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Luke Manning's hair and smile are literally so perfect in this

Sing-J :D

(from #101)

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same

Kind of want someone to hug me like they came back from war

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Ask not for whom poob has it. It has it for thee

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*james bond music*

there he goes

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when I saw this while watching the video, I immediately went "where am I getting my potassium from? whErEvEr I LiKE yOu wEiRd LiTtLe mAn!"

Was literally just about to mention this but the subtitled beat me to it lol :3

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sounds like a spaceship

I love you Nutmeg

Sound up

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uhhhh I think I need to keep this

i will never forget when my grandfather said that the first time he used an electron microscope he knew he was closer to God than he was before, because he was seeing what only a few decades ago only God had been able to see.

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the whole fellowship is in a big van and now I'm wondering who else sings along? Legolas would be a little confused but he'd got the spirit. Gimli would enthusiastically join in on the chorus. Frodo and Sam would smile at each other because the younger ones are happy. Gandalf would accept it but not sing along (but Pippin keeps poking him until he does). Aragorn would just hum along in the background, and Boromir would either shut up like a grumpy cat or sing slightly too loudly in support of his hobbitses until Aragorn has to make him quiet down.

(gollum is hiding in the trunk, grumbling "filthy little hobbitses" under his breath, unheard because of the loud singing)

Rip Merry and Pippin you would’ve loved singing along to ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)’ while driving

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april the 4th be with you

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Milligan and Moocho: Part II

So they've been living on the farm for a while, everything's fine, then the events of The Perilous Journey happen and our little family goes to Mr. Benedict's house. The Society disappears and Milligan has to track them, starting by solving the coded journal Mr. Benedict left. Moocho helps figure it out. Milligan, pushed for time and desperate to catch up with the children, goes "You've got it! Oh, I could kiss you!" Moocho grins and says "Maybe later."

After he returns from the island with too many broken bones, Moocho helps carry him inside. Mil smiles weakly up at him. Moocho's really gentle as he lifts him onto a bed and takes care of him while he's recovering. "Remember before you left, when you said you could kiss me?" "I did say that, yes."

(A slight wrench is thrown in the works when Kate hears them talking in Spanish and goes, "Did you know I was learning Spanish in school?" They both freeze in panic. "Te adoro?" she asks. "I wouldn't even need to learn Spanish to understand that." But she doesn't mind. Just dry heaves theatrically when they get too romantic.)

Then they're all kept in protective custody in Mr. Benedict's house. Moocho could leave. He didn't have to stay. But he did stay, because Milligan and Kate would miss him, and he would definitely miss them, because they're his family now. (He and Milligan probably share a room. Just because there are lots of people in the house and space is tight. No other reason.) He conscripts Milligan into cooking and baking with him.

During the chaotic final battle of The Prisoner's Dilemma, Moocho and Ms. Plugg fight McCracken on the prison roof. Milligan sees them in danger, but he's torn between helping Moocho and protecting the children. Kate pushes him onto the roof and makes the decision for him. Moocho and Plugg are knocked out and Milligan risks his life to get them to safety.

When it's all over, Moocho finds Milligan in the courtyard, again with too many broken bones, using an unconscious McCracken as a pillow. Again he helps carry Milligan's stretcher, holds his one good hand, stays by his side while he's being treated and recovering.

While everyone is moving house at the end of the book, Moocho carries a desk, two suitcases, and a bookshelf to impress Milligan, who's watching from his seat on the lawn. (insert gif of John Mulaney saying "I was over on the bench!")

Remember the riddle Mr. Benedict gave the Society earlier in the book? Kate gave it to Moocho, so he knows it too. I like to think of him sitting by Milligan's bed, reciting the riddle to him for Milligan to solve.

"The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle,

And some have been known to fall in it.

In tennis it's nothing, but it can be received,

And sometimes a person may win it.

Though not seen or heard, it may yet be perceived,

Like princes or bees, it's in clover.

The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle,

And without it, one cannot start over."

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ah, Leslie Howard

Mother's written on the flyleaf, "À ma chère petite Gabrielle." That means "To my dear little Gabrielle." Oh, it does, eh? Oh, yeah, Gabrielle, that's a beautiful name, isn't it? Yes. Wouldn't you know it'd get changed into "Gabby" by these sunbaked, ignorant desert rats?

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Milligan Wetherall and Moocho Brazos

Me, holding two Ken dolls and making them kiss: They're in love, your honor

When Milligan goes to the circus where Kate grew up to meet her old circus friends and find one he trusts to look after her, first he meets the Russian contortionist head of the circus. Not ringmaster, just unofficial grandmother of everybody. (She's going grey but still more agile and flexible than Kate. Cold exterior but a warm heart. I created her for the plot but honestly she's come alive in my mind. Love when that happens.) She pours him tea and warms up to him as it becomes evident how much he loves Kate. "You remind me of her. Same build. Same eyes. Such a brave girl." He says Kate recommended Moocho as a companion and asks what he's like. "Oh, Moocho. He is...kak te govorish...big softie. Come with me and see his act."

When Milligan sees Moocho for the first time, he's in the ring doing his strongman act. He bends a strong iron bar until it's not...straight...anymore. Milligan feels like he's the iron bar, being bent by Moocho's strong arms until he's not straight anymore. When Moocho leaves the ring and comes to meet him, Mil's a little dumbstruck at first by Moocho's huge handsome build and strong handshake and glowing smile like the sunset. "You look so much like her," says Moocho, adding his deep gentle accent to his list of distracting charms. "After all these years, you finally found each other."

