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i will get back to my djh watch soon jdhdhdh

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oh annie. the guy youve supposedly been chasing since high school is finally into you and suddenly you want nothing to do with him anymore.... this older man is emotionally unavailable and very clearly not paying attention to you and suddenly you want him.... girl you have to go talk to a real life lesbian PLEASE

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 4.14 & 5.12 ↳ The Summers sisters and their food themed pajamas

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bloodline fated.

A slowburn, hosie-centered Legacies rewrite where the Salvatore School is instead the Mikaelson Memorial Boarding School, set in the backdrop of New Orleans. Discarding the monster of the week format, the story follows threads left in The Originals and The Vampire Diaries to tell the over-arching story of the tribrid and the Gemini twins.

Hope Mikaelson is the soon to be alpha of the Crescent wolves, while Josie Parker is navigating the looming threat of the Merge and what it means for herself and her twin. The Gemini Coven, still alive, threatens to retaliate at any attempts at circumventing the curse. Meanwhile, new threats in the city begin to unravel the peace of the factions and call for Hope’s help in uniting them. Who better to help her than a Gemini witch with a penchant for dark magic?

(read on ao3)

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THE NANNY 3.09 - "The Two Mr. Sheffields"

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underappreciated degrassi fact is that when all is said and done emma and craig are family friends once joey takes craig in. they might not be all that close throughout the years but you Know they had dinners at each other’s places sometimes. snake stays at joey’s place when he’s sick! joey brings over food when snake gets diagnosed! emma is at the christmas tree decorating party at the jeremiah house! yes this all in season 3 and the writers largely forgot about this dynamic but i never will <333

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TRAUMA DUMP CANDY

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at some point i want to write about how josie projects her own self-hatred onto penelope and how penelope lets her/borderline encourages this in s1 and how it’s all very fascinating to me. unfortunately i do not have time right now but.

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Where can I read the Craig fic you mentioned a few days ago?

here ! it’s on ao3, radio ga ga by crackledonthestatic

pre-emptive warnings that it deals pretty heavily with themes of addiction, past abuse, mental illness, and the long-term effects of trauma and maladaptive coping mechanisms. craig is also not always likeable in it (to a similar degree he is not always likeable in the show) but i think it is a very honest, nuanced, and sensitively written portrayal of his character.

it’s also marked as incomplete and i don’t know if the author plans to come back to it since it was last updated in 2022, but i find the ending as it is now works as a conclusion / is satisfying.

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Jenny Humphrey + 12 and 22 for the character ask game <3

12: Crack Headcanon

in fairness i think @fritextramole and i once yes and-ed our way into this headcanon together so i want to give credit where it’s due, but, while she and eric are obviously fully platonic, they keep jokingly threatening to get married if lily x rufus and serena x dan are at the same time in order to “complete the set”. still get a kick out of this

22: Best Physical Feature

i love her hair! all iterations are good but i really love her half queen-bee half bleached blonde gothic look circa s3

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Winston Bishop aka aka Winnie the Bish for the Character Ask, if you want to

sorry i’m just getting to this, thanks for the ask friend!

3 things i have in common:

1. we both like musical theatre!

2. honestly pretty similar senses of humor

3. also constantly questioning what i want to do in life sjhdhdhshsh

3 things i don’t:

1. not athletic at all

2. i know he quit eventually but i don’t think i’d be very good at on air real-time radio talk show djdhhdhd.

3. i’m not Quite as indecisive, i think

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NEW GIRL Season 5 Episode 6

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*thinking about josie saltzman* alexa play flight risk by tommy lefroy

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finally doing a f\ull legacies rewatch and getting to mid season 2 (on 2.07 right now) and i’m not saying josie isn’t responsible for her own actions but GOD it is not hard to see how she falls into the dark josie arc based on the events of last season and ESPECIALLY this seven episodes like. she and her family have been put in danger a lot more than has ever been an issue and then she finds out that she and her sister are cursed with an expiration date because one of them is going to have to ‘absorb’ the other one by the age of 22, the ex that she has a complicated relationship with but seems to be one of the only people who really knows/cares what she wants (not saying that’s true but probably feels like it for a little while at least), being told by her new headmaster that her father doesn’t have her best interest at heart and being manipulated, feeling he’s the only one she can turn to when the effects of dark magic are taking their toll, and finding comfort in her new relationship with landon only to feel used (even though of course it’s no one’s fault) and like a second choice once everyone remembers hope and it becomes clear he’s still in love with her, and having to do something she’s established to be extremely afraid of (break the sand clock and absorb all that dark magic) just to save her family and get back home and out of the prison world? like… it’s clear that she simply reached her emotional breaking point and combined with the variable of immense amounts of dark magic, it had disastrous results. i’m not saying her actions as dark!josie were justified or that she’s not responsible for them, but it’s NOT hard to see how she got there.

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one of my favorite scenes/details that really informs the dynamic between the saltzman twins in season one is the scene where josie is helping lizzie get ready for their big sweet sixteen party. it's such an innocuous scene (this is a normal thing people who care about each other sometimes do for one another!) until lizzie turns and complains that josie isn't even dressed yet, sounding almost angry and despairing that she doesn't want to be late for her own party, essentially implying she doesn't want to have to wait for josie.

and while i agree with penelope (not on her general execution throughout most of the season, lmao, but in this instance) that it sucks that josie is not dressed/about to be late for the party because she was helping lizzie, that's not even... really the issue? like, it's an issue, but the thing i always find more concerning is lizzie's reaction to it. she wants josie to help her and yet she also treats at as a failing on josie's part for not being ready, as though she either can't see or doesn't care that that happened specifically because josie was helping her, and instead of offering to help Josie in turn so that it will go more quickly, she leaves for the party without her. to be clear: i am not saying this makes her evil or that i don't get it (i hate being late). josie told her she would catch up with her there and didn't seem overtly bothered that lizzie was leaving without her. but it's just one of those moments that really conveys how much, at this point in time, lizzie expects from josie without much reciprocity or consideration.

and it really adds a certain sting to that moment when we learn that josie has been taken and buried alive and mg, hope, and penelope are all out frantically searcing for her, and the show then cuts to the scene where rafael rejects lizzie and lizzie looking around frantically as she cries while they dance, wondering where her sister is.

here's the thing: it's obviously not lizzie's fault josie got buried alive. it's also her not her fault that she's not out there helping her, because she doesn't know. but josie had been missing from the party long enough that penelope was asking multiple people if they'd seen her. and as much as my heart goes out for lizzie in this scene, it's also really significant that the first time lizzie thinks to wonder where josie is because she needs something from her.

none of this is intended as lizzie hate or slander for the record; i love both saltzman twins and think they have an endlessly complicated relationship that i don't think can be done justice by deciding one of them is the 'villain' in it. they are both flawed and also i love them both (and they love each other) very much. at the same time, i do think that (possibly due to some narrative bias admittedly leaning toward josie at the time of airing), people tend to unfairly assume that lizzie was never actually out of line or taking for granted/treating josie unfairly and that's like... demonstrably false.