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Red being Katarina only works if both are bisexual. Maybe Katarina was, but we know for sure she liked to seduce men. Katarina liked sex with men.

Red isn't bisexual. He loves women, we saw many affair he had all this time. But we never saw him bring into men. He isn't sexually attracted to men.

So Red can't be Katarina.

It’s all such an “obvious” parallel. A really obvious, so in your face you couldn’t possibly miss it with a sledgehammer parallel, right?.

Except it’s not if you take a moment. It’s another giant red herring.

1.07:

Red: I raised my family in this house. Luli: It’s lovely. Red: No, it’s not, but it used to be.  Dembe: Time to go. Red: Did you prepare everything the way I asked? Luli: This place must hold a lot of memories for you. Red: I spend every day trying to forget what happened here. This should help. 

Katarina raised HER family in Original Reddington’s house? While his wife was away?

2.05:

Red is sitting all alone, watching his formerly Katarina self playing with Jennifer with bubbles? While You Were Born, the very song he put in Liz’s ears in the hospital, the only song he has EVER chosen to play for her in the life of the show aside from the music box, plays in the background?

8.21:

Liz: And your wife? She never knew? Original Reddington: There were some close calls.  Katarina: I even helped watch Jennifer one weekend while she was away. It was extremely uncomfortable. Playing house. It was becoming unbearable. There was a relentless demand for more intel. Original Reddington: It was a strange, double life. That’s probably why it took me so long to figure out that it wasn’t real. 

Playing house while his wife was away for ONE WEEKEND. But it was really her house. Or his house. Or their house. Sure.

“Elizabeth, stay with the STORY. Stay with the story.” 

Ok, Red. Because that’s what it is. Just like Dom’s narrative. Some truth mixed in with the STORY, this time told by ghost narrators.

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On the closed captions it seemed Russian lyrics or some made up language 🤔

Anyone recognize the tune? Or the language of the tune? Of course it’s playing in the background and doesn’t appear to be playing in the room/scene but I can’t help but think of Lord Baltimore and the triggering record.

And it all seems a little too convenient that Liz found Mr. French’s contact info in Katarina’s effects, Mrs. French is all too sweet and innocent and shows up at JUST the right time to offer a safe place to sleep, while all the while seeming all too calm and collected about her husband.

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Experience is not far criteria for salary. As protagonist she has a huge workload, Spader also has a huge workload. So it wasn't fair pay less than the male co-stars

She was right to call out the producers. Same happened with Emmy Rossum on Shameless

I know what i say doesn't matter because im just an anon, but I would like to add to this discussion. We dont know if that ask is true but if it is, then no offence but Ms. Boone needs a huge reality check. And I say that as a woman who strongly believes in equal pay and fought to get it. But equal pay needs to also have a logic behind it. What kind of acting credits did she had before BL? maybe 2-3 movies and all Megan is known for is Liz Keen, nothing else 1/3

There are strong opinions on all sides of this anon, that much is clear. Back in S1, according to the Sony Wikileaks emails, she was making less than Diego and Ryan and Harry because she was less experienced. Given how hard she worked in those early seasons, I’m sure she probably resented that and that all of that is playing into whatever is going on now (if something is going on now). I assume that much got rectified along the way.

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The Falcon And The Winter Soldier (2021)

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Hey, guys!

Sci here!

This?  This is my friend Bones.  They were one of the first friends I made in the Marvel fandom.  My icon is still the Clint Barton w/ Roombas that they drew for me like…  8 years ago, oh my god I can’t believe we’ve been at this for eight years, eight yeeeeears…

ANYWAY.

The global pandemic kind of screwed Bones over.  They’ve been saving for their top surgery, which was supposed to happen last year.  Guess what happened last year?  (gestures at 2020) Right.  Surgery got postponed and Bones ended up with a new employer sponsored health insurance policy that covers much, much less of the surgery cost!

which is.  Just.  A thing.

