offer this to each other? Very recently in Dean’s offer to accompany Cas to his angel meeting in 13.07. But also highly notably in 11.23 when Cas offered to go with Dean to face Amara. In situations large and small, they have offered to go with each other. But unlike the majority of Dean and Cas’s I’ll go with you’s, Claire accepts Kaia’s offer. They DO stand together. They ACCEPT the help and support. (Can we please have this gradually begin to happen with Cas and Dean? I mean, even something small like Dean running out to pick up pizza or something, and Cas offers to go with him, and Dean’s like YES GOOD I WOULD LIKE THAT.)

“Maybe together we can save them.”

Meanwhile at the rift, Donna wants to go back and tell the girls they found it, but Jody is ready to go into the rift alone. “If I don’t, she will.” She knows Claire would run into danger to do what she believed was right. That’s how you save people, after all. But here we see into what’s motivating Jody to protect Claire from danger-- “I can’t lose another child.” And I know I mentioned this about 3k words ago, but the Canids pose an immediate threat and Jody is forced to turn back from running headlong into the rift the way she was trying to prevent Claire from doing. This motivation to self-sacrifice to save someone else-- a child-- is what motivated John’s deal with Azazel in 2.01 in exchange for Dean’s life, and what motivated Dean to sell his own soul in 2.22 in exchange for Sam’s life. Jody’s only saved by circumstance, but it gives her a chance to step back and reevaluate that choice, and to see Claire clearly, to let go of her need to protect Claire at all cost.

Back in the Bad Place, Sam and Dean come to tied to a couple of trees in a foggy forest. I feel like yelling, “I hope your apple pie is freaking worth it!” because this feels just like 1.11. Instead of being sacrificed to the scarecrow, they’re being sacrificed to the Kaiju.

Meanwhile Claire has tried to call Jody, but when Jody doesn’t answer, Claire goes immediately into Concerned Mode. All four girls unite immediately into “Together we can save them” mode. And it’s beautiful.

Donna and Jody take refuge in an abandoned car aboard the ship, lying across the front and back seats in a configuration identical to the way Sam and Dean slept in 11.04-- the Winchester Motel. But instead of a cooler full of beer, Jody and Donna have a swarm of Canids trying to figure out how to get at them.

(wherein we discover that Canids are really not the smartest monsters…)

If they make a run for it, they’re dead, but if they stay put they’re dead too. Kinda feels like a situation typical of Supernatural, yes? What they need is a miraculous intervention.

*enter the flamethrower*

And Claire is so chill and competent with her flamethrower that it brings a smile to Jody’s face. And in that moment she might still hate the whole idea of it, but she knows she’s gonna let Claire go through that portal without too much fuss… especially after she realizes that the portal is shrinking. Claire tries to run through it and Jody holds her back, though not to stop her. To tell her she knows. Jody understands. As much as Claire needed to save Sam and Dean, Jody needed her to know that she understood.

Donna, ray of sunshine and weapons training officer. OKIE DOKE, HERE YA GO. and then “Oh there he is! Hiya, buddy!” When there was just ONE Canid, but Donna absolutely does not lose her cool when she sees it’s a veritable swarm of the things coming at them. Bless. “Okie doke” reminded me so much of that security guard in 2.12 that Dean liked because he said “okie dokie.”

Kaia knows right where Sam and Dean probably are in the Bad Place, just from the sound of the Kaiju monster. Claire shows up and cuts Sam and Dean free in a circumstance reminiscent of Sam showing up to cut Dean and Emily free in 1.11.

