#;; no bc dany who literally is constantly working on *something* whether it's cases in her lawyer au or keeping up with the bookstore in he

[kaerinio]

thinking about modern dany, who keeps busy in her free time, but when she's not doing community organizing and fundraising, she's just trying out new hobbies and activities. it's not odd for dany to have at least one activity lined up after work (and she'll have even more during the weekends!), whether it's volunteering, taking some kind of cooking or mixology class, a photography class, a paint and sip, pottery, tapestry painting and weaving, quilting, a gardening course, a jewelry design class, a dance class, you get the idea! some activities are more one-and-done, like woodworking. others, she tends to come back to, like the cooking, pottery, and tapestry classes. in particular, the cooking classes give dany an opportunity to expand her horizons when it comes to discovering new cuisines. she also cherishes the sense of freedom that comes with the ability to cook her own meals as someone who struggled with food insecurity for most of her life. and she just greatly enjoys sharing what she's cooked with others as a means of forming connections and showing she cares for them and their well-being. dany also loves pottery because there's something grounding about working with clay; it's something she finds herself getting lost in, something that makes the world still around her, and, when she looks down at her clothes, dusted with wet clay, there's this piece of her that rejoices (for, as a girl, she never had the opportunity to get her clothes dirty. there's a multitude of reasons . . . all leading back to viserys). when it comes to tapestries, she revels in the storytelling tradition that accompanies the process, and there is something quite soul-stilling there, as well.

[brightmalcolm]

I just want to know all your thoughts about deception you're so passionate when you talk about it idk it just makes me really excited too.. I haven't watched it, I kind of want to because of you but even if I end up not watching it I really just enjoy hearing you talk about it so.. If you also enjoy talking about it, I would like a description or a summary or whatever to help me decide whether to commit to it or not ajdhsjka

omg hi first of all I’m really sorry for just now getting to this I’ve been busy with class for most of the day and wanted to give this my best answer dkjkjsd. 

first of all I’m really glad you enjoy hearing me talk about it! the show means a lot to me so it also means a lot to me that you would say that. there’s SO much I could say about the show but for now here’s a plot summery/advertisement for EVERYONE bc if you like prodigal son you’ll like this show and cameron black needs some love!!! 

the basic premise is a magician helps the FBI (bare with me, I promise it’s not as stupid as it sounds).  it’s in the vein of “crime dramas where person with a unique ability outside of typical law enforcement skills consults for law enforcement” type shows, and in this one, cameron black, uses skills he learned as a magician to catch criminals and I know it sounds ridiculous it’s a show you really need to watch to understand imo bc it’s so hard to explain WHY it works it just does. but besides the whole case of the week (which, let me just say, make the cases on prodigal son look like run of the mill law and order filler episodes) there is an overarching story regarding a woman with an unknown identity who is going after cameron and his family. she frames his twin brother for murder and that’s why cameron helps the FBI in the first place; he makes a deal that if he helps them solve cases they’re stuck on, they’ll help him prove his brothers innocent. the show just has so much heart, it makes me feel warm inside just thinking about it. cameron is an actual ray of sunshine but he’s also clearly hiding a lot of repressed emotions regarding his father and his childhood (basically, he’s malcolm if malcolm could actually lie enough to appear “fine”). his relationship with the FBI agent he works with, kay, is basically b.rightwell before b.rightwell if that entices anyone to want to watch lmao. I could probably pick up at least 25% of kay’s lines to cameron and they would apply perfectly to dani and malcolm. kay is the best and I love her and cameron so much and I don’t ship couples on tv often so the fact that I was so invested in their relationship says a lot kjfdjk. and cameron’s magic team ugh where do I START, they are all such unique and fleshed out and interesting characters and SO MUCH FOUND FAMILY like I can not stress how much found family is in this show. cameron’s brother, jonathan, is super interesting I don’t want to spoil too much in case you do watch but there’s a lot of twists involving him. 

the show is advertised as a drama but it is honestly hilarious, if you like the balance prodigal son has of drama and humor but think the situations need to somehow be even more batshit insane this is the show for you!!! also so much whump, less than prodigal son I will admit, but cameron constantly puts his life in danger (y’all starting to see a pattern) and literally gets kidnapped twice in 13 episodes, something malcolm has yet to achieve (also it’s funny bc when cameron is kidnapped he uses his lock picking skills to get out of the handcuffs...malcolm WISHES lmao). and the MOST repressed trauma like if you thought malcolm doesn’t deal with his daddy issues you need to see cameron and jonathan black lmao. so even when the episodes are funny, there is so much sincerity and depth to it bc it is built on that foundation of pain and experience and all the characters are somehow larger than life and extremely flawed and relatable.  