So I know money’s tight.  I know a lot of people are just holding on, or are facing financial insecurity, and I’ve been there.  But for those who can afford to toss Bones a few dollars to help them out for something that they’ve been working towards for a long time, I’d like to offer a little incentive.

First.  If you can afford and want to donate at least 20 dollars, I will send you any one of the following:

-2020 Winter Card Fics -2019 Winter Card Fics -2018 Winter Card Fics -2017 Winter Card Fics -All four of the April Fools Day fics

The first four have never been posted anywhere.  The fifth contains all the questionable kinda sorta counts as porn that I’ve posted in the last four years, but only for a very narrow window of time.

AND.

I haven’t missed the April Fools day fic in the last four years.  Sure, last one was kinda late, but I spent most of March crying, so I THINK I EARNED A FEW EXTRA DAYS OKAY.  I bring this up to say it’s one of the few things I’ve been reliable on in the last few years.

If you donate to Bones gofundme and send me the confirmation email or confirmation screenshot, you’ll be entered into a raffle.  The ‘Winner’ (in finger quotes) gets to give me a prompt for this year’s April Fool’s Day fic.

HEAVY CAVEAT: I am bad at writing naughtiness.  I am pretty damn vanilla.  I reserve the right to be like, ‘Hey I cannot write the thing you’re asking for.” Not even, ‘I don’t want to,’ legit, I can’t.  I’m bad at this.  Like.  (gestures)  Bad at this.  But if you’d like to have me write some smutty happy times of, I don’t know, Steve picking Tony up in a bar despite the fact that they live together or the Foodieverse team breaking kitchen sanitary guidelines in the safety of their own place, this is pretty much the only time you can get that out of me.

So.  If you can afford to toss Bones a few bucks, please do so.  Then send proof of your donation to sciwritesfic at gmail dot com with your choice of what fic file you’d like, and I’ll respond back with your fic file and your number in the raffle.

If you have any questions, please let me know!  Thanks guys!

(also my birthday is in like, 9 days and all I want for my birthday is for a very important person to be able to live comfortably and happily in their body, so.  Donate to Bones! Thank you!)

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The Valkyrie battle against Hela was hella dope. Waititi had to do a new lightning technology. 

But continue the snark againt MCU

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It is on a pandemic, actors won’t kiss if isn’t safe. Like people say, you don’ t want to know how sausages are made

I looked out for the scene of Liz and  on the boat, and it is even darker than Ressler/Liz scene LOL. A lot of it I can’t tell what is going, so I guess a stunt double was possibly used. There isn’t any reason to film it so dark, the only reason is that they used stunts.

SO they used stunts twice with Tom/Liz hahah you love to see that

Hi, Aly! Do you think it really was Megan on that scene?? Bc that was definitely Diego. They didn't show her face.

My inbox is filling up again with people asking about doubles and what was “real” and what wasn’t so I am going to make this ONE post on the subject and after that I will not be responding to any other asks about doubles, mannequins or the like because I am SO DONE.  So I’m sorry if I sound irritable with you, anon, because your ask isn’t really the problem here, but I feel like I am drowning in a heap of complaining asks and negativity in general on this subject from all sides and I am tired of it. I’m responding to this one because some of the others I really don’t feel like publicizing. 

Let me ask you - and the people complaining about or mocking the doubles  - do you watch every episode trying to spot the stunt doubles in the action sequences? Do you stop it frame by frame to see where it cuts from the principal actors to their stunt doubles and back again?  If the answer to that is no, if the use of stunt doubles doesn’t ordinarily distract from your enjoyment of a scene, why the hell is the use of a double in part of a sex scene so problematic or something that needs to be dissected? I understand why the people who hate Keenler will seize on any tiny thing they can to mock their scenes, but when the Keenler fans pile on, it’s really too much.

I can tell you with certainty that It’s been done before, including on this show.  Case in point - that second Keen2 boat sex scene in 3.11? That was Megan’s double at the time, Ashley, for the majority of it, not Megan. You can see her face plainly if you pause the scene at the right point.  (I can’t believe I had to rewatch this for this ask but everyone bragging that Megan and Ryan did all their own scenes is just flat-out wrong, I’m sorry). 