At the portal, Kaia shoves Claire out of the way just in time to save her from Darth Kaia’s spear, and instead she takes the spear wound to her own side. Need I even bring up all the Fisher King symbolism here that was so incredibly prominent in s12 surrounding Cas? The comparison has already been made to Ramiel stabbing Cas with the Lance of Michael, but it wasn’t just that one episode that draped Cas in Fisher King/Wounded King parallels. I believe many of those also apply to Kaia…

As she lay there dying, she reaches out and grabs hold of Claire’s hand while Sam and Dean have drawn their angel blades to stand off against the now apparently disarmed Darth Kaia. Except that’s when the Kaiju shows up…

Claire ignores her own safety in the face of that much larger threat, and charges at Darth Kaia in a fit of rage/grief over Kaia’s apparent death, and Dean has to grab her and pull her through the portal just as it snaps closed. Cue the parallel to Dean dragging Sam away from Jess’s burning bedroom ceiling in 1.01, and Sam pulling Dean through this exact same sort of portal in 12.23 when he was struggling to run after Cas.

Meanwhile Patience struggles to understand the vision that brought her to Jody’s in the first place-- Claire’s “death.” The editing of this scene is spectacular-- cuts between Kaia’s body in the Bad Place, Claire in Jody’s arms both in Patience’s vision and in reality, and Patience herself putting all of these pieces together. Death, life, and what she believed was a death was actually profound grief… and again this has been a theme of s13 through Sam refusing to grieve for Mary and his belief that she was not only alive but that they could save her, Dean’s grief over Cas’s death that he believed was permanent, to the point he’d lost all hope for anything and was ready to die in 13.05 until Death herself told him he still had work to do.

Whatever the truth of what’s happened to Kaia, there is absolutely work to do here, as well.

Dean says “I tried talking to her.” Not “we” but “I.” He’s beginning to use the proper words here. This issue has been going on for a loooong time, where Dean phrases things in terms of “we,” such as in 11.23 during the infamous Beer Run, telling Cas he’s like “our brother,” and always couching his feelings as inclusive of Sam as well. This was nicely lampshaded in 12.20 by Max Banes calling Alicia out on her attempt to do the same thing, and in 13.07 Dean FINALLY told Cas “I’ll go with you,” instead of “we’ll go with you.” The fact that Dean is talking about himself like this regarding anything even in the same arena as emotional issues is just… fantastic all around.

Claire feels responsible for Kaia’s death, after promising to protect her. She feels she failed, and that that was the reason Kaia was killed. Jody doesn’t dismiss any of Claire’s feelings or try to talk her out of them (the way Sam and Dean have done for, like, ever), only offers her unconditional support whenever Claire’s ready to accept it.

Cleaning up after the Canids tore up the house, Patience has a lil moment of shock over the fact she killed a monster. Donna smiles knowingly and Alex chuckles and says, “Welcome to the family.” Like Claire said in the cold open, “I kill monsters, that’s who the hell I am.” Well, that’s what this whole family is. They save people and they kill monsters.

Darth Kaia has opened a rift to our world, in the middle of a park reminiscent to the place where Mary turned up in 12.01… opening about a million other mysteries along with that rift.

I know I didn’t cover all the parallels. That probably wouldn’t be possible considering how many times the show has looped back around on itself thematically and narratively, but I think I hit all the big ones here. Now how the hell do I even begin tagging this?

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#spn 13.10 #wayward sisters #destiel #dreamhunter #parallels #too many episodes to tag them all #the fisher king #kaia nieves #claire novak #patience turner #alex (mills)#jody mills #i fudging love sheriff donna #the tropes are hungry #i'll probably come up with some more tags for this eventually >.>#heaven hell purgatory and the empty #alternate universes in canon #‿︵‿︵‿︵‿ヽ(°□° )ノ︵‿︵‿︵‿︵#there that covers my feelings on trying to tag this :P

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Loud House Highlight Time - When Ronnie (Anne) Met Lincy, #1: Heavy Meddle

With 'City Slickers' coming next Friday, and with everyone uncertain as to where the ship will go, I've decided to do daily highlights of the Ronniecoln episodes, as a build-up to whatever surprises await us. And what a co-winky-dink, it's the episode recently touched upon in 'White Hare'. So, let's journey through the mists of time to where it all started...

*Ronnie Anne, first and foremost. Or, rather, the lack of a physical presence from her. For being the first episode with her in, she doesn't actually appear or speak until the SECOND episode of the story arc.