overall it just takes such a common troupe with crime dramas and somehow makes one of the most unique shows I’ve ever seen, it is that perfect balance of sweetness and angst that I love, there’s so much humanity and joy in it, you can tell everyone who worked on this was 100% all in for it and loved every second of it, and even if you don’t care about the mystery the characters and their dynamics alone make it worth watching. honestly writing this ask made me cry bc it deserved SO much better and I will forever be bitter that we were robbed of a season two and I know it will never happen but if prodigal son’s success ever gives chris and sam the chance to revive deception I would probably pass out on the spot thank u for ur time.

TLDR: stream deception (2018) and fuck ABC !!!

[ohsweetflips]

so i’ve got an amnesty theory

and i had to wash off some negative feelings in the shower so i had a lot of time to think on this so, forgive me, bc this might get a bit long

but i think what travis/aubrey said was right, that this particular abomination looks almost staged, that it’s meant to be scary. and, with that, i think someone is targeting the pine guard/amnesty lodge.

bc, just think, a blonde vampiric woman (suspect: dani) walks into the hornet’s nest (motive: jake coolice’s ex friends) and commits an act so grusome and literally monstrous (evidence that ties into monstrous acts: the cryptonomica) that it can’t be ignored by kepler. it’s meant to be scary and look monstrous because it is.

but, first, let me backtrack: the abominations. as they had said in the episode, the other abominations looked like accidents. the beast looked like a bear and, with that, any fatalities could be a bear attack. if calvin owens drowned in the pool bc of the water monster, it would look like just that: he drowned while training. the calamity tree was literally made to make purposeful events look like accidents. no normal person would look at a bear attack, or a kid who drowned, or a car crash, and think “oh, it’s a monster.”

but a fanged woman who seemed to grow in size and literally mutilate and tear into bodies so badly that they’re unrecognizable? most people’s first thought would be, “oh, it’s a monster.”

and that’s where i think the targeting of amnesty lodge comes in. of course, this raises the question of if it’s dani. i don’t remember if it has been said in canon, but i highly doubt that dani has never left amnesty lodge. i’m pretty sure she’s been out in kepler before. and, since we know that kepler is a small town, there’s probably at least a few people that, in good lighting, could recognize her. so, for whatever reason, if dani wanted to turn on amnesty lodge/mama/pine guard/whatever, i think she would know how to do it.

but i don’t think it’s dani.

i think the abomination can shapeshift. we saw that happen with the terrifying gregor moment (which i have more to say on later) and it could be what happened with dani. perhaps the abomination incapacitated her, therefore feigning memory loss, and went and tore into the hornets.

so, to reiterate, i think this new abomination is targeting amnesty lodge, or is at least working for someone who wants to target amnesty lodge, which leads me to my next point: this abomination will perhaps be the most dangerous one yet

obviously all the abominations are dangerous. and, honestly, most of them were dangerous because of their abstract state. a beastly form that can absorb other animals and become a prime hunter? a water spirit that can infiltrate any place where there’s water? a tree that grows new timelines? it’s all scary bc it’s so inhumane and unpredictable. but this abomination can at least appear human. whether or not to say it actually is, it does a pretty damn good job at looking human.

this abomination has more autonomy than the other three ever could, and i think we’re about to enter a very interesting dichotomy between the monsters in amnesty and the abominations. bc, you know how when someone constantly says “this is fine” and, every time they say it, you believe them less and less? that’s kinda how i feel with mama constantly saying that the abominations and the monsters in kepler are nothing alike. now, i’m not saying that the residents in amnesty are these horrible, abominable creatures. fuck, ned trying to tell mama that when they were dealing with billy is fucking painful bc you can just feel how badly ned fucked up. no, i think we’re about to enter a part of the story where it’s shown that, while the abominations and the amnesty residents are not one in the same, one can become the other a lot easier than anyone else would like.

i think it’s also important to note that, if this is true, it means the abomination knows enough to be able to not just properly target amnesty, but also enough to know what’s going on w/ the pine guard at any time.

which leads me to my next point: i think someone, and perhaps that someone is the abomination, is watching amnesty lodge.