They were fortunate that Ashley really resembles Megan because pregnant Megan sure wasn’t flipping around on that bed with Tom.

I’m not even sure that Megan did the full boat sex scene with Tom in 2.22 herself, but I’ll spare you further screen caps and the scene is super dark. She did the kisses, but you never see the woman’s face for the rest where more of the body is shown.

Here’s another example of Ashley filling in for Megan in S3 - as she put it when she shared the photo, getting a little “intimate” with James Spader.

Yes, Megan did a lot of the above scene in the van herself, but not all of it. I am sure it would not have been very comfortable for her to have to lie on her back for the whole thing while 8 months pregnant.

My point in all this is that the use of doubles shouldn’t make a scene less “real” or take away from it being canon. The big difference this season is that Megan is not performing her own kisses whereas in the past she did. Given that we’re in the middle of a pandemic, I am not going to fault her for that. We don’t know her particular circumstances and the fact that other actors on other shows are making different choices shouldn’t require her to do the same.  Nor should she be required to strip and perform a sex scene partially nude even in non-Covid times. We don’t know what her contract terms are, but it is becoming increasingly popular for actors to be very specific about what they will and will not do in that regard, especially women.  (Here’s a link for those who want to read more plus a recent article on why Keira Knightley won’t do nude scenes anymore).  It’s different for the man to be shirtless and Diego performed 95% of that sequence himself (except for the kiss scene in the mirror at the very beginning) and I thought Cort choreographed it beautifully liked a slowed-down stunt sequence.  With the cuts to Megan remembering Liz’s night it was lovely.

Bottom line - if you can’t enjoy a scene like last night’s unless Megan and Diego perform every bit of it 100% themselves, then you’re likely always going to be disappointed.  If following behind the scenes ruins the magic, then don’t do it. We can hope that maybe they’ll get back to performing kisses down the line but if they don’t, I’m just happy they are still telling the story in the best way they can.  And I thought both Megan and Diego did an outstanding job showing Liz and Ressler’s emotions throughout. 

Sorry for the rant, but I really needed to clear the air on this one and hopefully never discuss it again.

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IMAGINE NOT SCREAMING

gif credit: @alyblacklist

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i rlly dont want the theater industry to die. seeing a movie is like?? a hard emotional reset when i need it most. get away from my family + my house and sit in big dark room for 2 hours eating overpriced food???? that is the closest i will get to heaven before i die. i love movie theaters so much. please God let them live

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Vote on Polaris for X-men

This marvel writer is insulting fans of the TV show The Gifted beause Lorna is winning for a election to be part of X-men team. She want Polaris only on her own team.

I hate gatekeeping on fandom, everyone is welcome on comics

I’m asking Gifted, MCU and Fox-men fans to vote on Polaris here:https://www.marvel.com/characters/x-men-vote

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People, and I cannot stress this enough: just hire a graphic designer.

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Keenler Dialogue of late:

Brothers 7.17

LIZ: “And you’re someone that I rely on for, like, everything.”

***[A few weeks later...]***

16 ounces 8.03

LIZ: “I’m sorry.”

RESSLER: “Yeah, well, you should be. You nearly killed me.”

LIZ: “I know.”

LIZ: “And when I thought I had...Nothing else mattered.”

(NB - I noticed this little thing with the “everything” and “nothing”. Felt poetic so I decided to gif it. I definitely was influenced by other gifsets I’ve seen around. I appreciate all those fanworks out there for inspiring me to try new things. 🥂 😊

Unfortunately, the gif rendering diminished the clarity. I may redo this set later.)

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From @tarastevens2

[Video: far off shot of a crane lifting a blue Porta-Potty through the air.

Audio: Doctor Who theme song.]

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Oh, no, honey. He won’t give you a rest. In fact, he’s about to give you the sweat of your life, darling. Enjoy. If you want a rest go to a spa, here you gotta work for it.

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cats are small so they can run very fast and thus commit more crimes per second than the average human