*Some of the extras having five fingers instead of four fingers. Don't tell me THEY got radiated by Lisa in an event taking place before the show started! :P

*Clyde's chipped tooth. Bit of an extreme way of expressing one’s friendship (or romance if you’re a Clincoln shipper), surely? :P

*The sisters helping Lincoln with his paper cut. Favourite bits from me include Lisa's possibly illegal X-Ray machine (the NHS would balk if they saw that episode in my local hospital) and Luan's doctor’s outfit, complete with red nose. Considering how the Loud Sisters have seen ‘grown-up’ movies before (according to the Nick Animation Podcast, though whether you think it's canon or not is up to you), I wouldn't put it past Luan that she has seen Patch Adams! (BTW, this was actually used in an early promo of the show!)

*Lincoln's weather reports, which add a really charming touch to the story.

*Lily somehow managing to pinch Bun Bun without Lincoln noticing, and equally somehow putting it back on his bed by the time he goes there. It can't be secret levitation powers this time, else everyone would've seen her. Secret INVISIBILITY powers? (You may think I'm overreacting, but just remember who Lily shares her room with and how that someone in a future episode of Season 1 nearly began experimenting on her....)

*Lily copying her big brother by saying "Sssh!" Awwwwwww~! :3 (Also: we get a rare glimpse of Lincoln as if he's been sleeping for a fortnight without any interruptions - the bags under his eyes are gone!)

*Rita and Lynn Sr make their first appearances in this episode - albeit off camera. Funnily enough, their appearances form part of an 'evolution' period: from voices in this episode to just their bodies in the next episode, all the way up to showing their complete character designs in the Christmas special!

*The error mentioned in the wiki entry for this episode saying how Leni was holding Lily instead of Luna in one scene. Highlighted because I think there's a simple explanation for it - maybe Luna's arms were getting tired and so she had to pass Lily over to Leni while she rubbed her arms.

*Luan cheekily walking like Leni, when Leni was actually in the room. Thank God they were too busy helping out Lincoln, or Luan would be wearing a REAL red nose at that point! :P

*The sisters becoming the first Ronniecoln shippers in fandom history. I'm sorry, but unless I'm proven wrong otherwise, that's set in stone. Even Lisa reminds us that she's still 4 years old in spite of being a kid prodigy by acting her age.

*The above being compounded by the fact that Lana's eyebrows are painlessly on her cap in this scene.

*The so-called 'Sisternado'. Highlighted because we should be getting a comic strip based on that line in the future, if 'The Ten-Headed Beast' is anything to go by! :P

*Lola's attempt at applying lip balm on Lincoln. She's getting there!

*Lucy eerily smiling at Lincoln getting socked in the eye by Ronnie Anne. Either she had a premonition of the following episodes I'll be covering, or she really likes seeing other people getting beat up. If you look really closely, you can make out Lisa looking at Lucy and silently judging her.

*Saving the best to last --- the first proper Ronniecoln moment that we, the fans, see in full. From Ronnie Anne's note (featuring the first time the nickname 'Lame-O' is used), to the smile forming on Lincoln's face, to the hugs and kisses on Ronnie Anne's second note as she tosses up the steak to him, and ending with Lincoln's line "Okay, maybe just this one time my sisters were right. But don't tell them that!" If Lincoln had been busy on Tumblr that day, he would see that we fans didn't need to tell the sisters they were right - the seeds of Ronniecoln had been sown, by those good and bad, and the next episode would see the first shoots come up...!

TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW IN "SAVE THE DATE"!

#the loud house #tlh #ronniecoln #feel free to reblog your favourite bits of the episode

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13x04 Things I Hope For...

I barely want to call this a spec post because it’s mostly just me crossing my fingers so damn hard and after a summer of crossing them so damn hard they are actually starting to bruise slightly. It’s all good! I can take the pain. *grins and bears it*

Title: The Big Empty

OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS: THE LONG WAY HOME – When multiple patients of grief counselor Mia Vallens (guest star Rukiya Bernard) turn up dead, Sam (Jared Padalecki), Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Jack (Alexander Calvert) investigate the mystery surrounding the murders and, each inadvertently, are forced to deal with unresolved grief of their own. John Badham directed the episode written by Meredith Glynn (#1304). Original airdate 11/2/2017.