Milligan is a little reserved at first because he's not used to being blindsided by admiration like this, plus he's very careful about who he trusts to look after Kate. But he warms up quickly and grows comfortable with Moocho, who reminisces with fond admiration about Kate. "She would run at me, jump into my hand, and let me throw her up to the trapeze." Moocho's honored and pleased by Milligan's offer to come back to the farm with him. Mil's surprised he's leaving the circus so easily, but Moocho is ready for a change. (And he'll follow this mysterious weather-beaten fighter anywhere.)

On the long dark drive to the farm, Milligan tells Moocho how he was captured, lost his memory, met Kate without knowing who she was, and finally remembered her again as he was escaping the Waiting Room to save her. "Kate trusts you, so I trust you." Moocho is outwardly admiring and secretly attracted by Mil's bravery and willingness to dig through mud and metal and stone, half-drowned, broken-armed, to save his daughter.

When they arrive at the farm, Kate gives Moocho the biggest hug. (She hugs her dad too, of course.) Milligan finds himself a little bit jealous that she gets to hug Moocho and he doesn't.

Later Moocho bakes a pie (Milligan didn't think he knew how to do that). Mil asks him, "Is Moocho Brazos your real name? Doesn't it literally mean Very Strong?" Moocho laughs and says it's his stage name. "My real name is very long." Mil frowns. "Moocho...Largo?" Moocho shakes his head and rattles off a long string of names. Kate walks by and starts singing all his names (which of course she knows) to the tune of the Animaniacs song where they list all the world's countries.

When Milligan tastes Moocho's cherry pie for the first time, he can't help tearing up for some reason. It's been a long time since someone did something special for him. (The Benedicts were kind to him, but they were all busy working hard and he was emotionally numb.) He manages to hide it from Kate, but Moocho notices, and realizes this man is maybe a little bit starved for affection.

How does the confession go? Maybe Moocho mutters something flirty under his breath in Spanish, or he looks him straight in the eye and says it outright. Mil looks confused and dumbfounded, then goes "No comprendo?" Moocho comes closer and kisses him. "Comprende esto?" Mil nods slowly. "Si."

Milligan's not used to liking someone bigger and stronger than himself. (Well, there may be a slight crush between him and McCracken, which he HATES, but that's neither here nor there.) After the kiss, he leans his forehead on Moocho's chest (HEIGHT DIFFERENCE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE) and mutters "It's been so long..." Moocho holds the back of his neck and says "Mucho prolongado." Mil laughs.

Later Milligan reveals that he speaks perfect Spanish, of course he does, "soy un agente secreto del gobierno, por supuesto hablo un espanol perfecto." He just played dumb so Moocho would keep flirting with him in Spanish. Even though he understands it, it still makes his brain short-circuit.

How does their relationship go when the Perilous Journey and Prisoner's Dilemma get in the way? I'll have to cover that in another post since this one is getting pretty long.

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ah my sweet Luke Manning

The stress of writing an undergrad thesis vs pictures of Luke Manning who will win (I’m fighting for my academic life rn)

ac: vcaudics (Insta)

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@i-may-be-an-emu

ma’am your child’s blood test came back with over 6,000 diabolichrons. that’s the highest ive ever seen. your kid is gonna be the evilest baby of all time

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I love this guy so much

I would LOVE to see InBabylonBedecked because your autism might like eggs but MY autism likes fashion and would be interested to see your style

I know nothing about Mass Effect but I've read and watched The Birds and would definitely like a good apocalypse book/movie/show about Birdpocalypse. Preferably starring John Mulaney, because of that one SNL clip where The Birds are besieging him in a phone booth.

You should become a maid posting blog and rebrand to in-Babylon-they-swept :3

I could just make a lot of weird side blogs and have incomprehensible interactions with myself.

InBabylonTheySwept - cleaning blog

inBabylonTheyCrept - Urban Exploration in a loincloth

InBabylonTheyLeapt - cliff jumping?

InBabylonTheyStepped - hiking sideblog

InBabylonEXCEPT - stories of my adventures outside of Babylon

InBabylonTheyKlepped - Cyberpunk themed shoplifting?

InBabylonTheyPrepped - Historical Fiction, Satirical, POV of a doomsday prepper during the Bronze Age Collapse

InBabylonTheyRepped - Merch Store

InBabylonTheyWrecked - Time travel pirate story

InBabylonTheyNecked - Sequel to pirate story, now the pirates are gay and in love

InBabylonBedecked - Fashion blog

InBabylonPerfect - My preppy alter ego

InBabylonEffect - My Mass Effect AU where everyone works in a government lab and has to fight armies of birds

InBabylonElect - My political blog

InBabylonUnchecked - My slow descent into mad ess

InBabylonTheyWept - My fast descent into madness

InBabylonTheyNecked - Have I done this one yet? I just can’t believe that no one else has thought of gay pirate media yet. Untapped gold here.

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So you guys know how Terry Pratchett makes Death a character with a brief appearance in all of his books?

when any Terry Pratchett book gets an adaptation, Tom Mayo Sfth should be legally required to do the voice for Death. With that big deep dramatic voice he sometimes does when he's doing a spooky bit. (He's got the tall skinny build for it too. He could just roll up in a big black cloak and hood with a scythe and a skeleton mask and I'd be like "THAT'S MY BABY, GOOD JOB BUDDY YOU'RE SO ADORABLE")

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have I reblogged this already? who knows

will I reblog it again? probably

When you separate an entwined particle and you move both parts away from the other, even at opposite ends of the universe, if you alter or affect one, the other will be identically altered or affected. - Adam, Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)