now, quickly, let’s break down the “normal” npcs that are, knowingly or not, involved in what’s going on with amnesty lodge:

leo: ex chosen one, already knows what’s going on, knew for longer than duck did. he already has a major role in the story, so i’m sure he’s fine

pigeon wilson: ngl i kinda forgot abt her, but she knows a lot. but, still, she had her “place” in the story in fighting the monsters, and i don’t think she’d try to target amnesty. if anything, she’d want to get involved w/ the pine guard, but i digress

calvin owens: a high school kid who was attacked and, against his will, dragged into all this shit. i honestly think he’s terrified and doesn’t want to get involved anymore

sheriff owens: knows more than he’s actually aware of, but he’s so fed up with ned and the cryptonomica that i don’t think he believes any of it yet. right now, i think he’s a source of tension in the story.

juno: knows that something is going on bc duck just happened to know that the train-thing was gonna crash. if im being honest, i don’t know enough about her to make a judgement call yet

the hornets: this one’s obvious, but i guess it’s good to note that keith knew the most first, but none of them know what’s fully going on yet

so, all these people (and forgive me if i’m missing some i don’t have the wiki pulled up) are people who have been directly involved one way or another. either they learned something from one or more members of the pine guard, or has taken part in monster hunting, or, in leo’s specific case, was a monster hunter

but there’s one npc left that ik we all love joking abt w/ his apparent obliviousness, but i think we should all start being just a bit more wary of: agent stern

now, this is where i myself am still piecing things together, bc i don’t necessarily think that stern is an abomination or is in cahoots with an abomination or what have you. but, honestly, i wouldn’t be surprised if he knows more than he lets on. bc, listen, i love the “bigfoot’s number one fan, agent stern, is served pancakes by bigfoot every morning and has yet to figure it out” joke just as much as the next person, but i think he might end up knowing a lot more than we think. i mean, for one, he’s living in amnesty, and has been for months. i’m not saying that he saw actual bigfoot walking out of the hotsprings, or opened a wrong door and found thacker, but there’s probably been some close calls.

(okay this is commentary from my proofreading but i just remembered the fucking creepy stunt “thacker” pulled when he seemed to be posessed and talking to aubrey through the speaker and that might be connected, might not be, but i don’t even have time to unpack that)

but, still, that’s not really what i think is happening. i don’t think stern is gonna show up one episode and be like, “aha! i knew it! i have been working with the abominations to figure out what you guys are doing!” no, per se, i think the abomination knows that stern is in amnesty lodge, and that stern works for the FBI in unexplained phenomena, and that stern is currently surrounded by unexplained phenomena.

which leads me to backtrack back to this abomnation: if the theory that i thought about while avoiding my feelings is actually true, this abomination knows a lot. this abomination knows to “become” dani, the explicit vampire in amnesty lodge. it knows that jake used to hang around with the hornets but now there’s some bad blood and, not only that, probably knows that aubrey threatened to burn keith alive (bluffing or not, she still said it). and this abomination is in kepler, home of cryptids and monsters and every other unexplained phenomena. 

but, with all that, this abomination seems to know the pine guard’s plans. like, it knew that they were going to the morgue!!! i don’t think “gregor” actually being not-gregor and the actual gregor being dead and the pine guard being there at that time was not some coincidence!!! whatever this abomination is, and as of rn i think it’s some shapeshifting thing, it knows a lot more than it should.

and then, to tie this all up in a messy bow, my personal thinking as to why this abomination is targeting amnesty lodge is this: to start conflict between the humans and the monsters. griffin has been dropping stuff everywhere about wars that broke out on other planets similar to ours/sylvane. janelle told aubrey that sylvane is not her world to save because of the war it could cause. 

i think abominations have a lot more awareness than we give them credit for, and i think this is how we’re going to start to see it. i think this abomination is following around the pine guard, feigning amnesty residents as suspects, and committing crimes that can be seen as motives because of the devastation it would cause. bc, it was said in the episode w/ regards to the hornets, if people knew that monsters were real and living in the town, would they stop at just the “bad” monsters, or would they do anything to be rid of all of them?

which this, i think, can raise the questions as to why this abomination would want to cause war, or if it’s against sylvane or against kepler or against both worlds in general, but i don’t even know if i’m right in any of this and i don’t want to make this post any longer than it already is

but, still, thanks for coming to my ted talk