Hopes -->

So we know that the boys will sit on a very white (very very very stark white super pure this is a safe space white) sofa and that Dean will look like he wants to put a bullet through his brain, while Sam looks like he’s trying to reach the fuck through to him. So whatever reason the boys have for sitting on that sofa (undercover for the investigation or cajoled there by I-can-see-you’re-in-pain-I’m-that-good-at-my-job Mia) the fact is that they are on that sofa.

I hope that what they hash out has everything to do with their differences, which is something that each episode up until this one has kept hitting on. Sam finding reason to hope in Jack, while all of Dean’s hope is completely drained out of him.

I don’t need Sam to get angry in the therapy session (though oh my God the catharsis of Sam actually, finally confronting Dean about how he shuts people out and thinks it’s all on him all the time would be something), but a “You can’t control everything” and “This isn’t on you, Dean, none of this is on you” would be fucking beautiful to get any sort of variations on, if they’re going that deep with this episode. Sam calling out Dean’s need for control and his self-blame... Mh mh good.

But they might not go this deep. They might do more sowing than planting of seeds, which is fine. I’d just love balls out here. They might also sow seeds in the session if the session occurs earlier in the episode, and then have that exchange take root and inform the rest of the brothers’ interactions in the episode. They might actually have a more honest confrontation in that graveyard, which could be towards the end of the episode...

Either way, in the narrative of this episode, Dean might conceivably find ways to hit on how they can’t fix anything, and that every time they try they just end up breaking it apart, restating that there’s no point in trusting that things happen for good reason, because when has anything good ever happened to them? Dean seemingly rejecting Sam’s tries at getting him to open up, getting him to use open communication and honesty, showing actual goddamn trust, but by the end of the episode... yeah, who knows where we’ll leave off? Maybe Dean begrudgingly ends up making Jack a PB&J sandwich...

Also, I’m thinking this might be somewhere in the ballpark of what Dean hits on with Sam, because Sam is set up to be worried by Cas’ return, suspicious of what it might mean and of who exactly brought Cas back. I don’t know how much they’ll play this up, of course, they might quickly dispel the worry because TFW are also supposed to be stronger than ever... which is what I’m hoping for anyway. So, as ever, we shall see. But it makes sense for Dean to sow some seeds of his own, ones of doubt, where Sam starts second-guessing his “We find a way because that’s what we do” stance and look back at their history, seeing all the mistakes...

I wonder if Sam’s unresolved grief has to do with Eileen... It would be an amazing plant if she is, indeed, coming back. *fingers crosssssssed that she is*

Now, as for Jack... -->

We know Kelly is in Heaven, because that’s what Jack’s told us. She’s not, nor will she be, a restless spirit. I believe that Sam - when it comes to Mary - is meant to be the voice of reason, because we know there’s all the hope in the world that Mary’s coming back. You know, because she’s not dead. At all. And honestly I think Dean knows this deep down, too, which is why he’s not really grieving for his mother, his anger is partly to do with helplessness with regards to her because he is not fostering Lucifer’s fucking son. He can’t. Not ever, for anything, because Lucifer killed Cas. So Dean doesn’t want to consciously entertain the idea that Sam’s right. But subconsciously...

To my mind, this is why there’s no obvious grieving for Mary.

Same with Kelly, really, because Jack misses his mother and mourns her, but her memory sustains him, so it’s not been depicted as the deep and gutting sort of loss that Dean has felt with Cas. We’ve seen Jack mourn Kelly, but we’ve not really seen him mourn for Castiel. In this episode, with a theme that seems to touch on holding on/letting go (with the restless, vengeful spirits and the brothers in therapy) and Jack asking “People come back?”, I would love it if this ties tightly in with Jack’s need to find Castiel. That the talk of ghosts and what death really is begins to work on Jack...

Obviously his connection with Castiel in the Empty merely provided some sort of instigative presence, because Cas is still stuck there and seems to be about to come face to face with some sort of shadow monster thingy (looks awesome), but Jack’s hopes of getting his chosen father figure and protector back might be fuelled and his need to understand what his powers can actually do might flare because of that connection he felt and can’t explain. Ahhh we’ll see. I just need to get these impressions out of my head!! :)

Also, if Jack starts making noises about maybe there being some way to talk to Castiel, some way to get him back, and Dean blows up at him post therapy session and reveals his true colours... well, PB&J sandwich well-earned, I’d say. I mean, Dean telling Jack to grow the hell up, to stop believing in miracles because whatever he’s capable of - it ain’t that, telling Jack all about the dark history between them and Lucifer, how all the crap in their life EVER is because of him and how Lucifer killed Cas... Ok. I’m stopping now. Because naw. But damn though.

I’m mostly curious to see how the division between the brothers takes shape. Dean’s wearing a polka dotted tie while Sam wears a striped one and the colours aren’t even in the same family. (pun not intended) And how Dean and Jack interact in this episode. It feels like the fatherhood theme is as prevalent as ever and I have high, high hopes that the deconstruction of Dean Winchester that we’ve witnessed in the first three episodes of the season, just may come to a head here. Wether it’s a stated head or an understated head doesn’t really matter, as long as seeds are sown that make Dean rethink his attitude and where it’s stemming from, giving way for those enduring questions of Who am I? and Who do I want to be?

What about Cas? I just posted my thoughts on Cas’ arc this season, actually. In this episode... well, I hope he’s faced with a choice and that they make it clear it’s his choice to come back fully-fledged. They might leave it open, they might not go there at all. We shall see. Misha looks damn good in that promo, though.

Alright, it’s midnight and I think I may be rambling. I’m stopping now. I’ll be back with actual meta, rather than spec, tomorrow. My God. Tomorrow!! :P

#spn 13x04 spec #dean winchester #sam winchester #jack the nephilim #cas #time to sleep now #my lovelies!!

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cuethetommo · 7 years

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Can you please share your thoughts on Zayn and Harry's relationship? Up 'til now I really thought Harry was just indifferent to Zayn 'cause he left the band but I've seen a lot of people react to the Zayn part in radio1 show.

So, watching the interview with Nick, do you think Harry isn't in a good term with Zayn? I have got the feeling that they finished their friendship bad. But it doesn't seem Louis, Liam or Niall have any problem with Zayn... Or maybe it is just my imagination and they are in a good term...

I’m going to answer these together. First, I am not a Zayn expert. I came in to the fandom in January 2015 so I got very little OT5 time in my life. I can remember most of the times Harry has spoken of Zayn though and I can only go by what it looks like to me.

In the first interview without Zayn (James Corden - May 2015) you have no real hostility from Harry but no real warmth either. He talks about Zayn in the past tense. This was also Pre-Babygate (but the seeds were being sown with this very interview).

Fast forward and it feels like a different ball game in MITAM promo. Zayn was mentioned a lot and Harry has various different answers and facial expressions. To me, the piece that always gave me the most pause was when Harry was asked about the hardest part of going from 5 to 4 and he says, THE PAPERWORK. That bit has always struck me and I know some people read it differently.

Now we’re in July 2017 and we have Harry on Grimmy with almost no affect. He’s seemingly completely indifferent.

Again, not a Zayn expert. But the remark about “the paperwork” has always signaled some deep badness to me. I’ve heard lots and lots of theories about why that could be. Most of them have to do with Zayn potentially dragging Louis down. Others have to do with the idea that Babygate was meant for Zayn but Louis took it instead when Zayn left. Again, I have no idea. These are just my thoughts.

#not an expert #for sure #just my thoughts #opinion #mine #may be dead wrong #Anonymous

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atomicgalaxyblizzard-blog · 6 years

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